The Eugene City guard., May 21, 1892, Image 6

EUGENE CITY GUARD.
LUClHrilKLU Proprietor.
EUGENE CITY. OREGON.
TORTURING A PRISONER.
Borrlble Beene In a Cl.lneee Court at
fastlee Terrible Tortures.
I was just in time to see the torturing
In iU most aggravated form. The victim
was an old thief and "cry effort was be
ing made to coml hiin to confess hi
List crime A long bench had been
placed upon the floor. Thrown upon hi
Lack Uxm thi bench, the wretch had
been tied to it by thin, stout cords, knot
ted at one end ground hi thumb and
toe, and the other end to hook behind.
The bench had then been placed upright
upon one end, so tliat the only mean of
eustaliiing a human weight of 100 pound
were the slight, sluirp cord that cut
right down to the bone of the thumb
and toe. The leg and feet were bent
back o that the knee were terribly
cramped and the ankle almost dislo
cated. The shoulder were bent back by
a pressure tliat threatened to pull the
bone of Die arm from their socket.
The joint of the thumlsj seemed no
longer of any mo. A stout, villalnou
looking sulxmllnnte was laying with all
hi might a long split bumboo stick acrots
the naked thigl s of tho unfortunate ac
cused, who writhed and groaned under
tlie added punishment, lied welt rose
from every blow, while g"' d0!
perspiration stood out upon the brow of
the poor sufferer.
The magistrate at length motioned the
whipper to top. The examination re
commenced, and renewed effort were
made to compel the accused to conies a
crime, which, perhas, he had never
committed. The examination and the
torturing liad been going on for an hour
and a half. n the case of thi particu
lar person it had been only a roiietilion
of what had taken place several time
before. Uut he had borne it bravely and
bad not yet given in. If he held out
long enough he might bo released; per
haps he might be ordered oil to execu
tion, but if he confessed ho was certain
to lose hi head. It was impossible: for
me to await the end of the so called ex
amination. I hurried out, but a I went my atten
tion was called to several peculiar instru
ments; one a piece of curiously shnied
but heavy wood, with which, while a
criminal was tied up by his thuml and
toe, he wo beaten upon the ankle until
the ankle bono were broken; another, a
leather strap fitted to a piece of wood,
with which he might be beaten acros
the face until hi jaw should bo broken
and hi teeth knocked out, or loosened so
tliattliey would drop out; the terrible
bastinado, wttn wnicn,. sircicnco. upuu
the floor, he might be beaten upon the
aole of his feU Only a couplo of day
before my own visit to thi Canton court
of justice, five prisoners, tied up by
thumb and toes, had been tortured and
beaten until (hey had fainted, and all Ova
thus insensiblu were still hanging in the
open court room, while the examination
ofa sixth conscious wret'h was being
conducted. In the hallway, when I
went out, wero other ioor criminal
awaiting their turn. All were heavily
hackled. Three with joint dWowited
and ankle broken wero seated in bas
ket, in which they hud been earned
from their cells, and in which they
would oon be carried into tho court
room to be strung up us they had been
time and time niin before. They wore
carcely coiwdous. AU in heaps, they
seemed, thrown into tho basket, with
their leg and arm dangling out, their
head bowed down upon their breast,
Canton Cor. Chicago Tribune.
Hovel Dtnlans for Flectrle (.stupe.
"There have been more ingenuity and
rtistio taste developed In designing fix
ture for tho elect rio light during the
past year than a half century developed
for all other kind of light together,"
aaid the head of one of tho prluciiwl elec
tric lighting companies in tho city, lie
was sitting in his otllce, one end of whit 'j
was covered by beautiful and novo!
ample of electroliers, bracket and
globe of all materials, color and thai.
"The best designing talent," he con
turned, "in this country and in Europe
is being uxed to turn out just such work
as this. Here is a design for a bracket lu
the shape of a branch of a rosebush. The
leave and thorn ore perfectly imitated
in bras. The roses are small colored
globe. When you turn on tho current
the effect is indescriUibly beautiful. Sim
ilar design ill lilies, bluebell and tulip
have become comparatively common.
The nutund tint of the flower is repro
duced admirably in the glass. Bomet imes
two or three different flowers are imitated
on tlie sumo bush, and the effect of a
flower garden is produced. Much con
trivance are very costly, and are only
used for decorative purpose. We can
duplicate any design tlmt the inuker of
gas chandelier can invent, and then im
provo uxm them greatly. You see, tlie
lectrio light will burn in any position.
We can have long stems and bougli with
tlie light drooping ut tho end like a blos
som. Or we can have tho light nestling
In vine running over an old tree, like
they are arranged in a f 10,000 piece of
work now Is'ing made for an English
nobleman. Tiny lamp with an inter
mittent arrangement will be fixed in the
bough of tho tree to look like glow
worm. There will lie an imitation of
moonlight, too, that it is thought will be
something remarkable, " New York Mail
and Express.
1 Jtnlere Orar Many CutI.
Little Allie had just completed the
course of lemons at Sunday school about
Joseph and hi brethren, and her mother
reviewed the subject with her to find out
what she had learned. Allio answered
all the questions correctly until site ram
to where rhnraoh bad mude tho brethren
4rulers over many cattle," and there sit
hesitated.
"What did Pharaoh do for the breth
ren of Joseph?" her mother asked.
Allie thought for a moment, and then,
with a sudden dim recollection, ex
claimed, "Oh yet, he mad them 'cow
boy! " Ilarper' Datar.
The Red liars.
The red sUr above tlie ninth magni
tude have been catalogued by Mr. Q. F.
Chamber after sixteen year of labor.
The list give 711 star as distinctly red
dish or orange, of which not more than
a dozen are really ruby or carmine.
Arkansas Traveler.
A French art journal taU tliat there
are in France alone 22.837 painter, and
that of that number 13.000 hav liad op
portunities of dismaying their work at
exhibitions.
It is told that titer are now 8,400 un
married women in the various foreign
mission fields, engaged in prosecuting
mission work.
- NYE AT NIAGARA,
Drove I torn and Interview P
fyiraoocK
Wa visited the falls on thedty of tba blizzard
which wrecksd Reading and which wound
on by tipping' tb sunanislon foot brklgs at
Niagara into tb river txiluw. : The falls have
bean visited In summer aud In winter, In IM
broad Blare of day and the soft and mellow
moonlight, but very few people have gons
there during a bliuard.
The day broks moist and meatly at Hurrolo,
but at noon the gray and choppy clouds scat
tered a little and a pstcb of skyoouldnow
and then bedisoovered. Eating a hasty meal,
our party, arrayed in alpenstocks and con
scious rectitude, lgon the ascent irom
Buffalo by a circuitous route. W reached
Niagara Falls station, whence w proceeded
bv drosky to our chalet Here w alighted.
The chalet Is kept by a native American, and
after our long Journey from Buffalo It was
good to once more hear tlie music of our own
language. Hastily eating a light luneb, w
put on our tocont, and In charge of a Jonn
Harm ws proceeded by diligence towarusine
falls via the Amurlcan side.
The storm now burst upon us in all It
fur and tha rain descended In the wildest
profusion, saturating the fulls and rendering
them well nigh Impassable, uur muiewer
covered himself with his pontoon, wrapped
bis tarpaulin around bis ears, and wnue our
sloiidor diligence swayed In tho blast be
drove us across to Uuat Uland. The thunder
nf tha linmoinu volume of water was now
swallowed up by the mighty roar of th
bursting tempest, and then, as It uiod away
Ilka tha wall of a DerUhlnit ouL on would
again boar the sullen thundor of tb groot
American dum site.
' Wa now bcnan the descent on tho side of
Goat Inland looking towards tbeOreut Horse
Kali The rain fell In torrents, and as our
umbrellas bad bocn turuod wrong side out by
the blast, we were soon wet to tb skin. There
w stood In tho presence of the greatest spoc
laela America can produce, porbnta, outsld
of congress. Llko an egotistical author Nia
gara for centuries bos been pouring ovor Its
nwn works. It Is really, however, beyond
criticism. I went there thinking that If the
Falls rually deserved scathing, 1 would scatD
them through tho press and Injure tbulr busi
ness; but I must sny tlmt, like Mr. Booth,
they deserve their great luccees, and I do not
hlnma them for respecting themselves and
having tuolr pictures taken every little while
and getting their names in the papers. They
deserve all the glory they have got, and far
be It from me to put a straw In the way of
the progress of Niagara Falls.
We next went down to the Whirlpool, and
on the way a detachment of John Darms es
corted us with an air of suspicion. Our
drosky driver evidently watchod us every
momuiit like a cat. At the whirlpool w
alighted agalu, bolng narrowly watched by
the driver and a John Darin from Loboes,
Hon as we reached Ithe brink of the cliff
the bliuard struck us amldshlp, and the
great Niagara which bos assisted so many
tamnerance lecturers In scaring to death tho
moderate drinker seemed to become silent In
toe presence nf old Mr. Blizzard, from the
wild and unkempt west Just then my high
silk bat, which I wear In ascending the Alps
and doing the tourist act generally, wont up
Into a largo blue bole In the sky, ana wane I
was watching It the square rod remark,
"Keen off the srass." with an Iron rod on one
side, swatted m across tb organ of allmsn-
tlvenesa
Tha storm was now at Its height Tb roof
of th botel gently lifted with the breeze, and
through the fast falling rain we could see a
surprised gentleman In his room just emerg
ing through the neck Imnd or a origin now
shirt With a look of horror and wonder b
tried to pull dowu the roof again and conceal
himself, but he could not do so.
Tha storm now took off Its coat and
shrieked, while the Whirlpool was lashed to
IU greatest fury, and at tho blrlpool bazar
muiulne Indian moccasins, mode In Connecti
cut, wont down to 'J a pair. 1 mado a move
ment towards the brink of th precipice, In
tending to peer down over it Into the boiling
waters, when I folt the grasp of a gendarme
on my shoulder and I wa Jerked back with
an oath which would have sworn In a wbol
precinct of non-resldenta at a presidential
election.
"Monsieur fool hoomaolfl" said the John
Derm in pur Buffalo French, with a slight
natiila of the fins do Mulu street Then
grinding bis tooth be mannged to make m
understand that I bad stated lu liuirulo tliat
"1 was going ovor the fulls and through tho
whirlpool," but that a nounwis was on my
tralL It Is vorv disagreeable to have your
trail stepped on by a nemesis, and so 1 ex
plained that I meant to Ik llguratlve, and so,
when the John Dunn had opened my over
coat and found that 1 was not dressed lu
tights with double loaded bridge Jumping
iliiwa. he allowed me to Pass. It was bore at
th bazar that I mot my old friend foco-
moco, of the flute tribe of Indiana "And
what an roil dolus hero, so far away from
home, rocotuocor 1 asked, lu th light run
ning domestic accents of the Mule tongue.
"1 am bore." be replied In the same lan
guage, "to procure our regular supply of
Indian relic tor the coming year. e can
not compete any longer with Connecticut In
th manufacture of genuine Indian relics.
8o w come to Niagara Falls for them. W
also got most of our ornamental bead work
don lu England, and our ornamental mas
sacre business is done then too. The white
man has facilities which we do not have, and
so the red man1 gross Is practically cooked.
W buy all our woapuns and headache (tick
now at New York. W get our bows and
arrow made at Watarbury, Conn., and
Boston furulsbes us with our lingerie.
Ws can buy arrow bead cheaper than
w can make them, and why should
we toll over a horn mad arrow
head all day when ho can (teal atom In ten
minutes that will bring n nlosnew rsllas
uough to last ut a yearl Y aav In our
tribe favored tree trad, and so we with our
Infant ludiutrk an thrown into direct com
petition with the pauper relio motors of th
Bowery. You can buy a good scalp at Chat
ham tqnar for slxty-nino cents today, and so
tb war path t practically overgrown with
gnu, In a year or two men with samp'.
sou will no doubt visit tb tudlaa tribos and
oil their year's supply of everything in that
line. W en utterly discouraged. There
has not been a war like attitude among tha
Ptutos slnos th Buckwheat Pancak Outbreak
at &"-BUI Nvetn New York World.
Ooad al Artthaielle.
Lady (In employment office As then la
only my husband aud myself In th family
I think yon ought to be willing to coin
for lea than yon ask. Then are only two
persons to cook for.
Domestlo But, mum, when fra wtd yon
then 'ad be three. New York Weekly.
Tiesf Cowelaalaa,
Fond Mother My dear, did yon nfuse
Mr. Foster last ulghtf I heard yon say,
"No, no. Never!" In quit aa agonized
tone.
Daughter Pshaw) that was nothing
George wa Just asking m If he mad m
Urd.-New York Herald. ,
MJUilT BLACK HAWK
PROPOSED REUNION OF SURVIVORS
OF THE SAC AND FOX WAR.
Bat rw An Left of lbs tittle Army
That Wrested Northern Illinois from
tb ( Olity Veare Ago Ulstin
galahed Indian rightars of That Time.
Then an twenty odd survivor of the
Block Hawk war. Then ancient veterans
have arranuwi to bold a celebration of the
alxtleth anniversary of the buttle of Kel-
loiri's Grove at lena, hlenheiiHon county,
Ills., on the 2ftb of next June, Hiid for
many reasons the occasion promln to lie
one of more than ordinary lutereitt.
The conourHt of the Sacs and Foxes will
always be memorable, not so much bet-mote
-f savage foray aud swm reprnutw as ov
al
MOKUMKNT TO THK LAI!.
cause of surrounding circumstances and
of the sulwcquent eminence of several who
participated in the campaign. 1 ne imme
diate result of Hlack Hawk's overthrow
was the settlement of the Kock river val
ley. Towns sprang up where the loghounee
of plom-ers had heretofore existed, ami
cities like Kock ford and Dixon remain
permanent monuments to the genius and
ilariinf of such hardy frontiersmen as Or
maiiicus Kent and Thatcher lllake, who
viewed the broad panorama of forest and
Held skirting the banks of the beautiful
stream, and viewing resolved to possess.
Sixty years! Not a long period, surely,
In the history of a race, a nation or the
great struggle for an idea, yet it means
much to the individual man. It la ample
snoce in which to make a name, to clml
emre fortune, to Krasp ami rciinmiisn
leadership, aud to review from the heights
of serene old axe the turliuleuce ami in
umpha of a vigorous prime.
Sixty years ago Hlack Hawk was
powerful and dreaded chief, who had ap
proved lilscourage ana skiii inrougn many
wars. Horn near the mouth of Hock river.
In 1 70S. he became a trllml king when
twenty years of age. The fair and fertile
valley supplied all the simple demands of
bis followers. Tbey drew fish from the
streams that flowed by their island farms.
(lame was plentiful, and the seasons suc
ceeded each other In harmony disturbed
only by collisions with other trils.
The white men appeared. First a few,
then many. They wanted land and they
boiiKht from the Sacs and Foxes a large
part of what Is now northern Illinois and
southern Wisconsin. There wasa "flaw In
the title" and Hlack Hawk contested. He
declined to go to a reservation west of the
Miss shIiidI. Afterward he went I lien
he returned and trouble followed, brought
CAPTAIN D. a HAnnts.
on, aa claimed, by the unwise precipitancy
of the aetllers. 1 he west was in an lip-
roar. Governor John Reynolds, of Illinois,
called for slate volunteers aud the national
k-overnmeut turned out the regulars.
General Wiulleld Scott conducted one
branch of the campnli;n,nnil Colonel Ziicu
arv Tavlor another. Lieutenant Jeffer
son Davis was actively engaged, and l.leu
tenunt Koliert Anderson, acting as assist
ant inspector general, mustered Into the
sen-ice a lot of "Clary Urove nova" irom
Schuyler county. Including Abraham 1 .in
eolnand John T. Stuart. Among others
who participated In the brief struggle wen
Henry Dodire. A. C. Dodue, U. W. Jonea
and Sydney Breeae.
Here Indeed wo a collection of talent in
th wilderness! Two future presidents of
the United States, the leader of the south
era confederacy ami the defender of Fort
Sumter; Stuart was to lie known as the
"silver tongucd congressman. ' and Henry
Dodge as Wisconsin's governor and sena
tor; A. C. Dodge and Jones also liecame
senators, aud wen emlstsstulors of the
United State at various foreign courts.
while Hroese found distinction as a lawyer
and rose to the bench of the supreme court
of Illinois.
Associated with these people wen the
venerable and honored few who hope to
participate In the reunion at lcna next
June, Captain D. S. Harris, of Galena,
commanded a company at the battle of
Wisconsin Heights; Cyrus IJchtenlierger,
of Apple Itiver, UK, fought under Colonel
Jamea M. Strode, and W. (I. Nevtu, of Al
bany, Ilia., was In the mounted volunteer
Infantry. They, as well as several others
on the list of the survivors, were mere lads
when they enlisted to flht what was
termed In the extravagant and unfounded
language of the hour the "British bought
bond of savage Invaders."
Now they are approaching or have passed
th eightieth milestone lu the march of
life, yet probably uon of them regrets old
age, for the sixty yean between the fight
at Kellogg's Urove and the reunion at
!.rna were well worth living. Think of
the notable events occurring between the
dates 1SCJ and ItW-lbe nullification ex
citement, the commercial panic and the
wiping out of th national dclit in 1SW,
Dorr's rebellion, the war with Mexico, th
exploits of Fremont the Pathfinder, th
discovery of gold, th oratorical Kilties of
Clay. Webster ami Calhoun. After those.
John flrowa at Harper's Ferry, the civil
war. th assnsai nation of Lincoln, the pur
chase of Alaska, the great Cblcaira fire, the
slaying of Garfield ami the subjugation of
Block Hawk's ancient tons the Sioux.
When these old men fought as lads
more than MO cities, towns and villages
now dot tlie plain, and the Kock no longer
flows with stately calm. Her waters are
chained to do the arrvlce of man. an I tum
ble over dam, shout through mills and
bear the burden of twwl
As for the Sacs ami Foxes, once so
dreaded and powerful, they are now little
more than a nam. Th few deacendauu
ee rf lTt Mnnrt afH ww-tlff wfrlf
I w ... .
Pfiififii
'he mil inn w-l to ne a nauon wuro
llhuk ll.nvk met defeat and suilereu
"I-'"."' . . .....
And. by the wity. wiihi a iro w
le wii iinmil kIkiiiI and exhibited In
OKlem eltli- like a chained eagle, but h
!isilH)-el the s.-reulty of a stole, the cheer-
uluew of a plill.wilierani loicunwei
.f it child. The achievement of "' P"10-
nee HMloiitiricd him. hikI like many a pu
ic limn of the present dny he got Into a .lis-
tut- with theiiewiipcm. which be termed
the village criers." Here I a 'correc
lm." for which the old warrior secured a
iliicc in print:
"I mind contradict the story of some vil-
who. I have been told, accuse
me of having murdered women ami cnn
dren among the whiten!' This Kertlon Is
fle! I never did. nor have I any Knowl
edge that any of my imtlou ever killwl
white woman or child. I mane mis smie
nient of truth to satisfy the white people
anions whom I nave is-en inm-mm ..
by whom I have been treated wun greav
kiiidneM.). that, when they shook me by
the baud so cordially, they did uol shake
the band that hod ever Iwcn ralseo agauwi
any but warriors.
'The whit man una proven uluki. m
powerful than I In war. I linve accepted
my present sit nation. The (Sreat Spirit
has ruled that It should lie so. and for wise
emls, to lie unfolded In time, mil now
known only to him. Ve are all, ri or
white, his children, and cannot see with
bis eyes. I feel that I have now nut lime
time to remain on the earth. In a few
more nioona I shall lie gathered to my
rHthML but I trust that some day the more
thoughtful of the white men may learn
that the Indian, like the white man. was
neither entirely hod nor entirely good.'
i'.t . v.v-?.".fj', t r.
CVKt' LtCHTENHKHOEIl.
They shut the chief up In Fortress Mod
roc for awhile, and then allowed Mm to re
turn to bis trilie. He died at a village on
the I)e Moines river Oct 8. IK, and was
buried lu Davis county. A doctor stol
the corpse and took It to Quincy, Ills.,
when, the Ixinea were cleaned and var
nished ready for wiring. The governor of
Iowa secured the return of the skeleton,
and Hlack Hawk's widow made him a
of it A nhvsician became th
next ow ner, a'ud Anally the battered rem
nants of the ureal chief were again con
sisted to earth, this time in the potter's
del. of the Aspen ( lit ) cemetery.
In connection with Hlack Hawk'sstute
ment. a-lven alsive, the following extract
from The (Jalenian of early date in 1SB bo
considerable interest:
To the eltlsens of the mining district em-
brai-liiKthe county of Jo Daviess, In the slate
of Illinois an.l the western part or luo territory
of Mivhliiaiiyn the upper JIiii,lppl-lnhah-ItliiK
ss we do a country Isolated from our
brelhrim Isilh f the stale and of the Union to
which we Mima-, surrounded by a savage and
hostile enemy, who has raised both the toma
hsw k and walpliio knife alike on ihedofense-
l.-ss Inlinhllaiilsand thesolilior nuiug- forth to
baltle. alriwly have u witnessed tho fall of a
Ilurluy. a Ht. Vruln, a llulle, Kowlcrand a
llawley on this side of Itia-k river, while the
ecalplnir knlte Instill rec-klnic in the hloodof
our fellow citizens bntween llock river snd
Peoria, and twosilursiMylvla and Rachel Hall)
are uroimlng In captivity among a savage
enemy. ' Wo arc prevented by Indian
hostility from ciiltlvallnn our farms and car
dens, reeeivlnu but little succor from the stale
or from the m-neral Koverumeiit. reeeivlnu hut
scanty siiplies hy way of the Mltsiiwippl.
which mint every day become more preca
rious. Sylvia and Rachel Hall are spoken of a
"groaning In captivity." Hlack Hawk
asserted that he and his people never
raised band "mriilnst any but warriors,"
and, so far as the Hall girls are concerned,
he told the truth. They regained their
liberty and returned to their friends abso
lutely unharmed, mid one of them, Kochel,
now a resident of Texas, hopes to be pre
eut at uext June's reiiuiou.
w. o. KKVITT.
All In all Hhu-k Hawk must be regarded
as a magnificent but necessary sacrifice to
the relentless JiiKKcrimut of the white
man's progress. KltKl) C. DAYTON.
Masking the Henae of Taste.
Dr. Wntson Smith, London, reports the
case of his own boy, critically wck with
dysentery, nnd the stomach so sensitive
that vomiting was excited immediately
any attempt was mndo to administer any-
thin,''. Tlie doctor then thought of the
sedutivo effect of perfumery, and argued
that if he could so deceive the patient as
to cause the imagination to attribute to
the article administered the delicate flavor
of tho perfumery tho etrVct ujion the ol
factory nerves would be soothing upon
the nerves of tho palate and stomach.
Some simple diet was given in a spoon
,ra. . - (V.-i
arrs2 v'-v
held with a handkerchief upon which a I vocauly iosuew Urleuns limes-Demo-
delicate perfume was sprinkled. The cnt-
efftvt was excellent, and after a short An Ktraord!nary Incident took place re
time medicines could bo given In the same cemiyaia wetlding at St. Silas' church,
way, and wore retained without further j XJverpooL While the party were walking
disturbance of tho stomach, and the pa- j frointhecarriageslutothechurchawoman
tient rapidly recovered. ! walked up to the bride and bridegroom
This plan of masking the sense of taste ' and Bung an aprontul of tlour over them.
through Hie influence of perfumery npon
tho olfactorv uen-ea mar be eauallv Dleaa-
ant to adulw. Popular Science,
Dangers to Infante.
Don't wenn ) our babies now. If you
must do so, and you live in a city, take
them at once into tlie country and keep
them there until October. They will
then bo protected from tho dangers of
chclara infantum and other diseases pre
valent in cities during the summer
month. Dobton Herald.
la a riant of Loyalty,
During the Prince of Wait' recent
viiit to llar.cliester, a member cf the
town council, la a burst of loyalty, ad
jured him to "Cling the old woman wi:a
thee, rxxt time!" The prince looked
! , , ... j! ,i '!
puleJ, and the chic iifary ad..cd,
"1 mean
Tribune.
your
wothr-ew iu
BLOWN FROM A CANNON.
THE HORRIBLE EXECUTION OF TWO
MUTINOUS SEPOYS. ;
A fUmlnleeene of the Early Dsys of
England's Bole la th Indlae tpln.
The Method Wee Substituted forllanr
Ing Bmiuh of the Brahmin. I
In th sprlngof IR57 I waaquarteied with
aiy troop at Sealkote, In th Punjaub.wltb
I., uii.iit nt tl, anow canoed Himalayan
luotinuilua, lying beyond the fortress of
Jiimrood. The garrison at Sealkote con-
,lled of a troop of bore artiiierr,
fc-ry of field artillery belonging to the FjuiI
India company's service, the Fiftyoond
foot and the Sixth ilraoon guards of ber
Hrlwuulc majesty' force, auo iwo re,
menu of Sepoys.
In the early part of June in t-urupw.
nortlon of the Sealkote garrison was or
dered to Join a force that bad been organ
Ized uuder the command of Brig. Gen.
Chamberlain, to be called "Tb Hunjaub
.Movable Column," I la object being to nom
In check the large force of Scpoyt quartered
In the Puujuiib and prevent them from
mn hinir to Delhi. We Joined tliat column
at Auuurkulloe, th old cautoiiment of the
Kbalsa army under Kunjeut biugu.
There wen Hve reiflmeut of Sepoys and
two of native cavalry then quartered then,
and shortly after our arrival some Sikhs
wbo bail been enlisted In one 01 tne neioy
eeimiient uave Information that the native
oflicers were iuciliuu the men tomutluy aud
to march to Delhi. An Investigation was
onlered, aud it wus found that two of the
officers bad deserted. They were captured
bv some ol Hudson's Guide coris aud
brouuht Itack to the cantouueut, and Gen.
Cbamla-rluin ordered a drum head court
martial to assemble for their trial. Tbey
were convicted of Inciting P mutiny and
ilntfrtl.iu and sentenced to be bans-ed.
it was conclusively proied before the
court by men from their os n regiment
l,.h IlitidiHM. Miissulmuts and Sikhs
that they had assembled the men and
urged them to murder their oflloere and
march to Delhi.
riNIMNU OF THK COUXT MAKTIAL.
The Hnditiir and seutew of the court
were approved by Geu. Chamberlain, wbo
issued an order, the rending of which wa
about a follows: "The findings aud sen
tiiee of the court martial, of which Lieut.-
Col. Campbell Is president, are approved,
but to show to the natires of India that
the British eovernmcut boa no Intention
or desire to iuterfere with the prejudice
of caste, theseiitence of the court ischanged
from that of being hung to being blown
from the mouth of a cannon, and tne sen
tenca as modilled will becurried out at sun
rise to-morrow moriiiiii under the orders
of the officer commuuding the garrison.
The 1'uniniib movable column and the
garrison will be paraded an hour before
annrise to see the seatence carried Into
effect."
The officer commanding the garrison dl
reeled the olUcer commanding the artillery
to detail two Kune to execute the sentence.
aud the two riu-ht guns of my troop were
detailed for that duty. The troop were
paraded as directed, nd formed in three
sides of a hollow square, the two guns
from which the culprits were to be blown
being at the base of the square; on the left
came the romainluu four iruns of the troop.
the battery of field artillery, the guns bolug
placed lu echelon, so that If necessary t hey
could sweep the right hatid side of th
squnre. Next came the Si xtu uiruineers,
her nuiiestv's Fifty-second foot, and
squadron of Hodsou's horse; on the right
were stationed the ontive troops, two regi
ments of cavalry, and five of infantry, and
aa it was not known but that there might
be some attempt at a rescue, the guns of
the artillery were loaded, duuble shotted
with gras, and the cavalry and Infantry
bad their carbines and mussels loauea.
Soon was beard a baud playing the "Dead
March," and the procession appeared. The
prisoners marched up to the front of the
two guns at the base of the square, tbelr
Irons were struct from them, aud the pro
cecdinm. flmlinin and seutence of the
court, together with the approval and ;
l .. ... ,w,n.n.n,ll,,
CU!II.V Ul m.-ui?uij ,ut ,viiui.uutuB
general, were read by the Interpreter of
one of the native regiments, in English and
Persian. The interpreter was an English
officer, one being attached to each Sepoy
regiment.
THE 8ENTKNCK CAItltlED OCT.
The commanding officer then guv th
order to the lieuteuuut commanding the
two guns to carry out the suuteuce. He
directed the prisoners to place themselves
with their bucks to the muzzle of the guns.
Standing un lucaiust each was a thi a plank,
about six feel long, against which they !
ulnced themsrlves, the guns having pre
viously been loaded with the usual service
blank charge of powder. A rope was then
passed around their bodies, the gunners
tin vim lieen cautioned that It was to be
doue without in any manner touching '
their bodies, ss to be touched by the hands i
of an Infidel was, in their eyes, worse than
death. The culprits were attended by a lot
of Hruhmin priests, who kept on chanting
something, in which the prisoners joined,
utitil the fastening was finished, when they
were told to withdraw, and the officer gave
the command to light port fires, and then
the command to lire, both Hashes wen
simultaneous, and when the smoke cleared
away nothing was left but a moss of flesh
and bones, unrecognizable as the remains
of two human beings. A cry ran along
the lines of the native troops, in Persian,
"Clod Is greatl" The parade was then dis
missed, the native troo(s marching back
to their cantonments.
Gen. Chamberlain was severely criticised
at the time by the Euroican press for
having changed the method of execution
from hanging. He was Influenced to make
the change by soldiers aud civilian servant
of the company, men who understood the
native character well, and also by many
prominent natives, on the ground that it
was generally believed that the mutiny
it uio luuuuy
was brought about by an Impression which
teemed to prevail among the Sepoys that I
.... i ,ii in ,n, r. ,
dostror caste prejudice. Hod they been
h.n.ir i her iin.a low caste native or a
- - - . .
. Kuru.,Mll aoldler would have had to do lu
and would necessarily have had to lay
' hands on the culprit. Their caste would
have been destroyed, and this would have
lost them all hopes of their paradise, and
I would have left the Impression on the
i minds of their frieuds that they were irre-
, She also threw a quantity over th best
' man and bridesmaid, and ran away. Th
j nnfortuuate couple were covered with flour
from head to foot, but after having been
I brushed down they entered the church,
! where the ceremony wa performed with
out further interruption.
It
is remarked of the Chesarjeak
and all American ovsters that they bear
long carriage with less harm than any
that grow on other shore. Our doe
casuu, t.crjruiMj kiiuwb, ia tu
series of months which are spelled with
out the R.
In Glasgow, Scotland, a company
: pays tor tne pnvuege oi couecung u
: siuoke from a number of blast furnace.
I ine smose is passed turougu levera.
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t t , .
; r."1". V"""' "u J
I a nmfltahle nmdnnt oi oil
LIFE IN HESTER STREET.
Cemmenpbus) Events In a Tsry
Crowded Tboroagnrare.
The student of human nature who
winheatoiee wbut emigration
for New York city should- strou mioina
canyon or uricK aim muriur wiu.
itreet, east of tne wowery, smw
afternoon. Tlie problem of how httlo a
buman being can uit mid exist uiero uuua
itatwlutitn. Tlie population w lo
cality ha been largely increased of larf
by tlie lmmij,Tauon w persevun-u
from Rusjua. And a most forlorn lot
tliey aro. Hungry, unkempt and b
whiskered, they clutter up the, sidewalks,
obstructing travel, and evidently waiting
for manna to fall down from tho ski.
into Hester street. The effect of crowd-
lnir so many human beings mio so Btnaii
an area was nown uj -
occurred on the comer of Orclmrd streot
the other afternoon.
A woman who had almost reacneu im
lin.it nf her eartlilv cxLstence fell on tilt
corner and lay ujajn her back on tlie
sidowulk
It wus Instantly assumed by
tho crow
foul bir
which gathered around, like
around a carcass, that the
is drunk. There wa nothing,
woman '
however
sustain
m the woman's appearance to
,is suspicion. Tlie sun shone
down hi i
her faded eyes ana siio acarcti
th enuinrh to close them, bhe
had (treil
grasH-d
th sidewalk in a rucoie ei-
p, and the crowd stood around
at her futile struggles. No
fort to s
and jeer
one otIei
were 20
to help her, although there
ul.le bodied men and women
standing
I round. A creature who wore
ide the timely suggestion that
trousers
the won
should be rolled into the gut
ter, whilj would no doubt have been
carried tut had not a Oerman woman
who sellfgroceries near by came up wun
bror
stick and scattered the mob.
Tlie firs
citv official who arrived on the
h connected in some way with
scene
the he:
th department. He looked nt
the
niaWrntft woman. ShrUCKOU bis
should
fj and hfted nis imnua aepre
eating!
and said he could do nothing
polic
ofllcer must be sent for. So
lire these scenes of suffering iu
coimm
this lot
ty that eveu the little children
themselves into the cracks in
stiueez.
tlie cti
(1 and laughed at the misery of
tlie oli
oman as though It was a sort
of Pun
and Judy show. After hair an
hour ol
ery patient waiting on the part
of the
ready
police
-Oman, and when sue was aimoM
f a coach with black plumes, a
jlncer came. At his bidding
vegetiJ
hrougl!
le vender's two wheeled cart was
and the woman was bundled in
with
stick,
cart n
more care than a cord wood
Then three stout boys seized the
proceeded to "rattle her bones
ovor tlti
stone to tne ponce station
A larlre part of the retail business done
on Heiii-r rtreet is transacted on the side
walk. I Peddlers are as plentiful as nails
in s slie, and almost everything can be
bouchJof them, from a mutch to a sec
ond lial.il luiir of trousers. Hut the b.ihi-
eat mln in the street was an Irish junk
dealer.1 In one hour seventeen people
came his store with various articles to
ditpotJ of. A boy w ho carried a pretzel
on a stick exchanged four pocketfuls of
old castors for two cents, and a moment
later be came out of an ice cream saloon
with two cents' worth of frozen sweet
ness on a piece of brown imper. The
next transaction was the transfer of a di
lapidated wash boiler to the junkman for
two cents. The boiler luid a copper bot
tom, of which 11 10 seller was unaware.
A relative of the Wandering Jew stag
gered up under the weight of a big bag
full of old paper and a venerable iiou
pot lie kicked vigorously when eleven
cents was mentioned as the price, but he
finally accepted and went his wav to
make room for a young man who to. k
from the shelter of his coat tails a lnrgi
T-icce of battered lead pipe. The buJ
Betted him fifty cents, although lie sail
tliat by walking four blocks he would
have realized twice as much as he had
received. The boys frequently play
tricks on tlie junk dealer by putting
stones in the bag among tho paper. 1 hey
aha have a carclees habit of pressing on
tlie scales with sticks. These littlo tricks
anger tlie junk dealer, aud it is cur
rently reported in the vicinity tliat he hns
been known to use bad language when
provoked. Usually, however, the dealer
gets about all the meat (hero is on tho
bone. A bright eyed boy whose desire
lor marbles got the better of his Judg
ment, stole six vichy water bottles from
his mother and sold them, but before be
could get away with the spoils his mother
cane down on I :n like a hawk on
chicken, and the quiet of Heater street
wal disturbed by bis howls of pain,
And so the struggle goes on in Hester
street, as well as in other and more savory
localities, in this big town. A sort of
dot eat dog existence, in which the little
children are tlie sufferers. And yet they
don't seem to complain much. The
prattle and laughter of little children is
about tlie only real music of which Hos
tel street can boast. New lork Sun.
Food That l'arls Consumes.
Borne interesting figures with regard to
the consumption of food in Paris have
recently been published in I ranee, from
which we take the following details
appears that in the year 1883 no less than
80J.804 oxen. 188,505 calves, 1.0TU.536
sheep, and 852.004 pigs were killed at
Paris. Adding to this the T,b('.2,413
pounds of hone flesh which was sold for
food, 157 pounds of meat is tlie average
consumption of each inhabitant. Tlie
largest number of cattle came from tlie
- ... , ..,, , . . v. ,
' ST., 3 " ' .h.
Germany, Switzerland and Austria-Hun-
I put. JJesidos this an average ol nine
poundsof tongues, livers, kidneys, calves'
l. , - . .. i i - . r i'.
""""H irau-uun uun.u.s ui uan,
1 twenty-two pounds of poultry and seven
pounus 01 oysters per miinuitant nas to tie
added to the consumption of meat It
will appear strange that the average of
seven ikhuius of ovsters falls on each in
habitant of Paris, tho more so as the
poorer classes contribute largely to raise
the average. It is stated that the oyster
for which there is the greatest demand at
Taris is tliat known as tho Portuguese
oyster, the flavor of which has been im
proved by some new experiment in the
growth of oysters. Fall Mall Gazette.
Prince a Alexandra's Tardiness.
Tlie still charming and beautiful con-
j sort of tho Prince of Wales is notoriously
! lacking in th power of keeping her en-
i piRenients, Sho is constantly ten minutes
late. So marked is this churacteristic
that when circumstances necessitate her
presence at an exact time she is purposely
misinformed as to tho hour. A writer in
Brooklyn Standard says that ho was
t , Ql ule
, 2? F d V0
mar cruue. A ball had been given in
their honor at Cowes, and the prince, in
full dress, was pacing the deck awaiting
the advent of tho princess from her dress
ing room. Finally tho little lady made
uer appearance, but aa per usual ten
. minute late. "Tut, tut, remarked IL
o II lMtnM ...... a
. wiuu.t, hub ug-jun, pnncessi
Roma ot tia dxrm to., .ill K.
i mi.T.,T " " '
I wo ounuusi lax IOT heavexu
EOPLE DID NOT BATHE
WHEN THE BENEFICENT EFFECTS
OF WATER WAS UNKNOWN.
Cattomi of Boyal fereonacM That Ar
Bapulslv to li.e nostra Idea of Cleae.
Unas The Laek of Bathing ll.blu
Among the French and Kngllah.
Until about the year lOJOal the liarben
In France and most other countries of
Europe practiced tb art of surgery. tB
dark and dirty shops they shaved snd hied,
cut balr and applied cupping gawtli
opened tumors and performed surgical
operations still more difllcult and danger
ous. They were despised as laborers, u,
every one was despised who made a prattl.
cal application 01 nis snowieuge la ih,
f.rm of a trade regularly followed. As
class they were much liked by the common
people, who uppueu 10 mem lor all ordi
nary medical advice, but as society became
more refined, and consequently mure ex.
acting in respect to nearness, It became
uecessary to separate the care of the hair
and beard from the treatment of diseases,
not only Decause lue nseoc.niion 01 tne two
profession was often repugnant In Itself,
but there was great danger of the trans-'
mission of disease.
Louis XIII first ordered the separation
of the two professions, directing that tlie
barbers should confine themselves to the
hair and heard and operations Incidental
thereto, but the shaver aud hair cut
ter appealing to parliament, the matter
dragged on for uearly forty years, and was
not definitely decided until the Issue of aa
edict by Louis XIV In 1673. A a French
writer remarks, thi wa none too soon, It
belli ii absolutely necessary that there
should I a trade whose business it should
be to car for the geueral nealuesaof th
public.
At thi epoch the Parisians, and much
mora the Inhabitants of the other cities of
France, bad almost lost the hnhit of
cleansing the face and hands with water,
to say nothing or oilier parts of the body.
hatiiinu in rAitis.
In the Durk Ages It hud not been anil
so bad, there remaining in Uniil something
of the Koman custom of batliiug, which
gradually disappeared, owing to the oppo
sition of the monk and the clerirv. An
ecclesiastical work published In 17(10 de
clares that the use of the bath Is only to be
regarded us a necessity, never as a luxury.
So filthy were the monks of the Fifteenth
century that tbey put to flight the beggars
at their gates if th wiud happened tobloiy
from the direction of the monastery. Nuns
of the same epoch and later were not better
provided for, as we learn from the experi
ence of a unble lady who, beinu a tempo
rary inmaie oi a convent, and navinit de
manded a foot bath, was refused by the
superior, the luxury being unheard of
within those walls. In default of other
appliances she made use of an old trunk.
with no other result than to produce a gen
eral inundation of the sacred edifice.
In VSfi there were twenty-six public
liatbs in Paris, theu a small city. They
were arranged for steam or hot water,
person being able to take one or both kiudi
as he desired. They were expensive for th
period, a complete bath costing four francs.
which restricted their use to persons lu
easy circumstances, Tbey were not opened
till daylight, the streets not being safe be
fore that hour. To prevent promiscuity it
was ordered that the men should go In the
morning and the women In the evening,
but the rule does not seem to have la-en
well observed, since, in ibe course of time,
they acquired a bud reputation and fell
into disuse. When they were bested In
the morning the fact was announced after
the manner of the period by criers who
made the round of the city. Bathtubs
were commou in private bouses at tlie
same epoch, made usually In the form ofa
half hogshead, the use of metals for the
purpose being unkuown.
WHKN UATHINQ STOPPED.
Wash basins were also familiar object
in the palaces of kings and in the costlss
of the nobility. Charles V of France bud
twenty-four of the latter, all solid gold, lie
sides others of silver. As among the Ro
mans, It was customary to bathe More
meals, and to offer the luxury of a bath
to one's guest, who passed directly from
the bathroom into the banquet ball. Vari
ous lustancea are related of baths magnifi
cently arranged offered to kings of Franc
when subjects happened to entertain them,
to Louis XI among others, this king In
cluding an affectation of neatness iu his
brief list of virtues. There were bathtubs
at the barbers' shops, used Indiscriminate
ly, as It would appear, by Ibe well and sick
a circumstance that helped to render
neatness unpopular, and keep the people
from visiting them.
Therefore, the public baths being discon
tinued for wunt of patronage and tbo.se at
tlie barbers' shops feared for sanitary rea
sons, the practice of bathing, common to a
certain cluss in the Dark and the early part
of the Middle Ages, disappeared. Having
ceased to bathe the person, the hands and
face became equally neglected, the appli
cation of water once a week being consid
ered sufficient among the nobility, and
once a month, or not at all, among th
burgesses and the common people.
The habit of bathing was less common
in England lu the time of Queen Elizabeth
than in France, whence It appears at this
epoch to have almost disappeared. The
virgin queen insisted that the gentlemen
and ladies of her court should be magnifi
cently dressed, but their line apparel often
covered persons that were repulsive.
ROYAL CKITICISMS.
Bath tubs were not common In the cas
tles of the nobility, and they would not
have been much used If they hod been.
This disregard of neatness could not,
nevertheless, be carried too far, ss is
proved by the remark made by the queen
regarding the order of his boots to one of
her courtiers who bad come Into her pres
ence too hastily after a long journey.
Henry IV, who was Elizabeth's contempo
rary, was ss careless of bis extremities as
Udy Mary, if the Protestant O'Aublgny
Is to be believed; but if this testimony is
not sufficient we have that of another
writer of the epoch, who alleges that the
king was once told by a lady of bis court
that "he smelt like a dead horse."
The generations that succeeded did not
practice this cardinal virtue much more
efficiently, but outraged neatness revenged
itself in sending swarms of parasites to
torment the human race. Methods of kill
ing fleas and other animalcule) that Infest
the human body formed one of the prin
cipal features of the handbook published
in Franc during some hundreds of years.
Keceipts were given for ointments to be
used a Insecticides, which were the germ
of all tb cosmetics, pastes, essences and
tssrfumes which have from that day toth:
been among the most essential element o.
a lady'a toilet-Cincinnati Commercial
Uazette.
Teetine; Each Other's Eyeslcht.
Gens. Harney and Twisu tho Litter
still survives and residue at St. Louis
were stationed in Texas just before the
tjiisunderstanding about slavery came to
focus. They were both well advanced ia
years, and in San Antonio. Their eye
sight had become somewhat impaired,
and they got into a dispute which of than
hod the best eyes, so they determined to
test each other' capacity. They selected
a piece of small print in a newspaper, ana
llarney began to adjust the focus cf his
spectacles, by moving the paper to and
from his eyes, very much as a musical
instrument k moved backward and ft
ward.
Come, now, Harney!" delate"
Twigg. "that' not fair. No trombon
tafft No tramboalscl" Taxasl Siftirii
i