Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 22, Ed. 1, Friday, September 4, 1885 Page: 3 of 8
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HErOKTORIAL ZEAL.
How Too Much of JL Caiuo Wear Hanging
Its Possessor.
Probably ono of the most remarkablo
instances of roportorial zoal ever heard
of and which came near ending very
seriously to Iho main actor was tho
exploit of a young man naiuod Arm-
strong couneeted at the time with tho
city stall' of a morning paper in Now
York. Tho incident writes a Hartford
Courant correspondent transpired
about sixteen or eighteen years ago.
Armstrong lived across the East river
just back of Wflliamsburgh. At that
timo the outlying district was sparsley
settled and many pretty little cottage's
were routed cheap. One summer night
the reporter left the ollico about mid-
night. After crossing tho ferry and
going to tho end of tho street-car line
Armstrong had quite a piece to walk
before he reached his cottage. A por-
tion of tho way led through a denso
grove. On the night in question
whilo the reporter was sauntoring
leisurely through the grove his atten-
tion was suddenly attracted to an ob-
ject suspended from Iho limb of a tree
about a dozen yards from the road he
was traversing. It was a bright
moonlight night and there wa little
difficulty in seeing objects near by.
As he passed over to examine what had
caught his gazo he was startled upon
coming up to it to find tho dead body
of a man swinging from a very low
limb of a tree. His feet were about
twelve inches from tho ground. A
.knife was plunged io the hilt in his
left breast. The reporter was in a
quandary. Hero was a big item and
it was too late to get a line in the pa-
per about it. What should ho do? Ho
was the discoverer of this first-class
sensation and he haled to bo cheated
outof tho sweet privilege of "beat-
ing" all the other papers by giving it
to his own first lie thought only of
this and finally resolved upon a very
strange proceeding. Ho deliberately
cut the body down carried it oil to a
huge log near by that lay upon the
bank of a little brook ami covered it
entirely with leaves sticks and other
debris. lie then departed with the
intention of '"discovering1' the body at
an hour in the afternoon of the next
day too late for any publication in the
afternoon papers. As Armstrong
struck the road he was not aware that
two netenbors were jogging along just
behind him both of whom had seen
him come from the log near the brook.
As "the reporter was several rods
ahead they did not hail him so he
walked rapidly to his cottage and went
in at the front" door. About 1U o'clock
tho next day whilo the sun wTas
streaming through the window of tho
roportorial bedroom where Armstrong
lay possibly dreaming of his big sen-
sation a constable and two men call-
ed at the cotlage and told his wife that
they wished to see him on important
business. She aroused her husband
informed him what was wanted and
lie at once got up dressed himself and
went out into the parlor where the
visitors woro waiting lie was thon
informed by tho constable that ho had
come to arrest him on tho very serious
charge of murder and a request was
made that Armstrong accompany tho
oflicers at once to a neighboring justico
of the peace. Before reaching that
functionary's place tho reporter was
made aware ot tho fact that tho body
he had so carefully concealed tho
night before had been discovered and
that he had been arrested on suspicion
of knowing how the man came to his
death the neighbors who saw him
como from the brook as related hav-
ing testified to what they tiad witness-
ed. There was intense excitement for
a timo in tho locality Armstrong
told his story but thero were a good
many suspicious glances thrown at
him. Fortunately however a letter
in a pocket of tho deceasod man's
coat and other supplementary facts
proved that ho was a suicido and that
he had put a rope about his nock whilo
sitting on the branch of the treo whore
ho was found and subsequently drove
a knife into his heart. Armstrong
kicked up a bigger sensation thaiiho
at first imagined ho would.
Six Millions (ione in Smoke.
Of lato years tho impression has
been gaining ground that tho old-time
celebration of the Fourth of July was
falling into desuetude and that in tho
not-distant future tho bonfires fire-
works and other accessories of tho
day would bo givon up. A visit to tho
various manufacturers tends to dispol
tho delusion that firework on tho
Fourth are going out of date.
'The fireworks season" said a load-
ing dealer yesterday "begins early in
February when tho far west sends in
its orders. Tho factories are busy
with these until early in tho spring
w hen tho states east of the Mississippi
begin to stock up. It is a curious fact
that although tho north from Maine
to California lays in a full stock to
blow up on tho Fourth not a dollar is
spent by tho people south of tho Po-
tomac and Ohio rivers. They uso
them only on Christmas day. Tho
demand for all kinds of goods fell oil
rapidly for two or three years after
the Centennial but for tho past live
years it has steadily incroased and
this year I think will show a general
increase all over tho country. 1 don't
believe that there was over boforo so
many firo crackers exploded as on
Saturday. From all the data obtain-
able 1 should say that thero were dis-
tributed over the country over 500-
000 boxes worth about $500000. Thou
tho big crackers which have risen
rapidly to favor have been moro ex-
tensively sold than at any other time
tho patriotism of the young men who
are tdo old for the old-timo firo crack-
er expending itself in producing tho
unearthly din those big crackers make.
Of course I judo at least $500000
moro woro blown mtosmoko and 1 rag-
men ts on the Fourth.
"Tho fireworks manufactures do
their best to discourage the consump-
tion of firecrackers but tho young peo-
ple appear to have renewed the loyalty
to these time-honored explosives and
our opposition seems to havo made
but little headway. The fireworks
now mostly in demand aro of a kind
decide ily superior to those mostly in
vogue in the past and tho demand for
them is not by any means confined to
the big cities but Orogon and Mon-
tana want just as good lire goods as
we can make. Of these rockets
Roman candles and tho various col-
ored fires have struck popular fancy.
Thero havo been sold this yoar"l
think fully $5000000 worth of these
for consumption on the Fourth alone
so that Saturday witnessed the disap-
pearance of fully $6000000 in smoko
as an evidence of the patriotic feelings
of tho countrv north of the Ohio river.
"This does not include tho new-
fangled Japanese fireworks which arc
now extensively used for daylight ex-
hibitions. Every visitor of a country
fair now thinks tho show lacking if the
committeo does not set ofV between
each heat of the races a lot of these
Japanese constructions. Thoir uso
however is almost entirely confined to
such occasions. But few are sold for
the Fourth as tho celebrating patriot
of to-day like his predecessors of old
wants just as much noise as possible
by day and just as handsome "a show
by night as money will buy." New
York Times.
A File Wanted.
lie had a wizz-wazzy go-as-you-please
gait as he approached a citizen
standing in the door of a drug store
and ho took oft" his hat and made an
old-fashioned "kerchy" beforo asking:
"Say bo you a lawyer?"
"Well 1 know something of law!"
"Say thon you can help me out. I
was out last night. Indeed I'm out
yet."
"Been on a spree?"
"K'rect. Just sobering oft to go
home. When 1 git there she'll say
I've 'bin ofV'n a tear and 'she'll jaw and
lile a dozen affidavits."
"Who? Your wife?"
"Of course. Say. I want to filo
something. I don't know ' what you
call it but a lawyer ought to know.
Suppose 1 said you was a thief? What
would you do?"
"Punch your head."
"No! no! What would yo do in
law?'
"Filo a general denial."
"K'rect again! That's exactly
what 1 want. She'll roar and take on
and I'll file a general denial and plead
privilege on facts. That's what 1 was
after that's what'll humble hor in no
time. Say have sunthin'?"
"No."
"All right just tho same. Let's
see. General denial and tho burden
of proof is on hor. Jury trial vordiot
of not guilty and 1 como out
whiter'n a spring lamb. Awl right
much obiooged hie a long."
Western Men Have Ideas.
Two men who announced that they
wore from Chicago rushed noisily into
a very quiet barber shop up-town tho
other day and pulled off thoir coats
with a great deal of talk about tho
heat. One of them fell into tho hands
of the boss a tall saturnine man with
a wart on his bulging brow and
tho other submitted to the lather brush
of the solemn foreman.
"Phew!" said tho man who had fall-
on under tho foreman's care "what a
boiling hot day!"
"Hot" said tho foreman casually.
"I was saying to the boss a few min-
utes ago that wo had better havo sumo
of tho windows open as tho visitors
from out of town would bo apt to
think our weathor was unusually
warm."
"Windows open?" said the Chicago
man. "I should hope so. Don' ty ou
call 98 degrees hot?"
"Well" said tho foreman indul-
gently "New Yorkers don't mind 98
degrcos. Wo don't usually put on
thin coats here until it tops a hun-
dred by double figures."
About the same moment a voice
was heard from tho next chair croon-
ing lazily. "Yes we usually decide
to call it warm here when it reaches
121 degrees but you can't tell any-
thing at all about boat. You think to-
day that it is hot. I don't think it is.
Quite a seasonable day though not
quito warm enough; that shows that
it is partly a matter of opinion."
The Chicago men were silent for a
long while and then one of them ask-
ed carelessly "What do you call cold
weather here?"
"Do you mean in winter?" asked
the boss.
"Yes in tho dead of winter."
"Well we consider 20 degrees bo-
low rather cold."
At this tho victims launched forth
into stories of what kind of weather
they considered cold in. Chicago.
Tho anecdotes had covered periods
extending considerably more than 120
degrees bolow zero before the shavo
was over and when they got up to go
out the barbers were cheerfully fold-
ing up their towels again and placing
tho brushes in methodical rows under
the mirrors. Tho whole conversation
had been carried on with the utmost
solemnilyfrom beginning to cud.
"I like thorn western men" said tho
boss cheerfully as tho door closed
'because tiiey havo got ideas. Now
a Now Yorker when he conies in to
get shaved don't care for back talk or
argument. Ho just lays back still"
allows the artist to tov with his hide
and discourages all conversation by
going to sleep in the chair. Tho west-
erners arc perfect gents though; they
irivo a barber a chance to cultivate his
mind don't they Toby?"
"Every heat" said the foreman
heartily. New York Sun.
An Angel llat-Catcher.
There is at present in the county
hospital a professional rat-catcher
named Angel. He is a half-wittod
low-browed fellow and his looks indi-
cate that ho is anything but what his
name would imply. As a rat-catchor
ho is a success and late yesterday af-
ternoon ho gave an exhibition of his
powers that was simply wonderful.
Several of the best rat terriers in tho
city woro procured and against theso
Angel was pitted. Tho first exhibi-
tion of his beastly work was at tho
hospital where twent3T-ftvo rodents
were dispatched. .Angel killing a ma-
jority. The party then went over to
Gerbor Brothers' slaugbter-houso
whero tho "game" was found to bo
moro plentiful. The rodents had con-
gregated by the score under bales of
hay and tho exciting contest was kept
up for over an hour. The dogs and
man would gather about a bale somo
one would give tne hay a sudden tip
and the rat-catchers would rush in.
Angel with tho rapidity of lightning
would grasp a rat with his loft hand
and with his right gave the rodent's
head a quick twist that would break
its neck instantly. At other timos he
would grasp a rat in each hand dash
them tojxother and both would tall to
tho ground lifeless. Ovor ono hund-
red were killed here and Angel killed
two to tho dog's ono. Prior to Angel
going to tho hospital ho gained a liv-
ing sololy by killing rats and on ono
occasion slaughtered forty-fivo in ono
hour in tho basoment of a K street
establishment. Sacramento liecord-Union
PASSING EVENTS.
A convict howovor poor can al-
ways have a watch and chain.
The Chinosb make as well as wash
most of tho whito shirts worn in San
Francisco.
Four thousand persons. aro annually
buried in "Potter's field" of New
York city.
An old wonina of 07 tho mother of
twelvo children oloped from Clinton
Can. with a boy of 2L
Tho exports of manufactured tobac-
co from Potersburgh Va. from tho
15th to the 30th of Juno inclusive
amounted to upward of 205000 pounds.
During one week over throo thous-
and pounds of arsenic wero sent into
San Joaquin valley in California to
bo used in exterminating grasshop-
pers. Tho four Amorican cities of abovo
twenty thousand inhabitants having
tho highest natural sites abovo tho
lovol of the sea aroLeadvillo Denver
Omaha and Atlanta in the ordor
named.
Manitoba is not a creditors' para-
diso. By a rocont act not only aro a
sottler's housohold oflects au.i furni-
turo etc. free from execution but a P"
portion of his stock land to tho extonfc
of 100 acres and buildings to tho value
of $25000 arc also exempt.
Thero aro in tho human voico about
9 perfect tones. Thus 11 direct mus-
cles alono or together produce 10-
1383; 30 indirect muscles produce 173-
741823 and all in co-operation
produce tho large total of 17592185-
0ld415 dilleront but clearly defined
sounds.
A Charleston S. C inventor has
devised a knob which may bo made
highly ornamental to bo affixed to a
lady's belt so that her partner in
dancing can "swing partners" with-
out that oflbnsivo familiarity which
has thrown a gloom over tho festivo
dance. With another knob on tho
shoulder dancing might bo as propor
as swinging a soytho-snath.
Signs are taxed 5 cents per letter
every year in Cuba and the "ingenious
Cuban docs not put up a sign if ho
can help it or else paints on it an
emblem as a boot a trunk or a cigar.
If words must be employed it is not
an uncommon practice to dash a daub
of paint across the lettering producing
a legal obliteration yet leaving an in-
scription that can still bo dociphorod.
A ham western cured has been sub-
mitted to a New York doctor to deter-
mine tho nature of certain parasitos
that infested it. Ho decided that thoy
were specimens of tho acarus sacchari
or sugar mite closely allied to tho
ordinary plant louse and closely ro-
sombling it in all but color. The doc-
tor gives it as his opinion that thoy
probably would do no harm if eaten
alivo.
Celluloid may bo a useful materia
for man)' purposes but it is not likely
to bocomo popular among cigar smok-
ers who wear false teeth. A Pitts-
burgh lover ot tho weed absent mind-
edly smoked the stump of a cigar too
close to his celluloid teeth and an ex-
plosion occurred which used up his
mouth so badly that ho will want to
take nourishment through a tube for
some time to como.
It can not be said that the University
of Oxford is financed very well says
London Truth: An appeal for sub-
scriptions is now being issued on its
behalf to meet its sharo of tho cost of
tho drainage works which aro boing
undertaken in order to make tho air
less malarious and tho wator less im-
pure. Tho amount required it scorns
is 18000 which ono would havo
thought should have been a prior
charge on the university oxohequor to
tho jQl20000 spout on the examination
palace
From a report mado to tho British
! government by its consul gonoral at
J'ranktort it appears that all ovor
Germany tho consumption of ardent
spirits is rapidly increasing especially
among tho working classes. In Prus-
sia for instance botwoen 1809 and
1880 tho number ot public houses in-
creased at tho rate of 38 per cont.
while tho population only incroased at
tho rate of 13 per cont. Tho consump-
tion of spirits rose from 8.0 liters per
head between 1870 and 1871 to 9.2
liters per head in 1875-81. This is tho
more remarkable from the fact thatt
tho uso of spirits amongst tho.
upper classes in Germany has gone
out of fashion. Tho workmen do not?
follow suit.
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