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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBEE 5, 1884. NO. 19. VOLUME XXIX. |g|
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GROWING BEAUTIFUL,
Say not: "Behold!
I'm growing old."
Thy golden lovks, soft-thiged with gray,
That hint of age and youth's decay,
Become thee more, as year by year,
Thy riper wisdom doth appear.
Say not: "Alas!
I fade as grass."
Thy beauty, fed by springs within,
Is comeiier than it e'er hath been:
A sweeter bloom, the spirit's grace,
Is kindling in thy earnest face.
- IP. Dc Witt Wallace. in the Current.
TRAPPING A WHALE. !
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CAUGHT IX A BOX AXD SHIPPED A1IVB TO j
ENGLAND.
"Ship a whale to Europe?"
"That's what I'm a teilin' ye."
"Yes,"'was the reply, "as lively whales
as ever ye clapped your eyes on."
The speaker was a fisherman of note of i
a very small town on the Island of Bic,
near the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and his I
statement that he was about to ship a
wnale to .hurope naci miner siaggereu
his listener.
"Why," he continued, "I've done it
already, anit it ain't likely I can't do it
agin. I kin ship anything from a codfish
to a whale, and if they fuller my orders
the goods 'il git tla-re ship-shape and '
lively, right side up with care. That is
what I ship 'em in,"added the fisherman, j
pointiug to a box about 20x7 feet that ;
had evidently just been put together, i
"No, I ain't goin' to put a sail on it and
beat over?I kin beat that all holler. But
come along and I'll show you how the
thing is done."
A few minutes later a pair of horses and
a low set of wheels were brought out,and
by the aid of levers the big box -was !
mounted or pried upon them, and getting
aboard with the fisherman the writer was
soon lumbering down toward the sandy
beach.
"Don't git out," said the fisherman, as
the horses entered the water. "Stay for
the launchin'; she'll hold you and twenty
more."
The wheels were driven in until the
box into which the writer had jumped j
floated clear of the wheels, and the
launch was successfully made. The
craft might have been a running mate to
Noah's ark, and was to receive animals
much after the same fashion. There
?vas a rope in the inside, to which was j
kttached a rock, and this the writer
tossed out and so prevented a sail upon
the broad river.
" Does she leak?"' asked the fisherman
anxiously, after he had turned the horses
toward shore, and upon receiving a
oegative, he added, Wall, that's n
blessin'. She ain't calked, aud I thought
ihe might swell. Wait a minute and
I'll take ye off,''and the team was driven
ishore, while the writer patiently waited
In the ark.
The situation was rather novel than
N otherwise, and while we were attempting
to realize how the whale would
feel boxed the fisherman appeared in ,
light around a point and we were soon i
transferred to a boat, the box being
taken in tow.
nAitpooxrxo a white whale.
"Ye see that bay-like up yonder?"
laid the oarsm:in, " Wall, that's the
greatest place for white whale ye ever j
ucoiu ui. x ucj vuuiu lit at ui^u i/uc ju 1
reg'lar droves like, with porpoises aud
grampuses, aud swim around, feedin' like
is not, then go out with the tide. The
tide here falls about eightccu foot, more
or less, and this bay's ail bare at low ,
water."
The box was towed into the middle j
of the bay, where it was anchored to a
stake.
4lAs we can't do anything till the
tide goes down," said our ocompanin,
"sposin' we go down and tackle a
whale or so. Ever do any harpoonin'?"
be asked, as he shipped the mast and
shook out the little sail. "Wall, it's
good sport, and I reckon I kin give ye a
taste."
The sheet was drawn aft. and catching
the brisk northeast wind the little
craft laid o\er and bore away for the !
middle of the river, where quite a sea
was running.
"They like to come in with the tide
tomehow," said the fisherman, "and
when there's a west wind that works up I
a Vnrr con whpn tlio nomincf. tVw* civi
they seem to like it all the more, and !
keep a-rollin' in and out as long as it j
lasts. There's one now,"' pointing to a
white object that appeared for a moment :
glistening in the sun, and from which 1
came a puff. "I guess we're goiu' to
strike 'em good.''
The mast was now unshipped, the sail
furled and the boat propelled by the j
oarsman, who sat aft, while the writer
took his position at the bow, to becomc
initiated in the science of white whale i
fishing. The harpoon was a slender pine j
pole, about fifteen feet long, lithe and
willowy, the spear being of steel and 1
having two points, with incurved barbs, I
that worked on a hinge and set into a :
notch, so that little resistance was of- j
fered when a victim was struck, the
barbs only turning out when an attempt
was made to withdraw the weapon, i
The spear fitted on to the pole by a
socket, and was in turn made fast to a
long line that was carefully coiled up in
a tub in the bow.
"Now, then." said the fisherman, as 1
the amateur took the harpoon and as- '
sumed a professional attitude cribbed
from the "Whaler's Own Book." "I
lr in ten f Artf 1 i tr r? 1 i* t
and ye want to take him right abaft the
blowhole if ye kin; that seems to settle
'em about as quick as anything."
The writer had grained the barracouda
and pegged green turtles at fifteen or
twenty l'eet on the Fiorida reef, and,
therefore, felt encouraged. For a fourth
of a mile the iittle boat was propelled
down stream, tossing and rolling in the
^ heavy sea. when suddenly a great domes?
like white head appeared hardly fifteen
feet away: a loud pull" sounded 011 the
the air and a faint spray for a second
caught the sunshine. If there had been
time the harpooner would have succumbed,
probably to something akin to
back fever? the symptoms were there?
but, rallying, the harpoon was raised,and
by good luck took the ghostly cre;i: ire
fair in the back just as it was diving to
return.
"Bully for ye!" shouted the rower, as
a barrelful of water struck the harpooner
full in the face, being tossed from the
animal's tail. " You've hit him good."
a wet wde.
This was evidently the case, ns the linewas
whizzing out of the tub with lightning
speed.
"You'd better get aft afore the end
comes," said the fisherman. "There's so
much sea runnin' that he mi<*ht drown
us if she's down nt the head."
The suggestion was acted upon, and
none too soon. ;ss the Hying cord was
soon exhausted and came taut with a
jerk. The bo\V of the boat was buried
deeply in the water, then rose bravely
on the waves and dashed oil behind the
stricken whale.
"It ain't particularly drv." remarked
the oarsman, wiping the spray from his
face and taking up a bailer.
. The boat was taking the waves as they
came, going through some and over
others, hurling the spray ten feet in the
air, all in all working up quite an excitement
and considerable anticipation,
as every sea threatened to engulf the
little craft, and once full the occupants
and boat furniture would speedily be'
floated out and left behind. In going
half a mile the boat was half full of
??- n.,/1 !f i-n/.nirprl hllf little calcil
?HICJ, cuiu ii/ iv?|U4*v?%
lation to show that a mile would bring
things to a climax.
"We must get alongside or let her go,"
said the old man. as the boat dashed into
a large sea. "Wc can't stand this."
The line was in a notch at the bow and
getting aft, both occupants took hoid
and hauled the line in whenever opportunity
offered. Every haul seemed to
increase the speed of the flying animal,
and finally one was obliged to bail while
the other took in the slack. For nearly
an hour this bailing and hauling was
kept up, the whale now slackening and
then starting up with renewed energy,
until finally it breached 100 feet from
the boat and rolled over and over for
several minutes, a sure sign that it was
weakening.'
"If yc want to finish the business,"
said the whaler, "I'll put ye alongside
while he'a rollin'and ye can give him
the lance."
The volunteer accordingly took the
ugly weapon, that?was about a foot off
the cud of a scythe lashed to a bladeless
oar, and. with a rush, tho whale was
boarded. A tremendous rush of water
nearly swamped the boat at the onset,
but the animal was alongside and it was
the work of a moment t<> scud the terrible
instrument into the creature, that
gave a convulsive bound, cleared the
boat and lav thrashing wildlv just out of
reach.
"One clip of that tail would finish us,"
saiil ttic nsuerman, uaciuu^ ?uic? .v
avoid the rushes of the animal. "I've
seen 'em mash a bo.tt just like paper,
but you just finished her, sure enough."
The whale was evidently dead, and,
after putting another harpoon into its
head, it was fastened a^tirn and the pull
shoreward commenced.
"We take white whales shoot in' sometimes,
"said the rower, "ami the last one I
lock last season got a joke on me that ain't
quite wore oil yet. \Ve went out in a
gang that day, sor.ie with rifles and some 1
with harpoons, and I reckon there was
ten hots (boats) all told, and right down
by the mouth of the crcek we struck a
school of 'em. so big that there was
nothing but heads a-poppin' up all
around. When we got into the lot the
boys began a-shootin' and strikin,' and
got so mixed lip tint we didn't know
where we was for awhile. My boy had
my harpoon,and the only thing I could git
holt on was a lance, jest like this, and as I i
was standin' in the bow a big white
whale come up under me. I let drive
and sunk the lance into him about two
foot, and at the same moment one of the
other boats struck us right amidships. I
lost my balance, and afore I knew it I
was a settin on that old whale's back, ,
hangin' onto the pole, and goin' along
like greased lightning. The boys set up
a yell, and made way for me, and off I
went.
;'Yesee," continued the speaker, ''the
water was only about four foot, aud the \
critter couldn't dive, so I jest clung to
it. First she struck in shore, a snorting
a puffin' and beating the water, with her
tail so't ye could hear her clear across the :
bav. 13ut she couldn't shake me off. I
jist clung to the handle, and let her rip, ;
and pretty soon when we came to a shoal |
place I beached her. or she beached me.
I don't know which. Anyway, I reckon
I'm the first one that ever rode a whale
in these diggins.''
The boat was now in shore, so that i
the whale grounded, and a beautiful !
creature it was?a pure creamy white,
about twelve feet in length, with a ]
grace'ul, rounded head that seemed more j
disconnected from the body than is general
with whales, and it is said that the j
white whale is the only one that can
move its l:e id from side to side at all.
The side tins were small, the tail broad
and richly pointed ?an organ of great
power. Scientifically the white whale i
is the Beluga, and thev arc found in
great numbers about the Gulf of St. Lawrence
and farther north. They attain a !
length of twenty-three feet, and arc val- j
ucd for their hide, which is tanned into t
leather, and the oil from the blubber, i
the latter being greatly esteemed by j
workers in delicatc machinery. The Indians
ent the flesh and the Esquimaux
use the bones, so that all in all the creature
is quite useful.
When wc landed, the box that had \
been towed into the bay was high and 1
dry beside a great hole that had been
excavated on a previous tide. The fisherman
now obtained several assistants,
and, the hole being made larcer, the box
was lowered into it so that it was almost :
on a level with the surrounding bottom.
A lid was put on by leather strans, but !
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little bay in which the pit was sunk had
a narrow opening, and at high tide, when
the ebb was about commencing, a number
of boats took a large coarse seine
and hauled it across the opening, taking
their places in front of it and sitting, 1
with oars in hand, to frighten bark the
whales should they venture down.
It was a matter that required some patience,
but gradually, as the tide went
out, the bailing and breaking of the
water and the occasional view of a round
head told that some whale had been
entrapped. As the water grew lower
and lower the commotion became greater, t
and finally the forms of seven whales
were fairly exposed, rushing about, run- ,
ning out of water in shoal spots and
making tierce breaks at the net and |
boats, only to be driven back by yells, 1
shouts and blows from the boats, until
finally the water went down so that all
the white beauties were stranded. The
boats then moved in, and. as expected,
in^he sunken box was one of the whales, .
about ;en feet long.
"Ye see the trick of it.'" said our fisherman.
"The box gets full of water and
is always the deepest spot, and when the
whales sec the water a-goin' they go for
deeper holes if they can lind them. So |
this one settled in here, and here she is,
all boxed."
The box had been partly lined with
seaweed, so that the creature could not '
hurt itself, and presented a strange ap- j
pearance, the room being so limited that
only an undulatory movement could j
be made with the tail, but showing j
what a powerful organ it
was. The box was now packed with ,
mure seaweed, all the spaces being filled !
up around it, and finally, the lid being ;
closed and fastened, work was postponed
until next tide, when the water was
again in, and a good-sized sloop was anchored
over the spot. A tackle was
slun^ from a boom attached to rope .
handles on the end of the box. The end
" ?? tl,on i,i,t nrnunrl ilir- windings ntifl
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the box and its contents soon hoisted to I
the surface. Other bands were nowplaced
about it to prevent it from bursting
open, and as the water ran out it was j
gradually hoisted on to the deck of the
sloop and placed amidships. The whale j
was now entirely out of water, lying in
a bed of wet seaweed.
"There ain't one person in a hun- '
dred,'' said the whaler, ' that knows
that a whale can live out of water. Now j
that feller won't have a swim for two
weeks, or, more likely, three. The only
thing they do is to dash a bucket of
water over it every hour or so and keep
the seaweed wet, ;:ud I ain't no doubt.
but what he'd go a month all rijrht. We
+ fr/wn tr? Olir?)trfV>* rllfltMl !
take two days, I reckon; then it goes on
to a steamer that takes it to Kngiand.
Two men go with it; they watch four
hours off and on and keep put tin' water
on the seaweed.
"Who is it for ? I don't know exactly,
but I know the man that pays the money
is takin' it over on a spec. Some of them
aquariums offered a thousand dollars if
he'd deliver the whale in the tank alive
and it lived two mouths. So lie's goin'
to try it. I'd take the chances myself if
I had the money. It costs about $200 to
deliver it. We sent one to the Hrighton
aquarium, England, and I heard tell it
lived six months."
The explanation of the fact thut
whales can be so transported lies in the
fact that they are warm-blooded mammals,
th -same as cows, nursing their
young, and do not breathe water, but
air. taking enough at every blow to last
half an hour or so, only requiring water
to moisten the parts and as a medium in
which to move and for which they arc
I adaDted, so that with care a whale can
be kept out of water some time. If the
experiment was carefully made they perhaps
could be forced to give up the water
and live as does the manatee, so at
: least tl*i evolutionists think.?/'/tifad'l'
phiu Times.
Gambling in Italy.
The real Bible of the Italian peasant,
according toa Naples letter to the Chicago
j Tribune, is the lottery handbook?a book
i in which all sorts of things, sights,
j sounds, names, omens, accidents, etc.,
| arc made to correspond with certi'in
numbers.
When the popolino win in the state
j lotteries there is always great rejoicing
! and festivity. In Naples this generally
takes the form of inordina'e indulgence
in such delicacies as t ried fish, watermelons,
snails, fresh figs, cucumbers, and
i washed down with quantities of more oj
| less adulterated wine.
First-class engravers at the bureau ot
engraving and printing, Washington, are
paid $8 per day, and are paid for the
time that they actually work.
Connecticut's Bine Laws.
The people of Connecticut must have
had lively times in the old days, -when
the famous blue laws were in force. Here
is a compendium of the Puritan regulations
which were in force in the early
part of the last century. It must have
been a cheerful task to live up to them.
The governor and magistrates convened
in general assembly are the supreme
power under God c.T the independent
dominion. From the determination
of the assembly no appeal shall
be made.
Whosoever says there is a power and
jurisdiction above and over this dominion
shall sutler death and loss of property.
Conspirators, attempting to change or
,1 .lantli
overturn nil* uunuuiwa muu k?uv.
The judges shall determine controversy
without a jury.
1 No one shall be a freeman and give a
vote unless he be con verted and a member
in full communion with one of the
churches allowed in this community.
Xo man shall hold any ollice who is
not sound in the faith and faithful to
this dominion, and whoever gives a vote
to such a person shall pay a line of twenty
shillings for the first oflense, and for the
sccond lie shall be disfranchised.
Each freeman shall swear by the blessing
of God to bear true allegiance to
this dominion, and that Jesus is the only
king.
No Quaker or dissenter from the worship
of the established dominion shall be
allowed to give a vote for the election of
magistrates or any oHiccr.
No food or lodgings shall be afforded
a Quaker, Adamite, or heretick.
If any person turns Quaker he shali be
banished and not suffered to return but
upon pain of death.
No priest shall abide in this dominion;
hp shall he banished, and suifer death on
his return. Priests may be seized by any
one without a warrant.
No one is to cross a ferry but with an
authorized ferryman.
No one shall run on the Sabbath day
or walk in his garden or elsewhere, except
reverently to and from meeting.
No one shall travel, cook victuals,
make beds, sweep house, cut hair, or
shave on the Sabbath day.
No woman shall kiss her child on the
Sabbath or fasting day.
The Sabbath shall begin at sunset 011
Saturday.
To pick an ear of corn growing in a
neighbor's garden shall be deemed theft.
A ncrson accused of trespass in the
night shall be judged guilty, unless lie
clear himself by his oath.
"When it appears that an accused has
confederates, and he rc 'uses to discover
them, he may be racked.
No one shall buy or sell lands without
permission of the selectmen.
Whosoever publishes a lye to the prejudice
of his neighbor shall sit in the
stocks or be whipped fifteen stripes.
No minister shall keep a school.
Whoever brings cards or dice into this
dominion shall pay a fine of ?5.
Whoever wears clothes trimmed with
gold, silver or bone lace above two shillings
by the yard shall be presented to
the grand jurors, and the selectmen shall
tax the olTenderat .L'30C estate.
A debtor in prison swearing he has no
estate shall be let out and sold to make J
satisfaction,
Whoever sets a tire in the woods and it
burns a house shall suffer death; and the
persons suspected of this crime shall be
imprisoned without benefit of bail.
No one shall read commou prayer,
keep Christmas or saints' days, make
minced pies, play cards, or phy on auy
instrument of musick, except the drum,
trumpet and Jews' harp.
No gospel minister shall join people in
marriage, the magistrates only shall join
in marriage, as they may do it v/ith less
scandal to Christ's church.
When parents refuse their children
convenient marriages the magistrates
shall determine the point.
A man that strikes his wife shall pay
a fine of i'10; a woman that strikes her
husband shall be punished at the discretion
of the court.
A wife shall be deemed good evidence
against her husband.
No man shall court a maid in person
or by letter without lirst obtaining the
consent 01 nor parents. riv? jiuuuus
penalty for the tirst offense; .?10 for the
second, and for the third imprisonment
during pleasure.
Married persons must live together or
he imprisoned.
Every male shall have his hair cut
round, according lo a cap.
A Remarkable Buffalo Hunt
People living near Glendive, Montana,
were surprised one day not long ago by
hearing a loud tramping, and through "j
the clouds of dust kicked up they discovered
a herd of buffalo making at a
mad pace for the river. The animalsappeared
to he well-nigh run down, but j
many of them were furious. As they |
came to the bank of the Yellowstone
they plunged in pell inell one on top of
the other, and for a time it looked as j
though many of them would be killed,
but nearly all got out uninjured. They
had hardly reached the other side when
a yelling crowd of white men and Indians
came up on foam-covered horses.
They paused here long enough to get ;
refreshment, and theii resumed the
chase.
There were four or five hundred buffalo
in the herd, and they were making !
for British America as fust as their legs
would carry them. From the hunters it
was learned that the hunt began down
in Dakota, on the Cannon Hall river,
where not less than 5,000 of the animals
were found grazing. A few of the men
had followed them the entire distance,
but, although the party that pasted
Glendive numbered only thirty, its members
estimated that from first to last
three or four hundred men had taken
part in the slaughter. Some of the men
who started out with the original party
I had remained behind at various points
to secure the hides, and others, who only
joined in for the sport, bad dropped out
L-ottofrlnrr I Vintncnl witil llin
chase. The rapidity with which these
magnificent animals are slaughtered is
shown by the fact that the hunters passing
through Hieudivc said they would
I have the hides of the remnant of the
I herd before reaching the boundary line.
I'robablv this is one of the last big
i bulTalo hunts tint will occur in this
country. The Indian, now that he is us;
sured of enough to eat at. the agencies,
is as reckless in his slaughter of tiie bison
1 as the white man. lie seems to consider
j the game as nearly extinct, and lie ?.roes
i in recklessly with (lie idea of having all
I tin- sport he can before the end is reached.
' Tha wanton destruction of this herd has
caused great indignation throughout the
entire section traversed, but as it. seems
to be the policy to exterminate the bison
nothing will be done about it.
Tlte Festival of Snakes.
A Naples letter to the London AV/m
| riys: A celebrated Abruzzese painter is
about to put on canvass the characteristic
representation of a curious festival
held at a little mountain church once a
j year. ThfC peasants walk in procession,
carrying round their arms, waists, and
necks, etc., all the snakes that they can
find. Signor Michetti, the artist, has a
quaint little villa on the shores of the
Adriatic. lie was lately visited by a
| friend, to whom lie showed all the curi|
osities of his villa, and then, opening a
j small door into a dark chamber, into
which lie entered for a moment, he called
out: "I have something slill better to
show you. Take these." The friend
j held out his arms, and. to his horror,
j five or six blacksnaktw were put into
| them. With -i cry of disgust he threw
I them on the ground. "How stupid you
, are," said Michetti. "You will make
j me lose all my models!" He then ex|
plained to his friend that he was making
| studies from life for his great picture.
The curious festival which is to be the
; subject of the painting is believed by
1 the peasants to preserve them from poij
son and sudden death and to briug them
good fortune, especially in love.
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In 1830 there were only 161 ministers,
consuls, agents, etc., in the diplomatic
service of the United States: now there
are over nine hundred persons employed
ia said service.
^DREADFUL ALTERNATIVE.;
3AILOE8 RESORT T.3 CANNIBAL Sil
TO AVOID STARVATION. |
A Sharp Knife in .-t FoyS .Insular
i Vein, a Piteous Appeal an.I All i?.
j Over.
i The London papers say tint :i terrible j
itory of cannibalism and suffering at sea
tias been told by three sailors who formed j
i part of the crew of the yacht Migno- |
oette, and were landed at Falmouth on j
Saturday. The three men?Thomas
Dudley, Edward Brooks and Edwin j
i Stephens?together with a lad named
Richard Parker, aged nineteen, were enj
gaged to take out the yacht Mignonette
to Sydney for a Mr. Ilenry J. Want. A
Btonn arose, and the captain, seeing that
I the yacht was rapidly foundering,ordered
j the boat to be got out. This was done,
j but with the exception of two small
1 tins of preserved turnips they were without
either food or water. The turnips
i lasted but four or five days, and their
sufferings from thirst during that time
I were frightful. They killed a turtle and
drank its blood, and then for more than i
' a fortnight they were absolutely without |
; food. So terrible did their position be- I
i - .1 -!_Ul *1. !
: come tfiat at tue eiiu 01 iuc Kigiuvuum
j day they deliberated as to the advisability
of casting lots as to who should be
killed to supply food for the others,
j This plan was proposed by the capI
tain, but one of the men ob;
jected, saying it was better they should
all die together, and the proposal was
not pressed. But after two days more i
i of horrible suffering both the captain and
I the mate suggested that the boy Parker
should be killed, especially as his sufferings
were so intense that he had become
! delirous. They also reasoned that he
j was only a lad, with no responsibilities,
( while they were married men, with wives
, and families depending on them.
I Brooks declined to be a party in the
; matter. Eventually the captain and the
mate decided jointly to kill Parker, who
I was iying in the bottom of the boat in a
j state of exhaustion. Dudley having of;
fered up a prayer for forgiveness for the
, act, went to the boy and said: "Now,
, Dick, your time has come!" Parker
, faintly cried: "What? me, sir!" Dudley
I replied: "Yes, my boy;" and thereupon
i ran a small penknife into Parker's juguI
lar vein. The lad offered no resistance,
dying almost instantly. The survivors
caught the gushing blood in their tins and
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I aranK it octwuun muin,hilh suiij/jfcu. vuv
1 body of its clothes, cut out the liver
and heart while yet hot. from the body,
1 and devoured them voraciously. For the
j next four days they continued to live
on the flesh which they tore from Parker's
dead bod}*, and they were still eat'
ing their horrible food when, on the
j twenty-fourth day from the time they
left their yacht, they were sighted and
I rescued by the German bark, Montezuma.
On arriving at Falmouth the men were
taken to the Sailors' home, and later in
the day they were apprehended under a
warrant. At the Falmouth police court
the three men were charged with the
murder of the lad Richard Parker. The
only witness called was Police Constable
I Lavertv. Harbor police, who stated that
| he heard the prisoners relate the above
story. The prisoners were released on
! bail.
THE CAPTAIN'S CONFESSION.
Captain Dudley, in an interview, conversed
freely about the terrible occurrence.
After detailing the earlier part
of the voyage of the Mignonette from
Southampton to Madeira, and their
afterward signaling an Italian bark
and speaking the Bride of I.orne, lie
said:
Day after day passed, and on the
eleventh day we had tiaished the turtle
and had nothing left except the two
fins; but we ale every portion, even the
bones. The foot of the turtle proved very
nutritious, and we got water a few
times when there were showers by catching
the rain in our oilskins, though
sometimes when we had a little drop a
; sea broke into it and spoiled it, so that
we had to throw it away.
We went on from the fifteenth to the
twentioin uay wuuout any mou ;u <m ui
drink, and by that time we had begun
to look each other in the face very
black. The boy, who had drank some
sea water at night, had said: "We
j shall all uie,"' and I remarked: "We
shall have to draw lots, boys."
This was ignored by all, and they
said: " We had better die together," to
which I replied: " So let it be, but it
is hard for four to die when perhaps one
might save the rest."
A day or two before I suggested we
should try and make some kind of sail,
which we did with our shirts rigged on
an oar for a mast and a strand of the
painter for scuds and stays. Things now
iooked as bad as they could.
On either the nineteenth or twentieth
day the boy was lying in the bottom
of the boat, where he had been for two
days gasping for breath and nearly dead.
At about 3 o'clock in tbc morning I said
to the mate: "What is to be done? I
believe that boy is dying. You have a
wife and live children and I have a wife
and three children." I said that human
flesh had been eaten before.
Stephens replied: "bee wnat aayngnt
brings forth.''
Brooks took his watch at G o'clock,
and we made motions to each other.
Brooks ?aid he could not do it and
Stephens said he could not do it.
I told Brooks to go forward, which he
did. Then I took hold of the shrouds and
had a last look around to see if anything
was in sight, but there was nothing. I offered
up a prayer most fervently that
God above might forgive us for such an
! act, and then J knelt down by the boy
and said: "Now, Dick, my boy, your
time-has come."
He murmured: "What, me, sir?"
I put the penknife in his throat and he
was dead instantly.
The captain, who was much upset by
the recital, further stated how they
J drank the blood of the poor boy, and
| lived upon his llesh for the next four
days. On the twenty-fourth day. when
! they had almost given up all hope, BrookB
i called out, at about 8 o'clock in the
morning, "Sail, ho!" In an hour and a
! half the Montezuma was alongside, and
i they were lifted on to the deck. The
remains of the boy Parker were buried
tjy the captain of the rescuing vessel.
Moments or Inspiration
Verdi, the great Italian composer,
when engaged on his masterpiece "II
; Trovatore,"' stopped short at the pas!
sage of the "Miserere," being at a
loss to combine notes of suitieient sadness
and pathos to express the grief
of the prisoner Manrico. Sitting at
liis piano in ihe deep stillness of the
winter nights his imagination wandered
back to the stormy days of his
! youth, endeavoring to extract from
the past a plaint, a groan like those
which escaped from his troubled
breast when, forsaken by the world,
I he saw himself constrained to smother
the flame of rising?all in vain! One day,
j ut Milan, he was unexpectedly called to
j the bedside of a dying friend, one of the
few who had remained faithful to him
alike in adversity and prosperity. Verdi,
at the sight of his dying friend, felt a
lumn rise in his throat; he wanted to
ween, but so great was the intensity of
his sorrow, that not a tear would come
to the relief of his anguish. This state'
of paroxysm martyrdom could not last.
He must give vent to his grief. In an
adjoining room stood a piano. Verdi,
under one of those sudden impulses, to
which men of genius are frequently subject,
sat down at the instrument, and
i there and then improvised that sublime
' Miserere of the Trovatore. The musiI
cinn had wept! Those of the company
i who were not already kneeling in the
presence of the angel of death, at the
I sound of those pathetic notes, which
seemed like the last sobs of a departing
spirit, now prostrated themselves, deeply
affected, at the feet of the genius of
musical art. ? Carlo CeteurelU.
Long, plain velvet coats are imported
for winter wear. They have borders of
fur, chenille or embroidery in jet done
I on the garment itself. The more fluffy
the border, the more fashienable.
The site of the city of Washington and
j the location of public reservations,
squares, capitol and the executive man'
sion, were selected by President Washjingtou.
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
Salt nnd water is good for the hair and
makes it grow.
Eyebrows should never be trimmed, a8
it makes them stilT.
Some of the new French suits are made
of stripes running across the dressgoods.
Velvets are used for dress boiwicts, and
felt and cloth bonnets are worn to match
eloth costumes.
Hows of braid in graduated widths are
preferred to those of the same width for
trimming dress skirts.
Chenille and ribbon embroidery is used
to enrich the costliest evening dresses
and also bridal costumes.
Thrifty girls are buying the plain white
braids and embroidering them in color
for the trimming of winter suits.
Pale gray, prune color and maroon are
the favorite colors for mothers to wear at
the weddings of their daughters.
For plain white satin bridal dresses
there are made fronts, enriched with
pearl embroidery that cost $200.
rrV?rt ofrow liofa mnof in fnvnr
X UU V/VIUIOU Oltun uuwu .
are those of Lincoln srreen, scul tourterelle,
grenat, crimson and navy blue.
There is a tendency to revive the hat
with the gable-roof brim or peak above
the forehead introduced two years ago.
The oval turban is the fashionable
shape for small straw hats, and when
they are trimmed they resemble the capote.
Ilats trimmed with knots of velvet
mixed with small black wings are
made to accompany suits braided with
black.
Charming little mantles of ruby and
prime brocaded velvet are seen this season,
and the trimmings are exceptionally
beautiful.
Nuts and ncorns appear in bronze
beads with shaded leaves in brown che- |
nil.e, varied with gold, and vine leaves j
with bead veinings.
A beautiful garniture on lace is a mulberry
pattern, small dark garnet beads
forming the mulberry and darkly shaded
chenille the leaves.
Red prevails in millinery. A new
bright shade is called Porphre, and there
are dull Pompeiian red shades with chandron
and garnet tints.
A lovely combination for trimming is
of gray chenille with steel beads and silvered
leather, and this looks very effective
on gray silk, satin or velvet.
The drapery worn with trained skirt3
is fastened very high, and sometimes imi"
tates a bow and is sometimes lined and
allowed to hang in soft points.
A few woolen dresses are trimmed
with band, vest, collar and cuffs of a
contrasting woolen material, which in
turn is covered with rows of braid matching
the dress.
Old-fashioned lace veils make the prettiest
of aprons to wear over black silk or
satin skirts. They are bordered on each
side with red and black satin bows, and
are not much wrinkled.
Yellow is so fashionable abroad that it
is nossible. without creating remark, to
wear skirts of blacK nnd vcilow silk, and
a short, black overdress with collar and
cuffs matching the skirt.
Woman was made out of the rib taken
from the side of a man; not out of his
head, to rule over him, but out of his
side to be equal, under his arm to be
protected, and near his heart to be
loved.
Some of the Indies of the court of
Louis XV., in connection with the
patches, rouge and paint, with which
they disfigured their faces, were so whimsical
as to wear eyebrows made out of
mole skin.
Yak laces of large desigus in gray and
brown shades are used for trimming alpaca
and bison cloth dresses for the present
season, and are being manufactured
in darker colors to trim woolen dresses
for winter wear.
''Babv" is the name given to the little
bonnets with full satin linings and narrow
satin strings now in favor in Paris.
They are trimmed outside with a wreath
?f fin.. it*ifr 11 n tift- inainnr liicrh in
\Jl 1111 vs iiuhvio ???*.? ?13 ?e
front,and sometimes liave a spray of flowers
resting on the hair.
Some beautiful feather fans, imported
for evening use, have palm-leaves of the
very brightest colors set on each stick
and fringed about with white or black,
so that these hues only show when the
fan is closed, and it may be carried with
any dress.
The French crown diamonds were frequently
worn by Marie Antoinette, who
hud a great fondness for precious stones.
Both the wives of Napoleon I. wore colored
stones in preference to diamonds,
Josephine because she was too dark, and
Marie Louise because she was too fair.
Empress Eugenie made no little use of
the French crown jewels, and was the
last person to wear them.
An Arithmetical Trick.
A _ r__ ... ? i??. 4
AS lar as wc Miun, mc juiiumiiy
pretty little arithmetical trick has never
been published:
Tell a person to write down a number
[ consisting of any three dissimilar digits.
Tell liiui next to write down the same
digits in the reverse order, and to subtract
the lesser number from the greater,
lie is then to state the unit figure of the
remainder, and you at oncc tell him the
whole of the remainder.
The result will be as under. The middle
figure will always be a nine, and the
other two figures added together will
always equal nine. Thus, suppose hp
Writes 472
Reversed 274
Remainder 198
lie states the unit figure of the remainder
to be eight. You at at oncc
announce the remainder to be a hundred
and ninety eight.
The trick may be varied by letting the
person tell you the hundred figure of the
j remainder (if there is no hundred figure
; the remainder will be ninety-nine), or by
| giving him the choice of either the liuni
dred or unit litrure. Rut the trick will
i uot bear repeating more than oncc, as it
i will soon be discovered that the middle
j iigure is always si nine.
! Three similar digits may be written,
I when the answer will be 000; but this
is not so pretty as an answer in digits,
so it is recommended to make it compulsory
to write dissimilar digits.
The explanation is simple. A minute's
reflection will show that the remainder
j must always be a multiple of ninety-nine.
: It is a well-known property of the uumi
ber nine that the dibits of any number
devisible by nine without a remainder,
j will, when added together, themselves
! make nine, or a multiple of nine. The
result of the subtraction being devisible
j by nine without a remainder, and the
1 middle figure being a nine, the other two
| figures added together must eqal nine;
consequently if one of them is known,
the other will evidently be the complement
of nine with this Iigure.
_
The Yard Measure.
A few months since a questiou was
| raised about the measurement of land in
1 vogue in the British American colonies
before they became known to history as
the I'nited States. The English board of
trade was appealed to for information as
to when the existing foot measure was
established in America, and whether it
might have differed at any time from the
: foot measure of Great Britain. In reply,
the board stated that the standard yard
i of Henry VIII. still exists, andisproha|
bly of exactly the same length as the
ohl Saxon yard. It is a solid lirass rod,
j and was constantly used for the verifica:
tion of other yards till the reign of "good
I t\ r> if A ft,,.. IV,,. !,?
IV?UUCU lit'M. ;iuui (UIHHJII^ iv/i biiu \,otimuted
wear, it is fouud to be of the
same length as the present standard yard,
j Carpel Trade llevicw.
j The new United States war deparment
i has one hundred and seventy - three
rooms and cost $'2,500,000. The buildJ
ing has four hundred and twelve win!
dows.
| The taxable property in the United
j States is something more than $17,000,000,000,
not including the property free
from taxation by this government and
I many of the States.
I wmm ?
The water used in the White House
for drinking purposes is conveyed to the
j mansion by pipes from a spring in Franklin
Park, several squares distant.
HEROES OF THE SAWDUST.
CXBOUS PPKFOEMEB5 WHO QAIjntO
A WOBLD-WIDE PA ME.
I
Omnr Kiii|;<tIoy? the TInn Who masqueraded
for ( l-jlit Vcan nit a
Woman Without Discovery.
' There are few people of the present
generation," said Richard Hammings,
the old time circus manager and per- j
former, "who have not witnessed tho
performances of Levi J. North, James ;
llcrmandez aud Omar Kingsley. Tho
names of those three great riders arc the
most famous and the most widely known j
in the annals of the circus profession in
America. North, in his prime, was
simply an Apollo on horseback. He
was about five feet six inches in height,
with a ruddy, fair complexion and light
hair, which, like most performers of his
day, he wore long, while his face was
always smoothly shaven. His every
movement was the very embodiment of
grace, and he was as daring as he was
graceful. He is said to have been tho j
first rider who ever turned a somersault
on horseback. He was a very versatile
performer, being not only a great rider, j
but a great acrobat as well. For a period i
of forty years he was constantly before I
the public and he now lives in retire- j
ment in Brooklyn, at the ripe old age of
more than seventy years.
"James Hernandez was a contemporary
of North and enjoyed an almost equal
reputation. Ilis real name was Mickey !
Kelley. Like North, lie was simply a
picture as he stood on his horse. He, j
too, had a fair complexion and fair hair, i
and like the majority of the'most distin- j
guished riders he was rather short, being
only about live feet three inches high.
As a rider he was one of the best of his
day, being second only to North. He
visited England in 1852 and created a
furore, being pronounced the greatest !
equestrian that had ever appeared at Ast- j
ley's up to that time. He returned to
this country and died here some years
ago.
"One of the most remarkable characters
in his way ever connected with the j
circus profession was the rider who w as
known at different times by the names of j
? * * T Tl 1 FT?
Ella Zoyara ana umar jviugs.ej. ii?
was born of French parents in New Orleans,
and while a circus managed by S.
Q. Stokes and Signor Louis Gcrmani
was exhibiting in that city he was apprenticed
to the managers by his parents,
being then seven years old. His
real surname Signor Germani has
forgotten, and no one else in the
business save Stokes knows it,
but the Signor remembers that
his Christian name was Sam,
or "Little Sammie,' as everybody called
him. He was at once taught to ride,
and showed considerable ability. When
he was eleven years old Stokes, in view
of the boy's singular girl-like beauty,
conceived the idea of transforming him
as nearly as possible into a female. Accordingly
he gave him the name of Ella
Zoyara, and at once had him attired exactly
like a girl. Every article of his
dress, both without and within, was precisely
like that of a woman, and not only
was he dressed in this way in the ring,
but in private life as well. He never
ajrain wore an article of man's apparel
till after he was nineteen years old.
Stokes lcsolved to make the illusion as
complete as possible, did not even allow
any of his company to know that 'Ella
Zoyara' was not a genuine girl.
Minainofl
lie WQ9 OUlIgCU IU uiusu uis ati, H' uitoa
and to wait till the performance was
over before a thorough search for tho
jewel could be made, and even then it
could not be discovered. lie left the
building disconsolate, never expecting
to see his diamond again. I5ut that night
ns he was flying around the ring upon
his horse he happened to look down and
saw a bright glitter in the sawdust at the
edsre of the ring. The minutes seemed
like hours till after the audience had dispersed,
and then upon going to the spot
he found his ring, which he at once had
made smaller, and which he never again
permitted to leave his linger.
"It was while riding in Germany that,
through some untoward circumstance,
the fact of his being a man was discovered,
after he had successfully carried od
this masquerade for inoi c than eight years
andasaconsequencc he was obliged to
make a hasty departure from that country.
His entire individuality seemed to have
been changed by tho deception, which he
had practiced so long, lie had all the
whimsicality and capricc of a woman.
Stokes used to buy long kid gloves reaching
to the elbow, but if, when lie tried
011 a new pair, he found in them the
slightest wrinkle, he would tear them oil
violently and throw them away. I Ic had
for eight years, during which Stokes
tonk him to Europe, where he created
immense excitement. His beauty at that
time was remarkable. He had a faultless
complexiou of the purest brunette
type, his face never showing the slightest
tracc of a beard, and his features
were perfect and of the most delicate,
womanly charactcr, as were also his
hands and feet. Ilia hair, of raven
blackness hung in luxuriant masses almost
to his waist. I was playing at Astley's,
in London, when he made his first
appearance there, and subsequently I
traveled through England for four
months in the same company with him,
and in all that time 1 never had the
slightest suspicion that he was not a girl.
It was probably the most successful de
J.:-.? ~sw.tr/1o onv nvnr nmf'Hrnfl
CUJHIUU tt3 icyuiMo o\,.\
Stokes at that time had in his charge a
little girl about the same age as the socalled
Ella Zoyara, whom she very closely
resembled. She and 'Ella' were always
dressed magnificently in a very
similar manner, were always together
and you would have taken them for
twins or at least sisters. When this little
girl grew to womanhood she became
the wife of Stokes.
"Wherever 'Ella Zoyara' appeared he
completely enthralled many of the male
hearts in the audience. He received
letters of the most passionate character
and magnificent presents from the nobility
and gentry of Europe. Among tlioso
who worshiped at the shrine of this
temple of supposed female loveliness was
one of the crowned heads of Germany,
who, among other costly things, presented
'Ella' with a diamond ring, valued
at $3,000, about which I have often
heard the latter tell this story: He was
riding in a circus in St. Petersburg, and
the ring being rather loose upon his finger
slipped oil one afternoon as lie was doing
his act, and Hew he knew not where. Almost
frantic at the loss of his treasure
the temper ot :i virago. Alter me uiscovery
of his sex he rode as a man. tmder
the name of Omar Kingsley, and wore
male apparel in private life, but he never
could break himself of the effeminate
manners and habits which he had acquired
during his long masquerade, lie
continued to do sewing and fancy work
in his spare moments and when seeking
rest and recreation in the privacy of his
home wotdd a'tirc himself in a lady's
wrapper. At times he would again bill
himself as Klla Zovara and tide as a
woman, but he never again attempted to
deceive any one save theeircus-going public.
lie married Sal lie Stick tie v, daughter
of Sam 1'. Stick wy. by whom he had
three children, but the union not proving
a happv one they separated, lie after
ward married again and died abroad some
years ago, leaving one child by his second
wife.?I'hihiih!jilitit Timet.
The Romantic to Order.
The night was dark, cloudy mid ro
mailtic as lu; stood under her window at
the parent ill mansion. A rope, chock
full of elopement, stretched from the
window to the ground. Softly the sash
was raised, and her angelic form appeared
at the casement.
"Is everything ready?" she whispered
in a third scene, box set voice.
"Yes," he responded, in the same theatrical
tones.
"Have you the horse and buggy at the
corner, a dark lantern, two revolvers and
a double barreled shotgun?"
"Yes, yes," he replied; "everythingis
arranged. Slide down."
"And have you hired two men to chase
us?"? Pittsburg Chronicle.
Pennsylvania avenue, from the treasury
building to the capitol, Washington,
is 100 feet wide, and almost as smooth
us an ico-pouil.
NEWS SUMMARY
Knulrm and mileidlo state*.
A fierce railroad war has been commenced
in New York, and passenger rates to
the West have been cut.
William H. Vanderuilt, the railroad |
magnate, has given the New York College <
of Physicians and Surgeons $500,000, with
which to erect a new building.
The slioro end of the new Atlantic cable,
known as the Mackay-Bennett cable, was
safely landed at Coney Island.
A fire in Brooklyn destroyed business
property valued at ?200,000.
A sawmill bjiler exploded at Midcjlebourne,
Ponn., causing tho death of two men
and fatal injuries to two others.
A man named Samuel Boone, of Southport,
N. Y., who was ejected from the executive
chamber at Albany recently for
creating a disturbance because Governor
Cleveland refused to pardon his wife's
brother, made an attack upon the governor
while the latter was on his way to
the capitol. The governor left the executive
mansion a few minutes l>efore 9
o'clock a. m. lie had just passed the Medical
college near tho foot of Lancaster street, when
Boone suddenly struck at him. The governor
parried the blow with his right arm and
treated several additional blows in the same
manner. Boone then rushed toward a pile
of cobble stones, but before ho could pick
one up ho was seized by Dr. George
H. Houghton, who held the man until
nnvflmnr ('liwolnml hn/1 rfHiimifvl his
walk. Releasing Boone, Dr. Houghton
overtook the governor, and found that lie
was in no way injured by the assault Boone
walked rapidly to a house close to the place
of assault. There ho was arrested. The city
was quickly flooded with all sorts of reports
regarding tho assault. Governor Cleveland
mado light of the matter and attended to business
as usual. Boone, a young man about
twenty-eight years old, said ho was distracted
about his wife,who was at tho point of death.
The Lockport Banking association, a private
banking firm of Lockport, N. Y., of
many years' standing, has suspended payment.
A broken dam about a mile above Ansonia,
Conn., let out a flood of water covering
200 acres which rushed through the lower
portion of the village, causing consternation
among the people. More than 100 families
were forced to leave their homes and flee for
safety to higher grounds from the terrific
flood which rushed with great speed through
the streets.
Three doctors who examined Boone, the
aaaaiiauu ui VJV/VCIuui \?/ic VCUUJU au niuaiiy ,
declared him not insane, but of extremely
nervous disjKJsition. As Governor Cleveland
did not wish to prosecute, Boone was released.
At the Carthago (N. Y.) fire there were
i 202 buildings burned, of which 108 are dwellings,
four churches, two schools, one opera
i house, one store, one village hall, one wagon
shop, one hotel, and the remainder are manu!
factories and barns.
South and Weit.
Revised Ohio returns elect Ellsbury (DemoI
crat) to Congress in the Eleventh district, in!
stead of Hart (Republican), as at first re|
ported. This makes the congressional dele!
gation stand eleven Democrats to ten Re!
publicans.
i The town of Barnesville, Go., has been laid
: waste by fire. The depot, hotjl, stores and
! almost the entire town, together with 500 bales
of cotton, have been swept away. The loss
I will not be less than $4C0,000.
i J. R. Swofford, a member of the Tennessee
j senate, was shftt and killed at Sparta by
; jailer Monroe Hudson. Hot words between
the two men led to the drawing of pistols,
with the result described.
The boiler of a saw mill near Roland, I1L,
exploded, killing three men.
i Forest fires have burned over a large
space and done much damage in several Mississippi
counties.
Part of a bridge across the East Fork river
near Batavia, Ohio, gave way as an express
train was parsing over it the other evening.
The bridge is fifty feet above the water, and
several curs fell through. The engineer and
fireman were instantly killed, two other men
fatally injured and several others hurt more
or less seriously.
Twelve stores, comprising the business
portion of Edgefield, S. C.,have been burned
Kstimfltwl tnt/il nhont SI00.IXM).
At the Ohio State election the Prohibition
vote was 9,510, against H,:U>2 last year, and
the Greenback vote :J,7CX?, against :i,lM7 last
year. Tiie total vote was 780,373, against
! 718,108 lust year.
Richard Waddy, superintendent of a
foundry at Leavenworth, Kansas, shot his
wife and her companion, Mrs. Mollio Logue,
fatally wounding both women. He then
killed himsef. Domestic troubles caused the
triple tragedy.
The boiler of a threshing machine on a farm
at Beltrami, Minn., exploded, instantly killing
tho engineer, three farm hands and a boy,
and badly scalding another man. The engineer
had been "on a drunk.''
At Thomas' coke oven, Tunnelton, W. Va., I
three men and a boy were pushing a car of I
; coal along the tramway above the ovens. As I
they stepped over one of the ovens it caved
I in, precipitating all four into the white hot
coke. They were literally burned to ashes
all that was found of them being the melted
metal of a few buttons and coins.
Rain has at last fallen in many parts of the
South and broken the long-continued
I arougnu
Edward O. Fitzgerald, Jr., a popular
young man of Richmond, Va., accideutly
shot himself?inflicting a wound that may result
fatally?on the eve of his wedding to
Miss Liliie Carrington, daughter ol the
i mayor of Richmond
Washington*
Secretary Frelinohuysen has invited
foreign governments and representative men
in the various cotton-crowing and manufac- j
turing countries of the world to participate
in a universal cotton convention to be held in
the grand hall of the World's Exposition at
New Orleans, commencing 011 February 10,
! 188.1
Postmaster General Hatton* and Senor
Romero, the Mexican minister, have concluded
a postal convention providing for the
; exchange of mail matter between the United
' States aud Mexico at domestic rates of postage.
VT. W. Dempsey, a Washington stationer?
has been arrested charged with fraud in con"
nection with supplies furnished ' the navy department.
Foreign*
Alexander M. Sullivan, the well known
Irish leader and one of the founders of the
home rule movement, died at Dublin a few
days since.
Another battle is reported to have been
fought between tho French and the Chinese
near TamsuL Three thousand Chinese were
killed, but the Frejjch loss was trifling. Five
i French men-of-war are statiuued beiore Kclung
and eight before Tainsui.
The ocean steamship Nevada, from New
York for Liverpool, arrival at Queenstown
with her cargo on fire. It had been burning for
several days, creating great excitement among
the passengers. A quantity of the cargo was
thrown overboard, and officers, passengers
and crew worked unceasingly to keep down
the fire. Among tho cargo were 1,400 bales
of cotton, bushels of wheat, *>0,2S0
pounds of bacon and UK) barrels of lubricating
oil.
i An attempt was made to blow up the police
barracks in Paris by exploding a bomb in the |
officers' room. Nine persons were arrested.
The six Russian olliccrs who were sen- j
toneecl to cleatU eaiuy in tne weeitior puuuctu
offences were put to death at tho St.
Petersburg eitudal. Besiile them, there j
were two women who paid the death penalty,
0110 Madame Wolkenstein, the other May j
Figner.
Two prominent Parisians ? Ferdinand
j)Ioch, a dramatist, and M. Bauer, a critic?
have just fought a duel in which the lattor
wns seriously wounded after an exchange of
four shots.
A Beiu.in dis?ntch announces tho death of
William I., duke of Brunswick. The government
of Brunswick will he carried 011 pro'
visional!}* by a council of regency.
The German theatre and seventy-six shops
at Moscow have lieen destroyed by lire. The
' damage is estimated at 15,(,IOO,lH)i> roubles.
The Chinese have suffered nnother heavy
defeat in Toni)uin at the hands of the French.
Aktmi'ii (litTo.v, the Tiehborno claimant,
who was sent to prison in forswearing
that he was Sir Ituger Ciiaiies Tiehborne, tho ,
heir t<? the Tirhborne estates in England, has J
1 hern released Irani confinement.
Admiral Lyxcii, head of the Chilian navy, I
} is dead. |
Chinese troops continue to jxmr into Ton(|itiii,
and great uneasiness prevails 011 this account.
in Paris.
I iik |hi|m> is about to croato eight. new cardinals.
I'oi.irn'ai. riots continue in Belgium, and
a liumU-r of fatal collisions havo1 oc,
cunvil. |
A HitiTi.-n protectorate lias been estabisli
cil in New (iiiinea.
NEWSY GLEANINGS,
F1 n itlfi oxiH-M'ts lo raiso o,000,000 boxes of j
, oranges this season.
fiitixKKK i liililii'ii in-!* not allowed to attend
! tin* public st'liimis of California.
TllF.UK nro thirty colored Init. n<> white 1
I women in tlielScorJin |H'i:i entinry.
j Tiik honey production of 1/ s a uncles, l'a i., i
! for 1&S4, is estimated at 10,0 U tons, and ]
j valued at $l,UUll,ifUO.
Aiiout 10,00(1 Jewish emigrants land at
| our ports yearly, and they have l>eon coming
j at that ratio for ton years.
| Theiik has noon a falling off of lifty per
j cent, in lawsuits in I'hila.tolphia in the past
I toil years. As 11 eons ipienen there is a panic
! among the lawyers.
| Mexico, according to tho most recent
i statistics, has a population of ton inillto.is,
and tho valuo of property in tho eouut-ry Ls
! estimated at fit,M'.l,()(>),0(H>.
Tiik two islands in tho straits of iSunda,
I Kto*rs and t'alnuyer, which sprang up last
' year at the time of the Kiakaton eruption,
J tiavo agait? been swallowed up l>y tho .-.ea.
LATER NEWS
The first snow of the season fell a few day? [
since in the Wyoming valley, New York.
A soldiers' monument was unveiled at
Waterbury, Conn., in presence of 30,000 per.
sons, including the governors of Connecticut,
Rhode Island and Maine,United States Senators
Hawley and Piatt and other prominent
men. There was a procession, with other appropriate
ceremonies. The monument is of
granite, fifty feet high, and cost $30,000.
A train* of 110 cars, each packed solidly
with wheat, was one of the sights in Dakota
a few days ago. This is tho largest wheat
train on record.
H. D. Cooke & Co., Washington bankers,
have failed for $140,000.
The order of the treasury department forbidding
the importation of rags has been
modified so as to limit it to Infected ports
only.
The Chinese have repaired their damaged
forts, and great numbers of hill men are
joining tho regular troops in their operations
against the French.
the Canadian settlements or romie-a-r re
gate and Petite Anse have been completely
destroyed by lire. Thirty-five families were
reported to be in a state of starvation.
Admiral Courbet, commander of the
French fleet operating in China, lias ordered
the blockade of Formosa,
An express train and a cattle train collided
near Montreal, 120 sheep were killed, an engineer
was burned to death, several persons
were injured and $100,000 worth of property
destroyed.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT,
Open'ng the Autumnal Se?*lon in Lon?
don?'J lie Queen s Spccch.
The uutumnal session of parliament was
opened in London by commission, the queen's
^p.-cch being read by proxy. As is usually the
'juso when any public question of interest is
afloat, the members of the house of commons
caine down at an early hour to secure
their plants for the evening debate by putHnir
tlioir lints nil their RAnts Rhnrtlv ho
fore 1 o'clock the speaker tojk the chair, and
was cordially greeted by the members already
assembled. At 2 o'clock the usher of the
j Black Rod appeared and invited the attend,
i once of the common) at the bar of the hou?e
of lords to hoar the royal message. The summons
was resjKjnded to by the speaker, followed
by bis troop of commoners. The following
is the queen's speech:
"My Lords axd Gentlemen:
"I have brought you together to enable
you to further consider the great subject of
the representation of the people. I continue
to maintain relations of amity with all for?igns
power*. The information from the
.Soudan includes painful uncertainties, but
the energy, courage and resource conspicuously
displayed by General GorJon
in the successful defence of Khartoum
deserves my warm recognition.
The advance of my troops to Dongola has for
its object the rescue and security of that gallant
officer and of thoso who have so faithfully
co-operated with him. I am using ;?y
best endeavors in Egypt to promote further
improvement of ana;rs in that country. I
have given my support to the Egyptian government
in the dilncult financial position in
which it was left through the failure of the
recent conference.
"1 regret the occurrences of the Transvaal,
and am considering, with the Cape government,
means to secure the observance of the
convention.
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons:
"The oi>erations in the Soudan render it
necessary to ask of you further pecuniary
provision.
"My Lords and Gentlemen:
"A bill for the extention of the parliamen
tary franchise will be at once introduced.
May the blessing of God attend your labors!"
ARMY MATTER,
Henort of the Snnreon'fteneral of i
the I'nitcd States Army.
The surgeon-general of the army, in his an.
cual report to the secretary of war, says that j
an increased amount of appropriation for the }
purchase of artificial limbs and appliances j
for the next fiscal year is necessary. He j
speaks of the apparent hardships in carrying
out the laws for furnishing trusses, J
and recommends that the existing law on this
1 subject be so amended as to correspond with j
! that relating to artificial limbs. Medical and
! hospital supplies were issued during the year
to tne amount of $100,567, and the costot the
supplies required during the current fiscal
year will probably exceed that amount by at
least $2o,000. He renews the suggestion
made in his last annual report, that
Congress so legislate as to permit the sale of
medical supplies to civilian employes. The total
number of deaths amoug whito troops was
250, or 12 per 1,000 of mean strength, an increase
of 2 per 1,000 over the rate for the previous
year. The number of white soldiers discharged
for disability was &J8. The total number
of deaths among the colored troops was
22, or 10 per 1,000 of mean strength, which
is 1 per 1,000 lower than the death rate of
the previous year. He notes the fact that
this is not only the lowest death rate yet
reached among the colored troojjs since their
organization, but that it is the first time the
| rate bos fallen lower man ror wnite iroops;
the 'j?aal average difference being 3.2 per
1.000 of mean strength in favor of the latter
class. The number of recruits examined during
the year was 0,263 white, 453 colored, and
&0 Indian scouts. The number rejected was
2,041 whito and 140 colored.
C0MMANDEK SCHLEY.
His Official Account of the Rrtcuc
of Meiitenant freely.
The report of Commander W. S. Schley of
the Greely relief expedition has been submitted
to the secretary of the navy. It tells the
well-known story of the voyage of the relief
ships and therescue of Lieucenant Greely and
his surviving companions in detail, repeating
the facts which the rewsj apapers long ago
made familiar to the public. In regard to the
condition of the bodies of those who had died,
he says:
"In preparing the bodies or tne ueau ior
transpjrtntion in alcohol to St. Johns it was
found that six of them. Lieutenant Kislingbury,
Sergeants Jewell and Kalston, and privates
Whisler, Henry and Ellis, had been cut
and the fleshy parts removed to a greater or |
less extent. All the other bodies were found ]
intact. When the bodies of the dead were ,
exposed in preparing them the identification
was found to be complete. Some of them j
could be recognized by aid of a picture taken I
with us from home. Otherj whoso features
| had decayed were identified by other cliarac- i
i teristics." I am, therefore, satisfied that no !
| mistake was made in this important matter, j
which so impressed us from the beginniug.'' i
' S{)eaking of the difficulties and dangers !
which beset the relief ships, he says that in ;
| the effort to reach the Grtely party '"the
struggle with ice was constant and furious
j for 1,300 miles." The cost of the expedition
was about $750,000. Commander Schley
j commends the conduct of the oflicers of his
| shijs, and particularly that of Lieutenant
Emory.
THE NATIONAL GAME, i
The Providences held tho lead sixteec i
weeks out of twenty-three.
I The Chicago Tribune calls tho home clut !
an aggregation of "cripples, bums and bigheads."
i
I In a recent game at AVestfield, Mass., thi |
chief of police umpired tho game. Tuero wai
no kicking.
During tho past nino years the feat of re- I
tiring a club for nine innings without a saf?
hit has been accomplished thirty-live times. j
There was never a season when so manj j
games were played in which one side or the I
other played without an error as the present I
one.
The old order of things has boon reversed.
Insteud of being jn-aduated from college intc
a baseball nine, Vinton, the pitcher of the
Philadelphia*, has just entered Yale College.
The profits of tho American ciuds ror in?
Eresent season ure estimated as follows: St
ouis, $10,000; Athletics, $35,000; Ciucinnati*,
001; Brooklyn, $10,000; Baltimore, !
$1"),0 K); Louisville, "$S,000; Metropolian,
$.1,000; Richmond, $1,000; Allegheny, $>,0H).
Tho Indianapolis and Toledo Trill "close the
season about $.">,000 short. This leaves the
association ahout $I;:0,000 ahead of the
season, and gives it a better financial showing
than any other basjball or^aoiratiou.
The iiilinwini; i> a summary <>: the lv azuo I
,-h.'iiii|>i<>nslii|) campaign, which ended With |
iiic I'rovidrn v club the winners of the pennant;
tl.e B.otciiisoccupying second place and |
Hi Bullalns third:
Clul.it. H..n. Lot. I Club*. II'on. Lout. !
i'roviili'iice 8-1 "8 I New York Hi 5"
llo-lon i:t ::s l'hlladelphla 3'J 73
Huilalo. fit -IT i Cleveland 33 7i
?."Iiic.-ipo 02 50 | Detroit its SJ
Onlv?'lie pinie had to be played when the i
season* ende. 1. and that was lietween Boston !
?i i 'iiipnir.i loads New York, bv j
1111"! I'llil.n.-. ^...
! having won the series between thrill by twelve |
; names to four.
Tho American championship campaign ha|
| also ended. Tho Metropolitans won the pen
j naiit, tlie Columbus dub being second an<I thf j
I L iuisvilles third. Tho record in full is as fol j
j lows:
Club*. 1 Von. Lout. I Club*. Won. I.o*l i
Metropolitan?"5 321 Athletic fit 4t !
I Columbus 69 39 | Tolei'o 46 5! j
j I oilisvillc 6s in | Brooklyn 41 ti
Cincinnati ... <8 411 Allejih"iiy... .31 7 1
I St. l .niiii 67 411 Indianapolis i? "i
j li Itmoie 41 j Virginia? 24 ,v
VOBK OF THE FLUES.
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A. Thriving New York Village
Swept by Fire,
1
Pitiful Scenes at Carthage?A Can
adian Village Destroyed
The destruction and destitution wrought by
:he big flre at Carthage, N. Y.f is described in
the following account:
Tho Carthage fire was the most disastrous
chat has ever visited this part of the Mate,
It by,'an in a row of manufacturing buildings,
on tho west side of the Black river, and th?
heavy wind blew sparks for hall a mile />|
across tho river to the two islands which
were filled with manufacturing institutions.
Everything 011 tho islands was burned and the
fire struck into the resident part of the
town and swept tho buildings from a boat
Siventy-flve acres. One hundred and sixty - -a
dwellings were burned beside the manufacturing
institutions,and the Episcopal, Preaby- '
terian, Baptist and Disciples church?, town - '
hall, academy and all other school building*.
The lire spread so rapidly that very littte
household goods could be saved. The fire departments
trom "VVatertown, LowvilJc, Boonville
and Utica responded to the
call for help, but as the fire would
appear in a dozen different places at
one time, the engines were of little avaiL
There were 100 dwellings on fire at the same
time. The people worked hard for several
hours to save their property; then they became
panic-stricken; and all night hundreds
of them were roaming the streets, or lying
in Kimts which tho fire ha/1 not touched. eVflTT '*
place of shelter in the village being fllieti
with women and children. A large number
of people were brought to Watertown, where
they had friends to care for them. It is impossible
to correctly picture the scene during
the afternoon and night. Strong men were ^ .
weeping and women and children were crying
as tliey realized that everything they p? <3
stased was being swept away. The manuiao- r 'Q
turcrs cannot resume without outside help*.
People are thus thrown out of employment,
with the loss of all they had, and they
will have to suffer unless aid is rendered. Over
$1,000 was raised in one hoar in Utica, and
contributions came pouring in from surrounding
towns. No one was burned to death, but
a score of people were badly burned, includ
ing fL-emen. The loss will foot up over halt :
a million dollars.
A Are started by some people who were
clearing bush land spread to the village of
Chlorydorme, Canada, destroying all the
houses and boats of the place, and rendering /.
about twenty families homeless. The people *
at first sougnt shelter in the woods, but were
soon surrounded by flames and obliged to flee ;
to the sea coast They were utterly destitute.
The fishery along the coast having been very
poor this season, the neighboring. villages
could render but scanty aid to the unforta- ' 1
nate sufferers. One family was reported
as missing.
THE GENERAL DROUGHT.
Almost a National Disaster?mills
Closed and Short Crops laiud.
An officer of the signal service at Washington
said a few days since, relative to the long
u 1 J U* It
UUlltiliUCU UIUUqUI, wmv UUUU5 wpuwuvw i?
existed in all sections east of the Mississippi "
valley and in Texas. General rains
have fallen during* October in Tennes- <!
see, the Ohio valley and lake region,
but the drought has continued in the
Middle Atlantic, South Atlantic and Gulf
States. The little raiu that had fallen has
not been sufficient to do any good to the
crops in these sections. At Atlanta, Ga.,
rain had not fallen for over two months.
and it is estimated that the cotton crop
in that vicinity will fall short forty per cent.
Near Shreveport, La., it is estimated that the
cotton crop will be only two-thirds of the
average. Inthe vicinity of Petersburg, Va.,
it became necessary to close the cotton factories
on account of the scarcity of water.
There has heen no rain of consequence in or
about Washington for nearly three months.
The shade trees along the streets end in the
parks are showing the effects of the long
continued drought. The grass in many places
is dead,and in several instances it has burned
when accidentally fired, like the dry grass of
the prairies.
The woolen mills at South Berwick,
>". II., have shut down
from lack of water power. Rivers,
streams and wells in that region were very
low, and farmers were driving their cattjg-^ ?- ^
long distances fon-waterr?
A
MAN AND-WOMAN LYNCHED
? ' -M
Hanged to tkc Same Muib by the Same
Hope?A Family Feud*
J. R. Dorsey, tke postmabt;r at Alpine, Ga.,
and a woman named Jane Wade, were hanged
by a mob on the same ropj at Cantre for the
murder of Mrs. Mary Davis, niece of Dorsey,
and C. C. Jones. The murder was oae of the
most atrocio* ever committed in that section.
On the night of October 5 Dorsey and
the woman were seen in the neighborhood ol
Mrs. Davis' house Skulking in the woods.
They had a gun with them about 9 o'clock.
Mrs. Davis was called to the door and almost
instantly a gun flashed in the darkness and"
she fell a corpse acriws her own threshold,
bleeding from fifty wounds. C. C. Jones, a
wealthy farmer ot that locality, was at Mi*.
Davis' house, and when he heard the report
he ran to the door an J as he appeared, another
flash was seen and his body was perforated.
He died the next day. In a lew momenta
Mr. Davis came upon t he scene and the frightful
sight met his gaze. ^
The whole neighlx>rhoo:i was aroused and
the country was scoured. His uncle, Dorsey,
a man seventy years old. was heard making
threatening remarks and ho was arrested, ana
the woman, who is nearly sixty was arrested
as an accessory. The evidence agaiust them
accumulated, and it developed that he killed
his niece through personal venom and shot
Jones, through mistake lor his uephew. The ? ?
excitement was so high that the couple were
conveyed to Centre r- v safety. But the popular
indignation broke forth a^ain and they
were taken from jail and both were hnng
from the same limb and by the same rope.
"N
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
The late Frank Chanfrau played "ilose n ^
lor twelve years.
Henry* Irving has been on the stage
;wenty-eight years. .
Couldock says he has been on the stage
Dut fortv-seven years.
It is nol delinitely settled that Rube ostein
trill come to America this season.
Mrs. Langtry has been received with tre- ?
nendous enthusiasm in .Scotland.
Most of Clara Morris's en-agementa for
Jie preseut season are in the South.
To mark the luOth birthday of Weber, the
?mposer, a statue is to bo erected at his home j1
it luitin.
Modjeska has bought a Polish play, an
idaptation whereof she hopes to produce on
ler return next season to America.
Richard .Mansfield will star in a four-act
:omedy drama by George Fawcett Rowe, enicting
the role ot a young French compoaar.
tie tlnnKS the pari exactly liis him.
Lawrexck Barrett contemplates giving
i series ot one hundred periormauces in AusU*alia
nest seasjn. Ho will euueate Bret
Uarte's youngest son for the stage.
Mli.e, Emma Nevada was the leading
singer at the Norwich (liuglaud) musical tesslut
i? 1'iiii.iili'riiiLr nil oiler* bv Mr.
Mapieson of an engagement tor a toot* of \hQ ^
United States.
Kkckkn E.Springer has niado an addi*
tional gift of ?15,0 W to the college of music
at Cincinnati. Tins clears the college of embarrassing
debt and leaves it with property
and funds vuluel at not less than t
Mil. Chaxkual's sou llenry is tj assume
the part of Kit and travel with tlw dead
actors company. Young Chumrau is a
Princeton graduate, lie is handsome and
full of ambition. He made his lirst appearance
eiglit years ago.
Moke than -'oi) theatrical, musical, operatic
and minstrel companies are on the rotul. Oi
he 'SrJ troupes that nave organized this year,
106 are regu.ar theatrical companies, thirtylive
are concert companies, twenty-live variety
v twenty operatic, aud ten are devoted to
burnt cork.
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Eij.a Wheeler Wilcox says she has
written over I,iUt) poems.
31ns. Langtry's Chinese page is called the
' Beauty's Beast" in Loudon.
Robert Browning, the English jx>et, is
seventy-two veal's old He thinKs 01 \isiting
Amerien.
Lieitenaxt Gbeely's account of his Arc
tie voyage is t > bo published simultaneously
in New Vork and London.
Dr. Emma L. Call is the lirst physician
who has pa>sc.l the examination admitting
women to membership in the Massachusetts
Medical society.
Prince Bismarck is the possessor of all
the highest Pruss.au orders but one. Inclusive
of his foreign orders he has no fewer
than forty-seven.
Oscar Wilde has evolved a new style
hat, which he hopes will supersede the prevailing
stovepipe" sha]>e. Ic bears a strong
resemblance to a llower-pot sat bottom upwards.
Dr. Jaxssen, the famous French scientist,
who atten led the meridian conference at
Washington, is a man o! pleasing address, with
a white hoard and mustache. lie walk* with i
a slight limp.
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