Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 19 July 1877 — Page 2
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THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1877.
THE THREE HORSEMEN.
(From the German.)
Three hor6ernen halted the inn before. Three hor«m«n entered the oaken 'loor And loudly called for the welcome cheer That was wonfcto greet the traveler hero.
'.'Good
woman,"
they cried, as the hostess
came—
A buxom, rosy, portly old dame— "Good woman, iiow's your wine and beer? And how's your little daughter dear?"
"My house la well supplied with checr, But my daughter lieth upon her bier!"
A shadow over the horsemen fell Each wrapped in thoughts he could never tell And silently, one by oue they crept To the darkened room where the maiden slept.
The goldeo hair was rippling low Over a forehead pure as snow And the little hands BO c.«eely pressed, Clasping a cross to the pulseless breast,
•4I loved thee ere the death-chill lay On thee, sweet child," aud one turned away. "I would have Jovcd thee," the second said, "Iladst thou learned to love me and lived to wed."
"I loved thee always, I love thee now," The third one cried as ho kissed her brow "in the heavens to come our souls shall wed, I have loved thue living, I love thee dead!"
Then silently out from the oaken door Three horsemen went to return no more,
JOHN BULGER'S MISTAKE. Bulger is one of those young men who are forever trying to say somethingcomical at another person's expenses, and unfortunately never succeed. The other day Bulger was riding down town in a horse car, when a rustic locking gentleman entered the car and took a seat directly opposite from where he sat. As there were several persons in the car, Bulger seemed to think it would be an excellent opportunity for him to get off some of his extraordinary wit- So addressing himself to the old gentleman opposite, he said in a tone loud enough to be heard all over tne car. "Hem—how was everything in the lunatic asylum when you came away?"
But no one seemed to appreciate the joke, excepting one old woman, ivho really didn't sec anything to, laugh at, but grinned just out of politeness. The old gentleman, although taken by snrprise, quickly recovered himself, and looking steadily at Bulger a moment, his face suddenly brightened extending his hand, he said, with a mischievous twinkle in his eye6: "Wall, I 8wo\v! didn't know yer, but I kinder thort I seed them clothes before fit fust rate, don't they? How d'ye like the shirt? Looks all right wouldn't know but what' wa6 yours needs washin', though. It's too tarnation bad them boots are so small yer can't wear stockings with 'em but if I do say it myself, that's good leather in them boots, and I shouldn't gin them toyer if Miev hadn't been so everlastingly too big for me. The old hat, that looks nateral, too. I got that hat second hand from a feller for twenty cents just as good as a twen-ty-five cent hat a blind man wouldn't know the difference. My 6tars! try in' ter get whiskers, ain't yer, or is that dirt on yer lip? Why don yer wear that yaller'n green neckerchief I gin yer? Looks tremendns sight better'n that red thing you've got on. What! ha! ha! Ge Whitiker! that's a good ,un I'll be darned if you hain't got that collar on t'o-her side up." (Bulger wears standup collars.) 'Looks ao queer I couldn't help laughin' Ain't ver kinder fraid you 11 tumble down sometime and stick the pints inter yer neck? How did yer git a chance to ride in the hoss-car? Know ihe feller what takes the money, don't yer?" '•Sir!" screamed Bulger, just recovering from his astonishment, and getting a chance for the first time to put in a word. 'Sir!' "Tut! tut!" continued the gentleman from the country, "you needn't say a word, I know't just how 'tis I should feel the same way if anybody took me from the poor-house and give me some decent clothes. Yer needn't thank me I don't want ter hear it. But I mi'st git off the hoss-car now and if you feel the least mite chilly without underclothes don,t be ashamed to come around and ask for them. But don't forget to come to my house, and not go near the lunitic asylum, for their mighty strict there, and I know they wouldn't let you out agin. Wal, long take care of yerself."
So saying, he sprang lightly from the car and walked away, while Bulger, with his face perfectly livid with iage. gasped:
It's a lie! I never saw the old fool before in my life!" But as the passengers still continued to laugh, he left the car in disgust, and was last seen, *ith his hat pulied over his eyes sneaking down a 6treet. Poor Bulger! The way ot the transgressor is not pleasant.
HOW AN ENGLISH WIFE WAS BADLY FRiGHTENEl}. Lond** Examiner
There is rather a funny story going about among the provincial papers relative to Mr Edward Jenckins' temperance work. A gentleman residing in the country went up for a few days to a large neighboring town, and, shortly before leaving, invested in a copy of a recent work by the member for Dundee, and telegraphed to his wife that he was coming home, and was bringing "The Devil's Chain" with him.
His wife, was not completely posted in contemporary literature, had never heard of the work in question, and became greatly alarmed, thinking that her husband had taken leave of his senses. So firmly was she convinced that her hus band had gone mad that she called in theai of two powerful brothers to secure the lunatic on his arrival, and when at the appointed time the husband arrived, he found himself, to his great surprise, on the point of being seized as a dangerous lunatic. The production of the book, however, was sufficient to ckar up the matter.
Han Hoddy has again retired from business. He opened out on Monday, took in about
$25,000
(from another
man's drawer visited Brazil on urgent business and brought back two policemen from there on Tuesday held a confidential interview with several of our best citizens (the grand jury) on Wednesday, and on Thursday decided to accept state aid and acccpt a three years job at the penetentiary at Jeffersonville and on 3undav evening he will go on a pleasant excursion to that citv taking our genial Sheriff along for company.
THE London alleged humorous papers are never humorous, ye', they sometimes serve a good purpose So holds the San Francisco Newsletter, which tells this illustrative story. "Once there was a man who had killed his wife and four children, poisoned the house dog to prevent his peaching, and set fire to the house. He was caught, tried, and acquitted on all the charges, except dog poisoning, for which he was condemned to die. For 6even weeks he lay in jail, and waB visited by three ministers daily. He read 11,412 tracts, but still his heart was hard, and he did
not
had no fear of hell, or
repent. He
hopes
of heaven,
and all the ministers shook their heads and said 'Woe!' At last a kindhearted jailer, seeing how tormented he was by their ministrations, brought him a funny English paper, full of witty jokes and 6ide splitting puns. Three hours afterward cries were heard coming from his cell, and guards, rushing in, found tears streaming from his eyes, and contrition oozing from every pore. 'Let me die!' he cried am willing to be hanged. I desire to expiate my sins on the gallows! I'm a wicked, bad man, and deserve death but oh! take away that paper! I don deserve that! Please take it away, and leave me in peace during the last few hours I have to live.' He was executed, and was thoroughly humble and contrite up to the last."
COURT HOUSE ECHOES.
KEAI. ESTATE TRANSFERS.
R. and J. Filer to Wm. Fisher inlot 87, C. Rose's subd.,
$2,000.
John Gerdink urd wife to A. Gurke inlot
65,
Duj's add.,
$200.
Jas. A. Burgan te John Gerdink inlot 65, Duy's add
$250.
J. W. Barlow to J. H. Burt inlot
Jewett's add.,
107
$2,500.
MARRIAGE LICENSES.
The following were issued yesterday: Jas. Erastus Sullivan and Mary Sivina Caton Wm. M. Connerly and Mary E. Doty.
The first named couple were joined at once injthe clerk's office. JUSTICES' COURTS.
Esq. Cookerly: State of Indiana vs. Thomas Iioran, for provoke, the complainant being Carson Smi'h. The witnesses in this case for the State were Carson Smith, John Paul Jones and George F. Tenckes. The defendant was fined and costed $11.85.
AN OUTRAGE.
It isn't after that he deserves it but at this time, Trustee Fred Fisher has certainly earned a severe reprimand for his almost heartless cruelty to the poor.
It is well known that Mr. Ike Fecheimer of the cent store has placed a good deal of flour and meal at the Trustee's disposal to be given out on his orders from Almy & Harris mill on the Bloomington road. A fevv days sincee a woman went to Mr. Fisher tor an order which he gave her. She lives in the east side and it was all of a long walk of two squares out of her way to go to the mill for the flour.
She asked him to deliver it to her house. He declined. She still insisted and he cruelly continued to decline and she left in high dudgeon and refused to take the flour at all.
For his action in this in..::ci Mr. Fisher certainly deserves to be deposed from his positio'n. A trustee that cannot furnish wagons to deliver goods to the poor and carriages to take the said poor to their homes, is no fit officer.
Some Russians lately round in Siberia another elephant, perfectly preserved in ice they were able to eat its flesh. Mr Bayle, in anouncing this fact to the Zoological Society of France, said that it did not prove that elephants had lived in the country, but that in a time of great calaclysm, their bodieo may have been transported by a very strong current from the Himalayas on to Siberia, when they were stopped by the ice the time necessary for such transport is much less than would be generally supposed. The elephants, very numerous at that epoch, had not been all carried to Siberia many had been stopped en route, and nothing had been left of them but thdr bones and tusks it was the latter that had long since been used by the Chinese in their works of cut-ivory. With regard to the cataclysm carrying elephants to northern regions, Count Hugo has pointed out that every year English and American fishermen have brought up elephant tusks in their nets. The number of these got annually may be estimated without exageration, at about a thousand.
THE Douglass Monument is to have four pilasters projecting from the corners of the tomb, which will be surmounted b^ four emblematic statues in sitting attitudes. They will be of heroic size, of bronze or Italian marble. One will represent History, recording on a tablet the doings of Illinois, who sits on another corner, and toward whom History is bending a listening ear. The other two will represent Commerce and the Arts and Scienfces There will be four basreliefs extending around the pedestal. One group will represent the aborigines hunting and fishing. Another will represent the pioneer farmer's life. A third trade and enterprise, illustrated by the building of railroads, teleeraph, and the unloading of vessels. A fourth education, illustrated by churches, colleges, and a class receiving instructions from their schoolmaster.
In China, the priests of Mohammedans are called "Bonzes," In Tartaay they are called "Lamas They are sorcerers and dealers in charms, and have obtained a complete ascendancy over the vulgar and the women. In many cases they prove their own sincerity by imposing on themselves the most frightful tortures. Such as being placed in a narrow cell with the sides filled with sharp spikes, and piling red hot coals of fire on their heads, all which penances they perform as an atonement to God for the sins of Jie people.
THE excursion to Put-in Bay, and Niagara Fallspvhich leaves this city on 'he
31st
of July and the 1st of August,
promises to be a very successful one. ']i prices are lower than ever before offered, being only
$7.
$10
to Put-in-Bay and
to Niagara. It goes over the L. C. & S. W. Ry.
THE street sprinkler receives
$15.00
per w*ik for work on Main from
9th
12th. The work i$*we!l done.
THE TEERE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.
OVER THE OCEAN.
How the Dwellings of Consulates at Rustchuk Came to be Damaged.
Con plaints by German Residents in the Dobrudscha.
W. H. Russell Writes an Interesting Letter From the Seat of War to the London Times.
SUFFERINGS OF THE TURKS. AT ERZE-
ROUM.
William H. Russell in London Times: July 14.—Sufferings ©f Turkish soldiers intense. Very few doctors. Supply of medicines almost expended. No ambuiancc or field hospital. After affair on the
16th
wounded were carried seventy
miles with undressed wounds011 baggage mules and country carts to this place. Members of American Board of Missions have kindly volunteered to distribute any comforts you may send them. Messrs. Hanson will forward thein to British consul at Trebizonde, who willsend them on here, where the Rev. Mr. Pierce will arrange for distribution to wounded men in front. Red Cross doing nothing for Asia Minor. Last Saturday there were 700 wounded without a field hospital. I never saw a doctor in the division. There are no regimental hospitals. The Russians had ambulances in rear of their skirmishers. We have not one in the army. Can you call attention of Red Cross convention to this theater of war?
THE CROSSING OF THE DANUBE.
Details of the crossing of. the Danube at Simnitza on the
27th
ult. are given bv
a correspondent of the London Daily News, who was an eye"witness of the enterprise. Gen. DragimirofTs division had the post of honor, and was expected to make a footing on the Turkish side by early morning. Prince Miorski's division was to make a night march from Lissa and be in position at Simnitza to follow its sister division across in the event ot the latter's success. In the even* of failure, it was to take up the fighting, and force a passage at all hazards for the Archduke Nicholas had announced that he would take nodenial. The river had to be crossjd at Simnitza, cost what it might With the darkness General Dragimiroff began his dispositions. The first work was to plant in made emplacements a row of field guns all along the edge of the flats to sweep with fire the opposite banks This was while his infantry was being marched over the flats down into the cover of the willow wood. The darkness and the obstructions were both so great that all was not ready till the first glimmer of dawn. There was no bridge, but a number of river boats holding from fifteen to forty men each. These were dragged on carriages through ihe mud and launched in the darkness from under the spreading boughs of the willow tree^., The boats put off singly, rowing across for the little cove, and later a little steam-tug was brought into requsition. For once the Turks had not spent the night watches in heavy sleep. Their few cannon at ouct. opened fire on the boats,
011
the hid
den masses among the willows, and on the columns marching across the flat. Nor was this all. From the slopes above the cove, there came at the boats a smart infantry fire. The Turkish riflemen were holding the landing place. Gen Yolchine had not gained experience and credit in Caucasian warfare for nothing. His boat was leading. The Turkish riflemen were in position about fifty yards from the shore. He landed his handful, and bade them lie down in the mud. One or two were down instantly with Tuikish bullets. He opened a skirmishing fire to cover the landing boats that followed. One by one these landing their freights, who followed the example of the first boat load, At length enough had accumulated. Young Skobeloff was there, a host in himselt. Gen Yolchine bade his men fix bayonets, stand up and follow their officers. There was a rush and a cheer that rang louder in the gray dawn than the Turkish volley that answered it. That volley was not in vain, but the Turks did,not wait for cold steel. Yolchine's skirmishers followed them doggedly some distance up the slope, but tor the time could not press on far from the base. Busily, yet slowly, the craft moved to and fro from the shore. The Russian guns had at once opened when the Turkish fire showed there was no surprise, but, however heavy afire may be, it will not all at once crush another fire. The Turkish shells kept falling in the water, whistling through the willows, and busting among the columns on the flats. One shell, from a mouutain gun fell into a boat containing two guns, their gunners and the commandant of a battery. The boat was swamped at once, and all on board perished. This was the only serious casualty, but numerous Russian soldiers were falling on both sides of the river, Nevertheless the work went steadily on, and soon after
7
o'clock, Yolehine's
brigade, a Russian battery, and General Dragimiroff, had crossed the river. The ground thus gained was held until reinforcements arrived, and Sistova was captured.
GERMANS IN DUBRUDSCHA. Berlin, July 14.—The
to
Gennans in
Dubrudscha are seriously suffering from the war. The German Govt, has complained to Missia the Turkey of their ill treatment by the soldiers of both countries.
ENGLAND AND GREECE.
LONDON, July 13.—The adjournment of the Greek chamber is believed to mean that the king, with the aid of British influence, has gained an ascendancy over the war party, and that, for the present, at least, apprehensions of Greek participation against Turkey will not be realized
As the participation of Greece would undoubtedly have been a further complication of the eastern situation, this result will be welcomed by those who have feared the failure of attempts to localize the war. On the other hand, it is probable that the friends of Russia, especially the British Liberals, will see in the atitude of Greece a further step of the British cabinet in the direction of antagonism to Russia. They will argue that as the Canaris ministry was lormed purely for the emergency and at the deu^RJ of those who desired antiTurkifth measure?, the adjournment of
the chamber without action mast h*ve been induced by very forcible represenations on the part of England. It is probable that British influence has been a strong support to the peace policy of the king, but not necessarily in a sense hostile to Ru-sia, and possibly without knowledge of the British ministers. The time for Greek action has hardly arrived, and as Greece looks rather to England than Russia as her natural protector, it may be well that the strained and uncertain relations between the great powers ha* checked the agitation which, a month ago, threatened to drive Greece into immediate hostilities. Even a cabinet as strong in public favor as the present one, could hardly withdraw salely trom the embarrassmant of having a war with Turkey on its hand when the not impossible event of British intervention against Russia should come to pasn. The recognition of such a possibility by the Greeks does not necessarily bring it nearer.
A BATTLE.
LONDON, July 13.—A Persia correspondent dated Friday evening says: I have just heard on good authority that the Russians have been attacked simultaneously by Ostium Pasha at Pleona, and by Aimed Eyoub Pasha at Monaster. The fighting lasted all day Thursday and Friday. The Turk? are getting the advantnge.
A Bucharest correspondent says, under date of Friday night: Rumors are afloat here that, serious, but as yet indecisive fighting is going on in the neighborhood of Biela and Coreet.
BRIDGE BROKEN DOWN.
A Simnitza dispatch, July 10th, records another serious break down of a bridge. A storm caused some iron pontoons to fill and sink, there is one small gap, and one of about 100 yards repairs will occupy at least one day.
PRINCE CHAKLES ASSUMES COMMAND. LONDON,July 13.—A Bucharest correspondent reports that the prince of Roumania has assumed command of the army. The Official Moneteur contains decrees ordering credits for hospital tents and military police in view of the impending passage of the Danube.
ARMENIA.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.—After the reinforcement of the army of the Caucassus, even if necessary, by troops from the central Asia fromtier, a second invasion of Armenia is meditated, commencing with the capture of Batoum and the suppression of the Obchassion rebellion.
THE CZAR.
A Bucharest correspondent says it is officially reported to-dav that Rustchuk is blockaded by the Russians. The czar has arrived at Frateati, a station ou the Bucharest & Giurgevo railroad, where, according to some accounts, he is about to take up his residence.
BATTLE EXPECTED.
The advance guard of another Russian corps has arrived at Ploie?ti. It is reported that a camp for 80,000 men is prepared at Ploiesti. A battle is expected at Eeki DjumaL-dka, where the Turks are concentrated in great force.
BISMARCK'S OPINION.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 13.—The Russian telegraphic ag ricy says:—"Prince Bismarck declared it to be his opinion that any mediation is at present impossible."
ROUMANIA AND SERVIA.
It is denied that a convention exists between Roumanii and Srrv Ru and Austria have agreed to give Uiuse principalities good advice without assuming the right to intervene.
A CORRECTION.
A Russian official dispatch trom Tiflis states that the Turkish force defeated when Gen.Terkugasoff relieved Bayazid, numbered 13,000, not 30,000 as reported in a previous dispatch from Tiflis.
SURMISES.
VIENNA, July 13.—It looks very much as if Prince Charles' tour of inspection along the Danube may have convinced him that his army is not in such a state of preparation as to undertake the crossing of the river.
A correspondent at Cettenje says that the concentration of several Montenegrin battallions has been ordered before Nicsics professedly for the siege of that place.
Prince Nikita will refuse to entertain any overtures'for a truce. Several account agree that the destination of Suleiman Pasha's army is Adrianople.
COSSACKS MOVING.
VIENNA, July 13.—Advices from St. Petersburg state that a reserve of Cossacks, consisting of twenty regiments and ten batteries, in all 20,000 men, are preparing to follow the 12,000 men who have already marched from Saratov for Armenia. When ready the army will take a direct route to Erzeroum.
COUNT ANDRASSY.
VIENNA, July 13.— The evening papers state that Count Andrassy will make his retention of office dependent upon a settlement being arrived at relative to the Austro-Hungarian compromise, because he thinks in the present condition of foreign affairs unity is imperative. PREPARING TO ATTACK THE RUSSSIANS.
PARIS, July 13.—Mukhtar Pasha and the commandant of Kara are preparing a combined attack on the Russian center, consisting ot forty-five battalions of infantry, two regiments of dragoons, six regiments of Cossacks, and thirteen field batteries. More than thirty siege batteries are in position 40,000 metres northeast of Kars.
BAYAZID WON'T COME DOWN.
ERZEROUM, July 13.—The following official telegram from Bayazid was published yesterday:—The beseiged Russians having refused to surrender, the bombardment of the citadel has been reopened General Terkugssoff is near Sinck, four hours'march from Bayazid.
THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE.
BUCHAREST, July 13.—Russian advanced detachments have reached Ga browa, near the southern boundary of Bulgaria. It is declared here that, although the investment of Kars is interrupted, the seige has not been abandoned. TURKISH CHARGES AGAINST BULGARIANS
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 13.—Many Mussulmans with their wives and children, fleeing before the Russians, have been killed by the Bulgarians in the Xhanbogaz defile, between Tirnova and Kezanlik.
NO DISTINCTION.
PARIS, July 13.—The Unian says that 'the distinction drawn between the Legitimist and Orleanist candidates has no meaning or justification. All candidates
recommended by the right and right cen» ter committees are monarchists. PRESS PROSECUTION
The Marseilles newspaper Le Egalite du People has been prosecuted for re porting a trial for insults to President MacMahon.
THE COTTON CONVENTION. LIVERPOOL, July 13.—At to-day's sitting of the cotton convention Mr. Campbell, of New York. re*d a letter from the president of the American national cotton exchange, stating that an eCf rt would be made to adopt the Liverpool standard classification throughout America.
Mr. Simpson, of New Orleans, read the instructions he had received from the New Orleans cotton exchange, relative to a system of inspection and supervision of cargoes at that port, and moved for the establishment of some mode of inspection of cotton on arrival at Liverpool, the expenses to be defrayed by levying a email import charge. Carried unanimously. A committee was appointed to further the objects proposed.
Mr. Phelps, of St. Louis, moved the substitution of the term "American cotton" for the term "Orleans," which is at present used in quotations, on the ground that the latter was vague. The. motion was rejected by a vote of 11 to 9.
On motion of Mr. Reynolds, of Norfolk, Virginia, the convention agreed to recommend that cotton be sold at Liverpool for net cash, without reduction as at present.
On motion of Mr. Simpson, the Cotton Brokers' association was requested to devise means of remedying acknowledged defects of the present system of dealing in lutures.
On motion of Mr. Campbell it was resolved, by a vote of eighteen to one, to take steps to organize an international cotton association. It was also resolved that official quotations of middling, low middling, and good ordinary should be given daily.
It was announced that it was proposed to hold the next ir ternational conference at Liverpool, in 1879. The president congratulated the convention on the success of its labors. The proceedings then terminated.
WIMBLEDON RIFLE MATCH. LONDON, July 13.—The Wimbledon meeting is very successful, shooting for the queen's prize.
In the rifle contest at Wimbleton, yesterday, Rose of the First Canada, made a tie with two British marksmen, for the Prince of Wales prize. The ties will be shot ofl' 10-day.
KISSING IN ANCIENT TIMES
Kissing (for that is the every-day rendering of tne high-sounding word "osculation," which forms the title of this paper, and which is derived from a diminutive of the Latin word "os," the mouth, and therefore meaning a "little mouth" illustrative of the puckered-up shape of that organ when bestowing or receiving a kiss) was an act of religion in ancient Rome. The nearest friend of a dying person performed the rite of receiving his soul by a kiss, supposing that it escaped through his lips at the moment of expiration. Spenser in his Pastorial Elegy on the Death of Sir Philip Sidney," mentions it as a circumstance which renders the loss of his illustrious friend more to be lamented that "Jfonc was nigh his eyelids up to close,
And kits his lips." A little after lie' introduces the lady "the dearest love" of the deceased, weep 1 rg over him: "She, with sweet kisses, sucked tli_* wasting breath
Out of his lips, like lilies pale and soft." The sacredness of the kiss was inviolable among the Romans for a long time. At length it was degraded into a current form of salutatiou. Pliny ascribes the introduction of the custom to the degeneracy of the Roman ladies, who, in violation of the hereditary delicacy of the females of Rome, decended to the induU gence of wine. Kissing was resorted to by those gentle, "good-easy" husbands (who knew better than to risk the tumbling of the house about their ears) as the most effectual and courteous process to ascertain the quality of their svives' stolen libation and Cat® the Elder recomends the plan to the serious attention in all careful heads of families. The kiss was, in process of time, diffused generally as a form of salution in Rome, where men testified their regard and the' warmth of their welcome for each other chiefly by the number of their kisses. Among the early Romans the higher magistrates gave their hands to be kissed and, under the first emperors, the monarchs di4 the same. This, however, was soon thought too familiar to be an act ot true homage, so only the superior officers kissed the hands, while the inferior were forced to be content with touching the royal robe. Sometimes the emperor kissed the mouth and eyes of those whom he wished signally to, honor but this was a very rare privilege and persons whom he wished to disgrace he kissed with marked coldness. Agricola complained that, when he returned from his victories over the Saxons Domitian gave him a "frigid kisi," and left him otherwise unnoticed. In later times the Roman emperors exacted the same homage accorded to the god, their ubjects being required to kiss their feet, and still later to kiss tven the ground before them. Diocletian was the first to demand this servile manner of salutation. Christianity, too, did not disdain to borrow of heathendom even such things as were opposed to its inner spirit and intention. Thus, the popes required the baser laity to kiss their feet, and in 710
Pope Constantine I., on
entering Constantinople, caused the Emperor Justinian to kiss his foot. Valentine I. made the custom permanent and ever since
827
the laity hascrouched andr
crawled up the steps of St. Peter's chair •to kiss the toes of the great fetich enshrined thereon.—[F.C. Browne, in Appletons' Journal for July.
It is not given to every dog to have so
CHOLERA-IN-PHANTOM
A POOR MAN S BONANZA.
HOW THE SUM OF $50,000 WAS NKTTSD
IN THREE PAYS.
The following gold discovery took place in Californio within the past three weeks. It is a specimen of the uniecord ed '"strikes" occurring from time to time in a country sometimes supposed to be "worked out." Had the incident happened in the Black Hills, it woulJ by this time have been told in ten thousand papers. This story, relating how a fortune was made in three days near Auburn, Placer County, is from the Placer Herald:
The richest strike made in this country for many years, and as rich perhaps as was ever made, we here have the pleasure of recording. A.O.Bell, commonly called Pike Bell, who, with his family has resided lor many years on Bald Hill, a few miles r.orth of Auburn, as many know, is a dauntless prospector. Though occasionally making a strike of some considerable importance in the past, he has managed, like most modern prospectors. to keep poor. Last winter, in particular, he was in very straightened circumstances, and having no money, and the merchants refusing to credit him, he offered his only horse, worth about
for
$10,
$50.
that he might buy bread for bis
children, and, failing in his efforts to sacrifice his horse, he pawned the ring off his wife's linger to obtain the necessaries of life. Day by day he continued his searches for the glittering treasure, and whether the passing day had revealed a color or not, his spirits were always jubilant, apparently kept up by the hope that seemed never to desert him of doing better on the morrow, At last the lucky day came. It was about three weeks ago, when hunting around over the hills he struck his pick in»o a little mould which resembled somewhat in appearance an ant hill, and to his delight he unearthed some pieces of decomposed quartz, attached to which were some colors of gold. Encouraged at this prospect, ne began to sink on his new lead, and was rewarded by finding more or less gold at every stage of descent. Last Saturday he had reached a depth of about thirty feet, and had taken out in sinking that far rock estimated to be worth about $1,500. The rock being extremely rotten, or what is called by quartz miners decomposed, he had with little effort pounded out in a mortar enough to pay expenses as he progressed. He had hired men to assist him in working the mine, and on last Monday morning they went to work as usual. The gouge, as we would call it, as it is too rotten to be properly called a ledge, was discovered by noon to have become suddenly richer. In the atternoon chunks of almost pure gold were taken out, and the decomposed stuff that filled the interstices between the rocks was so rich in gold that Pike began to wash it out with a pan. From three panfuls washed Monday afternoon he obtained gold estimated to be worth between
$4,000
and
$5,000.
That even
ing he came into town, and giving us a hint of what he had got, invited us to go and see it. On Tuesday afternoon, in company with Sheriff^McCormick, we visited the mine. We lound Bell with a pan of yi'd in his h.md.*
$1,000
$200
good a day as was recently enjoyed by a was a war of words and g} mnastic conretriever at Colombe. A ship named the I tortions of faces and ai ms, between an Julia Ann having grounded, a difficulty old German grocerman and an old Gerarose as to how the line could be got from man farmer. The air was blue around the ship to land in order to save the crew, there with the jaw_ breaking volleys of Several ineffectual efforts were made, when the captain bethought him of fastening a line around the body of the ship's dog, a fine ^retriever. The dog was thrown overboard, and at once swam with the line to the shore, whereby the Captain, his wife and the whole crew were thereafter safely landed. What have the dogs of Newfoundland to say to this? *.
is what they
call it when a spook at Pence's Pandemonium eats a green apple and gets the stomachache.
mm
Orth
$30,000
from
to $1,500, wi.ich he assured us
came from one pan of dirt.
,-But,"
said
he, "if you don't believe it, I will wash another pan and show you." Wc told hin. to wash. The pan was *en* ^own into the shall ai.a soon returned filled with a mass of muddy, rocky stuff that sparkled all over with pieces of gold. Tnis was washed out and found to contain fully as much of the precious metal, if not more than the one he had iust finished panning when we arrived. It was really the greatest sight we ever saw, and McCor mick, who had mined in California in its palmiest days, says it knocks the spots off anything he ever saw, except on one particular occasion. Bell, having convinced us of the richness of his mine,took us to his house to show us the proceeds of the previous day's panning that we might be convinced of what he had told us. The sight was one more easily imagined than realized. As we looked upon the pans of gold before us we thought of Alladin and his magic lamp, and wondered whether the story had not been suggested by some 6uch |,reality as was before us. On Wednesday evening Mr, Bell (it is "Mr." now since he has lots of gold—it was Pike before) was in town again, and ne informed us that what we 6aw was nothing that he had taken out $10,000 in three pans that day that he had taken out, all told, up to that time, between
and
$45,000,
and that he
had an offer and was about to sell for $20,000. When asked his notion for selling, he said he would get away with about
$50,000,
and that was money
enough for him. To be sure it is a good stake, and, when we consider that it was made in three days, it must be confessed that the chances for matting a sudden fortune in California are not all gone.
LUTHER BENSON.
HE IS ROBBED OF TWO HUNDRED DOL
LARS BY TWO SOILED DOVES. By Telegraph to the SentinelCambridge City, Ind., July 13.—Luther Benson, while intoxicated, yesterday visited a bagnio, and was relieved ot from $100 to
therein. Benson, with a
couple of the inmates, was locked up last night. Some unknown parties were so incensed at the proprietors of the ranche that they fired the house, and this morning before assistance could reach the scene, the building was almost demolished. The loss is probably
$300.
1
MORE fun than awho'.e circus was exhibited free on Cherry street near the Congregational church this morning. It
awful words, and fists were at a premi um within a quarter of an inch of each nose but the fists wouldn't go the other quarter. A large crowd enjoyed the right.
A RUNAWAY occurred on Oak street last evening that was near causing death to a little three-year-old girl of Mr. Strong living there. The team dashed down the side walk, but the little girl displayed much presence of mind and dodged behind a tree, where 9he stood safe but the runaway team divided at {he, next. tree, and smashed every thing.