| Show SPIES IN OUR ARMIES i B F taylor correspondent of the chicago journal in referring to the various ways in which news is communicated to the enemy P gives the tol fol following lowin 11 incident women not noi invariably any an bettar then they geould bely bell be have always been leen employed to persuade information out ot 0 unsuspecting but not unsuspected I 1 persons and they bring brin a degree of tact and shrewdness into play that hirsute humanity can never hope to equal equa many a wasp has haa ben caught with their honey if hypocrisy take an illustration a subordinate federal officer in a certain city within this department had been long suspect ted led of disloyalty but no proof to warrant hla hia arrest could be obtained and so as a dernier resort a woman was set at him she smiled her way into his confidence and aed became his next best friend but finding I 1 that ears were of no use for be he could not be induced to say one word cf matters pertaining to his office she changed her plan of attach and turned a couple of curious and as I 1 am told beautiful eyes upon him not he would ride out of town into the country and be absent three or four tour hours and return for all the hours in the twenty four but just these she could account within them then lay jay the mischief there was and she began to watch if he made any preparation for these excursions none he loaded his bis old fashioned pistol drew on hia hla gloves lighted a cigar bade her a loving goodbye good bye only that and nothing more was he deep i ani and she dull time would show at last bhe she b e oib aib observed e that he put an unusual charge into t the ie P pistol one day and end all actorice kuie ifie grew curious la in pistols would be he show her some day how to load a pistol how to be a dead shot alad lu just st at that minute bhe she was al athirst hirst a and n d w would d he be bring her a lemonade she was toying with the weapon and he went the instant the door closed behind him she drew the char charge e for she knew quite as much of pistols as he and substituted another she was not a minute too soon for back he came took the pistol and rode away no sooner had be he gone than she set about an examination of the charge and improved it proved to be plans and details of 0 federal forces and movements snugly rolled together the mischief was in the pistol then though none but a woman would have thought of it and so it was that he carried information to his rebel friends with ith rural proclivities the womans comans purpose was gained and when the officer return edbis next best friend had bad vanished like an arab arli and be he had bad hardly time to turn about before be he was under arrest DEATH OF olp JUDGE RALSTON late last evening we heard beard torm form a perfectly reliable source of the death of judge ralston alston tt formerly a resident re 9 of this ci y and well known to a majority of our citizens also well known in california fornia A letter was received in this city from mrs ralston last even evening ing from austin the late place of residence of the judge stating tat 1 n g that thal bome some days since he left b bib bis ih home e t to visit it a r ranche riche owned by him some distance in the country and upon his not returning as soon aa as w was a s expected search was made and his dead body found when it appeared he had fallen chilled and had frozen to death this is about all ali we were able to learn ile he had been dead several days when his body was found we presume that he lost his life during one of the late snow storms in that region ile he was a feeble old man virginia enterprise A richmond correspondent of the atlanta georgia sa bays says s that a resident of richmond advertises hib his furniture for sale because his rent was raised from elx eix hundred dollars to five dollars |
