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CURRENT TOPICS.
" A ihspatcii from Vienna "says the
conference between Bismarck and An
drassy has resulted in Hn agreement
- that German and Austrian intcre.su in
all pending European questions are
identical, and that the condition of Eu
rope is mich as to leave no doubt that
the two Empires will he able to assert
those interests peaceably. It U further
stated that no hostile demonstration
against Russia has been considered.
Tub Colorado Democratic State Con
vention, held at Denver on the 23d,
nominated. George Q. Richmond of
Pueblo for Supreme Judge.
Tuk Russian advance column of the
expedition in Central Asia has been de
feated by Turcomans at Geok Tepe,
with a loss of TOO killed.
The Pennsylvania Prohibitionists have
put a State ticket in the field, headed
by William L. Richardson for State
Treasurer.
The Massachusetts Prohibition State
Convention, held on the 21th, nomi
nated a fall State ticket, headed by Rev.
Daniel C. Eddy for Governor.
The Minnesota Democratic State Con
vention, held on the 25th, nominated
Edmund Rice of St. Paul for Governor,
E. P. Barnnm for Lieutenant-Governor,
Felix A. Hover for Secretary of State,
Lyman Cowdry for Treasurer, P. M.
Babcock for Attorney-General, and
.Win. Colvflle for Railroad Commission
er. The financial plank of the platform
was the occasion of considerable wran
gling, the majority report of the Com
mittee favoring hard money, and the
minority report the unlimited use of
greenbacks., The majority report was
finally adopted.
The Exodus Relief Committees of
Wyandotte and Kansas City have, in
consideration of the probability of an
additional influx of colored immigrants,
resolved "that all proper means should
be taken to direct the tide of em
igration into other and older States,
where accumulated wealth and popu
lation afford better facilities ' for their
successful settlement."
A Vienna correspondent of the Lon
don Times reports that, in consequence
of the bad harvest and numerous floods,
the distress in parts of Hungary threat
ens to become appalling during the
coming winter. The Banat District is
threatened with famine, and some of the
inhabitants are prepared to emigrate to
Servia.
Aw Odessa paper publishes a letter
from Kief describing the terrible fire
which occurred in that city on the 3d of
September. While a furious storm was
raging the offices of the Fire Brigade
and Chief of Police, a gunpowder maga
zine and four petroleum stores were
simultaneously set on fire. The whole
city was wrapped in a thick, black cloud
of smoke, and. every now and then peo
ple were terrified by a scries of detona
tions and loud explosions. The entire
garrison and firemen of the suburbs,
and many inhabitants, - labored imle
fatigably to extinguish the fire, but, de
spite their efforts, it continued until the
morning of the second day after it broke
out. ?
The city of Dead wood, Dakota, was
almost literally wiped out by fire on the
26th. The fire originated in a bakery
soon after midnight. It gained fearful
headway in a few moments, and before
the people could be aroused the city'$
doom was sealed. ' A high wind was
blowing at the time, the water supply
was short and the fire apparatus poor
ami insufficient, in addition to which the
buildings were mostly of wood and poor
ly constructed, and burned like ao mtuh
chaff. ' About 125 business buildings,
besides SO or 60 dweUing-hou,
were destroyed, and while it is impossi
ble to give any definite figures regard
ing the loss, well posted business men
place it at fromfl,oOO,UOOto2,OOOl0lO.
The insurance is very small, it being
only recently that reliable companies
had begun to take risks there. Aliout
2,000 people are homeless and many
destitute. Upon request of a commit
tee of citizens, Gen. Sturgis, V. S. com
mander at Fort Meade, detailed a com
pany of cavalry to act as guard over the
burned city and protect snch property
as had been saved from the conflagra
tion. A telegram front Havana states that
three slave-holder have emancipated
their 6,0 M slaves and contracted with
them for their services for five years.
The other slave-hclde intend following
their example. It is also stated that
several Deputies are resolved to move in
the Spanish Coraa or Parliament for
the immediate tbolition of slavery in
Cuba, without indemnity to the slave
holdcrs. The following is the score of the six
days" go-as-yoi-please pedestrian c-on-test
for the Axtlcy belt, at the Madison
Square Carder., New York, which ter
minated on the night of the 2th:
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The War Department has received
official advices from the fight of the 18th
tilt, at the head of the Las Animas
River, in New Mexico, in which Victoria
and his band of rebellious Indians suc
cessfully repelled the troops sent against
them, intituling a loss of five men killed
and one wounded and .10 horses killed
and six wounded. Victoria's band is
said to number about 1 10. Cavalry re
iuforcenients have been sent forward,
and hot. work is expected.
G ever At Grant, since his arrival at
?:n Francisco, has been put through a
rapid succession of receptions, dinners,
excursions, etc., enough to quail the
Published by KXI. AUGUSTA S. B08WORTH.
VOLUME XXIX.
stoutest heart or the strongest stomach.
One day there was an excursion across
the bay to Oakland, where the San Fran
cisco reception was repeated on a minor
scale, after which Gen. Grant attended
a camp fire of en-Federal and ex-Confederate
soldiers and made them one of his
characteristically ' brief speeches ; on
the same evening' he attended a Press
banquet given in honor ait John Russell
Young, leaving which ho drove to a
grand carnival ball, given in aid of a
city charity. On another day he visited
the Produce Exchange, made a tour; of
the harbor, visited Fort Aleatraz and
Black Point, and in the evening attend
ed the theater. ;Another day he went
to San Jose, where ho visited the Fair
Grounds and reviewed the Federal and
Confederate veterans. Then on another
day he visited the Stock Exchange, ami
also attended a reception by the children
of the public (Schools at Woodward's
Garden, where from 20,000 to 25,000
children were present. During Gen.
Grant's stay in San Francisco Dennis
Kearney twice called to pay his respects
and sent up his card, but the General on
both occasions declined to see him.
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.
Gen. Butler, was in Milwaukee on
the 20th and was given a grand reception at
the Soldiers' Home.
The National Democratic Executive
Committee recently convened In "Washing
ton, but nothing 'of importance connected
with its session has been made public.
James Redpath, the well known lec
ture manager, is missing from his home in
New York under mysterious circumstances.
His friends fear that he has committed sui
cide. President Hates and party had a
grand dinner and reception at the Grand
Pacific Hotel in C'hicaco on the evening of
theSBd. 4
The seventh Congress of Women will
be held in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Capi
tol. It will begin on the 8th of Octoler, and
last three days. Among the speakers an
nounced are Mary Putnam Jacohi, Miss Ab
hy W. May, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, Mrs.
Wells, Miss Goodell, and Mrs. Bugg. The
association invites "every woman whose
thought has been stirred, and who is seeking
to make her life truer and higher," to attend
the Congress. -
Mr. Levt, proprietor of the London
Telegraph, is dead. He was one of the most
successful editors in London, and had he
lived three months longer, it is reported, he
would have received a title at the recom
mendation of the Beaconsficld Cabinet.
Roscoe Conklino Bruce is the
name given to the first-born of the colored
Senator from Mississippi.
JurxiE A. W. Hcbbaru formerly
member of Congress from Iowa, died at
Sionx City, on the 22d, in the sixty-first year
of his age. t '-..!
Rev. Joseph P. Xbomfsox, foraserly i
a well known Congregational minister of
New York, died in Berlin on the 21st of apo
ploxy, aged 60.
General Pope, of the United States
Army, is one of the claimants to the Hyde
estate, now lying in the Bank of England.
J, Warren Woodwaro, Justice .if
Um Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, is dead.
President Hayes, General Sherman
and party arrived in Kansas on the 24th.
A programme had been arranged forvisithig
briefly all the principal cities and towns in
the State, returning Eastward about the 1st.
Daniel Drew, who died in New
York the other day, aged 82, was a few years
ago, quite as prominent a railroad man as
Jay Gould is now. Beginning his railroad
speculations alHmt 1840, he gradually be
came the greatest operator of his day in rail
road securities. In a single day he guar
anteed Erie's acceptance for a million and a
half. The panicof 1873grcntly crippled him,
and at his death he left no property in his
own name.
Dr. Justo Arosemena has been ap
pointed Minister to Washington from the
United States of Colombia.
Senator Blaine made his first!
speech in the Ohio canvass at Bellairc on the
28th.
. '.LATE NEWS ITEMS. J
At Paint Creek, Kanawha County, W.
Vs., on the night of the 10th, Bob Moore,
white, and John Thompson, colored, got into
a row while partially drunk, and Thompson
drew a knife and sfablied Moore in the neck,
causing instant death. The murderer "fled
and secreted himself, but was pursued and
captured by a party of men and hanged to a
tree. Thompson had Just served a term in
the Penitentiary for shooting a man in
Charlestown.
The great six-days' go-as-you-please
pedestrian contest forthe Astley belt and the
championship of the world was begun at the
Madison Square Garden, Xew York, at 1 a.
m. on the 22d. There were in contestants
entered, namely: Weston, Itowell, Hnzael,
Guyon, Knnis, Ponchot, Merritt, Hart,
Kmhne, Dutcher, Taylor, Jackson and
Federmeyer. The betting opened in favor
of Itowell.
Eighteen women were killed and eight
seriously injured, on the 20th, by the giving
way of the floor of a synagogue at Sizolnok,
Hungary.
Rumors are current of trouble be
tween China and Japan. It is reported that
both countries are nuking warlike prepara
tions. The tug C. W. Parker, on Lake Mich-i'-'an,
exploded her boiler off I.ineoln Park,
Chicaffo, on the 22d. The following were
killed: . Robert Leahv, Captain: John
Cailaghan, engineer; Peter Rogers, fire
man, and Wm. Burton, cook. The only
man on the tug who survived was Wm.
McGuire, a (leek-hand, and be woo badly in
lured. R. W. Golsen & Co. and II. Del Bon
dio A Co., St. Louis grain dealers and specu
lators, were caught on the "short" side of
wheat in the late rise and forced to suspend,
which they did on the 22d.
At Macon, Mo., on the night of the
JIM, John Rails, in a supposed fit of in
sanity, shot his wife and infant child, killing
them both, and then blew out his own brains.
Kaus was employed In a wagon factory. He
was thrifty and temperate, but at times gave
way to despondency and wished he were
dead. The only survivor of the family is
a little girl, aliout 1 years of age. She slept
In the same bed with her parents, but was
fortunately not awakened by the horrible
night's work. In the morning, failing to
arouse lier father and mother ns usual, she
became somewhat alarmed, nnd calling in a
neighbor, first learned something of Hie ter
ror of death that had overeome them.
In Crawford County, O., six miles
north of Hitryru-, on the night of the 2id
fieorge Hehwali murdered Mary lng and
then hanged hiin-elf. Schwab was
about t yeaTs old, the son of a German
nil u , i t h k M i i i i h i vi
Be just and fear
farmer residing in the vicinity. For some
time he had ln-en a suitor for
the hand of Mary Long, a pretty
girl of employed as a domestic in a neigh
boring family. Mary did not reciprocate
his love, and his persistent attentions finally
beeanie so obnoxious to her that she went to
live with the family of Henry Kliuek, about
fotir miles away. Here, on the night men
tioned, young Schwab went, armed with a
double-barreled shot-gun and a revolver.
Finding the door of the house nnloeked, he
went in, proceeded to Mary's bedchamber,
and, putting the muzzle of the gun to her
breast, fired, probably killing her instantly.
He then went to the front of tho house, and
with a clothes-line hanged himself toa cher
ry tree.
Rev. Dexter L. Lounsbury, rector of
the Episcopal Church at Stratford, near
Bridgeport, Conn., was, on the morning of
the 24th, shot and instantly killed by his
wife, while sleeping in bod. Mrs. Louns
bury had for some years !cen afflicted with
a netmus disorder, but insanity had not
heretofore been suspected. Recently she
had become quite excited regarding an at
tempted burglary of their house, and had
asked her husband to procure her a revolver,
which he refused to do. She was deter
mined to have a plstolj however, and went
herself to New Haven and bought one a
small single-barreled affair, with which the
killing was done. This it seems she had
kept concealed under her pillow, probably
without her husband's knowledge. Imme
diately after the shooting she ran up-stairs
crying, " I've killed my husband !" and
awoke the servants, who gave the alarm.
Mr. Lounsbury was found dead, shot
through the back of the neck, the' ball
entering the base of the brain. At the Cisr
oner's inquest the unhappy woman testified
that she bad gone to bed as usual, and had
no recollection of any thing more until she
stood upon the floor in the morning wifhthe
pistol in her hand. All the servants testified
that deceased had been very kind to his wife.
The Jury, after being out 15 minutes, re
turned a verdict that the killing was done by
Mrs. Lounsbury while she was in a condition
of temporary insanity.
In the town of Porter, Rock County,
Wis., on the 2."k1, George Barrington, a Ger
man employed on the farm of Alexander
White, murdered the hitter's little boy, aged
o, in a most atrocious manner, and then fled,
riding off one of Mr. White's horses. The
boy"s body was discovered lying under a
manger in the barn, his throat cut
from ear to ear, his abdomen ripped open
and his feet and bands securely bound.
There were indications that the murderer
had first hung his victim, and finding death
by that means too slow, bad cut him down
and finished him with a knife. No cause for
the deed can be imagined.
At AVorcester, Mass., on the evening
of the 2J!d, Maggie Courtney, a young lady
about 2.1 years of age, was fatally burned
while attempting to take down a hanging
kerosene lamp.
Fred. Nix, colored, Postmaster at
Blaekville, S. C., was recently shot and
wounded by a man named Williams.- The
shot was fired through the delivery-window
of the ofiice. The Cnited States Commis
sioner issued a warrant forthe arrest of the
culprit. The Post-office, IX'partinent has
sent a special agent to inquire into the mat
ter, and it is intimated that the Post-office
will be closed unless the Postmaster is pro
tected while in the discharge of his duties
by the local authorities:
At Buffalo, N. Y., on the 23.1, Charles
F. Schuyler, a telegraph operator by profes
sion, succeeded in kidnaping a young lady,
the daughter of I. Townsend Davis, a prom
inent and wealthy citizen, for the purpose of
compelling her father to pay a large sum for
her ransom. Miss Davis was lured away
from school by the villain, upon the repre
sentation that her father had been injured
by an accident, and that he was in his cm
ploy and had been sent for her. The
unsuspecting girl accompanied him to a
room in a public building, where he said her
father had Iteen taken, and immediately up
on her entering he locked the door and de
manded that she copy a letter he had already
prepared, pleading with her father to give
the beorcr $500, as the only means to secure
fcer release. The girl finally prevailed upon
him to let her go, upon her taking an oath
not to disclose what had happened, and to
immediately secure the money herself and
bring it to him. Upon reaching home she t
once told her parents her strange story; de
tectives were put upon the villain's track
and he was soon captured. In his possession
were found numerous letters addressed to
prominent citizens, of a like character to that
which Miss Davis was required tocopy, from
which it was evident that he had resolved to
enter upon the abduction of the children of
wealthy parents as a scheme by which to
make money easily and rapidly.
The business center of the village of
Carroll, in Carroll County, Iowa, was de
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 2th.
The Masonic and Odd Fellows' Hall, Pres
byterian Church, and over forty business
houses were burned out. Loss from .fl.V),
0110 to $200,000; insurance not over 15,000.
Sir Garnet Wolseley tolegraphs that
all important Zulu chiefs have now submitted
to the British authorities.
Buck Nailing, a negro, who commit
ted an assault upon a little girl in Obion
County, Tenn., was recently hanged by a mob
headed by the girl's father.
Zultiland is to le divided into many
distim:t sovereignties. A nurulier of the
Chiefs who are to receive territories Iwlong
totrilies who had been subjugated by tho
Zulus.
It is reported that a party of young
men from Dallas and Fort Worth, who re
cently went hunting in the Panhandle coun
try. Northwest Texas, were attacked by In
dians and seven of them killed.
Anthony Blair, colored, was hanged
at Morristown, Tenn., on the 20th, for the
murder of his step-daughter, a girl of 10, in
July last.
A railway train on the Island of Rua
tan, carrying 400 barrels of gunpowder, was
blown to atoms recently by an explosion of
the powder. Ten persons were on the train,
and the ground was strewn with their dis
membered bodies.
Marcus A. Whitley was hanged at
Pocahontas, Ark., on the 20th, for the mur
der of Duke .Simmer in February, 1S77. He
expressed iwnitence and was baptized by
two clergymen.
The Russian Ojffifiltl Mistengir states
that 2,!s" tires occurred in Ktissia during
August, causing a damage to properly to the
tmount of 20,000,000 roubles.
THE YELLOW FEVER.
Oil the 22d there were six deal In
from fever at Memphis and 10 new cases re
ported. At 'oneordia the number of eases
to same dale bad Imc!1 2-!, nine nf which
were fatal.
On the 2:!i, at Memphis, there wen?
five deaths from fever and 13 new cases re
ported. n the 2 llh, :it Memphis, t here were
eilit d'-atlis fnm fecrund 10 new eases re
ported. . On the 2"th, at Memphis, there were
: seven deaths from fever ami seven new eases
1 reported.
not; Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy Cod's, thy Country's, and Truth's."
CANTON, MISS., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 4,
On the 20th, at Memphis, there were
six deaths from fever and six new cases re
ported. Among the dead is the Itev. Father
Reveille, a well known Catholic priest, ,"BI
years of age, a native of France. He is the
fourth of his order who has died from the
fever this season. The epidemic is spread
ing into the adjacent country, eases being
reported at Oak Grove, President's Island,
and elsewhere.
On the 27th, at Memphis, there were
eight deaths from fever and four new cases
reported. For the week there were 31 deaths
and 03 new cases reported. Total number of
deaths to date, 382.
On the 28th there were six deaths and
13 new cases reported.
Japanese Carpenters.
Japanese carpenters a number of
whom have been exhibiting their skill in
fitting up the stage of a San Francwco
theater for a company of gymnasts from
Yeddo have an advantage over Ameri
can mechanics, in the fact that they
have four hands instead of two, their
toes being as handy as their fingers, but
they gain nothing by it, because they
make no use of work-benches or vises.
If a Japanese carpenter wants to
sharpen a saw, he squats down, places
the back of the tool to be operated upon
on the ground, grasps one end of the
saw with his left hand, seizes the other
with the toes of his right foot, and goes
to work with as much confidence as an
American carpenter at a bench. Their
tools are not like American tools, though
they have a faint similarity, showing
that all tools have a common parentage,
whether their inventor was Tubal Cain
or some other artificer. All Japanese
saws are shaped like butcher's cleavers.
The handle is like the handle of a cleaver,
but flatfish, as if whittled out of a piece
of inch-board ; the metal shank of the
saw is driven into that of the handle,
and the whole is secured by being wrap
ped with a fine split cane. The metal
of the saw is almut the substance of our
saws, but the teeth are narrower, giv
ing more of them to an inch, and much
longer. They are all pointed toward the
handle, and cut the wood like so many
hooks. When a Japanese wanta to cut
a plank, he plsices it across any thing
that will elevate the end a few inches,
then stands on the wood and cuts it by
seizing the cleaver-looking saw and pull
ing it toward him. Thus, by a numlicr
of short, quick up strokus, he gets
through a plank not so speedily, but
quite as effectually as an American car
penter would with the long, low-dow
strokes of the rip-saw. The planes are
small, with single irons, and no han
dles. The planes are shorter, lighter,
and the wood shallower than ours, be
ing 'generally not more than an
-inch deep. ..-iTo plane " a piece of
wood they lay it on the ground, squat
down, hold it fast with their toes, and
work tho plane with both hands toward
them. To drill a hole they have a short
awl inserted in the end of a round stick
eight or nine inches long. They take
the wood between their toes, squat as
before, and make the hole by rubbing
the handle of the awl lietween their
hands, in less flme than one of our car
penters could drill one with a gimlet.
Their hammers are solid cylindrical
pieces, not made shapely with waists
and graceful outlines like ours. They
have the same flat-sided handles as the
saws. The Japs have iron' squares, not
unlike American squares, marked with
degrees. Their measures are brasR, very
light and fluted. On one side the inch,
or what stands for an inch with us, is
one and three-sixteenths inches, and di
vided into ten parts. On the other side
is a different scale, measuring one and
thirteen-sixteenths inches, and divided
into twelve parts.
Fine Clothes and their Wearers.
The daughters of the British Minister,
in AVashington, while still school-girls,
never appeared in society. Very rarely
they were seen with their mother in a
box at the opera, and then astonished
the gay, bejewcled American girls with
their high-necked, plain, gray stuff
dresses and sailor hats.
English women of good position have
greatly the advantage of American
mot hers in the good sense and taste they
display in dressing their girls. A school
girl in England is held to be a child, and
is clothed with the modesty and sim
plicity befitting a child. There can be
nothing more pitiable than the spectacle
which is presented on Saturday after
noons on our fashionable thoroughfares,
when they are crowded with girls of
from 12 to 10 years of age, plumed, fur
belowed and jeweled, and showing in
every motion a pert consciousness of
their finery. Many of them, of course,
Ixjlong to families of small means. The
foolish mother stints, saves and stitches
until midnight to make the dresses and
finish the finely which renders her child
ridiculous in the eyes of persons of good
taste, and which gives the girl herself
false notions of the importance of dress
which debase her whole nature. The
children of the Prince of AVales, one of
whom will probably some day sit ujmhi
the English throne, wear in public gowns
and coats which many American lxiys
and girls would think very ordinary and
common.
A couple of splendidly attired New
York women, at the Philadelphia Expo
sition, thrust aside a homely looking
couple from one of the cases, with a
glance of contempt at the man's scuffed
coat. They were astonished to find that
the surging crowd followed the farmer
and his wife with every sign of respect.
"Who are they?" they asked. "The
Emperor and Empress of Brazil," was
i the answer. That wisest of rulers ilid
i not need a tine coat to give him rank.
t
I Miss Ji i.ia Jackson, the daughter
i of "Stonewall" Jackson, is now a 1-
year-old school-girl in Baltimore. She
is a tall and graceful young woman, with
fair hair, a pretty complexion, beautiful
large gray eyes, aiel gentle manner.
I TlIK reigning beauties ol England are
1 daughters of clergymen.
HERE AND THERE.
Mu. Thomas Hi nt, farmer, of Cum
nor, near Oxford, England, celebrated
his hundredth year a few days ago and
is in hale health.
A Tiiot'SANi) pounds of powder was
exploded in a quarry near Heading, Pa.?
loosening about 30,000 tons of stone at
one blast.
-A one-armkd man drew $2,780 from
a Philadelphia bank, and was counting
the money at a desk. A thief dropped
a one-dollar bill at his feet, and said,
" See, you have dropped a bill." The
one-armed man stooped to pick up the
$1, and when he straightened up again
the thief had gone off with the $2,780.
Colonel John Maunu told the
Savannah News that on Mayor
HuffTs place, near Macon, Ga., the ne
groes in one day wore out six weeding
hoes chopping off the heads of snakes
that were crossing from ono pond to an
other. It was estimated that 15,000
snakes were killed. Col. Maund proved
his statement by Mayor Huff,
A band of American " doctresses "
have recently been visiting Rome and
created in that foreign city quite a sen
sation. Some of them were remarkably
pretty, bright and merry, and stared
saucily at those who stared at them.
They wore black silk and cashmere
dresses, were "uniformed" alike. and
only one wore spectacles.
At a funeral in Salem, Mass., recent
ly,' a stranger stepped forward and
asked to see the face of the corpse. He
was told that the family did not wish to
have the coffin opened, when he de
manded that his request be granted, as
the body was that of a sister whom he
had not seen for many years. A sur
viving sister came forward and recog
nized the man as a brother who for many
years had been thought dead, and the
nteeting of the two at the open grave
was very affecting.
Speaking of the tradition that Capt.
Kidd buried treasure at the mouth of
Fear River, the AVilmington (N. C.)
"torsays: "Even now the work goes
on, and travelers over the country roads
in that direction often see mysterious
excavations by the roadside, and at
tight catch glimpses of weird-looking
gronps furtively plying the pick and the
spade by the light of a torch in quest of
the hidden treasure. The mysterious
seekers for these hoards of the freeboot
ers are generally colored people, whose
cupidity and superstitious fancies are
worked upon by so-called diviners of
their own ccdor. No one has ever heard
of their being rewarded for their toil and
trouble, and in all probability no one
ever will. . r'
The account of Mr. Forties's ride
from Ulundi to Landsman's Drift, which
the Daily Ncu-s prims in a private letter
from their correspondent, fully confirms
all previous impressions of the nature of
the achievement. It was not, as Mr.
Forbes himself says, a remarkable ride
for speed 110 miles in 20 hours but
as a display of the combined qualities
of daring, eudurance, and resource it
was undoubtedly a most remarkable
performance. There was," he says,
" no road, only a confusion of wagon
tracks through the long grass made by
our vehicles in their advance. Every
where the bush, in detached clumps
some 10 feet high, clustered thick around
and among these tracks." Often the
rider, as he tells us, lost his road, and
only regained it by luck. At one point
the fog was so dense that ho had to dis
mount and feel in the wet grass for the
wagon ruts. Through all these difficul
ties, however, he persevered, and
reached Fort Marshall in safety with the
news of the victory.
The clothes worn by one beauty at a
recent English garden party are thus
described : The uper portion, or body,
which extended without change of sub
stance to very nearly the knee, was
composed of a coarsely knitted pink-silk
jersey, cut into the figure, and fitting it
like the very tightest of eel-skins. The
skirt was short ; cashmere of the same
odor, kilted in folds, and apparently
fastened on to the top part by a draped
scarf, with long ends which was made
of the same material as the body. As
this last was laced tap at the left side,
and as the fair wearer kept her arm de
terminedly over the eyelet holes, large
sums of money were wagered as to the
method by which she hail managed to
get into her dress, which, notwithstand
ing its eccentricity was certainly very
effective and becoming. It is to be
hoped, however, that before rashly
adopting a costume of this order the
virtuous British matron will seek the ad
vice of some candid and unprejudiced
female friend ; for upon any thing but a
sylph-like figure the effect would be
ridiculous.
Educated, pretty and fashionable
dressed women were not common in
Nevada City, Cal., in 1854. Therefore
the arrival of Madam Duinont in that
mining town caused considerable excite
ment, for she was attractive in the three
mentioned particulars. Besides, she was
not more than 20 years old. She at once
hired a corner in a large saloon and
opened a faro game. The novelty of a
woman dealing the cards drew many
gamblers to her table, and her success
was so great that she simiii opened a
large establishment, where a dozen
games were kept going night and day.
She gained the reputation of dealing
honestly, was always smilingly polite,
and the miners liked her even held her
in considerable respect. But her luck
changed at last from good to bad, and
she lost all her money. She spent a few
years in ot her business in San Francisco,
but could not recover her prosperity. A
I few weeks ago slit; borrowed 'i'.'MMf from
i an old friend and started for Hit; mining
I region of Nevada, contemplating a new
career as a gambler. She opened a faro
! game at Brodic, but it lasted only a few
hours, when the bank was broken. She
i paid her losses in the old smiling manner,
retired to an ante-room, swallowed
I poison, nnd died.
187.
FOR THE YOUNG FOLKS.
JlMllV'SCIU ISEIS THE I'lSAFOUK.
We extract the following from a short
story by Louise May Alcott, in St, Nichitht
for October. A poor Boston boy named
James Nelson has a sick little sister,
Kitty, whom nothing but country air will re
vive; but his mother is too poor to take her
out of the hot and dirty city. So Jimmy sits
and sorrows about it, until at last he makes
up his mind to hire himself out to a ship's
Captain, and with his wages, paid in ad
vance, send Kitty to get well among the
cool, green fields.
Little did desperate Jimmy guess
what ship he would really sail in, nor
what a prosperous voyage he was about
to make, for help was coming that very
minute, as it generally does sooner or
later, to generous people who are very
much in earnest.
First a shrill whistle was heard,
at the sound of which he looked
up quickly; then a rosy-faced
girl of about his own age came
skipping down the street, swinging her
hat by tine string; and, as Jimmy
watched her approach, a smile began to
soften the grim look he wore, for AA'illy
Bryant was his best friend and neigh
bor, being full of courage, fun and kind
liness. - IIenodded and made room for
her on the step, the place they usually
occupied ;fr spare moments when they
got lessons and recounted their scrapes
to one another.
But to-night AVilly seemed possessed
of some unusually good piece of news
which she chose to tell in her own liv.ely
fashion, for, instead of sitting down, she
began to dance a sailor's hornpipe, sing
ing gayly : " I 'm little Buttercup, sweet
little Buttercup," till her breath gave
out.
"AVhat makes you so jolly, AVill?"
asked Jimmy as she dropped down be
side him and fanned herself with the ill
used hat.
" Such fun you'll never guess just
what we wanted if your mother only
will! You'll dance, too, when you
know," panted the girl, smiling like a
substantial sort of a fairy come to bring
good luck.
" Fire away, then. It will have to be
extra nice to set me off. I don't feel a
bit like jigs now," answered Jimmy, as
the gloom obscured his face again, like
a cloud over the sun.-
" You know 'Pinafore?'" began
AVill, and, getting a quick nod for an
answer, she poured forth the following
tale with great rapidity : " AVell, some
folks are going to get it up with children
to do it, and they want any boys and
girls that can sing to go and be looked
at to-morrow, and the good, ones will be
picked out, and dressed up, and taught
how to act, and have the nicest time
that ever was. Some of our girls are
going, and so am I, and you sing antl
must come, too, and have some fun.
Won't it be jolly?"
"I guess it would; but I can't.
Mother needs me every minute out of
school," began Jimmy, with a shake of
the head, having matle up his mind
some time ago that he must learn to do
without fun.
" But we shall be paitl for it," cried
AVill, clapping her hands with the dou
ble delight of telling the best part of
her story, and seeing Jimmy's sober face
clear suddenly as if the sun had burst
forth with great brilliancy.
"Really? How much? Can I sing
well enough? " and he clutched her arm
excitedly, for this unexpected ray of
hope dazzled him.
He was so excited he coidd not sleep,
and beguiled the long hours by hum
ming under his breath all the airs he
knew belonging to the already popular
opera. Next morning he flew about his
work as if for a wager, and when AVill
came for him there was not a happier
heart in all the city than the hopeful one
that thumped under Jimmy's thread
bare best jacket.
Such a crowd of boys and girls as they
found at the hall where they were told
to apply for inspection ! Such a ehirp
ing and piping went on there, it sound
ed like a big cage full of larks and lin
nets! And by and by, when the trial
was over, such a smiling troop of chil
dren as was left to be drilled by the en
ergetic gentlemen who had the matter
in hand ! Among this happy band stood
our Jimmy, chosen for his good voice,
and AVill, because of her bright
face antl lively self-possed manner.
AVhen the grand day came at last, and
the crew of jolly young tars stood ready
to burst forth with the opening chorus,
We sail the ocean blue.
Our saucy ship's a beauty.
We 're Kallaut men and true,
Aiid-boimd to do our duty!
Jimmy hardly knew whether he stood
on his head or his heels at first, for, in
spite of many rehearsals, every thing
seemed changed. Instead ofdaylight,
gas shone everywhere, the empty seats
were full, the orchestra played splen
didly, and when the curtain rose, a sea
of friendly faces welcomed them, and
the pleasant sound of applause made the
hearts under the blue jackets dance
How those boys did sing! how their
eyes shone, and their feet kept time to
the familiar strains! with what a relish
they hitched lip their trousers ami
lurched about, or saluted ami cheered
as the play demanded ! AA'ith what in
terest they watched the microscopic
midshipmite, listened to Ralph as his
sweet voice melodiously told the story
of his hapless love, and smiled on pretty
Josephine who was a regular bluebird
without the cream.
That was the beginningof many busy,
happy weeks for both the children;
i weeks which they long remembered with
! great pleasure, as did older antl wiser
1 people, for that merry, innocent little
opera proved that t healers can be made
the scenes of harmless amusement, ami
! opened to a certain class of voung peo
ple a new and profitable Held for their
: talents. So popular did this small com
i puny become that the piece went on to
; the summer vacation, nnd was played
i in the morning as well as afternoon, to
TERMS: $2.00 per Annnra
NUMBER 41.
satisfy the crowds who wished to see and
hear it.
But long before that time. Able Sea
man James Nelson hail sent his family
out into the country ; mother begging
AA'ill to take good care of her dear boy
till lie could join them, and his sister
Kitty throwing back kisses as she smiled
good-bye with checks already rosier for
all the comforts " brother " hatl earned
for her. Jimmy would not desert his
ship while she floated, but managed to
spend his Sundays out of town, often
taking AVill with him as first mate, and,
thanks to her lively tongue, friends
were soon made for the new-comers.
AA'hen the last day came, he was in such
spirits that he was found doing double
shuffles in corners, hugging the mid
shipmite, who was a little chap of about
Kitty's age, and treating his messmates
to peanuts with a lavish hand. AVill had
her hornpipe, ' also, when the curtain
was down, kissed every one of the other
" sisters, cousins and aunts," and joined
lustily in the rousing farewell cheers
given by the crew.
A few hours later, a cheerful-looking
boy might have been seen trudging to
ward one of the railway stations. A new
hat, brave in blue streamers, was on his
head, a red balloon struggled to escape
from one hand, a shabby carpet-bag,
stuffed full, was in the other, and a pair
of shiny shoes creaked briskly as if the
feet inside were going on a very pleasant
errand.
About this young traveler, who walked
with a sailor-like roll and lurch, revolved
a little girl chattering like a magpie, and
occasionally breaking into song as if she
couldn't help-it.
" Be sure you come next Saturday; it
won't be any thing like such fun if you
don't go halves," said the boy, beam
ing at his lively companion as he hauled
down the impatient balloon which
seemed inclined to break from its moor
ings. " Yes I know
That is so!"
hummed the girl with a skip to starboard
that she might bear a hand with the bag.
" Keep some cherries for me, and don't
forget to give Kit the doll I dressed for
her."
" I shouldn't have been going myself
if it hadn't been for yon, AVill. I never
shall forget that," said Jimmy, whom
intense satisfaction rendered rather
more sedate than his friend.
" Running away to sea is great fun,
With a tar that plows the water !'"
sung AVill in spite of herself.
'And a gallant captain's daughter,' "'
echtMHl Jimmy, smiling . cross the ear-pet-bag.
Then boti joined in an irre
pressible chorus of " Dash it ! Dash
it!" as a big man nearly upset them
and a dog barked madly at the bal
loon. Being safely landed in the train, Jim
my hung out of the window till tho hist
minute discussing his new prospects with
AA'ill, who stood on tiptoe outside bub
bling over with fun.
" I'll teach you to make butter antl
cheese and you shall be my dairy wom
an, for I mean to be a farmcrf" he said,
just as the bell rang.
"All right, I'd liko that ever so
much," and then the irrepressible mad
cap burst out to the great amusement of
the passengers:
' For you miht have been a Itooshan,
A French or Turk or l'roosliun,
Or perhaps Ital-i-yan."
At this Jimmy could not resist shout
ing back as the train began to move :
But in spite of all temptations
To belong to other nntions,
I'm an Amer-i-can."
Then he subsided, to think over the
happy holiday before him and the rich
cargo of comfort, independence and
pleasure he had brought home from his
successful cruise in the " Pinafore."
. "Esq."
A young man whose money didn't
hold out as long as the State Fair, drop
ped into the telegraph office yesterday
and sent a dispatch to his father in an
interior town to forward him cash to
reach home with. "AVhen the receiving
clerk saw that the dispatch read, " To
John Blank, Esq.," he suggested that a
saving could be made by erasing the
" Esq."
" AVell, mebbe you think so, but I
don't," replied the gender. "AVhen I
am at home I can call him ' dad ' all
day long, but when it comes down to
black antl white you've got to ' require '
him right up to the nines, or walk home
by the dirt road. Don't you dare leave
that off not with the roads as muddy
as they are now!"
In alHiut an hour the following an
swer was received :
To : John Blank, Esq., forwards
you $10, and you can have more if you want
it. John Blank, Esq.
"Didn't I tell ye," chuckled the
young man as he read it. " Dad's com
mon enough when we're all home and
rushed to get fall wheat in, but the min
ute his back gets rested and a stranger
comes along he weighs more to tho ton
than any " Esq." on legs. I tell ye, you
don't know a man till ye've hoed corn
with him!" Ik-lmil Free Pri:.i.
Cabiiark Faroe. Take a small,
hard head of cabbage, removing the two
or t hree outer leaves. Have a pot of
lioiling water ready, with plenty of salt
in it. Put in the cabbage and let it stay
ten minutes, and then place it in cold
water. Diy it. Take an apple-corer,
and cut out in the middle a kind of well
like hole. Have any cold meat, which
chop fine. Season this with pepper anil
salt, a little grated nutmeg, and some
thyme. To stiffen it, add the yelks of
two eggs to the fitrrif. Fill up the hole,
! which cover with a bit of leaf. Bind up
! the cabbage w ith twine ; use plenty of
j (wine, so that it will be secure, This is
i best boiled in stock, but if stock is not at
! hand, take some pieces of ham or l:i
' eon, ami some beef bones, ami put them
' in the water. Boil your cabbage thor
oughly, and serve dry. Have tried
j stuffed cucumbers, and find the receipt
' excellent.
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CITIZEN JOI! O W I? I CJ 13 .
WIT AND WISDOM.
The first fruit of marriage is the ap
ple of it's parents' eyes, when it isn't a
a pear of twins.
And now the returned city people
wTrite to their country cousins, with
whom they have been slaying, that they
arrived safely, but found the city infect
ed with small-pox, which is likely to last
all winter. Boston Post.
The height of humanity : To have a
tapeworm and to avoid taking anything
that could injure the health of the poor,
dear creature. The height of modesty :
To turn awav on approaching a river,
for fear it might suddenly leave its bed.
HiGH-rrEEi.KD shoes are going out of
style, but don't you begin to rejoice
over it. The women of this country
have never been over, three weeks find
ing something to make them look twice
as ugly as the last-fashion did. Detroit
Free l'ress.
Thet were talking about the ap
proaching theatrical season. She, in--nocently
" I believe Mary Anderson
has a new play 'Love?'" He, taking
advantage of the uncertain construction
of the sentence " I think she has,
dear." Then she saw it and screamed.
Courier-Journal.
He was told to remain after school,
when the teaeher, trying to impress upon
his youthful mind the sinfulness of not
speaking the truth, asked him if they
did not tell him, in the Sunday-school,
where bad boys went who told false
hoods. Choking with sobs, he said:
" Yes ma'm ; it's a place where there is
fire, but I don't just remember the name
of the town."
An exchange says some business men
never spend a cent for advertising,
either in tlie newspaper or any other
waj'. In the stores of such men are
generally seen old barrel heads, on
which are inscribed in chalk or char
coal such devices as these: Flower,
Korn, Meel, Pertatoes, Pourk, Cheze,
Kaliker, Kountrey projuice bawt and
sould, goods cheep fur Kash, Tee, Shug
ar, etc. Detroit Free Press.
Sitting-Bull Kills a Crow.
Norman Marion, who has just arrived
at AVinnipeg, from the plains, gives tho
following incident which occurred dur
ing the fight between .the Sioux, under
Sitting-Bull, and tho United States
troops, on July 20 last. The Sioux, con
sisting of 200 lodges, hail crossed the
boundary in pnrsuit of buffalo, and were
attacked by-two companies of United
States troops and about 150 Cheyennes
and Crows.-After a severe fight, the
Sioux retired to the British side of the
line. An incident occurred "while tho
hostile forces were opposed to each oth
er which carries one's thoughts back to
the days of chivalry. ' It appears that a
celebrated Crow warrior, a powerful
man, son of a famous chief of that tribe,
had long boasted to the Americans that
he only desired to come in contact with
Sitting-Bull, and promised that, would
such an opportunity occur, Sitting-Bull
should no longer trouble them. True to
his word, while the forces were drawn
np against each other, the warrior was
seen to detach himself from the Crows
and approach the Sioux, bearing a sort
of flag of peace. One warrior then
stepped out from the ranks of the Sioux,
bearing a similar token. Upon ncaring
each other the first brave asked if
Sitting-Bull was among them. Tho
Sioux answered in the affirmative He
said he desired to meet him in single
combat, as ' he intended to kill him.
This message being delivered, that re
nowned warrior started ont to meet his
adversary, each putting his horse to a
gallop, and when within a short dis
tance of each other, the Crow took aim
at Sitting-Bull, but his rifle missed fire.
Sitting-Bull then fired, and his opponent
fell dead. Sitting-Bull then dismounted,
scalped his fallen foe, mounted upon his
opponent's horse, and deliberately re
tired to his own party. The horse itself
is a valuable animal, and as famous
among the Indians as the warrior him
self. Thus Sitting-Bull added as much
luster to his name by the capture of tho
horse as by the death of his opponent.
AA'hen the Sioux retreated across the
Milk River into British territory Sitting
Bull, with eight warriors, constituted
himself the rear-guardftr the protection
of the main body, antl was himself tho
last to cross over.
m .
The Sinking of a Vessel by a Whale.
Since it has been generally conceded
that the fish which foundered Capt. Isr
aeli's bark Columbia in mid-ocean by
thumping a big hole in her port bow
must have been a whale, popular inter
est in the accident has palpably de
creased. In truth, it was hardly more
the strange disaster itself than the pos
sibility of a new and dangerous sea
monster being concerned in it that ex
cited attention some mysterious, pow
erful submarine creature, it was hoped,
hitherto unknown antl unexpected.
Hence the opinion of one of the crew
that a w hale struck the vessel w as at
first scouted in favor of the more seduc
tively indefinit statement of another that
it was "a huge something with fins ami
tail." All the evidence, however, is in
favor of the whale tbcory,and it is conceiv
able that a big whale, going at full speed,
could stave ill the planks of an old craft
like the Columbia. Hatl the vessel been
insured, some persons might possibly
have found ground for suspecting a
voluntary scuttling, but she is said not
to be insured. Resides, Capt. I.arseu,
who is a w hite-haired mariner, wilh
candid eyes, broken English, and
an honest smile, has inspired general
confidence iu his veracity. It is said
that this is tin first case on record of a
vessel actually sunk by a whale. Per
haps it should rat her be called the first
r;isi; nf :i simki'ii vcssrl nhni1 crew es
caped to tell I ho storv. May not moi"
than one vessel that has sailed and m",
er lieen heard of have fallen a victim in
this form of disaster? -New York siii.