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VOL. 1(1.
M° KINNEY, COLLIN COUNTY, TEX A
THE KU-KLUX REIGN OP TERROR, thut ho would leavo the State, was victims invariabl
beatón till he feinted, receiving seven, their outrages.
synopsis op a poution op tub te8tt-' ty-fivo lashes with a stirrup strap, among the color*
mony takkn bv tiik congressional The particulars ol this coso have hoi'ü-| use tho language
investigating! committee, tofore been made publio through the("dared wot even
—— press. Witness was threatened with ness believe that
No. 1 certain death should he remain in the. been ¿old in Monri
The testimony taken by tbo Solect!county longer than ten days. |tbefGbvernment s<
Oommitloe of Congress, appointed all Miv Farmer, toucher of a colored few months ago, scarce
the last session to investigate nlbjgod school, sovórely whipped and ordered in the entire county "
Ku- Klux outrages in tho Southern 1 to,loave his_ school. Mi'. Parmer was
.States, at last onables ns to get a'a man of hijjh respectability nod su-
comprehensivo view of the operations potior oulturo. His only oflTonso was
of that mysterious orgariizntionltoachinga colored school.* Ho was
known as tfio Ku-KluxKlan—an or-¡obliged to loave.
gauization fhat bus boon pooh-poohed] March lllh.—Alecu Stewart (col*
whipped by a band of Ku-Klux
white man for .wagos due
is "a quiet, bard-work-
licaus; and
h terror
that, to
i, they
by
us
hiitt
Northern
Democratic
parallel in history
--a huge, misshapen reptile spawned
froni the foul decay ot slavery and
rebollion. it is proposed in this and
the following papers to present such
a brief abstract, as apace will porinit,
of some of the testimony, which
amounts in all to several thousand pa-
^os, thus permitting tho reader to
form his own opinion from facts, of
which no mere genorul statement.,
however strong, could convey any-
thing like an adequate conception.
Thof>e official docuinonts, comprising
the sworn statements of mon of tho
highest character and social station,
and of all shades of political opinion,
could not fail to convince tho most
skeptical roador that tho Ku-Klux or-
ganisation is, indeed, no myth, but
one of i lio most horriblo realities in
tho history of human passion and
crime, it is only possible to give the
briefest abstract of tho testimony,
but this will be amply sufficient to
hIiovv the utterly diabolical character
of the order and the disloyal animus
of its acts. Wo shall withhold, in
some iusiuncos, tho names of the wit-
nesses, for reasons which tlws unucjer
can readily appreciate in tho ligfil
which tho testimony throws upon tho
fearful hazard incurred L>y those por-
bouH who, in tl.o Ku-Klux infested
districts, make themselves obnoxious
to these midnight prowlers. We be-
gin with tho State of
MÍ3SIáSiri'I.
Among tl.e most interesting and
explicit «if the testimony taken was
that of Colonel A. P. Hoggins, ot'
-Abartfcrif,- Most.,© county, Cubed
States Assessor of Internal Revenue
at that point, and county Superinten-
dent of Schools under the Slate gov-
ernment. In tho latter, office, to
which ho was appointed in 1,870, ho
was President of tho County Hoard
of School Directors, whoso duty it.
was to submit to tho Board of Super-
visors an estimate of tho amount of
tases needed for school purposes, the
latter board being charged with the
duty of making the assessment.. The
estimate submitted by tho lioard of
Directors was less by nearly one-third
than tho amount of tux allowed by
law, but tho Klux-KIux of tho county
notified tho Board of Supervisors not
to make the assessment, and it was
not dono. Tho law of tho State was
thus successfully set at defiance, and
tlio teachers of tho county wore
unable to got their pay for services
rendered. In this county (Monroe)
tho Ku-Klux reigned Bupremo for
many months, largo bands of them,
tii,eked in their frightful regalia, ri-
ling through tho county by night, and
whipping, tnurdoring, and burning at
will, lloro aro sonio of tho special
casos testified to by Col. lluggins.
In August, 1870, one Saunders Flint
(colored) and two sons, having luid a
quarrel with three white men, had
been committed to jail to await thoir
trial for assault and battory. One
night during the month mentioned
tlio jail was broken open and they
were taken out by a gang of fifty dis-
guised men (Ku-Klux.) Tho father
by some means escaped, but both tho
sons wore killed. XJttCftP men wore
sinkers of this gang, but
January last their cuses were dis-
lissod, and they were sot at liborty.
"'"T<tbaWiiei^o danger-
from tho courts was the signal for a
general outbreak of Ku-Klux vio-
lence, and outrages succoeded oach
other with frightful rapidity.
February 1st.—-Alfred Whitfield
(colored) was whipped till ho prom-
ised to vote the Democratic ticket.
Witness saw his back, which was
"ba lly pounded up."
February 3d.—An old colored mfin,
r, v >u forgotten, was beaten till ho
.nado the sanio premiso.
February 10th.—Jack Dupreo, (col-
ored,) president of a Republican club,
and living near Ross1 Mill, was drag-
ged from his bod by a gang of Ku-
ivlux, taker: five miles inio tho woods,1,roe county. In only two of theso
and beaten till ho was noar doad. — ¡casos have thero boon an)* logal" pro-
OWK, &o., but
nates. Compelled
for safety. (March,
1871.)
Joo Atkins (colored) beatón severe-
ly and told that it was "for being a
Radical." Was compollod to leave
his home. (March, 1871.)
A colored man (nume unknown)
who had been in the Union army
whipped for loaving employer with-
out consent. (March, 1871.)
March 29th.—Aleck Pago (colored)
dragged from his house, whipped al-
most to death, and then hung. Head
split open with an axe. Buried with
rope round his nock. Sworn to by
Joseph Davis and Henry Hatch,
members of tho Klan, who turned
State's ovidonco. Pago was "a per-
fectly quiet and iuofl'ensivo man," but
a Republican.
May 20th.—Abraham Wamble, u
colored preacher, takon out by lifty
or sixty masked men and shot. Mr.
Marshall, a bitter Democrat, on whose
placo Wamble livod, states that he
did not know a inoro quiet and woll
disposed man in tho neighborhood.—
But ho voted tho Radical ticket.
April 1.—Tom Hornborgo'r (col-
ored) dragged from his house by tbir-
Ku-Klux arid fctUod,—
Wit-
n had
before
hero a
^.^w.-oedman
oould have been
induóed to cast his'voto.
(TO UB CONTINUED.) ' "
Taxes.
From the Jofforsoulan.]
"To the sobor secon
.V
second the
ty or forty
Body riddled with ¿troK.
alleged against him.
April 1.—Peter (oolored, last
name unknown to witness) whipped,
with his neck under a fence rail, till
ho promised lo voto tho Democratic
ticket,,
Dt\ Kbart and Mr. McCoy, mom-
liors of the County Board of School
Directors, woro ordered by trie Ku-
Klux to ¡nave tüo Board, cud did so,
being threatened with death in cast-
of refusal. This was early in April
last.
About tho same timo all the leach-
crs cast of tho Tomhigbeo, in this
county, (Monroe,) wore waited upon
by tho Ku-Klux and ordered to eiofjo
their schools, and did so. • Tb* Ku-
Klux wont round in a body to each
teacher. A crowd of theni entered
tho bed-room of a Hiss Allen, from
Gcncsoo, Illinois, struck a light, and
made her promise to closo her school,
and leave on tho following Wodnoa-
day.
Mr. Easton Ebart, loachiug the
Union School at Aberdeen, was vis-
ited by Ku-Klux about this time and
ordered to "get out of there." lie
was told that ho might teach a pay
school, but should not bo paid out of
the public funds. Ho was a South-
ern gontloman, and the only objection
to him was his connection with tho
free school system.
Twenty-six schools woro inter-
rupted about this time, and throo
school-houses wore burned. Two of
tho latter were those of white froc
schools.
Rev. Mr. Galloway, a Congrega-
tional minister, in Lowndes county,
was waitod upon somo timo in Juno
and told that ho must slop his preach-
ing. Ho is a white man, a nativo of
Mississippi, and a collego graduate.
His offonses. socrned to bo preaching
to freodmon, having taught a colored
school, and being a Republican.
April-6.—D. McLachlrin, a Method
ist minister, at Starksvillo, Oktibbeha
county, was visited twico and ordered
to loave tho place. Ho was finally
forced to go. no belonged to tho
Northern M. E. Church.
March 80.—Cornelius McBrido, a
teacher of a colored school in Chick-
asaw county, was takon out at night,
received one hundred ond seventy-
five lashes, and compelled to leave the
neighborhood to save his life. He is
a well-educated and respectablo man.
Juno 17.—-A man (name unknown)
whipped by Ku-Klux in Lowndes
county.
Tho Ku-Klux stopped tho collodion
of tho school-tax in Lowndes county,
and compelled tho county officers to
return all that had boon collected.
Tho ahovo casos, except whoro oth-
erwise specified, all occurred in Mon-
honest men of tlnu lituUwl party Hiid;wo
bullevu there are many such, we submit this
questlou and these Jigwrea: Can you give
us auy valid reason why uny materl ' "
tUo vrnsgwH^
tnuTpiTdS goveri.iftoTit aim
in times that are pasty' '—¿idd/cjs of i he
Democratic Committee selected at the Dallas
Convention.
In answer to the abovo wo unhesi-
tatingly say, that many'"valid rea-'
sons " exist that make taxes heavier
now than under ahy State adminis-
tration prior to the war. We have
gone through a terrible civil war
brought on Dy tho Democracy—which
left our Stalo government in a chaotic
condition, that required systemati-
zing. That same war loft in our
midst a horde of rockloss, desperate,
lawless men who bold a high carnival
of crime. To suppress crime and
bring these dosperudoos to justice it
was an imporalive necessity to estab-
lish tho Stalo police, tho oxponso of
which does not oxcecd 8250,000 per an-
num j or if it over amounted to 8700,-
000, as is claimed in tho address
abovo quotod from, to uso tho lan-
guage of that address, "the cost will
justify tho luxury." Tho advantage
the Stato police has been to tho cattle
iutorosts of tho Stato of Texas alone
will moro than twice covor its cost.
But a short wbilo baok the cattle
thief would purohase fifty or ono hun-
dred head of cattle, and in driving
through the State would incroaso .his
hord from five hundred to a thousand
bead by actual theft. Tito State po-
lico hav^ broken up this eysteni of
thiévihg,*^tíd na. ¡v oonsoquonco of
their efforts tho valuó'of Kittle Wi
increased thirty por cent. The Stato
polico have since thoir establishment
arrested 8-100 criminals and brought
i hem to justice; the terrible simoon
of crime has beeii checked in its
bloody course, "and now law-abiding,
pcaceable men can leave their fire-
sides without 'the necessity oT botfly
burdouod with arms for their preten-
tion, and with n reasonable assurance
thai they will aguin meet their lovad
ones in tho family circle. But the
largest item of taxation is for public
school purposes, to-wit: one dollar
and u bit (?1 12J) on tho ono hundred
dollars. Without making any nrgu-
moiit in favor of tho publio school
law, we will take it for granted that
no man will deny tho blessings of,
and necessity for a judicious system
of public schools, for it is only a sav-
age who has no anxiety for the edu-
eution of his children. Well, the
population of Texas is estimated at
1,000,000 and tho taxable property at.
1200,000,000; this makes an average
of $200 per head for every man,
woman and child in tho Stato ; the
general averago is*, one-fifth of the
population are hoads of fumilios; then
this makes tho average to oaeh head
of a family 81000; thon tho school
tax per annum on ono thousand dol-
lars is just 812 50, for which amount,
the head of oaeb family can boikI his
throe children, which is tho number
under tho averago adopted, to tbo
public schools for toa months in oacli
year. What did it cost under Dom
oorutio rulo, when there woro no pub-
lio schools'( Four dollars por month
for each child, which would bo 812
por month for tho throe, or ono hun-
dred and twenty dolhirs for ton
months. So under tho present vale
of taxation to koop up public schools
tho head of o family saves 8107 50
per year. Upon this hypothesis, and
it is the true and correct ono, tho
taxes on the people woro heavier be-
fore tbo war under Democratic rule,
than now undor Republican rulo, be
cause the education of a man's chil-
dren was ono of his actual and abso-
lute oxponscs-—a part of his taxes
whether levied by law or not. Thon
if, under Democratic rulo, tho tax up-
on a man, tho actual drain upon his
pooket, was $120 per annum for tho
education of his children, and, undor
Republican rulo, it is only $12 50, tho
balance is in favor of tho Republican
n'.isitnotl1 And by levying this
5J- for school purposes thoy have
actually reduced tho taxation, have
thoy not? Under Democratic rulo
before tho war, when there was no
publio school systom, tho tax was 84
on tho ono hundred dollars for ovory
child a man had; so if ho had six—
and Texas is a groat State for chil-
w<
."i 11
brings wc
ten foi
ucation,
vice and
God. if
at
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toft
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OCTOBER 21,1871.
' ' ' '/•
|i. "ill
The City
«rty will The Awful Fire*t i
icroascd
able man.
Tho aotu
thority of
thing $2
as before i
to every j
exterminates
man nearer to his
reasons are not satis-faf. 80Uth as
you are not a reason*
Now Yorlc, Oct. 9.—The report
¡ jus* received says ;ti
¡taxation levied
inoludin
ig JM
e hundred dojli
by an-
,jfé
property
o State is
State of
look at som
ern Strtti
per capita
The stat
of
Ifif"
apita tax of the
f$4 Í0. Let ii*
The Use of Sisters.—Tboro is
nothing so bcnoficially oducating to
a young man aB tho companionship
of sistors. Thoy laugh him out of
, , — I I - , .„ „ 0 v„... thoso little awkwardiiossos of man-
/ie bonds inhuman form then cutcoodings against tbo perpetrators of ¡dren—his school tax was 824 on the nor which othorwiso might bocomo
am open "irom throat to straddlo": tbo outrages. Ono of tboso was the thousand, just the amount it actually habitual. Thoy refino him uncon-
ind took out bis heart and intostines. Flint caso, in which tho thrco men\cost him to educate bis children ; and sciously in all matters of tasto and
I his was attested by Joseph David, a chargod with participation in that .this rate of taxation was not uniform politeness. They nip tlio little buds
rio nbor of tbo gang, who turned.crime wore discharged last January,loithar for tho reason that tho moreiof puppyism which, under other oir-
•«fiitos ovidonco at Oxford, and who as abovo stated. Tho other was tho'children a man had, tho heavier was cumstancos, might flaunt thoir flow-
vas present on tho occasion in ques-, murder of Aleck Pago, lor which in-his rato of taxation. Right there,¡crine before loss partial oyos. When
«•in, n n t 1—...... '"'saj's thoman who has no children,! brothors rofuso to wait upon their'institutlons
you havo loft a crevice for mo to slip sistors, in order to "go with tho girls," .District, in
a word. "I havo no children toilet them rotnombor who mado Ihem'one on liundulph stroot, in
to " tho Division, are destroyed. All
the a vera]
tnnt of I,
82QO, thon t^) per ca¡
r States—not South'
—andedmparo our
",or" cupita.
capita tax
' tl
mhimihiim-,-i, mm
of Massachusetts'
814 U5, and in Now York, the great
Democratic State, whove' the Demo-
cratic party has always beon in the
ascendancy, it is $11 55. Thus you
see, oh rank and tile of tho Demo-
cratic party, that tho cry of the dem-
agogues is without truth or founda-
tion ; and if you will oaloulate for
yourselves and trust not too implicit-
ly in their teachings and their loader-
ship you will advance ten fold the in
terosts of tho country and conse
quently your own happinessaud pros
pcrity.
•
The Danger of Betting, or Kicked by a
Mule.
Jake Johnson had a mule. There
was nothing fomarkablo in tho moro
fact of his being tho possossor of
such an animal, but there was some-
thing peculiar about this mule. Ho
—tho animal—could kick higher, hit
harder on tho provocation and act
uglier than any mnlo on reoord.
Ono morning riding his property
to market, Jake met Jim Boggs,
against whom he had nn old bnt con-
coaled grudge, lío knew Boggs*
weakness lay in bragging and butting;
' 'ed him accordingly :
u Jim 1 Fino morn-
burning
ns far
nd badly
arrt
north as
on the west side.
Washington, Oot. ft.—The
of Cincinnati telegraphs the
of Chicago, tendering tho fife depart-
ment and provisions.
Many buildings have boen blown
up tó etom tho conflagration without
effect.
A mass meetln
iys, of Oh
Hof of Chios,
Haj
was hold, governor
r
bio,
Details^80'
is <]le«tjEpy«id
mateok/l , „
Houso is burned. The ChlefEOgln
oor of Cincinnati, with three ongines,
has startod for Chiougo.
Englawood, ton milos from Chica-
go, 11 o'clock P. M.—Half tho city is
destroyed. Tho flames continuo nl-
mdst unopposed. The gas works
uro destroyed, also tho eourt houso,
and all tho heavy business housos.—
Ono hundred and fifty thousand poo-
plo are houseless. Fabulous prices
uro paid for vehicles to carry valua-
bles from danger. Tho bridges aro
burned. Tbo loss of life is unknown,
but the streets uro filled with pooplo
looking for th6 lost.
Chicago, Oot. 9.—Madison, Markot,
Clinton, JotTorson, Buffalo and Gris-
wold stroots aro ruiuod on both sidos
to tho Chicago rlvor, and are a maso
of ruins. Tho efforts to save tho
courthouse and gas works wore futile.
Thirty or forty vessels aro burning
now and many havo boon destroyed.
Evory man in tho city is callod for
duty. Nearly ovory bridge over tho
Chicago river is burned. All is
terror.
Lator.—Tho firo in Chicago is un-
der control, three-quarters of tho city
lying on both sidos tbo rivor is iu
ruins.
5 p. M.—The onliro businoss part
of the city north ot 12th stroot on nil
sides of tho rivor and its branohos is
destroyed. Evory printing offico, all
tho hoteln and railroad depots are
St or ? Tctt.nss JJW*m i burned. Tho wbolo north sido is ro-
,„u JI w
in this country. Paid $600 for 0f 12th '
beon stayed at
thoro to DiVii
papor offico,
which was sup
finally suoeunu
of tho '
depots'
Illinois Central
passengor and freigli
latter. More than
churches, and mnoh.
in tho liver aré all t
who wore millionaires
morning are nearly j
more terrible than all it
that juaiur. polish
how jpany none ei
will not ever
• tbít tho. ^
nt " mmá
tho rjver numbers oT an
released from' confinen
bewildered and oonfbsed by thelfca Of
fire which surrounded them, that they
rushed wildly to and fro, uttering
cries of fright and pain, until tli¿y
are scorched and killed. Any..«t~
tompt at a doscrlption of the soeuee
of this appalling calamity would bo
idle. Tho simple fíiét is that our
great city of Chicago is destroyed,
and that hundreds of millions of ab-
¡, ' Iropljod Jim.—
y toe mulo that you
* ' In#
IIo#
ing.- m
HHearly,
"fltte weal]
hfr-vri. W' it
"Bet on Y
tell y
mule
him."
"Great smash! Is that so?" ejac-
ulated Jim.
c?a*y ward if it.—
Toll j'oti couHd'sntially, Jim, I'm ta-
king him down for betting purposes.
L bet ho can kiok a fly off from any
man without its hurting him."
"Now, look here, squire," said Jim,
"I am not a betting charactcr, but I'll
bot you something on that myself."
"Jim, there's no uso; don't bot, 1
don't want to win your money."
"Dou't bo alarmed, squire, I'll take
such bels &s tbom every timo."
" Well, if yon are determined to bot,
I will risk a small stake—say five
dollars."
"All right, squire, you're my man.
But who'll he kick tho fly off?"—
Thero is no ono boro but you and I.
You try it."
"No," says Johnson ; "I havo to be
by tbo mulo's head to order him."
"Ob! yaas," says Jim. «'Then prob-
ably I'm tho man. W'a'll, I'll doit;
but you aro to bot ton against my
five, if I risk it."
"All right,", quoth tho squire.—
"Sow thoro is a fly on your shoulder.
Stand still." And Johnson adjusted
the mulo.
"Whist, Jervey," said ho.
Tbo mule raised his heels with such
velocity und forco that Boggs roso in
tho air liko a bird, and alighted on all
fours in a muddy ditcb, bang up
agninst a rail fonce.
Rising, in % towering rago, he ox-
claimed : "Yaas, thut is smart! 1
knew your darned mulo could't do it.
You hud that all put up. I wouldn't
bo kickod liko that for fifty dollars.
Yon can just fork over tbom ore
stakes for it any way."
"Not so fast, Jim ; Jcrvcy did just
what I said he could ; that is kick a
fly off of a man without it's hurting
him. You seo tho mulo is not in-
jured by tho oporation. Howovdr,
if you are not satisfiod, wo will try it
again as you wish."
"The douce tako you," growlod
Jim. "I'd rathor have a barn fall on
mo at onco than havo that critter
kick mo again. Koop the stakes, but
don't say anything about it."
And Boggs trudgod on iu bittor-
noss of soul, murmuring to bimsolf,
"Sold, by thunder and kicked by a
mulol"
«'ion in ques-1murder ot Aleck 1'agc, for which in- his
irjiod with no diotmonts woro found against twont}*-]says
o "was a noisy eight members of tho gang. Thoso you
peak his mind." men woro released on bail; and, al-'in a
¡on. Dupreo was chargod
•rimo; but it is said ho
iopablican and would speak ^ _ _ _
lio penalty on frcodom of speech in!though tho indictments against thcm.oducato, then what advantago is it to'prosontablo and agreeable
h:s part of Mississippi seems to boj woro for murder in tho first degree, mo to pay $12 60 por annum hchoolgirt*." it Is hotter to bo li
ieavior than that on murder. ^ |thoy wore received, on thoir roturn'tnx?" just this advantugo, my
March Otb.—Witness was lodging homo, with shoutings, tho firing of .friend: Public scbooMcommand im-
^vt tlio house of one Geo. li. Ross.— cannon, and ovory demonstration of j migration ; immigration populates
Slo was taken out by a gang of 120 popular sympathy. jour country; tbo thousands of acres
masked and mounted mon in whito The tnomoers o* ' ' *
tito .,
rivor to tho lake, an a1
mitoa long and ono wide, is all 'swep
off. The wind is blowing a gale from
tho southwest, and a chango to tbo
north is almost sure to sweop tho en
tiro rosidonco district south of 12th
street.
It is nssortod that the wator works
aro still all right, but tbat tho wator
has beon shut off south to supply tho
domand in tho north.
Thousands aro loaving tho city by
every available moans. Grtmt hun-
gor and suffering aro inevitable, and
ovory city and town, offers assistance.
Buffalo subscritos ono hundred thou-
sand dolían, Cincinnati two hundred
ihons.md, and St. Louis sovonty-fivo
thrniuand. In reply to offers of as-
sistance, tho Mayor asks for cooked
food lor tho suffering firemen from
other cities, aud it iu now on route
to Chicago.
Groat credit is given to tho teto-
graph superintendent and tbo opera-
tors for what they bnvo dono in koftji-
ing r.p communication from the
doomed city.
Op. Ni.—Tbo stroots in tho districts
unhurried aro lined for milos with
such household goods as havo been
saved from destruction.
Tho most generous offers of assist
anco in money, food or urtything
wantod, aro coming from all citizons
and towns by tho telegraph.
Tho water works oro -entirely de
siroyed. Buildings are now being
blown up on tho lino of tho tiro to at
tempt to arrest its progress.
Lator.—It is now believed that tho
spread of tho firo to tho southward
has boon Btayod at Harrison slreot,
but on tho north sido thoro is no
diminution of its fury, 'l'his entire
division of tho city is ovidontly
doomed to utter destruction. Thoro
aro gravo fears that tbo flames may
spread to tho wost sido of the north
branch of tho Chicago river, and tho
inhabitants of tho streets nonrest tho
rivor aro already moving to places
supposed to bo of greater (safety
Tho Western Union Telegraph
Company havo now six wires work-
ing East and South, in a temporary
oilico, on tho corner of State and
Sixtconth streets.
Tho Western Railroad Company
aro running trains on both its
branches, which aro crowded with
flying citizens,
A roliablo gentleman, just arrlvod
from tho North Division, brings tho
inlolligeneo thut tho water works are
uninjured. God grant it proves true,
It is irnpofrsiblu now to givo oven an
approximately correct olatomout of
the loss, but a faint idea may bo
formod when it is stated that evory
bank in the city, except, two savings
of the
tivo capital here have vanished, und'
nearly ono-third of Chicago's inhabi-
tants aro houseless and dependent on
othors. Any attempt to embpllistoi
this would bo mockory. Ah this
awful day draws to a close thousands
of anxious oyos watch the olouds of
smoko which still roll over the burnt
district, with tho evident dread that
suddon change in the wind ma}*
turn the flames on tbat portion of the
city yot spared. Tboro Beems, how-
over, but littlo cause of apprehension
of it. Eiromon from othor cities ar«
constantly arriving.
Col. J. J. S. Wilson, tho Superan*
tendont of tho Tolograpb, is in receipt
of dispntohes from tbo leading cities
announcing that aid is being prepared
for tho B'.itl'01'ers.
Col. Clowry, of St. Louis, tele*
graphs tbat $70,000 have boen sub'
soribod by tho merchants there.
Washington, Ootobor 9.—The very
latest telegrama say the oonflngrátion
is progressing. Assistance is going
from all directions, and tho railroads
_on fast trains
prof
great doal mofo 1
thoir ira mediato Wt
thing is being dono by Gen. Stage#"
and his assistants to keep up eommu->
nttalion for tho citizens and press
with tho world outside.
About throo-qnartors of the U. 3.
mail was saved and taken possession
of by Col. Wood of the postal service.
The Fibm at Chicago Extin-
guished —Washington, Oct. 10.—-A.
Iicuvy rain nt Chicago put out tho
lire. This statement is confirmed
through tho regular official channclp.
iinginoa^ nncl provisions aro going
to Chicago from nil points. Nearly 1
every theatre is ploying for tlio re-
lief of tho sufferers.
The vic it y Latest.—All is burned '
on both sides of Harrison street be-
tween, tlio river und the lake, and .
northward to tho extreme norther* ,
limit not a building is left; even the
trees of Lincoln Park are destroyed. .
The government is bringing all its
resources to tho relief of Chicago.
All the railroads carry supplio*
free by fnat trains.
—
Sncuirr of FjuccKss.—A merchant,
who, from boing a vory poor boy, had
risen to wealth and renown, was onco.
asked bv nn intimate friend to what
ho attributed bis success in lifo.
" To prompt nnd steady obodionco
to my parents," was tho reply. "In
tho midst of many bad oxampios of
youths of my own ago, 1 was always
able to yield a ready submission to
tho will of my father and mother, nnd '
1 firmly boliovo that a blessing has
in consoquonce, rentad upon ma and
upon all my ofl'orts/'
Coupon, the corpulent banker, wan
standing in Stutc street one hot day
in August, wiping tho servilo drop*
from off his brow," when a ragged
but shurpcyed newsboy accosted aim
with :
^Please, sir, toil mo tho time ?"
Coupon lugged out his Frodshatn,
and. looking benignantly down on
his lnlerlfKMt°r, replied :
"Jlist two o'clock."
"All right, old buffer,w said til
gamin, gathering his rags together
for a run, "you can sell out for soap
grease at three."
The insulted man of money raised
his cane, und making n frantic rusk
at his tormentor, nearly fell over *
friend who Was coming up the street.
"Hallo, Ci>«pon, wfmt's the nat-
ter ?" said tho other.
"Matter?" said Coupon, puffing
tho South DÍvUión.and^'111 l,ctlt Mvl ,l,1^r* "wl,-v' 01,0 ol'
tbo Wost
of these bands, so of wild land in our Stato will bo sot
¿'ule?, itiiJ, on refusing to promise far as kuown, are all Democrat*, thoir tied upon and cultivated; population
laughed at
at homo than abroad, young mon.JSLr.
whole-
thoso infiolont newsboys asked ino
tho time, nnd wlion I told liitn two
It is not enough to boliovo what
salo stores, all retail establishments,impudent young scoun
tho postollico, oourthouso, chnmbor of.^i'ol Mid might soil out for soup
commerce, ovory hotel iu tho Southjgieaso lit three
Division, except tho Michigan A vouiiol "Don't be in
you maintain; you must maintain'Hotel, which is standing on tho ox-'the malicious response
what you beliove, and maintain it be-!tremo. southern limit, and oseaped, Ave minutos past two ; you'vo
causo you beliove it. though badly scorched, every nows-'flftv five minutes to do.U in."
such a hurry,"
*c; "i\ is
was
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