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JDAKOTA TEEBITQEIAL NEWS. The Victims of Circumstances. The evidence of the doctor and small'to be worth the risk ot committing rigores Won't Lie. terday General Grant's army entered) the defence of Thomas Harris produced theft* Biding their time, he "The* bravest are the tenderesV & the city. Penaberton's men will, be* a strong impression on him. He and his accomplice privately watched paroled." Derlred from the Records of old Trials, and, as a. rule, the-simplest. These asked a question which ought to have The tracklayers on the Omaha road the addition made to their master's I looked at Colonel Tonu He had been put at the trial: store. On the day when James Gray qualitiesbravery, tenderness, and aie nineteen miles west of Salem, and BY WILKIE COIililNS. fallen back in his armchair, and was "Was my brother James rich enough slept at the inn, they found gold thirteen miles east of Mitchell, and simplicitymy friend Colonel Tom Parson Tibbald, a Magistrate living sobbing silently, and big tears coursed to have a handful of gold pieces about enough to tempt them at last. will reach the later place in about ten down his bronzed cheeks. He spoke possessed in the highest degree, says within a day's ride of the ancient city him when he slept at the inn?" How to try the experiment of theft brokenly and all I could hear waff: days. a writer in the Atlanta Constitution. of York, surprised the members of his The old man knew little or nothing without risk of discovery, was the one "Infamousthe cowardsit is of James and his affairs. The good family, one morning, by presenting The Colonel was too old to take difficulty that presented itself. In Judson La Moure has been elected treachery! Have our papers tricked wife, who was better informed, answered: this emergency,Elias Morgan conceived himself at breakfast without an appe part in the late war, but, with the aid us? Are all men liars?" ~Tt' mayor of Pembina, together with a "He never, to my knowledge the diabolical scheme of charging Harris full party ticket. In a moment, however, the Colonel* tite. Upon his wife asking him if the of the newspapers and a score or so had as much as a spare pound in his with the murder of the traveller rose and walked out on the piazza. dishes on the table were not to his of large maps, he managed to" keep up The secretary of the interior rovers pocket at any time in his life." who died ini a fit. The failure of the When I saw him at the supper-table taste, he answered, "My day's work Antony, remembering the landlord's with the progress of each campaign. ed the decision of the commissioner oj false evidence, and the nrosDect of the that night he looked ten years older, explanation of his brother's death, prisoner's discharge, terrified Maria the general land office canceling th is not tc my taste. For the first time His somewhat extensive milifiary experience but he was the same grave, stately asked next if she ever heard that Mackling.. claim of Thomas Nash to land in sec since I have been one of his majesty's in the Seminole and'Mexican gentleman of the old school. James was liable to fits. She-confessed Elias had placed himself in a position tions 9 and 10, township 153, rang I had to take my, leave the next justices, a charge of murder is coming wars- made him quite an oracle to a suspicion that James had suffer^ which threatened him with indictment morning, and the Colonel held myhand 65, Devil Lake land office. before me, and the man accused is one among the residents of Belle Isle, and ed. in that way. "He and his moth- for perjury. The women claimed a long time^at parting. er," she explained* "kept this infirmity to be heard as a witness, and deliberately Seeding is all finished in Richland of our neighbors." his predictions* were unhesitatingly ''Ihavea presentiment," he said, a it)v of my nephew's (if he had sacrificed her master on the county, also in Sargent county. The believed. "that we shall never meet again." ^,'3 The person in this miserable plight secret- When they were both staying scaffold to secure the safety of her accomplice. acreage in Sargent county is increased He was right. He died the day he *J was Thomas Harris, an inn-keeper, Daring the summer of '63 I spent a with us- on a visit, he was found lying heard the tremendous -tidings of Ap Jm about one fourth over last year few weeks at Belle Isle. At' that season for dead on the road. His- mother charged with murdering James Gray, The two wretches were committed pomattox., 3j$fai The acreage in Richland county is this semi-tropical paradise is always said, and he said, it was an accident to prison. It is not often that poetical a traveller sleeping in his house. about the same as last year, ne^ in its glory, and on the occasion a i^ ^i* caused, by a fall. All I can tell you is, justice punishes crime, out of the The witnesses against him were his Here-Most,.the-Anarchist. I of.my visit Colonel Tom. was- at his land having been broken and old that the doctor who brought him. to imaginary court ot appeal which claims own servants: Elias Morgan, variously best. It struck me on the morning of his senses called it a fit." land seeded to timothy. our sympathies on the stage. But, in Most, the Anarchist, was released my arrival that I had never seen the employed as waiter, hostler and After considering a little with himself, this case, retribution did really overtake from prison in New York recently and A Indian Agent M. C. Chesney, of th veteran looking better. His iron-gray Antony begged leave to put one gardener and Maria Mackling, chamber-maid. atrocious guilts Elias Morgan had a rousing reception from his %M Cheyenne agency, has ordered all cattlemen hair and grizzled mustache had a soldierly question more. He asked for the and Maria Mackling both died in friends, and made a speech. These and cattle off the Cheyenne cut, and something like the name of the village in which the inn, prison of the disease then known as gold are some of his sayings: fi In his evidence against his master, bloom of youth lingered on his withered Indian reserve, which extends on the once kept by Thomas Harris, was fever.Youth's Companion. On the jury that convicted him face. Through his glasses I could Sioux reservation from Cheyenm Morgan declared that he had seen situated. Having received this information, Twelve arrogant so called "business see a hopeful sparkle in his kindly agency to Fort Thompson. The action he got up to say good-bye. Thomas Harris on the traveller's bed* men" and "gentlemen." Cansrht in a Tight Place. eyes. Undoubtedly my friend was is in accordance with instruc His uncle and aunt wanted to- know killing the man by strangling. In fear On his prisonThey put me into a bearing the weight of his three score tions received from the interior department why he was leaving them in that sudden There recently happened in Boston, suit which would have been very ap- i "of what might happen if he remained years splendidly. It was not long before at Washington. way. says the Transcript, a very distressing propriate for a scarecrow, shaved me I penetrated the secret of his apparent in the room, Morgan feignel to go To this he returned rather a strange incident, in which a professional once a week for six months with a At Pierre a fire starting in a, build youthfulness and elasticity of downstairs. Returning secretly, he answer: "I have a fancy for making gentleman, who had occasion to visit blunt razor, gave me work in a spirits. ing owned by John Karcher of Free acquaintance with two of the witnesses a lady who was subject to aberration looked through the keyhole of a door smithy, and thrust me into a dark port, 111 spread to adjoining buildings at the trial, and I mean to try if I 'I want to show you something," of mind, narrowly escaped participating cavern seven feet long and three feet in an abjoining bed-chamber, and saw occupied by James Reed's butcher can hear of them in the village." said the colonel in a mysterious way in a tragedy of the most shocking wide. There I was treated like a the landlord rifling James Gray's as he beckoned me into his library The man-servant and the womanservant shop, M. J. Lacid's stationery kind. The lady had, in what was evidently beast not a man. I was fed with pig's pockets. one afternoon. Of course I went. The who had been in the employment store, Dillon & Holmes' law office and one of her aberrations, requested swill in a kind of monkey cage, where mail from the mainland reached us Harris answered to this, that all of Thomas Harris, had good him to accompany her to another James L. Brenk'slaw office. The Karcher about 80 prisoners were" packed, like about that hour, and it was our custom his neighbors knew him to be an honest characters, and were allowed to keep part of the house, and he deemed it sardines in a box. brick block had a narrow escape to go over the daily papers together. man. He had found Grey in a fit, their pla2es by the person who succeeded altogether best to follow. Suddenly Here, together with a herd of thieves, B. N. Locke was badly burned about and had endeavored to restore him to possession of the inn. Under he found that she had led him out upon I was driven to work, to feed, to the the hands. Loss, $6^000 insurance, to his senses without success. The the new proprietor the business "What do you think of the situation the roof of the house. Once there, wash place, &c, under the constant $3,000. Work will commence imme doctor who had examined the body had fallen off. The place was associated at Vicksburg?" asked Colonel Tom as she calmly insisted upon leaping to the brutal hallooing and commanding of supported this assertion by declaring diately to rebuild with solid brick with a murder, and a prejudice he directed my attention to a map of ground, and taking him with her. He the keepers, who, in most cases, exhibit that he had found no marks of violence against it existed in the minds of the seat f war epread out on the table blocks. struggled to save himself and her, and the education and manners of on the dead traveller. In the travellers. The bed-rooms were all before us. as her frenzy gave her unusual strength, cowboys. To make it short I never A heavy rainfall throughout the opinion of the magistrate, the ease empty, one evening, when a stranger I made an evasive answer, but intimated the gentleman found his task a very witnessed, let alone experienced, a Devil's Lake region occurred recently, againts Harri3 had now broken down, arrived, who described himself as an that I had my fears. hard one. When at last he succeeded similar brutality to that ruling in and the prisoner would have been angler desirous of exercising his skill thoroughly soaking the ground. "Feel a little shaky, hey?" in getting her off the roof and into a this institution in any other prison. discharged, but for the appearance of in the trout-steam which ran near the "Well, Imust admit that I do'" was place of safety, he was rather more In this country such treatment seems At the anticoercion meeting at Watertown the maid-servant asking to be sworn. village. my reply. dead than alive, so great was his exhaustion to be considered just and fair, at least ringing speeches were made "Now, my boy," said the Colonel, He was a handsome man, still young, Maria Mackling then made the the numerous idlers- that visited the and excitement. Perhaps denouncing the action of England regarding "I will show you just how it stands. with pleasant manners, and. with something statement that follows: prison day after day and who specially he might have saved himself the strain Ireland by Hon. T. V. Eddy, Here is a file of the Daily Bomb for in his fine upright figure which "On the morning when my fellowservant snuffed around me enjoyed it greatly. if he had exhibited the presence of Col. Mark Sheafe, Gen. H. R. Pease, the past two weeks. Take out your suggested to the new landlord that found Mr. Harris throttling They wanted to crush me, but mind that was once shown by a friend ex-Mayor Mclntyreand Gov. Mellette. pencil and figure a little while I read." he might have been at one time in the James Gray, I was in the back washhouse, only increased a hundred fold my of the mad English poet, Nathaniel I complied with the request, and army. Everybody in the village liked which looks out on the garden, hatred and contempt for a society, Charles Hudson, a single man living Lee, who was confined in Bedlam. The the Colonel, after wiping his glasses, him he spent his money freely anc^ and wondered what he wanted there that has no other argument than the ten miles north of De Smet, attempted friend visited him there, and found proceeded to read from the telegraphic he was especially kind and considerate at that early hour. I watched him. prison to refute ideas. I remain as I suicide by shooting himself in the mouth him apparently restored to reason. columns of different numbers of the towards the servants. He was within a few yards of the window, was before a Socialist, Communist, Lee showed him the "institution," with a gun. He cannot live. Bomb as follows: when I saw him take a handful of Atheist, and Anarchist, and will again Elias Morgan frequently accompanied and finally led him out on the roof. "VICKSBURG, June 20.In the battle At a meeting of representative oiti" gold pieces out of his pocket, and wrap defiantly unfold the banner of social him on his fishing excursions. Then the poet seized him by the arm, of to-day Grant's losses were terrific. zens of Minot, it was decided to take them up in something that looked revolution. I am ready, if it must be, Maria Mackling looked after his linen and quietly but firmly remarked! \J He lost in killed and prisoners fully like a bit of canvas. After that, he steps to organize a city under the recent to die for it. with extraordinary care contrived to "Come, let us immortalize ourselves 10,000 men. Cenfederate loss, 131. went on to a tree in a cormer of the act of the legislature. meet him constantly on the stairs On me and MaratI say here in the by leaping off this roof." He meant "VICKSBURG, June 23.The Yankees garden, and dug a hole under the tree and greatly enjoyed the compliments presence of tlte authorities, or their it, and was strong enough to carry Gen. Hugh J. Campbell of Yankton made several assaults to-day, but and hid the money in it. Send the which the handsome gentleman paid hirelings, a year ago they put me in the other with him. By all means let will deliver the Grand Army oration were repulsed with the slaughter of constable with me to the garden, and to her on these occasions. prison, but" they can't do it now. us immortalize ourselves," said the 5,000 men. The Confederates lost 87 at Huron on Decoration day. Five let him see if I have not spoken the [Cheers.] Then workingmen did not In the exchange of confidences that friend "but any fool could jump down killed and wounded. hundred more patents were received truth." understand, but they do now. [Voice"Three followed, he told Maria that he was a that would n't help us any. Let's go "VICKSBURG, June 2S.The confederates by the United States land office. A But good Parson Tibbald waiced cheers for Anarchy!"] I will single man, and he was thereupon informed down to the around and jump up. made several Sorties to-day, killing awhile to give his neighbor an opportunity home company has offered to build a stick to the red flag as long'as I have that the chambermaid and the That would make us famous!" The 3,000 and capturing 4,000 prisoners. of answering the maid-servant. one drop of blood in my body. This, tow mill and have it in operation waiter were engaged to be married. maniac was taken with the idea, and Our loss inconsiderable. Thomas Harris startled everybody assembly is the Supreme Court of New They were only waiting to find better next fall for a bonus of $1,200. The they went d^own but Lee never got up "VICKSBURG, July 1.We have won present by turning pale, York. Let Recorder Smyth and his situations, and to earn money enough proposition will be accepted. to the roof again. another glorious victory. Ten thousand and failing to defend himself intelligibly hirelings know it. When Marat was to start in business for themselves. Yankees killed, and 5,000 captured. At Dead wood, Star was re-elected against the serious statement called back to Paris the head of the In the third week of the stranger's Our loss, 308. Origin, of Osculation. made by the girl. The constable French King was cut from his shoulders. mayor for the fourth term by a majority residence at the inn, there occurred a "VICKSBURG, July 2.The fighting was accordingly sent to the garden [Voice -"So be it with all Hew- oE 127 over George V. Ayers. change for the worse in his relations The "British Apollo," when asked renewed. Grant's losses to-day will with Maria Macklingand there, itts!"] I did not come to America to with one oE the two servants. He excited Both are prominent business men. why kissing was so popular, what its foot up 15,000. It is reported that under the tree, the gold pieces were fight a few American political loafers. the jealousy of Elias Morgan. Chief engineer McDonald was elected benefit, and who its inventor, replied"Ah, Grant is mortally wounded. found. After this the magistrate had Let all those who. have been against This man set himself to watch alderman the Second ward in a remaikable madame, had you a lover you "Got those figures down," said the but one alternative left. He committed me know it. Maria, and made discoveries which so would not come to Apollo tor a solution and very exciting contest. Colonel beaming upon me over his the prisoner for trial at the next enraged him, that henot only behaved since there is no dispute but the glasses. assizes. A suicide was committed at Mandan A Brave Soldier Gone. brutally to his affianced, but forgot kisses of mutual lovers give infinite "Here they are," I said. "I make The witnesses having repeated their by M. J. Mahon, a restaurant keeper. the respect due to his master's guest. satisfaction. As to its invention it is By the death of General Sir Owen it that the Yankees have lost in the evidence before the judge and the jury, Mahon was an ex-alderman and had The amiable gentleman, who had certain that nature was its author, Lanyon. K. C. M. G., in New York, last five engagements 52,000 men." Thomas Harris was asked what he been in town five years. It is supposed shown such condescending kindness and it began with the first courtship." Lord Wolseley loses one of his most "Just so,'' laughed Colonel Tom, had to say in his own defence. that business reverses drove him toward his inferiors, suddenly exhibited It seems difficult to conceive of a time trusty lieutenants and England one clapping his hands, "and our losses In those days the merciless law did a truculent temper. He knocked to the act. When found the b. Ty was when kissing was unknown in this island, of its gentlest, most amiable and are only a few hundred. Now, my not allow prisoners to have the assistance the waiter down. Elias got up again still warm, with a revolver o*u the and yet a Scandinavian tradition bravest soldiers. Three years ago he boy, what was Grant's strength two of counsel. Harris was left to with an evil light in his eyes. He said, side, with which he had shot himself mourned the untimely loss of his states that kissing was first introduced weeks ago?" do his best for himself. During his "The man who once kept this house in the head. young wife and infant child, and there into England by Rowena the "About 70,000 men," I hazarded at confinement in prison, he found time knocked me down, and he lived, sir, is certainly something sad in his end, beautiful daughter of Hengist. In Edward a guess. The city council of Huron has grant, to compose his mind, and to consider to be sorry for it." far away from his friends and among the IV.'s reign it was usual for a "Correct. Well, when you subtract beforehand how he might most fitly ed a charter to Huron citizens for a Self-betrayed by those threatening strangers. Twenty years ago he was guest, both on his arrival and at his 52,000 from 70,000 you see that he plead his own cause. After a solemn telephone exchange and voted to number words, Elias went out of the room. Sir Patrick Grant's secretary in Jamaica. departure, to kiss his hostess and all has only 18,000 left, 'while Pernoerton assertion of his innocence, he proceeded the houses at once,preparatory to Having discovered in this way that In 1873 he did good work under the ladies of her family. Again, in must have in Vicksburg about 30,000 in these words: his suspicions of one of the witnesses putting in free delivery July 1. Lord Wolseley in Ashantee, and Henry's time, when Cavendish visited men fit for service. You see?" "At my examination before the against the unfortunate Harris had twelve months later went to the Gold a French nobleman at his own chateau, I did see, so far as figures went, and At Bismarck, the saloon license has magistrate, my maid-servanfs evidence been well founded, Antony Gray set Coast to assist Sir George Strahan, the mistress of the house at (The then a wave of depression rolled over been fixed at $500, strictly in advance took me by surprise. I was his trap next to catch the woman, whom he has survived scarcely two head ot her maidens thus greeted him: me. The Colonel went on excitedly: ashamed to acknowledge what I am and no license to issue to any saloon and achieved a result which he had months. His adminstration in Griqualand "For as much as ye be an Englishman, "Look at the map, sir. When Pemberton's now resolved to confess. My lord, I now in arrears tor license. not ventured to contemplate. We=t, his Diamond Field contingent whoss custom it is in your country to 30,000 men make their next am by nature a covetous man, fond Having obtained a private interview of volunteers, and his rule in The F. B. Calland companj^'s agen" kiss all ladies and gentlewomen without sortie and hurl themselves upon of money, afraid of thieves, and suspicious with Maria Mackling, he presented the Transvaal are all matters of history. cy of Bismarck has written policies for offense, and although it be not so Grant's shattered legions, what will be of people about me who know himself in the character of a penitent On the eve of marrying an heiress heiein this lealm, yet will I be so the result? Don't you see that the the insurance of the territorial buildings, that I am well-to-do in the world. I man. "I am afraid," he said, he was ordered to Egypt, and he Vicksburg campaign is virtually over, bold as to kiss you, and so shall all covering the entire list of public admit that I did what other miserly "that I have innocently lowered you returned from the wars full of honor and that in another day or two we my maidens." Erasmus, grave and institutions in the territory. The men have done before me: I hid the in the estimation of your jealous and apparently robust health. Just shall be masters of the situation. staid scholar as he was, writes enthusiastically gold as the girl has said. But I aaiount insured exceeds $500,000 and sweetheart I shall never forgive myself, thirteen months ago he consulted a After a painful pause I asked: of the practice: "If you buried it in secret for my own better is the largest insurance deal ever made it I had been so unfortunate as well-known London surgeon for what "Colonel, can we rely on these meager go to any place you are received with secuntV Every farthing of that money east of Minneapolis. to raise an obstacle to your marriage." seemed to be a spot in the throat. It telegraphic reports? They deal in a kiss by all if you depart on a journey is ray property, and has been honestly proved to be a malignant cancer of round numbers and give no details." The Cass County bank has been you are dismissed with aiciss you come by." Maria rewarded the handsome, the tonsils, and he learned the worst My friend straightened himself, and Organized at Casselton with a capital returnkisses are exchanged they Such was the defence in substance. single gentleman with a look which expressed without a change of countenance and looked sternly in my face. come to visit youa kiss the first ^-tock of $50,000. E. H. Paine of Having heard it, the judge summed up modest anxiety to obtain a with the courage of a stoic. All attempts "Sir," he said, "I have taken the thing they leave youyou kiss them the case. .Manchester, N. H., formerly cashier position in his estimation. to cure the malady proved Daily Bomb thirty years. It published all round. Do they meet you anywherekisses His lordship dwelt particularly on of the First National Bank of Casselton, "I must forgive you, if you can't wholly ineffectual to stay its ravages, my series of articles on nullification, in abundance. Lastly, the circumstances of the hiding of the is president, Wallace Grovener forgive yourself," she answered, softly. and Sir Owen Lanyon insisted on going over the signature of 'Junius Brutus,' n-.oney pointing out the weakness of wherever you move, there is nothing vice president, Allen H. Paine cashier, "Indeed, I owe you a debt of gratitude. to America so as not to give unnecessary a series of papers which received high the reasons assigned by the but kissesand if you had but once You have released me from an pain to his friends, as he and R. M. Hollock secretary. The praise from such men, sir, as the Hon. prisoner for his conduct, and leaving tasted them! how soft they are! how engagement to a brute. And, what is said, and there he has passed away. bank was organized under the new Kickapoo De Groo, Governor Cadwilkens it to the jury to decide which fragrant! on my honor you would not more," she added, beginning to lose territorial law. EDMUND YATES. Pidkins, and Colonel Gallatin they believedthe statement given in wish to reside here for 10 vears onlv her temepr, "an ungrateful brute. Montgomery. The Bomb, sir, supported 'T evidence by the witnesses, or the statement but for life."All the Year Round. Commander Harrison Allen, of But for me, Elias Morgan might have The Iiiar Out Fishing. me for Congress. It published made by Harris. The jury appeared ceen put in prison, and have richly the G. A. R., has appointed the in full the speech I made on to think consultation among From the Lewiston Journal. ^3 deserved it!" following staff: Col. S. H. Jumper, my departure for Mexico at themselves, in this case, a mere waste Antony did his best to persuade her Lie First"Went 'down East' last Men Who Saved the Union. Aberdeen, A. A. G. Col. C. T. McCoy, the head of the Rattlesnake of time. In two minutes they found to speak more plainly. But Maria week and fished through the ice for "Colonel Donn Piatt's new book, Aberdeen, A. Q. M. G. Cpl. John W. Rangers, when I received the beautiful the prisoner guilty of the murder of was on her guard, and plausibly deferred pickerel, bass, trout, etc. Had heard "Memories of Men Who Saved the Un- Gregg, Wahpeton, inspector general silk banner presented by the fair hands James Gray. explanation to a future opportunity. that the March fishing was good. ion," excites lively attention. His Col. M. W. Greene, Fargo, judge advocate ot the lovely Miss Magnolia Halifax, a In these days, if a man had been She had, nevertheless, said Caught in five days 12 bass, 7 pickerel five heroes are Lincoln, Stanton, Chase, general Col. Robert Z. Bennett, beauty and a belle, sir. The Bomb judicially condemned to death on enough already to lead to serious and 4 trout." Seward and General George H. Thomas. has always been friendly to my family, Beresford, chief mustering officer. doubtful evidence, after two minutes consequences. He makes it very clear to his Lie Second (a week later^"Went sir, and I have confidence in it. I of consideration, our parliament and The jealous waiter, still a self-appointed A resident of Mcintosh county readers why he does not add to his stand by its reports, sir. It is out of fishing with a friend on Lake Maranocook our press would have saved his life. found the corpse of William McDonald, spy on Maria's movements, military list. The reasons for his the question that they should be inaccurate." last week and had great luck. In the bad old times Thomas Harris had heard in hiding all that passed at the h.inter, who was Lost in a omission of various well known names We put in twenty-eight holes and was hanged meeting his fate with firmness, the interview". Partly in revenge.partly btorm last December. A portion of are likely to receive a general bombardment I wilted. It was impossible to shake caught 24 bass, 14 pickerel and 8 and declaring his innocence with in his own interests, he decided on from hero-worshipers. the steadfast faith of this simple and the body had been eaten by wolves or trout." his last breath. anticipating any confession on the honest old soldier. And I did not Lie Third "Fishing through the others beasts, The pockets contain- Between five and six months after chambermaid's part. The same dav Whatever view may be taken of his want to shake it. I felt proud of Colonel ice with flags is great fun. Tried it in 2d a i Ml of greenbanks and other valuables. the date of the execution, an Englishman he presented himself before Parson failure to bestow praises where he Tom, and felt like throwing up Maine last March. We had a great who had been employed in foreign Tibbald as a repentant criminal, resigned does not think them due, there will be my hat over'his predictions. time, but only caught 48 bassr 28 military service returned to his to enlighten justice in the character a general agreement among the friends George J. HankV, grocer, at Grand It was a day later. It was the Fourth pickerel and 16 trout." own country, after an absence of of King's Evidence. and admirers of General Thomas that 1 Forks assigned toMaxfield & Seabury of July. In the afternoon we scanned Lie Fourth"Yon can't tell me any* twelve years, and set himself to discover The infamous conspiracy to which quite aside from any comparisons the columns of the Bomb, but for the Df St. Paul. Liabilities unknown. thing about fisning. I went down to the members of his family who Thomas Harris had fallen a victim which Colonel Piatt institutes, he has first time in weeks there was no dispatch Maine last March, and with a friend A project is on foot to build a line miaht yet be in the land of the living. had been first suggested by his own produced the most worthy tribute to from Vicksburg. put two holes through the ice, and in This man was Anthony Grav, a of railroad from Ft. Dodge to Sioux miserly habits. that great soldier which has yet appeared. "Wait until to-morrow," said Colonel two hours and a half we had. caught ycjunger brother of the deceased Falls/ Purely by accident, in the first instance, While he presents new and Tom. ninety-six bass, fifty-six pickerel and James. the woman servant had seen Bob Rowro, a Ft. Sully aiabulance most interesting pictures of each of The next day was the same. No thirty-two trout." He succeeded in tracing his mother's him secretly burying money under 3river, decamped leaving numerous his characters, his chapter on Thomas news from Vicksburg. Epitome"We would have caught sister and her husband, two childless the tree, and had informed the manservant is the masterpiece of the book. Every "Wires cut somewhere,"^ was the many more fish, but as my friend received creditors behind. old people in feeble health. From the oi her discovery. friend of Thomas will cordially thank Colonel's explanation. 1- a dispatch from Boston that husband, who had been present at the He had examined the hiding-place, Byron C. Moore, the leading saloonkeeper the author. All who watch the course The next day, the 6th, the Bomb his mother-in-law was dead, we hurried trial, but who had not been included with a view to robbery which might in Sioux Falls, was fined $100 contained the following telegram: of pending controversies over our war home at once." among the witnesses, Antony heard benefit his sweetheart and himself, ior running a Sunday saloon. history will await with interest th* "VICKSBTJBG, July 5.General Pemberton P. S.He really caught two perch, & the terrible story which had just been and had found the sum secreted too stir which the volume issore to make surrendered on the 3d. Yes- flatfish, and a bad cold in the head.