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A RUFFIAN SHOT.
Lathrop, Cal., Aug., 14.—Upon-
the arrival of the Southern Over-
land train here at 7.20 this morn-
ing U. S. Supreme Judge Stephen
J. Field and Deputy U. -S. Marshal
David Nagle walked into the depot
diuiug-room 'for breakfast, and eat
down side by side. Soon after -
swards Judge David S. Terry and
wife carne in. They were proceed-
ing to another table when Mra.Terry,
evidently recognizing Justice Field,
did -not sit down, but retired to the
train for some unknown purpose.
Before she reached it, however, and
as soon as she had left the dining-
rooin, Judge Terry approached
Justice Field, and stooping over
him, slapped his face. At this junc-
ture Deputy -Marshal Nagle arose
from his seat and shot Judge Torry
through the heart. As he was fall-
ing the Deputy -Marshal shot again,
„but missed, the ball going through
the floor. Tum Ju1bc did nC`v utter
a sound. He had hardly fallen
when Mrs Terry rushed to the side
of her husband's body and threw
herself upon it. Then ensued a
scene of the wildest excitement.
People rushed from the dining-roorn
and others rushed in. During this
time Justice Field and Doputy-
Marshal Nagle retreated to a sleop-
ing car, where they were securely
locked within. At times Mrs,
Terry would call upon the citizens
to arrest thein. Before the train
pulled out Constable Walker enter-
ed the car and was carried away on
board. He informed the spectators
that he knew his duty and would
perform it. During the time the
train was standing at the depot Mrs.
Terry was running wildly from the
body of her husband to the sleeper„
demanding admittance that she
might elap Justice Field's face, and,
at the same time, begging that they
be detained and have their examina-
tion here. Nagle was subsequently
taken in charge by the sheriff.
After the shooting Deputy U. S.
Marshal Nagle backed up against
the wall of the dining -room and
warned everyone not to arrest him,
saying he was a U. S. officer in the
discharge of his duty. There was
no semblance of an attempt to
molest flim. Constable Walker
took Deputy Nagle from the train
at Tracy and proceeded with him to
Stockton, where he is in jail. Dire
trict Attorney White has ordered
the arrest of Justice Field upon his
arrival in San Francisco.
San Francisco, Aug. 14.—The
announcement that Judge Terry
had been killed caused extraordin-
ary excitement here. Tho scene of
'the tragedy is 83 miles from the
city. The possibility of an en-
counter between Terry and Justice
Field has been recognized ever
since the imprisonment of Torry for
contempt of court, ten months ago.
Terry was at one time Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of California,
and has always been a prominent
figure in the political history of the
State. He was married to Sarah
Althea Hill, who claimed to be the
wife of ex -Senator Sharon. While
prosecuting her claim against the
Sharon estate Justice Field last
year rendered a decision denying
her .claim to be the wife of Sharon.
Mrs. Terry created a scene in court
charging Justice Field with being
corrupt. The woman resisted a
Deputy -Marshal who tried to re-
move her. Terry interfered, draw-
ing a dagger. He was disarmed,
and Terry and bis wife were adjudg-
ed in contempt and committed to
jail. Justice Field went to Wash-
ington, returning to this city six
weeks ago. Newspaper articles
were printed, intimating it would
be dangerous for Justice Field and
Terry to meet personally, as it was
thought the latter might insult the
former, while the fact was also re-
cognized that Justice Field would•
be quick to resent an attack from
Terry, hnowing it could only result
fatally to one or the other, in view
of Terry's record. Terry was born
in Kentucky in 1823. He served
in the Texan army under Sam
Houston. He came to California
in 1849, and in 1855 was elected
Justice of the Supreme Court of
California, on the native American
ticket. Upon the death of Chief
Justice Murray, in 1857, Terry be-
came Chief Justice. He opposed
the Vigilance Committee in 1856,
and stabbed one of the members
who attempted to arrest his friend
Maloney. Terry killed Senator
Broderick iu 1859 in a duel as the
result of political differences.
Stockton, Cal., Aug. 14.—The
coroner arrived here at 12.40 to -day
with Judge Terry's body in a box
covered with white cloth. Mrs.
Terry rode in the express car with
the remains. Deputy -Marshal. Nagle
was brought here in a buggy. He
refused to be interviewed, but Raid :
—" I aiu a Deputy United States
Marshal and simply did my duty as
an officer." He was locked up alone
and soon after sent for a local
attorney. Nagle was very cool and
determined but looked pale.
JEALOUSY AND MURDER.
An elopement which occurred at
Chico, California, a few days ago
culminated in a tragedy one after-
noon. A wedding was to have
taken place last Monday between a
young man named Raymond Bierce,
son of a San Francisco journalist,
and Mies Eva Adkins, a beautiful
young lady of 17 years of age.
Bierce's most intimate friend was a
handsome young man named Neil
Hubbs, and he was to have acted as
heat roan at the wedding ceremony.
The day before the marriage Miss
Adkins left her home and went to
a neighboring town with Hubbs,
where the couple were married.
They returned toChico next day and
in the morning prepared to make a
call upon the bride 'smother , Mrs.
Barney. Bierce heard of the in
tended visit and went to Mrs.
Barney's house before them. When
Hubbs and his wife arrived, Bierco
entered the parlor, and fired at
Hubbs with a revolver. Hubbs fell
to the floor, but also drew a revolver
and fired. Four shots apiece were
fired when Hubbs rau out of the
room. Biome then placed the re-
volver to Mrs. Hubbs' head and
firedt inflicting a severe but not
dangerous wound, Hubbs reenter-
ed the room and beat Bierce to the
floor with his revolver. Biome
then dragged himself into au adjoin-
ing room, placed the pistol to his
head, and blew his brains out. Ile
lived about an hour and a half.
Bierce also received two bullets in
the body, and Hubbs was shot
through the abdomen, the ball pone
trating the spleen. His recovery is
doubtful.
A LATER INVESTIGATION
shows that when young L'iorce heard
of the couple's visit to Mrs. Bartley,
he went quickly to the house of the
latter, stated he was ill, and asked
to lie dawn on the bed just off from
the parlor. He had evidently been
running and, as he appeared ex-
hausted, he was at once shown to a
bed -room. In this he remained
until Hubhs and his wife had taken
seats in the parlor. Mrs. Baruey
had set her heart on the marriage
of her daughter to Bierce, and when
the elopement and marriage with
Hubbs took place she expressed a
wish never to see her daughter in
her house again. In a day or two
she relented, however, and invited
the couple t , her house. It was in
response to this invitation that the
couple called on this day, this being
their first visit. After•a few words
had been spoken, Bierce stepped
into the parlor, spoke a formal word
or two, and then said : "You are a
happy looking wedded couple," and
retired again into the bed -room.
Hubbs suspected trouble, and drew
a pistol, holding it at his side.
Bierce the opened -the door again,
and the ehdoting occurred as above.
The room where the fighting took
place presents a horrible spectacle.
The walls were spattered with
blood, furniture was turned over
and broken; and large pools of blood
covered the floor. Miss Adkins
was Mrs. Barney's daughter by her
first husband, and was graduated
from a high school in Chico a few
ar7.sars
months since. Bierce has been
employed en a newspaper at Red
Bluff until lately.
Mrs. Barney was placed under
arrest on suspicion of being impli-
cated in or having previous know-
ledge of the plot of Bierce against
Hubbs.
RELIGIOUS FOOLS
WALK INTO A FIERY FURNACE AND
REMAIN THERE.
A remarkable religious craze pre-
vails among the negroes near Bosse.,
mer and the country intermediate
between that place and Birmingham,
Alabama, U. S. For some time au
old negro named Tobias Jackson
has been proclaiming himself as
Daniel the prophet, and doing all
kinds of singular things. The
darkeys in that section are ignorant
and superstitious, and Jackson's
actions, and the great powers he
claims to have been invested with,
have awed the negroes. Saturday
last Jackson persuaded three young
negro men that they were represen-
tatives of Shadrach, Meshack and
Abednego, the three children of
faith who entered the fiery furnace
of Nebuchadnezzar. He proclaimed
that a furnace where iron it melted
and cast into all manner of forms
was the furnace of Nebuchadnezzar,
and that they could enter and pass
through without the smell of fire.
The three negroes, calling them-
selves the children of Israel, under
the influence of their new prophet,
deliberately entered the gate of the
cupola of the furnace and rushed
headlong before they could be
stopped into the white heat of the
melting iron. When they failed to
corse out Jackson proclaimed that
lie saw them rising in the air with
the smoke of the furnace attended
by angels, and said that they would
revisit the earth again next Sunday.
The negroes propose to meet at
church next Sunday and pray,
awaiting the: descent of the three
children of Israel. The mother of
one of them said, when asked about.
the matter: '•I feel jes es shoo my
boy is in heaben as I'd done been
dar au seen in. Jackson, de pro-
phet, coalman' him to walk de fiery
furnace, and he 'bliged tor 'bey
hits."
THE PREACHER AND TIIE
SNAKES.
"I want to tell you a good story
on the Rev. J. Wesley Johnson,"
remarked a friend of that gentle-
man to a reporter. "You won't
tell who told you, will you 1"
"No."
"Well, you know Johnson enjoys
fishing about as well as the next
one, and is quite successful, too ;
and he thought he. understood the
ins and outs of the sport pretty
thoroughly ; but he learned some-
thing the last time be was out, It
was one day last week he gathered
in his poles, and, having secured a
fine lot of live bait, went to the
lakes southeast of town to put in
the day. He arrived safely and
had excellent luck from the start.
Big fat perch and gamey bass
nabbed at his bait as soon as his
line touched the water, ani he soon
had a fine string. After a while,
not wishing to bestow all his patron-
age on one place, he went to
another, leaving his string of fish in
the water, tied to a root.
"At the next place he caught
another nice string, and leaving
them who're he had caught them
again changed his base of opera-
tions. At the third place he had
the same excellent luck, and soon
had the third stiLing of fine fish.
Finally he concludd he had better
get the result of his catch together,
thinking he had about all lie could
carry to the train station. So he
started to the place where his first
string was, and there he beheld a
eight that would have struck terror
to the heart of some mon, for they
would have thought that they 'had
'eat' surd. Therein the edge of the
water where he had left his fish,
the astonished dominie saw a
writhing seething mass of snakes.
'He gathered a pole and beat the
reptiles off, and found that they
had eaten his fish to the gills. He
then hastened to where his second
string was and found more snakes
there than at the other place, and
they were having a great feast on
his fish. Then that preacher was
as mad as a preacher can well got,
and the way he used his pole on
that pile of hungry reptiles was a
caution. He had ben thinking all
day long how agreeably ho was
going to surprise his friends by
sending them a nice mess of fish of
his catching, and then to have them
eaten up by a lot of nasty snakes I
He started back to where he had
left his last string, declaring to
himself that he would take that
string of fish and hie lines and
leave and never again fish in that
neighborhood, which wee so alive
with the varmints which had boon
a plague to the world and a com-
panion of the evil one einco the
time of Adam.
"The clerical gentleman's feel-
ings can better be imagined than
described when on arriving at his
fishing -place' ho found his last ro•
niaining lot of fieh surrounded by
more snakes than lie had over seen
in one place before. As lie began
winding np his lines preparatory to
departure he set to thinking seri-
oualy. Perhaps this was a plague
sent upon him by divine direction
for something he done which had
displeased the Ruler of All ; such
things were done in olden- times,
why not now? As he was revolv-
ing these thoughts in his mind
some boys - -natives of the neigh-
borhood—approached, and he ad-
dreased them:—'Boys, do you ever
fish here 1'
'Yes.'
'Do the snakes ever bother your
114 1'
'No.'
' 'Why, I had three strings in
different places and the snakes ate
them all.'
'H -c-1 1, course anakes'll eat 'em
if ye leave ''em in the water this
time o' year. Yotter know that
much.'"
The preacher returuod a sadder
but a wiser man.
PUNCHED) THE PASTOR'S
NOSE.
The congregation of Mount Zion
Baptist church, Indianapolis, was in
court a few days ago for having
participated in a general fight in
the church. There has been trouble
over the pastor, Elder Morton, the
congregation being about equally
divided in supporting him. He
was looked out of the church by the
direction of the Trustees, and this
provoked threats of violence froin
his followers, but, with a view to
bringing about an adjustment of
the difficulties, the elder was in-
duced to tender his resignation.
Elder Williams was brought to
church to conduct services as Mor-
ton's successor: One of the dea-
cons got up and declared he should.
not occupy the pulpit. The elder
replied 'he was there to preach the
Gospel; and proposed to do so if he
had to fight. With this the row
began. The pastor's nose was
smashed and a general knock -down
followed. Several of the brethren
were badly disfigured when they
appeared in Court. The contend-
ing factions swore out warrants for
the arrest of each other on charges
of assault and battery and of dis-
turbing the peace.
JAPANESE DANCING GIRLS.
The Japanese girls! Ah 1 they
are the clou of the exhibition after
the Eiffel tower in Paris. They are
more talked about than the colored
fountains, President Carnot, or
Gen. Boulanger. Rider Haggard
ought to study these extraordinary
creatures; they have a' look of being
related to Cleopatra. They are still
in their teens. and promise never to
quit theta ; they are yellow, Egyp-
tian, and have an extinct -active
volcanic air. They have the eyes of
vipers and the eyeballs of the tiger.
Their dance movements are'aupple ;
they are as cold as serpents, and as.
impassive as they are enigmatical.
They dance in bare , legs, and
ditto busts, a favor not accorded to
Occidental ballarines ; they have a
kind,of Graeco-Prussian helmet, or
a hed drese, full of gold and
feathers, forming a kind of cockatoo
diadem or black hair comb. Anti-
quarians say they resemble the cap-
tives taken during the siege of Troy.
They seers to have been born bone-
less ; they ean twist their forearms
at the elbow joints round like a
Catherine wheel, and can apparent-
ly trove the upper part of their
bodies—the bust—like the revolv-
ing wax beauties in the shop win-
dows of a capillary.ar.tist. A phil-
osopher remarks, they are a strong
proof of the plurality of inhabited
worlds.
—The Council and Board of
Trade of Woodstock are negotiating'
with Mr. Michael G. Gates, of
Philadelphia, with a view to establ-
ishing a carpet factory there. Mr.
Gates is now manufacturing in
Philadelphia and wishes to establish
a factory in Canada.
—Sixteen factories boarded 2,830
boxes of July cheese at London on
Saturday. The market •was quiet
and no sales were reported. About
$600,000 worth of cheese was ship-
ped out of Montreal last week for
English account, making about
$3,000,000 worth that has gone
forward during the past two
months.
—Rev. Dr. Potts, of,Toronto, who
is now in England, has atensulted
Sir. Andrews Clark, eminent Lon-
don physician, and ' and after a
thorough examination, that gentle-
man declared that the trouble affect-
ing the doctor is only temporary,
and can be speedily remedied.
—The Mississippi Judge hearing
that the Grand Jury had been dis-
cussing the question of transferring
the prize fight cases to a Justice of
the Peace, Judgo Turrell summoned
the jurors into Court and informed
thorn that the case could not be
transferred without the Court's con-
currence. Tho Judge said he would
not permit such a thing. He re-
marked :—" I' instructed you to
find according to the facts; unless
you obey my instructions I will
irnpose a find of $1,000 upon him."
The charge created great excito-
rrfent.
FOR OUR STORY -READERS.
A PAIR OF ROGUES.
A STIRRING ROMANCE OF NEW YORK
IN OUR DAY.
(Copyrighted, 18S9, by S. S. McClure)
CHAPTER XI[.
LEMUEL ENTERTAINS A VISITOR.
A short time before Jack climbed
up the winding atair of the office -
building in Broad street to make
the call on Proudfoot, which ended
so unceremoniously, two men took
the elevator, which was then making
its last trip, and were carried up to
the floor on which were David
Nugent's offices. The clerks had
all gone home, and the only pel-sou
in the office was a dingy looking
scrub -woman, who was making a
prodigoua duet in her endeavors to
sweep up the accumulated grime of
the day.
"That will do for this evening,
Mary," said the shorter and younger
of the two men, "I have business
to transact with this gentleman, and
you had better go home,"
"All right, Mr. Strange," was the
answer, and the poor soul, glad of
the unlookod for holiday, soon
betook herself orf, leaving Lemuel
and hia companion, whom he ad-
dressed as "Mr. Smith," alone iu
the office.
"Well," said Lemuel, in a grum•
bling tone, "I've doua' what you
wanted, and brought you up here
so I hope you're satisfied. Though
why on earth you should want to
conte up here and see old Nugent's
office, I can't make out."
"There are plenty of other things
about me you won't be able to
make out, my friend, when you
have known me a , •little .longer.
In this case though I'll tell you.
It was a mere whim which brought
mo here. I wait to sit in Nugent's
office and imagine how he feels as
he sees his whole fortune slipping
away, and recognizes that he is
under the thumb of a creature like
you.,'
"A creature, indeed. You are
mighty complimentary."
"Well, Master, Lemuel, I arn
bound to say thatthough in a long
and useless lifetime I have come
across a good many specimens of
mean rascality, I never stet any 0110
who for meanness and rascality
could hold a candle to you."
"Bahl" snarled Lemuel. "Who
is it that's 'at the bottom of this
piece of rascality, if you chose to call
it so 1 Who has furnished the with
"the means whereby I have got my
foot on the neck of the wan who
wanted to turn me out to starve like
a dog!"
"Lets light the gas, and then we
will discuss the matter,;' said the
other calmly, and soon the twilight
of the room was exchanged for a
brilliant illumination. "Had you
not better pull the window shades
down, Lemuel 1" continued the
elder rnan. "Well, never mind,
then; as you say there's no one
across the way, it doesn't much
matter. And now I'll toll you why
I have given you this information
and though you have—levied what
you said Mr. Nugent rather cleverly
termed 'moral blackmail,' though he
unconsciously came nearer than he
thought when he so phrased it. I
am simply an instrument of the
vengeance which Providence has
decreed ehould overtake this man.
I can not stop until he is ruined,
but while I use you as a means to
this end I naturally enough despise
you, for once upon a time, Mr.
Strange, I was a gentleman."
"And that's what I shall be when
I have married Mies Nugent, for
she is in the swim of the best
society."
"When you have married Miss
Nugent?" exclaimed the other, "I
thought you told me that she was
in love with young Houston?"
"So she may be for aught 1 know
but she's going to marry me. I
had a talk with Nugent thie morn-
ing, and a8 a result when I called
on Miss Grace this afternoon she
dropped her eyelids, put her hand
in mine, and told me that as her
papa wished it she was ready to
become Mrs. Strange."
"Good God, man ! I never
thoughtof that. Do you mean to
say you used the power I have given
you to force a young girl into a
marriage she can only shudder at?
No—no. I won't have it, I tell
you. I strike at the old wolf not at
the nubs."
"You leave that to mei" excitedly
exclaimed Lemuel. "It is all I have
been working for. I tell you I love
the girl, and I'm going to have her,"
and he flung himself with a defiant
air into his chair,
• "Love 1 Listen to the man. A
wretch like yon talk of love."
"Why should I not love ? Do
you think I am not like other men?
Besides, if there were no other rea-
son, I would marry her just to spite
young Houston."
"Why should you wish to spite
him?"
"Because I hate him. I have
hated him from the time I was a
boy, though he was not alvare that
I even knew him."
"That sounds as queer as most of
the statements you have made to
me," ebservel the ,elder plan, whe
bad eeated himself o,u a table and
was swinging his long lege as he
puffed a black -looking cigar.
"It's God's truth, though." re-
turned Lemuel, who did not seem
to mind the slur cast of his veracity
"and 1 may as well tell you why,"
and he wheeled around in his chair
so that he faced the outer. "My
mother Was a pour woman, Mr.
Smith, for my father died when I
was quite young, leaving her in
poverty. She had to make her owu
living, therefore, and, much against
her will, for she was a proud woman
in her way, she accepted a situation•
as housekeeper with a young mar-
ried couple in New York. Her
mistress was young and beauti-
ful, but belonging, as she did,
to one of the old New Yui k families,
she was cuff and haughty to all
save her husbaud, whom she
idolized. She treated my inuther
as though site was a being of
a different and lower order, and
time after tin e insulted her and
made her feel the degradation of
her position. Young as 1 was then
1 can remember her pacing the floor
of the room where she and I slept,
for she was allowed to retain the
with her, until long after miduight,
muttering threats against the rich
and happr young wife who was all
that my mother was not. When she
heard the wheals of the carriage
which was bringing her mistress
horse from some ball or reception
atop at the door of the old-fashoutel
mansion she would steal to the
window and peep at the dainty
creature wrapped in her furs being
lifted out by her proud youug hus-
band. Then uiy mother's rage
would burst out and she would
shake her fist at the unconscious
beauty and curse her.
"One day, howevors--her .mood
altered, and instrad of cursing or
raving, she used to smile and laugh
softly to herself as she watched the
couple. To ate all this was a mys-
tery. I only know that my mother
hated her mistress and that, I hated
her, too, because sho must have
hurt my mother, thought Is But 1
could not help seeing that a change
had come over the youug master
and mistress of the household, as
well as over my mother. The hus-
band grew moody and taciturn; the
wife spent her days in her own
room, emerging with pale cheeks
and reddish eyes to rattle along
with what, child as I was, I could
see was only forced gayety, and'
all the time my mother smiled and
laughed to herself. Then ono day
the husband went away. He was
'going to travel for many months,
we were told, a curious course for
a young married man to take, when
ho knew that in a very few weeks
there would be a child to call hila
-father ; but he went, no.twithstand-
g, and from the day he left the
house his wife never smiled. She
seemed to droop' away; and: she, who.
was so arrogant and proud, became
as meek as the humblest maid in
her employ. Her child was born
bora and she lived but a week after
its birth,
"Then my mother sought other
employment, and years after site
'told me the story. It was she who
parted husband and . wife. Skil-
fully forged letters and an intimate
acquaintance with the habits of her'
enemy enabled her to convince the
husband that his wife was false to
him. To avoid scandal, and after
a distressing scene with his wife, he
went away and never returned."
During Strange's story, which was
delivered in a low, hesitating fash-
ion, the elder man remained per-
fectly impassive, but a close obser-
ver might have observed that he
had let his cigar go out, though he
still held it between his teeth. As
Strange ended, the teeth closed
with a nervous snap, and the uppers
portion of the cigar, bitted clean
through, fell to the floor. "What
has this to do with young Houston?'
said he.
"Simply this. That he is the son
of the woman who for two years
tortured my mother until she Was
driven to commit a crime. Hie
father, I imagine, was the individ-
ual whose death is accountable fol:
Mr. Nngont's present uncomfortable
state of mind."
CHAPTER XIII.
MR. SMITH EXPLAINS,
Much to Strange's surprise this
discovery of the names of the lead-
ing figures in his story; which he
had prided himself on el (having
been made in a realb' draWatio;
fashion produced no
effect - ori itis
companion. The tall, ' gaunt man
merely walked over to the window.
and stood with his hands in his,
pockets peering into ttie darkness.
Then he turned and walked'up and
down the room several times,
and suddenly said :
"But the housekeeper's name was
Dawson."
"That," said Lemuel in astonish-
ment, "was my mother's maiden
name. She was known as Dawson,
until I was nearly 15 years old:
But how on eaath do you know
anything about the Houston family?"
"Because," said the other slowly,
"My name is John Houston, and'
I am the man whom your mother—
if you aro not lying, and for once
believe you are not—drove into