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WICHITA, SEDGWICK COUNTY, KANSAS, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1875.
NUMBERS.
VOLUME IV.
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1 1 oFoLLAiisri;iT:re.vt. is advance.
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l circulation. 1 .'!"'! Ha-, ?SK
H,'iU,null0noUnt a man's money unleb.
imt" wSkS unsccnl' Illustrations be
.Omitted into this iiapcr
.MAILS.
-. .. .. . -i'.i.ltn .e Snnlhwestern It
1-aMcni Jiau '"VfaNo 2 departs 1.40 a. M.,
Su.xi$5S No 1 arr.vc-9lallv at 12-ffl A. M., l'as-M-nevrNO
Sal-rives dail at 1-1 J P. . ,
1 SetaHldorado .ndususta-Armcs 3Ion
t AVniitwdayB and Fridays at r. (. Dc
,arts TuesdajB, ThureJajs and Saturdajs at C
" Arkansas City (via AVir.fleld, Dor.glasa;.dAn-piS-ArrivcS
dallr at OMi. Dejuirts duty at
Ccllington-Arrics dally Jit 0 r. M. Desrts
i&anlal Uty (w LMlletown, Sennrlfcah, Ox
tolwdU l-aio)-ArrlY Tncsdajs. Thursdays
and baturdays at C r. M. Departs Jloudajs,
ednesdays and Fridays at 0 A M.
isMwcUfviaChiiinsta. AVcllinjrton and Belle
riafni-j Arrives Tuesday. Thursdays and b-t-i"avs
at C p. m. Departs Mondays, Wednesdays
5l?Vr"llcaek and ScTrtonJ-Arrivcs
Saturday at S r. u. Departs fcaturday at 3.05
hWr Citv-ArrlTesTncsdrrs, Thursdays and
StfUnlut s at 1 p. M. Departs Jlonda) a, idncs
daj s and Fridaj s at 1 r. M. ,
Tendon and VellIn5ton-Arrives TRdar and
Kridax s Departs t-dni idaya and Saturdaye
"irr Creel, Clarion and Clear Water-Arrhe
and depart Wednesdays, once ft "WVjK.
Ojrand after tlatc the ostoffice will be open Tor
tlic UclUtry oflettcrt and the sale or stamps lrom
' 'Jlercahcr tu'e office will l)C open on Sunday from
&IU joins east and 'ff'jSggg?' $,?
CIlintCHKS.
Klrit l'resbyterian Church-.r. 1. II if.v-, pas
tor Services In Kasle Hall every tabbaUi at 11
o'clock a. M. and 7 p.m. i.
51 i: Uiurcb T I' Hantn, pastor. Services
every sabballi at 10lJ o'clock A. m and p. m.
l"rncrniettinRonllim-4daycenliij:.
Daptlst Church ben iecflat tlie new church on
Market fctreit ivcry babbath at 10J o'clock a. m.
"w 'Aloybius Catholic Chnrch-llevirpiid.I .
Iciit-iiz, iiastor. "-ericeH on the 2ud and ttu
fcundaj s of cvtry niontli; hizb mass at 10 a. m ,
reiperatT). p. m
COUNTY OITICKIIS.
"judfcc IhirtetnUi Judicial District-W. 1'.
1 Jani orConnty Conunlssloners J. T. CAnrcs
vn, V,'. n. Jlonu, J. 11. Youk.
ouatvlnasurar L- N. Woodcock.
Connli Clerk .Iohv TPCKun.
Wicnsr V. II. JliWCT
icik District Court . W. IlEr-rn.
rrobatcludse Wi!. C Little.
vuperintendeal l'abllo Instruction .1. It -l-i-
JJKIIMAN.
lUffister or Deeds Milc 15. IvELi-oua.
uunty Attornej W. K. Istavlky.
Count) ban cyor II. U. Jackeo:; and a. .
Fhamtz.
city orncints.
JtKj-or G. E. lUnr.tS.
tit) Attorney 11 11. Kisiuta.
1'olicc JudgcJ M.ATWOoa.
City Treasurer 11. Coodkix.
Jlorshal Mike Meaqueu.
itv Clerk l'EED. Sciiattxee.
Surcyor
Justices of the Peace D. A. Mitchell, 1
M.
ConstabRs J. W. McCabtset and J. 1.
llruriiitEv. ,.
cojnoll First Ward-J.M. Steele, M. .ik
HEsir. becond ard C.M. (iasbiaon and Jpnv
-'oui,T. 'Jlnnl Ward J.C MiLLisandJAVKiM
pivskV Tomtit Ward J.C. 1'UAhEE and J.I..
Hoard or Education First Wartl W. A . Heese
and U F. IUegis ccond Ward J. V.. Cald
well and II. L. Jackson Third W ard C b
LALUWl.LLandA. A IItde. Fourth ". ard C.
A. Waller and II. J Hills.
Treasurer ScLool Hoard i:V. J. 1. Habsev.
LODGES.
T O. O. V. WicliIU Lodge, No. 'J3, meets cv
! cry Saturday night, at 7 o'clock, at their
hall, over the Flint National bank. All brotlitrs
In good standing are invited to attend.
H. W. Kemjle, X. G.
n coaPEL. n. s.
AV. S. A. M Meets on the first and third
. Moiid or each month.
Mouoan Cox W. 31.
SAHHATir bCHOOLS.
llio 31 E. S-iblwUi school, W. H. Stanley, su
penutendeut, meets at theckurch at 2i o'clock
p la.
Tiie Presbyterian Sabbath Fchool, II. C. Ward,
sunn lutcudcnt, meets at Eale hail at 3 o'clock
'' Tiie Haiitist Sabbath school, A. 11. Armcnt, su
perintendent, meets at the nc church ncryfcuu
ija) aflcrnoou at 2i o'clock.
u. s. i..axd orrici:.
DOUGLAS AVE , COMMEUCIAD 1ILOCIC.
W. S. Jlttkixr, He-inter; .7. C. IIedfilld.
liL-ceirer. Olhco hours from U to 12 a. m. and
lrom 1 to 3 p.m.
COUNTY SslTltVIWOltS.
II L. JACKSON A A. W. SWANITZ,
10USTV SUKVEYOn. Leave your orden at
V ' the county clerk's ofliee, or call at the West
j. hita ostollioe JC-ly
ATTOIIXKYS.
T T TiTn'!CTnV
A'
TTOUNEV-AT-I-AAV, V.'ichita. ScilvIcV
unfilr triml fllijt-lv
M S. ADAJIS. OEO. II. N(1L1H.
ADAMS A ENGLISH,
AATTOKXinS .. COl'NCILOUS AT LAW,
onireNo.M Main btrett, Corner Second.
tie
A icliita, Kansas
GEO. SALISBURY,
ATTOltNKV-AT-LAW, Office Willi Sleele .V
Levy, 'Wlclilta, Kansas. 3-25-1)
CHARLES 1IATTON,
ATTOUNEY AT LAW, and Xotiry Public,
Oflicc In Eagle Hlock, AVithita, Ivan. 5-ly
It. c. 8LOH.
JA3. L. DYElt.
SI.CSS & DYKK,
A
ITOITBYS-AT-LAW, Wichita, Kans.is.
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J. T. LAUCK,
A TTOENi:Y-AT-LA'V, first door south of U.
f . Iind Oruce, Mam street, Wichita, Kas.
Si-clal uttentlon given to all kinds or business
conniclcd with the U. b. Land Oflicc. 15-tr
W. E. STANLEY,
A nORXEY AT LAW. 11(
TIOi:Ni:Y AT LAW, Wichita, Kansas.
f Will lirnctlre- In all the courts r the stale
ujiT in the United States Iaud Olhcc.
.. wTln 1. ITlf...l CfAtttA 1.111(1 titt, 11 T.fl
LKL.VXD j. reB,
ATTOILVEY" AT LAW, Winflcld, Kansas.
Xcvrs Depot, 3Ialn street. 12-tr
AV. H. KIIUCPATUICK,
ATTOIIXi:Y AT LAW, Wichita, Scdgwick
. Caanty, Kansas. is-tr
IIAREIS. - liOS. IIAURIS.
HARRIS & IIAKRIS,
A TTOItXEYS AT Law. Wichita, Kansas.
M. FonnerlvorCcntcrvHlc, Iowa. Room No.
Coimntrcial lilock, up stairs
1UIYSICIAXS.
DR HENDRICKSON,
(U. S. Examining Surgeon)
JllYSICIAN' AND SURGEON, Office No. 24,
3Iaintieet. 4--ly
DR. C. C. FURLEY,
PHYSICIAN' AND SURGEON. Office, Slain
street, two doors north or First National
bank. 12-tr
J7h. goddard,
EIIYSICIAX A SURGEON, section SI, townhiji
23, range 2 west, 4 milts west o! Sedgwick
r -s
DR. W. I DOYLE.
D
ENT1ST Office opposite AVoodman's Bank.
41-11
W. M. GRAY, M. D ,
CONSULTING I'lIY'SICIAN A SURGEON.-SO
years iiractirc. Graduate of New York Uni
Atrsil)'.. Special! the rtmoial or all kinds of
derormrtics,such(is Club-foot, Halrlip, Crosseyc,
ttc. Also
"" Mrs L. M. GRAY,
Obstetrician, and diseases of women and child
ren. Oflicc- East Hide oOlaln Street, betw.
jsi and 2nd, AVichita, Kansas. 37 tr
Groom Corn Wanted.
I will exchange ready made llrooms for broom
vm drill crcd at lay pHce adjacent Wichita.
33-0 u- " 3IILLER.
BRICK! DRICIC!
-r-) RICK in any quantity for sale at my yards, on J
rj the 1.111IC jir&ausas lutcr, iiurtu tu ,, icuuh. i
jvTl kinds of brlct wori done on the .hortent no
tice, 112-Uj v. IV. lAll.l4L,ua.
w,a ESTATE.
jk.
C. W RE1- . "'
(Clerk of the District Cow .i,ctin-
aU u3'ild. All Jiuslnes, entrusted o rny
care will recencprompi. """""
JNO. EDWIN MARTIN,
"OKOKKUand dealer in I'.cal Ktate; oy
H 1' ubllc and Conveyancer, ARent State I-me
sSni hip Co.. Abstracts VurnUlied.laxcs .yaid
InTxe'goHated Ofl.ce at the Ked Oud Sjgn.
Xo.70Mainfe:.,IOCVDox301. Wichita, eu
wi(X county Kansas.
RtrtIFY HOUSE. No transfer, no 1ms fare at
IC"c depot. llkV KUtteJ. mrnUl-od anp
reauced fa.-Vto 81.50 Fr r-GwdWc ac
comodations in euKCtti ,ISSSo.S.
liomc. Ternn free,
G. JjTI.SSOif Co.,
l'oriland, Jlainc.
-'-iy
MISCELLANEOUS.
IDOIST'?? 12lA.ID J.'J1-LS
SADDLES AND HARNESS
CIICArm TIIa2sT EVEIt!
C. M. GARRISON
Mannfacturcr or and Dealer in
HARNESS, SADDLERY,
COLLARS, PLASTERING HAIR, HIDES,
FURS, WOOL AXD TALLOW, &c
S7 Main Street, Wichita, Kansas,
AVTicrc I will keep constantly on hand a good as
sortment or Saddles, Draft and Carnago Harness,
IVll.H V1.1..a nn.1 .rnlT nrtlptl 111 loniTlne: tO
c, which I will sell at the very lowiut rates
for caih, or exchange for greenbacks, treasury
rotes or iracuonai currency, x am suso i"ti"'"
to do all kinds or cirriagc trimming in short or
der. Repairs promptlv attended to for haircash
in hand, the balance in twenty ) ears' time, with
out iniercsi. . , ,
v it iiMr l.i muni I will not be undersold.
All work -warranted tosuittlie purchaser. Please
call and examine my goous.
C. 31. GARRISON,
1-ly $7 3Ialn street. Wichita. Kansas
S. F. Craig's Driv c ell Tube,
Patented June 11, 1SGT.
iNrr.iNGEsir.XT notice.
To all uhom it may concern: Notice is hereby
given that all Drive W11 Tubes that hae a wire
ecri en or gauze laced and securely fastened over
Hie perforated holes in said tubes tor the pi'j-ps
or keeping the sand, etc., out or said tube and
rrom being drawn up through the tube to the
iiump when in use, arc infringements upon patent
letter No. C3.G43 and upon myexclusie rights
under said patent, and the publio arc hereby
w arned ami cautioned not to purchisc or use any
Drive Well Tubo constructed as aboie described
without m consent, as the use or said well tubes
is an infringement on mypitent, and the user Is
liable and will be prosecuted for Infringement, as
I am determined to stop unlawful jdracy of my
interests.
"w:m:. cj3,a.t3-
Is the ONLY AUTHORIZED person for the sale
or my patent AVell Tubes at WICHITA, rrom
whom all purchases must be made in order to ob
tain title.
AVichita, Kansas, July 2i, 1S73,
SAMUEL F. CIIAIG, Inventor,
lS-tr .North Topeka, Kan.as.
TRY THE NEW ROUTE
KANSAS MIDLAND RAILROAD
Is now open between Topcka and Kansas City;
St. Louis and Chicago. Express leaves Topeka
12:10 P. 31., arriving at Kansis City 3 W P. 31.
3Iaking direct connections for all points East.
North and Sonth. Fair as low and time as fast as-
A la. any other route.
Trains Start From A., T. &. S. Fe. Depot
Low rates and quick time guaranteed to Freight
or Stock Shippers. Stock Ir.iinsortcn or more
Cars ill be moved between 'Iopeka and Kansas
City by Sieeial Trains. For further information
call on, or address
T. J. ANDERSON, General Fi & T Agent
Topeka, Kansas W. . FAGAN, Supt. 2j
REESE & SAWYER
Carpenters, Designers and Builders
Ai. 15 Mail Street, near corner Vouglat Av.
All work executed in the most durable and mod
ern st)le, and warranted to give satisfaction.
Plans and specifications furnished. Jobbing of
all kinds done to order. myjl-ly
MILLINERY AND DRESS MAKING I
aLtss l. imareham,
On Slain St., two doors north of New York Store.
A large nnd well selected Mock ofSpring
Summer nnd Goods just opened.
E3"31it3 Jennie Soult has charge of the dress
making department, and will guaranty satisfac
tion in all eases. C-tf
IF. BTJaiMLJST,
MERCHANT TAILOR
No. 54 Main Street.
3" A full assortment of thebest French aud
English Cloths, Cassimeres and Ycstlngs on hand
an.! mnde in the latest styles. 49-y
CONOVER BROS,
559 Main Street, Kansas City, Mo.
General Agents for the stile of Kansas tor the
Celebrated
Decker Bros. &. New Scale Haines Pianos,
-and the
MATCHLESS BURDETT ORGANS.
3Iusic Publishers and Inpoiters or 3Insical
3Ierclundic. We arc now selling the largest
size "H Octal e Rosewood Pianos with all the im
provements fully warranted for $.100 cash. Cor
respondence solicited w hen prices w ill be given.
4Vly
J. T. 3lC3fILLEN.
E. C. HUSSELL.
J. T. McMILLEN &u CO.
Dealers in all kinds ol
Carpets, "WitidoAY Slimlcs,
Mattresses, etc.,
W. Si MAIN STREET; WICHITA, KANSAS.
FURNITURE.
EC. BOLTE
JIannracturer or and dealer In U kinds or
Parlor, Chamber, Dwelling and Kitchen
FURNITURE.
A Full Line of Undertaker's Goods.
Undertaking done on short notice and iu the most
appro ed style.
MATTltESSES, CAIU'KTS, CUKTALNS, Klc.
6-2: 3yL"Ji.Usr STREET,
AVICHITA, KANSAS.
apIC-ly
NURSERIES.
KTJIT, SHL.3DE
AND
ORNAMENTAL TREES
Taylor's Commercial Nurseries
C. II. TAYLOtt, Proprietor,
Is not closing out a prosperous business, but is
offering at lowest rates to the spring trade ot 1873
the largest general nursery stock e cr offered in
this state. 1 offer special inducements on apple,
pear, cherry, peach, plum, mnncc, grape Mnes,
small fruits and cergreens. My stock is all home
grown, of the best westerns aneties, and cannot
tail to give entire satisfaction. I do not sell by
samples, bnt cheerfully refer to my numerous
customers thrnghout the state where growing or
chards and fruit grounds furnish a fair represen
tation ofmy nursery 1 shall adhere to in) former
practice of sending out nothing but first olass
stock, and guaranty reasonable satisfaction on
every order filled from my nurseries when fur
nished by a duly authorized agent. Correspond
ence solicited and catalogues luruisbed.
C. II. TAYLOR,
47-Cm Lock Rox 45, Lawrence, Kan.
Kaw Valley Nursery!
100,000 Applo Tross, 2 h 3 years, fine.
150,000 IIEDGE--Two ) ears old.
M,000 APPLE GRAFTS $0.00 per thousand.
40,000 MAFLE-3 to 5 ft., S5, S to S P.., $10 per M.
20,000 RUDDED Pencil Trees,
50,000 SIEJEIDLinLSrQ-S
For Groves and Fruit 2 to i reel, SJ.OOpcr
hundred, $10.00 per thousand.
Pear, Cherry, Plum, Apricots, Nectarines,
Ornamental Trees.
Small Fruits, Shades, Kverjri ecus &c.
t3" Send for Catalogue and Price List. -3
E. R. STONE,
Topeka, Kansas.
40-1 v
Osage Hedge and Grape Vines.
-AT-
MUEY & SCKV72ITEE'S,
On Chishslm creek.
Hedge Plants $2 00 per Thousand,
AVo have 400.000 two year old Hedge Plants and
3,O0i) Giapc A'inc Cuttings which we offer for iale
or will change part fur
First Class HarcVWocd Fenco Posts.
These. Plants irwell set ill scarcely require
any replanting. AVe also take contracts for feel
ing out Hedge Plants, Grape Cuttings and insure
the came. For further information inquire at
SCHWHTER & DAVIDSON'S LUMBER YARD,
12-
CONTRACTORS.
MILLIS & STEM,
CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS!
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
BUILDING MATERIAL
WICHITA, KANSAS.
10-11"
EC. CT. IRIEIIMIIEIRyS
3LA.LT STREET, WICHITA,
BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER,
Keeps constantly on haud a full line of
STATIONERY,
"WALL PATER,
POCKET CUTLERY,
and NOTIONS.
A full line of
Constantly on band.
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THE TRAMP.
BY LON IIOD1NO.
On a morn in dreary winter
Came a worn and weary printer
"With a bundle on a splinter
O'er his back.
Traveled stained ho was, and needy,
And his appetite was greedy
For a "snack."
For the printing olllcc steering
"Tin within the door appearing,
Where lie bowed, as one re ereing.
Y,'licn ho epoke,
Sajing, in a voice as solemn
As a gratis Uucliu column,
"I am broke."
In your city I'm a ttranjer,
Dusty, seedy as a granger
For I slumber in a manger
Of a barn
I desire some small donation,
And somceasv transportation
For my cokn.
Boat ! I tried to work my passage
lioylng frolprht and rough expressagt,
Lit Ing on bologna sausage
Dry and poor
But tlicv found I was a printer
And they hustled me instautcr
To the shore,
Then I f adly recollected
Days when printers were respected
For their skill. .Now I'm ejected
Foro and alt.
Just because some ha-o by drinking
Sent thd steamboat mou to sinking
All the crait.
Thus do sober workmen suffer
By the vices ol the loafer,
Till indeed when e'er I go ior
AVork I shrink.
Lett another's imposition
Throws on ma a loul suspicion
That I drink.
Deeply docs it wound and grieve me
AVlicn a man will not be!ie o mo,
But, dear sir, iryou will give me
Fifty cents.
I will by lis pioperusins,
Jshow you I'm above abusing,
Conlideiice.
By his doleful conversation
Boused he our commisseration,
AuJ Ave made the ''small donation"
When ho sunk j
But while going to our dinner,
AVo observod that hardened sinner
Beastly drunk.
Thus do fcobor workmen suffer
By tho vices of the loafer
llact com will oftou go lor
l'urest stamp,
Kindest ones who most have trusted
Are most thoroughly disgustod
AVith the tramp.
EDITORIAL NOTES.
A London dispatch from Lancaster,
Cornwall, of the 19th, says a terrible
conflagration is rnging in thnt town.
Gon. "W. T. Sherman arrived at Lcav
cnAVortli last Thursday. He is on a
tour of inspection and Avill spend a
fcAA days at tho fort.
Rev. E. House, assistant editor of
the Western Christian Advocate, Cin
cinnati, fell dead of heart disease at his
office, last Friday afternoon.
The pedestrian, O'Lcary, at noon,
Thursday, had made 25G milc3 in sixty-seven
hours and a half, being then
nearly thirty hours ahead of time.
At a meeting of the directors of the
Commercial Insurance Company of
St. Louis, recently held, it was resolved
to increase the capital to five hundred
thousand dollars.
By the explosion of the Hazardville
Powder "Works at Hazardville, Con
necticut, Moses Belack, Jno. Lowcrc
and George Richards were instautly
killed. All have large families.
The sides of the wrecked Schiller
have fallen in, covering the specie and
the best part of the cargo, and proba
bly a number of bodies. Blasting op
orations Avill be commenced as soon as
practicable.
A fire at "Waco, Texas, on "Wednes
day, burned outBrigliam & Ricsncr's,
tho Sawyer House, the stores of Itag
land & Fricdlaudcr, the Downs build-
'ng, the Examiner oflicc, aud other
buildings. The losses arc estimated
it $12o,000; insurance, $50,000.
The distillers who were brought be
fore United States Commissioner
llaync, nt Chicago, on "Wednesday
morning, on a charge of defrauding
he government, were held over iu
bonds of $3,000 each, to await the ac
itou of tho grand jury.
On Tuesday evening an old man
named Geo. Lockwood, from Dallas,
Illinois, was assaulted by two high
waymen in a lonely spot on the out
skirts of St. ' .il and knocked down
and robbed ol $130, the proceeds of a
lot of apples brought there for sale.
The robbers have not been identified.
At tho Winnebago Agoncy a school
of girls and boys has been established
to learn the young men and Avomen of
tho tribe civilized customs, etc. But
the lack of virtue on the part of both
kcxcs is so great that in spite of the
most vigilant care, and the aid of bais
and bolts, the Avorst of conduct pre
vailed between the students of oppo
site sex.
At Columbus, Kansas, on the 4lh
inst., a negro with a white wife came
into town, aud not finding lodgings
elsewhere, Avcnt into an empty box car
to spend the night. A negro Avho ad
vised them to this course, Avcnt into
toAvn aud informed some roughs of the
fact, they Avcnt to the car, pretending
to be a sheriff and his posse, and ar
rested the parties, one set taking the
man iu one direction, and the rest the
woman iu anol' r-r, and into an empty
room of a buihling, Avhcre, with a pis
tol at her head, and threats of instant
death if she made a noise or resisted,
they tore off her clothes, and for the
entire night perpetrated outrages upon
her person Avhich cannot be named.
This is one of tho few instances in
which lynching is justifiable.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tennes
see, says one of the sc"cnly-fivc Indians
on their Avay to the Florida prison,
managed to get hold of a knife, Avilh
which lie stabbed two soldiers and then
himself, while the train was standing
at Madison station five miles from that
city. It is reported that the soldiers
are not seriously hurt. On ai rival of
train at Nashville the Indian was taken
off and laid on a platform Avrapped in
'tis blanket, and is supposed to be iu a
dying coudition.
Later. Corporal Allen audPrivate
Hennessey, of company K, Fifth Uni
ted States Infantry, Avho were stabbed
near this city by the Cheyenne chief,
Wachita, together Avith the assassin,
were conveyed to Ash barracks and
placed in tho hospital. Private Hen
nessey was soon able to proceed on his
journey. Corporal Allen's wounds are
considered dangerous. The Indian is
much improved, and it is believed he
will recover. He is anxious for sonic
one to.shoot him or cut his throat.
A Midnight Horror.
Twenty-five years ago ono of (he
mo3t famous privato collections of Wild
animals was tho one possessed by the
Earl of Derby at Knowsley, Lanca
shire, England. This gentleman was
grandfather of the present distinguish
ed statesman, and father of the late
and still more noted man, Macaulay's
"Rupert of Debate." The zoological
collection was fostered and sustained
wi.h wonderful caro and a largo annu
al outlay. Emissaries wcro employed
in all parts of the world to procure
raro specimens, and so perfect were
tho arrangements for their reception
at Knowsley that the animals seemed
to forget utterly their lost iiborty when
tho rather eooenirlo Earl became their
possessor.
Among this varied and valuablo col
lection Avas a magnificent specimen of
tho. orang-oqtang, or cynocephalus.
Its height when standing erect Avas
nearly fivo feet six inches ; its limbs
Avcro enormous, and its breadth across
the shoulders indicated prodigious
strength. Long, coarse, black hair
covered its huge frame from head to
foot, and when anything occured to
excito its ill-temper its featuros bocamo
torribly floroo aud repulsive
Not far from tho Earl's beautiful res
idence there dwelt at thattime a Avell-to-do
farmer, Avho had actbd for some
years as ono of tho assistant stewards
to Lord Derby. He had recently be
come a widower, his wife having died
in her confinement. Tho farmer's
household consisted of himself, lh.Q
baby aged four months, and an old
Avoman Avho did gonoral duty as nurse
and housekeeper. They occupied a
lonely position, there bciug no other
dwelling within half a milo or so, and
a long and severe winter had sj- '1U
covering, tho -entire ICUntry round
about Avith z. Carpet of snow.
Gn ono dark and memorable night
tho widowed farmer had retired to
rest, having partaken of his supper in
his bedroom on accouut of the com
fortable fire which that chamber boast
ed, aud becauso it wag his custom to
havo his child's cradlo iu that room.
Whenever the nurse was required at
night-time the father rang a bell which
communicated with her apartments
immediately above, access to Avhich
Avas obtained by a narrow flight of
stairs. On the night in question the
young infant lay iu blissful uncon
sciousnes iu its warm cot near the
cheerful fire, and tho father lying in
bed "between sleep aud wake." Pres
ently ho heard his chamber door open
slowly, nnd ho roused himself slightly
to sco what the faithful old nurse re
quired, for ho concluded it was she
who was about to enter. But she did
not enter. The door remained opcu,
and tho farmer was on the eve of speak
ing softly to the nurse, when, gently
and with a cautious, noiseless tread,
the monstrous orang-ontang glided
into the room. The farmer sank back
in his bed dismayed, aud his dismay
probably saved his life, for tho visitor
a flitting envoy from "Night's pluto
nlan shore" continued to beignoraut
of his presence. The creature then
proceeded to the neighborhood of the
fire-place, near which in its cradle the
child laj-, happily unaware of the gris
ly intruder's existence. Tho bright
flames in the old dark wainscoted
chamber gave it a rich Rembrandt
touch. On a small tablo were the re
mains of the farmer's supper, which
had consisted of a fowl. Theso tho an
imal descried, aud for o few moments
they afforded it considerable interest,
its thoughts and reflections being seem
ingly concentrated upon tho anatomic
al arrangements of the deceased bird.
After toying with the bones and
other remnants of the repast the
brute's attention was suddenly attract
ed to the cradle. To walk nearly erect
was the normal habit of this ill-favored
beast. He quietly approached the
sleeping child and squatted down at
its side! It is probable thatamoug the
select visitors to Lord Derby's muse
um the baboon had never seen an in
fant anv Avav so frail and young. The
.sight Avas therefore A'cry novel, and he
gazed upon the unconscious creature
with manifest interest as he removed
the coA'crlct from its sleeping form.
The lather, from out the curtains of
Ills bed, beheld the entire proccdings
with indcscrible agony. It Avas not
presence of mind Avhich prevented him
leaping out to the rescue, but a feeling
of spell-bound helplessness. The poor
farmer Avas not deficient iu ordinary
courage, and avouM have faced a doz"
en of his own species without a par
ticle of fear had circumstances demand
ed it, but lie felt utterly iucapable of
wrestling Avith such a foe a3 the one
now sitting before tho ruddy chamber
fire. After a little while the creature
lifted the infant from tho cradle and
placed it with infinite tenderness upon
the hearth-rug. It then proceeded to
make a rigid examination of the child's
limbs, so soft aud plump, and so de
void of all hirsute decoration. It was
this fact that probably amazed and
staggered the cxnminer most. He no
doubt retained somo recollection of the
young progeny of his own kith and
kiifin the days or his liberty in the
distant African forests, but never bo
fore had he gazed upon a little alabas
ter form like this. So gently had he
removed the babe from its cot, and so
considerate did he conduct his re
searches, that its sleep survived the
process. Apparently satisfied in the
extreme Avith his investigation, the
monster monster with touch so deli
cate! transfercd his attentions to
a general scrutiny of the chamber
in which he nowfound himself, Avithout
invitation, and possibly Avith greater
emotions of surprise than those experi
enced bv the farmer, if that could be.
Furniture Avas certainly a novel spec
tacle, for in his recent homo a dead,
leafless tree was the solo decorative
article, and he now roamed the room
with such a look of critical acumen
that ho strongly resembled an auction
eer's clerk, taking an inventory of tho
household property. The old-fashioned
bed in which the farmer lay, in
speechless suspense, Avas evidently
destined to come last upon the intrud
er's catalogue, but come it did, and
the terrible brute, exceeding in height
the average human race, and Avith evi
dences of innate strength equally in
excess, now stood at the iarmer's side.
Tho visitor remained there but for a
moment, yet to the farmer, who had
affected to be sound asleep, it Avas no
such brief period of time. All at once
a timid cry from the tiny, child, Avho
evidently preferred the coscyness of its
cradle to the discomforts of the hearth
rug, altered the programme instautly.
The baboon immediately desorted tho
father and ran to the side of the awak
ened child.
The nurse, from her room abo'c,
had heard the cry. the doors being
purposelv open, and she prepared to
descend the narrow stairs. But the
wretched father could no longer sup
port the awful tension iu which his
nerves had been held during the last
ten minutes, and ho gave vent to a
wild, half-frantic shout. The monster
was terrified and instantly prepared
for escape- He leaped along tho room
to the housekeeper's staircase, Avhero
he encountered the unsuspecting old
ladv. More than the grim outline of
tho brute could not have been visible
iu that darkened stairway. The nurse
aud the brute appeared to have closed
iu a fixed embrace, for in that position
they struggled and fell to the foot of the
staircase. Then tho brute disentan
gled itself from the old woman's hold
and effected its escape from the house.
The scene which ensued can scarcely
be imagined. The nurse lay apparent
ly dead upon tho floor, and the farmer
stood by her unable at the moment to
render her any assistance. It seemed
to him most like a horrible dream, but
the prostrate form of the housekeeper
and the presence of the child upon the
hearth-rug proved too clearly the sub
slantiaf reality of the occurrence.
When tho farmer nerved himself
sufficiently to minister to the uurse'a
requirements ho found that her nerv
ous system had received an irreparable
shock from which she never recovered.
Mic passed from one horror into an
other, and never regained enough con
sciousness to understand who the
mysterious antagonist had been.
In tho course of the following day
the old woman died. On tho morning
after tho occurrence of these events a
diligent search was made for the miss
ing brute, Avhose escape had soon
becomo known Avhon tho keeper com
menced his daily rounds. They had
not to search far. They found tho au
imal disporting in an adjoining wood
and enjoying to tho fullest extont his
regained liberty. It was quito evident
that ho would uot resign that liberty
Avithout a hard strugglo for it. While
tho method of his capture was boiug
debated the news of tho housekeeper's
death and the events connected there
witbbecarao known, and that Avas suf
ficient to. sign tho death-warrant of tho
unwitting cause of her decease. It
was a hard fate, and so ho quietly
obeyed the summons convoyed to him
through tho medium of thrco minnie
bullet, and expired after a checkered
enjoyment of twenty-four hours' free
dom. Tho carcass of this huge brute may
now bo seen iu tho William Brown
Museum in Liverpool, most succesful
ly stuffed aud picturesquely posed up
on a miniature clifl", Avith a stout staff
in one hand and tho other hanging
listlessly at his side.
No no who views this magnificent
specimen of tho cynocephalus "-,"
closer ,acqu--iUanccsllip thQ fop
uie animal when alive ; yet at the
same time tho creature's dog-like head
suggests a canine intelligence aud hon
esty, inviting some degree of human
trust. Amongst the ancient Egyp
tian's the cynocephalus (meaning the
dog-faced baboon) was held iu great
veneration as tho supposed possessor
of superhuman powers, and was even
selected bv them as the symbol of in
tellect and to represent their god of
letters, lhotli. Whetlicr tiie auove
true story indicates tho greater intelli
gence for the brute, or tho human
beings Avhoin ho so terrified, is for tho
reader to decide.
Glitterins Gold.
While tho reports from tho Black
Hills country havo been voluminous,
and in most cases highly colored, there
has always, up to the' present, been
manifest "a lack of clear aud forcible
expressions upon the most attractive
feature which the Sioux hunting
ground holds out to the whites, viz:
its gold deposits. Those who have re
lated their experience havo added lit
tle to the original fuud of information
which Avas that there were unmistaka
ble evidences of gold in the Black
Hills. Miners have returned from the
new Eldorado and have delighted con
gregations of would-be miners with
stories of suppositional richness, based
upon very meagro finds. Prospecting
parties have reported results of efforts
with crude and unAvieldy apparatus,
which, certainly encouraging to them,
if true, Avero lacking in authenticity,
and therefore not received with full
credit by the public. But now the
picture is being developed undcranew
band, and thcro steps to the front one
who has not only been to the Black
Hills, but has gathered the glittering
gold by handfuls. Has seen it shining
through tho Avaters of the streams, and
has scraped it up by the peck, Avithout
the assistance of pick, shovel, pan or
cradle.
Jeremiah Protcau, is a citizen of
lankton, and one ot the oldest inhab
itants of what now forms Dakota Ter
ritory, ne is a Frenchman, fifty-five
years" of age, aud is one among the few
who, twenty-five years ago, traversed
tho plains of Western Dakota, barter
ing with the Sioux for robes and furs.
Ho possesses a largo fund of informa
tion concerning this Territory,- which
he has gleaned from personal experi
ences, lie left St. Louis iu the employ
of the American Fur Company iu 1818,
and for several years Avas engaged on
the Upper Missouri and its tributaries,
trading Avith the Sioux. While thus
engaged he had occasion to make a trip
to Fort Laramie, in Nebraska, and
while there in 1851, he met Sir George
Gore, an English sportsman, who had
prepared himself for a season's l-ccrca-tion
on the plains and in the moun
tains of America.
Protcau thus unbosoms himself, re
garding his experience in the Black
Hills country, to a representative of
the Yankton Press:
I left tho Fur Company at Laramie
and engaged Avith Sir George Gore as
hunter and teamster. James Bridgcr
Avas employed as guide. We left Lar
amie early iu the fall for the Yellow
stone country, taking a route which led
up past the Black Hills, on the south
ern and eastern base, and reached the
mouth of the Yellowstone late in No
vember. AVe then marched up the
Yellowstone to Tongue River, Avhcre
avc built a fort aud remained for the
Avintcr, hunting and trapping. The
following April Ave started with ten
carts and forty men, crossed tho head
of tho Rosebud and went to the Big
Horn river, where we built flat boats
and floated down the Big Horn to tho
Yellowstono and doAvn that river to its
mouth, Avhcre we met Sir George, who
had made the trip by land. From there
avc came down tho Missouri to the
mouth of the Little Missouri, and up
that stream to its head, then struck
across on to the Belle Fourche and
down to Bear Butte, and spent some
time on the Swift or Rapid Creek and
Box Elder, in the Black Hills.
One Sunday I went out to the falls
of Swift Creek with Lamouric. Tho
falls Avcro quite high and emptied into
a broad basin. As wo Averc standing
by the fall3 1 noticed some yellow
lookiug stutTin the Avatcr, aud I said
to Lamouric "By gcorgc ! There's
gold 1" I took off my shirt aud scoop
ed up three double handfuls of the
yellow stuff and put it in my shirt.
Then Lamouric am! I went back to
camp. Sir George noticed me as avc
reached camp, and asked me Avhat I
had in my shirt. I said gold ! He
then looked at it a little while, when
he said : Oh, no, Jerry, that's not gold,
that's mica." I Avas not very avcII
posted about gold, aud thought Sir
George was. He took it and put it in
two black bottles and placed them
in his chest. Tho next day avc
marched out of the Black Hills, and
tAVO or three days after Bridgcr told
me that Sir George told him it was
gold. Sir George also told Lamouric
that if ho avouW prospect on tho head
of Swift Creek he Avould find rich gold
there. AVe left the Black Hills on ac
count of the Indiaus, aud Avhcn wo got
back to the Little Missouri avc Averc
attacked by about five hundred Indi
aus, Avho ran off all our horses.
I left Sir George that fall, and I un
derstand he went back to England. I
camo doAvn to Fort Pierre in a flat
boat, and Avas engaged by the fur com
pany again.
That whiter I took five wagon-loads
of goods down below the Niobrara to
trade Avith the Indians. We had fivo
vokc of cattle to each wagon. , I re
mained all Avinter trading Avith the
Indians, and in Slarch 1 started back
Avith live loads of robes and furs. I
struck into the sand country south of
the Niobrara, and nearly perished with
all my animals before I got out of it.
The Avatcr was very scarce aud salty ;
the sand blew so that it almost blinded
me, and sometimes wo could not trav
el at nil. When I got out of it my cat
tle wcro all sand blind, and I had to
leave my Avagons and five yoke of the
cattle, who were used up. Tho others
were of no use lor wonc. i never nau
such a time iu all my life in this coun
try. This sand country lies on the
route that tho Sioux City party say
they aro going this spring. They will
never cross it. The way they go they
would have one hundred miles of this
sand, alkali water and no timber. No
man or beast can live to go across it.
There is no feed at all that cattle or
horses will eat.
Porteau's favorite route leaves the
Missouri River at old Fort Pierre,
four miles abovo the mouth of the Bad
River. Ho says that old Fort Pierre
is naturally tho most central point in
that section. The American Fur
Company built a number of posts,
called Fort Lookout, Fort George,
Fort Cedar and others aloug tho Miss
ouri, and established smaller nosts in
the interior, near the mountains, but
tho post at Pierre was the favorite
resort for tho Indians, who seemed to
find it moro accessiblo than any of tho
others. From Fort Pierre thcro is a
first cla3 road for eighty-five miles to
the forks of tho Cheyenne then take
the divido between Box Elder and Elk
Creek for thirty miles and you will be
in the midst of the gold couutry. The
whole distance is only oue hundred
and fifteen miles, and after leaving tho
forks of the Cheyenne gold can be
found most anywhere. A man can
travel on this Fort Pierre Road all
summer and not sco an Indian. St.
Louis Democrat.
Nieht in tho Moon.
A writer iu the British Quarterly
indulges in a glowing description of
the appcarauco of our earth to an in-habi--nt,0f
the moon:
At last, however, night sets iu. Grad
ually it comes after the sun has gath
ered up his smiting beams and gone
down to his rest. All at once Ave arc
plunged into comparative obscurity,
for again there is no twilight to stay
the steps of the departing day. But,
looking up into the sky, avc behold a
vast orb, which pour down a milder
and more beneficent splendor than the
great lord of the system. It is such a
moon as wo tcrrcstials cannot boast;
tor it is not less than thirteen times as
large and luminous as our own. There
it hangs in tho firmament without ap
parent change of place, as if "fixed in
its everlasting scat." But uot without
change of surface. For this great
globe is painted panorama, and, turn
ing round majestically on its axis, pre
sents its oceans and continents in grand
succession. As Europe and Africa,
looking the Mediterranean in
their embrace, roll away to the right
the stormy Atlantic offers its waters
to the view, and then tho two Ameri
cas, with their huge forests aud vast
prairies, pass under inspection. Then
the grand basin of the Pacific, lit up
with island fires, meets the gazer's eye
aud as this glides over the scene, the
eastern rim of Asia and the upper por
tion of Australia sail into sight. The
Indian Ocean, and afterwards the Ara
bian Sea, spread themselves out in
their subdued splendor and thus, iu
four-and-twenty hours, "the great ro
tuudity avc tread" turns its pictured
countenance to the moon and grandly
repays tho listening lunarians by re
peating, to the best of its ability, tho
story of its birth. Nor is the sky less
marvelous in another respect. For the
absence of any atmospheric diffusion
of light permits the constellations to
shine out with a distinctness Avhich is
never paralleled on earth. They glit
ter like diamond points set in a firma
ment of ebony. Stars and clusters
Avhich avc never see by the naked eye
flock into view and Crowd the lunar
heavens.
Colonel James Bowio.
A correspondent of the New York
Tribune relates the following:
I remember a story I heard forty or
fiftv a cars ago. A" stage conch Avas
going" along an Arkansas road. On
tho back seat Averc three women ; ou
the middle one two men, tall and mus
cular; Avhilc the forward seat held
only a small man, Avrapped up com
pletely in a blanket. After a time one
of the powerful men on the middle
seat lit a cigar nnd smoked. The
smoke went full in the face of one f
the women, avIio Avas lroth young aud
timid. She sickened, and then request
ed tho man to stop smoking. This
aroused the ruffian iu him, and he
roughly declared, "I havo paid my
fare; It is customary to smoke, and I
Avill smoke as long as I have a mind
to." Accordingly lie took out a fresh
cigar, and started the smoke-cloud
again. Tho Avoman could only add
that "smokers ought not to forget to
be gentlemen." This suggestion ex
cited the man's rage to Avhitc heat.
At this point the small man on the
front scat laid aside his blanket, put
his left hand on the knee of the enrag
ed ruffian, iu order to withdraw his
attention from the woman and to him
self while with his right hand he drow
a bowie knifo from its cae between
his shoulder-blades. Pointing the
Aveapon at the heart of the brute, and
looking him square in the eyes, the
little man quietly said : "I am Colonel
J.mcs Bowie, and unless you throw
that cigar away in one minute, I will
put this kuifc into your heart, as true
as there is a God." The ruffian com
prehended in an instant Avith whom
he had to deal, and threw the cigar
out of the wiudoAV without addiug a
Avord. Colonel Bowie replaced his
Aveapon, drow his blanket about him,
and relapsed in to a condition of appar
ent indifference. If he had lived in
the ancient times, his contemporaries,
or the generation immediately follow
ing, Avould have made a god of him.
Gradual Dryinc Up of Rivers.
Prof. Wex, of Vienna, a well-known
naturalist, has just published an appeal
to the various governments of Europe,
urging them to provide means by leg
islation for encouraging forest growth.
He points to the fact that iu conse
quence of the cutting doAvn of large
areas of timbered regions, not only the
moistnro in tho soil has greatly dimin
ished, but the average rainfall hat also
lessened, and hence tho volume of wa
ter in the great rivers has receded, dur
ing the last fifty jears, in the Elbe and
Wcscr sixteen inches, in the Rhine
tAvelve inches, and in tho Danube over
ten inches. The same facts noticed iu
Europe by Prof. Wex have repeatedly
been shown to exist iu this couutry.
The Ohio river on an average contains
now less water than it did ten years
ago. and steamboats of larger size, that
could conveniently go to Pittsburgh
formerly, find it impossible now dur
ing some months iu summer, owing to
the shallowness of the river. The
same condition has been experienced
ou the upper Mississippi, but in a less
degree, since the country along the
sources of that stream is not yet so
thickly settled. This is a serious ques
tion, involving tho future of the agri
cultural prosperity of the land as well
as its internal trade, and is entitled to
tho most careful consideration of
statesmen aud legislators.
Alono in Life.
What can be more discouraging than
the feeling that iu our struggles
through life, iu our trials and disap
pointments, there arc none to sympa
thize Avith or care for us? No man
can go very far Avith strength, courage
and cheer, if he goes alone. We are
made to bo happier aud better by each
other's notice, appreciations, help and
praise, aud the hearts that are debarred
from those influences invariably with
er, harden and break. Here and there
are found persons who from pride,
pervcrseuess, or often their sensitive
ness, affect to be altogether independ
ent of tho notice or regard of their
fellow-beings; but it is a very safe
assertion to make that never yet was
there one human heart that did not at
tome time, and at some tender ami
yearning hour, long for the sympathy
of other hearts. Aud th jre is a nobil
ity in this fcclinj.
A Remorseful Do$r.
The following interesting letter is
published in the London Spectator:
Being accustomed to walk out be
fore breakfast Avith two skye terriers,
it was my custom to wash their feet in
a tub kept for that purpose iu the gar
den, whenever the weather was wet.
Ono morning, whon I took up the dog
to carry him to the tub, ho bit me so
severely that I Avas obliged to let him
go. No sooner Avas tho dog at liberty
than ho ran down to the kitchen and
hid himself. For three days he refused
food; declined to go out Avith any of
tne lamiiy, ana appeared very ucjcctcu
with a distressing and unusual expres
sion of countenance.
On the third morning, however, up
on returning with the other dog, I
found bim sitting by the tub, and upon
coming toward him, he immediately
jumped into it nnd set down iu the
water. After pretending to wash his
legs, he jumped out as happy as possi
ble, and from that moment recovered
his usual spirits.
.there appears in this mstanco to
ha'e been a clear case of reasoning ac
companied by acute feeling, goin on in
the dog's mind from the moment hebit
mo until ho hit upon a plan of showiu'r
his rcgrot and making reparation for
ms lauit. it evidently occurred to him
that I attached great importance to this
foot bath, aud if he could convince mo
that his contrition was sincere, and
that ho Avas willing to submit to the
process Avithout a murmur, I should
bo satisfied. The dog, in this case,
reasoned Avith perfect accuracy, and
from his own premise, deduced a legit
imate conclusion which the result jus
tilled. An Arkansas Tragedy.
The Hot Spriugs Democrat says : A
horrible murder was committed last
Wednesday night in the vicinity of
Center Point, which, iu pointof atroc
ity, has no parallel in the annals of
crime in Arkansas, unless, perhaps, the
murder of the Richardson family nt
Rock Creek, Pulaski county, may fur
nish its peer. A man living in Howard
county, sold his farm and stock last fall
with a view to removing to Tcxas.and,
receiving his money a few days since,
was all prepared for his contemplated
journey; On Wednesday last he was
at a neighbor's house, somo few miles
away from home, Avhee, night over
taking him, his neighbor induced him
to stop until morning; but during the
night the raau, who Avas away from hi3
family, could not rest, feeling a pre
sentiment that something was going
Wrong at home. So he got up and
stnjtcil, a man from Texas, who was
heavily armed, and stopping at the
same house, accompanying him. Upon
approaching his house a light Avas dis
covercdjjwhcu the gentleman remarked
to his Texas friend that there certainly
wa3 something wrong, as his Avife was
not accustomed to being up so late at
night. They alighted, and creeping
stealthily to the house, discovered four
mcr. sitting by a bright fire, counting
money. The horrible suspicion of
murder and robbery flashed upon the
minds of the parties Avatchiug the
money counters. So stationing them
selves, ono at each door, they com
menced at attack upon the strango in
mates, which resulted in slaughtering
the entire party the Texas man kill
ing three, and the other man one, En
tering, they discovered the dead bodies
of the man's wife aud two little chil
dren, while scattered around the room
torches Averc placed, ready to ignite,
for the purpose of firing the building
to conceal the crime.
- Whero Are tho Police ?
The perilous experience of four
young American ladies in Rome re
cently, will doubtless add to the fame
of th'c bold brigands Avho infest that
vicinity. During the carnival season
just passed, the joung ladies engaged
a carriage and driver lor i rule along
the Appiau Way, and having passed
all the ruins they ordered tho coach
man to turn homewards. At about a
milc from Rome the hordes avci-c sud
denly stopped by two men, one of
Avhom held a pistol at their heads,
while tho other presented himself at
the door of the carriage demanding the
ladies' money, holding a long stiletto
pointed nt the throat of tho nearest
lady to him, the coachman iu the mean
time having descended from his box.
The brigands then tore three gold
chains from the ladies' necks, took
from them two gold Avatchcs, a purse,
and a gold eye glass, and, as in their
agitation they could not lesist the fem
inine Aveakncss of screaming, one re
ceived a scA'crc Avound. The lady on
the box Avas not interfered with, and
so saved her watch aud chain, and her
purse, which Avas much better lined
than those taken, the brigands having
taken her for the maid. They then told
the coachman to mount his box aud
drive on, but before the carriage had
gone far they called again to bim to
stop, and coming up demanded thecal
rings, aud then made oil. When bri
gands can, during the height of the
Roman season, attack a carriage full of
ladies within a mile of Rome, upon
one of the most frequented drives, at
four o'clock in the afternoon, Avhen
the drive is most resorted to, the ne
cessity arises, iu the interest of one's
own couutry men, for asking, where are
the Roman "police?
Tinkering the Bell of Liberty.
The Philadelphia Record, reviewing
the past Revolutionary history of the
Bell of Independence at Philadelphia,
says :
Since the bell av.is cracked it has sev
eral times been tinkered at, iu tho ef
fort to make it souorou3 once more.
At one timo the seam Avas filled, we
think, with silver; but the sound
would not come back. They then un
dertook to ream out the crack, causing
it to present a less 'sharp and ragged
edge,' on the singular theory, perhaps,
that it could be made to ring like the
little globular sleigh-bells that tinkle,
though they have an opening to let the
sound out." But the result was very
naturally by no means successful, ft
being clear enough beforehand, one
would say, that the vibrations of the
metal, when struck, Avould conflict at
the crack and spoil the hoped-for ar
rangement. Tho findings of metal
that were bored out in this process
were made over into little bell3 as Rev
olutionary reiics. Henry Clay, avc be
lieve, received the first of these much
prized mementoes. Some people have
also been guilty, as the bell .uu ;;, of
clipping splintering fragments from
tho rim aB relics. Wo have not much
faith that the bell will be restored to
its old resonance, but avc should be
very glad to hear that there was a pros
pect of doing so by a new process."
The neAV Palace Hotel in San Fran
cisco, Avhich is now almost finished,
will be one of the largest aud most
complete buildings of the kind in the
world. It has over 750 private rooms,
most twenty feet square, half of them
with bay windows and bathing rooms.
The public have an aggregate of 550
feet in length, with a general Avidth of
tmy-hve feet. It ha3, also, inner court
yards covered with glass roofs, Avith
promenades, fountains, statuary, mu
sic pavilion and a band, five elevators,
seven stairways, and everything else to
correspond. All the China, glass aud
Elated Avare for the dining rooms will
c made to order from designs made
for the hotel, and enormous quantities
of each will be required. Of plated
ware alone, 1,3C0 pieces Avill be needed.
They will employ colored servants;
an immense number will be required.
The scarcity of colored people in Cali
fornia will necessitate their importa
tion from the States.
Loss of the Schillor A. St. Louis
Family Extinct.
The loss of the steamer Schiller off
tho Scilly Isles, in tho English Chan
nel, has brought mourning into mauy
familics of two continents. Among
the two hundred passengers reported
drowned were seven or eight from St.
Louis. Mrs. RidgeAvay and her tAvo
little grandchildren and her son-in-law,
Mr. C. W. Walter, Averc on board,
nnd aro believed to be among the lost.
Mrs. Ridgeway was Avell known in this
city, Avhere her husband was engaged
in business many years ; he died about
five years ago. Within a period of
eight mouths Mrs. Ridgeway saw her
husband and two daughters pass away,
and now she and her tAvo grandchil
dren have found a Avatcry grave. They
Avcro the only survivors' of the family,
and no relations arc left.
About fivo years ago Mrs. Ridgeway
took one of her daughters, Clui-a, to
Europo for the benefit of her health,
and brought back her remains ; a few
months aftenvards her other daughter,
Lizzie, Avas taken from her, and not
very long aftenvards her husband died
Avhilcona visit to South Carolina.
In April last Mr. Walter started for
Europe Avith his two children, on a
visit to his relatives, and Mrs. Ridge
way accompanied them, having a
strong desire to revisit tho spot where
her child had died. Sho was attended
by her faithful old colored servant,
Eliza, who had lived with her many
years. No particulars arc given of the
manner in Avhich this estimable lady
met her death; the accounts say that
among the bodies recovered Avns that
of a lady Avith a child clasped in her
arms. This may havo been Mrs.
Ridgeway and one of her grandchil
dren. St. Louis Democrat.
Making- Boxes.
The Swiss have a clever Avay of mak
ing cheap boxes Avithout the use of
nails, the mitcrcd sides being fastened
together by wedge-shaped pieces of
wood. An" English inventor has re
cently patented another process, Avhich
may "be ussil for heavy as well as light
boxes, The tAvo pieces of wood to be
fastened together aro first mitcrcd In
tho ordinary Avay, and a hole is then
drilled in each piece vertically, from
the bottom upward, at a short distance
from the mitcrcd edge. A channel or
groove 53 then cut out by a aw orotli
erwise from the mitcrcd edge to tho
drilled hole. This channel is of lcs3
width than ihc diameter of the hole,
and may be cut cither parallel to the
sides of the piece of wood or at right
angles to the mitercd edge, so that
when tho two arc put together there
shall be a continuous channel from one
side to tho other, shaped somewhat
like a dumb-bell, and running from
the top to the bottom of the box. A
key is formed b running a fmiblo
metal, such as lead, into this channel.
The key may be made separately of
solid metal aud driven into the chan
nel; butin cither waya joint isfoimed
which can only bo broken by tearing
away the mitcred edges, of the Avood.
Sheridan's Bride.
It hardly seems farther back on the
annul-, of "time than short yesterday,
since Miss Irene Ruckcr AValkcd, a slen
der, dark-eyed little girl, in our midst,
arrayed in short dresses, and her hair
braided in two long plait3 hanging be
low her waist. How rapidly these ten
der young things spring up into ato
manhood, and how early the bridal veil
throws its soft mist over them I It
makes us lookers-on search cautiously
among our tresses to sec if any threads
frosted Avith years have crept in among
our darker ones. It seems so short n
time since Gen. Ruckcr Ava stationed
here, nnd occupied tho Michlcr House,
on Twenty-first street, within almost
a stone's throw ot the Potomac, it3
ample grounds filled Avith trees, grape
vines and flowers. Tony Ruckcr was
then a great, honest, gcncrous-hcsrtcd
boy, brimming ovtr with pranks and
mischief, the greatest favorite with hi
companions, aud i. constant source of
amusement to his ciders. And now,
little Irene Ruckcr for I cannot think
orficr a '-young lady grown" has Avon
the prize for Avhich so many maidens
have smiled and striven in vain!
Wash. Cor. Chicajo Tribune.
Important Decision.
Several decisions havo been made by
the courts bearing upon tho liab.lityo'f
National Banks for the safe keeping of
special deposits, all of which appear to
exempt the banks from the responsi
bility Avhich it was attempted to fix
upon them, when packages are plarcd
iu their vaults for the accommodation
of their customers. Tho Supremo
Court of Vermont in the case of Wi
ley vs. The First National Bank of
Brattlcboro. for the recovery of the
A'alue of bonds deposited for safe keep
ing Avithout i cward,and stolen, decides
inn long and elaborate opinion deliv
ered, that the banks had no power,
under the National Hank net, to mako
a contract for the safe custody of valu
ables. The Com t of Appeals in New
York, in the suit of the First National
Bank against the Ocean National Bank
to recover the value of plaiutitl's secu
rities, which had been deposited in the
defendant's bank, rendered a decision
approving the opinion of the Vermont
court, cud holding that such a contract
was not within the Pcopu of the au
thority of the bank officials.
It Will Do It.
They Avcre married lastf.ill and they
hadn't had one cross Avord or a sour
look, when, the other night, he moved
the cook stove into the shanty and
called her to hold the pipe up while ho
gently knocked -the joints toggthcr.
She smiled sweetly as sho replied:
"Yrs, my dear;" but five minutes
hadn't passed before he yelled out:
"Durii it; I thought A'ou knew some
thing!" " '
And she threw tAvo joints of pipe at
hint aud replied :
"I Avail t you to understand that avc
aro as strangers from ibis hour!"
Detroit Free Press.
Tho Schiller.
A special from Loudon sajs that 130
bodies have been recovered from tho
wreck. A dispatch from Portsmouth,
England. May 15th, says tho siler ves
sel to the Schiller, Avhich left Now
York a week after, arrived there that
morning. There Avas great excitement
among the passengers when they tverc
apprised of the disaster that had be
fallen the Schiller. A contribution
was taken up among them for the re
lief of the survivors.
At a largo dinner partj recently the
cool Avcathcr had done" considerable
duty in supplying conversation, when
a plump, happy-looking married avo;
man made a remark about cold feet.
"Surely," said a lady opposite, "Mr.
M., vou arc not troubled wim cold
feet?" Amid an awful pause, she
naively answered, "Yes, indeed, I am
very much troubled: but then they ate
not my own."' Her husband blushed
scarlet".
A Jcrseyvillc, Illinois, special to tho
Globc-Demorrnl says that Avhilc Iavo
young men from Bunker Hill, Illinois.
Averc standing in the flouring mill of
Nulter Bros., at Brighton, Illinois the
floor of the second story fell, killing
one instantly and severely injuring the
other. Several other persons standing
near by were slightly hurt.
Boston has developed a ca'e of as
tounding dishonesty in high life-.
Queer that the "Hub"' MiouliI so far
forget itctf as to step aside from the
angel business, ''jist for wonce."'
Thcro was a tliuitn.iiid-loll.ir fire at
Fort Scott on the 20th.-
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