Daily Greencastle Banner and Times, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 April 1895 — Page 4

1HK BANNER TIMES, GilEENCASTLE, INOIANA

TIIERSDAY APRIL 2.). 1895

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By CEARLES B. LEV7IS (M. QUAI5).

Has a Residence in Crawfordsville to exchange for a residence in Greeneastle, and a few Real Estate bargains in property il

taken at once.

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fCopyright, 1895, by Charles U. Is wis. 1 It is doubtful if any craft over launched had it more unfortunate career than that of the ship Neptune, hailing from tho port of Philadelphia. While tho story is a strange one, most of it is a matter of record and can ho verified. She was contracted for in September, IMiT, by a Philadelphia shipowner who b is long been dead. She was built at New Bedford by a contractor who lost money on her and committed suicide before she was fully completed. Before tho keel was fairly laid a derrick fell and killed two ship carpenters. Their I Mood stained the k< 1 of the ship, and from that hour men said she was a doomed craft. On tho day she was launched two of tho people fell ovor-

AIso Dry Goods, Hats, Shoes, Clothing, etc.

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Special Sale

White Chip Hats, White Leghorn Hats, Black Leghorn Hats,

FROM 50 CENTS UP

A full line of Flowers and Ribbons at I. M. KLEIN'S Xlillinory Storo, Opp. Postotlioe.

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April 2d and IlOth. 18115. On April 2d and 20th, 1805, the Vandalia line will sell excursion tickets to points in the south and southeast at one fare round trip. In addition to the above, round trip tickets will be sold to points in Arkansas and Texas on April'id, at rate of one fare plus $2.00. Liberal limits and stop-over privileges allowed. For full partteulars call on or address any Vandalia line ticket agent, or W. K. Brunner. Ass't General Passenger Agent, St. Louis. Mo. .11

nn’l Pioneer Gone. , Springfield, <)., April 25.—Thomas C. Busby, a pioneer, residing near here, died yesterday, aged 80. Mr. Busby had the honor of introducing Governor McKinley to the first political meeting he ever addressed outside of his own district. The speech, an experimental one, proved a steppiugstone to success. Mr. Busby’s father was a quartermaster in the war of 1812, and his grandfather a revolutionary soldier. His five surviving sons are all prominent uewpaper men.

Tho Corner In Hye. Cincinnati, April 25.—Tho corner in rye, popularly supposed to be managed from this city, was evident yesterday in sales of two cars of rye upon terms that it was found not advisable to make public, and indeed the sale itself was not officially rej tried. The nominal price of rye remains at 75 cents. Holders do not want to sell at that. A largo sale of rye flour was made at rates ranging from $2.15 to $2.21). There were 300 barrels sold at the lower price. Will 1.1\<■ (•Till llic* in I.tiuiivlUe. Loitsvii,i.i'., April 25.—Mr. Wntterson has stated emphatically that there is not the slightest ground for the statement contained in a Chicago dispatch that he was to retire from the Courier-Journal. “I shall not relinquish my interest in the Cop.rior-.Tournal.'’said Mr. Warierson, “and i shall live and die in Louisville. There is not the slightest foundation for such a rumor, but I suppose it original, d from the fact that 1 was in Chicairo just before Kohlsnat purchased tho Tinios-Hi-riil 1 end Post.”

Poolrooms Denver, April 25.—Three poolrooms in this city were raided by the police department yesterday afternoon. The proprietors will resist tiie attempt to close their places.

ModJciKka Kxpelled From Kiishiti. London, April 25.—A dispatch to the Chronicle from Vienna says that the Russian government has expelled Mine. Modjeska, the well-known actress, from Warsaw, owing to a violent speech she made against Russia at Chicago during the world’s fair.

Mining Ratoft Keatorml. Wheeling, W. Va.. April 25.—The Elm (irove coal strike of miners was settlM yesterday by the managers restoring the tin cent rate, which they had cut to 61 cents.

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A LAMP EXPLODED IN THE CABIN. board and were drowned. In stepping her masts tho shears gave way, and one man was killed and two others badly injured. She was taken to Philadelphia to be rigged, and two days after the riggers began work one of them fell from aloft and was killed. Tho sailmaker who cut her sails had not completed his work when lie was killed by a fall in his own sail loft. It is a positive fact that before tho Neptune was ready to receive her cargo seven men who had to do with her building, fitting out or launching had died violent deaths. She was spoken of among shippers and sailors as accursed, and though she was a handsome, well found craft she had to give extra wages to secure a crew and cleared for Rio with only two-thirds of a cargo. Tho Neptune was hardly clear of tho land when she ran into a gale which carried away her rudder and did much other damage, and after drifting about for several days she was towed into port by a steamer and had a large salvage bill to pay. She made a fresh start, witli everything favorable, and carried good weather down to the latitude of the Windward islands. One night her first mate was missing, and to this day his fate is a mystery, except it is certain he must have gone overboard. The orew was a peaceful one, the weather fine, and unless the man committed suicide it is hard to understand how ho could have met his death. This brought the number of deaths up to eight. On the succeeding day, while the watch on duck were busy with the work of the ship, she struck a largo timber which was floating just awash and was so damaged about tho bows that she had to run in to Martinique, with tho pumps going and much of tho cargo destroyed, lu port, while undergoing repairs, a lamp exploded in the cabin and caused a loss of several hundred dollars by fire, while tho captain was so badly burned that ho had to givo up his command anil return homo. When tho Neptune finally got away from Martinique, it was with now officers ami a now crew throughout. Captain James Gordon, now living in Atlantic City, was the man sent over to command her. Tho persistent misfortune which had followed the Neptune so viciously lot up as she again headed for her home port. From the hour she sailed uutil her arrival in Philadelphia she encountered only fair weather and met with no accident of any kind. Therefore when she was again ready to sail, this time bound around the Horn to Valparaiso, she had no difficulty in securing a crow, though Captain Gordon was replaced by a skipper named Truesdale, who died at Charleston only three or four years ago. Hero is what happened to the Neptune as she began her voyage: As she was waiting for the tide and a tug one of her crew, who was drunk, fell otf the rail to tho dock and fractured his skull and had to bo sent to tho hospital, where bodied a few days later. In towing down to tho breakwater she was run into by a coasting schooner and lost an anchor. As tho tug cast off her lino she was caught by a squall, laid on her beam ends and had a close shave from turning turtle. This account of her disasters can bo found in tho marine records of about the middle of May. 186!). From tho time sho got fairly to sea until sho began rounding tho Horn all went well with the Neptune. She had good weather, a good crew, and some of her runs for 24 hours wore up to tho best clippers. When opposite Staten Island, sho ran into a gale, which drove her to the south, damage I her alow and aloft to tho amount of $1,000 and strained her scams until the captain himself had to tako a turn at the pumps. Now conies tho most singular pari !if the ship's history. When the gale finally broke, the men were so exhausted and discouraged that they insisted on taking to tho boats. By constant pumping they had kept tho water down, hut they were worn out and could do no more. They flatly refused to turn to again, and Captain Truesdale hud no choice left. The boats were lowered, provisioned and the ship abandoned one day at noon. She was made snug before leaving her, but no one expected her to float above five or six hours. The boats were oicked no

< two days lattr by a whaler, and the j men eventually landed at Montevideo. I The Neptuuowent drifting away to the I soutn and finally brought upon the beach of Biseoe island, where she was discovered by the American whaler Albert Pringle. Strangely enough, her open seams had been closed by driftweed, ami she had only a foot of water in her hold ami had sr.bVred no great damage. She was easily floated, and several mouths after her supposed loss was sailed into the very harbor where her crow had landed. Her cargo was discharged and sold there, and after | other weary months she was sunt home in ballast. In one way and another the Neptune had cost her owia r more thaw her value, to say nothing of the reputation she had earned for h r elf, and immediately upon her arrival hci.u she was offered | for sale.. While wa K'lg t > he sold her owner became bankrupt, and the ship was limilly disposed of for one-fourth of her contract price. When thoroughly overhaul, d and repaired by her purchaser, who was a rt sidt nt of Wilmington, N. C., sho was loaded with a cargo of rosin, turpentine and tar for Liverpool. Upon her return her logbook showed that every man enjoyed good health, not an accident had happened, and her run was one of tho quickest on record, (iood luck had been with her every day of the voyage. Sho took in half a cargo cf tho same commodities, sailed around to ('harleston and took on rice for the remainder and then cleared for Amsterdam. I’p to the time she called at the Azores to replenish her water all had gone well. When sho entered the port of Fayal, there were 14 of * there who had been taken off the sinking bark Red Chief, an English craft, 200 miles to the westward, a week before. Sho was then in command of Captain John C. Hoke of Charleston, and as ho was in want of an apprentice I shipped to complete the voyage. The reputation of thoship was known in almost every port of the world, but as her luck seemed to have changed at last I had little hesitation in accepting the berth offered. She sailed from Fayal one morning at 7 o’clock, her flags flying and everything in tho best of order, and for two days she ran to the northeast like a race horse. Then tho wind fell flat, and for three days and nights there was not enough air to blow out a candle. On the morning of the fourth day down came a howling gale square in our teeth, and that was the beginning of tho end. Something of what happened was afterward published in the Charleston and Wilmington papers, but the accounts were very meager. So stroug was tho gale that the ship had to lie to, and while in this position she drifted to the southwest and out into tho open Atlantic. While lying toon tho port tack the sail which was keeping her steady blew away, and sho fell off into the trough of the sea. While in that position, with tho entire crew on deck in anticipation of accident, she shipped a sea which carried away five men, the deckhouse, cook’s galley, everything movable on deck and nearly tho entire length of her port bulwarks. Ten minutes later she was thrown on her beam ends, and to prevent her rolling over her masts were cut away. Everything except the wreckage of the foremast was cut adrift, but that was allowed to hold and bring the bows of the hull to the sea. While she was swinging around she shipped another sea which flooded the cabin and carried away two more men, thus thking seven out of a crew of 18. Withiu an hour of our disaster the gale broke, but we were in a helpless condition. Food was served from the cabin store, but scarcely had we finished our meal when it was discovered that the Neptune was leaking badly, and wo bad to go to the pumps. In tho course of 12 hours tho wind moderated to a gontlo breeze, and tho sea went down, and had any spars been left aboard we could have rigged jury masts and set some sort of sail. Wo had nothing of tho sort, however, and when wo attempted to haul in the wreckage it broke away and drifted out of reach. Out of four boats on chocks and davits the longboat alone escaped damage, and

WE SHOUTED IN CHORES. after 24 hours at tho pump, with tho 1 water slowly gaining every hour, it was decided to abandon tho ship. Sho was then about 120 miles to the southwest I of the Azores, and no great hardship was anticipated in reaching those isJ lauds. When the longboat shoved away from the sinking ship, there were no less than threo sails in sight, and one of them was headed directly for us, though still 10 or 12 miles distant Tho weather had been fine all the morning, but at noon as we lay watching the Neptune settling down and for the other ship to come up tho wind veered to the north, increased in force, and it set in to rain, and the horizon was obscured until one could : not see a cable’s length. We got over a j drag to keep the boat bead to tho sea and went drifting to the south, and the last we saw of tho doomed ship she was still afloat, but with her decks almost awash. Fate was not yet satisfied, however. As near as could be learned, the sail wo saw as we shoved off was the brig Coquet of Liverpool, homeward bound from around the Horn, bhe had ! a crew of ten men and a vuluablttcargo and was spoken and reported when 150 miles off the Azores. I have not a doubt that in the storm and darkness she ran

into :iio Neptune and went to tno cotton in her company. At any rate, sho was never heard of again, nor could any other reasonable explanation bo advanced as to b.'r fate. For two days and two nights we drove to too south, i very man constantly wet tot! skin ami suffering from exposure. We were on a ihort allowance of food and water, and every man except the captain gave upall hopeof rescue. During the second night the carpenter, who seemed to loso all of Lis courage from the oatsc •, disappeared without being seen by any one, and it was believed that, !..: <! i d to end all by rolling himself over the rail into tho sea. An hour 1 f re daylighton the third morning, wiih both wind and seagoing down and tho stars shining, we were overhauled by asteamer coming up from the southwest. Wo saw her lights while ’ sho was yet a long way off, and when , she cauio up she passed within 100 feet ! of us. We could see the lookout ou her bows and an officer on the bridge, and we shouted in chorus loud enough to be heard two miles away. The steamer passed us at full speed, rocking our boat 1 with the swash from her propeller, said j kept steadily ou her course until out of I sight. It was the steamer British Empire, and when afterward taken to task for her heartlessness officers and crew stoutly maintained that we wore neither seen nor heard. At noon, however, wo were picked up by tho Scotch sailing ship Dunbarton and carried to Glasgow, and with our rescue the curtain went down on the last act of the drama of tho “doomed ship. ” Her end was predicted the day her keel was baptized in human blood, and it has always been considered by sailors an interposition of divine Providence that sho did not take her entire crew with her when she made her final plunge.

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TIo' “Yard" Arrow. It has been generally believed that the English war arrow was of the same length as that of tho standard yard— namely, 3 feet—but in the absence of positive proof the weight of argument is supposed to be against such an assumption. One of the best pieces of evidence of the length of tho old English war arrow is in the form of a weapon of that kind made of pure silver, which is now the property of the Royal Toxophilite society of London, This is believed to bo an exact nioiiel of the old war arrow. It was inherited by its present owners from tho old Society of Finsburg Archers. It bears the date of 16C3 and is only 28L 4 iuchos in length. The ancient scortou arrow, supposed to bo of the date of tho year 1672, but which is unmarked with either letters or figures, is of the same length of tho above. This, taken with a reference to an act of parliament, which decreed that the war arrow should “be with shafts of tho length of three-quarters of the standard,” which would give a length of 27 inches, is believed to be proof positive of its exact length. The length of the arrows still employed in oriental countries and in all lands in which tho inhabitants are still in a semisavage state is equal to tho average height of the bowmen who are expected to use them. It is believed that there is not now r. single specimen of the kind of arrow in existence which did England such splendid service nt tho battle of Agiucourt.—St. Louis Republic.

“Declined With Thanks’* In Chinese. The following is said to be an exact translation of the letter sent by a Chinese editor to a would bo contributor, whose manuscript ho found it necessary to return: “Illi stkious Brother of the Sun and Moon—Behold thy servant prostrate before thy feet. I kowtow to thee and beg that of thy graciousuess thou mayst grant that I may speak and live. Thy honored manuscript has deigned to cast the light of its august countenance upon us. With raptures wo have perused it. By tho bones of my ancestors never have I encountered such wit, such pathos, such lofty thought. With fear and trembling I return tho writing. Were I to publish the treasure you sent me, the emperor would order that it should be made the standard and that none be published except such as equaled it. Knowing literature as I do, and that it would bo impossible in 10,000 years to equal what you have douo, I send your writing back. Ton thousand times I crave your pardon. Behold, my head is at your feeL Do what you will. Your servant’s sK-vant. The Editor. ” —New York Times.

An Elevated Lake. The lake which has tho distinction of being tho most elevated body of water in tho world is Green lake, Colorado. Its surface is 10,252 feet above the level of tho sea, and its-shores are perpetually covered with snow. The water of the lake is as clear as crystal, and large sections of petrified trees are distinctly visible at a depth of over 100 feet. In one portion of tho lake a large area of tho bottom is still covered with tanding petrified forest. The branches of these rock trees are of dazzling whiteness, giving tin in tho appearance of having been cut from marble. The maximum depth of tho lake is 223 feet.—at. Louis Republic.

UuiiiiiiliiS IlIrilK. Humming birds can be domesticated j and kept alive in cages by tho curious | expedient of making tubular paper flow- , ers, at the bottom of which is placed a : small quantity of sugar and water frequently renewed. They are thus enabled to take their nourishment in the usual way and soon become apparently eontun ted.

IIN lle|;ret, “I am glad to be wid yo, b’ys, ” exclaimed an enthusiastic orator at a political meeting. “I was borrun at the old north ind of the city of Boston, d’yer mind, but it lias always been me regret that I was not boraun in me native counthry. ”—Boston Commercial Bulletin.

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