Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1884 — Page 2

® fjc 3 r morrati t Sentine I . ■■ - RENSSELAER, INDIANA. J. W. McEWEN, - - - Publisher.

NEWS CONDENSED.

Concise Record of the Week. EASTERN. In attempting to lower their records at Belmont Park, Philadelphia, Jay-Eye-See made the mile in 2:10*4 and Phallas in 2:1454. The firm of Warner & Merritt, fruit Importers at Philadelphia, have assigned. The liabilities are $500,001. The Rev. Dr. John Brown, the oldest Episcopal minister of New York State, died last week at Newbnrg. He delivered an address of welcome to Lafayette in 1824. Maud S. has been sold by W. H. Vanderbilt to Robert Bonner for $40,000, and taken to New York to be retired from the track. The Grand Lodge of Knights of Pythias of Pennsylvania reported the number of lodges in the State at 360, with a membership of 34,955. It having been rumored that a compromise was being arranged in New York by which Ferdinand Ward would be released, another order of arrest has been obtained by William H. Bingham, a broker, who brings suit for $48,000 obtained by the firm of Grant & Ward under false representations. A fire broke out in the Buck Ridge Mine elope, near Shamokin, Pa., 1,000 feet from the surface, and, while men were engaged in drilling a hole for the purpose of turning a creek into the mine to flood it, gas suddenly poured in from the burning mine, and before they could escape seven men fell victims to the deadly vapor. At a meeting of oil producers held at Pittsburgh, it was unanimously resolved to Stop the drill till Jan. 1, 1885. The property of the Sprague Manufacturing Company at Augusta, Me., which fifteen years ago cost $2,000,000, has just been sold at auction for about $200,000. Reports received in Boston from 325 points in New England indicate that the hay crop this year will be about 30 per cent, less than it was a year ago. President Arthur received the officers of the Greely relief expedition at the Fifth Avenue Hotel, New York. Secretaries Chandler and Lincoln and Gen. Butler were present. Secretary Chandler informed Commander Schley that the President had decided to appoint him Chief of the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting. Nearly eight hundred sheep and hogs were killed by a collision of trains at Lancaster, Penn. The American Bar Association, in session at Saratoga, elected John Stevenson, of Kentucky, President, and Edward Otis Hinkley, of Baltimore, Secretary. A Vice President and local council of four were elected for each State belonging to the association. The United States naval steamer Tallapoosa collided with a schooner off Martha's Vineyard, Mass., and sunk within ten minutes. Surgeon Clarence E. Black and George A. Foster, landsman, are reported lost. She was on her way to Newport to take on board Secretary Chandler and party. Oil has been struck at Emsworth, Pa., which has created great excitement thereabout. A train on the New York and New England Railroad was thrown off the track near Quinebaug, Conn. One smoker and a passenger car fell down an embankment a distance of twenty feet. Many passengers were seriously injured, Fennimore Clayton, a farmer of Middletown, N. Y., afflicted with delirium tremens, took his 2-year-old son into the yard and shot him through the brain. He next at tempted the life of his wife and his mother, who knocked him senseless with a base-ball bat.

WESTERN.

A fire at Pomeroy, Ohio, destroyed forty-two buildings. The loss is estimated at $50,000 and the insurance at $30,000. By the request of relatives the body of Private William Whistler, who accompanied the Greely expedition and perished, were exhumed near Hockfield, Ind., the other day. An examination showed that the flesh had been cut from his limbs and portions of the body. Cannibalism had doubtless been practiced on him, The large brewery of C. Magnus, at Cedar Rapids, lowa, was seized by the authorities on the charge of violating the prohibitory liquor law. On the premises being searched there were found in the building 700 barrels of beer, which the proprietor claims to have made previous to the 4th of July. Eighty tramps took possession of Castleton, Dakota, drove many families from their homes, and committed other excesses. Four of the tramps were captured by the Sheriff. The others escaped. A. D. Sly, formerly driver of an American Express wagon at St. Joseph, Mo., where he confesses having stolen $10,500 last September, and spent it, was last week arrested in Minneapolis, and.will return to the scene of his crime without a requisition. A fire at Roseburg, Ore., destroyed the Metropolitan Hotel, the general stores of Caro Bros., the United States Signal office, and other buildings. Louis Zeigler, the proprietor of the hotel, in trying to save the guests, was burned to a crisp. Mrs. Johansen, of Astoria, was fatally injured. The total loss will be about SIOO,OOO. The Illinois Central Railroad have just issued a neat little pamphlet entitled the “World’s Exposition Messenger,’’ giving a synopsis of the great Centennial Exposition that opens at New'Orleans on the first of December. The publication contains much valuable information, and a large correct map of the Crescent City. A copy can be obtained free by addressing Thomas Dorwln, General Northern Passenger Agent, 121 Randolph street, Chicago. The convention of the lumbermen of the Northwest met at Chicago last week. The attendance was quite large and represented an aggregate capital of $500,000,009. Mr. Van Schalck, President of the association, in his address referred to the depressed condition of the lumber business, and suggested as

possible remedies a temporary closing of the mills or a reduction in the ent next winter. Several favored the latter resolution, while a few preferred the former. After a lengthy debate it was voted inexpedient to close the mills before the first of November. Paul Populorum, an extensive tanner of Chicago, has suspended payment. His debts are $200,000. and he is liable for SIOO,000 more as an indorser. His assets are estimated at $172,010. The Commissioner of Agriculture announces the existence of what is supposed to be contagious pleuropneumonia among several herds of Jersey cattle in Illinois, and requests owners of Jersey stock to stop shipment until after Oct. 1. The infection has been traced back to the cattle sale of Mr. Epler. in Virginia, Hl., last February. Judge Hoffman, of the United States Court at San Francisco, decided that a Chinese laborer who left the United States prior to the passage of the anti-Chinese law, and who attempted to come back subsequently, was properly refused readmission. The soldiers and sailors’ reunion at Battle Creek, Mich., was addressed by Gen. John A. Logan. Fifteen thousand people were present. ■ A passenger train on the Kankakee Line collided with an Indiana, Illinois and lowa excursion train near Kankakee. James Penn was instantly killed, a boy was fatally injured, and several passengers, including Father O’Kelly, were seriously hurt. Special telegrams to the Chicago Times from seven States show that the corn crop will be an enormous one, although there are limited regions where drought still prevails. Chicago millers complain of the appearance of “smut” in wheat received from Southern Minnesota and Southern lowa. The “smut” renders the wheat almost useless for flour purposes. Thomas Murphy, of Jackson, Mich., awoke in the night, and, with suspicions that burglars were in the. house, grabbed a pair of shears and started for the door. His wife followed and touched him on the shoulder. Under the belief that he was being attacked, he stabbed her several times in the throat, from which she soon died. So intense was his grief that he ran two miles to the police station and surrendered. The saw mills of Little & Peck and G. W. Peck & Son, at Duluth, valued at SIOO,OOO, were destroyed by fire. Samuel Lilly, John Askis, and Charles Nation went skiff-riding on Lake Contrary, six miles south of St. Joseph, Mo. They got into a fight, the boat was upset, and all were drowned.

SOUTHERN.

Gov. Knott, of Kentucky, pardoned the prisoners Bradley and Cunningham who recently tried to prevent a gang of desperadoes from breaking jail at Frankfort. Cunningham was serving out a sentence for having shot a person who had seduced his sister. The launch Daphne, employed at the Government works at Memphis, Tenn., exploded her boiler, killing Paymaster N. Gooden, seriously scalding Engineer A. Graham, Pilot C. D. Ryan, and two others. The Fifth Georgia Regiment, of the Confederate Army, held a reunion at Macon, nine companies being represented. L. C. Young, formerly of the Fifty-sixth New York Volunteers, restored the flag of the Fifth Rigiment, which was captured at the battle est Coosawhatchie in 1864. The affair drew tears from the veterans. Gen. Leroy Pope Walker, the first Secretary of War in Jefferson Davis’ Confederate Cabinet, and who gave the order for firing on Fort Sumter, died at his home in Huntsville, Ala., after a brief illness. A small cyclone struck Dallas, Texas, tearing a deep hole, and carrying a column of sand two feet in diameter to a height of 500 feet.

WASHINGTON.

The Postmaster General, after a thorough investigation of the factory, has annulled the contract with P. P. Kellogg, of Springfield, Mass., for furnishing envelopes and tags. The President has appointed Willard P. Tisdel, of Painesville,- Ohio, agent of the United States to the Congo Association.

POLITICAL.

The Anti-Monopoly State Convention of Illinois met at Bloomington Aug. 19, and was attended by forty-four delegates. Motions to nominate Butler electors-at-large and a State ticket were voted down. S. F. Norton, the Chicago Greenbackor, and three others withdrew. The convention adjourned, to meet with the Greenbackers Aug. 27. Col. T. G. Black has been nominated for Congress by the Republicans of the Twelfth Illinois District. Mr. Riggs, the present Representative, has been renominated by the Democrats. R. G. Horr was renominated by the Republicans of the Fourth Michigan District. S. R. Davis was nominated for Congress by the Democrats and Greenbackers of the Eighth lowa District. Mr. Blaine made a brief speech at the Republican anniversary celebration at Strong, Me. The Hon. Frank H. Hurd was nominated for re election to Congress from the Tenth Ohio District by the Democratic convention at Oak Harbor. Ignatius Donnelly was nominated for Congress by the Democrats of the Third Minnesota District. The Greenbackers of Michigan met in convention at Detroit, adopted a plan for fusion with the Democrats on the electoral ticket, and nominated J. W. Begole for Governor. A State convention composed of forty Anti-Monopolists placed Wildeman Mills in the field for the Gubernatorial chair, but he promptly declined. The Michigan Democrats, in convention at Grand Rapids, accepted the terms of the Greenbackers. Under the terms of the fusion, the G oenbackers were allowed to nominate the Governor, Attorney General, Superinten .ent of Schools, Commissioner of the State LandOffice, and seven of the thirteen Electors. The lowa Republican Convention, which met at Des Moines, nominated J. H. Rothrock for Justice of the Supreme Court, Gen. Baker for Attorney General, J. L. Lucas' for Auditor, Frank D. Jackson for Secretary of State, and V. P. Twombly for Treasurer. The New Jersey Democratic State

Convention to select an electoral ticket was presided over by Gen. McClellan, who protested against centralization of power and the collection of superabundant revenues. The Democrats of Texas renominated John Ireland for Governor, and selected State Senator Gibbs for Lieutenant Governor, both by acclamation. The Republican State Convention at New Haven nominated Henry B. Harrison, of that city, for Governor. Mahone has never had any admiration for Blaine, and has always been on the friendliest terms with Ben Butler, who, two years ago, sent the Virgin's leader a check for a considerable amount to aid in the campaign against the Democrats. It is believed at Washington that Mahone will use his power this fall in Butler's behalf. The Kansas Democrats met in State convention at Topeka on the 21st of August. A convention of Republican Anti-Prohibition-ists assembled at the same time and place. The result was a complete fusion of the two forces and the nomination of George W. Glick for re-election as Governor. C. K. Halliday, a Republican, was named for Lieutenant Governor. The remainder of the ticket is as follows: Secretary of State, Eugene Hagan; Auditor, Hugh V. Gavigan; Treasurer, W. A. Hutman; Superintendent of Public Instruction, M. J. Keys; Attorney General, G. P. Smith; Chief Justice, W. P. Campbell; Associate Justice, T. A. Hurd. The platforms of both conventions indorse the administration of Gov. Glick, and come out squarely against prohibition and in favor of a resubmission of the prohibitory amendment. The Republicans of Mississippi have placed four colored men in the field for Congress, including John R. Lynch. The Democrats of the First and Second Ohio districts have nominated John Follett and A. A. Kramer, respectively. The Republicans of the Second Michigan District put forward Capt. E. P. Allen, of Ypsilanti. T. B. Ward was nominated by the Democrats of • the Ninth Indiana District, and Charles Stewart by the same party in the First Texas. The Missouri Greenbackers met in State convention at Kans is City, adopted a platform and nominated ex-Congressman Nicholas Ford for Governor. A resolution was adopted declaring it to be for the best interests of the party not to make other nominations for State officers, leaving the matter to the Central Committee. The action of the, convention is understood to mean fusion with the Republicans, leaving with the latter party the nomination of the remainder of the State ticket. Jacob Romeis, Mayor of Toledo, has been nominated by the Republicans for Congress, in opposition to Frank H. Hurd. Wilson Cramer has been put forward by the same party in the Fourteenth District of Missouri.

MISCELLANEOUS. Montreal reports a high rate of mortality among infante, caused by the intense heat. The drought is seriously affecting the grain, grass, vegetable, and fruit crops in the Ohio River Valley, in Southern lowa, and in some portions of New England. The North American St. George’s Union elected the following officers at the convention in Chicago: President, George 8. Beirell, of London, Ont.; Vice Presidents, 8. C. Wilson of Bay City, Mich., and W. D. Stroud of Montreal; Treasurer, Daniel Batchelor,; General Secretary, Thomas Y. Yates of Washington. The drought and the locust plague in Mexico have caused an advance of 50 per cent, in meat at the capital and driven corn to $7.50 per bushel at Chihuahua. During the week there were 197 failures in the United States and twenty-two in Canada. In both countries there were 220 failures the previous week. Mr. Patrick Egan, the recently elected President of the Irish National League of America, in a public letter declines to accept any pay for his services. He says that he has served Ireland so far gratuitously, and will not accept compensation now. A mob near Lincoln, Neb., took from the officers and hanged to a tree a Mexican charged with assaulting a girl. He had been identified by his victim and made a full confession. Near Gatesville, Tex., the citizens took from the Sheriff and riddled with bullets an old man charged with burning some wheat-stacks and a thrasher. He was dragged from bed in his shirt and allowed five minutes for prayer. There were seventeen deaths from yellow fever at Havana last week. Sir John A. Macdonald condemns the Wyoming cattle scheme of the Frewen brothers as fraught with the greatest danger to Canadian farmers and stock-raisers. In the National League base-ball contest the week ended with Providence still in the lead, having won 60 games. The record of the other clubs was; Boston, 56; New York and Buffalo, 47each; Chicago4o; Cleveland, 30; Philadelphia, 26; and Detroit, 19.

FOREIGN.

A physician of Birmingham, England, reports the death of a patient from Asiatic cholera. The United States Consul at Barbadoes telegraphs that the ship Bracadaileis en route to New York from Calcutta with twenty-eight cholera cases on board. Mme. Patti has signed a contract with Mr. Mapleson to sing in America the coming winter and next summer in England. The trial of ex-Secretary Cornwall in connection with the Dublin scandal, resulted in a verdict of not guilty. The British War Office insists upon the Nile route for the autumn expedition for the relief of Gen. Gordon. The expedition for the relief of Khartoum will include five thousand British troops, under command of Gen. Buller. The last battalion can not leave Cairo before Nov. 1. The works of Herbert Spencer, Emile* Zola, and Prof. Huxley are forbidden in Russia. The visit of the envoys of King John of Abyssinia to London, which was expected to be a great event, has fallen flat. Their presence has been completely ignored by the notables. Capt. Renard, a Frenchman, is ?aid to have invented a cigar-shaped balloon which is as easily directed in the air as a steam launch in the water. The English, Russian, and German Governments are trying to find out the secret of Capt. Renard’s invention. The American Consul General at

Genoa report* that cholera has broken out at Spezia. and that forty-nine deaths have occurred. Marseilles shows fourteen fatal cases and Toulon five, caused by the return of refugees. Gladstone is enjoying his recess at his home at Hawarden. After three hours’ bombardment by Admiral Courbet’s squadron the Chinese arsenal at Foo Chow was destroyed. Seven Chinese gunboats were sunk and two escaped. Only one Chinese battery replied to the French guns. The French fleet sustained no damage.

LATER NEWS ITEMS.

Hog cholera has made its appearance in Hamburg, Pa., and large numbers of swine have died. At Oxford, N. Y., Jenny Tracy refused to marry William Roberts, and as she was leaving the academy 'Roberts fatally shot her. Odo William Leopold Bussell, the British Embassador to Berlin, is dead. Zorilla, the chief of the Spanish Radicals, is said to be fomenting a rebellion. Altons i’s Government is taking precautions to suppress it. German naval officers took formal possession of the district at the Cameroons River, on the west coast of Africa, the 21st of July. Two days after the British Consul of the district called a meeting of the British traders and the local Kings and Chiefs to protest against the aggressions of the Germans. At the meeting the native representatives resolved to place themselves under the control of the British. The end is not yet. David Preston, of Detroit, in a letter to the people of Michigan, avows his willingness to accept a nomination for Governor by the Prohibition party. Prof. Dickey, of Michigan, and the committee appointed by the Prohibition National Convention at Pittsburgh, waited on ex-Gov. St. John, of Kansas, and Mr. Maryland, at a temperance camp meeting near Cuba, N. Y., and formally notified them of their nominations for the offices of President and . Vice President. Both gentlemen made speeches of acceptance, which were listened to by 3,000 persons. China has formally declared war on France. Gen. Millot, the commander of the French in Tonquin, says he is fully able to resent Chinese aggression. The bombardment of the Foo Chow forts was continued on the 25th of August. The French were temporarily repulsed in their attack on the forts at the mouth of the river. W. R. Penick, wholesale druggist at St. Joseph, Mo., has closed his store. His liabilities are estimated at 875,000.

William Corbett, living near Vinton, lowa, and one of the leading stock dealers of the State, committed suicide by taking poison. William Norris, head teacher of the Markdale, Ontario, school, fired five times at the second teacher, Miss Ford, three shots taking effect. He then shot himself, dying instantly. • » Reports from the twenty-six leading clearing-houses of the United States for the week show a decrease of 24.7 percent in the aggregate clearances. In New York the decrease was 31.6 per cent; in Chicago there was an increase of 2.1 per cent. Outside of New York the decrease was but 5 per cent. The Cunard steamship Oregon, which left Queenstown at 3:21 p. m. the 17th of August, arrived at New York at 8:30 on the evening of Aug. 23. This is the fastest transatlantic time on record. The steamer Shields and the wharfboat Maria Louise were burned at Shreveport, La., the loss being $35,000. George J ones, a colored youth of 18, was hanged at Dawson, Ga., for a brutal assault committed on a lady at that place a month ago. A portion of the colored population threatened to prevent the execution, but wiser counsels prevailed among them. There was no disturbance at the scene of the execution. Frosts have seriously damaged the corn and buckwheat crops in Northeastern New York and in portions of Vermont, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. A schedule of the Burrows estate at Albion, N. Y., as it existed at the date of Burrows’ death in 1879. shows that the property was valued at $1,750,000, which was swept away by the failure of the .Albion Bank.

THE MARKET.

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UNDER THE POLAR STAR.

Greely Relates His Sad Story, in Which He Sets Forth the Object of His Expedition, And Tells of the Happy Days Spent at Fort Conger, and of Fearful Suffering. For the purpose of obtaining some idea of the general nature and probable value of the scientific observations made by Greely at Lady Franklin Bay the returned explorer was interviewed at Portsmouth, N. H. Greely first stated the object of the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, viz.: To establish a polar station, one of the thirteen suggested by Lieut Weyprecht, of Austria, who discovered Franz Josef Land*. Simultaneous observations of all physical phenomena were to be taken. The complete programme which was to be followed was arranged by an international polar congress, in which representatives of thirteen nations took part The observations, in which the greatest possible accuracy was to be had, were those of the declination and deviation of the magnetic needle, the temperature of air and sea, the height of the barometer, and the mean and maximum rise and fall of tides. All explanations were incidental to the main objects. The expedition was fitted out under the authority of Congress; it was composed of three officers of the army, one acting surgeon, and nineteen enlisted men from the army. Stores for twenty-seven months were put on the Proteus, which left St. John July 7, 1881, with the party. She touched at Disco Island and Upernavik to procure sledges, dogs, skins, and dog food. Two Esquimaux were added to the party at Proven. A landing was made at Carey Island and the provisions cached by Nares in 1875 in the Alert were found in good condition. At Littleton Island Greely personally recovered the English arctic mail left by Sir Allan Young in the Pandora in 1876. At Carl Ritter Bay, in Kennedy Channel, a cache of provisions for use" on the retreat was made. It was the original intention to establish the polar station at Water Course Bay, but heavy masses of ice rendered Water Course Bay exceedingly dangerous anchorage. Moving to Discovery Harbor, the station was there established on the site occupied by the English expedition of 1875. The erection of a house at once commenced, and stores and equipments landed. On the 28th of August came the parting between the Greely party and the men of the Proteus. The little band gathered on a frozen shore and watched the Proteus as she steamed slowly down Lady Franklin Bay. In the evening of the same day the temperature sank below the freezing point, and the arctic icy winter was on them in earnest Their house was finished about a week after the Proteus left. It was named, in honor of Senator. Conger, Fort Conger. During the first month the cold affected the men more than at qny subsequent time at Fort Conger. Later on, in December, the temperature sank to from 50 to 65 degrees below zero, and so remained days at a time. But even in that weather the cook’s favorite amusement was dancing, bare-headed, bare-armed, and with slippered feet, on top of a snow-drift. During the day the men dressed in ordinary outside clothing, but their flannels were very heavy. Five men were generally, for a part of the day, engaged in scientific work under Greely’s direction, and in the duties of a camp. The remainder were employed generally about one hour a day, and devoted the rest df the time to amusement. All slept in bunks in the quarters, which were heated by a large coal-stove, the average heat maintained being 50 degrees above zero. Checkers, cards, chess, and reading were the amusements of the evening. The life, Greely said, was far from a lonely one. Many of the men said they had never passed two happier years than those spent at Fort Conger. On the 15th of October, the sun left them 135 days, and a twilight varying from half an hour to twenty-four hours succeeded. For two months it was so dim that the dial of a watch could not be read by it. On April 11 the sun came above the horizon and remained there 135 days, giving the party a great sufficiency of the midnight sun. During three months the stars were risible constantly, the constellation of Orion’s belt and Great Bear being the brightest. The north star looked down from almost overhead. For one standing alone outside the fort on one of these nights the scene was weirdly grand. To the north flamed the aurora borealis, and bright constellations were set like jewels around the glowing moon. Over everything was a dead silence, so horribly oppressive that a man alone was almost tempted to kill himself, so lonely did he feel. The astronomer of the party said that with the naked eye a star of 1 degree smaller magnitude than could be seen here in the same way might be discerned. The moon would remain in sight from eleven to twelve days at a time. The thermometer registered on June 30 the highest temperature at Lqdy Franklin Bay which they knew during their stay. It was 52 degrees above zero. The lowest was in February, 1883—66 below zero. In this February the mercury froze and remained solid for fifteen days. The mercury in the thermometer invariably rose during storms or high winds. The highest barometer was slightly above 21 inches, the lowest slightly below 29 inches. The greatest variations were in winter. The electrometer, an Instrument used to ascertain the presence of electricity, was set up, but not the slightest results were obtained. The displays of the aurora were very good, but not compared with those seen at Disco Island or Upernavik. As far as Greely could observe no crackling sounds accompanied the displays, and their shape was that of a ribbon. The southwesterly horizon was the quarter in which the brightest displays were seen. Nares reported in 1876 that no shadow was cast by the aurora, but Greely'says he distinctly saw his shadow cast by it. There were no electrical disturbances, save those manifested by rumbling distant thunder, heard twice, far away in the north. In the course of tidal observations made, the very interesting fact was discovered that the tides at Lady Franklin Bay came from the north, while those at Melville Bay and Cape Sabine came from the south. The temperature of this warm tide is two degrees warmer than that of the south tide of Cape Sabine. Why this was, Greely would not venture to say. He used in measuring the ebb and flow of the tide a fixed gauge, an iron planted in the mud. The average rise of spring tides at Lady Franklin Bay was found to be eight feet. At Cape Sabine the highest tides rise twelve feet. Surf was only observed twice during t two years. At Lady Franklin Bay the average temperature of the water was 29 degrees aEove zero. Wolves weighing ninety pounds were killed around Fort Conger. There are foxes and other animals there. Fish is a wonderful scarcity. Perhaps the greatest surprise of the expedition was taken from Lake Alexander, a fresh-water lake fifteen feet above the sea level, a four-pound samon. From the bay or the sea only two very small fish were taken during the entire two years, and few

are found north of Cape SabineHH] vegetation at Lady Franklin Bay is HBH the same as at Cape Sabine, and mosses, lichens, •wallows, and saxifraHHE The highest velocity of wind wasHggß tered during a terrific snowstorm, miles an hour. Lockwood.s trips north in 1882 and 1883 were most valuable results. Standing oHBH I'Jth in each year, where Dr. Hayes htHH] merly stood, at about the same time Loekwood. from an elevation of using his strongest glass on Hall's and Robeson’s Channels, could dHBH nothing but ice-packs. Here it Dr. Hayes claimed to have seen hisHl®! polar sea on the trip of 1852. LocflHE reached the highest latitude ever 83 deg. 25 min. north. This was abo-H||||| miles directly north of Lady but to get there he traveled over a iBBE sand miles of open water and HHE ken packs, frequently causing hiHHE retrace his steps fifty miles. wood sounded the sea both years beHHE Cape Bryant and Cape Britannia,HE® could not touch bottom with a hunHHE and-thirty-five-fathom line. MarkhiHH| few years before, about 100 miles wesH|||i bottom at seventy-two fathoms. LockH||||| found at his farthest north about theHss|l vegetation as at Lady Franklin Bay, bE|l| signs of a polar current or open pola:HH| In 1883 he was stopped near Cape 125 miles from Lady Fianklin Bay, open channel extending west to the EHE of Grinnell Land. The width of HEE channel varied from 200 yardHH| five miles, but on the north ESH ice-packs extended as far as be seen with a glass. With his supplMgH provisions, the failure of which had ctHE his return the year before, LockwoodHH confident he could have reached 85 HEE north if this open channel had not l.wHß|| his way. No fossil remains were diiHH||| ered on the trip, and the only ones fH| were the trunks of trees on the southHH| coast of Grinnell land. The only seaHEE male seen by Lockwood at 83 deg". 25 HU were walrus and seals, and, strange toHH| the walrus is not to be found at ]HBE Franklin Bay. At 83 deg. 25 min. thiHH flection of the magnetic needle wasMlßjj deg. west, more than one-fourth of a As far as Lockwood went the northvHH ern trend of the Greenland coast continHH The maps of the new regions he discovHH are in the possession of Lieut Greely, HH are very carefully made. All through years at Lady Franklin Bay the magiM® needle was never quiet, except duH||| storms. In February, 1883, preparatHH for the retreat were made by establish!®® depot at Cape Baird, twelve miles to BEE south. Day after day anxious men IooHH off over Lady Franklin Bay, expecting HH ice to open so that they might their journey toward home. At last, jHH 19, 1883, the welcome news that the iceHH open was brought. All had been ready, and that very day the embarked in the little steam Behind them they left their as they could not be taken. barrels of pork and some seal oil were HE for the animals. Lady Franklin Bay HE crossed to Cape Baird, a distance of tIHE teen miles, and then the western coae®i. .i Grinnell Land was followed south as faHE Cape Hawkes. Large quantities of heHE ice were met, and there was extreme dHg ger every moment that the little lauHE would be crushed. Several times all EM boats were nearly lost. The sufferingHH the men was great. They were now witHE fifty miles of Cape Sabine. Striking frHE Cape Hawkes for Bates’s Island, the paflE was caught in an ice-pack and frozen ten miles south of Cape Hawkes. In thirtHE days they drifted south twenty-five mHE on floes, suffering horribly from cold. HE they drifted to within eleven miles of CeH] Sabine, and were obliged to abandon steam-launch on Sept. 10. SB The pack now remained motionless H] three days, and several times the party HE within two or three miles of Cape only to be drifted back by southwest g/iIHI Five seals were killed and eaten while tH| party were drifting about. Eventually|H heavy northwest gale drove then by CajH Sabine within a mile of Brevoort islaniH but they could not land. On Sept. 22 thdE| arose the most terrific gale they had seen on the Arctic ocean. Their ice-ffiH was driven hither and thither by the teiHH pest and the waves washed over them agajH and again, the spray freezing to them avH causing them intense suffering. The nigiH came on. one of inky blackness; the wijH threw heavy floes together, and crash aftlH brash of the ice breaking from their ow® floe warned the men that death was near |H them. No one knew at what moment tIHJ floe might break up and the water them. The first faint light of dawn show®! that very little remained of the floe cH which they were; the. sea washed anothH close to them. Close it came, and at lasH at the word, the men succeeded in gettirH upon it. 38 The storm slowly subsided, and th«H gained land at Esquimauxpoint, near BairdH inlet, Sept. 29. Here winter quarters weH built, and scouts were sent to Cape Isabella and Cape Sabine. In a few days they reH turned, and their reports sent a thrill <H horror to every heart. At Cape Isabella an® Cape Sabine were found only 1,800 ration® and from Garlington’s records they learneH the fate of the Forteus. Every one kne® death must come to nearly all of the par® long before the ship of rescue could forcH its way into Melville Bay. Efforts werH made to sustain the spirits of the men bH lectures and light reading. Oct. 15 thS party removed to Cape Sabine. Jan. 1H Cress died of scurvy. In April the rationE issued daily had dwindled to four ounces ol meat and six ounces of bread. Man afteE man died, and all hope had fled on the daw that the blast of the whistle raised the surS vivors from the lethargy of approaching death. 1 Lieut. Greely, when asked as to his ideaiE upon the probable results of arctic exploE rations, said: “I do not think the NortlE Pole can be reached unless every circum-fl stance hitherto found to be unfavorable shouldo prove favorable to the party atS tempting to reach the pole. If it is to be done at all, it will be done by way of Fran? 8 Josef Land. It could never be reached bjß the Jeannette route. That there is an open! polar sea lam well nigh certain. This ie proved by the ice drifting out of Mussel Bay and Spitzbergen in midwinter, and by] the northern drift of the polar pack ex-I Serienced, by Pavy and Lockwood in 82| eg. 8 min. Men can stand two winters! very well at Lady Franklin Bay, but their] physical strength rapidly deteriorates. If] we had had every supply and the necessary] amount of food, we could, perhaps, have lived eight or ten years at Lady Franklin Bay.”

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