Logansport Weekly Journal (Newspaper) - March 9, 1872, Logansport, Indiana PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY IS THE Journal Braiding Broadway 0 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE A S IX ADVANCE are prepared BOOK AND JOB In all its various branches in the highest toe art and at Z HUNT J DAGUE School On Tuesday the clay was wholly to the A Grammar School of which Benson is teacher The room is not as large as it should be after the of her fifty pupils Were for the excellent man agement as to order and class dis her ability as an would appear at disadvantage in the circumscribed bounds to her ute The exercises consisted of of the classes in Arithmetic Grammar and Unit ed States History with recitations declamation singing and gymnas tics In all these the performances were in the main practical exhib iting fair comprehension of the subject of the review The Histori cal review was somewhat formal yet skillfully presented All the were highly creditable and were listened to with marked by the large number of visitors present The examination of classes in the High School department com Wednesday opening with the usual preliminary exercises The days proceedings embraced a review iu English Grammar a selection from Commenta ry on tiie Battle with the Nervii Book 2 B and J 1st Algebra in with readings recita tions and music which occupied the In the afternoon classes in Physical Very large all tte the Philosophy Waylands and Geom etry with music and gymnastics The reviews especial ly noticeable were the selections from in which the method o instruction ia calculated to insure thoroughness of comprehension a thing not always aimed at or ac by teachers of the clas sics was very well presented in synopsis careful ly prepared by the conjoined efforts of pupils While there was a show of formalism in the answers there was also clearness in the discussion of independent propositions considered by them In Geometry there were some which with oth ers promiscuously selected were solved with readiness and intelli gent familiarity with the principles involved therein Thursday forenoon the exercises embraced Introductory Latin B and A 2d Algebra and B with songs recitations declama tions and an essay The class in Introductory reviewed the first principles of the language in declension and conjuga tion exemplified showing a good degree of familiarity with be laws oi etymology In Cresar the mem bers of the class have not had the benefit of uniform instruction and hence their real ability did not ap pear proper advantage Consid ering their limited experience they did well The A and B 2d Algebra show excellent proficiency and generally a familiar acquaintance with the subject in hand Many of the questions submitted o class A were complicated and extremely difficult of solution but were dis posed of carefully and accurately In the afternoon the Latin reader class being on review exhibited substantial evidences of improve ment above former examinations The members oi this class have im proved both in the manner and method of recitation Ancient History which is usually dry and uninteresting was rendered inter and attractive by the varied form of questions propounded and by the brevity directness of the answers One of the chief attrac tions of the afternoon was and illustration of chemis try by formula arid experiment The experiments were conducted by the class with marked success The exercises in the way of music recitations declamations and gym formed excellent interludes to the class work of the school and with equal profit On Friday March 1 the exercises embraced Introductory Greek Har veys Grammar Political Economy and A 1st in the and Natural Philosophy Plain Trigonometry aud Surveying music declamations and essays being introduced from time to time by way of variety closing with a round of gymnastics to the tune of Red While and Blue The first Greek class underwent review iu the elements of the lan guage declensions analysis of words with reference to their for mation translation of simple sen This class has not been long under training yet has made fair progress In Gram mar the class gave evidence of pa tient labor and thorough The result was all that could be desired A 1st Algebra was re viewed by the class which was a large one and indicated a familiar ity with the subject at once satis factory and praiseworthy Teach ers and pupils tilike should feel a sense of gratification at Ihe result Natural Philosophy was well pre in series of illustrative ex and explanations After defining principles the application of them was more appreciated and better understood by the use of the with which the school is supplied The importance of a knowledge of this branch becomes more manifest as the knowledge of it is more fully developed Of the class in Trigonometry u is but ne to add that he selection of questions indiscriminately had the to fully satisfy all present of the superior ability of its members their excellent working qualities and correct training This class has lor some time been under the immediate instruction of Win JIc Ulain to whom they are greatly in for the rapid progress made Mr MeClain is one of the pupils of the High School and having tut recently passed over the iame ground was in full sympathy with the younger disci In surveying Chas Steven ion was the only member present TO Vol 9 ISTo 1O the others being in teach ing In the solution of the ques tions to him Master Charles proved himself to be mas ter of Hie position and com petent to occupy His field tie is entitled to all praise for liis energy and skilK The exercises being closed the audience was entertained with a Tew well directed remarks from Rev J L Parson He assumed that the purpose in having schools and our children educated thereat not so much to impart knowledge of the brandies 11311 taught as by the process of in these to educate oi ls lie expressed it to el evate and strengthen by such use the faculties of mini and body le necessary in of children the for lie duties of lite His re were listened to ul by tlie and one fun thirty visitors The success of the High he pist is almost wholly the of Ihe superior management skill ami energy of Ihe Principal Irs T C Cox and her excellent assistant Mitt tic Goodwin Onr people cannot entertain too high appreciation of the efforts of these two ladies in behalf of the youth whose fOod fortune it lias been to be under instruction Of Prof Cox and Ihe which he has superintended the entire school interests of the city it ia not sary to further results indicated in our lengthened report are the best commentary Thankful for the kind attention shown us from time to time and the uniform courtesy extended we submit our report lor your consid aud instruction learn so that he might sing il at i be content with refreshment of ten 1 wed soon have a better and bright the Tradesman Club at the Blue Lobster Slowly hut surely he began in stead oi returning home in the to attend these club Then I saw my danger and how foolishly if not wickedly T had in not my first earthly One shall for ijet rose determined to get rny washing over and dried out of the way as he had promised to return early There is nothing except it scolding wife more miserable to a poor man than finding the fire from which he expected warmth and comfort round with steaming or dimp clothes brisk good manager would get dried and fold ed before his rot urn I had made KUch good resolu tions but darling Granny after a pause 1 trusted to strength 1 did not then as i do now entreat Gods lor Gods help to enable me lo them I was too toml in my proud days of misting my own will Well dear I one small matter or another to call me away and an old gossiping woman and daughter came and wasted my lime and when I heard the church clock strike and knew my husband would be in in Jess than half an hour and nothing ready lo make him com though lie had had a hard days work at he in wet weather I could have cried with shame and vexation lly resolve had been my own poor weak strength 1 Well I hurried but it is hard racing alter time My husband came in dripping wet about live minutes before his usual ho He looked TIIE WAY SIIK Ill scream if you touch mo a pert Uver was seeking An innocent By this prudish conduct Cold water was draw backward And lit her alone Ill scream if you touch me She hollered once more Ho aint near you And found it a bore She quickly subsided Grew tender to view And whispered quite Ill scream til you do Building a Douse with a BY MRS S 0 HALL If yon can sit still Lucy and listen attentively it will be ure to me to tell you why I value that teacup There bring your favorite stool to my side and sit down and you shall hear not an imaginary but a true story which I hope you will all tho clays of your life You know my husband was a now is though lie does not work as hard as he used to with his hands I think he doea with his head ami 1 hear that his power of calculation is clear and rapid Oh yes said Lucy I have heard Mr Grey say that temper ance kept liia brain clear 1 married him when 1 was very young continued Mrs tome said too tako the cares of the world upon me but I thought my husband who was a very weli educated man would teach me how to bear least that was what 1 thought and believed but the real truth was I loved him very dearly and if there are faults we are not to see them in those we loye Well we had everything very tidy and comfortable and my hus band had plenty of work I did not think it then but I had cause to mourn it afterward that I loved my husband I was not as careful in my early married life as I should have been of bis home comforts liis dinner was not always ready to tl and with a small chopper that he hud in his hand he cut the line and down went my clothes on the not overclean sanded A answer turneth away wrath sailli the proverb but I did not give the soft answer and Iho wrath was not turned away Very well Katie he said there is no place here forme to sit and rest and no supper reach but 1 can get silling resting anil sup per at the Blue Lobster whore many a fellow is driven by an ill managing wife And with that ho turned out of the door It was in my heart to follow him to lock my arms around his neck and his pardon hack i was vexed about the clothes and forgot the provocation That was his first all out at the nine Lobster out it was not his last I saw my error and I prayed then for strength to do my duty but some how my husband had got a taste for the popularity that grows out of a good story and a fine voice and he had folt that woful night what it was to be warmed when he was cold by the fire of brandy instead I of Days our lit tle boy our Willy grew worse and worse Time had been when Mr Grey would walk the night with him on his bosom to soothe him to sleep but now if the poor child wailed so heavily be could not hear it Another child had been given to us but she only added to our difficulties Then indeed I la bored continuously to recall what I had lost but drink had got the mas tery AVe were backward with our rent my poor husband lost his customers tor he neglected his buj siness and both clothing aud furI went to satisfy our creditors and that craving which cries for more the more it gets I could not bear tho my neighbors they would give me their me up as a suffering every hour of my life I recalled the time when neglect ot my wifely duties first drove my husband to tho public house When sober my poor dear was full o sorrow but lie had not the strength lo avoid temptation He never used any violence towards me though if I attempted to hold anything back he to turn into drink ho would become tu rons and tear and raid whatever he could lay his hands on Ono i terrible night lie broke every rentI nant of glass and china that re mained of what once for a trades mans wife I had such a store Everything was shattered every thing trampled on aud aud cannot fail to be so if a house hold however small is properly cared for During tlie em iy days of our life wo never omit ted a portion of the Testa ment aud sometimes singing the verse of a hymn before we retired for the night Mr Grey had a beautiful voice said the old lady with pardonable pride and as you know he lead in tho church still After we had been married about a year it pleased God to make ail addition to our family 1 hat should have increased my dex so that my attention to my child should not have been taken from but added lo the comforts and pleasures of our home but instead of that my new duties ren dered me heedless and often slop pish My husband losce ma trim and neat in my person Katie he used to say I only ask to sec brushed and shining and your apron and cotton they used to He would often take the broom and sweep the hearth up the lire and put the white cloth on the i able for supper and though I knew that was what ought to have before he came home yetI dont know how it did not improve I had grown rather too fond of gossiping with neighbors who were idler than myself and carrying my certainly was a to have it nd mired That was our first our clear boy I almost seemed fonder of showing him off than my home When rich married people dont think as ranch of each other as they 011011 to do they have many other things to look to for happiness but it tho lamp which leads he poor to the al tar grows dim the house is dark light of their life goes out with it Lucy looked at Mrs Grey with wondering eyes for she was the neatest and nattiest old lauy you could anywhere and was held up as a pattern to all the girls in the neighborhood I do not know how it was or when it we often forgot to read our chapter My husband did not continue aa goodhumored as he had during our early days and I did not see how much of that was my fault lor not making him comfortable as I had dont at lust lie was very fond of out baby but the poor little fellow grew ill and peevish He could not bear to hear it cry When it began to would take up his hat to go out The very thing which ought to have sent us on in supplication that our infant might be restored to health seemed to break in upon our prayers and instead of the in deed oa Sunday baud who had as I told you a beautiful voice would bring home a new song which he wished to Some silent message at that mo ment must have entered his heart his arms fell down and without an effort lo support himself he sank into a heap upon the in tho midst of the destruction ho had I caused I tried to get him on to I where once a bed had been we had 1 still a mattress and a couple of blankets Lucy did not speak bnt her eyes were overflowing aud she stole her hand Into that of Grev The good woman soon resume her story J saw there sleep came to and cairn him My poor child ate her supper and fell asleep and my sick boy was bet ter and also slept 1 crept about up the broken pieces and endeavoring lo light nu Urc A kind lady to whom 1 had taken home some needlework morn several weeks I had been Ihe only addition to the eighteen pence I had earned gave me a small quantity of lea and sugar and an old pewter teapot that however battered would not break seemed to me a comforter He would awake I knew cold and shivering but i honed not until the Blue Lobster and every house ot the same description were closed and then his thirst would compel him to take some tea 1 heard the church clock strike one and it was a joyful sound no open doors even to old customers then I knell down between the childrens and my poor scattered hus band and prayed as I never prayed before I hud managed sufficient fuel o boil tho kettle and create some da of warmth and waited pa and for the wak ing It came at last The anger and the violence that had al most insanity were all gone only the poor broken down man was there lie asked what oclock it was I told him the had gone one Me then asked for water 1 brought him a cupful another another and then a cup of tea After he had taken it ho gathered himself up and took the stool I moved toward him I poured him out a fresh cup of tea He looked for some little time va cantly at the table and not seeing another cup he pushed that one to ward me 1 drank half filled it again and moved it to bis hand poor Katie he said and kept repeating the name has it come to one cup between us all i And enough too I answered smiling as gayly as I enough to build a house and home on if we trusted to tea j What is your quired I was almost afraid then to say cr house than ever we had Ive been a bad father and a bad husband ho by this time ho had nearly come to himself if gone and its too late to mend I made no answer but just drew down the blanket from the faces of tho sleeping was anything touched my husband like the little child asked and with hat he crushed his face down on his clasped hands as they lay on the i table and burst into tears I knelt down beside him and thanked God for the loirs in my heart but I was so choked 1 could not speak and we that way ever so long neither baying a word it is strange what turns the mind will take Even while his face was wet with tears my darling lifted it he it may seem to you nothing but a fond old womans fancy but Ive always thought was no music in the world ever so sweet as the way my husband this dny lie suys turn the Clip and see what it reads Like all youngsters 1 believe we have tossed many a cup in our bov and girl just lur lie j look it quite serious like and tinned if and as he looked into it he smiled Theres a clear road he went on and a house at the top mill a lot of planks they cant be for there is not a plank in or near the pit now lint there will be 1 answered eagerly It was only yesterday down where the overhangs the pool I met Mrs She gave me a blithe good morning and asked it my good man was goin to turn his leaf soon Tell him to make haste for me she said laugh ing like a sunbeam for hes too good a fellow to go on much lon ger as hes been going Theres goodness in him yon sure she said whispered my husband So 1 told him did and more She said she was wait ing until youd resolve lo turn to like a man and cut down the small lot of timber thats waiting foe your hatchet on the corner farm Im no one but he shall fell those trees As I shall want to use the plunks iu the spring he has no lima to lose She said something not pleasant about the public house but I could not let that pass so I up and told her that it was my carelessness and neglect that turned you from own fireside You should not have said thai Katie he answered Ive been a bad husband and a bad father and I did not think there was one in the place that would rust me with a days his voice shook and faltered but he got it out at last Even if 1 did take a turn its not likely you could forgive me And then I fell at his feet and laid bare my heart and re that if I had been what I ought to have been and kept the house he put over mo fresh and clean as I ought to have kept it instead of spending the of my days in vanity and idleness we need not have been two sinners at that hour I repeated again and again Hint it was my ways that drove him to find by the taproom fire what he had lost at home and then I lifted up my voice and called to my Saviour lo look down and help 113 both I with my voice full of tears promised my husband if he would try try would see what a home 1 would make for him He was al ways one for a lit Ho joke and even then he said and whirled the cup A house in a tea cup one between us Yes said if nothing than lea flows info that cup or our lips out of that cup ice wilt buiLd our house We both kept long silence and the break of that blessed day al though it showed me my husbands once glowing and manly pale ami haggard and his that hn could not carry Ihe teacup to his lips without spill ing its new MIV our shuttered home Lucy on that blessed ilay eighteen years was us both to keep Sin promise lo God and lo each oilier and somehow this text got stamped upon our hearts We can do all things Christ who us My poor darling ho had hard lines at first Never was there a drunkard who did not cast about lo make others as bad as himself As the day drew on ho had not the courage to face the street but 1 Manor and told the good lady thai my husband would fel tho tress that he be trusted because he no longer trusted in his own strength WHS a pledged and 1 was to make his home happy but that we did net trust in our own pledges bid i tlu we could do all things Christ who strengthened us Still the lines were hard He hail to bear up the taunts and he sneers of his boon compan ions I had to struggle hard lo give a desolate room the welcome home look that would prevent his wishing for he lights and warmth and the excitement and the praise his were sure fo obtain But however scanty poor mans home can always bo sweet j ana clean thai is in the power of he poorest and though when he returned from lis 1ays tim bering there was but one between us the olu darned cloth was clean the teapot and the fire bright lords children could be cleaner and ho said it was as good as a nosegay lo kiss their sweet cheeks It ivts o see how his old companions loomed in upon our poverty and tempted or tried to tempt him back One terrible drunkard staggered in and mock ingly asked if I would give my hus band leave to go for an half an hour I rose and went into the little bedroom 1 j knew I could rust him because ho I had to trust himself And I blessed God when 1 saw the tempter staggering forth deriding my husband and prepared to com mit violence on any who opposed bis progress It is sometime before or once friends can believe in a drunkards reformation The dear old took the surest way Jo insure his lived to see our grow ing a house with a teacup she always called my good man was not slow to declare Ihe the clear road pictured forth in the teacup had upon his on that memorable night Our ne returned to us slowly very slowly at the bors when they saw how hard and earnestly my husband worked of us credit for what we needed out we resolved to abstain from all luxuries until we could pav for what we got Some of our little valuables had been left nt the pub lic honse as security for scores ana he landlord thought himself a most man when my husband re deemed his own article of finery a gold had belonged to his father We learned the hap every Saturday night of ad ding to our comforts and from that day to this my always found his house swept and gar damp linen hanging about no shirls or holey stockings The children were trained to neatness and good order aud the sound of discord and con has never been since heard our home The habits of our months of marriage re turned a lew of Holy Writ a prayer and hymn refreshed the memory of our bond with God and with each other We feel those ex more impressive now than we did we practiced them as a cold ceremony rather as the result of a living faith In less limn six years my hus band this may say with hands Wo got the bit of land at a low rate and over hours he worked at it as only a tee lolar can work Our Willy has never been a strong lad and the doctor says if he had been even a trille wild he would have been long ago in the churchyard With all my love for his beautiful infancy I did not do my duty the first two years of his life A wife is novera careful mother whatever she may think but it pleased the Lord to let in his light upon us be foro the night came And it was not folly to carry two things first into this and the old teacup that attracted your cu it is not too much to say that the cup reminded us of our duties And on can under stand now 1 think why Goodman and Granny Grey value it before all he gay china that could come from beyond the seas for lmay say that by Gods help and blessing house teas built out oj that TIIE JOY sheltered and Whistling the oT n cureless heart fn idle gladness strolled a truant liny Up in n swayed a litto bird And snug nnd snug cor cared if any henrd His solitary roundelay A brook flowed through the of a wood Some gorgeous upon its margin Anil waved scarlet banners or da From evenings blue shone out a And through the darkness trailed its Though all the world was buried in the night Joy no seeing eye or listening car IiiL enrols blooms Bhines when none in near Only because it so fully blest Tbe ranted bird lies not on open wing But from out the ao I sing Tbo happy secret hidden in my Monthly The Hoosier SchoolMaster 11Y EDWARD EGGLESTON from Hearth nnd CHAPTER Tin FLIGHT About ten days after Ralphs re turn to Flat things came to a crisis The master was rather re at first to have the crisis come He had been holding juve nile Flat Creek under hit feet by sheer force of will And such an exercise of power ia very exhausting In racing on the Ohio the engineer scuds the largest of the firemen to hold the down and this he does by hanging himself to tho lever by his hands Ralph felt that he had been holding the down and that lie was so weary of the operation that an explosion would he a real relief He was a little tired of having everybody look at him as a It was a litlle irksome to know that new bolts were put on the doors of the houses in which he attid Aud now that Shocky was gone and Cud had turned against him and Aunt Matilda suspected him and even poor weak exquisite Walter Johnson would not associate with him he felt himself an deed lie would have gone away to Texas or he now in California had it not been for one thing That letter on blue fools cap paper kept a little warmth iu his heart liis course from school on the evening that something happened lay through the Among the dark trunks of the maples solemn and lofty pillars he debated the case To slay or to flee The worn nerves could not keep their present tension much longer It was just by tho branch something happened which brot him to a sudden decision Ralph never afterward could forget that brook It was i lit tle stream that did not babble blatantly over the stones It ran through a thicket of willows thro the and out into Means pasture Ralph had just passed through the thicket bad just crossed the brook on the half decayed log that spanned it when as he the lows on the other side he started with n sudden shock For there was Hannah with a white face holding out a little note folded like 111 CJo quick she stammered as file slipped it into Ralphs baud inadvertently touching his fingers with her touch that vent tingling through the lers nerves to his heart But she had hardly said the words until she was gone down he brookside path and over into tho A few minutes afterward she drove the cows up into tho lot and meek ly took her scolding from Mrs Means for being gone sech an aw ful long time like a nothin piece of goods that she was Kalph opened the note written on a page torn from an old copybook in Buds and running deer Sur i Putin my best licks taint no uso Run for your life A plane on fool to tcr nn tether or wuss tonight Go rito Things is awful BUD The first question with Ralph was whether he could depend on Bud But he soon made up his mind that treachery of this sort was not one of his traits He had mourned over Iho destruction of Buds good resolutions by Martha Hawkins refusal and being a dis interested party he could hare com by explaining Marthas mitten But he felt sure that Una was not treacherous It was a relief then as he stood there lo know that the false truce was over and had come to worst IliA first impulse was to stay and fight But his nerves were not strong enough to execute so fool hardy a resolution He seemed to see a man behind every maple trunk Darkness was fast comin ou and he knew that his absence from supper at his could not lull to excite suspicion There was no time to be lost So he started Let one once start to run from a danger and panic is apt fo ensue The forests the the dark hollows through which he passed deemed to be peopled with terrors lie knew Small and Jones well enough to know that every avenue of escape would he caro fully picketed So there was noth ing to do but to take the shortest path to the old the Here he sat and shook with ter ror Mad with himself he only testimony is very important denounced himself for a coward Bnt the effect was really a physi cal one The chill and panic now were the reaction from ilic previ ous strain For when the sound of his pur suers voices broke upon his ears early in the evening Ralph shook no more Ihe warm blood set back ngain toward the extremities and his selfcontrol returned when he needed it He gathered some stones about him as the only weap ons of defense at hand The mob was on the cliff above But he thought that he heard footsteps on the bed of the creek below If this were so there could bo no doubt that his was suspected Hank shouted Bud from the top of the cliff to somo one in the creek be sure to look at the think hes there This hint was not lost on Ralph who speedily changed his quarters by climbing up o a secluded shed like ledge above the spring He wrs none too soon for Pete Jones and Hank Banta were soon look ing all around the spring for him while ho held a over their heads ready to drop upon them in case they should think of looking on the ledge above When the crowd were gone Ralph know one road was open to him He could follow down the creek to Clifty and thence he might escape But traveling down to he debated whether it was best to escape To llee was to con fess his guilt to make himself an outlaw to put an insurmountable barrier between himself and Han whose terrorstricken and anxious face as she stood by the haunted him now and was an involuntary witness to her love Long before he reached Clifty his mind up not to floe another mile lie knocked at the door of Squire Underwood But Squire Underwood was also a doc tor and had boon called away lie knocked at the door of Squire Doolittle But Squire Doolittle had gone to Lewisburg lie was about to give up all hope ol being able to surrender himself to the law when he met Squire Hawkins who had come over to Clifty to avoid responsibility for the ill deeds of his which he was powerless to prevent Ia that yon Mr Yes and I want you lo arrest mo and try me herein Clifty CHAPTER XXIX THE The prosecuting attorney for so the States attorney is called in Indiana had been sent for the night before Ralph refused all legal help It was not wise to re ject counsel but all his blood was up and he declared that he would not be cleared by legal quibbles If his innocence were not made ev ident to everybody he would rather not be acquitted on a pre liminary examination He would go over to the circuit court and have the matter sifted to the bot torn But he would have been j pleased had his uncle offered him j counsel though he would have de it Ho would have fell bet ter lo have had a letter from home somewhat different from the one he received 1om his Aunt Matilda by the hand of the prosecuting at torney It Was not very aging or very sympathetic though it was very characteristic This ia what I boon afraid of I warned you faithfully tho Iima I you My are clear of xmr blood I uncle to as your counsel or to go your buil Yon know it injure him in the county and ho has no right to sutler fir your evil acts 0 my dear 1 for Lbo Bake ol your poor dead We never shall know what the rest of that letter was Whenever Aunt Matilda pot to Ralphs poor dead mother in her conversation Ralph ran out of the house Ami now Unit his poor dead mother was agnin made to do service iu his aunts ho landed the letter on the hot coals before him and watched it vanish Into smoke with it grim satisfaction Ralph was a little afraid of a mob But Clifty was better than Flat Creek and Squire Hawkins with all his faults loved justice and had profound respect for the majesty of lie law and a profound respect for his own majesty When sitting a court representing the law Whatever he might resort to hi business in order to avoid a conflict with his lawless he was cour ageous and on tiie bench i With the cooperation of the con stable lie had organized a posse of men who could he depended on to enforce the law against n mob By the time tho trial opened in tho largo schoolhouse in Clitty at eleven oclock all the surrounding country had emptied its population into Clifty and all Flat Creek was on hand 10 testify to something Those who knew the least appear ed to know the most and were prodigal of winks and nods Airs Means had always suspected him She seed some mighty things about him from the word go Shed allers had her doubts was jist deed Mrs Sarah Jane Means will please step forward and be sworn This Mrs Menus did with alacri ty She had met the prosecutor and impressed him with her dark hints She was sworn Now Mrs Means have the goodness to tell us what you know of the robbery at the house of Pe ter and the part defend ant had In it Well you see I allers suspected that air young man Here Squire Underwood stopped her and told her that she must not tell her suspicions but facts Well its facts I am agoing to sniffed indignantly Its that I mean to tell Her voice rose to a pitch and she began to abuse tho Again and again tho court insisted that she must tell what there was sus about the schoolmaster At last she got it out Well fer one thing what kind and the master he was bis hat On little confused when asked why he hadnt told ol it before bnt said that he was afraid to sny be folks was about hanging the master and he didnt want no The prosecution here rested Bronson maintaining that there wis evidence to justify Ralphs committal to await trial But the court thought that as ilie defendant had no counsel and of no testimony it would only be fair to hear what the prisoner had to say in his own defense All this while poor Ralph was looking about the room for Bud Buds actions had of late been strangely contradictory Bnt had be turned coward and deserted his friend Why else did he avoid the session of the court After asking himself such questions as these Ralph would wonder athis of gals did he go with Hey own folly What VV by with my bound gal fanner he were there There was no hti a along through the blue grass paster at ten oclock and gall thats got no pro lector but me out that and her by his company that ant lit fer nobody Bronson saw that he had caught a tartar He said he had no more questions lo ask ol Mrs Means and that unless the defend ant wished to hir she could stand aside Ralph said no Bud he would like to ask her one ques tion Did I ever go with your daughter Miranda you didnt answered the witness with a tone and a toss of the head thal let the cat out and set the courtroom in a giggle Bronson saw that he was nothing and resolved to follow Ihe line which had indicated Pete Jones was called and Swore pointblank that he heard Ralph go out of the house soon after he went to bed and that lie heard him return at two in the morning This testimony was given without hesi tation and made a great impression against Ralph in the tho justices Mrs Jones a poor brow beaten woman came on the stand iu a frightened way and swore to the same lies as her husband Ralph her but her part had been well learned There seemed now little for Ralph But just at this mo ment who should stride into tho but Pearson tha one man power that could prevent the victim of so vile a conspiracy as this lodging in that worst of State prisons at a place tou bail for criminals Unt there is no human power to help how naturally does the human mind look for some intervention of God on the side of Right And Ralphs faith in Providence looked in Ihr direction of Bud But since no Bud came he shut down the valves and rose tohis feel proudly defiantly calm lts of no use for me to say any thing Peter Jones has sworn to a deliberate he knows it lie has made bis wile perjure her poor soul that she dare not call her own Here Petes fists clench ed but Ralph in his present humor did not care fur mobs The spirit of the bulldog had complete pos session of him It is of no use for me to tell you that Henry Ban la has sworn to a lie partly to re venge himself on me for sundry punishments I have given Mm aud partly perhaps tor money The real thieves are in this court room I could put mv finder on them To be sure responded Ihe old basketmaker Ralph looked it Pete Jones then at Small The fiercely calm look attracted he at of the people He knew look would probably cost him his life before the next morn ing But he did not care life n ijou nil 1IIU legged old soldier basketmaker j Tho testimony of Miss Hannah He had crept home the night be Thomson is every word true I be to see ef the ole woman oC ATi n je R R T I M E TABLE V C fc ST I RAILWAY Arrive Leave am Chicago Express a in 5jO p Chicago Express p in m Chicago Mail j m CINCINNATI a in Richmond Express in Richmond p ir a m Columbus Express a m p in Columbus Mail p m i a in p m in Accommodation RATES OF ADVERTISING am i 3tQi6m 9m V column i i column 10 1 17 3 1 IS 12 is 15 20 30 4U 60 17 X 23 23 SS 35 33 40 40 45 5O TO 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a in Columbus n in p m p m litlO p m p m n Hi p m p in p ji CITIZENS IS L A S ASSOCIATION Duos payable from the lo of each to tho at his No 2J Fourth St Regular loan 1st in each month R S T C MECHANICS SjL B ASSOCIA liou 2d organization Dues paya ble to 15th of each month Di rectors meet id in each month at which time are o fibred FRANK GKO S L B station Dues payable from tu 5Ui of each to tho Secy at JOUR NAL meeting for loans 2d Monday of each month at Court House II S MIMEB Prost 7j HUNT fore to see ef the ole woman didnt wan and hearing of Ralphs arrest he concluded the lime or him to make a forrard movement had come and so he determined to face the Looky here Squar he said wiping the perspiration from his brow looky here I jest want to say that I kin tell as much about this case as anybody Let us hear it said Bron son who thought he would nail Ralph now for certain So with many allusions to the i time he fit at Lane and some indignant remarks about the pack ot thieves that driv him off and a passing tribute to Miss Mar Iha Hawkins aud sundry other digression in which ho bad check ed the old man told how hed drunk whisky at Welchs store lieve that of Mr Pearson to true The rest is false But I can not prove it I know the meu I have lo deal with I shall not es cape with State They will not spare my life But the people of Clifty will one day find out who are the Ralph then pro to tell how he had left Pete Jones bed being uncomfortable how he had through the he three men on horseback llow chad no the sorrel with the while left forefoot and while nose i how be had Small how is return he lisul hoard some one fer the house and how he hac re the horse the next ing There said Ralph leveling hisfinger at Petc there in the man who will yet sef Ihe inside of Hie penitentiary ATTORNEYS A No 27 Fourth opposite Court House CHAPPELOW A office at No 2J Fourth street up CROCKETT F opposite the Court House Will practice iu the higher courts aud before of the Peace ia city ami country Notary Public HOWARD J Jr office in brick one door south of Court House JUSTICE DuWitt C office on Fourth opposite Court Public J M office opposite Court opposite J o Public n Fourth st use Notary blacksmiths shop lie had how as e W the boys had crated him and how he thought it war mean to crate a old soldier what fit the Britishers and lost his by one of the blamed critters a bayonet through it and how when ho woke up it was cold and how he rolled the crate and went on towards home aud how when he got nn lo the top of Means hill he met 1slo Jones and Jones and a slim sort of a young man a ridin and how he knowd the Joneses by bosses and some more of that about em hut he didnt know the slim young man tho he thot he might toll him ef lie seed him kase he was dressed up so slick and townlike Bnt blamed e he didnt think it hard a of thieves sech as the Jones should try to put ther mean things an effect enough fo alarm Bronson tho on to a man like the master that Iho thing and ef her ole man had axed not ho a been hired She seed things with her own that beat all she ever seed iu all her born days And Pete Jones said hed allors ther warnt no good in sech a feller Couldnt stay abed when he And Granny Sanders said Law ever him out ef it hadnt been fer her Didnt she go nil over the neighborhood a warnin people Per her part she seed straight through that piece of goods He was fond of tho gals too Nothing was so great a ci ime in her eyes as to be fond of the gals The constable paid tribute to William tho by crying Squira Hawking court open with au Oyez or as he said it O yes I nnd the Squire asked Squire Underwood who came in at that minute to sit with him From the start it was evident to Ralph that the prosecuting attorney had been thoroughly posted by Small though looking at that face one would have thought him the most disinterested and philosophical spectator iu the courtroom the was a young man and this was case since his election He was very ambitious to distinguish him self Tory anxious to have Flat Creek influence on his side ia poli tics and he was determined to send Ralph to State prison justly or unjustly by fair means or fotil To hii pro eyes this waa not a ques tion of right and not a question of life or death to such man as Ralph It was George H Bronsons opportunity to distin guish himself And ao with many knowing and confident nods arid aud with much deference lo the Squires he opened the case affecting great indignation at Ralphs wickedness and uttering Delphic hints about striped pants and shaven head and tbe grating of at And now if the court please I am about to call a over the bluegrass paster Didnt know who in thunder twas but it was somebody makin straight fer Pete Jones Hadnt seed nobody else Dr Small a short ways behind the Hannah was now brought on the agitated and answered with much reluct ance Lived at Mr Means Wos eighteen years of age iu October had bound to Mrs Means three years ago Had walked home with Mr Hartsook that evening and happening to look out of the win dow she saw some one cross the pasture Did not know who it was Thought it was Mr Hartsook Here Mr Brouson evidently prompted by a suggestion that came from Small had overheard when he list ened iu the barn asked her if ever Mr Hartsook had ever said any thing to her about the matter after ward After some hesitation Han nah said that he had said that ho crossed the pasture Of his own accord she epoke of it first Hod Mr Hartsook offered any ex No he hadnt Had he ever paid her af No declined to Hannah To him she never seemed so fair as when telling the truth so sublimely now informed the court that this little trick of bavin the old soldier happen iu in the nick of time wouldnt save the ner at the bar from juat punishment which an on raged law visited up on such crime He that his duty as a prosecutor caused it to fall to his lot to mar shal the evidence that was to blight PRATT J M office n Fourth opposite Court House ROLLINS T S Attorney at nrd Public Fourth St Logaus port lad 21JJ Fourth O street opposite Court Fourth BARBER SHOP J II under the Keystone House cor Sixth street and Broad way The Lo get a clean stave ant So 1 hair cut MERCHANT TAILORS MILES E E No CS Fourth street Complete stock of best goods made up at reasonable prices T X So 40 Fourth Street A full stock of new goods Orders solicited Prices lou Satisfaction guar anteed MICHAELS l So 43 Fourth street Millinery anil Ladies Furnishing Largest stock ia the PHOTOGRAPHIC FETTERS Celebrated Gallery The place where fine Photo are made ia colors and ink from lc or old pictures BonTona and Gems Dr J office 33 Fourth street over Dolans store Physician Surgeon and Accoucheur Chronic diseases successfully treated PRINTING OFFICE Xo 74 W over 1oat Office All Card Book Job aud Letter Press Printing promptly executed REAL ESTATE i and Collection Agents Fourth street Logans port 57 Broadway Peru opposite Court House Anderson Ind S B Keal Estate and Intelligence Agent Office corner of Broadway and streets SADDLES HARNESS FULLER i So 75 Market street Manufacturers and dealers CHAPPELOW So 71 Broud B Saddles Harness ic STATIONERS DUTTOX i MATTHEWS Xo 3S ith street Every variety of School and Stationery at retail STOVES TINWARE i To 60 Mar ket street dealers in Table Cutlery and House Furnishing Goods Special attention given to i So 90 Mar ket street Stoves Tinware Roof Spouting Stove Furniture ic TOBACCONISTS COXO A No 42 Fourth street wholesale dealers in all kinds ol Tobacco and Cigars PHYSICIANS PHYSICIAN SURGEON with Dr Herman on St south of of Se CEO Physician 75 Broadway DR J W TALBOTT PHYSICIAN 71 MARKET ST HALL BUILDING E V Street the Canal ami Sixth St Special attention given to diseases of iml Children e prospects charu th ter and so able and promising ii but that the law knew no be tween the the and that for his part he thought Hartsook a most danger ous foe to peace of society The evidence already given fasten ed suspicion upon him The pris oner had not yet been able to break its force at all The prisoner had not even dared to try fo explain the reason for his out at night to a young lady He would now conclude by giving ha last touch to tho dark evidence that would sink tho once fair name of Ralph Hartsook in a hundred falh ner at the bar one Ask me a dozen said Hartsook like a king than a criminal then Mr You need not answer unless you choose but what prompted you to lake tho direction you did in your walk on that evening This shot brought Ralph down To answer this question would attach to friendless Thomson some of the disgrace that now belonged to him JI decline to answer said Ralph Of course I do not want Ihe prisoner to criminate himself said Bronson this hist Bud had come in but to Ralphs disappoint ment he remained near the door talking to Waller Johnson who had come with him The magis trates put their heads to fix tho amount of bail and as hey differed talked for minutes Small now for the first time thot best to make a move in his own proper person He could hardly have been afraid of Ralphs acquit tal lie may have been a liltle anxious at the manner in which he had been mentioned and at the significant ook of Ralph and he probably meant lo excite indigna tion enough the school master to break the force of his secure the I he prisoner chiefly by people out side his gang He rose and asked the court in gentlest tones lo hear him He had no personal interest in this trial except his interest in the welfare of his old Mr Hartsook He wai grieved and disappointed to find the evi dence against him so and he would not for add a feather to it if it were not that his own name had been twice alluded to by the defendant and by and perhaps his con federate John Pearson He iva prepared to swear that he was not over in Flat Creek the of the robbery laler than ten oclock and while Ihe statements of thc two persons alluded to whether ma intended or not could not implicate him at all he thought perhaps this lack of veracity in their statements might be of weight in determining some other points He therefore could only suggest as he was not a party to the case in any his student Mr Walter Johnson be called to testify as to whereabouts on the night in question They were lo gether in his office until two when he went to the tavern and went to bed Squire Hawkins having ad justed his teeth his and his glass eye thanked Dr Small fora gestion se valuable and best to put John Pearson under ar rest before proceeding further Mr Pearson was therefore arrested and was heard to mutter something passel of thieves when the court warned him to be quiet Walter Johnson was then called But giving his must crave Ihe readers patience go back to some things which happened nearly a week be fore and which will serve to make it intelligible TO BE CONTINUED BOOKS UTTON MATTHEWS Ko 30 4th eet Sign of big book School Books DUT str and BOILER MAKERS i FLOYD of Portable and Saw Mill Boilers and Sheet Iron Work corner of Conn I ami High sts hid promptly attended to BOOTS t CO ytf rs Broadway 2d loor east of Post Office Boots Shoes ami Caps at retail BOOTS S P i IXX No 1UI Mo Boots Shoos Hals ami Caps S P i IXX No 1UI street CONFECTIONERS C B i CO Xo Ill Varlet street Oysters Toys ami Motions All the delicacies of the season J H No 70 Fourth street corner of Market Fourth streets and Confectioner and Baker Dealer in all kinds of Game Oysters Fruits In connection has one of the Finest ing Rooms in tho city Fresh Oysters Game Meats tc at all hours DEEDS AND MORTGAGES 1 Recorder of CMS county Writer of Deeds ind Mortgages in Court House Lo fnd Special attention to preparing DENTIST DR D L Xo lui Broadway south side above the A Virginia circuit preacher gives remove mountains infamy He faith Henry Banta be called forward sheepishly aud Lived about hund from the house that was robbed He seen ole man Pearson and the master and one other feller he didnt know come away from there together about one oclock He the horses kick in out to the stable to He seed two men of backdoor and meet one at the gate When they got closter he knowed his woodenleg which he hoard from the lips of a negro preacher who was holding forth to his congregation upon the subject of obeying the commands of the Almighty Bredren he said in his broken way whatever de good God tell me to do in his blessed book holding up at the same time an old arid evidently Bi dat Im g wine to do If I see in it dat I must jump troo a stone wall 1mgwiue to jump at it bom troo to jump in at longs to me DRUGGISTS BORGES E H City Store street Drugs tc whole sale and retail W H Market street oi Bridge street B HOWS GEORGE W Wholesale and KelliJ Druggist and Practical Phar Xo 70 Mate DUNK Store 1 12 Mar St below Fourth Proscription Drug street Proprie tor of Dunus Sunrise Baiting Powder aud standard preparations STRAIN SHULTZ comer Broadway and Drugs Medicines Depot id Eclectic Medicine DRY GOODS BROWN JOHN Successor to Brown ifc Pratt in Staple i fancy Dry Goods Carpets Boot Shoes Jtc Market and Bridge opp Barnett House GRAY JOKS W Xo 41 Fourth 8t One price to all McCAUGHY J CI Dress Muslins Sic MERRIAM i PICE Xos and Market street Dry Goods pets Hardware to 07 Car FURNITURE W No 40 Fourth street manufacturer and dealer in Furni ture Mattresses Largest and best assortment in the city MANLY W T S i SOX dealers in Furniture and Broad GENTS GOODS T M rs Market street Opera House building City Hatter and Gents Furnisher THOMAS successor to Smith t Pierce Broadway whole HBIO and retail dealer in Groceries Li irc JAMES No 95 Market street retail and Liquors J No 53J4 Market street Provisions Groceries Canned aud Fruit Goods delivered free of charge IS M Nc Broad way retail dealer in choice fine Groceries Provisions and Pro duce PRATT S B 3To 1H Broad way suc cessor to t Martin keeps a complete assortment of Groceries and Provisions Prompt custom solicited SPENCER B 0i CO No 89 Market street 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