The beautiful contrabandista lately arrested with five confederates near Deming, New Mexico.
How Marie Played a Romantic Trick on Her Lover and Brought Him to Time
A Vegetarian's Fancy.
How a Reading, PA., merchant, broke open his wife’s charmer and discovered a supposed lover to be a harmless female cousin.
Perilous Situation of a Skating Party on the Ohio River Near Zanesville, Ohio.
Patients serenading the village doctor.
So this is your birthday again. Well, bless my soul! Columbia, you will be as tall as your father soon.
"Who wants to pway me a couple of wattling stwong games?"
Boston detectives arrest two stylishly-dressed women while in the act of the shoplifting game.
Jolly sport among the giddy Vassar girls, fun in the forecastle, and a lonely New Year’s Eve on the desolate prarie.
Fifteen charming chippies make Rome howl while voyaging to New Orleans, Louisiana.
New York City, -- The Steamboat Riverdale blown up, August 28th – Rescuing the passengers.
A wooden Dutchman, rather than no man at all, was what a sensible spinster argued when some practical jokers under took to scare her in Oakland, Cal.
William Leland, of Buffalo, N. Y., takes a pleasurable dive over the Horseshoe Falls and still lives to be written up.
Miss Sallie Utterback, of Shoals, Near Vincennes, Indiana, knocks out a man with a waggin’ tongue.
The only absolutely pure and full weight desiccated cocoanut manufactured in this country.
Satan's sure-ruin traps - half-dime novels, five and ten cent story papers, and low-priced pamphlets for boys and girls.
Some of Uncle Sam’s land and water police have a genial shindy among themselves at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A desperate week-long challenge battle between Georgia and Arkansas cocks won by F. E. Grist's champion, Richard K Fox.
Westchester County is all agog over the case of the Rev. Mr. White, accused of violently assaulting the sister-in-law of a brother clergyman. We illustrate the scene.
A gang of female rogues, of the East Side, New York, work a little racket of their own.
The Story-teller in the Wheel-house of the "Belle Memphis"
How a too presumptuous shoe dealer’s attention to a female customer was resented by her male escort.
Yachting.
While New York is by no means the hottest city in the country, there have been a few days during the present season when the temperature reached a height altogether incompatible with human comfort.
Bayonets and Knives—A Sister’s Influence and Prevention of Murder.
Downed by Kindness After defying a host of armed keepers, James Driscoll, in the Trenton, N. J. State prison succumbs to a gentle word.
Alleged cancan dance indulged in by young male and female swells at Jamestown, New York.
A Fire in the Chicago Opera House creates a stampede among pretty actresses who rush to the street dishabille.
North Carolina - An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Mountains Surprised by Revenue Officers.

Crime, eccentricity, and the sporting life—that covers a lot of ground. Very simply, The National Night Stick is a history of America’s dark side. Modeled after the “flash press” of the 19th Century, the Night Stick will deliver stories of the rogues, libertines, conmen, mountebanks and political grafters who made America what it is. Like the National Police Gazette, whose stunning illustrations brought criminals, prizefighters, and tight-clad chorus girls to every barbershop in America, The National Night Stick will endeavor to continually shock and dazzle the reader.
Crime
We will present all facets of 19th century crime. “Rogue's Corner” features a weekly mug-shot and criminal biography of a noted ne’er-do-well from the pages of Inspector Thomas Byrnes’s Professional Criminals of America (aka Rogues’ Gallery.) We will also include a link Murder by Gaslight, the definitive site for 19th Century American Murder. And more often than not, the feature stories will include a bit of larceny.

Eccentricity
We will bring you the big ideas that came from an era in America when anything seemed possible—not the ideas that led to progress and invention, but dangerous ideas like train wrecks as entertainment, secret societies and private armies, religious movements that failed miserably and political machines that were all too successful.
The Sporting Life
We will visit those utterly disreputable but raucously joyous institutions found in every American city: saloons, vaudeville houses, dime museums, boxing rings, gambling hells, opium dens, and brothels.
As The Sunday Flash said in 1841:
"We follow vice and folly where a police officer dare not show his head, as the small, but intrepid weasel pursues vermin in paths which the licensed cat or dog cannot enter.”
Welcome to the National Night Stick!



