RUNAWAY LADS ARMED FOR THE BACKWOODS.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 30, 29 December 1883, Page 2

RUNAWAY LADS ARMED FOR THE BACKWOODS.

1 \ v v vxU \< • n , •■ i iKive h<* ■> i..i::rcii on tii<.- .jiv.rj.-oi. l. '.di r >cr-Mv..i u(. iii i'CiU ivk.'iluu instances baron. mrecl oi runaway* boifiy, o<ui<rht thne In \i.i';j"co ot tlitt Li' eniotil poli't*. Oi ■ ilif.'o hir.injfe captures oc.iurruU on i 1i 1 t iii(. ic Wednesday in September, Oi : Iv oifii\ V6 who has lur a long pen h i) uil'i I',1 ', dii tlie si, i^u i*> Poiico-con.-^nl' \,i .vl i ( ,v'];^'j;.xns), vi» old nn inbci* of li\ r. / toicc. \Vhile w«i»chi'i^ the dcpai un-i oi Ani'-i i,i V\"ii^{ins noticed t>to yuiith. ii uvj.ienfc rc-j eufiifiJtj, sltuiiic." ,-ib'!'., >Hrt -H-yi), liouri-filug he iVily - inoniittu !i l:->, uud "..liofu extraordinary bulky ap vai.ui-c riumit tho >\aist rtttrar'tud tin v«-t ii «)i"jcor'?» attention. His pv»t a fey muistl >i)s to them, lrom trhirh ho Hscur n, ied thaothuy had come iroia Lauctister. id th it iL wan fchcif intention to proceed > America. There was something susicioiu 1 abont the youths, and Wi^g.inft ook them into the river police station on lie sbagvs. lie thero searched them, and onn(i that efich ydttth was dealing <> % bmhman's belt," to which was suspended i six-ph.'itnber'ed rc^'olvcr (loadod) ittid a ormid-ible bowie knife. The oiticel' asceraincd thais the youths had been reading oman tic stories of life iv the backwoods, ■inuh an ai'o dej)icted by Fennifiiore Cooler m the -'JUsst of the Mohicans," and Cdpiiiin Muyne Iloid in his description of ad/Qutttres on tho prairiefe. The y6wths, vho were aboiit 18 years of ago, and mined Jewittaivl Wihson, Were respectably ionneefcod, Qfid belonged to Lancaster. One >f them had taken twenJ>y*six sovereign.s icloii^ ing tcf his father. TJhey had run i\\ \y I'tora hdme, come to tAvevpool, and )ua'hji^ed an. outiit, inoltuling tho revot :e.s a nuiuiittion. and bo\riel&nivos, .suitable Jor thti wild life of adveuture' that they ha 1 pictured fot Ihem-jollle.s. l^tey had tdkon p i to N(jw York iuthelnman steamer C ,y t/f Kichniond, and had upon them a c; ) >.4dorabii* sura of money in American .hllir. Wi-jgind escorted the youths to tho d'tectivo oIH-je in Diile^i i*"ct } theis parents in Lancaster wero tolou'rnphod to. in orminji' tlieni of what had Ucounrd, and th ty wok tno runawaya back to thoii hi in*.— "Lim.i- »...>! P.»V," '

Anti-tobiie'conists will doubtless bo lion ih •(! to road that tlitir wiediuul officer nf a workhouse in Uifblin has oi'dered cig .t pounds of snufl: to W.aiTved out to m.} inmates, This, it, appears, however, was the reuiftt of u ch(«uu of evils, for the old i non nmf women in the wondiottsc, r.illu-r tlmn &j withorft snuff, were in the •ha'iit of whig ii»Uen or s.one groined up I mixed with clay f r the purpose. Even tin-ti*it)baoconif.i!i o.mnot fetty that u . i.-. more injurious thai ground-up wiliys or siuWo.