Aiken courier-journal. (Aiken, S.C.) 1877-1880, November 29, 1877, Image 1
Mj lllogleal Mind.
I confess, with a feeling skin to regret,
That, as there are spots on the son,
So the best of ns all are with failings beset,
And that I am afflicted with one.
I presume 1 possess it, although I can swear,
'i hat its presence I never oonld find,
But the frii-nds who pretend that they know
me declare
That I have an illogical mind.
In short, when I won’t let an arguing friend
Persuade me that yellow is grey,
Or when I decline my adhesion to lend
To all that the loud talkers say.
They turn on my poor little self with a frown,
And my death warrant's instantly signed :
i fellow." they cry with contempt, “ is
a clown,
od he has an illogical mind."
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VOL,. III. NO. 153.
01.0 NKKIKN. VOl.. Vll. NO. 355.
AIKEN, S. €., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1877.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
The Silver Lining.
>r a day so sunny
cloud appears :
- a life so happy
'ts time of tears ;
shines out the brighter
e stormy tempest clears.
■re’s ne er a garden growing
| r ith roses in every plot;
e’s never a heart so hardened
‘ it has one tender spot;
uave only to prune the border
^To find the for-get-me-not.
ere’s never a cnp so pleasant
iut has bitter with the sweet:
lore’s never a path so rugged
That bears not the print of feet;
And we have » helper promised
.For the trials we may meet.
«ver a sun that rises
Jut ..e ’twill set at night;
)e tints that gleam in the morning
[ \t evening are just as bright;
r-J the hour that is the sweetest
Is between the dark and light.
acre's never a dream that's happy
But the waking makes ns sad ;
There’s never a dream of sorrow
But the waking makes us glad ;
sbs" ''■•"U -ome dav with wonder
•roubles we have had.
.re’s never a day so sunny
Jut a little cloud appears ;
ere s never a life so happy
But has had its time of tears ;
i iTet the sun shines out the brighter
When the stormy tempest clears.
laves IN THE SEA.
j same day the steamers Souora and
Cortes of the rival line sailed for the
same destination. It was understood
that there was to be racing between
hem, and there had been a great deal of
betting on the time of the trip. As soon
as they got outside the Heads the Yankee
Blade raised her flag in challenge to the
Sonora and steamed away. She was
compelled to lay to for several hours
during the night on account of the fog.
At seven o’clock in the morning, the fog
continuing, it was noticed that the ap
pearance of the water indicated land.
A line was thrown to take soundings,
and a moment afterwards the vessel
j struck heavily. She had grounded ou
! Point Arguilla, fifteen miles above Point
! Conception. In a moment all was terror
J and confusion. The officers of the boat
' lost all self-possession and control of the
, vessel. The boats were lowered, and
j landed their loads in safety with the ex-
i eeption of that commanded by the first
j officer, which, owing to hurried and un-
j skillful handling capsized, and thirty of
its occupants, most of them ladies, were
drowned. In the confusion during the
absence of the captain and first officer,
a gang of ruffians took
boat, and having
maddened themselves with its liquor,
pillaged and outraged the peaceful pas
sengers. One man who resisted was
shot, and several were knocked down
and beaten. The scene was one of un-
about a huadred responded. A few
were roaming about the mountains and
some were away in the boats. The sur
vivors gathered up the corpses strewed
along the beach and buried them there.
They then set out on their way over
mountain and rock, and through jungle,
thorns and cacti, fur Manzanillo. After
a long and most wearisome march with-
A BRAVE WARDEN.
STANLEY’S KREAT MARCH.
ConvIrtH In ihr Nrvndn I’mlcrntlnry Pro- Inrldentn of Ills Journey Across Africa—
claim “ l.iberly or I»rolli” -The lies. Ao KUhteen Hundred JHIe Trlpln the
Face of a Thousand
lies.
Perils and Difllcul-
perate Jlen Foiled and the Klnslender
, Killed.
A recent number of the Carson (Nev.) j ^ ,,, . , , VT
, . , . , , i „ i Henry M. Stanley has sent the New
•Ippcuf says: Abreak occurred yesterday Y , .. . . . J . ...
/ * , , • . 0 , , , l ork Herald a long account of his re-
attliostntepnson iit3o clock P.M., which, CPn ,. ^ rea , jo , ltnov a „ OBS A , tica nlong
but (or the bravery ami the cooloeto „t the lbe Coogoot Lufl.ba River. He ,,ene-
trated regions never before seen by a
white man. The following extracts from
his letter are fulj of interest :
The • journey over the hitherto un
known half of Africa now being finished,
the difficulties and terrors, wars after
out food or water they reached a point warden, Ins deputy and the officers of the
where the boats from the Manzanillo prison,wbuM have been a very qeriousaf
custom house met them and took them fair. Shortly after three o’clock the prison
off. Among those' saved was a babe but buggy drove furiously into town with
a lew months old, which was washed the intent of .procuring medical assist-
ashore alone and alive. Another but a niioe. The reporter of the Appeal took
few weeks old was safely brought ashore j the return carriage, and ascertained the
on the back of a strong swimmer who ’ of the ense. At about the hour
undertook the rescue at the solicitation above mentioned, Gapt. Matthewson, the wars, troubles after troubles, toil upon
of tlie child s mother. Among the pas- deputy warden, went to the second I toil, the dismay and despair being ended,
sengers _ was (icorge A. McMullen, a i story, of the shoe-shop to give or- ! it cannot be wondered that we breathe a
well-known mercliant of this cjjy,\yhq was ders, when he was seized by more i little freer and feel more relief now than
going to Ids old home in the East with his than half a .dozen convicts, who rushed ' wheu we were about to begin the jour-
upon him and bore him’ to the* ground, j ney. Our experiences have been sad and
shouting, “Liberty or death ; *you
shall die, blit we will be free,” Capt.
Matthewson, before hearing this war-
cry, had rushed in, supposihg there
was ,s<«me trouble among the prisoners.
! able to comprehend why any one should
take the trouble to pay for it when it is
so plentiful in each village.
The entire plain is also distinguished
for its groves of the oil palm. In Uknsu j
there are huge forests of this tree, j
Almost everything that Africa produces i
is to be obtained in the Congo Basin— j
cotton, india-rubber, groundnuts, sesa-
mum, copal (red and white), palm j
kernels and palm oil, ivory, etc. By ;
means of the Congo a journey to the |
gold and copper district of Katanga is i
rendered, moreover, very easy.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
A Rabbit Hunt in Nevada.
The Ward (Nevada) Reflex reports a
rabbit hunt iu Steptoe Valley as follows:
lu accordance with the programme the !
Winter fare of Fowls.
Give a plentiful supply of nourishing,
stimulating food. If artificial heat is
not attainable, have sash fitted in the
poultry-house, or so the sun may be
utilized. It will pay. Fowls require
heat ; if you can give it externally you
can save in feed. If artificial heat
possible take care that you do not giv
too much, else your birds may think it is
summer aud throw off their winter
clothes. A gentleman we knew of five
or six years ago, built a natty little j converted into oil, would
poultry-house with all the most approved $14,000,000. The total
alwayl
Honey w?
six dollars is
(N, Y.) man for last'yJ
“Say, pa," asked a youngster, inqt
One day, “ tell me, what is a ring ?"
A ring,” said the parent, admiring,
“ Let's see—well—it's not a square thing."
A definition is given of politeness in
which it is likened to an air ^engbion—
j may be nothing solid in it, bum
the jolts of the world wonderfully
A father of three sons and five daugh
ters was asked what family he had. The
answer was: “I have three sons, and
have each five sisters.” “Mercy!” re
plied the interrogater, “ such a family J”
A traveler stepped off a train and
asked a boy : “ Sonny, what is the quick
est way to get to the central dopot ?”
“ Run !” he answered, and set the ex
ample by getting out of the way pretty
fast.
wife and their two infant children. Air. 1
McMullen reached the shore alive, but
never saw aught again of his wife and |
babes. Many of the lost were, .well-
known, citizens of California. The news !
of this disaster created the most- .painful, j
excitement. Flags were displayed at
among the
soon ns he ascertniued the actual
took possession of the half-mast on the pnbHc places bt the j cqntlitfon bf 'affairs, he endeavored to
' 1 :l i<le<l the bar aud ; city, aud there was mourning in every i disfluaiio the prisoners from their project.
i: i i• i < i • * > - * ___ _
contest between the two teams named
came off on Saturday last. A pleasant
day greeted the Nimrods, and Sam
Mosier had everything in prime order
for the boys. A splendid supper was
spread for the gamesters, and after a fine j
rest an early start for the field was ef
fected. Such banging aud banging
never was heard iu Steptoe Valley be
fore, and it was evident that a good
record was to be made. The slaughter
Acapulco
senders.
[From the San Francisco Chronicle.]
ost at sea ! How many a tale of dis
aster r.":l death and sorrow and suffer
ing has been chronicled in these sylla
bles since first man began to go down to
the sea iu ships ! The Chronicle has a
list of shipwrecks that have occurred on
this coast of our continent since its set
tlements by the present ruling race.
Some of these disasters have been at
tended with such appalling circumstan
ces, and have left the mark of bereave
ment on the hearts of so many still liv
ing among us, as to be worthy of more
than passing mention. Fire and col
lision have boon the cause of the greatest
marine disasters which have occurred ou
our coast. Yet the hidden rock and
treacherous reef alone have several times
wrought instant destruction to some of
our finest ocean steamers and death to
their crews and passengers.
First in the melancholy list in chrono-
.\jgical order as well as in the appalling
loss of life comes the destruction of the
Independence. The crazy old craft ,
one of those picked up somewhere uy
Vanderbilt in the hurry of establish : nc
his independent line to secure the im
mense travel between the Atlantic States
and the newly-discovered gold regions
of the west. She was known to be un
seaworthy, but in the exigency of the
period anything that would float was ac-
s'f'ptal. reoplo ir. ♦ W-ir baste to reach
the gold region thought less of danger
than delay. On the 10th of February,
1853, the Independence sailed from
for this city, having 453 pas-
As week after week passed
and no tidings of tlie Independence were
received, the most gloomy apprehensions
of her fate were entertained by Hie
many who expected friends on the
steamer. It was not until late in March
that a Pacific Mail steamer arrived with
tidings which ended the painful sus
pense by the realization of the worst
fears. On the night of February 15th
the Independence was sailing nlong the
const of Afargufir/fs off the const
lower California. At dawn it was
overed that she was dangerously near
shore, and from the statements of
o of the passengers the captain seems
*-e held < ; X his course, or nearly so,
~*uo. At any rate, a short
fcerwmds the vessel grounded,
4 ft hig liole in her bottom. The
s being reversed the vessel im-
backed off into deep water. It
found that she was filling fast,
uaces were crammed with dry
and a’ 1 steam was put on, the de- j
-o b) skirt the island in search of
aieut spot to beach the vessel. •
UK iq the rough coast presented by *
rugged isle live or six miles were run i
ore such a spot could be found. The
hscI was finally gently grounded on a i
ndy beach at the mouth of a ravine, i
ere under ordinary circumstances the
seugers could have been landed iu
fety. But iu the exertions to make
steam to huiTY tlie vessel’s progress, a
rent heat vns created in the furnaces,
rising of water in the hold of the
. stopped the flues and obstructed
draft. The tlnmes thus spent up,
irst open the doors of the furnaces and
••eat flame shot out, driving all out
• engine room, sweeping along the
-e-room and igniting the wood-
All efforts to control the fire were
and in a few moments the vessel
apped iu flames and th,* people
id given over to panic and destruc-
fn the effort to get ashore with a
the boats, which put off not a quar
ter-full, were swamped, and thus the
last hope of escape was destroyed, as
those who had reached shore were power
less to assist those on board. The flames
compelled those on board to leap over-
boar.l and many of them sunk beneath 1
the billows before reaching the shore, !
300 yards distant. A strong ebb
dortow which prevailed, drn
another poor victim back
house. The total number of lives lost
ou this melancholy occasion was 198.
The steamer Brother ..TonatMiUgate•
to navigation a new rock. To the sea
she gave a noble tribute of kumau.lives.
bridled passion and violence. The I The Brother Jonathan was oner of the
ruffians took possession of the life pre- most familiar boats here,*hating been
servers, and when the vessel was threat- engaged in tlie coast passenger frade for
ened to go down at any moment extorted
large sums of money from the terrified
passengers. Iu this it was charged that
they were aided by some of the subordi
nate officers of the boat. At any rate
they were not prevented from the most
outrageous proceedings. The steamer
held together during the night, and the
several years. On July 28, 1805, ’ she
left this port for Portland and Victoria.
Her passengers numbered 109, her crew
and officers fifty-four. At lialf-paSt one
o’clock on the afternoon of July 30,
while running at full speed she struck a
sunken rock off St. George’s f Qiut.eigld
or ten miles npjth'west of Crescent City.
W LA V* IDIA mi
. /{'ll e ofiiy 'f'xce^t’iftliB were!
smbarkc^ Jq^tpaf 4 WifK ‘tit?
next morning those who had passed a i A great • hole was made in her 'libltOm-,
night of terror and suspense on board and in three-quarters of. *m. hour,.fvftej;
were rescued by the steamer Golinh. i striking she w6fit down with nearly all
The latter had run into the dangerous on board,
waters during the night, and narrowly ^ those who embarke
escaped shipwreck. She was just back- j third officer. 'ThooKj,, nuihlieriug tpn of
ing out when, the fog lifting for a , the crew, three ladies and two childre«,,
moment, the Yankee Blade was discov- 1 reached the shore iif safety-‘Why tlvi*boat"
ered. Soon after the rescue the stranded ^ put off with so few'in it, wheu *so many
were perishing, was . nove£ explained.
back
steamers Goliah
steamer went down. The passengers j were perishing, was . novej explainei
acre brought back to this city by the j Efforts were made to kuuich £omc,boat$.
and Brother Jonathan, but they swamped in tlie high sea. Aud
Many of them who, after years of har(l- ■ before all had been lowered the vessel
ship in the mines, had started for home 1 went down, carrying with ‘her hll * oh
with a competency, returned penniless, board, nearly 150 people. Somq of tliese
being compelled to leave their posses- 1 were men of note, and there was mourn-
sions on the stranded steamer. It is es- j ing all over tho-country for them.*
Mysterious and awful was the fate of
the little steamer George S. Wriglif.
She sailefffrim Portland for Sitka Jauu,-
ary 2, .1873, reached ’her destination iii
due time and started to return, having
on board’about twenty passengers. Dur
ing the voyage she disappeared and left
no survivor to‘ tell the .planner of.Jier
end. From glimpses caught of her
while passing certain points on the coast
it is pretty certain-that she took her final
plunge in the waves'ou the stormy-night'
of January 27th off the wild’and rugged
coast about forty miles northeast of Van j
couver Island, but the cause of her des-
timated that their losses in this way ng-
g 'iited half a million of dollars. The
.' 1 y- ’dp ■■■:• »ny refused to make any
provision f >r M . i r relief, and but for the
help anorak ’ Lv private ckarity they
would have suffered greatly. The disas
ter created much excitement, and brought
down upon the head of Captain Randall
and his company a great deal of deserved
censure.
The Golden Gate, ou e of the fines
ocean steamers running ou this coast,
sailed from this city for Panama on
Monday morning, July 21, 1862, under
•ommand of Captain Hudson. She took
dreadful, and wo have paid dearly for
the temerity and the obstinacy with
which we hold on. You might cu 1 ! all
the •terrible experiences that African
travelers relate in their books, aud united
they would scarcely present such a list
of difficulties ns we could riiow. Our
losses, nevertheless, have not been so of rabbits was fearful, and it required
They replied:.“ VJe will t:lkb 3011 out- great comparatively. Our journey’s four wagons to follow the two teams in
side to protect us.” “ Yon had better length, from Nyaugwo is nearly one . ^ ie held to keep the game. According
be* quiet,” sard Matthewsou: “you will | thousand eight hundred miles; our losses ag r °ement the teams were to meet at
be shot.Despite his advice they car- in men are one European and thirty-four Mosier s for lunch at ten o clock,, which
ried him out, pushing- him in front of Wanguana. Captain Tnckey lost eigh-
them. • The men who had him in charge ! teen Europeans and eleven colored men
were Mathena and Ixdleyj sentenced for - |*in about three months. Mungo Park
lifjj; Crawford,' for seven years; Ole lost his'own life and the lives of all his
Jphnson, for twelve years; Etftrander, I pepple, arid out t>f Peddie’s Niger expe
dition the commander and all the prin
cipal officers lost their lives aud the
expedition was broken up. Much
earnest effort was necessary to break
through, aud there is no doubt that if
we had' not made it some explorer with
a little more determination and loss non-
for six
breakers
for twenty-five, and Allen
■ years. The object of the
was to reach the south doorof the prison
garden under cover of the official, and
•then run for life.. In the meantime, .the
captain of the guard, Gonnard, kail been*
seized in another pOrtirtrr of -the shoe-
by Bodarro, se'nt^fioeif frti' lite; * souse in him .would have done it, aud his
■ Bek'b6r, ■twvauty-orie years, arid liurtori*,* -tWables would have been much the
for three years. 'They told .him if he same.**" - ' -
wotftflVb'qujQtly-, they wouftf’riot iufttt' But T have paid ifor my triumph .with . . ,. .. , ,, .. . .
hapi.of ^s'he^d^ expostulated* # ne of my Iwind whose loss almost causes' 111 any field ’ an<1 tlie l )artl0B comprising
telling kis captors ^mt ^ it wtW"r , ^rt*iin ' me to regret that. I also dfet riot •permit
•death to proceed. The*breate^ we'fe ifll ^ myself -to be dissuaded from entering
from the sboeshop, ambwerg aiqqed with the unknown' regions. * Though ‘bom in
the* knives *usefl i® that department, , an humble sphere of life Francis PoCock
Up°H the captain of 'the gkitrd exposku-j was an extraordinary man ; a man to
hiking, -he was cut severely in the groin j make himself respected and beloved ; a
by’one of the 'brea&erg.,' ]Je. was iiqt , mkn of many fine qualities, of cool,
(•ertain who inflicted the wound. - .When | qtejulfnsi' courage, that knew no quail-
.thqy were atl'onlsidc, Captain Matthew- , ing : cf great manliness, a cheerful,
they did, and the count of game com
menced. To the utter surprise of every
body, the score of each team was 609.
Who ever saw such a pile of rabbits ?
By actual measurement there was a cord
of dead rabbits. The teams had mis
taken the ..port of the day and had not
sufficient ammunition to continue the
slaughter of the forenoon, and agreed to j 1 “<it, unu uuij
ah in.'i • • 1 ■ i.i 1 dozen hens and two cock
quit. All hands joined in the agree
ment, aud cheer after cheer went up
from botk titles as the announcement
was made that it was a draw. We were
in the field and have seen some* good
shootingJoefore, but take it altogether,
we havri never seen better shooting done
he two teams deserve a great deal of
credit for their perseverance and the
honorable manner iu which they con
ducted the match.
.■son,.although,in a most 'daigbnms posi- I amiable compauioji; a gentle, pious
fki
wring,
iuiCtanfe of his courage is worth ro-
v — —j The natives of Ibaka prepared
neaAiu^the gftte, which-, { to attack us ajscUadvaiiced' on ns Mr. that
iciency ot those iil fttte’rifl- purpose. I - stood up ir
» ilvanv/LA, AJILLJ U* I . ,
242 passengers, and her officers and crew trnctl ou is unknown. ‘ It is su'rmiSed
numbered ninety-six men—a total of 338 1 ^earner either struck on a
persons. She also had on board specie ! BUU . ken rock . or, her machinery becom-.
of the value of 81,400,000. On the
afternoon of their first Sunday out (July
27th), about a quarter of five o’clock,
the ship took fire in the cook’s galley!
The passengers were immediatelyordered
forward, but so rapid was the progress
of tlie flames that only about 100 suc
ceeded in getting forward. The fire
bursting out amidships cut off all com-
mmiicafioR between the fore and aft
parts of tlie ship. Til? vessel was im
mediately headed for the shore, which
was three or four miles distant, and as
much steam as could be raised was
crowded on. A westerly breeso which
prevailed drove the flames aft among the
poor wretches huddled there. An at
tempt to get out the boats was made. Of
| the ten on board only five could be got,
! and one of these was swamped in lower-
■ ing. Ot the life preservers the greater
j number were out of reach. The fire
soon drove the engineers from their
■ station and some of them, including
Waddell, the chief engineer, narrowly
escaped being burned there. Suddenly
the poor wretches huddled fore and aft
, on Hie boat, watching the too-slowly
approaching shore, had the agony of
; seeing the vessel sheer off. It was only
for a moment. The man at the wheel, a
heroic sailor, named William Hood
finding the heat absolutely unendurable!
forsook Ids post, but it was only in
search of a rope, with which he dashed
back through the flames and tied fast
i wheel, being dragged away in afaint-
i ing condition by some of his comrades
who threw him a rope. By this time
tlu flames had become absolutely unen
durable, and the passengers were driven
to jump into tlie sea, with almost a eer-
helpless againpt
which engulfed
ing deranged, wiv* left
the prevailing storm
her. . .
A few fragments of the wreck have
been recovered aud two bodies, supposed
to belong to her passengers*—one, that
of a man believed to bo Major Walker,
i United States paymaster, the other that
of a boy—were picked up. An Indian was
recently arrested on the northern coast
who claims to have been on board the
! missing steamer. He states that .the
! boiler exploded at night, and. the vessel.
1 went down so suddenly that only one
| boat could be launched. This boat, con
taining the captain, four United States
army officers aud the Indian, escaped to
an island, where they made a bargain
; with some Indians to take them to the
mainland for $500. The sight of the
money inflamed the cupidity oi the bar-
■ barons wretches,and on the night before
i 1 hey wore to set out, while th§ white
men were asleep, ^hey murdered them
1 all, sparing the Iml j an with strict in
i' junctions never to disclose the truth on
| pain of being killed.
Tlie incidents of the latest grpat ocean
i disaster on our coast—that in which the
1 ill-fated Pacific went -down early iu.No-
1 vember, 1875, with all on bganl (some
' 200 Souls), save two—are well remem-
j bored. The dark )[ight, thy suddep ap
parition of a vessel under full* sail,’the
crash of the sudden collision, the sud
den rush of water, the shrieks of the
awakened passengers,, the moment of
confusion and the engulfing of the
1 steamer are incidents vividly reinemW-
ed from the thrilling narratives of the'
•vived. Th.. uhi..
tion, ordered-the gunrtls £0 fife.' T1 e' -smil; amf a stanch. friend in trouble,
order' given three times b'efdre
the command was obeyed.* JJythh>
time they were
through .the efficiency'of those iiT attend- purpose. I ■ stood up in the boat to
ance was promptly closed. While com- , spqfik to ' them, and while engaged in
ing down the stairs, Captaid Matthewson conversation with one of tlie chiefs a
Iriclceda window tuid shouted, thus noti- canoe crept up near Frank’s aud Fratik
tying Pino, of the guards, that some- ( was made^aware that he .was a target for
tiling was .wrgng. He immediately ud- two dr three guns, and lifted his gun 'to
fire # or to threaten them. Seeing this,
| that it would precipitate us into another |
fight, before exhausting all endeavors
| f< >r peace, I cried out to Frank to drop
| his gun.. He instantly obeyed, and per
mitted them to approach’within thirty
yards of him without making the least
motion,* though every’ one was exceed
ingly anxious. Finding that his eyes
were fastened on them two of the savages
that were aiming at Frank suddenly
changed their minds, aud gave my boat’s
crew the benefit of their attentions,
firing among us, wounding four of my
best nu'ii, though fortunately not fatally,
and the third emptied his gun among
Frank’s people, wounding one. He
then received permission to avenge him
self, which he did in an effective man
ner.
titled General Batterman, who:promptly
appeared upon the scene. The firing
had'already commenced. Mitchell, who
was statibued ou tlie parapet, fired his
shotgun, completely riddling Johnson,
with slugs and shot, and such truck as is
ordinarily loaded iu a shotgun. Captain
Matthewson', who was holding a prison
er, was shot throqgh the right arm, tlie
th4 ball .passing from thence into the
shoulder of Matbeuy, a young man seu-
•tejiced for life, and passing out througu
the upper portion of his arm. Matheny
•arid Johnson fell.
The officers remained firm and the ex
citement by this time became intense.
The prisoners, seeing they were utterly
and completely foiled in their attempt,
now began to. weaken. Belcher, one of
the men in charge op the captain of the
guard, was the .first to propose giving
up. He said to the captain, “ If you
will keep the guards from shooting, we ( ot - Uloclij bllt x canU)it rt , frain fr<)1
w! go >ac -quiet 3. rhe captain j U g this young African, «-
agreed to the proposition and then re
turned to .th'e shoe-shop. No escapes
was effected, aud tlie officers pf the
prifcon' are to bo congratulated on their
efficiency and promptness in the dis
charge of their duties. Doctors Fox,
Srtiart, White and Luce were immediate
ly called, the former attending to the
case of Johnson and the latter to Ma-
tlietiy, all of them giving their attention
to Captious Matthewson and Gonard.
The-wound* of thelattef are very slight.
' Matheny'hits, a flesh wound in fche
shoulder,’from which he will soon re
cover. The woilnds of Johnson arc’very
serious. We counted twenty-seven per
forations in his khonlder arid back.
About five J\* M. JciMusou died of his-
wounds. He was sentenced for murder,
in the secoud degree, for twenty-five
years, and liaifservdd* tWo'yeaYs of -this
time. He was,, the .ringleader of the
movement* and met with.its just departs.'
Withont Note or Comment.
Two stories of suicide are in all minds
to-day—one of them a story of life in a
palace, the other a story of life in a
tenement house. The actors in the two
terrible dramas were socially as far re
moved from each other as the poles.
The one was rich, the other poor ; the
one refined, the other without culture.
The one lived in luxury, with friends in
abundance, with wealth and with all the
comforts that wealth can provide ; the
other lived in narrow quarters, upon
scanty food and with little or nothing of ! hands may be hept smooth and white by
modern conveniences, including a base
burning coal-stove. “All went merry
as a marriage-bell.” Eggs were laid,
were hatched as nicely, with
the thermometer below zero, as in the
pleasant May days, until just before a
certain show, when the birds began to
shed their feathers, and show time found
them as ragged as robbins. A council of
j experts was called, but wheu in the
i course of their deliberations upon the
I best hen, the question arose whether she
( was of the dark or light Brahma per
suasion, there not being feathers enough
I to decide, and the owner having no
private mark, a discussion arose so per
sonal that two of the parties are enemies
o this day.—Fancier’* Journal.
On the same subject the Rural World
says: If the poultry roosts in the trees it
should be caught and shut up in the
poultry-house for two or three days to
wont them to their new quarters. It is
idle to expect hens to lay in winter, if
left to roost on fences, trees, etc., ex
posed to the freezing weather and piti
less storms. The poultry should now
be weeded out, and only a couple ol’
ks left for the
j next season. Save the early pullets, and
I they will give you bushels of eggs,
Kill off all the old hens, if you want to
| get plenty of egg^, and bear in mind not
! to keep too many hens. A few hens wel
! kept will produce more eggs than a gooi
| many hens poorly kept. Fowls must
not be crowded. They want plenty to
eat. They should have some animal
food. The scraps about the house should
be saved for them, instead of being fed
to.worthless curs. It i a great help to
the table to have fresh , ggs in winter,
and it requires some attention and care
to get them. Warm quarters, early
pullets, plenty of food and plenty of
room, are the necessary conditions to
have them.
lledlcnl HIiiin.
To Remove Blackueams fkom the
Skin.—Blackheads may be got rid of
and prevented from returning, by wash
ing in tepid water, by proper friction
with a towel, and by applying a little
cold cream.
Taking Care ok the Hands.—The
turn.
line,
; taiuty “of death there,
lowered themselves over
vessel by means of ropes, to which they '
Some of them
the sides of tho
fol-
iu the water, until others . T . . ^ . ... . -
in such numbers that the poor , Ne t T n ‘ V 1 wkms, and. was on hey waj
to let go ‘ t0 Victoria un.%-,oo£j-
by those above. Tin
yged
held on
lowed
men at the bottom were forced
passengers held to*
these life lines by scores until the fire
i burned them off, and tlie struggling
j despairing wretches sank in -a mass
among the raging waters. I n about half
an hour after the fire was discovered the
or un- | vessel was beached three hundred yards
from
1 two who survived. Tlie ship. Orpheus
went aground on. the night of the collis
ion and was abandoned. Her fate had
l little or no connection with the collision,
she escaped without #enous in
jury. The Pacific belonged to Gpojall,
maud of
er-in-la
The Two Turkeys.
As*, regards CentiTs*-of' population' ;
•.Turkey in. Europe* as a VGiolc, hak far 1
more*.inhabitant*, to Jtjie Hijuarp", iriila.j
than. Turkey in •••Asia.;, there! *ure
-three.or four’Eurvtpffltn provinces where I
the-pnjAulatioii is 111'dVf'Meiis’e than else-'
'vhekeo-via< Rnlgarin, which is','n6w‘
f Captain D.,I{owell,.a broth- j t,H? -Adriiiuople and •'Kosso ; i
w of J/jffqrsim Davis. , ’ *vit ( *whi*ffi'are-Immediately .adjacent.,to
— ' ’ ’ f tlie tkxifc of war ' aVifi ffanfiffl;- Whhdr <lies ;
c<mfparntii&'cly, distant, ‘" Tlitffe' &Vc', how
hver; (moor two province# iq Awa, [(Sir
This is scarcely the place to say much
>m giv
ing this young African, who was the
coxswain of the Lady Alice (the canoe
ip which Pecock lost Iris life when it was
swamped iu a whirpool), a meed of
praise here. Uledi is. a young fellow
twenty-seven or twenty-eight years old,
i lithe and active as a leopard and brave
as a lion. He is one of a hundred thou
sand. I doubt whether there is another
in the island of Zanzibar equal to him. ,
There are few in this expedition who are
not indebted to him for life or timely 1
rescue or brave service. He was the
first in war aud the most modest iu 1
I peace. He was the best soldier, the
j best swimmer, the best carrier, the best
sailrir, the best workman in wood or
j iriur, and the most faithful of the black :
' faithfuls. He was certainly the last
i man iu the world who should have been I
dared into doing a desperate act, such
, as shooting a cataract. But Frank was
j too Brave also, and had a strange oon-
| tempt for .tlie terrors of the river, liav-
| ing been a.Medway waterman from bis
boyhood. It is first to sheer rashness,
and secoud to his accidentally striking
his liead against the canoe as he en
deavored to rise to the surfree, that I
attributed the loss of such an expert ^
swimmer as Frank Pocock.
Her Dark l/aysV ' •
Among the eflepts 0/ Mrs. jStaart/the*
Once above the lower cataracts wo
have the half of Africa • before us with
no fiiterruptioris, and not, like the Low
er Nile regions, drwyts of sand, but bhe
vast, populous plain, so populous, in
comfort. One thing only they had in
common, aud that was intolerable
wretchedness, and the wretchedness was
wrought iu both cases by alcohol.
In one case it was a poor workingman,
who gave way to despair aud killed his
children and himself because his wife
was drunken. In the other a refined,
cultured, sensitive woman, a young wife
who had all that wealth and social con
nections could procure, who was ac
counted particularly fortunate aud hap
py,- voluntarily went to her death to
escape the intolerable torture of life
with a husband who was a victim of
strong drink.
With these tragical stories for text it
would be easy to write a sermon ; but
the lessons that the stories suggest are
trite and worn with much reiteration.
1 The stories themselves carry their moral
with them, as similar stories told every
day iu the newspapers do, and they who
heed them not would not heed even
| though one should rise from the dead.—
i Xcw York Fecitin<j Fort.
Bleeding to Death for Thirty Hours.
At St. Louis about midnight on a re-
| cent Monday a man was discovered in
; the vicinity of the third district police
station, staggering along the street and
acting in a disorderly and boisterous
manner. He was taken into the station
! on a charge of disorderly conduct, and
placed in a cell, where he remained until
the following morning, and was released.
| The man, whose name could not then be
ascertained, went to the house of a
friend named Quigly, on Seventh street,
and told (fiiigly he was very ill with a
pain iu the breast. Mr. Quigly took him
to the city dispensary, where an exami
nation was had and the discovery made
that the man had been stabbed iu or
through the breast bone. Though the
wound was considered slight, he con
tinued to grow weaker and more stupid,
and this morning he died. A post mor
tem examination was held by the coroner,
and it was found that the dead man had |
been stabbed with a long-bladed jack- !
knife, not only going through the out- i
ward wall of the body, but through the 1
pericardium of the heart, and slightly j
penetrating that organ, death being pro- .
ilueed by hemorrhage of the heart,
though the bleeding was so slow ami i
the victim was such a strong man that i
it took thirty hours for him to bleed to
death.
the free use of glycerine after washing,
and by frequently rubbing them dry in
bran or meal. Apply glycerine before
retiring, aud sleep in warm gloves or
woolen mittens.
To Remove a Wart.—A wart can be
removed by applying a small quantity
of nitric acid to the surface. Do not
cut or open the wart iu any way, but
simply touch it with the cork. Should
it burn when first applied, dip it iu cold
water, aud it will be immediately re
lieved. Do not let the acid touch any
other portion of the skin except the
wart.
To CrBE Chills and Fever.—One
quart boiling water; one drachm quinine;
put into a tumbler of the water, stir
and it will look like milk; add fifteen or
twenty drops sulphuric acid; pour this
into a quart bottle; two ounces of Epsom
salts mixed with some of the boiling
water to be added to the Lrst, and two
ounces essence peppermint; dose, two
tablespoonfuls three times a day, before
eating.
Canary and other Ventures.
“ Burleigh,” who has been taking a
trip to Panama, writes to the Boston
Journal from ou board the steamer to
Texas made this year 700,000 bales
of cotton, from which will be obtained
840,000,000 pounds of seed. This seed,
bring over
exports of
cotton from the port of Galveston during,
the season just closed were 495,814
bales, of which 256,928 went to foreign
and 238,886 to domestic ports.
A Boston s\\ iudler has made thousands
of dollars in New England by staying at
hotels over night iu the guise of a travel
ing salesman, receiving by previous
rangement with a confederate letters
containing worthless checks and pre
tended directions from an employer, and
inducing the landlords to cash the checks.
His ea’sy, business-like manner, and the
simplicity of the fraud, enabled him to
succeed in nearly instance.
The New York Sun says New York
contains to-day hard on 1,300,000 inhabi
tants. Brooklyn alone contains at this
writing a population of 550,000 ; this,
added to 1,300,000, would give New
York City 1,850,000. If, however, we
taka in Jersey City and Staten Island,
which clearly belong to this agglomera
tion of population, New York, viewed as
a metropolis, is the second largest city
of the civilized world, containing over
2,000,000 inhabitants. Thus • Lon
don, 3,489,428; New York over 2,000,000,
aud then Paris with 1,851,792.
In the town of Wells, Maine, live two
remarkable brothers, one of whom is
seventy-seven years old and the other
seventy-two years. Their total weight
together is five hundred pounds, and
their combined height is twelve feet, five
inches. They were born in the same
house in which they now live, and never
have been out of their native town.
Both are married and have families.
They have kept their property in com
mon, have never kept any accounts, and
never quarrelled or had the least disa
greement. Their farm consists of five
hundred acres, aud upon it are hundreds
of trees one hundred feet high, four and
five feet iu diameter at the butt, and
worth from $50 to $100 apiece.
say that “among
things on board is
They are 2,000 in
care of three men.
the most curious
a cargo of canaries,
number, under the
whose time is all
taken up with washing, feeding aud mix
ing the food. These birds have crossed
the ocean to New York aud are to find a
market in San Francisco. Frail as the
stock is, and liable to disease and death,
the venture is said to have money iu it.
The owner is a Frenchman.” lie also
says that “ among our passengers are
several salesmen loaded with samples
on a tramp to introduce American goods
in all parts of the world. One man is a
genuine specimen of a cute tradesman.
He is engaged for a three years’ cruise.
He has a camel’s load of wares. He has
a salary of $25,000 a year and $20 a day
expenses. He represents twelve large
New England factories, and knows the
name and occupation of every man on
board the steamer.”
An Election Rooster.
Scranton (Penn.) Republican
many from shore, but by that time only the
as he was miinim/ .. f l f ° • h JUst 1 ,0() passengers who had reached the fore
hausted condition on shoviT' ^ f/’T . ,,0at r< ' n ; ain ' > ‘ l on
sin- Those aft had been forced overboard,
, , iHlantl and at least three-fourths of them sunk
cared for aud whence thev came to Tlris J Whin f\ K,loro - ThoSe remnini »f?
city. Tlie number rt„ pcrS"n h' ■ CTt T”"'. , "‘' 1
disaster was 197. iroken timbers, with which they jumped
overboard as soon as the vessel beached.
on shore. The
vivors made their way across the
to a whaling station
I
citv.
. « . , . - .. r ., — deed, thuti excepting •Ugogo, I know no
young wife .who committed suipide Ju. ^nlnrly Syrian ;Riid>.»’rel»ij 5 oBtl r ,an4 .tliqt .part of Africa so thickly inhabited. The
New York on account of her husband's j l’a 1 '^'^U Asiu Minor near to Constnii.ti- usual term villagg is'a fnisnouier I
infenfperate-habits, was found a small ! ^vhvre the population equals in
office calender, and on this was iudi- I dbfifcity that of the more populous Euro-
eated, after a fashion, the dopth of her P ontI provinces of Turkey. As regards
the war in Europe, therefore, where the
Main struggle lies, it is a contest by
Ifussift"primarily against a populatioil of
about four or five nrillons living in the
A Trader’s Trick.
The
' says: The members of the Twelfth ward
| election board relate a remarkable inci
dent which occurred ou election day at
1 the house where the voting was going
j on. At precisely twelve o’clock, as they
were actively engaged in their duties, a
^ The first to end her career was the
Yankee Blade, the finest and fastest of
the ocean steamers then running on this
roast. On Beptember 30, 1854, the
steamer wriled from this port for u
Panama, with 800 passengers and $153,- j vessel disappeared
COO in specie. On the evening of the roll was called on
Many a one was torn from his frail raft
by the heavy breakers. The last two to
leave tho vessel were Captains Hudson
n»d H. H. Pearson, tho latter a passen
ger. Iu a few minutes afterwards the
trouble. Over tho month of October js
written, “ My Dark Days.” Every day
during the month is darkened by peueil
marks, some more ami some less. In
some of the squares there is on!- block
dot. One day was left white. The
record was kept up during tho month
until death. There was one white day
during November also, but (he others
were all very dark. ,
The nerves pull the trigger, but the
In the morning the gun powder which (hey unite is stored in
the bench, and only j the muscles.
provinces of • the Danube, Adrianonle
iind Kossova, aud secondarily .-.gainst a
remaining population ot shout four
millions in Europe aud sixteen
in Asia. The bulk of the Asictic popu
lation is, however, in Asm Minor and
Syria, and many parts are accessible by
sea, from Constantinople^ and, practical-’
ly, as near the scene of hostilities as the
outlying parts of European Turkey.
illagg is'a fnisnomCr for
most of the collections of dwellings ;
they are towns iu some places two miles
long, with one or more broad streets be
tween the rows of neat,well-built houses.
The houses are superior to anything in
East Central • Africa. The natives are
different also. Every thought seems
When-the Communists of Paris mob-j young rooster flew through the window
“Oh Jim.’’
A writer in the Sonora (Cal.) Demo
crat, speaking of the queer customs of
the miners iu the early days of the gold
discovery, says :
Another common expression iu the
early days was “ Oh Jim.” In the north
ern mines, when the miners came forth
from their claims at dinner time or iu tho
evening after their day’s work was done,
each one of them as ho stretched out his
arms like a faithful Mohammedan greet
ing the rising sun, would exclaim :
Oh-h-h Joe,” prolonging the first word
to an inordinate length aud cutting the
last as short as possible. In the southern
mines it was “ Oh-h-h Jim,” delivered in
the same manner. The origin of this
expression lay iu the necessity of throw
ing the voice as far as possible when
wishing to communicate with a friend in
a neighboring claim. A woman in these
days was a rarity aud something of a
curiosity, aud whenever one “ hove in
sight ” of a camp of miners, the first
who saw her was sure to announce his
liscovery to his friends in the adjoining
claims, refixing the exclamation “Oh”
long drawn out, with the name of the
adjacent miners, supplementing with
there’s a woman cornin’.” Finally the
announcement of a woman in sight set
tled into “ Oh-h-h Jim,” and the cry was
passed from claim to claim as she went
by. Previous to ’56, from Chinese and
Montezuma,from Jamestown and Sonora,
up Wood’s creek and above Columbia
was densely populated. Every inch of
ground was occupied and thousands of
picks were swinging from morning (•
night, consequently the progress of a
woman over the road through this portion
of the mines was greeted every step with
a jovial welcoming of : “Oh-h-h Jim !”
along the creek ; “ Oh-h-h Jim !” rang
out clear and strong from the slopes of
Table mountain, and “ Oh-h-h Jim!”
floated from the distal.t plains of Raw-
hide. A deep l)a« u “ent tbe cry fre,n tho
gulches toward Tuttletown, and it was
caught ou the wing by a shrill treble far
up the creek, each man stopping work to
cry “Oh-h-h Jim,” to gaze earnestly
after the woman, or, perhaps, to swing
Iris old, greasy slouch hat in token of the
joy he felt at seeing so great a curiosity
as a woman in the “diggings.” Then
he would return to his labor with
thoughts of the “girl ho left behind
him,” thinking, with tour-dimmed eyes,
perhaps, of the aged mother or blooming
sister who patiently waited Iris return
from the far shores of the glittering
Pacific. Many a mother has passed away
while waiting the return of tlie son who
never came, thousands of sisters are
still waiting, and will continue to wait
until “ time shall cense to be, aud the
heavens are rolled up as a scroll.”
engrossed with trade, aud fairs and
markets are established everywhere.
There has been a suspicion generally
entertained that ivory must soon become
; but I car. vouch that at least
it wil^^fc>c s° for^n^ or four genera
tions. TI
pies,” or idc
monesfc utens
made of ivory•
bed the residence of Thiers, they enrri
ed awiiy Iris bronzes and curiosities,
which were sold to dealers. The police
subsequently seized, wherever they
found them, articles bearing the private
mark of Thiers, which he caused to be
engraved or stamped upon his articles
of vertu. To his surprise, he found
many ornaments brought to him bear
ing his mark, which he had never own
ed. The dealers had counterfeited the
mark, and preferred to be robbed
rather than confess the trick.
>f the room, carrying sash and glass,
and startling tho occupants. He perched
himself squarely upon the ballot-box
aud crowed triumphantly several times.
As soon as tho officers had recovered
from their surprise, the bold intruder
had made Iris way out, after scattering
the papers and other articles upon the
table in a lively fashion. Tlie officers
are at a loss to account for this strange
gallinaceous feat. As tho incident was
rs he has been so often
at his boardii)
it ttie mockil
related to our reporter, au old man with
a gray beard and wearing spectacles, in- gas flows out over the
jged in convulsive laughter, as he il- j door, and runs like a
A Fatal Gas.
In volcanic regions springs and wells
of carbonic acid gas are not unfrequeut,
forming part of tlie geological forma
tion, like the springs and wells of petro
leum in certain districts or this country.
The Dogs’ Grotto, near Naples, enjoys
a world-wide reputation for evil. Redis
plays tlie fact that carbonic acid,
so much heavier than air thatHj
tho ground like a pool of wat
threshq
brook
Red how, at the same time, a largo
njulficJii^aLIfi^aud remained
ger had
path leading up to the grotto. In
weather a lighted candle plunged into
the stream near its point of exit is im
mediately extinguished.
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