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Clarksville, Red River County, Texas, December 2,1881,
1STew Series lSTo. 4: Vol. 3.
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COUNTY DIBECTORY.
J. A. Baob*. . . ..l . .1 - ."-A.Gofcufy' JtyJge.
j. \v. Bakijr...^.shertff.
A. 1*. C'oblrr. , *—-County Cleft, L
K. M. Bowers Distjict Clerk.
S. W. HaioiAN. ;.Gtoiirty-At'eoilw^.
K. V. OBAVKS— toa Or~ta0*ar-
J. R. Joiinsox.. Collector.
(i. L. Moouuan -• ! TMiasnrerJ
David Kaixey, Sura
jl'sticis an1> const
~^fr
J. T. Fleming, J istice feace, Pr«e|ncfno 1
j, C. Brown, Con^faililu; relict v"" t
A J- llwMrtca, -1
| KVI liS.IZZARD JollfilKWer, PieCIUCl " 2
li. MoAi.ustkb, Justice Pence, Prccifct No 3
N. M. Howisos Constable, PiegJjict " 3
H. W. Tows its Justice Ponce. Precinct No 4
\y_ p. IJuAXTiX Constable Pieciuct " 4
t' .M. VViiitk Justice Peace Prjicjnct No 5
j.b.'WoMACK Constable Precinct " 5
The Phantom Mask.
by ettie rogers.
J. I>. Mowkkv
J. T. JoYJiE
T.J. McBKII B
J. K. White
e. M. Posey.
J. N. Buu«sb
J list ice Peace Precinct N tr 0
Cut stable, Precinct "6
Justice Peace Precinct No 7
Constable, Precinct " 7
Justice Pence PreciuftNo 8.
Constable Precinct 4 tS.
COUNTY COaiMISSIONEHB.
W A. Maci.i>in,-Precinct 2
Moses s. Grant, .....Precinct *' 3
F.
J.
M.
T.
White, ii..:ftfccii Ct " 5'
Gkooms,-- - - - PMeinet " 8
COURT DIRECTORY ' ■■ ■<
n,„,.ICr Coi'ltT will lie lield in Bed River Conn
tfoTiteUtW .ft May, 1881, and |«,n?thfc| 15f Of
I..— 1>W. - ■ •«' • iH '
.Cupid is-a knavish lad
Thus to make iainules mad.
, 1 /*•, —[Love's Labor's Lost.
"Anordinary birthday party is the
mo^t upi*] js}yd iuisi pul affair imagina bio,"
averred Mademoiselle Ilclene decisively,
"I desire something unique, and as gay
and gorgeous as possible."
••liHthfs S<$*p seifsdii_rf private masquer-
ade eofrld scarcely bo en regele, I sap
posc,"i)bifeKetl Golf Douglas suggestive-
ly.
"1 like the idea, however," declared the
.VOuiifr-hMU'!,: "ai)4 as I da not belong to
the rtfifieMf coterie that worships the
conventional, I may bo allowed to ignore
custbfn occasionally.''
"And to me it ,<|o*« seem you best like
t0 not '(lo',Jth^'"ttiiug customary," com
meuted Madame. D'Arblay in her pretty
toireigirWay." ''"I tfd* often tell you that,
Helene."
jMademoi
MR-
archly at the
i i i
I • * Alt
E. M, Bowers, Clerk.
J,oveml>«r, 1S.-I1.
w k (! \inks. Judge,
I \V HAKKlU^herift", S. W. 'lUS^fjCiN At^r.'
Cot ntt Colin- of Bed Uiver Comity, liuld outjio
lliiril Monday in Januarv, Mareli, fltyy, July, bei
t..intM-r an«l Noveiulier Iwl.
J. A. 1SA0BY, County Jiulge, A. P. CiMH.KYi,.Clt.
Justice's Court, Precmcp No. t lieldou tlielasf
"Tt^IcXVjV J- C, Brown, Constable
Justice's Covht, Precinct No. & nrteoy tlie
fust Saturday in each montty. , •
* i I'miDKs J. P., Levi.Bmzzakd, Constable
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 3, on 3rd Stttusfflay
' "iVkn ity'mc Alustek, J. P , N M. Howis6sCon
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 4,4th.Saturday.
^jtach j p w p. Blvnton, SiVwstaTjle
Justices Court, Precinct No. 5,on 2d Saturday
in eaeh month. ,.
F M. White, J. P., 3- c- Womack, Constable
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 6, ou 1st Satur
day in each month.
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 7, on 4th Saturday
1V!ajhWcx"ride. J. p., J.B. White, Constable., _
Justice's Court, Precinct No. 8, on ttozud Safr
tirday in eaeh month.
E M. Posey, J.P.. , Bnrp Constabe
uyid imp
"Nevertheless, I know you will not op-
pose "The niasquerade,'' she returned with
roguish asauniike' .b'fJj'' - -
I "I do oppose the thing never that you
'do wish," responded the gracious little
F each lady, with an almost im|ierceptt-
bl 'i shrug ot plpui|) shoulders,
jThis \vido#*<V rfnA * WoftH:liy" Parisi6nnc
had lived half a century, but had retain-
ed much of the vivacity and vigor ot
yqtrflk and all of youth's sensibilities,
lies 1mh« m-as snowy white, but her small,
bi|ght face was fair and unjrriukled.
She had the simplicity of youth with the
wisdom ol age. She was witty and ami
able, elegant and accomplished, and was
altogether a most delightful companion.
' Mademoiselle was her daughter by
i % Gotre, Courtesy and afteetion. Some years be-
fore they had been guests of the same
house, where Madame D'Arblay was a
stranger and alone. The girl was then
comedy troupe,
^4
m. l. sims.
w. j. mcdoxald.
SIMS JSc McDONAI,D,
ATTOENEYS AT LAW,
CLARKS VILLE, TEXAS.
Will practice in the Courts of the 5tli District
and in the Supreme and Federal Courts held ni
the State. " ut*
a. m. taylor.
k. s. ch vmr.eus.
TAYLOR & CHAMBERS
attoeneybai; 14W.
Will practice 4vfiie 4IiiW f
anil ot tlie titli Judicial District,, also the Su
preme anil Federal Courts of tlie State.
w. j: SWAIN. ' '' '*1
SWAIN & BURDETT,
attorneys at law,
Clark^villo Texas.
Will practice law in all ot the State Courts
and in the Federal Conns held at Jelferson
and Tyler Texas. Collections solicited, ami
prompt attention given to all business intrust-
ed to ilieir care. ; ; j > : i
Julti L"Jht, 18S1. a ' -
\V. E. DAILEir.^ Ipt"
OCULIST and AaiilST'
uo-28-ly.
PABijS, l^XAS.
a
*f{
a
a member of a traveling
and Wstd profoundly weary ot a profession
tor which she had neither liking nor abil-
ity. The quick sympathies ot the cheery
foreigner were very pleasant to iieriu those
days of dissatisfaction; and she joyfully
let! the distasteful excitements of the old
itinerant life for the ease and peace of
the home she was earnestly entreated to
sh^rei / *
Between protectress and protegee ex-
isted a rare and beautiful friendship that
was never disturbed nor endangerd l y
the misunderstandings peculiar, perhaps,
woitauSiiid. JThe older lady never
tired of the companionship of the brilliant,
jtfinuing girl whoso occasional oddities
Ohly' uiiule her more'fascinating; and
mademoiselle was always most happy
when listening to the tuneful tones and
playful, sapient sayings of the quaint wo-
man who idolized her.
"It will be to me as death when the
grand passion and the one lover chosen
of them all will come to take you from
nie away,''she would lament sometimes.
" And Madame D'Arblay did not warm-
ly favor the betrothal ot her companion
to Louitfirti Douglas, whom she was
pot at all disposed to consider the god of
fertectiou Ileleue seemingly believed him
to be. .
| | "lie is of his looks like one great
prince, distingue," she said, as they
ia. i watched him ride down the avenue that
iil1 "Si StlJ *2fyJ Earf aSd lMy—the bright frosty November sunshine
n * j f < Jjrleainiug on the gilded trappings of his
in:imfperb/.curv.etiiig black horse, and falling
J'MVSICIAN
E. W- RUSH, M-1* •) f |
I'ai-is, Texas.
1^8|>eci
Xlj of tlie
Throat (Catarrh.)
OflieohotlTS
ovt?r. tlw" large, soldierly figure of the
^ Q. 1 i A JylifuestriaU—his Rubeus hat, his dark
llcuiembraiidtesque face, the scarlet
^wer that glo*fed on his breast, over
Wiiiclr waved the magnificent length ot
lib jetty beard; "but it is to myself I
y#y- alwaysi-'My girl for him feels not
the| love that ever and ever will satisfy
|UHl her iiui ku happy.' And theu wrong
f°do again pray I may be, for of courtly
maimers > is. lie, and I do ever wish for
Jou the good.'*
llelene gazed thoughtfully down the
Nov. 1st I87! .
find SUKGKON",
clarksvili.e, xex
Kit
J . W KAJNKY.
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON
CLABK SVILLE TEXAS,; ; 1; . ,
offers his services to the public, in all bi aticlie
of his profession.
He will be found at Goldberg dru« store, o|
at liis residence. North of thftsi|iia#P4 - *
Nov. 1st
1>. w. J OHN S, 111!
PHYSICIAN and SURjGEON
C LARKS VILLE, TEXAS. \
Tenders his professional secvicon tatlie jieo-
plc of Clarksville and vicinirv", 1 V>
OI Vice over Mat Cheatham's Drag Store.
Cau be found at night at the residence of
W. L. Naunetlev South of tlie square, no.2.
ACSt
DENTISTRY
SS.Z. B. MOORMAN,
Resident Dentist
Can always be iotind at tlie.Bank building
oftien np stairs. ah work warranted. Teeth ei-
<racted for fifty cents, all other work in propor
ton.
Clarksville, Nov. 1st. no-l-tf.
A_. FITE,
deai.ER IN' ' ' !
SEWING MACHIKES
Sells the SINGER MACHINE as Agent, and
t.'pairsall lnachii^-s, tor which lut lias the irec-
•■ssiiry
hand.
< > t lice at
v material and attachments always on
Statlcv?? Saddlery
no.4u-tf.
M J.ETSTGtEL,.
y^BOOT IN!) SHOO DUKES,
Makes the best
BOOTS AND SHOES
Out of the best material, as loas eod jjwr
evi Tn«w© wli know t lUtfereure'lio-
t'ween French Calf Skin, hand work, and oil
tanned leather made by machinery, are invited to
£11.
Repairing done promptlv
gazed
i^ciiue, but made no answer. And long
after her friend had lett the room she
stood motionless bv the lofty window—a
poetical picture with her colorless, per-
fect features, her stately, exquisite shape,
her artistic dress of amber velvet, her
dark, passionate eyes, and the clusters
ot white bloom she wore in her corsage
aud heavy black hair.
Iter mood was not enviable. She was
very conscious that her protectress was
inuch more discerning than she would
over be; ami she was painfully apprehen-
sive th^i^cr 4ptr<>thal wight be au error,
and h'et^$gh|>d ^.ve a faticy aud a fol-
ly. Sheforgot her brief misgivings in
the preparatory excitement of the coming
tifaiqueiade that Madame D'Arblay pro-
pqsed to make a most pleasurable aud
recherehs entertainment.
But the very night seemed ominous ot
i|L The moonless sky was full of lurid,
studding clouds, and U, weird wind groan
ed through the bare - trees and scattered
Harries ot stinging sleet down the dreary
street.
. Yet within the charming little mansion,
behind tlie sott cui tains of rc sy satin and
richest lace, were the sounds of music
ami meri intent, and'the ceaseless rbyth
tuio pattering of the joyous dancers' feet.
''ilave you seen not the masker most
singular, a costume so pale^ as may be
tlie grave-clothes, and big eyes that blaze
aud glitter till afraid one is aud shnd
ders f: inquired a Maid of Sormandy ot
a Gipsy Queen.
"Is she not coming toward us now 1"
returned Helene, snddeuly becomin
white and cold as she glanced at the
whimsical aud spectral apparition, which
slowly approached and glared upon her
with those unearthly, burning, visual
orbs. ' ; - 7
The strange mummer wore a garb of
some white, diaphauous fabric, and a cu-
rious sort of visoi like colorless wax. The
eurling hair, that was silvery white, hang
loosely about her shoulders and waist,
and was garlanded by tuberoses—that
always suggest the order of the sepul
chre. Not a flash of color, not the spark-
le of a jewel, was about her as she moved
like a wandering spirit from room to
room.
"Do you conjecture her identity !" Hel-
ene asked a tall Brigand, with a clanking
sword and an immense sable plume.
"Not I," laughed her lover. "But,
whoever she may be, I cannot commend
her caprice. She is the spectre afi the
feast, and I have dubbed her 'The Phan-
tom Mask.' But why are yon trembling,
sweetheart? Surely the Gipsy Queen can
fear nothing, especially when the Brigand
King is by her side to defend her with
his sword and bis life," the Colonel con-
cluded with raockheroic gallantry.
But Helene was uudeniably agitated.
She was disagreeably conscious tb«t the
mysterious and ghastly personage was
persistently watching and following her;
and her equanimity was decidedly shak-
en when Col. Douglas left her alone in
the conservatory.
"Yon must have some wine," he told
her, "to bring back yoar color and your
couiage. I shall return to you speedily.''
She seated herself gladly in a cosily
cushioned chair beside a tall tropic plant
hung heavily with yellow blossoms, and
removed the mask from her pallid, chilly
countenance.
For some moments she sat there listen-
ing dreamily to the murmur ot a pretty
fountaiu that bubbled and tinkled in the
centre of the crystal temple where among
the green palms and golden lillies, a mar-
ble Flora kept watch and ward in stouy
aud eternal calm.
Presently she bean I the slightest stir
of garments, and, turning, stared iu dis-
may upon the ubiquitous "Phantom
Mask," who was standing before her,
panting like a baffled pantheress and
grasping iu oue hand a shining stiletto.
Slowly the ghostly arm that had been
lifted for a deadly thrust was lowered
nervously, aud the weapon fell ringing
upon the marble floor as the mysterious
intruder, tore away her curious waxen
visor with au exclamation ot supremest
amazement and agony.
"Dear heaven!" the startled Helene
cried. "Blanche, what has brought you
here iu that cruel disguise f Or are you
but the lost spirit of the sister I ouce so
loudly loved come back to me from the
past and the grave ? And why did ;you
meau to barm me ?"
"If you would be answered," spoke the
other rapidly, "take me away trom here
before he—your lover—returns. If you
do not, I shall find a righteous use for
that half-span of steel lying at your feet.''
Shivering with an indefinable fear that
was not for her own safety, Helene hur-
riedly led "The Phantom Mask'' through
the lillies and palms into a dim and nar-
row corridor that ended at her boudoir
door.
"We shall not be disturbed here," she
assured the watchful creature, who was
undoubtedly half insane.
And forgetful of her guests, tbrgetfnl
of her Brigand King, she hearkened pa-
tiently to the story of the shame and
wrongs that had whitened the hair and
petrified the heart aud conscience of the
wretched narrator.
Some one iu the music room was sing-
ing:
"I lived in the deep-green country,
Not many long years ago;
I went for the cows in Summer,
And coasted down hill in the snow.
I grew like a vine in the forest,
Tall and slender to see ;
And I sang like the little robins
That lived in our old apple-tree."
"Our childhood, yours and mine, was
like that," said the "Phantom Mask."
"But we drifted apart into strange cities
aud i trange fashions. We have both
had our vicissitudes, and you have re-
tained yoar gladuess ot yonth and sin-
lessuess of soul; but I am aged before
1117 time, and I sometimes fancy I can
hear the approaching tramping of the
grizzly mouarch ot the tomb. Do you
love the man whose wife you have cx<
peeted to be!" she demanded abruptly
"I know of no reasou why I should not
love him,'' was the evasive reply.
"Ah, well," proceeded Belene's sister,
"the man whose wife I was not I loved
so blindly, so passionately, so madly,
that I followed bis changing fortunes
through every phase-of wickedness and
want, ot abject degradation aud shamefnl
splendor. In his multitudinous villaiuies
I was ever his servile accomplice. I have
sat by his side at the gambling table;
have ridden by bis side at midnight iu a
wild cliuse for booty that was often wet
with warm, red human blood. I was the
willing co-operator of a modern bandit—
the uuwedded wife of a brigand king
Why do you tremble and shndder f'
llelene did not reply. She was mute
with nameless dread.
"After five years of this ma-1 aud evil
life," continued "The Phantom Mask,''
"the wan I bad so faithfully loved ant
served tired of me. I was no longer nec-
essary to bis happiness or his interests.
Plunder had made him a millionaire. Be
contemplated a respectable mode ol living.
He purposed to secure au honorable
home, a brilliant, stylish bride, aud s
flattering career as the associate of hou
est men. Far away, iu the laud of the
Golden Gate, he believed he had buried
his past, that would never be resurrected.
He assumed a euphonious ali-is and a
martial title, and lived sumptuously. He
has never surmised that a Nemesis was
hunting him relentlessly to his doom
Yon would not care to hear how I track-
ed him and learned of his relations with
the French woman's handsome heiress.
Ah I but I never dreamed that his proud
:iud petted new love was my sister! And
I came here to night determined to end
his life and hers. The Brigand King of
yoar masquerade is the man for whose
faithless affection I have given every-
thing precious and sacred to woman."
Utterly stunned, Helene could neither
think nor act.''
"Go back to your guests," poor Blauche
adjured her, and, like oue dazed, she
obeyed dniubly.
Au hour later, when
Low on the sand and loud on the stone
- The last wheel echoed a way,
she entered the conservatory.
The next iustant a sharp shriek tin-
gled through the spacious and deserted
galoon. Madame D'Arblay heard the
bitter cry aud hastened to the place.
There beside the pretty fountain lay
the unmasked Brigand King, his sable
plume and magnificent jetty beard all
dabbled with the hot, crimson blood that
yet gushed from the stilled heart, pierced
by the fatal, avenging dagger.
Aud over him bent a spectral creature,
wailiug and laughing, praying and curs-
ing, in the pitiful paroxysms of hopeless
insanity.
"And to me it. always did seem that
like to this misfortune would come some
time with this mau we so little knew of,"
•aid Madame D'Arblay, sage even iu her
distress and shocked perplexity. "But I
do think it more evil might have been
for you, my Helene dear, if to the so
grand masquerade had not at all come
"The Phantom Mask."—[N. Y. Clipper.
A Story of Sailor HeroeB-
The bark Low Wood, Capt. H.J. Frits,
from Belfast, in ballast tor orders, drop-
ped anchor in Gravesend Bay about tea
o'clock Yesterday morning. She had on
board the Captaiu aud crew of the bark-
entine Bend Or, rescued in uiidocean at
the cost of the lives of four of the crew of
the Low Wood. ' The story of the rescue
is one of devoted heroism and self sacri-
fice.
The Low Wood sailed from Belfast on
September 24. On October seventeenth
the vessel was struck by a tremeudous
gale from the northeast, with hail and
rain stoiins. The Low Wood, a staunch
vessel of 1.091 tons register, ran before
the gale and did not sustain material iu-
jury. O11 the twentieth, when iu mid-
ocean, lat. 49° 10' loug. 37° 20'., they
sighted a vessel flyiug signals of distress.
It was first seen at about oue o'clock, iu
the afternoon. The vessel was on her
beam ends, the heavy seas washing over
it. As the Low Wood bore down tipoii
her the crew were seen huddled together
in the stern, a piece ol cauvass stretched
above them to ward off the direct force of
the heavy strokes of the waves. Her
bowsprit, jibboofn, arid the foretopmast
were gonp, and only a few rags of canvass
flapped from the yards of l.er remaining
masts.
The Low Wood bore down upon the
wreck from the north, passing to wind"
ward of her, and bearing as close as pos-
sible to leeward, made preparations to
rescue the distressed crew. The first mate
Arthur McKee, told the story on ship-
board to a reporter of the Sun last night.
'We lowered our best' working boat
after a great deal of trouble, for the sea
ran so high that it was iu danger of be-
ing smashes to pieces against the other
vessel's side. 'Now,' says I, 'who will go?'
I want handy men who can manage a
boat.' Thesefeoudmate,George W.James,
jumped in the boat, and four of the men
followed him. They were John Smith,
Putierre Eugene, John Hamilton and
George Roe. We had twelve men before
the mast. They got away at about half
past three. We were then about a quar-
ter of a mile .to leeward of the wreck.
They had goue about half an hour, and
were about half way to the wreck,wheu a
Prug,
It. Ridley
Conway, D. Harris,
and O. J. Trainer.
Arthur McKee, who rescued them, is a
young sailor of twenty eight, living at
Passaic, and was married last June just
before starting ou the voyage.—[N. Y.
Siin. v
•Ruined Cities of Yucatan.
furious rain squall came up, and we lost
A Man Falls 1 800 Feet.
Last Wednesday there occurred on
Slate Mountain, near Ashcroft, one of
those ghastly accidents that make men
realize how terrible are the perils that en-
viron the pathway of the fortune hunter
in these great mountains. A young mau
named J. M. Zern, who has been pros
pecting and coutractiug around Ash-
croft for some time past, had, in connec-
tion with another man, a coutract to ruu
in a tunuel on a claim very near the sum-
mit of Slate Mountain. The claim is
known as the Sbamokin lode.
Tliey had nearly completed the con-
tract, and Zern was making his prepara-
tions to get ouc of the country for the
winter. The trail leading trom the cabin
occupied by the two contractors to the
claim winds its sinuous and perilous way
along the steep slope of Slate Mountain,
frequently zig-zagging to avoid the ledg-
es and ease the grade. But there is oue
place far up toward the summit where
the slope is almost perpendicular for
quite a distance, and under the best con-
ditions travel at that spot is perilous.
The trail, about eighteen iuches wide, is
cut out of the mountain side, and it would
make a tenderfoot's hair staud on end to
look down. The chances are that he
would "coon it" along that particular
spot. There has been a crust of snow
several inches thick 011 and near the sum-
mit of Slate Mountain for a week or more
past, and the cold nights have frozen this
•now where it had been pressed dowu
along the trail uutil it is as slippery as
glass. Last Wednesday morning Zern
aud his partner were proceeding along
the trail to the Shamokiu lode, aud at
the precipitous spot referred to, Zern
missed his footing.
Themisstep carried his body off the
trail, in an instant the doomed miner was
whirling down the snowy slope, wildly
grasping at the air aud attemping to se-
cure some foothold ou the frozen ground.
His horror-stricken partner, utterly una-
ble to render any assistance, stood gazing
at the terrible sight with emotion past
description.
Down, down, the poor fellow went and
when his bruised and bloody frame reach-
ed the bottom it was 1,S0() feet from
where it started, and bore but little sem-
blance to its original self. Zcrn's partner
hasteued down the trail tor help, and
when that had been secured the party
were compelled to follow a very long and
toilsome course to reach the bod\. It
was a ghastly looking corpse they found
crushed and beaten out of human shape,
and strong men shuddered as they looked
upon it. It was carried to Ashcroft and
there buried. Zern was very popular in
the camp—a bright, earnest young mi-
ner, and his terrible death is greatly
mourned. It is not known from what
part of the East he was from-—[Leadville
Democrat.
The long dry spell caused the bees to
tap the grape. They extracted the juice
so thoroughly in some vineyards about
Thomaston, Md., that uothing was left but
the skin and seeds.
sight of the boat. The squall lasted
about ten minutes, aud the lookout shout-
ed: 'I can't see the boat any longer.'
Then we knew that our shipmates were
lost. The Captain wore ship,and we beat
about over the place where the boat was
last seen, but could not find any trace of
her. Her bottom was painted green, and
although she floated,yet it was impossible
to see her amoug the waves. The wreck
signalled us that the boat had suuk. We
signalled back that we would stand by
till morning.
"During the. night we could not work to
windward 011 account of being short
handed by the loss ot the mate and four
sailors out ot a crew of twelve sailors,and
we drifted to the leeward of the wreck.
"To let them know that we were not
deserting them, we kept making flash
lights ot tar and paraffine, and would get
flashes bick from the wreck. Wheu
moruing cain.i the wind had moderated,
but the st a was still very heavy. The
wreck \va.i then about twelve miles away,
hull down. We heat up to her again as
close as possible. We had only oue work-
ing loat left,a little shallow pinnace. The
men bad become kind o' discouraged, d'ye
see, from their shipmates drowniu* before
their eyes, aud I don't think they cared
much for the job. But when I jumped
in the boat and said: 'Now I want a cou
pie of men haudyin a boat,' John Adams
and Willioiu Rowelston came right for-
ward*
'It took about halt an hour to get the
boat over the ship's siile, the sea was so
heavy, and it was very difficult to work
to the wreck. We would have to head
to the waves to keep from being swamp-
ed, and then in a lull, pay ott' to the side
aud make for the wreck. When we reach-
ed the wreck we had all we could do to
keep from bring mashed against her
sides. They iluug us a rope, aud the
mate and three hands got down to us,
which was all our boat would carry.
"Going bacn to our ship we did not use
the oars hardlv at all except just to keep
the boat steady betore the sea, which
drove us aloug while our ship went to the
leeward of its and picked us 'ip. Tlie tour
sailors from the wreck were taken aboard,
but we did uot get out of the boat. The
ship beat up agaiu ivith 11s iu tow until it
got a quarter of a mile from the wreck,
and we put off agaiu. This time we took
the rest of the crew, the Captain aud
three hands, making eight in all that we
took from her.
"We were nearly lost coming back this
time. A sea filled the boat with water
aud almost swamped it. The men used
th'.'ir hats to bail out, and keep us afloat
until our ship dropped down 011 us.''
The wrecked vessel was the barkentine
Bend Or, 215 tons, from Liverpool for St.
.John's with coal. She tried to lie to dur-
ing the storm, but a tremendous sea
burst her maiusail, carried off the two
boats, and rolled the vessel over 011 her
beam ends. The coal shifted atul kept
her down, altough the foremast was cut
away to lighten her. The crew worked
at the pumps without intermission for
thirty six hours, without food, save a lew
biscuits, and with a little water that had
not been reached by the sea. J. Way,
the mate of the Bend Or, says that when
the Low Wood's boat capsized they could
see three men clinging to her bottom, the
waves rolling over them.
"We lost sight of her for a moment,''
said Mr. Way,""and then there were onlj
two. We watched them as long as there
was light in the skies. It was a terrible
experience to see men who had tried to
save us droirn before our eyes, and we ex
pecting to go dowu ourselves every min
ute.''
The rescued crew were as follows. Capt.
Samuel Corky, Mate J. Way, Boatswain
I Alfred Crouch, and able Seamen John
The Republic ot Mexico, with its nu-
merous mountaiu ranges, many of whose
hoary peaks penetrate the clouds tar
above the line of eternal snow; with its
myriads of beautiful valleys aud deep dells,
where the flowers bloom the whole year
round, aud birds of the most brilliant
plumage build their nests in the solitudes
of the vast primeval forests; with ins ex-
tended plains, where the cereals of the tem-
perate zone flourish beside the fruits of
the semi-tropics, is daily becoming better
known to the citizeus of the country.
But there was an epoch, probably ages
ago, before the foundatian ot the proud
capital of the East, whon the Republic of
Mexico Was tlie seat of several highiy civ-
ilized arid enlightened nations, the ruius
ot whose vast cities and proud pyramids
and temples strew tbe country aud attest
the woiidrous grade of civilization to which
their builders bad attained.
The peniusula of Yucatau, whose sea
port is but three days distaut by steam
communication from the Crescent city, is
particularly rich in these vestiges of pre-
historic cities.
From within a few miles of the northern
coast, to far back in the interior, and from
the coral breakers of the western shore to
the eastern coast that is washed by the
blue waters of the placid Caribbean, the
ruins of grand cities cover the face ot tbe
entire country, while innumerable pyra-
mids, souteof which cover an area of two
or three acres and attain an atitade of
from 30 to 150 feet, ou all sides greet the
eye of the beholder.
I11 isolated spots in tbe midst of the
primeval forests that stretch out. into the
almost unknown interior, the. Indian scout
or the unwearied explorer or naturalist of-
ten encounter tall obelisks and huge up-
right square pillars, whose surfaces, cor
rugated by the corrosive effects of the
lapse ot nntold ages, are sculptured with
strange figures aud hieroglyphic signs
What these signs mean to represent no
In ing being knows; no Rosetta stone fur-
uishing the key to decipher these hiero-
glyphics has yet been discovered, and the
stories they tell, or events they narrate,
will probably never be known to the curi-
ous savant or the pams-takiug archteolo-
ogist.
The ruins oFUxmal, which cover an ar-
ea ot not less than 40 square miles, are the
most familiar to foreigners, from the fact
that years ago they were explored and
described by the famous archaeologist, J.
L. Stephens, Esq. Yet the savant saw
but a small portiou of them. Tbe remains
of grand temples, vast palaces and build-
ings, in different stages of preservation,
were, at the period of Mr. Stephens visit,
shut in by an impenetrable barrier of
dense tropic sh rubbery. A few years ago
the owner of tbe land upon which the ru-
ins are situated cleared away this imped-
imenta and secured [photographs ot nu-
merous obelisks, pyramids aud ruins,
which had probably never been seen by
human eye since tbe epoch of the conquest
of the country by the Spaniards.
Besides these famous ruins there are
others of ancient cities which occupy more
area than those of Uxmal. Itzincab mast
have been a city as populous as Paris,
while Cbichin-Itza, whose ruins are even
more ancient than the other two mention-
ed,was certainly the centre of an immense
population.
We have amoug us thousands who ev-
ery summer desert this city and travel
through the northeru portion of our re-
public, or waste away their days at fash-
ionable watering-places. It is strange
they never think ot visiting this tair pen-
iusula, whose wonderful ruius, vast prim-
eval forests, varied fauna aud flora would
prove such au interesting study.—[N. O.
Democrat.
Worcester Sauoe.
The following is said to be the formula:
Walnut catsup, ten gallons; mushroom
catsup, ten gallons; Madeira wine, five
gallons; white vinegar, fifteen gallons;
Cau ton soy, tour gallons; common salt,
twenty-five pounds; chillies, ground, two
pounds; allspice, powdered, one pound:
coriander, powdered, oue pound; cloves,
halt pound; mace, half pound; cinnamon,
half pouud; asafetida, two ounces; bran-
dy, oue gallon. By way of explanation-
soy is a fish sauce, said to lie produced
'roin a species ol bean, the doliclios soya;
chillies are the ports of Cayenne or Guin-
ea peppers; the other iugredients are
readily recognizable. Macerate the asa-
fetida with the brandy until its soluble
parts are extracted; mix the catsups,
wine, vinegar and salt, heat them to
boiling, then add the spices and brandy;
cover well aud let cool. Boil twenty
pouuds of hog liver for twelve hours,
with ten gallons ot water, renew the wa-
ter trom time to time; theu take oat the
liver, chop it fine, mix it with water,
work it through a sieve, and mix the
pulp with the sauce.
The Weekly Paper as an Educator.
We thiuk few persons realize how much
ot their education they owe to tbe week*
Iy newspaper. In a well edited paper sub-
jects of current interest aie discussed in
such terse, brief sentences, that almost
everything in it is read. You read a lit-
tle about something that you have no in-
terest in, but you read it because it is
short. Insensibly you absorb that mnclt
information ou a new subject; after awhile
something else 011 that subject arrests your
atteution, aud you read that, and by tbe
time you read half a dozen such articles,
you are interested, and almost belore you
know it, and without any such intention
on your part, you are well informed on
that subject. If you had been obliged to
seek that iuformatiou iu a book, the chan-
ces are ten to one you never would have
sought it, aud never acquired it.
But many persons neglect a very im-
portant part ot a newspaper—the adver-
tisements. They don't kuow how much
is to be learned from them, bat they will
find there the latest aud the briefest in-
formation 011 many subjects, brief,because
it costs 10 or 20 cents a line, and every
liue omitted is that much money made.
A little iuformatiou thus acquired will of-
ten cause you to buy the latest improved
instead of an obsolete machine, or to buy
for less money, or at a more convenient
place, or suggest au inveution from which
you might grow rich. Read your weekly
paper, and don't neglect the advertise-
ments.—[Enterprise.
Balloons for the North Pole.
The oldest, and doubtless the richest,
convict in the Ohio penitentiary, is Hor-
ace Brooks,aged seventy-four years, whose
long imprisonment is likely to be soon
terminated by a large rose cancer, which
has appeared upon hi* forehead. He was
received at tbe penitentiary November 10,
IS50, under a life sentence for murder Iu
the second degree,aud has, therefore, been
in prison thirty-one years. He owned a
farm in the suburbs of Cleveland through
which a railroad passed; the cars ran over
aud killed some ot his sheep, aud to
avenge this injury Brooks obstructed the
track, tin ew off a train, and killed five
persons. He was indicted for murder by
the grand jury of Cuyahoga county, tried
111 the courts ot that county, and sentenc-
ed to the penitentiary for life. At the
time of his conviction be was a wealthy
man, aud the property he then owned lias
become extremely valuable, since become
a part of the city of Cleveland*
Whole armies of squirrels are crossing
the Mississippi river, coming from the in-
terior-of Kansas. They are caught iu
great numbers by meu in skiffs.
2,000 robins were killed by oue mau
iu a Kentucky roost recently. Every
branch of a cedar thicket sixty acres in
length has its red-breasted lodger, aud al-
though the slaughter by liuuters,who use
a lantern aud club, is terrific, their num-
bers do not seem to decrease.
A party of ladies and geutlemeu were
sailing 011 the Potomac, near Piney Point,
when one ot the ladies felt her hat jerked
from her head, turninground saw it in the
jaws of a shark. The fish was attracted
by a long ribbon hanging over the side of
the boat, and luckily took the hat aud not
the head
Commander Cbeyne of tbe Royal Navy,
who was au officer in three Franklin
search expeditions, began a series of
three illustrated lectures on voyages in
Northeru seas in Chickeriug Hall last
evening. He is a sturdy Euglishman,
with a square head, a resolute face, and
decided manner iu speaking. He pref-
aced the lecture by modestly offering to
America his services iu any way in the
search for the Jeannette, because Ameri-
ca came forward so nobly in the search
tor Sir Johp Franklin. He also explain-
ed one of his objects iu coming to this
country. Ho desires, in company with
Lieut. Schwatka, who appro\es of the
project, to do what has been deemed im-
possible—reach the North Pole by means
of balloons. His method is to start oat
next spring with a vessel which will car-
ry him to St. Patrick's Bay. There a
house is to be put up near a coal field
and provisions are to be stowed iu a cave
iu the cliff. Then three balloons are to
be filled. Each balloon is intended to
carry three men; a sledge, Esquimaux
dogs, provisions, and instruments. Pie-
liminarv observations are to be made at
three different poiuts to determine tbe
variatioas in the course of the wiud and
after he proper wiud curve has been
found the balloous are to be released to
drift toward the pole. 49G miles away, at
the rate of thirty miles an hour. Com-
mauder Cheyue believes that tbe pole
cau be reached iu from eighteeu to twenty-
four hours with one of the balloous, the
other two beiug left part way behind in
case of uccessity; aud hi asserted that a
probability is that after the vicinity of
the pole has been photographed, the suc-
cessful balloon will drift beyond the pole
to the shore of Russia, where, ou landing,
the trip cau be continued to St. Peters*
burg, whence the news of the discovery
of the pole cau be telegraphed to the
world within a week of the event.
For this. Anglo-American expedition
Commander Cheyue wants $150,000, but
he said that be had announced that he
could carry out the project with 75,000 by
charteriug a vessel instead of buyiug one.
Subscription lists have been started in
England, aud he hopes to get aid in this
country.
The lecture was based on an imaginary
trip to the pole by the audience, and was
illustrated by limelight views of Arctic
scenery and scenes of previous expedi-
tions. > Speaking of the Jeannette,he said
that he believes she has not been lost,
lie believes that she is drifting with the
I>ack ice in an easterly direction, and that
she will in time bo reached by way of
Smith's Sound, thereby meeting her in-
stead ot'following her.
A thinly clad girl of ten weut along the
East River docks Tuesday afternoon with
a basket, gatheriug chips. A rubbish la-
den scow was moored at the Market
street (lump, and she swung herself down
to it from the pier and begad to fill her
basket. She lost her tooting on tbe heap
ot rubbish and fell into the water, coming
to the surface several yards from the
scow. Michael Moore, a young man em-
plowed ou the dump, sprang in after her
without stopping to take off his heavy
overcoat and thick boots, lie caught the
child, but could not get ashore with her,
being encumbered by bis clothing. He
managed to get her to a canal boat near
by, and she was lifted on board by a
sailor.—[N. Y. Sun.
2sot long ago a curious elopement case
occurred in Bath, Maiue. A woman fell
111 love with a man who was not her hus-
band. Tbe husband, tailing the matter
coolly, said, "Wife, we've saved up this
winter one hundred dollars; stay, and
we'll spend it together; go, and hereto ten
dollars." She took the money and went.
A white robin was
in Gaysport, Ga.
recently captured
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