Wise County Messenger. (Decatur, Tex.), No. 421, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 6, 1893 Page: 3 of 8
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4 TALE OF SMUGGLERS.
Smuggling jewelry
I was going through tae country
hard to define, but who, at a stipend
••There are, of course, he resumed,
Hair white and eluser-
who we know are in Europe.
the
for their arrival.
from five to twenty
trunks.
are
trunks
It was useless, however: the jur-
L
to be
and claiming the remainder
their own
it is too dificult to secure evidence
to refute these claims and distinguish
takes.
haracter.
the goods, and
one
or with goods concealed about her
swimming gear of his own, and sub-
it
secretary of
Warranted Against Breakage.
)
\
trouble begins.
“Several years
glances, bantering rather than hearty
laughter: a firm, masterful jaw: talk
attempt to conceal
that is their undoing.
of this kind indicate a determination
to smuggle, the offender is generally
allowed on appeal to the collector oi-
ls of
pt to
pe ra-
ettie
ished
while
ouse
A Lamb’s lide on a Coweateher.
A rather singular incident occurred
oken
tock-
nd T.
■ •
notified of the date of their sailing,
and either the men of our force or the
t>il in making seizures.
•The modistes have pursued the
ward
shing
i the
• the
ower
N e w
their
hrew
took
liber-
a few
ouse
faint,
f the
uises
holic
has
year-
f his
f the
with
1,000.
$55,-
rated
Aus-
-khe-
es in
i the
ealth
ip re-
Ind.
d in-
emol-
r the
tnes-
from
is are
1 the
y the
prop-
! per-
d hers
have
seas
The
xude
ssels
prob-
pub-
ishes
set-
pursued
Evidence was produced showing that
nearly all the costumes contained in
the trunks, some of them valued as I
The Coffin Was Prepared for Naady But
a. She Dia Not Ese it. It Might
Bring About Somebody
cis person, and the law compels the
seizing officer to enter the alleged
offender’s mental processes and prove
that it was his intent to defraud the
person, and
by the acute inspectress to visit the
of $8 per day and expenses, exercise
vicariously all the functions of the
■•many people in trade who make an
effort, and very often a successful one,
to beat the customs. Dress-makers 00. ----------
and diamond-dealers are the chief was taken down on the floor of the
goods of a <
would most naturally conceal about
las promptly declared the women not
guilty, and Judge Brown was com-
pelled to release the goods, upon
which at least $5,000 of duty should ,
have been paid, the duty on silk then !
custom for some years of declaring
one or two costumes in each trunk wooed her and.
sidedly difficult to convict either one.
oomers in the field of dress-making
Leon-
ested
v and
efTn
on <4
secretary of the treasury himself and.
many unlucky imposters contend, all which the importer
the powers of justices of supreme ; New York, and the
court of the United States as well.
on the lookout
surveyor’s staff are
arge seizures of
"Smuggling! Well, I sh.uid say so.
high as fl,200apiece,were bought for
wealthy ladies of New York and Bos-
son. Not one of them had been "de-
zomplete, and we have men located puu -p,------- „
n Europe and constantly upon the of the dealer only saved the officer vhite moustache.
steamer docks abroad to keep track 1 ” ‘---thune "he id" * some
no outlook but There was no choice for him, so, leav-
to al-
lders
flong-
n a-
re. '
is in
ht is
retire
esti-
s.
show
the
who
m to
pur-
time it
! revenue before he can be convicted
of smuggling
“I myself followed a leading Maiden
lane dealer whom I knew was smug-
gling diamonds constantly for nearly
two years without making any larger
capture than a package of bort (uncut
i brown and black stones used for
I rock drills and in diamond cutting)
. Grant were ripe in results. Bennett ordered him to depart at once for
I did not hav a cheerful view of the Seoul under pain of instant death.
Occasionally new
-Git a Holler ou Ye."
One afternoon about 1 o’clock, as the
doubt
Dur-
who
living
is the
tatea.
•
searching room.
“On one occasion we took sixty
yards of valuable lace with which a
woman had flounced a woolen petti-
coat valued at about $2, and which
she claimed was proper trimming for
icke d
a ou
d. N.
r the
duty and take the goods.
Dealers in jewelry and precious
stones are the leading smugglers I printed, which he (.-------- ---- —- --
among men, although the cigar trade various places of worship, asking the noration that Sis Mandy
for many years gave us a great dear congregation to pray for her safe re- buried in this yere graveyard dat
of trouble. Diamond smuggling is turn, and when she returned home he ebenin an’ dat Brer Guy wu.1e
ness quicker and does his work bet-
ire buried by ter if you damn his eyes a few times
war: he could see
abroad with
n-day
Jones
d to
three
olared" as dutiable, and yet every
ne of these dressmakers had been
abroad year ly and knew the demands Brandon Bucksaw.
f the customs laws as well as you or " dited
ago we
being fifty per cent ad valorem.
Since then we have been very care-
The firm represented by this man. had
a branch house in Paris. He often
visited that citv but returned empty from my home in houndes Ala . to
Not of a v ry exciting kind, it is true, handed. We* found him making visit a college chum in Hale county
but constant violation of the customs ‘ frequent trips to Montreal, and in- when I happene d upon an imb ent 30
=“ । 33“=“=
iistent offenders are women, and • were addressed to him at the Mont- of Ham that I am constrained to tel .
wealthy, high-bred, educated ladies real Post-office. Diamonds are ad- it. Somewhere about 4 or 5 o clock
st that." mitted to the Dominion duty free, on the soft beautiful afternoon
The speaker was a special agent of but must be declared to the customs which I speak
the treasurydepartment, one of those officials, as must all imports. The bit of wood an
Else’s Death.
at him he cried out in a whining voice,
•I ain’t holding him: he's holding me.’
“ I he bystanders had wondered why
I kept so silent. They now discovered
that I had Unele Jimmy's finger be-
as if they were bandit in ( orca who has spread the
aphorisms,likeone given to have his terror of her name all around Seoul,
own wav. Whatever he may have the capital, and whose nerve is said to
seemed in the columns of his journal, be equaled by her beauty. I here have
. , the man as he welcomed us was been rumors of her predatory exploits
wid Hannah, her sons wife—he was wreathed in courtesy and good will. for mont hs, but the first definite news
I was to see Bennett on many occa- was brought to Seoul by a trader from
Mions between this winter's night en- the northern province of Corea: who
counter in 1864 and our last meeting was journeying to the capital to buy
in May 1872, a month before he died. goods and to sell a stock of furs and
You felt in his company the impres- other things.
, . . . , j sion of a man of genius: humor, apt When about twenty miles from the
1 went,uP de ",enjoyin to ran into mockery, until it seemed capital the trader had to pass through
' ' almost as if it were the spirit of Vol- a heavy forest Suddenly from be;
taire breathing through him. His hind a tree appeared a woman, and
mind teemed with ideas, which the procession of coolie porters and
streamed into his talk saucy phrases, guards was stopped by her imperativ •
irvecties, nicknames, keen bits of demand for toll. The coolies warned
narrative. surcharged with a cynical their master that he had better pay,
pessimism, which remained, one as the woman bore a bad reputation
might fancy, as a legacy of early and had been known to kill travelers
days of disappointment and trial, who resisted. I he trader, seeing the
For this man had fought the world— bandit was young and good-looking,
had fought it down! The world tried to make love to her, but his ad-
I would not come in his need, and now rances were met in a way that madi
he reigned apart., looking down upon his hair curl. Instead of responding
I it with scorn, Bennett admired An- by words to his high-flown complin
, i drew Jackson, and next to Jackson ments on her beauty the woman drew
Hannah and dat Sas W ia an his admiration was Grant. He was a keen-edged sword and cut him over
the first of the great editors to recog- the shoulder.
nize Grant. He felt the affinity of The sight of blood flowing from hi
the general's Scottish blood or the wounds so alai^ned both the guard
at traction of his Scottish tenacity of and coolie porters J hat they took ta
’VEN WHEN CAUGHT IT IS
H ARD TO CONVICT.
Absurd Claims Made That Valuable
Dresses Are the Property of Fash-
ionable Dress-Makers —
irretrievable bankruptcy. against ingall his goods in t he woman’s hands,
which, he said with a smile, he had ne set out for the capital, where he
has
pion-
ted a
rnest
ge <4
ing to
of this
now!’ The next instant I felt his fist
on the back of my head and went to
the floor in a heap.
“As soon as I could pick myself up
we clinched and went down again, He
wore the jewels always confiscated
the profit to the seizing officer would lungs. -----------
be considerabractrwhdcamtndownre tr r'misatrala yound -Ounded up the mound and -»;- a
. ___ii.. a.........i ahont get hurt " “Ob.don't be 'fraid.” she headboard and a footboard exactly as
answered reassuringly; “I did fall for a real grave and now stood lean-
ington. troubles. I asked: -
The larger boy cried his papers in a
Merely — Imitator bass voice, while the little fel-
• • n this fair business, said a New erone 0A . . . . .
. . . low’s vo ce was a shrill, piping, high
Yorker to a Chicago man, “vour town IoW 5 voT . . t)
* . . ’ do, 1vric tenor with a far-away tone. Ihe
is merely doing what Ohio did long Ey withthe bass voice turned round,
“.what is that?” demanded the and, with a look of disgust and eon-
- - • tempt, said to liis companion in the
“Making capital out of Columbus." news busines: “Oh eum off: wy dow
B 1 ye git a holler on ye?
of gold in the Chemical bank. When
the bottom fell out he would have
frequent and is persistently kept up.
although the duty on gems is but
ten per cent- and the profit saved is
not very great. The pursuit of
the diamond smuggler is most.
The editor had an eye heir heels. The trader was then left
and the campaigns of to the mercy of the fair bandit, who
I Rejected lovers may find consola- Las' year Mandy—dat Silas' wife
! tion from the knowledge that some of name—tuk de grips, an' look lak she ,
the cleverest and handsomest men warn never no mo’ 'count. She warn j
j have been refused, and that they able to do nothin’ an' kep so painful j
have nevertheless managed to live on all de time. I ------' de" nipin‘
and win fame and fortune, says the o‘ de Chrismus and I ‘lowed I'd fetch
Shakespeare is her down yore, and see if she wouldn’t
provided by keeping a special deposit arrived in a wretched condition.
was on top. My friends tried to sep-
arate us, but as they pulled and tugged
generally credited with considerable git some better. Me an’ de oldl
knowledge of humanity and its ways, ‘ooman missed her, an’ set up .
and he describes Romeo, the prince wid her and did all we could |
i of lovers, as being rejected by fair fer Sis Mandy, but she didn't git
Rosalind only just before Juliet fell no better—jes fade an’ fade twill di
in love with him. las' gone Chuesday. when she tuk an’
A certain John Scott once proposed died. I done sont a dispatch to Han-
to a Miss Allgood. W hile smarting nah her mammy were dade. and den
from her disdain he happened to en- I make pesterations for to bury her.
ter a village church during divine I went over to de doctor’s and git de
service, and there for the first time plank, an’ me an’ Une. Bob made de
he saw the pretty Miss Surtees. He coffin—jes es good a coffin or enny o
wooed ir and, as the father would ushas. But Wednesday mawnin’yer
__________________1 have nothing to say to him, he in- come
personal wearing apparel, duced her to elope, and this though live with Mandy all dese .eats, 3
. three wealthy suitors were already come hollerin' an goin on about lie
......i at her feet. John Scott lived to be wife done dade! And dey done fetch
between thegoodstobe worth the the earl of Eldon and the lord high a fine town coffin fur ter bury Sis
chancellor, and never regretted the Mandy in an dey low dey nu5 take
day Miss Allgood rejected him. her back ter town tor be buried by de , for results,
. Byron was refused several times, society.
A woman will He proposed to Miss Millbanke, a •I told Silas dere warn' no use o
attempt to come off the steamer with great heiress, and was rejected, flat. We all is done made de coffin j
valuable costume over the other, though the lady expressed a wish to -do’ we could use de odder ef o3e
correspond with him. He then pro- said so—and Annerson and Jim done
she is generally invited posed to another lady, and his suit ing de grave, and dar.wuz Guy ready
...... was rejected, too. Nothing daunted, ler preach de funer’I. but no, sir!
he renewed his proposal to Miss Mill- wouldn nothin do cept he must take
banke, and this time received a very Sis Mandy 'way wid him. I sez ter
flattering acceptance. They lived to- im: Silas.' sez I. youain done
gether, however, very unhappily- nothin’ fur Sis Mandy all dis lime an
One of the most persistent suitors rat yer warnt r come makin‘ all dis
. I - ..... . Z I k A ■■ nAe 1. a . r, Co tilt' 37
tween my teeth, and I would not let
go till he was ready to cry quits.”
' which was of course undutiable.
than he does if you merely tell him employes of the treasury department,
what you want done. I‘m not spec- were coming out of the big building',
deepo and let 'em take her on ter de ially fond of swearing, but I tell you two newsboys stood waiting for the
' ' • ■-------• d ' - j have to make a practice of it to clerks. Both boys were small. ‘One
was stout, the other pale and delicate.
unsatisfactory, although the haul* Clara was perched upon the fence 3 ciety. An ter-daymean.de y - .
sometimes made are heavy, and post, swinging her chubby legs and come out fer ter bury de coffin whut make those beggars work.
* singing at. the top of her sound little ley took Sis Mandy out er.
ungs. “Be careful, Clara.’’ I said. While he had been relating his tale (
woe “Annerson" and “Jim had
Mandy’s funer’l ready, an’ den not knocked down.
ter had it it sho' riled me an’ Silas “Years ago. when I was just enter
done quit her seven year dis July, ing polities. I had a dispute with a
Viry an' Lucy dey went up ter de fu- local celebrity whom we all knew
ner’I. an’ dey say de s’ciety gin her a about my home as -I nele Jimmy. He
mighty fine fnnei’l. but dat air was a very powerful fellow, and when
preacher what dey hail couldn’ tech | saw his wrath boiling up I knew
Guy. ' that I had no chance for my life if he
“Guv sho’do know how ter preach once got after me. He was seated in
er funer'l." a chair, and at something I said he be-
----—---------- came so enraged that I saw he was
... . JAMES GORDON BENNETT. SR. about to make a spring in my direc-
yas in in in ju a a Man of Genius, ana Who Was Ful ol tion. Like a flash I drew a pistol,
must all imports. The bit of woodland when I suddenly voltairean numor. covered him with it and exclaimed:
men whose position in official life is frontier officer who was working the came upon a hillside dotted in evei> , first saw the elder Bennettone -I nele Jimmy, if you attempt to rise
hard to define, but who, at a stipend case with me visited the Bost-office direction wit i orown moun< ». w < . bleak, snowy night toward the elose from that chair I will kill you!'
and saw the dealer receive the to.d me was at one o . n ne810i of Lincoln's presidency, says John -Inele Jimmy concluded not to rise,
package from the authorities. . graveyar specu lai oa Pan ations:i Russell Young in Lippincott’* A but he swore vengeance. Not long
••He then ascertained the train by At a little distance rom 1 rid " guest with my ever hospitable and arte., -wards I was in a cross roads store
was to return to path I had been following as a shorti gentle friend, Mr. Haskin, at his Ford- talking to some of my constituents
two had the cut to the pu blic road • sAW. hree ' ’.iam residence, nothing remained WwLen 1 heard an exultant voice cry
sleeper to themselves. As soon aa negroes tilling a grave. 8.5 ' after dinner but that we should speed out behind me. ‘Lucius, I've got you
the train crossed the line the special thoroughly acquainted with al tins over the snow with tinkling sleigh
agent charged the dealer with the race’s propensity tor mfune. 15 and , bell to the Bennett home on the Hud-
possession of the stones, and as the bury ins, was.strue wi i 16 un ; son. If my imagination had gone
latter refused to submit to search, he usual absence of any crowd of mour i into darkened fancies over the ideal
___________ ’ ers. says a Philadelphia Time writer , Bennett, the man as 1 saw him drove
offenders, ana in these cases it is de- car by the stalwart agent, who sat on ( uriosity prompte m o ride up ano them away.
him until his clothes were invest!- inquire why this desolate burial.
hr system has been for years very gated. Not a thing was found, and There were two young negroe
■ ' ' — profuse apologies and the good sense an old one with white hair and
d -c eRe- -hite mogtache. I said: Inele, a long .narrow head, with abundant
It was three why didn t somebody else come to development in perceptive faculties; a
learned that the funeral. Did the dead man have keen boring, eye which threw arrowy
and ing, a smooth face, soon to have the
a omfort of a beard; rather above the
middle size: prominent aquiline nose.
stance likewise, and not go down in on the Savannah. Florida and Wes-
a sea of paper currency and inflation, ern railway the other day. It was
....------------ , . -j, '----- about forty miles from Waycross on a
who ever proposed and was rejected fuss about her poor corpse fur? Thouzht ntWas Necemary. through train to Chattahoochee. Oa
While attempts at concealment was the eccentric ( ruden. compiler “An he jus holler and say 4 want A sea captain who was remon the track just in front of the train the
I of the concordance to the bible. Miss my wife, I want my wife. Mandy;. I strated with for violent language engineer, Mr. DuBose, saw a sheep
Abney, who had inherited a large Jone got so out o' patience wid him said: "I began as a cabin boy and with a young lamb. It was too late
fortune, was the subject of his atten- lat l sez ‘Well, dar yer wife: take worked my way to the quarter deck to stop the engine, ami the train passed
’he treasure to pay the ' tions. For months and months he ner!'and, sir. dey jes’take Sis Mandy and have followed the sea all my life, on leaving mutton in its wake. Ar-
pestered her with calls and tetters, outer dat coffin wiiat me an' l ne Bob so । claim to know a little about rived at Waycross the engineer de-
When she left homo he had papers made an' do' we hail de grave dug sailors, and I tell you that you can’t scended from his engine and saw the
are the leading smugglers printed, which he distributed in and all do folks had done got de be easy with ’em and make ’em work, lamb alive and unhurt on the co w-
"-ie ------imthmtepm" wuz ter be They h to be 8Worn at or they catcher. It had been carried forty
_ ... ’ don't thiHk you amount to anything, miles without a scratch.
turn, and when she returned home he ebenin’ an’ dat Brer Guy wuz ter a foremast hand goes about his bust- --- ----------
issued orders asking the worshipers preach de funer’l. do’ dey knowe’d all
to return thanks. Miss Abney never dat, dey ’lowed she mils’ h 1......2 1"
became Mrs. Cruden. de s’eiety! 1 gin 'em my waggin an
---------- mules and son’t Annerson ter de
-------- JUSTICE LAMAR.
HE BURIED THE COFFIN. I .. ...... mgep3e and —
: and keep the coffin until somebody Hreet Fight
A QUAINT INSTANCE OF DARKY else died?" While a senatgr in Washington E"
SUPERSTITION. i “Gawd, cap’n, folk.-, would think late Justice Latn«r was once no •:
_____ dey had ter die of da coffin wuz all down in the street by a carriage,
ready. Dere ain" no tollin’ what Everybody else was alarmed at the
mighter happen ef we badn‛ buryed accident, but he took it very cooll!:
I dis ver coffin. Do' it gone cost me remarking: “’I his is only the second
twodollars an' er half ter git Sis time in mv life that I have been
,wcau. uJne —---r-----: from serious trouble.
>1 leading dress-makers and dealers I months after that we ----------- 3.,
—- - •------. We are the package had been sent to a man at small-pox or yellow fever .
’ ’ - -* ’ Windsor, opposite Detroit, who car- A slight grin spread over
ried the diamonds across the river, younger darkeys faces, but the old in abroad, Scottish accent, which he
-------------- and shipped them to the Maiden lane one looked even moi e g oom! as !e 1 seemed to nurse with a relish. His A COREAN FEMALE BANDIT.
The modistes of house by express, and they entered answered: “Dis am no Pusson we is speech had the piquant, saucy collo- ——----
thiacity, sho usually return Frornwa
„ .uns. a., put through a pretty the habit of many diamond and jew- you burying a coffin. " ere you con- ■ stately, courteous, was that of a high- The Shanghai papers print very full
searching examination, and then the I elry dealers to transfer their stock to jured? bred gentleman of unique intelligence reports of the exploits o a ema ”
■ ’ I women who travel on the steamers “No, sir; none on us warn conjur d. ziving opinions . —- z------
made for that purpose, and they are rarely But Gawd knows it was mos ez had.
belong- 1 ever suspected or searched. Dis my brother Silas’ wife coffin. Her
well known dressmakers! ----- an’ Silas bin done parted for six er
city and Boston andCIRLS DON’T ALWAYS KNOW, seven years, and she ined up in town
the cases vigorously. I -- ...
They Sometime, Reject the Most Bril- Jade, you see—and Hannah stay Wid
Mant and Best of Suiters. her mammy an' dey tuk in washin'.
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