r-j^-jf-i^r^ ^rs*s*^' 's^ "Holdhold on, Jack," blubbered How" Joe Lost a Bad Repntation. Those Old Railroad Bonds. upon this act shall take effect and be in force, ammunition^ having /only two Norseman's ancLthereupon the Governor and Secretary Joe. II didn't do it. I never theched pistols Throwing back his long cloak, however, Joe Thornton was the worst boy in the The following bill has been introduced of State shall perform the duties by this act 'er. But she gin me a awful waullupin'." he drew hi bowie-knife and closed school, and everybody said it. He was in the Senate and referred to the appropriate enjoined. with^his antagonist. In a few seething Jack hesitated. "I've b*arn long twelve years old now: a strong, good-looking committee: strokea/xov. Reed was cut to the^floor, and enough that Joe Thornton was the wust lad who could not read intelligibly hisopponent bank in fainting fit- It WAS A Bill for an act to provide for the recovery boy in school, and was travelin' on 's Duels in Florida. because his mind was bent on mischief and destruction of what are commonly known in-that melee that'that, bnllet'hole was made -t*J! fast ,s he could to the gallows. He'd "tf" as Minnesota State Railroad Bonds. Jjpthere. fg[ ,^"1% the whole day through. With the winter better die a respectable death here, at pEVtom the Philadelphia Times.] WHEREAS, There is outstanding a large "The two meti were"taken^to ffieir beds, tcacher,a man,he just kept within bounds this present time, and not be 'lowed to Some of the bloodiest duels on record were and for several weekswere confined to their but every summer he had a brush, as he number of documents commonly known as fought in Florida. The Seminole war, in walk the airth any longer, jest for a rooms ,Gol. Alston was the first 'to recover. called it, with the woman teacher, and Minnesota State Railroad Bonds, the validity 1837, brought to the front a lot of reckless skerge, never dewing any goodwhatsom- He was very much embittered by the contest, kept her in an anxious, excited state young blue bloods that were full of fire and of which the people of the State do not recognize, ever." that had taken place, and said that he intended throughout the term. This summer the sparkle. Gay livers for the most part, they but which it is desirable should becovered Jack looked like a grimy angel of retribution, toiall Gov. Reed on sight.~ "A few days headed carelessly through the world and carried presiding genius of the red school house firmly devoted to his work. to the end that the same may be destroyed. afterward he met Gov. Reed on the street. the whole defence of their lives in their nad a kind lace, and so tender a heart "O Jack, I won't, I never will ag'in! He went home and loaded a double-barrelled Therefore pistol fingers. A pressure of the trigger was that she never once thought of its capabilities Jest lemme go this time, and see ef 1 do. shotgun, putting in one of the barrels Be it enacted by the Legislature of the the answer they gave to protest or deprecation. of becoming steely when circumstances it 4s said, the- bullet that his sister had I'll do all I can for mother, and try to State of Minnesota: The brush they had with Osceola and might cause it to harden. Joe moulded with the lead "taken -from be a good boy at school. Do, Jack let his yellow devils warmed them up sharply, SECTION 1. All lands donated to the State always had a name for his teacher. The his brother's dead body. Seeking Reed me up." and when Prince Murat settled upon their of Minnesota for the purpose of internal improvements, winter schoolmaster had been LongShanks again, he fired at him on sigl t,tearing away Jack set him off the block and replaced coast with a colony of Frenchmen, challenges under the eighth section of the the lady who had taught the summer his shoulder with the first barrel, and riddling flew thick and fast. The Frenchmen, of necessity his anvil. Act of Congress, approved September 4,A. D. pievious was May-Pole and the little his heart with the second. This rencontre and with pleasure, fought their way 1841, being an act to appropriate the proceeds "Ef you're sot on bcin' a good boy,Joc, girl who smiled down on them this created the intensest excitement, and through, and very soon the already turbulent of the sales of public lands, and to I hope you'll be a reg'lar Methsaler, and led to some legal proceedings against C61. summer was Rose-bud. As this^was her grant pre-emption rights, and the proceeds society of Florida had received a deeper tinge I'll be the last man that'll ever end yer Alston, which, however, did not result in anything. first school, Joe confided to the boys that of the sales the.eof, shall be disposed of in from the splendid drilling of the cut and days. But as yer present character stands Col. Alston shortly after this went to Jie should postpone breaking her for a the manner provided for in this act, for the thrust followers of "the Prince." It was the whole community would be glad to Texas. He had not been there but a short while so, for a few days, she was left to purpose of recovering the said bonds to the in Florida that the feud began in git red on ye. Did ye ever think of that, time, when he heard that Dr. John McNeil end that they may be destroyed, but this act the illusion that the group of little children which the Alstons, Willis and Angus, my boy?" Stewart, a man of prominence in Brazoria, shall not be construed as in any manner preventing tus, lost their lives. I was sitting around her was made up of so many had commented disparagingly upon his affair "I never knowed how mean I was before, the sales of said lands under existing one night in Brown's Hotela famous cherubs then he began to lay plans for a with Gov. Reed. Meeting Dr. Stewart upon Jack. I ken see it now, and I'm laws. old rendezvous of forty year's standing siege. the prairie a few days after this report had goin' to change." pickling myself in orange brandy and munching SEO. 2. The Secretary of State shall cause His base of operating at first always consisted come to his ears, he handed him a letter containing And, really, after this Joe went to work soaked biscuit, when a shuffling old fellow a notice to be published in two daily newspapers the offensive language, and in defying the rules so his first offense approached me. I recognized him. as Avith a new set of faculties that his brain in St. Paul, and in a daily newspaper asked him if he was responsible was staying outside for half an Mr. Zabran, a ragged postscript to the life of in each of the cities of Chicago, Milwaukee, appeared to have in reserve somewhere for it. Pending their discussion of hour or so, alter school had been called a gentleman, engaged at the time in the New York, Boston, Hartford and Philadelphia, and that is the way it happened that he the matter at issue, they fell upon each other At recess. Now, the summer before he humble but respectable business of washing containing a copy of this act, with a lost the reputation-of being the worst boy with great fury. Dr. Stewart was armed had not only stayed outside, but he had dishes at the hotel. Pushing him a glass of statement of the quantity of the said internal in school.- -Marie S. Ladd, in January with a pair of Colt's pistols, and Col. Alston improvement lands, a general description brandy, I asked him to tell me all about it. pelted the school-house wall as well so Phrenological Journal. with a bowie knife and shot gun. When of the location of said lands, a statement of Then and there, in that musty and halfruined you see he meant to be a little forbearing, found by their friends Alston was lying at P_ funds derived from the sales thereof, and hotel, full of its wild and riotous after all. the root of a large tree, with four bullet Torture in India- that the said lands will be conveyed to the memories, the old fellow told me a story that Well, what did Rose-bud do but detain holes through his body Stewart was lying several holders of said railroad bonds, on the for fierce gallantry and recklessness put fie* him as many minutes after the others near by with two loads of buckshot in his A paper published in India says: The surrender of the same, in the manner and tion to shame. were dismissed as he had remained absent. heart, stark and stiff. Col. Alston was so following facts, elicited at the trial at the upon the terms and conditions in this act "In the Seminole war," said Mr. Zabran. badly wounded that he could' only be carried recent sessions in North Arcot of a case provided, and he shall send a copy thereof evidently ambling down a well-worn groovtof Under ordinary circumstances, Joe in a blanket, slung hammockwise between by mail to the address of each and every in which five natives were charged with conversation, "Gov. Call, of this State, two men. As he was being borne into the would have just marched out and paid no known holder of any of said bonds. having murdered five of their caste people, commanded a crack regiment. One morning town inthis manner, his friends were met by attention to the teacher's command. But show that torture is not yet extinct in that SEO. 3. The Secretary of State is authorized he received a note announci% that his a company of armed men^ who fired a hundred the little school-mistress stood quietly by to receive and shall receive any one or part of the world: The prisoners' fields wife was quite ill. He at once repaired to shots into the blanket, killing Col. Alston the door and, and looke'd at him and. more of said railroad bonds, with all outstanding were robbed of a small quantity of cumboo her beside. During his absence a battle was immediately." "though he was well aware that, physically, coupons attached, at his office at fought. Shortly afterwaad an article appeared and the deceased and three others being any time before the first day of July (A. D. he was much the stronger, there was in the Chronicle and Sentinel of suspected of having had a hand in the Indian Affairs. 1879), one thousand eight hundred and seventy-nine, in her eyes a look of power that he did Augusta, insinuating that Gov. Call robbeiy, they were, by the orders of the and issue to the holder or holders not resist. But when once set free he had purposely absented himself from WASHINGTON, Jan. 23.The following correspondence first prisoner, who was in the village reddy thereof, a certificate for each bond so returned, the battle. The paper containing gave a whoop upon the school-house steps, has passed between J. Q. Smith, (headman), seized and tied, some to the which shall be registered in his office this cruel article reached the tmd told the boys when he joined them late Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and tiunks of trees and others to large stones. under the same number as the bond for camp, and was at once the subject of comment. Gen. Sherman, the former addressing a letter, that Rose bud and he had got to have a In the first case the feet of the unfortunate which it is issued. Such certificate shall entitle Lieut. Augustus Alston, determined in view of certain statements contained brush, anil that was just what it was coming the holder thereof, his heirs or assigns, victims were tied above ground, in the absence of his Colonel, to protect his in the report of the Board pf Inquiry into to. to locate the same on said internal improvement but the mode adopted subsequently was honor, mounted a horse, and plunged the affairs of the Indian Bureau: On his way to school Joe passed a little, lands, aDd to receive a conveyance in even more cruel, for the men were bound through the woods to Augusta. Reaching WASHINGTON, Jan. 23,1878, fee simple for such quantity, to be expressed grim smithy, -where the village horses with their faces exposed to the scorching that city, he made his way to the Chronicle To Gen. W. T. Sherman, in such certificate of said lands, to be by the were shod. The proprietor of this establishment, DEAR SIR.Having had frequent occasion to rays of the sun, with their hands tied office and demanded to know the author of holder thereof selected as in this act is provided Jack Jones, and he were old acquaintance". consult you during my recent administration the offensive article. It turned out that it above their heads. The whole five having as the whole amount of said bonds of the affairs of the Indian Bureau in regard to The next morning, when was Gov. Reed, of Florida, for a long time been firmly bound, cold water, was, bear to the whole quantity of said internal the duties I was called upon to perform, Joe passed for school, Jack stood in the a bitter political enemy of Call's. Lieut. by the orders of the fiist prisoner, poured and knowing that jou have had for many improvement lands. On the first Tuesday Alston at once sent him a peremptory challenge. door, looking as sooty as his shop. lie years past peculiar facilities of obtaining upon the ligatures with the object of tightening in August, in the year one thousand eight Gov. Reed replied that he would be was a huge iellow, sinewy and powerful, through acquaintance with the conduct of our the bonds and thereby increasing hundred and seventy nine, and from day to Indian business, I respectfully request to be happy to accommodate Lie^t. Alston with and looked as though he might have been the suffering of the suspected men. After day theieafter, until such selection of lands is informed whether, in your judgment,.my management satisfaction as soon as he had concluded an made at his own forge ami yet in this completed at the office of the Secretary this the first prisoner poured scalding of that branch of the public Bervice affair with Lieut. Williams, of Call's staff, steely case throbbed a heart soft and of State, the holders water over the hands and arms of the sufferers. was zealous, intelligent, economical, and efficient, who had already favored him with a note wariny and exceedingly tender. Rose bud, of such certificates, in person and how it compares in these respects upon the same subject. Alston thereupon with previous administrations. 1 will thank or by agent, may locate the same in quantities in passing that way once or twice, had The object of this was to extort a confession had to content his soul in patience until the you, also, to state, if you can, what opinion is not to exceed one hundred and sixty looked into his shop with seeming interest, of their guilt, and a statement implicating affair with Williams was over. He did not entertained on the same subject by Gen. Sheridan acres at a time, alternately, under such regulations because it was work, and Jack had and other officers of the army familiar others. After the men had suffered have to wait long. A meeting was soon as the Secretary of State shall prescribe, fancied that he caught the same look in with Indian affairs, and on whose judgment arranged between Reed and Williams, the excruciating agony for eight hours, to give each certificate a fair opportunity you place confidence. her tace that had belonged to a little conditions of which were that they were to and were released, it was found that one to be located on a favorable choice of Very respectfully, daughter of his.who had rested now seven fight with bowie knives until of them was dead, while the others unable land. If any of said certificates are not JOHN Q. SMITH. jears under the daisies. one or the other should be cut represented at the time of such selection to move. Two of them died in the hospital,whither THE REPLY. down. At the meeting the men came upon 'Joe." said Jack, "John Town told me and location, the Secretary of State shall select they were sent for treatment HEADQUARTERS ARMY UNITED STATES, the ground stripped to the shirt. They advanced the land and locate such certificates last night that you was goin' to lick the WASHINGTON, Jau. 23. one expired in his village, while the fifth Hon. J. Q. Smith. until they met each other. They thereon, in the same manner that the holder teacher." was able to give his evidence before the MYDEVRSI R: I have the honor to acknowledge then elapsed their hands together in a firm thereof might have done. The Governor of Joe straightened np and looked important. committing magistrate, but never rallied the receipt of your letter of the 23d, and Wal. yis, Jack, I do think of com- and dead game grasp, standing too to toe. the State shall execute and deliver to the from the effects of the torture, and died take great pleasure in assuring you that your The keen and shining knives were then person in whose name such locations shall administration of affairs of the Indian bureau mencin' operations, a little, in that line. after the case was committed to the court placed in their right hands. At a signal have been made, deeds of conveyance in fee was most satisfactory to me, to Gen. She's the delicatest little thing, and it of sessions. simple for the lands so located. they were dropped perpendicularly along Sherman, and to army officera generally. The won't do to be very savage, and it won't The medical evidence was sickening in their legs. At the next word they were raised moment you were installed in office, you put do to have her bossin' of a feller 'round, Sec. 4. If on the first day of July, A. D. yourself in friendly official relation to myself into the air, and then the terrible fencing its details, as it is described how the 1879, any of said railroad bonds shall be outstanding, and through me to army officers Berving on th nuther, you know." began. It was a brief strenuous struggle. arms, hands and lower extremities of the UI don't be- frontier near many Indian agencies, whereby the holder of any of them may at "See here, Joe," said Jack, The long knives cut and gashed through the victims had become gangrenious and how you secured their hearty co-operation of your any time return the same to the Secretary of flesh of the combatants and clashed and lieve you ever had a fust-class whippin" the fingers had rotted and dropped off most difficult office. State, who shall issue such a certificate for sparkled against each other, now buried in in your life, and I'll tell you what I'll do: The authority and influence a reddy I believe your administration of the Indian the same as in the former case, and the holder vital tissue and now whipped out with a dim, You tech a hair of that gal's head, and I'll bureau was most successful of any in the past usually has in a village went in a great thereof, his heirs or assigns, may immediately bluish moisture veiling the blades, until at ten years, and I know from present observation give you a sound maulin', as sure as my measure to deter the spectator of this locate the same on any part of said internal length Lieut. Williams fell, hacked almost to that you were always most active, zealous, and, name's Jack Jones and Jack brought wholesale murder from interfering on behalf improvement lands not previously located, I had supposed, successful in the discharge pieces. Gov. Reed escaped without disabling down his sledge-hammer of a fist with and if the same is not located in sixty of tortured man. The court convicted of its duties. I am certain that injury. emphasis on his leathern apron. days after the same has been issued, the Secretary your administration was efficient'and I thought the first, second, fourth and fifth prisoners, "He then tnrned his attention to Lieut. it economical, though unable to form an opinion of State shall locate the same in the Joe put hi& thumb up to his nose and and sentenced the fifth to death Alston. Being the challenged party he had on this head as I had often explained to name of the party to whom issued, and in marched on. He did not care mnch for and the others to toansportation for life. the choice of weapons. He selected a mur you the great difficulty of the administration the manner aforesaid, and in the order the Jack's threat he felt so sure he could derous weapon, now happily obsolete, but of the Indian bureau arose from the fact that the same were issued. keep out of his way, and he did mean to then of common use, and known as a yager. each tribe needed special treatment according SEO. 5. Immediately upon the issuance of to its past history, and existing give the young school-mistress a scare, It was a broad-mouthed, funnel-shaped, A Disease of Indoor Life. prejudices and absolute impossibility of controlling any certificate for the surrender of any bond, smooth-bore gun, that carried a handful of and this was the way he would do it: He them from Washington. The commissioner, such bond shall be registered, giving date of Among the natives of Senegambia shot, and was warranted to hit everything in would break the rules again, and she ako restricted by specific appropriations, its receipt and name of the persons by whom the neighborhood of its aim. The duel was pulmonary affections are not onlv nearly would call him out, but he wouldn go. could not make issues of provisions and surrendered, and the same bond shall be immediately a most unfortunate one in its direct and remote but absolutely unknown yet a single year stores to meet the claims of the day, and the He felt pretty sure she was gritty enough destroyed by fire and the manner results. Capt. Kenon was Lieut. Alston's consequence was that disorders resulted from passed in the overcrowded man-pens and i undertake"to whip him then he would and time of its destruction noted on the register. second. The principals were posted starvaiion and distress which the commissioner steerage-hells of the slave-trader often catch the stick, break it, throw it over her could not relieve. with their backs to each other. As the word sufficed to develop the disease in that headassume so offensive an attitude, in 'wheel' was called it is claimed that Alston SEO. 6. For all the purposes of this act I am sure your feelings always prompted you most virulent form known as galloping short, that she would be glad to retire to to be just and liberal, but you could not exceed slipped and stumbled. The command, 'Fire, the judgments legally transferred to the estate consumption and the brutal planteis her desk and leave him master of the field. or change existing affairs, withont violating onetwothree?" followed almost immediately, of McDonald and Gorham and Fitz, law but as to your wasting public money or the Spanish Antilles made a rule of never This was to be the programme. It was and before he could recover, his gun Grindall & Kupers, mentionnd End referred property, I do not .believe such a thing possible. buying an imported negro before they all to be .vithout bloodshed, and let Jack went off into the air, Gov. Reed took cool to in chapter one hundred and fifty-two, on I assure you of my great personal and official had "tested his wind", i. trotted him aim, fired promptly at the word, and Lieut. page three hundred and eighty-eight of the Jones catch him if he could. respect, and I feel sure that the more your acts up hill and watched his respirations. Alston dropped dead. Thus two gallant special laws of the year A. D. 1867, for are examined the more reason you and your So, a little while after school had taken young fellows had already fallen in defence which no bonds were ever issued, shall be If he proved to be "a roarer" as turf men friends have to be satisfied. up that morning, he commenced throwing of the honor of an absent comrade. But the treated in the same manner and considered With respect, your friend and servant, term it, they knew that the dungeon had spit-balls but Rosebud, who was attending cruel feud was hardlv opened. as such bonds and the proceeds from the W. T. SHEBMAW, done its work, and discounted his value to a class, seemed entirely oblivious, General U. S. A. sales of any of said internal improvement "Col. Willis Alston, then living in Louisiana, accordingly. "If a perfectly sound man When she had finished, she walked lands, and the funds in which the same are heard of his brother's death, and became is imprisoned for life," says Baron d' up the aisles to do sums. She was at The Phantom Dog Whistle." invested, shall be created in the same manner impressed with the idea that he had Arblay, the Belgian philanthropist, "his work a little back of his seat, when pop as the lands from which they were realized not been fairly killed. He claimed that lungs, as a rule, will first show symptoms went a ball and hit Tiny Smith on the would have been subject to if the same Gov. Reed should have withheld -his- fire Two singular incidents, which will furnish of disease, and shorten his misery by a had not been sold. shin when he saw his brother's gun spring aimlessly nuts to crack to unbelievers in the hectic deftlme, unless he should commit towards the sky. Indeed, it is said At the instant, from some mysterious SEO. 7. The said internal improvement supernatural, have recently come to light suicide." that a sister of Lieut. Alston had the lead lands so conveyed as provided in this ac, fold of Rosebud's dress,new a long,though in England in regard to the recent loss of taken from her brother's body and a new Our home statistics show that the per shall be free from taxation until sold, or willow blue-beech, and gave several the Avalanche in the British channel. bullet moulded, which she sent to Col. Willis centage of death by consumption in each contracted to be sold, by the grantees of the quick slashes around the shoulders of A. lad, who was a great friend to one of Alston, and demanded that he should State, not to exceed five years time. State bears an exact proportion to the Joe's linen coat before he. seemed to comprehend come and avenge their brother's death. Col. the apprentices who was lost, made arrangements SEC 8. This act shall be submitted to the greater or smaller number of inhabitants the position. Then he sprang Alston came as fast as possible to this hotel. electors of this State for their approval or to accompany him down the who follow indoor occupations, and is up and caught at the stick. But the Gov. Brown met him as he rode up to the rejection, at the next general election to be highest in the factory districts of New channel and come ashore with the pilot, blows come thicker and faster, first at piazza, and at once divined his purpose. held for the election of county and State England, and the crowded cities of our but, at the last moment before sailing, one point then at another, until the whole 'You have come here to challenge Reed?' he officers. The ballots upon the question submitted central States. In Great Britain the rate he was seized with such an indefinable and stick was worn up, and he had not succeeded asked. Col. Alston assented. Gov. Brown shall be upon the same ticket used increases with the latitude, and attains then begged him to be very deliberate in catching it once. Joe was defeated, ungovernable misgiving that he declined by the voters for the election of officers, and its maximum height in Glasgow, where, and cool and quiet about it* On but not conquered, and he would to go, and thus escaped almost certain shall have written or printed thereon, or as Sir Charles Bredie remarks, windows the very night he got here he was sitting fet the better of her yet, as sure as fate, partly written and partly printed thereon, death. The apprentice who was lost had near the fireplace yonder, with a large cloak are opened only one day for every two in the following formula: The voters voting told the boys at recess. So all day a retriever dog- whowa very fond of him, around him, and his head bowed upon Birmingham, and every three and a half in favor of the adoption of this act shall long, while thewounds smarted, he pondered andjwnic Janswered to a shrill dogwhistle hand. He had been sitting,there only a few in London but going farther north the have on their ballots the words to-wit: "For some new method of assault and moments when some ope burushed past him tha* he carried. On the might of the recovery and destruction of the railroad percentage suddenly sinks from twenty no doubt, Rosebud would have been rather roughly. Raiding' his '"head he discovered the shipwreck,hi^-jnotherand aunt were bondsYes." The voters voting against the three to eleven, and even to six, if we ^jualtothe occasion had nothing supervened. that it waslGov Reed,'the* very man adoption of this act shall have on deacUy^nth^sitth^Troor^^apid^^thedog in the cross the fifty-seventh parallel, which But as Joe went home that night he had travelled so^far to challenged deadly their ballots the words, to-wit 'ablafc--^"-^fetctiea,'* Between ,9 audio Vclock the marks the- boundary between the manufacturing with. head bent, still studying at his combat. In an instant he was' wit! "For the recovery and destruction countries of Central Scotland Mes' yrere 'startle byleartn^ a shrill problem, he was caught by Jack, who excitement, and rising exclaime^h 'Ton' of the railroad bondsNo." Th result and the pastoral regions of the north whist]e ,up-stay, have murdered my'brother, Sir,-and now^dp held him as it in one of his own iron re^e1iibfing 'that of of the election for the approval or rejection you presume to insult me? Draw and defend tne,dog-whistruaedT the young man. vises. He carried him into his shop and I is distressingly probable, then, to say of this act shall be ascertained, and the returns yourself sir!' As quick as thoughtReed laid him across his anvil block. thereof made and certified, and the result The dog heard,it the least, that consumption, that most ^lso, gUvehls usual recognizing drew a six-barrelled pistol and fired, ascertained and declared in the manner "Hand me the hammer," said Jack to fearful scourge of the human race, is not bark, ,and bounded up-siairs, tearing away Alston's third finger, just as provided by law for canvassing and returning 'his man, who was at work at the bellows, a "mysterious dispensation of Providence,' where he supposed his master was. The the latter poured a broadside into votes for the State officers at the {|jtha puffetf and snorted, and threw the nor a "product of our outrageous climate,' whistle was heard by two credible witnesses, into him from a horseman's pistol same election. If the majority of those voting angry sparks up, snapping and crackling. but the direct consequence of an outrageous lodging a pistol ball into his side whose testimony was confirmed at said election shall have approved of -Jacktuinedtbiboy over on the block, violation of the physical laws of The fire was repeated, each man receiving by the response made to it by the dog of this act, then the Governor shall issue his ^.both his hands in one of his, placed his God.Dr. Felix L. Oswald, in Populai another bullet. Cob Alston was then oat of proclamation declaring the result, arS|jjkhere- the lost sailor. penee upon him and raised his free arm. Science Monthly. i n- ii ii i 1 Qtti. 1 A