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[March 1, 1888. 



themselves to resist the survey of their county, and at the 

 last reports much anxiety was felt for the safety of the sur- 

 veying party. The party of farmers might probably be 

 spared without much loss to the State. 



Sixthlt/ — a quainter circumstance than the preceding — 

 Spotted Eagle and Charger, the defeated Indian candidates as 

 delegates to Washington, sulk in their tents because of the 

 election of One Feather, White Swan, and Crow Eagle. 

 " Grait excitement exists," the Tribune adds, " and news 

 from Sitting Bull and Eed Cloud is anxiously looked for." 



SeventJdij. American train robbers, captured when trying 

 to rob a Mexican train, are sentenced to life servitude in 

 the mines, instead of being shot after the usual Mexican 

 practice. Xaturally Americans feel honoured by the dis- 

 tinction thus drawn between Ameiican and IMexican 

 ruffians. 



Eighthly. A man who attempted to shoot the prisoner in a 

 trial in the court of Judge CliBbrd, Chicago, is set free ; and, 

 so far as the report shows, is regarded as a suitable object for 

 condolence and admiration. 



Rintldi). A prominent citizen of Kalamazoo, Mich., is 

 arrested for arson. This citizen was not only old and 

 wealthy, but prominently pious — always a suspicious feature 

 in an Amex-ican. In fact, he was arrested while in church. 

 Investigation showed that he had poured oil on the roof of 

 another prominent citizen, for whom he entertained a feeling 

 of dislike, and set the oil on fire. He may perhaps have 

 misinterpreted in some degree the parable of the Good 

 Samaritan. 



Tenthly. Marshal Brown, of Chattanooga, Tennessee, 

 had arrested Mr. Taylor Bowlin, who seized an early oppor- 

 tunity to call at Brown's place of business with the pleasing 

 idea of shooting him. But the wary Brown " got the drop 

 on " Bowlin, and, shooting him through the head, caused his 

 death I 



Eleventhly. In a row near Morehead, Rowan County, 

 Kentucky, three men were seriously wounded. .James 

 ]\Iartin unwisely attempted to kiss Mrs. Walker, the hostess, 

 which " she resented fiercely." In the mHee (the reporter 

 deems it quite unnecessary, it would seem, to explain just 

 how the fierce resentment of Mrs. Walker developed into 

 what Mr. Green usually calls a " melly ") the lamps were 

 overturned, and in the darkness several shots were fired. 

 When a light was made, John Walker was found to be 

 shot through the left lung, Pet Williams through the neck, 

 and Ned Lawler through the abdomen. James Martin and 

 Mrs. Walker do not seem to have been wounded. The 

 paper simply heads the account " Lively Times." 



Twelfthly. In the same county, a negro, Bob Tenders, 

 suspected of an outrage, is visited by a party of the chival- 

 rously dunderpated farmers who inhabit tliat region, and 

 hanged to the beam above his door. But news being re- 

 ceived just as Tenders was in the throes of death that one 

 John Hooper was guilty, the wise farmers cut Tenders 

 down — whether dead or alive the i-eporter does not think it 

 worth while to mention. Any one who has had the oppor- 

 tunity of meeting some of the wiseacres who people this 

 Bteotia of America need hardly be assured that not one of 

 these murderously-minded farmers had the least idea that 

 his conduct was wrong. Their compound of ruffianism and 

 idiocy is regarded by many even of the better parts of the 

 community as chivalrous. The so-called chivalry of the 

 South is a strange blend. 



Thirteenthly. From Indianapolis comes the news that the 

 Democratic leaders of Indianapolis and of the State of 

 Indiana feel strong sympathy for two men convicted of 

 forging voting papers, and intend to stand by them I Such 

 little foibles as forgery are regarded by many as mere indi- 

 cations of party zeal. 



Fourteenthly. In Knoxville, Tennessee, three men accost 

 Mr. Jas. F. Rule, the editor of the Knoxville .Journal, with 

 whose paper they were not content, and though he is 

 accompanied by his wife, they invite him to the opposite 

 •side of the street, proposing there to assault and .shoot him. 

 " But i' faith he had been wiser than they" — for he had not 

 only taken a pistol to church, but was ready to use it more 

 quickly than they were prepared for. The result of this 

 little Sunday scrimmage was that, although Mr. Rule was 

 wounded, he was not badly hurt, whereas one of his three 

 opponents was carried away in a dying state, and another 

 was badly wounded. It suggests a curious picture of 

 Knoxville Sundays to read that " the organ drowned the 

 noise of the pistol-shots." 



FifteentMy. A woman of San Francisco, who had, for 

 reasons unexplained, been known as " Dolly Adams," having 

 died in China, a glowing account is given of her career, the 

 most original feature of which was her marrying a high 

 Chinese official, from whom she obbiined a promise that if 

 she died in China he would have her remains restored to 

 San Francisco. " A few days ago, the body of the ' Water 

 Queen ' " — for so, as well as " Dolly Adams," this erst 

 naughty lady was called — " was brought to San Francisco 

 encased in a costly casket. But when we consider some of 

 the ornaments of our national portrait gallery, wo cannot 

 find much faiilt with the treatment of celebrated deiiii- 

 mondfiines in the American press. 



Sixteenthly. In Milltown, Indiana, a secret society of 

 citizens (of course they are "highly respectable citizens") 

 has undertaken the correction of social errors, such as San 

 Francisco seems, on the contrarj', rather to encourage. The 

 members of the society call on a man who has not behaved 

 quite fairly to his wife, and, tying him to a tree, give him 

 "fifty lashes of hickory" {sic.) They then call on his 

 neighbours and compel them to spread the news, on pain of 

 being similarly treated. 



Stventeenthly. And lastly (though from this one paper 

 alone I could have taken a score more of such details). Col- 

 lector Magone, of New Tork, dissatisfied with the immi- 

 grants brought in German steamships, sends a number of 

 them back. Judging from some of the preceding cases, it 

 would seem as though the stable-door were being carefully 

 closed after the vei-y undesirable intruders had driven the 

 good steed away. 



MORALS OF NOBILITY.* 



By Grace Greenwood. 



^^^^^^QHE following article by a leading and grace- 

 ful American authoress presents a fair and 

 interesting (in some respects a rather 

 amusing) idea of the way in which English 

 royalty and nobility are regarded in the 

 United States by the less uncompromising 

 Republican minds.] 

 During a golden autumn day, spent with some friends at 

 Highgate, that most charming suburb of London, we were 

 taken to see the quaint old place bestowed by Charles II. 

 on his favourite of favourites, Nell Gwynn. It has suffered 

 strange mutations since Nell's time, not the least strange 

 being that it now has for a mistress a fair American, the 

 young wife of Sir Sydney Waterlow. But Lady Waterlow 

 does not dwell in the halls or wander through the grounds 

 which once rang with the light laughter and lighter songs 

 of the ex-orange girl, ex-actress, her royal lover, and his 

 roystering companions. Ah, no I for the house has fallen 



* From tlie St. Louis Gloie-Democrat. 



