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The Georgia Enterprise.
VOLUME XXIII.
(•asiiingion, l. c.
tY TIMES STILL, IN THE NA
TIONAL CAPITOL.
iVi]jt>s in nemos Yl£T —MOVEMENTS
r Ofl-KWIUBST AND MIM. CIJJVKLAND—
WHO All I. OKTTtNO FAT SLICES.
IONIUM UMIONAU
lii ik S nate, ou Thursday, Mr. C.ind
‘| r rl .,uni and and completed his speech,
ut l,. resoluticm fur lhe investigation • I
L hs t Lmii-iuna election. I lie Smite
fJvi,took up the resolutions reported
*' uii tlie j id/CUiry committee on the 28d
"f July"" the tuhject of the suppression
‘, t |, votes at muuicipul elec
iii! . iii J.icluou, Miss., and Mr. Wilson,
,f 10w.,, proeei elul to address the Senate
in .-u!, ll |4 'r’ of them. lie had spoken but
~hit time when Mr. Pruden, one of
, mi , .lout's sectetaries appeared and
delivered to the Senate “a Message in
miring.”... .The House resumed consul,
cration of the conference report on the
way appropriation bill. When the dis
[llSS„n W as closed the conference report
wssrejecie iby a vote of 38 to Cl. The
H ,-n furt .er insisted upon its disagree
ment to the Senate amendments, and a
further conference was ordered.
Tlie House then went into
cimmittee of the whole ou
tin deficiency appropriation hill
The pending point of order against the
fiench spoil tiun claims sectiou was
supported dy Mr. Nelson, of Minnesota,
iu:dvrgut-d against by Messrs. O'Neil,
of Pennsylvania, Dibble, of South Caro
lina, and Nutting, of New York.
In the Senate, on Wednesduv, on mo
tionof.Mr. Call, proceeded to considers
tion of tlie S nate joint resolution, ap
propriating $200,000 tosuppiess infcct
jm in the interstate commerce of the
Unit States The di.-eu -sion on the
eiiidemio j .int resolution was continued
amu h mgth by Senators Cull, Pasco,
Harris, Spooner, lilair, Wilson, of lowa,
Chandler, l’iumb, Hale and Cockrell.
The committee substitute was amended
iu several particulars and adopted. It
now reads: ‘ That in addition to the un
ispcnded balance of the fund heretofore
appropriated, the sum of two hundred
thou-and dollars is hereby appropriat'd
to be immediately available, to be ex
pended under the direction of the Presi
dent of the Inked ctites in aid of State
or municipal boards of health, or otlioi
wi.-e, by such means m he si all deem
list, to pievent the introduction of
cholera or ve lo.v fever inti the linked
Suies from foreign countries, or into
otic state or territory from another, or in
to the Di trict of Columbia Irom any
/titmr territory,.or into auy state or ter
ritory from said dis ric r In the
House, Mr. lownsheml, of Illinois, [re
sented the conference report upon the
sraiyappro| rmtion bill and explained it.
The report was discussed by Messis
liacy, of New Yor., Sayers, of Texas,
Blount, of -.(orgia, and Townsbend.
Pending- the debate, further eonsidera
t.on of the report was postponed until
Thuediy, and Mr. Herbert presented
tie conference report on the naval ap
propriation bill. Mr. Herbert stated
that as agreed to in conference, the hid
provided for four embers and three gun
boats.
Almost imra diutcly after the rending
of the journal on Tuesday, the Sena e
went into open executive session on tlie
fisheries treaty, and Mr. Morgan pro
cetded with his speech in favoi of in id
eation. The Gibson resolution to recoin
tnit the fisheries treaty with instructions,
was lost ly a strict party Vote—yeas 29,
“js 81. Ihe next vote taken was an
amendment offered by Mr. Gray, to arti
eh' 11, providing that on all occasions
facilities shall be itec rded United States
fishing vessels in Canadian ports lor the
purchase of casual or needful provi ions
usd supplies. Rejected by a like party
vote—yeas 28, nays 30. The following
hi Is were also taken from the cale dar
and passed: House bill for the relief <>i
4c Homan Catholic church of St. Peter
and St. Paul at Chattanooga, Tcnn., ap
propriating $18,729 for damages during
•he U ar. A motion to reconsider was
®a ( le ami is pending; Ilnu-e hills appro
priating $30,000 for a lighthouse and fo.
atj-'ual at or near Gull Hoal, Pamlico
found, North Carolina, and $25,000 fot
“ light off Pamlico Point, North Caro
lus were passed. To pay John D
Munntrljn, of Waynesboro, Ga., sl,
Wj, for services rendered ns interna!
revenue collector just after the War
Jjr tfonTcer, oi Mississippi, introduce". a
hill which was referred to the committee
the judiciary, changing the time for
fhe assembling of the fifty-first and sub
fu'iuent Congress to the first Monday in
Mutch of each year, instead of the first
Monday in December. The House went
|uio committee of the whole on the de
ficiency appropriation, and discussion of
hu i reach spoliation claims section was
resumed. Mr. Dibble, of South Caro
lDll i upon whose motion the committee
on “Ppropriations was directed to provide
for the payment of claims, defended his
position and argued against the proposi
u°n to uppeal the cases to the supreme
court.
liosHir.
Simmons, of North Carolina, in
reduced a bill in the House, appropri
®tlnK $75,000 for the erection of a pub
**c building at Henderson, N. C.
Tire President sent to the Senate the
domination of George W. Preston, of
! e " r ß'> to be Indian agent at the Mis
lou * l| io river ngeucy, California.
On Wednesday morning the tall and
autiful tower of the new Church of the
ovennnt, at Washington, Rev. Dr.
atmlton, pastor, fell with a tremendous
aß n, taking with it the entire front
portion of the edifice. 1,053 estimated
roui $15,000 to $20,000.
Tin; somewhat well known measure
“tell lias been before several Congresses
„rv. *' lo Secretary of the Treas
to adjust the claims of the st.tes of
‘*'l Pennsylvania, Delaware, Vir-
Bona acd South Carolina, and the city
“""tore for expenses incurred in the
niuon defense in 1812, was introduced
4tT t<,r ® an ' e * 119 a prnposed amend-
, 1 t° the deficiency appropriation bill.
1 lie additional homcstcul
c. - v n ‘ade by James M. Myrick in the
r,,|? e f svl " e land district of Florida war
•or cancellation by the Cominbsrnr
b .act Oflice in March, 1885, and
V : 'l" and fri m his decision to Secretary
" ir'e t IS l * t ' < t r ' et l that the ruling was
M ' 'lyriek was a member of tk
i j l ,"' thane Guards, and the depart
j.j j“* '• sevc al decisions, made it a
\;i j 1 that soldiers enrolled in the
I , '! 1 " m ■ Guards were not in the
' ' “tea army.
U act to empower the President mere
'T.-ctus Iv to c.u ry out the purposo of nn
m-t e ititled, “an act to authorize the
I resident to protect and defend the rights
of American fl-hing vessels, American
h-hennen, American trading and other
Vessels, in certdin cases, nud for other
puipo'es,” approved March 3, 1887, and
t ' aiithoriio the President to protect
American interests against unjust dis
ciim n iliou in the the use of canals in
the British dominions oi North America,
Ii h be n introduced and uadouhtcdly
will he made a law at once.
I he st.dement of the Treasury Depart
in'lit in r spouse to the resolution of
Senator Bheimnn, calling fora report of
a I money on deposit in tlie various na
tion and banks to the credit of the Tie is
ury, shows that only two Imnks in Geor
gia ii Jd nuy sue i deposits. They nre
ihe Gate (My National hank ef Atlanta,
wli'ch holds $97,075.00, ami Merchant’
Natioml bank of Savannah, which holds
$41,080.13. Asa security the Treasury
bolds SIOO,OOO in United States bonds
i'"m the former and $50,000 from the
lath r. In South C'aiolina, the First Na
tional hank of Charleston holds $330,-
000, the People’s National bank of
Charhston, $100,717; the Bank of Charles
ton National Association, SIIO,OOO, and
the National bank of Greenville, $182,-
500. In Alabama the City National
bank of Selma holds $199,799, the First
National bank of Birmingham $500,000,
and the national bank of Huntsville $49,-
800.
A statement Ims been prepared at the
treasury department in regard to appru
priat.ons for the fiscal year ending June
30ih, 1839, made at the present session
of Congress in the regular annual appro
priation hills. It is as follows: Bills
finally passed by both Houses,, $222,-
733,190; bills not yet di-posed of sundry
civil appropriation bill, ns passed by the
House, $23 332,400; as passed by the
S nate. $28,500,999; army bill, house,
$24,039,300; Senate, $31,"531,800; navy
bill, house, $20,003,074; Senate, $20,-
193,292; f rtiflcatiou, pending in the
S. natc, pas cd the House, $3,725,000.
Deficiency, [lending in the House, $3,-
539,431. Total bills as passed by or
pending in the House, $297,972,405;
8 nate. including amount of deficiency
bill. $310,229,710. Pennanent and in
definite appropriations, $115,040,799.
Tot-l appropriation in House bills,
$113,013, 2114; Senate, $425,870,515.
Estimated revenue, including $57,562,-
734 for postal revenue, $440,503,734.
Estimated surplus, $26,950,530, based
on House appropriations, and $14,603,-
219 on Senate appropriations.
President Cleveland has sent a Message
to Congress relative lo ihe rijection of
ihe fisheries treaty, and takes a most de
cided stand and favors retaliation. Ho
says Americans have been very unfairly
treated by Canada. His message closes
with the following ringing words: “The
government does hut half its duty when
it protects its citizens at homo and per
mits them to be imposed upon and hu
miliated by the unfair aud over-reaching
dispositions of other nations. If we in
vite our people to rely upon the arrange
ments made for their benefit abroad, we
should see to it that they are not deceiv
ed; and if wc are generous and liberal to
a neighboring countiy, our people should
reap the advantage of it by a return of
liberality and generosity. These are sub
jects which partisanship should not dis
turb or confuse. Let us survey the
groun 1 calmly and moderately and, hav
ing put as.de other me ins of settlement,
if we enter upon the policy of retaliation,
let us pursue it firmly, with a determina
tion only to subserve the intere-ts of our
people and maintain the high standard
anil the becoming pride of American
citizenship.”
THE FEVER INCREASES.
Nine new cases of yellow fever were
reported at Jacksonville, Fla., on
Wednesday, and sixteen new cas. s were
developed on Thursday: Thomas Carra
dice, Mr. and Mrs. A W. Barrett, Mrs.
Hubbard, Miss Grade O’Dell, Thomas H.
Clark, E. W. Dixon, Mr9. L. E. Stellcn
werf, Mrs. 11. li. Rebec, Mrs. Louis I.
Fleming, Master Fleming, Frank Perry,
Dr. P. J. Stellenwcrk, Mrs. J. A. Ivnytt,
George AVillis end William Smith. A
large portion of the cases were at the
Grand Lfnion Hotel. J. J. Hooker, in
Springfield, a subuib, an old gentleman
over 70 yeais old, and the father of E,
E. Hooker, all well known pioprietors
of the spice and coffee mills, and Miss
Nellie Buggies, at St. Luke’s, died. At
Greenland, about fit'iecn miles out on the
St. Augustine Railroad, a house contain
ing sixteen people is infected; Airs
Cooker and her sister have died there.
Four more are sick at tlie same place.
Dr. Burrough has gone out to take
charge of the cases. The Grand Union
hotel has been ordered closed and its in
mates will be moved to Sand Hills.
Much hard criticism is indulged in by the
merchants at the action ot the South
Florida board of health in forbidding the
running of the Deßary line of steamers
and permitting freight to enter over the
Jacksonville, Tampa & Key AVest Rail
way. This is regarded ns done in the
interest of the Charleston and Savannah
merchants, who can slide goods into
Florida, past Jacksonville back doe rs.
Waycross and Brunswick and several
other cities have declared a close quar
antine against Blackshear, Ga. T lie ne
groes received a shock on Wcdutslfly,
when it was announced that one of their
people was sick with yellow fever, for
they had an idea that colored ] cnple
were exempt from the fever s attacks.
Scores of them have fled from the city.
This section of the city is the most diffi
cult to clean and keep so, and it would
be impossible to isolate the cases if it
were to break out badly in that section.
City Health Officer Kenworthy is at his
work of disiufecting Jacksonville, and
has been using corrosive sublimate very
freely. A few days ago, finding the sup
ply about exhausted, he applied to the
citizens’ auxiliary committee for mcro,
and they ordered from a firm in Philadel
phia 1,1)00 pounds. The Quaker City
tirm was not used to such large orders,
and sent 100 pounds ami a letter to m
nuire whether or not I (jo.committee had
not made a mistake, ns it is a very un
usual thing for so large a quantity to be
ordered. ——
fatal explosion.
The paper mill owned by George
Whiting, situated on the island hi ween
Keen ah and Mehasha, W.s„ was de
stroyed by fire. While the burning struct
ure was sur rounded by a crowd of spec
tor" the battery of boilers exploded.
The 10 if and walls were thrown out,
I!,ding, shower of bricks, and• *£.
among the spectators. Egb teen pel
sons were killed and seven fatally injured
ami a number seriously hurt, seveial of
whom will die.
TIIE SOUTH
CONDENSED FACTS, ARRANGED
IN READABLE SHAPE.
LIGHTNING PLAY* HAVOC EVEKYWHKHK—
COTTON STATISTICS— SUICIDES—It AIL-
ItOAD CASUALTIES, ETC.
Alnltuiiut.
Contracts have been -igmul which in
jure the r> moval from Pittsburg, Pa.,
mid the erection at Bessemer of the im
mense foundry, machine shops and boiler
works of Jnines I*. Witherow & Cos.
The shops will manufacture the fire fur
n cis to he built iu Bessemer, They
will employ a large number of skilled
' median c, and necessitate the outlay of
j half a million dollars.
Work on the Tennessee & Coosa Val
ley Railroad from the Huntsville end of
the line hns been temporarily suspended,
and the contractors and engineers have
returned to Huntsville, wliero the con
tractors are mostly employed in building
the Huntsville dummy hue. It is not
known what is the cause of the suspen
sion. The road has been completed from
Anniston. Ala., to Attalln, and .the
grading has been going on from both
ends of the uncompleted portion.
Foity Italian and German immi
grants, in route from New York to Tex
as, pas-ed through Birmingham on Wed
nesilay, over the Queen aud Crescent
roulc. At the Mis-issippi state line they
weie stopped by the quarantine officers,
as they hail no health certificates. Not
one of them could speak a word of Eng
lish. Th y were traveling on limited
tickets, and having little or no money,
I their condition was deplorable when they
were put off at a small station where
there were no hotel accommodations.
They had come direct from Europe, and
the women and children were exhausted
by the long journey.
News comes from Clay county, in the
eastern part of the state, of the mysteri
ous disappearance and supposed murder
of two Mormon elders, Davis and Weaver,
who have been preaching in that section
for seme time. These Mormon c’ders
were ordered to leave gome time since,
but they refused to obey the order. The
feeling against them among the better
class of citizens was stiired to fever heat
last Sunday by a baptizing conducted by
Elders Davis and Weaver. It is said
that these elders took several converts of
both sexes to a mill pond, and taking
them into the water in a perfectly nude
condition, immersed them in the presence
of about fifty people.
Ten nctwrp.
Col. Shoemaker, of Ridgedale, died
on Monday and his remains will be
shipped to Cincinnati to be cremated.
The efforts to organize a railroad dc
pil l ment of the Young Men’s Christian
Association in Chattanooga, have not been
successful, and the proposed organization
wdl be abandoned.
A part}' of well-known young men of
West Nashville, eight in number, are se
riously discussing a p’an for an expedi
tion to Okl diomi and taking up claims
there when that country is opened for
settlement by the government.
The city of Chattanooga has severe pen
altii sfor violation of the quarantine regu
lations and the Times of that city pro
poses to see them enforced. With that
end in view, tire Times offers a reward of
$25 for the arrest and conviction of any
person stopping in Chattanooga who has
recently come from the yellow fever in
fected districts of Florida.
Went Virginia.
While 1,000 or more people worn
massed on the substantial stone biidgc
over Wheeling creek at Main street, in
Wheeling, watching the taging waters
caused by the floods, a man on the creek
bank one hundred feet above, shouted
warning, and the pan c-stricken crowd
lushel into each other in a wild effort
to reach terra firms. After the bridge
was cleared, those nearest, seeing it still
apparently safe, turned back, laughing
at their alarm, but before they reached
the edge the bridge, 140 feet in length,
fell w ith one awful crash and the waters
Leaped sixty feet in the air, and wntO
gas and natural gas mains, sewers, tele
graph and telephone wires, electric lights
and street car wire conductors w'ere car
ried down. The Baltimore and Ohio de
pot, built over the creek, and the Market
street iron bridge, it is feared, will go
The losses w ill reach $250,000.
North Carolina.
Thiity of the lawless negroes (railroad
hands) were tried before Juduc Mares at
Charlotte. All were found guilty and
sentenced from two to three years in the
ebai 'gang.
AValter Alvis Thompson, who, during
the War wns color sergeant of JcffDavis’s
regiment, the Mississippi Rifles, died on
Wednesday at his home near Hillsboro.
His age was 78.
The Interstate Farmers’ Convention
a si mb'.cd in Raleigh, and was called to
order by the president, Col. L. L. Polk.
The convention represents the cotton
slates. Welcoming addresses were
made by Governor A. M. Scales, Hon.
A. A. Thompson, Mayor of Raleigh,
Commissioner of Agriculture John Rob
inson, and Dr. G. AY. Snnderlain, of
Goldsboro.
C.'enrfftn.
The police of At'nnta are going to
s'amp out loitering in the streets, espe
cially at night.
Peter McArdle, n young white man and
cinpl iyeeof the Go >rgi a Chemical AVorka
in Augusta, met with a horrible death
while attending to his duties, lie fell
in'o a dust bin :nd before assistance
could reach him l.e was suffocated to
death.
Messrs. DihbreU and Underwood, of
Atlanta, who, for the past year, have
been employed as conductors on the Pan
ama Railroad, left that ciiy en route to
Mexico, having ncci pted positions ou
the Mexican Central Railroad. The gen
tlemen have had sullhicnt exp rience ou
the isthmus of Panam . to last teem for a
lifetime, and will probably nevir feel any
,troiig desire to return to that country.
I.oulslaaa.
The storm wns very severe at Morgan
City. Dozens of houses were wholly or
partly unroofed, and fully fifty buildings
are off their foundations. The floating
elevator, George Gilchrist, valued at
SIB,OOO, was destroyed. Amcug the
heaviest losers of property along the
river are the coal dealers. Eighty loaded
coal barges nnd boats, and one boat of
coke were sunk and a number of others
wer ■ rep rte I sinking. The Pittsburg
an I Southern Goal company lest forty
at Wil ow Grove, twenty seven at Nine-
Mile Point, and ten at Brown & Jones'
cod yard at Algiers. The total loss is
$300,000.
•VT COUNTRY: MAY SHE EVER RE RIGHT! EIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRYT' —I■rFIHs<•N.
COVINGTON. GEORGIA. THURSDAY, AUGUST 30. 1888.
"BECAUSE I LOVE YOU.”
•'T cannot bring you wealth,” the Mid;
•*1 cannot bring you fame or place
Among the noted of the race,
But I can love you,
When trial* come to teat you, sweet,
I can be sunlight to your feet;
Aly kit* your precious lip* shall greet,
Because I love you.
“When daylight dies along the west
You will come home to me to rest,
And 1 shall sleep upon your breast,
Because I love you.
•'lf sickness comes, t>eßide your bed
I will bend low with (juiet tread,
And pray God's blessing on your head,
Because I love you.
“As dew clings to the violet,
Making the fragrant chalice wet,
Bo my life into yours is set,
Because I love you.
••Only myself, ray all, I bring;
But count it, sweet, a precious thing
To give my life an offering,
Because I love you.
*‘l bow before no other shrine;
If I go first across death’s line
I will return to claim you mine,
Because I love you. ’’
—Sarah K. Bolton.
CHINESE PIRATES.
From the year 1852 to 1854 the Chinese
Sea, from Shanghai in the north to Sing
apore in the south, was infested with
pirate craft. As for that matter, this
sea had been the cruising ground of
pirates for a score of years previously,
but 1 mention these two years for par
ticular reasons. One was that 1 was en
gaged in a vigorous warfare against
them, and the other that the close of
185 t wituessedthe death of the leading
spirits aud broke up piracy as a trade.
In those far back days comparatively
nothing was known of China outside of
a few seaports. Treaties were of little
account, and Consuls were few and far
between. Every merchant ship was ex
pected to defend herself, and the Cap
tain of every man-of-war had authority
to bombard any town which refused to
renew his water and provisions. All
nations were trading with China, but,
aside from a few few seaports, all China
hated all other people. At the docks at
Hong Kong I could drink tea with the
Chinese merchants. Half a mile away
the people would have cut me to pieces.
While the country wanted to sell its
products, it luted the men who bought
them. While it wanted the goods of
other countries, it despised the makers
and shippers. There is no doubt that
the Chinese Government taetily en
couraged piracy, and could the great
mass of the population have had its say,
not a single foreigner would have been
allowed to laud on the coast.
In the year ’54 there was an associa
tion at Canton called “The Foreign
Traders.” It was composed of Ameri
cans, Englishmen, Germans, Frenchmen,
Spaniards and Russians, aud numbered
over sixty representatives. The capital
represented amounted to millions, and
the object was threefold. We had more
power with the Chinese Government
than any foreign Minister. We had
rules and regulations regarding the tea
trade. We could carry a point by pro
tests and threats. Every pound of tea
from a district 500 miles square had to
pass through our hands. We filed many
protest against the pirates and the laxity
of the government in hunting them
down, and were finally officially informed
that we were at liberty to take any steps
we deemed best in the matter. That
meant we could fit out a craft and go for
the rascals right and left handed. We
had been anticipating this, and had a
craft ready at Hong Kong. She was an
American schooner of excellent model
and large spread of sail, and we knew
that she could outsail anything, native
or foreign, we had ever seen iu those
waters. We armed her with a Long
Tom and four 24-pounders, having
bought the guns from the sale of the
salvage of a French man-of-war. Then
we picked up a crew of fifty men—all
foreigners and sailors—and when we
went out of Hong Kong we were pre
pared to give the pirates Hail Columbia.
1 was purser of the schooner, which was
called the Revenge, and her captain was
nn Englishman named Wethcrbee, who
ha l served as a commissioned officer in
the regular service. The first lieutenant
was an American, and the other officers
were divided up among the other nation
alities. We (lew the association flag,
and while we had liberty to go for
pirates, we were warned that any mis
takes would he ma 1c to cost us dearly.
The two boss pirates of that date were
Sluing- Wong and Chin-Lung. The flrst
had a fleet o seven or eight craft, aud
haunted the sea from Singapore north to
the Tong-hin Islands. Ihi second
cruised lrom thence as far co lli as
Shanghai, having his headquarters at
Formosa Island. He was reported to
have a fleet of nine craft. '1 hit both
wire mo sters we had a hundred proofs,
and that Loth had grown rich anil power
ful it was easy t > show liy the long list
of m ssing \easels hanging in the hcad
qua ters office. Wilde we had kept our
movements as secret as possible, we bad
no doubt that Government o (dials had
given us away, aud that the pirates
would he on the wntc'i for us. To de
ceive them as far as possible, we rail to
the south for three days, and spoke and
reported to four ships bound for Can
ton. 'I hen we rail over toward the
Philippine Islands until we had a good
o ting, when we l eaded up for Formosa
to get acquainted with old t hin-Lung.
During the next three days we did
not sight a sad of any sort. Then early
one morning we fell in with a lot of
wreckage which showed us that a trader
had been overhauled and burned. We
were now to the east of Formosa, and
fifty miles off the coast. Men were set
to work to give ihe schooner the appear
ance of a vessel in distress, aud under a
light brce/c we made slow headway to
ward the island. It was about 4 o’clock
in the afternoon before anything ap
proached us, although we saw a number
of native craft at a distance. Then a
small junk came out from a hay about
five miles off, aud headed directly for
us. Everything aboard of us seemed to be
at sixes and sevens. A man was
lashed to the mainmast, to repre
sent the Captain, everyth ng aloft was
askew, and the seven or eight men on
deck were seemingly drunk and having
a high old time. \Ve had a man alolt
to play a part, knowing that wc should
be hailed in English. Both of these boss
pirates had Americans and Englishmen
with them—rascals who had deserted
their ships and voluntarily adopted the
life of a pirate—and one of them was al
ways put forward to hail a Bhip. The
junk came steadily forward to within
hailing distance before she came up iuto
the wind. This was proof, whether she
was honest or Dot, that our appearance
deceived her. The men on deck yelled
and shook their fists, as drunken men
might do. hut at the first opportunity a
Voice hailed us. *
“Schooner ahoy! What schooner is
that?”
“The Revenge, Capt. Thatcher, bound
to Shanghai,” answered the man aloft.
"What’s the matter aboard?"
“Crew in a state of mutiny for the last
three days. They have lashed the Cap
tain to the mast anil driven mu aloft."
“What’s your cargo?”
“General merchandise.”
“Any arms aboard?"
“Only a few musket*.”
There were a dozen men aboard the
junk, but they dared not attempt to
hoard. They chattered away among
themselves for a while, and then the
spokesman called out:
“Very well, we will bring you help.”
With that the junk headed back for
the bay, accompanied by the yells and
curses of the apparently drunken crew.
We had a native aboard called Shin-
I.ee. He had been in the headquarters
for several years, and could be de
pended upon. He gave it as his opinion,
that the junk was a spy boat sent out
by the pirates, who never attacked a
vessel by daylight without taking all
due precautions. He said we would see
the pirate fleet come out, in case no sail
appeared on the horizon, and his words
were speedily verified. We had been
gradually edging inshore, and were not
over five miles from the land, when we
caught sight of five junks coming out
after us. There was a good working
breeze, and now, as was only natural,
we began to crawl off. By seeming to
want to get away very badly, but by
carefully m&nipulatiug the helm, wc
were seven miles off the land before tnc
fleet reached us. Wc were satisfied of
their intentious long enough before. It
was not to help a vessel in distress, but
to rake advantage of one almost help
less.
The junks kept pretty well together
and when within rille shot each \jj
raised Chin-Lung's flag and uttere ,
cheei*. Each had a couple of howit; ' ’
with wh cb they o|>ened fire upon l,- riia
schooner, but no harm had been <up ;it
when we were ready to spring the t. •
At the word of command every man j
on deck, the gun crews jumped to t
stations, and things aloft were s
shape in a moment. Then we W Rri
round to get between the pirates auvi
the bay, and opened fire. A Chinese
junk is a mere shell. One solid shot
went through them as if they had been
paper. The poor chaps were unnerved
as soon as they saw the trap into which
they had falleu, and devoted all
their energies to getttng away. AVe
could outsail any of tiie junks, hut it
was quick work with lour of them.
They were sent to the bottom one after
another, and ns we came up with the
fifth we ran her down. Our stem struck
her full on the starboard broadside and
cut her almost in two. She had at least
thirty men aboard, and there was one
long, despairing shriek as they went
down to watery graves. A few came up
to clutch at the wreckage and beg to be
taken aboard, but not one of them would
the Captain lend a hand to. Such as the
sharks did not get hold of drifted out to
sea with the tide. It was a fearful retri
bution, but these men were monsters.
Inside of thirty minutes from the tiino
we opened fire the fleet was at the bot
tom and at least a hundred pirates had
paid the penalty of their crimes.
Our Captain was lamenting the tact
that he had not picked up one or two in
order to secure information when there
was a row forward, and it was an
nounced that a pirate had been found
hanging to the chains. AVheu brought
aft he was ready to do anything to save
his life. His name was Mung-Hang, and
he had good cause to believe that we
would reverse it. He was the Captain
of the junk we had run down, and was
ready to tell us all about eld Chin-Lung.
The bay was his rendezvous, but his
plunder was hidden on the coast near
Foo C how. There were barracks for the
men up the bay, and thirty or forty
men there at that moment. They had
captured a French brig several days be
fore, and she was then at anchor in the
bay waiting for Chin-Lung’s return. Ho
was then up among the Lioo Kioo
Islands with four junks to capture a
large ship which had drifted into shoal
water, but was not abandoned. If we
would spare his life lie would pilot us
anywhere and prove his gratitude in
anyway. Shin-Lee took him in hand
fora few minutes, and then announced
that we could depend upon him. AVe
ran into the bay, brought up alongside
the brig, and sent forty men ashore to
clean out the place. Not a p;rate was to
be seen, all having bolted fortlie woods.
Everything whii h would barn was set
on fire, and a prize crew was put aboard
the brig to navigate her to llong Kong.
She reached that port safely,and our sal
vage money went far to reimburse the
company for its outlay.
AVhcn we sailed out of the hay it wag
to look for the boss pirate. He was
nearer than we thought for. At 8 o’clock
the next morning we saw his fleet ahead,
on its wav back to Formosa empty
handed, and by 10 we had the junks
under fire. These were a braver lot of
men. Knowing that thcycould not out
sail us, and seeming to suspect that we
were an enemy, they closed right in for
a fight. It did not last long, however.
AVe had one man killed by the full of a
block from a'oft, and three or four
wounded by the bullets from their an
cient firearms, and in return not a man
of them escaped. In less than an hour's
fighting altogether we sent nine junks
and 200 men to destruction. Butchery,
wa n’t it? AVoll, call it so; but remem
ber that in the previous twelve months
the fleet of this old pirate had captured
no less than ten foreign craft and six
traders, and that every man, woman,
and child aboard had been murdered.
There was no sentiment about Chin-
Lung He thought of nothing but
blood and plunder, and he would cut a
child's throat with a smile on his face.
AVe were now ready to sail in search
of Snung Wong, who had less power,
but was just as great a villain. Those
two leaders had divided up the terri
tory, and compelled all lesser pirates to
join them, and come under their control.
So, then, we had only two men to strike
at to down the whole lot. At the close
of the third day after heading
for the south we came upon the track
of the piratical fleet. A trader in woods
and dyestuffs had been overhauled about
a hundred miles north of the north
ern group of Philippines, called the
Little Philippines. The crew con
sisted of three men and a boy, and the
vessel had only part of a cargo
Shung-AVong had boarded her himself,
and although the crew were native Chi
nese, he could not restrain his bloody
hand. He demanded a sum equal to
S3OO in American money. There was
only about S2O aboard, and he personally
ciA the Captain's thront, had the others
flogged, and went on his way to the
Bay of Luzon, which is on the west side
of the island of that name. Wo spoke
j the trailer and received from her tcrrl-
I fled crew the incidenta above narrated,
and then shaped our course for tho hay.
As luck would have it, an American
ship called the Joseph Taylor was ahead
of us, and as she passed down the coast
was attacked by the fleot about seven
miles off shore. We heard the rumpus
about an hour before daylight. There
was littlo breeze, and though greatly
outnumbered, the crew of the Taylor
beat the pirates off. At daylight the
wind freshened, and we slid in between
tlie junks and the shore just as they
w ere preparing for a second attack. We
were no sooner within range than we
opened opon them, and, seeing escape
cut off, tlie fellows tried hard to lay us
aboard. In thirty minutes from the
opening of the fight we had sunk or run
down every junk and disposed of every
pirate, and only had four men wounded
in doing it.
Our work had been done so promptly
and well that it struck terror to the
hearts of all evil doers in those seas,and
it was several years before another act of
piracy was committed. The Chinese
government returned its thanks to the
Association, ship owners sent in contri
butions of money to express their grati
tude, and when we came to eell the
schooner to the Chinese government as
a cruiser, the company was financially
ahead. It was probably the briefest
cruise and attended with the greatest
results recorded of an armed vessel.—
New York Sun.
A Wonderful Tobacco Box.
Tho greatest tobacco box in the world,
and the strongest as well, is theproperty
of a society known as that of “The Fast
Overseers of St. Margaret and St. John,
Westminister," says the Toronto
(Canada, Telegram. It is simply a get
ting together of those who have held
the office of overseer of the parish for
the jMirnpsß of ntin'r so annual dinner,
J- r ' for
I AJ.THV GROWTH. r. W tally
mod Elixir has a firm hold on [ < , the
m |." .pie and i, a-kuowledged VV." II
>r to all other preparation'. It !*;• !
>r all Blood and Shin I ’’V”
he medical fraternity indorse , and
"• it- Guaranteed and -old by tnds,
phi t0my15.89 than
. u . --J X) the
company a tobacco box for its own use
when he should have got beyond the
need of dinners.
The society accepted the box aud
placed upon it a silver rim and a plate,
upon which were engraved the name and
the good deeds of the donor. The next
overseer nut upon the box another plate
with his name and official achievements,
upon it. His successor did the same,
and so grew up the custom that the box!
should be delivered to the care of each
overseer, who,upon retiring, should add
to it a plate engraved with his name and
some suitable snscription.
Before long the box became quite
overlaid with silver plates, and then it!
was fitted into a larger box, when it had
been covered with decorations, and this
operation was repeated until Dow the
original little box has grow into a nest)
of half a dozen or more boxes, the outer
one being a massive, silver-covered,'
hexagonal chest, which was made from
a beam that was once in Westminister
Abbey.
Silver plates of all sizes and shapes,
and decorated with all manner of figures,
{lictures and inscriptions, cover all the
>oxes. In most cases the notable event
of the year has been recorded by picture
or words upon the plate of the oversea;
for that year, and the box has thus be
come a condensed chronicle of the history
of the past century in England.
At each regular annual dinner tho box
is with regular ceremonial handed over
to the new overseer by the senior church
warden, and the overseer is commanded
to take due care of the article, to pro-j
dure it at all parochial entertainmeuts to
which he shall he invited or have the)
right to attend, and to always keep in it'
tobacco enough to furnish at least three)
pipes, under penalty of forfeiting six;
bottles of claret. Besides this he has to
furnish a bond iu SIOOO us security for
the care of the box.
One of the peculiar regulations of the)
dinner, introduced in 1825, is that it)
must be served at 5 o’clock by thel
striking of a certain church clock, or the)
landlord forfeits two bottles of wine.andl
if he fails to produce his bill promptly
at 8:30 o’clock he loses another bottle.'
Scenes In a Sub-Treasury.
The New Y’ork Sub-Treasury contalm
at present more than $150,000,000, and
this sum, large as it may appear, is only
part of the national cash account. Call
ing at one of the offices, a Mail and Er..
prts< reporter saw a man offering some ol
tho old postal currency for redemption.
This currency was issued during the war,
and as the latter closed twenty-three
years ago it was to be supposed it was all
redeemed. The clerk, however, informed
him that small amounts were constantly
brought in, but he added that “$15,000,-
0)0 are still out.” Most of this, no
doubt, got worn out or destroyed, and
thus our government is a large gainer.
The change of cents for larger currency
is conducted at the same desk, and while
standing there ho saw a man bring a bag
which contained ten small bugs. He
said that each of tho latter contained $5
in cents. The man took his SSO in cur
rency, anil in a few moments another man
came up and said: “I want $25 in cents."
He handed over his currency, and as he
departed lie said that, they were wanted
by a bauk. This exchange is constantly
going on, averaging SSOOO a day. The
banks, for instance, never receive any
cents or indeed any other small coin from
depositors. They are, however, con-)
stautly paying it out as required by
checks, anil consequently they send fog
it to the Sub-Treasury, which is supplied 1
by the railroad i and saloons. The Broad
way Railroad and the Third avenue load
each averages a surplus of cents and
other small coin of $5)10 a day, and then
exchange it in the above mentioned man
ner.
A Mammoth Bunch of Asparagus.
A monster bunch of asparagus has
been on exhibition at New York. It
was grown by Robert Nichols near Phil
adelphia. The bunch was nearly two
feet in height and thirty-six inches iu
circumference. It weighed forty pounds,
or nearly a pound to each spike, all of
which was edible. There was some
doubt about the variety, but it was be
lieved to be the new Southern sort
known as the “Palmetto.” Veteran
gardeners admit there has never any
thing like it been seen around New Y'ork
in the “garden Bass” line.
Nature seems busy nowadays getting
up new and terrifying animals to disgust
one with drinking water. Bnt without
a microscope you don’t discover them.
BUDGET OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES PROM
VARIOUS SOURCES.
Afterward— Love's You 1114 Dream—
Home Roluiftt nona Ijeft—Every
thing 1 Elan Nettled—C ha lin
ing: the Subjects Etc.
•'Never,” he vowed it, “while life may last
Can I love I will die unwed.”
“Ani J, too, dear, since our dream is past
I will live single,” she sobbing said.
A storm of farewells—of wild good-bys—
He rushed from the spot, like an outcast
soul.
She hid in a pillow her streaming eyes,
And wept with anguish beyond control.
Just live years afterward, they two mot
At a vender's stand, in a noisy street;
He saw the smile he could ne'er forget.
And she the eyes that were more thau
sweet.
un w i.n { How well you look!
O Kate, “O Harry," j How ” 01l look ,
“I stopped,” he said, just to get a toy
For my little girl" "I wanted a book,”
She softly said, “for my little boy.”
—Madeline S. Bridges.
Love’s Young Dream.
“Birdie,” whispered a happy young
Chicago lover, "now that wc are engaged
you mustn’t call me Mr. Forcine any
more. ”
“Ah no darling," responded tho girl, j
with a sigh and a snuggle, “you must
always call mo ’Birdie’ and I will always
call you ‘Butch.’" — New York Sun.
Some Robustness LcfTt.
Bobby (whose grandpa is sleeping on
the lounge and snoring as grandpas can
snore) —“Ma,is grandpa so very feeble?”
Mother—“ Yes, dear."
Bobby—“ Well, you wouldn't think so
to hear him, xvould you, Mat”— Epoch.
Everything Else Settled.
“So you have my daughter’s permis
sion to ask 111 c for her hand, have you,
young man
“I—l am happy to say, sir, that I
have," replied the poor, but worthy
youth.
“And I suppose,"said the banker,after
a pause, “you have also askedher to name
the day. About what time, sir, do you
expect to break into my family?”—Chi
cago Tribune.
Changing the Subject.
Knobley—“l saw you on Fourteenth
street a few minutes ago, Miss Ethel."
She—“Oh, did you:”
Knobley—“Yes: you were going intoa
hair store.”
She—“Ah, yes; I was executing a lit
tle commission for a friend. Beautiful
weather we are having, Mr. Knobley.”
And she beckoned haughtily to her
coachman.— Life.
A Superfluous Caution.
“Now, Bobby,” said liis mother, “Mr.
Oldbcy is to take dinner with us to-night;
he is very bald, and you must not say
anything about his hair.”
Bobby promised, aud while dinner
was progressing said to Uls mother, in
an audible whisper:
“Ma, you told me not to say anything
about Mr. Oldboy’s hair. Why, he
hasn’t got any.”— New York Dispatch.
Not Afraid of Rain.
The old gentleman was restless. It
was getting late, and he wanted to close
the lIOU6O. Strolling to the window, he
looked out and said:
“The clouds seem to bo banking in
the west; we are likely to have a sharp
shower soon.”
“Y’es, sir,” replied young Mr. Din
widdie from the sofa, “I anticipated a
storm aud brought an umbrella. We
need rain badly, Mr. Hendricks. Er—
you were saying, Miss Clara—”— Life.
A Slight Chang • in Phraseology.
“Did I tell you that Maud was learn
ing the violin?” said a young lady ou
whom Tom Sellers was calling.
“No, you did not.”
‘ ‘ Yes, she is practicing now. I)o you
not hear those strains of music floating
down from up stairs?”
“Those strains of music?”
“Y’es.”
“I think I hear tho sounds you refer
to, but don’t they strike you as severe
strains on the violin?”- Meraiiant Trav
eler.
A Frugal I-over.
Frugal young man (to object of his
affections) —“Darling, your fatiier being
a minister, perhaps we’d better ask him
to perform the ceremony for us. He
would do it as reas—in fact, I presume
he would think it an insult if I should
offer him anything—cr—.”
Object of his affections—“l don’t
know. I have often heard papa say that
he could always tell by the size of the
fee what kind of an estimate tko bride
groom put upon the bride.
Frugal young man mueasily;—“H’m!
Money couldn’t express it in my ease,
darling. All the wealth of the world
could’nt do itl But I’ve got a second
cousin, a justice of the peace, that wili
marry us for $2. Chicago Tribune.
A Pair of German Lovers.
At the end of the second week, says a
Berlin letter in the Chicago Tribune, the
lover came in one morning and pre
sented himself before the young lady,
who was in the room, and asked for a
few moments’ private conversation. I
stepped out to give hjm the floor, und
this is what she afterward related trans
pired: The young man advanced toward
his beloved and handed her a note, in
which were written a few lines from her
mother, saying the bearer was about to
propose in good form, and for her to ac
cept him. As she finished reading, an
agitated voice in the vicinity of the door
was beard, for the young man was ex
ceedingly nervous on this occasion:
“.Most gracious and respected fraulien, 1
have the honor to oiler you my heart
(and he clapped his hand over that or
gan) and hand in holy marriage.” Here
emotion checked him, but not the young
lady, who was twenty-nine years old.
“Most esteemed Herr von H.” she said,
“I thank you for a proposal which I do
myself the honor to a cept. ” Herr von
H. bowed, kissed the young lady’s hand
and retired, and .he latter came out and
threw herself on my neck, exclaiming.
“I am engaged,” in a voice which
plainly implied, “At last, at last:’
Well, they were married, but first mam
ma gave several parties in their honor,
and there we saw them sitting side by
side on the sofa getting acquainted.
He Deploreil Haste.
“There it is again,” said a dignified,
well dressed man as he came up to a
crowd which had gathered mound another
man who had ju-t been rescued from
beneath a truck driver’s team on. lower
Broadway; “the old story ouco more—a
man nearly sacrifices his life simply to
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gain a few seconds of time. The lush
and hurry here in New Y ork is actually
astonishing, sir,” and tlie dignified man
looked around with an expression of
sadness blended with wonder.
“Y’ou arc not a New Y’orker, then?”
•aid a man who was on his way to his
office in Wall street.
“Oh, yes, sir,"returned the dignified
party, “yes, I live here la New Y'ork,
nut I always deprecate this spirit ol
hurry, this rush, this intense
strain under which we labor,’’
and his face assumed a pained,
thoughtful expression. “Now, here’s thil
man, perhaps mortally wounded, when
if he hud waited another moment
he could have crossed the street in safe
ty. Tt is this hurry, this rush,” went on
the dignified man, “this haste) this un
natural—oh, great Bcott!” he groaned,
“there gees my car—but I’ll catch it or
bust!” aud lie shot in front of a furni
ture van, galloped around a junk cart,
stepped on a newsboy, dodged tho pole
of an ice wagon, and at last got hold of
the rear platform of the disappearing
car and was pulled in over the back
dashboard by the conductor the way a
man hauls in a seine full of fish, and got
his coat turned wrong sido out, and his
hat battered and one thumb partially
smashed. “Why,” he said, “I wouldn’t
have missed this car for $10,” and he
looked back complacently at another of
the same line coming not a half a block
behind. —New York Tribune.
How a Fig Caused the War of 1812.
It all happened in this wise: Two
citizens of Frovidcnce, R. 1., fell into
a most unseemly discussion on account
of the lawless trespassings of a pig
owned by one of them. The aggrieved
party possessed a very fine garden, iu
which it was his custom to spend his
hours of leisure, weeding, grafting, and
transplanting the flowers and vegetables
in which he delighted. But often, as he
entered his garden in the evening, his
ears would be saluted with a grunt and
a rustle, and the fat form of his neigh
bor’s pig might be seen making a hasty
flight from the garden in which it had
been placidly rooting all day.
In high dudgeon the gardener sought
his neighbor and complained of the pig’s
frequent visits, declaring that a little
time spent in repairing the pig sty would
restrain the animal’s roving propensities.
But to this the owner ot the pig re
sponded that if his neighbor would keep
his rickety fences in proper repair, the
pig might take its daily airing without
temptations, aud the garden would not
be endangered.
Repeated misdeeds on the part of the
pig fanned the smoldering fires of dis
sension into the flames of open hostility.
At last the crisis came. The owner ol
the garden, rising unusually early one
morning, discovered the pig contented
ly munching the last of a fine bed of
tulip-bulbs. Flesh and blood could
stand it do longer. Seizing a pitchfork
which lay near at hand, the outraged
gardener plunged its sharp tines into
the hapless pig, and bore the body, thus
fatally impaled, to the sty, where it met
the gaze of its owner an hour or tw
later. Thereafter it was war to the
knife between the two neighbors.
Now, what had all tnis to do with the
war of 1812? The answer is simple.
The two neighbors belonged to the
political party known as the Federalists.
Through all the outrages that Great
Britain inflicted upon the United States,
while seamen were being impressed,
American x'essels stopped on the high
seas, and while every possible indignity
was being committed against the flag oi
the United States, the Federalists re
mained friendly to Great Britain, and
contested every proposition for th
declaration of war.
But the Democratic party was eager
for war, and as British oppression be
came more unbearable tho strength of
the Democrats increased. It so hap
pened that the election district in which
the two neighbors lived had been about
equally divided between Democrats and
Federalists, but the latter party had al
ways succeeded in carrying the election,
j Butin 1811 the owner of the garden was
a candidate for the legislature on the
Federalist ticket. His neighbor had al
ways voted that ticket; but now, with
ills mind filled with the bitter recollec
tion of the death of his pig, he cast his
i ballot for the Democrat. When the hal
lo: s weie counted the Democrat was
found to be elected by a majority ol
one.
When the newly elected legislator took
his scat, his first duty was to vote for ■
United States Senator. He east his vots
for the candidate of the Democrats, wh
was abo elected by a majority of one.
When this Senator took his place in the
United States Senate he found the ques
tion of war with Great Brita n pending,
and after a long and bitter discussion it
came to a vote. The Democrats voted
for war, and the Federalists against it.
Asa result of the voting, war was de<
dared—again by a majority of one vote,
— S'. Nicholas.
Amphibious Japanese.
Dike a terrapin which the rain kills,
although they live in water half of the
time, the Japanese afford contradictions
on the water question. They never
drink water, and the men who have
been working in the lotus ponds at
Sliibi, grubbing out the old stalks and
leaves from the tnuck in which the
.sacred plant grows, standing meanwhile
in water up to their waists and shoulders,
will not work in the pond on rainy
days.
in Yokohama harbor on the nicest
days, the Coolies who load and unload
car'zo lighters and are in and out of the
water continually, often refuse to work
if ruin I agios to fall. The little boys
and girls and the unoccupied women,
with babies tied on their backs, who are
ad ways gadding about the streets with the
aimless unconcern of hens, take no ac
®unt of the weather and enjoy the open
air regardless of the barometer. Jin
rickisha Coolies pay no heed to the rain,
aixl, although they draw thejioods and
tie their passengers in snug and dry
with oil paper or rubber aprons, they
ferot along themselves in their two scanty
cotton garments that re more abbre
viated th&a ever. Their substitute for
an umbrella is a huge flat straw plate of
a imt, and instead of putting on goloshea
they take off even their straw sandalf
and run barefooted. They show some
consideration for tho big toe by tying
that honorable member up with a bit of
rag or wisp of straw, but this amount!
to nothing more than a decoration.
Those pedestrians who wish to bo
! stately and dry shod thrust their bare
feet into a half slipper arrangement of
i wood and oil paper that is perched on
t two wooden rests three inches high,
i This adds so much to their statue that
one often thinks that he has been fa
<vored by passing an unusual number of
| stately and dignified-looking men. and
i concludes that the Japanese are not such
a race of pigmies after all.
I crat.