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and, Port Perry, Oct. ships. | ; 17, 1880. EB oe Co'v. A Grasaow & Lonpox Insurance Co'r |WILLCOX & HOLT Licensed Auctioneers FOR Jn Soar Sr oxmamle, ax "Valuators, &c., &e. EAL ESTATE 'A SPEQIALTY. Sale Bills made out and urnished free of charge. Sa Licensed Auctioneer, Valuator &c. Brook, Usbridgs, | 6m i 1 Mr. Vanderbilt is 'repitted t5 have been at his death the richest man fn the world, worth at least $200,000,000. Whether ho can bo considered the' oh est man 11 the world depends upon Ww © torm. as as he produced a stout thong of deer- skin, and proceeded to. bind the hands of his captive, who, being a small man, saw 'he was' no match for the other even without wespons, and so submit: ted quietly, though sgonized at the Ty thought of his poor, helpless wife and * |chrldren, in their lonely e:bin over he owned the palace in which he died, His last years wero passed in holding his' property to a value which he on it, and it was subject to flevco ture of his reserved wealth. did not draw from a hoard to hill. 1 live out yonder, not a great ways 'trom here,' replied the captive nodding | .4 his head in the proper direction. «How wany in cabin? queried the savage, bid = The settler hesitated about telling correctly. He first thought he weuld 'name & number large enough to deter the Indian from: going thither, « and | J 'thus perhaps save his wife and children | | from a fate like' his own ; but, after n bd" snap, aud suddenly found "free and his arms at liberty. d quickly and wildly around, isposed to doubt his senses-- | | edit his good fortune--for any then seemed good which would ven a bare chance for his he expected only certain The Indian was at least a and fifty yards from him and was unloaded ; and with that : a race for life--a race that in- fed not ouly his own life but of his wife and children--who swift as to overtake him f a loud yell of mingled joy and ioe, away he went over the hill, ith.a louder yell of 'rage at his jected escape, the fierce savage bounding after him, Bowditch {every inch of the ground in that and he had already regained nt presence of mind to] shape rse so as to take advantage of chances in his favor. The hill E the summit, was a succession of and bushes, with caves, chasms [ precipice and overy through and these natural obstructions the 8 believed he could make his ith any nau living, either white om ec yrinth Looking back occasionally as he fled ountain goat, Bowditeh soon discov- ed that, however superior to him his Bdversary might be in pure physical rength he was no match for him in in that partieular locality ; and fd this not only inspired him with fhe hope of escape, but with such con. lence in his own resources, that he gan in turn to calculate how best muttered, 'and let him fool his time d thar, while I'start back arter rifle, and then follow up the auda- s whelp ? I'll do it, and if I don't ven with him yit, then it's 'case 'a agin me.' aving come to this determination, ditch slackened his pace till his uer was within fair view, when he ptended to stumble and fall, and then Bt up and: ran, with a' limp, which ed the savage to yell with fierce light, and redouble his exertions to irtake him. This was exactly what intended to bring about, and now managed his pace with such decep- he hurried to a point where he could command a fair view of the cave, with- in easy.rifle range. "Ef old Paint-face hain't mizzled,' he muttered with an ominous frown, 'it's my opinion he never willl' and like a cat watching game, he kept his eyes rivited upon the pot where he expected to see him appear. For ten minutes all was still--no- thing moved--and then to his bitter satisfaction, he beheld the Indian com- ing out with a stealthy step, looking cautiously and suspiciously around. The settlers rifle was already leveled, and for a moment or two he sighted directly at the heart, and then fired. The savage threw up his hands con- vulsively, uttering a noise between a groan and a yell, and fell quivering to the earth. Bowditch took time to re- load, and then approached him cauti- ously. He found him quite dead, and when he had secured everything of value, he, threw the dead body down the rocks, and left it to be devoured by the wild beasts and vultures. He then went home in triumph, and relat- ed his exploit to his astonished family. Ha lived many years after in that vicinity but was never again molested. ROAD-AGENTS. Traveli Wy railroad was two hundred and fifty miles from Deadwood. But what memories aro stirred up within the breasts of those pioneers who' fought Indians, braved hardships, encounter- 'rond-agents," or highwaymen as they are called in more civilized countries, and. lived on bacon, game and slap- jacks, Yes, the old days are gone, never to return ; so are the road-agents or stage-robbers ; and the visitor now can listen to the yarns of the old-timers as he travels to and fro comfortably seated in the cars without feeling his hair raise the hat of his head as would havo been the case in years gone by. He feels no uneasiness now as his in- formant tells him of Lame Johnny, who was hanged near the railway sta- tion; end of Jim Wall and Dunc Blackburn, who often hid for days in the woods back of the town which is now the terminus of the railroad. He can laugh, too, at the idea of a stage company hiring thoso very men to re- frain from attacking the coaches, which, strange as it may seem, isa actual fact. The company made money by doing so too, because, while the coaches on other roads were held up, sometimes every night for a week at a time, this company's gained the repu- tation of being the safest to travel by, and consequently got tho most of the passengers, besides many thousand dollars in gold dust. 'No 'wonder, then, that this coach load, who had all beard of Johnny Slaughter, should have been enjoying the last _ fifty miles: of their long ride more than any other portion of the journey. The scenery was becoming more picturesque and variedZas the road wound in and out in snake-like twists and sharp eurvesalong the bank of a swiftly-running wnountain stream, or over the top of a rugged mountain, or through dense pine forests, and across beautiful.natural parks, having every appearance. of the] watchful care the professional forester. Daylight was giving place to dusky twilight as the coach netired" the mouth of Gold Run Gulch, one of the tributaries of Whitewood Oreek, on which Dead- wood is located, when, without the least note of warning, the report of a rifle shot reverberated through the canon, and Joh om his seatypiarced . through the heart by the assassin's bullet. His reputation for never halting did not desert hii at this critica} moment, for, as he fell, he passed the reins to a passenger beside him. The team, four spirited half: broken mustangs, took fright at the shot, and started to run at the top of their speed. In a short time the stage- load of frightened passengers stopped ¢ | orowd of frontiersmen were gathered to see its. arrival. Tho word was passed thas Johnny = Slaughter lay near the mouth of Gold Run pierced by a bul let, In an incredidly short space of time a posse of well armed, determined men had started on horseback to avenge his death, and others in a wag- on to fetch in his body. It was found that the cruel bullet had pierced his heart, and cansed almost instaneous death, But no trace of his murderer has ever been discovered. A thorough search was mado on the night of the murder, as well as a thorough canvass of the whereabouts of the desperadoes to whom the finger of suspicion might point. The assassination is to-day, more than thirteen years after its oo- curance, still shrouded in mystery. Funny incidents, as well as sad and tragical like the foregoing, we can also call to mind in reviewing the exploits of the road-agent. One night in '79 the court stenographer of the Black Hills District was returning from a visit to the States, and the agents halted the coach. He wasa very small man, and in order to enjoy a talk with the driver, had / climbed to the seat next to that dignitary. His feet would not reach the footboard of the boot, so, to prevent - any sudden - lurch of the conch from unseating him, the friendly driver had passed a red sursingle around his chest under his arms and 'buckled itat the back of the seat. Ww iven the short { pitch. As| with, for the r jousney nearing t, they its| heavy revolver regained | road-agent pointed content undertaking. = Nor -- the agents without friends, although of those friends were rendered conpulsion ; - because living at lonely forms, ranches, and stage stations, was to their interest to be friendly, least keep quiet, in order to save their homes and stables from repeated vaids by the freebooters. But this state of affairs is now a thing of the past, as much go as the buffilo, bear, ' and hos tile Indian, Sb coli, Burgled for a Wager. + I heard the other day a good story, which my informant ae to be true,' writes the * Man About Town, in' the New York Star, *I give it for what it is worth, A Young man about town made a bet of five hundred dollars that he could visit a number of fashionable = receptions z ve hundred afternoon " Solar worth of silverware, Aoccord- ing to the terms of the bet he was not to visit any house where he was known, He merely picked out a list of recept- ions from a society paper, a oab and started on his predatory expedit jon. At the first house he was about to take a silver-mounted brush from the man's dressing-room whem an application of the teeth convineed him: that the article yo not worth the Accordingly he dropped the himself value, Finally, just after slipped several spoons into his at one place, a big man with a mustache said to him: * Have everything you want ¥ . 'Affecting to understand the to refere to eatables, he of answered : * Yes thank you; eat anything more." When the man left the house his questioner, was a detective, saw him get cab and heard the instructions to the driver. When the the bet axsived sb the next} house went to the dressing-room Prompe ly began pocketing silver. But in midst of this the detective emerged from under the bed and attempted to arrest the supposed thief. The latter, however, being an athlete, shook off the detective, tripped him up, when those in the house scene succeeded in ing every one that the detective was the guilty man. This accomplished, the young man hastened home did up bis plunder in packages addressed to the owners and sent each package home by & messenger boy cautioned to deliver his packages and answer no questions, The audacious young man won the bet and escaped arrest.' x sri itt Mothers, if Sux boys come {n, lane from their games, bathe in Johnson's Anodyne Liniment. ? Strange that everybody should kick about having snow in Zprit and yet' should want to have ice in July. A. California inventor has built a* boat made entirely of soap. It ought' to be just the thing fora scrub race, Spring Oleanin