. Juvenile Instructor. eriff, encouraged by this, turnedto the approaching mob and commanded them to stop, but asthey paid no attention to the order, aud continued to advance,apparently reckless aud blood-thirsty, and raising their guns tofire at him, he ordered 0. Porter Rockwall to fire. Aiming atthe clasp of the belt on the foremost man, the latter fired, andsimultaneously with the report of the gun the man fell from hishorse. His comrades then stopped and cared for him, leavingthe Sheriff to proceed on his way. (To be continued.) A DISTINGUISHED visitor once entered the counting-room ofthe
. Juvenile Instructor. eriff, encouraged by this, turnedto the approaching mob and commanded them to stop, but asthey paid no attention to the order, aud continued to advance,apparently reckless aud blood-thirsty, and raising their guns tofire at him, he ordered 0. Porter Rockwall to fire. Aiming atthe clasp of the belt on the foremost man, the latter fired, andsimultaneously with the report of the gun the man fell from hishorse. His comrades then stopped and cared for him, leavingthe Sheriff to proceed on his way. (To be continued.) A DISTINGUISHED visitor once entered the counting-room ofthe late Baron Rothschild, who was engaged. Without lookingUp he said: Take a chair and be seated. The gentlemanaddressed, feeling aggrieved at such a reception, said; You did not, perhaps, hear my name; 1 am the Count .—Oh yes, replied the banker, take two chairs, if you please. ffi[) as 1^6^ girt JUYBNILB IITSTE/TJOTOE/. ■^l^ CEORCE Q. CANNON - - ED«TOR. SATUKDAY, JANUAKY 13, 1S72. EiDiToi^x^nLi /<£ UR readers have probably beard consider-able talk about the blockade of therailroad between Ogden and Omaha onthe Union Pacific Line. The Editor ofJuvenile Instructor has had someexperience in being blockaded. We left Ogden for Washington onTuesday, the 5th of December. We wereinformed that the travel on the road wasinterrupted in the neighborhood of Raw-lins, about three hundred and twenty-three milesfrom Ogden ; but thinking it better to push onto the front, we determined to take our chance,hoping by the time we reached that part of theroad where the stoppage had occurred we mightbe able to get through. The train reachedRawlins about two oclock on Wednesday arising about daylight we emerged from thesleeping car and began to make inquiries of the rail-road officials and others, concerning the blockade;but they either did not know the particulars, or they concealedthem; for very little information could be obtained from is a lit
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