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CEDARTOWN RECORD.
W, S. D. WIKLE & CO., Proprietors,
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CEDARTOWN, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1875.
VOLUME I. NUMBER 50.
TIMELY TOPICS.
Pacific-coast sailors say that the
winter in Alaska has been as balmy as
in Florida.
Capt. Eai>b has • xatnined the jetty
ground at the month of the Mississippi,
and thinks in twelve mouths he will
have twenty feet of water there.
Tire state tax of New York this year
is 7j mills, or about double that of
Tennessee. An effort is being made in
the assembly to reduce it to 6 mills.
A WABHIKOTON dispatch says, an
ofllcial telegram has been rocioived nt
the Russian legation from Rerlin, stat
ing that the emperor leaves Rerlin en
tirely eouviueed of tho conciliatory dis-
po.sition which exists them, and which
as8nres tho maintonanoe of peaoo.
Twk.vty-tiirkk car-loads of oysters
arrived in Han Francisco, the other day,
from the east. Tho oysters were to bo
plauted in Han Krancisoo bay, to supply
the citincus with the luxury. Several
ineffectual attempts hnve boon made to
"tart oyster-beds there. Most of the
oysters consumed come from the At
lantic coaat.
O.vk reason why King Alphonse can
not light Don Carlos and the Cubans
very long is n linancial one. Tho rev
enue of Hpniu is only $80,000,000; her
debt is $3,050,000,000, and tho interest
on it absorbs tho whole revenue. Then
tho war is costing more than the entire
revenue. It looks as if Spain would
soon bo hopelessly bankrupt.
CAndinAii Manning, in answer to an
address of tho Irish members of Par
liament, took occasion to say: "The
material prosperity of Ireland was never
greater than now. ’’’lie people of 1 reland
never possessed so wide au extent of its
soil since tho day in which they pos
sessed it all. They never yet jk>hhoss(h1
such abundant wealth."
England hns 82,-Idi sailing vessels,
with a tonnago of 5,373,000; the United
Stales 17,041) vessels, tonnage 2,140,680;
Italy 1H.-IHH vessels, tounngu 1,031,007;
(lermany 2.203 vessels, tonnago 1,143,-
810 ; Franco 4,951 vessels, tonnage 900,-
'05. French commerce is complaining
Ikjcoubo Onnnnn traders have been rap
idly gttting ahead since their last war.
Tin: largest contribution over mndo
to the conscience fund was received nt
the t reasury department, lost Saturday,
from Baltimore 83,400. Received so
soon after tho exposure of tho whisky
ring, it is suspected that the money
comoij from some doaler in ‘‘orooked"
spirits, or government ofllcial who ac
cepted this amount as a bribe.
Koofmanhohaf, tho famous coolie
importer, has turned up in Now York
on his way to Europe. Ho has a con
tract to supply Rrsr.il with several ship-
louds of Mongolians, and thinks that
Chinese labor in the Southern HtotcH
Ima proven a failure. Ho firmly bo-
liovoH that his business is one of tho
highest kind of philanthropy.
Tiikv have a hard timo getting a
mayor in Bt. Ixniis. The lust incum
bent died n few days after his election.
Another election was field on Hntnrdny,
and (Jo!. Rritton was elected. Now
comes ono Ovorstoltz, who ran against
lum, and serves a notice of contest, on
the ground of intimidation and illegal
voting, claiming that he beat Britton by
over 1,000 votes.
Tire enormous whisky frauds have
not been without their trngio fcatims
1'or tho pnrposo of guarding agninst
the possibility of detection by tho reve
nue ofBoers, a Ht. Louis distillery firm
constructed u secret vat, unknown to
their workmen, ono of whom fell in and
was drowned. Of course tho funeral,
like the cause of death, was private.
I’essAWi'K, which tho telegraph re-
jxirts as half destroyed by Are, is a city
of some 70,000 inhabitants near tho
northern frontier of Afghanistan. It is
a well paved town, furnished with water
and occupies a commanding commercial
position, being surrounded by a fertile
country, which, with the aid of irriga
tion, produces two crops every year,
consisting of wheat, barley, pulse and
the finest rice in the world.
lire, grasshoppers in Ksnsas have
just been re-euforood by hordes of bnf-
falo gnats, and the two pests together
are making sad havoc among tho farms.
Every leaf in some oounties has been
eaten off tho peach trees ; early veg
etables are destroyed and large areas of
wheat have been gobbled np by the
insatiate "hopper," while the cattle
are in a fair way to softer seriously
from the gnats.
Tire postmaster general has issued an
order modifying postal regulations by
striking out that part providing that no
subscription to newspapers for less
than three months should be considered
regular subscription as the written
meaning of the law. The effect of this
order is to allow newspaper offices to
send papers to subscribers at regular
rates whether for one week or three
months who have had to pay transient
rates.
Prominent army officers express ranch
dissatisfaction wPh the Memoirs of
(leu. Sherman. Some of those who
were most intimate with him here insist
(hat he has been very unjust to tuo
generals who rendered him most ser
vice, aud has gone out of his way to
satisfy personal pique. It is even Htutcd
that Oen. Grant contemplates collecting
materials for memoirs of the war, and
that Admiral Porter will reply to some
portions of Sherman’s book.
Franck now seems to bo tho reservoir
into which tho gold of the world is pour
ing. In the first three months of the
presont’year thejimports of the precious
metals exceeded 360,000,000 francs, or
seventy million dollars, aud almost four-
fifths of tho whole was in gold coin or
bullion. Tho sources of this supply
were much more various thati may be
supposed, for much loss than one-half
was sent from England. Tho United
States contributed about ten million
d i* i.
Mum. Lincoln has been adjudged iu-
sane by the Cook county court. For
several years her eccentricities in Chi
cago have been tho subject of much
comment. Her belief was that Chicago
was to bo burned up again, and sho re
cently drew 857,000 worth of bonds ont
of bank and carried them on her person
for safety. In this not she might possi
bly be judged eminently sane, but her
limitless purchases of articles sho did
not need and many strange hallucina
tions gave evidence of her failing
mind.
Tire western distillers whoso estab
lishments were seized the other day,
have formed a combination for the pur-
jk)so of testing tho constitutionality of
the revenue lawH tlint permit the seizure
of proporty in snnh a summary manner.
Would it not bo a good idea for these
gentlemen to form a combination for
tho purpose of promoting honesty in
tho conduct of their business, so ns to
obvinto the ncoossity for such seizures?
They will do well to consider the sug
gestion, at any rate.
In eastern Kansas and western Mis
souri a grasshopper panic already pre
vails. The pests arc already tip and
doing, and have started on thoir line of
march, destroying everything green iu
their way. Tho route lies in a north
westerly direction, and tho only hope of
the fnrmeiH is that the grasshoppers
mny disappear in time tosnvo the corn
mop. In several oounties in Minnesota
the eggs an* hatching fast, and warm
weather is expected to bring with it a
renewal of last year’s devastation and
inspector, who was brought back from
Europe the other day, charged with
smuggling silks into New York. iH suf
fering tinder tho weight of 130 indict
ments, upon which lie will requiro 8600,-
000 to secure his release from jail. Ilia
frauds were perpetrated by entering
eases of valuable silks as cor sots, Tho
cases of corsets were sunt to the public
stores for appraisement, and tho remain
ing cases, which contained the silks and
laces, were delivered to Lawronco and
his partners. It is estimated that by
their arrangements over $1,500,000 were
lost to the United States treasury.
I v a letter written by Mnj. Win, J.
Hykes to John H Oborly, ouo of tho
directors of tho Cairo and Ht. Louis
nsirow gage railroad company, after
showing tho advantages of that rond to
Cairo ho urges upon tho capitalist who
built that road the importafieo of ex
tending it down the Mississippi river,
through Memphis, as far ns Vicksburg,
and perhaps to New Orleans. He as
sumes that it can only be done by cap
italists who will undortnko it as an in
vestment, beoauso, os ho says, a road
from Ht. Ijouis through Cairo to Mem
phis would pay much bettor according
to its cost than one merely from Ht.
Louis to Cairo.
Hiiarkf.y, tho New York murderer,
has escaped ag^in. Tho vessel on
which he was being conveyed to
New York stopped at Charleston to
coal, and Hbarkey got away from the
detective who has been for weeks trying
to secure him in Havana. The Span
ish government had given him up of
thoir own accord, as no extradition
treaty exists with Spain, and Secretary
Fish hod made no demand for Sharkey.
Sneh a demand would have been fol
lowed by a demand on tho part of Spain
for the surrender of tho Cuban ref
ugees now in this country. Sharkey is
gone again, however, but may possibly
be canght on American soil. He is a
desperate, brntal character, with ft fear
ful reputation in Now York.
Tire outflow of specie is now at full
tide, the exports dnring the past week
having amounted to $3,670,352, making
the total since January 1 $25,020,327—
the largest amount on record. Tho
nearest approach to this total was in
1871, when the figures were $25,143,055,
and in 1808, when they were $25,803,-
848. Last year we had up to this time
in the year sent out only $13,229,608,
and in 1873 $18,238,097. Tho chief
canso of this heavy drain is the culling
iu by the treasury of so many five-twenty
bonds. Jf the European holders of
these bonds were taking, in equal
amount, the new fives, or, for that mat
ter, any other kind of American securi-
ties, of oonrse there would he no neces
sity f r sending gold to Europe to pay
■ .. Meanwhile, the price of gold
i .iiaily continues to exhibit u stroug
upward tendency,
LATE NEWS SUMMARY.
WEST
Gon. Custer is to lead another oolumu
of A thousand men into tho Black Hills and
hoyuml this Hummer, to make suro about tho
gold, stir up tho Indians, and drivo out tho
Two vessels loaded with wheat, after
trying ii week to find or force nil entrance into
BufTalo harbor through tho ice, havo roturnod
to Chicago. It is said the ico 1rclosely packed
ten nrilos out from the former port, and if mav
o bofoi
watoi
Tho muskets furnished to tho Indians
in trade by tho lladsou Bay company are of
tho old llint lock pattern, tho bnrrols being no
thin that the owners are often soon stralght-
oning thorn across thoir knees, l’orhaps this
in ono rcAHon why tho company which rales
the greater area of British America has no
trouhlo with Bh Indians.
Bonn months ago Dr. Colo, of Van
Wort. ()., was put o(T a (rain between 1’errye-
burgh and Tolodo, on the Dayton and MlOhi
gun road, bocaUHo he rofuaod to pay more
than tho legal faro, three cents per mile, lie
brought suit against tho company for ♦5,000
damaged, which reHiiltcd iu Ida favor hint
wtsek, tho Jury awarding him ♦fl.fiOO.
The Kansas City Times has informa
tion that grasnlioppors are doing great damage
in Western Missouri. Many fields of wheal are
ally
nil hh
graaahoppors going down to the roots.
About Kansan City they are blackening I lie
foncos and eating up grass and garden plants
They are moving in a northwestern direction,
and as they cannot tiv, many enpposo thoy
will destroy themselves by bopping into tho
Missouri river. Merchants nre disheartened—
more so than at any time since tho panic.
SOUTH.
Tho citizens of Alabama vote on tho
3rd of August upon tho pro|>ositlon of holding
a convention to revise the* constitution.
Tho rosidonoo of Aid. John Monglior,
Houston, Texas, was burned Inst week. Loss
f I'2.000. Three men, who wore unable to es
cape from the building, Woro hunted to death.
Tho Alabama press association have
accepted the Invitation of their Now York
brethren, to participate in an excursion
through tho latter state.
Tho planters of Alabama aro in much
hotter spirits thah they woro at this tiino Inst
good and the former crop is made superior to
the latter, which speaks well for the country.
Judgo Gibson refuses to grant ail in
junction restraining tho Georgia railroad com
pany from paying the interest on the bonds of
the Western railroad or Alabama on tho
ground that tho ‘question of facts involved
should go before a Jury.
A young negro died from consumption
iu Lebanon. l(y.. last week after a somewhat
novel course of treatment. Homo negro (lalon
had assured his filonds that the patient would
get well If fed on (tog moat. The prescription
was faithfully followed, hip. unfortunately for
medical science, proved Ineffectual.
The Georgia state geologist reports
that in many places throughout the state he
found ‘persons, tho majority of whom were
poor men, wasting Uielr time and energien
digging deep pits, long tunnels and huge ex
cavations, whoi'o tho rocks on the serfooo
afforded no intimation that any metal could tie
found.
John I\ Branch, of Virginia, has ap
plied for an Injunction iu the United Hinton
court at Savannah, to restrain the sale of the
Macon and Brunswick railroad, on the ground
that no provision is made for tho payment of
tho second series of bonds endorsed by tho
state and repudiated by the legislature. A
"portion of these bonds are held by Branch.
At n recent meeting of the oily council
of Little Hock, At Ii , an ordinaneo was passed
levying a licous-of ♦lOOondrummers. Against
this the nommorci.il travelers protested, ami
about a dozen of them met ami resolvod to
withdraw from the city trade, rather than pay
tho licence. Representatives of Memphis,
Louis and Philadelphia
t tho
Should tho wori-t apprehensions bo
realized in regard to the fruit crop in the
northorn sections of tho country, tho prospects
still further south are said to ho remarkably
good. Tho New Orleans Picayune says it iM
estimated that the fruit yield this summer wil
ho quadruple that of last year, and the largest
over known at tho south, and that In this
abundance Louisiana in to offer the host fruit
crop she has over producod.
John O. Breckinridge, who died at
Logington, Ky„ last week was horn on the 21st
of January, 1821, ami was educated for tho
law. Ho fought in Mexico and on tho side of
tho south iu tho late war of the rebellion,
no served in both houses or congress, and
was chosen vice president of tho United States
on tho ticket with Buchanan. In 18(50 bo ran
for president on tho democratic ticket, receiv
ing theeloctorlal votes of all (hosouthern states
except Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Missouri. IIis lost ofllcial position was as
secretary of war of the confederate states.
A decision that deserves general no
court of Louisiana. It has affirmed a Judg
ment of ♦25,000 damages against a druggist
whose clerk made a mistake causing the loss
of human life. The victim was Mrs. Ellon L.
MoCiibbin, wife of William McfJnbbln, of New
Orleans. The physician proscribed for her
Aequo Catnphoro-, loz., but tho clerk put up
that quantity of tincture of camphor, which
olio took, and it killed her in a few hours
Her husband sued the druggist for damages,
and the suit, after long litigation, has ended
John B. Toof, secretary of tho Na
tional Cotton exchange, has issued a circular
to each of the cotton exchanges requesting
each to forward to him by the 15th of Jnno
carefully prepared lists of such subjects or
topics of interest to the cotton trade as in
their judgment may demand the attention of
the approaching convention at the date speci
fied. All replies to this will ho condensed
into a programme of business and copies
thereof forwarded to the several exchanges.
By this means each exchange will bo advised
in advance as to the main features of tho busi
ness likely to come before the convention and
can instruct their delegates accordingly.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Under the new Benin **r.*,‘ai treaty,
newspapers can he sent after July 1 from the
United Htates to any part of Europe at the
rate of two cents each, if they do not weigh
over four ounces. Prepaid loiters weighing
fifteen grammes (a little less than half au
ounce) will bo carried for five routs j donblo
rate if no. prepaid.
Tho dentil of Gon v Breokinridgo leaves
hut four gentlemen living Who have boon
elected to tho second highost oftlce in the
United Htates. They are Hannibal Hamlin,
Andrew Johnson, Hrhuylor Colfax, nud llenry
Wilson. Tho mortality among vloo-prwldoiit’s
iIoch not seem to be as great as that among
the presidents. Mr. Johnson is tho only ox-
iid he
ictod
to that oflloo by tho people.
Tho soorotnry of tho treasury 1ms just
made a call for live million coupon bonds upon
which tho lntorost will cease on and after Aug.
15, next. The nineteenth call for rodomplirn
of ftvo million coupon 5:20 bonds of 1H02,
embraces bonds within the following numbers:
Fifty dollars, No. 18,701 to No. 20,300, both
inclusive{ 100 dollars. No. -18,101 to No. 01,-
(100, both Inclusive ; 500 dollars, No. 25,001 to
No. 27,500, both inolnslvo; 1,000 dollars, No.
75,551 to No. 80,050 both Inolnslvo. United
Htates securities forwarded for redemption
should he addressed to tho loan division of
tho secretary's oflloo.
Tho further prosecution of the whisky
frauds, together with all tho evidence and
records, will, on Monday, ho turned over by
tho Solicitor of the treasury to Mr. Pratt,
oonunlssionor of internal rovnntio. Tho vari
ous supervisors who havo boon acting with the
solicitor lnivo boon ordered to report directly
) the
iiirthc
HtruottonB from him. Tho secret sonico forco
of I ho treasury, however, will continue to aid
tho Internal rovonuo authorities in detecting
and soizing crooked whisky and bringing
offenders to Justice.
James Lick 1ms mndo a now trust
doeil. It diftnrs from that revoked in a few
particulars. Tho donation of ♦2r»n,()<)() for a
■pllol Is changed
000 foi
moot
id tloi
i Kov
educed fro
too,
Tho ♦700,000 for Lalto Taboo ohsorvatory Is
committed to tho University of California, to
he used for tho same purpose, Tho donation
to tho Mechanic’s Art School Is rltiMod from
from ♦.'1011,000 to .*600,000, and Ills gift to his
son from ♦3,000 to ♦150,000. For himself, ho
gives up the lien of ♦25,000 annually and
takes the gross sum of ♦500,000. The oslaie
becomes Iminodiatoly avallablo for those houtv-
flelary purposes. Hu will he one of tho Inis-
toHs hllttsnlf; tho others will ho umnmucOd
shortly. *•
FOREIGN.
Nows Iiiih boon roooivod that nffairs
at Bio Jatiorio are still in n critical condition
and that tho Doutoho Brazilscho bank has
suspended.* Its paid up capital was *8,000,-
000 and It was mostly owned iu Hamburg.
Tho Hidos of tho wrecked Schiller
have fallen in, covering tho specie, the best
go and prolmbly u nutuljftr of
utllot
Bln.
will
ishlp Fiih(
i. Tho
ii'nhlo.
llisioli on April 4 off
i, between tho (JIiIiioho
id tho British s town Nil ip
ed ini
nil v.
Fifteen lives were lost. Tim Ocean Was seri
ously Injured, hut HUOOOO(]od iu leaching P.m-
An ni'ticlo Iiiih appeared in the Figaro
ll'iggosting that the revenge of Franco ho
postponed a hundred years, and eanso a great
sensation. It is assorted by La Liberie Hint
the article has boon made the subject of a cal>-
Tlio Fall Mull Gazette suys Russia,
participate iu the Ht. Petersburg conference
and the coldness of other countries, intends
giving tho force of law to the declaration of
the RriiS'Ulh Ooiifflfondo, ntigollatlug Stipulate-
ly with the powers to induce thlllr adherence
therein.
A Havana letter states that highway
robberies and murders are so frequent in the
streets of that city that the noting oaplnln-
goneral, who was himself robbed iu the strnol
of his watch and Jowolry, worth *1,400, has
ordered all .culprits hereafter to be tried by
the military autliorilios.
Li Hung Cluing, viceroy of tho Chihli
I the
tlin
isist
the empire, has petitioned the tin
western studies he Introduced in I lie
and that candidates for public oftlco
after examined In foreign sciences. '
joy seriously urges this proposal,
Peking government will not continue
it.
Tho Roman Outholio bishops of Rus
sia, who addressed a petition to tho emperor
received a reply last month from the minister
of state, have mado tho rejoinder that, to re
ject (ho decision of the Vatican council would
he equivalent to tho abandonment of Catho
licism, and that thoy are convinced the holy
old i
willing to
forinity with all proper doclsioi
A Startling Railroad Order.
Probably the most romnrkublo order
that, was over given to a railroad official,
was sent last week to the station-agent
at Tarrytown, on the Hudson river rail
rond. The telegraph message was :
" Open the switch and throw‘89’into
tiie river." The agent was amazed.
Ho knew that " 89" was an extra freight
train bound south. To throw it into
the river seemed to him a crime. Yet
there was no mistake about the order.
The message was plain and unmistaka
ble. So tlie switch was turned, and
everything wns prepared to give "89” a
a cold hath whatever might no the con
sequences to the occupants of the train,
or the damage to the property of tho
company. Ihit, for some reason, "89”
did not eome.„ When it was several
hours behind- time, the people became
anxious. A search was instituted, and the
missingtrain was found threemilesuorth,
in a disabled condition. The explana
tion of the mysterious order soon came
ont. ty Hppesrs that when "89” was
passing Sing Sing, five convicts boarded
the engine, drove off tl e engineer and
fireman, and opened the throttle-valve
to its fullest extent. They were not
quick enough, however, to prevent tho
engineer from slyly turning on the
pumps. As a consequence, the boiler
filled with water, the cylinder-heads
were blown out, and the train stopped.
This was a fortunate end to the esca
pade, for, it the train had continued on
its woy, the railroad authorities would
have l.ren compelled to throw it. into
the i
train.which occupied tho truck south of
Tarrytown.
THE LA8T WALTZ.
i on\i!o puVph- uIkVu’.'.'uIsldo,
A NIGHT IN THE CRATER.
I succeeded in roaohing an altitude
of nearly 8,000 foot, and then gave out.
on account of a previous illness, from
which 1 had not fully recovered, and
was compelled to return toil rauoh down
on the " timber line,” Hero T awaited
the return of the party, wli'oli was
ooinnoHod of Gol. Grasty, of Virginia,
and Mr. Hurry Stevens, of Olovohind,
who had accompanied me from home.
The gigantic crater Is about ouo mile
iu diamotor and 4,600 foot deep, anil,
almost incredible to believe, but never
theless trite, theft) is n settlement con
sisting of forty sulphur miners iu the
bottom of thin awful cavity, their only
mode qf ingress and egress from this
infernal region boing by tho means of a
windlass of 1,000 feet of rope, by which
they are lowered down to a shelf in the
eldo of the abyss, tho rest of the jour-
noy downward boing porformodon foot,
over a long and steeji descent. Tho
thoughts of Grasty anil Stevens wore
now turned to the horrible gulf that,
yawned before them, for in it, they must
pass the night, which would fall iu the
course of two or three hours ; for it wan
alike impossible to Hpraui it on the
nioilntuiii-top, or to return down to the
“ timber lino." An Indian employe of
the sulphur mine had preceded them
up the volcano, bearing their lettor of
in trod notion to Honor Oorohailo, the
superintendent of the mine, who imme
diately repaired to the summit, whore
he met them half or three-qimrtoru of
an hour after their arrival.
Ooreluulo, "the Old Man of the Moun
tain," is a singular eharaeter. Born at
Tiamaoas, lie lias always lived on the
mountain, or in his present brimstone
home, where his father lived and died
before him. He has been intimately
Connected with I'ropoontupetl, anil
everything associated with the great vol
cano, for over a half century. I.le now
lives at tho bottom of the crater, 4,6(10
feet below its rocky ruin. To thin
strange abode lie welcomed (Iriyity nud
HtsVeiis with hourtinons and real hospi
tfility*
KNTIfiHINM '1’H 10 VOLCANO.
They zigzagged down the bleared and
blackened rooks about 200 feet, and
onrao to a windlass ealled "El Mala-
oato.” From this was suspended a ca
ble about an inch and a half in dinmotor
and a thousand feet long. From this
point they obtained a magnificent view
of tho crater, whoso walls rose in all
directions in frightful wildness and
sublimity. Thoy at once appreciated
its enormous dimensions. Nearly a mile
below them woh tho bottom, almost lost
in the darkness and distance. To illus
trate tho great depth, it would bo no
exaggeration to say that if you were to
take Mount Vesuvius, whioh is 4,500
feet high, and turn it upside down and
stick it into tho orator, it would about
fill it.
This gulf presents ono of tho grandest
sights on earth, and bus a terrible fas
oination for the beholder. Tho most
stolid nre greatly impressed, while the
susceptible are completely overwhelmed
by its awful sublimity. Grasty and
Stevens peered over the lodge where
stood the windlass, and saw far, far below
them a level rook that formed tho top
of a long steeji declivity, at the foot of
which was a black npot. This thoy
woro told wns the miner’s house. Thoy
were to descend to the declivity by fclio
rope, having accepted Oorohndo’s invi
tation to spend tho night below. Ooroh-
ttdo and Stevens went first. They were
tied lo the cubic in such n manner thnt,
they sat side by side.
For about the distance of 160 feet tho
lodge from which they made thoir wild
leap projected out over tho precipico,
and consequently they hung free and
dangling in mid-air. It was only a
minute or two, however, before they
carno to a place where the cliff bellied
out further than tho windless rock, and
thoy wore couipelled to kick against its
strong front to keep clear of it. Im
mense clouds of sulphurous steam and
gases rolled sky warn from beneath this
projection. These nauseated Stevens,
and set him to vomiting badly. They
were now out of sight of the people
above them. Stevens afterward said
he felt that ho was going straight into
the jaws of hell. On every side of them
was a gigantic and hideous ruin of
eraoked cliffs and blistered crags. Be
neatii thorn were pools of liquid and
hnrning sulphur that trickled in little
rivulets from the gashed and fire-
marked walls of the orator. Noxious
vupors floated through tho air—all
seemed a horrible nightmare. They
reached tho declivity in safety aftor a
fearful journey of ten minutes, and
untied themselves. Tho rope was
then pulled up.
THE FUMES OF AVEBNOH.
The colonel proceeded to tie himself
on. Through Homo mistake the rope
that went round his back slipped down
too low. Ho dropped from the crag,
still weak from tho suffering lye hud ex
perienced in the ascent. Everything
went well until he got to the place
where tho precipice bulges out. Hero
disaster overtook him. A cloud of gns-
ladon vapor enveloped him, and ho
fainted away with yet 700 feet to de
scend. Curohado and Stevens saw him
let go of the rope, throw his arms out
grasping ut the air, und fall bock until
his head was lower than liin heels ; then
spin round and round, striking the
sharp rocks in a fearful milliner. Ste
vens said it fairly mado his blood run
cold, and he turned his head from tho
awful sight. Moauwhilo Ooreluulo luul
given the man at tho windless a sign to
lower faster, mid Grasty’s apparently
lifolosB and mutilated body soon readied
the spot where they stood. His face
was severely bruised, and his clothing
badly torn, whilo the blood was trick
ling from his nose nnd ears, but he still
breathed. After an hour’s rubbing and
throwing of snow in bis face lie oatne
to, and the whole party, now augmented
by tlm arrival of a number of peon
minors from below, dosoonded tho slop
ing siilo of tho orator. Oorohudo and
and hia Indians 1ml tho way, slowly fol
lowed by Grasty, who was supported by
Stevens, and a peon. Aftor they had
got about lmlf way down the stoop they
experienced from the ioo nnd stones
great difficulty in traveling. The most
annoying thing, however, was the con
stant danger thoy Were in of being
crushed by tlio huge luniks of ioo nud
rook that, were continually rolling down.
This debris is tho matter that iH Ioohoii-
od daily by tho sun, whose warmth
strikes off its icy fetters and Buffers
gravity to have its way. Aftor two
hours’ slipnorv descending they reached
THE BOTTOM OF TI1K FIT
about. 4:30 in tho afternoon of Thanks
giving day. It, was now more than
fourteen hours sinoo they had left tho
timber line. During this time thoy bad
ascended over 0,000 feet to the summit,
and then descended 4,500 feet into the
bowels of the volcano. That is, they
were about olovon hours going up 0,000
foot, anil tliroo hours going down, in
cluding stoppages at the oilgoH of tho
crater. Hero tlioy found a hut made of
stones, inhabited by the sulphur min
ers, On arriving at the hut they imme
diately threw tliemselvcn upon a pile of
mats and sought slumber, but they lay
all tho long night wearied and worn,
rolling and tossing in ineffectual at
tempts to gain a littlo sloop. The noxt
morning Oorohudo prepared breakfast,
anil summoned them to partake of it.
Aside from drinking a cud of cofieo,
thoy could out nothing, Thoir stom-
nchs were not used to tho troutmont
they hud boon receiving tho past thirty-
six hours, and so refused to be com
forted. T’lieir lungs, too, were also in
rebellion, and were disgusted with tho
vapidity of the air and the gaseous ex
halations of the " breathing holes."
These they now visited, in company
with thoir kind and genorous host,
Thoy are the mighty fissures that ap
pear in every direction in tlio bottom of
thin vasteavity. They are not very broad,
but are doop. From tlioso flsnures is
sued dense ihuhhoh of vapor and smoko,
heavily laden with sublimated sulphur.
This condenses as soon as the steam
strikes tho cold air above, anil then fulls
in a fine sprinkle on tho siirrouudiug
rocks. This process has boon going on
for ages, until tlio whole Interior of this
great orifice is thickly coated with a
remarkably fine quality of the flour of
Hiiljihiir, This is ill quantities that are
inexhaustible, and some day will pro
duce a colossal fortune for its owner,
Gon. Ooho. Forty miners are now en
gaged in oxoavntiug and hoisting it to
the top of tlio orator.
To return to the eluiHmH, however.
The parly visited the largest anil gazed
down into it. They could sec no bot
tom for it ended in stygian darkness.
Thoy rolled n huge atone into its ragged
throat. A series of reports, caused by
tho missilo bounding from side to side
of tho pit, came hack, loud at first, but
gradually diminishing until they died
away in tho awful depths below. Tho
other holes were vomiting steam und
making a great noise, which at timos
seemed like the slow and laboring throb
of Cyclopean enginery. At others It
sounded iiko tlio bellowing and shriek
ing of devils. Having now seen every
thing that could ho seen, they bid thoir
new-made but long-to-bo-remombored
friend, Coroliudo, farewell, and set out
to return, accompanied by four ludiana.
Tlio 3,500 foot climb to the end of the
rope was a fearful job, but the ascent
by the rope was still worse. They woro
compelled to kick and push against the
cliff incessantly to prevent being drag
ged to pioces on the sharp rocks. Thoy
got to tho top in safety, however, and
there found more pnotUI to tako them lo
tlio "timber line." Tlioy mado the de
scent by sitting down on a piece of thick
matting, with an Indian seated behind
eaeii of them, to steer this novel vehicle
while sliding down tho mountain, over
the snow and ioo. Thoy descended six
miles in less than twenty minutes.
One time, while lmriod in a think
snow-laden cloud, thoy came near slip
ping into tho Jlarrancu dot Mucrtc, a
chasm 3,000 foot doop. On reaching
tlio end of tlio snow fields they found
thoir horses at La Cruz, and then rodo
to Tiamaoas. When T mot them I scarce
ly recognized thorn, they wore so hag
gard, sunburnt, bruised and dirty.
'When Cortez conquered Mexico, Po-
poeapotl was in a stato of combustion,
and throwing out vast volumes of smoke,
which could bo soon fora hundred miles
in every direction. Now tho quantity
is so small that it can bo seen only after
arriving at its base. The first white
man to ascend it was Francisco Monta
no,* in 1519. IIo was sent to tho crater
for a supply of sulphur for Cortoz, and
to impress the Aztecs with tho courage
of tlio Spaniards. Since then numerous
ascensions huvo been mode by eminont
savans, travelers, and adventurers from
Europe and the United States. Mrs.
John W. Fostor, tlio wife of our minis
ter, and Mrs. Arthur Terry, of Connecti
cut, are tlio only women that over scaled
Popocatapotl to its top, and Col, H. G.
Grasty aud Harry Stevens, of Cleveland,
are tlio only foreigners that over de
scended to the bottom of tho crater, and
there passed tho night.
Tho lust emption of Popocatapotl
occurred, according to an ancient Aztoo
Maguey paper MS. now in the posses
sion of Honor Rameroz, of Maoamocca,
about tlio middle of tlio fourteenth cen
tury, nearly 170 yours before tho Span
iard first trod the valley of Moxico.
A widow, being ouutioiifd by her
minister about flirting, said sho know it
was wrong for maidens and wives fo
flirt, hut tlio Bible was her authority.
It said " widow’s mite," Sho was (•jil t
ing awfully at last accounts.
FACTS AND FANCIES.
— Artificial butter-mnking has never
proved n bucoohh. The difficulty lies in
putting in tlio liaire so that they look
—A boy, who will yell like a Tartar
If a drop of water gets on his shirt band
when Ins nook is being washed, oan
crawl through a sewer after a ball and
think nothing of it,
—At a toaoliors’ institute in Ohio re
cently, a lady teacher was given tho
word " hazardous" to spell anil define,
and did it in this stylo : " II u z has
a-r-d aril—o double s, ess—liazardoss,
a female hazard."
—A Cleveland woman recently mar
ried a Chinese laundryman, and in three
days thereafter tho unhappy oolostiul
anpoareil at a barber shop and ordered
his pigtail cut off, saying in explana
tion : "Too muolioo dam yank.”
—A French butelior who was oil hia
(loath-hod said to bis wife : "If I die,
Franoolao, you must marry our shop
boy. IIo in a good young man, and
tlio business cannot be carried on with-
.. a man to look aftor ik" "I have
boon thinking about that already," said
bis wife.
—Tho pope had occasion recently to
rebuke au Muglishninn for rudonoBH to
his holiness in tho Vatican. The per
son bad gained admittance in some way,
and, instead of rising when the popo
entered, ho nnt during the entire iituli-
onoo. In tho midst of the bonodiotion
the pope remonstrated with him in this
•ay : “ Do you come here to insult me
i iny own house V Is it a gentlemanly-
liko tiling to sit down when all tho
others nre standing or kneeling V" Af-
tbis outburst tho guards promptly
put tho intrudor out.
—Home of the restaurants in Carson,
Nov., furnish to thoir customers nap
kins about four inches square in size.
Yesterday, says tho Appeal, a gentle
man wlio bail ordored u meal wuii
handed one of thoso diminutives, and
upon unfolding it he inquired if he
ooiild not have a larger one. " How
large a one do you want?" inquired
tlio waiter in attoudonoo. “ Well,”
tiie reply, "I’m not particular
about a very iurgo one, but J would
like one a littlo larger than this, if you
have it handy ; for instanco, about the
size of a postage stamp."
—Tho baroness of Gorlitz met her
sister-in-law, a Silesian conn tension tiie
street s, tho other day, and violently
doimiudud of her : " Why didn’t you
put a monument over rny brother's
grave ?” “ It’s none of your business,"
ronpondod the countess; Pm married
again, anyway." "i’ll make it my
businosH," and nlie sprang liko a tigress
at hor late brothers wife. The war
whoops of tho Amazon brought tho
police. Tho matter wan settled in court,
but both, being noble Judies, woro of
course (lisolmrgod. In the imiuntime,
tlio monument is not Io go up, for the
ooiintens asseverates that "u whisky
bottio lit the bend of bis grave would bo
the most appropriate tiling for him."-
/‘orcif/n Corrcnjiundtiwr.
—M, Gaston Tissandier, the solo
survivor of tho late fatal balloon ascent
Franco, Inis road a report of that
pedition before tlio Academy of
Science in Paris. He stated that tlio
greatest altitude attainod was from 8,400
to 8,600 motors (5 miles 440 yards to 5
miles 050 ynnlH). IIo ascribed tho
death of liis companions to tho rare
faction of tho atmosphere, and hold Hint
if thoy had luul a bettor apparatus to
supply Ihom with oxygen they would
have escaped unscathed. lie was of
opinion that life could not be supported
beyond tho height, whioh the Zenith
attained, anil expressed an opinion that
Mr. Glaislier must have boon mistaken
when ho sniil ho rose seven miles.
Planting Forest Troon.
Tho Forestry Annual of the Iowa
horticultural society, prepared by Prof.
II. II, MoAfuo, of tlio Iowa agricultural
college, ban the following direction* for
planting troos dosignod for forests :
Two systems are used iu planting for
estry trees, that is by furrow and spade.
The furrow Systran may bo described as
follows : A furrow as deep as roots aro
to go is run where tho row in to stand,
and trees aro set at desired distances i»
tho furrow and covircd in partly by
hand, aftor whioh a light furrow is
thrown toward hut not upon tlio trees,
and tramping eomjilotcs tiie process.
The manipulation is generally thus :
Tiie party carrying the treos sots and
holds the tree erect, and another with
hoe brings on tlio eurtli and packs it to
the tree with Ids foot.
With this method there is more or
Iohh probability that the roots may be
placed in dry earth, whioh is generally
disastrous to the troo, so tlio writer lum
a decided preference for tiie spado sys
tem iu any but a very damp spring. To
plant by this system the trees should
bo small, not over two feet high, and
young enough to have few lateral roots.
Tho ground boing marked both ways,
if chock rows aro proforred, or ouo way
for drill planting, tlio planter armoil
with a hedging spade (a sort with rather
narrow and long blade euding in an
ohtuso angle) thrusts tho spado half
way down, tlion boars tho handle for
ward, aud so opous a space behind tlio
blade for tlio troo roots, an attendant
putting in tlio troo and holding it oroot.
Tho spado is withdrawn, aud a stop
upon the earth in front of wlioro tlio
tmado stood completes tho planting.
Hands soon become accustomed to tlio
requisite movements and planting pro
ceeds rapidly. The danger of trees in
dry eartli is avoided, and the tree stands
firmer than if plauted by any other
method.
' Jail, or Die?”
On Saturday night tlio pursuers of
Dave Lund, the murderer of Craig,
oaino up with him whilo asleep at a
friend’s liouso. Ho was taken and
bound across his horse, foot aud neck
being tied togothor, both extremities
downward, carried about ton miles
from tlio place where captured, and
usked his choice : “ Jail or die?" He
chose the latter, and got a handsome
send ofl’. IIo was left in the woods
completely riddled with buckshot, He
was to havo preached a sermon on Sun
day. Ho remarked that if tie had boon
awake ho would liuvo made two more