Show SUCKLED N A 1 tm wild child shim tex cm if tiomi stories haye been told from time immemorial of animals suckling children and endowing them with a nature through the nutriment thus furnished these stories have been looked upon as more or leas as fanciful creations but a genuine ins lance of such an occurrence has been recently proven in this county yome twenty months ago a negro woman living on the banks of the brazos missed her three months old baby from the pallet where ehe had left it lying during an absence of a fen minutes search was made for the infant but no trace of ft la discovered and the whole affair waa in profound mystery until a few days ago A party of gentlemen were riding through a somewhat unfrequented portion of the thick woods that border the river when they were startled by seeing a strange object run acro s the road thinking at first that it waa a wild animal several of the party were about to fire on it when alie one who had been nearest it called to them not to abool but to ride it down instead this was done with difficulty for the underbrush BBS thick but at last the creature was overtaken oveita ken in a ease copse it was half running half leaping first on all fours and then nearly upright the gentleman dismounted and attempted to lay hands upon it but chattering and savagely biting and scratching it broke away from them they could see that it had a human face though the brown buly waa covered with long tangled hair and the nails of the feet and hinds BO long and curved as to be claws it ran with incredible swiftness getting over fairn hiees and dense masses of creepers at a rate that obliged its pursuers to exert guem to the to keep in view it finally ran into an immense oak tree eliat lay uprooted in the ground and alie hollow trunk of which formed a yawning cavern by the dint 0 in the tree with sticks the party succeeded in driving out an old wolf which immediately took to its heels it was not pursued as it was not alie object sought too was finally dislodged and lassoed with a lariat made of hides it bit and scratched so fiercely that it was thought advisable not to approach it so it wan half dragged half led home with the lariat about its neck howling and yelping like wolf the fact of the negro comans womans child having was well guoan to all and it waa decided that una most be the child the old wolf had evidently boolen it and for aume eume reason adopted it as its own the mother declared that this conjecture waa correct claiming that her child bial hid a of one ear chic i peculiarity vaa found in toe minter rial s kept tied up in her cibin no one to lay band unon it aid la fed on raw as it to any other toad the atoman has hopes that she my yet reawaken tha human in it but iu the meantime alio is reaping a harvest from the crowds who come daily from al parts of the country to inexact the strange creature bakk lincton adro it M 31 pomeroy known as brick pomeroy was the aitor and pub 1 ahr 01 the notorious la crosse democrat a naming copperhead sheet in the war clays which gave each aid and coni foit to he slaveholding glave holding rebellion as to call out the of lie government oili ars he row publishes advance monthly id new york an ade sheet or his tunnel under bit kelo id irocky mountains in which a good deal of money has been sunk and as a means ot airing his dieas on matter i in general as a radical reformer la bis issue of september is this base slander on abraham lincoln A correspondent in arkansas aska us it abraham lincoln was or was not a mckim to slavery and it he was why so abraham lincoln was not killed became of opinion and utterances for or slavery in all that he did for he was governed by a trinity of reasons justice humanity an 1 political party he being in a to effort as president a humane man and a member of a political party that came into existence because of the new and better thought that slavery was a dis grace to the american republic an injustice to mm and a foundation found aion for monopoly lincoln was killed by jolin wilkes booth of his breaking his promise to booth that john Y beat should be pardoned lincoln prom abed to beal he did not sign the pardoning order to ety the capr cution and beil a absom friend of boatle was then booth in a fit of rage and cankerous disgust said he would kill lincoln he killed him the ast waa ibur ler premeditated mardir there was nothing of martyrdom in it the facts of history showing the hatred of the slave potter bonard lincoln a hate dogged his steps and sought his life on ins way to the capital inaugurated as president and shadowed his path until the bullet of bootle did its fatal work are audaciously ignored and the hame ful effort made to hoi J the martyred marty red president up as a victim to bis own want of fidelity to his promise eliat abraham lincoln was a liar and not a martyr is the broad implication of this miserable paragraph pass the tl anderer round aillie culling yew york sun wilkie collins the novelist who died on the dinst was born in london in january 1824 liis father bing william collins R A a well known painter of rustic scenes and his mother a aster of mrs carpenter who is eaid to leave been one of tha best of the female portrait painters of her time he was educated at a private fc chool and after spending two years anh his parents in italy he wa placed with a firm in the tea trade to remain four u ars and learn the businow bu sinew he abandoned com marce after a time however and turned to law lie was a student at st inn when ass father died and his first co to literature was alin made being a biography of his father in wo volumes with from hia journals and correspondence correspond enie this was in 1848 and fr m that t me mr collins mada literature his pr bession tes sion hiis fiat novel nai printed in 1850 and was called antonina or the fall of biome a romance of the fifth C naury ll ambles beyond kail ways or in cornwall taken afoot lied in 1851 wandered from the track of romance in which ins wore destined to ba BO phenomena but in lie was ba k in fiction with Bi tail a story of modern life and mr brays cash box or the mask and the mystery a sketch hide and seek was arse ted in 1854 and at about lie came tune ho became a can tur to the magazine household words in which after dark and one of liis moet ahe read secret were originally several of his novels including the woman in white and so name were published originally in all the year annandale Annon dale and many of bis subsequent were primed in american magazines before appearing in book form and be is said to have receded rece hed enormous prices for gome of these the moonstone alan and wife the new magdalen and the law and the lady are bolher works of his that have bad alide flide circulation his principal books hive passed through many editions both in england and in the united slats and haic alto been translated into french italian german dutch and ragman the works of very few modern writer have had a greater circulation of a rard general popularity than those 0 sir collins mr collios also male occasional incursions into the field of dramatic writing but never with marked success his plays lewwe aad th froam deer we e produced by amateurs charles dickens biag in the cast of tha latter and appealing in a private performance henora lie queen ai welt as in the public per for aba cba ity A dramatic version of alif written by mr collins bieselt bim wa at alie olympic theatre in 1878 and in his play lank aul wul brought out at lie adelphi theatre was a complete failure for several years wilkie collins has been a great sufferer from acute attacks of gout and rheumatism he was to use a cane most ot the time and his bent shoulders gave him the appearance of bung fe horter in stature than he really was when these cama on he biad to stop ork anil shut himself up in hia room oo 00 aoe but his faithful attendant he a thorough economist ot time rigidly systematic in his hours of work and it was his habit to talio a light breakfast in ins room anil at ten was atoru ou liis manum fript after lundli a short drive it the weather was fine or sometimes a walk with irs attendant after 4 ocl tik he usually saw people whom it was necessary for him to eee on matters of busio cu though he generally contrived most of thesa to mr watt literary lit crAry agent mho managed hait books for years society of lato ha baen almost nothing to him |