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STORMS.
BY REV. A. JAY BELKNAP.
*Tis said the Sea of Life is rough,
That storms are wild and many,
And that of sunny skies and days
There’s none, or scarcely any;
But I have been upon the wave,
And felt its varied weather,
And know that sun, and clouds and storms
Are well mixed up together.
So, when the waves dash wild and high,
And thunders hoarsely mutter,
When angry clouds o’erspread the sky
And shade the turbid water,
We’ll laugh with gleesome merriment,
We’ll sing a hearty chorus,
Unto the winds and clouds and spray
That harmlessly sweep o’er us
We’ll be a part of all the storm;
We’ll share the wild commotion
Of all these giant bacchanals
That sport upon the ocean;
For all is well; our ship is strong,
Our pilot firm and steady,
Our gallant crew is tried and true,
And for each duty ready.
And when the storm has spent its force,
When clouds begin to scatter,
How pleasantly the sunshino pours
Its smiles upon the water 1
We ne’er could feel the calm delight
Of fair and sunny weather,
Were sun and clouds and calms and storms
Not well mixed up together.
Arid so there is, behind each cloud,
A soft and silver lining;
And there, although we see it not, ]
The sun Is sweetly shining.
So then we’ll he content remember with life,
And evermore
That, in the year of life there is
A June for each December.
La Harpe, Ill.
PIRATE AND BUCCANEER.
A TRUE ACCOUNT OF THE WONDERFUL
CAREER OF THE “BLACK DOG.”
In the years 1852-3 might have been
seen lying at anchor in the harbor of
Rio Janeiro a barkentine of extreme
beauty. She was called the Black Dog
and was built for great speed. She was
purohased by a wealthy house at Bio
Janeiro to be employed as a slaver be
tween the Brazils and the West Coast of
Africa, under tbe command of a young
Baltimorean by the name of Jones.
Harry Jones had been a shipmate
with the writer upon a three year’s voy
age to the Indian Ocean and China seas.
Not only were we shipmates, but friends,
Barry was induced by great pay to
leave the Gray Eagle It and take charge
of the Black Dog. was a great strng
glo for him to give up his position ns
first officer of the Gray Eagle and go on
board a slaver, but he was ambitious to
get rich. He made twelve successful
voyages to the Coast of Africa during
the two years time he was in the slave
trade.
The Brazilian government finally
stopped the importation obliged of slaves look and
the Black Dog was to in
some other direction for employment,
N o country was open to her now where
she could carry on her unlawful tiaffic.
The owners had made a present of her to
the captain for his fine luck and the
great amount of money he had made for
“ the slave trade. She was now
f buccaneer. ttecl for th The ®, oast captain had . of , Afn no trouble ? a n ? a
ln shipping a crew, for at that time n
great number of the worst kmd of men
were adrift at Rio, most of them having
teen employed on board of slavers.
rhe ,iext Umei we heard of the Black
Dog she was m the Mozambique Chan
Bel, at the mouth of tho Black Sea,
where she had captured a number of the
Peninsular and Oriental Company s
boats, taking a large, amount of gold and
sl to -ver proceed fro! ? on the their “ and way. theu Mowing Afterward them she
was heard, from in the Persian Gulf and
along the Coromandel coast. No armed
recommitting* such depredation^mitil
her if possible. Captain tbe Jones Eastern now left
for tlie Chlua seas and pas
&
The ship Sheffield, ’was whaler, under the
writer’s command, home. She now had cruised twenty
months from
along the coasts of New Holland and
and Straits of Timoor and was now off
the east coast of Java. We had sue
needed in taking and stowing down
2.100 barrels of sperm oil since leaving
home and at the high rates quoted for
oil in New Bedford we could figure up a
fine vovage alreadv. We stood along to
the eastward, until we arrived off the
Island of Banditti. Tho sun never shone
brighter, the day was never more beau
tiful, the sea was smooth and the air
soft aud lovely. We were Copang, soon to leave
the cruising ground for to re
cruit our ship with fresh provisions,
wood and water, expecting to be in
Hong Kong in April, there to refit for
the coast of Japan and home by way of
Cane Horn. The lookouts at the mast
Leads were skimming the horizon to
latch the glimpse of a spout forward of a sperm
whale when the lookout re
ported a sail three points on the weather
bow, standing down across us. We
thought her to be some peaceful mcr
ebantman, wending her way along the
sr*
From aloft I could see her hull up. As
soon as I drew a bead on her with my
long telescope glass, I was satisfied in
mv mind what she was. Going told at them once
on deck I called all hands and
I thought that craft was a pirate. two
XYe had four guns of fair calibre;
of them, however, were unfortunately
stowed away below. We had a score of
muskets and as many mere cutlasses,
but what would they avail with a craft
ni tliof I-inil bJt The nirate P would want
nothing of us p rovisions-perbaps
men, and of course we must submit. We
*' tre OD / he P ° rt t8Ck ’ 8tandiD g alon 8 C1J
W
W hcn he was within a mile of us,
«k ilag and fired a gun. She
straight off for us to cross aloft our at
We could Bee two men
tnd two or three more in the
H their glasses looking down
eks, and could hear them
f o officers of the
_ pirate jumped
ajion the rail, and witn his silver
trumpet in hand hailed the ship as she
pa-?ed close under our stern.,
“What ship is that, pray ?”
“The
"How long out ?”„
■Twenty months,
1 ‘Who commands that ship ?
“Will Captain H-piease come on
Bard?”
We could not light him. He could
lay off a distance and sink us with his
Hamilton Jouunai
VOL. XII. NO. 30.
Long Tom; so there remained no al
ternative but to submit and go on
board. I ordered the starboard quarter
boat to be lowered away and the crew to
stand by. The pirate hove to close
under onr lee quarter, so that we had
but a short distance to pull. We drew
up alongside Before to the leeward of that bean
tiful craft. getting out lee of rail, my
boat I cast mv eye up along the
Such a sight to behold! Al least seventy
five men of the most desperate-looking They
characters looking down upou all me. and all
were of all nationalities, ages passed
colors. Two fine-looking officers touched
mn i.> man ropes and politely
their hats.
As I stepped in on deck who should
stand there to receive me but my once
most intimate friend, Harry Jones, cap
tain of tbe pirate, Black Dog. I must
say I breathed a little more freely when
T found into whose hands I had fallen,
He quickly asked me to send my boat,
with its crew, back to the ship; evi
dently conversation not wishing his crew to hold any
with mine, saying to me at
the same time : “This is no place for
your men to be, with such characters as
we have here. I shall keep yon long
enough to make me a good long visit.”
Turning to his first officer he ordered
him to keep the ship close aboard and
report if any strange sail should heave in
sight, whilst we walked into the captain’s
private cabin. It is not enough to say
it was finely fitted up ; it surpassed in
elegance anything I had ever seen. My
boat was soon alongside the Sheffield and
hoisted to the cranes. The ship braced
forward her main yard and stood along
by the wind, the Black Dog keeping
along on her lee quarter, in hailing dis
tance.
Great excitement prevailed on board
tbe Sheffield, the officers and crew not
understanding the meaning of my being
detained on board the pirate. They
thought the ship would be a prize to the
Black Dog, been not knowing the captain and
myself cruise. had shipmates on a three
years’ After a time we looked
the craft over. Her complement of of
fleers and men, all told, was ninety, but
at that time the crew was somewhat re
duced in numbers. She carried four
eighteen-pounders on each side, with a
Long Tom amidships and everything tit
led for tlie business in which Bhe was en
gaged. forge Upon the rim of her wheel, in
gold letters, were these words ;
Black Dog—“The world _owes me a
(iving .» vessel in
She was a perfect all her ap
pitmen ts. I remained on board one
;fight and a part of two days. The time
was occupied in rehearsing Harry our voyages he
sinC e we last met. told me
bad become so noted as a buccaneer his
uame wus known all over the world. A
brand was upou him worse than that
upon Cain.
“Since taking command of this bark,”
fie went on to say, “it has not been my
purpose to take life. At one time I lost
forty-five out of ninety of my crew with
ship fever. Night and day I was with
them, ministering to their wants with
my own hands, whilst I, the worst of
them all, was spared to continue this
, m . se d life. Well, my time is short in
.. I am alreadv hunted not
only by the English but by the Dutch
^Baita-s ffimgs I fear, he eToiTudeV^d concluded, and hea°v heaved cl
On the second day, before night the
Black Dog’s foxetopsail was hove back
and a signal set for my boat. It was
soon alongside. We took a very large
mail from the Black Dog, to be delivered
at Hong Kong; also a large amount of
bills and valuables from the captain con
signed to the care of the Brazilian
Consul.
It was time for me to take my depart
ure and bid my friend good-bye, quite
likely never to meet again. A tear rolled
down his cheek ; he pressed my hand.
I was soon in my boat and on board
the Sheffield. The Black Dog made all
sail, steered away south for Macasser
Straits and in a short time was out of
sight. She was next heard from at the
north entrance of Torres Straits and the
south end of Borneo, where she had cap
lured a number of ships. These ships
bad large consignments of gold bars and
gold dust from the Australian mines. It
was reported that one of those ships, the
Marco Polo, had on board eight hundred
thousand in gold, which the Black Dog
bad captured. News of her depreda- The
tions were soon spread abroad.
English fleet then lying at Singapore
r"t
Borneo, the English steam sloop-of-war
Hector fell in with the Black Dog, lying
becalmed close in shore. The Hooter
bore away for the pirate. The captain
of the pirate saw that his chances were
small, unless the trade winds should
soon set in, by means of which he cc
escape by running through one of
shoal water passages. If he conk
thus escape be would run her ash
destroy He ^ well as his offiv
and crew > would never surrender alive.
The
it . was adead calm.
zp’e an/blow her up with all on board.
The Pete’s «ewBt°od by their gun,
flag underneath.
There vas no mis airing n
character of tne Da • ' he 4
« the Englishman got within range
commenced firing at the pirate. Her
g UDfl were of much heavier metal than
j those of the pirate and her crew more
than double. The Black Dog opened
or unlimbered her Long Tom amidships,
hoping to do some damage to the steam
er ’ s machinery. Every shot from the
i pirate’s guns was telling sadly upon the
Her crew evidently had been
-veil drilled. The pirate captain was
walking the quarter-deck hair and quickly, muttering giving
orders, palling “Oh, his for breeze.” The
a
j shuts from the sloop-of-war were flying
; thick and fast above and around him.
j The Englishman kept off to come rake him up
, astern of the pirate, so as to
HAMILTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1834.
fore and aft. Down came the Black
Dog’s foretopmast and foretop gallant
mast, royals, yards, sails and rigging,
all upon the deck. At the same time
came a shot in amidships, capsizing the
Long Tom and killing a number of tbe
crew. With all the impossible top hamper upou the
tho deck it was for
pirate’s crew to longer work their guns,
The steamer rushed boldly alongside,
-wo hundred men standing ready with
cutlasses and pistols to board the pirate
as soon as she would be near enough for
them to jump. As the steamer was
ranging alongside the pirate let go her
four port guns, killing and wounding a
large number of tha steamer’s crew and
doing much damage to the ship. The
two hundred men jumped on board the
Black Dog, her captain standing by with
match in hand to fire the magazine. Just
as he was about to apply the torch a ball
from a sharpshooter, fired from the fore
top of the Hector, lay the captain low
on deck.
The crew of the Black Dog was soon
overpowered. A large number bad been
killed and wounded, leaving few to brave sur
render of that once large and
crew. No time was lost in securing the
prisoners—forty-five in number—placing
them between decks, ironed and under
charge of armed sentinels. The officers
of the pirate had all been killed in tho
battle, the dead buried and the wounded
cared for. A strong hawser was made
fast to the pirate’s foremast, the othei
end taken to the Hector, she steamed
ahead with the pirate in tow, heading passing
along the Pallawann passage,
for Hong Kong. The pirate captain was his
found to be alive. He was taken to
cabin and watched over by the surgeon
or the Hector. A large amount of gold
and silver—some two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars—was found oil board.
The captain of the Black Dog had land
ed a large amount of gold at Borneo the
day previous to his capture, the
On the 25th of March Hector ar
rived at Hong Kong with her valuable
prize in tow. lawful The Black Dog was con
demned as a prize to her Majes
ty*s steam sloop Hector, of eighteen
guns, and sold at auction to the house
0 f Jardine, Madison & Co. for $10,000,
to be employed in the opium trade be
twixt Bombay and China. Her name
was changed to that of Antelope, and
{ or ma ny J, years she was the fastest opium
clipper tho china seas,
The captain ‘ and wounded seamen of
the Black 1)og W8re removed from the
vesgel to the liosnital, and for many
davs / the captain’s life was despaired with of.
H rry had grown so much in favor
tlle officers of the Hector and they, hav
{are d BO we ll in prize money, would
7lot appear against him. They would
never attempt to convict a man who Had
B fl 0 wn such great courage as the captain
of the Black Dog. Those of the crew
w j M) recovered had shipped on board the
Hector. The captain still remained
j tt hospital.
After Lidding adieu to our friend of
the Black Dog off the island of Baniitti,
the Sheffield steered away for the Java
8eas au d captured a number of whales,
making |s altogether 2,400 barrels of sperm
oil . the monsoons were against China us,
we had to beat all tho way up the
Sea and arrimsd ^ Hen^ K°ng^on the
the BteckDogandfhathereapTain WOUD(1 £j tho hoBp ita 1( I was
^ in soon
im^ro fullSalofls wifthaUhe Jas°able
to give me a full remtai oi ms caotue capmre.
The large amount of valuable papers,
English government bills, drafts and the
like, which Harry had consigned to my
care at Banditti Island to be taken to
the Brazilian Consul at Hong Kong, 1
now had the pleasure of giving bac m
to Harry s own hands.
His health rapidly improved, so that
ire long he was smuggled by the officers
of the Hector on board one of the 1 aomo
Mail boats, then lying m port, and m
due time safely arrived in San Francis
co, without having had any form of trial,
From San Francisco he made his way
to the Brazils, where he entered into a
course of dissipation and run through
most of his ill-gotten gains. ship, In 1870 I
was in Baltimore with my lying Oue at
0 no of tho wharves at Fell’s Point.
day who should come on board but Har
ry; but oh, how changed 1 From the
once fine, intelligent Bhunned looking man to a
perfect wreck, by all. A few
months afterward I heard of his death.
He had fallen from a dock and been
drowned while in a state of intoxication.
UMn * s *
The reported rupture of friendly rela¬
tions between France and Morocco baa
been confirmed, ^'withstanding the
denial of the Tcnv) ’ -. 6
.
The cause of
a cruel murd-~
,r ' r
mis- ,*eu -
*““‘f-TTa Pennsylvania <“ ■
v
The anthracite field in Pennsylvania, counties,
jg confined to portions ’ of nine
1Q act!Ve collieries, which
em ploved last year 87,308 personB to
whom $33,597,252 was paid in wages. of
The mines were worked an average
2214 davs during the year, and the out
pnt waB 30,154,546 tons of coal. The
bituminous field in operation for the
same time comprised portions of twenty
five counties. 381, The employing number 45.454 of ^active men
collieries was $17,014,624
aEd boys, to whom was
paid in'wages. The average operation number of
days the collieries were in was
207L aud the output of coal amounted
18,729,817 tons. This includes the
amount of coal used by 10,617 coke ovens
j n the manufacture of 3,380,872 tons of
j co ke.
PANICS -EXTRAY AGANCE *
IlK. TALMAGE ON THE CAUSES OF OUP
LATE FINANCIAL 1USASTKKS.
Evils of Nntlonnl nnd Personal Exlravn.
K nnce—The Vanity of Display ami the
liotioitiicss Pit ot speculation.
-
Dr. Talmage devoted liis sermon Sun
day morning to a discussion of the Wall
street panic and its causes. He claimed
that national and individual extravagance
were the chief causes of frequently His recur
ring financial disasters. sermon was
peculiarly appropriate and very pointed,
but the congregation, as Dr. Talmage
said, stood it pretty well, and none arose
to go out. From beginning to end
rounds of applause and bursts of hearty
laughter interrupted the speaker in spite
of bin earnest request for silence.
There are those, said Dr. Talmage,
who spread out their wings until they
cover ten or fifteen fortunes, and the
financial incubation seems to be suddenly getting
on very prosperously, and when of the
the shells are chipped some to
chickens take to the water and some
the air and leave the nest empty. Across
the island of New York in 1685 a wall was
built, cannon mounted to keep back the
savages. The street which kept the line
of the wall was appropriately called Wall
street. It has seen the coronation and
burial of ten thousand fortunes. The
abode of just the opposites—unswerving scoundrelism,
integrity and tiptop heaven
descended charity and bloodless plowshare Sliylock
ism. I would like to put the
in at the curbstone in front of Trinity Wall
church and draw it through to the
street ferry, and so it shall go if the
horses are strong enough to draw the
plow. all stunned with the recent
We are
defalcations in Wall street, and there is
no more absorbing question in America
to-day than this—What caused Black
Wednesday? What has caused all the
black days of financial disaster with which
Wall street has been connected for the
last forty years ? The primal cause of
all these'disturbances is the extravagance
in modern society, which impels a man
to spend more money than ho can hon¬
estly make—and he goes into Wall
street in order to get the means of inor¬
dinate display, and sometimes the man
is to blame and sometimes the wife, and
oftenerboth. Five, ten, twenty thou¬
sand dollars income is not enough for a
man to keep up the style of living he
proposes, and therefore he steers his
bark toward the maelstrom. Other men
have suddenly snatched up $50,000 or
$100,000—why of not he ? Extravagance tho
is tlie cause all the decile at Ions u t
las> forty years. No sooner do you dis¬
cover the affair than lying back of it you
find the story of how many horses the
man had, how many carriages, how
many residences in the country. Now,
for the elegancies and refinements of lifo
I cast my vote. But there is a line to be
drawn between the adornments we can
afford and those we cannot afford, and
when a man crosses that line he becomes
culpable. There are families in our cities
who can hardly pay their rent, and are
all the time sailing so near shore that a
business misfortune prepares them for
pauperism. They stay in one place till
they can get no more on credit from tha
butcher or grocer and then hire a car¬
man, whom they never pay, to take them
to another place. There are in Brook¬
lyn at least 6,000 such thieves, to call
them by their right name. Society has
got be reconstructed on this subject, or
these times of panic and defalcation will
never end. You have no right hopelessly to ride in
a carriage for which yon 'and are
in debt. Get down walk like tbe
rest of ns! I have yet to Bee one of
these Wall street panics which is not
connected in some way with extrava
gauce. Extravagance accounts for the dis¬
turbances in national finances. Aggre¬
gations are made up of units, and when
one-half the people in this country owe
the other half how can you expect finan¬
cial prosperity? Every four years we
get a groat spasm of virtue, and we sav
when we get a new President we will
get all over our perturbations. I don’t
care who is President, or how much
grain goes out of the country or how
niueli gold is imported, until wo learn
eventually to pay our debts and it l>e
comes a genera 1 theory that men in this
country must buy no more than they
can pay for—until that time comes there
will be no financial prosperity. Look at
tho pernicious extravagance I Take the
one fact that New York every year pays
$2,000,000 for theatrical amusements.
Ninety-five millions paid in this country
for cigars and tobacco. Oue thousand
millions, and. r- i:h '' 1 fi”’”
back, $
«1A. V
‘
flTe ac ts> Ac r t the Pirst
but beautiful; enter i
pair; enter contentment disco '
Act the Second-Enter
desire for larger expenditure
Act the Third—Enter tb
makers; enter the F-'
ter all great extra,
Fourth—Tip-top of society,
princesses of New York
filmginandout;e7eryth magnificent scale :
an <t
for other people. Act thr
the miliation; assignee; enter the
enter w±
death and hell. Drop the silk
The play is ended and the ligm,.
ot ,t.
Extravagance acconnts for muc
t fi e pauperism. Scores of me
i lived highly, and when they 6
world. The death of snch men is a
grand larceny. Their bones should be
sold to furnish bread for their children
I know it outs. I didn’t know but some
of you in your dudgeon would get up and
go out. You stand it well. Some of
you make a great swash in life. After
awhile you will die and ministers will be
80u t f or 8 t a nd by your collin and lie
aliout your excellencies. And yet we
tiud Christian men spending everything
™ themselves. They crack the back of
£eir Palais Royal glove m trying to bale
he oue ^ey put in the Lord s
heasury. Then there are t oso wl o o
solvent when they die, but the funeral they
expenses are so great that when
are buried they are insolvent,
My friends, let us take our stand
against the extravagances of society. Do
^ P ft y for th lB 8 s which are useless
when you may , lack necessities. Do not
oue month s salary into a trinket,
J&»P your creait good by God seldom asking
for any. In the day of s judgment
wo will not only have to give an account
°f ^he wa Y we made our money, but of
the way we spent it,
THE CONTINENT, OF BATH.
A I.lltl® Story Tnlil by the l’llot o! Hit,
Ulndrua*
So wo sat till long into the evening
itnder our awning, says Captain John
Drew in Iho Boston Journal. (Ho had
swung his cot under the comfortable spanker-boom,
and was sitting in it as as
“old Lilly.”) We talked long of the
years that had elapsed since my first
voyage here, and I found I had no com¬
mon man for a pilot. He was a self-cul
tivated person, a rare scholar, and was
the author of several first-class works,
oue of them called the “bailor’s Sky In¬
terpreter.” ne was tho inventor of a
system of flashing signals for night work,
so simple that with a fow moments’
study one could see through the whole
of it.
“Captain,” said he, “I was serving my
time as an apprentice on board a
‘Geordy’ brig when a young lad, and
once upon a time we got disabled nnd
blown away down the English Channel.
The parsimony of the owner was shown
in giving us a very short supply of pro¬ if
visions. It was just enough to Inst us
we had a fair wind from the port wo left
to another close by, to which we were
bound. Well, we were very near starv¬
ing. Davs and days we drifted about
with but very little to eat, and thought
we must giv’o up, when one and day mado we saw it
a sail. It came nearer, wo and
out to be a ship. On it enme, — we
made the signal of distress. The ship
recognized it and came close up to us.
How handsome she looked. She was
large, taut, with tlie shape of a frigate.
She had swinging booms and painted ship¬
ports, a long poop and everything her.
shape and Bristol fashion about
She gave us lots of provisions. The bis¬
cuit (hard bread) were the best I ever
saw. Ob, were we not thankful I Per¬
haps you know tho ship. It was tho
American ship Continent, of Bath. I do
not remember tbe captain’s name, but
recollect exactly bow bo looked.”
“Yes, I do know tlie skip well, and 1
think the captain. I saw tlie ship sail
from Trufunt & Drummond’s yard the iu
Bath in the year 1850. I remember
captain and liis officers, and lie is the
man that would have helped you to tho
bitter end,’ I do believe.’ 1
“Well, that is strange, is it not? I
have never forgotten America or Ameri¬
cans since that day. We used to see lots
of them here once. Pray tell me why
we see no more of your ships now? My
word, they were fine ships to bo sure,
and such well-officered, manned and dis¬
ciplined ships, too. Why, captain, it
does me good to get on board such a
ship as this. It is a long time since I
saw a crew work as yours do. Every
man has got springs in his heels and
jumps when be is spoken to. I took
particular notice of them (tbe men) while
we were ranging chain, getting the an¬
chors ready and furling sails.”
Sure enough, what has becomo ot
them? Twenty-nine years ago I an¬
chored hero in the clipper ship Wild
Wave, 1,600 tons. One of the best ships
in the British India trade, the Princess,
anchored near us. She was filled with
troops and passengers, and her young
middies and officers came on board to
look at our beautiful clipper, so far
ahead of anything they had. Our ships
"took the cake” everywhere then, and
could havo kept it, or eat it, and got
more.
Tlie Dear Little Baby.
Katie, a well-dressed, pretty little wife,
16 years old, with a baby 6 months old
in her arms, charged Spencer, her lius
i -rid. 20 years old, in a fail, Ph '
’ -erting and
baby. of tl
•86
$1.00 A YEAR.
ODDS AND ENDS.
The ship laborers of St. John, N. B. (
are on a strike.
Cuba was discovered by Columbus
October 28, 1492.
Ann the United States Senators but
two wear spectacles.
St. Heuena was discovered by the
Portuguese in 1502.
The incompotent citizen is tho legally
competent juryman.
Hindoo witnesses are sworn by the
waters of tlio Ganges.
Mary Andebson’h profits abroad are
estimated at $300,000.
The oldest church in America is “St.
John’s” at Hampton, Va.
The Waiter’s Union, of Boston, has a
reserve fund of nearly $7,000.
The kindergarten system was first
practiced in Germany in 1849.
The dogs of Maryland are supposed to
have killed 6,000 sheep lost year.
The aueient Britons wore leather oui
rasses until the Anglo-Saxon era.
The mouth of the Amazon river in
South America is 100 miles wide.
Work is proceeding with tlie great
railway tunnel under the Mersey.
Spring has come, and with it the girl
who falls dead “jumping the rope.”
Great Britain has been turning out
yearly a million tons of now shipping.
It is said that some Australian wheat
fields turn out seventy bushels per acre.
The price of gas in Philadelphia thousand has
been reduced to $1.70 per feet.
WnuN a Piute Indian doctor loses
three patients in succession he is killed.
Frederick Biddings, of Vermont,
gives $1,000 to Whitman (W. T.) Col¬
lege.
The South Sea Islanders make bird
kites almost as ingeniously as the Clii
nose.
The French originated tlie industrial
exhibition; tbe first was held in Paris in
1798.
F. migration from Hamburg in March,
J884, was double what it was in March,
1883.
TnE Japanese entangle whales in nets
and then kill them with harpoons and
lances.
San Domingo lias passed a bill United to es¬
tablish free trade with tho
States.
Mdlb. Nevada, the American prima
donna, sends all her floral gifts to the
Paris hospitals.
THBgamo of curling was'introduced
into Scotland from Holland in the six¬
teenth century.
There are twenty-eight branches Union of
tho Carpenters’ Amalgamated in
the United States.
There have been thirty-two criminal the
executions on the Pacific const within
past eight months.
Dr. NAOnTiGAD, the celebrated Ger¬
man explorer, is shortly to start for the
west coast of Africa.
James Ridev founded tho Ugivorsal
lsts in England in 1760 and John Mur¬
ray in Boston in 1770.
The largest cotton grower In south¬
east Arkansas has between 8,000 and
9,000 acres in cultivation.
Homieopatiiy was first brought to the
world’s notice in 1810. It was intro¬
duced into England in 1827.
Last year there were 1,517 murders
fn the United States, 93 legal executions
aud 118 men wore lynched.
Four young Indies acted as pall-bear¬
ers at tbe funeral of one of their school¬
mates in Caernarvon, Penn.
Add the rich obese are flocking to
Bismarck’s doctor, who reduced him in
size without injury to health.
In Sweden there is a law taking away
the right of suffrage from every man
who has been drunk three timeB.
An estate in Algeria has been pur¬
chased for use as an agricultural school
for 200 indigent French children.
There are several sorts of fishes which
are armed with poisonous spines, and
many which have poisonous flesh.
On the South Park Railroad, Colo
™i», a. n„. „! t r ..tow* «, «■
known kind in all stages of petrifies
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A bogus Jeannette _ ** survivor, oal
himself Captain W. E. Spencer, ir.
ing upon the provincial newsp*
Ohio.
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THE TE
AMONG THE DUHKAEDS.
A DESCRIPTION OF THKIIl FECM-IAll
RITES.
Their Love Feast and Method of Celebrate
ins the Lord's Supper.
The church was divided down the cen*
ter by a long table, and this table wan
divided in the center to allow passage
between. At one end the men sat on
benches ranged along the table; the
other end or division of the table was in
like manner occupied by the women. A
strip of plank with pegs in it was over
the men’s table, and was hung full of
their immense hats. A staircase in one
comer went up into the loft above,
where all the congregation who have to
come any distance sleep on the floor and
in bunks; they bring their bedding
with them, and, as they do not insist
upon the separation of the sexes, a
great many can be accommodated in
this garret. People acquainted with
their habits said that they slept in sack¬
cloth and ashes while here for soveral
nights. A door at the foot of the stairs
led into the kitchen, in which a tremen¬
dous fire crackled under a great iron pot
hanging on a crane in a spacious chim¬
ney that would easily burn a cord of
wood uncut. From this pot a through savory
steam escaped and made its way
the open door, pervading the atmos¬ of
phere with a most appetizing odor from
beef. Soon there were prayers
first one and then another of the men,
alternated with exceedingly brief also and
crude addresses. Hymns monotonous were
lined out and sung to very
tunes. During all the time the men and
women at their respective tables were
embracing and kissing each other. It
looked rather strange to see two men
with Esau-like beards kissing each
other. There were several negroes at
the tables, who were embraced and
kissed just the same as the other mem¬
bers, and kissed equally as freely. and
After these addresses, prayers
hymns bad gone on for an hour or more
Homo of the men and women towels.* brought Then
little wooden tubs and
one man or one woman, ns the case
might be, washed the feet of another,
after their boots or shoes and woolen
stockings were removed, kissing them
both before nnd after it. Another, with
his coat removed (if a man), aud a
towel about his waist, wiped the feet
after bestowing the kiss of brotherly
lovo, ns it is culled; then gave up tho
towel and tub to some one else, who
performed the same office for them in
turn. This custom, as one of tho
preachers explained, “was to show their
humility and brotherly love,” and also
to follow Christ at the last supper.
After this office had been concluded,
praying, singing and speaking entered went bearing on
ns before. A man now
a great basket of bread, a slioo of which,
about nine inches long, flvo wide, and of
an indefinite thickness, was laid in front
of each person ; next a spoon was put at
eaoli place; then dishes of soup with
square bits of bread broken in it were
placed so that there was one for overy
pieces four persons; of boiled beef. then Everything appeared being huge
thus prepared, one of tho preachers ex¬
plained that according to their reading
of the Scriptures the communion did not
mean simply the taking of the elements
of bread and wine, but that the last sup¬
per of Christ was a feast, and their aim
was to imitate Him exactly. After a
blessing with hod been askod around, in the ordinary they
way, all standing be¬
gan to ent heartily. table, Without they proceeded waiting to
clear up the to
complete their communion, by taking
the latter part of tho feast. This con
sisted of what appeared to be unleav¬
ened broad, made into long, thin strips
eight inches long, an inch wide, and
about tbe thickness of a newspaper
when folded. An explanation of the
ceremony was modo by a minister, and
a sort of informal blessing Tho of the ele¬
ments was pronounced. slices of
broad were lying in a napkin, while the
wine was in two patent medicine bottles
labeled “liver corrector. ”
Tbe bread was distributed, one per¬
son taking a strip with two of his com
parfions, and breaking it into three
pieces, thus again following out their
idea of a preservation possible of the occasion Trinity, tlie as
they do on every ;
wine, or “liver corrector,” was next
poured into tin cupB, and likewise dis¬
tributed, both among women aud men.
Work on Hie Panama Canal.
LAZY NEGROES AND UNDECIDED ENGINEERS
DO NOT HASTEN MATTERS.
[From the Boston Herald.]
It is an amusing sight for an Ameri
can newly arrived at Panama to watch
the Jamaica negroes at work on the ca¬
nal. One day, when at Colon, I was
watching some negroes at work on the
construction of a building. One man
was fetching tbe bricks to the bricklay¬
ers. Ho had no hod, and how do you
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