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VOL. Ill,
VOL. Ill,
SKETCH
OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S CHRIS
TIAN TEMPERANCE UNION.
Inter anna lege» silent —"dur
ing war the laws arc silent,"—is a
well-worn ar.d generally accepted
maxim. Its truth was painfully
brought home to us during the late
war between the States. While the
better and more moral elements of
the country were fighting for home
and honor and native land—for it is
the moral men who are always the
patriots—those on whom tics of all
kinds, and especially the ties of mor
ality and patriotism, rest but lightly,
were at home expending their ener
gies in the pursuit of wealth and
pleasure, and in the repealing of any
and all laws that stood between
them and either their greed of gold
or the selfish gratification of brute
passions. In consequence, this
baser element erased lrom the stat
ute books all the prohibitory laws
which had been passed by the men
who at the time of their repeal were
too busy fighting for individual
and national honor to have time to
watch and restrain venal and cring
ing legislators and politicians. The
repealing of these laws, coupled with
the issuance of alcoholic beverages
to the Union soldiers and the fatal
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frequency with which the doctors
prescribed brandies and whiskies for
every trifling ailment had increased
to its full the great tide of intem
On, on, and on, blood
and dark-billowed, this
swept and
perance.
crested,
flood of drunkenness
swept, rolling its waves into the
home of almost every family and en
gulfing down in its sunless depths
the brightest and best, the purest ul
heart, and most glorious of promise,
uiriil every breeze that blew over the
nation was wet with the tears of avo
, and loud with Availing of little
men
children.
This state of things continued until
1878. On the 23d ot December of
that year Dr. Dio Lewis preached a
at Hillsboro, Ohio, on the
sermon
evils of the drink traffic. Every
woman's heart in the audience vi
brated to his words and down in
their soul s depths they determined
to do what they could for the protec
tion of their home. Thus Avas set in
motion what is since knoAvn as the
Woman's Crusade, which spread like
wild-fire all over the Northwest.
The Avornen going in companies of
two visited nearly all the saloon men
the States in this region, and by
prayers, tears and entreaties, suc
ceeded in closing up the saloons in
over tAvo hundred and fifty cities
and toAvns. They reclaimed armies
of drunkards, filled the Sunday
schools and churches to their utmost
capacity, and reduced crime of all
kinds to a minimum. Such a flame
of enthusiasm could not last long
and in less than six months it Avas
burned out. But from its ashes rose
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union. "Hence," says Jno. B.
Finch, "though the Woman's Cru
sade as a temperance movement Avas
per se a wretihed failure, yet as a
preparation for organized, systematic,
intelligent Avork it was of God and
by Him directed." The preliminary
meeting for the organization of the
W. C. T. U. was held at Chatauqua
in August of 1874 and the first con
vention called at Cleveland, Ohio, in
the November of the same year. At
this convention an organization avus
effected, ü constitution adopted, and
plan of work laid out. Miss Annie
Wittenmeyer avus elected president,
and the now Avorld-famous -Miss
Frances E. Willard secretary. From
that date the W. C. T. U. has stead
ilp grown in numbers und power.
It holds annual conventions, alter
nating in the place of holding them
betAveen the East and the West.
The next is called for October and
■will be held in Philadelphia. Miss
Willard has been the most untiring
and faithful of all the workers, hav
ing visited and spoken during the
decennial year of 1883 in every
State and territory of the United
States. She Avas in Kansas Avhen
their prohibitory amendment was
submitted by the legislature. She
lent efficient aid in Iowa and Maine
during their fight; and in 1880 she
was in our own State and aided the
Mississippi temperance workers in
in
a
their puny efforts to secure local op
tion for a few counties.
Among the faithful women who
have aided Miss Willard in this lec
ture and platform work must be men
tioned Mrs. Chapin, of Charleston,
8. C., the superintendent of the W.
C. T. U. Southern work, Mrs. Buel,
of Connecticut,Mrs. Mary F. Shields,
Mrs. Wells and hundreds of others.
These ladies have visited almost
every town of any importance in the
United States and have organized
and thoroughly equipped Unions in
every State and every congressional
district of those States.' Besides
their efforts in the United States
they have organized Unions in Eng
land under the management of J no.
Bright's sister and Mrs. Barker, and
in Canada under that of Mrs. Letitia
Youmany.
In 1884 Mrs. Leavitt set sail from
San Francisco with the brave deter
mination ot dotting the entire world
with the snowy banners of the W.
She is at present in Aus
tralia and goes thence to China and
Japan. She has been received ev
erywhere with uniform courtesy and
had most efficient aid from the mis
sionaries of all Christian denomina
tions. -As rewards for their heroic
work their organization numbers
over two hundred thousand mem
hers and has done more for the tem
perance cause, say the leaders of
temperance, than the combined ef
forts of all other movements,
efforts of the W. C. T. U. were first
directed to procuring of monster pe
titions to the State legislatures and
National Congress, requesting that
a woman's name on a counter-whis
ky-petition should count as much as
man's. These petitions, it is hardly
worth while to say, were refused by
whisky-dominated and prejudice
hampered legislators. The most im
posing of them were the petition of
180,000 names presented to the Illi
nois legislature in 1870, and that
presented to the Ohio legislature
about the same time. This latter
had 800,000 signatures and was
mainly the work of Mrs. Mary A.
Woodbridge.
At the Republican presidential
nominating convention Miss Wil
lard, at the head of a large commit
tee, sought entrance to plead for the
insertion of a plank into that party's
platform, denouncing the liquor
traffic. It is needless to say that re
fusal met them here once more. See
ing that the old parties would have
none of them, Miss Willard attended
—unofficially, 1 believe—the Prohi
bition party convention at Pittsburg^
and did much by her telling and ef
fective speech to secure the nomina
tion of the peerless St. John.
In the St. Louis National W. C.
T. U. Convention of the same year,
the organization determined, after a
long and fiery debate, to lend their
influence to the support of St. John
and Daniel. In consequence, Mrs.
J. Ellen Foster, the superintendent
of the legal department of the W. C.
T. U. withdrew, and together with
the Rev. Dr. Daniel Dorchester
formed that weakling concern called
the non-partisan temperance league.
Each State Union is free, however,
to pursue its own course in the sup
porting of parties and party-candi
dates. The Ohio Union is lending
to day very efficient aid'to Dr. Leon
ard's and Prof. Frost's brilliant cam
paign, while the latest dispatches
say that the New York W. C. T. U.
will support H. Clay Ba 3 Com and the
rest of the New York Prohibition
ticket. So the matter stands that
each State Union will throw its in
fluence, for the party from whom
they can best expect the promotion
of the objects to which they are
pledged. The Mississippi W. C. T.
U. is, 1 believe, staunchly Demo
cratic. How long it remains so, de
pends entirely upon the party, or
rather upon the party bosses, for the
people generally and the party at
large have but little influence in
such matters.
The thing most observable in the
W. C, T. U. is the personnel of the
members. The members are at once
remarkable for their intellect, their
womanliness and their quiet deter
mination. They look like they have
the intellect to plan, and the pa
tience to accomplish all things. The
man or party who does not count
C. T. U.
The
them among the factors of the polit
ical problem will find himself far
wrong in his calculations. The most
remarkable thing, however, of all in
their work is its completeness and
thoroughness. There is no possible
manner of attacking the whisky de
mon, no possible manner of advanc
ing the temperance cause they have
not adopted and put into effectual
operation. Thus they have thirty
eight different departments, under
the nianagementofjshrewd, energetic
and iutedlect^id women. Among
the most important and far-reachiojj
in results, of these departments are
the juvenile department, which aims
at the organizing of Hands of Hope,
where the youth of the land are
brought to sign the pledge and scien
tifically instructed in the mental and
physical effects ol alcohol and the
legality of prohibitory amendments;
the department of scientific instiuc
tion, which has for its aim the intro
duction ot temperance hygiene
books into private and public schools
This department, aided by other
temperance workers, has succeeded
in inducing the legislatures of nine
{States during the last gear to pass a
law compelling the introduction of
such a
department of literature, which has
for its aim the distribution of tem
perance pamphlets and the contra
diction of the innumerable swarms
of anti-temperance lies daily spring
ing from the ingenious brains of
whiskyites. Closely connected with
this department is the press depart
ment whose object is to get the news
papers of the country to give the
ladies columns for the discussion of
temperance matters. There are
fourteen papers in Mississippi that
have complied with this request.
Another very important department
is that of Hereditary. It is under
the management of a talented M. D.,
and the facts it has published in re
gard to the effect of drunkenness on
offspring and the hereditary perpet
uation of the drink-craving are in
themselves alone sufficient to arrest
the attention of all thoughtful per
sons but more especially of that
class of people who accept the doc
trines of Darwin, Herbert, Spencer
and Walter Bagehot, in regard to
the survival of the fittest and the
transmission of congenital traits. To
these people the facts shown by
this department must be the cause
of serious alarm. Other departments
involve work among all classes of
people, such as Indians, negroes,
politicians, Germans, Scandivanians,
miners, sailors, lumbermen, railroad
employes, etc. There are also cook
ery departments and flower mis
sions.
But there is not time to follow out
this noble organization in all its ram
ifications. "Its ultimate aim,
says Mrs. Buel, "is the entire stamp
ing out of all drinking and the prac
tical regnancy of Christ,
ladies are ever to keep before the
people. Agitate, educate, eradicate,
is their motto. Men may come and
men may go in this work but they
go on forever. And they trust not
in themselves aloae. They recog
nize the too often forgotten fact that
the Lord Jehovah is king. Every
day at the noon-hour two hundred
thousand heads are bowed in rever
ent prayer, two hundred thousand
tongues supplicate God to have
mercy on his people and to hearken
unto their cry. With an Evangeline
like patience and endurance that
calmly meets and triumphs over all
reverses, they have travelled the
weary rood that all moral reformers
must pass over. But day by day
their numbers have grown and
swelled. All classes and kinds wear
their white ribbon and are marshall
ed under their banners. You may
see in the rolls of the W. C. T. U.
the names of washerwomen and
doers of lowly service side by side
with those of wives and mothers and
sisters of presidents, senators and
congressmen. .No organization ex
cept the church is so wide in its
sweep, and so variant m its members,
for no bond is so common to all wo
men as the bond that brings them
together for the protection of their
homes, for the shielding ot their lit
tle ones from the lures and entice
ments of the Circe 0f Dfink. This
then being their object all true men
book into State schools. The
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This the
of Mississippi and the United {States
must say and feel, "trod bless and
God hallow the women of the Wo
men's Christiau Temperance Union.
Thomas Dabney Marshall.
X. 15.—The writer is iiulebted to Mrs. C.
15. duel's article in the Union Signal for
many of the above facts.
I WANT A GOOD PRINTER-ONE THAT
R. D. Gambuell.
don't DRINK.
Jefferson Haris.
"Sunset" Cox, the wit and humor
ist, orator and statesman, has an ar
ticle in the September number of
the Overland Monthly, that is full
of very interesting reminiscences,
some of them of Southern statesmen.
From them we extract the follow
mg:
"In that Congress, foremost in in
fluence for peace or war, for Union
or disunion, is Jefferson Davis ; how
then unlike that Davis, who, in
Maine, but a few years before had
spoken burning words for the per
petuity of the Union. He had
fought gallantly in Mexico for its
extension and honor. Whatever of
prejudice his name may have since
aroused has been incident to recall
ing the memories ot a beaten cause
At that Congress he was far more po
tential in directing the fateful genius
of Southern statemanship than any
other man in the Senate. His own
memoirs have been published. There
his character is analyzed and his
motive questioned with pitiless and
torturing inquisition ; still the great
body of his countrymen South will
cherish his memory despite all ad
verse criticism. Whether he ever
renounced his secession doctrines,
while acting as the chieftain of the
Confederacy, has not been proven.
It has been surmised and inferred.
The same presiding care which
shielded him from a trial of treason
and gave him a peaceful retiracy in
a Southern home seems still to hover
over his old age. Remembering his
personal courtesy, his urbane and
dignified manners, his silvery ora
tory, his undaunted courage as a sol
dier and honesty as a man, the his
torian of this eventful epoch—in
which madness ruled in the most se
date counsels—cannot fail to recall
much to the credit of this leader of
the Southern people. He may not
have exercised the wisdom of some
who acquiesced promptly and grace
fully in the inevitable. Yet with
many this trait of enduring consis
tency is a virtue. But it must be
said that he was not forward in the
Ilis State was not among
a
secession,
the foremost to secede. She A\aited
until the 9th of January, 1861, be
fore passing her ordinance, and her
senators lingered until the 21st be
töre they AvithdreAV. It is generally
credited by those avIio Avere familiar
Avith Mr. Davis's inclination that,
even after the ordinance was passed,
he avus anxious to remain. There is
undubitable evidence that Avhile iu
the Committee of Thirteen he was
willing to accept the compromise of
Mr. Crittenden and recede from se
(This committee and a
House committee of thirty-three
members Avere then considering "the
state of the Union.") The compro
mise failed ; because as a Senator
Hale said, on the 18th of December,
1860, the day ii was introduced, it
was determined that the controversy
should not be settled in Congress.
When it failed, the hero of Beuna
Vista become the Confederate leader.
Much as he is underrated by some
Southern men who opposed him dur
ing the war, lie was fitted to be the
leader of just such a revolt. Every
revolution has a fabulous or actual
hero conformable to tne local situa
tion, manners and character of the
people who rise. To a rustic people
like the Swiss, William Tell, Avith
his crossbow and the apple ; to an
like the Americans,
cession.
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aspirmg race,
Washington, Avith his sword and the
law, are, as Lamartine once said, the
symbols standing erect at the cradles
ol these tAvo distinct Liberties ! Jef
ferson Davis, haughty, self-Avilled
and persistent, full of martial ardor
and defiant eloquence, was the sym
bol, both in his character and his
situation, of the proud, impulsive
but suppressed ardors and hopes of
the Southern mind."
Amite City, La.
Amite City, Sept. 20.—An im
mense and enthusiastic meeting of
the people of Tangipahoa parish pre
sided over by E. C. Cooley took
place at the courthouse Saturday
night. The action of the police jury
in refusing to respect the petition of
the best citizens of Tangipahoa to
submit the question of license or no
license to the popular will, was se
verely condemned. The matter be
ing considered not touching the
question of license or no license, hut
being one of public right, people of
all classes and shades of opinion par
ticipated in the meeting. Able
speeches were made in behalf of the
ë eople's liberty by Messrs. Craig,
üenardson, Cooley and others.
A Centre Shot.
I was lecturing out in Kansas last
spring, where they have Prohibition
An intemperate man came to me one
day and said :
Yes, Mr, Perkins, this prohibi
tion will bring rum to the State.
It will, will it?
"Yes, it will impoverish us and de
stroy our business houses
ow let's see about this, my
friend," I said, "let's examine this a
little,
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If a Kansas farmer brings a
thousand bushels of corn into To
peka how much does he get for
it?"
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''Four hundred dollars" answered
my friend.
"Now, if they take this thousand
bushels of corn over to Peoria, how
much whisky will it make.
"Four thousand gallons.
And this whisky is worth—how
much ?"
Oh, after they have paid $4,000
revenue tax on it to the other thirty
six States it will be worth about
$4,000.
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Aud if this whisky should come
back to Kansas you would have to
pay about 4,600 for it ?"
Yes, and more, too. We have to
pay about $5,000 for it.
Would it bo worth anything to
your citizens ?"
"No, I suppose it would cause a
good deal ot idleness and crime. It
would hurt us. I never did think
whisky a positive benefit. I—"
Well, how much would it hurt
you ?" I asked.
O I can't tell. I—
Well, I'll tell you," I said. "It
will hurt you directly about $5,000
ivorth. You would sell the corn
from which the whisty is made for
$400, and then buy back the whisky
lor $5,000. You would be directly
out of pocket just $4,000. And di
rectly, it would cost Kansas, in idle
ness and crime—caused by the 4,000
gallons of whisky—about $20,000.
It would take 10,000 men a day
apiece to drink it up if they drank
a quart a day each. The loss of
10,000 days' labor to Kansas would
be $20,000, wouldn't it?"—Eli Per
kins, in Kansas Patron.
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I AVANT A GOOD PRINTER—ONE THAT
R: D. Gambreel.
don't drink.
American Hotels.
From an article on Hotel-Keeping, by
George lies, iu the August Century, we
quote the following on the construction
of hotels: "Hotels in America are the
best and most splendid in the world.
The existence of an immense traveling
population Avilling to pay the tarift of
good houses, the cheap laud available
iu many cities, the prevalent love of
display, and the exigencies of an ex
treme aud variable climate, h:n r e all
contributed to this result,
signing has become a profession apart,
and several eminent architects do A'ery
little other professional work,
branch of design demands, besides
special knowledge growing out of tho
wants of hotel management, increased
care in CA'ery direction wherein the
good planuer of residences exercises
thought. As the height aud capacity
of a hotel exceed those of a dAvolling,
do the penalties of its bad design
and workmanship entail more grievous
results. Hotel architecture has its spe
cial difficulties. In large cities land is
very costly, so story must be speedily
added to story, that much room may
be provided, aud the investment begiu
to pay a return at the earliest possible
date. Hence the risk in case the land
is made land, or the foundation rests
upon anything but rock, that the lofty
structure may settle unequally, with
momentous derangement aud loss. A
hotel coutaius a labyrinth of flues,
pipes, and wires, auy break iu which
may be deadly to hapless guests aud
servants. Besides, the cracks and cran
nies of a huge building settling down
invite rats aud mice, pests impossible
to banish Avbeu once in possession.
Therefore, after securing a good posi
tion for a hotel, the principal thing is
to have a thoroughly solid foundation.
Next, the basement should be well ce
mented, and all the courses of the
drain, gas, and water pipes made easily
accessible for stated and frequent ex
amination. Modern hotels of the best
type have solid brick partition Avails
from ground to roof, dividing room
from room. The walls conduce to
safety in case of lire, and, with well
deafened floors, help the important
cause of quiet. Whoever would see
the American hotel, as far as architect
ure goes,
must cross the continent and visit the
Palace at San Francisco,
house is built ou the continental plan
of having a large court accessible by
carriages. This court is covered with
f ;lass, decorated with plants, and en
ivened with music. To provide against
the risk of earthquake, the structure
thing of massive iron bolts and bands.
Comparative cheapness of land has en
abled the architect to make every room
spacious, and each has bath, closet,
and dressing-room attached. . Every
external room has a bay-window.
Pneumatic tubes connect each floor
with the office, for the rapid dispatch
of letters and parcels. Yet, Avith all
the vast outlay in construction, no sun
light enters its dining-rooms. The Pal
ace, too, proves to have overpassed in
dimensions the limits within W"*®" ®
sense of comfort is possible. Man}
travelers prefer houses less large, where
the obliteration of the individual is less
oppressive.
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I AVANT A GOOD PRINTER—ONE THAT
R. D. Gambrell.
don't PRINK.
(iLP,A\IN«S.
The roll of doctors who are women
in the United States now includes more
than 2,5UU names.
A prominent dentist says that tooth
brushes and tooth powders do the teeth
more harm than good.
Mexico has now a well organized
merchandise ami money express ser
vice. It is controlled by Americans.
The average enameled watch hang
ing at the waist belt of the average
girl contaius a powder puff—nothing
else.
Mrs. Mackay, the millionaire's wife,
has taken up her residence in London,
not for fashionable purposes, but to be
near her sons, who are at school there.
In Arkansas the law forbids the
building of a saloon within two miles
of a church; hence the natives build
the saloon first and then erect the
church just across the road.
Tho anthem of "God Save the
Queen" was first publicly sung by
Henry Carey as his composition at a
dinner given in honor of the victory of
Admiral Yeruon at Portobello in 1789.
In some sections of New Hampshire
children of school age are remarkably
scarce. In Warren there is one school
district which contains but one pupil;
four districts have but two pupils each,
and two have only six between them.
A thrifty resident of Milford, Conn.,
who is worth $40,000, walked ten miles
to Birmingham to receive his July divi
dend on a $6,000 investment, amounting
to about $300. lie said he could not
afford to hire a team or pay his fare on
the cars.
The income of Austrian tobacco mo
nopoly amounted in 1884 to about 720,
000,000 florins. The number of home
manufactured cigars sold in that year
reached the enormous total of 1,245,
000,000, and that of cigarettes was up
ward of 2*0,000,000.
L. Q- C. Lamar Jr., the son of the
greatest of all Southerners, is a drum
mer, strietly a »hoe drummer. He says
he is satislied to let his father go into
politics, but as for him, he is more than
satisfied to sell solid and line shoes to
the people of his native South.
Geologists are interested in the dis
covery of a large deposit of volcanic
dust and water-worn grains of volcanic
sand containing glass and every sort of
mineral almost, save quartz, near
Plattsniouth, Neb., the only deposit of
the sort east of the Rocky Mountains.
The actual cost of what are usually
sold as 5-cent cigars at retail is thus
stated by oue who claims to be posted:
Actual cost of tobacco (namely, what
the tobacco raiser gets for it) for 1,000
cigar boxes. $1 ; wages for
packing, $1; stripping. 50
Ÿ—
cigars
1 , 000 , $8
cents; total cost of production, $12.50,
or 1} cents a cigar.
At present copper is sold as Ioav as
£43 aud £44 pounds a ton. Forty
eight pennies weigh, as nearly as pos
sible, oue pound, and 107,520*go to the
ton, which, bein>j; circulated as pence
aud half-peuee is of tho value of £440.
The cost of coining a ton is computed
at £4, so that there is a net profit of
£400 on every ton of copper dealt with.
Of William M. Evarts' alleged ro
mantic marriage a gossiper says: "The
story is all right, except, as he remark
ed to me the other day, that his wife's
name is not Mary, that her father was
not Slate Treasurer aud Governor of
Vermont, that the match avus uot op
posed by her father, aud tiiat there was
uo greater amount of romance iu the
engagement than is ordinarily the case
Avitli young people."
Everything will conspire hereafter to
invoke a period of steady-paced indus
try and low rates of interest on money,
instead of the era of the Goulds aud
Vanderbilts, avIio with their evil exam
ple have made so many of us slaves to
mere niouoy and rascals iu intent, even
though Ave have not been overtaken
and crushed and humiliated to a point
of. self-destruction.— Columbia, B. C.,
Uegisler.
The Panama Canal, which was to
have been completed iu 1888 at a cost
of $120.000,000, would not be finished
in ten years, even if the present rate of
excavation were maintained. More
than $100,000,0130 have been already
expended, ami the probabilities are that
if the canal is ever finished it will be
after an outlay of $450,000,000.
prediction is freely made abroad that
Avhen M. de Lesseps dies the whole
scheme will collapse.
Iu the number of hands employed in
manufacturing establishments, amount
of wages paid and total value of pro
ducts, New York stands 1, Philadel
phia 2. and Chicago 3. The remainder
of the twenty great manufacturing
cities, according to the 18HO census, are
in the order named: Brooklyn, Boston,
l'itts
The
St. Louis, Cincinnati, Baltimore,
burg, San Francisco. Newark, Jersey
City, Cleveland, Buffalo, Providence,
Mihvaukee, Louisville, Detroit, New
Orleans and Washington.
Temperance people will be inter
ested to know that a medicine has
been found which may, in many dis
eases, be substituted for alcohol
Dr. Borroughs, in the Therapeutic
Gazette, states that nitro-glycerme
as a heart stimulant is far superior
to brandy, and may be given with
confidence whenever the administra
tion of brandy is indicated. I wo
drops of 1 per cent, solution are
equivalent to an ounce ot brandy,
and the effects of the drug are felt
immediately. It creates no unnat
ural craving. The doctor gives a de
tailed account of the cases in which
he has employed it, and finds, after
extensive experience, that it is of
great value in shock from accidents,
faintness after surgical operations,
failura of the heart's action due to
chloroform, for opium poisoning,
asthma and the collapse of fevers.—
Times-Democrat.
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The Strength of Gibraltar.
French and Spanish troops, 40,000 in
number, for four long years, from June,
1775#, till February, 1783, beleaguered
the fortress of Gibraltar, then Reid by
Gen. Eliot, with a garrison of 7,000
men. The enemy erected batteries
right across the sandy isthmus, while
in the bay they had forty-seven ships of
the line and ten "battering ships,' be
sides countless lesser craft. One night
the rock narrowly escaped being taken
by surprise. A goatherd having under
taken to guide the Spaniards by a path
then unkuowu to the English, 600
troops followed him one dark night,
and crept silently to a hollow called the
Sillctta, or little chair, and thence to
the signal station, where they slew the
guard. There they awaited re-enforce
ments from below; these, however,
were delayed, and the garrison mean
while were aroused, and, sallying
forth, drove back the invaders. The
Silletta was immediately tilled up and
the path utterly destroyed and made
inaccessible, and the siege
through weary mouths,
ious general attack was met by an in
cessant lire of red-hot balls on the
enemy's licet (live thousand were
thrown in one day), till at length the
battering-ships took tire, as owing to
the thickness of their timbers, the red
hot balls sank deep into the wood and
could not be dislodged. The scene
that ensued in the darkness of that ter
rible night must have been awful in
deed; and so fearful were the groans
and shrieks of the wounded and dying
that brave Englishmen forbore to let
their foes perish in the Harnes, and ven
tured to their rescue, the marine bri
gade being foremost in this work of
mercy, which added fresh laurels to
their victory. It was said that in this
engagement the Spaniards lost three
thousand men, while the garrison had
only sixteen killed, and damage done
to the fortress was repaired in a few
hours. A few days later a formidable
English fleet came to the relief of the
town, the siege was raised, and Britain
ouco more left in undisputed possession
of the stronghold, which, in the days of
Queen Anne, she had acquired as a sort
of luckpeuny, while lighting on behalf
of the Archduke Charles, in whose
name it had been seized by Sir George
Kooke, July -'4, 1704, who surprised it
when garrisoned by only eighty men.
Of course, our holding Gibraltar is an
arrangement about as pleasant for
Spain as it would be to England to see
a French garrison in full possession of
Dover castle and fortifying impregnable
galleries in Shakspeare's cliff, beneath
the protection of which all manner of
smugglers might liud safety, whereas
any rash revenue cutter venturing within
range would be forthwith tired at and
probably sunk. No wonder that Spain
would fain reclaim this heaven-built
bulwark of her shores. —Belgravia.
wore on
A last a fur
The Rev. Sam Joues is a regularly
ordained minister of the Southern
Methodist church. He Avas a pastor
for a number of years, but for a long
time has been manager of the widows'
aud orphans' fund aud asylum. In
this he has grown to be an evangelist,
lie has rather a thin face, with a brown
mustache, a keeu black eye, with a
broad forehead. He is about live feet
ten inches high and weighs about 140
pounds. Ilis dress is usually a plain
black suit, with few ornaments, but is
far from beiug clerical. The only re
markable tiling about him is his preach
ing.
A bachelor German emigrant who
went West three years ago, and who
had succeeded in getting a farm under
a good state of cultivation, recently
sent to Castle Garden, NeAV York, to
have a wife selected for him. His re
quest was published in the papers, and
he now prays that the marriageable
maidens be informed that he is no long
er iu the market. He h:u> been deluged
with letters from all sorts of feminino
creatures—slim, fut, tall, short, blonde,
brunette, fair, freckled, and with black,
brown, rod, aud gray haif, and coming
from every part of the country. He
says that he would require the bank ac
count of a Gould ami a regiment of
stenographers to reply to the letters he
has received, which ask him about the
size and value of his property, the cli
soil, products, population,
aud age and descrip
lle is married
mate,
schools, churcln
tion of the minister,
now.—-Yew York Tribune.
Perry Davis, the originator of the
famous "Pain Killer," has for the last
fifteen years been an inmate of the
Mercer County Almshouse. Davis is a
Frenchman, and came to the United
States years ago, and at once embarked
iu the business of manufacturing aud
selliug bis medicine, which he generally
disposed of himself, by traveling around
the country Avith a team and a two
wheeled cart. He began to deal iu
financial speculation on a large scale,
His affairs then became
much mixed up and the Sheriff finally
sold bis goods for debt. Davis disap
peared and Avas found several days
afterward roaming through the woods
a lunatic. A large gash across his
throat seemed to imply that he had
made an attempt at suicide. After his
capture he became morose aud sullen.
For two months at a time he would not
speak a word and then would only talk
of his early history. Ouc of his pecu
liarities is that he will never take medi
cine under any circumstances. Of late
he has begun to exhibit signs of insan
and failed.
ity.
"Oue result of the investigations of
the royal commission on the housing of
the working classes," says the London
Globe , "appears to be the discovery of
a new cure for consumption. The
Highlanders, Avho habitually breathe,
in Their bothies, the smoke from peat
fires, are stated to enjoy a singular im
munity from phthisis, oiving to the an
tiseptic properties of the tar, creosote,
tannin and volatile oils and resins con
tained in the black unctuous peat they
use as fuel. After this we are quite
prepared to hear of the beneficial quali
ties of London smoke."
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