Denison Daily Herald. (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 147, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 3, 1878 Page: 3 of 6
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8EPABATI0N.
A wall k«!W up between the two.
NoVe»»T««wero
Nor how Hie waU.waa.bullt I ween.
uusuuii;
laid,
thing with them now, he should get it out
as soon as possible.
Very respectfully yours,
WILLIAM ALMM.
Helen looked about her In surprise.
“ Is It a valentine?’’ asked Mary.
“ What is the matter? Do tell me!
TEXAS VETERASS.
.iii'ltfn K«lwin Waller hihI ('apt John Mo
Hfiiry-XtHiiiUNCtinflCN »f Early Day*.
[Kpociul OoiTCHpoiidcnce of the Globo-Doino-
ernt.]
Patterson,Texas, February 7.—This
criml Mrs! WillUm9,ershiverinK in her , point, situated a few miles east of the
A aalAadMVft ■A.WllOUtfllt UiniHS. mtnrn >>!
A cureless eye saw nought emins,
Yet each was to the other dead.
He, much absorbed In work and gain,
drew soon unmindful of his Iohn,
A hard indifforenou worse than hate
Changed love’s fine gold to worthless
dross.
She suffered tortures all untold;
Too proud to mourn, too strong to die;
The wall pressed heavy on her heart,
Her white face showed her misery.
Such wails are growing day by day,
'Twixt man and wife, ’twixt mend and
friend •
Would they oould know, who lightly build
How sad and bitter is the end.
A careless word, an unkind thought,
A slight neglect, a taunting tone,
Such tilings as these, before we know,
Have laid the wall’s foundation stone.
—Frances L. Gardner, in Springfield liqntblican
------—♦ ----------
THE OlidAN-UlUNDEli.
An organ droneth high and losv
Above the sounds that ebb and flow,
And faint through all the hale and din,
Its plainiug comes to me within.
" In the Sweet By-and-By that hymn
We used to sing when day grew dim ;
Kit song to jeer me with—whose lib*
Expectant only is of strife.
To mo—beneath this hopeless sky—
For whom there is no by iiml-by,
My idle fancy still repeats
The organ’s droning in the streets.
And gives me hack again—w ho knows.'
The wasted sweetness of a rose,''
(lathered when sunshine of July
Made golden all the summer sky.
And as I list, I seo Again
The pathway of an orchard lane,
Where lags ii little brook at ease
t’ndor the blossom-laden trees.
I know not it it be a dream :
I almost see the winding stream,
And hear one voice—0 heart of mine!
Crouch down, nor think what once was
thine!
—Philadelphia Bulletin.
TWO VALENTINES.
night-gown.
“ Is your father ill?” asked the crack
in Ihe door, in a deep man’s voice.
Helen read t ho letter aloud, and they
all laughed.
“ l know what it is,” said Mary.
“ Will Aldis meant to send you a valen-
tine, but inclosed a business letter in-
stead, and mailed Ihe valentine to some
old gentleman in Wall Street.”
Mr. Williams was the incensed one of
the party. “ Young fool!” said he to
his wife; “didn’t he know that there
were mails and a post-office? W hy
must he send a special messenger with
such stuff as that in the (lead of the
night?"
Mr. Williams had boon the one. to go
to the door, you know, and the night
was bitterly cold. Mrs. Williams made
believe that she was asleep, and drew a
long breath, such a very long one that
Mr. Williams was suspicious; but lie
only muttered, “Fool!” and went to
sleep himself.
Margaret brought Mr. Pray lii-s hit-
lers the next morning. She pitied the
old gentleman, taking his breakfast all
alone, and sought to cheer him in her
simple way.
“ Perhaps you’ve got a valentine,
sir,” she said. “ 1 had one myself, to-
day, from my cousin.”
fe Mr. Bray laughed a little laugh, and,
opening the first letter, was startled to
road—
My
how disappointed I
lullin' on Wcilncsdni
. Darling-
Few business letters begin in that way.
But lie read on :
Von <‘an never tell .
was not to tind you at home
evening. 1 was detained in town t<»,> bit
on Tuesday to see you. I ean not wail till
your return to tell von what I have long
wanted to tell yon- that I ean never l.e liap-
... .... , , i i pv till I know'that von care for me. Yon
Will Aldus turned his horse s head in- £i)im „wt , ............. and late,
to the long avenue, bordered by leafless
trees, that led to Hulun Bray’s. Other
people would have said, “ that led to
Mr. Bray’s;” but “other people ” had
not the same regard for Holeutiial.hu
had, which made all the difference in
tliu world.
It was towards evening. A soft sky
still relieved tlm delicate brandies of the
elm; but tlie lights in the west room
made evening in the house, and eliecml
the young man as his horse stepped
carefully over the slippery ground. Ho
knew just how Helen would welcome
him in the little sitting-room with the
open lire, and make him sit in her fa-
ther’s chair, and give him a pretty hand-
screen, and sit down before him, shield-
ing her own eyes with a blue bin; and
how, after she had asked for Ii is mother
and sister, a delightful silence would
fall upon them, and—the horse was at
the door.
Mr. Bray had seen the young _ man
ooming, and had hastened out with a
welcome.
“I’m glad to see you,” he said, “ 1
feared 1 was in for a lonely evening,
but now we will have a gaum of ehe-s.
Helen’s gone to Springtieldfor a week.”
Dear me! How different Mr. Bray
was from Helen! He did not standby
the young mau while he took off his
(mat, nor did he give him the large casy-
chair. In faet, tile old gentleman seat-
ed himself in the easy-chair, and helped
himself to the hand-screen, regardless
whether Will Aldis’s eyes were burnt
out or not. In the dining-room, Mar-
garet poured tlie tea at a side-table for
iho gentlemen, both o! whom missed
Helen, though indifferent ways. Mr.
Bray remarked that he wished he had
some of Helen’s potato-biscuits, 'till
would have thought cold potatoes the
lightest of biscuit < had Helen only been
.............. I havt ............................ ,
for ninny :t loin' day. [lie had only known
her a year.] Muy i stop at Springfield f°i*
you oil Saturday and tell you the rest? I>o,
iny dear Helen, he good enough to -ay that
I may.
With all my heart, Wu.i..
The old gentleman looked at, t he <m
velope; i! was certainly addre-'* d to
him. “ Htu, hm! so that's tin way the
wind Mows, my fine y oung man! Ami
this is the way you attend to my business
in town, is it:jn
I After Mr. Bray had leisurely eaten his
j breakfast, he sat down at his desk ami
enclosed the letter to “ V\ m. Aldis,
Esq.,” adding a note to say that if he
were in Springfield he should be glad to
have him stop and tell him the rest ; and
as it was, he would like to finish that
game of chess any evening with him.
A more wilted young mau never lived
than was Will Aldis when he received
Mr. Bray’s letter. What in the world
had he sent, to Helen ?
lie hurried up his business, and on his
return stopped at Springfield, where he
soon made it all right with her.
She could not gel over laughing when
she read at home the letter he had writ-
ten to her. “1 he idea of calling lather
‘Mv darling!’ ” she said. “ It you have
such names as that for your father in-
law, what are you going to call me, sir. "
Youth's Companion.
«. *
Three Children ( ri-innUU.
A special to the Cincinnati Em/uiri r
from Ironlon, ()., Kith, says: (>m of
the saddest events that have ever oc-
curred in this section, or probably in
Lawrence County, happened yesterday
morning between 10 and 11 o does, rc-
suiiing in three children being burned
to death, and so that no trace whatever
could he found of them. They wore the
lacks of the River Brazor, is the present
terminus of the Texas Western Nerrow-
Gauge Railway, now building. front
Houston westward to join the Texas and
Pacific, on the thirty-second parallel,
and in the Staked Flams. It is located
in the midst, of a rich farming and stock
country, and surrounded by valuable
farms and rich lands.
Among the old and worthy residents
of the vicinity is Hon. Edwin Waller, a
distinguished Texan, ami a signer of the
origiiftil Constitution of the Republic of
Texas, .fudge Waller is knownallover
the State, and his history is more like a
romance than solid faet. Judge Waller,
now in his old age and occupying a tine
residence and magnificent plantation
near the Brazos, surrounded by a large
circle of children, relatives and friends,
was originally a native of Virginia, and
was, prior to 1832, a resident of Gulf
Prairie, having come to Texas for the
benefit of his health.
WALLER'S VESSEL HENS TIIK lll.OCKADK.
At the period mentioned Judge Wal-
ler, then a young man, owned a vessel,
a schooner named the Sabine, which
ran between Valaseo, the Mexican
town, and the fort at the mouth of the
Brazos. In oonseipienee of the Mexi-
cans levying a duty on goods brought, in
by t ho Sabine, Waller directed his Cap-
taiu to run the blockade, which was
done under the guns and nose of the
fort, and in defiance of the Mexican
commander. This was in 1832, the lie-
ginning of the ’Texan revolution, which,
in 1 *,16, and on lhe field of San Jacinto,
resulted in 'Texan independence. The
Sabine escaped ami Iter Captain, :
Brown, was ordered by Waller, whin I
she reached New Orleans, to invest the I
proceeds of her cargo in two cannons
to be used in forcing her way past the
guns of the fort. They did coino and
were subsequently put on board the
first vessel in tho 'Texas Navy, which
during the Revolution cruised into tins
(Julf and were never beard of more.
ORGANIZING THE BK\ 01.1 TION.
Soon alter tin -e events there occurred
in tho province of Brazoria, oil the Outf
last, a meeting of American settlers,
Prehistoric Relics in Wisconsin.
A Madison special to the Chicago!
Times says:
Dr. John A. Rico, .Slate Senator from
Waukesha County,has deposited tempo-1
rarity in the rooms of the State Histori-
cal Society a couple of mill-stones
found in an ancient mound in the town
of Hartford, Washington County.
These stones are regarded as among the
most remarkable archeological discover-
ies in the mound system of the north-
west. They are about two feet across
commission for tho Republic of Vene-
zuela had oxpirod, and if they now at-
tacked the merchantmen and were cap-
tured they would be treated as pirates.
McHenry, with 40 others, rebelled, a id
demanded a vessel with which to return
to New Orleans, which they succeeded
in doing. McHenry subsequently, in
1819, took part in Col. Long's expedi-
tion from New Orleans to Mexico to
operate against the Spanish power.
They landed and encamped at Bolivar
Point. While there a French vessel
with a cargo was wrecked on the island,
and the crew murdered hy 200 Indians, and pierced for the bearings, which are
who plundered the vessel. Long's men -aid to be of copper and were found
attacked the savages and killed .'tO, and near them, which will soon be added to ’
afterward surrendered to a superior 1 this collection; they are polished smooth
Spanish force. In 1822, McHenry, still j on the inner surface where they revolved
an adventurer, joined an expedition in ! against each other, except as these stir-
favor of the South American patriot, j law s were indented and chipped out to
Gen. Bolivar. After many adventures [ produce a rough superficial plane to act
he returned to the I’nited States, found | on tho grain to lie pulverized. The re-
his way to Texas, and married and set- i searches into these mounds have le-
tled on Lavaca River in 1829, taking eeived a fresh impetus from the labors
part in the revolution of 1836. nf Dr. Rice and the new elements in
ihe scientific problem of these mounds,
Turkish J,ans. “f which he proposes a solution. He
| insists that these mounds are simply the
i the ruins of the dwellings of a race
Sedition is a capital crime. Mmdet which preceded the Indians found on the
in the first degree is capital, jut to al- soil liy the first white men who occupied
most every kind ot homicide tho price sd ; ('mlUrv l)iul lhe antiquity of
blood and imprisonment are tilmwed. j t|lt, ]n„untfS) for this reason, is not rc-
A man may niurdei Inswitc, hischildicn, ,n,,q. He reads from the work of the
and his slaves at a cheap rate But the ' ,.lU, r A j„f Milwaukee, in
full price in ordinary eases, when one oj whkffi Indian habits and characteristics
the laithfttl kills another, isthe pay ineii :(n, described, a case where the Man-
of 190 camels, or their Milne, and nt L|.U1S their dwellings of upright i
manumission of a female Mussulman rs of wood banked up with earth,
■lave. In all cases of Involuntary, ao- - ....
cidcntal killing, the price of blood, for
a man, is about 4-1,500; half of that for
accidentally killing a woman, ami for
slaves, according to their value, about
one-fifth or one-sixth the penalty for a
woman. Always some expiatory gilt
for the shedding of blood must ac-
company it.
Much of the law of homicides, and
that of woymls and mutilation , is ap-
parently taken from tho Jewish law.
'Those guilty of adultery are to be
beaten with 100 blows for the free and
fifty for the slaves. Ii the guilty are
Moslems, married and of sound mind,
they are to be stoned to death; the m m
bound to a stake, and the woman buried
in the earth to her waist.
All injurious language addressed by
ono to another is punished to tin
amount of twenty-four blows. The
in'Vlm-h'.Imhm Waller and Col. Win. , Turkish language, however, is so rich in
II. Wharton—the latter being a man | depreciatory terms that the aw make
prominent ill Texas history were lead-
ing and ruling spirits. The
spirit of revolt now be*
i-amc open and organized. 'The attack
upon lhe .Mexican fort of Velasco and
its capture soon followed. Col. John
Austin commanded the assailants, 120
strong. Tin: Texans depended on sharp
shooting at the gunners inside the fort,
while tin- Mexican cannon belched forth
trace chains, which did but little exccu-
wise distinction, if you only call a mu
j “a beast, an ass, a dog, a monkey, a
! pig, a calf, a snake, a miser, a buffoon,
| an ignoramus, or a demon,” these are
not worthy of personal chastisement,
i But if you call a man “an infidel, a
j heathen, a thief, a drunkard, a bastard,
; or a usurer,” you will receive from the
' hand of exact justice a furtigation of
twenty-four blows.
If two persons are together guilty
tmn among the storming parly, in the | the two shall receive each the exact
battle, which ended in the surrender of penalty: but if they to- husband ami
Ihe fort, Waller was wounded in the i wife, the wife alone shall be punished
hand but not danpemn-lv. At this perl- Tho eight I. chapter is again-: bn ■■
„d Bii-uiiienla was President of Mexico, | witness. Tho perjuror, m enmm.u
he lieirm the predecessor of Santa Anna. ! cases, shall suffer eighty blows: and it
The consultation at San Felipe do Aits- ! his testimony has caused death, lie shad
til. was held ill November, 1836, and I pay the price of blood
was simply a revolutionary convention, I his penalty •>“ 11
In oilier cases
hall be the infamy «»f ri* 1 in
an ass through the city, faced about,
holding the animal’s tail in his hand,
the public crier going before and eryinji,
“ Yalan shahidin kali bon dur" •“ 1 his
is the fate of false witnesses I” False
witnesses are vorv abundant, but the
‘'Ttoiaw*’S^?S»a..... ( .. .
the penalty of eighty blw-vs. But to
! be punished with death.
rhtest Of biscuits hail ll.,,K!n ;°n;} j Hppinui nf Venie l - ftriduv. a colored
■tiling on him from behind the shining Buckhom Furnace, Hi
Ivor—he would gladly have gone Inin- lmM-
ry to have heard her sweet voice, still,
s starving himself would not being her
aok from Springfield, he managed to
at a very good supper. Alter the usu-
I talk on business and polities, the two
allied down to chess, and passed a
my pleasant evening.
Every Tuesday evening,for some time,
fill Aldis had ridden over from the
,ext village to visit Helen Bray. When
he received her friend’s invitation, she
officials and the inhabitants of seaport
are more or less guilty of intoiuporama
but, taken as a whole, the Osmanici
are probably the most temperate peoj
in the
Turks.
world—Howlin'’
miles baek’of this city. 'The facts in
the ease are as follows:
As far as could be learned during the
excitement, Mrs. Leftridgo had gone to
Mrs. Ci-nddolph’s, about 200 yards dis-
tant from her home, to trade some s.-ft
soap for liar-soap, which she wanted for
immediate use. She had left the three
children in the house, the youngest one
being a baby, which was left in the bed.
She states she staid only a few moments
at Mrs. Craddolph’s, and as she started
ZZSF&'Ef’&X ...... — “
ig, he had meant to tell her all that
as in his heart. But now she was
me. lie, however, cheered himself
ith the thought that weeks tflmost al-
uys have ends as well as beginnings.
Will was going the following night to
oston. It occurred to him, as he went
reamily about his business the next
ftornoon, that lie might drop a letter
I Springfield as he went through. I Hi,
appy thought! If Helen would only
nswer it, and let him stop at Spnug-
eld and bring her back. The train
assod through -Snringliold about mid
j.rht; and our friend “ with tho arrow
this heart,” as the poets say, took two
liters from his pocket, posted -me la-
ad written on a business matter, gave
ic other to the conductor with a gen-
rous fee, and so clearly and repe.iledly
npressed him with the fact ttint it was
n important letter, and must res -h 'la
ouse very early in the morning, and
....................... the house on fire,
and ran, but was too late to rescue any
of the children. She could hear noth-
ing of the’elder, and the one next,
neither could ho see them, hut heard
the cry r.l her luhy, which she left ly-
ing mi the bed She said that the house
was so full of (lames that it was impox
silde for her to get to it, and it was on
the oppo-ite side of the house from Un-
door. She ran to the ore-bank where
Mr. Left ridge, was working, a mile off,
but il was only for him to go home and
see that his three children, which com-
posed his lamily, with every tiling lie
had, except the clothes which he wore,
were consumed in the fire.
The house was built of pine logs, and
was quite dry, and burned very rapidly.
Every thing was burned to ashes. Ii is
not likely that they will over find a bone
of their children. 'The lire was so se-
vere, and, from tho looks of things, they
were burned into ashes.
Latku. -Since the above was written
m which Judge Waller and his friend
Wharton were leading delegates. They
were, like Milton's Moloch, for open
war, but were opposed by Sam Houston,
■ u' N'ticogdoehes, afterwards General of
(lie Tonuii Inicianil
nil (.-OMyl hltOK Ilf SAM A ANNA.
But the war party carried their point,
ami active hostilities were decided on. ; ^ w-n- bli(;ly j„ Ramazan
Judge Waller was also a member ot the |, . , >, n.,.
Convention #! tlm c-'-Hy part of
whicli precoilod tin* buttlo of San »!n-
cinto and tho nsUblishmimt of tho Bo-
publio ei ’ihxas. For >evoral ><‘;irs pre-
viously to the the striking down of the
Mexican power in Texas, Waller occu-
pied the posit ion of Alcalde of Brazoria,
Matagorda and Fort Bend, having the i
power under the Mexican authority of
life ami death. He, also, by virtue of
hlsollice, exercised the power of a court j
nf common law and equity, gran toil di- j
voices and performed all the functions |
of a court of law. Judge Waller’s was i
the first, signature upon the bold and ,
fearless document of the provisional j
Constitution of theHcpublie of lexas,
and he was the Commissioner on the |
part oi the Congress of the ltepublic au- j acy, ague limits on the defense
iIn>i i/t.d and instructed to select and lay | verge «»f Constantinople r'
, . b ic, wid h1 * '
was named Austin, after Col. Stephen F.
Austin, who brought out the first col-
ony 11> the then Mexican province of
Texas. Fpoll the 17th of October, 18J0,
mar, 1‘residcnt of 1 c
hi
Ic
Among the
Russia and Constantinople.
After a thousand years of cflort, says
Lhe Philadelphia Tress, Kin.-ia has iv idl-
ed tha goal of her ambit i»»i 1 h** d m
ble-headod eagle of By/aintium, which
Sophia, the nie(*e of the last Creek Fin-
peror, Constauliue \ III, lu’ou.Ji* in
dowry to her husband, Ivan III. of H i -
sia, after 4u0 years of Ottoman tU])rem-
18439 Oil the
Under the
barbarian dynasty of the Varan,:im-. as
well as under the Korn a noil dy na -!y, t he
possession of Constantinople lias bemi
the constant object of Russian aspira-
tions. At four ditVercnt times during
the existence of t lie Rurie dynasty
these dwellings being from JO to 1® feet
across, and rising to 20 or JO feet
in height. lie says that if such
a dwelling should be abandon-
ed it would rot by degrees, and
fall in ; the decayed wood and the earth
forming a mound similar in size and ap-
! pearuueo to those throughout the mound
| region' of this State. Hr. Rice en-
force-. his views on this subject by show-
ing that in many of the mounds hereto-
;ore. opened of which descriptions are
: preM i'ved traces of tire-places are in the
centers of the mounds and fragments of
P’-ttery, evidently fur household uses,
i are to be found. These mill-stones were
i certainly for use to grind the grain not
only of the family but doubtless of
■ ;i- neighborhood; and owing to their
■ ii -eight, when the tribe to which
this family belonged were driven out by
or hastened away under the impulses of
| a restless spirit of migration, this pon-
• ieiTjij> property was left. Afterward the
! habitation decayed and fell in,and buried
Mils arclueological treasure. Senator
: Rice says there are more of these
mounds in Waukesha County than there
are dwellings inhabited by the race of
to-day, thus showing the density of the
1 j11 pulation of the ancient race, and that
! they had fixed habitations. The mill-
et ones described were found by woik-
i men who were building a cellar wall,
iirul one of the stones was broken
'by the hammer of the mason as,
lie was about to imbed it in the mortar.
! A neighboring workman detected the
; peculiar shape of the stone, and on his
protest, the pieces were saved and the
nether .•'tone was afterward found in the
: • a- lu ap which had been saved for the
i purpose of budding this wall. These
stones are of the bowlder granite found
j on tin* surface of the soil, and they must
: have been dressed into shape by the use
• if tool of a very perfect character. In
a nmund at I'ewaukce, some 10 or 15
mi! • south *d tin* point where these
niib-L a<‘S were found, Mr. G. I Potior
found a si tori time ago portions of a skel-
hi,.i, 'rruiiiiiifv^,F,:‘n ;lt leiust ciph'fee*
in ilii ,e .......ml-. Dr. Hi , '
tin -c -.re the remains of the (lend of :i
i'-.iet- subsequent to t hose who built the
uuiuuds, ii ml that the mounds were
opened and used for burial purposes sim-
ply because the soil was easy to be dis-
lui'bcd for that purpose—and because
Liu: mounds were convenient landmarks,
Htid the tombs thus formed could be
ea-ilv marked and tound on the return
ot tile migratory tribes front their jour-
neys jn hunting and while on the war-
path. Dr. Rico will elaborate these
vie vs in a paper which ho is preparing
for the State Historical Society. These
views have been submitted to State Ge-
ologist Chamberlain and other sc,ienist.s,
■Old they express surprise that so simple
and plausible a theory had not been be-
fore advanced.
—♦ •
England on Sea and Shore.
'1 lie official report of the strength of
the British Navy for 1878 shows that
there are in commission 297 ships-of-
ir. with 2.1117 guns, aggregating 874,-
;':i3 tons, ami steam power equivalent to
570,800 horses. 'There are also 78 steam
gun-boats, witli from one to four guns
each, aggregating 26,034 tons and 22,-
. j 217 horse-(tower; 31 steam vessels in the
iso very early in the inormng, ami j tll, 'll()(j'-K,'.5 of ni.Rstbov and baby,
,t it must not be forgotten, that Dn I , ■ j l,uiiu-«l in the conflagration
nductor was glad to get it off his
,nds and mind. As soon as the con-
dor reached tiie depot, Ik*, in turn,
.pressed a lank fellow who was ul-
iys hanging about there, with its im-
rtatiee, and gave him purl of the fee
deliver it.
“ Somebody’s dead, I guess, or is (It
r, or has had money lelt tln-ni, or
metldng,” said tho conductor;
which were burned in the conflagration
yesterday, have been exhumed. Tho
boy’s body was burned in two just be-
low his w aist. His legs and anus were
consumed, and one side of his face bad
no llesii on. Just enough ffesh was lot
Mlral-eau B. Lamar, President ot Texas,
portion of his Cabinet arrived in I expeditions fitted out against Coiistanti-
the iicw eapital ei'v, and were met and j nople. In 865 a licet ot 2,film vessels
welcomed in a speech, hv Judge Waller, | traversed the Black Sea, descended the
who had been selected by the citizens t Bosphorus, and forced their way into
for that mirnose. the Golden Horn, When victory seem-1 ‘fG howe-pu
Durin ' the first session of the Texan . ed to be within reach a sudden tempest I sei'iee, -8 s-u 1 fS s 1 j’-s. ■
............. at Austin. Judge Wa.lor and | dus,roved nearly all .lies......and forced -I th-m armor plated; « ■ ^ ps;
................sod the Representatives a retreat. Oleg, in 907, was driven !*> receiving shipsland 12 t&i n g Pi
ii'.lit ill tho regular back by the Greek lire, atu-r 2*. coast guard cruisers and.lU cowt
” ............ he had anchored before tho wall s | guard watch vessels, he na\ nl_strength,
of the city. Igor, in 911, after therefore, Is ot» vesse.s of #lo,oW> tons
desperate fighting, was defeated with | burthen, with 2,819 guns and steam
great loss, and a like fate happened to power equivalent to 003,448 horses
Vladimir, l’rtnce of Novgorod, in M;i. , bi.xty-four of these msels are powerfu
These invasions from the north struck i troiM;lads. I hese figures we take from
such terror into tin-hearts of ■ lie- Greeks
that they firmly believed the city would
some day fall into the hands of the Rus-
sians. 1 here was a supers;ition that aa
make him recognizable.
The
... ........................... body
of the infant had its head burned off, or
m-arli so; also one arm and the hand of
— , • tin-other, ami both legs. It seems evi-
s;iul c,omM-U " (lent now tbal tlm boy look the b.abya,id
that that letter’s delivered •;» | ,J1;l|C!IV(>rt.,l make their escape, as
by
III.I> 1 ASIllONl 1> I Is I - ANK-SIU I.L STV
the casus 5(7.; being some insinuations
thrown out by Horton relative to Wal-
ler's management of the erection of the
State ('apitol. Tho light was witnessed
by tiie entire Congress and the highest
officials of the republic, who cheered
lustily as on© or the other of the coin-
bataiit- were getting the worst of it.
IT), x Pit, kicked, scratched, pumuu-led
and ......
strained worse than any two gladiators , fits
in the ancient Roman Coliseum, l’rcs- ""
idont Lamar, who witnessed the com-
bat, at first cried out to some of the
Congressmen to part them. But the
M. C.s only laughed, and hallooed to let
truck"each’ other, and tu -ged and equestrian statue in the square of I m
rus was secretly inscribed with
prophecy, how tho Russians in tfic
-Imuld becomo masters of (
stantinonlu. An equally strong su
stition OI its conquest by tile Russ
iias always prevailed among thi*
-■
the Financial Reform Almanac for this
current year, which remarks: “ n> far
as the numbers stated go, it appears
that vve have an Admiral for each
of the 297 vessels in commission,
with 35 t-> spare for receiving, store,
| training and surveying ships, dispatch
hem fight it out.
\ number of W’al-! i'niler the Romanoffs the first Ji -tiii.ust
per-
ians
inks
They i
liter-!
seu Lirni. --y- - ...... ........................
e, night express, lightning tram do j tj,'l,v'\V,.'1'1,'botl1’ found close together,
hear?' . .,,, nn,( on the, opposite side of the house
from where tho baby had been left.
'They could only find a few bones of the
middle-aged child, just enough to con
firni the sad faet of tier meeting a sim-
ilar fate as did the other two. The old-
e-t was i years old ami past, the next 2
years, and the. youngest but 3 mouths
old.
* Yaas,” replied the lank man, “I'll
to’t.”
Helen Bray was sleeping swim fly in
. pretty blue guest-chamber. Her
slid, Mary Williams, was in the next
mi. A furious pull at the bell awak-
id her. It rang again and again.
. Williams hurried down, opened the
>r, and asked, “What’s Hie matter?
k telegram?'’ fts something while,
s thrust into his hand through the
l.-r’s friends, however, rushed in, and, ! against the Turks began m 16,>
planting several heavy licks on Horton's have been conlinued at irequci
posterior, the light was broken up, both 1 vul* from that dan- to the present ,1a,.
participants being badly bruised. It | The Muscovite encroachments <m flic
itmu-es Judge Waller now to tails over : territory of the Ottoman l-mpiro lcuc
tliat ti-’lit, which goes down into history j been going on for two centuries, until
,s one of the Incidents of early Texan | nearly one-tbirdof ithas been absm-la-,1.
annals when the , orner-stono of a new j The eom-lusioti of peace wul \ irtnally
republic was being laid. I dispos-e.-s the Turks ot tlieir d“'nmions
\noi lie K oi.n X ETK1IAN. ! in K»W|je, of al Armenia, and of he
A sketch of Judge Waller recalls the I '
Crele.
pean :
A Marked .Man.
,k. | The Island of Gretc is 1(50 miles long
Dun no. Somebody’s dead or (lyin’, ) and fronted to 33 inil'-s wide, amid
Among the*" marks ’
and tug vessels, yachts, etc., and t:i
more than ono for every t svo of tiie .’>,9,
including coal depots, chapels, Jiospit-
als and reformatories. There is a sim-
ilar glut with regard to the army, ttf
Generals, counting those on tho active
list, only, there is one for every two of
the lot regiments, with 204 to spare.
There is a Lieutenant Colonel for each
of them, with three over, and for every
regiment there are three Major Gener-
als within 18. six Colonels with 19 over,
fifteen Lieutenant Colonels with 44 over,
and nine Majors with 116 to spare.
Proportionately, therefore, if not actu-
ally, we are more abundantly supplied
with officers than even the groat mili-
tary powers of the Continent.
()f regular troops wo have
151 regiments; of militia, yeomanry
and volunteers, 488 regiments, making
l a noted erim-! .. lola] „f (,;;;i regiments, to say nothing
conductor said.’
'lie letter was addressed to Helen
iy. He carried it to hiswife, and she
k it. to Mary’s room.
11 wouldn’t dare not to wake her,”
j Mary. “There may lie some trouble
lome, and sho mav have to take the
ly train. It is nearly 1 now.”
lelcn was startled by seeing Mrs.
lliauiH and Mary standing by her bed,
: holding a candle and the other a
• Read it quickly, my dear, and see it
, body is ill," said Mrs Williams,
lcleu tore open the envelope. She
jw the writing, even in the dim
idle-light. It. read as follows:
,KAK 8HI—I haie made the inquiries you
iri-il me to make, and find that the lirni
snot stand well. Their paper tsseffing
v low. Wellman -ays tie Would not put
thing In there, and that If he had any
vides tho Mcditei ram,an from the T.gean
Sea. It has a population of 2i"0J!00, of
whom only 10,000 are Mohamnn- Ians,
and of the. Mohammedans only a few me
Turks. The l urks made their llr.-i
rious attempt to oouquer the island in
1645. With an army of 50,Out) men they
laid seige to the capital city, Camlia.
The city held out, for 20 years, surreii-
dering ill ltifi'J, and its fall was followed
by tho submission of the whole island,
lii 1821 the Cretans joined the Greek
revolutionists, and the mountaineers
drove the Turks into the fortified cities,
and made successful war against them
until France, England, and Russia in-
terfered in 1830. The Cretans, desiring
union with Greece, revolted in 1859 ana
again in 1866. 'Then,'as now, the Sfa-
kiots, a race of hardy mountaineers,
led in the insurrection.
fact that there is at present residing at
Morale, Jackson County, Texas, an old
man by the name of Capt. John Mc-
Henry, whose history is a real romance.
He was born in Antrim, Ireland, in, .........„..... ... , ,., ........
1798; xvent to sea in 1811, anil made I i al in one of the penitontiarie- are the , uf pensioners and reserves. We have
port at New (Irleans in 1811; was a sol- | following, a- fording to the \\ ashiiigmn j ., Keil more powerful than that
dier under Gen Jackson at the battle of ! Post, all being (lone In India ink on his ; ,j anv ^AV0 t,ther naval powers, and the
New Orleans, January 8, 181ft. Subse- j body: “The American coat -,f yimts; | ;,dVmuageiif an insular position instead
quently Nie.Henry took service under the j figures of a sailor and :■ ; ! -Ltncmg; a , ,p,.n f run tiers. We are in a state of
celebrated Gulf Pirate Latilte, with head- i female pirate, liax ing at In-r feet an [U.0f0Un(l peace with the world, and may
quarters on Galveston Island. Lafitte I American coat of arms, with a spread- continue if we please. Yet, not with-
pretended to make war against Spain, eagle on top; a rooster; figure of Hope, :l!l t hi-, there are persons
in favor of the South American Repub- with au American flag; a rtgur, called ■ .imi)1,jr Us w ho believe, or affect to be-
lies, and to run privateers. At the site j Onward partly finished; a latge -hip | q,,Vt, thst tlu-re is m
* *• - - - • —ii.-a in Indian cirl; an
the Whitehead torpedo, with its awfully
swift and destructive power, seems to
make the most |mtent iron-clad fleet in
the world as helpless as so tnany birc-h-
bark canoes. Mr. Ward Hunt, the
Naval .Secretary, has himself declared
that this vast array of vessels is
but a “ phantom navy.” Of the
half million of men on paper,
English military authorities say
that it would be exceedingly difficult to ,
put one hundred thousand men in the
field, with proper equipments, under
two or three months. In the eventtof
war with Russia, the item of transporta-
tion would be a very heavy one for Eng-
land. The voyage to the Dardanelles
requires three weeks, and an attack by
way of the Baltic would he quite Im-
practicable. The Danes have, in fact,
already announced that they are prepared
to plant topedoes in the Sound, the
narrow Strait between the Baltic and the
North sea, at 2! hours’ notice.—Louis-
cille Courier-Journal.
(Iminislanliiil Evidence.
’Tw enty years or more ago, two voung
men were plowing on the farm of llenry
S. Hitncr, my near neighbor. It was a
rayy, cool day in the early spring, and
they yvore buckskin gloves, or mittens,
at their work.
They were plowing different “ lands,”
but lying along side of each other, so
that when they came, on every round,
to pass each other, they were but a short
distance apart.
'They had plowed for some hours,
when, immediately after passing each
other the last time, George, a young,
stalwart, unmarried man, heard a sud-
den and peculiar noise, and on looking
back saw William furiously dashing a
stone against his forehead. On the in-
stant he stopped his horses, ran to him,
seized his arm, and after a severe strug-
gle, succeeded in getting the stone (one
of the rough Hints so abundant in those
iron ore lands) from him. William still
struggled to got away, and as George
bad taken the stone from him lie loosed
his hold of him, when in an instant lie
ran, seized another, and again began t i
beat his forehead. Again he was fol-
lowed, and after a severe scuffle, the
stone was gotten from him ; but not till
he was lying on the ground, either from
exhaustion, or the concussion produced
by his repeated blows, for he continued
them during the struggles whenever lie
could free bis arm sufficiently to do so.
Rut he was at last, helpless, unconscious,
on the ground, bleeding profusely from
his bruised and lacerated forehead.
George, alarmed and almost breath-
less, hastened to the nearest fence and
shouted to some ore-diggers, yvho,
though not a great distance away, had
not a view of the low part of tiie field
where the ploughmen had stopped their
horses.
When assistance came, George gave
his history of the sad occurrence, showed
the places where the two struggles took
place, the evidences of which were
plainly seen in the condition of the
ground, the stones which had been used,
etc.
It was a strange story, and hut that
George yvas a youth of unimpeaebud
character they would not have believed
a word of it. Even n< it was, when they
looked on the half dead, unconscious
man on the ground, the thought of his
murdering himself could scarcely be en-
tertained. And when, a! last, they saw
the gloves on George’s hands stained
with blood on the palm, strange mis-
givings came over them. But Doctor
Edwin CL Lcedoiu, the physician of
William's family, yvas sent for, whih-
i-.-bnr carried home, and
was restored to reason .... , ,„„m)|p
yvore healed.
Let us suppose now, that instead of
getting well lie had died, or if lie hail no;
died, had lived, able to go about,, but
his intellect deranged, a demented crea-
ture—would any man have believed the
story, that a man who had always been
a healthy, sensible man had been seized
while at work with an impulse to knock
out his oyy-ii brains? that this should oc-
cur, too, not only immediately after
passing his fellow-workman, but that it
should also be in tiie only low pin-,- in
the field where they could not he readily
seen by nersons in the neighborhood?
The blood, too, on the gloves—on the
palm part of the hand, and the fierce
struggle as shown by the ground, what
shall be said of them? To what do they
i point? To George as the murderer.
To George as tin- coneoctor of a story
loo incredible to present to any set of
jurors. What juror ever heard of such
a thing? And yet this man " hen he got
well had no remembrance of what had
happened. 1 knew both of them well,
, and it was my fortune a few years ago,
in the spring of 1867, to prescribe lor
him, for the relief of what he spoke of
; as dyspeyticsymptoms, which gave him
some annoy ance. He came to me only
twice, A feyv months later lie took Ins
: own life, by a weapon of his own, within
; a few y ards of his own door.—Azeris
I town (Pa.) Ilcald
A Startling Discovery.
There is great excitement at Alexan-
der. Last week two young men who
were out hunting had occasion to go in-
to a niece of woods belonging to Mr.
Gardner, about, a mile north ot Alexan-
der. They descended into a gulch through
which runs a small stream of water for
the purpose of getting a drink. While
kneeling down drinking from the
>tream one of them discovered a hole in
the bank, which oil investigation was
found to communicate with a cave about
2o feet square. The cave was inclosed
with a wall of cut stone, and in the cave
was the corpse of a woman about 22
years of age. She had a chain fastened
to the right leg, which was attached to
an iron ring in the. wall, and fastened
with a heavy brass padlock taken from
a New York Central Railroad car. In
the cave were found some packages ot
clothing, books, cigars and 11 oyster
! cans. A shelf held a lot of bottles and
tumblers and a broken kerosene lamp.
The matter is being investigated by the
Coroner, and the result will soon be an-
nounced. The inhabitants near by are
greatly excited, and talk of lynch law to
the person who chained a woman in
such shape, and doubtless caused her
death by starvation.—Syracuse (A7. ]’.)
Standard.
PITH AID POUT.
A si.iesuow woman is a woman with
a pair of skates ou.
(loot) resolutions are like horse..
The firet oost is an item of less import-
ance than the keeping.
One difference between the winter
and an untidy urchin is that the former
blows its snows.
“ Free chops," is a sign iiung out by
a Detroit restaurant, and wlie. the cus-
tomers apply they arc shown to a wood
pile and handed an ax.
Young man, learn to wait; if you un-
dertake to set a lien before she is ready,
you will lose your time and confuse the
heu besides.
Mu. Crane is to be hung in New York
State, unless reprieved. Longfellow
will probably attend and write up the
hanging of that Crane.
( '.ysriNii about for a nice,, convenient
name for the telephone, the Germans
have at last hit upon “ doppelstahl-
bliiehzungenspreohor.”
It is suggested by the heir ml Free
Press mau that the delightful sensation
felt in riding on an iceboat ean be ob-
tained at small cost by falling from a
six-story building.
An Ohio man has invented a button
which is put on with a screw-driver.
Now let him in rent a button-hole into
which it shall lie buttoned with a pile-
driver, and mankind will rise up and
call him blessed.— Worcester Press.
“Marriage,” says George Eliot, “is
promotion.” And this sort of promo-
tion makes soino young men so proud
and stuck up that they won’t do a stroke
of work as long as their wives are able
to make Murls and take in washing to
keep them.
Yoim; Wife “My dear, don’t be
eter illy lindiug fault with the fashion,
if you don’t like the style of my hair
don’t (ire.'S yours in that way, that’s all.
If I were to follow your example, I
should have to wear my hair bald-head-
ed” ['Husband collapses.]
A .man noted for his good nature says:
“ What’s the use. of wrangling? No-
body can tell how easy it is to gel along
without wrangling till they try. Now,
I like to sleep on the frout side of the
bed; so does my wife; but we didn’t
wrangle ’bout it—we just moved the
bed to the center of the room. It’s a
heap easier than wrangling "bout it.”
Simple but Inlen-sting Scientific Ex-
periments.
We live at the bottom of an ocean 45
miles deep. Wo are not drowned there-
in, but fed like the fishes. Wo are not
crushed, although thousand* of pounds
are heaped upon us. 'The water-ocean
lias storms only at the surface, the depths
being iu perfect calm, lhe air-ocean
has tides,gulf-streams andtcmpesU from
top to bottom.
liring that nuisance of a pop-gun,that
has only served to startle people, and
we will put it to .30111(5 use by showing
the nature of our ocean. Observe that
the pop e.ones and the cork is driven
out before the piston gets clear down.
Wliat drives out the cork? Why, the
air. 'Then the air is a substance. Put
it in a rubber cushion, and you may sit
on air. Blow it in a football, and you
may kick it over your opponents’head*.
Notice that in driving in t■ piston the
cork does not conn; out at once, as it
would if there was a stiff stick or water
between the cork and piston. So the air
is springv or elastic. How unfortunate
it would be for the toes if they hit the
football and found it filled with solid air!
. - tor houses when the wind goes 50
Wii'"\an Hour, .. it does now while i
railroad train •‘Ah-AJKfirst- than a dozen
Put tile cork in when the piston
___________ ______ At the site Onward partly
of the present city of Galveston, Lafitte, ; reeling top sailed ; an
in 1816 and 1817, fitted out three pre- anchor and shield; a fireman on a ping,
tended privateers, but really pirates, | and a boy, the hose very largi : another
with which ho sailed for the" Mexican , American coat of arms, very birge, not
coast, and captured several vessels, in-
cluding one slave ship. McHenry was
amongTho crew, who next cruised on
tho coast of Cuba, whore they came in
sight "t some .'-punish m-rch t ■ it men un-
der convoy of a Spanish frigate.
LAFITTE CALLED A COUNCIL
of his offices, told them his privateer’s
completed; an eagle and shield ; a (en-
large ship under sail and a lighthouse.”
lieve, that there is nothing to prevent
the landing of a hostile force of loO.OOO
men upon our shores in a single night,
and that there will be no safety torus
until every aole-bodied man among us
is trained to arms."
I hese views and figures are of inter-
est just now whi'tt tin' British Govern-
“ 1 say, Jim," said one friend to an- mt-nt is on tin; vet go of deebu ng war
other on in-- nig, “I hoar our friend [ against Russia to avenge the wounded
\ pas be. 1 1 speculation heavily; has honor of the nation and protect “ lirit-
h<- made .,ay thing ” “Yes,” said 1 -In The strength ol Eng-
Jim, "lie made an assignment." land is her navy, yet tile invention of
A VERY original device to prevent
a post-mortem examination was lately
employed by Father liaire, a 1 lint
(Mich.) priest 1Jis father, cx-C, 1-
gres'inar, liaire, of Freedom, died of a
mysterious disease, and the physician
wanted to make an autopsy, hut the son
positively refused. Ihe doctor, some-
what piqued, carelessly remuKkcd
that he'd have the body any-
how: this ihe priest interpreted into a
threat of body-snatching, and set him-
self to w -rk to outwit the scientific per-
son. He finally dug a graxe beneath
the door of the chamber in which Mr.
liaire died, and after the funeral, the
body was laid in it, the floor replaced
and a guard slationed to protect the
sacred remains until they should become
useless for dissection.
Why i
ight of
P‘
Iraw
hard it
t go, how
that? ■''ini-
lie air is on
on and none on
the cork and let
ides and it nulls
1 goblet full of
er the top, hold
h quickly. You
. full of water.
down; then
the piston out
pulls! and when
quick it llies back
ply because tiie w
t ho top side of t lit
the bottom, i akc out
the weight be on both :
easily enough. Fill :
water, turn a saucer ,0
it there and rev erse hot
seo the goblet remain
Why docs it not run out! Because the
weight of the air presses on the water
in the saucer and drives it up into the
empty glass. If you tip the goblet a lit-
tle and let some air in there will he no
empty place to press the water into and
ii runs out. Fill a bottle with water,
hold a bit ot (taper over the mouth. Re-
verse it. Remove the hand. I lie water
is hold in the bottle by the ah pushing
from below. Y HU mav succeed with a
goblet. If the buttle is small no paper
will be needed.
Fill a plate with water, set a lighted
candle in it. Invert over this a large
glass fruit jar. The candle consumes
part of tho air, making a partially
empty place, and the outside air crowds
the water from the plate up several
inches into the jar. Take a straw or
any tube, put the end in w ater, and suck
out the air. Tiie outside air drives the
water up to take the empty place. Suck
1 out the water and more is driven up.
This is the pump. The air ocean lifts
the water to your lip.
When the cork is put underwater it
| rises because t he heavier water gets un-
1 dt;r it and crowds it up. It has no ten-
1 deucy to rise itself, as you see if you
drop It In air. So any thing lighter than
air is <li veil tip when let loose in the
air ocean. Warm air is lighter than
cold. Hold a candle In a warm room
at the top of a door slightly open. The
ffarae streams out with the warm air;
hold at the bottom. It streams in with
the cold air. Blow your warm breath
- into a warm snap-bnbble and it rises,
taking its watery covering with it. Put
whole house full of hydrogen, that is
only one-sixteenth as heavy as air,into a
silk bag anil it is crowded up aloft, car-
ry ing men with it, over land and sea.
We see that air is heavy by the way
■ it pushes us down the street on a wiudy
I day, and drives ships over the ocean. A
block of air 10 incin on a side weighs
as much as 85 cents in silver. Take a
tube 3 inches square. Have a piston
that slides air tight therein. l ake the
i air from under the piston, and the out-
side air bears on h as heavy as if a man
weighing 136 lbs. stood on it.
Breathe on a cold window. It is cov-
ered with wall-1 lhe goblet of ice-wa-
ter in summer is covered with water it
has taken from the air.
How much water there must lie in so
many miles of air. Forty-live inches of
water falls as rain in Philadelphia every
year. I hree million- of tons in the
square mile. In some places -ix and a
half times as much lias been known to
fall. Water is -15 times as heavy as
air, yet the nimble air currents bring all
the ra-u from tto ->-* and pour it on the
land. All the Amazons are kept full,
and all the Niagaras kept thundering
because the air carries equally large riv-
ers the other way . " All the rivers run
into the sea., yet the sea is not full. I 11-
to the place whence the rivers come,
I thither return they to go agaiu.”—
i Christian Union,
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