Street's Monthly. (Waco, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1876 Page: 1 of 8
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THE JAMESES ESCAPED/*
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while he was
cointiuents
bera, two of
t very moment
horseflesh!
the bandit
cate meat b
Here's a hint
meat
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gold
agitup,
the contrarv
As matte now stand gamblers,
lators, and "tradesmen'? axe ma
fortune i a quiet way, while 1
tune hunters" fon the most part
ducing themselves to absoluto
Louis
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Trifles for the l adles.
Btoekings are coming
70LUME
-Tor Street'! Monthly.
WAITlXfi.
ut julia v. piiirr.u.
I nan her ua I croesed the atreet;
Nflxdy grand and atately;
A little woman, iair r.nd snoot.
With lipa that smlloil sedately.
That amlled, perhapa, at «orno sweet thought
Meat tender and beguiling,
Kor nothing atom had ever wroglit
Much iovelinewi in amtling.
The etui, low on a w®Wm height,
Had chanced to And her waiting,
JVud clasped her in ita arma of light.
And held her thore elating.
But when he kissed and turned away.
O'er hill and river roaming.
Her brown hair held the'gold of day,
And gleamed amid the gloaming.
Her eyea liad caught the wonrteroua gleam
O'«ummer's glow and glory,
With hovering shadowa like n dream
01 autumn's mystic st ory.
Hare brown oyes, dark with depth ungueset'A,
The soul's great socret keeping,
What power of laughing they expressed,
How great their power of weeping.
The jay-bird culled just overhead.
And then grow sail with calling,
An though be know what llowera were dead,
What leavea were round him falling.
The very cloud tjiut in the west
A crons the sky was trailing,
A Bhip upon the ocean's breast.
Tu happy porta seemed Bailing.
The maple tree beside the gate
Wavdad iu crimson splendor;
The oak had yielded up to fate
llil spring hopes, bright and tender.
The sycamore's broad leaves were slow
In eddying circles falling,
Tliongh every breer.e was soft and low,
Like far off voices calling.
Thut autumn scene was but the frame ;
The picture won me slowly:
It net my eagerfheart aflame.
And made my life more holy.
It kept beside mo while I wrought;
The tints that chanced to aober,
Tho Hps that amlled at some swoet thought,
The brown oyes like October,
A year has passed since in my breast
A sudden hope wae graven ;
And Uiat fair ship far in the weat
Has reached ita happy haven.
For when at eve I leave the atreet,
A nd homeward turn elating,
A dalntly women, fair and awoet,
Ktands in the minuet waiting.
ACCIDENTS OF A LIFE.
The Woinlerftil Adventure of a Mew York
nerehant.
About eleven o'clock on a irild De-
cember . night, in the year 1808, Mr.
Nicholas Young, a respectable merchant
of New York city, turned the key in his
-tore door and directed his steps home-
beAnJvMiU#-.
uta Hia >n "tucking:
mat df stock, an was, therefore,-un-
tóte.' MB
, ! th
aljy lato. A model of regularity in
hw habits, he was never known to be
ofhis house after ten o'clock in the
evening, exoept on such periodical occa-
sions as the present.
He.was a plain man of forty-five, who
had never married, and inhabited an un-
pretending but comfortable abode in
•what was then the semi-rural district
about Blecker streét. • His family con-
sisted solely of his old hqusekeeper and a
colored man.
He had net walked far on the night in
question, when he was startled by a cry
as of a female in distress, seemingly pro-
ceeding from a close carriage, which was
driving past at a moderate rate ot speed.
The vehicle had not gone twenty yards
further before the cry was again raised,
clear and shrill, and he distinctly saw a
white handkerchief waving from the win-
dow.
Constitutionally fearless, and endowed
with no small share of native chivalry,
Mr. Young lost no time in hastening to
the rescue of the presumed captive.
Accident seemed to favor him, for just
then the driver dropped his whip, and,
before he could recover it and regain his
seat, the merchant was at the carriage
door, which he attempted to opeir. He
was resisted lay a strong grasp from with-
in, while a man thrust his head from
the window and angrily demanded
what was meant by such unwarrantable
intrusion.
Mr. Young as peremptorily inquired
whether a female was being carried off
against her will, and stated nis intention
or searching into the matter. He was
answered at once bv a blew on the head
from a slungshot, or similar instrument,
which felled him to the ground insensi-
ble. On recovering, he found himself
lying, gagged and bound, at the bottom
of the coach, which was being driven
furiously. Defenseless as a sheep borne
to the shambles, he could only await his
■fate*with such resignation as he could
muster.
Hours seemed to pans before the vehi-
cle came to a .«top, when the door was
opened and he was lifted out in perfect
-silence by two stout men. He now saw,
by the glimmering Btarlight, that they
were standing on the further end of a
long wharf—a pier—the other extremity
•of which was hidden in dirkness. Book-
ing on the waves, almost under their
feet, lay a small towboat. Into this,
still without a word being spoken, he
was transferred by the same hands, ana
it was then made fast to the stern of a
sailing vessel, which lay close by with
nd helpless behind hfr.
found* him'''
morning
Young's abduction, "Mrs.
housekeeper, awaited in
Mr.
it, his
lis ap-
arance "at the breakfast table. Never
before, during the fifteen years she had
lived with him, had he been ten minutes
behind time. Of course, he must be
indisposed. With some trepidation she
went up stairs and knocked at his
chamber door. The summons, again
and again repeated, awakened no re-
sponse. He might have gone out for a
walk, though such had never been his
habil. An hour passed, and she grew
seriously alarmed. Finally when a busi-
ness acquaintance of Mr. Young's called
to inquire why his store remained closed,
Mrs. Comfit procured assistance, and her
mastor's door was broken open. A care-
ful search of the apartment only resulted
in showing that it had apparently not
been occupied during the preceding
night.
Days and weeks rolled on, and notjjkig
was seen or heard of %hc missing mrj-
chant. Advertisements appeared in me
leadingjournals offering liberal rewardsfor
information concerning him; but none was
forthcoming. The case created consid-
erable excitement in the community at
large, an among Mr. Young's immediate
connections, but all attempts to unravel
the mystery proved unavailing; and
when, one morning;, his office safe was
foundxopen, and roDbcd of all its valua-
ble contents, the conclusion was gener-
ally arrived at that he had been foully
dealt with, and that his reappearance
was not to be looked for. A distant rela-
tive of the lost man came forward, insti-
tuted the necessary proceedings, and took
quiet possession of the property which
Mr. Young had toiled through so many
years to amass.
To return, now, to our ill-fated hero
himself.
After rifting in his boat for two days,
tho weather being fortunately calm and
moderate, he was picked up by a home-
ward bound Italian brig. As Mr.
Young spoke only his native language,
of which none of his rescuers understood
a single word, he could communicate
very little respecting himself, and was
barely able to mafce out the name of the
port to which they were sailing. Just
before entering the Mediterranean, they
werfe chased and captured by a pirate, to
whoni they could offer no resistance.
Their vessel was scuttled, and themselves
were carried as slaves to the coast of
Morocco. By the Italians Young had
been treated kindly; at the hands of the
half-savage captórs, he met with nothing
but hardship, Tiding forced to toil almost
incessantly IWealh a burning sun.
¡jittering he
effected his escape by the «id ff a fellow
slave, an Englishman, with whom he
was sometimes allowed to go fishing,
and with whom, under cover of night,
he flung himself overboard and swam to
the opposite coast of Spain, where they
found themselves with no possessions but
the clothes on their backs. They man-
aged to make their way to the nearest
seaport town, whence they intended,*if
possible, Í to procure a passage to the
United States. All went well; a ship
was soon found, which m a few days
was to weigh anchor for New York, and
on which theif services were at once en-
gaged for the voyage.
Almost on the eve of their embarka-
tion, a fearful murder was committed in
the house where the fugitives were lodg-
ing. Circumstances pointed strongly
toward them as the perpetrators, ana
they were arrested on suspicion. Poor,
friendless, and ignorant of the language
of their persecutors, they were unable
to make an adequate defense, and were
summarily found guilty. Mr. Young's
unfortunate companion was executed,
and he himself sentenced to the galleys
for life.
After he had undergone the lingering
horrors of this worst of punishment for
five years, the real murderer was made
known by a deathbed confession, and
Mr. Young was set at liberty. His story
had excited I the active sympathy of sev-
eral humane individuals, and he found
no difficulty in procuring means of
transportation to his own country. In
a few weeks he once more trod the
streets of New York, nearly eight years
from the time of his enforced departure;
but he returned to find himself a "beg-
gar. His relative had thrown away his
property in wild speculations, and died,
the year before, hopelessly insolvent.
Broken in health and spirits, and pre-
maturely old, the once prosperous mer-
chant, after- his protracted misfortune,
incurred solely by yielding to a sudden
impulse of humanity, was driven to the
occupation of selling small wares at a
stall outside Washington market, and
might have been regularly s^en thus erP
gaged for several years, until prostrated
by a lingering sickness which brought
him to his end, under circumstances of
lamentable privation
Who shall say that the ways of Provi-
dence in this world are not íuBcrutable?
Enormous Honey Productions In
ifornia.
■written Leafof the MortMeM Hob-
bery-Htwllhe BrMhen «ot Oat or
i Break."
From a gentleman direct from Minne-
sota, and who lives right in the neigh-
borhood of where the Youngers were,
captured) we obtained some interesting
incidente connected with the escape of
tho James brothers, never before pub-
lished.
He states that if the robbers had hada'
good knowledge of the country, there is
no doubt but what they all would have
mads their escape as easy as they ever
did after one of their transactions in Mis-
souri. After the gang got into a thicket
they pushed ahead until they lound
themselves upon a peninsula entirely
surrounded by lakes and marshes, from
which there was no escape except by a
narrow neek connecting with the main
land. This neck was guarded by the
pursuers, and consequently they were
hemmed in the trap into which they had
unwittingly walked.
While in a thicket, composed of sum-
ach and prickly asli, where it was impos-
sible to see a man ten feel, the James
boys left the Youngers and pro-
ceeded to strike out on their own hook.
They followed up a small creek for a
considerable distance, and finally, trac-
ing it to its head, came out upon the
prairie in the direction of Garden City.
Here they were in a quandary. To pro-
itleman who was off
, little thinking
¿ratulating his e:
pon the capture of
aeir leaders were at
appropriating his ii
As may well be im
there soon secu
illy entered the stable tool
eir prize. They
■ k, two empty
and filled them with hay, strapped
It v"'— " ■ of saddka.
on their horses in lieu of saddles,
id in the next instant were at home-
In the saddle h ,
They took tho high r<
qheircourse unmolested.
Iqt met parties, who,
horses, thought, of
id and pursued
They frequent*
recognizing tl
? they wei
same mist.
not,in sight of
info); a long, swinging
them over the grown
ate of speed, ana soon
,, f their pursuers, who
liscoverea that the two
sauntered jso carelessly
«>út by the owner on
themselves. Wb
parties they strui
lope, which carri'
at an astonishing
put them ahead
by this time had
men who had
through the throngs of Garden City were
no less personages than Frank and Jesse
James. TTwo hours after the Jameses had
left, the house where they had taken din-
ner, a party rode out in hot haste after
them; and learn ing that two men an-
swering their description bad been there
and were on foot, they sped away on their
track, confident of overtaking them.
When they came to the place where the
d
Rapid Progress *f
Pursuits in the United States.
the French
in an article about; America
and the world exposition of 187®, pub-
lished in the Revue des Dewx Mondes,
says: 'America is able to provide Eu-
rope with Indian maize, wheat, pickled
meats, and cattle, just as it now supplies
her with cotton. As for steel, copper,
machinery, and most articles of manu-
facturo, America can get along very well
withfeiit Europe. Hereafter it will flir-
nish' Europe with gold, and silver too,
the mines of the United States produc-
ing far larger ouantitiesof these precious
metals than those of the whole world
besides. In regard to coal, America will
soon produce as much as England—that
is, as much as the whole besides—for
its collieries are twenty times more pro-
ductive than those'of England. America
will come to learn more and mere to get
along without Europe, while the latt
is unable to do so without the aid of
America. It is, in fact, another England
growing handsomely and flourishing on
the other side of the ocean, even now
outrivaling tho mother country in all
markets. The commercial interests of
France, too, are by it compromised. The
wines of America even compete with'
ouis. Far more serious, however, is the
fact that the Americans adopt the fa-
cility and skill of our workmen. Al-
ready they are known to manufacture all
kinds of jewelry, watches, bronze statues,
flirniture, and artificial flowers, all of a
very respectable finish and character. In
these branches the American is to be
feared more than England, because its
geographic location and climate hignly
favor an intermixture of races and a
constant immigration from Europe and
Asia. y
The Object of the Attempt to Despoil
Lincoln's Grave.
" What was the object of these men ?"
" Well, these fellows had been without
any counterfeit capital for some time,
and it was necessary, in order to pro<
' stuff,' to get some of the coney men
of the penitentiary. The man they
been dealing with was
knfw that money
It had all been
have been goti
They
oeed was dangerous; to turn4back was]
doubly so, for they kneyr they had es-
caped the thicket just in time to prevent
being surrounded.
There was but one course to pursue,
and that was forward. And forward
they went, straight to Garden City, and
straight through the town while it was
wild with excitement. With a defiant,
easy nonchalance, they boldly passed by
the armed groups who were preparing to
take the field, who little dreamed that
the dreaded objects of their search—the
famous Missouri bandit chiefs—w^re
right at their elbows, and listening to
their conversation and plans. With a
domitable nerve and iron will Frank
James concealed the lameness occasioned
by the ball in his leg, and strode along
with all elasticity or the step of a youth.
Fortune, it is said, favors the brave,
and this very boldness was their safe-
guard. The people who thronged the
streets and sidewalks did not dream tbiat
any of the band dared to approach a
country road, much less pass through the
heart of their town. Consequently no
attention was paid to the two stalwart
men, who wound their way amid them
and safely gained the outskirts ¿of the
village.
Here they drew a long breath of relief
and congratulated each other on their
good fortune. Although the whole
country was alive and armed parties
the broad prairie, where they could see
for miles, aqd not in a treacherous
thicket, where thev could be surrounded
horses were taken, the pursuers knew
the speed, bottom and endurance of the
animals, which, united with the charac-
ters of the riders, made their bright
prospects of contemplated capture very
slim.
The gallant grays bore their riders to
safety, and the reader knows the rest.
And this is the unwritten leaf in the
history of the Northfield robbery.—Seda-
lia Bazoo,
rocure
t eu
they had
theNeWOen-
that if a
street
Hence in the higher and the
nal with himself,
proi
;rave. Whethi
istory, or it was
I don't know."
" Who was the author of it ?"
"That I don't know. Hughes says he-
was, but I don't think he is smart enough.
I belive it was the contractor or Mullins;
either of them could do it. Some one
anyhow conceived that if they could get
Lincoln's body, a large reward wouldlbe
paid for its return, and Boyd would be
set free. They all knew tnat the monu-
ment cost over $200,000, and they asked
the question, 'What's the use of
THE MONUMENT WITHOUT THE COHP8E?'
The penalty was looked up, and it was
discovered to be a mere fine and one
year in the county jail. The chances of
detection were very small. Everything
was gone over carefully, and the conclu-
sion reached that there were no c han oes
for detection at all. There were no
guards at the monument, and all there
was to do was to go there, shoulder the
casket, and cany it off. It was to be
taken to some place where nobody could
find it, and they thought, in due course
of time, the association, or the govern-
ment, or somebody would offer a big
' it back, and then it would
ward to get
and then it would be
turned up for the money and a pat don
for Boyd; and the settlement of tne case
against Hughes was also to be one of the
conditions.—Chicago Tribune.
Odd Occupations In New York.
the
pom
W« are fast running "specie
e ground in this city, saya
indent of the Chicago Tribi
specialties" into
rs a corres-
rnne, when
an exclusive "baked"beans company"
is formed and put into successful opera-
tion. This is a veritable fact, and the
wagons of the New York and Boston
baked beans company now traverse the
streets supplying the famous Sunday-
morniBg meal to the restaurants and
hotels with as much regularity as the
milk carts. They do a thriving business.
Another specialty here is the manufac-
ture of whipped cream for Charlotte
russe. One concern manufactures nearly
all of this delicacy sold in the city. They,
use machinery, and by dealing in large
quantities of materials, and using labor-
saving machines, thev can snpply the
restaurants and confectioners cheai
than they can make it themselves. But
the oddest thing, which, though small in
hi
Chinese Superstition.
The introduction of the Woosungrail-
road has set the Chinamen crazy. They
fear invasion by spirits and hobgoblins
everywhere. At Woosh they are in such
fear of demons that they closely exam-
ine every traveler and every arriving
boat. One day recently five strangers,
three of Whom had knives, arrived In a
boat. The searchers, concluding at once
that they had come to put their queues
off. speedily cut their three heads of!
with their own knives. The two un-
armed implored to bo taken before a
magistrate, when the interpreter ex-
plained that the three decapitated
were pig-butchers. At
of deceivers were caught who
the native. Among them was a pretty
girl whe confessed to .making paper
of all the mischief.
Plaid
fashion.
Cardinal red silk boots will be worn
with ball dresses this winter.
Basques buttoned behind continue in
fashion for very youqk ludios,
" PariB fashions," like olive wood arti-
cles ftom Jerusalem, are of New York
manufacture.
An attempt is being made
duce the Parisian fashion of met
on ladies' shoes. .
A three-cornered neckerchief L,
worn outside of fall wraps, Instead <
long scarf of lace.
Lopping the overskirt
display tho cardinal red bah
latest device of the fashionable.
Sitting dowll in dresses corns
tirely of flowers will be an imp
Ribbons form the only trim
such toiletes, neither jewelry nor
ment being admissible:
It is roughly estimated by the
York Worla that five thousand western
girls have taken husbands thii
the only reason that they were t_
abledto visit the centennial ati
else's expense.
As a stern-wheel steamli
ing up the Ohio river the <_
ttle girl who was standing on L
stoop ran into the house to ber i
calling out: "Mother, mothei, v—«,
and see this steamboat—it's got a bustle
on."
Milandy who has beefl
adopts the foreign plan, and
man stand in the I '
psagmsi
iiHy. Curious how many
get }n Europe " *
A Paris cor
tury for women writes:
£P
die classes girls are either sent tó'<
or taught by governesses at heme.
Alligators in Florida.
Notwithstanding the immense
ben of alligators which have been i
during the last tour or five years in this
state, they do not seem to decrease iu
numbers, as one would naturally suppose
Captains df steamboats on the St. John's
say thai they are still apparently as nu-
merous as ever, although very large ones
'are seldom seen in this part of the
but in the marshes and lakes <
per St. John's ancfóall ovei
southern parts of the state thi
found in large numbers. N
to know the length of time:
an alligator to come to
tion and sice, and if t
by which the age c
kept secret, but it
are prolific in their incnai
containing two hundred
which hatch, and, unless
violence, a laige proporti
are raised. A few years
were In demand at from
each, and thousands were
In one instance, a single indi'
within five months over 1,000
contract, bat as that species of
soon went out of fashion the * '
dined, but seems to be
somewhat. Another
capture is the teeth,
command high *
article of coi
ket, mostly
The largest
the writer hi
thentic account
length. Those exceeding
very rarely seen in this
vilie Union.
««i
± ; 'cl c ':''
aw
the
and OH
srn
among
These
Black Hills
California is becoming the honey-pro-
of the union. Two hun-
t of it would
ducin
dred thousandjpounds reached New York
,city from there one day last week. The
honey product of fian Diego county will
be fully six hundred tons. One million
two hundred thousand pounds of honey
mounted, and armed aa they were, they
could bid defiance to the hosts who were
on their trail with
sleuth-hounds.
Here again fortune favored
After stopping at a farm house
curing dinner, they
way westward. Near
in that portidh of the
in pursuit of the
stables
time
looked Tike horaslU*. At
scent of
isprodiguousn
four years did
unprco
about
ty is
in honey
two ooun-
val
aL
as cast off
making
culture,
ties will
of south
in q
unaie mer
ih
all hi
that his
-watch
the keys ofhis
<3
'his
with
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