Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 31, Bloomington, Monroe County, 2 June 1883 — Page 2

The Bloomington Courier.

KL COM1KGTON,

INDIANA

NEWS AND INCIDENT.

Oor Compilation 01 the Important Happenings of the Week.

AtCOHOIi IS KING Tierepojt of the board of trustees, read by Dr R. M. Someratle, New York, at the synod, Friday morning, vj session, shows that the Reformed Presbyterian chinch is in a prosperous eondition,finan

cially and otherwise. A paper was read by Rev. J. B. Williams, of New York, on "Signs of the Times," in which he asserted that God is visiting his wrath upon this people by cyclones in various parts of the conn try for their wickedness; claiming that alcohol is king, and it is uniting with nihilism and communism to assanlt the true religion. He urged dsys of fzisting and prayer. THE CZAB CROWNED-. Well, the Czar has finally b?en crowned and that, too, witliont dynamite accompaniment. The final ceremony was performed Sunday, amidst great pomp and impressiveness. A correspondent who has witnessed the greatest pageants of the last thirty-rive years, says the spectacle culminating in the advent of their Majesties, erowned and robei was tlif

most imposing and impressive he ever beheld. The Czar's manifesto was iseuul in the evening, and is a document of very considerable length. Crowds besieged the printing office to obtain copies, the perusjil of which caused great rejoicing. The manifesto announces the continuance of the present state of affairs in Russia, conditional pardon of Poles, remission of penalities for non-political oifenses, and other matters nrevionaly referred to. In the whole civilized world there is no other monarch possessing such sweeping authority as the Czar of Russia. The cost of the coronation ceremonies will, it is said, reach $10,QOO,00G. The manifesto of the Czar remits all arrears f taxes up to January, 1883, and all penalities under judgment not yet enforced against persons who were concerned in the last Polish insurrection, The Czar conferred the order of St.Alexander Newskin on M. Giers, he himself furnishing the emblem of the order in diamonds. He disclaims any intention of any further conquests on the part of Russia, and announces his intention of confining the energies of government to the developing of home industries and cultivating friendly relations- with foreign governments. Sev

eral thousands of silver medals were distributed among the soldiers and others as mementoes. of the coronation. A FEARFTili EXPLOSION. The steamer Pilot, carrying 30 passengers, blew up Friday near LakevilleChl a place near San Francisco. Eight persons were killed, txvm wounded, and ion drowned. Tletajlt J &nd two ethos were found in a field a dsf nce away seriously injured. The expEesion is attributed to defective boilers. Those who witnessed the explosion from a steamer say that it was almost funny t-- see the way the1 smoke stack went np. It seemed, as they say, to leave the vessel in advance and shoot up in the air over 300 yards, coming down again within a few feet of the veaseL The most extraordinary incident was the finding of Mrs. George P. McNear, a passenger, abont a mile and a half from the scene of the explosion. She

was standing in the mud, still alive but unconscious. It is presumed she smuggled through the mud and weeds for that distance in search of relief. She was immediately removed to Lakeviile, but died & few minutes after arrival The recent storms damaged lake shipping very severely. Several vessels were lost and many sailors perished. JProf. Spencer F. Baird, president of the National Fish commission at Washington, has shipped a car-load of shad,whieh will be planted in the Illinois river at Peoria and Havana. The first consignment of New Zealand apples has been received at San Francis oo. -As apples ripen there: in the months corresponding to our spri-ig, it ispossible for a good trade to be developed. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian otinrch asks $600,000 this year for home mission work. Last year the receipts were $504,000; there were 1,387 nnssionaries supported by the board, and 133 by women's auxillary branches. The total -?alueof imports of merchandise for twelvemonths ended April 30, 1833, is $738,177,431; for ,he year ended April 30, 1882, $708,223,427; increase,$25153,004. The value of exports of merchandise for the year ended April 30,1883, js $811,621,354; for the previous year, $777,875,781; increase, $33,765,57a " INDIANA ITEMS: The cyclone destroyed $6,000 worth of iro bridges for Fayette county. A "Warsaw man caught in one of the lakes near that city a six pound black bass which had in its stomach a cat fish that weighed a pound. Two Mormon elders not those who were recently egged in Carroll countyhave arrived at BiehmoncL where they propose to hold meetings. The colored ex-soldiers of Jeffersonville have organized a branch of the Grand Army of the Republic, and have about 100 names enrolled on their list. A cave has been discovered in Jennings county containing a lot of burglar tools, and other evidences of occupancy. It is supposed to be the headquarters of the notorious White Brothers. Iuring a fierce wind and rain storm on Friday a Beioit a numler of live fish,one of them weighing a pound, dropped in the business streets, and hail stones, the largest four inches in circumference, fell. Many windows were broken. .. A man ramed Schlegel, of Decatur, i building a veloeipede, the motive power of which is a spring, which he expects will run his machine and its load 300 yards, where three moTes of a lever will wind it up ready for another run. The brass band tournament at Seymour, on the fifth of June, gives promise of being a fine musical affair. Several of the finest bands in the State, including the New Albany Silver band, have signified their intention to contest for tho prize. . ... Reports from eighty-six localities along the entire stretch of tho Wabash valley in Indiana and Illinois, 3how thai wheat will be from one-half to two-thirds of a crop compared with last year, while corn is considerably damaged by the late rains and cold weather. The acreage in wheat falls short of last year? while corn is just about equal to last season.

A Fort Wayne officer received a telegram on Saturday night to arrest Miss Minnie Hawkins, of Warsaw, who had run away from home. When the officer

found the younr lady she presented a marriage certificate which showed that she had been married to Arthur Bleckman, of Fort Way ne, in March last. She was not arrested. The Indiana association of ex union prisoners propose to have a mass meeting n Indianapolis on Thursday and Friday of state fair week, to secure support for a bill then to be drafted-and afterward presented to Congress for the relief and benefit of those who wer confined in south prisons during the war. Isaac M. Brown, of Columbus, is secretary of the associa

tion. A meeting of citizens of Vincennes, was held Thursday to make arrangements for unveiling the monument over the grave of the late Governor James D. Wiltiams, who is buried in the cemetery on his farm near Wheatlsnd. The Fourth

nf Jnlv was the dav selected. Extensive

arrangements will be made. The Northern Indiana Teachers Asso

ciation will be held on July 9, 10 and 11,

at Island Park, Rome City. The pro

gramme, as partially arranged, is to or

ganize in the evening of the 9th, when an address of welcome will be made by Prof.

Richards. The following two days will

be devoted to the business of the associa-

j tion, and addresses by distinguished per

son's. .

I J The complete returns to the Hnporni-

tendent of Publio Instruction from all the counties in the State show that the total

number of school children is 718,760. The

nnrcber of white males is 362,122; wliite

females, 341,767; colored males, 8,067; col-

rrod females. 7.806, The increase in the

tntnl nnmher. during the last vear, has

been 8,315. The apportionment of schoo

funds to the different counties will be at

the rate of $1.44 per capita.

The report of the State-house commis

sioners for the quarter ending March 31

ras submitted to the Governor last Sat

irday. The only notable thing about i

;s that it contains nothing of interest

rhe action of the General Assembly is

elaborately set forth, but the commission

ers sav nothing in recard to their inten

sions. At their present rate of progress hey are not likely to reach any concluson or take any decisive action for the lext several years. The expenditures up to the. present tame amount to $781,762,-12.

THE EAST: President Arthur is in New York,to attend the opening of the Brooklyn bridge The national convention of colored people, wl ich was to have been held in Washington, will be held in Louisville, Sept The captain and mate of the steamer Tropic have been arrested at Philadelphia, charged with carrying men and munitions

of war into HaytL The export whisky association has secured the services of General Raum to look after tne interests of the association before the attorney-general. A party of Pennsylvania veterans on a visit to the battlefield of Fredericksburg, received a cordial welcome from the Confederate veterans and citizens. Joseph Beard, a well-known Baltimore gambler, said to run the only house open there, was Monday fined $500 and sentenced to jail for six months by Judge Phelps. v The Standard Oil company has been perpetnaUy enjoined from interfering with, the affairs of " the Tidewater Pine Line company its enly remaining competitor in Pennsylvania. The annual collections for the Pope in the Catholic churches of New York and Brookiyn, on Monday, showed a falling off as compared wtth the contribution of last year, of nearly one-third, Freddie Gebhard had his face slapped at DelmonicoTs Saturday night by Win. C. Sanford. A duel was talked of, but it is said Freddie's nerve was not equal to a settlement of the difficulty in that way. Nicholas Vanderburgh descended into a well to rescue a laborer, at Schuylersville, N. Y., who was overcome by gas,and Vanderburgh was suffocated, HiB wife went to his assistance and she also perished.

Two hundred and 70 packages of adulterated tea were seized in Now York by government officials. The Chinese minister in Washington believes; that such action will improve the grade of tea sent to this country.Detectives at Troy, N. Y., claim to have discovered a plot to blow up a tenement house inhabited by the families of nonunion men employed in the malleable iron works, to the number of about sixty persons. Suspicion attaches to the union men who recently quitted the works.

of destruction penetrating the brain arid breaking off in her head. The superintendent of the Abbey mines at Collittffsville, 111., has sworn out war

ranto for the arrest of twenty-eight at lik

ing minors who coaxed or intimidated the

workmen in the mines to quit last week.

The statute provides for tho punishment

of such offenses by heavy fines and long

ong terms of imprisonment. Luther Benson addressed 1,000 people

on temperance at Decatur, Sunday. He declared ft am the rostrum that on tho 7th

day of Juno ho will have been a sober man for a whole year, and tnat he has

not gone without whisky for so long a

time since he was six years old.

A ten-acre field of wheat on the farm of

John Elston, near Ma rshall,IU.,ia attract

ing much attention. The field was plant

ed in red wheat, well cleaned. It is now heading out, and an old farmer who went carefully through it says that there are

not a dozen heads of wheat in the field, it

being all cheat.

The striking coal miners in the Belleville district, St Clair county, 111., at

tempted to prevent other men from going

to work. A riot occurred. The rioters refused to obey tho sheriff, and the troops called to prevent trouble fired into them, killing one man and injuring others. The strikers were the first to fire. The troops

captured eighteen of Hie combatant ?. Information baa been received atTombstone, Arizona, that General Crook had an engagement with a large number of Indians near Guacanope, in the Sierra Madres, driving the hostiles from their

intrenched position and killing thirty,

The remainder broke and fled. Crook immediately took the trail and started in pursuit. Some weeks ago, Freddie Myers, a young eon of a Froeport, 111., citizen, had lime thrown into the left cyo by a cowrad?, destroying the sight. On Men day, by a strange fatality, a playmate, while at play with him at his home, shot a email-pointed arrow into the other eye, piercing the eyeball and leaving the little fellow blind, A dispatch from Muskogee, I. T., says; The negroes in the Cherokee nation-Lave drawn up a strong protest against the re

sent action of the Cherokee Council in declaring that a large amount of money received from the government in payment for lands shall be distributed only to Cherokees by blood. There arc over one thousand negroes in the nation, who claim the same rights as Indians,whowill sign the protest, then send it to the Secretary of the Interior. The wheat crop of Illinois does not promise well, bad weather, floods and insects having done much injury. Many fields have been plowed up and seeded

with corn. A fair average of tho reports received would be under 75 per cent, of last year's yield. There is an increased acreage in corn, and although poor see lias made replanting necessary in some instances, farmers are hopeful of at least

an average crop. A larger, yield of cats than last year is expected, the only poor reports coming from Southern Illinois. A good crop of rye is looked for. Grass prospects ate good and cattle aio in good condition. The news is just received that general Crook engaged a strong force of Indians, supposed to be composed of the Juli and Lucas bands, together with stray renegade hostiles, last week, at Guayuopa, on the Sonortf slope of the S;ieras, in the neighborhood of Casa de Ganos There is greao uncertainty as to tho date on which the battle took place. These mountain spurs are the favorite resorts of the Apaches, which accounts for the in trenched position of the hostiles and tho confidence which they exhibited in holding their ground until thirty-three men had fallen, when they broke &nd fled, closely followed by the victorious American troops. They are supposed to have made their way towards Camay, in the C&ea de cTavos, on the Chihuahua slope

-of the mountains, where thev would

probably make a last stand.

of Bonmania at the opening of Parliament has been discovered. A number of persons implicated in the plot are said to have been arrested. An English expedition fiom Sierra Leone has burned and totally destroyed the rowiih l! WbyiuAO. Habcou Ai.ttit& noboh, and has killed over 100 followers of Chief Gyoe, as a punishment for rebellion and a retaliation for pillages, of which they were guilty in tho Boom and Kilt am counties. Far roll, one of the informers in the trials of the Phnmix Paik murderers, received 1,000 from the government, and Michael Kavanaugh, the caiman, another informer, 250. Both will quit the ccam-

AN INCIDENT OF 1814.

A Woman's Attempt to Trap General Scott, and How His Legs Saved Him,

try, James Carey, informer, and his brother Peter ill receive small sums for their services. A dispatch from Berlin says a report,

which is not yet confirmed, comes from St. Petersburg, that previous to the departure of the emperor for Moscow, an explosion occurred under the wash stand and in the fire-place in his dressing room but nobody was injured, the emperor and empress being in the dining room at the time, Tho Times' correspondent at St. Petersburg says that a rupture between France and China is immiiKnt. Li Young Chang has been summoned to take command of the ChineFe troops in the provinces bordering on Tonquin, and is daily expected at Shanghai ou his way to the new post to begin operations. It is believed that

the French minister at Pekiu and the Chinese minister at Paris will shortly receive their passport.

THE BAD BOY ONUOVE.

"Well, General? ' I replied. "I havekep tho sec-re 1 faithfully for more than forty years, hoping to obtain your own version of what struck me as a most remarkable incident 111 your military life."

THE WEST: The reported baptism of Sitting Bull was incorrect. . The largest tobacco warehouse in the .world was opened in Cincinnati Monday morning. One of the trustees of the Anna, IJL, insane asylum has been received as a patient at the Kankakee insane Asylum. Another decision favorable to the bucket shops in their contest against the Board of Trade, was given in Chicago, Friday. General and Mrs. Grant gave a reception at the Palmer house, Chicago to the members of the Bight Worth Grand Lodge of Good Templars. A disease fatal to calves is prevailing to an alarming extent in Fayette county, 111. They are violently attacked with something like fits, and live but a short time.' gSaturdey evening the boiler in Harris's mill, eight miles northwest of Mattoou, IlL, exploded, killing Jas. Johnson and probably fatally injuring Robert Davis and a man named Lemon. Two Indians, much the worse for firewater, laid down on a railroad track near Point St. Ignace, Mich,, wkh their two pet bears, to take a nap, and a passing train annihilated the entire outfit. Several office holders in Dakota have been indicted for at temping to corruptly influence the action of the capital commission in the selection of a new location, as much as $15,000 having been offered for one vote. Harvey Pool fell on to a circular saw at Finney's mill, at Carrolton, Mich., Tuesday afternoon, and was cut in two. His age was tweuty?our, and his parents reside near Weedsport, N. Y. Mrs. Mary CooHy, aged seventy-three years, a widow living in West Mexico, Mo.,took her own life by driving a pair of large blunt scissors into the top of her skull with a heavy ironbolt, the weapon

s'i i't

en up by Thursday

THE SOUTH: afefclabfciba?.?, K., v t

an earthquake Tuesday night. The elections in Virginia

show losses for the Mahone readjust ers, Joe Young was hanged at Biehmond, Little Biver county, Ark, Friday for rape. A shortage of $8,000 is reported to have been discovered in the accounts of the Atlanta postofiice. The president appointed Samuel W. Fergusor, of Mississippi, member of the Mississpipi river commission, vice .James B Eads, resigned. A feud between two young men named Guy and Pierce Lanier and the family of Curley, residing in the Laniers and Wm. Curley being killed, on Saturday in St. Helena parish, La. The National Board of Health has been informed of twenty-two deaths from yellow fever at Havana for the week ended May 18, and the disease has made its appearance among the shipping at that port.

Pocks Sun.

"Well, I must go down and charge the soda fountain for a picnic that ie expected from the country. ' Hold on a minute," said the grocery man, as he wound a piece of brown paper around a cob and stuck it in a syrup jug he had jut filled for a customer, and then licked his fingers, "I want to ask you a question. What has caused yon to change so from being bn. You wore about as bad as they make 'em, np to a few weeks ago, and now you seem to have a soul, and get in your work doing good abont as well as any boy in town. What is it that ails you?" "O, sugar, I don't want to tell," said the boy, as he blushed, and wiggled around on one foot, and looked silly. But if you won't laugh I will tell you. It is my girl that has made me good. It may be only temporary. If she goes back on me 1 may be tuff again, but if she continues to hold out faithful I shall be a daisey all the time. Say, did you ever love a girl? Tfc would do yon good. If you loved any

body, regular old fashioned, the way I do people could send little children here to trade, and you wouldn't palm off any wilted vegetables on to them, or give them short weight. If you was in love, and felt that the one you loved saw every act of yours, and you could see her eyes every minute, you would throw away any thing that was spoiled and not try to seli it, for fear yon would offend her. I don't think any man is fit to Oo business honestly, nnUss he is in love, or has been in love once. Now, I couldn't do anything wrong if I tried, because I should hear the still small voice of my girl saying to me, 'Hennery, let up on that.1 1

slipped up on a banana peel yesterday , and hurt myself, and I was just going to say something awful, and I could see my girl's bangs raise right up, and there was a pained look in her face, and a tear in her eye, and byT gosh, I just smiled and looked tickled till her hair went down and the smile came b;;i3c again to her lips, though it hurt mo like blazes when 1 struck the sidewalk. I was telling pa abott it, and asked him if lie ever felt as though his soul was going right out towards somebody, and he said ho did once on a steamboat excursion, but he eat a lemon and got over it. Pa thinks it ifc niv liver and want me to take pills, but! tell yon, boss, it has struck me in too deep for pills,tinless it is one that weighs about a hundred and forty poi nds and wears a hat with a feather on. Hay, if my girl should walk right into a burning lake of red hot lava and beckon me ti follow, I would take a hop, skip and jump, and n "O, give us a rest," said the grocery man, as he took a basin of water and sprinkled the floor, preparatory to sweeping out. "You have got the worst case 1 ever saw, and you better go out and walk around a block," and the boy went out and forgot lo hang out any sign.

FOREIGN: Harvest prospects of France me favorable. A violent outbreak against tho Jews occurred in Bostoff, Bussia, Tuesday, and farther outrages are feared. Lieutenant Schlager was shot and killed in Vienna, Friday, in a duel with the editor of the Military Zeitung. Michael Fagin, convicted of the murder of undei secretary Burke, was hangind in Kilmainhani jail Monday morning. It is reported that another conspiracy to murder has been discovered in county Mayo, Ireland, and six persons arrested. A heavy storm, which caused much damage, is reported as having passed over a large portion of the south of Ireland Sunday. During the coronation festivities, the Emperor and Empress drove through the streets of JIoscow in an open carriage without an escort;. Reports from Bosnia, ou the Black Sea say the ground is covered with three feet of enow, and that the crops -are probably entirely ruined. There will result great suffering. The village of Neuenkerschen was to tally destroyed by lire, Tuesday. Even fruit trees and wooden crosses in the church yard Wore burned. The entire population of 1,300 is homeless. There is no fear of a collision, between Henry M. Stanley and DeBrazza, the former having evacuated cert ain positions which he had occupied under the impression that they wero outside of Maka's territory. A private. telegram received bom Bu charest states that a plot to shoot the king

They'll Never Forgive Him. Detroit l?ree Press. There were six persons in a Woodward avenue car when he entered. Before sitting down, he looked along the seat,mado a dive for something, and called out: "Who of you have lost any money f The four men immediately began feeling in their pockets, and the two women looked scared. "I I think I have lost a qu arter," said one of the men. "All I miss is a half dollar," added a second. The other two tried to catch sight of the coin in the man's fingers before specifying their loss, and the women moved uneasily and wished they ;kucwjexactly whether they had lest ten cents or a dollar. "Again I ask if any of you lost this coin," said the man.

said the most

"I I presume I did,"

hardened sinner of all. "What was it?" "A silver dollar." "Then this can t be yours, for it is a $5 gold piece. I was always lucky and tho wonder is that all of you wore too blind to see it." Then the four men left the car at brief intervals, each one giving tho lucky man a look of intense hate as he w.mt out,and when tho two women got off together one of thorn remarked to the other: "1 11 never forgive the wretch as long as I live! That money laid there within a foot of me all the time, but you kept- gabbing so abont tho spring fashions that I didn't see it." And not one of tho six, all of whom will feel a rankling for weeks, had a suspicion that the man entered the car with tho gold piece in his lingers. The latest estimates place the value of revenue stamps which will bo presented for redemption at 5,000,000. The first estimate was 4,000,000, and that was thought extravagant. Thus far only unbroken packages have been sent in. Turpentine applied to a e it is a preventive of lockjaw.

Thnrlow Wcfd'a Autobiography. One evening after our rubber, I said to the Genernl,"There is one question I have often wished to ask you, but have been restrained by the fear that it might be improper." The General drew himself up and said in his emphatic manner: "Sir, you are incapabable of asking an improper question.' I said: "You are very kind; but if my inquiry is indiscreet I am sure you will not allow it to go unanswered.' "I hear you, sir," he replied. "Well, then, General, did any thing remarkable happen to you on the morning

of the battle of the Ohippewas?'

After a brief but impressive silence, he t TT ' 11 ' -I'll 1

saia: -xes, sir, somerning aia nnppeu to me. something very remarkable, and I will now, for the third time in my life, repeat the f tor y : The 4th of JulyITO f, was

one of ext renin heat. On that day my brigade skirmished with a British force commanded byTJGeneral Binll, from an early hour in tho morning till late in the afternoon. Wo had driven the enemy down the river some twelve miles to Street's creek, near Chippewa, whore we encamped for the night, our army occupying west side, while that of the enemy was encamped on the east side of the creek. After our tents hsd been pitched I observed a flag borne by a man in peasant's dress approaching nry marquee. He brought a letter from a ladyT who occupied a large mansion on the opposite side of the creek, informing me

that she was the wife of a member of Parliament, who was then at Quebec; that her children, servants and a young lady friend were alone with her in the house; that General Kiall had placed a sentinel before her door, and that she ventured,

with great doubts of the propriety of the

request, to ask that I would place a sen

tinel upon the bridge to protect her against stragglers from our camp. I assured the messenger that the ladv's re

quest should be complied with.

"Jfiarly tne next morning tue same messenger, bearing a white flag, reappeared with a note from the same lady, thank-

ins? me for the protection she had enjoyed adding that in acknowledgment of my civilities she begged that I would, with

such members of my s-aff as I choso to

bring with me, accept the hospitalities of her house at a breakfast which had been prepared with considerable attention xnd

was quite ready7. Acting upon an im

pulse which I have never been able to analyze or comprehend. I called two of

my aids, Lientenants Worth and Watts,

ana returnea to tne mansion aireaay in

dicated. We met our hostess at the door

who ushered us into the dining room

where breakfast awaited us, and where

the young lady previously referred to al

readv was seated by the coffee urn. Our

hostess asking to be excused for'a fewmin

utes, the young iaay immediately served

our coliee. .before we naa tiroken our fast Lieu tenant Watts rose from the

table to get his bandana (that being be

fore the days of napkins,) which he bat"

left in his cap on a side table by the win

dow, glancing through which he saw Indians approaching the house on one side and red-coats approaching it on th other, vnth an evident purpose of surrounding it and us, and insfaUy exclaimed; 'General, we are betrayed!' "Springing from the table and clearing the house I saw our danger, and remembering Lord Chesterfield had said: 'Whatever it is proper to drk it is proper to do well,' and as we had to mn and my legs were longer than my companions, T soon outstripped them. As we made our escape we were fired at, but got across the bridge in safetj7. "I felt so much shame and mortification at having so nearly fallen into a trap that I could scarcely fix my mind noon the duties which now demanded my undivided attention. I knew that I had committed a great indiscretion in accepting the singular invitation, and that if any disaster resulted from it I richly deserved to lose both my commission and charaoter. I constantly found myself wondering whether the lady really intended to betray us, or had been accidentally observed. The question would recur even amid the excitement of battle. Fortunately, however, my presence and services in the field were not required until Generals Porter and RipleyT had been engaged at intervals for several hours, so that when my brigade, with Towson's artillery, were ordered to cross Street's creek, my nerves and confidence had become measurably quieted and restored. "I need not describe the battle of Chippewa. That belongs to and is a part of the history of our country. It is sufficient to say that at the close of the day we were masters of the position, and that our arms were in no way discredited. The British army had fallen back, leaving their wounded in our possession. The mansion which I had visited in tho morning was the largest house near, and to that the wounded officers in both armies were carried for surgical treatment. As soon as I could leave tho field I went over to look after my wounded. I found the English officers lying on the first floor, and our own on the floor above. I saw in the lower room the young lady whom I had met in the morning at the breakfast table,her white dress all sprinkled with blood. She had been attending to the British wounded. On the second floor, just as I was turning into the room where the officers were, I met my hostess One glance at her was quite sufficient to answer the question which I had been asking myself all day. She had intended to betray me, and nothing but the accident of my aid rising for his handkerchief saved us from capture. "Yearn afterward, in reflecting upon this incident, I was led to doubt whether I had not misconstrued her startled manner as I suddenly encountered her. That unexpected meeting would have occasioned embarrassment in either contingency, and it is so difficult to bolieve a lady of cultivation and refinement guilty of such an act, that I am now, nearly half a century after tho event, disposed to give my hostess the benefit of that doubt. And now sir," added the General, "this is the third time in my life I have told this story. I do not remember to have been spoken to before on that subject for many years." He looked at me and seemed to be considering with himself a few monaentfyand then said: "Remembering your intimacy with General Worth, 1 need not inquire how yon came to a knowledge of njr secret"

A Real Enoch Ardeu. A Teal Enoch Anion died in East Hampton, Ccnn., April 8, in the person of Harry Hock well. He was born in Warehouse Point, in tho same State, Jan. 18, 171H5, and was married in East Hamp

ton the day after he became 21. Abont two years late r, being then the father of

one child, he w nt to Havannah as one of a company-of twenty carpenters. From

his father, a rea-faring man who died at sea, he inherited a roving disposition, and

on his sway home he shipped on a whaler

bound f.u the Falkland Islands. The

Captain ill-treated his crew, r mutiny, oc

curred, and Rook well and others deserted

and reached, after much suffering, an

English man-of-war, on lthieh they ship

ped. England and Spain were then at war, and in the course of events a Span

sh vessel capture 1 the Englishman, aud

tho erew wore thrown into prison, where

hey endurel ?evere privations, being al

most fcfarved themselves, and almost de

voured by vermin. At length Rockwell

was release-?, and he enlisted thereafter

in the American naval service, enduring

many hardships. Later he ontered the

merchant marine: a d so as a sailor he

visited very many foreign countries,mak-

ing three or four voyages in the tea trade

between Ohiua and Philadelphia. Dur

ing all this Ions period no tidings of him

had reach d his home and family. About

six years after leaving home he learned

that; his 'wife had given him up f r dead,

and had married one George Ev

ans, by whom she had a son

and a daughter, who are still living, and another sod, who died in the United

States service during the war. Her child by the first husband had in the meantime

died, lor ten years longer Bockweil followed the sea, but in 1835 he determin

ed to learn something abont his family,

and Jnlv 4 ha reached the town which he

may lave still called his home. Mr.

Evans bad died four years before. In

the bronze I and weather-worn Rockwell

of 30 no one recognized the blooming

young man of 23 whom they had known.

But there s to be mentioned another

singular circumstance. A week earlier

his wife's little 5-year-old daughter awoke

one morning, and amused her mother and the family with the story of a dream she

had had. She had dreamed that her

"other papa nau come home, ciaa m

sailor costume, except that ho wore a

peculiar vest made of handsomaly figur

ed silk, such as she had never seen be

fore. Her brothers ridiculed her story,

and said she was stuffing her mother's

held full of her sailor yarn. But the child persisted, and the dream was not forgotten. Rockwell learned the fact

about the family at tho village hotel, aud called at the house. The widow did not

ecognize him, but his singular vest at

tracted the attention of all, aud the little

girl's dream was recalled. With agitated voice the widow exclaimed: "You remind me of the man that was once my

husband!" "Don't you know me, Esther? the long- lost husband replied, as they em

braced each other. Five days after the

pair were remarried by a clergyman who still survives. Three sons were born of this union, one of whom is living and has had the care of his parents in their old age. Mr. Rockwell is spoken of as a modest, kindly, and intelligent old man. At one period he wrote a voluminous account of his strange life and adventures but, by the death of the person who undertook to prepare it for publication, it was lost. The gentleman who furnishes tho Hartford Courant with these facts says, in conclusion: "As I write the story of the old man's singular life, a messenger briugs me word that his widow is rapidly failing, and quite likely, ere this strange tale appears in print, she will have closed her eventful life.

completing the operation before sunset of

the day on which, the work began. In

thirty-six horns the water had disappear

ed and the pond was dry. To make this

short perpendicular drain permanent he

had it cleared of sediment, sunk the shaft about two feet into the bod of sand, and

filled it to the top with clean,coarse grav

ellfroni a creek bed, Tho gravel was heap

ed about a foot high above the shaft to

strain the water properly that the shaft might not become choked.

There are thousands of places in the

West whore, year after year, farmers have

plowed around such wet spots, giving them up to the rushes and the frogs. Yet

they could be drained easily by a few

hours work. In Western Michigan a large swamp lay for years on the southern edge of a village, a noisome barrier to

progress, and a bone of contention to vil

lage and township politics. To drain it

a largo ditch, a mile or two long, would havo been required; but some one fortunately discovered that a thin sheet of clay

was all that kept the waters from going down into a deep strata cf gravel, boul

ders and sand. The wells were dncr and

the swamp thoroughly drained ot an al

most nominal cost,leaviug rich black soil,

which is the most productive and valua

ble in all that district. There may be

thousands of similar swamps, where two or three days spent in sinking test shafts

would show a ready means of converting

sloughs or swamps into fields of wonder

ful fertility.

seed

Agricultural Notes. A pound of good asparagus

should produce 10,000 plants. America producer about one-fourth of the wheat grown in' the world. The evaporation of sweet com promises to become an important industry. - Gbeat Britain cultivates 2,967,059 acres to wheats 2,662,927 to barley, end . 4306,301 to oats. . f : An interesting discovery, has been made j to the effect that "there is less potash in

the leaves of diseased grape vines than in healthy specimens. The lack of potash is made up by an excess of lime. It is pos-. sible that lack of mineral fertilizers may be the cause of many diseases of trees and s

"other plants, and that farmers and gar- ,

deners may yet have to consult the grain vegetable doctor." It is said that "however fertile a soil may be, not more, perhaps, than one per cent, of its substance is, at any moment, in a lit condition for nourishing the crops. ; The great bulk of the fertility is unavailable to the plant at any one time and is only slowly liberated by the action ot air, of moisture, of heat and of manure. It is upon the rate at which the liberation

of plant food takes place that the nat

ural fertility ot the soil may be said, in a

great measure, to depend." .

A TERROR IN TALL TIMBER.

How Tacks are Made. Mechanical Engineer. The iron is received from the rolling mills in sheets from three inches to twelve inches wide and from three to nine feet in length, the thickness varying ae cording to the kind of work into which it is to bo made, from one eight to one-thirty-second of an inch. These sheets are all cut into about thirty inch pieces, and by immersion in acid cleaned of the hard outside flinty scale. They are enopped into stri -,s of a width corresponding to the length of the nail or tack required. Supposing the tack to be cut 13 an eightounce carpet tack, the strip of iron, as chopped and ready for the machinewould be about eleven-sixteenths of an inch wide and thirty inches long. This piece is placed tirnily in the feeding apparatus, and by this arrangement carried between the kuives of the machine. At each revolution o. the balance wheel the knives cut off a small piece from the end of the plate. T e piece cut off is pointed at one end, and square for forming the head at the other. It is then carried between two dies by the action of the knives, and these dies, coming together, form the body of the tack under the head. Enough of the iron projects beyond the face of the dies to form, the head, and while held firmly by them, a lever strikes this projecting piece into a round head. This, as we have said before, is all done duriug one revolution of the wheel, and the knives, as soon as the tack drops from the machine, are ready to cut off another piece. These machines are run at the rate of about 250 revolutions per minute. The shoe nail midlines, for cutting headless shoe nails, are run at about 500 revolutions per minute, aud cut from three to fi vo na t is at each revol & tion .

A Suggestion About Drainage. A Missouri farmer relates an experience which offers suggestions which, while they may not bo exactly new, may have for many great practical value. There were upon his farm several depressions, which in wet seasons held ponds of wator. To drain those by ordinary means would have been very expensive., because no gravel could be got near the farm, and there was no tile factory in that vicinity. Open ditches wore out of the question. The services of an expert well-borer wore secured. He sank several test shafts m various parts of tho farm, aud found trhat the underlying ground was a tenaciouB blue clay, fourteen to sixteen feet thick and almost perfectly impervious. Beneath this was found a strata of white sand. The well-borer and his machine wore placed iu a wagon, which by means of a long rope waa hauled to tho deepest part of the if ml, about an acre in extent, ilere ho bored woi down to tho sand.

A Webfool Hunter Tells Wonderm Tales of His Exploits.

a. J. Wyland in Oregon City Enterprise.

A ebon, time since, while hunting in

woods, I came across a she bear standing

erect on a log. She looked savage, and had her ears laid back on her neck. I

put a bullet in her scull, an inch above

one eye, and she rolled off like a bundle

of chips. As the gun cracked, up a young

cedar climbed a couple of cubs. I loaded the gun, and found tne mother stone dead. I looked up at those two young whelps, and concluded I wanted 'em for pets. So, putting down the gun, I started for them, and as the climbiugwas easy I was soon able to reach them. I grabbed one by the back of the neck, when he let go all holds and went to work scratching with a vengeance. The blood flew,

and yon bet I gave him a welt that knocked him as limber as a mop-rag. I then stuffed him inside the bosom of my shirt, as he was senseless, and grabbed the other by the head, and he set up a yell that could be heard for a mile. I quickly knocked him senseless, too, and put him on my shoulder and commenced to descend. Just at this point the one inside my shirt crawled around onto my back and dug his hind claws into my back just above the belt, and put his arms arouud my body, when both commenced to fight me. You bet I got to the ground in a hurry, threw the one on my shoulder to the ground, put my foot on his neck, choked him senseless until I could tie liim, the other one all the time trying to tear all the meat off my back. I grabbed him by the forefoot aud ipnllcd, but he held on with his hind feet. I then pulled

him by the I ind legs, but he held on by his front claws, and I couldn't pull him off either way. I then opened my collar wide, and lay down alongside the one that was tied. Presently he came out and made for a large tree, but I caught and securely tied him, too. His long, nice, silky hair felt nice to my pelt, but his claws oh jiminy! They were about the size of a raccoon, bnt could ou' scratch seven wildcats. One would imagine that they were so small that they could be haudled without anyr danger,but they can turn themselves around in their hides and be always facing-yon. .It was about two miles from home, .and after awhile I got tired of carrying them, and they followed me like two little dogs. My advice to ail young hu nters is that if you catch a young bear don't pat it in your bosom, as I shall carry the scar mine gave me as long as I live. Pleased all Around. Gin. Saturday Night. "Can you accommodate me with a chew of tobacco?" "Why certainly, why, with pleasure, was the immediate and cheery response. "There is a man," said the borrower to us "from whom it is a pleasure to accep a favor." Not long after this we heard the same individual tackle another acquaintance. This time the gruff response was, "Why don't you buy tobacco once in awhile?" but the plug was produced and our friend helped himself liberally. It's a positive pleasure," said he, after his benefactor was gone, "to take that man's tobacco. It hurts him to give anything away, and he invariably makes eonie unpleasant remark when I ask him for a chew.' Upon still another occasion our friend was a true philosopher to thus readily rind satisfaction in these several totally different situations; so, when he subset quently asked us for the loan of two dollars, we had no hesitancy in saying no, for we felt that he would be just as well pleased as if we had made the advance. Said he "I am glad to find that your head is level. I didn't want the money; I simply wanted to see if you had sand enough to say no. Never lend money. I never do," and we don't believe he ever did. The one thing we cannot understand about it is, why, when he meets us now

he passes without spoaking. Long Finger-Nails. Notes ard Queries. ; According to the writer ot an article on "Extraordinary Finger-Nails," in tho World of WTonders, it is the custom of the Chinese, Siamese and Anuamese to allow the nails on all their fingers.except the forefinger, to grow to a great length, and among the former they sometimes attain the incredible length of from sixteen to eighteen inches. Among the Siamese so distinctive a mark of nobility are long nails esteemed that the belles and beans wear silver cases, either to protect their nails or else to make the people believe they are there,whereas in reality they are not. As regards the little finger the writer tells us that "Embassadors and visi. tors of distinction from Asiatic States to Europe are often observed to permit the excessive Growth of the nail of the little linger, and this is also a common occurrence with many of the people of India and other parts of Asia." In sewing and winding carpet rags double thorn witb the right side out.

More Old Women than Men. It is a curious fact that the number o women who reach one hundred years and

upward is nearly double that of long-

lived men, remarks the Buffalo Courier. They lead less exposed and often more regular lives than their husbands and brethren, and if their constitutions are not broken during their first half century are likely to attain an old age. It is only necessary to look arouud in any community to verify this fact. Certainly Buffalo furnishes no exception, to the rule. Out of the seven or eight thousand graduates of Harvard College since 1642, only tour nave actually "risen to par," while a fifth lacked a foi tnight of completing -his cen

tury. So few persons reach' one hundred j years of age, and the stories of great j

longevity are so exaggerated, that Sir George Cornwall Lewis boldly declared a few years ago that no one ever lived one hundred years. Of course, this state

ment was a little piece of counter-extmv : 1 . 1 'J i. ' j 1. 'A

agance, out w is certain tuaat lower persons live to reach tie age of one hundred! than is popularly supposed. Out of the many thousand Revolutionary soldiers

and their widows on the Qvernmenrs rolls, two or three enteied and even passed the second decade of their secoiid century, and these are the oldest American cases. English! seventeenth eenturyjMinats tell of a Countess of Desmond who, at the age of one hundred and forty, was in the habit of climbing trees to pick cherries, but it is to be feared that this old lady was given to pulling the long bow about her birthday,

A Parrot Perplexes the Players. According to the Denver Tribune, a

( parrot lately distinguished itself at the

Opera-house there, the manager of which had borrowed it from a reeteurant-kseper. During the first act of "Old Shipmates? the bird was quiet enough; but as it had become accustomed to display its accomplishments, to the amusement oi the audience and dismay cf tae actors. "Lamti ehopa or breaded Yeal?" screamed Poll, f bringing forth a loud "s-shr to which the ; bird responded with, "Shut up you make me tired P "Q uit bossing the cook V and a volley of oaths. An actress pushed the cage to th j wings of the stage, to lie seized by the manager pnd carried to thef property-room, the voice of the indignant parrot dying away in; the . distance, until the slamming of the door shut ifc out altogether, but not before the offender Polllhad revenged its removal by nipping t hecaptor in the leg. A little latter the manager thus addressed his treasurer: "Mra. Morse; let it be understood, once1 tor all that hereafter no living wild beast willbef t introduced on our stage.'

A Precedent for England. In 18fH, whan Iiuister Adams, by di rection of the Secretary of State, laid be fore Earl Buseejl, then at the head of the British ministry, copies of the official eorresoeudeace ia relation to the manufacture of Greek fire at Windsor, Canada to be use! in firing certain cities of the United Shita- by rebel emissaries, Iiord Russell submitted the matter to the law officers of the crown, and it as their opinion that the parties might at once be proceeded against in the courts, as guilt; of a high offeose against Iter Majesty's, authority and the pe tee of the kingdom. It the people engaged were not acting our der belligerent authority, they were liable as criminals to the claim of extradition, under the treaty. If, on the other hand, they could prove that they were liable in violators of the neutrality of Her Majesty's territory. . A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent fee ls his hogs artichokes, and has lost none from cholera, although ,' the disease is very prevalent in his locality.

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