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CLABK8YILLE, RED RIVER COUNTY, TEXAS, MARCH 15,1873.
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Mexico—The Sea-Trip—Vera Oruz.
B y BISHOP keener.
Cf I'/jju the N. 0. Christian Advocat®. ]
Vera Cruz, Jon. 20,1873.
Mtt. Alitor,—Just as the Tabasco
turned*!!' from the wharf at Now Orleans,
early in tln morning, and the farewell was
-,-avod between hearts long true to tach
other, " El C; ipitan" shouted out iu Span-
ish , 41 The pjod ship Tabasco, from New
Orleans to Vera Cruz, Go<l give a safe
voyage?;" which, I suppose, has been
shouted from port to port ever since the
<iaya ot Columbus uutil now, by every
ypuuishjjjseajaan. It certainly had this
time oho vory hearty amen. And wo
ncedeil it. Thewastoof waters lying be-
tween New Orleans and Vera Cruz .is a
wild
deep
.Not ;i sail ox* anything significant of hu
man life did wo see from the Balizeto the
Castle of Sun Juan deUloa. For two-days
the wiud stood ahead, the waters rolled
together in masses until waves became
hills, turbulent, unappeasable, threaten-
ing. Their curling summits were cut off
The streets are all paved, have a clean
look, and are full of people, mostly Mexi-
cans. The donkey, sorely abused but
strangely philosophic, hero carries all that
is put on him, though upon his own sched-
ule : and the mule, not much larger thau
his Kinsman, is hitched up iu what would
seem to be a purely extemporized style,
with loose ropes and a horseman's sad-
dle, to a huge cart, and, at great disad-
vantage,does a great deal of work.
This delightful climate, to a great de-
gree, relieves the laborer of the cost of
shelter and clothing, and requires him ou-
ly to get bread. Hero every washerwoman
scrubs, and riuscs, and chatters in a pal-
ace, and every beggar sleeps on tressela-
ted
spacious
senores who first built and moved so
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id marble floors, under lofty arches, in
mcious courts. Those stately scaurs and
grade of three per cent. An engine has
been hitched on, of new pattern and great
performance. It-has four cylinders, twelve
driving-wheels, two smoke stacks, one be-
| fore and one behind, aud two boilers, as
; if two locomotives were put back to back
and run together. It carries all the wood
and water on the engine, thus constitu-
ting their weight part ot its tractile force.
The wheels are not over five teet in diame-
ter, so there is no wrenching of rails and
wabbling. Its weight is fifty-six tons,
its length fifty l'eot. It climbs these
slopeslikoadonkcy, pullingoighty-six tons
net up a four per eeut, grade, at eight
miles an hour—that is, iu a fii'ty-foot pass-
enger car you look down and see oao end
of the car two feet lower thau the other.
With this wonderful, hard-working,
plain-looking iron creature, without a
I, unfrequented part ot the sea, of , mittcd, would revisit
i leaden blue color, and very uneasy* xiere is conservatism <
them but oncc.
enough to ballast
the whole Yankee nation. Here the great
problem ot miscegenation has been work-
ed out, and every imaginable dilution of
Japhetic blood may bo seen. Black and
j white Mezo, Mexican and mulatto may be
seen iu the orphan asylum, side by side,
oh the same forms, aud eating out of the
by the sharp wind, their sides were fleck- samo tjish. "Can these bones live?"
oil m m« nut! tz-kfivn iviiii mi rliA hori'/rtn .« ^
—theso Mexican dead! "O Lord, thou
knowest." Can they? Yes, by the
prea lied word and that Spirit that filled
the valley with an exceeding great army
men.
ed with rage and foam, and on the horizon
they looked, as the knots of some hugo
serpent creeping along against the sky.
IVas a good place to study Jonah. But
while the ship was rising, falling, driving
forward under steam and wave, troubled
and groaning, for the first time in my life
I saw owe of those brave little fellows
which the Lord has made to cheer tlio
heart of the voyager—a Portuguese-man-
of-war. His tiny sail was up, and he was
scudding along over mountains and val-
leys as if the ocean was made all tor him-
self. Many a wrecked seaman has taken
fresh courages I doubt not, from theso ad- _ f*rom which-the "train emerged.'
venturous little navigators. When the
wind is very strong 1 notice that they
shorten sail, but when it is lair and Inveay
they open wide their glassy sack, and are
out on a holiday. The body of this jelly-
fish is five or six inches in length, shaped
much like a galiot, and of a bright I'rus-
tdau-bluo color. As the ship pressed on a
flying-fish would now and then spring up
out of its path, and with a level flight of
1! iV
grandly in theso maasions, if now per- brass spot on it excepting tho letters of
. i i.i —• " - * ■ itspauto Ixtaxilmatte, wo move on and
up into the heart of tho Cordilleras^-over
the Inferuello, tho Maltrata pass, and the
C.umbres of the Maltrata, heights and
depths, gorges and canyons that fill tho
soul with the awful majesty of nature,
and constantly excite admiration at the
skill which has achieved such impossi-
ble heights. Every tunnel and every
bridge is on a curve of three hundred ami
fifty feet radius, aud is built, walled and
supported with iron and masonry in the
- > ^
Rome fifty yards, just above tlib water,
presently meet a wave and sink back
again among mere fish; though one of
them llew three times that distance, aud
from wave to wave, as if choosing where
to fall.
So much for out of doors. Within we
were sill Spanish. O'io had to learn to eat
Spanish as well as tal c it. Imagine a half
bottle of sweet oil over every dish—peas,
hash, lish, riee, everything! The siueil of
the viands presently became intolerably
artistic. That and the motion of the ves-
sel told wretchedly upon all my fellow-
passengers. 1 escaped sea-sicknesS, but
all my sympathies were excited for them.
It is the one touch of nature that makes
all the world akin.
But by and by wo came, on a misty,
cloudy afternoon, in sight of laud. It was
the range of mountains north of Vera
Cruz, and in the distance tho captain
pointed to where Cortex burned hi.s ships
.—brave fellow that he was, and shrewd,
it may be, withal j for to have left them
would* have been only to return and find
them wrecks upon this inhospitable, ex-
posed coast. It was too foggy to descry
the peaks of Orinaba, which are seen forty
miles above Vera Cruz. The night had
One hour more, aud we could
, of living
ROUTE FROM VERA CRUZ TO THE CITY OJ?
mexico— the railroad.
City of Muxico, Jan. 29,1373.
Mr. Editor : At throe o'clock on Mon-
day morning wo wero seated in the carsat
, Vera Cruz Just starling for the City of
■Mexico. Nothing could bo more unpre-
tentious than the little wooden warehouse
it was in
keeping with the other depots all along
the route, for this was only the sixth
through trip, and as yet all the houses of
the road are but. temporary. Besides, no-
thing has been done 1'or show—all for work.
The thoroughness of tho great-originator
of the present railway and locomotive,
(Jeorge Stephenson, has been well repres-
ented in the engineers and road-builders
of this line. We were moving along on a
seventy-pouiid-to-the-yard rail at the rate,
of'twenty-five miles per houV, when the
morning light revealed the country. On
each side there was a rich grow th of trees
and shrubs quite new to me. Even tho
oak had another expression. The banana
plant was occasional. Houses made of
bamboo and thatched, well filled with
Mexicans and Memoes, jvere quite frequent
and considerable flocks of mules and don-
keys were distributed
bly worn, but ready for
about, considera-
use.
The
wind and
toss every bone
strong
come on*
have been in port. So
until morning, with a
rough sea to rack aud
that was left.
You may be sure,when the morning came
beautifully, and the vessel stood head on
within a few miles of Vera Cruz and her
famous castle, it was a time to be remem-
bered. There gleamed its white, grand
palaces and domes of the olden time, full
of the story of merchant princes, bold ad-
mirals and bravo warriors of the palmy
days of tho Spanish monarchy. Still
strong, as if that glory had never depart-
ed, everything well preserved, one expects
to see in it the race that once owned tho
world. There is the cathedral, its dome
like that of the great Florentine,, from
which, no doubt, this took some of its ex-
pression ; its top perfectly rounded, cov-
ered with China tiling, in blue aud white
mosaic, smooth, shining and fresh as if of
yesterday. There too is tho Campanile,
carrying tho mind straight to Venice, and
not unworthy of the days ot the Doges. Jn
front is the single quay of granite, and tho
wall that stretches entirely nrouiul tho
city. A quarter of a mile from the shore
all tho shipping rides at anchor, just be-
tween tho Fortress do Uloa aud the town.
American and French steamers, ships,and
a largo Spanish man-of-war, every square
inch of spar and stay covered with men
anil blankets—wash-day, I suppose. Full
of wonder and gratitude, tho Tabasco
works her way in, drops her anchor, and
waits the ponderous movements of the
customhouse officials. In a short time wo
are in tho Hotel . Mexico, near the quay,
and not far trom the railroad "estacion."
Tho newest house in Vera Cruz is one
hundred and fifty years old. The outside
of the cathedral, that looks so fresh, was
finished ten years before Mr. Wesley came
to America, as the date on its front shows.
Several old churches are now apparently
given up to bats, but still show, through
their worn projections, tho style and ge-
nius of their day. Upon the highest point
of some of these structures tho prickly
pear has firmly established itself, and tho
carrion crow may bo seen perched for tho
night. Flocks of these horrid birds arc
domiciled here; and with the help of dogs,
and prisoners from tho jail, chained t.vo
and two, constitute tho city scavengers.
face of
the country was cleared, slightly undula-
ting, the soil rich, cultivated hero and
there only, giving evidence that the wars
have passe* over'it. Presently the train
comes upon tho Atoyac ri\w audit most,
charming waterfall of thirty or forty feet.
There we stop and get a cup of coffee
such as was never brewed north of Mary-
land. Now wo are in tho coll'eo country,
and for the first time in my life 1 seo this
grateful shrub, it grows in the woods.
Tho ground is partly cleared, with most
of the. trees left, or else the banana is plan-
ted to shade it; and rows of this shrub,
not higher than a lied river cotton stalk,
alternate. It bears in seven years, and
yields at its best some thirty pounds per
plant. We stop at several small towns,
...7 amid crowds of peons, Mexicans, ctc. Or-
we'lay on and oil' j anges, nulque, bread, eggs, collee, chocol-
" ' ate, and many other eatables are offered
at the car windows, the cooking all ot the
best quality. The country, tho air, the
temperature are all refreshing, and tho
snow-white peak of tho Orizaba is in full
view. This is the most pleasant part of
the year. It rains from the fifteenth ot
May every night uutil October. Thermom-
eter all tho year from sixty to eighty.
Hero is Cordova, and youdlr is tho place
by tho mountain where General Price and
soveral American ofllccrs planted,the year
after the war. Every now and then a dome
aud tower has been seen all along tho way,
but in towns of six thousand inhabitants
you will see some largo churches, many
o£ them imposing enough to be on our new
St. Chailes street church lot. Where in
tho world did all tho money come from
that piled up this surplus of ecclesiastical
masonry ? Nor is there any falling off.
On, on—one may almost count the miles
by the churches. This ought to bo or has
been the most religiously inclined or the
most ecclesiastically overdrained people
in tho world. Nearly all of these struc-
tures have architectural merit, aud some
.have a great deal. Yet the mortmain ton-
nro has been at last broken, and much of
the estates of the liomish Church has fallen
back into t he hands of the State. What
is there to show for this huge machinery
worked so faithfully for so many years by
this ancient system ? Has it left the peo-
ple with a right knowledge of God and of
his Son ? Has it given spiritual lifoto tho
multitude placed by God's providence un-
der its tutelage 1 Has it distributed the
word of God i That alono would have
been a great work. All is silent as death ;
these huge altars are but tho tombstones
of tho people.
Next comes Orizaba, for situation beau-
tiful beyond comparison. The perfection
of tho genialinfinencesof natureconspirc
to make it a paradise, if over it there
might remain tho great mercy of good
laws : and I believe there is more hope in
this direction than before for many years.
Mr. Lcrdo is a man of sound judgment-
cultivated. benevolent, firm. His presi-
dency has been so far characterized by a
remarkably well-balanced, generous poli-
cy.
Meanwhile wo havo boon rising on -Br
most substantial manner. There are no
Woodeh trestles—all is iron—a third rail
placed on ali tho curves. For solidity,
for the mass of stone moved, security and
permanency, it impressed mo far beyond
the Union or the Central Pacific. At tho
last dreadful point from which tile eye
commands the valley of tho Maltrata, and
the range of successive peaks which in-
close it, there stands an oak whoso top is
about even with tho road-bed, and ou tho
top of this oak there gleams the brilliant
hues of the orchid as afiuish to the scene.
This parasite was new to me. It is a
re-
nt
me.
bright scarlet cone, six inches long,
gular in shape, two inches in diameter
the base, rising out of a tul't of leaves.
From this cone shoots a deep-blue pencil-
shaped flower two inches long, aud above
the flower rise the heads of its stamens, of
a very bright yellow. It abounds at this
altitude, and plants its glories above tho
clouds.
Wo are now eight thousand three hun-
dred and twenty-six feet above the sea.
Off to the right is Orizaba, lilting its hoa-
ry brow still seven thousand feet higher.
The reader now. doubtless prepares his
mind to go down, for what mountain is
there that has not two sides to it t Well,
this is one. We do not go down at all;
we are ou a plain ; we go on, and on, ami
are come to a region of corn and barley—a
cultivated, wide country, with dull adobe
large haciendas at wide intervals, as it
we had always been running on a level.
The great locomotive has 'given place to
an ordinary one. Here is a stiff wind;
off to the right are mountain-peaks—but.
far off. We go ou to the City of Mcxco,
arrivinglato in,the evening, having come
over two hundred and ninety-three miles,
of which seventeen miles wero four per
cent, grade, twenty-three three per cent.,
aud the rest one and a half to two. All
the muscle necessary to move the rock
and build this road was supplied by the
native peons. Not fifty foreigners were
on it, save only for bossing and engineer,
ing. They worked lYoni early morn to
dark, at from seventy-five- cents to $15 a
day.' Ou the route we frequently crossed
tho great highway from Vera Cruz to Mex-
ico, and on it donkeys about tho size of
two Newfoundland «Jwgs were pegging
away, carrying two hundred pounds. I
asked Mr. John Quin, a most affable gen-
tleman, and who built over thirty miles of
tho road, and now is road master for over
one hundred miles, and to whom I am
greatly indebted for information: "Could
this road have been built without these
donkeys?" "I doubt it it could," he re-
plied, "for all the water and all tho ma-
chinery to build it were hauled up by
these little fellows." 1 confess to a great
respect for them,
■ T> lf« 4 <
EionTY-FiVE Miles of Solid Ice oy
Lake Michigan.—Tho Milwaukee Wis
consin, of Monday last, has the following:
Tho propeller City of Fremont left for
Grand Haven for the third time last night,
but was compelled to return, after having
penetrated the ice belt a distance of but
fourteen miles. During the hjgh westerly
winds of last week tho ice was never at
any time out of sight of land. At this
point since then it has been constantly
added to, so that it now once more fills
the bay. In view of all tho facts that can
bo ascertained, Wc have no hesitation in
saying that Lake Michigan, at this point,
where its width is eighty-five railed, i now
entirely bridged over with ice, varying in
thickness froin one to twelve feet. Never
before, in the memory of the oldest inhab-
itant, has this been known to occur. It
will require a high southerly wind, of at
least one week's duration, to break up oml
drive this formidable belt toward tho low-
er end of tho lake, and enable tho steam-
ers of tho Engelman line to cross. In the
meantime tho Manistee and Messenger re-
main in condition reported hist week# off
Whitehall, and receiving occasional sup-
plies of food from tho shore.
Thefamons Morrison's pills, 2 J grains
each, consists of aloe, cream of tartar, and
colocynth; another kind of this pill con-
tains the same ingredients, besides gam-
boge. Holloway's pills, about equally fa-
mous, are composed ot aloe, myrrh and
saffron. Brandreth's pills show resin of
podophyllum,thickened with the juico of
poke-berries, Batlr u, cloves, oil of pepper-
mint.
Foster's Grime.
[From tlio Now York World.]
It was on Thursday, April 27,1871, that
the citizens of New York were greatly ex-
cited by the report that early the forego-
ing evening a quiet and respectablo citi-
zen, named Avery D. Putnam had been
murderously assaulted iu the largest
thoroughfare of the city, and was thou ly-
ing at the point ot death. Tho circumstan-
ces of the outrage were so brutal and atro-
cious that a thrill of horror and alarm ran
through the community,aud people began
to believe in earnest that human life was
nowhere safe from the attacks ot rufflaus,
and to demand of tho authorities the con-
dign-punishment of the man who had
been guilty ot this awful deed should ho
be found. Tho circuuistanc.cs of the case
wero these: At about 9 o'clock on the
evening referred to, Mr. Putnam, escor-
ting hvo ladies. Mine. Duval and her
daughter, Mabello Virginia, aged about
fifteen years, entered a Broadway car at
the corner ol Clinton place and university
place, intending to go to the Church of the
Advent in Forty-sfjjth street. When
the car was hear the Gilsey House, Mr.
Putnam called tho attention of Miss Du-
vul to tho illuminated clock on tho build-
ing, and the young huly left her seat and
approached the front door of tho car, and
sat down by it, saying that tho clock was
so high that sho could not see it while sit-
ting there. Thereupon Mme. Duval cross
ed the cur and took a seat next to her
daughter, aud noticed that on the front
platform there were two men, tho driver
and another, the former of whom eullod
the attention of tho latter to Miss Duval,
and both of them turned toward her mak-
ing grimaces and acting otherwise in an
annoying and ruffianly manner. Miss
Duval just at that t ime remarked, " Oh,
ma, there arc some rude men on tho plat-
form,''and her mother said, "Come away,
when the door was opened by a man who
5!
Foremost Be-
% A Man Dbawn Feb* fot
tween Iron Pollers.—tt is scarcely
ever withiu^he province of a newspaper
to chronicle a more sickcuiug accident'
than that which happened to James Milli-
gan, who was drawn feet foroinost through
two massive iron rollers ouly three and a
half inches apart and which are used iu
flattening bars of steel for the plates of
ssiws. Mr. Milligan was employed as black-
smith's helper iu the stool rolling-mill of
Wheeler, Madden & Cleiuson. He was
climbing nnon a board laid across roils
over tho rollers, in order to place in posi-
tion a wrcuch which is used to regulate
the spaco through which tho heated Bteol
and irou are passed, when tho board sud-
denly tipped, causing him to lull. His
feet struck upon the steep side in front ot
the rollers, which wero revolving at tho
rato of sixty times nminuto, and were in-
stantly caught between them. The poor
fellow had only time to utter the single
cry of " Oh 1" while his hotly, fhet foremost,
was being drawn through a space of ouly
three and a half inchci. Hardly a s6oond
had elapsed beforo'the body was a shape-
less mass of ficsh, blood, bones and clo-
thes, presenting, as it did, the most horri-
ble aud sickening sight that eyes could
look upon. It dropped from tho rollers a
lump and quivoring mass, and when
straightened out covered aspace of ground
that two men would occupy. Not a wholo
or £pl'cct bono remained ill tho body; and
many bones wero protruding through the
flesh and clothing at different places. Th*
head was a'fearful sight to look upon. It
had goiio through the rtillers lace upwards,
and it came out completely flattened and
partially turned. Flowing from tho
smashed skull wero the brains and blood
in a stream sickening to behold. Strong-
minded, ablo-b6diod men, wero horrified
and hardly able to stand aud look at tlio
scene, which really beggars description.
His comrades who witnessed tlio terrible
affair were struck dumb with awe, aud
Character Determined by Doob-
Shtttting—a Curious Test.—a corres-
pondent of the "Scientific A merican gives
the follnwiug novel manner fotf measuring
men's characters t During the' last ten
years in the Winter. Benson, according to
our daily record, we have nbtieed the
manner in which one thousand persons
who called |pr work. have opened. sUnt,
or not shut our store door, This, you :
/
put his face into the car and made a sort '™ ^rcd almost emotionless and n« silent
of clucking noise with his lips. Mine. „(:!,r.VS0 excc^; ^hcn
and again it
Duval shut the door again,
was opened, and then Mr. Putnam rose,
walked towards the front door, closed it,
aud stood with his back against it. This
action seemed to put the man on tho plat-
form in a great rage ; he again opened tho
door angrily aud Mr. Putnam said to him,
"What does this, mean i These ladies
are in my care, and I will not allow them
to be insulted," lie then went out oy tho
pljitform, stood there for a few minutes,
and re-entered the car, in the meantime
having told the man to behave himself
and net like a gentleman. Tho man came
into {he car again and then attempted to
git down beside Miss Duv.il, when her
mother arose and objected, and to her re-
monstrance the man replied, " What is it
to you V and iu other ways acted in such
a manner that Mr. Putinan saw that he
was grossly intoxicated, and turning his
back upon him let him laugh and &ibo,
believing I hat tho ladies would1 take no
further notice of him, seeing the condition
that he was in, Still the ruffian continued
his interference, and asked Mr. Putnam,
how far up town he was going, saying that
"I shall go as far up as you do, and when
you get out 1 will give you hell. Shortly
afterwards he again went to the front plat-
form, leaving tho door open, which Mr.
Putnam again closed. After this there
was no trouble uutil, between Forty-fifth
and Forty sixth streets, tho conductor,
questioned. Tho deceased served three
years in tho late war, was about thirty
three years old, and leaves a wife and two
little children in moderate circumstances.
[Nowburg Letter iu tho(N. Y.) World.
deductions f 1. . Out of 1 he one thousu
persons recorded) three hundred and thirty
five opened and shut it carefully, when
they came ill ami went out, without much
noise. 2. Two hundred aiw
opened it iu a hurry, and made an attempt
to shut it but did not, and merely pulled
it too when they went out. 3. Three hun-
drod aud two (lid not attempt to shut it
at all, either on coining in or goiug out' 4.
Ninety-sijX left it open When they came in,
but when romiiuled of tho fact made aim
pie apology, and shut it when they went
out. 5. One hundred and two opened it
iu a great hurry and slammed it violently)
bub loft it open when they went out. 0.
Twenty came in witu "How do you do,
sir!" or "Good moruiug !" or "Good even-
ing, sir P—and all ot these went through
the operation of wiping their feet On the
mat) but did not shut tho door when they '
came iu Itor. when they went out. lto-
marks—We have employed men out of nil
these classes, and during that time have
had an opportunity of judging their merits,
etc. Tho first class—of 335-r-were those
who know their trade aud comineucod and <
finished their work in a methodical man'
nor; wero quiet and had little to say dur-
ing their working hours, and were well ap-
proved by those for whoin they did their
work. They were puuctual -to time) and
left liotHng undone which they were or-
dered to do. They did not complain about
triiios, iu all respects they were reliable
men, aud were kind and obliging iu their
general conduct.
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iipi;
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The latest clever swindler is iirt'iedited to
Philadelphia, lie made his mark, i lie other
day, by visiting a jewelry store ami wleetiny
$3000 worth of gums. As tho olork was about. ,
to put the nuineroiiN little boxesiuloouelarge !
A Valley of Desolation.—A snot
almost as terrible as the prophet's valley
of dry bones lies just iiortu of the old
Mormon road to California, a regiort thir-
ty-six miles long by thirty broad, and sur-
rounded, except at two points, by inaccess-
ible. mountains. It is totally devoid of
water and vegetation, and the shadow of
bird or wild beast never darkens its white
— . . ., ..... . |glaring sands. Tho Kansas-Pacfio Kail-
which ho had brought with hi in, lie took from pai us width shny, the fate Of the
it ami handed to tlio clerk a iient box with a M<mtgomor,y t rain, whichcauic south from
key, sufficiently largo to hold all his pfu'ehu- "alt Lake in lHaO, guided by a Mormon,
sea. Into this the clerk put tlio Jewelry, and iWhen near the death's Valley they en mo
handed it Imck to his customer, who locked to t he conclusion that the Moituous know
it, leaving the key ill the lock, ami replaced it nothing about the country, so they np-
iu the bag, closing the latter. With seeming pointed one of their number loader and
intent to pay, the customer nut hi* hand into hrok(, (JIV iioui UiO party. The leader
uiarHnfr S i'iS111in i lmva loft turned due west; so with the people aiul '
my book' and money at tho hotel. I must go, wa?«"8 0,1(1 flock18,{° travelled ttlWodays
hack and get it. You will, of course, want to then descended lllto the broad VUilo,fy
keep this. It wouldn't do to trust an entire | whose treacherous mirage promised wa-
stranger with such valuables," and, opening' ter.
the bag, he again took out the little box auu
handed it to the clerk. Ho departed, bat re-
turned no more, and the clerk found out that
±r™ndor d>ul one l>y 0.10 tl>. raeddie .
one into whn.il he linil put the jewels, it was nnd th(J tmnt{])g rtocif8 8trotChed tlieiu-
' I
!<?y .
id,
full of nothing but bits of iron.—[Exchange.
solvs in death under tho hot sun. The
children, crying for witter died at their
He fell like a log, and his assuiluut ran
rapidly away. Tlio car-bell was rung and
the driver whipped up his horses, tho two
Indies wero standing in tho street iu which
lay the moribund man. A crowd gather-
ed round, and Mr. Putnam was lifted up
and taken to a neighboring drug shop.
111
Singular Murder Case.—The Crim-
inal Court of Wnyuesburg, Green coun-
ty; Pa.) has boon trying a remarkable
murder caso during tho past week. The
case is that of Tha.ldniis Youukin, Lfor tWmrthy 'irioi'c wi
murder ot his father, Charles Younkin. \ty tj10 parties 11 o\
Tho prisoner is a man of twenty or twenty- nmnnrf .Wimniem m
two years of age, aiul tho fathei was aged
fiity-fcix. It is claimed by tho Common-
wealth on the trial that tlio old man was
shot while he was quietly sitting by tho
cooking-stove, awaiting his supper. Tho
defense admit that f lic accused shot him,
but contend that the father was a danger-
ous man. Ho had given his wife ten minu-
tes to get supper and furnish warm bread,
threatening to kill her if she failed. The
Tho Queen of Sheba's palace is the . , - ... . •,
latest archajologlcal discovery announced, pother s breast, and with swollen tongues
M. Maueh, the African traveller, who burning vitals the mothers followed# -
discovered what ho be-' Wagon after wagon was abandoned, and
strong men tottered and raved and died.
After a week's wandering a dozen survl-
ors found some water iu thohollow of a
rock in tho mountain. It lasted but a
_ short timo, when all perished but two, who r
latitude 20° south, longitude 2U° east. | escaped out of tho valloy and followed"
Tho*ruln consists of two masses of cdifices, 'the trail of their formor companions*^ ;
and among them is to bo remarked one 'Eighty-seven families with hundreds ot ?
years
somo
which is an imitation of the temple of Sol
0111011, the walls being built of wrought
granite, nnd tho ceiling still showing
fragments of beams of cedar. The peculiar
edifice, supposed to bo the Queen's pal-'
ace, is still called by the natives tho
" House of tlio Gront Princess." This dis-
covery, if authcnticotbd, must be accept-
ed as another liuk of evidcnco unearthed
confirmation of the ScripturfS, to
will doubtless be added
now exploring in and
around Jerusalem nnd beyond the Jordan.
Wc havo hoard very little of late about
trichina, but onco iu a whilo it. crops out,
especially in the Western States, jttst
enough to frighten all lover# of pork. A
very startling case is detailed at great
length in nil Indiana paper beforo us. It
seems that fiomo weeks tfneo a family by
tho name of Boyd, living at Oaklaud City,
M'1U" "n UnA in Gibson county, partook freely at one ot
riinVri lIm nnl 1 nTfm «.!!.1 'hnll rnlnr i tllCir meals 0# tllO tfcsll Of a llOg, Which
run to the cellar for leam, and_had_rotnr-1 been killed for sustenance.- Either mi-
ned to get flour. Tho deceased had follow-
ed her and and struck her with a dip-
per. Becoming still more enraged, ho
threw asido the dipper and ran for a but
clier-knife. Not succeeding in getting this,
intentionally or through uegligenco, tho
meat was eaten in a comparatively un-
cooked state, and the result was that
shortly after tli« entire family, consisting
of five persons, were taken down with
I1.?.!011 1 trichinosis. Vuluablo medical assistance
.'was brought to bear in their cases, but ail
vel. Tire mother was
screaming ami crying,
his
dead.
mother,
in tho meantime
Tho son, to savo
T f 2rvi. r.Z; efforts to arrest fatality proved futile, and
thereupon shot lus father. HO three of Hms five havo already died.
/ The other twoare still linirerinor. but there
A true heroine is Miss Lucinda Couklin,
living near Huntington harbor, L. I. A
boat with two men in it was capsized in
tho bay tho other day, midj as neither
could swim, they cried for help, which
brought Miss Conkliu and two other wo-
men to the shore. She plunged bravely
in, swam to tho boaty and, seizing ono of
the mon who was nearly exhansted, bade
him place his baud • on he# shonldcr, and •
in that way swam ashore with him. The'
other man clihigto the boat and was res-
cued. j
The other twoare still lingering, but there
seems to be bub- little, it any, hope for
them.
The Baltimore Sun mentions a large
oyster shell, obtained by Dr. T. King, of
, Waverly , from the summit of tho Alle-
ghany' mountains, two thousand feet
above tho level of the sea, imbedded iu
coal.
!2ighty-s(
animals, perished there; and now, after
twenty-three years, the wagons Still stand
complete, and the iron work ond ties are 'ti>l
bright, and the shrivelled skeletons lay
side by side.
M i wi
Not two years havo elapsed since the
progressive law-uiaUcrs Of Iowa movod in-
to tlfto vanguard of modern phikuithopy by
deciding that tho crime of murder
should under no circritostnnce bo punish'
ctl with tho gallows or any other instrrt*
incut of death. This abolition of capital
punishment the Northwestern folotis felt
confident would diminish very materially
the dcatli roll from murders. But such
has not boon the case. Iowa statistics
show that ten cold-blooded murderers. v
have been convicted since the gallows was ^
iutordicted; and of shootings stabbing
aud beutiug to death hi fits of anger tho
list is a frightfully long one, considering
the populutiou of Iowa. Opponents of
the halter for destroyers of linman life aro
not likely to draw any persuasive argu-
ments from the experience of Iowa.
Com. Maury Lying in State.—(Rich;
mend Dispatch letter): "The body was
drqsscd in a pluin suit of black. OB tho
breast had been carefully placed the vari-
ous medals and orders that the crowned
heads of 15 it rope had conferred npou him
for his distinguished services in the
cause of science; presents of wreaths and
crosses of flowers and of evergreen. The
corpse was the most beautiful aud lifelike X
ever saw,. A sweet gentle smile rested ou
his lips, and tho wholo face, though cold
in dentil, presented a more youthftd sp-
ontanea than it presented when ho vat
alive."
A party of dredgers at wotk in the bay
in front of San Francisco, brought up the
body of a well dressed man, with fifty
m , pounds of pig iron attachod. His throat
Bain dcscendsou tue just aud unjust, was cut from oar to car.
The Ohio Industrial Home fur girls, at
White Sulphur Springs, Delaware connty,
was burned down hist week, turning out
153 inmates. .
Benson, the inprderer of Crookett, who
has Just been hung in Utah by a mob,
was a sou of the late bishop Sharp.-
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