Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1880 — Page 4

MPORTANT AND INTERESTING STATEMENTS.

Bead, Mark and Inwardly nicest-* Something for .Everybody. AsmsuumiAM.'Maes., Jan. 14,1880. 1 have been very sick over two years. They all gave me up as past core. I tried the most skillful physicians, bat they did not reach the worst part. The lungs and heart would fill up every night arid distress me, and my throat was very bad. I told my children I never should die in peace until I had tried Hop Bitters I have taken two bottles. They have helped me very much indeed. I shall take two more; by that time I shall be well. There was a lot of sick folks here who have seen how they helped me, and they used them and are cured, and feel as thankful as I do that there is so valuable a medicine made. Yours, Mrs Julia G. Cushing. Battle Creek, Mich., Jan. 31. 1880. 1 have used seven bottles of llop Bitters, which have cured me of a severe chronic difficulty of the kidneys and have had a pleasant effect, on my system. Rodney Pearson. Wat.hend, Kansas, Dec- 8. 1879 I write to inform you what great relief I got from taking your Hop Bitters. I was suffering from neuralgia and dyspepsia, and a lew bottles have entirely cured me, and 1 am truly thankful for so good a medicine. Mrs Mattie Cooper

Cedar Bayou, Texas, Oct. 28, 1879. Hop Bitters Co: I have heretofore been bitterly opposed to any medicine not prescribed by a physician of my choice. My wife, fifty-six years old, had come by degrees to a slow sundown. Doctors failed to benefit her. I got a bottle of Hop Bitters for her, which soon relieved her in many ways. My kidneys were badly affected, and I took twenty or thereabouts doses, and found much relief. I sent to Galveston for more, and word came back none in the market, so great is the demand; but I got some elsewhere. It has restored both ol us to good health, and we are duly grateful. Yours, J. P. Maget. New Bloomfield, Miss , Jan. 2, 1880. Hop Bitters Co : J wish to say to you that I have been suffering for the last five years with a severe itching all over. I have heard of llop Bitters and have tried it. I have used up four bottles and it has done me more good than ali the doc. tors and medicines that they could use on or with me. lam old and po <r but feci to bless you for such a relief from your medicine and torment of the doctors. I have had fifteen doctors at me. One gave me seven ounces < >f solution of arsenic; another took four quarts of blood from me. All they could t«11 was that it was skin sickness Now. after these four bottles ofour medicine, my skin is well, clean end -mo > 1. as ever. llenry K noguf. Milton. Del., Feb. 10, 1S8). Being induced by a neighb >r to try Hop Bitters, I am well pleased with it as a tonic medicine, it ha\ ieg so much improved my feelings, and beneri <d my system, wh eh was very much cm of tone, causing great feebleness. Mrs James Betts

Kalamazoo, Mich.. Feb 22. 1830. Hop Bitters .meg. Co : I know Hup Buu-rs wiil bear rccomm ndation horn st y. Ail who use them confer upon th-m the highest <ncomitm-, and give them credit for m iking cun s—all the proprieti rs claim for them. I have kept ilnm since they were li .-t of! red to the public. They took high iank from the fi st, and muinta ned it, and are more called foi than all others combined. So long a 3 they keep up their high repu ation for purity and useiulness I shall continue to recommend them—something I have never before done with any other patent medicine. J. J. Baucock, Physician and Druggist.

Kahoka. Mo., Feb. 9, 188'). I purchased li e bottles of ymir Hop Bitters of Bishop & Co. last fall, for my daughter, and am well pleased with the Bit era. They did her more go d Ilian a i the medicine she h:*d tain n f- r -ix

WM T. MCCLURF.

years.

Arc You Not in Good Hen lth?

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Vegetine. More to Me than Cold. Walpole, Mass., March 7,1880. Mil H. R. Stevens: I wish to inform you what Veoetine has clone for me. I have been troubled with Rrysipelas Humor for moro than thirty years, in my limbs and other parts of my body, and have been a sveat sufferer. I commenced taking Vkqetine one year ago last August, and can truly say it has done moro for me than any other modiclne. I seem to be perfectly free from this humor and can recommend it to every one. Would not be without this medicine—'tis more to mo than gold—and I leel it will prove a blessing to others as it has to me. Yours, most respectfully. Mbs. DAVID CLARK. J. BENTLEY, M.D.,says: It has done move qood than all Medical Treatment. Newmarket, o»t., Feb. 9,1880. Mn. H. R. Stevens, Boston, Mass.: Sir—l have sold during the past year a considerable quantity of your Veoetine, and I believe in all oases it has given satisfaction. In one case, a. delicate young lady of about seventeen years was much benefited by its use. Her parents informed me that it had dono her more good than all the medical treatment to which she had previously been subjected. Yours respoctfully, J. BENTLEY, M. D. Loudly In Its Praise. Toronto, Ont., March 3, 1880. Dear Sir—Oonnidering the short time that Veoetine has bden before the public here, it sells well as a blood purifier, and for troubles arising from a sluggish or torpid liver it is a first-class medicine. Our customers speak loudly in its praise. J. WRIGHT & CO., Cor. Queen and Elizabeth Streets. VEGETINE PREPARED BY H. R. STEVENS, Boston, Mass. yecetme is Soli by All Drnjgists,

YANKEE CHARON. BT PAUL M. XDOBELL. * » * *• i In daysof old, mwe *te told, , Beside the Stygian tMi *•’’* -t* " { - Old Charon dwelt, with whom aH dealt Who sought the other side. And for his task, he each would ask A obole in return. « And every gent who lacked a cent He left the cent to urn. And motley crowds, in funeral shrouds, A waited on the shore: And there would stay, who could not pay A hundred years or more. Among the throng that came along, New England sent a man—’Twas Eli Brown, of Boston town, Who had o’erstepped life’s span. He lacked the tin to let him in To the Elysian grove; An oath he swore that lie no more By Styx’s tide would rove. He picked up sticks and ’gan to fix A raft on which to float; An I rishman who’s near at hand He hired to build the boat. Says Pat, “ Be gob, a payin’ job ’Twould be for you and me With fine desate that lad to chate, And row there over free.” Then Eli said. “ ’Twas in my head That very thing to do. Now, launch her in, and we’ll begin To run our vessel, too. “ By darn,” said he, “ just wait and see How we will run this biz. Pat, holler loud and get a crowd, Get every soul there is.” Pat “ hollered ” loud and got a crowd Upon the new-made lxiat, Then Eli said “ For every head I’ll take a ten-cent note.” When Charon saw the nat’ral law Trausgre-sed by Eli Browu, He scratched his head and sadly said, “ My price of fare goes down.” They traveled o'er from shore shore— These rival iioais—all day, Brown brought a load each time he rowed Because be asked no pay. When not one more was on the shore The crew their oars laid down. Then Char" i spoke and silence broke Unto cute Eli Brown : “ What god art thou who guid’st that prow What god, by Jove sent down ?” Then Eli Brown, with tempest frown, “ By Jove, T’m Eii Browu.” » . « . * » * • They row the Styx ; the price they fix An obole for each way. Pat's at the oars, while Charon snores, And Brown takes in Uie pay. Ahjngton, Mass.

MY JEALOUS NEIGHBOR.

BY UNCLE LUTE. “ Lay by your j 'on, kind friend, and speak to me. 1 "insel me; condemn me; pity me. Anything, anything to divert my mind, for my heart is breaking.” These words, half a wail and half a whisper, fell suddenly upon my ear with such a pathetic appeal for sympathy that, had a knife pierced my heart, its keep throb of pain could not have been greater. My pen dropped from my fingers, and I felt, in that moment of sudden transition from mystic realms of dreamland, that the sorrow of some f.oul had been wrapped around my heart like a mantle thrown around my person. Turning around there stood, leaning yearningly toward me, the charming young wife of my esteemed friend and neighbor, Charley . She hail run across their garden into my sanctum, unexpected and unannounced. We had long been intimate neighbors, so this liberty did not surprise ; but her strange, heart-rending appeal startled me. “Minnie,” I said—she was always Minnie to me—calmly and kindly as my surprised state would admit, “ what is it ? Tell me your trotible, my child, and whatever I can do you know I am yours to command.” At the sound of my quiet, studied voice, her wild, flashing eyes filled with great glistening tears, and hiding her face in her hands she sank into a chair and sobbed like a child. And a child she always seemed to me, though twenty fruitful autumns had graced her with their maturing charms. In view of my years, which so greatly contrasted with hers and her husband’s, they had looked upon me, or at least she hail, more in the light of a Platonic father than a stranger with mortal desires and passions. But, as God is my witness, I never looked upon this bewilderingly beautiful young girl-wife with other sensations than those experienced in beholding a beautiful flower or other attraction of nature. I was ever a passionate admirer of all beauty in nature, and felt an awe and adoration for the same, whether in the plant or animal kingdom. True, I was not unmindful of those superior attractions peculiarly applicable to her by virtue of her sox, when contracted with other objects worthy of admiration, else 1 would not have been a manly man. But to be more explicit, my loyalty-to. her state was as chaste as my admiration for the flowers blooming in her garden. She was always free, joyous and happy; mingling her silvery voice with the songs of the early birds of morning; and her musical laugh borne on the calm of the evening breeze to my tired mind was a cheering remembrance of frequent occurrence. Many a fresh boquet and tempting dish found its way on my table, placed there by her own little hands, prompted, I knew, by the purest and,kindest impulses of her womanly heart. Sometimes she and her husband would drop in for a neighborly chat, often begging their kind uncle, ns they were wont to address me, to read to them from my storehouse of lore; and oft the wife would draw me away from myself in a train of conversation which only her intelligent tact and appreciative attention could do. All this freedom of neighborly intercourse had broken down all conventional barriers, so much so that artless Minnie often ran in alone with some question to ask, a bit of news to tell, or as before stated some delicacy for the palate, or blossom for the eye to feast on. In turn, I lent her books, ran in with a fresh newspaper, or perhaps a new poem clipped from some publication, and conferred each with the other upon its merits and demerits—youth, beauty and freshness, and ago and sage experience balancing the scales of our judgments. But never before had neighbor Charley’s wife Minnie appealed to me for sympathy. Many, many a care, many a saddened thought had her opportune presence and cheering smiles dispelled from mj life’s experience ; and now the little dazzling constellation of mirth and lovelinf ss was transformed to a sorrow-stricken woman appealing to me for a word to soothe, a cooling draught to heal the pain of her newlytried heart. But what was the cause of her trouble? I will tell you, reader, and how near I innocently and unconsciously came to wrecking my young neighbor’s happiness for life. “Minnie,” I said again, “pray do not cry. Tell me, my dear neighbor, word for word, if you wish me to know all your troubles.” And I drew near her, and, unreservedly as a father might fold his infant child in his arms, gently drew my arms about her sinking, trembling form. “ Oh, sir ! ” she exclaimed, drawing back, “ you—you must not do so, you—forgive me, kind friend, but—but you have no right to comfort me now. You can no longer be a father to me. You must go away from here immediately, until Charley—” She hesitated, looking at me through her tears, her hands tightly clasped now beneath her turbu-lently-heaving breast in an attitude of uncertain despair.

“ Why, Minnie—why, you greatly puzzle me,” I stammered, “ Tell me at once what has happened ? Why must I go away?” “Because, Charley—he’s terribly angry—calls you awful names, and says he’ll have you arrested, and charges me with—with being unfaithful. Oh, such a tirade of inconsistencies I never before heard uttered,” she breathlessly answered. -: - “ Where is Charley ?” I asked. “ Gone to get a warrant for Oh, sir, please piake haste. Only think of

Hie scandal !• He is so angry he will not reason. He—he—She broke down-then with hysterical oryings. I here/ made known to her with more sternness than I felt that she must calm beiUlf and explain at once, as it was all a nSyßtfeqr'lto jne, and I could not judge Row to act. I gave her to understand, however, that I certainly should not run away—that if 1 was deserving of being arrested the officer would find me ready to do his bidding. This had the effect to calm her somewhat, and between her aqxjous fear, lest some uniformed servant of the law should really burst in upon ns, and her efforts to further explain, clinging alternately to me, and running to the window, I finally obtained an intelligent understanding of the case. “You know, .jir, the other morning when I ran in with the roses, the first in.bloom, and told you that the evening before I saw they were opening, and so had arisen unusually early that morning, because I knew they would be open arid fresh 1 ; and—and other things besides I said which Ido not now remember. But—oh, sir, you know I meant no harm, do you not ? Oh, say you know it, iriy dear friend—say you know it!” Thus the poor wounded child-wife continued her explanation. i hastened to assure her that she said nqUring censurable on the occasion in question#; that in all our friendly intercourse she had eve?* conducted herself with, Hie grace and purity of an angel ; that any one who thought differently was a conturitmate/brute, any one who declared to the contrary was an infamous liar. - “ O, don’t say that,” she pleaded, “for that means Charley.” “'But I’ll never take it back,” I replied, “Charley or no Charley.” “ He was just entering his carriage at our door, yon know,” she continued, ‘ ‘ and could easily hear all that was said, and, as he drove out of the yard, could see us. ” I remembered that such was the fact,

and nodded assent. “And, as I gave the roses to you, I said some complimentary words relative to the merits of Eour last-published article, you rememer ; spoke of the thrilling pleasure the perusal of it gave me, and how plain and easy it seemed to make life’s duties; that I never expected to meet any thorns in my pathway now that your splendid words had removed all fears of your frail friend, and for which reason J had removed all the thorns from the roses which I brought you, and—and one had pierced my thumb, which yon kindly removed.” “ I think those w ere your very words ; at least their import. And your rough physician praised your bravery in bearing the pain eli, my child,” I replied, my eyes feasting on the versatile, earnest Expressions of her fair, care-clouded face? bespeaking such beauty germs of character. “Yet—and sir—just as Charley drove by, do—do you—do you know what you did to—to me ? ” she asked 1 , with trembling, anxious simplicity of an innocent child. “ I took the bouquet, Minnie, did I not, and thanked you for it ? ” “Oh, yes, but—but something else you did, sir. I thought nothing* of it then, nor do I now, and would never have spoken of it only Charley saw it, and—and ho is irrecoverably angry, I fear. ” “Angry at me, Minnie, for some offense of mine when you gave me the roses ?” I curiously inquired. “ Angry at you for that, and angry at me for not resenting it, and for what he is pleased to term my ‘ seductive, siren ways and language.’ ‘ He says you are— I’ll not tell you w r hat lie said, but he—blames me the most. Oh, what shall we do ? lam sure w r e are innocent of any ill intent, pir.” 1 assured her I could remember nothing which should have given offense—that I was sure there had been no acts or words between us of a censurable nature ; and mentally I cursed the contemptible jealousy that could so blindly misunderstand and wound the most excellent and faithful of wives. “I see you do not remember,” she said, “so I will tell you.” And the first blush of maidenly modesty which bore a tinge of shame that I ever saw mantle that sweet young face o’erspread it then, while the look she gave me, expressive of firm faith in my honor, and of a noble friendship—a friendship of the mind and soul—so far divorced from all disloyalty to legal ties of earthly relationships that I vowed then and there with all my heart a reverence for such beauty and purity of character, and bemoaned the fact that it was ever the fate of such to become bound to mortals whose affections are only prompted by desire, and who look upon every manifest emotion of the heart through glasses blurred by the smoke of lust. “When I reached the roses up to you,” she continued, “and made what Charley in his- madness termed my ‘ little siren speech,’ you, in taking them, some way clasped both of my hands together in yours with the roses; and, as you exclaimed, 4 Thanks, dear Minnie ; Heaven blesses women of your kindly nature and purity of purpose,’ you pressed my hands to your lips; and had Charley seen the tears which fell from your eyes like dew upon the roses, and dropped warm on my hands, I—l know, sir, he could not haVe misjudged the emotion which prompted your caress. ” So saying she threw her head down on the table and sobbed afresh, begging of me to see her husband and compel him to listen to an explanation, as he was so angry he would not heed a word she said. “Then this is what is breaking your heart, is it, child? ” I asked, placing my hand upon her drooping head and thoughtfully stroking her luxuriant, wavy tresses, falling about her snow r y, dimpled shoulders and fitfully floating a bewildering veil o’er her turbulent bosom.

“Narrow minds and bigoted souls of licentious tendencies and pious spinsters of forced celibacy, and young husbands with false and fanciful, ideas of passion ancf gallantry, and old male croakers with no elements left save their shriveling forms publishing their lost manhooil, may scoflat the idea of an exalted affection between the sexes, bound by no ties save their God-given right of existing in the same world, my friend,” I said ; “ may scoff, if they will, at the idea of an uncamal appreciation of beauty, bearing the unmistakable imprint of divine fiat; but whatever inference such may have drawn from past words and acts of mine I care not, and frankly confess to you that, in this supreme moment of great indignation and conflicting emotions, when grave questions throng and knock at the window of the mind and reverberate on my tensioned heart strings, I experience a new thrill of supreme admiration for my young friend, humbled here before me in all the glory of her endowments, and know and feel that my life will be brighter and better for it; and above all I realize that she is the true wife of my respected neighbor, and that I experience no feelings of disloyalty to the sacred relationship existing between you—husband and wife ; my only regret being that he so little realizes what a sterling prize he possesses ; that he seems to know not, as I know, that, were she encompassed by dangerous associations, the impregnable shield of her virtue would avail her in thought and deed. ” All this and very niuch more I said to her, with my hand stroking her hair, and she, amid broken ■ obs, defending her husband if I chanced to cast a reflection upon him. For this I admired her, as I had only sought to' stimulate* her to a realizing sense of her position in the matter, preparing her for a defensive stand agamst jgjg accusations. f ‘Now, Minnie,” I concluded, “go

and bring, your husband face to face with i E, you the crushed flower, and I th© useis tare in aor ce-blooming garden of love andbeaWiy.” She arose as I ceased speaking, calm now, but very pale, and her ©yes dim with weeping. “Yesfkind sir,” she said, “I will bring Charley if —if he will come, and all will be made right again.” “It’s all right, my darling wife,” exclaimed a manly voice, and her husband rushed in our presence. Throwing one arm around the yielding form of his now-joyous and radiant wife, and extending his other hand to me, he begged my pardon and here, and reproached himself with all the significant epithets he could command. “ I have heard and seen all your interview,” he continued. “ I followed you, Minnie, when you first ran in here instead of going after a warrant, and have been hiding at the door. I was ashamed of it; but oh !I am twice glad now, for I have seen my folly, and will never doubt my pet again.” I assured him he had my forgiveness. “This,” said I, “has been an eventful day to yon, my neighbor—the grandest day of your life; for it has taught you the sterling worth and character of her who, though your wife, you knew so little of. It has taught you, neighbor Charley, that you are fortunately jx>ssessor of the very best gift Tinder heavefa to man—a beautiful, philanthropic, pure and tenderly faithful wife. ” “ I know it, uncle ; I know it,” he exclaimed ; “God bless you! Ton and she have taught it to me in the last half hour. And can you ever forgive me, darling ?” she asked of Minnie. “ Yes, yes, Charley ; it’s all forgiven. I am, O ! so happy again, my dear husband, you do not know !” Then, heaving a long sigh, as of a great relief, with her hand upon her heart, she added. “ There is no more pain here now.” And sweetly joyous beamed her eyes, through her tears, looking up at us ; beamed with a wife’s love-light for him, and a pure woman’s friendship-light for

me. After they left me, in each other’s arms, with my blessing, Charley ran back from half way across the garden to again grasp my hand ; and Minnie, too, half beside herself with childish happiness, laughingly ran back after him. Thus this happy couple, with the warm, tender joy of a new betrothal, sought the sanctity of their own home, leaving the loneliness of their absence with me. This, kind reader, was the trouble I and my neighbor’s wife had innocently caused ; and, while the affair taught me greater discretion in the future, I think Charley never again became jealous of any one’s appreciation of his splendid wife. —Chicago Ledger.

THE LAKE DISASTER.

Particulars of the Loss of the Tlarine t it j , on Lake Hnrofi. The steamer Marine City left Alpena, Mich., on the afternoon of the 29th of August, with a full load of freight and passengers. At about 4 o’clock p. m., while off Sturgeon point, fire was discovered in the hold, and before any assistance could be rendered the fire had gained such headway that nothing could be done to save her. The crew then commenced to launch the life-boats in order to save the passengers. The tug Vulcan was in sight at the time, and came to the rescue as fast as possible, but before she could get there many had become panic-stricken and jumped overboard. The boat of the life-saving Sturgeon Point station, together with the boats of the Marino City and Vulcan, and a number from the shore, picked up a large number of persons. ,T. L. Jones, of Alpena, one of the passengers, gives the following details of the disaster: “I was standing at ttie engine-room door on the port side talking with another gentleman wheii he smelt smoke. We looked into the fire-room door and saw the fare and flames in the starboard bunkers, among the wood and coal. Wo called the attention of the fireman and engineer to the same, and efforts were at once made to get a stream of water on the fire. The hose was promptly got out. I then went up into the cabin. As I opened the cabin door I found it full of smoke and immediately gave the alarm that the boat was on fire. The most intense excitement prevailed and- a regular panic ensued. The passengers jumped into the water long before there was any need of doing so. The officers and crew behaved nobly, with the single exception of tlie second engineer, who acted like an insane man. Boats were lowered as soon as jxissible and filled at once.” Mr. Jones went forward and remained on the boat until rescued by the Vulcan. He can give no idea of the number of people on board or of the lost.

Mrs. A. B. Clough, of Marine City, and her son, Bert, were on board. Mrs. Clough says she was in the stateroom in the after cabin reading. She heard some one say “ Firo! ” and soon hoard it repeated, but thought it was used in conversation. Bert then came running into tho stateroom exclaiming that tho boat was on fire. She at once went into the cabin and found it mil of smoke. She then went aft. Bert was determined to jump overboard, but she restrained him. Sho found a life-preserver, but, before she could get it on, a large, strong man, a stranger to her, jerked it away from her. She then found Dr. Stockton, of Alcona, and, with his assistance, she and Bert and the doctor reached the main deck, getting down on tho outside. There she picked up a boy about 6 years old who' had been separated from his parents and who was nearly frightened to death. They all four got on tho side of the gunwale and held ou by the window of the porter’s room. A lino was thrown to them, but the doctor did not catch it, and lost his balance and went overboard, but was picked up. The three who were left held on to their position until rescued, Bert fainting at one time from the heat. Tho fire spread rapidly, and the boat soon burned to the water’s edge. Contradictory reports are made as to tho number of lives lost. The trip-sheet is destroyed, and it is therefore impossible to get the names of all tlie passengers. It was at first supposed that all were saved, but there is iio doubt now that at least eight lives M ere lost. Tho steward of the ill-fated vessel says that fifteen lives were lost. All account s agree that the Captain and crew of the Marine City acted with great coolness and bravery, as did Capt. Hackett, of the tug Vulcan, and the crew's of the life-boats.

Toothsome, Perhaps, if Not Fattening 1 . More barbarous or semi-civilized bribes are addicted to the custom of earth-eating, and such a habit exists in some parts of the northern island of Japan. The origin of this custom has been ascribed to various causes, but it seems most probable that, in the majority of cases, the habit has been formed in times of great scarcity, when the people ate the earth in order to partially distend the stomach and so in a measure allay the pangs of hunger, and that from this the custom became a habitual disease. Iu no case yet examined of an earth so used has any appreciable amount of real nutriment been discovered. In Java a fat clay is used; in Lapland a similar earth containing mica. made into a kind of bread; in the South of Persia a carbonate of magnesium and calcium. Some negro tribes and tribes of American Indians are also eartheaters.

Mr. G. G. Love, of New York, has communicated to the Chemical News an analysis of a sample of earth. obtained from a bed several feet in thickness, in a small valley at Tsi etonai, on the north coast of Yezo, and used as food (?) by the Ainos. Tliis earth is of a light gray color and very fine in structure ; it is made into soup, with lily roots and water, by the Ainos. It is essentially a clay, similar to that used by the Javanese, but richer in silica; the sample examined contained but a small amount of organic matter, which consisted of fragments of le&ves possessing an aromatic odor and perhaps intentionally mixed with the earth on that account. It is said that in some parts of Japan, a red hole is made into cakes and eaten by the women with the idea and wish of giving themselves elegant and slender forms. It is also rumored that among the opposite sex, not exclusively natives of the land, a similar diseased habit, arising from the opposite wish, to get fat, is not unknown. An accurate analysis of this dirt has not yet been made, but its permanent nutritive properties appear to be email,— Jopcw Gazette.

LOSS OF THE VERA CRUZ.

The steamship Vers Crux, of the Havana and Mexican line, which sailed from New York on the 25th of August, foundered in a hurricane off the coast of Florida on the morning of Sunday, the 81st She had a crew of forty-one, and carried twenty-nine passengers. Of these seventy persons all bat thirteen perished. Dispatches from San Augustine, Fla., give the following particulars of the catastrophe: “The hurricane that occasioned the disaster precluded all chance of succor from other vessels. Saturday afternoon the steamer encountered a strong gale, which soon increased in fury. Then tine steamer was running on her coarse, being in about 80 degrees west longitude and 40 minutes north latitude. The sea ran very high, and the City of Vera Cruz labored heavily but sturdily for some hours. Every effort was made to keep her before the wind, but it was found necessary at 1 o’clock ou Sunday morning to throw out a drag to keep her head about This secured the desired result for the time being, bnt the gale had now grown to a hurricane, and immense waves began breaking over the doomed steamer. Each succeeding wave tore away pieces of her upper works until her dock was finally swept dear, even the rigging being torn and shattered. The drag ceased to fulfill its functions, and as the seas rose over her bows and deluged her decks thev soon reached the furnaces and extinguished the fires, the hatches having been torn from their fastenings by the billows. The fires being out, soon put a stop to the engines, and the City of Vera Cruz lay at the mercy of the waves and storm. Not even the donkeypump could be worked to relieve tn% vessel of the water she was rapidly making in her hold. In this tremity Capt. Van Sice ordered men to throw overboard the deck-load, a task that had been begun about midnight But the kea was too heavy to permit the crew carrying out their Captain’s orders, for, while thus engaged, several of the men were carried off their feet by incoming seas, and many of them washed overboard. “ Capt Van Sice and his officers acted courageously in the performance of their several duties, but were one by one washed overboard from their stations as the steamer labored iu the trough of the sea. As near as can be ascertained the Captain perished fully an hour before the vessel finally succumbed, and, as nearly all the hands were lost, the few remaining alive on board saw that there was no hope, so they took to the life-preservers, the life-boats having already disappeared ; in fact, every boat and life-raft was stove in whe* the top hamper went by the board. The sailors and the passengers then seized fragments of spam, state-room doors, or any other movable article that would float, and awaited the end all knew to be at hand. The surviving sailors state that the vessel was about thirty miles off shore at this time, the hurricane being one of terrible fury. By the time the shipwrecked men ‘ and women had equipped themselves with their impromptu buoys the final catastrophe occurred, it being then about half past 5 a. m. With one awful and tremendous lurch the steamer suddenly sank into the ocean, the swirl carrying down many of the living. Of the seventy souls on board before the storm £>e-_ gan only thirteen have reached the land alive. These thirteen were all men—tiqee of them passengers, eight deck hands,.. one" engineer, and one oiler. They were all in the water, buffeted by the tempestuous sea, for from twen-ty-four to twenty-six hours, and there is no doubt that but for this ordeal many more would have been saved, for there can be but little doubt that several perishod after the foundering of the vossel through exhaustion.” Among the passengers of the Vera Cruz was Maj. Gen. Alfred T. A. Torbert, who distinguished himself during the Rebellion as a cavalry commander. Gen. Torbert was attached to the Army of the West, and was a strong friend of Gen. Grant.

A Passenger’s Thrilling Story.

Mr. A. K. Owen, one of the surviving passengers of the ill-fated steamer Vera Cruz, tells the following story of the disaster : At 1 p. m. last Saturday, I heard Capt. Van Sice say to First Officer Harris: “Ihave just noticed that the barometer is falling rapidly. We are going to have a hurricane.” Orders were given to cut up and throw overboard some cars for a Mexican railroad and some barrels of oils and acids, constituting the deck load. The clycone struck us on the port bow a few minutes later. It was accompanied by a terrible rain, and lifted the ship almost on her beam ends. It was almost impossible to get about witl out support. All movable articles were thrown from port starboard. The wind was northeast, and the vessel was steering south by east during the evening. The windows of the main saloon were carried away ; the waves broke over the ship, filling the saloon and state-rooms. At midnight the passengers were lying or sitting on the floor talking with or assisting each other. Many of them had been severely cut and bruised against the furniture. Good cheer prevailed, and all were quiet and composed. The servants were kind and attentive. Gen. Torbert had been washed out of stateroom No. 5 early in the evening, and his right cheek was badly bruised. At la. m. Sunday tiie engine-room was still dry. A drag was put out, but it reversed, and was useless. It had not been gotten ready till then, and was too small to render service. At 2 a. m.the ship took a heavy sea, the water putting out the fires and stopping the engine. The donkey engine was started at the pumps, and was working when the steamer sank. The purser came below*,calling for Gen. Torbert, and said that the Captain wanted the assistance of the passengers or the vessel would sink. I immediately got up and went to the decs, and the engine-room and assisted in bailing for one hour, Capt. Van Sice also passing buckets. The sea was constantly breaking over the vessel, coming between the decks in large quantities, the donkey engine going to no purposo. Finally we abandoned alt hope of saving the vessel. There was no excitement on board, and each man ■ assisted liis neighbor in arranging life-preservers. Gen. Torbert was a perfect sunbeam, encouraging and assisting everybody. The storm was most terrific, such waves and wind as cannot be described. The ship was listed over on her beams by every wave. It w*as only possible to crawl from one point to another. The storm was so thick we couldn’t see 100 yards ; and it was impossible to face the wind and rain. At 4:12 a. m., tlie sea broke into the engine room, making a crash like a battery of artillery and dashing passengers and furniture into one mass. The passengers crowded Social Hall, at the top of the stairs, said their farewells, adjusted their life-preservers, and expressed words of sympathy, They took my advice, and remained on the ship till she w r ent down. The Captain was seen just before 4:12 a. m., when the sea smashed the port side of the upper deck. Whether he leit the ship or was washed overboard, Ido not know. Harris, the first mate, and one or two seamen took the boat at the startfcard bow. but were killed before the boat could be lowered. Miller, the first engineer, and his assistants stuck to the ship till she sank. O’Neil, the quartermaster, and a seaman whose name I do not know stood at the wheel till the vessel sank, about 6 a. m. The ship broke in half, filling the sea with wreckage of all descriptions. No idea can be formed of the appearance of that immense quantity of freight dashing together, wjfh njpn, women, children and horses swimming or sinking through, the surging mass, and with the waves fifty feet high, not in swells or ridges, but in peaks, breaking like surf toward each other. Win nwe rose on one, it was not to go down on the other side, but to be whirled over the top and sent rolling or flying through the air to the opposite wave, and so backward and forward. This lasted two or three hours. Then the waves began to come in swelling ridges, and we rolled or fell down on the opposite side. The wind was so terrific that planks were lifted by it. dropping among the living and dying people. All were bleeding from wounds, and half were dead and dying in fifteen minutes. The scene was appalling. I and Thomas Dnmgoole, fourth assistant engineer, got on a piece of the dining-saloon, twenty-five by ten feet across. Wo were in the water twenty-two hours. We both went blind at night from the salt water in our eyes. When we struck the breakers at 4 a. m. Monday our craft went to pieces. Wo were whirled through the breakers to the beach, twelve miles north of Mosquito inlet. I think we had drifted fifty miles. Gen. Torbert came ashore near New Britain, six miles above me. His body was discovered in the surf at 8 o’clock on Monday morning. He still had oil liis life-preserver. When Mi 1 . Pitts caught him his heart was stiff beating and warm, fresh blood was running from a wound over his right eye. Everything was done to restore him, without avail. He was probably hurt among the breakers, being struck by a Elank to which he was clinging. I brought the ody to Halifax river and buried it in a palmetto grove.

The First Watch.

At first the watch was about the size of a dessert plate. It had weights, and was used as a “pocket clock.” The e xrliest known use of the modern name occurs in the record of 1552, which mentions that Edward YI. had “ one larum or watch of iron, the case being likewise of iron'gilt, with two plummets of lead.” The first watch may readily be supposed to have been of rude execution. The first great improvement—the substitution of springs for weights—was in 1560. Tiie earliest springs were not coiled, but only straight pieces of steel. Early watches had only one hand, and, being wound up twice a day r they could not be expected to keep the time nearer han fifteen or twenty minutes in twelve hours. The dials were of silver, and, brass, the cases had no crystals, but opened at the back and front, and were

four or five inches in diameter. A plain watch cost more than sl/500, and after on*e was ordered it took a year to mite it.

HOUSEKEEPERS’ HELPS.

Miss Pod’B lectures are full of Uttle bits of information that might fairly be called culinary proverbs. Here are a few of them: There is a greenness in onions ana potatoes that renders them hard to digest For health’s sake put them in warm water for an hour before cooking. The only kind, of a stove with which you can preserve a uniform heat is a gas stove; with it you can simmer a pot for ah hour, or boil it at the same rate for twenty minutes. Good flour is not tested by its color. White flour may not be the best The test of good flopr is by the amount of water it absorbs. In cooking a fowl, to ascertain when it is done, put a skewer into the breast, and if the breast is tender the fowl is done. A few dried or preserved cherries, with stones out, are the very best thing possible to garnish sweet dishes. Single cream is cream that has stood on the ipilk twelve hours. It is best for tea and cofieC. 'Double cream stands on its milk twenty-four hours, and cream for butter frequently stands forty-eight hours. Cream that is to be whipped should not be butter cream, lest in whipping it change to butter. To beat the whites of eggs quickly, put in a pinch of salt. The cooler the eggs the quicker they will froth. Salt cools and also freshens them. In boiling eggs hal’d put them in boiling water. It will prevent the yolk from coloring black. You must never attempt to boil the dressing of a clear soup in the stock, for it will always discolor the soup. Tn making any sauce, put the butter and flour in together, and your sauce will never lie Jumpy. Whenever you see your sauce boil from the sides of the pan you may know your flour or corn starch is done. Boiled fowl with sauce, over which grate the yolk of eggs, is a magnificent dish for luncheon. Tepid water is produced by combining two-thirds cold , and one-third boiling water. To make maccaroni tender, put it in cold water and bring it to a boil. It will then be much more tender than if put into hot water or stewed in milk.

The yolk of eggs binds the crust much better than the wliites. Apply it to the edges with a brush. * Old potatoes may be freshened up by plunging them into cold water before cooking them.. > Never put a pudding that is to be steamed into anything else than a dry mold. Never wash raisins that are to be used in sweet dishes. It will make the pudding heavy. To clean them wipe with a dry towel. To brown sugar for-sauce or puddings, put the sugar in a perfectly dry saucepan. [lf the pah is the least bit wet, the sugar will bum, and you will spoil your saucepan. ] Cutlets and steaks may be fried ns well as broiled, but they must be put in hot butter or lard. The grease is hot enough wh%n it throws off a bluish smoke. The water used in mixing bread must be tepid. If it is too hot. the loaf will be full of great holes. To boil potatoes successfully : When the skin breaks, pour off the water and let them finish cooking in their own steam. In making crust of any kind, do not melt the lard in flour. Melting will injure the crust. In boiling dumplings of any kind, put them in the water one at a time. If they are put in together they will mix with each other. A man near Houston, Tex., made S6OO per acre this year from the cultivation of domestic blackberries. The yield was 3,000 quarts per acre, which sold at 20 cents per quart.

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