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Bide a Wee, and Dinna Frot.
Is the road very dreary ?
Patience yet!
Itest will be sweeter if thou art aweary,
And after night oomoth the morning cheery.
Then bide a wee, and dinna fret.
The clouds have silver lining,
Don't forget;
And though he's hidden, still the 6UQ is shining
Conr&ge! instead of tears and vain repining.
Just bide a woe, and dinna fret.
With toil and oares unending
Art l>08et ?
Bethink thee, how 'die storms from heaven descending
Snap the stiff oak, but spare the willow bending
And bide a wee, and dinna fret.
Grief sharper sting doth borrow
From regret;
But yesterday is gone, and shall its sorrow
Unfit us for the present and the morrow ?
Nay: bide a wee, and dinna fret.
An over-anxious brooding
Doth beget
A host of fears and fantasies deluding;
Then, brother, lest these torments be intruding,
Just bide a wee, and dinna fret.
A WIFE'S PRATES.
For three days a terrible gale drove
before it the ship Pembroke, bound to
Liverpool from the Sandwich Islands.
Under bare poles, with every timber
groaning and creaking, with" the
hill masts bending like reeds, with
heavy seas and blinding spray sweeping
her decks fore and aft, the vessel boomed
on, rolling, plunging and quivering in
cf m rvrtln v*ntli a jam
11CX dv1 mvu nmv ?vua
pest.
' At midnight, just be/ore the ending of
the third day, a fearful cry, not loud,
but hoarse and deep, went through the
ship:
44 We have sprung a leak !"
Then the light from the two lanterns
hung up in the main and mizzen shrouds
fell upon the sturdy forms of seamen,
hurrying to rig the pumps.
Soon the dismal clang was heard, as
the stout fellows toiled and toiled, but
all to no purpose.
44 Oh, Henry, what shall we do ? The
leak is gaining upon us I" cried despairingly
the young wife of Mr. Rogers, the
first mate.
She was a fine, noble-looking woman,
and was likrtl and respected by every
man aboard ship. A true daughter oi
Eve, her love for her husband was so
deep and absorbing that she would have
followed him through any hardship or
r?Aril srwmpr than RPD&rate from him for
a long period.
Now as the sturdy, good-looking
young mate heard his wife's cry of
alarm, he flung an arm around her waist
and bade her be of good cheer.
If it should come to the woret," said
he. 44 we will probably fall in, ere long,
with some other craft"
Meanwhile the leak steadily gained.
The captain sent his carpenter into the
k hold.
44 Captain !" cried the latter, when he
returned, 44 it's all up with us! There
must be a big hole in the ship, as the
water in her is already seven feet deep."
A look of dismay settled on every
face.
44 Get the boats ready," said the
skipper.
While the men were obeying the order,
the ship's hull, settling lower and lower,
was soon nearly engulfed in the rushing,
roaring seas.
The sailors had barely time to put a
bag of sea-biscuit, & couple of cans of
prepared meat and a breaker of fresh
v # ii . 1 1 ^
water in eacn 01 uie ooats, wiieu, ?nu ?
sidelong sheer, the vessel rolled half
way over to leeward, as helpless as a log,
preparatory to going down.
The mate and his wife, with eight
men, took to the long host; the rest of
the ship's occupants, amounting to ten
sailors, entered the quarter boat.
Just as the two light vessels put away
from the doomed craft, the latter plunging
her bows under, a dull report was
i. heard, as the hatches were burst open
by the rising water in the hold.
A minute later, elevating her stern,
the ship sank out of sight in the stormy
ocean.
In the darkness and amongst the
heavy seas, t^e mate's boat soon became
separated from the other.
At dawn no sign of the latter could be
discovered by those who looked for it
Keeping the boat dead all day against
the wind, the mate with his companions
vainly watched for a sail.
Thus, dav after day passed, until nearly
a week hud elapsed, by which time
the scanty allowance of sea-biscuits having
given out, there was nothing left to
eat in the boat, while in the breaker (a
small cask) there remained hardly two
quarts of water.
Three days later, neither land nor a
sail having yet been fallen iu with, the
sufferings of the people in the boat, reduced
almost to a state of starvation,
were terrible.
" Ob, Harriet f' gasped thV tnate, on
the morning of the tenth day after the
ship had been abandoned, ** if I cou^d
only obtain food for you?even provided
the' rest of us had none?it would be
great comfort to me."
44 Nay," answered the young woman,
* in a faint voice, while tears streamed
Via? liAlIrm- flntlip/l nliPAks "rnii
UV U U UV1 JULXJ*. IV ? j v**vw?wj - .?
should have my share, Henry. I.could
manage to wait for a sail, which I trust
we shall soon behold.
Later in the day, a wild, fierce expres
sion gleamed in the eyes of the men.
They exchanged significant glances,
but at'the time said not % word.
Each, however, guessed the horribh
thought that had entered the mind ol
every sailor, although they hesitated, a.?
yet, to express it
At last a man named* Michael Brnnc
-a half-breed between an Englishmar
and a Portuguese?let loose the dreadful
idea.
"It must be done," he almos'
screamed. "Two hours more without
food will put the death seal upon us.
One of us must die."
" Oh, no. no," cried Harriet " W<
cau wait still. We shall see a sail before
long. I feel sine we will."
But all ker pleadings ~ere in vain
Some paper was cut iato strips,and thes<
L being held by Bruuo, the drawing o
^ lots to see who should die was com
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j menced, it Laving been arranged that be !
who drew the shortest slip was to yield
up his life for the benefit of the rest.
As pale as death Harriet sat watching
j the drawing. A moment later she be- ;
held her husband looking at n small bit
' of paper in his hand, while the hoarse
voioe of Bruno grated on her ear :
14 Mr, Rogers has drawn the short i
slip ! He must die!"
i 44 Ay, ay, men," said Rogers; 441 will
j soon be ready J"
His'wife flung herself upon his bosom. |
44 Never! never shall they tear you j
from me!" she cried, twining her arms
about his neck.
44 But, Harriet," he said, 44 it is neces
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: sary. n 18 oniy iair mat i buuuui ukj.
" You must not; you shall not," exclaimed
the young woman. "We can
all go without food some hours longer,
during which we may see a sail."
" No, no, no," oried Rogers' ship(
mates simultaneously, " We must have
; food now."
j Hunger had driven them to-desperation.
Their teeth were clenched, their
I eyes wild and bloodshot, their faces more
like those of wolves than of human
beings.
"Let me go, dear Harriet," said the
young man to his wife. "Let me bid
you good-bye, and may Heaven bless
you."
Some of the men advanced toward
Harriet, who still held her husband in
an embrace from which he could not disengage
himself. Turning towards the !
sailors, she said :
" Back, back, never shall yon tear me j
from him. Bat if you must have a hu- I
man life, take mine instead of my husband's."
At this the men drew back. Even at
that dreadful moment they could not
endure the thought of killing a woman.
The first officer, who had watched his
chance, now by a sudden movement taking
advantage" of his wife's head being
snddenly turned, and nerved to additional
strength by the harrowing
thought that his shipmates might at i
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j lengm come to tne conclusion 01 accept- i
i ing Harriet's proposition to pocrifice her j
, life, broke from her entwining arms and !
J ran towards the bow of the boat
There he was quickly joined by the j
j other men, one of whom now placed !
himself as a barrier between the young
| woman and her husband, whom she was
[ making frantic efforts to reach.
Perceiving that she could not pass the 1
man, she fell upon her knees, and, in a j
voice of the most heart-rending agony, 1
again begged the others to take her own !
instead of her husband's life.
But her supplications were in vain.
She saw her husband leaning back prepared
to die, while Bruno proceeded to
sharpen his knife for the dreadful work
ou one of the hoops of the breaker.
Having at length prepared the weapon, j
he stooped over the young man to cut 1
his throat, while a companion stood by
with a tin cup to catch the blood.
"For mercy's sake wait," she cried, j
" Look first and see there is not a sail ;
in sight."
The men obeyed her request. They j
scanned the ocean far an near, but no j
i sigu of a sail was to be seen,
i "How do you know there is not one i
hidden by that mist ?" she inquired, j
pointing toward a. small fog-bank n j
league to windward.
. " There is none." cue of the men an- ;
i. swered. " I feel sure ; I looked at that !
very spot bafore the fog settled there, I
about fifteen minutes since."
44No, no; yon may be mistaken. I
conjure you, I implore you to wait till
the fog clears up, when you may see a
sail."
The men exchange glances.
44 It's no use," cried Bruno ; 44 but to
. satisfy you, we will wait a few minutes
before we take your husband's life."
At this Harriet started up. With her
hands clasped and her hair streaming
; down her back, she stood, her eyes j
turned toward the sky.
In this position there came upon her J
face an expression that had never been J
seen there before.
It was almost divine, tilling the countenance
with an unearthly beauty, lighting
the eyes with such a radiant gleam
: ?a look of such strong, concentrated
: will, blended with heavenly supplicnJ
tion, that the rough men drew back
i with mingled respect and awe, trembling
I under a sort of supernatural influence,
i A moment the young woman stood
: thus, and then from her parted lips i
came her voice, full of strange, wierd :
power, making the blood leap in every
i vein :
44 Ob, heaven, a sail! a sail 1"
The words were simple enough, but:
I the manner in which they were uttered J
j thrilled her listeners to the Ijeart.
Instinctively they all glanced around
upon the ocean, as if expecting that the
; prayer wonld be answered.
North, south, east and west they
| looked, but they saw no sign of a vessel,
i1 When about five minutes had passed,
i j however, Bruno was seen pointing
toward the strip of fog, which, slowly
| rising like a curtain, revealed a sail.
Tee, there it was, sure enough, and
with a cry of wild joy on seeing it, Har- j
i! riet, no longer kept from her husband, |
, i flung herself upen his breast, while the i
, j others gave expression to their feelings ;
11 by hoarse shouts, sotis and frantic laugh- |
ter.
Signals were made, the vessel bore 1
[ down for the boat, and the oceupants j
l I were soon ?a deck, to be kindly treated !
i i by the captain of the bark Java, bound j
: i to London.
The half-starved men were agreeably j
' surprised to find aboard this vessel their I
k!'inmates of the. nnarfcer-boat. which, it !
, seems, iiad been picked up four dajs j
previously,
i In due time the vessel Arrived at her
' home port, where the sailors related to
? their friends how Harriet Rodgers had
sa ved the life of her husband.
> Some of the men insisted that ten or
i fifteen minutes befere she uttered her
I player, there had been no vessel at the
point where it was discovered. Of course
k, they were mistaken, having doubtless
t- leaked in some other direction; but
, this they firmly denied -with the com;
11.on superstition of seafaring men, de'
daring that the sail appeared just when
i *iid where it did, in answer to the
,? Wife's Prayer."
?! | Never tell a man he's a fool; in the
f i first place he won't believe you ; in the
- ! uext; vou make him vour enemv,
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&.ND PORT
BEAUFOET, S. C.,
A REMARKABLE RECORD.
An Kpldemlo or Hulcide In New York?
The Cauxe Generally Intemperance.
Ruslnexx or Domexlit Troubled?Home
Curious Cases.
The record of suicides and attempt at
suicide from August 24 to October 16,
says the New York Herald, is remarkable
in the fact that the number of cases
far exceed those of any like time in the
previous history of the city. Many reasons
are advanced for the apparent
epidemic of suicide, and it is urged that
unless some method is devised to check
it an increase may be expected. The
Jaws of England until within a comparatively
short period were very seVere
against felo de se. The property of the
suicide was confiscated and the rites of
Christian burial were denied the body,
which in many cases was buried in the
open highway with a stake driven
through the breast. These laws were
confirmed during the reign of George
IY., and were continued in force into the
present century, when public opinion
fr>rr?orl fVioir rPcmftA Tt IS Orfmed that
the season known as Indian summer has
the effect of stimulating suicide; and indeed
the reoords of past years show more
suicides during that period than at any
other time of the year. At any rate,
whatever the cause, the death rate by
suicide during the two months has been
alarmingly increased.
The total number of suicides was
twenty-two and of attempts fourteen.
It is a somewhat curious fact that of the
total number of persons wanting to die
sixteen were of German birth. The
other nationalities are about equally
represented, and, although, in some
cases it was difficult to ascertain the
birthplace, the following figures may be
relied upon as accurate. Of the suicides,
ten were born in Germany, fonr in
America, two in Ireland, and one each in
England, France, Norway, and Cuba.
Two persons were unknown. Of the attempts
six were of German birth, two
each of English, Irish and American
birth, and one each of Russian and
French.
It is an exceedingly hard matter to ascertain
the real cause of many attempts,
particularly where the attempt is successful
; but there is little doubt that the
majority of cases Rre due to intemperauce
and domestic infelicities. The
classification that follows was made from
a careful investigation of the facts in
each case. Under the heads of " temporary
insanity," which is unjustly applied
in many cases, " melancholia " and
" family troubles " there will be found
cases differing widely as to their nature
and yet properly classed under those
heads.
Of the suicides five were due lo temporary
insanity, two to family troubles,
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melancholia, two to drunkenness. Of |
four cases the cause was unknown, and J
iu one case a man jumped from Niagara
Suspension Bridge through grief at the
death of a son who had some time previously
committed suicide in this city.
Of the attempts four were due to melancholia,
two to family troubles, two
jealousy, one to drunkenness, one to unrequited
love, and the reasons for four
others were unknown.
Vaisel Procheski, a native of Bohemia,
was at one time a practicing physician
and a man in good standing in his nat've
town. Some years ago he came to the
United States with the desire of following
his profession here. His money
went by degrees, and as he became poorer
he removed to Boston and established
himself there. Lnck seemed to be
against him. A short time ago he came to
New York and, after wandering about
the streets for some days, gave tip in
despair and took a dose of laudanum. He j
was taken to the hospital, and his life j
mav be saved. He is sixty years of age.
?>uring the month of August Dr. Ed- j
ward Stein committed suicide at French's !
Hotel, in this city. His father, Dr. !
Lewis M. Stein, a physician of estab- i
lished reputation in this city, was bo i
overwhelmed with grief that lie could j
.not remain in the city where his son had
died. Kestless and apparently heartbroken
he wandered from place to place,
at last reaching Niagara Falls. On the
1st of September Dr. Stein went out on
the Suspension Bridge. After remain-:
ing there some hours he was seen to
clasp his hands to heaven, and a moment
after went plunging down to the water, j
Geneve Kaiter o the 7th of Sep tern- !
ber died from a dose of Paris green, J
which she took intentionally. The cause, j
as given, was that she had considerable
trouble with her husband,brought about
by his jealousy. Not wishing to prolong
the struggle, as she expressed it, \
she put an end to her existence.
Catharine Stines was forty-eight years
of age when she died, on the 8th of September.
She was a drinking woman, :
and when under the influence of liquor i
evinced an almost insane desire to destroy
her life. On the day in question
she found her opportunity in a fourth
story window, through which she jumped '
and was instantly killed.
The case of George Geier, who was an
old man of seventy-two years, and whose '
suicide was as deliberate as any in the '
list, was due to a somewhat curious
cause. He was a man of considerable
r?r at least had been before his
business misfortunes. Bogus insurance
companies were his financial niin. After
having invested his money in them aud
losing it, he decided that he had nothing
further to live for, and so he jumped
into the river.
Andrew Nelson died on the 5th of
October from a dose of two ounces of
prussic acid administered by himself.
Just prior to his death he explained at
length, in a letter to the Herald, his
reasons for his taking off. A charge of
improper conduct, brought against hira
by a former servant in his house, worried
and annoyed him. He appealed to the
law, which he thought was too slow, and
harassed and despondent he left his case
unfinished here and went to plead his
cause in the Court of Courts,
i Henry Roseman was fifty-four years
age and a cartman. Iu his younger days
1 he had amassed considerable property in
! his business, but acquired with it the
I habits of excessive drinking and gamh;
ling. He drank away his health and
| gambled away his property, and on the
I 7th of October hanged himself to a beam
i iu the cellar of his house.
I Andrew Cooper was seventy-seven
years of age and ailing?an old man,
I with scant and whitening locks?and yet
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ROYAL C<
THURSDAY, NOT
lie was impatient to meet tlie dread destroyer.
On the 9th of October the old
man took his way to High Bridge, and
walking to the centre gazed for a time
over the parapet. The distance below
was nearly two hundred feet, but it
seemed to have no terrors for him. He
carefully laid his cap upon the stone,
and as carefully mounted and stood upon
the parapet, his while hair streaming in
the wind. A moment and he was over,
and a splash below announced the reception
of his corpse by the river.
Charles Martin, a Frenchman, fortyfive
vears of age, lived for the nine years
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lmiueoiaieiy preceding uu ueaui, wmuu
occurred on the 24th of September, in a
small back room in the llouse No. 156
Forsyth street. He lived as a hermit,
and for a living made children's toys.
He had no friends and made no acquaintances,
and the sole desire of his life
seemed to be alone. His business was a
good one, even - during the financial
troubles, and after his death orders for
hundreds of dollars' worth of toys were
found on files in his rooms. His wes
certainly one of those cases where
" unknown" might be justly answered
when the question as to the cause is
asked. He was found dead with a bullet
wound in his head with the pistol on the
floor beside him. He died as silently as
he had lived.
A Sister's Deration.
Never have we beep, called upon to
chronicle a more heart-rending accident,
nor one which has enlisted a more general
and genuine sympathy with the afflioted
family, than that which occurred
at Union Mills on last Friday afternoon,
says a recent issue of the NicholasviUe
(Ky.) Jessamine Journal. Misses
Blackford, Misses Bourne and Charley
Bourne composed a party at Mr. Claibourne
Itutherford 8; hat day. In the
morning some of the company attended
the protracted meeting in progress at
East Hickman, but they all met a,t die
dinner table, when one of the youngladies
proposed to go to the the flouring
mill, stating that she had never seen one
working. Consequently the party named
above, with Miss Julia and Miss Annie
lintherforii, want down to cneeie s, uroil
augli'e mill, and Captain Steele, with
his usual urbanity, was showing them
around. They had been looking at the
bolting-clofhs, and passed over some
shipstuff. Mies Annie Rutherford shook
her skirt to rid it of the dust which had
adhered to it, when it caught in a mitre
cog-wheel, about one foot from the floor,
which drew it into the machinery, and
there was a similar wheel about threrf
feet higher, in which her left arm was
caught and was taken clean off, together
with the flesh and bone off her breast.
Clinging to the shaft, her skirt fast in
the bottom wheels, .she was whirled
round at the rate of thirty-four revolutions
per miunte.
Frautic with excitement, Miss Julia
Rutherford rushed to her sister's assistance.
Charley Bourne did liis best to
keep her from the danger she was exposing
herself to, and at the same time
doing his utmost to qjtricate Aunie, but
Jnlia persisted that she could not stand
to see her sister in such a place, and
putting her arms around h?r, had her
right arm taken off by the same wheel.
Annie's clothes were so twisted that it
was impossible to pull her away until
the engine was stopped by Captain
Steele, which took about one minute to
do, and Mr. Samuel Gosney, perceiving
there was something wrong, instantly
lowered the stones. The scene now
hofflA<l dAAPrintion. There were the cocrs
tilled with flesh and bones. An arm
lying on the floor, the glove still on the
hand, two lovely girls prostrate in their
blood, Charley Bourne with his left
thumb cut off, from which he has suffered
intensely, and was threatened with
lock-jaw, but is now probably out of
danger. Mr. James Bronaugh, Jr., took
Julia home in a buggy, and Mr. Steele
fixed Annie on a board and presented
her to her distressed parents. Thus the
company who, a few minutes before, were
happy and joyous, were plunged into
inexpressible grief by a shocking and
deplorable accident. Dre. Jasper,
Welch and Skillman have been indefatigable
in their attendance on the sufferers,
and at last accounts they were improving.
Miss Annie did not rally from the effects
of the shook for forty-eight hours,
but since reaction has taken place fully
she bids as fair to recover as Miap Julia,
whose arm was amputated on Saturday.
A Robber's Wife Suing a Sheriff*
The wife of J. M. Berry, the Union
Pacific Railway robber killed by Sheriff
Glascock, of Fayette county, Mo., has
brought suit against that officer for $20,000
damages. Sheriff Glascock, after the
wounded robber had been brought into
the town of Mexico, where he died,
stated that he tirst called upon Berry to
surrender, and only fired when he attempted
to escape, thus committing an
excusable homicide by the fact that it
was committed in the lawful discharge of
official duty. Jt is stated that the real
fact is that Sheriff Glascock cropt up on
Berry while he was asleep in the brash,
and tired both barrels of nis gun without
calling on him to surrender. This statement
is made the more plausible by the
significant circumstance that eighteen
buckshot entered the robber's leg jufct
above the knee, ranging upward, and
lodging in or going omt through the hip,
thus showing that lie must have been in
a recumbent position, with his feet
toward the sheriff when the gun
was discharged. It is furthermore stated
that the sheriff, and one or two of his
posse a*lmitted this to be true, and justified
the act by the fact that Berry was a
desperado of the mo6t dangerous and
savage type ; that he had sworn never to
be taken alive, and that, being a dead
shot, lie would certainly have killed one
or more of nis pursuers had he received
a moment's warning. It is also charged
against the sheriff that he permitted the
wounded robber to bleed to death ; and
that with timelv medical assistance,
which was available, he would have undoubtedly
recovered from his wounds. *
A man near Winsted, Conn., while
hunting recently, saw a gray squirrel
high on the limb of a tree. As he was
about to fire a hawk pounced upon the
squirrel and #was bearing it away, when
> the man took a second aim and brought
them both down.
T T
DMMEROIAL.
MEMBER 15. 187-7.
! BRIG HAM'S "AVENGING ANGEL."
i A Pttut* of Hecrft Mormon Iliatorr Kail of
Interest.
( A correspondent writes to a Cincinnati
: paper. " What I have told you must
[ not find its way into print while Brigham
'Young lives?" These words were adI
dressed to your correspondent in Decem|
ber, 1871* at Omaha. The man who
! spoke them was George P. Case, for
! several years a resident of Bay county,
Michigan. I found him in Omaha at
the date mentioned, sick, penniless and
seemingly about to die, and it was only
when he had become convalescent and
was about ready to start for Mexico that
he gave me the information used below.
I had heard rumors that Case had passed
several years of his life in the employ of
Brigham Young, but he denied these
rumors in the most positive manner until
he felt assured that he would not be
betrayed. Partly because I- pressed him
to, and partly from gratitude at the little
I had been able to do for him, he gave
me such a history of five years of his life
as made me almost hate the sight of hiin.
A year ago, when the John D. Lee excitement
was at fever heat, certain officials
were informed where Case could be
found, and were given an inkling of what
he could swear to if he would, but he
left Vera Cruz about that time and sailed
for South America, where he now is, if
living.
George P. Case was no more or less
than one of Brigham Young's paid assassins
or avenging angels. His acquaintance
with Young was brought
about rather curiously. He was at Salt
Lake City, on his way to California.
This was in the spring of 1866, and the
Gentile population of Utah was fast increasing.
Being on the street at a late
hour one night, the prophet was recognized
by three or four boisterous chaps,
$od they were ready to give him a rough
handling, when Case came up and took
the old man's port and beat them off.
He was asked to call on Young the next
day, and before the interview closed Case
Iwd hiredto the prophet as a detective.
He was led to believe that his duties would
be the same as those of an ordinary
detective, but it was not long before he
discovered that his associates were assassins,
and that assassination vrould become
part of his duties.
Case was rough and reckless, but he
was neither a robber nor a murderer.
When he found himself pointe 1 out on
the streets as an avenging angel, he
sought an interview with Young, and
s Li ted liis desire to resign liis position.
I "It ^ould be safer for you to continue
on," wasthe prophet's reply.
" But 1 don't want to," protester uase,
"I want to go on to California."
" Men who leave our service after being
entrusted with our secrets do not always
get along finely," continued Young.
He spoke very pleasantly and he
seemed very friendly, but there was
something in hiB look and tone that gave
Case a feeling of uneasiness. He was
given a dav or two to reflect, and he
finally decided to remain. The mystery
and adventure of the new calling were a
great temptation, the pay good, and the
Michigander weDt back to duty.
Case had 110 incentive to deceive me in
sdv particular. He was then free from
Mormon influence, about to leave the
county, and he was giving me information
which he knew would be locked up
for years; and he made no statements
which he could not back up by dates,
nanree, personal descriptions and other
incidents sufficient to prove that he was j
telling the truth. He said that when
once a Gentile had been given over to
the avenging angels he was a dead man.
They might put him out of the way at
once or might delay a month, according
tr circumstances, but the shadow of
aeath walked beside the victim from the
moment his name was handed in to the
u Angels." In some cases the victim
i wna imnrisoned for a time, in order to
extort information, or for reasons beBt
known to the Church. When once the
dungeon doors had shut behind him, no
man came ont alive. In some cases the
dead body would be left on the street,
aud it would be made to appear that the
man had been waylaid. In other instances
it would be carried ont on some
liighway or flung into the lake. Many
of the Gentiles, and more particularly
those of wealth and standing, had nothing
to say against the Chureh, but in
many cases gave it more or less support.
Such people had po cause to fear. Other
Gentiles were fierce in their denunciations,
and sometimes provoked quarrels;
but unless they heeded the contents of a
warning letter their tongues were soon
silenced.
One day in 1867 a man named William
Foster Ikickley, a resident of Birmingham,
England, arrived at Salt Lake in
'quest of his sister, a girl of nineteen,
who ran away from home and joined a
: party of Mormon converts ready to sail
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Lake she married a Mormon named J.
Y. Thomas, living about fourteen miles
from the city. She was his fourth wife
and was by no means contented with her
lot. She ran away from him two or three
times, and was once punished by being
shut up in the cellar for two weeks and
fed on bread and water. No one knew
of Buckley's presence in the West*until
he had reached Salt Lake and begun
making inquiries about hia sister. He
found out where she was and rode out to
the house, and, when he learned from
her own lips how she was situated, liis
hot English blood fired up to the boding
point. He returned to the city to secure
an interview with the Prophet. At such
i interview he was plainly given to underI
stand that liis sister must remain where
j she was, and that Salt Lake City would
not be a 6afe place for him after cwenty!
four hours more.
1 Buckley purchased two horses, additional
fire-arms, and at eleven o'clock
1 at night set out for the ranch, his object
I being to rescue liis sister from the house
aud ride away with her. Spies had been
1 watching all his movements. When he
i left the oity three avenging angels, one
of whom was Case, rode after him. In
mentioning this affair, Case said : "He
fought like a tiger. As soon as he knew
we were after him he dismounted, let his
i horses go, took cover behind the rocks,
t and we did not get the drop on him till
i one "of our angels had been killed and
. another wounded. We left his corpse in
[ the road and it was generally believed
that he had been killed by robbers or
Indians.
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Buckley's sister knew enough of Mor-!
monism to suspect who had murdered j
her brother, and the tragedy preyed j
upon her mind till she became a lunatic
and one day destroyed.her own life.
In the summer of 1868 one of the
wives of a Mormon, named Johnson, a
ranchman, fled from his home on horseback,
leaving the place early in the
morning. Word was sent to the city,
and Case and five other " angels " were
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detailed to oreime iuo m^iuve muu
bring her back. Tlie woman had made
considerable trouble for the Church one
way and another, and it was the intention
to put her out of the way after she
had been recaptured. The "angels"
found her just at dark in the camp of
four hunters, where she had taken
refuge about noon. A demand was made
for her, but the borderers refused to give
her up, haying promised her that she
should be taken to one of the forts in
Colorado. Arguments and threats were
of no avail, and the avengers drew off
and began an attack on the hunters.
They soon discovered, however, that
they had more than they could handle.
Two of them were killed and a third
wounded, and when th'ey drew off and
despatched a messenger for reinforcements
the hunters broke camp and made
a safe escape.
Hotel Bents in New lork.
Fully a score of hotel failures have
occurred in New York since the panic,
writes a New York correspondent.
Among the principal hotels which have
changed hands from this cause are the
Sf. .Taitiar th* Alitor House, the New
York, the Grand Union, the Winchester
and the Coleman. The Rossmore may
be added, with the explanation tliat the
lessee, Mr. Leland, surrendered it to the
owner because he oould not make it pay,
not in consequence of actual failure,
for he has not failed. The transfer of
the Metropolitan and the Rossmore took
place on the same day. In almost every
instance of hotel failure within the time
named the chief cause has been exhorbitant
rent. Managers have tried to push
on under leases made at war figures, and
many have finally had to succumb. The
rents still paid by the principal hotels
are decidedly steep. The Fifth Avenue
Hotel property, including the six stores
fronting on Broadway, brings an annual
rental of $200,000. The rent of the
hotel proper is about $150,000. The
rent of the stately Windsor, which had
just been brought up to a paying point
when the owner, Mr. Daly, wandered off
to a desolate spot near Cavalry cemetery,
*105 000. Next
to this in steepness was the rent of the
Metropolitan before the late reduction,
namely, $110,000. The proprietors of
the St. Nicholas have been paying $80,000,
bnt I understand the figure has
lately been ont down somewhat. Mr.
Breslin pays $40,000 for the handsome
Gilsey. The Lelands pay the same for
the Sturtevant, which, though not so
stylLh in its structure, is considerably
larger than the Gilsey, and the Hoffman,
about the same size as the Gilsey, also
rents for $40,000. The New York and
the St. Denis are each $35,000, and half
a dozen others, including the Coleman.
Albemarle, St. Cloud, Grand Central
and Continental, range from $20,000 to
$30,000.
A Wild Pigeon Koost in Missouri, j
Timid and harmless animals become i
formidible and even terrible when con-1
gregated in great numbers. They take |
no notice whatever of man, and in their
congregated capacity become his foe. A
herd of buffalo on the plains is a terror
in its march ; a drove of rats in Northern
Enrope attacks all living things that
come in its way, and even a dock of j
pigeons, if big enough, becomes a great ;
nuisance, if not a danger. A pigeon !
roost is a big thing, and they have a big
pigeon roost on the Auglaize river near
Dodson's camp-ground, Camden county, i
Missouri. It is an annual roost, and j
I disturbs the quiet of the people of the I
I section. The newspaper man finds it,
! difficult to edit and print his paper in a
pigeon roost. Millions of pigeons cover
the trees and sometimes break them
down. There is a frightful confusion of
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crashing of limbs, the roaring of multitudinous
pigeons, and the ^cracking of
shot guns sweeping the birds down by
hundreds and thousands, all night long.
Nobody can sleep in such an uproar any
morejthan they oould amid the thunders
of a raging battle. Besides this, there
is a darkening of the air by the
birds in their flight, which makes
continual cloudy weather. But the people
of this pigeon roost are making the
best of the situation. The pigeon lias
i become a leading article of commerce in
| the country. Last year over 100,000
i pounds of pigeons were shipped from
j Stoutland, and the pigeon yielu this year
, promises to be as good. But everything
! else stop8 in the pigeon-roosting season
except the newspapers.?St Lmiis Democrat.
Sew Tork Fashions,
' The princesse dress, with waist and
; skirt in one, is the popular style for
i wedding dresses. Newer than this is the
j empress dress with the brocaded back
i ami train, having side gores added to
' the waist that extend upward to the neck,
i while the plain satin or gros grain front
; is made to represent a vest and apron
I drapery.
i The black silk house dresses are in
the new empress style, partly of brocade
or of embossed velvet, or else satin. If
they are entirely of silk they are made
dressy by having plastrons or vests and
! sleeves of jet or of clair de lime beads.
Embroidered gloves are o iered, but
the refined choice is for plain, untrimmed
gloves without ornamental stitching and
with the long wrists that make the hands
look slender. Those fastened by three
or four buttons are most used for the
street. Old-gold-colored gloves are the
dressy choice for wearing with black and
dark dresses. Undressed kid gloves are
more fashionable than at any previous
season.
Bonnets are chosen with reference to
j each dress, but there is more latitude
and less strict matching of bonnet and
dress than formerly.
Coronet bonnets are suddenly restored
to favor. The coronet is* very
high in the middle, very plain and very
close on the sidee. The jet aud clair dr,
lune coronets with a drooping fringe on
the edge are very handsome for Mark
bonnets,
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Items of Interest.
The young Prince Napoleon resembles
his father, in the ends of his mustache.
A man in Hartford, Ky., has a watch
three hundred years old that is still a
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A woman in New York recently dropped
dead on hearing of the arrest of her
son for burglary.
Yon Moltke says that it is not possible
to form any just estimate of the German
army, because it has not been beaten
yet.
It has been discovered that the higher
up you go the further you carf see down
into a body of water. Victims of the
last steamboat explosion will please write
out their observations. y
The way we see now to get rieh, is
To follow the style in vogue, which is
Peculate with propriety,
Till you're bonnoed from society?
There's where the only real hitch is.
A newspaper thus heads the report of
a fire : " Feast of the Fire Fiend?The
Forked-Tongued Demon licks with its
Lurid Breatn a Lumber Pile i^-Are the
Scenes of Boston and Chicago to be Bepeafced
??Loss, $150."
A farmer's wife in Jay, Vermont,
awhile ago became displeased with the
hired man of the place, and while her
husband was away discharged him and
did all the household and, farm work her
self, diggingHTfcv bushels of potatoes in
A Net; York jeweler, irotA whom *
stranger ordered $800 worth of watches
in the name of a well-known man in
Stamford, Conn,,* took the goods to
Stamford instead of sending them, because
he feared a swindle. He found
his suspicions verified, and felt so good
to think he had not been cheated that he
got drunk and was robbed of his $800
package by a thief.
As near as we can ascertain, there are
in the States of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia
80,000 more females than males in a
total native population of $,000?000, and
in New. England a like* overplus of 20,000
in a native white pdptuation of
2,500,000. These tacts indicate that we
shall, perhaps, by the time we write
1900, have a two per cent surplus of females
as an aggregate of the whole population
(in 50,000,000, 1,000,000).?Ginc
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There have been fifty-three steamers
And seven hundred men engaged in
porgy fishing on the Maine coast this
season, but fewer fish than Usual have
been caught, as the fish have been
smaller and have escaped through the
net meshes. The largest school seen
was five miles long.and a mile wide, and
was estimated to contain millions of barrels,
but the largest single catch was
fourteen hundred barrels. -There are
sixteen porgy oil-factories in the State,
each employing from twenty-five to sixty
men, and involving a capital of over one
million dollars.
| Words of Wisdom. In
being angry we punish ourselves,
j The only way to make a friend is to
leone.
Men ore like words ; when not propi
erly placed, they lose their value.
Let no one descend so low. as to con- .
aider money to be the chief good.
I Men are never so ridiculous by the
qualities they possess as by those they
affect to possess.
" Live on what yon have ; live if you
can on less ; do not borrow, either for
i vanity or pleasure ; the vanity frill end
in shame and the pleasure in regret"
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Lmveirai wve is ? ^ivtc mwu..
1 gera, which fita all hands alike, and none
I closely ; bat trae affection is like a glove
j with fingera which fits one hand only
! and sets close to that one.
1 The reason why great men meet with
j so little pity or attachment in adversity
; would seem to be this: The friends of
a great man were made by his fortunes?
his enemies by himself; and revenge is
a much more punctual paymaster than
gratitude.
Every man stamps his valne on himself.
The price we challenge for ourselves
is given us. There does not live
on earth a man, be his station what it
may, that I despise myself, compared
with him. Man is made great or little
by his own will.
The Sequel to an Elopement.
j A line-looking, middle-aged lady of
I Philadelphia recently called npqn the
I overseer of the poor at Newark, N. J.,
and told the following story: u Eight
I years ago my daughter eloped %ith a
married man named Giese, and her
whereabouts I was unable to ascertain
I until a few days ago, when I was inI
formed she died in the poorhouse of
'this city." Inquiry was made,Which?
resulted in finding that the young lady
j had died a year ago at the hospital, ana
; at the time of her death Giese was an inI
mate of t e city prison on a charge o.
drunkenness. Further, that she had two
: children. The eldest child was found at
; the orphan asylum supported by the
; German residents of that city: th^ other
! was found in the possession or a woman,
who had had the child since ft iHls six
months old (it is now two years of fcge), _
j and implored the sverseer to permit her
to retain the baby, as she had become
: much attached to it Notwithstanding her
tears and exhortations the little girl?
for such it was?was torn from fcer and
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I of the grandmother, who returned to
Philadelphia.
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Slander.; -1
Anybody can soil the reputation df an
individual however pure and ohaeto, by
uttering a suspicion that his enemies
will believe and his friends never near
of. A puff of the idle wind can take A
million of the seeds of s thistle and do a
j work of mischief which the husbandman
I must labor long to undo, the floating
particles being too fine to be seen and
too light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of slander, so easily sown, so difficult
to be gathered up, and yet so perniiious
in the fruit. The slanderer
knows that many a mind will catch np
the piague and become poisoned by his
I insinuations, without ever seeking tte
I antidote, and the mischief is done,
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