Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 11 November 1880 — Page 2

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HUMAN BONES FOR LUCK.

Playing Cards Over Rifled Graves to Get a "Charm"—Ghastly Superstitions-

From the Vernon (Ala.) Ollppef. On Sunday morning about half-past 1 •'clock 8heriff Lacy was called up by armed men, who demanded the keys of thejaiL When positively refused they placed a guard at his door and told him not to come out, as they did not wish to hart him. They then proceeded to the. }ail, broke open"the doors and, after ham mering the cago awhile, were heard calling: "Come out of there come out of there f" several times. Then ten or twelve shots were hoard, though mostly pistols, and the men, thought to be about thirty in number, marched away. When they were gone Lindsey Portwood, Dudley Brothers and Wesley Richardson were dead iu the cage and the door of the cage broken open. Thsy had been committed im days before for violating graves.

Coroner W. T. Marler summoned a Jury and held an inquest. Dr. William A. Brown, examinee! the bodies iu the presence of the jury and made out a statement in writing of the nature and number of the wounds and stated that thry ali cauie to their death bv shot wounds. Thomas R. Nesmith, solicitor, summoned and examined before the jury every person from whom it was supposed any testimony could be obtained, but no discovery was made as to who committed Ac crime. The citizens of Vernon met sod prepared good plain coffins and dressed the dead in neat suits and gave them decent burial. The colored people refused to aid and seemed to have a su perstitious fear of coming near the dead. TTie crime committed by these unfortunate men and the facts and maaner of its discovery are about as follows: One day last month a negro named Dock Poe, being sick and thinking he was about to die^ unburdened his conscience to Ills nurse, an old negro woman named Jude Dobbins, and named the above three as engaged in the •rime, and told that some of the human bones they had been operating with were about the house. A.uut Jude, thinking that Poe would die, and being superstitiously alarmed, communicated her information to a white woman. The white people, finding that several graves •had been dug into, became excited and were threatening summary vengence. Some prudent citizens obtained a warrant, and succeeded in arresting the thrco named above for violating graves. Poe being sick, they did not disturb him. The prisoners, when arrested, seperately confessed the crime, and each told about the samu story. Each was taken to the graves separately and each pointed out the graves they had opened. The prisoners were then taken before a magistrate, who, upon their full confession, committed them to jail. The citizens who had the matter in hand had great difficulty in protecting the prisoners until they were lodged in jail, and for several days after ward the Sheriff and citizens of Vernon feared something like what has uow happened, but all seemed to have become quiet. The people afterwards opened and examined the graves, One, in which a man had been buried about thirty-five years, had been dug out to the bottom and the decayed bones were mixed .with the dirt to the top and some of them were found out of the grave. The negroes said they did not take any of them, because they were too much decayed'. The other was that of a Mrs. Tom Poe, who had been buried about two years. The left hand of the corpse had been pulled off at the wrist and was missing. The right arm had been pulled off at the shoulder and was missing, and the corpse was mangled and turned in'the coffin. The lid had been merely laid back and the grave filled- The negroes said they had taken away the hands. They all had bones about their persons, which they said were from Mrs. Poo's bauds. These bones are now in possession of Sheriff Lucy, and are said not to belong to tho same human hand. It is believed that several other graves have been dug into. The graveyaru where most of the digging has been done is at nr near Poplar Spring Church, in the south west corner of this country, and all the graves molested were the graved of white people.

The cause of this strange conduct, as related by the negroes themselves, is as follows During November and December last a negro by the name af Jerry Vaugn, from Mississippi, stayed among them and sold them rights and recipes •for wo-king charms and performing miracles. To acquire the "card charm'' three or more go to a grave, one kneels at the head and prays, one or more stand at the foot and curse, the balance dig down and get tho bones and fill up the grave again, the praying and cursing going on all the while. Then all Join in a game of cards on the grave and all have acquired the 'charm." They put the bones in a poke or string them and wear them about their body, and, as they expressed it, "we haw good luck." They lick dust of human bones and wet the tips of their fingers while they handle or play cards, and* have "good liick.^' "They rub the cards against tUkhpass ffepifci ttei»fbody for •4uck.nfi^4lS$f^ dust for "gold Jiftokl iJlfal^Ainiertakintf. Rumor has it that they said: "If a black man will take a dose of the dust of a white woman's bones ho can then charm any white women and do as he pleasaa

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said thev did better "iuck."

Those Edible Bird's NsstsFroru lljOOQ.QOO to $9^00^000* woaM of oirds' nests an ye$r|y imported into Can ton, most of them coming from Javav They arc very expensive costing from $30 to $40 per pound. The nests are co poeed tof pore gelatine, sftotetbd sby speciesvof swallows and d^pSSifed a£i#$t -^jraUu ri- *v fair's'

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Another English Colony.

Some English capitalists own 500,000 «cres of l^na in Alabama, on the line of the Alabama Great Southern railroad, ?which arc very rich in timber and minerals, and which they intend davcloping. Arrangements are now making to induce ,immigration of English farmers, and on an early day a number will probably .settle on the lands.

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STAGE DRESSING

How the New York* Actresses Stan Their Less Fortunate Sisters-

... From aNew York Letter. The leading actresses and beauties of the American stage are not disposed to permit Sara Bernhardt to get the better of them, in fine drsssing at least. The sprightly Breatrix, of the New York Mirror, thus speaks of the rage for magnificent toilets that has taken possession of the New York stage: At the present moment at three New York theaters can be studied the most extravagant costumes of modern con struction. That which "Our First Families" left undone at Dalv's, we, though Fannie Davenport, accomplished at the Fifth Avenue, until Wednesday evening, when EUie Walton and Rose Etynge grappled with the great dress question, ana gave us a genuine surprise. After the gorgeous apparel exhibited up town, it was left for the little Park to reveal the further possibility of the New York dressm?ker when really put to her mettle.

Rose Etynge is too ponderous about the waist, and too short about the legs to do splendid costumes entire justice. Her first dress was one of baffled-beauty, though she appeared to best advantage in it. A walking coltume of royal purplish wine-color, with too purplish a tint for claret and too reddish a hue for plum, this over dress was draped high at one side over a rich brocaded satin skirt. A Cavalier hat, with shaded feathers and magnificent parasol, completed a picture of well-dressed buxom beauty. In succeeding acts Miss Etynge wore an evening costume of black tnlle, profusely aorned with wide golden embroidery. The puffs of illusion were too stuffy and gave the lady a croupy effect about tho throat. Miss Etynge has little or no neck and lots of shoulders the flattest trim mings and plainest cut waists are most becoming. In the card-playing scene she appeared in a neutral-tinted silk, into which shaped pieces of gold and dark striped material were let on the smallest provocation. They were found at the neck of the corsage, back and front, at the top of the sleeves, and at frequent intervals all over the dress. In this gown, with a tight pair of white gloves, the lady sat down to swindle her hos tat cards, and found she had all she coald do to hold the pack and deal a perfectly square game, after the fashion or a pair of children playing "Old Maid." In the last act, clad in funeral weeds, her duty was performed—a disagreeable one it would seem, being that of holding poor Wilton's nicely barbered head into a hemlock bush, jerking it out, whispering loud and wicked words into it. and putting it right back into another bush. Miss Wilton, ever elegant, on this occasion was too swell for earthly use. She dazzltfd the house first in a dress of blue velvet, court train, embroidered in every shade of blue, over an embroidered white satin petticoat and stomacher, with an Elizabethan collar about her graceful neck, and tho family diamonds, more numerous and beautiful than ever. Further acts brought fourth a lovely white brocade toilet and one of opal brocade, an open-work embroidered front of piuks and blues, and intricate arrangements in the way of draping, over a petti coat of white, which had about the botf torn a shell flounce, of white silk lined with blue. Pretty Josephine Baker's slender figure showed to advantage in robe of inserting and narrow puffings, the entire dress being composed of em broidery and muslin. lyr^jynl

A THREE-LEGGED BEAR.

lift- •».' Gnawing Off His Paw to Escape from a "Trap—Killed at Last.*' i?&.v Ml vHSaF^mafff I

Tluioute (Pa.) Cor. New York Bun. Three years ago, sheep, pigs and occasionally a calf belonging to people living about Guyon Settlement, Warren county, were misled-from pastures and pens. It was at last discovered that an immense black bear made the havoc. The men of the place went after liim with guns and dogs. He was .hunted for weeks. He was seen several times and shot at. Once he came suddenly out into a road where George Root was standing, rifle in hand. RootTired and hit the bear. The bear turned on the hunter. Root dropped his gun and climbed a tree. The bear wailed under the tree tor him until dark. It was late irt the fall and very cold. When the bear walked off into the woods, Root was nearly frozen, and had difficulty in reaching home, three miles away". A week afterward the bear was attacked by two dog3 that were with a parly of hunters. Before any of the men arrived on the scene both dogs were killed and the bear had disappeared in Che swaijup. A large steel trap was baited with honey anu set in a place that showed signs of the bear's frequent presence. tThc

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who went to look at the trap next morning found it sprang. It held the fore paw of a bear. The size of the .paw indicated that the animal to which it had belonged was of great size. Jt appeared to have been gnawed from, the leg. A. trail of blood lea from she trap to the swamp. That was tho last.ever seen or heard of AVe big bear.

Three wpoks ago the shecp^piga and calves ofGupon Settlement begad' to *be myster'eu ly tlkaagdout again. One da a near was Ne?n Vo oftjss the road near ttii ^Wnobysome school*' chiftfMi webrgi Wa«S#rt and As R*fi66t, •*nd' wept orit With rifltfiS tb *JThe track*6n tbtf4 mountain in less than lii ltOur,"and they came up to lhe' *bea¥ il very short time- When Root and WajStoi »T*ived they found the dogs both en$i|H men of the game tliey wertrseefcrng. When thfe

in a fight with very large specimen the game they werti-seeking. bear saw th#Mtfi* jfrknbfflgell one of the

dogs jvith it* fore paw* and thiew |t twenty feet ^way, I* did not return the contest TV bear then.rushed for tlio, hunters. Roof, stopped it with -A rifle ball, frihade a second attack, and Watson seat a ball into it It arose tha thiijtl time and endeavored to reach Ike mi who had retreated to a safe distance, fell after making a few, steps and died. The bear had but thraT"feet One of its fore paws was missing. For that reason the residents of Guyon Settlement believe that the dead bear was the one that was in the neighborhood three years ago. The bear was very thin, but was the largest ever killed in that region. In good condition it would have weighed 500 pounds.

THETERRE HAUTE

Murt lead to IiOM of Appetite— I

(Philadelphia TimM.}

Loss of appetite is of common occurrence at the onset of many fevers, bnt usually it isafar more chronic complaint. Nothing is commoner than to hear people say that they "have no appetite/' they "do not care for anything/' or that they "hate tha sight of food."

It is often enough associated with condition of debility and general inaptitude for Work. It is by no means uncommon in those who are worried and anxious and find it difficult to make both ends meet.

People who d£f$e too"1nflch attention to the brandy bottle generally find meals rather a trouble than otherwise breakfast, especially, is a difficulty These individuals are generally very dainty and fanciful, and when at h#qie grumble at everything that is set before them.' They are very fond of abusing the cook for what is in reality the morbid condition of their own digestive orattnfJSMfT «. |, it

Tobacco smokers, or, at all events, those who smoke in any quantity, are seldom great performers with the knife and foj Tobacco and opium and alcohol seem all to have the power of deadening the appetite. People who take little or no out-door exercise gen erally complain that they do not eat well, and no wonder. If a man wants a good appetite, he must earn it some how or other. Borne one may give him his dinner, but if he is to enjoy it he will have to bring his own sauce in the shape of an appetite.

Irregularity of meals is another common cause of loss of appetite. The stomach appreciates regularity, and likes to have its wants attended to at the proper time. It is carious how in a well-regu-lated body tho desire for food is experienced day by day at exactly the same hour. We all know how dreadfully badtempered many people get if their dinner is only five minutes late. It is all very well to say that they are stupid ana should not be put out about trifles, but it must be remembered that it is no trifle to them, and that even a slight delay may give rise to a considerable amount of bodily discomfort The stomach has been accustomed to receive supplies at certain regular intervals, and if it fails to receive theij*, it objects most emphatically. Nothing is more likely to spoil the appetite than eating or drinking be*

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Work for "Women. j. [Baltimore Gazette.]

A writer presents a rather discouraging picture of the trials of workingwomen in New York, and as New York but reflects on a larger scale the experience of feminine toilers in all our large cities his statements have a general scope and significance!

There are, he admits many lucky women in New York who are earning a comfortable livelihood without special detriment to their health but, on tho other hand there are many more thousand "with no special ability and no special value who toil and blind themselves and wear themselves to death for an unimaginable, incredible pittance." This is certainly a most unpleasant declaration, but further on the writer affords us a brighter outlook when he shows that occupations for women are becoming more and more numerous and that the organized efforts which are being made to aid them are already having substantial results.

The Workingwom&n's Protective Union for instance, which was established sixteen years ago, has accomplished a most valuable work in protecting its members from imposition and fraud. In its practical operation the union has revealed a condition of things, however, which causes one to shudder at the bare thought of the existence of such universal inhumanity.

Among those who appeal to it for protection and redress are women who make shirts at thirty-six cents per dozen and who taste meat but once a month. And even these poor creatures are defrauded by their employers. But for the interposition of the union they would be forced to submit to the cruelest and niost stony-hearted imposition totheir already grinding poverty. iEaoi

When we turn to other trades the Writer informs us that "most of them are, not much easier or better remunerated than serving folr 'slop-shops' Therels now a very long list of occupations which are open to women* but some of these are dangerous to the operatives, others ire miserably unremunerative and all Or nearly all afford but little rodm for hoje or encouragement to ifihe woman who is forced to earn he* living. In the» higher brandies of femininei industry the pros-

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A Russian inventor and engineer claims to have found a substitute for the wheel and screw stumers the motion is to be, transmitted through compressed blades.

A CLOSE SHAVE.

v,r A Miner's Story.

The cold gray dawn was breaking and the streaks of daylight, which crept in through the chinks and crevices of the rough, ill-fitted doors and windows in the primitive log hut, already began to overpower the glimmer of the one candle, which, from its socket in the neck of an empty and tallow-dripped bottle, had struggled to illuminate the gloom. It flickered, sputtered, blazed up, sank lower, and went out, and as if to celebrate the victoiy of (he day the sun 6cnt its first golden beams through a wide crack in the wall, straight across the face of the resurrected man. The hardy miners, who stood or leaned in picturesque attitudes half-hidden in the gloom of the cabin, looked with glad and eager eyes on their companion, who had come through death to share again their hard work, rough living, few rewards. "I tell you, boys, it was a close shave, and he drew along breath, as he raised ut his bunk, and threw off the' worn blanket which Covered him. "The' first warniiig of the danger was the shout from Tom there: 'Run for your life! She's caving!' I dropped my pick and started, but the warning had coihe too late. The first giving way was at the 11, and the weight of the

month of the dril earth kept falling toward me. I could hear the timber^creaking, cracking, splitting like straws under the weight upon them, and Fdrew back away from the coming pressure. I felt the space grow ing smaller, and crouched low, almost imagining I could keep below the terrible crushing weight, and yet knowing that in an instant it would be upon me The uprights trembled, then crashed and I fell. I don't know how long I lay there, for I must have been stunned by the fall, or else I fainted from fear. Presently I woke aad tried to move, but could not I was pinned fast by the great timbers, which, had fallen in such a way as to shield my. head and body, while holding me im movable. I opened my eyes and was confr ntpd by a darkness so intense it could bf felt. My first thoughts, were as to the chances of escape from this frightful burial. I knew the law of humanity that holds in all camps of every one to the rescue of a miner in distress,' and I knew that in less than an hour every one of the two hundred men in the diggings would be taking his turn at the work of digging for me. I reckoned the time it would take them—twenty five feet from the surface, about the ?ame distance from the shaft working in either direction through the coarse gravel—I thought they could reach me in ten hours. I could do nothing but wait. I strained my ears for a sound to break this terrible stillness, and in my eagerness I al most fancied I could hear the click picks and shovels in the efforts .to, unearth me. 'But, boys, there was'a new herror not one of you thought of in your most dreadful imaginings of my situatibn, While 1 lay there, counting the beats of my heart like you do the ticking of a clock in the dark, I felt myself growing Cbld. First my back, then it crept up my sides, then my arms, over my hands, higher, higher, closer, closer, what could it be? MyGod!*The pumps had stopped, and the water was rising in the shaft. Higher, nearer it crawled, tike the stealthy approaeh of some intangible monster. I could t'cel it like an added weight on my breast Higher it crawled till it reached my chin, over my chin, it touched my lips. I screamed aloud in agony. To be Saved from the crushing of the earth upon me only to die by a more torturing and terrible means—to die alone heaafii the earth in' cold and darkness. Ivlas horrible. But the terrible fate came creeping, relentless in its very stillness and slowness. It came over my mouth, ug gay lips to my nostrils. I "Like a flash came the pictures of my life. They were hard, rough sketches, most of them hardships and trials had made up my life almost since I left my mother's knee but there was brightness enough in the darkest ot the pictured ays to draw me back like a cable to life, as I felt it slipping away but death stared me in the face, and I could do nothing but die bravely here alone in the gloom. I said a last prayer, brief but fervent. I thought of you all, my good old ftitnua and knew there'would be many a moist eye among. you, when, in the darkness, the light of your gleaming lan terns would flash on my dead white face. I closed ray eyes to shut out the horrible gloom and the water in its cruelty crept over my nostrils, and I was gone. Bnt sensation did not die. Could I believe it—the water was going down lower, lower below my chin—sinking, sinking.

Was I dreaming, or was this only a newer torture ©f drowning? wo, it was not an illusion. I felt the chili leave me. The pumps had started, again. Hoot sprangiiike a ray* of sunlight into r5y brain. "It was only temporary- stoppage after all, and I began again to -speculate upon the strokes of wilting? «hands that were working for me- on «ither side. I could hear the dull grating and thud of the ironcoming faintly tome through tile graVel I had tnyself dug through in. my search for gold. BOJ agi|n .T fslt that rising chill, The njnmjtr,^ again. Jit was uselessto hot deatif^aalstirely here, lt„ slowly feut surelj breast,

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Some

ew and Interesting Versions of Old Yarns,

foe other day a Baltimore captain is reported have said that he wouldn't iu-8ttatt"to swear he had seen the sea serpent off Cape Hattcras, only he didn't care to hurt his reputation. "But," he added, if I thought he had been seen in North American waters by any of the old voyagers, I wouldn't mind 'Ivipg' in such good company as theirs." The remarks oi this conscientious mariner betray great ignorance of the history of the North American sea serpent. Nearly 200 years ago Father Labat, who voyaged to the French Islands of thift tontineht, saw a sea serpent, and not only saw it but caught it Isra feme. An account of the in cident will be found in the sixth volume of his "Voyage auz lies Francoises de 1' Amerique." The serpent—he calls it a serpent marin monstreuz—was ten feet long and two feet incireumferenco in the middle. Its akin was bluish with large spots of blue and' yellow, shining as If varnished The dorsal fin extended from near the terminate not the head to within six inches of the tail this fin was six inches wide at the head and gradually narrowed downwards. The tail was forked.

There were also three flhs on each side, furnisned at the ends with guards, of which there was also one at the tail. The head Was neither flat nor triangular. It was from six to eight inches long, round, and a little arched. The eyes wero large and glittering. When the creature opened its huge mouth it exposed two rows or ranges of teeth nearly two inches long, and strong and pointed. The good Father was so afraid of the serpent even after it was dead that he said he forgot to look whether bags of poison were attached to tho roots of its teeth or not. The sailors who hauled it up in the seine fled precipitately, but one oi thetn, more courageous than his fellows, broke its backbone by a blow from an oar. Father Labat, on rallying, was anxious to have it skinned, but the crcw were afraid to help him and it was thrown overboard. The same author came across a young serpent of the same species in West Indian waters but it being only three fest long, there was nothing very noticeable about it Champlain, the founder of Quebec, nearly three centuries ago, did hot actually see the serpent, but he had an account of it, or of something like it, from so many creditable witnesses that he does not hesitate to believe iu .its existence. In his

Voyages de Champlain," he raid this monster had its lair near an island in the Bay Chaleur. Its head and neck resembled those of a woman, but it was of such a size that the largest mast of his craft would not make a girdle for it. It had a huge pocket or pouch in its neck, into wiucli it thrust its food, including fish, seabirds and an occasional Indian. Certain people who had escaped from it by the skin of their teeth, told him this pouch was so big .that his good ship might be enveloped in it. It uttered the most appalling cries. Sieur Prevert, a noted Breton sailor, told Champlain that on one occasion he passed so close to it that he and his men could distinctly hear its cries, and that the savages Were so frightened that they hid themselves below deck. From all the evidence that reached him with regard to this beast, Champlain Was forced to the conclusion that it was dne of the serpents which the devil employs to torment seafaring men. Prevert, whb actually saw it, says it was at least doe hundred feet long, with a dorsal fin which peached from its neck to its tail, and eyes which, by night, phone like fire. When it left its resting place hear the island and started seawards, there rushed after it a long streak of foam, and every now and then it reared up in the water, and as it were, steadied itself Upon its coils. Its skin was a blue with black patches, and its tail was not unlike a ship's anchor in shape. Many years before he passed that way, so the natives told him, an Indian fisherman of great skill meta monster of the same kind in a quiet bay. He cast in his line, and in an instant the fish—the savages called the creature Champlain describes the Gougou—seized tho bone hook, and the fisherman landed it. Canst thou draw up leviathan with a book asks Job. Prevert belicveli that on this occasion, at least, it was done.

In 1864, while the Marquis de Tracy was on his way from France to New France, of which Louis XIV had made him Viceroy, he spent some time in the West Indies, and on the voyage thence to Quebcc, the following year, two sea-serpents were seen, of which the old chroniclers have left an elaborate discription. There were two vessels in the expedition which carried,besides their full completement of men, 200 soldiers of the regiment of Carignan-Salieres—hence there is no lack of witnesses. The ships were bearing up towards the open sea, on the night of their departure, when a man albft—it being a clear night, and abrjght, smooth sea, such as is only found in the tropics—cried out that he saw a huge fish coming down upon them.s 'Nothing was done, for the officers thought the fellow was mistaken,,but in a few minutes a hissing noise was neatxlfright ahead, and

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Sequent, though Ike serpent angry. As it reaitd its head and lifted: its enormous neck the word was givvw, and the soldiers Hied. When the smokct cleared off the serpent was not to be aee^ but the water was crimsoned with blood. It was proposed to lower a boat, but only two men would venture on the job if searching for the serpent Of the tweWs soldiers who flrtd six aimed, at tho head and neck and the others at the coihi Grcviere reckoned that the cre&tmw was* at least 190 feet in length and at least five feet in circumferencc at tbs neck. The coils near the middle wen probably two or threi ffeet in circumfcr ence The skin was dark blue, with, streaks of black, and the belly white. The tail was of the shape of a fleur de li* the eyes oblong like the head, the back bristled, with a ridge of stiff hair, and there appeared to be a fin or mane on tha neck by which the creature, with the aid of its tidl, guided its course through the

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OT'mti&ete^a a platoon stood ze^dy, at thfrWJtal JOT.command, ras Was &bout 10, f.The moon now qeCame_. bverfcast for, a /ew mintitesj ntttthe serpent could be .distinctly se£n throbgh the glimmering darkness, its scales giving fbrth. flashes of light and his eyes burning almost as brightly as tfie snip's .lights. At li p. u. or thereatkmts the thobh again came out. The

TP" 121,701 poll-tax receipts issued Jn the city of PhilaffSTphia, the Republican committee paid $23,468.50 for 46,987 re-| monster was now within thirty feet* of ceiptSv and the Democratic committee! the vessel- The hissing noise had crown paid $12,076.50 for 25,153. -u

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sea. The soldiers stood to arms all night, ftnrit was thought other serpents might be seen, but that was the only one, although the men on the main deck ds* clared they sighted another a mile off ota the larboard quarter. Three nights afterwards a second serpent was seen by botM ships. The soldiers fired several volleys at it in the hope of angering it and so bringing it to close quarters, but it stood off a quaiter of a mile, and about 3 A. M. made off. This one was not nearly a» large as the first, but it resembled it closely in appearance. When the ships reached Quebec in June, 1865, and repor ted what they had seen, the pilots said it was nothing uncommon to find serpents of that description even as far north as the mouth of the St. Lawrence.

If, therefore, any conscientious mariner be afraid to tell what be knows about the sea-serpent Simply because he thinks it a new creation—a monster without an American past—let him take heart and be encouraged by these ancient recitals. In the prehistoric times, as the Jurassic and Cretaceous formations bear witness, sea-serpents roamed the oceans and there may be huge marine Saurians ki the Atlantic even to this day, if it be true that there are as guod fish in the sea as ever came out of it. "Anakosls"

IS Air QOfAUUBLB CURE FOR MLKS. Mr. Wm. J. Andrews, of Columbia Tenn., writes the following: .f

Mett tr». Nmgtoedter Co.. JTtto York: GKKTS—For upward of 20 years I have been afflicted with the Piles. When I first took them they were blind and verypainful. For about ten y«ars they con tinued as blind, then commenced bleeding The hemorrhoids continued to increase, until I was losing at every stool fully a gill of blood, ana frequently, while standing at my desk, the blood would run down into my bodts. I have had these hemorrhoids to last for several hours. In the meantime like a drowning man, I was grasping at everything, trying to find relief. On one occasion had tnem cauterized, which, after intense suffering for over a month, effected temporary relief, for a short time only however. About ten months since, while at stool, .my eye fell on an advertisement headed in large letters, "Piles,'5 "Send 2 cent stamp and get circular." I did so, and received a few Plain Blunt Facts" iu reply, after reading which, I concluded it was such plain common sense that I would give Anakesis a trial. I did so and the result was, that after a few days use, the bleeding ceased and I have not suffered a moment's pain since.- It is said that a "fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind." 8o, knowing quite a number of friends who were suffering like myself, I distributed quite a number of them, and, from every one received a favorable report. I would not be without "Anakesis" for a hundred times its cost. To all who are afflicted with the Piles I would say Give Anakesis a trial and you will no longer be a sufferer."

WM. J. ANDREWS.

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