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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE. S. C.. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 27. 1884. NO. 9. VOLUME XXIX. '43
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FROM THE MOUNTAIN-TOP.
Dmup World, looking down from the highest
of heights that my feet can attain,
I see not the smoke of your cities, the dust of
your highway and plain;
Over all your dull moors and morasses a veil
the blue atmosphere folds,
And you might be made wholly of mountains
for aught that my vision beholds.
Dear World, I look down, and am grateful
that so we all sometimes may stand
Above our own every-day level, and know
that our nature is grand
In its possible glory of climbing; in the hilltops
that beckon and bend
So close over every mortal he scarcely can
choose but ascend.
Though here,oh, my World, we miss something
?the sweet multitudinous sound
Of leaves in the forest a-flutter, of rivule
lisping around,
The smell of wild pastures in blossom, of
fresh earth upturned by the plow?
The uplands and all the gre.n hill-sides lead
the way to the mountain's brow.
One world; there is no separation; the same
earth above and below;
Up here is the river's cloud-cradle; down there
is its fullness and flow;
My voice joins the voice of your millions who
upward in weariness grope,
^ And the hills bear the bunlen to heaven?liu^
manity'a anguish and hope!
_ Dear "World, lying quiet and lovely in a shimmer
of go* i ->****
BeneatITtEF?ort nlnw o^'your mantle I can
feel your h -art beat as I gaze;
I know you by v. hat you aspire to, by the
look that on no face can be
Save in moments of high consecration; you
are showing your true self to me.
Dear "World. I behold but your largeness; I
forget that aught petty or mean
Ever marred the vast sphere of your beauty,
over which as a lover I lean;
And not by our flaws will God judge us; His
love keeps our noblest in sight;
Dear World, our low life sinks behind us; we
look up to His infinite height!
?Lucy Larcom, in Harper's Magazine.
THE LOST "LETTER
They are standing on the veranda; he
is bidding her good night.
"I am going away, Miss Legrange,"
he says, looking earnestly into her face
as he speaks.
"Indeed! for long?" There is no
tremulousness of tone, nor heightened
color.
He is disappointed; he has hoped that
she would show some reluctance to part
with him. "Six months or a year, perhaps
forever," he adds, a little bitterly.
She is startled, but she is calm and
quiet when she answers: "We will all be
sorry to lose you."
'Will you be sorry, Miss Rose?" he
questions, directly.
? "Why, of course; have we not been
good friends?"
"Friends! yes; but?well, good-night.
May I call again and say good-bye? I do
not start until Monday."
Something seems to fill her throat and ;
choke her; she does not answer, but
turns suddenly and runs downs the steps.
She pauses before a white rose bush, :.
growing beside the walk, nnd picks one; j1
when she returns to him, she has re
gained her self-control. |;
"Here is a rose for your buttonhole: j
what was it you said? 'shall you come
and bid ub good-bye?' We should feel
very much hurt if you did not." She
says all this in an easy running tone, j
perfectly free from emotion.
As she gives him the rose, he takes the !.
hand that holds it, and kisses it twice, : (
then hurries away.
"Fool that I was to suppose that she . (
cared for me," he mutters, as he strides :,
down the street. "What am I to do ,
now?" he asks himself, as he unlocks his i i
door and enters his bachelor quarters, j
"Will she, or will she not consent to ! '
become Mrs. Lawrence? that is the oues- i
tion." He liings himself into a chair
and puts his boots on the table. "My
scheme has worked far from satisfactory; 1
nevertheless, if I fail, I will go away, j
anyway; I can take a vacation and ^o
and see mother." i j
He gets up discontentedly and paces
the room. "By Jove! 1 have it! I'll
write to her."
Miss Legraxgk: I cannot see you again
without telling you all that is in my heart.
'Tis useless for me to say good-bye without
saying more. Useless? >av, impossible!
You can guess what I mean. If you wish me
to call again send me one word, ''come." 1
and I will be with you Saturday night. If ,
you cannot say more than good-bye. do not ,
Hk-~- reply to this, and you will never be troubled 1
again by E. Lawrence. i i
"There, that will settle it. I'll go and 1
put it in the office to-night." i1
Saturday comes and goes, but brings '
no answer to Eugene Lawrence, waiting 1
and watching for one word. He builds 1
high hopes in the morning, and feels 1
sure of success. But it is with an ex-;(
ceedingly heavy heart that he sees the 1
sun go down, still he does not relinquish j'
all hope, for there may be some d61ay. '
So he waits as patiently as he can until 1
Monday, which wears itself into night, j
without bringing him the welcome mes-1 1
sage. He waits one more day, hoping ! ]
against hope, but to no purpose. Then I
he wearily packs his belongings and 1
leaves town.
And Hose? Longingly she waits!1
for the good-bye visit, and wonders j1
much when he comes not. !'
Time passes, and in the early summer '
Mrs. Legrangc, Hose's mother, dies,leav- i1
ing Rose and her little brother Harry, j '
to tne carc 01 an uucie, in a cusiant city, i
After the funeral, Rose starts for her j1
uncle's, not knowing what else to do, j'
but feeling sure that she will not long j remain
dependent. Her father has-been 1J
dead many years, and it is his brother,
.. whom she is going. !1
Mr.Legrange receives them coldly.and 1
very 60011 makes them feel their depend- J
ence. Rose's is a sensitive, high-strung
temperament, and she thinks she could
endure anything better than the petty
slights und sneers to which she is daily J
I subjected in her uncle's house.
1 She takes a.small room and obtains some
B Bcwing; the remuneration is very slight, I
H but as nothing else offers she is glad to '
B get anything by which she can earn 1
Htttf enough to get food for herself and Harry, i 1
But soon her rent falls due and she has !
no means to meet it. She is wondering 11
A what she shall do; she has just finished j!
some sewing for Mrs. Lawrence, but it is (
Saturday nignt, ana v o ciock, iuu i?ie
for her to take it home, so she abandons j
j the thought of dinner to-morrow, and '
j thinks Monday morning she will give all i1
I her earnings to the landlord, which will
f fall short of what she owes, but may '
R perhaps give her respite. As she takes
I up Harry's little toru trousers to mend,
I her eyes fall upon a neatly-tied package, j
J' marked "Mrs. Lawrence,'' and that 1
name sends her thoughts adrift, away
back to another Saturday when she had <
watched and waited in vain, for the '
y coming of one of that name. ' <
Presently she hears a man's step com- j 1
ing up stairs; her heart beats faster and <
she holds her breath as it pauses before j <
the door; a second passes and then :
comes a knock; she is timid about open- <
ing the door. She Jjalf rises, then sinks i
tack into her seat. The knock is re
peated. Shall she open the door? Who <
can it be? The landlord perhaps. With :
this thought she rises just as the knock j1
isagain repeated. With a trembling hand j
. ?nd scared face she opens the door.
Her nerves are unstrung, and she almost
screams aloud, as she beholds EuIgene
Lawrence.
"I have come for some sewing of my
mother's," he begins, stepping across the
threshold; the light is in his face, and
B he has not recognized her.
k She closes the door without turning
i around,trying to keep her face from him,
I but as she has eaten nothing since the
day before, her step is rather uncerB
tain and she staggers forward as her
a hand leaves the knob; he springs toWk
ward her and catchcs her arm.
"Rose Lcgrange! Is it possible?" he
exclaims, in consternation.
"AG your service," she returns, trying
to speak lightly, but sinking wearily in a
fe... chair.
; "Has it come to this?" he asks, looking
t Around the room.
! "I am not ashamed to work," she says,
proudly. m ,
K. 'Ifo no! no! ashamed to! Oh, but
ihat you should be obliged! Will you
tell mc about yourself and how you came
here?''
"Be seated, please. If you care to hear,
I will tell you." and she resumes her
mending involuntarily. "There is not
much to tell,''she begins, she has been
sewing a button on Harry's trousers;
something drops out of the pocket and
falls on the floor, and as she discovers a
hole in the pocket she empties it, in order
to mend it. She takes out some twine,
marbles, an old key, nails and many
other old traps, and at the very bottom,
a bit of crumpled dirty paper, she lays
them on the table, and resumes her sew-1
ing and her story.
lie picks it up mechanically and ab- '
sentlv smoothes it out. It is a letter I
sealed and stamped. Suddenly he becomes
aware that he is reading the name
of "Miss Hose Lcgrange," in his own
handwriting. He hastily tears it open
and reads his own letter to her written
over a year ago.
She is surprised at his behavior. "Mr.
Lawrence,you forget yourself!" she says.
"Will vow be kind enough to read that
letter." he exclaims, excitedly, "it is
evident it never reached you."
She takes it wonderinglv, reads it slowly,
then looks inquiringly into his eager |
j
" Do you understand!" he asks imploringly.
" Hardly." she returns; then reads .it
over, a light seems to break upon her,
for the tell-tale color rushes into her face
and be_tr&ys-kerr? - ~
"Tfad you received it when it was due,
what would vou have said?"
"Come." she whispers.
'My darling! my darling," he exclaims,
eatching her in his arms.
She falls limp upon his breast.
'What have I done! have I killed
her?" he cries, in alarm.
''No," she answers faintly. " I am only
faint and weak, it \\*ill pass presentlv."
" What is it! what is the matter?"
' Nothing, nothing! I have had nothing
to eat sinre yesterday, and have been
working all day, and I am a little dizzy,
that is all."
" Great heavens! that is enough! you
shall go to my mother to-night, I will
not leave you again alone. On, that you
should have come to this through me.
Fool that I was not t? have spoken when
I saw you, not to have trusted to luck!"
She smiled at his vehemence.
"Do you know, darling, it was alia
ruse, my going away? I just told you
that to see if you cared, and I thought
you didn't."
" Did you think I would let you see,if
I did care?"
" And you missed me?"
"It almost broke my heart."
" Oh, what an idiot I have been."
c<T uko cai'Q rplpoQ
A Ulil ?u uu; uvv, JUV whjv, >v.VMw
ing herself from his embrace.
" And you will go with me?" he
questions,
44 Yes.'' she answers, confidingly. 1 'But
wait, I will wake Harry, we must take
him."
"I suppose so." he returns, laughing,
";he little heathen, keeping that letter
hidden away in his pocket for over a
year."
When they are going home they question
Harry about the letter, but he re- j
members nothing of it. After much
thinking he does recall one morning
when the postman gave him a letter to
take iuto the house and he put it into
his pocket and forgot it.
4,If we had not been so poor," says
Rose, laughingly, "those old clothes I
would have been thrown away long ago i
and the letter with them."?Arkansaio
Traveler.
Salt Luke Dwellings.
The houses built by the first settlers
were mainly log cabins. Some few of
these arc ; et to be found hidden away in
orchards. The Spanish adobe house of
Jried mud was also a favorite, and has
continued so to the present, though instead
of almost shapeless chunks of mud,
plastered iti Mexican fashion, regular unjurnt
bricks are made by macninery.
rhese adobes are twice the size of ordilary
bricks, and the wall into wVch
[hey are formed is made twice as thick
is one of burned bricks would be. Of
:ourse this material lends itself readily to
iny style of architecture, and many of
:he elaborate buildings as well as cheap
??? ? rvf if- fKo onft rrrfl v tint
uic uittuv; vi u, v**v ow*v o>vv .
)f the adobe reminding one of the cream
jolored walls of Milwaukee. Generally,
lowever, the adobe is overlaid by a
itucco. which is tinted. Low houses
.vith abundant piazzas are the most common
type in the older part of the town,
ind over these so many vines will be
rained and so much foliage cluster j
:hat one can hardly say of what material j
;he structure itself is formed. The !
csidences more recently built have a j
nore Eastern and conventional aspect, '
ind some are very imposing; but big or
ittle, old or new, it is rare to find a
lonje not ensconced?almost buried?in
,r<!6s and shrubs and climbing plants,
tvhile smooth, rich lawns greet the eye
verywhere in town, in brilliant contrast
:o the bleak, bare hills towering over
lead just without the city. As for
lowers no town East or West cultivates
;hem more universally and assiduously.
Salt Lake city, then, is beautiful?a
paradise in comparison with the Buffalo
plains or the stony gulches in which the
jreat majority of Rocky Mountain towns
must needs be set.
The suburbs, except toward the
rocky uplands northward, grade off into
farms quite imperceptibly, the street9
continuing straight out into country
roads between dense jungles of sunflowers?glorious
walls of gold edged
with green and touched with innumerable
dots of maroon. And in
these suburbs you may find some
Df the quaintest, most idyllic
homes. One such, for example, stands
3own in the Third ward. The house is
hardly bigger than a good-sized room,
and is entered through a queer narrow
cowled doorway. The second story is
hardly half as large as the lower one.
leaving a slantiug roof between, and a
picturesque hedge and fence inclose the
whole. This would be striking enough
ilone for its shape; but every two weeks
the whole adobe and stucco affair is
whitewashed from roof-tree to foundation,
until it gleams like a fresh snowbank
against the grapevines that creep
mound its angles, and the poplars and
maples that photograph their boughs in
shadow upon its spotless sides. But to j
set it off the better, the owner paints his (
small window sashes bright yellow, his I
casings the reddest of red. and his sills j
and shutters and door panels vivid green, j
re ?v,? otT.iir hnd iimf- hppn handed !
ii care nuviv,?uM..-u>.
out of a Dutch toyshop, it could not be
more fantastic and childishly pretty.?
Ernest Inyervoll, in Harper's. j
Curiosities of the California Climate. !
A recent letter from San Fraucisco to '
the Philadelphia Press has the following: j
Another effect of the curious San Fran- j
sisco climate is of considerable interest i
to strangers, as it makes nine out of j
jvery ten sick the first week they are |
liere. The traveler from New York or i
even Canada coining here at this season !
Joes not bring his furs and flannels. Be- !
fore getting to California he crosses!
thousands of miles of plains and deserts, j
find is nearly baked, Ife smiles if a San .
Franciscan happen to be along and talks |
of overcoats, and, if the San Franciscan i
is a smaller man, feels like knocking him '
down when he eits up and watches him i
wipe the perspiration on nis orow anu i
talks about cold winds and flannels.
It must be confessed that, along the |
Arizona or Utah desert, with the ther- |
mometer boiling in the shade, the East- j
erner has a right to feel angry with the |
San Franciscan's talk, and even until :
Oakland, only three miles from the city, !
is reached, his incredulity seems justified; j
but now it is different. Mark the change
that a short three miles brings. Mark j
how a paltry half-hour will draw that i
self-conndent Easterner up, will chill and j
turn blue his erstwhile smiling lips. The i
keen wind sweeps across the bay, and by
the time the ferry lands at Market street,
San Francisco climatc has got in its
work, and the Easterner goes to bed
shivering, while one of the porters goes
out aud gets him a ' 'back-warmer" and
some winter clothing.
Wealthy people here go away in the
summer to get warm, instead of cool,
and about the first of every June the furs
and flannels are packed away, while
paterfamilias buys his ticket for Los Angeles
and other hot resorts.
HIE AMERICAN SARDiNE.
A.IT EXTENSIVE INDUSTRY WHICH
FLOURISHES "DOWK EAST."
low It \\&h Kt'ffUii?'The Tlethod of
Catching- and Preparing the Flsli
for .Tlarkcf.
An East port (Me.) letter to the Boston
I Herald says: Very few are aware when
they purchase a tin box of sardines, that
I in spite of the gaudy anil attractive label
'it hears, with its French inscription and
Napoleonic head.these "little fishes biled
in ile:" are not the clupea sardina from
the coast of Sardinia and from other
parts of the Mediterranean sea, but are
nothing more nor less than a Yankee
herring caught ofF the coast of Maine,
put up in cottonseed oil. The imitation
is so complete that the imported sardine
is scarcely, if ever, used as a hors
d'o>uvre, but in its stead we have the
little Maine herring, garnished with numerous
slices of lemon, quite as inviting
to the epicure and with a flavor as highly
esteemed. In fact, the day of the imported
sardine has passed, and ninetenths
of the sardines now eaten in this
pnimfnr mmn from Maine. How this
was all brought about may be told as
follows: For some time prior to 187.3, a
New York firm, Messrs. Wolff & lieessing,
were engaged in experiments endeavoring
to produce an article similar
to the French sardines. They hud a
room fitted up in their store
which no one was allowed to
enter, excepting the two members of
the firm and the Frenchman who
was engaged in the experiments. On account
of being unable to secure exactly
the fish they needed, it seemed as if all
their labor and efforts were to be of no
avail, and they were considering the
question of abandoning their project
when Mr. Wolff, one of the firm, visited
Eastport, Me., and, on seeing the small
herring caught in that vicinity, which
were then used for farming purposes, he
felt that at last he had discovered the
long sought for fish. As the result of
his investigations in 1876, he established
a factory in Eastport and commenced
canning. Since then there have been
eighteen other canning factories established
in Eastport, two at Itobbinston,
seven at Lubee,with one more in process
of erection, three at Joueeport, and one
each at Milbridge, Luinoine, Bass Harbor,
Brooklin and Camden, beside one
at St. Andrews, N. B.
The herring used for the manufacture
of sardines are caught in the waters of
Passamaquoddy bay and vicinity. Large
weirs are built, being constructed of
piles driven firmly in a depth of water
not exceeding twenty feet, while the
space between the piles is filled in with
brush interlaced with the rail which surround
the piles. A large opening in the
inclosure is left, through which the herring
e iter at high water, and a drop
seine is usea 10 ciusc mc upcuiu^ t>uvu
the weir is well filled. Just before low
water the fishermen enter the weir in a
net boat, and with a huge scoop net take
the fish out and deposit them in the boat.
The fish are offered for sale by the hogs
head to the boatmen of the different
factories? about seventy-five in number,
each factory emploj'ing from two to six
boatmen?and the bidding commences,
which, at times, almost rivals the
stock exchange; in fact, it is
the sardine exchange. If only a few of
the weirs have fish, the bidding is spirited,
and a high price is obtained for the
haul; but, if fish are plenty, they do not
bring so high a price, and the bidding is
attended with less excitement. "When
the industry was first started, $1 per
hogshead was a good, fair pricc, but,
within the last two years, as high as $J30
has been paid for a hogshead. After the
fish had been transferred to the boat of
the highest bidder, a start is made for
the factory, a small signal flag being run
up to the topmast, to show the owners at
the factory that fish are on the way.
When the wharf is reached, the fish are
hoisted from the boats and placed in
large tanks partly filled with salt water,
to preserve them until they are all cut.
From these tanks they arc taken iu large
baskets to the cutting room and deposited
on the long, rough tables, where they are
seized by the cutters, and by a dexterous
sweep of their large knives are quickly
decapitated, the entrails being pulled out
by the same movement. The operation is
performed with such quickness that those
skilled in the business will cut seventy
V...Q o
live u minute. mtu tunu ? w*.
which, when full, is carried to the fore
man of the room, and the cutter receives
a tin ticket stamped wuh the company's
initial and amount to be paid. These
cutters are mostly boys and girls, from
ten to sixteen years of age, and, in having
what they term "a good week," they
earn from $S to $10. After being cut,
the fish are pickled." This is done
by placing them in tubs and salting
them thoroughly, after which they
are washed in several changes of water,
and then placed in low, flat baskets,
when, after being carefully drained, they
are hoisted into the flaking room. The
flaking is done by women. The flakes
are of wire, nearly three feet long by
two feet in width, and the fish are spread
on them, care being taken that space is
left between each tish to avoid trouble
in baking. When a flake is filled, it is
placed in the racks which stand in front
of the mouth of the oven. The man in
charge of the oven takes them from the
rack and places them on the skeletons in
the oven. Each skeleton will hold four
flakes, and it is revolved by steam power.
The oven will hold forty flakes. By the
time the last skeleton is filled, those on
the first one are baked sufficiently and
are removed to the racks, their places
being immediately filled with flakes of
fresh tish. From the racks men take
them to tables, where the packers, who
are women, place them in tin boxes, acoi'?n
fl>o email oof hoinry
t'UrUIllg ly lUCU VAAV auiuaivtfv MV4"5
used for oil and tomato sardines, the
mediums for mustard and marinee sardines,
while the largest are pucked in
oval cans, and are called "sea trout."
Into each box is poured oil and the various
preparations of spice, vinegar,
lemon, sugar and mustard that are used.
When a can is packed and filled with oil,
or the necessary preparation required, it
is passed to the "header," who inserts
the cover, and then it is carried to
the sealing room in trays, and the covers
tightly soldered. Thence after being
packed in coolers, it goes to the bathroom,
where it is placed in a steam process
kettle and exposed to a very heavy
pressure. Then it is "tapped," holes
being pierced in both ends for the escape
of the air, and then placed so that one
hole shall be against a faucet of a hot oil
tank. When tilled with oil it runs out
of the second hole and both holes are
then quickly stopped with solder, which
makes the can air tight. It ie next carried
to the shipping room, and placed in
a revolving cleaner, which is partially
filled with sawdust, and after being
eleansed is placed in bins, where the
"tester" sees by pressure of the hands
whether the cans are tight, or whether
they leak. If the latter the can is passed
to the le ik-mender, who carefully resolders
it, and it is again passed through
the bath. The tight cans are properly
labeled, and then packed in oases according
to their brand and nailed up,
when they arc now ready for shipment
to New York, where they are sold to go
all through the United States.
The total capital employed is $459,530.
Employment is given to 2,000 men,
women and children, and about $10,000
is disbursed weekly for wages during the
season. In uddition to packing sardines,
some of the factories can lobsters and
blueberries in their season.
The Old Red School House Valedictory.
The old time valedictory poem in use
at the old red "skule houses" at the
cross roads was not as pretty as the latter
day efforts of the graduates of city
colleges and seminaries, but perhaps it
expressed the sentiments of the valedictorians
quite as closely. It used to
run something after this style.
Good-by scholars,
Good-by school,
Good-by teacherBlamed
old fool.
?Buffalo Express.
The tributaries of Chesapeake bay
alone contribute $100,000 worth of meat
to the frog market every year. They
are worth about fifty cents a dozen, and
men make good wages hunting them
with shotguns. Sportsmen also seek for
thein occasionally, using small rifles.
I . J
I - WISE WORDS.
Youthful rashness skips like a haro
over the meshes of good counsel.
Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than
labor wears, while the key often used is |
always bright.
Women jump at conclusions, and gen- ,
ally hit; men reason things out logically, j
and generally miss.
He is poverty-stricken who is so ab- ,
sorbed in the one little inclosure of which
he holds the title deeds that he loses his
grasp on the bending universe.
Calumny crosses oceans, scales mountains
and traverses deserts with greater
ense than the Scythian Abaris, and, like I
him, rides upon a poisoned arrow.
Courage that grows from constitution
often forsakes the man when he has oc- i
casion for it; couragc which arises from
a sense of duty acts in a uniform manner. .
lie that gives good advice builds with ,
one hand; he that gives {rood counsel and i
example, builds with both; but he that
gives good admonition and bad example. !
builds with one hand pulls down with !
flip either
Intercession is the very safety valve ?f j
love. When we fi el that we can really j
do nothing at all in return for some re- \
markable kindness and affection, how ex- i
ceedingly glad we are that we may and
can pray.
The detractor may, and often does, pull !
down others, but he never, as he seems
to suppose, elevates himself to their posi- |
tion. The most he can do is maliciously
to tear from them the blessings which he ;
cannot enjoy himself.
All trust is dangerous, if it is not en- j
tire; we ought on most occasions to speak ,
all or conceal all. We have already too <
much disclosed our secrets to a man from I
whom we think any one single circum- !
stance is to be concealed.
A Constantinopolitan Fire Company.
"We Booh caught sight of the captain of :
the company. He was a tall, athletic J
fellow, wearing short, loose trousers of
while cotton cloth. His legs were bare I
below the knees; he wore Turkish red
pointed shoes on his feet, without stock- |
ings?a loose jacket of brown felt over a
white cotton shirt, and his head was !
covered with a metallic bowl, which
ehone brightly. A leather belt encircled
his waist, and was clasped with a large
brass buckle in front, He was coming
toward us in a double-quick trot, brandishing
in a nroud manner, the brass
spout that belonged to the hose. He !
was followed by the engine and firemen |
that belonged to it. Oh, what a sight! I
Most of them were scantily clothed, and j
some did not even have caps upon their J
heads, but I noticed that all wore the j
regulation belt with the large buckle in |
front. They were evidently of the class '
which composed the riffraff of the city.
The engine itself was nothing more than
a big-sized garden pump, carried on the
shoulders of eight men, four in front and
four behind. They relieved one another |
every now and then with great dexterity
and alertness.
They 600n swept by us, followed by i
the hose, which was coiled over a long i
pole, the ends of which rested on the
shoulders of another file of men. Just j
as they reached the next corner there
emerged from a side street another
engine, whereupon a squabble for the ,
right of way immediately arose. The
two companies jostled and pushed for- ;
ward ftnnh nartv trvinir to tret ahead ot ;
the other. After a loug harangue and i
bluster,accompanied by constant yelling, i
screaming and hard words, they lowered
their respective engines to the ground
and fell into a regular fight, wrestling,
pushing and knocking one another
down in a most ferocious manner. Their ;
looks and actions were frantic, and they [
fought like madmen.
" Ah! There comes the ser-asker, the J
minister of war! He'll soon settle their
dispute!"cried a voice near us. And he
did.
lie was preceded by a neovbetjee.who
cleared the way for him, and when he !
came up lie promptly ordered the companies
to take up their engines and fol- !
low him, which they did with the utmost
meekness and alacrity. There was
no chance now for either party to claim !
the victory, but they kept up a subdued |
rattle of words all the way.?tit. Nicholas !
A Dentist's Bill.
Several of our esteemed contempora- |
ries have lecently made a prodigious fuss j
over a bill of $7,000, which was pre- j
sented by a prominent local dentist to a !
Venezuelan general for four days' work !
upon the teeth of the latter's wife. It is 1
very evident that our esteemed contemporaries
have but little idea of the expense
involved in gold-mining in Venezu- i
elan back teeth, and as a simple act of I
justice we publish the following items. It
will be borne in mind that the rules are
those fixed by the collcge of Odontologica'i
Ethics, and are in vogue through- |
out the United States and Cauada:
To inquiring patient's name $ 5 00 ;
To trying to recollect same 13 00 j
To appointing hour for visit 10 Of) )
To recording same 2 00 j
To keeping appointment with patient. 25 00 j
Asking patient what's the matter 10 00 i
Requesting patient to wait' a few
minutes, at $2 a minute 70 00 !
Screwing up chair, $2.50 a turn 17 50 ;
Telling patient to ojhjii mouth 10 00
Punching tooth witn crowbar to see if
it is sensitive, at $5 a punch 25 00 i
Finding out it is sensitive t! 00 j
Examining tooth without mirror 20 00 <
Examining tooth with do 20 00
Use of cuspidor 50 00 j
Laughing gas, at $">0 a snicker 250 00 j
Stuffing mouth full of cotton, at $50 a
bale 150 00
Looking over box of instruments 72 00
Selecting instrument 300 00
Rolling up sleeves 50 (X)
Getting to work on tooth 050 00
Pulling out wrong molar 500 00
Use of cuspidor 50 00
Blasting and dredging 450 00
Six bales extra cotton, at $50 300 00
Ascertaining which is right molar 700 (X)
Jerking same 1 00
Use of cuspidor 05) 00
Showing tooth to patient 50 00
Asking uer how she feels 150 00
Asking her if she'd like to have the
tooth wrapped up in a nice white
paper to take homo 150 00
Being told "no" 50 00 j
Charging items in book 500 00 j
- '' ft\ /m I
usb or cuspiuor .?j ?v
Incidentals 9.50 00
Intereet on account rendered GOO 00
Wear and tear on nervous system ii">0 00
$0,850 00
Profit WO 00
, |
M $7 000.00
-tow York Life.
Popping the Question.
Popping the question is a strictly mas- i
culine institution, though it involves the j
presence of a woman. If a man popped j
all alone and no woman to catch on to ,
his pop he'd he a blamed fool for his j
trouble.
Men have been known to pop at all j
times and in a variety of places, but 1
those who have beeu there say that a
good solid pop over a garden gate lnys |
over any other sort of a pop and is the ;
poppiest kind of a pop.
All women like to hear a man pop his |
poppiest, and have been known to get J
mad if the pop was a weak, sickly kind
of a pop without style, self-respect or
force of character.
Men get off the best kind of a pop
when they have both of their girl's hands
in their own or have one of their arms
around her waist. This action gives
tone and force to the pop?helps to hold
the fellow up while making it.
Some fellows take naturally to popping,
and are going off all the time. To
others it is a painful and laborious proceeding,
only to be attempted once in a
lifetime and then only as small a pop as
they can possibly get away with.
When a fellow's pop is acceptable to
a girl, it instantly involves a kiss. When
it is not acccptauie, msaiug ia uui involved.
When a fellow pops he always pops
at his best girl. No fellow ever pops at
his second or third best girl. There is
no exception to this rule.
Popping is a very ancient and honorable
institution, and the girls like it.
A girl who has never heard a pop never
confesses as much. She invents a pop,
so that the other girls cannot get the
deadwood on her. TVe believe in popping,
and shall probably experiment in
that direction some day.? Winnipeg
tiiftings.
Louisiana has about 48,000,000,000
feet of pine in her forest*.
: A BEWITCMD BLACKSMITH.
account of the sisoul ab, powers
op a mai5te 01 ait.
Endowing With Kxlrnordinar}Mrrnicdi
People Wlioni lie Touched
?ANtoniMhin? Jlaiilfestutloiis.
A former resident of Gardiner, Me.,
said to a New York Su > reporter that
one John Downs, oi Auburn, Me., was
possessed of extraordinary powers.
"Downs," said the reporter's informant,
"is known as the bewitched blacksmith.
When I left Maine, fifteen years ago, lie
had just become aware that the exercise
of his power was involuntary,and he was
in great distress of mind over its possible
consequences, having just had a painful
demonstration of what might occur from
its presence. Ho was not a particularly
strong man himself, but by touching
others he seemed to endow them with
extraordinary strength. This singular
power he was able not only to confer on
numan beings, but he could infuse animals
with it. I remember once seeing a
team stalled in a road leading to Auburn.
They were attached to a heavy load, and
the forewheels of the wagon ran into a
deep nit, and the horses were unable to
pull them out. The driver was about
to remove a portion af his load
when Downs chanced to be
driving by. lie stopped, and, teliing
the driver to leave the load as it was,
alighted. He rubbed each horse on the
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IlUilU tlliu IlCCtv. ilUU illlllUM. Ultjf
they became nervous and restless. Downs
told the driver to start them up He
did so, and the horses hauled the load
out of the rut with the greatest ease,
and went off at, such a gait that the driver
found difficulty in controling them.
Boys who were barely able to lift the
heavy sledge hammers in Downs' blacksmith
shop had only to receive the power
from the bewitched blacksmith's touch
to swing them with the case of old Vulcan
himself. This sin<jular strength
given to others would remain in force
from ten minutes to half an hour, and in
passing away left the subject weak and
depressed, and sometimes quite ill. For
this reason Downs finally refused to
make subjects of any one. He was
possessed, also, of great mesmeric power,
and with this he furnished no end of
amusement to his friends. Every day
he had some one running on the most
foolish of errands, or performing all
Borto of odd monkey shines. On one occasion
a stern, dignitied and greatly
feared clergyman of the place detied the
blacksmith to place him under the influence
of his alleged mystic spell. In five
minutes' time Downs had despatched the
clergyman to a tobacconist's, a long distance
away, for a clay pipe and five
cents' worth of tobacco, with which he
returned as meekly as the most obedient
errand boy.
"Downs finally ceased exercising this
power also, and had not subjected any
one to it for more than a year. Charles
Woodward, a well-known business man
of Auburn, and a great friend of the
bewitched blacksmith's, the two having
been in the ariny together,returned home
from a long absence from town about
that time. Downs went to his place of
business to see him. He shook hands
with him heartily, and threw one arm
about Woodward's neck. This was on a
Thursday forenoon. Soon after Downs
went out Woodward began to dance and
sing and manifest an exuberance of
spirits that astonished his associates.
Although a man of steady and very
regular habits, he did not go home all
night Thursday night, and did not put
in an appearance until Friday morning.
He boarded with a man named Kdwin
Blake. Blake thought that Woodward,
singular as it seemed, was celebrating his
return home. Blake learned that Woodward
had been around town smashing
things generally. When he returned to
his boarding house Blake got him to go
to bed, and sent for a physician. People
called to sec Woodward, and he astounded
many of them by telling numerous
family and business sccrets of theirs
which he had had no possible means of
becoming acquainted with. The physician
said AVoodward was suffering from
hysteria, and advised that he be rubbed
with strong mustard water. Blake
undertook the task. He had rubbed
Woodward but a short time, when
he was seized with a strange nervous
twitching and contraction of the
muscles. At the same time Woodward
came to his senses. Blake took up the
singing and dancing, and acted as Woodward
had been doing for two days. Beside
that, he became possessed of most
wonderful strength, and it required four
-A ??? m.m.irtck m TA tVna wnq
Siruu^ UIUU IW AAA 11A A vr IMIU ?. ?%w
added the still more remnrkable powei
of telling what the intentions of any one
of his attendants was, and what he wa9
thinking about, making it impossible for
them to use strategic measures in dealing
with him.
"It was not until Woodward was restored
to his seuscs that it was known
that Downs had been to see him. It was
then at once believed that he had been
under the strange influence of the bewitched
blacksmith, and that this had
been transmitted to Blake. Downs was
at once sent for, to see if he could not
remove the spell he had inspired. IIo
visited Blake at once, and by rubbing
him soon restored him to himself. Foi
the first time in his life, as he said at the
time, Downs himself felt the influence
of the power, or whatever it might be
called, as he removed it from Blake, and
for several minutes he couid restrain himself
with only the exercise of his will tc
the utmost, lie said that he had felt
depressed and nervous ever since his visit
to Woodward on Thursday, and had nol
been able to account for it. There was
no thought of mesmerism in his mind
when he greetod Woodward on that day
He said then that he would never shake
hands or touch any one again, if he
could help it. I have never seen him
since I left there, and I had almost forerotten
the bewitched blacksmith until
the performances of the Georgia "Wondct
called him to my mind."
HEALTH HINTS.
It is said that excessive tca-drinkiny
causes neuralgia.
A pleasant remedy jjfor a rough is
lemon honey. It is made of the juice of
three lemons,one pound of sugar, quartet
of a pound ??f butter and six eggs. The
mixture is boiled and taken hot.
Lumbago may be quickly relieved by
binding a piece of oil skin cloth, such as
is used lo cover tables, over the loins,
outside of the flannel shirt. Profuse
perspiration is produced, which rapidly
relieves the pain.
It is said by the following simple
method almost instant relief of earache
is afforded: Put live drops of chloroform
on a little cotton or wool in the bowl of
a clay pipe, then blow the vapor through
the stem into the aching car.
You cannot cure corns with acids and
such liquids, said a corn doctor recently
to a Pittsburg reporter. They do moro
injury than i^ood. The only proper
iciucuj iu i\:iunvi: mu turn, \,uiu>? arc
caused liy the stoppage of the circulation
of blood by pressure, und then the skin
becomes callous at the point of pressure.
You could raise a corn on the back of
your hand by stopping the circulation,
but many corns come by inheritance.
The children of a prominent politician
and an ex-mayor came here to get t heir
corns removed, and they can be accounted
for only on the score of inheritance.
Good and Had Meat.
(Jood meat in a fresh state should bo
firm and elastic to the touch. Tho
characteristic odor of fresh meat should
be present, and the meat-tissue should
be dry, or at the most merely moist.
! The appearance of good meat is marbled,
! and its action on blue litmus-paper i$
j acid?that is. it :urns the blue paper to
j a red color. Had meat, on the othei
hand, is usually extremely moist, or even
wet; it has a sodden feel, and the presence
of dark spots in the fat is a sus
picious sign. The marrow of the bones,
instead of being light red in color, as in
fresh meat, is brown-tinted, and often
shows black spots. Tested by litmuspaper,
bad meat is either neutral or alkaline,
and turns red litmus-paper to blue,
or does not alter either red or blue test
papers. The odor of bad meat is highly
distinctive; and its color, as a rule, suspiciously
dark. ? Chambers' Journal.
About 40,000,000 pennies wero coined
in the United States last year.
g| * '
] NEWS SUMMARY, j
I
Eutern and middle State*
i Philadelphia is to have a national elec- :
trical congress.
Part of John Roach's great ship yard at i
Chester, Penn., has been destroyed by fire, j
i The total loss is estimated at more than
! 1250,000.
The national committee of the two promi- j
nent political parties are now in full blast at j
| New York sending out campaign documents by
j the cartload and employing a whole army of {
j clerks in their correspondence and mailing j
! business.
Tns Greely relief fleet, consisting of the
steamers Thetis. Bear and Alert, arrived at
j New York with the bodies of eleven mem- j
| bers of the Greely party who perished in i
i the far north. Tney were received with
| military honors at Governor's island by Seo- !
' retary Lincoln and Generals Sheridan, Han- j
I cock and Hazen. From Governor's island I
j the bodies were taken to the homes of the j
i dead men in various parts of the country for
! final interment
As Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, their two children,
and a man named CufT were crossing the
! railroad track at Connor station, Penn.,
| in a carriage, the vehicle was struck by
l a locomotive. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, one
; child and Mr. Cuff were instantly killed, the
! horses cut to pieces and the vehicle demol|
ished. The driver and an infant child of the
Dixons escaped with slight injuries. The par|
ty was returning from a funeral.
The Kemble Coal and Iron company, of
! Riddlesburg, PeniL, has failed; estimatedlia;
bilitiea, $700,000.
I A second and lighter earthquake shock
i was felt in various parts of the Middle and
Eastern States 011 tho dav following the great
i upheaval.
Another New York bank has been comJ
pelled to suspendon account of tho dishonesty
I of one of its officers. Tho Wall street bank is
the institution, and the officer guilty of dishonesty
is ite caahicr, John P. Dickinson, who
used about $800,000 of the institution's funds
in private speculation. When the bank failed
Dickinson could not be found.
The Republican campaign in Maine was
formally opened at Lake Maranocook, a great
picnic resort, by a meeting at which Mr.
IJlaine made a short speech.
The tenth annual convention of the American
Banker's association opened at Saratoga,
N. Y., with a largo attendance. Various :
matters of financial import were discussed.
Delegates from all parts of the country,
Mrs. Parnell and two Irish members of the
Britis-h parliament, were present at the second
annual convention of the Irish National
league, opened in Faneuil hall, Boston. President
Alexander Sullivau. Mrs. Parnell and
others made addresses.
Lieutenant Greely declares in an interview
that no act of cannibalism among the
members of his party, an charged by a New
York paper, came under his notice. He says
Private Henry was shot by his order for stealing
provisions. General Hazen says that no
report as to cannibalism has been received by
liim.
Henry Hall, Sr., a prominent citizen and
* Sshing-tackle manufacturer, of Highland
ilills, N. Y., aged sixty-nine years, fled from
impending ruin: and investigation showed he
(laa been making notes on persons who
Hnvu tin o-rictonro onH hn/1 navinc them I
jashed by various banks and private parties.
His son estimates the aggregate of such notes
outstanding at ?80,000, with only $16,000 that
is legitimate, the remainder being signed by
Sctitious parties.
South and West*
About 3.TKX) Piegan Indians are reported
to be starving at one of the agencies in Montana
Three men were killed and two others fatally
injured by falling walls at a fire in
Wheeling, W. Va.
The tugboat Mamie Glass was blown to
pieces by the explosion of her boiler at Madison,
Ind., and two of her crew lost their lives.
A terrible fight has taken place between
ten or twelve masked men and Mormon
elders who have been working for converts
in Lewis county, Tenn. Two Mormon elders
and one of the attacking purties?a farmer
bitterly hostile to Mormons?were killed, a
woman had her leg broken by a shot, and a
third Mormon elder was captured, taken to
the woods and believed to have been killed.
Three children named Robert Wood,
Louis D. Wood and Kate Shaw, all under ten
I years of age, living on a farm near South
I iJerry, Ohio, were burned to death in a barn,
where they liad been smoking, and which they
I had set on fire.
While George Rankin, aged nineteen, of
Switz City. Ind., was showing his brother
James, agea thirteen, how to handle a selfcocking
revolver, the weapon was discharged,
the ball striking James below the right eye.
nflicting a fatal wound. George then turnea
the revolver on himself and sent a ball through
his breast, from the effects of which he died
next day.
The Grand Grovo of Druids of the United
I States met in its twenty-fifth annual conclave
at St. Louis, Mo.,15(J subordinate lodges, with
' a membership of 14,.r>00, being represented. j
Missouri Democrats at their State conven- ,
I tion in Jefferson City chose presidential elecI
tors and nominated General John S. Manna- I
duke for governor.
Washington*
In 1883 suits were brought by the United |
States government against 112 delinquent i
officials claiming $497,08& Judgments were j
; recovered ror 51 ana couecwa.
I The Washington monument is completed :
| and ready for the roof. About three months
i will be occupied in putting that up. The |
j shaft is 500 feet high.
| President Arthur has sent a valuable
, gold watch and chain to Captain Brien, commander
of Mia British barkentine Susan, in !
I recognition of his conspicuous bravery in ;
rescuing the officers and crew of the Ameri- ,
cnn ship Tennessee, while that vessel was !
burning at sea.
A colored woman named Chloe Ashby,
died in Washington a few days since who is j
snid to have been 110 years old.
The Senate special committee, consisting of i
Messrs. Dawes, Caini ron, of Wisconsin, Mor- j
gan, Harrison and Walker, or Coke, appointed
to visit certain Indian tribes, will soon enter
upon its duties. The committee will visit j
tribes in Upper and Lower California and the I
Zuni Indians. A month will be spent among
different tribes in the Indian Territory.
Exports of brendstuffs from the United
States during July reached $12,053,970 in
value, exceeding July of last year by $1,700,3s'7
Foreign.
Active preparations are still being made
by the English government for the autumn
exj>editioii for General Gordon's relief at
'Ihartoum.
Ninety houses were destroyed by a fire at
Villard-Lurin, a village in France.
Vienna is almost in a state of panic in
consequence of the largo number of incendiary
tires which have recently occurred.
Hardly a day now pusses without some notable
conflagration.
Bismarck is reported to be urging an A as ;
tro-German confederation under treaties to bo
ratified by the parliaments of the two counI
tries.
Cable dispatches state that the spread of
cholera in Prance is now beyond question, :
and greater alarm than ever prevails. In j
England there are hundreds of cases of Eng- ;
lish cholera, and in Italy the Asiatic form of j
the disease is raging.
The Gordon relief expedition to be sent by
England will consist of 500 men,English and
Egyptian, and seven river boats.
A French squadron under Admiral Lespes.
consisting of five vessels, has bombarded anu
captured the town of Kelung, on the Hand
of Formosa The town was taken to compel
China's payment of the indemnity demanded
by France for the recent firing upon French
troops by the Chinese.
President Dyett, of Trinidad, one of the
largest of the West India islands, was
drowned recently by the capsizing of his boat
while on a sailing excursion.
| Myriads of locusts have appeared in Mexico
and Yucatan. Hundreds of square miles
of the country were covered with the pests,
and corn, grass and other crops were utterly
destroyed.
Durin? a severe thunder storm which prevailed
throughout England, hailstones fell at
Accrington three inches long and an inch
thick. Houses, churches and mills with
iii an area of two miles wero wreciceu
as by a riot. Church windows
wero riddled as if volleys of shot had beeu
fired into them. Hundreds of gardens were
destroyed. Two persons were struck dead by
lightning at Burnley, two at Barnsley, one at
I Darweii and one at Nottingham.
A fierce storm has done immense damage
in Upper Hungary. Streams were raised to
floods, villages were sv opt away and many
jK'rsons drowned.
London has just experienced the most intense
heat in twenty years, the thermometer
going up to ninety-three degrees.
In Paris the sun's heat set tire to a largo
number of bales of cotton, causing a loss of
100,000 francs ifL'0,000).
The Duke of Wellington, oldest son of the j
great soldier who first bore that title, dropped I
deail a few days since at Brighton. England,
as ho was entering a railway conch for London.
He was born in 1807.
Thunder storms of unexampled severity |
j have swept over the north of England and
j Scotland. Many buildings in Edinburgh,
Lcith and other cities were partially demolished
by the lightning. Several penjons were
lulled by lightning, among the number the |
Earl of Laudordale, who was overtaken by
the storm while out riding.
' NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Tiierk aro over 38,000 locomotives in this i
country.
For oysters at wholesalo New York city an- j
nunlly pays ?5,000,000.
H oor.-RAisiNo is becoming an important
industry in the Black hills.
Tmk crop uiid livestock products of Illinois
jor iss;: were valued at *250,SOU,000.
It is est imated that 15,500 people were damaged
physically on the "glorious Fourth."
A okneral feeing prevails among cattle
men of the West against barb-wire fences.
The father of Charlie Ross has spent $00,- !
000 in Uje search for his son, and examined j
over 700 cases of boys supposed to be his. j
LATER AEW&
At the closing session of the Irish National
league in Boston speeches were delivered by
United States Senator Jones, of Florida, William
13. Redmond and Thomas Sexton, members
of the British parliament, President Sullivan
and others. Patrick Egau was elected
president of the league, Mr. Sullivan declining
re-election. A resolution was adopted
by a rising vote expressing the deepest regret
at the death of Wendell Phillips.
Lieutenant Giieely, commander of the i
unfortunate Arctic explorers, received a
warm public welcome at his home, Newburyport,
Mass. Governor Robinson welcomed
Greely on behalf of Massachusetts.
Jonx McMahon, a messenger employed in
the Leather Manufacturers' National bank,
of New York, was directed to take a package
containing #20,000 to an express office. Instead
of doing so McMahon left for parts unknown
James G. Blaine has begun a suit for
slander against the Indianapolis (Ind.) Senthirl.
President Arthur has appointed Miss
Clara Barton as the representative in chief
of the United States at the Red Cross congress,
in Geneva, Switzerland.
During July,the total values of the exports
of domestic cattle, hogs, ami of beef, pork and
dairy products from the United States
amounted to $0,001,024 against $13,224,459 the
previous year.
Lieutenant Gkeelv has made an official
re])ort narrating the circumstances which led
to tl e execution of Private Henry in the Arctic
regions and requesting that a court of inquiry
lx! ordered, or a coHrt-martial bo convened,
should the secretary of war deem either
idvisuble.
General Hazen, chief signal officer, has
secured the consent of the postmaster-general
to hoist the cold wave flag on postoffice build,
mgs throughout the country to signal for the
tx.'iieflt of farmers and others the approach of
old waves. The flag is of white, with black
center. It will remain in position twentyfour
hours after being hoisted.
The British parliament, having closed its
labors, has bei n prorogued.
Anti-French mandarins poisoned the late
idng of Annam.
Kino Leopold, of Belgium, has thanked
the American people for the interest they
manifested in the International African association.
" ARCTIC HORRORS,
HUM * ! tci J .1111 I It Ui B .->uiu ?w Ut?*?
Kat :n Their Dead Comrade**
The New York Times contained, a fewJays
since, a shocking story to the offset that
the men of the Greely expedition who died
were eaten by the survivors, and that Prr
vate Charles B. Henry, a young German, was
shot for stealing foo l, and then eaten. The
story rests upon rumors and the gossip of the
sHiilors upon tho relief vessels Thetis an(J **"ar.
It Is given a color of truth by the refusal of
the officers of tin relief expedition to deny or
confirm it. According to the published story,
tho suspicions of the frienas of the deaa
men were awakened by the extreme
care taken to prevent anyone from seeing tho
bodies*. It was understood that the bodies
were lcund in a horrible condition, and after
being wrapped in many thicknesses of cloth
were placed in metallic coffins at St. Johns.
According to the gossip of the sailors of the
expedition, the bonei of tho dead wore really
found stripped of all flesh, each bundle of
bone.* wrapped in a blanket, and marked with
the name. It has been published that after
tho game gave out early in February the
party lived principally on sealskins, lichens
and shrimps. As a matter of fact,it is alleged,
they were kept alive on human flesh. When |
tho rescuing party discovered the half-starved i
survivors, their first duty was to look to the !
two men who weixi insensible from cold and
privation, even to the point of death. One of
them, a Gorman, was wild in his delirium.
"Oh," he shrieked, as the sailors took hold
of him to lift him tenderly, "don't let them'
shoot me as they did poor Henry. Must I be
killed and eaten as Hemy was? Don't let
them do it. Don'tl Don'tl"
The sailors were horrified, but at once re- !
Wrted the man's words to Commander Schley,
hen the horrible reality was brougght out
before an investigating committee, as asserted,
Commander Schley instructed two or j
throe gentlemen, among whom was Dr.
Ames, the surgeon of the Bear, to make a
careful examination and put their conclusions j
in writing. I his was done, and the reports are
now in t le hands of the navy department. ;
Lieutenant Greely was decidedly averse to '
having the bodies of the buried dead disturbed. |
He thought it wise, as they had I.em buried <
so long, to let them remain in their Arctic
graves. Commander Schley did not agree
with him. The bodies were dug from their
graves in the little hill just back of the permanent
camp established in October, li&'J.
Most of the blankets, it is averred, contained
nothing but heaps of white bones, many of,
them picked clean.
Charles B Hemy was without any relatives j
in this country, and joined Company E, Fifth |
Cavalry, in Cincinnati. Driven to despair by
his frightful hunger Henry saw his opportu- |
nity to steal a little more than his share of j
rations, and he made the attempt He was ;
found out, it is said, and shot for his crime. |
Ill tno puDilsned OlllCiai repoii uitj ueuui j
of this man is set down as l aving occuired
on June (5. When the body was found j
his hands and face, though shrunken, were in- '
tact and recognizable; but nearly every where 1
else, the sailors say, the skin had been !
stripped from him, and the flesh picked'from j
the bones. A bullet hole was found in the j
skin.
A reporter of the New York Evening Post
went to the navy yard and found Command- ;
er Schley. "I nave absolutely nothing to ;
say about the report." said that officer court- j
eously, but flrmiy; ''neither has anyone un- i
der me."
Interviews were had with Secretary Chandler,
Rear Admiral Nichols, General Hazen
and others concerning the terrible story that
the Greely party were compelled by hunger
to eat their dead comrades. The officials
neither denied nor admitted the allegations.
It is possible that a congressional investigation
may be had.
THE INDIAN TERRITORY.
Would-be Settlers Ejected?A Settle* j
mcut Burned*
A Caldwell (Kansas) dispatch sayi: On !
Wednesday General Hatch, in company with 1
Adjutant - Gunoral Finley and Inspector !
Greene, of the Interior department, vielt?d |
Payne's camp, at Rock Falls, Indian Coun- j
try, and afti-r reading the President's procla- |
mation to him and his followers, directed !
them to leave the Territory before Thursday j
morning, and told them that if they did not j
leave they would be ejected. This took place :
in a small board shanty, occupied by the j
Oklahoma Chief (newspaper), the forms of
which were being "made up at the time. 1
Jfayne at first attempted to discuss tne iegai i
aspects of the case, but soon became angry i
and very abusive in his language. Coojier. i
the editor, joined in with vitujieration and
threats. The oflieers then retunied to their )
camp, ten miles distant. Yesterday morning
at an early hour two squadrons of the Ninth
United States cavalry, commanded by Captain
Moore, appeared in tho boomers'camp,
and under direction of Indian Agent Rogers,
arrested the whole community and took chargo
of the printing ofliee. All the women and
children and the m -n who were new offenders !
were escort *d to the Kansas line,together with
their personal property. .Six old offenders
named L). L. Payne. I/. B. Cooper, D. G.
Greatliouse, T. w. Ecl;li;bni%;er, John McGrew,
andS. L. Mosely were loaded into six j
mule wagons and started under escort of ;
Lieutenant Jackson and fifteen men for Fort 1
Smith, Ark., three hundre I miles distant (
Tin' paper was rea ly to go lo press, and upon I
inquiry a number of printers were found in
the command, who soon printed an edition of >
one hundred copies. '1 he press was then !
cart-fully in-ked and l>adel into a wagon j
and started under an escort for Muskogee, it
being confiscated property. The printing
ofliee and other buildings, including two ,
boarding-houses,a drug store,a restaurant and j
some cheap dwellings, were burned to the !
ground. Payne threatened to cut the throat
of ihe first 111:111 whoaltumpted to arrest him,
but one colore.I soldier marched him about
the camp for an hour. Payne lias lost what
ever prestige he may have had heretofore
with the tienking class of the community. |
He had been on a debauch for a week, and [
was unable on Wednesday night to attend a j
conference of squatters "held after General
tiati'ii i"it mi* hock fans. rue numuer <
ejected from tliis camp was about two liun- 1
11 r?l and fifty persons. A detachment of
tro: ps has lieen sent t > the remaining settle- !
incuts, wh>> will in u like manner arrest the j
ringleaders, andtuke them to Kort Smith. '
PROMINENT PEOPLE, j
Genkrai, Benjamin F. Bcti.er will be
dxty-six years old in Novemlwr.
The coincidence is rioted that Mr. Blain*
ffas born in Brownsville,IVnn. .and Mr. U>gan
ji Brownsville. 111.
United States Senator Anthony's diet
'or about six months has lieen Graham bread
cud sweet skimmed milk.
Florence Marryatt, the English novel- i
fit, poet, vocalist and musician, is coining to
America on a lecturing tour.
Kinu John, of Abyssinia, has determine^ j
?n abolishing slavery and prohibiting th*3 |
ilave tratlic in his dominions.
The health of Florence Nightingalo is very '
?oor. She is sixty-four years olJ, and has j
lone a vast amount of work for sulPering .
M EARTHQUAKE.
CJt!** and Towns on the Atlantic
Coast Shaken.
A Rumbling Roir, Rocking Biddings
and Terrified People.
Clti.^3 and towns oa the Atlantic coast
hare beanl-shaken by nn earthquake shock
such as was never experienced bifore in t'uo
section of the country, in which the convulsion
of nature occurred. From Wash
* i*. i-i 1
uigw/u, ill mo ouuiu, 10 wua ieiu turuu^u
Delaware, Eastern Pennsylvania, New
Jersey, Eastern New York and Now
England. It was felt in its greatest strength,
probably, along the New Jersey and Long
Island coast, but nowhere was any serious
damage reported. From many places two
shocks were reported, the first
being generally reported at a few
minutes after 2 o'clock p. m., followed bv the
other, with an intermission of only a few seconds.
A rambling sound accompanied tua
shaking of the earth. The direction of the
disturbance was given differently by the var
riou3 observers.
Consternation was created throughout New
York city by the visitation of the earthquake.
The shock was the severest one over known
there. Buildings of every description were
shaken on their foundations and in many
quarters intense excitement prevailed. The
suock was accompanied by a low rumbling
sound, and commencel at 2:11 o'clock, lasting
ten seconds. People who were taking their after
noon nap were startled from their slumbers.
From thi Battery to High Bridge the
alarm was general The occupants of buildings
rushed panic-stricken into the streets,
and everyone was asking e very body else what
it was. Many women fainted from fright,
while others who were more collected turned
pale in the anticipation that the worst was still
to come. Many remained in the streets some
time, fearing to go back into their houses.
People on the streets felt the vibrations, but
did not hear the rambling. Even some who
were in their carriages say they noticed the
hock. In the lower and more lightly conitructe
I dwellings, tho rocking motion was
distinctly felt, but was not sufficient to move
largo articles of furniture. In residences,
cr.jckery and glassware were thrown from
their shelves and broken.
In Printing House square, New York city,
the shook was pronounced. Persons who
have had similiar experiences remarked that
they had never known so distinct a vibration.
On Sunday afternoons Park Row is always
crowded with people passing to and fro over
the bridge and oy street ears from all parts ot
the city. Men and women stopped aud- |
aeniy ac me strange sensation ana loonea
at one another in umizement. The first
instant the jar was faint an 1 distant, but as
it increased into a heavy rumble and tremor
pedestrians rushed from ihj sidewalks into
the middle of th-j street and gazed with expressions
of fear and wonder at the tall build*
ings. Tho real nature of the shock did not
at first appear to be realized, but as it came
with atterthought somo of tho more
cautious ones hurried into the City
Hall park, until ja considerable
crowd gathered there discussing the cause ol
tho phenomenon. Janitors and families occupying
the ollice buildings presently made
their appearance at the windows,and alarmed
by the shock and the looks of tho crowd,
rushed into the streets. Tho general impression
prevailed at first that there had been an
explosion in the neighborhood, and it was attributed
to some of the boilers in the large
printing establishments. As the real cause became
known the excitement seemed to spread.
The shock was also experienced in many
villages, towns and cities of New England,
Pennsylvania, Maryland and Delaware. In
PAma nln^aa if ia ronnpf-fl/1 ad havincr Hiwm vorv
severe,although it was not accompanied by any
serious damage to property, or injury to lire
or limb. At several points two shocks, one
quickly succeeding the other, were experioncod,
causing great consternation and
drivinz the people Into tho streets. Some remarkable
phenomena were observed in the
Housatonic river, which rose in the form of
two waves which started from the shores, met
in the c?nter of the stream and fell to a dead
level with the roar like that of an explosion.
From almost every city and town on the Atlantic
coast and the States as far west as Ohio
came roports of tho earthquake's visitation.
Reports varied as to the extent of the earthquake,
but in many places it was sufficiently
strong to set houses rocking, and it was
accompanied by a rumbling sound that lasted
for at least ten seconds.
Tho great dining room of the Long Beach
hotel, near. New York, was cleared of it?
three hundred occupants in less than two
minutes by tho earthquake Sunday.
The guests were first startled by a prolonged
rumbling sound, as if some heavy object
was being dragged along the floor overhead.
Then the building began to rock, and
the door seemed to undulate. Some of the
waiters dropped their trays and stood openmouthed
with fright. Several ladies uttered
low screams and "Oh, mysl" and started toward
the main door of tue dining room. A
few men lost their heads, pushed their
chairs over on tho floor, and daubed
toward the partially barred doorways leading
out upon the veranda. A general panic followed.
and during the next two minutes indescribable
confusion reigned. Guests and
waiters joined in a frantic rush for doors and
windows. The stout bars across the veranda
doorways were broken down, and the bewildered
crowd poured out upon the veranda and
down the broad steps toward the beach.
Some of the people thought that the building
was coming down, and others believed there
had been a boiler explosion.
Similar experiences to the foregoing
were reported from Coney Island, Long
Branch and other seaside resorts. The area |
subjected to seismic influence seems to have
extended as far west as the Alleghanies, and
as far east as Portland, Maine. The States
of New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island,
Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware,
Massachusets, part of Maine
auu IUO x-riaurcuu ui vwivuubia
are included in it. No
serious or extensive damage is reported, however,
and the earthquake in England last
spring was much more serious and severe.
That destroyed many buildings completely,
injured much property and caused some lo6s
of life. The earthquake of 1863 in California
was again much more severe than that in the
East. It destroyed many buildings,caused loss
of life, did a great deal of damage to interiors,
cracked many buildings it did not throw down,
threw some of the streets of San Francisco
into ridges resembling sea waves solidified,
and in Contra Costa and Alameda counties,
in the latter of which it appeared to center,
produced effects in many respects strikingly
analagous to the work of the electrical storms
or tornadoes which have wrought such havoc
in the West. These effects consisted mainly
in the evidence of a gyratory motion, shown
in the twisting of trees, houses and chimnies.
A New York paper concludes its editorial
comments on the earthquake by saying: "The
public of the States affected by the late shock,
may console themselves with the reflection
that no really severe earthquake
has occurred in this part of the world during
the historical period, and that such shocks
as that of yesterday are incapable of doing
any damage, however alarming they may
seem to nervous persons. One Western tornado
is indeed more to be feared than very
many such rumblings and tremblings of the
earth."
A REVOLTING STORY.
rit<< Vccuml In Command (?' the
(>nely Party Eaten by Comrade*.
The Now York papers contain long account*
of the disinterment of the body of
Lieutenant Kislingbury. second in command
jf the Arctic expedition,an lof the distressing
results of an examination of the corps by
ioctors. Lieutenant Kislingbury's remain,,
h?,i !u?n l.nriLHl in Mount Hope cemetery at
Rochester, N. Y. The rumors that the survivor
of tho Greely party had turned cannibals,
and the oft-repeated injunctions not to
3jHMi the collin under any circumstances,
aroused in the minds of many of the Lieutenant's
friends and relatives suspicions that there
was some truth in the horrible story. Con-teqiiently
it was determined to exhume
tho remains. The coffin was taken from tho
erave arid carried to tho chapel in the cemetery.
There the lid was removed in the presence
of Frank \V. Kislingbury and John P.
Kislingbury, brothers of the deceased lieutenant.
Dr. Charles Buckley, Dr. F. A. Mandeville.
Superintendent Stellson, and Assistant
Superintendent Maudeville of the
cemetery and two newspaper men
The medical examination disclosed
the horrible fact that all tho flesh of
the Ixxly had been cut completely off from
the bones, except on the face, hands and feet.
The organs of tho thoracic cavity were intact.
There were no wounds on* the head.
The remains weighed about fifty pounds.
Kislingbury's body was eaten by his companions.
NINE OUT OF FOUKTEEN,
Wholesale Slaughter of Honr Thieve*
by Montana Cuivboyn.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana, says that
particulars hsivo been received of another
slaughter of horse thieves in the Muscle Shell
region, 150 miles northeast of Helena,by cowboys,
while in pursuit of stolen horses. A log
house was discovered in the timber on the
mountain side. It was secretly watched for a
day or two, during which time several small
parties of men came and went, some by day,
others by night, having in their possession
horses which wero evidently stolen. It becoming
ovident that it was a hoi-se thieves'
rendezvous, the cowboys congregated, and at
night crawled up close to tne house and attacked
the horse thieves who were about the
premises at the time. Nine wero killed and
five escaped. The cabin was then set on lire
and burned.
Never was there a period in the history of
tho Territory when there was so much horsethieving
going on, and the citizens are now
determined to effectually stop it. Fully fifty
thieves havo been hanged or shot in the put
month.
Moody and Sankey are announced to berin
work at Cincinnati in October, alter
vhich they will proceed to Itichmoqj^MH
at the South. HH
SHOT TO_DEATF.
! Lieutenant Grccly'a Account oT the
Execution of Private Henry. A
Portsmouth (N. II.) dispatch says that
Lieutenant Grecly was seen by an Assodj
a ted Press reporter in his cottago on
Seavcy's Island. He gave an account
ui iuo various events 01 mo lacier pan/
; of the retreat southward from Fort
Conger. About November 1 the party be,
gon to be served with one-quarter rations,
and debilitated health soon showed the effect
j of this insufficient amount of food. The men
' were not before this in as good condition to
: withstand Arctic weather as they had been a
! year before. About November 1 provisions
were missed from the stores, and it was con- .
! eluded that they must have been stolen. '3
; Much complaint was made by the mon, and
j threats against the thief were loud. January
: 2i the party was near perishing from a?- -'<
! phyxiaand several of its members were un
conscious.
j Private Henry during this terrible expert- . [ >'5
I enco was seen by one of the Esquimaux to :
\ steal some of the bacon from the stores. He .
! soon afterward was taken ill from overload- M
ing his stomach and\omitedupthe bacon un- "r*:
I digested. An investigation was had and
Henry was pioved guilty not only of this
but several previous thefts. It was a
terrible state of affairs. Henry's in- fyjjjj
dignant comrades demanded his death. Over and
over again Henry promised to reform,
but this did not still the ciainjr for his life. fi
Lieutenant Greely remonstrated with his
men and all was quieted. Taking Henry in
hand Lieutenant Greely represented to him y
the enormity of his offense and pointed out !?
to him the necessity for concerted action . ;'Sj
in the party if all would be saved. ' tij
Henry was then placed under guorl for sev- ^
eral weeks, until the increasing feebleness of "
the other members of the party rendered it :
necessary for them to avail themselves of
Henry's personal services. Shortly afterward SBfc
he stole liquor from the stores ana became in- .vSj
toxicated. Again his comrades clamored for l**g?|
Vli'u 1t#A nnrl n nnin f 1 tr rvifl'niniul fliAIM
U19 All Cy UUU O^tUil U1UC1JT A UJOl IU11LU MIWII. ?|I7H
On June 5, Henry again stole and carried
away some of the provisions. Lieutenant Jnfj
Greely spoke firmly to Henry and told him it r-'sH
would tie policy for him to stop. Said the
Lieutenant: "For God's sake, Henry, as you
seem to have no moral sense, remempei that Hy|
our lives depend upon our holding together." \}'gm
With great earnestness Heniy promised not Km
to be guilty of theft again. Lieutenant Kgfl
Greely felt that he could not trust Henry. Ksjl
After revolving in his mind their circum- Mreg
stances the lieutenant, on his own responsi- Mf^a
biiifcy, issued a written order, now in posses- 53
sion'of one of the survivors, commanding HRe
that Henry be shot on sight of commission of . Wfl
any more thefts of food.
At this time the party had left, as a last resort,
only pieces of sealskin and such shrimps 1
as they could procure. About June 6 Henry
went to the old winter quarter at Camp
Clay, near Cape Sabine, and stole some of ,
the last sealskin, which was the only food ' '
left. He also took the last pair of boots in ^
the stores. On being closely questioned by ' '*%
Lieutenant Greely, he admitted his guilt.. He
was again ready with promises to-do better. , ;
His fato was upon him. He was, in s*. '
Ihs afternoon of that day, a little
distance at the rear of the summer quarters '
alone tiy himself. The written order for his
execution was committed to three of the party. ' .
They were ordered to shoot him, encountering
ns little danger to themselves as possible, as ; v .
Henry was the strongest of the party.
Sadly the men departed on their terrible . . .
errand. Their comrades left in camp turned . >
their eyes to the ocean. In a few minutes
the breeze bore to their ears the sound of two ' ,'?
quick pistol shots. All were .'silent Slowly,
after a short interval, the men returned. The < _';
written order was handed to Lieutenant .
Greely, and the horrible but necessary execu- ^
tion was over. Henry was never H?n again j
by his comrades,and his body was understood *
to be interred at the foot of the northwest
ice floe.
The order for the execution of Henry was '
that afternoon read to the survivors, and all
concurred in the justice and necessity of tho ?
act. No report of the manner of his death '
nas ever Deen maae m ijisutermnc ureeiy, ana . i
the survivors tacitly ignored the terrible
remembrance.
The reports of cannibalism, Lieutenant c
Greely says, are false. Of his own knowledge
he knows of nothing of the kind and the survivors
all indignantly deny it If any cannl- . V
balism took place Lieutenant Grecly emphatically
says it was in secret and not indulged
in by the party, but to the best of his knowledge
there was none.
' Why," said the lieutenant, "why did we
not allow poor Ellison to die, if we were so
past the line between humans and savages!
Why did we share our food with him to the
last drop?"
All through the retreat the discipline, with \the
exception of Henry's theft, was well
maintained and a'l yielded implicit obedience .
even to the last dread day on Cape Sabine.
A verbal report was made to General Hazen
by Lieutenant Greely shortly after the arrival
of the relief expedition at Portsmouth. In
regard to the exertion of Henry General
Hazen said: "It was not only justifiable, but
the noblest thing in the expeaitioa"
A written report was submitted by Greely
to the war department a few days ago fully \
covering Henry's case and a court-martial
has been asked for by Lieutenant Greely if
the facts seem to the war department to warrant
it .
THE NATIONAL GAME. :A
Joe Stabt, first baseman of the Providena
club, is forty years of age.
Sutton, of the Bostons, was the first Leagw
player to make 100 base nits this season.
Columbus is the only club in the American
association that has played two consecutiv*
games without an error.
I It is probable that many veterans on thi
r.<v.foccinnfii flnld will retire at the end of tht
season to make room tor younger blood.
Five proninent men in Baltimore have sut>
scribed $5,000 for a new club, if they can bi
admitted to the national league next year.
The Virginia club have resigned theli '
position in the Eastern League,and have been
admitted in the American Association in plao*
of tho Washington club. M|
In St. Genevieve, ITo., a club bas beau \ 3;
started, having for its players nine brother)
named Griesbaber. They challenge any nini H
brothers to play them a game.
The out-field of the Cincinnati Americas H i
club is the largest in the country, and tin ' $3
heaviest There are three six-footers, who S|B
combine a weight of 540 pounds. ^zjp
Evans, the right fielder of the Cleveland^, -Ma
says ho can toll by the sound of a halted fail- -..WB
in which direction it will go. If it wavfe;
loud and clear it will be a long hit, and 11
muffled and iadtetinct it will land m the bs. In
I field. & '??8
A special meertingof thb Eartora League {H
was held at Philadelphia reoeDtly, when it wai fiB
decided to admit two dnbs, one from Jersey
City and one from Paterson, in plaoo of the a*
Virginians, resigned, and the Actives, dis- rS
! banded. |H
A singular feature of the national game Is |9
i seen in the fact that in a recent Philadelphia' ;
| Boston gameMulvey, of the former club, playing
at third base, ban fourteen fielding chances,
while Sutton, of the Bostons, in the same
position, had none at all.
An old baseball player,says that left handed
hatters, in striking the ball, give it a curve
that makes it very hard to catch. At a recent
game in Cleveland, Brouthers.uf the Buffalos,
knocked a liner to the right of the centre: tho
right fielder tried to catch it, but the ball, on
approaching him, took such a ';urve that he
j was obliged to retrace his step in a hurry,
i and was unable to get it. Right hand batten
knock a straight ball.
where they all were.
| " In court," said the card on the lawyer's
doqr,
i "Back in ten minutes," on many more;
I " Gone to the hospital," on the doctor's
slate,
On another, "Sit down and wait,"
I " Gone to bank," on the notary's sign;
" Arbitration," that young clerk or mine,
" Back soon," on the broker's book,
" Collecting rents," on my agent's hook,
They were all to busy, a matter quite new,
Very soiTy was i, i nad nothing to do.
Then I hield mo hence to the base-ball ground,
And every man on the grand stand found.
?New York Sun.
At a recent Milwaukee-Minntaitolis game,
Pearson, tho pitcher for tho -Miime<n>olis club,
while delivering the ball, broke hi - urm above
the elbow. It broke with a snapping sound
that could bo heard all over the mamond, tha
ball rolling along tho graiis to the captain's
line. Pearson uttered a loud cry ot' pain and
fell to the ground. Ho was immediately carried
to a doctor's office, where the broken bone
wa< set. Tho unfortunate man is a resident
of Waterloo, N. Y.,and a member of the class
! of 'So at Hobart collego.
j At the end of tho fifteenth week tho reoj
ord of the League clubs in the championship
| race was:
j CM". Won. Lost. | Club*. Won. Lost.
I Providence 52 SO I Chicago 3$ 35
Hoston 50 22 Cleveland 26 47
iiiiffHlo 43 29 | Philadelphia 21 52
New York 41 30 | Detroit 19 55.
j The record of the twelve American As[
sociation clubs at tho end of the fifteenth week
was as follows:
| Club*. IKon. Lost. ! Clubs. W" i. Let.
; Metropolitan.49 19 | Iialiimore 31 29
Columbiu 4S 20 I Brooklyn 2S 39
I.onlsvlllo?4T 21 I Toll-do 23 48
! Cincinnati....43 27 I Pstt^bnr?f!i....21 49
. 6u I.ouis 42 24 I Indian ip >IU..!'i 48
Athletic 42 'J9 | \S'as:;tu?'to:i..l3 63
The Virginia cltib, now a member of the
American association in plaeo of the "Washington
club, won one gam?, lost threo and
| hail ono drawn.
Tho records of all th; other association
j races have bicomo too ono-siile<l and mixed
I ui> to bo worth printing any !o;ige:\ The
Wilmington* have the Eastern league chamI
II,. | ?
pioiismjj lit vuvu
J A popular act rex; who at one time sup'
ported tho character of nurso to dura .Morris'
"Camille," recently said: "She is a per'
feet slave to the opium habit, ami th's is the
I whole cause of her ill health, and will ulta|
mately prove her death. Shu carries it with
I her every time she yoes on the stajje. cleverly
managing to take it every halt' hour lea>
| without detection."
Hv the ileath of Victor Mas>e. the comI
jK?t r, the third chair in the seel;: n of music ?
j at the Kity Arts a<atdemy, in Paris, cumprixkonce
more vacant; his only
BHB^^^^tnce the foundation off this seo-^MB