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THE
WEEKLY
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Vol. 7.
Lexington, Lafayette County, Mo., Saturday, Dec. 7, 1872.
Xo. 33. Whole No. 345
Attorneys at Law.
AKLAKDJ. BtCWCIT. JI(M MrHATTOIt
N tarj Public
IJLKWFTT MeHATTON, ATTOKNEYS AT
IJ LAW, l.uiirl. Mo., will .llm.l prompt
ly lo bufttnmo e.mrt.loct to ihem in l-al'ayelie
Ciinnli. Mum-tal attention riven to collection
Office la building of Saving-'e Bank, opooeitei
Court-bouse. Juiyl.-ly
VILUU.Wtl.lll. mcHoriu
WALKER A. FIFXD,
ATTORXKYS ml I.w. t.exinrton, Miwronn
Ufltc in Kramer- building- K'l-ly
W. T. K T. C. WOOD,
i rrniivi'TllTl.tW. rl-T. C. Wood No
A. tarr Public, oilice, one door en.t of Anil
taring Bank l torv,
loum w. rri An. johi m. tlasd
fc SOX,
TTilUVICTS AND COrHSEI.I.ORS AT
V LAW, Lexington, Mo. Office, No. 67 Maui
t., otrr the More of Kneberg A Jennlag
1'ractire in alt Ihr court of this ami adiaceni
rounlica, ami in the Supreme Court of the Mat.
litnct Court of the tinted Stale. Collec
tion maie. .."fLLL-
i'HEXEY SHEWAI.TEll,
A TTORNEY AT LAW, AND NOTARY VUB-
Special attention niren to Collection. deSij
J. 9. ilEACHWEEE,
a TT KXKV AT LAW AND NOTARY PUB
J Mv,, Wellington, Miwionri, will praetic.
in all the courts, and give prompt attention
enlla-.tiona. -
o. a. KATHBt-ir. it". unxvas
RATIIBI K A. URATES
VTTORNKYS AT LAW, Lexington, Mo
Will practice in all the courts ol the Sixlr
luJicial Circuit, Pietrlcl ami U. 8. Court
I rompl attention given to collection. Office
Miiin atreet, over Kriehn'a hoe Btore. dellyl
RICHARD A. tOLMVS
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Waverly, Mo. Wil
practice bia profession in all the court o
Uic State of Missouri. Collecuona madi
Ibroughout the Stale. apr2
T1ETOX DATIS,
a '
TTORNEY AT LAW, Lexington,
Mo. E .1
J pecial attention given to the collection o
ebla Investigation ami Perfection o Land Tl
iiM '.n.i tr. rinimal ami Real Estate Litiga
tion generally, in Laiuyette and Biljinim;
counties. Ouice at Hawver'a oni aianu, co.
ner of Main and Broadway MreeU. julylltju
a. r. luiunii. w. b. cmuts.
ALEXANDER & CHIEES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Will practice ii
the Court of Lalayette and adjoimnf
counties. Will also attend promptly to thi
tollrrtlon ot Claims, audio cases arising un
der the Bankrupt law. Olnce over the ntrv.
Banking House of Won. Morrison A Co. oeHj
U. f. VILUtl. ZACK. I- MITCHELL
JVALI-AtE & n 1TCHELL,
ATTORNEYS AN1 COUNSELLORS Al
LAW, Lexington, Mo., will practice in at
the courts in Lalavette county, and in the Couri
ol Record in ailjoiiiing counties, and in the Dis
trict CourtM, and Supreme Court of the Stale
Collections and other business intrusted to then
care Ttromplly ateended to. Office opposit.
Courthouse, over "Lexington Savings Bank,'
llaia street jyly
urilDI.BlU. X. C. HAU
II A EE At HAEE.
ATTO RNE YS AT LAW, Lexington, Mo. Offict
over Lesueur's Jt CoN grocery store. ll
practice in the Mate and Federal courts. il
lections made throughout the states. apr24 t
Medical.
F. T&JIPLB, M. D. O. W. BABKXR, M
TEMPLE & BARKER,
TT OMEOPATH1C PHYSICIANS, havint
II formed a co-partnerhhip in the Practice o
Aiedicine, would respectfully offer their proles
sional services to tne citizens oi lexinion an'
Ticinitv. Special attention given to Chkohh
Iuseas'es. Night and day calls attended to ii
citv and country.
If office in Ahren's building, corner Markei
and Cedar streets, Lexington, Mo. Imch27-t
MEDICAL XOTICE.
AfTrR an absence of nearly twenty years,
1R. CHINN has returned to this city, anu
tenders bis proiessional services to the citizen
tlten-of. Office ami resid-ace at Mrs. M. K
Bowman's, on South street. april6tt
Dr. J. W. JIEMi, m
SURGEON DENTIST, f
AAFFICE, opposite the Courthouse, up stairs
V 7 Lexington, Jio.
All work done In a sci-
entitle manner.
se)a4yl
DENTIST.
J. F. IIASSELl, d. d. S.,
Office over Linirick's Bank,
LEXINGTON, MISSOURI.
UHS S.flALL, CH AMBERS & CO.
A V. Small, M. I. J. B. Alexander, M. D.
G. W. Yol-.no, M. D. P. 11. Chambers, M. D.
OFFER their services in the practice of Medi
cine and Surgery, to the public, with tht
hope that their association together will ten.
greatly to promote their knowledge ot diseases,
a.. I to improve their skill in treating them.
They will give special attention to Chroni
Dit'irdi-rs. Xhey will, in all cases, considei
tm1 lets due when the services are rendered
iwl will collect as soon thereafter as they maj
deem advisable.
tJ-Ali persons indebted to the late firm o
l)r. small Chambers, or to any nieniU r o
tne .iiove rtrin are respectfully invited, and ear
Bvgtly l'hgxd to settle immediately . jcllyl
1 Ottice over Boleler A Clagett's store.
ROBERT C. Ol(i, 91. D.
HAVING completed my studies, and conclu
ilrd to locale permanently in Lexington,
uuw otfer my prolessionai services to the ctti-
it-ns ol the city anil surroumung country, mi
omce is in the drug store of G. C. Alexander
No. lul Main street, where I can always b
luund when not prolessionally engaged. ti
DR. T. 9. SMITH,
nflYSIClAN and Surgeon. Office an4 resi-
f dence on Main street, east ol the Courthouse
8uecial attention eiven to surgery. Call-
promptly attended to, in tawn and country- noJ
St. I ouis Advertisements.
MILLLERY GOODS.
HAYES, GIBBONS & CO.,
3u3, N. FOURTH STREET,
ST. LOUIS MISSOURI.
Importers, Manufacturers and Jobbers of
MILLINERY A STRAW GOODS,
SILK AND COTTON VELVETS,
FLOWERS AND FEATUERS,
LACES, RIBBONS, SILKS,
PATTERN BONNETS,
TRIMMED A UNTRIMMED,
VELVET, FELT, PLUSH AND STRAW
HATS-
We keep the largest stock, and make the low-
etl prices. sepal mi
MOODY, MICHEL At CO.,
WHOLESALE Dealers in Staple and Fancj
II UitOCCKlbS,
Nos. ail, 303 AOUi Second atreet, corner Olive,
m.- ly ST. LOC18.
J. M. BROS WICK,
Manufacturer of
BILLIARD TABLES1
NO. Ill, X. FIFTH STREET,
Bet. Chestnut and Tine, St. Louis, Mo
e p'-l m3
U K Ml Y ANTHONY. FRANCIS KUUN
ASTHOSf Ai. KUIS'S
it, is w nz: n y,
SIDNEY BLEL8TS., ST. LOUIS.
Manufacturers of Beer and Lager Beer. Or
der for half barreli and kegs promptly an
carefully attended to. set 'lyl.
W. JOIIM CLOWDSLEV,
G ENEHAL COLLECTOK
LEliTOX, MO.
JOII tiOEH.XR,
MAilcrACTDBEE Or
hionument.. Tomb & Grave Stonesi r"'-" r,8,u8 ,roui
p Qi8 official conductor from the pe
lf eltker Foreign or AmrricaB MarMellculiar condition of the country, then
.huii i.KTiMuTox. m
CASH :
CASH ! CASH!
WILL pay tbe bigbeat market price In CASH
for WOO
HIDES,
I'ELTS,
BEESWAX,
FATHERS. c.
f farmer of Lafayette and Ray counties, don't
aaae iraie lor me aouve ariiciea. tome lo i
Mi eel tbe CASH. I can b. round at my ol'dfiKincr ia In hva l ha rikf . .
Hand, four doora west of the porno nice. lniDg 18 lo Have tbe right man 10 it,
kaep lor aale, cheap for cash, all kinds
WINES AMU LlUUUHs.
u riiNEMAN.
Ipexiujton Caucasian.
Large t Local and a General
Circulation, extending over
all the States and
Territories,
liviM to i tMtvrr yimhrf of ftttofflrrm
Umm an othrr Muprr in iflaMvri.
My JKNAN & ALT,KN.
1. DONAX,
A. S. KIEUOLF,
Kpitors.
si. A1XKN BrsivRss Manaokk
NEW STAR IN THE LECTURE FIR
MAMENT.
C0L P. DONAN, OF THE CAUCASIAN.
As the reasonable result of nnmor
us earnest and tireless applications
)n the part of friends and admirer
n all parts' of the country, during!
the past three years, and especially
luring tho summer and fall months
ust passed Col. Teter Donan, the
versatile editor of the Caucasian,
ins consented to enter the lecture
ield this season ; and ho will appear,
tt an early day, in reply to pressing
solicitations from friends at various
points in this and adjoining States,
o deliver bis choicest gems trom a
repertoire second to none in Ameri
a, both for variety of subjects treat
ed, and their piquancy and polish
mong the lectures which he will
leliver, we are enabled to name
I. "Man."
a. "Woman."
3. "Time."
4. "Trip Around the World."
5. "America."
6. "Babies."
T. "The Xigger."
8. "Dress."
9. "The National Debt."
lO. "Life, Death, Heaven, Hell.
Eternity."
II. "A Talk, to iirls."
It would be remarkable, if, being
he author of many of the best lec
ures now delivered by lecture-room
tolables, he had not reserved hie
best productions for his own' use.
Here are subjects more than suffi
ient to stock halt the lecturers in
he country with oratorical material
vith which they have nothing thai
ill bear the slightest comparison
U is needless to say to those who
lave road the Colonel's elaborate
'ieautiful, touching, inimitable crea
Jons during the past five years, it
;.he Caucasian, the Missouri Vindica
or, and the Metropolitan Ilecord
hat they will enjoy a feast in hi.-j
;oming among them; for those sub
ects are handed in his own matchle.
tyle, which for decided originality,
piquancy, sparkling humor, dissimil
arity with the patented stuff hawked
tbout by the lecturer of the period,'
ire without imitation in the Pnglish
anguage. They unite, in a degree
unapproacbed by those of any other
jandidate for popular favor, amuse
nent with instruction; mirth witl.
sound doctrine and startling facts;
lazzling description and wild, rol
iicking humor with the tenderest
lentiineut; and the keenest, bitterest
satire with the deepest and truesi
pathos. They have been examined
bv the ablest literateurs of the
oountry,critics profound and erudite
ind are pronounced unparalleled ii
all the world of letters.
Lyceums, Libraries, Lecture So
cieties, or friends and adnirers
lesirous of securing aD early visit
trom Col. Donan, should address
him at once, at Palmyra, Mo., or the
undersigned, care of the Caucasian
Lexington, Mo. For a short period
ri'B services are pre-engaged in the
ectare-iield in Missouri.
Alf. S. Kierolf,
Associate Editor Caucasian
Hon. Jake T. Child, the hand
some and genial editor of the Rich
mond Conservator, and a member
elect of the next General Assembly,
has these pertinent words on the
subject of "The Next Legislature;"
to all of which we say Amen :
'It would seem from our exchange)-
that a demand is being made for t
short session, sharp work, and econ
ioray in all its departments. There
s too much money expended in ex
tras, excreseoces that cropped out
during the war. We see no reason
that the Legislature should be in
session more than six weeks. A
Constitutional Convention will be
ailed, we doubt not, with its session
limited to thirty days, and to it much
of the legi elation can be referred that
would otherwise come before the
Legislature. What the people need
is sharp, quick work, with economy
las the watch-word. Men with axes
to grind should be made to know
that their claims will be ignored it
not in keeping with law and right.
in tact the coming Legislature, it it
expects lo carry out the wishes of
tne people, must act not as parti
sans, but as the servants of the peo
ple, worKing solely tor their inter
ests."
THE THIRD TERM TALK.
From the New York Independent. I
We are by no means advocating
a third term lor treneral Grant
Yet, if his second term should be
what we expect and earnestly hone
that it will be, and if tho popular
judgment should at the proper time
point to him as the best roan tor the!
U'-ue loci tliat tie bad twifn annentab v
lunea tne residential office would
lb no Objection to his re-!rtinn fnr
la third term. Tbe question of terms
is a matier 01 no conseauene whn
I compared with that of qualifications
and public necessity. The office was
nn tnnrln fn rn.
uv uiu ivi ouj limn, x ne main
ofllwhether he has been elftpui .
II. . - . .
IJhalf a dozen times.
LETTER FROM TEXAS.
An interesting and descriptive ac
ount of a trip from Lexington, Mo. J
to Bonham, Texa. Valuable infor
mation to emigrants and travel
ers:
Bonham, Texas, Nov. 12.
Editors Caucasian: Had I not
promised, I would not attempt to
write you. I left Lexington, as you
iinow. Wednesday night, November
lith, at 8 o'clock,and arrived at Seda
iia at 11 o'clock; lelt next morning
at 8 o'clock on the M. K. & T. road.
From Clinton to ort bcotl is a
beautiful country. Considerable
improvements in farms and farm
houses which looked fine, though
the land is rather poor. I noticed
in the cuts for the road bed that the
gravel and rock are close to the top
of cround. Thev have plenty of
o - -
good stone all the way from Clinton
to Fort Scott. From Fort Scott to
Parsons there is a beautiful country
to behold, large rolling stretches, and
:tt a glance one would suppose a very
rich and disirable country but on
noticing closely, you can see that
it will not stand tbe test. Lime
stone, sandstone and gravel are seen
all along the route. 1'ursons is a
rowing town, it is improving rap
idly some large machine shops un
der way of construction. It is sit-
ated on a large rolling prairie. Tbe
town is blessed witn raagmncent
oal banks in and close about.
After leaving Parsons about 15
miles, the land is very poor noth
ng but beds of limestone rock. 1
could see acres that were almost
lestitute of soil; but if some shrewd
yankee will get there he can furnish
the world with lime. We passed
)ver Arkansas river at midnight.
t brought back to memory many
scenes of that "little unpleasant
ness." that many of us are familiar
with. Yes, I have crossed it in
nuch more haste, but then weliad
in excellent rear-guurd composed ot
federal cavalry. There is but little
improvements in the way of townsj
n the Indian nation. I have otteu
wondered that such a rich country
as the Creek and Choctaw Nations
nas remained in possession of the
azy Indians.
From Arkansas river through to
Perryville is a good farming and
tock country, r rom Perryville to
Lied river is a lovely country, and
not ten years from to-day the Choc
taw Nation will be one of the most
desirable portions of the South; be
ing well watered, with fine timber
and excellent stone of two kind-;
good stone-coal, and Lafayette can'i
surpass it in point of soil. Large
roiling rises of prairie. I envy sucb
a lovely country to the indolent In
Jians. Two much can t be said k
praise of this country.
We took stage at Caddo Gap, 1:
niles north)f fied river, making 40
miles to Sherman, Texas. We ar
rived at Sherman Friday night, No
vember 8th, at 8 o clock, tired,
weary, and worn. Oh, this staging
Think ot it 55 of us in five coaches,
11 to tho coach, crammed, jammed,
and squeezed, until it was anything
but pleasant, borne ot us go to
sleep, and then we stand them up
n a corner to let tbe balance sit
down.
We met II. II. Dohoney, of Par
is, lexas. en route nome witn bin
new bride. lie married Miss M. E
Hurt, of Columbia, Kentucky, on
tbe 2zd of October,- la 1 2, and if wt
jould get such pleasant company
would notdread our trip home ugain.
Dohoney is a rising lawyer of North
lexas, and his brother is tbe gentle
manly editor of the North Texiau,
printed at Paris.
Sherman is a lively town and is
improving rapidly, having two rail
roads through it. The cars on the
M. K. & T. road are running withii
lour miles ot lied river, witb con
struction trains. Red River City
is a flourishing railroad town Dine
miles north ot bberman. The
crops in Texas are splendid. From
Sherman to Xenluckytown, twelve
miles, large rows of corn pens full
ot corn, and pens of cotton in the
seed, are to be seen on almost every
farm; also stacks of cotton bale
ready for market. The road was
alive with freight teams from North
Texas to Caddo Gap, loaded witb
cotton, dry hides, Boisdarc seed,
oats, corn, venison hams, &c.; load
back for Sherman, Bonham, in fact
all North Texas, with goods from
St. Louis. Kentuckytown is a dry
ooking place; has not improved a
bit for six years, but is surrounded
uy a very rich country. We bad a
siignt sbower ot rain a lew day
ago, which made the black mud stick
worse than Aunt Jemimah's plaster
about 200 pounds to the wheel.
From Kentuckytown to Bonham
16 miles, a beautiful and rich coun
try, considerable improvements in
farms and farming, more cotton than
ooro raised. We passed Col. R. II.
faylor's farm of $20 acres, fenced
in with Boisdarc rails, eight rail
high, staked and double ridered, all
of the best of Boisdorc timber. Just
think of it! His children's children,
100 years from now, will have a
Igood fence, if it does not get burned
We passed over tbe railroad bed,
which is being vigorously pushed
through by several hundred hands. It'
passes through JSorth lexas, Ciarks
ville, Pans, xloney Grove, Uonham
and Sherman, farmers oflannin
county are preparing to plant large
crops ot cotton, now that they have
transportation for their produce.
Fannin county can boast ot tbe best
rock quarries in the United States.
It is called sulphur rock. It is used
uxtensively here for building houses,
lohimneys, tombstones, etc. One
gentleman of this neighborhood has
a saw rigged, and runs it by horse
power, sawing rock like wood. It
is easily worked, and can be dressed
with a jack plane, just as easy as a
log oi wood; but after it is exposed
iu ou" tr, uecomes very hard.
We met at Bonham many of our
old friends, Dr. Austin, J. J. Jack.
son, W. II. Cobb, Major Dorn. and'
many oiners mat we were glad to
. . At A . i
see. X wilt close, as 1 bave already
spun this out too long.
.Respectfully yours, C. C. P.
letter from a discouraged and
DIXUUSltD PATRIOT.
The Late Treachery ef VaukeeH
Democrats in Southwestern
Michigan A I'niou (lea
eral Nearly Killed
- by Niggers.
Edwardsburo, Mich., Nov. 24.
Mr Dear Kierolf : Please accept
the thanks of an old friend and suf
fering invalid, for the Caucasian.
You have made a good tight; but!
what of it? What of the result,
glorious in your state, glorious in
this township (Ontwa) ? We, too,
made a gallant fight; did not expect
to carry the township for Greeley
and Brown by more than twenty or
twenty-five majority. Judge of our
astonishment when, on counting the
votes, Greeley and Brown had a ma-J
Ijority of just fifty over Grant, and
forty-four over Grant and O'Conor
both ; and for representative in this
district, Mr. Thomas received a ma
jority of ninety-three. Milton, Ihr
town between hero and Niles, did
nobly, too; usually having a Republi
can majority of twenty-five to thirty,
iave Grant only six majority, and
giving a Democratic majority on two
jf the county" officers this on a full
vote of both townships. Other town
ships, especially in the northern pari
of the county, did badly ; the Dem
ocrats (so called) not going to the
polls, or if so, many of them vot
nig for Grant. Had other towns
throughout the Union (!) done as well
as ours, ureeiey would nave Doeo
elected by a majority never before
ueard of. I was the first Democrat
in this town who came out boldly
and squarely for Greeley. Many
were astonished, as they knew I had
always been ultra Democratic. Some
were slow to follow, but finally nearly
all came round (we had six O'Conor
U
men, and some four or five who did
not vote for President); but good
work was done, and you see tbe re
ult.
jjui, dear i.iereu, what ot our
country ? What of the old Demo
ratio party? Is it indeed dead r To
me,it almost seems so. By strange
mismanagement, by stubbornness,
it has sunered itself to go to de
cay, to crumble to atoms. Of these
ruins there is not enough left to again
,-ebuild the dear old edifice ; and
when new material was offered, out
of which to rebuild and reconstruct,
the mass of the party refused to ac
cept it ; rather let it sink still deeper
in rum and decay, and bo totally
buried underneath the ghastly tem
ple of corruption which is being1
erected upon tbe downfall of our
l.berlics. What must the South
tbink of a party, who for years bar
ueld out hope a party which
when an opportunity was offered lo
help remove the fettors, deserted
them in a cowardly manner and went
over to help tbe enemy- r leu me,
tuerolt, where am 1 1 Indeed, J
don't know. I am an old man now
i had supposed I bad always been u
Democrat, and belonged to that groat
and good party under which our
country flourished for so many years.
.Now, should I be asked what pam
L belong to, what anwer could .1
make? I supposed when I went
with Hendricks, Seymour, Bucka
lew, and a host of others, old in tbe
party, I was with the Democratic
party. I did not think Wilbur F,
storey and Blanton Duncan com
poseo tne grand old party, xo Die
it is a sad thought, that there is now
no Democratic party. Sadder still
to reflect that the American people
nave so lost all respect lor selt-gov
ernment, that should Grant to-mor
row declare himself dictator, nine
tenths of the Republicans and five
sevenths of the Democrats would
swing their hats and shout " Vive lal
Dictator ! " " Vive la Grant I " This,!
in my heart, I believe would be the!
case. A revolution may come some
time. Will it not be a bloody one ?
Excuse this prolixity, but I feel 1
want to tell my thoughts to some
one.
Two hundred Democrats in Ber
rien county refused to vote. Calvin
township, in this (Cass) county, youl
know, is settled almost entirely by
uiggers. That town gave 247 Grant
majority. A few white men live in
it, among them Gen. Geo. T. Shaffer,
a gallant soldier of the late war
He was in many battles, and once
severely wounded. On election day,
lor expressing his pieference for
Greeley, six burly blacks pitched at
bim and nearly killed bim. He is
now slowly recovering. The case
s in court, but what rights have
white men ? So much for a brave
General, fighting for the nigger.
J.G. B.
THE FASHIONS.
Ladies may now turn the cold shoulder
to Mrs. Grundv witb iniouiiitv. us t.h-
fashions have reached the culminating
uuiui, wiicre every lauv mav cnoose auv
style which may suit her individual taste
witnout appearing oufre.
There was a Btrong attempt to bring
oiacK into uuiavor, silks Demg Heavily im
ported in all the new cloth colors: but
happily so far without atiy decided effect,
black being becoming to so tnunv stvles ot"
beauty, too serviceable, and there is noth
ing eise wnicn can De worn with good
taste on so many occasions.
hotter Silks and those of liner thread
are. however, displacing the heavv cord
ed silks which have been so Ions' worn.
Afternoon and eventna- dresses of black
silk are made with plain uatrimmed skirt
lying a nan a yard behind on the floor.
the back breadths are caught up in a pan
ier purl. A flat double apron, very short.
pointed, and richly trimmed with iet. is
on the Inint and sides, and terminates in
long, wide sashes trimmed with jet pas
sementerie, and lied low down behind,
with long ends which hanr to the end of
the train. The basque and halt flowing
sleeves are elaborately trimmed with jet
ina fringe.
For handsome dresses, basques witb
loverskirts are worn in prelerence to polo
naises. MiK suits are trimmed with a
profusion of velvet, so that one-half ot
the dress appears to be composed ot the
latter material.
I he long overskirU ol the last year
Isbould have tapes in the second side (earns
to draw these seams almost together oe
liind, not on the tournure, only, but quite
low down: the back breadths should then
be Uretrularlv cauirht un.tofaiin? in alonir
F-ieuuer loop m tbe middle or tne pact.
REPINTANCI.
He aimed me, and I knew 'twaa wrong,
For he waa neither kltn nor kin.
Need one do penance very long .
For aueh a tiny little ain f ,
u. . .
He preaaed my band. Now Miat'a not right.
Why will men have uch wicked ways
It didn't take a minute, quite, -And
yet it seemed liko daya and days.
111.
There'i mischief In the moon, I know,
For I'm quite sure I aaw ha Wink
When I requested hull to go.
1 meant it, too at least I think.
tv. "
But aller all, I'm not to blaiue
He snatched the kisa. 1 do tbink men
Are quite without all senaa or Bhame.
1 wonder If na'll come again ?
SOME GREAT LOVERS.
From tbe (ialaxy for December.
A strange lover was Jean Jacques,
the only Frenchman, soys De Stael,
who has been totally un-frencb
The apostle of sentiment, who is de
blared to have set the fashion of bu
manity, he loved often rather than
much ; beginning with Madame de
Warrens, a grand and gifted woman,
and ending with ThereJT-evaseeur,!
a creature of jcommonesi clay, so
stupid that in nearly twenty yearc
)f intimacy be could never teach her
to tell the hour by the clock. After
all his tender eloquence and burning
blazon of Maman, to decline on sucb
a leman was like the eccentric soph
ist who praised paternity without
stint, and left his children at tbe
foundling hospital.
Few men have been more attrac
tive to women than Mirabeau, who,
when written to by one of his fem
inine admirers for a personal de
scription, replied : " Imagine a tiger
that has had tbe small-pox. and my
portrait is complete. He was so
homely that he was handsome ; and
you who wish to find favor in the
eyes ot tbe lair should pray, it you
cannot be as comely as Ferdinand;
to be as ugly as Caliban. Down
right plainness in sentimental as
saults is as good as a scaling ladder
against the wall. And when mascu
line homeliness owns a potent
tongue, it holds odds against an av
erage Apollo. John Wilkes declared
that he was only bait an hour be-!
Ihind the handsomest man in Eng
land, for it required just that time
tor him to talk away his face.
Mirabeau was cleverer still. When
be spoke his looks were forgotten
be was transformed.
The greatest woman-wooer of re
cent centuries was Goethe, who in
terpreted not only Bis aro, but bi-
sex. enamored ot lretchen at til
teen, he continued to be enamored
not of her, but of Ann Schonkoot
Fredrika Brion, Charlotte Buff, Max
miliane Laroche, Lili, Charlotte vot
Stein, and a score of otbors in turn,
until he wedded Christiane Vulpiu
ommonplace, prosaic, in no respect
his peer. Mina Herzlieb, tho erig
mal of Ottilie, ho had a profound
passion for, in spite ot the disparity
in their years. The sonnets he ad-
iressed to her, and hia warm paint
ing of her representative character
n tbe " VValhverwandtscballen,
prove tho fervor if not the depth of
bis feeling.
Falling in love became by long in
lulgence a fixed habit in tho great
German, and wo see him in his sev
nty-fourth year glowing and throb-
uing over rraulein von Jjuwezow,
whose grandfather he might have
been. He was happily constituted
tor a lovor, since he enioyed all the
pleasures of love, and very few, ilj
any, of its pains. His heart was as
elastic as his temperament, and when
it was breaking its chronic condi
tion almost he mended it (until the
next time) by writing a poem from
bis griets. -bike so many ot bis sex.
be loved women rather than woman
was loyal to love, but inconstent to
lovers.
THE ABSURDITY OF CONNUBIAL
QUARRELS.
ror connubial quarrels there is
no more effective remedy than a re
alization of their absurdity. Quar
rels between acquaintances, or even
business partners, may be destitute
of reason, without striking us at-
ridiculous ; but a quarrelsome pair of
married people are so exquisitely
ludicrous that to escape their misory
they have only to "see themselves as
others see them." The absurdity of
their wellare consists in their prox
imity. Victory is useless, since an
advance is impossible, and defeat is
equally indeterminable, because
neither army can get awav. One
side, or both sides, may have ration
al grounds tor a casus belli, but bow
is either side to enjoy the fruits ot
or even prove a triumph, while both
sides "sleep on the field?" Hence
the droll pathos in that epitaph which
reads, "Here lie John and Hannah
Smith ; their warfare is accomplish
ed." Matrimony is essentially a pa
cific alliance, and the parties to it
nave necessarily, not to speak ei voi-
untarily,put themselves upon a peace
tooting "tor better or for worse.
Consequently they go to war under
conditions so entirely incompatible
with war, as to make their warfare
exceedingly grotesque. In that gro
tesqueness a philosophy is to be
found. It must have been found by
the author who savs. "1 am never
hungry till seven, but madame al
ways wants her dinner at five; so we
have agreed to have dinner precisely
at six. In this way we are equally
annoyed." And equally satisfied loo,
since tbe victory, as well as tne oe
teat, is equally shared, as eboum al
ways be the ease in matrimonial
battles. In the very nature ot ihinge
matrimony is itself a drawn battle.
It is seldom that either party can
boast of much of a victory.
A Louisville man who had only been ae
quainted with his girl two nights, atteinpt-
ea 10 kiss her at the gate, in "is uj-iuk
deposition he told the doctors that just a
tie -kissed her. the earth sliu out iroiu
under his feet, and his soul went out of his!
moutn . while his head touched tne stars. ,
Later despatches show that what ailed him
was the old man's boot.
Late foreign twiners state that there is a
prospect of a singular law being submitted
to the French Assembly, having for it
object a tax upon all who do not vote. It
is said that in I'aris alone there are twelve
thousand who are eligible to vote but
ne ver do, while in Fraoce there are over a
million, , .- . j
Two of the largest snow-ploughs in the
world are ranidlv annroaching completion
at Omaha, for the use of the Union Pacini-
road. Louisville lournals are using this
act to account lor tne mvsieriuus uisau
pearance of a pair of shoes trom the edito
rial rooms of tbe St. Louis Globe.
discovery of seven ancient cities!
IN ARIZONA.
REMAINS Of THE AZTEC CIVILIZATION.
Correspondence or the New York Sun )
Moquis Pablos, 1S72.
After a hardjobrney over sandy
plains and barren rocks, we arrived
a few days ago among the ruined
towns of the supposed descendants
of Montezuma. 1 am surrounded by
objects strange, wonderful, and ro
mantic ; among Indians who, seldom
visited by the whites, are so far ad
vanccd in civilization as to have
lived in houses three and four stories
high for nearly three centuries, and
who have made the desert surround
ing them to bloom as a garden
Those Indians are peace-loving, in
dustriouf, and intelligent, far above
any other tribe on tho American
continent, but they are so ignorant
and superstitious that 1, a poor pho
tographer, am looked upon by them
as a medicino man ot wondertu
power. Unfortunately they are con
vinced that my mission among them
is an evil one. I have already been
ordered away from two of the towns
by signs and gestures by no meant
pleasing to a man two hundred miles
from the settlements and surrounded
by savages. If I take my pictures
away with me 1 shall certainly have
to do it surreptitiously, as the de
struction of several that I have
il ready taken has beon demanded by
me of the chiefs this
PHOTOGRAPHY PUZZLES THE INDIANS
I have in several cases tried to
;oncilinte them by presenting a
photograph taken while they
were sitting ttround me in groupsj
watching me at work. They exhibit
reat surprise and wonder, but in
every case, as soon as my back; is
turned the picture is destroyed or
thrown away. Ihey seem to look
lpon a photograph as a sure and
ipeedy passport to another world
Before taking up the line of march
for the interior of Arizona, two men
trom Oryba came to us; they werej
on 'their way to tbe settlements
with blankets to trade for horses.
They are the first, I believe, that
have ever ventured across tbe Colo
rado on a trading expedition. We
bad considerable difficulty in getting
them to venture in the boat, but
after going through some mysterious'
movements, such as bowing toward
sach point ol thocompaasaodBprink
ing some moal upon the water, they
allowed us to ferry them and theiri
donkeys over, a task that I in no
wise hankered alter but which 1 pre
ferred doing to feeding them all the
way back to Oryba, which would
have been the case had 1 not put
them across the river. There hasi
beon considerable talk of diamonds
naving been tound in mis region
Ihe trail that we tollowed coming
out here brought us within twenty
miles of tho Rio Colorado Chiquito,
or, as it is better known, Flax river.
We also cotno within a few miles of j
tho San Francisco Mountains; buti
as I did not care to meet the Apaches
or uobonincas with only one com
panion, we did not stop long tJ look
tor treasure. These mountains have
overy appearance of being rich with
ninerals, and I have no doubt but
that it would pay a largo party to go
and prospect tbetn. 1 have picked
lp several noo agates and garnets
but have not found any diamonds.
The distance from the river to the
Moqui village is about one hundred
miles. About bait way we crossed
i small stream called the Moincoppi,
which probably enters the Flax
river. Here we came upon a camp
of Navajoes. They are cultivating
the soil to some extent, and have
raised quite a crop of corn and mel
ons. They treated us in a inenoiy
manner, but seemed somewhat sur
prised at our small retinue, and ap
peared to wonder that two men
should venture bo far into their!
country alone. We camped in the:rj
midst, however, giving tbem the
charge of our horses and making
ourselves as much at home as though
we had put up at a country inn.
These Indians, by tho way, are the.
most tricky, consummate thieves in
the West, but our confidence and
trust seemed to please them, and
when we called for our animals (two
mules and three horses) tbey were
forthcoming immediately.
The country , bordering on the
Green and Colorado rivers for sev
eral nundred miles in extent is in
many places strewn with broken
pottery of beautiful workmanship,!
while tbe canon walls are decorated
with hieroglyphics and picture wri
ting, tbe meaning ot which is nn
known to the Indians now inhabit
ing that region. Lpon tbe mosi
inaccessible cliffs, and down in the
gloomiest cbasras, are found remaius
of houses that had once been three
and four stories high.
POPULAR TRADITION'S.
All these signs of a once powerfu
and partially civilized people are
plainly traceable to the seven Aztec-
cities of Arizona. That the inhabi
tant of this region are descendants;
of the ancient Mexicans there can be'
no doubt. Their ancestors' line of
march to the north and west is still
marked by the remains of cities aban
doned many generations ago. From
Indian tradition and the meagre his
tory available tbe popular theory i:
that during the Spanish conquest
great bodies of tho Aztecs were1
Iriven from Mexico into the vastj
deserts lying to the north and west,1
and thence across the Colorado.
Here a mighty uation dwelt for many
years, building cities and cultivating
the soil. As they were industrious
and peace loving, thev were soon at
tacked by the warlike nomadic tribesj
ot the North, and were compelled
the better to secure themselves
against attack, to build their houses
on tops of mountains, within the
Bcanon walls, and in chasms that
ImnnM ... ntn-nfl- n a n nan a I V I a
Many stories are told of how the,
poor Aztecs were surrounded by an
overpowering enemy and starved to
death in their strongholds. After
many years of war it is said a treaty
vas entered into between them and:
the Utes, whereby the latter were toBF
retain the northern side of the river,'
and the Aztecs were to recross and
forever remain in tbe southern coun
try. The name by which the cities!
are now most widely known, the
Moquis Pablos. originated, as near
as l can hnd out, tbna : There are
seven towns containing about twelve
hundred inhabitants. In approach
tog them from tbe Colorado river,
we first come to Oryba ; twelve miles
further enst we find Shee-mo pav-weeJ
-Mhee-pa la-wee,and Mee-snom-o-nean
three miles further east across a
oeauiitut valley are situated on a
eh cliff, Moqui, Mogueenah, and
Ta-wab. Moqui. tbe oldest and best
fortified of all tbe towns, was many
years ago visited by the small-pox,
wnico carried on nearly all of tbe in
habitants. After that they called it!
the dead town Pueblo Muerto
which has been corrupted intoMoqu
L-aoio. uy strangers the common
name of Moquis Pablos is given to
all the towns, but here among them
each town has its name, chief, and
government. These towns are
FORTIFICATIONS WITHIN THEMSELVES.
rhe houses are built of rock and mud
To enter them you ascend a ladder,
which is on tbe outside wall, to the
top of the first story ; the other floors'
are reached by stone ateps at tbe
gable end of each bouse. The towns
are built in tbe form of a hollow
square, witb a large court in the cen
ter. In this court are several houses!
under ground which are entered by
trap doers trom tbe top, and the bot
torn reached by ladders. Ihey very
much resemble an eld-fashioned ice
house. These kevas, as they are
called, are used as a place of worship,
and also to work in. 1 expect lo re
main here several weeks yet. Ae
time will not admit of my writing
more at present, I will try and give
you an account of my stay here and
return trip when 1 reach the settle
ment. E. O. B.
A LAY OF LABOR.
From the early dawn of morning
Till tba closing of tbe day.
Helping to enrich another,
Toiling hard Tor little pay;
LivingUn a pent-up alley.
On tbe coarsest kind of food,
Wbilst tbe rich man lives in luxury;
la this human brotherhood ?
Better fur to be a savage,
In tbe desert roaming free.
Than to live a life degraded.
And a mere mechanic be.
But, cry preachers, be contented,
It is only for your good,
Man was made t toil and suffer
Is this human brotherhood ?
Vain it ia to talk of freedom.
Whilst distinctions thus remain.
Slaves of wealth are slaves as truly
As the slave that wears the chain.
Though God's earth was made for all men,
Owning not a single rood.
Robbed of all, and blamed for toiling
Is this human brotherhood ?
Arouse yourselves, ye toiling millions!
Join together in your might.
Cast off sleep lie up and doing.
If you would obtain your right.
And oppi'eHHion sweep before you
Like the torrent of a flood;
Be your watchword truth and justice,
ljuiversal brotherhood.
PICKLED HUMANITY.
WHAT THE MODERN PROCESS
OF EMBALMING
COSTS.
I From the New York Times. J
At what period of the history of the
mcient Egyptians the unnatural practict
f embalming the bodies of the dead.
and so preventing the natural decompo
sition of the body, arose, it is impossible
to sav. That it was general m tue eariy
i lavs of the Israelites we know from the
"lOth chapter of Genesis, for in the second
verse we read: "Ana Jostan commanueo
liis servants, the physicians, to embalm
nis father, and the physicians embalmed
Israel." And again,' in the last verse
we read: "So Joseph died, being an hun-i
dred'and ten years old: and they embalm-l
cd bun, and no was put in a comn in
Eirvpt." Other sentences point to the
custom as being one taken from the Kgj-p-l
uans, and not originating with the Jews;
and the word ilselt is derived trom the
Egyptian word "balm," an ingredient
largely used in the ancient process. The
Jewish method of embalming, however
was not so complete as the Egyptian; atidj
whereas in the one case the process onlv
occupied forty days, in the other it was
irontinued for seventy days. They con
tinued their process to the use of external
ipplicatioos ana annotating witn tne on
! cedar. The Egyptian process was much
more elaborate, and the embalmers were
regarded as a sort of sacred persons
According to Herodotus, there were
arrades ot embalming to meet the re
sources of tbe bereaved relatives . For
ihe poor, who could afford to pay but
little, the body was steeped in a solution
of niter for seventy days. A more ex
pensive mode was the Injection into the
body of some corrosive fluid, which melted
down the interior parts, ine most costly
process consisted in removing tne orain
through the nostrils by means of a hook
and tilling up the vacuum with spices and
medicaments. The intestines were also
carefully removed, and the body tilled up
with myrrn, cassia, ana otner spices.
Finally the body was soaked in a solution
t inter tor seventy dayjs, and, alter oema
wrapped in tine tissue, saturated with
aromatic jrums, which hardened all
Around, it was consigned to Its mummy
ase, perhaps to appear after tbe lapse ot
thousands of years as a somewhat disa
greeable object of attraction in the British
and other museums. The charge which
the embalmers made for this last process
would have gladdened the hearts of those
who make embalming a profession at tbe
present day. u was one talent, a sum
equal to about $1,300. At present the
charge for embalming varies trom $50 to
5200. But the process is not nearly so
lasting as that oi tne ancient Egyptians,
though tor along time a body will retain
a life-like appearance. Not long ago a
young lady died in this city whose parents
business to attend to, which prevented
their immediate return, and tney tele
graphed to have the body embalmed. Oi
rheir return, four months afterwards, the
lid of the coffin was removed, and the
body was as life-like as when it was first
placed in its colli a; the face, bands, and
even the linger nails, retaining a natural
color. The process, however, differ:
from that of the Esrvptians and Jews
At the moment of death, the last beat ot
che heart pumps tbe blood trom the arte
ries into the veins, leaving the arteries
empty; thus, by opening the temorai
artery, or the artery near the ankle, the
embaiimiig iluid can be injected turougi
the whole body, solutions oi arsenit
were formerly used, but latterly moie
harmless thuds have been employed
One doctor has discovered a compound or
in nocuous gases, which answers the purpose
still more ellectually, tnougti, oi course,
lasting eflects ot this process have yet to
be tested. The most remarkable instance
of enbaltning is the body of San Carlo
Borroineo, the great archbishop of Milan,
who Is said to have been raised several feet
from the ground while kneeling before the
tiirh altar of the cathedral and praying
hat the ternbie plague of 1576 might be
topped. His body lies in the crypt of the
cathedral, in a casket ot crystal, arrayed
in archiepiscopal robes, and adorned with!
t i:e most costly jewels. The tace is entire
ly discolored, but retains a remarkable
likeness to the contemporary portraits. In
this country the practice ofenbalming is
on the wane. To sensible people its only
advantage consisted in giving people liv
ing at a distance or far lroiu their home-
un opportunity of looking on their dead
relatives, or tor transporting bodies in or
to not climates, ah this can be done by
neans of ice. The body when frosen solid
immediately after death will take many
lays to thaw sutnciently to allow the de
composition setting in (from twelve to hf-
teen days), and when onee frosen it can bd
- ransported without lee to New Orleans
or any other hot city, and reach Us destio-
a ion as tresn as when it was dispatched
Darwin can't set admittance to the
French Academy. So much for claiminid
relationship te monkeys. Tbe f rench
men don't want any of their ourang-
Kxitang ' 'cousins' ' around evidently.
INTERESTING BREVITIES.
Corn is fifteen cents a bushel In Illinois.
and still they want ten cent a drink for
the juice.
Broken down males are ' Mid to' be
wrestling witb the erygipelatiousephipba
irlalinrnvma tncrts A new f i ltd ilumrurnitk!
kllsease, demanding victims.
Tbe latest contrivance t' stop a runa
way horse is a pair of blinders, by which
the driver, on pulling a cord attached, cai
instantly and ellectually blindfold an un
ruly animal.
It Is said that a great cloud, snow
white, and shaped exactly like a balloon.
i as been hovering over banta Karban.
Ventura, Cal., much to. the astonishment
of the Santa Barbarians'.
The newest Yankee notion is a new
tove for the comfort of railway travelers
it is to be put under the leet, with
mustard plaster on tbe head, which drawr
the neat tnrougn tne whole body. .
Credit the New Orleans Times: "Ii
was a good idea to haul up Colonel Bloou
19 witness in the VVooubull-Clxllin line
uase. because "Blood will tell. " The
poisoned Challls Mrs. Woodhull's vic
tim. 1? ,
Mr. J. T. Holm an, an old Texas cat.tb
raiser, says that the supply of cattle ii
Texas is being rapidly exhausted, ant:
that in four years a sieer will be worth
more in Texas than he is H-day ii
Illinois.
Alfred Newvear, of Washington City.
while out bunting in Chesterfield county.
Va., last week, took hold ot his gun, am:
jestingly said : 'Jesus, if this went ofl it
would kill me." it did go on ana neaien
n two hours.
A young man who went West from Dan-
bury, a few months ago, has sent onh
one letter home, it came Friday . It said :
Send me a wig.' ' And his tond parent-
dnn't know whether he is scalped or mar
ried. Danbury News.
A New York correspondent says that it.
canvassing the eighth ward, where nearly
all the negroes oi JNew xorK live, ni
found more than 3,000 negro men married
to white women, and but one white mai
married to a negro woman.
Visitor: "How long has your masrei
been away?" Irish footman: " V ell .
sir, If he'd come home yesterday, he'd
been gone a wake to-morrow; but ev lie
dosn't return the day after, sure he'll'a
been away a tortnight next lhurttlay:
The clersrvmen cost the United State
$12,000,000 annually; the criminals S-I0.-
U00,000; the lawyers $80,000,000; intosi
eating liquors to satisfy and increase de
praved appetites, uu,uou,uou. l nere i
a temperance lecture in a nut-shell foi
ou.
The Chief Engineer of the London firt
department testifies that he has nevei
Known a solid wooden post to ue ournetij
through so as to lose its bearing before ;
fire could be put out; and believes thai
timber is better for building than eithci
iron or stone, as now used.
If vou lose a watch, a dog Or a child , oi
Kf you desire people not to trust your wife .
you rusil to your local paper. Knowing
that everyone will read the advertisement.
But you will plod along in business yeai
after year, without calculating how mucr
you are losing by not advertising.
During the late conference at Worcestet
the following conversation was overliean
between two newsboys: '! say, Jim:
what's the meaning ot so many minister-
being here all together?" "Why," an
swered Jim, scornfully, "they alway.-
meet once a year to swap sermons. ' ' j
Shut the door, will you, you long-
legged, crooked-thtehed, raw-bone,nag-
gle-tootned, grizziy-neauea. urieu-up-
ind-blown-away pumpkirr-eaterl We
live in a civilized country, and the hiuge.
kvere put to that door so it could hi
easily shut. Will you never learn anj
thing f - .
It has been computed that there an
standing in the forests of Michigan at tin
present time, over 40,000,000 tuet of mer
cantile pine lumber. It is estimated tha
if the eonsuniotion continues to increases!
in the same ratio as in the past few years, M Ibis produced a little strength, and w
the pine forests will be entirely swey.aiaunched a boat and tried to reach th
away within eighteen years.
'Bill Arp," of the Rome (Ga.1 Com
mercial, has received the following "bv
telegraf (devil's line): - "Lickskillkt
ins Latkst. An unknown nijrifer was
taken out ot some other place to-day bj
luknown people and nobody saw it am:
lobody knows anything about it - not
where it was done. Great excitemeni
prevales. '. - , . J
The valuable trotting horse "Lottery,":
died in New York city on the 16th inst. ,
trom dropsy, tbe result ot epizootic, lie:
was owned oy Samuel xruesdeli, was via
years old and bad a record ot 2vli . tit
was valued at sla,0uu. ihe eeleorateu
horse, ''Mountain Boy," belonging t
Commodore Var.derbilt has also ' died
ifrom the epizootic.
A Houston (Texa) caper says: "The
railroad bride over Buffalo Bayou hasbeei;
thoroughly repaired, and is stronger that
ever. ' ' Whereupon the Bastrop Adver
tiser says, "glad to learn of her 'tborougl
repair,' and happy to know that the 'dam-!
age' was not ot a 'serious nature,' but
that she is now 'stronger than ever.
May she continue to grow 'stronger and!
heavier.' "
Stephen Girard considered that to ad
vertise liberally and constantly was the
kcreat medium ot success in business, and
S. prelude to wealth. He made it an in
variable rule, also, to advertise in the
dullest times, long experience bavin"
taught bim that money so spent was well
iaiti out. By keeping his business bel'or,
the eye of the public he secured numerous
customers, who would have gone to rival
tradesmen.
The tollowing item from tbe Watertowti
Dispatch offers any amount of food for re
flection: "A Watertowu physician wa-
lealled upon recently by a person suffering
trom rheumatism, who insisted upon hi-
doing something for him. The physician
wrote a prescription, and as the paticii'
went out of the room said to him, "I
wish you would let me know if that does
yon any good, for I have been very much
troubled with rheumatism lately."
A new test of sobriety has been invent
ed in England, owing to the fact of ii
law against supplying intoxicating iiquor.-
to persons who have already taken too
much. It consists of a card with thei
words ''Truly Rural" printed thereon.
When the tavern keeper suspects that hi.-
customer has imbibed too freely he takes
lown the card and requests his man to
read it. If lie passes the ordeal without
k'alling it "Tooral looral, ' ' he may imbibe
ireeiy tin nis articulation tails linn. j
The following sentence was propounded.
to be written at the recent Teachers' In
stitute in Floyd county, Iowa: "It is
tgreeable to perceive the unparalleled
embarrassment of an harassed peddler.
gauging the symmetry of a peeled pear,
which a sibyl had stabbed witb a poniard,
unheeding the innuendoes of the"lilips ot
the valleys," and eightv-eight teachers $j
ueceeded in making 4,io orthographical
errors in writing it. 1'upils, don't set
liscountged.
A little Danbury boy ran away from
school MoDday, to go chestnulting. Dur
ing tbe expedition he fell out of one tree
twice, to the imminent danger of breaking
liis neck. Was licked by one of the other
boys whose breath he materially lessened
bv stumbling against his stomach, ran a
sliver in his knee, and was bitten violent
Iv on the neck by a new kind of bug.
When he got home his father anointed
him with the boss end of a billiard cue.
bind the next day at school the teacher es
corted bim twice around the room bv his
poorest ear
He says that chestnuts areSue condensed in the .overwhelming
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isO wormy this year that it don't
pay
go after them.
There are some disadvantages in Iiviiii:
on the second floor. A Danbury house
wife thus situated left a bar of soap on the
Mtairs while she exchanged a few words
with the first-lloor tenant, and a plumber'
wno was up suurs menuing the nine
k'ameuowna moment later with several
toners and wrenches in one hand, and
l-ibeet-iron furnace iu the other, and wIikd
Ihe reached the immediate locality of the
soap ins iejfs suuaeiny spread apart, a
Hook of astonishment stnln
land in aa instance his head was through
I11 BUU ma coat-tail on hre,
land those tongs and wrenches were up In
fit 8,ruKgHng for dear life with that
tsneet-iron furnace. He says now that
inis iatner forced him tn rn ti,a tr.1.1
of plumbing, and that it was not his own
kholce. Danbury News. -
THE STEAMSHIP MISSOURI
DISASTER.
ANOTHER BOAT HEARD FROM WITH
SURVIVORS.
EIGHT OATS IN AN OPEN BOAT. WITHOUT'
FOOD OR DRINK.
Havana, Nov. 21. The steamship
VIoro Castle arrived from New York, via
N'assau, 18th inst. She bring9 news of
he safety of another ol the boats of the
li-fated steamship Missouri, and that Jno.
Freaney, first-assistant engineer; David
V. North, third assistant engineer; Chas.
Sinclair, oiler; and Charles Conway, tre-
uan. who survived almost increaioie sui-
lenngs, were at assau, and win leave .
or New York on the return trip ot 'the
loro Castle. '
MRST ASSISTANT ENGINEER B STATKMEST.
The following statement from Freaney.
a published in the Nassau Times-. He ,o
ays that the ship was stopped frequently
lurinsr the trip, owing to the foaming -of
he boilers. The fire originated around .
I.e boilers. We at once began to play''
he hose from the donkey engine, but -oon
louud it was unavailing. - The cap- ,
ain ordered the boats lowered. All was .
roulusion, and at the atteruptto lower the
.irst boat, thirty persons jumped into her,
tut owing to mismanagement of the ;
lavits, one end fell into the sea, the other
remaining in the air. Ail except Freaney. .
md eight others, owing to the rolling of f
he ship in the heavy tea, let go and were,
A-ashed into the sea. ; Nine clung to the .
oat uutil some person on board the ship
ut the davits, and the boat, which was
lilled with water, went free of the ship
We saw a boat bottom upward, with two
nen clinging to the keel; threw them a
iue and talked with them a while; wautr
I'd them t' come and join us, but they
x'lisidered their position safer than ours .
tnd refused. One of our men joined the
wo, and one of the two swam over to us,
icing one of the saved. We met Mr.
Julmer's boat and asked him to admit us,
e beit g in a sinking condition, but Cul- -iuer
refused, saying that he bad enough
in board. We told him his boat could.
wld more. Culmer threw us a bucket,
tnd we tried ineffectually to bail our boat-
'Jtil.ner steered towards" Abaco. We had
our oars. At night-fall we pulled back
owards the steamer, hoping tbe lire
-vould prove a beacon, and that some pas-."
ing vessel might pick us up. We came ;
-vithin half a mile of the Missouri. About .
-even in the evening the steamer disap-.
ueared suddeoly. We then put our boat "
it-fore the wind. Ou tne seeona anu iniru.
lavs we were still betore the wind, and :
-uttering terribly. On tbe latter day we
saw a vesiel couiie within a mile of us.'
Ve shouted and hoisted our clothing, but .
.vere unab.e to attract attention, and the :
vessel hoisted sail and steered away. On-'
:iie fonrth day one of our crew died, and' .
:lit night two -others, having becotbe
Tazy, jumped into the sea. The boat .
vas always full of water, and ourselves
-itting waist deep in it. On the tilth day" '
mother m n died. We were still before . .
the wind. That evening was calm.. and
we succeeded In bailing the boat with two .
Kits, a crazv man having thrown the
tucket overboard. From three life .pre
servers we made a small sail, spread it, "
md steered south, but our exhaustion
.vas so great that we could do but litUe.
n the sixth aud seventh days our situa
ion was unchanged. On the eight day
.ve sighted land, and succeeded iu land
ing at I'oweU'sCoy, near Abaco, in the ,
(vening. We had eaten and drank noth-.
ins since leaving tne snip, anu laiuuowa
in the bench in a horrible condition: Af
rer a time of rest on shore, we gathered
strength to reach some deserted houses,,
md lound a spring of fresh water. We.
ay huddled together all night. On the .
ninth day we found a tew tomatoes,
-vhieh we "boiled, having found matches-
md a pot in one.of the deserted houses.'
e
iiuinUnd; but failing, we returned to
fowell's Coy, sleeping there. The next
norning we made a final effort to reaoh
he mainland, but were so exhausted that
ve were hardly able to .stand, and then
aid down near the boat in a dying condi
iorj. -Shortly a Iter ward we saw a small
loop cruising near the island. We
aoisted some clothes on oars, and again
aid down on ihe beach . A son of Wni .
'tirryT was on board the sloop, and saw
-:he signal. Immediately Curry came to
itir rescue and took and landed us on
ireen Turtle Key, where we remained
erii davs. Four ilavs afterwards we .'
reached Nassau.
THE ATMOSPHERIC WAVE.
IMPORTANT METEOROLOGICAL DISCOVERY.
The researches of the signal office
iave just been rewarded by a beasi
diul and highly important meteoro
logical discovery. Un the coast of
hngiand, irorn time immemorial, the
phenomenon of the great November
itmospheric wave has been tho spec
ulation of scientists and seamen;
but Sir John JJerscbel and others
have supposed it was peculiar, and
confined to England and West
jrn Europe, which it reaches
t'rom the South Atlantic, and over
vhich it rolls in long continued un
lulations from October to January,
constituting an element in the phe
nomenal character of a European
vinter. On the lith of November
similar atmospheric waves began to
break over the shores of Oregon and
British Columbia, as shown by the
weather telegrams. On the evening
f the 13th it had spread over nearly
urll of the Pacific states and territo
ries, Utah and Nevada, and at mid
night was pouring through the passes
of the Rocky Mountains. On Thurs
lay, the 14th, it descended upon
Golorada, Nebraska, Kansas and the
Indian territory. ; On F riday morn
ing it extended iu unbroken magni-'
tude and magnificence from Oregon
eastward, through tbe great trough
)r depression ot tho Kocky Moun
tain backbone iu Idaho and Montana,
and stretched - thence to the lower
ifssouri and lower Mississippi val
leys, aud over the western shores of
the Mexican Gulf. This discovery
will enable meteorologists to antici-.
pate by many days the approach of
winter as it advances from the Pa
cific coast ca;;tward in the great cur
rent of westerly winds. It serves
to clear up the old mystery of Amer
ican winter storms, showing that
they originati in the liocky Moun
tains, upon whoso cold and lottiest
summits in Nevada, Utah. Colorado.
and Southern Wyoming, the vapor-
iuubu air oi tnis wave comiui
from
ff the warm Pacific, 13 now seen to
itijasiiuws ni 1 ne lorLV-tirst, nH.ra.nl A a
this vast serial wave is probably like
U V l : . 1. r- 1
Itho English wave, continued in suc
cessive und.iilutious for two or three
months, it may -assist in explaining
tho comparatively high temperature
and light procipilation in winter
along Pugot'a Sound and eastward.
TO THE PUBUC.
We bave a very large amount due us upon our
1,00 ka for advertising and for Job printing,
.-.specially from ailminutratora and other legal
advertisers. W e expect, aa the bill or eah ia
received, the amounts due us will be promptly .
lorwarUwi.. We tlehlra to make clot coiiec
Uona by tbe ctoe of tbe year. The eaueclal .t.
mutton or all the frieuOa and patrons of tbe
Caueanian ta called to tbia matter.
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