Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 26, 1881, Page 7

THE DAILY BEE. OMAHA PUBLISHING CO., PROPRIETORS. 98 Farnham, bet. Oth and 10th Streets. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. Olgars and Tobaceo. WEST & FRITSCI ER, manufacturers of Olgars, and Wholesale Dralers.'n Tobaccos, 1306 Douglas. ¥ ¥ LORENZEN manufacturer 1418 Farnham Florist. A. Donaghno, planta, cut fowers, seeds, soquets ote. N, W.cor. With and Dowslas streets mecopy 1 year, In advance (postpaid) - - - $10.00 [ — - — b e ¢ mnths w W .00 Civil Engineers and Surveyors. feinth = 8.00 | ANDREW ROSEWATER, Creighton Block, FAILWAY TIME TABLE., WINI CARD CIHICAGO, 8T, PAUL, MINNRATOLIA AND ONATIA RAILROAD, Lave Omaha—Passenger No. 2, $:308. m. Ac eonnodation No. i1 o Omahia— Agommodation No, 3, 10:60 a, m. LRAVING OMANA RAST OR BOUTH BOUND. B, &Q. 7:40 8. m & p oo \ P W, SLL & P, leaves ot § & m. and 840 p. . Arrives at St Louls a8 6:40 . m, wnd 7:50 WRAT OR ROUTIWRSTN.| & M. in Neb, Through Exproe, 640 a. m. M. Lincoln Express—6:20 p. . Overland V. for Osceols, 0:40 a, freight No, roight No, ', treight No. 13, treight No. 7, 6:10 p. m. Denver oxproat, 7:38 p. . ', frefvht No 11, 1180 p, Donver treicht, 2 ANKIVING= FROM EANT AXD RODTH. & R. V. mixed, DUMMY TRAIKA SRFWKRN OMAHA AND COUAGIL' BLUVPS. Leave Omaha at 9:00, 10:00 and 11:00 m.; 1:0 2:00, 8 and 6:00 p. m. 9:25, 10:25 and 5 and 6:95 p. m. o dum Omaha ab 9:00 a0d 11:00 a. m.; 2:00, 4 Counc] Blufts at and 5:28 p. m. Through and local pamenger traina betwoen Omaha and Coun i1 Blufla. Leavo Omaha—6:16 745, 8:60 . m.; 8:40, b Omaha—7:40, 1 740 p. o0, Opening an«t Closing of Mells. RouTR, Cnlcago & K. W........1L! E 0, R L & Pacific.11:00 9:00 Chicago, B. & Q 1:%0 Wabash. . Boux City and Pacific B. & M. Lincoln.. 0, Sioux City & 8t. P...11:00 2110 Local maila for State ot lowa leave bat once a day, viz: 6:30 a, m. Oifice open Sundays trom 12 m. to 1 p. m. THOS. F HALL P M. Business Directory. Abstract and Real Estat JOHN L. McCAGUE, opposite Post Offce. W. K. BARTLETT 817 South 18th Stroet. Architects. DUFRENE & MEND Room 14_ C: A. T. LARGE Jr., Room 2, Creighton Block. Boots and Shoes. JAMES DxVINE & CO., Fine Bocts and Shoes. A good sasortment of bonic work on hand, corner 13th and Harney. THOS. ERICKSON, §. E. cor. 16th and Douglas. JOHN FORTUNATUS, 1805 10th street, manufacturcs to order good work at fafr prices. *Ropairing done. Bed Springs. 3. F. LARRIMER Manufacturer. 1517 Donvlas st. Books, News and Btatlonery. J. L FRUEHAUF 1015 Farnham Stroet. Butter and Eggs. McIHANE & BCHROEDER, the oldest B. and E. bouso in Nobraska eatabliahed 1876 Omaha. CENTRAL MRS A. RYAR, acuthwest corner 16thand Dodge. Beat Board for the Monoy, Batisfaction Guaranteed. Moals 8 all Hours, Board by the Day, Week or Month. Good Terms for Cash, Furnished Rooms Aupplied. Uarriages and Roaa Wagons. WM SNYDER, 14thand Harney Streets. vewe ers. JOHN BAUMKR 1814 Farnham Btreet. Junk, H. BERTHOLD, Rags and Metal. Lumber, Lime and Cement. FOSTER & GRAY corner 6th and Douglas Ste. Lamps and Glassware, J. BONNER 1300 Douzlas St. Good Variety. tMerchant Tallors. G. A LINDQUEST, One of our most, pepular Morchant Tatlors 1a re- | Filiy Syyomini, Utah, 1ahor coling the latest dosigun for Spring and Sumucr | Orceon, W Goods for gontlemen's wear. - Stylish, durable, and prices low a4 ever 216 18th bet. Doug. & Farn, Millinery. MRS, C. A, RINGER, Wh y Goods 1n great varisty, osicry, Gloves, Corsts, . 5 3 5 ophyrs, Card_Eoards, Cheapost Howse in Town Surveys, Grade and Sewerage Systems & Specinlty Commission Merchants. JOHN G. WIL LIS, 1414 Dodge Steeet. D B. BERMER, For dotalls sec largo advertiso aent in Daily and Weekly Cornlce Works. Wostern Comnlce Works, Manufactarers tron Cornlce, Tin, Tron and Slate Roofiing. Orders trous any locality promptly executed in the best manner, Factory and Ofiice 1213 Harncy St SPECILT, Proprictor, Galvanized Iron Cornices, Window Caps, etc., aanufactured and put up in any part of the T, SINHOLD 816 Thirtoenth street Orockery. 5. DONNER 1800 Dotgias street. Good line. Clothing and Furnishing Goods. SON. Al Tiats, Caps, Boots, tlory, S04 8. 10th street. Rotrigorators, Canfleld's Patent. F.GOODMAN 11#h St_bot. Farn. & Hamey, Bhow Case Manufactory.! 0. J. WILDE, Manofactarer and Dealer 1n all kinds of Show Cases, Upright Cases, & -, 1317 Osa St. FIANK L. GERFARD, proprictor Omaha Show Case mianufactory, S18 South 16th strect, botween Leavenworth and Marcy. Al goods Pawnbrokers. ROSRNFELD, 10th Bt hot. Far & Har Btoves ano Tinware. A. BURMESTEK, Dealer In Btovea and Tinware, and Manufacturer of Tin Roots and afl kinds ¢f Bullding Work, Gdd Pellows' Block. J. BONNER. 1800 Douglas 8t. Seads. J. EVANS, Wholomle and Retall Beed Drills an Cultivators, 0dd Fellows Hall, Good and Cheap. Physiclans and Surgeons. W. 8. GIDBS, M. D., Room No 4, Orelghtou Tlock, 16th Stroot. C. L. HART, M. D., Eye and Ear, opp. postoffice DR. L, B. GRADDY, Ocultst and Aurist, 8. W 15th and Farnham 8ta e Photographers. GFKO. HEYN, PROP. Grnd Ceutral Gallery, 919 Bixtoanth Btreed. near Masonic Hall. First-class Work and Prompt- Dewe FUArADtosn Plumbing, Gas and Bteam Fltting. P. W. TARPY & CO., 916 12th Bt., bot. Marnham and Douglas, Work promptly attended to. D. FITZPATRICK, 1409 Douglas Btreot. Painting an _ aper anging. YENRY A. KOSTKRS, 141 Dodge Btreet. Bhoe beares. Phillip Lang, 1820 Farmnham st. bet. 18th & 14th. Becond Hand 8tore. ™| PERKINS & LEAR, 1418 Douglas St., New and Second Hand Furniture, House Furnishing Goods, c.. bourht and sold on narrow mnrvine. 8aioons. HENRY KAUFMANN, Io the now brick block on Douglad Stroet, has Just openod a most elegant Beea Hall. Hot Lunch from 10 to 12 every day. “ Caledoma " 3_FALCONER 679 16th Strect. Undertakers. CHAS. RIEWE, 1013 Farnham bet. 10th & 114d. 99 Cont Stores. 1206 Farnhum St., Fancy Gooda T BT g Toland Route! Wost for being the most direct, quickest, an safest line connecting tho great Motropolis, OHI CAGO, and the EasTRRY, Nowrn-EAsran, | con and SOUTH-EASTERN LINKs, which terminates hiere, with KAN&A# Civy, LEAVAKWORTH, _Atouuson, Counciu BLurrs and OMAHA, the COMMEROIAL Cvvuas from which radiste EVERY LINE OF ROAD that penetrates tho Continent from the Missourl River to the Pacific Slope. The CHICAGO ROCK ISLAND & PA- CIFIC RAILWAY Is tho only linc from Chicago owning track into Kausas, or which, by its own road, reaches tae {nte above named. No TRANGYERS BY CARRIAGR ! 0 MissmNG coxNweTioNs! No huddling lo il ventilatod or iclean cary, w every pasenger is carried in roomy, clean and ventllated coaches upon Fast Express Trains. DAY CARS of unrivalod magnifioence, PULLMAN PALACK BLXRPING CARS, and our own world-famous DixiNe CARS, upon which meals ro served of un- surpassed oxcellonce, at the low rato of BEvKNTY. FIN CRxTS %ACH, with ample time for healthful enjoyment. rough Care betwoen Chicago, Peoria, Mil waukee and Missouri Kiver Points; and closo con nections atall pointa of interscction with other ronds, We ticket (do not foret this) directly to overy plnce of importance in Kansas, Nebraska, Black s, California, ‘ashington Territory, Colorado, Arisons wnd New Mexico. Asli beral arrangementa regarding baggage s any other line, and rates of fare alnas al ow ae competitors, who furnieh but o tithe'o the com: cealo and Retall, Fan. | fort. Dogs and tackle of sportewon free, Tickets, maps and folde at il principa the West, © 80 per cent. Order offices in the Unitod States and Canada, by Mail. et. R. R. CABLE, E. ST, JOHN, e Vic 't on. Gen, Tkt and Pass'r Ag roundry, A ihjosgp 2 LRSS o, JOHN WEARNE & SBONS, cor. 14th & Jackson ste S' [}B & P 2 2 T i0ux Oity acific OMAIA CITY MILLS, 8th and Farnham 8ta., Walihens Brow., propriotors. Qrncers. 2 WTEVENS, 218t botween Cuming sud lrar T. A. MoSHANE, Corn. 23d and Cuming Htrocts. Haraware, Iron and Bteel. OLAN & LANGWORTHY, Wholcsale, 110 an¢ 112 16th street A HOLMES corner 16th and Californis. Harness, Baadles, &c. B. WEIST 20 18th 8t. bet Farn- & Hi Hatel o ANFIELD HOUSE, Goo. Canficld, th & Farnham DORAN HOUSE, P H. Cary, 918 Famham 8t. SLAVEN'S HOTEL, F. Slaven, 10th 8¢, Bouthern Hotel Gus. Hamel 0th & Leavenworth Clothing Bought, © BHAW will pay highest Cash price Band dothin, Gorner 10th and ara secoud Drugs, Paints anc Olls. KUHN & CO. Phanuscists, Fine Yanc Goods, Cor. 1bta and Douglss strects e W.J. WHITEHOUFE, Wholeenlo & Retall, 16th st, ©. FIELD, 2022 North Side Cuming Btreet. PARR, Drugyist. 10th and Howard Streets. Dentists. DR. PAUL, Willlams’ Block Cor. 16th & Dodge. Dry Goods Notons, Etc. JOHN 11 . LEUMANN & CO,, Kew York Dry Goods Score, 1810 aud 1812 Fam- ham strwot. L. C. Tnewola also boots and shoes 7th & Pacific, Furuiture. A ¥.3ROSS, New and 8c.ond Hand Furoiture od Soves, 1114 Dougiss. Highest cesh price id far secoud hana gooos. BOXNER 1309 Douzis st. Fine goods, &c. Fence Works. OMAILA FENCE 00, GUST, FRIES & CO., 1213 Hamoy St., Improve- o K¢ Boxes, Lron and Wood Fenoes, Offce Buitng, Counters of Pine and Walnut.f) RAILROAID. THE SIOUX CITY ROUTE Runs a Solid Train Through from Council Blufts to st. Faul Without Change Time, Only 17 Hours. —IT 1 ACIC» MILES THE BBORTEST ROUTE, YROM COUNCIL BLUFFS8 10 BT, PAUL, MINNEAPOLIS DULUTH OR BIBMARCK, and all points n Northern lows, Minnesota and Dakota. This line ls oquipped with the improved Westinghouse Automatic Air-brake aud Milles Fletform Couvlor and Buffer; and for BPEED, BAFETY AND COMFORT 18 unwurpassed. Pullman Palace Nleeping Car run through WITHOUT CHAN between Kan wan City and 8t. Paul, via Council Bluffe and Sioux City, Trains leave Union Pacific Transter at Coun- cil Bluffs, at 7:85 p. . daily on arrival of Kansas City, St. Joseph and Cowncil Bluffs train from the South, Arriving at Hloux City 11:36 p, m., and at the New Union Depot at BE. Paul ot 12:36 oo, n TEN HOURS IN ADVANCE OF ANY,OTHER ROUTE, £ Remember In taking the Sioux City Route you get a Through Train. Tho Shortest Line, the Quickest Time and a Cowmfortable Ride in the Through { ars between Cot L BLUFFS AND ST. PAUL. COUN: £4r Sce that your Tickets road via the “‘Sioux wnd Pacific Railroad.” J. 8. WATTLES, TANAN superintendent, Gen'l Pass, Agent, P. E. ROBINBON, Ase't Gen'l Pass. Ag't , Missourl Valley, fowa, ¥, Southweetorn Agren Councl Blufl J. 1. O'BRY. BYRON REED & CO. Real Fstate Apency IN NEBPABKA te abwtaact of title b0 Reas a0 Douglas county, mayif Koep & com) | Sstate o O THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: LEFROY'S EXECUTION. A Business-Like Hanging With Marwook's Latost Improves meonta. London News Nov, 50, The exccution of Lefroy, which took place yesterday morning inside Lewes Jail, as carried out simply, punstu ally and offectually. The Tanes gl lows is 80 arranged that when the ex- ecation takes place the subject drops out ot sight below the surface of the earth. The drop is “flush” with the sides and base, of eloven or twelve feet in depth. Above the drop isa cross-beam supported by two uprights from which is suspended the rope On moving a lever, which isconnected with In wtaining the drop, the latter parts in the conter, either side hanging on its hinges, and the sight of acriminal hanging lifeless in the air thus aveided. Shortly before the execntion took place there were not a dozen spectators, exclusive of policemen, outside the jail. When it was over, and those whose duty it was to witness it left the prison, they found that a emall knot of gazers had increased, perhaps to the number of fifty or sixty, but certainly not to more than that figure. At about 8:30 the roporters to the number of about fifteen —who, with the exception of the jail ofticials, were the only wit- nesses of tho execution— wero admit- ted to the jail. At 8:40 the first note of tho prison bell was sounded, and its knell continued at regular inter- vals until overything was over. At 8:00 a warder summoned the reporters, who followed him through two court yards, in which, as the paved path- way indicated, the convicts are in the habit of taking their dwmly exercise. In the third and final one was erected the gallows. Just inside the door- way atood Marwood with his pinioning apparatus in his hand. He was sum- moned away, and & pause of someo few momonts ensued, at the end of which the voice of the chaplain was heard, and those standing in the court yard bared their heads and turned towards a further door, whence the processien was issuing. The chaplain robed in his surplice, came firat, pro- nouncea in a loud voice, though with evicent signs of emotion, the appoint- ed sorvice. The central and conspic- uous object of that little band that slowly defiled towards the platform where he was to meet his fate was, of course, Lefroyhimsolf. Howas dressed in a brown tweed swit. He had no covering to his head and no collar round his neck. The gray woolen shirt he wore was open and turnod back at the edges in front, showing his long, thick neck. His face, which was pale enough during his trial, now howed not a vestige of color. His eyes were turned upward toward the sun, which was shining full in his face and its glare imparted an unusual brilliancy to them. Arriving at the drop he allowed himself quietly to be placed thereon and pinioned a8 to his legs. Murwood was scarcelya minute about his task; and while the chaplain was yot repeating the words of the sorvice he had gone to the side, pulled alevoer and Lefroy had disappeared from sight. Tiat death was instanta- neous there can be no doubt, for there wasno evidence of any subsequent struggling. The drop was at least eight feot,and in all probability the neck was at once broken. The whole business of the execution occupied about three minutes. The coroner’s jury then viewed the body, with re- gard to which thero is nothing to te 8aid, but that the face wore a calm appearance and that there was aslight abrasion of skin onthe neck. The London Gazotte, 1666 Portlaud (Oregon) Polaris, We have before us a copy of The London Gazette, dated September 10. 1666. It is a four-page paper two columus on each, and the pages are eleven by seven and a half inches — about the size of an old-fashioned window-pane. It is a queer specimen of literary work; nearly the whole pa- per is taken up 1n a description of the ereat fire in London. It suggests a comparison of the condition of things then and now. When this fire oc- curred the account of it was three months or more reaching the United States. When the great fire of Chi- o occurred, bulletins announced its progress every few hoursin Europe. We give specimens from this queer old relic verbatim: The ordinary coarse of this paper having been interrupted by a sad and Inmentable accident of Fire lately hapned in the Jity of London; it had been thought fit for satisfying the winds of so many of His Majosties good Subjects wiio must needs be con- cerned for the Issue of 8o great an ac- edent, to give this short, but true Account of 1t. On the second instant, at one of the clock in in the Morning, there hapned to break o:t, a sad in deplora- blo Fire in Pudding-lane near New Fishstreet, which fulling out at that hour of that night, und in a quarter of the Town o closely built with wooden pitched houses spread it- self 8o far before day, and with such distraction o the inhabitants and Neighbors, that care was not taken for the timely preventing the further diffusion of it, by pulling down houses, as ought to have be: 80 that this lamentable Fire in a short time hecame too big to b mastered by any Eng nes or working noar it. 1t fell out most unhappily too, That a violent Easterly wind fomented it, and kept it burning all that day, and the night following spreading itaelf up to Grace-church-street and downwards from Cannon-street to the Watersido, as far as the Three Cranes in tho Vintrey. ¥ x * » What & confusion! the Lord Mayor of thecity came with his officors, & London 8o famous for its wisdom can find neither hands nor brains to pre- vent its utter riun. London must fall to the ground in ashes & who can prevent it! The firo raged mastery, & burnt dreadfully; by the fierce Easterly wind it spread quickly in all directions, overturning all so furiously that the whole city is brought into a desolation, That night most or the citizens had taken their last slecp; & when they went to sleep they little thought that when their ears were un- locked that such an enemy had in- vaded their City, & und that they should see him with such fury break through their doors, & enter their rooms with such threatening counte- nance, It commeuced on the Lord’s day morning: never was there the like sabbath in London; many churches were in flames that day; God seemod to como down and proach himself in them, as he did in Sinai when the mount burnt with fire; such warm preaching those churches never had before and in other churches ministers had preached their farewell sermons. * * * » On Wednesday the Lord had pity on them; the wind hushed & the fire burnt gently; then the citizens began to gather a little heart. The following list of buildings de- stroyed in this terrible disator had been taken 13,200 Housen 87 Churches 6 Chapels The Reyal Exchange The Castom House Jail at Newgate Threo City gates The Guildhall and Four bridges. A GREAT SMOKER A Hollander Whoso Fanoral Was Shronded in Smoke. Dayton Journal, > The Hollanders are more given to smoking than any Northern peopls Sdreaming with the eyes open.” The boatman of the Treschkrit, the aqua tic dilligence of Holland, measures distance by smoke; from one place to amother, not so many mles, but so wmany pipes. Entering the house your host offers you a eigar filling, another, often insisting upon leaving your cigar case. Some go o sleop with a pipo in therr mouth, relight it on wakening in the night, and in the morning before stepping out of bed. Diderot s dutchman is a living alowmb; The cigar 18 not the companion of in- dolence, but the stimulant and aid to labor. Smoke is called their sscond breath, and the cigar the sixth finger of the hand. A KFrenchman tells the story of a rich gentleman of Rotter- dam, Van Klaes, surnamoed Father Greatpipe, being old, fat and a great smoker. As a werchant in India he had amassed a fortune. On his return he built a palace near Rotterdam, in which he arra ged, as in a museum, all the models of pipes from all ceun tries, and of every time. This was open to strangers, to whom, after his display of smokiug erudition, he gave a catalogue of the museum, bound in velvet, with pockets of cigara and to- bacco. Mynheer Van Klaes smoked 150 grammes of tobacco per day, and died at 98. From 18 years of age he smoked 4,363 kilogrammes—making an unin‘orrupted black line of tobacco of twenvy French leagues in length. When but a fow days remained to complete his 98th year, he suddenly felt his end appronching and sent for his notary, a smoker of great merit, and said, *“My good notary, fill my pipe and_your own; I am about to " When both pipes were lighted, Van Kanes dictated his will, colobra- ted over Holland. Afterhe disposal of the bulk of his property to relations, friends and hos- pitals, he dictated the following ar- ticl ‘1 desire that all the smokers in the country shall be invited to my funeral, by all possible means, nows- papers, private letters, circulars and advertisements. Every smoker who shall accept the invitgtion shall ro- ceive a gift of ten poufids of tobaceo and two pipes, upon which shall bo engraved my name, my arma and tho date of my death. The poor of the district whc shall follow my body to the grave shall reccive, each man, every year, on the anniversary of my death, a large parcel of tobacco. To all thosa who shall be present at the funeral ceremonies, I make the con- dition, if they wish to benefit by my will, that they shall smoke uninter- ruptedly during the ceremonies. My body shall be enclosed in a case lined inside with the weod of my Havana cigar boxes. At the bottom of the caso shalkbe deposited a box of French tobacco, 80 called caparal, and a par- cel of our own Dutch tobacco. At my side shall be laid my favorite pipe and a box of matches, because no one knows what may happen. When the coffin is deposited in the vault, every porron shall pass by and cast upon it the ashes of his pipe.” The will was carried out. The funeral %as splendid and veiled in a thick cloud of smoke. The poor blessed the momory of the deceased, and tho country still rings with his fame. All over New England clay pipes are offered for sale with the initinls T. D. There once lived in Newbury- port, Mass.. an eccentric genius by che name of Dexter, who wrote his name with the sutlix “My Lord Timo- thy.” He was a great smoker, and invariably usod a clay pipo manufac- tured at a pipe factory of that In order that his namo or his ir might not bo lost to posterity, Dex ter endowed this factory, with the understanding that overy pipe offered for sale should bear the initial lotters of his name, and from the day of en- dowment until tho prescnt overy pipe imadeby the Newburyport Manufactur- ing Company bears the twontieth and fourth letters of the alphabet, mean- ing Timothy Dexter, Thus can New England furnish a Dexter for Van Klaes, of Holland, A Renovating Remedy is tobe found in Brenock’s Broon Bir- Awan antidote for he dach, o weakuess, biliousness, idigestion, constipation, nod other direases of a kin dred nature, the e Litte » are invaluable, 81,00, tri eodlw 1 kize 10 cents Reoping the Gates. 8. ¥, Chroniclo, Senator Windom of Minnesota stands credited with the authorshi and introduction of a bill, on the 12th inst,, for the construction of the north branch of the Union Pacific Railroad, and toaid the same by a grant of land equal to the grant of July, 1864, to the Unicon Pacific main line—12,800 acres per mile, The lan- guage of the dispatch is: *“Under the conditions of the original Union Pa cific Act of 1864, except that the company is to receive no subsidy in bonds.” ‘That means a land subsidy of 12,800 acres per mile of road; and the rcad so proposed to be assisted will be 1000 miles long, This is the first bill for land subsidy that has been introduced in congress for sever- al years, It is singular that it should : trom a senator who has within year been talking and writing inst the momopoly, Thero are w not less than 150,000,000 acres of land locked up in railway rates, so that the settlers desiring homes wnl.' -~ i MOA\’DAY.V D_VE(‘,E.\IBRR 26, 1881. havo to pay from three to six times as much for land as the Government pro.emption price. ‘Thero is no other ovil that corses the country as much as this one of railway land grants, 1f the government must assist corporn tions to build railways, it is far bet ter to do it by loang of bonds or guar ants of interest than by grants of land. This is now settled public opin fon, and any senator or cor who disregards it by urging the pas sage of further grants, ought to bo vs tracieed from t WAR'S NIGHT CHRISTMAS BEFORE BY M. QUAD, etrolt Freo Press It was the night hofore Christmas ~1864. Our brigade had been in camp along the Rapidan for a fort night, and everybody thonght the campaign had closed.” Winter quar ters had been orected, cold weather had come, and those who fought and marched the long summer through congratulated themselves on a season of quiet and reat. The picket-lines were about half o miloa part, and the confoderates be. yond were also_settling down in win tor quarters. 1t was Stonowall Jack son's old brigade in front of us, back od by that of Walker, flanked by other confederato troops. For a week there bad been no firing by the pickets, War's cold-blooded murders had been roplaced by a spirit of peace, and the men who had felt the tiger s thirst for blood now asked nothing more than reat undisturbed. Such waa the situation, whon, just as tho gloom of that night botore Ohristmas settled down over friend and foe, my company was ordersd out under arms, It afterwards ap peared that information had been ro- coived to the affoct that Gons, Lee and and Johnston were at a farm house just within the confederate linos, and our mission was to capture them. Therefors, in the gloom of the win- tor evening, with durk banks of clouds racing across the heavens, and snow- squalls skurrying down upon us at in- tervals, we mounted and sot off at & trot for a ford soven or eight miles above tho camp. The lower one we knew to bo heavily guarded; the up- per one we hoped would bo open. Ansoit was. The cold, swift river, already coverod with floating ico, was guard enough, the confederates thought. The water was breast high to the poor norses, and most of them smyered like « man with the ague as they reached the opposite shore, It was only mercy to them to indulge in an hour's gallop. Afar off we saw the light of a f rm house—not one light, but every win- dow towards us was illuminated, proving that oven m the shadow of s ghastly horrors some one was membering Christmas would conve with the morrow. That house was eur objective point. The high led straight past the duor, and a sud den dash must surprise all who had gthered there. T knew what our men were think- ing of as they formed in a coiumm a quarter of a mile away for the charge. Every fathor's’ thoughts went back home to wife and childron and Santa Claus and littlo stockings hanging up for presents, and I believe every man truly hoped that we might not fire n gun or shed s drop of blood on this night which belonged to peaco instead of war, As the word was given we swept forwardat a canter, and in threo min utes wo had fencircled the houso. T was one of the duzen troopers ordered to dismount and dash in to securoe the prisoners, and I was the second in- side. This was the sight wo saw as wo poured into the big room: A gray-haired ndfather, a soldier with his arm in a sling, a wifo and mother, a half-grown daughter and three or four moen and women who must have been neighbors, There was an open Bible on the grandfather's lap, three little stockings hung beside the chimney, and in the room beyond was the table at which all were about to sit down as wo entered. 1t seemed a full minute before any- one moved. Wo had surprised them, and in turn had been surprised. Our information had been falso, and we made a ride of a dozen miles to burst in on a scene of peace. We were still standing there, speechless with sur- prise, when thero came a sudden pop! pop! pop! of muskotry, followed by shouts, order, and the clash of stecl. I had no eooner mounted 1 than I saw wo were surrounds Jvh, itry. Wo charged straight at the mass in the road before us, but were driven back. Then we charged up the road and ran upon a battory of threo pieces, As we were forced back the fight whirled round and round the tarm-house. There wore a dozen or 8o toone,and though wecharg. od again and again, ten minutes put an ond to the fight. Of the eighty-five men who had left camp ten had b, en through, fourtcen were prisoners, and the remainder lay dead on the trampled snow, along with a score of confederates. The stark corpses of men - the ago- nized groons of wounded horses—tho snow melting with the warm streams of blood—that was war's chances. Ilooked into the houses through shatterod window. The grandfather lay stark and stiff_on the floor, his blood staining the Bible as it pourad out. The grandmother was lying at his feet, her snow-white hair matted with blood, her eyes closing in death as I ool upon her, The soldi and his wife were unhurt, but they had better be {dead, Tho three little stockings hung as before, but one by one they brought out the three curly- lieads who had hung them there, and they were threo corpses! Bullets meant for enemies had sought out these little innocents as they slopt and dreamed of Heaven, und men who had gazed upon a thousand de.d un- moved shed tears as the little bodies wero laid on the floor just ander the stockings Sante Claus was to fill and bring joy to their hearts, It was nidnight now. Christmas had dawn- ed upon white hairs stained with blood — childish hearts stilled by mur- der~ men groaning in anguish-—-wom- en with breaking hearts - God's man tle of purity blotched and drabbled and crimsoned, until the winter moon crept behind the darker clouds to hide the spot with shadows, ‘Buchapaiba. 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