PANTHER FIGHT
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From letter dated Newton, Jasper county
Arkansas, July ;:


mir. Samuel Hudson went into the woods
about three miles from his house, accomuanied
by his son, ten twelve years DID, TO cut a bee,
tree, and as he expected TO find lots. Of honey.
he did not take bis shooting iron with him, be.
HeyIDg he could not carry il and the honey too
hen he got to tho tree, he commenced chopiru
his son standing eighty or an hundred steps from
him. with bulchor-knife in his hand-he had
cut but q few moments when he heard a noise lust
above Dlm in a hollow; ne looked up. and saw a
huge panther walking Ieisurey, paying no attcn.
ton to him Determined not 10 let him mss
thus, Hudson took Up n stone or two and threw al
It, The panther stopped. looking up, saw Hudson
and made at him, without asking him if he was
ready. Hudson turned to take the axe to fgl,
with; bat before he could get it and turn ron-,d
the pather was on him. and he was compelled 70
drop his axe and take it fist and scull.


"lts first effort was to take him BIZ the throat
but thowing his head il caught him by the fore.
head and bit him severely. EIe knocked it of
two or three fines, and il would rise and rear
again TO gothm by the throat; but he prevented
1t from dong so; by striking it 'underhanded, and
running his arm in lis mouth He At last caught
It so he could hold it with one hand. and caieI
for his knife, which his son handed him, and he
soon despatched the monster, by s:obbng ii be-
''i''H NitS ShOutSiS' IlC lNeu HllQe MS way nome
whcich he reached without assistance. very weak
from the loss Of blood. Ho was confined q few
days, but his wounds are doing well. He was
soon able 10 attend to his business as usual Is il
any wonder we whip the Mcxicans so badly, when
when we nave plonly nf men who cun whip q
panther in fair ight?''-Cist's Adr.


THE WRONG MAN HUNG.-A Young printer.
named Boyington, who served his time in the Office
of the New Haven Palladium, was hung few
years since in Alabama, upon a charge of bav-
ing murdered q companion, with whom ho was
travelling. He protested his innocence to the last;
but without avail. Recently the landlord. in
whose house the murder was committed. confessed
the crime on his death-bcd Boyngton was a young
man Of fine talents and prepossessing appearance,
whose guilt was deemed conclusive only from the
fact that he was the last person seen with the
murdered man.-Ald Ere Journal


How many examples like this will It take to
convince our legislators of the inezpedioncy mot
to say niustce) Of punishment which can new
be revoked. however clear may be the subsc-
quent proofs of the innocence Of the victim? If
poor Boyington had been imprisoned instead of
beeing hung, he would now be in a situation to
prft by the evidence that he was unjusty convie-
ted. Legal b,ood.sheddorsl will you not pause
and reAect?-TN. y. Trib,


TIE LADIES OF LrMA.-Far superior to the
men, both physically and Intellectually, are the
women Of Lima. Nature has lavishly endowed
them with many of her choicest gifts. In figure