Bloomington Progress, Volume 17, Number 25, Bloomington, Monroe County, 22 August 1883 — Page 1

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Gnosixe a Wife.

' In from the hay-field came John Weetlake and -went into theoool sitting-room, threw himself uixm a sofa, nicked np a

paper, an read as follows ; A yooivg man having matrimony in view should ascertain before taking this important step what the housekeeping abilities of his intended one re. Many a man has had both fortune and happiness wrecked by overlooking -this important point. "Any man, by a little strategy, can obtain the desired information; he can have some business at her father's house carry in the morning, or it she lives by the roadside he can ride by and glance in at the open door or window and thns see which, mother or daughter, cooks the breakfast. "Or he can take a position behind Mane tree in the orchard, commanding a view of the barnyard, and find out Who does the milling the- knowledge ean be obtained, and it should be obtained by some means, and in this case toe end justifies the means:" "What paper is ibis?" said John, looking for the heading. "The Crampion Herald. Yes, and this is good advice for a former's son. Now," solilotjuired he, "I have about concluded to marry Mary Johnson that is, if she "ill have me, and I think she will but I must confess that I do not know mnoh about her abiritio as a housekeeper. I know that everything in their house

that is, aa far as I have seen is in perfect order; but who take? care of the

J don t know perhaps Mary,

i Mrs. Johnson. Mary, iknow,

i taste, for she comes into company

as neatly dressed as any young woman in the neighborhood; but then she has and the advantage of two or three yeanfaity schooling, which fact may aoeomit for her knowledge of dress, but it argues somewhat against her knowledge of domestic affairs but I will find out" "John, dinner," said his little sister Kate, poking her curly head in at the door. 'Wldle eating, John outlined a plan of operation. Twill," thought he, "get np early to-morrow morning, go - c cross the meadow to Johnson's corn-field, and then through the corn-field to the barnyard, cross the barn-yard to the laeadow fence, and then creep along fids until I get to the bushes in front of the summer-kitchen window, where I wffl hide, and there, not mote than rod away, I can see everything that

"What a splendid General I'd make,"

said he, chuckling, as he went to the Held by himself; and the more he contemplated his plan the more he became aojmneed of its brilliancy of eoneeptioB and ease of execution. "I will tell Mary," said he, "of my strategy after .we are married that is, if she suits me, and I think she wilL Love," continued he, "is said to be blind, but I will show Mr. Cupid that ft he has pierced my heart he has not fleeted my vision. And again, getting jrrjed is said to be like putting your jmd 'into a bag in which are ninety1 - 1 5 , , . t V

avian asuaa.es auu en era , in unon a. pejaiamyhand I intend to see the eel and know just where to reach for it." Next morning John arose very early, drosscd qniekly, and went down stairs

Going first to the barn he went half

way around it to get it between himself and the house and then struck a beeline across the new-mown meadow towadrs Squire Johnson's cornfield. He had not gone far before he heard a noise behind him, and looking ronnd be saw me old dog Nero at his heels. "Go home, you old seoandrel, go 800101" fTrfaimed John fiercely. . Kero looked np into his master's face with an injured expression, then turned round and trotted slowly homeward. But be did not go far; stopping on a little hillock, he turned round, sat down and gased after John. Concluding that there was some misnderstanding, he resolved to try again, and in a few minutes was close at John's

"You old villain! Skint I tell yon to go home?" said John, turning round and making a pass at him with his foot. Kero was now eonvinoed that his company was not desired, and the sticks aad atones that followed him as he snored briskly homeward had a tendencyto confirm him in Ins conclusion. "The confounded old scamp," muttered John, "would hare all the Squire's dogs about me in lees than a minute, and then good-by to my plan." Mary Johnson was the daughter, as We have sees, of Squire Johnson, who Bved on the farm a4joinmg Weatlake's. She was a handsome, intelligent girl, and of course a good housekeeper, aa inteUigent-ooantry girls are and as all girls ought to be. Mary's several Tears at school had made aome change m her, but John found to Has sorrow that she had not lost the Itabit of early

78s mornmg ahe arose somewhat aarher than usual and went to the barnyard to do the milking. As she was about to begin she glanced towards the coin-field and saw some one coming"Who can that be?" eke said. "Aa rare as the world its jc an Westlakei I wonder what he is after! And he's coming right here, and I've nothing on to ttia gown! Oh, dear! what ahall I dot Her first impulse was to run, but observing that he was coning very cautiously, as if in fear of being seen, and knowing that ahe van undiscovered, enrioeity prompted her to stay; so gliding behind a hay-stack near by, she was in a position to vote his actions undiscovered. Coming to the barnyard, be ran across it, in a half -stooping poatare, to f he meadow fence. Getting inside, he pagan to cxeey ahwg the teas towards theeaft,macMaswafatrjnto

"What doe he meant" said Mary.

her blue eyes dilating in wonder.

The summer-kitchen was a short distance front the main building and be

tween it and the meadow fence was the

spring. From the spring issued quite a large stream, flowing under the fence and across the meadow. Where it flowed under the fence, near the summer-kitchen, was a small but dense thicket of alders, briars and wild grapevines. This, was the point for which John was making. Arriving within a few rods of the house, he ran, stooping, across the little open space of meadow between the fence and stream; then, behind the alders that lined its bank he hurried along untQ. he reached the thicket, into which he crawled, and fixed himself so that he could have a view of the window. Mary's eyes flashed in anger. "So, John," said she, "you have been reading the Crampton Herald. Well, we'll see how much knowledge you'll obtain for your trouble." Then, taking a roundabout way, so that he might not see her, Mary entered the house and went up-stairs to her room and sat down near a window that overlooked his riding-place. "What a splendid place for observation!" said John to himself, as he fixed himself among the bushes. Just then up went the window and out came a pail of dirty water, thrown by the strong arms of Mrs. Johnson. "Ugh! ugh!" said he, crawling backward, as the dirty shower came dripping down through the leaves, "this is a circumstance for which I made no calculation." "Belle, where is Mary?" called Mrs. Johnson to one of the girls. "Up-stairs," said Belle. "Why. what's she doing there? Whv

deesnt she come down and do the milking?"

"X dont know, was the reply. She says she's .not coming down for some time; you needn't wait breakfast for her." "Just as I expected !" said John with a sad countenance. "Those boardingschools will ruin any girL I suppose they'll carry her breakfast up to her. I guess Fll go now; I've learned as much as 1 want to know." But John did not go just then; something again occurred for which he had made no calculation. The Squire had several dogs, and among them was one ferocious old fellow called Bull At

tracted by the smell of victuals, for

breakfast was now cooking, they had gathered about the kitchen door and sitting there with wagging tails were awaiting their morning meal. At the first rustle of the leaves as John turned round they pricked up their ears. In a moment, after he had moved again, they were over the fence, lumping and howling and prancing around the thicket aa if it contained their greatest enemy. "Hi, there! Hut, Bull! Go in.

Borer! Hurrah, Bob, dogs have got a rabbit !" shouted the boys, running out , , n i - , i .

ana oomDBrumg we uuenef wun a shower of sticks and stones, which made John lie as flat as a skirmisher under the fire of a whole line of concealed enemies. "Get out there! Get out! What in thunder's all this fuss about?" growled tile Squire, coming to the spring to wash and thinking the dogs were after a eat or a bird. In a few minutes the family went to breakfast, and the dogs left the thicket. The coast seemed clear. , , "Now or never," said John, as he began to crawl toward . ttaredge at which he came in. A low savage growl stopped him; there, right in front, was old Bull, stretched out. with his head between

his paws, winking at him and seeming to say: "I've got you now, young fellow."

"Poor old BullT said John, coax-

ingly.

A low growl was his only answer. "My poor old fellow! Come here, wont you?" said John, patting on his

knee.

Another growl, fiercer than ever. Bull was too old to be flattered. . John now was mad. "Confound you, you old scoundrel!" said John, "if I ever catch you away from this place Fll murder you." Butt only winked in reply to this abuse. John now tried to get out at another place, but Bull moved around upon the hue of investment and took position in John's front again. John was not usually profane, but just now he used an expression or two denoting his willingness to see Bull in a warmer clime than this. Breakfast was now over. The Squire and the boys came out, took their scythes from the apple-tree and began to whet them. The question that troubled J ohn now was, where are they going to mow? His fears were soon confirmed. "Where shall we begin?" said one of the boys. "Bight here in the corner, and mow round the thicket," was the squire's

ohn frroaned in spirit.

Tbev climbed the fence and betran.

"Come out there, Bull," said the old man, catching sight of the dog. Bull was slow about moving. "Jake, take him to the barn and tie him." Jake led him away, but Bull every now and then looked back as if he expected to John rush out. John kept very still It was impossible to see him from the outside and every round took them farther away, lessening the danger of discovery. John now began to think it was time to see or at least hear something of Mary. She, from her window, saw his predicament and was delighted with it. "He is safe, now, till noon," said she. "He won't come out while father and the boys are in the field. And now X must breakfast and then dress, for to

day Cousin John comes from the city." J

Alter a wane ionn neara a carnage come up the drive and stop at the front door. Then he heard Mary's voice exclaiming: "Why, John, I am so glad to see you!" "Kiss me, darling!" said the newcomer in a lusty tone. "Aha!" said John in the thicket, "she has another John, has she?" This was the last of Mary for about an hour; then he heard ber and the new-comer in the yard chatting and

came to the annle-trees. and

amused themselves by throwing fruit at

each other. Tired of this, they came marching arm in arm to the spring, John fixed himself so as to gets good view through the leaves. sfa haari saddened aa ha saw what a vms? wwupiwi .e "WW ww w

tall, stylish, good-looking fellow the new John was. A savage feeling took possession of him. The fellow had his arm around her waist, and was looking into her handsome, glowing face, as she chatted RAjl?! with something more, as John thought, than mere admiration. After taking a drink, she proposed that they try which could throw water farthest into the bushes, "Agreed!" said he, and at it they went It seemed to be fun for them, but it was anything but fun for John. The new John became excited, and, to show his superior strength, threw down his tin cup and seized a bucket. The water came down in torrents. John in the bushes shivered and gnashed his teeth in rage. Oh, how he wished that he conld turn himself into a eaif, gorilla anything so that he could rush out unknown across the meadow. They soon, however, became tired of this, and concluded the exercise by sprinkling water upon each other. Then he arranged her curls, brushed the water from her dress, took her face between his hands, made her lips pout out, held her for a moment, and shall we tell it? stooped down and kissed her. John saw it all. The "green-eyed monster" took full possession of his soul; he felt as blood-thirsty as a tiger, and was on the point of springing from his lair and throttling the fellow at once, but prudence restrained him. Another hour passei. The sun's rays began to fall vertically through the leaves, and the mowers, making large circles a long way off, had done, as he thought, a good half-day's work. Would dinner-time never come? A regular Joshua's day, thought John, as he waited and longed for the ringing of the bell. Soon it rang, and a few minutes after the Squire and his boys were at the spring washing, preparatory to eating, "Who was that in the field talking to you?1 said Mrs. Johnson to the Squire. "Little Tommy Westkvke," was the reply. "What did he want?" "Why, he wanted to know if we'd seen John to-day. He says John got up very early this morning and went away, leaving his work undone, and they have not seen him since." "Strange," said Mrs. Johnson. "Moll, Moll! Hurrah, Moll!" shouted one of the boys. "What!" said Mary, coming to the door. "John Westlake has found another Moll and ran off with her." "All right," was the reply, "let him go. I can get another John." "She has got another one already," muttered John, They were all now at dinner; everything was quiet, "Give me liberty or give me death!" said John, as he crawled out. Now, like a savage fleeing from his enemies, he ran, stooping, along tbe fence and past the barn to the cornfield. As he sprang over the corn-field fence the dogs caught a sight of him and started in pursuit, yelping and howling, while old Bull, from the Darn, with loud-mouthed bays, indicated his desire to join in the chase. "What in the world is the matter?", exclaimed the Squire, as he quit carving to listen to the uproar. "Hurrah!" said the boys, jumping up and running to the door. "What's there?" said the squire.

Something in the corn-field," was the

reply.

Jot

Go over, Tom,

ones' cattle again,

rand put them out."

Tom, when he started, saw something twisting about in tile middle of the field, but when he got there he saw nothing, though he met the dogs homeward bound and apparently badly frightened John, when he found them about to overtako him, had stopped by a stone pile and had given them a reception which they could not stand. Tom went back and reported: "Nothing in the field," but it was a mystery which he could not explain, why the dogs seemed so badly scared. John when he reached home went round by the barn, through the garden, and into the house the back way. Going up-stairs quietly to his room, he put on a suit of clean cloQes; then going down as quietly as he came up, he reached the barn by the roundabout course he had taken when coming in. Now from the barn he started and marched boldly up through the yard toward the house. The family were at dinner. Walking in he hung up his hat, pulled out his handkerchief, wiped his face and said: "In time yet, I see." "We're glad to see you back, John," said his mother; "but we'd like to know where you've been." "Yes, give an account of yourself," said his sister Julia. "We had about concluded that you and Mary had gone to Gretna Green, or some similar place." "Well, 101 tell you," said John. "You know I told you a few days ago that some of the academy boys were on an excursion to the city this morning and wished me to go with them. I did not intend to, but thought I would go over this morning and see them off." "You know the train starts very early, and I expected to be back in time for breakkfast; but when I got on they held to me, coaxing me to go with them, until the train was going too rapidly for mo to get out, and of course I was carried to town and had to wait there until the return train, which, you know, does not come out until near noon." This explanation was satisfactory to all except John it was a lie which he had been working up all the forenoon for this occasion. He felt bad over it, yet it seemed a fitting conclusion for the blunders of the day how else couM he conceal what for the world ho would not have any one bat himself know? That afternoon he was in anything but a good humor. In the hay-field he worked by himself as much as possible. He seemed to have a special ill-feeling toward his dogs; if one of them came up to him, no matter how friendly, he was sure to get a rap over the back with the hay-fork that sent him .away howling. The relationship that existed between Mary and the other John was a question that now troubled him. Yesterday he was of the opinion that he could have her for the asking, and now it seemed evident that she already belonged to some one. The loss, or the danger of losing her, made him realise how much he loved her, and like many another man under like circumstances, he was willing to overlook "Domestic abilities!" said ha. "What do I care about bar domestic abilities?

I will have Mary Johnson if she doesn't know enough to bake a loaf of bread!" That afternoon he made a resolution. "To-morrow evening," said he, "I will go over and tell her frankly how much I love her, and ask her to be mine." The next evening John drove up to Johnson's door. Mary camo out to greet him, aui gave him her usual cordial welcome. After talking a little while she said, somewhat mischievously: "By the way, John, you walked over last time, did you not?" "No, replied he, not comprehending, "don't you remember, I rode old Charley?" John could not muster courage to say what he desired untft lapsing time, and then, as they stood npCIT ae porcb, he. with his arm about her waist, told hit love, and asked her to be his wife. "John," she said in reply, "let me tell you a story: "Once upon a time there lived no far from here a gentleman and a lady. The gentleman, who esteemed himself a man of great prudence, was in love with the lady, or at least his attentions led her to believe so. "But, before making a proposal, he as a man of prudence should resolved to satisfy himself in regard to her ability to conduct the affairs ef s household; but, instead of trying to obtain this information in an open, manly way, he was foolish enough to try to obtain it in accordanco with soin foolish advice, the like of which you have seen, doubtless, in your father's newspaper." "Yes," said John, his mind reverting to the Crampton Herald. "Well, one morning he arose very early, left his father's house, crossed a meadow, came to a cornfield." John's arm relaxed, "then through a barn-yard, then came along by a meadow fence, went into some bushes near a summer kjtchen " John's arm slid down by his side. "Dont Mary," said he. "I confess it alL But how did you find out?" She told him, and gave her answer. "Now," said she, "I am angry with you, and justly, I think. Though I love you, I tell you plainly that you have fallen in my estimation, and I think ycu deserve some punishment. In one year from now, if you do nothing to make me esteem you less than I did before yesterday, if you come to me with the same question, I may answer you mora satisfactorily." "A cruel sentence, but one I deserve," said John, as he bade her goodnight. John is conducting himself properly, and goes to Johnson's often, for ho and Mary are the best of friends, and, were the year expired, this story would end, doubtless, as such stories usually do.

Hospitable Romances. At one time we hod 1,700 patients in the hospitals. A train came in late one evening with a great number of painfully-wounded men. The following morning, in my early round, I was attracted by one of the new arrivals, whose right leg had been amputated above the knee. He seemed in a profound sleep, although even in repose his face wore the impression of the suffering he had endured. His features, faultless to the finest line, were like chiseled marble in their bloodless pallor. I sat down by the cot ready to administer the prescribed medioine. His unbroken sleep continued and I reluctantly left him to look after the other patients in the ward. Hour after hour passed away and my interest increased as I frequently turned to his bed, hoping to find him awake. Still he slept on. Towards night I went out again and found him awake, apparently conscious and free from pain. His eyes were turned - toward the setting sun, upon which he calmly looked. More slowly came the faint breath as his strength declined with the declining sun. Just as it sank below the horizon his soul followed in the glorious pathway and he was known no more on earth. The nurse told me he had uttered no word and there was no clew to identify him. Afterward he showed me a locket which was suspended from his neck by a slender chain. It contained a plain gold ring and the picture of a lovely girl's face. It was a repetition of the old story of a faithful woman's heart somewhere throbbing with love and longing for the return of its idol. One day when a lad from Central New York was near his death the visitor of the ward carried a bunch of sweet fresh roses and laid them on his pillow. As he inhaled the fragrance his breast heaved with emotion; the icy torper and reserve was broken and he burst into a passionate agony of tears. Then, and not till then, he told the intense and bitter longing he had for home and friends. He was too manly to complain or confess his homesickness. If he had spoken before he might have been furloughed while yet strong enough to be sent there. His father was telegraphed for and every effort made to arouse his strength, but, alas, too bite. The storm of weeping so prostrated the frail body that he never rallied from the exhaustion, and far away from his beloved ones he went down alone to the brink of the river, whose dark tide bore him to the home eternal, where sickness and sorrow are unknown and where there are no more partings. A dramatic incident was related to me by a Chaplain from City Point. As he was moving through a long line of of sufferers he approached one severely wounded, whose march was nearly ended. Death was waiting at the goal. When asked if he was ready to go he motioned for a pencil, and with blue, cold fingers wrote: "I am prepared. My trust in Christ is perfect. Tell the boys to sing 'Come Rally Bound the Flag.'" The minister of consolation read the message aloud. As the lost word fell from his lips a soldier who had lost a hand sprang up on his bed,, and, waving the mutilated stump, burst forth into a glorious song. A thousand voices swelled the chorus. The walls of that . mournful place of suffering rooked with melody. With a wrapt smile on his glorified face the dying brave fought his last fight and conquered his last enemy. Mrs. Judge Fisher, in the Philadelphia Times. It may not be generally known that the hog furnishes more export material than the cattle, dairy products, horses, mules, sheep, and poultry together. In 1879-'80 the hog products amounted to 1180,087,726, while the products of all other domestio animals was only $105,870,382. Ik Manitoba there are a large number of Icelanders, who by their hardiness, industry and frugality have proved theiusalvag yory desirable

''HOW INDIANA WAS CARRIED. Net tt Work of Any One Man, -but ol All the Republican Votera. Washington Cor. Chicago Herald. Before leaving Washington the Herald correspondent had a talk with Mr. John 0. New in regard to the campaign in Indiana. "I have no desire to speak upon this subject," said Mr. Now. "The campaign of 1880 is over and the victory won. It is of a great deal more importance to the party that we should devise ways and means of carrying the election of 1884 than to discuss the campaign of 1880. The statement of Dorsey, bo far as he speaks of the campaign in 1880, is fairly correot. I have no objection to it. Dorsey did very efficient work in the State in 1880. He canto there at the request of the State Central Committee and myself as Chairman of the committee. The idea prevailed that Indiana was a sinkhole for money for political purposes, and I had a desire that somebody representing the National Committee beside myself should be on the ground to see where the money went. Dorsey, who was Secretary of the committee, a good organiser, and a man of ability, came there. But the credit of carrying Indiana belongs to no one man, nor ten men, nor any hundred men. It was the work of the Republicans of the State. The State Central Committee, every county committee, every township committee, every prominent Republican, and the Republican voters of the State were all alive to the importance of carrying Indiana, and they worked with unflagging zeal and energy." "How about the vast expenditure of money by the Republicans?" "It is quite true that a large sum of money wax spent in the campaign in Indiana. There have been no elections in that Statcfor years in which large sums of money were not expended on both sides. In 1876 the Democrats spent $10 where the Republicans spent $1. I presume in 1880 the Republicans bad a little more money, and it was used judiciously in tho thorough organization of the party. The Republicans did not need to bo bought, because, as I have said, every Republican in tho State was in earnest, actively at work, and heartily in accord with the candidates and the platform. The Democrats will hardly claim that good, honest Democratic voters could be bought for $2 a head. To the best of my knowledge and belief, thero were no importations to the State on the part of the Republicans, nor do I know of a single dollar having been corruptly used. Money was distributed to various county committees and Township organizations to defray the legitimate necessary expenses of the campaign, such as providing speakers and in aiding and assisting in bringing out a full vote." "Then," said the Herald correspondent, "there was no shower of $2 bills?" "Nor sir; that story is a m$th. As I have - stated, the credit of carrying Indiana belongs to the Republicans of the State as well as to those who were only voters. As to those who occupied for the time being positions upon committees, where all did so well it would be invidious to claim credit or make distinctions." "Do you know anything of the part Gen. Brady took in the campaign?" "Gen. Brady came to Indiana a few days before the October election. He made a contribution of, I believe, $500 to the State Central Committee. If he gave anything beyond that sum it was at his own home, in Delaware county. I have no knowledge, however, of his doing anything beyond that. Gen. Brady was formerly Chairman of the State Central Committee, and an efficient worker, before lie went to Washington." Republicanism la Courage. Not a few old stagers among the politicians who have been at the front in the Republican party during the last two decades are disposed to put the finger alongside the nose and look sarcastically wise when any proposition is made looking to the commitment of the party organization to any measure of public policy which squints in the direction of publio morality. These men forget that the Republican party was born of a. moral idea, that its original mission was the promotion of a moral reform, that its whole successful career has been mainly in connection with questions of right and wrong more than of mere governmental expediency. Thev forget that a party of this sort.

which has gathered into its ranks nine

tenths of the character, the virtue and the intelligence of the country, cannot safely pursue a course which would be entirely expedient for its opponent with a wholly different constituency, in a word, the Republican party must keep in the lead, as it has done from the day of its inception, or it will die the death. The party itself has accustomed tha the country to look to it for a far higher class of political motives than are expected in its antagonist, and for this reason, if for no other, ii would be suicide purely as a matter of policy, for Republicanism to cheapen itself and attempt to solicit votes by the same dovice proposed by the Democrats. In 1856 the Whig party, in the presence of a magnificent opportunity, turned its back upon destiny and died from its own cowardice died because it was too timid, conservative and time serving to assume a great and inspiring responsibility and declare itself the champion of Free Soil. The capital failure of the Whig party rendered the Republican party possible, and grandly has it met the demands laid upon it. Near the third decade of its existence the Republican party is called upon to face the question, whether it will distinctly maintain its position as the party of moral ideas and of advanced ethical principles in a word, as tho party of reform, or whether, iu the presence of a new and crucial test, it will play the poltroon like its predecessor in 1856, and follow that predecessor to tho tomb of the Oapulets. At such a crisis the cynical and cowardly adviser is the worst of enemies. If the Republican party of to-day shall take counsel of its fears, and not of its courage, it is as good as dead already. It is not impossible that, whatever ooureo the party shall pursue during the next three years, a temporary defeat may await it, but this has not ling to do with the broader question, whether the party really desires to be a permanent force in the great republio or whether it is willing' to be relegated to the list of petty political factions, content with jabbering about its historic past, while voluntarily surrendering a superb future. Minnesota Tribune. Jjifk Davis joins the New York Sun fa tlw ory that the Republican, party outfit go. That do etW it.

THE ISCHIA CALAMITY.

Particulars of One of the Greatest Disasters of the Age.

A Oloud of Sulphurous Dust Arose that Suffocated Many Who Had Escaped. The Dust Added to the Darkness that Game With the Earthquake.

Loud and Continuous Cries of Victims Shut in Inaccessible Places, and Within the Earth,

(Maples iottet to New York Herald. When the first news arrived that the towns in Jschla, a wall-known island twenty miles from Naples, had been overwhelmed by an earthquake Saturd ay evening, it was naturally believed that the accounts would prove exaggeratfld. Unhappily the fuller details which hays come from eye-witnesses and from other sources prove that the earliest tidings wholly underestimated toe extent of the calamity. In fifteen or twenty seconds Gasamicciola, a town containing; a resident population ot over 4,00 hut at this season crowded with visitors, was converted into a heap of ruins, and, though the number of lives lost has still to be ascertained with accuracy, over 4,000 persons are now believed to be burled in tha debris. Only five houses are left standing, and at Laoco Ameno, out of a population of 1,600, five people alone escaped. AU the adjacent villages are in a like plight Forio, toe most populous place ii. the island west of Ischia, is completely destroyed.

The first shock of the earthquake was felt at soma time between half -past 9 and 10

o'oioca Saturday lugnt THE BOIXJNG.

The first indication of the coming disturbance, according to the evidence of several survivors, was oy a low, threatening, rumbling noise, which, presently burst forth into

one leanui roar, na wougo neavy bbuhi was being oontinn ously fired in the immediate vicinity. In thei next second the houses were rooked about like boats on a boister

ous sea, and then were shaken into fragments. A few, but only a few, inmates reached the open air before the crash came. The vast majority lay buried in the ruins. For fifteen seconds the earth

was tossed about with wild up-

heavals in all directions, many of the terror-stricken inhabitants flying

shrieknur to the shore, where tney were

overwhelmed in their flight and buriod by the falling tenements or the tremendous Quantities of debris flvinir about The vio

lence of the shock once subsided, nothing

could he heard but the annexe or tne wounded and terrified people. Every light had been extinguished A dense cloud ot dust, blinding and suffocating to the survivors, hung over the scene. To add to tha horrors ot the situation, houses ball-shaken continued to fall upon the miserable people

seeking lor snercer irom tne general nun. ATTHJi THEATER IK THE MOtttOKO.

A Burvivor who was present at the theater says: "Although we heard the rumbling as though of thunder, it was not until the earliest shake of the building that the audi

ence exhibited any alarm, in tne nrss moment there was no shrieking, although consternation was depleted on every face, but as the opening shock was succeeded by oth

ers still more violent a wild cry ot despair broke from most ot thoxe present The lights were extinguished, debris and rafters

ieu upon ana ail wound us, ana me cries ox horror in many places gava place to groans of agony as one after another of the wounded fell It was a terrible time. When the shooks ceased, I crept with others out from the wrecked building and made my way to the shore. The dust was blinding. Several times I fell over masses ot masonry and wreckage, and again theard cries for help from under the rains. At the seashore I found others as teirined as myself seeking to escape, and awaiting with terror any further development of the earthquake. Seeing that matters remained quiet wo went back to help extricate and relieve the Injured, but it was not until morning, when the officials arrived from neighboring towns and the troops came from Naples, that any adequate measures were taken to cope with the difficulties surrounding us. Then the sappers, aided by willing hands from among the people, worked energetically among the ruins, caret ally la ing out and carrying away the dead, and placing those still living under the doctor's care. It was, however, so necessary to proceed cautiously for fear of injuring those beneath the wreckage thatonly small progress could be made, and at the Earns time our heart were almost sickened by the piteous appeals for help Some were so jammed in that it took hours to rescue them, and when at length the obstacles were removed it was in many cases found they had succumbed to their injuries, while in a few instances reason had given way under the fearful strain. The oloudsof thick dust eufloca ed many who we.e not killed outright at the first shock. SCENES AT NATLES THE DEAD. The scene here to-day has been of a most distressing character. Hundreds of persona have arrived in tho city in search of missing relatives and friends, and make the mornt'ul round ot the dead-houses in a frenzied state. Numbers disappointed here have gone on to Casamlociola, but all the dead bodies of visitors recovered are brought to this place for identification. Boats have been arriving hourly throughout the morning packed with the dead and dying. In one Instance the cargo consisted of twenty-four little children, some of the intants all laid out in their white shrouds. These were taken to a hospital and placed in rowa Tuesday afternoon, July 31, two steamers arrived with fresh troops to relieve those exhausted by prolonged fatigue and by the terrible nature of their work here. Eight hundred bodies Aug out of the ruins have been buried in the old cemetery, and a new one hai been consecrated for the occasion by the Monte Calvuio. It was soon found impossible to bury the bodies separately, and towards the last a large pit was dug, forty feet wide, and the bodies cost into it as they were reoovered. THE XTJfO'S r-BESKKCa. The King arrived yesterday and made an inspection of the rains, attended by Signers Depretis Hancint, Genala, and several other onlcials and Deputies. The crowd which followed them wan comparatively quiet and self-contained, and, in general, the .only sound hoard was the half-suppressed sobbing of women, who, .t the time, pressed forward, with outstretched arms, crying: "Maesta! Maesta!" as if they expected the mere presence of tho King to bring immediate relief. Tho exhalations were less offensive than yesterday, thanks to lime and water that have been abundantly poured over the ruins where putrefying b-rpses are too deeply buried to b e dug out This measure, however, ha. created great Indignation among the bereaved, who still hope to find their loved ones alive. The Duke of San Donato made urgent representations on the subject to the liuuf. Slgnor Oenala assured the Duke that wbere there seemed any chance of rescuing- live victims the excavations would be continued. As he proceeded up hill, each turn of the road diKolosing fresh spectacles of woe, tho King broke forth into exclamations of astonishment and prior, Signor Genala urged him to turn back, on account of tho cUft'tculty of the ascent, but his feeling reply was: "If others go so can t Disaster makes all men equal" Host harrowing incidents occurred en route. Tho few survivors cnuampod among tho vineyards met the King with pleroing cries for aid, accompanied by the most frantic gestures. The King asked S'gnor Genala whether the rescued property ot the wretched islanders was respected. The Minister replied that unhappily in many instances this had not bnen the case. Yesterday eight ruscals caught plundering among the ruins had been arrested and sent to Naples. Stiict measures had been taken to prevent any ono coining from that city without a permit from the authorities. From Forio the King proceeded to Lacoo Ameno, the upner part of which township is almost entirely destroyed Here a thrilling incident occurred A f:iir-haired strapping Englbhman, Mr. Louis Nesblt, was enthusiastically pointed out to the King by tha population as their savior, he having by his exertions rescued a number ot lives. "The King shook Mr. Nebit's band, and expressed in glowing terms his sppreoialiton of British pluok and kindheavteanass. AH th Ministart then shook aads witi Mr, Nesblt,

whilst the venerable Premier, Slgnor Depre-i tis, aotnally kissed his forehead. The people around meanwhile oheered lustily for "Bor iMigl" . i ENorjsmotN. After the closest and most complete inSuiries I am able to state, on the highest of c al authority, that there were only twelve English in Casamlcciola at the time of the disaster. Six of these are among the killed Mrs Durde and her son, Mta and Miss Bobertson, Mr. Green, (a retired Indian Judge), and Charles Barn, aged 13, son ot the English clergyman at Naples. Mr, Green's body was only recovered yesterday. He had evidently been overwhelmed and suffocated by the debris, as the body showed very few marks of braises, and had sustained no serious injury. The others who were in the town and who escaped were: GoL Mackenzie, who has received some bad bruises-. fz. Stoddard, Mrs. Green, Mrs Barff, with her daughter and another son. The Rev. Mr. Barff had returned to Naples for bis Sunday's aervtoe. . Many ladles are still lying unburied among the ruins, and although the copious application of ffiJf1nttswBoTlwhat improved matters, the odor is terrible, HOUSES ON TOP OF EACH OTHER, It is impossible to describe the difficulties met with In oarrying out the work of excavation. The site ot the town Is hilly, and the houses have been thrown on one another, and here and there are yawning cracks in the ground The oataatophe is absolutely complete, and it seems impossible to restore Gasamicciola. There is not a single house standing there exoept a little church, which has been unrooted, sear the harbor, and three cottages in whioh it is impossible to obtain shelter. The whole presents an indescribable spectacle, the details of whioh are heartrending. At Lacco Ameno the state of affairs seems to be, if anything, worse than at Oasamiooielo. Not a single building can be traced out of the mass of timber and stones which now marks where the prosperous village once stood. The inhabitants living In this spot were 1,593, bnt of all this number only five are known to have escaped destruction. The wreck is complete. Some of the houses have disappeared bodily, falling presumably into the fissures when the earth opened. At Fario the damage Is not so extensive, but it is still very great DE80RIPTICH or THE MOVEMENT OF TB8 EARTH. The earthquake appears to have ran across the island from v. est to east, and, beside the towns I have enumerated, all the adjacent villages and hamlets have more or less suffered. The first and most fatal shock was accompanied by a noise resembling loud thunder. The succeeding shocks were less clearly marked, but they served to extend the devastation and complete the fearful panic that set in throughout the tr eater part of the island The previous weather had been splendid, hut a violent storm set in the day following the disasters, and this, accompanied by almost total darkness, added greatly to the horror ot the scene, and rendered transit from the islund to the main land very rUflicrdt It is pointed out as significant that Vesuvius had been unusually active just before the shock 'lUK rUTUBE. The so-called earthquake ot 1881, In which over 300 people perished and most of the smaller buildings in Casamlcciola were destroyed, was in reality a sudden oollapae ot the sou. The present catastrophe is also ascribed to an earth tremor, but Profc Palmiest, the Director of the Tesuvian Observatory, denies that this has been the case, and attributes the calamity, as he did the exactly similar one of 1881, to a depression of tile fragile crust, undermined by the springs. If this statement should be confirmed, the future of Ischia is hopeless. No one will dare to build, and visitors will keen clear ot a spot whore at any moment the firm land may sink beneath their feet. This is a dismal fate.

DIJJEL TO THE DEATH.

Desperate Sneounter Betweer. Two Colorado Ranchmen.

Laramie City Telegram. Three men In a white-covered wagon entered Laramie City by the North Park road last night Two occupied the seat in front, the other, pale, haggard, and blood-stained, groaned upon a bed of blankets in the box. At Dr. Harris' office they halted and then drove to the hospital, where the sufferer was placed He was Charles Shelton, a wealthy horse-dealer. Last Friday night he bad shot and killed Will Keys in a duel at Snyder's ranch on the little Grizzly, in North Park, His companions were August Henderson and Fred Lawrence, who detailed tho partionlare of the tragedy. Shelton is proprietor of a horseranch in the park. Last Friday he was at Snyder's ranch helping to put un hay. Keys, who had nn interest in 8nydera ranch, was present While eating supper in a tent near the cabin Keys askea a boy in Shelton's employ to go into the cabin and refill the teapot This the boy refused to do, saying he was not in Key's employ. Keys abused the boy. Shelton interfered, and a quarrel ensued Keys left the table, and, taking the teapot, went into the cabin, returning in a moment with tea aad a Winchester riile. He sat the teapot down and turning to Shelton said: "Do you know, sir, that I have a notion to kill yon for this insult?" "What insult?" rejoined Shelton, rising from his seat "I dare you to shoot" "I will not shoot you down like a dog, bnt will give you a chance tor your Ufa in a duel '-When and where? I am ready, at any moment" "Now and on this spot" Keys finally stood the weapon against the side of the tent, poured out the tea, and sat down again. Shelton walked out of the tent got another Winchester at the cabin, loaded it, came back to the tent, and, standing hi the door, said that he was ready. In a minute seconds were procured, and Keys lumped from the table, and, seizing the riile, brought it to his shoulder. Instantly two reports rang out almost together. Shelton dropped his gun and ran out across the prairie holding his hands to his lace. Snyder started iu pursuit, while Anderson raised Keys' head. The wounded man gasped, "Tell Lacy, my wife, my wife and fell back dead. Snyder returned in a lew minutes with Shelton, who had been shot in the chin, the ball ranging backward and to the right His companions thought he, too, would die. He could not speak, but made signs for his coat, whioh was given him. He took paper and pencil from one of the pockets and wrote: "Is Kejs hurt?" Sydney wrote beneath the question the words: "Ho is dead.". The ball from Shelton's rifle entered Keys' aide in front ot the left armpit, passed through the body, and came out lust above the right shoulder. Shelton had fired his weapon without bringing it to his shoulder?

THE NATION'S SAFEGUARDS. Gen. Drum AuxioaaS to Have a Grand MUUIa Force of 300,000 Men, rWashington Telegram. Some unnecessary alarm has been created by a letter recently sent by Adjt Gen. Drum to the Adjuant Generals ot the several States asking for information aa to how long It would take to make up their quota of regular force of 300,000 men. It was thought by some that the Adjuant General was preparing for a war, either with Germany or Moxico.or toeocuie protection for a possible labor outbreak. Drum,howeveileclaree that nothing of the kind is contemplated. He simply desires to see the militia improved. With tho exception ot Pennsylvania, New York, and Hassaohuaetts none of the States would be able to furnish more than a handful of trained men on short notice. The Adjutant General desires to establish a national militia of 200,000 practical soldiers. He thinks tbat it would be a good protection, and avoid the necessity for Increasing the regular army. He believes that the Government can well afford to spend four or five millions in perfecting Such an organization, and one or two millions yearly toward maintaining it He does not look for war exoept in theromote future. Tho subject will not be mentioned in his regular report, but will probably furnish material for a special report to Congress next winter. CURIOUS STORIES OF ANIMALS.

These milk-white deer have recently been seen in the forest ot Washington county, Alabama A man In British Columbia has a cow that dlvei for salmon, oatohes one, and feeds it tohwywmm'.

RAILROADS OF ISDIAirA. Number of Miles and Valve of Improvements in Each County Only fast CoaiUea without at Isa On Una. From tha Indianapolis Journal.) The report of the work of the State Board of Equalization will soon be ready for prints ing. It will be more elaborate this year than ever before, and iatnuf very carefully prepared. From the tabulated statement of the Auditor of State showing' the number ot miles ot railroad operatod in each county, with its tax valuation, the following summary baa been taken, gi ving the total tax assessment whioh goes to eaoh oounty, together with the yaluatton on the improve-

anfc nn the riant of way !

Counties.

Adams Allen

mton

lackford

noone Brown Carroll Cass , Clarke Clay Clinton Crawford Daviess..... Dearborn per star..... PeKaib Delaware.... Dnbois Elkhart Fayette Floyd Fountain Franklin.... Fulton. Gibson.

Grant..

reene..

.mllton.

ncock..

lireene

1

HarriMrin.

Hendricks Kcury Howard. Huntington. Jackson. Jasper lav

Aeffemn..

Jennings..

(fonnBon. Knox. . Kosciusko. Laporte. LftWTClMM....... Madison.-. Marion Marshall Martin.. ....... Miami Monroe Montgomery... Morgan Newton..! Noble Orange Owen , Parke.

Posey Pulaski:.... Putnam.... Randolph.. Ripley.

Boots , Shelby Spencer. Starke. St Joseph Steuben Sullivan. Sptorr::::::::: Union Vanderbinw. ,.... VermilUon. Vigo Wabash. , Warren Warrlek Washington. Wayne. Wells White Whitley.

Hues main

track.

53.181

140.'. 41.11

tf.tni

38. (SI

Total tuaa-

ment.

(Improve-

mens on dght of

t WS.441

!L17&M

1S.IOS S0S.4T7

433,601

89.101

87.1.8)

ej.iai

4S.1M lOLial

18.111

49.181 48.4,8

SS.IM 64.1'Tj

ST.!

6S.fS

42.VS1

M.V7 B4.IM SLM 4j eo.ia - WM S5.46 47.08 H.H7 17.1J5 78.1 as.7 M.M 48.511 S0.4A 30.74 81.(0 21.M 63.11 4L1 78.14 87.43 14.1S 900.1 303.VS SAM SS.W 168.11 88.' 6 18.S8 74.41 M.U1 VIM 40. M 91.78 74.! 16 .IHL 49.78 4S.lT! 1VH7 mm 7L4D 43.ru 89.08 (UU S0.HS tin sun M.9 ST.HT 6B.IW 67.(18 18,01 41. ;s 103.K4 46.11 i4.sa 48. tS 84.10 exa 80.44 80.34 SLOT 37.M 8S.IS 73. V8 69.08 8&i3

Total IS.140.9lK4.M8QHltlJM.7aa

801,848 ,447,11 708,708 018,438

ove,ivsi 135,7481 SIMM

S50.Mll 4M.M4I

1,34,T 817,501 19.687 I,U6,48 asLiii

4BXU m,ws St,SM 603,293

89,885 40,38 83M2S 44.881

644.3111

S14.UH 353.S44

896,3471

168,448 546.931

33ft,6W

1,135,6401

1SS,B 2418.640 3.TTM8I 4S934

48&34M

M38.196 1A7L3S6I

117,380 709 037 708,es 678,40

3S9LS31I

130,0431 zimJss

389,4X31

ssaait

861,135 8S.4M lisajm 133,198

1453,3711 419.787 15S.871:

697.818 380,500 U6,83 193,361

eoAisS

wi1

S4SC 111,408 8,(58 3,(08 2,g 2,29

8,190 88,170 ttSt

4,10 sot 1, 18 UJSl 6.KM casss S,H8 7z,om 3.IU5 11,419 4,418 1V8 . 1,853 T.1T5 ,:ia xm 3,isa 4.4U IN ViS 7,440 4,488 69,484 11,788 1,5M J.3U lCsaa 2, tM 4.40 18, MC 17.011 i,m 36.118 41, Ml 4,888 4,V ltcose 14,tK 3,03 39.880 asm 4.595 aasi 1548

1873 35 SAOM UK -V77 7,670 mm S,TU0 1,14 5.9E0 TM 6,084 23.9011 45,823 1,870 MM 13,64 H,S30 7,8

13 4.918 13,644

The counties which have no railroads running within their territory are Brown Ohio, Ferry and Switzerland The oountie having the largest n amber of miles of railroad are Laporte, Lake and Marion, while Orange has the fewest miles. The valuation Is highest in Lake county, but Ksrton leads In the cost ot improvements on the rightof way. The improvements on the Louisville, EvansvUle and 8b Louij, tn Pike, costless than is credited to any other county, the amount being 28l Indiana llama. At Indianapolis the wife of George Betas, aer, boot and shoe dealer, ooromittod suicide by jumping from a window tn the seoondstory of her residence. Mms Anna Mills, 70 years old, of TJttea, Clark county, drowned liersolf in ' the Ohio river. Temporary insanity is supposed to have driven hex to take her Ufa

Wans atternpting.to kill a mink, at 1

yffle, William Gimlisoh accidentally shot his wife, the ball entering the kriee-oap, inflict Ing a dangerous wound. A tbamf entered the lxcuse of an old colored lady at Madison, sad drove her one' at the mnxsle ot a pistol. Hex daughter returned home and he fiighliened her away with a butcher knife, and then lansaakasd the house and escaped to the hills. As A train was leaving 1he depots Shelbyyule, somebody threw a largo stone throoga a car window, striking nn ld lady by the name of 8mith, who lived at nnman, twenty miles east of Groensbarg. on the temple. Information now comes that slie is dead tram the effects of the blow. At Haxleton, Peter Le 3"are was running a belt on a pulley, using a ntlcl; for the purpose. The stick became fastened in tbs wheel, and after one revolution It wat thrown with terrible force, striking Le Fart in (he bowels and penetontmg deep futo hil body. It is reported that Ike young ma died the same night At Seymour, John MoOimmon'a wife die and was buried at the expense Ot the oounty. leaving four children. MoCunmon, a good for-ao thing drunkard, came home and abused his family, when aoo it tbjb neighboring women gathered la, tied him to the bedstead, and were abou t to adinlniator a whipping when the City Kardial oama and released htm. Gaoaon HAnaiaox, who lh-ea near Greenwood, Johnson oounty. has returned from f visit tu Kansas, hrtaging with htm a molai tooth of a mastodon. Tb e grinder, of which the root is for the most part gene, is a fine specimen, aad weighs naariy five pounds, and must have weighed eight or nine pounds whan entire. He found it while seining a mall stream bi trie southwestern part ot the tete, near In iian Territory line. The little town of New Heliron, Crawford county, steps forward with a sencsttoa' Mrs. X M. Biohards, a lo.:tor's wife, alleged that John Kaley, a merotact, insulted her, whereupon Mrs, Btnharcla secured a long hickory gad, and, meeting Kaley In the trees, belabored him uomeitnfully with it Kaley was vigorously thrashed, but be rrabbedMrs. Biohards and threw nek Into a mud-hole. The scandal has been taken to the courts. Ottn of the most honlble aooiil'Tntii occurred at Montpeller, to Hotie Moricto. He was fireman on a threshes' engine, and was atoving the engine to mother sjtaofc. He was going across a bridge, when Ik gave way, letting engine and tank both into the stream. He was riding bttwaantha nT3tne and rank, and when tt wen down bin toot was caught and heldso ttrhtly that f3Ord not get out for fifteen intunsjiav'Wjy time the steam aad ho wiAsr pvwvw him, scalding him to doatth. Hau In

tense agony. Be oxpwwi ra. tanauaD attorhewMnou ' vj:$Lrv- ,