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Established. 184= t3.
Clarksville, Red River County, Texas, June 16^ 188Q,
New Series N"o. 32, Vol. 3,
COUNTY DIBECTOKY-
W. E. Woottkx County-Judge.
j. w. K
A. P. .Conitj Clerk.
E. M. Boweks — ..Dwtnct Glejk.
8. W. ilabman Gouuty Attorney
R. C. Guavks
J. It. Johnson
G. L. Moorman
i)amu raisey,
.. .Assessor.
Collector.
Treasurer.
Surveyor.
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JUSTlCfcS AND CONSTABLES. ^
j T Plemino, J wtice Pence, Precinct No I.
j Ukuwn, Constable, Precinct " 1
A* J. Bkooks, . nsticc Peace, Preciuct No 2
Levi Blizzaud Joustable, Precinct " 2
H. McAllister Justice Peace, Precinct No 3
N." M. Howison Constable, Precinct " 3
K. W. Townbs Justice Peace Preciuct No 4
W. P°. Blantci. Constable Pieciuct " 4
P .M. White Justice Peace Precinct No 5
J.C. VVomaCK Constable Precinct " 5
J D Moweby Justice Peace Preciuct No 6
j! T. Joyne Constable, Precinct "6
T J. McBuide Justice Peace Precinct No 7
J. R. White Constable, Preciuct " *
E M. Posey. Justice Peace Precinct-No 8.
J N.'buk.ue Constable Precinct '8.
COTHW COMMISSIONERS.
w. A. MamXBIN Precinct No2
Moses S. Grant, Precinct •< S
F. M1. Whvte,.., Pieciuct
f. Gkooms, ....Precinct
COTOT DIRECTORY
tiiotrict Court will be held in Bed Eivcr Coim
ty o?the 17th of May, 1881, and on the 15 oi
hovew Judge, E. M, Bowers, Clerk,
j W Baker, Sheriff, S. W. Harman.Co. Atty.
County Court of Bed Kiver County, held on the
third Monday in January, March, May, July, Sep-
^A'BloB^County Judge.A.P. CoKLKY.Cik
1 ustick's Court, Precinct No. l held on the last
Minday in each month.
) T Fleming, J P-> J.C, Brown, Constable
' justice's Court, Precinct No. 2 neld on the
first Saturday in each month.
A j Brooks J. P , Levi Blizzako, Constable
J us riCE's Court, Precinct No. 3, on 3rd Saturday
in each uioutli.
Hbnry McAllister. J. P , N M. Howison Con
Justice's Court, Preciuct No. 4,4th Saturday.
,nR."w Townes, J. P- W P. Bi-anton, Constable
Justices Court, Preciuct No. 5, on ad Saturday
iu each month. .
P. M. White, J. P.. •>■ c- Womack, Constable
justice's Court, Precinct No. 6, on 1st Satnr
day In each mpnth. ,
J. R. MowkrY, J. P. J- T. Goynk, Constable.
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 7, on 4th Saturday
in each month. '
T. J. McBride. J. P.,J.B.White, Constable.
Justice's Court, Preciuct No. 8, on tha 2nd Sat-
urday in each mouth.
Ji M. Posey, J.P., Jere Bulge Constable.
B. D. MOODY, M. I>.
BENNETT, TEXAS.
Offers his professional services to tlie people
in the neighborhood of Bennett. Fresli drugs
always on band.
WHAT VVOUI-O IT MATTER ?
What wonld it matter if one small star, dark-
liu24
Should melt away and leaveno track in space?
The summer skies with brighter light are
sparkling;
No soul would miss it from its dwelling place.
W hat would it matter—oue bird less to sum
nier.
Or fewer flowers to ever-generous springt
Content with bliss of greeting eacli new
comer,
Earth were too bright to mourn for anything.
What wonld it matter to the
sinking,
Should oiie faint voice in
die 1
The mighty harmony would still go ringing,
Though many unstrung harps might toneless
lie!
world's grand
tears and silence
no.4-lv.
m. l. sims. w.j.mcdokald.
HIMS Sc. McDONALD,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
CLARKSVILLE, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Courts of the 5th District
and in
the State.
practice in mc w>uiw ... :
ilie Supreme and Federal Courts held lit
ttf.
A. M. TAYLOB. £" s- CHAMBERS.
TAYLOR & CHAMBERS
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Olartesville, Texas.
Will practice iu the Courts of the County
and ot the 6th Judicial District, also the Su
prenie and Federal Courts of the State.
What would it matter ? Yet, oh, God of
heaven
Beyond our restless earth's close pressing
bars,
To draw our souls beyond the dusk of even,
Thy hand has set the glory of the stars.
the smallest sparrow's
birds o'er the
Thou that dost watch
falling,
Tlion that hast led tliese June
sea,
Wouldst note 'mid all the woodland voices
calling,
The silence of one voice pttnned to Thee.
It matters much, oh, human soul, grown
weary,
That love and praise should never fall nor
fail.
Thy silence is a discord wild and dreary
To God, who makes one harmony of all.
—[Julia P. Truitt, Henderson, Tex,
MAHJOK1K,
FALL OF ISLAND HO. 10-EVACU-
A'l'ION OF NEW MADRID
AND FOftT PILLOW.
Naval Battle in Front of Memphis and
Capture of that Place.
BY J. T. HOGANK, C. S. AEMY.
XT. J. SWAIN.
GEO. F. BURDKTT
SWAIN & BURDETT,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
Clarksville Texas.
Will practice law in all ot the State Courts
and in the Federal Courts held at Jefferson
and Tyler Texas. Collections solicited, and
prompt attention given to all business intrust
til to their care.
Julii -2'Jtk, 1881.
w. E. DAI LEY, M. i).
OCULIST and AURIST
PARIS, TEXAS.
no-28-ly. >
E. W- RUSH, M-1>-
Paris, Texas.
1 ^special attention given to the treatmen
j of the diseases of the Eye, Ear, and
Thrwat!( Catarrh.)
Office hours from 7 to lO a. m
no.49-tf.
It. Gk XiAJtfE,
PH VSICt A^ nd S U K( KON.
Nov. 1st 1879.
Clarksvili.k, Tkxas.
no. I
J. W.-RAXNTbTSr.
PHYSICIAN and STJEGKON
CLARKSVILLE TEXAS,
•CTors his services to the public, in all bl anche
of his profession.
lie will be found at Goldberg's drug store, or
at liis residence, North of the square.
Nov. 1st 1879.
DENTISTRY
DR. Z. B. MOORMAN
Resident Dentist
Can always be fan j.l at the Bank building
office upstairs. All work warranted. Teeth ex
trusted for fifty cents, all other work in projw
ton.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st. no-l-tf.
M.J.1NGEL.
AND SHOE BIKER,
rftBOOT
Makes the best
BOOTS AND SHOES
Out of the best material, as low as good work
can be done. Those who know the difference be-
tween French Calf Skin, hand work, and oil
tanned leather made by machinery, are invited to
call.
Repairing? done promptlv.
W ondertul Invention.
METAL TIP LAMP WICK.
Patented Oec. 7th, JHSO.
This Wick gives a hiilliant white light, su-
perior to gas, requires no trimming and lasts
«u many months, ;is the oil hums and not the
wi<;k. 1 wick 10 cents, 3 wicks, 25 cents; 12
wicks," 73 cents; 144 wicks, $7.50. Sent l>y
mail ou receipt of price. State size. We
liave tour sizes. No. 0, J; No. 1, $, No. 2, j; No.
'i. H inches wide. L rge prorits to agents
Metal Tip Lamp Wick Co. 70 Courtlandt St.
Mow York. no.20-3m.
Marjorie's story is nothing new,
She loved unwisely, as women do,
As women will—and called it fate,
Poor heart! so broken and desolate!
Over her head, with its crown of gold,
Seas of soriow liave surged and rolled;
Grief like a mantle wraps her about;
Shadow within and shadow without.
Luckless tlie suitor who comes to woo,
Never a word will she listen to;
Never a pulse or lier heart will stir, '
There is only oue in the world for her.
Fair was the face with smiles run o'er;
It is to-day, and she smiles no more. .
(Nor breeze nor blast hath power to wake
A ripple upou a frozeu lake.)
Alas, fortlie head with the crown ot gold
The tempter came as he came of old;
Alas, for the heart that was glad and light!
Alas, for the soul that was pure and white.
Censure who may—condemn who must,
It was perfect faith—it was utter trust;
That asked no promise, nor pi edge no
sigu,
He was liei's she was his, by law divine.
He was lifted up—lie was set apart,
lie filled her thought—he filled her heart;
She called him great—believed him true,
As women will—as women do-
Oh, to betray sncli a tender trust!
(God will repay, and He is just)
Through wrong and ill she loves him still,
As women do—as women will.
Giving little, and taking much,
Pickle and ta'se—there are many such ;
Selfish and cruel, you know the rest,
He broke ths heart that loved him best.
—[Mary F. Tucker.
A Miser-Artist's Death.
Gnstav Theophile Meyer, a landscape
ami portrait painter, 66 years of age,
died yesterday morning in the German
Hospital, probably ot starvation. He
was taken to tho hospital on Saturday af-
ternoon in a carriage with bis landlord,
E. Wickham of 104 East Houston street.
Dr. C. Witt, the hospital superintendent,
says lie was -'the dirtiest and most ema-
ciated being ever admitted here."
Mr. Wickham told Superintendent
Witt that Meyer had been trying "the
Tanner diet" tor six weeks to cure rheu
mutisiu. He was unwilling to employ a
physician because of the expeuse. Be-
fore the patient died he told a pitient in
the same ward that he was bon in Hoi
stein, Germany. He had been twenty-
tour years in this city, aud lodged during
all that time in a room at 104 East Hous
ton street. He had no relatives in this
couutry, but had a sister in Hamburg,
from whom he received a letter fifteen
years ago. lie had not eaten anything
for six weeks, he said.
In the dead man's clothes were found
tour batik books showing a total deposit
of $6,600. Two thousand four hundred
dollars in currency and $000 in gold were
found iu an inside vest pocket. The
room he occupied al 104 Houston street
was very dirty and netted with cobwebs.
Paintings hung all over the walls, and
the cobwebs almost concealed them. An
autopsy will be made today.
Firm Butter without Ice.
In families where the dairy is small, a
good plan to have the butter cool and
firm without ice is by tsie process of
evaporation, as practiced in India and
other warm countries. A cheap plan is
to get a very large sized porous earthen
flower pot with a saucer. Half fill the
saucer with water, set it on a trivet or
light stand—such as is used for holding
hot irons will do; upon this set your but
ter j over tho whole invert vonr flower-
pot, letting tlie rim ot it rest iu and be
covered by the water; then close the
hole in the bottom ot the flower pot with
a cork; theu dash water over the flower-
pot, and repeat the process several times
a day, or whenever it looks dry.
Red satin parasols remain i'l tavor.
Terra-cotta shades are stilj in the as-
cendant.
The new shade of bine called bleu de
mer is a lival to cadet blue tor street cos-
tumes.
Detachable bows, of ribbon are now
used for trimming night-dresses.
Some of the daintiest and lightest. Of
straw hats have the crowns entirely cov-
ered with velvet.
Quaintly shaped carved teawooil ban
dies are seen upon on some of the most
expensive parasols.
[From the Arkansas Gazette.]
[The loilowing sketch was written by
Oapt. J. T. Hogaue, a prominent citizou
of Tcxarkana, and candidate fir
commissioner of State lands, who was a
confederate soldier, aud was captured at
Sikestown, Mo., by Gen. L'ope. From of-
ficial data and personal observation he
contributes the loilowing sketch—Ed.
Gazette: |
To the Editor of the Gazette :
In the breast ot every old soldier that
ever fell into ranks, iu the gray clad bat-
tallions ot tho South there is a half con-
tempt for the partial, highly-colored de-
scriptions published iu the north, of
eveuts aud battles that took place and
were fought during the late family quar-
rel. Ii is a good time to start the enter-
prise of publishing the soldier's history;
the personal recollections of the men of
the South who fought heroically in de-
fense of home and political liberty, sup
plemented as it ought to be by the olli
cial history and documentary evidence of
the leaders. I give you my thanks for
the service jou are rendering the "men
ot deeds," by opening your columns to
them, to put m plain print the plain reci-
tations of the deeds and daring of the Ar-
kansas boys.
Island No. 10 with its swamp batteries
and Gen. Jeff. Thompson's Fort Tbomp
son at New Madrid, were captured by
Gen. Pope of the federal army by his cel-
ebrated flauk movement via Sikeston,
Mo., about the 1st day ot March, 1S62.
Hundreds of Arkansas men who passed
through the war; veterans who came
home bronzed and crippled in limb, to
find poverty sitting on the doorstep to
receive them, will remember the night
of the evacuation of New Madrid; the
elemental war that was in keeping with
the concentrated energy ot the officers
and meu of Gen. McCowan's division,
who were engaged in throwing siege
guns into the Mississippi river and get-
ting themselves and equipage on the con-
federate gunboats and transports.
The following morning broke clear and
calm over the silent fort, with its mock
cannon pointed from embrasure aud
epaulement. Sternly and anxiously the
federal officers scrutinized the breast
works in front of their line of battle;
gave orders for their engineer details
and storming parties to advance and bat
teries to open, in the expedition of a
bloody resistance; but in a short time
tound out ttiat there was no enemy to
fight. The northern officer .vho accotn
panied the flag ot truce tound the Now
Madrid forts empty, save that a dead Ar
kansas officer held ward but not watch
on the deserted ramparts.
This successful movement was the first
important federal victory in their line of
operations to open the Mississippi river.
Fort Pillow was the next Gibraltar to
fall, after a gallant defence and actual
fighting by the secesli gut.boats and
troop*. It was in the bend of the river
above the fort that the commodore ot tho
make-believe "irou-clads" ot the South
encountered in deadly strife the superior,
real irou-clads ot the north. The boys
that manned the guns of the fleet of de-
fense took note only of one desire, to be
laid alongside ot their formidable and
brave opponents, only asking a free fight
of contrasts; the solt placidity of the
smooth river; the rough, stern faces of
the brave men of the
face of the tree clad bluffs
and fair odds; and soon the discharges
of gun auswered gnu, the mighty woods
on either shore ausweriug back iu sullen
echo. The Suinpter struck the Cincin-
nati amidship. Tho Van Dorn, though
surrounded by a number of the federal
gunboats, and receiving their united at
tack, yet, under the able management of
her captain, struck and disabled the
Mouiul City, and cleared her way to join
the balance of the Southern fleet below.
The officers and meu all behaved well,
aud in the words ot the acting com mo
dore : "Special praise could not be award
ed, for where all men were brave there is
no room for distinction. My officers were
all at their posts, and did everything iu
their power to help iue, and 1 am under
many obligations to them for their cool-
ness and capacity. The crews were all
that I could wish them to be."
MEMPHIS.
On June 4, 18G2, three United States
rams came down the river to Fort Pillow
on recon'ioisance, but the Jeff. Thomp-
son opening lite, on them, they did not
stay long enough to see Fort Pillow given
to the flames, the fatal sign of one of
those too facile retreats and abandon-
ments made by the southern leaders en
rapport with the Fabian policy of the
Government at Richmond. On Friday,
June 6th, the first rendezvoused at Mem-
phis, aud the "Bragg" signaled the feder
al fleet at "Paddy's lien and Chickens,'
where the night before the southern pick-
et boat "Grant'* got aground, and had
the torch applied to her to save her from
the enemy. It was evident that prepara-
tions were being made by the Yankees to
come down for the h-avens were covered
with one solid cloud of black smoke. The
confederates were not idle. One after
another tho whole fleet, eight in number,
backed into the stream and formed a line
ot battle. The signal, prepare for action,
told the coming conflict.
river; the smiling
; the move-
ments of the attacking gun-boats; the
reports of tho heavy guns; the noise of
the surging attacks ot the rams, aud that
sudden silence that fell when the battle
was over.
As the federal fleet kept well into shoal
water, the commodore on the flag ship
Little Rebel, sent up the Jeff. Thompson,
Sumter, Beauregard and Col. Lovell, all
having 64-pound guns on their bows, to
bring ou tho fight. The Jefl opeued the
ball from a 32-pound rifled piece, but it
was not until atter the third shot that
the Yankee commander ordered a reply.
Then the battle commenced iu dead earn-
est, and shot and shell flew from oue side
to the other in all tl.eir terrific tury. Long
range gunboat fighting did not last long,
for on both side i the combatants were ea-
ger for the fray at close quarters.
The federal ram, Queen of the West,
made a bee line for.the Lovell, striking
her iu the side aud sinking her immedi
atel7« The meu were picked up by the
boats of the Li:tie Rebel. The Surapter
struck the Queen of the West, driving
her ashore hors du combat. The Uuited
States ram Switzerland bore down on the
Sumpter, but was met head on by the
Beauregard and completely disabled, aud
only saved from capture by her sharp-
shooters. The United States Monarch
came next, in chase ot the Jeff Thomp-
son, when Capi. Henthoru put the Gen,
Price up stream with a full head of steam
and struck the Monarch on the starboard
quarter, diiviug iu her hull. Unfortu-
nately one ot those unforeseen accidents
happened at this moment that ofteu oc-
cur to snatch victory fiotn the winning
party. The Beauregard crashed into the
Price's side, carrying away the larboard
wheel, breaking the pitinau and danger-
ously careening the boat. To back out
was impossible, two federal boats lay
alongside, pouring broadside after broad"
side into the disabled Price, so tor hu-
manity's sake the flag containing the
stars and bars was hauled down and the
white flag substituted for it.'
The Beauregard went on up the river
to continue the fight,but receiving a shell
in her boiler, she floated down the river
a lew huiidrtd yards aud sunk iu twenty
feet ot' water, tace to the enemy and col-
ors flying.
The Little Rebel made a rush at one
of the federal rams, but before she could
reach her received a shot through her
boilers, but reached the shore just as the
ram .struck her. Nearly all the crew es-
caped. The Jeff Thompson was run
ashore and burnt, nearly all the crew es-
caping.
The Bragg and the Van Dorn lay off
watciiiug tlie fight aud did nothing. The
crews of the Bragg and Sumpter desert-
ed their boats and left t hem to their fate,
but the Yan Dorn, more bravely officered,
succeeded iu making her escape. Thus
ended the fight ot iron clads against
sham, so called iron clads; first-class
weapons of oliense and defense fgaiust
wooden boats: the bravery ot worthy
men against the better appliances ot war
that the superior manufacturing facilities
of the north gave them.
Tugs flew around from boat to boat,
with the stars aud stripes at their bows;
prisoners and property were formally
taken into keeping by federal officers;
the su; render of Memphis demanded aud
accorded; a company of infantry, sent
with axes, to cut down the flag staff on
which floated the flag ot the South. A
few blows, a dull crash, and the stars
and the bars fell slowly to the earth,
causing a shout ot triumph from the Yan-
kee.
Capt. Henthorn, of the Price, counted
the number ot sixteen mortar-boats,
eight iron clads, oue wooden gun-boat,
nine rams, and any quantity of tugs and
transport boats, mustered iu line at the
Memphis wharf, as the day was settling
into black night, on this black Friday of
June 6th, twenty years ago.
New Yoek, June 0.—The cottou ex.
change has taken aetioli upon the com-
plaints made about tho waste in the sta-
ple of American cotton and says: "The
farmers should understand that it is the
staple ot American cotton that enables it
to be sold at a higher value thau the pro
duct of India, and that in so much as the
taple in deteriorated it will be surely be
elt in price. Planters should be remind
ed that more care should Do given to bale-
ing. so as to avoid mixing the different
qualities in tho same bale which is a
source of great annoyance at the mill and
leads to reclamation against sellers.''
Laramie, June S.—At Rawlis last uight
W:n. McCabe shot Ed. Callason, who had
threatened his life. McCabe is a Govern-
ment. interpreter in charge of a baud of
Shoshone Indians here for supplies. The
excitement is intense. All night lynch
ing and possible trouble fron the Indians
was feared. The act was the. result ot an
old fued. The ball lodged in Callason's
brain. Recovery is impossible. The law
will probably justify the acton the ground
of self-defense.
The Inner Man.
Lincoln, Neb., June S.^Adolph
Schomger, a Polish Jew, who was sent to
the penitentiary for stealing, but was
subsequently sent to tlie insane asylum
about, eight months ago, has for seven
months persistently refused food, except
what was forced down him. His weight
fell from 150 to SO pounds, and yesterday-
he died. A few hours before his death
he ate voraciously, and at the last mo-
ment lamented having violated Christ's
It was a scene commandment to him by eating.
Some of us who are middle-aged, says
a writer in the New York Times, have
vivid recollection of a time iu American
social history when it was fashiouable
and "genteel" to eschew eating as a vnl
gar aud sensuous matter. Those were
the times wheu it was the custom for
highbred and refined people to discuss
only the most ethereal diet. The dear
creatures who (nominally, at least), dined
on a cauary-bird's wiug, or suffered a sur
feit when they had absorbed a spoonful
of clover honey, are no more. How well
we remember them! They wore white
muslin aud blue ribbons. They seldom
danced. They adored Byron (Byran
who hated to see a woman eat), and talk-
ed of Kant, and wished there could be a
new moon all the year round; The young
er portion of that generation ate slate
pencils to improve their complexiou and
smelled at vinegar crusts to make them
look pale and interesting. To look at one
ot these girls one would say that they
bad never seen any food more substantial
thau tea and toast. To follow them into
the privacy of home would be to find
them secretly addicted to bacon aud
greens. The public scorn for all solid
food was an affectation. It was fashiona-
ble to eat next to nothing. It was need
tul to eat, a great deal, and fashion car-
ried the day.
FASHION MOVES IN CYCLES.
In the time of the great Samuel Johu-
sou it was thought fit and proper for
young women iu high life to boast of their
gastronomic achievements, and to an-
uounce their preference for certain dishes.
A charming young frieudof Madame d'Ar.
blay, claspiug her hands rapturously, and
looking Dr. Johnson in the face said:
,,Oh,I do love mashed turnips!" The ag-
ed cynic, slowly pulling himself together,
said*: "My dear young lady, as the ex
periences of life accumulate, and the at
tractions of this moral existence sink into
their true valuation, I hope you will find
something more worthy of your affections
thau mashed turnips.'' It was after John-
son's time that young ladies at boarding
schools adored Byron, and were conteut
with a diet of slate-pencils and water.
When the muscular, cricket-playing, aud
brawny school began to be popular with
men, the women very naturally, took to
advertising their liking for what our plain-
speaking California friends call a "square
meal." The dear creatures no longer
pretended that they lived ou air, and that
eating and drinking were vulgar.
The languishing,die away creatures whom
we meet in old-fashioned novels exist no
longer. The youug lady of the present
time is not afraid of suushine, rain, fog
and freckless. She is robust, athletic and
hearty. Sbe can tell Burgundy fioin Bor
deanx, kuows the difference between
fromage Roquefort and Gorgonzola, and
is critical as to the exact time required
for the cooking of a canvasback, aud the
number of minutes safe for the proper
boiling of a lobster. Something good to
eat is more to her tliah art or even fash-
ion. Such a one, desribing an evening
entertainment, said: "It was unusually
swell. The gentlemen were witty and
the crab salad was simply heavenly.',
THIS IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION.
It is merely a reaction from the lacka-
daisical and sentimental age ot our grand-
mothers. The days are gone when it was
fashionable to wear thin slippers, lace
tightly, assume a '.anguishing air, aud
pretend to live on next to nothing. If
tho matter of fact, eatiug and drinking
generation of young women that has come
in does soinutiuies trench nearly ou the
bounds of geuuine refinement, we can for-
give the apparent trespass. Even a
coar.- e and boisterous affectation of the
hearty liking tor good eatiug aud drink-
ing is better than a deceitful pretense of
abstemiousness that deceived nobody.
Men aud women must cat to live. It is
a high state of society iu which the plear
ures ot the table are made to minister to
the steru necessities of existence. It is
a low state in which men and women fil'
themselves mechanically, never consider
ing anything but the volume ot the food
absorbed. Aud there is no reason why-
women who are not convivial,. at least,
should not be competent judges of what
is best in food and drink. Of course, we
admitthatall women areangels,but so long
as augels dwell among men they must par-
take of the nature of mortals. The wo-
man who cannot appreciate a good dinner
is a libel on her sex.
LET NO MAN SAY
That tlie change of woman from the sen-
timental, iusipid and angelic creature ot
the last century, to the vigorous and
hearty person of to-day, is a change that
begins and ends wjth eating and drinking
habits. Let the pessimists say what they
will, the present is an age of genuineness
and candor. There Is less mock modesty,
A Case of Petrifaction.
for
les8oftlie humbug of seemiug, than iu
any generation that has gone before us,
if we may accept as true the pictures ot
life given us by Sinollet, Fielding, Fanny
Bumey, Thackeray, and the writers of
the time ot Queen Anne. The civilized
world admires the delicate aud fragile
beauty ot American women. But it is
the pride of the country that it teeds the
world with beef grain and game that the
rare flower of American loveliness is no
hot house plant, reared in a nicely adjust
ed atmosphere. The womanliness and
manliness of our country spring from a
rich and nutritive soil. We have the
best provision for the table in the world.
—[Argonaut.
The Record-Union is responsible
the loilowing petrified story:
• C. Clinch twenty-one years ago buried
at Folsom a child that died at the age of
three years. The little girl's body was
placed in a coffin that was inclosed in
ziuc and hermetically sealed, and that in
turn placed in the ordinary woodeu grave
box. The grave was dug in high and
very dry ground. Yesterday Mrs. Clinch
and her daughter went to Folsom to dis-
inter the body and bring it to Sacramen-
to to be placed in the family cemetery
lot here. They expected to tiud only a
few bones, and took with them a proper
box iu which to place them. Their sur-
prise can be imagined when they touud
that the coffin, from which the grave box
had rotted away, was exceedingly heavy
—at least three, or four times as heavy as
when placed iu the grave. One small
hole ouly had rusted through the ziuc.
The metal was cut and the coflin opeued,
and the body found to be completely pet
rifled. The child lay betore the mother
as natural in form aud feature as when
she cousigued it to tha grave tweuty-one
years ago. The features ueie perfect
aud the tace, arms and hauds of alabas-
ter whiteness. Alter exposure to the
air a short time this perfect whiteness
changed to a light yellowish or tint with
a shade of brown. The body was solid
stone and to the blow of metal gave re-
spouse as would marble. The clothing
was petrified likewise, aud the bouquet
of flowers upon the child's bosom, aud a
little doll that had been placed iii the
hollow of oue arm was also turued to
stoue, as was the hair also, aud iudeed
everything iu the coffin and about the
body. Large numbers of people viewed
the body at Folsom, aud the unanimous
judgment was that a more perfect speci-
men of petrifactiou they had never seen.
The Career of a Notorious Murderer and
_ "Mail-Bobber as Related by Himself.
With heavy gyves cliukiug iu dull, me-
tallic ring at each movement, Heury W.
Burton, confessed murderer and mail-rob-
ber, sat wearily ou the bench iu a cell at
the Central station, where he was brought
from the prison in Detroit last evening
by United States Marshal Mathews of
Michigan. He raised the short chain on
his ankles trom time to time with a nerv-
ours hand to let the iron links drop back
to the asliphalt floor with a noisy little
clatter. He had removed his shoes aud
the fetters clasped tightly the thick wool-
en socks which covered the chained ank-
les. The prisoner is sentenced to impris'*
onment tor life. His criminal operations
were confined to Texas and Colorado. He
ad been sentenced lor life once before,
and prior to that time he had been con
victed of various robberies, but the
prisons of the west were never strong
enough to hold him. Sometimes he es
caped and sometimes he was pardoned,
as was the case during his former life-seu-
tence, but in one way or another he was
sure to be a tree mau man. Burton's life,
has been peculiarly romantic; he never
smoked a cigar or pipe, or used tobacco
in any other iorm, nor has he ever taken
a drink of intoxicating liquor. He never
swears, and he said last evening that the
sound of an oath cut him like a knife.
"I am a victim ot circumstances," he said.
"I have doue much wroug, but the ouly
remorse I feel is that 1 prove ungrateful
to kiud triends.
Burtou is unmarried aud is iu the 29th
year of his age. He was bom iu Texas.
"My father was a ranchman," said he,
my father, and who was killed by me in
return. Atter a few hot words, shots
were exchanged, aud I was made cripple
for life, for I received a load of bnckshot
in my Lit knee. It was after this that I
dropped the the name of White and adopt-
ed that of Burton, by the recommendation
of the doctor who attended me lor the
wound. He thought that uuder a new
name I might be able to lead a new life.
"I went tojColorado. I can not; tell how
it was, but after drifting about for a time
I returned to my old pursuits. One dark
night about a year ago I learned that the
stage ou the road between Deadnought
and Aramosa, in Colorado, was lull of
passengers and carried a rich mail. 1
erected several canvas tents and built
dummies looking like men on both sides
of the road. Sticks fastened to the
dummies iu the darkness could readily
pass in the haste aud confusion for rifles.
I barred the road with two poles fasten-
ed fork wise. I lighted a big lantern with
a powerful reflector, but sheltered the
light with my coat I waited for the
comiug ot the stage. Shortly after mid-
night the vehicle came dashing along the
road. The horses caught on the stakes
and rolled to the ground. Uncovering the
lantern, I flashed the powerful light into
the vehicle. One by- one I ordered the
driver and the passengers, to alight.
There were lourteen passengers, any one
of whom could have knocked me down,
for I am a cripple, remember; but out
they came as gentle as lambs, looked ai
my dummy men aud trembled with fear.
I did not give them much time to consid-
er the situatiou. Black hoods soon cot*
ered their eyes; their hauds were fastened
behind their backs. I rifled their pockets
aud the mail-bags. I ouly got $750, of
which sum $160 came from the mail, but
at uiy trial I was charged with stealing
$1000 at this adventure. The passengers
all declared that they- recognized my face,
and that I did not wear a mask. I did
wear a mask. It did not make much dif.
ference, however. I was convicted. Af-
ter my trial in tho September term of
court, JSS1, in Colorado, I was being tak-
en from Chicago to Detroit when I dis-
armed the sheriff aud his two deiiuties
who had me iu custody. That was iu the
cars. I bad the sheriffs revolver pointed
at his bead. In an instant more I would
have blown his brains out, but a passen-
ger, Miss Alice Smith, a lady whom I had
never seen before, aud whom I have nev-
er met since, threw herself upon me, beg-
ging for the sheriff's life. I think I am
too tender hearted. Escape was open for
me, but Miss Smith called out: "Think
of the man's wife and children." Without
a word I handed the revolver back to the
sheriff aud submitted without a sound of
complaint to having shackles placed upon
my bauds and feet."
The man was tried for the last mail
robbery in September, 1882, by Judge
Moses Hallet, m the district court of the
Uuited States tor the district of Colorado,
after being captured at Pueblo. He was
sentenced to the penitentiary at Laramie
City, Wyoming Territory, or at any other
place, at the discretion of the judge, for
the full term of his natural lite.[—Phila-
delphia Press.
A Romance.
The body of Mrs. Frances H. W. Lock-
wood, wife of Col. Heury C. Lockwood,
of the firm of Lockwood & Lockwood,
lawyers, at No. 12S Broadway, was taken
to Nyack yesterday for interment. The
funeral services at the grave were con-
ducted by the Rev. D. B. Ray. Mrs.
Lockwood it will be remembered was
Mrs. Walker, and was married to Col.
Lockwood by the Rev. Mr. Ray on her
"his uaine was White, and my right uamej death-bed on Tuesday last. Tliey were
is Samuel White. I will explain after-
ward why I am known by another name.
Wheu I was thirteen years of age my
father was shot by James ltown iu a
quarrel. I vowed theu that ,1 would be
revenged, for my three sisters and I were
left destitute by my father's murder. I
grew up among*the rangers, and I had
many a fight with them before I was twen-
ty one years ot age. It was when I reach-
ed that age that I met Rown tor the first
time. It was in a camp in Rockdale coun-
ty, Texas. 1 was told who he was. Step-
ping in trout of him 1 exclaimed, 'You
are my father's murderer" aud before he
had time to draw a pistol, I shot him
through the heart. As I fired the weapon
Rowu's eyes dilated with lear; lie fell over
backwards dead. I was arrested after-
wards for tho offense, aud served a short
term of imprisonment. After my dis-
charge I began my career as a mail-rob
ber, or tram-agent. 1 worked without
any assistance whatever; always alone
In April, 1877,1 stopped a mail express
in Rockdale county, Texas. There weie
fourteen passenger in the stage. You
would hardly think it possible that cue
man could intimidate so many, but I erect-
ed dummies that in the dark looked like
men surrounding the vehicle. Then I
made the passenger step out of the coach,
one by oue, atter first, attending to the
driver and the.guard by crippling them
with a shot apiece from my revolver. As
the passengers alighted I threw black
hoods over their eyes and fastened their
hands behind their back. I got $4000
from this haul, but was arrested soon after
and sentenced to an imprisonment for life.
I was pardoned through the influence of
friends within two years, lliis should
have been a lesson for me, a warning to
lead an honest lite. God kuows I tried
to do so, but. fate was against me. I met
the brother of Rown, the man who killed
children together at Scrantou, Pa., when
she was Miss Spantrenberg. Changes in
circumstances separated them and event-
ually tliev lost sight of one another, Miss
Spangenberg married Mr. Walker, who
died about a year ago. Soon after his
death she again met Col. Lockwood aud
became engaged to him. The wedding
was to have taken place early Wednes
day morning in time for them to embark
on the French line steamer St. Germain,
for Havre, but a week before Mrs. Walk-
er became sick, aud knowing that sho
was going to die she insisted that tho
marriage ceremony should be performed,
ller wish was gratified and she died two
days later. Many members ot the Sev-
enty-first Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y., of
which Col. Lockwood is an active sup-
porter, attended the luueral.—[N. Y.
Sun.
The Louisville Courier-Journal says of
southern independents: "Just what prin-
ciple these men are struggling for is not
visible to the naked eye. The spoils of
office seem to be the mainspring of all
their movements. They are not only in-
dependent of party ties; they seem equal-
ly independent of all real convictions on
every subject."
It seeuis Judge Ireland is
little, if any opposition in bitj j •
gubernatorial honors. He
man ot the purest type-^-, i ();
whom the shafts of politic,
and are turned aside. ~
support conies from no
From East, West, Nop";' i'f.S,
astonishing unauimitL .
ates the name ot Hon. i ! -
C overnor.—[Marshall*
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Cairo, III., June 8i,
ed the postoffice atC^A...
by the use ot skelef
safe open with po'
$2000 iu Govern'1
amount of postal---vt- ar
hundred and fifty.
es. The policeman- .',?<•
explosion but thou
The burglars wereSfcaiL v.
women, and are suppot
by a ekiff. As yet no <
tained as to their ider'
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