Show DESPERATE TRAIN ROBBERS the train robbery on o and nd alton railroad is one of ake the most daring and desperate ever perpetrated in any country the rapi rapidity city with which such occurrences are an increasing is a startling phase of the times the success of the bold hold perpetrators i is by no flure means an encouraging feature especially ally when combined with the fact that comparatively few of such villains are ever brought to the bar of justice indeed it is very seldom that a murderous desperado 16 of any sort of which the country is producing a p plentiful plentiful lenti ful crop meets the doom prescribed i abed for him by the lav law when he i is hurled burled into eternity it is generally by the act of a vengeful mob or the bullet otan of an offended ended companion the law which should be all powerful has boo generally no standing in the punishment ol offenders lenders the success of these infamous scoundrels haa has the effect of seimu dilating others to follow their examples ain amples ples their evasion of the law and the administration of popular punishment by lyn chers BO 90 temar remarkably mar kably common shows the gradual inauguration of an epoch of which indicates that the country is on the downward grade rapidly receding from order hon lion asty and morality this may be considered the view i of a pessimist and those opposed to it talk a great deal of balderdash about the glorious institutions of the country such expressions are foolish tho the institutions of the country are all right but they are most miserably sustained an ounce of f truth la Is arth a ton of sentiment truth indicates a popular departure frolik from the fundamental principles of daw order and good government while spread eagle ism indulges fia grandiloquent about the greatness of our country and the boundlessness of her resources but to return to the matter of the e robbery almost the first remark many people make on hearing of the train robbery is to the effect that t the train men and passengers must have been a cowarde cowardly y lot to let tenor ten or a dozen fellows overawe over ver awe and rob so many any persona persons inspired with surprise on this point would likely lose their astonishment if they should ever be placed in a sm sim ilar circumstances to those on the amaul assaulted ted train the robbers are armed with repeating repenting rifles and revolvers and ta the e first thing they do is to try and intimidate timi date those on board by hooting yelling swearing and shooting taly while this pandemonium conium 13 is in in progress the frightened passengers do not know how many may have been killed or when their turn may come and consequently are ready to ac accede cede to any demand of the tho desperadoes passengers are mostly strangers to each other and if one or more should feel bravo brave enough to shoot come some of the robbers they would not nor know what support they would have from their fellow travelers to commence a resistance under such c circumstances i rc um stances w would be to jump into the jaws of death lato news received th this is afternoon states that three of the robbers have been arrested with a prospect of others being secured it is to be hoped that in this instance the law will not miss its mark ax EXCHANGE remarks in unmitigated irony schuyler colf colfax ax has just rea reappeared at a so called beta theta pi i Pan banquet in chicago where he be denounced guitrau Guit cau this shows what a bold man mr air colfax is ithee O vice president has some peculiar ideas he said the mor mons redeem utah from sterility it waa was water that did it il he ile is is a great believer in the efficacy of water he lie even introduces the aque aqueous ouis element into his soiree watery when the supply of diluting moist uro gives jives out hw his discoursed are aro do ariy riy THI till DISASTER that lias befallen the state of michigan is unparalleled in its line in the history of tho country besides an till incalculable amount of property the lives destroyed by the devouring flames arc are estimated at many hundreds one approximation placing tile number at nearly one thousand WE to learn that hon george Q cannon was seized with sudden indisposition in the early part of yesterday we understand he felt somewhat better towards evening |