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Show The hero; brigands of Calabria, in Southern Italy, have long been historical histor-ical characters; but no more audacious audaci-ous or brilliant exploit have been recorded re-corded of any bandit chief than are now related of a beautiful young widow wid-ow who, in command of one of the most dreaded bands, is exacting tribute tri-bute from the whulc region round about Catanzara. Imagine a rosy-checked, rosy-checked, black-eyed beauty of twenty , riding up to you at the head of a score of he-whiskered villains, and demanding demand-ing in dulcet tonus that you be kind enough to deliver over your ducats. "Who could dream of resistance? And this romantic madame, who delighU iu leading. a life in which daring ex-pluiu ex-pluiu are mingled with seasons of 'hdcrfar uienfe 'ncath the orange and the fig trees of her annny land, has made herself the terror of the surrounding sur-rounding country. Captured once she made love to her warder, escaped with him lo the hills, and then stabbed him to the heart. She burns farmhouses, farm-houses, carries off cattle, levies contributions, contri-butions, and punishes by murder and fire ttie slightest disobedience to her orders. What an improvement upon the masked and sacked tootpads and road agents of the Sierra Xcvadas and the Kocky Mountains.. icud n n gross of Italian signonw, if you please, and take our road agents in exchange. r. Lui i is actively at wurkraUing means for the support of the family of Capl. l-'ry of llic Virginias. The ''hicago Tribute; noting tins, attacks Fry's reputation, and charges him withhaving cruelly and brutally shot a dozen Union men endeavoring to escape es-cape from the disabled gun-loat Mutt ml City, on the Red River, during the rebellion. The story is dented by' competent authority, and denounced ' as utterly false by bevcral newspapers. Capt. Fry showed of wb:l metal he was made both in his letter to the butcher Burriel. and in the manner in hich he met his death; and the fact that he fought on the Confederate Confeder-ate bide diring the rebellion is no teaton why hi- family phould be left to starve, his memory be defamcdjor hk death go unavenged. On the Yir.jinit'1 maierc the 8outh is no whit behind the Xorlh in rM,linr. i.-. uphold tho honor of the nation, and it is mendacious to question the integrity in-tegrity or persona! merit of any person per-son been use he fought for the " U.si Caiwc." St. I.ouis considers the family of Capt. l-'ry a legacy left bv a brave and gallant man who was horribly murdered. It is gratifying that subscriptions for their iv'ief are pouring in raiid)v. |