The Douglas independent., August 16, 1879, Image 1

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THE INDEPENDENT
IS ISSUED
Baturday BCorxUnw,' 1
BY
i KELLY A WELLS, Publishers.
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Ml Moiitk.
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Theee fire tnr trrnis ft those paying in ad
vance. The limiirsiiiiKST oners fine indues
menu to advriiuers. Tenn muniUa.
C. R; MULLER,
Watchmaker, and Jeweler,
OAKLAXD,
OREOOH
Office in Dr. Page's Drug8lore.
Canyonvillo Hotel,
D. A. UKYIX., - - PBOPRIKTOU
HATING JiECEXTLY rrRCIIASED THE
Canyonvi le Hotel, I am now prepared to
furnish traveler with the beat of accommodations.
Feed nd stabling fur nU-ck. D. A. LEVINS.
W. X. WOODCOCK. , H. W. CHXJBCHlLXi.
Woodcock & Churchill,
MYRTLE CHEEK, . - OREGON
TEAMSTERS FROM JACK80ITVILLE
and the residents in Myrtle Creek will find
the best horwuhners at this establishment. In
this line we claim to do work equal to any in the
State. New wurk manufactured and repairs
made on the shortest notice. Give us a trial, and
if we cannot suit you none can.
t WOODCOCK k CHURCHILL.
W. W. Hairs
RESTAURANT.
This popular Restaurant now nnder Compe
tent niNnuK.nieot la prepared to ao
com ukhJxix (tie public In a man
ner unsurpassed In the city.
Supper for Balls and Private Parties.
Furnished on short notice. Glre ns a call.
W. W. BALL.
US. THOBNTOKs JACOB WAONEB.
W. H. ATKINSON. X. X. ANDERSON
Ashland Woolen Manufacturm
Company,
Manufacturers and Dealers in .",
White & Colored Blanket,
Plain amtl Faury Cashmeres, Deesklas,
F Uuutela, Kte. also,
OYER AND UNDERWEAR CLOTHING !
Made to Order.
W. II. ATICirVSOIV, Sec'y
I ASHLAND, Jackson County, Oregon.
II. Cs STANTON,
Dealer in
Staple Dry Goods 1
1 Keeps constantly on hand a general assort
ment of
EXTRA FINE GROCERIES,
WOOD, WILLOW ASD GLASSWARE!
ALSO
Crockery and Cordage
A full stock of
RflTIOOT, O O K M
Buch as required by the Public County Schools!
I
All kind, of STATIOSKRY, TOYS and
FARCY ARTICLES
To suit both Young and Old.
-lOtnrs AKD 8ELL8 LEGAL TENDERS
" furnishes Checks on Portland, and procures
Pralts on Han t rancisco.
&1 A HONEY'S SALOON.
. Nearest to the Railroad Depot, Oakland.
Jam. Hahoneyi PropV.
The finest of wines, liquors and cigars in Doug
las county, ana tne cesc
BILLiIARD T A II LB
In ths State kept in proper repair;
farUoa traveling on the railroad will find thia
place very bandy to visit during the stop
ping of the train at the Oak
land, Depot. Give me acalL
J A3. MAHONEY.
SALEM
Foundry and Hachine Shop
B. V. DRAKE, Proprietor.
BAZiESf. . OREGON.
Mteavm En(rlnf Saw MUU(
Griat Mill. Reapers. Pump
and all kinds and Style et
Maohlnery made to Order.
Machinery repaired on
Short Notloe.
Pattern making done in all its various forma,
and all kinds of brass and iron castings fur
nished on short notice. Also manufae-
InM. nf f : TM.: J
uuwpuiq Plainer am i
Af etcher, and Suekera and l ' I
Sharpers.
PATTERSON'S
Jaa. XX. 1?lpton, Prop'r.
ALL KINDS OF LUMBER,
Including
fKuffax Fine,
Cedar, XTlr,
.Pine and Oak
Lumber,
Always on hand,
And Orders promptly filled on
tne Hhorteat notice
All kinds of drcswd lumber constantly on
liand. Lumber iarnistiea at any
.. point in Koseburg without extra
tbarge, and br application to
; me it will be found that
Vy Lombr is not only the beet but
.,. . .a n.rV.I TW
bb and see. Address all letters to
TtPTOW. - PattCTaon'a Mtlla. Or.
BLACliSOlTHUIB,
WADIONS BROS.
-WoM t. form the public that they have leased
11.. UlacKimuiiing miuifi r-
I,. UMOi'ge aicai, -
prepared to do
All Kinfla of Blackamlth lag
. 1 Cclaas s'.le.
And at prires lower than the lowest. They have
aw. r , in the line of
many j
Horse Shoeing!
And claim, on this poinl,in tha trad., the era
- " " .v.- J n lat of work to the
Juf5.nofrtro'- JA,lkiBUof
Machiuerv repaired, now
.Give them a caU. 8nop'oppei B. Mark k Co.
fr.t7St, -
E
VOJU 5.
Furniture Store I
JOIIX GI LDERSLEVE
MAVINCr PURCHASED THE FURNI
tore Establishment of John Lehnherr, is
now prepared to do any woik in the
UPHOLSTERING LINE.
He is also prepared to furnish
In all styles, of the best manufacture, and cheaper
than the cheapest His
Chains,'
Tablet?,
Huron ii k,
Wnlixtniitl,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
Are of superior make, and for low cost cannot be
equalled in the State. The
Finest of Spring Beds
And the
Most Complete Sofas
Always on band. Everything in the line fur
nished,of the bestquality,on the shortest
notice and at the lowest rates.
COFFINS MADE AND TRIMMED
And orders filled cheaper and better than can
any other establishment.
Desiring a share of publc patronage, the un
dersigned promises to oner extra inducements to
all patrons. Give me a trial.
JOHN GILDERSLEYE.
JOHN FRA8ER,
Home Made Furniture,
WILBUR, - - OREGOS.
Upholstery, Spring Mattrasses, Etc.,
. Constantly on hand.
TFRM ITITBE 1 have tke beet stock
a tUH UUOC lurnlture south of Portland
And all of my own manufacture.
No two Prices to ! Custome rs
Residents of Douglas county are requested to
give me a call before purchasing elsewhere.
ALL WORK WARJRANTED.-t
DEPOT HOTEL-
OAKLAND, . . OREGON.
1
Richard Thomas, Prop'r.
rpHIS HOTEL HAS BEEK ESTABLISHED
popular with the traveling public. First-class
SLEEPING ACCOMMODATIONS.
And the table supplied with the best the market
affords. Hotel at the depot of the Kailroad.
Pine Liquors and Cigars.
The undersigned has purchased the saloon form
erly kept by Mr. TibbeU, Oakland, and
with new brands of wines, liquors
and cigars he is prepared to
hospitably entertain all who
may give him a call.
A. Flno Ullliuinl Table
. lm lanl in jafin at i n fc mtVLtr.
is kept in constant repair.
DAVIDl BAKER.
T. C.
SMITH a CO.,
Chemists and Pharmacists !
Patton's Block, State Street,
SALKX,
OREOOH.
Particular attention given to prescriptions, and
ail orders by mail or express sum
promptly and accurately.
Thysicians and country dealers will save money
our prices, before purchasing else-
where. 4t
Sugar Pine Mills
Located at Sugar Pta Mountain,
Post Office address, Looking Glass, Oregon.
The Company owning these mills would say they
are preparea va iut unu mv
BEST OF LUMBER
fti the most reasonable rates.
JTIr and CJeaar
purchase Lumber will do well to give us an
pportuniiy niung uieir oruer, uciure
irnere.
J G. CALLIG HAS. President,
W. B. Hi i: K E. Tctir? and Trrasuiw
Oregon and Cur rxit
STAGE 1.IIVE!
T8ECU8H TO SAN FRANCISCO
FOUR DAYS.
THE QUICKEST, SAFEST AND
EASIEST ROUTE.
STAGES LEAVE ROSEBURO
Kvary Day at T-30 P. M.,
Making quick connection at Reading with the
cars ot ut u. xv.xi.n.
Tat full particulars and passage apply to
PERKINS AHEADR1CK.
Igent.
MAMMOTH
LIVERY AND FEED
STABLE.
This establishment is the
Best in the State!
and connected with it is a larga
Wagon Yard and Shed Room !
Capable of accommodating any number of
uorscs ana wagou
Ue.t of Hy and Gral,
alwava in full sunnlvand atllvinr vriocs.
and no one is allowed ti go aw.y dissatisfied.
Don t fail to give ns a can. iuf . are
determined to suit you iu quan
tity, quaiitv and prion. ..
WKIU'ir f attl.'
NOTICE.
NOTICE 19 HEREBY GIVES TO WHOM IT
may eoneern that the ondwrsigned baa been
awarded the contract (or keeping the Douglas
County paupers for a period of two years. All
must first procures certificate to that effect from
to one ot the following named persons, who are
auwiun to ana win care lor mose pmsnu
such eertifieates: Button k Perkins. Roseburn
T . IT I ) l.i i . r tj T ul'i.a
Glass. Dr. Woodruff is satlinrised to fursisa
meaicai aia to all persons la aeeil of tae same an
who have been declared paupers of Duuelt
i ' i n rrt I Df
vuuui.. if , ,p, vaA
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TELEGRAPHIC.
EASTERN.
TheVa'ne of Mrs. Dorsey'a Beqneat.
New Oblbans, Auar. 9. -The Democrat
of this city says : " The accounts of the
value and extent of the estate of the late
Sarah A. Dorsey bequeathed to Jefferson
Davis, recently printed in northern and
western papers are absurdly extravagant.
We are assured on tne best possible au
thority that the value of the estate will
not exceed $25,000. Besides protertyin
Mississippi City, valued at $5500, Mrs.
Dorsey owns three places in lensas par
ish, one assessed at $11,500 and three
fifths of another valued at 5000, and
another lying idle subject to overflow,
valued at $1500. Two of these places
are rented for $2250, which constituted
the whole of Mrs. Dorsey's income. She
paid according to receipts shown us, $4V2
taxes. Her debts at death were over
$5000. Last spring she made a bona fide
sale of Beauvoir place to Davis for $5000,
for which he gave his notes, running on
two and three years. ' Mr. Payne who
had been a warm personal friend of her
husband washer near neighbor, and was
made by her custodian of the will and
private papers. The much talked of
lands owned by Dorsey in Arkansas and
Texas, have not for along time past been
deemed worthy of paying taxes on. The
above facts are received from Payne.
Struck by Lightning.
During a thunder storm to-day several
houses were struck by lightning.
Bad Crops In Eastern Germany.
New Yobs, Aug. 9. The Evening
Past has a private letter from a gentle
man in Eastern Germany who says that
there has been no summer, but rain near
ly every day. The thermometer has
ranged from 69 to 95. In some places
harvesting has begun, but unless we
have some warm dry weather soon much
grain must rot in the fields. On the way,
recently, to and from the mountains, by
two different routes, I observed that at
least half the wheat we passed was lying
flat. .
A Defaulter Overhauled.
Lima advices to July 19th announce
the arrival of the Guiding Star from
San Francisco on the 10th, having on
board Alsop, charged with defaulting.
Advices had been received from the
United States and a demand made for his
extradition under the terms of the pres
ent treaty with Peru. He was promptly
arrested by the Callao authorities and
handed over to the custody of the United
States consul, who will send him home
the first opportunity.
Arrival of English Skilled Workmen at
New York.
One hundred and thirty Sheffield cut
lers and families have arrived here and
500 English and German cutlers are ex
pected later. Sheffield men say 'there
are 50,000 men there to do work that
2000 can do.
M nrder and Suicide.
Middleton, Aug. 9. Charles Ballett
this morning killed his wife and imme
diately afterwards shot and killed him
self. Frightful Fall. V
Chicago, Aug. 9. This morning while
six masons were on the scaffolding of the
dome of the new Mnsio Hall, sixty feet
above the ground, the entire scaffolding
fell through the floors to the ground
floor. Four of the workmen went down
with the timber and were terribly injur
ed. Suicide.
St. Loros. Auk. 9. Samuel Nuss-
baum, of Cape Girdardeau county, Mis
souri, cut his own throat: domestic
trouble was the cause.
Fatal Boiler Explosion.
Albany, Aug. 9. This afternoon the
boiler of the steamer Saco exploded,
Killing Thomas Smith and Frank Mur
phy, machinists, and John Mclntvre
and Wm. Horton, fireman ; Wynant
CranneU, engineer, and Kobt. B. Miller
were bruised and scalded.
Sitting Bull and his People.
Chicago, Aug. 9. Gen. Terry has re
ceived a dispatch from Gen. Miles, dated
"Camp on Kocfc Creek, July 2otn,
which says : Major Walsh, of the Cana
dian mounted police, accompanied by
the Sioux chief Long Dog, came into
camp and stated that Sitting Hull s whole
camp of 5000 to 8000 people, comprising
several hostile tribes, had moved north
to Swan lake, about eighty miles from
the line, where they had determined to
remain. . The chief brought the assu
ranee that the Indians would make a
permanent home on Canadian soil ; would
abstain from all hostile movements ; re
turn stolen property, and desist from
hunting American buffalo unless permit
ted to do so under the supervision of
United States officials.
Extraordinary Rainfall In Cincinnati.
CraciNNATi, Aug. 9. In the 20 minutes
between d.lo and dSStlus afternoon.
there fell one inch and forty-six hun
dredths of rain. This is the heaviest fall
of rain for the same length of time ever
known in this city.
Man Killed.
New Obleans, Ang. 11. Anatole Bas-
nne. a desperado, shot and killed Cant.
Jos. Boyle, of the steamer Heroine, at
Mandeville last night. Boyle after being
mortally wounded shot Basque twice,
wounding him in the neck and shoulder.
Basque declared yesterday that he would
Kill Uojle.
Death Of Wm. H. Lelanrt.
Saratoga. Aug. 11. Mai. Wm. H. Ice
land, formerly one of the proprietors of
the Grand Union Hotel, died to-day. He
was on General Grant's staff early in the
war.
Capt Beardaley's Report.
Washington, Ang, 10. Commander
Beardsley, of the Jameatoun, at Sitka,
in his report says : xne nrst and only
step by which Alaska can ever by saved or
developed will be the enactment by con
gress of a law which shall place the im
portation of molasses and coarse sugar
under such restrictions that the manufac
ture of " hootchenoo" can be stopped
The whites of Sitka may be divided into
three classes, namely ; Very few respect
able people worth saving ; a large num
ber of Bnssians and ha&breeds, poor,
miserable, lazy, poverty-stricken creat
ures, whom it would not be worth while
to take much trouble about was it not
for our pledge to Bussia, and ft few un
principled white men, mostly discharged
soldiers or deserters who make what little
money they can by any scheme, however
Rfifitrious. Belonging to all three of
these 6i&$ses are certain naturalized
American merchants, mostly Jews, who
sell liquor to Indians ami satf ors ; and at
the same time tney tnus incite danger
and incapacitate protectors. Qf those
who signed the petition to the president.
two to Qneatesi jijis ciass. -
As the result of a meeting- called b;
liim last month, he savs: til htme
tisva atArtad a publio opinion winch may
result i h formation of a local govern.
meat with police regulations sufficient to
restrain disorder and regulate if no(
check the trams in iiquora,' s
A Plan to Work Sarpt ns Silver,
A very decided effort i making by ths
treasury department to force the stand
ard silver dollar into circulation. The
demand for it has grown aince Sherman
lsaaad the order to disbursing officers to
pay it ont,sd the next pay day the treas
urer proposes to pay sijyer ten per
cent of the wages due the departments
clerks here. Gilfillan thinks if he could
pay ont ten per cent of all the govern:
meat's expenses he would very soon get
law circulation je mass pi silver iu it
Independent
KOSEBURG, OREGON, SATURDAY,
treasury that has been growing larger
uu uirgvr wiui eacn month s coinage,
and which now amounts to over $30,000,
000. , '
Views of the Administration on the Darlen
vanai scuirnc,
ThroUfirh inanirv at the, atn.fo
ment and an interview with the president
mm tuiernoon enaoie the authoritative
statement that no action has been taken
and no corresnonilpnon hnl.l thn
ernment either with regard to De Les-
seps canai scneme in its relation to our
foreign policy or with regard to further
exploration of the inthmns liv
government expedition with a view to
i organization oi an American com
pany. As far as T)e Trftasima' utliann
concerned, both the president and secre
tary of state are firmly convinced that
no exigency is likely to arise which can
cause disquietude or make it necessary
for the government to take steps for the
protection oi American interests. They
think that De Lesseps and the Paris con
gress h&VA HfdfwtArl fin tmriHntliiiiMn
route and that De Lesseps' scheme will
iveniuauy iaii through lacfc of financial
upport and for want of AmnriVin
operation. Admiral Am men is very
anxious that a commission of American
engineers should be appointed to make
a careful examination nf
ficial report upon the whole subject of
an mier-oceanic canal, with a view of
further snrvevs if necessarv. Aaminn
action has been taken by the govern
ment upon Ammen's proposal, but there
! 1 .'ill 1 fiv ..a . . . ... .
is nwie aoiiDi dui that it will be favor
ably considered.
The Fishery Interest.
New Yobk. Aug. 10.-A visit of the
Kearsarae to the Gulf of St. Lawrence
is earnestly asked for by local papers on
the fishery coast. A Gloucester, Mass.,
dispatch says that matters have come to
an intolerable pass down there. " We
are worse off than before the $5,000,000
were paid." The appearance of the Kear
sarge in colonial waters will show people
down there at least that our government
does not mean to have our poor fisher
men run over any more.
A Singular and Fatal Accident.
Mabtha's Vineyard. Autr. 10J H.
Bheinebeck of Pittsburg dived from a
bathing landing and had his neck broken
by striking the bottom.
The Cheyenne Outbreak Lut Tear.
St. TjOttts Ann. in a
U. a. senators will meet at Lawrence,
Kansas, on the 12th inst. to inquire into
the causes of the outbreak of the Chey
enne Indians who raided through Kau
nas n year ago. several oi the raiding
Indians are now in jail at Lawrence and
Will tie rAnrORAn I.A.I of tlm invacfimiiinn
by Hon. J. G. Mohler as council.
The Trespass Suit against Sheridan Die.
lata.
New Yoke. Anir. 10 InAm Waliovo
in the U. S. circuit court, has denied a
motion for a new trial in the suit of Jos.
A. Whalen, of Killora plantation, Louis
iana, against Gen. Sheridan for damages
for trespass.
facing Kaee at Buffalo.
Buffalo. Ana-. 10 A
for pacers, open to trotters also, -was con-
for iW-ilfiV nrtlv natoro antuiamJ
e vmj puvvi u npajDicu
with the following result : Sleepy Tom,
nil! mattie Hunter, 1 3 3 4; Kow
dy Boy, 3 2 2 3; Lucy, 2442. Time
-2:16, 2:16, 2:15, 2:17.
A Dastard's Punishment.
Fort Faibpieij. Ana. 1ft T TlnHor
, o " - - ,
Who CrORHlv fmsiAnltvl a ti1.1 olnuti
years of ace. was pnrsneil hv tli iwnnln
and shot.
A Dcfaulter'a Property Attached.
Fall Rives. Anc 1fl Tha nmnorfir
of Goo. R. "Dnrfna anil Pielin Tl Tirtrto
his mother, has been attached by the
merchants and .Mechanics UanK. The
attachments aggregated over $75,000.
This is the outgrowth of Durfee's specu
lations with the funds of the mills of
which he was treasurer.
A Murderer Hanged,
San Antonio. Aug. 10. Jacob E. Hair
line was hanged to-day inside the jail in
tne presence oi about iX) persons for the
murder oi i'eter Aladdox February 7.
Hairline affirmed his innocence to the
last.
Death Warrants.
Hakbisbubg, Aug. 10. The governor
has issued warrants for the execution on
October 9th of John O'Neil and Peter
McManus, Northumberland county Mol-
iu; iiuiguires , anil aiso ior tne execution
of Andrew Tracy of McKean county,
who murdered a young lady to whom he
was paying attentions.
Maryland Democratic nominations.
Baltimore, Aug. 10. The democratic
state convention has nominated Wm. T.
Hamilton of Washington county for gov
ernor ; C. J. M. Gwynn for attorney gen
eral, and Thomas J . Jvealing for compt
roller. Steamboat Collision.
Chester, Ang. 11. The river steam
ers Mary Morgan and Pierce Point,
came in collision last night and the latter
sunk, but her passengers and crew were
saved.
i Mil' Scout
Fort Peck. Aug. 11. General Miles
has arrived, having driven the hostiles
into Canada, and recaptured all the half-
breeds between this point and Wood
Mountain. He has divided his force into
two bodies for the purpose of watching
the border. Scouts all agree that Miler
command is entirely inadequate for a
brush with the savages, who are massed
and well armed. Major Walsh visited
General Miles, bringing Long Dog, a
renegade, blood-thirsty chief, who prom
ised that his warriors should not again
cross the line to hunt without permis
sion, it is rumored that the Canadian
authorities intend to apply for permis
sion for deserving Indians to hunt on
this side.
Russia's Wheat Product.
New Yobk, Aug. 11. The Times says :
Russian traders are anticipating a large
export of grain during the present month,
which, combined with the encourage
ment given by foreign capitalists to the
third oriental loan, has sent up the rouble
from 22 upon London to 24 jo, JNoth
iag could show more forcibly the enor
mous resources of Russia after the fear
ful havoc bp drought, hail and grasshop
pers ; but nevertheless the decrease of
grain exports as compared witn corres
ponding months of 1878 to the amount
of 3,600,000 bushels is a terrible falling
off for a country possessing wheat-grow
ing soil as large as the combined area of
France and Austria-
Boynton Challenged
New Yobk Aug. 11. Paul Bqynton
has accepted a obaljenge from Captain
Webb, the famous English swimmer, to
swim a match for $50 aside, Boynton to
use his life suit and paddle, Webb to
swim naked 20 miles in still water.
The Financial Jar at Montreal
Montreal, Aug. 11. A night's rest
and reflection has renewed confidence in
the stability of the banks. The fact of
the City and District Savings Bank keep
ing open until every one in attendance
was paid, contributed in a great ineasure
to the present quiet condition. Tlie
doors were thrown open this morning an
hour before the usual time. About 50
people were in waiting, and their de
mands were proinptly met. The run
continued in a modified form until l
o'clock. M neon there was not a dozen
persons at the counter, gnd most of them
were returning to the baali with the
money they bad withdrawn yesterday
It is evident that the bask has sarmount-
ed the difficult. The Villa Marie Bank
is still closed, but the officers say that
they will reopen m a fewdgvs when a
aumcient amount is realized ffsBKJcu
rities to meet all demands. Therein
m fi urc f n mn An I Vi IT Ti n 1 ti I o Vinti tr
but the directors assert that they will
have no difficulty in meeting all reuire-
UVUHf
in all Things ; Neutral
A Just Decision. j '
Washington. A no. 0 M.Tliia i,AwL.n .
ment havinor called th affnfin
German government to annoyances land
threats of loss of property whidh fiarl
Gerhard Boissilier, a naturalized 3itien,
was subjected to because bis tw sons,
born hero and livinarin St. Tnia
not report for enrollment in the German
army, the authorities of Germany have
giving a decision in favor of Boissilier.
When Boissilier senior returned io Ger
many he took his sons there witll him,
but they came back to this country be
fore being of age, the father remaining
in his native land.
yellow fever.
New Orleans Free tram Fever.
Dr. White of the sanitary association
states that this city is free from yellow
fever. Physicians say that the fever has
run its course for the present summer.
The Fever In Memphis.
Memphis. Aug. 9. Eighteen cases in
all were reported to the board of health
yesterday, ten of whom were colored.
Two additional deaths have accurred
J ohn Waters and Ida Repter. The fever
is gradually spreading from two infected
points, and a greater mortality may be
anticipated. The Committee of safety
this afternoon resolved that rations and
medical attention be supplied to all
camps and societies alike, provided that
all moneys or contributions received by
said camps or societies be turned over to
the safety committee. The city remains
remarkably quiet and dull.
jueven new cases this morning. The
city remains remarkably quiet. There
has been but one arrest during the last
twenty-four hours.
Seventeen new cases in all ten whites
and seven colored, were officially report
ed to the board of health for the 24 hours
ending at 6 P. M. In addition to these
nve other cases, colored people, sick with
fever, were brought to the board of
health after the regular report had been
made out. -
Tents for Memphis.
The secretary of war forwarded 500
army tents to Memphis to-day. rj
Twenty-nine New Cue Reported from
invmpnii
Memphis, Aug. 10. Eleven new cases
were reported this morning ; seven color
ed. The Weather is sultry, and heavy
storms prevailed last night to the north
of Memphis.
Twenty-nine cases in all have been re
ported to the board of health for the
twenty-four hours ending at 6 P. M.
Nineteen of these are colored. Three
additional deaths have occurred. This
is a marked increase in the number of
new cases; and plainly indicates that the
fever is rapidly spreading. The Howard
association to-day assigned twenty-five
additional nurses to duty. Their daily
expenses now aggregate near $500.
PACIFIC COAST.
A Murder In Prison.
San Rafael, Aug. 9. There are few
more horrible or deliberate murders in
the annals of crime than that which took
place in the state prison at San Quentin
on Wednesday evening. The victim was
E. W. Andrews, commonly called "Big
footed," who it seems had incurred the
enmity of a fellow prisoner named John
Magnire alias Tim Murphy, by reporting
two of Maguire's chums for certain slight
annoyances, such as breaking a lamp,
etc., and they were removed to another
cell and two others substituted in their
place. In conversation Magnire stated
that the primary cause of his enmity was
from certain remarks made by Andrews
in favor of a former convict named Char
lie King, who, it was said, had made re
marks derogatory to Irish Roman Catho
lics. There were 37 other convicts in the
cell which they occupied, and at the
time of the murder Andrews was seated
on a low bureau chatting with an old
convict by the name of Brownlee.
Brownlee's testimony is to the effect that
Magnire approached them several times
without speaking, turning each time and
walking off. He finally came up and
without uttering a word of warning,
made a dash for Andrew s necK, cutting
it at one stroke from ear to ear, nearly
severing his head from his body.
Brownlee jumped up in horror saying,
"My God, Tim, what have you doner
Maguire then jumped back, the warm
blood gushing from his victim s neck in
torrents. Andrews staggered to his feet,
and as he did so put his hand in his
pocket as in search of something and
then fell to the floor, Brownlee easing
his fall. The knife which Brownlee saw
in the murderer's hand appeared to have
a blade five or six inches long, but it has
not yet been found. No words of anger
Eassed between the parties, and Andrews
ad no opportunity whatever to defend
himself. As he lay on the noor a razor
was taken from his hand which had not
boon opened once during the fracas. An
alarm was at once sounded. The cell
was opened, though such a proceeding is
attended with much danger in the night
time. Andrews was found weltering in
his blood, and a surgeon was called, but
before he arrived Andrews breauied his
last. Maguire was heavily ironed and
removed to a dungeon, where a reporter
interviewed him. He was born in Cork,
August 18, 1849; is about five feet one
inch in height; has red hair, large, rest
less gray eyes, and weighs about 120
pounds. His forehead is noticeably low,
and his whole appearance denotes a man
of brutal and uncontrollable passions.
He conversed freely abont the affair,
and when asked if he expected to swing
for his crime, replied, "I don't know
and what s more, 1 don t care.
Mayor Bryant to he Arrested.
San Fbancisco, Aug. 9. The Post this
evening says: There was a great deal of
excitement in municipal circles this morn
ing upon the receipt of the intelligence
that Mayor Bryant was to be arrested to
day on twenty charges of grand larceny,
growing out of the Dupont street trans
actions. The matter is somewhat veiled
in mystery, and the name of the com
plainant could not be ascertained, but it
was currently believed that A. A. Cohen
was somewhere behind the scenes. It
was also rs ported that Bryant was aware
of what was going on and was prepared
to give bonds to answer the charges.
With some difficulty the Post succeeded
in getting access, to copies of complaints.
There are just twenty of them and they
relate to the issuance qf that number of
Dupont street warrants, 1 ia alleged
that Bryant f radulently issued these
warrants, and upon them money was ob
tained from the oity treasury, and that
therefore the offense of grand larceny
was committed by Bryant. Up to 3
o'clock no application had been made to
Judge Louderback, in whose court it is
reported the cases will be brought, for
for warrants for Bryant's arrest.
A Costly School-House. -The most
costly school-building in the world is
the new Polytechnic institute at Hanover.
The late KingQf Hanover commenced the
construction of a magnificent palace, up
on which be expended abont $5,000,000.
When his Government was overthrown
and the kingdom of Hanover became a
province of Prussia, the building was
found to be in a half-finished condition.
For sereta) years the windows were
boarded op and the 'empty rooms became
the residence of bats and birds. At last
the German Government resolved to alter
the building and adapt the uses of the
polytechnic school, j, ibis work baa been
going forward for several years, and is
jjow nearly ended, a i
ChildrenWS beginning to count the
days that must eTSSSej before school com
mencea,
in Nothing
AUGUST 1G, 1879.
Lord Bjrou.
HE HAS THE DISTINCTION Oir THREE
FUNERALS HIS FEMALE ADMIRERS.
Lord Holland informs ths world that
the poet pronounced his name Birron.
With all respect to his lordship I must
express my doubts of bis accuracy. The
name is of Norman origin, and if the
poet varied from the accepted standard
the change would have been to a French
pronunciation. Speaking of Byron, I
am reminded that his funeral was a sum
mer incident, having occurred in July,
(Just 55 years ago,) and what is remark
able he was honored with three mortuary
services. First at Missolonghi, where he
died April 10, 1824. On this occasion
prayers were read and a funeral service
was held in the church. The coffin was
then placed aboard a vessel, bound for
England, amid a parting salute. On
arriving at London, after a voyage of
nearly three months, the remains lay in
state for two days. Nine years had
elapsed since the poet had left his native
land, but his sorrowing friends were
sufficient iu number to form a respectable
attendance. The occasion, however, was
one of rather heartless character, as may
be inferred from Moore's statement.
Moore says : "When I approached the
house aud saw the crowd assembled I felt
a nervous trembling which lasted until
the whole ceremony was finished. I
thought indeed that I should be ill. The
noise of the mob, the bustle of the un
dertakers, and all the vulgar accompani
ments of the ceremony, mixing with my
recollections of him who was gone, pro
duced a combined disgust and sadness
which was painful. There were but a
few respectable people in the crowd, and
the whole ceremony was not what it
should have been. We left the hearse as
Boon as we got out of town, and I return
ed home to get rid of my clothes and to
try to forget as much as possible the
wretched feelings I had experienced."
Such was Byron's London funeral. How
sad and indeed how harrowing was the
contrast between the scenes of splendid
dissipation in which he had mingled in
that very city and the weary desolation
of his exit. His wife did not attend, and
this omission of couise included the
absence of one whom he called:
"Ada, sole daughter of my house and
heart."
Moore saw but one woman present, who
sat weeping iu a barouche, and this was
the sole exhibition of an emotional char
acter during the whole scene.
The distance from London to Notting
ham is little more than a hundred miles,
and on the ICthof July.fivedaysafter leav
ing London, the third funeral took place.
A person who was present said that it at
tracted a large concourse, and yet few of
the number were what might be termed
the respectable class. One man who wa?
a stranger showed profound grief, and
the same remark applied to Fletcher, the
poet's valet. He had accompanied Byron
during his life in Italy and also in Greece, ,
and was thoroughly conversant with his
evil habits. While speaking on this
mortuary subject, I may refer to Moore's
visit to the llucknall Church (whieh con
tains the tomb), which was made in order
to enable him to write up the poet's
biography. He found the church locked
and the parish clerk who had charge of
the key absent. A lady who was present
suggested that a pane of glass be removed,
and this having been done a small lad
was crowded through the orifice in order
to open one of the doors which was fast
ened by a bolt In this manner the party
entered the church. Moore was but little
affected until he stood over the vault,
when, as he says, "Suddenly the picture
of what he had been and what he now
presented himself to be, and a flood of
melancholy feeling passed over my heart."
Moore found an old man at Newstead
who informed him that during the funeral
of Byron's mother be and the poet were
engaged in boxing. The latter never dis
guised his dislike to his mother, with
whom he incessantly quarreled. Her
death, according to tradition, was oc
casioned by a fit of rage. It may be
added that Byron never attended funerals,
and the only mortuary service in which
his name is mentioned was Shelley's
funeral pile.
No wonder a lady was seen weeping in
a barouche when the cortece left London.
Many a woman was left to mourn over
that fascinating genius which held such
mastery over the heart. It is highly
probable that the lady referred to was
Miss Jane Ctairmont,mother of the poet's
best beloved daughter Allegra. The
latter was born in Italy after the poet had
finally left England, but the mother
afterwards returned to her native land.
She never maried, but having survived
both her child and her father she after
ward removed to Florence, where she
died recently, having reached her eighty
eijrht year. Allegra was her father's pet,
and was probably the only object that he
ever loved. She died in her sixth year,
and the poet sent her body from Italy to
England for interment. " It is the only
instance of the corpse of a child being
transported such a distance. The poet
requested that she should be buried in
the church of Harrow, the school where
he passed his happiest days, and this was
granted. Such are some ol the associa
tions which July suggests. Corr. Troy
X. Y.) Times.
The Grave of Lincoln's Mother.
A correspondent of the Indianapolis
Sentinel, who recently visited the grave
of Lincoln's mother, at Bocheport, Ind.,
writes as follows: No stone, no tablet,
not even a rough wooden headboard
marks the windowless place. Where the
headboard should stand a small, uncouth
dogwood bush has deeply planted its
roots, thus reminding one of the apple
tree storyi associated with the burial
place of Roger Williams. To the right
of the grave, as you face the east, towers
a graceful oak, whose quiet shadows
seem, as it were, to hold communion
with the careless slumberer that reposes
beneath its roots.
- As I stood there in the beautiful mid
morning of a refreshing summer day, re
flecting on the world's ingratunde, a
blithe, nimble squirrel was jumping and
chattering in the branches overhead.
Pretty little songster made the woods
vocal with their gushing minstrelsy,
while all the mourning, cooing of a dove
swelled on the fragrant air like the dying
cadences of some weired requiem.
The scene, though impressive, was
beautiful, and recalled vividly of my
memory those enchanting lines of ill
fated Shelley:
"Twas softer than the west winds sigh,
Twas milder Iban tbe unmeasured notes.
Of that strange lj re.
Whose springs the genii of the breesea
sweep.'
Thomas Lincoln, father oi the ill
starred Abraham, emigrated to Spencer
county ia 1817. The following season
his wife died, and in a few years after
this domestic bereavement he removed
to Illinois. This, in brief, is the whole
story of the Lincoln family's history
connected with Indiana. The little rude
log cabin constructed by Mr. Lincoln
and his son was carried away, I learn,
several years ago, by some enterprising
Chicago Yankees. And Little Pigeon
Church, where the boy Lincoln listened
tq the hymns qt Zion, lias changed with
the generation who gathered there in the
dim years of the past. All is changed,
i Just why the grave of Mrs. Lincoln
has lain in neglect ao long is a mystery
to me. Surely the spirit that actuated
the I'hUlipses, Garrisons and Ua vises,
and the followers of these old-time Aboli
tionists is dead. Could not their follow
era pay the simple tribute of respect
to the memory of their great champion
by erecting a plain shaft over! the rest
imr place of his mother ? For sixty-one
years not a single stone has marked her
nameless grave, ia not this neglect an
other accumulated evidence that the
world is uncharitable and republics ua
grateful?
ndepenMi
AGRICULTURAL MATTER.
Solltasj or Howso Feeding- Stock.
The frequent recurrence of dry spells
and seasons of drought ought to be suffi
cient to point out to farmers the neces
sity of providing succulent food for their
stock, says the Western Rural: The
scarcity of grass in summer and autumn
has a very injurious effect on animals
which depend on pasture for food, and
they take a long time to recover from the
check which they receive from being
compelled to feed on the dry and sapless
grass of a scorched pasture. Wehn milch
cows are kept on such food they soon
lose condition and yield very little milk,
and they are constantly looking for water
to moisten the contents of their stomachs.
The falling off in the milk is not the only
resulting from feeding on a parched pas
ture, for the cows suffer in condition and
become liable to many diseases. The
farmer who manages his grass land
properly lays it down in good heart,
with a judicious selection of the best
permanent grasses, and keeps it perfectly
free from weeds and combines house
feeding stock with pasturing, is general
ly successful in keeping his stock in good
condition throughout the year. The fre
quent repetition of the cereal crops ex
hausts the soil, as it removes the ingre
dients which are neccessary for form
ing the straw and grain, and unless a
compensation is giving in the shape of
manure the soil soon becomes too much
impoverised to yield a grain crop. The
old erroneous habit to lay down the ex
hausted and weedy soil with grass seeds,
and the produce was generally what
might have been expected, a poor crop
of grass and an abundant crop of weeds.
In order to prevent the evils resulting
from such a system of management a ro
tation of crops has been established by
the most intelligent agriculturists. The
whole art of rotation consists in suiting
the crops to the nature of the soil, and
so varying them from each other that
while the greatest amount of produce is
raised off the land, the soil does not be
come impoverished and unfit to produce
a different kind of crop. A cereal crop
extracts a large quantity of phosphate
and nitrogen from the soil. Returning
the straw in the shape of barnyard ma
nure will restore the salts which have
been extracted, while the nitrogen may
be returned by growing green crops.
While this compensation is being made,
a crop of provender for cattle may be ob
tained from the soil, and the intervention
of a naked fallow rendered unnecessary.
The farmer who grows root crops for
feeding his cattle, sheep, Ac, in winter
and early in spring, and clover, vetches,
rye, corn, etc., for use in spring and
summer, will be able to keep his stock
in first rate condition and his land in
good heart. It has been proved by ex
periments that the same number of ani
mals may be obtained by soiling in equal
ly good or better condition on someUiinar
less than half the quantity of land that
is required to support them in pasture.
It is well known that a very considerable
portion of the produce of a pasture field
is rendered unfit for food by the tramp
ing of the animals and the effect of their
droppings, whereas when the grass etc.,
is cut and consumed by stock in houses,
sheds or yards all this waste is prevent
ed, and instead of wandering over land
soiled by their droppings, etc., they con
sume their food quietly in an agreeable
shade, where they are safe from the at
tacks of flies and from other annoyances.
When properly soiled cattle improve
very much more rapidly than when pas
tured. This is accounted for by the
quietness with which they enjoy their
food and drink without having to travel
long distances in search of them. Anoth
er advantage gained by house feeding
consists in the great increase in manure
obtained by the system of soiling as com
pared with pasturing. When cattle are
pastured the manure is, to a certain de
gree, lost ; no doubt, to a certain extent
it is beneficial to the land on which it
falls, still it is comparitively of little
value, because much of it is lost by eva-
. . i it i . -
pnmuu, ami uie part was remains is
not evenly distributed, and the herbage
grows so rank in the spots where the
droppings decay that cattle and sheep re
fuse to eat it. When cattle are house
fed all the manure, both liquid and solid,
is preserved, and is in a fit state to be
applied to the soil at any time that will
suit the convenience of the farmer. It
is well known that the manure made by
house-fed stock is of excellent quality
and always has a very beneficial effect on
the soil.
Breeds us; for Milk.
The property of milk yielding is hered
itary. It would indeed be contrary to
reason if it were otherwise ; for milk is
structurally a portion of the cow, and
even its liquid portions are influenced
by the character of the structure through
which they must pass to appear in the
reservoirs of the gland. W e thus find
individual cows of great excellence in
any breed which has been used in the
dairy for generations; as well as other
individuals of poor quality, and we are
enabled to determine which ones are
large milkers by external signs of struc
ture. The popular appreciation of this
fact of hereditary is evidenced by the
general favorablAopinion of the Ayrshire
breed- as of large milking capacity and
the difference of opining as to the milk
ing quality of shorthorns. In the one
case, a breed kept ind reared for milk,
and milk in large quantity the recogniz
ed product ; in the other case, a breed
kept and reared either for milk princi
pally or for beef purposes, and hence
opinions modified according to the char
acter of the breeding which is under ob
servation. The average yield of the so
called native cow, although she has been
subject to years of unconscious selection
and oftentimes careful selection in her
breeding, eannot be in excess of 1,300
quarts yearly for the best dairy regions
of America, although individual selec
tion by good farmers may increase the
average yield of first class herds to 1,800
quarts annually ; the highest average re
sult we can figure for single years being
aooui uurceen nunarea quarts per cow.
TheAryshire breed has, however been
bred for milk, and as a consequence the
yield of average herds can be placed at
about two thousands quarts ; of superior
neras at z,ouu quarts, and at 3,000 quarts,
even, per cow per year, as we near
countries where breeding is not carried
on for the purpose of milk we there find
but small yields. The wild cow yields
but sufficient for the use of the calf;
among, the table lands of Columbia,
where the cattle are but partially domes
ticated, it ia only by allowing the calf to
run with the mother by day that a small
quantity of milk can be obtained at night.
Among the Damaraa of South Africa a
first rate animal rarely gives more than
two or three pints daily, and this only in
the presence of her calf. The small cows
of Brittany, on the other hand, have
yielded, as an average for five dairies in.
eluding 82 cows, 8,243 quarts in a year :
a dairy of the small Kerriea in Ireland
reports 2,337 quarts for an annual yield;
the Waqshakum herd ol medium sized
Ary shire in Massachusetts, as an average
for 13 animals, yielded 2,812 quarts per
oow ia 1872 ; the herd of six at the New
Jersey Agricultural College, of heavier
animals under high feeding, averaged
2,258 quarts per cow in 1872. The heavy
Friesland and Dutch breed, 1,450 pounds,
in the neighborhood of Harlem, an ex
cellent pasture, are Stated by Dr. Star
ling, Inspector of Dutch Agricultural
Bcnooia. to average 3.188 quarts per cow
per year. The individual range of tows
varies exeeeduurlv. We offer for max
ima in thia country : Ayrshire, weigh
ing wai pounds, ,h03 pounds mui, in
Scotland. 13.496 pounds : shorthorn,
weighing 1,400 pounds, 11,705 pounds
taiut i itoiatein, weighing i,ia pousus,
NO. 18.
11,681 pounds milk ; cross between Hold
erness and Durham, weighing 1,590
pounds, 11,118 pounds milk ; grade
shorthorns, 10,757 pounds milk. Scien
tific American.
The Cabbage. Just speak to a fine
lady about cabbages and she will think
that yon have mentioned one of the low
est things on earth. Madam, you are
wrong, it is one of the most useful arti
cles of food. Those ancient nations did
not know food science, but they knew
the value of good and nourishing things,
and they gave them the place of honor
which they deserved. Cabbages were
thought of highly by ancient nations,
and the Egyptians gave the cabbage the
honor of letting it precede all their other
dishes; they called it a divine dish. The
Greeks and Romans had a great affection
for cabbage, and conceived the idea,
which I have myself, that the use of cab
bage keeps people from drunkenness. I
am persuaded mat the constant eating of
certain vegetables kills the desire for al
coholic beverages. The Greek doctors
ascribed all kinds of virtues to cabbage.
It was thought to cure even paralysis.
Books were composed to celebrate
the virtues of the cabbage, and ladies
partook of it soon after child-birth.
The Romans thought even more of the
cabbage than the Greeks. They ascribe
to it the fact that they could for 600
years do without doctors, and Cato
actually maintained that cabbage cured
all diseases. The ancients knew several
kinds of cabbage the long-leaved
green cabbage, the hard white, so much
used in Germany for " sauerkraut " or
fermented cabbage, the curley and the
red. This last seems to have held the
place of honor, and was first intro
duced by the Romans into Gaul, or
France, and then brought to Great
Britajn. Later the green-leaved cab
bage was introduced. The Greeks were
fond of aromatic seasonings of oil,
raisin wine, and almonds. They boiled
or stewed the cabbage, and seasoned
it with cummin, coriander seeds, with
oil, wine and gravy, making rich dishes
of a vegetable, which we now boil in
water, and reckon among the plainest
food. Something like a remembrance
of cooking cabbage among the old
Greeks has come down to the modern
Greeks, for they stuff cabbage leaves
with dainty mince meat, and then stew
them with gravy. Mrs. ljewis in ood
and Health JJeaves.
An English Tlew of Mormonism.
In finishing a long editorial article on
the Mormons in Utah, the London Times
savs: :
Yankee shrewdness in adapting means
to ends is the great secret of their success.
Not satisfied with exciting enthusiasm,
the Mormon leaders have organized it.
If they stet rid of Polveamv. which many
of their number assert to be not aa essen
tial part of their creed, the Mormons may
possibly long continue to prosper and
populate the vast region which might
have remained a desert had they
not converted it into a garden by
the exercise of patient toil and unre
mitting industry. Not only are they
innovators in religion, but they are also
reformers in social customs. They are
strictly temperate as Sir Wilfrid Lawson
could desire any man to be ; good Mor
mons neither drink intoxicants nor smoke
tobacco. Brtgham Young even abstained
from tea and coffee on the ground that
they were stimulants. .Female suffrage
has been introduced into the Territory of
Utah. Co-operative associations have
long existed among the Mormons. In
deed, the stranger who walks along the
streets of their capital is struck with sign
boards on which is painted the All-seeing
Eye, the motto. "Holiness to the Lord "
and the intimation "Zion's Co-operative
Mercantile Institution." It is the boast
of the Mormons that drunkenness and the
sin of great cities were unknown in Salt
Lake City, till the mines of the Territory
caused an influx of the Gentiles, and till
the strict regulations of the church
authorities were disregarded by the
authorities of the United States. The
education of the young is conducted with
care, and the Deseret university is as use
ful an institution as any one of its kind
in the Western States. Degrees are given
in it for proficiency in one of the three
courses of study the classical, the scien-
tine and the commercial. As might
be expected, the commercial coarse
is preferred by studeuts. The work
of the class-room is a representa
tion of the work done in a merchant's
counting house; and the student is
taught not only how to carry on mercan
tile correspondence, how to dispatch tele
grams, insare property, recover compensa
tion for injury or loss, but also bow to
manage a postal and telegraphic, a bank
ing and an insurance office. Mormonism
is, in fact, a curious mixture of discredita
ble and praiseworthy elements. That it
would not survive the death of Brigham
Yonng was confidently predicted by
many persons who had studied it on the
spot. Yet the death of its unscrupulous
leader has not had any apparent effect
upon it. A body which will soon number
loO.OOO may not easily be got rid of or
dissolved.
Sound Doctrine.:
It is a mistake to think that men with
out money are without the means to set
tle on wild land. Every man with en
ergy ana muscie and nerve has the
means. He can make an honest living
out of the ground in almost any part of
the West, and do it a thousand times
easier than the men who planted fifty
years ago, and packed a sack of corn
upon the shoulder 20 miles to a mill, or
beat it to flour with a pestle. The mil
lions of fertile acres are crying for hands
w rarn tae sod, promising to yield
wealth, health and happiness In the in
habitants of the over-crowded alleys of
towns and cities. It would be better for
fathers and mothers to make any sacri
fice of personal comfort than to raise
children in these rank hotbeds of vice,
where it is impossible to protect them
from its taint.
If one-half the energy and enterprise
now displayed by labor unions and pro
tective labor organizations were directed
to finding homes upon the unoccupied
lands of the West for the thousands who
could profitably till them, there would
be less occasion for complaint, both
from those who would go and those who
would stay. A little assistance to enable
deserving persons to secure snch homes
would pay far better than the money
spent in sustaining strikes. There are a
great many families in Chicago to-day
whose best interests would be served,
and whose happiness would be increased
if they could be persuaded and aided to
leave the busy hum of the city and dig
an honest living from the ground.
There is room enough yet. According
to the reports from the Land Office,
there are 724,312,477 acres of surveyed
lands ready for occupants, and nearly
twice aa much more waiting the sur
veyor. During the ten years which
closed in June, tha Government sold for
cash 57,666,970 acres of land, besides tha
large grant to homesteaders. If the
many hundred thousands, who have with
hardships opened up their new homes,
could give their testimony, but a few of
them could be induced to move into the
stifled air of onr cities, and attempt to
raise their children amid the temptations
and vices that would surround them.
Scientific American.
Captain Frederick Gastavis Burnaby.ol
the Royal Horse Guards, author of "A
Ride to Khiva," was married on the 24th
of Jane to Miss Elizabeth A. F. Hawkins
Whitshed. only child of the late Sir St.
Vincent Bentinck Hawkins-Whitshed. It
was a very fashionable and distinguished
vent, and was attended by the cream of
society, including many loroa ana uaies
and otacial personages.
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A Xard'erer's Tale.
JfOBB ABOUT TUB SOTOBIOC8 COL. o'SELL,
THE OUTLAW.
When in I SimArt a l.irn oma f. wa
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hundred milAa fmm lh. mnnth n'tkn IK..
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Grande. Col. OW'pil rm a mv in .
ing, "I have just arrived and heard you
were here. I'll tell yoa bow it is : Some
three weeks after vnn iwit tho rkumitfi
V . IMS
OUt Of MV ahoul(lr T vaafnnlino tho nru.
at night, near Redmond's Castle, and my
uiu ourrei ieii m ma middle or the stream
and eive tne a aort nf a twiat ,! t k-..a
been suffering ever since : now. doctnr.
suppose you give me another trial, and I
wm tell you how 1 got that hole in my
shoulder." I proceeded to rub hi
before, and then he commenced. "It
was right here ia this settlement I was
haviner a bout at mnntn. whn I
that Robert E vim m inaf .
the river with some United States troops
had had his horse stolen two nights be
fore, and as he bad once befriended me, '
I Went over to See whataasiRtanra I nnnM
give him. My suspicion was that one
Manuel Blasco had stolen the horse and
gone South. I at once greased my shooting-irons
and started for him. After four
days of leisure travel, I came to within
four leagues of Camaago, and as night was
coming on, thought I would sheer-off to
the right, a little distance down to a
spring, where I knew the boys often as
sembled when in trouble, and perhaps I
might hear of my friend with the horse.
I got in about 9 o'clock iu the night, and -put
my horse out to tether and walked
up among the shebangs always keeping
on the shady side. I came to one where
montewaa going on, and looked through
crnca. near tue cnimuey, thinking per-
fellow, when some one put a couple of
maim ui uucasnoi in uiat snouider. That
caused me to loose some time, as I lay
there Iliirh on tv four
old woman putting on mashed herbs to
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kuu. nuuiiu. wuen i recovered it was
about Christmas time, and I thought it
best to go to the southward and the sea
coast. When I arrived at Boca-Chica, the
mouia oi ine itio lirands, 1 knew Blaso
had been thr anil am. AnahaA ;).
money, an article he very seldom had.
auu x aiso lounu ne nad oeen about
Camargo before coming there. A fit of
discontent soon romn nviip mm . T ha.I
had made up my mind be knew more -about
my shoulder and the buckshot than
any uue eise ; so 1 wok my none to re
trace my steps When I got to Guerrera,
I there found ene of my old chums who
told me he had gone back to his old range
at Piedras Negras, some eight hundred
m i ien lurmer norm. i look it at my
leisure, as all this country was my home.
Every chick anil hilil Hoil hu,l nt fxr.
O'Neil. from Mibunnm In Oiiahn.hi..
and knew when he was about. I had not
been in Piedraa Jtesrras but a few hoars
when I met Manuel Blasco and imme
diately afterward f left and nnvnr rntnrn. .
ed to the place for some three years,'
I T t .1 JjV .:-t-r i .
wucu x iuuuu n - cnna Buumug up waera
tj,.. ..
uaa last seen mm.
O'Neil HApmnl tn Ha mrt mtAiovaA nf hia
rutin lio nrtwtiA f n An what k.Mtlail
ajim-jatn, or in plainer language, a big
rirunr. The frklina-ina rl.v ha Mmn rn
dinner, where there was perhaps thirty :
or iony seated on stoois arouna a rongo
board table. He seated himself, took up
a knifo and fnrlr Instfe.! nniallv nn ami
down the board, and said to his next
neigoDor: "ii you were a gentleman you
wnnlll nilaa ihAm nritatAee hnf CAni nir vnn
are not, I tell you to pass them," giving
emphasis to his words by horrid oaths.
I T . I . I - . 1 I . T
ne uien rose io uis reel auu asm . l am
Colonel O'Neil, and it any gentleman .
present has anything against me, IpJ him .
step out and I will show tfcfidoctor his
heart." Notwithstanding he had gien
me the privilege of calling him m v friend
I had no inclination to hold a pott mortem
examination over any of his subjects, and
soon retired to my corral to dream of the
victstiuaes oi nie.
It is the custom in Mexico when von
find a dead body to cover it over and
stick up a cross. Colonel James O'Neil
murdered Manuel Blasco, as was well
known on the frontier, for stealing Gen
eral Lee's horse, and shooting him in the
back with a double-barreled shotgun.
Traveler.
Eligible for Retirement.
The following is a list of officers of the -
army who have passed the age of 62
years, and are eligible to retirement at
their own request, or the motion of the
President: Brigadier-General E. O. C.
Ord, of Maine, 1830; Adjutant-General
E. D. Townsend of Massachusetts, 1837;
Inspector-General Randolph li. Marcy of
Massachusetts, 1832; Assistant Inspector
General Edmund Schriver of Pennsyl
vania, 1833; Judge Advocate-General
William McKee Dunn of Indiana, 1804;
Quartermaster-General M. C. Meigs of
Georgia, 1836; Assistant Quartermaster
Daniel H. Ruckerof New Jersey, 1837;
Langdon C. Easton of Missouri, 1838;
Stewart Van Vliet of New York, 1840;
Surgeon-General Jos. K. Barnes of Penn
sylvania, 1840; Surgeons John M. Cuyler
of Georgia, 1834; William B. Sloan of
Pennsylvania, 1837; William S. King of
Pennsylvania, 1837; James Simons of
South Carolina, 1830; Paymaster-General
Benjamin Alvord of Vermont, 1833;
Deputy Paymaster-General Henry
Prince of Maine, 1835.
Corps of Civil Engineers Colonel
John Barnard of Massachusetts, 1833;
Colonel Henry W. Benham of Connecti
cut, 1837; Colonel John McComb of New
York, 1832; Colonel James H. Simpson
of New York, 1832.
Of the ordnance department: Colonel
Peter Hagner of the District of Colum
bia, 1836; Colonel Israel Vodges of Penn
sylvania, 1837, First Artillery; Colonel
William F. Barry of New York, 1838,
Second Artillery; Colonel William H. :
French of Maryland, 1837, Fourth Artil
lery; Colonel Henry J. Hunt of Ohio,
1836, Fifth Artillery.
The friends of the aspirants for imme
diate promotion are hard at work en
deavoring to retire many or all of these
officers. At present there is little proba
bility of any being placed on the Oat ex-
cept Paymaster-General Alvord. - Aa a
rule the entire number are capable of
active service for some years. Wash
ington Special of Pittsburgh Gazette.
The Scocessob to the Dotch Thbone.
. The fVintincntal newst arters have de
scribed Prince Alexander, who by the
death of his elder brother has just to-
come Prince of Orange, as totally unfit
to succeed to the throne of Holland. A
T)ntch correspondent of the Echo du
Parlement, who writes from the Hague
and professes to have the best sources of
information, says that this is a complete
mistake. The Prince has not the robust
health that his brother enjoyed, but ac
cording to him. he is a young man of con
siderable intellectual gifts, and has de
voted his life to serious study. He lias
made himself especially familiar with tho
working of tha Dutch Constitution, and
ia known to be deeply interested in every
measure for promoting ttvr national wel
fare. When he visits the Hague he regu
larly attends the sittings of the Council
of State, and investigates the condition
of every great branch of publio service.
"The House of Orange," concluded tha
writer, "has lately passed through heavy
trials; but in irnncn Aiexivsaer it has a
representative who, if he were called to
the throne to-morrow, isrould realize
every expectation which a free nation
can cherish respecting ita i uture king."
lia Mall Gazette.
Thia world is a dream wi.hiu a dream ;
and as we grow older et ch step Uaa
awakening. The youth i wakes, as ha 4
thinks, from hlMhood ; -he fail-grown
man despises the pursuit c f youth as vis
ionary; and tho old man looks on man
hood as a feverish dreat). Death tu)
last sleep 7 No! It ia tlm last and &nt
awakening.
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