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JOURNALISM IN THE WEST. ed within five miles of there. Ho was still
. alive at 3 o'clock next morning,. By those
Graphic Story ot lull Nye's First Experience murders about twenty children aro left
IIn. the West. orphans.
"My first experience in journalism was A later despatoh says a mob of 75 per. •
in a Nesters town in which I was a total sons, a few nights afterwards, went to the
stranger. I went there with 35 cents, but I jail, demanded the keys of the sheriff,
had it concealed in the linings of my olothes and entered the jail and took out Lookie,
so that no one would have suspected it if They hanged him after having obtained from
they met me. I had•no friends, and I no- him a statement in regard to his crimes..
ticed that when I got off the train the band Lookie declared lie intended to kill all the
was not there to meet me. I gota chance to members of three or four families besides
work on a morning paper.. It used to go to those he murdered, and was prevented from
press before dark, so I had my evenings to doing so only by his cartridges giving out.
myself, and I always liked that part of it
first rate. t worked on' that paper a year,
PERSONAL.
and might have continued if the proprietors
had not ohanged it to an evening paper, Tho heir to Mr. W. E. Gladstone's Hewer -
Then a company incorporated itself and den estate in England was born only last
started a paper of which I took charge. The month,
paper wag published in the loft of a livery Itis said that Baaoousfi Old hal Sir Cherie
stable, That is the reason they called it a Dilke in his eye when he drow the character
stook company, You could come up the of Waldershare in Endy7nion,
a stairs to the office, or you could twist the A Canadian poet, M. Freohette, who is
tail of the iron -gray mule and take the ole- also the author of a play which was produo-
vator, ed not long ago in New York, has been deo-
"It. wasn't much of ajoaper, but it cost orate& with the ribbon of the French Legion
. $16,000 a year to run it, and it came out six of Honor,
days in the week, no m7.tter what the Dr. Brouardella distinguished Frenoh phy-
weather was, We took the Associated sician, thinks that the epidemic at Marseilles
Press news by telegraph part til the time, . is Asiatic oholera. It began in the houses
and part of . the time we relied on a COPY nfected last year, and was caused by local
of the Ohyenne morning papers, which we uncleanliness.
got of the conductor on the early freight, In spite of his great age, Mr. George Ban_
' We got a great many special telegrams croft still rides horseback gracefully. His
, -from Washington in that way, and when horse in jet black, and when the venerable
the freight train was in late I had to guess historian is on it the two are the observed
at what. Congress was doing, and fix up a of all observers. '
column of telegraph the best I could. There Lord Tennyson has Bent the following dis-
was a •rival evening paper there, and patch over his own name, to the people of
some tinies it would send a smart boy down the United States : "I am deputed to ask
to the train and get oar special telegrams, whether America will organize a aubsoeip.
e and sometimes the conductor would go away tion for our national Gordon Home for Poor
on a picnic and take our Cheyenne paper Boys,"
with him. " An announcement was made not long ago
" Sometimes the Indians would send us that Mr, Gladstone intended to visit this
in an item. It' was most generally in the country in the Autumn. But there appears
obituary line. With the Sioux on the north to be no truth in the report. Similiar an-
. and the peaceful Utes on the south, we were nouncements are made in reference to many
pretty sure of some kind of news during the- distinguished persons of Europe every sum -
summer. The parks used to be occupied by mer, nearly always without good reason.
white men winters and Indians summere. In the wedding presents of Mlle. De Bra -
Summer was' really the pleasantest time to vura,a young lady connected with the prince -
go into the parks, but the Indians had boon ly Russian house of Suwaroff, who mar -
in the habit of going'there at that season, ried the Hon. L. Stanhope recently, was a
and they'were so-clanish that the white inns quaint little model of a Russian house in
couldn't have' much fun with them, so they gold, with a door of emeralds and diamonds,
decided that they would not go there in the which, when it is opened, diadems a por-
summer.` .Several of our best subscribers trait.
were killed by the peaceful Utes. Tho mother of Mr. Bartley Campbell, an
" We he`d as rising young horse -thief in American dramatist who has battled many
Wyoming in those'daya who got into jail years for success, and who has finally' won
• • ' by some freak of justice, and it was so odd it, died several days ago at the age of eighty-
, ,.•• for a horse' -thief to get in jail that I alluded three. She died, oddly enough, during the
to it'editorially. ' Tlils horse -thief had dis- first week of her son's career as a New York
;,`' ...tingtlishe3 himself from the common, vulgar manager—a career that Mr. Campbell had
' e, - ' horse -thieves of- lifetime by wearing E. large looked forward to a long time,
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mouth; a kind of full=dress, eight-day mouth. At Mr. Cyrus W. Field's dinner at the
-t .r • rt ..He'very seldom smiled, but when he did he Star and Garter, Richmond, there were pre-
• , had t6 holtl•the top of"hia head on with both sent, among two hundred and fifty guests,
- hands; sI remember that I spoke of him in representatives of all the the great English
the papers forgetting that he might criticise railway nd telegraph companies, and repro-
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*a• . ing,on Fight, -but friends advised me not to itors of many newspapers and magazines
' • • ••have his blood,on my hands, end I took their were aloe in .the list of guests.
• - advice So I haven't a particle of his blood on Mr, Labouchere says that Prince Edward
my hands. 'For two or three months I didn't Albert Victor, the eldest son of the Prince
'know but he would drop into my office any of Wales, has a countenance in which his
minute and criticise me, but one day ie friend father's and mother's facial peoularitiea are
told that he'had been hanged in' Montana, strangely mingled. The Prince of Wales,
thein I began to mingle in aanioty agein, the Duke of Edinburgh, and the young
y • and didn't have to get in my coal with a
, .e• double-barrel shot -gun anymore. After that Prince Edward Albert all resemble their
I was always conservative in regard to horse burly ancestor, Henry VIII, But Prince
thieves Mitawe got the report of the vigi- George, the Prince of Wales's second son
lafice committee. has not a trace of the Gueleh or York or
-ta.;'
• . HE KILLED SEVEN PEOPLE. ,
:Thin Atiermps to Illi his wife and Afar•
..- • wai^ds'Cats his Own Throat,
- A man'from Johnson'City, Blanco county,
g#ves-:.slepeile=of a terrible tragedy • which
occurred there recently. Al Leckie, an
a old citizen,of extensive connection, had a
`' etepdaughxer. Living with him, whom it is
alleged be seduced eisyeral'years ago. Late-
,ly'his .relatives 'had•imputeti to him the same
' . a . • `crime ,With, hie own ds ghter. Leckie
. yesterday afternoon,left home, intending, as
° • be•'avoyced„tq go; tq John' Green's place to
herr* monels,-e Green sand family were
awayseal He , entered, .the hopae and took
.Green's'xifle,and•,poturned to the residence
• ,of his blrotheraBerry Lockie. He, then shot
and kiiledyBtlri4r•snd hie (Berry's) wife,
John oXichol o1h.a'ncighbor, rode up just
' then.,, .a,,tortled 3tiicholnon to go with hint
to li,e4, $tokelda, where, lira shot and killed
Stokeeis;,k 'here Niarlsolson,was lot eight of.
His horesempas tied, there when found, and it
ie suppoleds that he was also killed. From
there Lealvie;went,tphis own house and sant -
and ottt fljie' throat Wf Mrs. Henry Lookie of
Llano' county,%wife'of his stepson, who was
' . bit a Kirit to hired p Jte also; shot. and killed
' Mrs, Stokes, wife. o. f the Stckee whdrn he had
• alre ady killed. Thea he killed hie daughter.
ockie nett attempted to kill iiia wife, but,
hie cartridge. heing'exhauettld, ilei oould not
' nip multhgr,al;otf and' elle ee4sped; , He
then cut•liis Otrni throat, mountedhiu hol;re,,
and started In the direction of Johnson City.
After riding a few yards he met Thomas
Brunswick, whom, he attacked with a knife,
inflicting fatal wounds. The murderer then
rode towards Johnson City, but was arrest-
ti
me when he got out of jail. When he did sentatives of all the leading classes and finan-
get out again, he stated .thathe would shoot offal corporations of Great Britain. The ed -
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Lancaster in his face.
"HEEDLESS OF THE DEAD."
The Tramcin Human Bones.
I remember how disgusted we all were
when among the vast supplies of bones
brought to certain milts fran:RLussian slaugh-
ter houses, it was reported that human
bones collected from Crimean battle -fields
were freely mixed with those of cattle, and
were all ground up together to enrich Brit-
ish emit 1
Still more hideous was the recent digging
up. of that vast human quarry which lay at
the back of our national gallery ; those hors.rible pits wherein all the dead of London,
.victims of the GreatPlaguo, were cast whole-
sale ; thence, after only two centnrtes, (and
while many of the bones yet retained some
setnblanoe of human form), to be dug up
and spread over 'Kensington Gardena as a
pleasant fertili'zing agent to enrich roses and
lilies l Thus speedly do all things find their
11900.
Doubtless the fields around Paris will for
many a year be all the greener by reason of
the blued of her murdered sons, poured out
like water upon every side. Within three
bhort woektl of those dread days the decree
was teener'. that all those ghastly eemetories,
where hundreds of corpses haul been piled in
"gruesome" heaps, should be covered with
fresh ` soil, and sown' With quick -growing
grasses, mustard, and tall snnflowera such
- crops 00 might yield hoth forage and fuel. I
may he that joyous children, toddling knee.
deep 'mid those rich grasses, may deem it
no rare thing to fled a whitening skull up
turned by the plough, may even carry i
home as some choice play thing,
But it is atrango indeed to find a nation
such ae Egypt was onoo—the greatest and
most civilized of all people—now so literally
proving herself (as Ezekiel foretold she
would become) ” the basest of the nations ;"
that, not content with converting the bones
of thousands and tens of thousands of her
ancestors Tato oharooal, to be used in refin-
ing sugar for their degenerate descendants
and their foreign taskmasters, she must
needs aotually'makomerohandise of her dead
These preoious mummies, which in the days
of her glory were accounted worthy of anoh
exceeding honour that they were considered
the very best security on which to lend mo-
ney (inasmuch as the Egyptian who had been
driven to pawn his deceased father or mother
would sooner die than fail to redeem his
pledge), now in the hour of Egypt's degrad-
ation are valued at so much per ton, and
sold to strangers and aliens as a suitable
manure tor foreign soil 1
As you journey towards Memphis you
might very recently have chanced to meet
long strings of camels heavily laden with
human bone dust from the tombs. Here,
too, from these old Alexandrian catacombs
to the merchantvessele in the harbour, barg-
es laden with brown dust ply to and fro;
their cargo is carried on board in baskets,
and thrown into the hold. and the vessels
deliver their choice goods in British ports at
£6, 10s, per ton, to be mixed with the guano
of Perm and sold at a considerable profit.
Several eye -witnesses have told us how they
visited the ancient sepulchres while this
work was going on, and saw pieces of hu-
man bone, small earthenware lamps, and
tear -glasses among the dishonerned dust of
these myriad Egyptians who were to be
carried over the seas to fertilize English
fields. We turned away from Alexandrian
catacombs mar vellinghow many generations
may elapse before the coming race deals
thus with England's dead.
Gipsy Fortune -Telling.
Too many of us have so pronounced a vein
of superstition that, in spite of the protests
of reason, we ascribe some weight to omens,
dreams, and utterances of the fortune-teller.
The latter, however, is always allowed. a le-
nient judgment by his victims ; like the or-
acles of old, he may deliver,ambiguous state-
ments, which the credulous are only too an-
xious to twist into conformity with facts.
A gentleman about to deliver in London a
le store on glpsies was accosted, on entering
the public room, by a respectable -looking
man, who at once referred to what he con-
sidered the miraculous power possessed by
gipey women, of revealing future events.
"I know that.tb'ese gipsiea can reveal the
future," he declared, "for I had my fortune
told by one of their girls in Greenwich Park,
more than twenty years ago."
'=That is a long time since. If yon have
not forgotten what the gipsy told you I should
like to hear it.'' -
"Well, sir," began the man, "then I will
tell you that twenty years since, I was single,
AT A OORROBOREE.
A, Wild and Fantastic Scene in the Colony
of Australia..
An eye witness of an aboriginal corroboree
which took place at the Adelaide Oval, Aus-
tralia, thus describes it : —" The black m en
painted in fantastic, fashion with white
stripes all ovor their bodies, went through
a pantomimic kangaroos hunt with a good
deal of clever burlesquing of the marsupial
mannerisms. They hopped and grazed, and
sat up as kangaroos do, and then treated
the spectators to a show of hunting the ani -
male. Next they planned a shah tribal at -
tack and fight with some effect, and then
Dame that grotesque dance in which the
warriors, wearing curious lsglets of gum-
leavee, stamp and give their lower limbs a
rapid tremulous motion while the lubras
keep up an incessant nasal chant and per-
petual thumping of opossum skins. The
spectacle was undoubtedly a strange one,
seen beneath the blaze of torches and
the fleeting dazzling glare of blue, green,
or red lights. An incongruous element was
introduced by the appearance of .some na-
tives in overcoats, helmets, and trousers and
their women in skirts and orinolinee, but
this was a sign of the social advancement of
the people. The dancers, however, worn
little more clothing than a breechclout and
a coat of paint, a custom calculated to keep
the domestic draper's bill down to the mini -
num. The affair might appropriately be called
a whitey -blank oorroboree, because of the
utilization of appliances of oivilizationin the
display. The blacks were frequently ap-
plauded, and certainly the scene was not
without its picturesque accompaniments and
weird effects, the glare of the fires reveal-
ing dozens of active, musoular darkey figures
strangely painted and bedizened, dancing
in wild fashion to an accompaniment of a
barbaric chanting, and the whole picture
was shown against the darkly shadowed
distant background. • The majority of the
natives are more muscular, plump, and are
better formed than the usual type ofabor-
iginee, and most of them came from the Coor-
ong, the Murray, and the lake districts,
where their mode of life is healthful and
where food is abundant. Most of them,
from their training at the missions, speak
excellent English, and are in every respect
superior to the rest of their race."
but one say 1 nappenoa to see a young
man whose appearance and manner produced
such an impression on my heart that I re-
solved to make further acquaintance with
her, let her know the state of my feelings,
and ask her to become my wife, Just about
that' time, 7` was one day in Greenwich
Park, when a gip', woman wanted to tell
my fortune. I consented, and gave her a
piece of silver, which, you know, thy al-
ways expect before they begin."
"Oh yes, that is their custom. But tell
me what the gipsy said to you."
"She said," continued the man, "I should
bo married to a young woman who was good-
looking, and very fond of me, and would
make me an excellent wife. - But this was
to me the most remarkable and strangest
thing, that the description she gave of the
hair, eyes, nose, mouth and complexion of
my future wife answered to that of the young
woman I had seen, and ot whomI spoke
just now."
"But did you marry the person the gipsy
described to you Y"
"I am happy to say did ; and so you
see, sir, the gipsy was right to begin with."
"But what more did she tell you?"
"A dozen things besides," he replied
, "She told me I' should prosper in business'
and become a man of some importance -for
instance, a town councilman; and that my
children would marry well ; but also tha t
I should have a good deal of trouble."
"You married, it appears ; have you any
children, and have they married well ?"
"Well, now," said the man, hesitatingly,
"on that one point, the gipsy, I must admit
was not quite clear. We had but one child
and that died in its infancy ; and I regret
to say I lost my wife about six years since.
s • i3at as to my rising in the world, 1 think I
in a fair way for that. I'have been messen-
ger of the parish vestry during the last
twelve years, and I on aesnie you, I've Seen
In my time as many ups and downs as arts=
body bf nay own age ; so that you sea these
gipeiee must know more of the future than
Other folks do, or how eotelds that girl have
pictured thy future life so •truly ?"
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Hun%annattere is, indeed full of weakness ;
too often it believes what it wfehos to believe.
• A silver dollar weighs very nearly an
t ounce. This is what makes printera look so
bow -logged on pay days.
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Despite all we can do, they occasionally
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Mr. Bessemer's steel process patentahave
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Ill humor often comes like chemical pre-
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The first of living French Canadian poets
is M. Louis Feohetto.
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The former proprietor of Dr. Sage's Ca:
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" Why, Brown, how short your coat is,'
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Alma Ladies' College, St. Thomas, Ont.,
has full staff and oomplete ,courses in Lit-
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For 50 pp. announcement, address, Princi-
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A scientific journal Saye "few fishes die
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Just as many die a natural death as if we
didn't go is -fishing.
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