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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
EAST.
Doyle, the New York policeman who
murdered Mary Lawler, has been sentenced
to prison for life.
A ship load of Danish convicts, -who
ately arrived in New York city, will be sent
home in the vessel which brought them over.
The regular official statement of the
city and county debt issued bv Comptroller
Green, of New Yorn city, shows an increase
during April of over four million dollars.
Two thousand coopers are on the
strike in New York. T(:c object is said (o be
neither more wages nor less hours but to
compel the discharge of non-union coopers.
The United States has begun suit on
the bond of ex-postmaster Jone*, of New
York, for the recovery of 8101,000, embezzled
by his clerk, Norton.
Six miles east of Philadelphia three
cars loaded with oil, and one with live hogs,
were burned on the 12th. Two hnndred feet
of the track was destroyed, and the rails badly
twisted.
Scranton, Pa., reports the suspension
of the L&ckawana Iron company, throwing
700 men out of work, while at Reading 1,000
are likewise treated by the suspension of a
wool-hat factory.
Application has been made to the
supreme court for an order winding up the
Samana bay company and appointing a re
ceiver. The petitioner is a creditor named
Wm. Rowland, who says there were two com
panies, the Samana bay company, of San Do
mingo, owning all the debts, and the Samana
bay company, of New York, owning all the
property.
The American tract society held its
49th annual meeting in New York on the 13th.
The old officers were re-elected, and resolutions
adopted providing for the celebration of the
jubilee year of the society by the preparation
of a special sermon and historical discourse.
The receipts of the society for the year were
8592,391, including 8391,031 from sales, and
814,801 from legacies. The exptn-es were
8651,545.
A short time ago the government
brought suit against Jay Cooke & Cos., to re
cover the amount of eighteen one thousand
dollar bonds, redeemed as genuine, but which
proved counterfeit. The case was tried before
Judge Blatchford and a jury in the United
States circuit court, and a verdict was given
for the government for 823,130.38, being the
amount paid by the asissistant treasurer for the
bonds with interest. Jay Cooke A Cos. aj
pealed, and Judge Woodruff has affirmed the
judgment of the court belcw.
WEST.
Latest advices from Michigan report
some abatement in the woods fires.
The Grand Lodge of Ohio, I. O. O. F.,
are in session at Cincinnati. There are 43,-
000 members in'the Btate.
The attorney-general of Wisconsin
affirms the constitutionality of the railroad
law, and the governor is taking measures to
enforce it.
The grange store started 1, sfc fall at
Winona, Minnesota, has failed. Liabilities,
$13,000, with no assets ; and a similar one at
Owatonna closed up after a loss of nearly
$20,000.
The bulkhead of Grassr .r Dam, in
upper Wolf river, Wisconsin, gave way last
week while nine men were engaged raising
gates. Four men were instantly killed and
others badly injured.
A battle is reported between the
Sioux and Grosventres at Kuife rivor, seventy
five miles above Bismarck, on the west bank
of the Missouri. The battle lasted about half
a day. One party retreated, hotly pursued by
the other. About a dozen horses were left on
the field.
A special dispatch says that two mem
bers of tho Yellowstone expedition have re
turned to Boseman, Montana, and reported
the whole party returning. The command
penetrated the territory to near the vicinty of
Longue river. From the Ist to tho 26th of
April, the force was liarrassed the entire time
by Indians. Three pitched battles were
fought, in which 100 Indians were killed. The
skirmishing was continuous, bauds of from
100 to 1,000 Indians lioveriug around. T.ie
whale outfit is in a battered and exhausted
condition, and the stock run down. The
party lost one man—S. E. Yates—two men
wounded, and twenty head of horses shot.
The members of the expedition assert that
rich mines exist in the Big Horn mountains,
but the vicinity of the Sioux made prospecting
out of the question.
SO UTH.
Atlanta, Ga., has voted $3,000 for
state fair premiums.'
The president has nominated Mrs.
Susan H. Burbridge as postmistress of Hop
kinsville, Ky.
The darkey immigration into Missis
sppi from the Caroliuas are turning their
faces homeward again.
Wm. Fry, a Louisville negro, seventy
four years old, has received a life sentence for
murdering his young wife.
The number of negroes that have
recently been murdered in Georgia by persons
of iheir ow n race is surprising, if not alarm
ing.
A man named Jordan, and his three
sons, arrested in Columbus, Ga., for counter
feiting nickels, have been sent to Savannah
for trial.
The new copper mines in Randolph
county, Alabama, are said to be turning out
four tons of ore per day, worth from 4 to 11
cents per ponnd.
The South Carolina papers mention
the names of twenty-five gentleman who are
looming up as candidates for governor at the
next state election.
The new funding bonds of Louisiana
will be ready for- delivery in a few days, and
the January interest will be paid as fast as the
old bonds come in.
The graves of the confederate dead
in Elmwood cemetery. Memphis, will be deco
rated next Saturday. General George W.
Gordon deliveres the oration.
A number of notorious burglars have
escaped from the Louisiana penitentiary and
made their way to New Orleans. The city is
reported full of desperate characters.
Admiral Franklin ■ Buchanan, late of
the confederate navy, and for many years a
distinguished officer of the United States navv,
died in Baltimore on the 12th, aged 74.
Governor Moses and ex Treasurer
Humseet of South Carolina have been in
dii e l b\ a republican grand jurv on charges
of breach of trust with fraudulent intentions,
and far grand larceny.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange has
appointed the following delegates to tho con
vention of the cotton exchanges at Augnsta,
Ga., June 10: W. B. Galbreath, John Toof
W. P. Proudfoot, S. M. J. c. Fizier j’
F. Petit.
The public schools of Atlanta cost
over $50,000 a year. The system embraces
seven grammar schools (two colored) and two
high schools. An effort is being made to induce
the city council to abolish the high schools on
account of the expense.
Suffold (Va.) Herald : “Scarcely a
week passes that we do not see on our streets
gentlemen from the north aud west iu search
of lands. May they all find a home and bring
with them their energy and their means to
bu Id up our waste places.”
Cyrenue Elliott, of McNairy county,
fenn., was murdered and robbed of several
bundled dollars in Shreveport, Louisiana. His
brother, J. C. Elliott, of Bowie county, Texas
was also a- tacked and robbed of a large sum
hut was not seriously injured.
Harry Powers, captain of the steamer
THE STANDARD AND EXPRESS.
Clarksville, is held at Memphis to answer in
the sum of $7,000 for hanging up S. Beirmm,
a young Hebrew passenger, to make him con
fess to having robbed a fellow passenger, and
then put him ashore with his hands tied be
hind him.
The copper excitement, which was
recently inaugurated in Carrolton, Ga., still
continues with unabated excitement. Sev
eral wagons of ore passed through the town
last week on their way to the station. The
newly discovered mine is twenty-eight miles
from the county line.
A late New Orleans dispatch says the
Spanish consul Don Carlos Pie, Gen. Badger,
chief of police, and detectives Harris and
Pearson gave bond in $20,000 each, to appear
for trial upon the charge of the robbery snf
ferred by Capt. Koderiquez, the grand jury
having found a true bill against them.
The board of directors of the cotton
exchange, in consideration cf requests from
other exchanges, have passed a resolution
suggesting January 10 as the day for the as
sembling. of the cotton exchange convention
in Augusta, Ga.; also, that the number of del
egates from each exchange be increased to
five.
It is said that a great deal of destitu
tion prevails in and around Chicot, Ark., on
account of the flood. The large planters are
suffering equally with the .small farmers.
Everything in the shape of chattel properly
and provisions have been swept away, and un
less aid reaches them soon there will be sacri
fice of life from starvation.
Samuel Berman has sued Capt. Reese
Pritchard, commander of the steamer Clarks
ville, for SIOO,OOO damages for hanging him
up on that boat to extort a confession in re
gard to stealing jewelry from a fellow-passen
ger, with which he was charged. Capt. Pritch
ard was not on board at the time of the
hanging.
A dispatch received from Helena says
that Capt. Tom Berry, formerly" a steamboat
commander in the Memphis and Little Bock
trade, but for several years past engaged in
planting at Walnut Bend, Ark., was shot and
killed there last week by a man named Marks
in a difficulty growing out of a lawsuit. Marks
escaped in the skiff of his victim.
Reports from New Orleans state that
the towboat Tiliie C. Jewett collided with tho
steimship City of Houston on the night of
the 14th, below Point Bohemia, and sunk in
twelve feet of water. A fireman and cabin
boy were drowned, the balance of the crew
clinging to the wreck till rescued by the
steamer Mary Ida. The City of Houston pro
ceeded on her course.
Further particulars in regard to the
killing of Capt. C. W. Edwards, at Bledsoe’s
landing. Arkansas, on Fiiday, show that it was
a deliberate assassination. Dr. Allen Laving
asked him to issue the attachment, Edw.-.rds
declined, as no longer magistrate. Allen then
attempted to bribe him to do so. Edwards
ordered him out of his house, and turned to
enter his wife’s room, when Dr. Allen leveled
a shotgun, and crying out “here’s luck,” is
chargod it, killing Edwards instantly. Allen
escaped. He was formly in the snake show
business.
On addressing a recent meeting of the
Galveston, Texas, chamber of commerce, Col.
Van Horne, of Kansas City, said the delega
tion bad two objects iu view. One was to in
quire if iho Galveston merchants were able
and willing to handle the grain of their sec
tion ; the other, to secure a proper competition
tariff of rates from the railroad lines. They
would letnm home satisfied we could handle
their grain, and would report to their board of
trade that the merelianls of Galveston will do
their part, and a united effort will be made to
induce the railroads to comply. J3y this means
a trans-Mississippi commerce will bo built up
which will rival that of the east.
The committee on transportation of
the agricultural congress, iu session at Atlan
ta, reported resolutions in favor of water
transportation, by artificial highways, aud
against the regulation of railroad traffic by
congress, which were adopted. Tho commit
tee on the tax on tobacco- recommended that
the government reduce the tak to a uniform
rate of twelve cents per pound, and that ar
ticles used in the manufacture of tobacco come
duty free. Adopted. Gen. Jackson was re
elected piesident and C. W. Gieeno secretary.
J. 8. Giinnel was elected vice-president. C.
W. Greene, secretary, resigned, and Geo. E.
Morrow, editor of the Wisconsin Farmer, was
elected in his place. The next meeting of the
congress will be held at Cincinnati the second
Wednesday in September, 1875.
About daylight on the morning of the
13th, the levee broke at Apperson’s plantation,
opposite Friar’s Point. At last accounts the
crevasse was one hundred and fifty yards
wide, and the water spreading over the planta
tion, one of the finest of that section. The
crevasse at Mdler's, on the Mississippi side, is
now six lunched yards wide, and the water
in the streets of Friar's Point, is three
feet deep. Families are moving out and mer
chants are busily engaged in removing goods.
The whole country in the rear is rapidly
being inudated. Some idea may be formed of
the water ruslimg through the crevasse, by its
tearing up huge cottonwood trees two and a
half feet in diameter and scattering them
over the neighboring plantations. Steamers
now all come through the Council Bend cut.
GENERAL.
The sura of $300,000 is to be pre
sented by the pilgrims to the Pope on their
arrival at Borne.
It is understood that tho Howard
court-martial stood four for acquittal and
three for conviction.
The sloop S. Watara, fitted up to
convey the scientific party to ebservo the tran
sit of Venus, Dec. 9, has gone into commis
sion.
The Cuban cable was recently cut,
evidently with an axe, a mile from land. The
supposition is it fouled iu the anchor of some
ship, and the sailors cut it.
A party of one hundred and eighty
five Mennonites arrived at Baltimore Wednes
day from Odessa, southern Buseia. They pro
pose to settle in Dakota or Nebraska.
At a meeting of the ninth army corps
at Harrisburg, Pa., last week, Gen. Wilson
suggested that an invitation should be ex
tended to the late confederate corps, bong
street’s, which he had most frequently en
countered, to come up next year, to have a
patriotic time of it, and bury the hatchet to
gother and forever.
FOREIGN.
Europe grumbles at the hot weather,
and Paris reports one case of cholera.
The British government are deter
mined to retain possession of the gold coast.
Concha has begun his advance from
Bilbca. The Carhsts are fortifying the moun
tain passebefore shim.
Dispatches from Madrid say interna
tionalist are becoming troublesome at Aleay,
and tn outbreak is feared.
An American named Lanteu, who acts
as vice consul in Cuba for Great Britain and
Germany, has been ordered to leave the island
for communicating with the insurgents.
A special dispatch from St. Peters
burg says the Grand Duke Nicholas, brother
of the Czar, has been arrested, but on what
charge is not made known. There is great
excitement in St. Petersburg in consequence
of the arrest.
It not the brother of the Czar
who was recently arrested, but Prince Nicho
las, a nephew, who stole some diamonds from
his mother and gave them to a well known
French actress. The Czar ordered that the
law take its course.
A letter from Paris says ; It is the
impression here that the new Spanish minhtrv
will shortly exhibit Alphonsist tendencies.
Unquestionably a large proportion of • the
better classes of Spaniards look forward to
the enthronement of the prince of the Aus
turias as offering the best chance for the pros
perity of Spain, despite the strong doubts ex
isting whether he possesses the qualities fit
ting him for the duties of sovereign.
A letter from Havana says the court
martial is doing its work, and by wholesale
pronouncing the penalty of death, chain gang,
perpetual imprisonment and confiscation of
property all over the Island. Nine persons
were tried for treason at Magari, one at San
tiago de Cuba, and five at Havana, who have
all been condemned to suffer the death pen
alty. - Four persons at Puerto Principe, for the
same crime, have been co' demued to work on
the Trocha during the continuance of the re
bellion. Six persons at Gauimara have been
sentenced to ten years on the chara gang, and
one from Trinidad has been condemed to per
petual chains. The approval of a decree of
the governor-general in regard to finances
appears to have arrived from Spain. The
home government hesiiated long before ap
proving of them, but Concha was firm and
telegraphed to Spain that they, must be ap
proved or he would resign.
ARKANSAS.
Dispatches from Little Rock of the
11th, say General Churchill and Col. King
White cro-sed the river that morning with a
considerable force of Baxter troops, and
started for Baring Cross. Immediately after
ward. Col. John Clayton, of the Brooks army,
crosed the railroad bridge with 300 men. At
the latest accounts skirmishing began along
ihe lines and a lively fire was kept up. Bar
ing Cross seemed to be the objective point,
and the possession of that station evidently
the purpose of each party. Too Brooks
forces hold the railroad bridge aud will net •
allow tne Baxterites to er .ss it, but trains are
not molested. A small detachment of Federa
troops cossed the river with a flag of truce,
and firing on the part of the Baxter and
Brooks forces has now ceased. In the skir
mish quite a number are reported killed and
wounded on tho Brooks side. Gen. White
had one man wounded at the time of the in
terference of the Federal forces. Gen. White
had the Brooks party surrounded, and would
have captured the whole outfit, but for the
Federal forces.
Baxter has addressed a letter to the
attorney-general at Washingten, in which he
proposes to submit the questions at issue be
tween himself and Brooks to the legislature
now in session, and engages to abide by the
decision of that, body. Brooks also appears
willing to recognize the same tribunal. The
president expresses his approval of such an
arrangement, and the difficulties between
the rival governors seem in'a fair wav of peace
able adjustment.
Later advices report Brooks as having
refused acceptance of the terms proposed by
the president through the attorney-general,
and in the meantime the war goes on. An
other skirmish took place on the 12th, with
loss cf life on both sides, when a company of
Federal soldiers separated the combatants.
The state legUlature is still without a quorum-
Washington dispatches sav that final action on
the part of the government will not be delayed
more than a day or two, when meaus will" be
employed to protect the people from the dan
gers in which thev are involved, without pir
tiality toward either of the contending fac
tions or rival governors by whom tho teud was
initiated.
Both parties still assume a hostile
attitude, and continue recruiting. A slight
skirmish took place between the opposing
forces on the 13th, in which two men were
wounded. The legislature is in session, there
being a quorum in both branches. Nothing,
however, has been done except to affect a
tempora'y organization.
The situation in Arkansas remains
unchanged. The legislature have passed a joint
resolution calling upon the president to put
them in possession of the state house. They
have also notified Baxter that they are ready
to receive any message he might desire to de
liver. In response thereto, Baxter sent in a
message, in which he sets forth the condition
of affairs from his standpoint, and recommends
the calling of a constitutional convention.
The war is ended. Attorney-General
Williams submitted to tho president his opin
ion in the Arkansas case, decid ng in favor of
Baxter as the rightful governor of the state,
aud the president, by proclamation, has given
authoritative sanction thereto. Brooks has
disbanded his forces and retired to private life.
Little Rock dates of the 18th place
Baxter in full possession of the office of gov
ernor. All ihe state arms have, been turned
over to him, aud the federal forces are in
structed to recoguize him as the Bupreme
head of the state, and directed to co-operate
witti the local forces in bringing order out of
chaos. The house passed a resolution and ap
pointed a special commissioner to investigate
as to whether any officers cf the state have
been engaged in armed insurrection against
tho state government. A similar committee
was appointed in the senate. Chief Justice
McClure is a refugee, on hia wav to Washing
ton.
Iu Little Rock, on the 16th, both
houses, by a unanimous vote iu the house and
three dissenting votes in the senate, passed
a bill providing for the assembling of a con
stitutional convention on the 14th day of July
next The election is to be held on the 30th
day of June, at. which time the electors vote
on the proposition and elect delegates to the
convention. An agreement was made by
which Gen. Newton, the commanding gen
eral of Baxter’s forces, is to send home with
- molestation all of Brooks’ men. The
state arms are to ba left in the state armory.
The men retain their side arms.
CONGRESSIONAL,
In the senate, on the 12th, the com
mittee on railroads reported back the bill
supplementary of the act to incorporate the
Texas Pacific railroad, with an amendment in
the nature of a substitute, and it was placed
on the calendar The committee on militarv
affairs reported favorably on a bill amendatory
of the act increasing the pay of the sailors of
the United States army Consideration was
resumed of the Geneva award bill. Amend
ments were adopted to strike out the clause
excluding the claims of insurance companies,
and that a'l claims provable or to be allowed
under the act shall be e-timated and adjusted
upon the basis of United States gold coin a
the time of the loss, and the bill passed—26
to 18.
In the house, on the 12th, George O.
Cannon, of Utah, was admitted as a delegate
from that territory The house went into
committee of the whole on the bill (o amend
the passenger steamboat law. The bill con
tains seve ty-tliree sections, covering eighty
three printed pages. It is in part a re-euact
ment of the act of February 28, 1871. It
makes provision for the inspection of hulls
and boilers, and for licensing of cantains,
pilots, officers and engineers, and establishes
rules for vessels meeting, and pa-sing each
other. After proceeding as far as the
second page of the bill the committee rose,
and soon after the house adjourned.
In the senate, on the 13th, a bill was
introdneed for the better protection of immi
grants Mr. Davis addressed the senate
upon the bill introduced by him, appropriating
$500,000 to reimburse the state of West Vir
ginia and its citizens for losses incurred by
rea-on of the destruction of bridges, court
houses, school-houses, churches, etc., by Fed
eral troops dnring the war Speeches' were
made on the finance bill, and the senate ad
journed.
In the house, on the 12tb, the bill to
amend the law of 1871, for the better security
of life on board of steam vessels, was passed.
Senate bill to distribute the Geneva award
was referred, and the house adjourned.
In the senate, on the 14th, the com
mittee on pensions reported adversely on a
large number of petitions of soldiers of the
war of 18114 for pensions.. .The finance bill
was further amended and passed—2s to 19—
and the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 14th, a bill was
passed amending the charter of the freed
men s bank The deficiency bill was dis
cussed and passed, and the house took up the
consular and diplomatic appropriation bill.
The following is a summarv of the bid : Total
amount appropriated, $3,347,304; total amount
appropriated last year, $1,311 359. The new
matter appropriated is to pay claims of British
subjects $1,929,910.
In the senate, on the 15th, a memorial
of citizens of Mississippi was presented and
referred, praying the government to take
charge of the levees on the Mississippi river.
The committee on civil service reported
favorably on the house joint resolution, pro
viding that in all case-* under civil service ex
amination for position under the government,
■when a disabled soldier, his,wife, or widow of a
deceased soldier dying of wounds or diseases
CARTERS VILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1874,
contracted in the line of duty, or his orphan
child, shall pass such examination of the
standard fixed by the rule, such person shall
have precedence for appointment to any ex
isting vacancy.... House bill amendatory of
the act to p ovide for the establishment of a
military prison and its government was passed
and the senate adjourned.
In the house, on the 15th, the session
was consumed in a rambling, not to say jocular
discussion of a resolution prohibiting the
publication in the congressional record of
speeches not actually delivered.
In the senate, on the 18tb, a bill was
introduced to provide for the appointment, by
the secretary of war, of a commission of
three army officers and two civjl engineers, to
investigate and report a permanent plan for
the reclamation of the alluvial basin of the
Mississippi river subject to inundation Tie
bill araenda orv of the act of August 18 1865,
to regulate the diplomatic and consular system
of the United 'tates, was passed The leg
islature appropriation bill was considered
until adjournment.
In the house, on the 18tb, a bill was
referredrfor the improvement of the mouth of
the Mississippi... .A bill was passed author
izing the president to furnish rations and
clothing for the starving and destitute people
on the Tombigbee, Warrior and Alabama
rivers.... A resolution was offered requesting
the president to provide in future treaties
with foreign powers that war shall not be de
clared by either contracting power against the
other until an effort has been first made to
settle the cause of offense by impartial arbi
tration A bill was passed allowing the
stamping of documents and papers hereto
fore unsigned, and subject to stamp duty.
A FRIGHTFUL DELUGE
Mills and Villages Swept Away-Over
Two llundied Persons Killed
or Drowned.
The large reservoir seven miles north
of Haydenville, Mass., burst about
eight o’clock on the morning of the
16th, and the water came rushing down
the hills, carrying everything before it.
The flood struck the south-eastern pori
tion of Williamsburg, a village two
miles north of Haydenville, carrying
away a large number of dwellings. As
it came raging down the valley, it dug
up the houses and swallowed them in an
instant, leaving no trace. Tree butts
and great stones came down with the
flood. The mountain of water, roaring
like a thunder-storm of hail, reached
Skinnerville and lifted the silk mills
upon its shoulders before shredding
them into bits. At L eds it came down
a wall of water faced by an abbattis of
timber, trees, and iron boilers, which
struck the village in the full front.. At
first no water was visible, but a seem
ing wall of driftwood, about thirty feet
high and several hunch ed feet in width,
was seen sweeping down the valley at
the rate of twenty miles an hour.
AN AWFUL SIGHT.
There w as an hour and a-half of flood,
and then ebb; and at noon those who
had escaped came back in crowds to see
the ruins. It is an awful sight. Houses
are twisted like crumpled paper. Trees
are stripped of their bark and limbs,
even where their roots have clung to the
soil. The beautiful valley is a waste of
mud and muddy water, laden with dis
torted and strange shapes. Great boil
ers have been carried hundreds of yards
and left crushed aud buried. A man
was picked from a tree upon which be
had ridden six miles on the torrent,
cheering and waving his coat. The
poor fellow’s mind was gone. No less
than eight cases of insanity followed
among those who have lost relatives and
friends by this terrible calamity, and
three were committed to the asylum in
Northampton. Everything was ground
fine. When the flood was past, the tim
bers were in toothpicks and scraps of
irou, bricks and great stones nearly be
came boulders, and here and there a
corpse or a piece of corpse. All the
windings of the valley were tilled with
the debris, a terrible picture of waste
and death in the most beautiful valley
of Massachusetts.
SAVING THE DEAD.
The gracious work of saving the dead,
from this burial, began at noou at Skin
nerville. The first bodies were picked
up, dug out from the mud, or taken
with difficulty from the overloaded
ruins. All through the valley till night
and then men with lanterns, seeking
their dead, stood guard. At Hay
denville forty bodies were gathered
by night and at Leeds, forty-five.
There were fewer dead at Florence and
Northampton. There were one hun
dred and forty in all, though many more
are certainly buried in the mud and
rubbish that fill the valley with black
heaps from Williamsburg to Northamp
ton.
ESTIMATES OF THE DEAD.
The latest figures of the loss of life
by the Williamsburg reservoir make the
total number 149, divided as follows be
tween the fur places: Williamsburg,
61 ; Skinnerville, 4 ; Leeds, 49 ; Hay
denville, 35. Of those at Williamsburg
forty-four were women an 1 children ; at
Skinnerville two ; at Haydenville twen
ty-four, and at Leeds thirty nine. These
figures only represent persons whose
loss is positively known, though the
bodies of all are not yet recovered.
Bodies are constantly found, and in
some cases those of persons who were
not supposed to be lost; so that it
seems perfectly fair to say that the total
loss of life will exceed 150, if indeed it
does not more nearly approach 200.
DOSSES AGGREGATING TWO MILLIONS.
It is utterly impossible as yet to give
detailed estimate of losses; aside from
the buildings destroyed and damaged,
1 ridges have been carried away, roads
ruined, and hundreds of acres of mead
ow lands rendered almost valueless.
The total loss must far exceed one mil
lion dollars, and will probably come
nearer two millions.
CAUSE OF THE CATASTROPHE.
It appears that serious doubts as to
the safety of the reservoir have been
entertained ever since it was built, nine
years ago, though less the last year or
two than in ils-early history. The di
rect cause of the disaster, aside frotn
the general weakness of the dam, must
remain a subject of speculation. Per
haps as satisfactory a theory as any is
one advanced by a man familiar with
the case, that the frosts had started the
earth so the water had found numerous
little courses through it, which finally
carried the first mass of earth Saturday
morning, and at once precipitated the
catastrophe.
NARROW ESCAPES.
There were many narrow escapes. A
bntcher named Michael Hernigan -was
caught, horse, wagon and all, and car
ried along until he managed to get into
the top of a tree, and thus escaped.
Thomas Finnessy was carried some two
miles, floating on some timber, until he
finally escaped. Ira Dunning was in
like manner carried over half a mile.
Chas. Brady, after riding in imminent
peril for a mile, escaped to a tree. Dr.
Johnson warned his wife in season to
permit her to escape in safety ; but in
trying to save his three children he was
caught in the flood, and they all four
perished, in sight t>f the agonized wife
and mother.
THE DISASTER INCREASING IN PROPOR
TIONS.
The search for dead bodies has been
going on all day in Mill Run Valley,
and will be continued for several days
aud perhaps even weeks. The meadowß
are so deeply covered with debris that
it is feared many dead bodies have yet
been undiscovered. A number have
been recovered to-day, and it is now
thought that the estimate of 200 lives
lost mav fall -even below the actual
truth. The extent- of the disaster in
creases rather than diminishes, and it
as yet impossible to give a reliable esti
mate of the loss of life and property,
UNENDING.
There is an end to kisses aud to sighs.
There is an end to laughter and to tears;
An end to fair things that delight our eyes,
An end to pleasant sounds that charm eur ears;
An end to enmity’s foul libeling.
And to the gracious praise of tender friends ;
There is an end to all but one sweet thing—
To love there is no end.
That warrior carved an empire with his sword ;
The empire now is but like him—a name;
That statesman spoke, and by a burning word
Kindled a nation’s heart into a flame;
Now naught is left but ashes, and we bring
Our homage to new men, to them we bend ;
There is an end to all but one sweet thing—
To love there is no end.
All beauty fades away, or else, alas !
Men’s eyes grow dim and they no beanty see ;
The glorious shows of nature pass and pass,
Quickly they come, as quickly do they flee;
And he who hears the voice of welcoming
Hoars next the si .w, sid farewell of his frieud ;
There is an end to all'save one sweet thing—
To love there is no end.
And for ourselves—our father, where is he?
Gone, and a memory alone remains;
There is no refuge ou a mother’s knee
For us, brown, old, and sad with cares and pains ;
Brotherless sisterless, our way we wend
To Death’s dark house, from which we shall not rove,
And so w cease ; yet one thing hath no end—
There is no end to love.
THE UNFORTUNATE PASTOR.
Soren was the pastor of the little vil
lage of Veillby, situated a few miles
from Grenrca, in the Jutland peninsula.
He was a man of excellent moral char
acter, generous, hospitable and diligent
in the performance of liis sacred duties;
but he was also a man of constitution
ally violent temper.
At Ingvorstrup, a village not far
fom Veillby, dwelt a cattle farmer,
one Morten Burns, who by means any
thing but honest and honorable, bad ac
quired considerable property, and who
was in ill repute as a reckless self
seeker and oppressor of the poor. This
man Morten thought lit to pay court to
the pastor’s daughter, but the suit was
rejected by both parent and child, and
either the refusal or the manner of it,
so irritated the suitor that he swore
secretly to be avenged on both.
Some months later, when the short
lived suit had been forgotten, the pas
tor, being in want of a farm servant,
engaged Niels Burns, a poor brother of
the rich Morten, the discarded lover.
Niels soon showed himself to be an ut
terly worthless fellow, lazy, impudent
aud overbearing ; and the result was a
constant recurrence o- quarrels and
mutual recriminations between him and
his master. Soren, on more than one
occasion, gave the fellow a thrashing,
which did not at all tend to improve
the relations, however, destined to come
to a speedy close. The pastor had set
Niels to dig a piece of ground in the
garden, but on coming out he found
him not digging, but leisurely resting
on his spade and cracking nuts which
he had picked, his work being left un
done. The pastor scolded him angrily;
the man retorted that it was no busi
ness of his to dig in the garden; at
which Soren struck him twice in the
face, ana the fellow, throwing down his
spade, retaliated with a volley of abuse.
Thereupon the old man lost all self con
trol, and seizing the spade, he dealt the
fellow several blows with it. Niels fell
to the earth like one dead, but when
liis master in great alarm raised him up,
he broke awav, leaped through the
hedge, and made off into the neighbor
ing wood. From that time he was seen
no more, and all inquiries after him
proved vain. Tho above was the pas
tor’s account of the fact.
Ere long strange rumors began to cir
culate in the neighborhood, and as a
matter of course thev reached the pas
tor’s ears. Morten Burns was known to
have said that “he would make the par
eon produce his brother, even if he had
to dig him out of the earth.” Soren
was intensely pained at the calumny
implied, and instituted at his own ex
pense a quiet search after the missing
man—a search which failed altogether.
Even before that failure was known,
Morten Burns, in fulfillment of bis
threats, applied to the. district magis
trate, taking with him as witnesses one
Larsen, a cottag r, and a laborer’s
widow and danghte”, on tho strength
of whose testimonv he declared his
suspicion that the past h had slain his
brother. The magistrate represented
to him the risk he ran in making so
serious a charge -. gainst the clergyman,
and advised him to weigh the matter
well before it was too late. But Mor
ten persisted in his design, and the
statements of the witnesses were taken
down.
When the witness had deposed, Mor
ten demanded that the parson shonld
be arrested. Wishing to avoid a scandal
if possible, the magistrate, who was a
friend of Soren’s, proposed that they
shonld go together to the parsonage,
where they would probably receive a
satisfactory explanation of the facts de
posed to. Morten then consented to
this, and the party set out. On ap
proaching the house they saw Soren
coming to meet them—when Morten
ran forward, and bluntly accused him
of -murdering his brother, adding that
he was come to make search for the
body. The pastor made him no reply,
but courteously greeting the magistrate,
gave directions to the farm servants,
who gathered round, to aid by all the
means in their power the search to be
made. Morten led the way to the gar
den, and after looking round for some
tinu pointed to a certain spot, and
then called upon the men to dig there.
They had not dug long when one of
them cried out “ Heaven protect ns !’’
and as all present crowded to look, the
crown of a hat was visible above the
earth. “That is Niels’ hat,” cried
Morten; “ I know it well; here is a
security we shall find him ! Dig away !”
lie shouted with fierce energy, and was
almost as eagerly obeyed. Boon an
arm appeared, and in a few minutes the
entire corpse was disinterred. There
could be no doubt that it was the miss
ing man. The face could not be recog
nized for decomposition had commenced
and the features had been Injured
by blows, but his clothes, even unto his
shirt with his name on it, were identi
fied by his fellow servants; even a
leaden riDg in the left ear of the corpse
was recognized as one which Niels had
worn for years.
There was no alternative but to arrest
the pastor on th - spot—indeed he wiil
iugly surrendered himself, merely pro
testing his innocence. “ Appearances
are against me,” he said ; “surely this
must be the work of satan and his min
istry ; but He still lives who will at
pleasure make my innocence manifest.
Take me to prison ; in solitude and in
chains I will await what he in his wis
dom shall and cree.”
When asked what he had to say in
his defense, the pastor replied, solemn
ly, “So help me, God, I will say noth
ing but the truth. I struck deceased
with a spade; but not otherwise than
he was able to run away from me, and
out of the garden ; what became of him
afterwards, or how he came to be buried
in my garden, I know not. As for the
evidence of Lawson and the dairy
maid, who say that they saw me in the
garden in the night, it is either a lie or
a delusion. Miserable naan that lam !
I have no one on earth to speak in my
defense; that I see clearly. If He in
heaven likewise remains silent, I have
only to submit to His inscrutable will.”
When, some weeks later, the trial
came on, two more fresh witnesses were
produced. They declared that on the
oft-mentioned night they were proceed
ing along the road which mns from the
pastor’s garden to the wood, when they
met a man carrying %Back on his back,
who pas: ed them and walked on in the
direction of the garden. His face they
could not see, inasmuch as it was con
cealed by the overhanging sack ; bnt as
the moon was shining on his back, they
could plainly descry that he was clad in
a pale green coat, aud white night-cap.
He disappeared near tjje parsoq’s hedge.
No sooner did the pastor hear the ev
idence of the witness to this effect than
his face turned an ashy hue, and he
cried out in a faltering voice, “I am
fainting !” and was so prostrated in body
that he had to be taken back to prison.
There, after a period of severe suffer
ing, to the intense astonishment ot ev
ery one, he made to his friend, the dis
trict magistrate who had first arrested
him, the following strange confession :
“ From mv childhood, as far back as
I can remember, I have been passionate,
quarrelsome, aud proud—impatient .of
contradiction, and ever ready for a
blow. Yet have I seldom let the sun
go down on my wrath, nor have I borne
ill-will to any one. When but a lad I
slew in anger a dog which one day ate
my dibner, which I had left in his way.
When as a student I went on foreign
travel, I entered on slight provocation,
into a broil with a German youth in
Leipsie, challenged him, and gave him
a wound that endangered his life.
For that deed, I feel it, I merited that
which has now come npon me after
long years; but the punishment falls
upon my Binful head with tenfold
weight now that I am broken down w th
age, a clergyman and a father. Oh, fa
ther in heaven ! it is here that the
wound is sorest.”
After a pause of anguish he contin
ued : “I will now confess the crime
which no doubt I have committed, but
of which I am, nevertheless, not fully
conscious. That I struck the unhappy
man with the spade I know full well,
and have already confessed; whether it
were with the flat side or the sharp edge
I could not in my passion discern ; that
he then fell down, and afterwards lose
again and ran awav—that is all I know
to a surety. What follows—Heaven
help me ! —four witnesses have seen,
namely, that I fetched the body from
the wood and buried it; and that this
must be substantially trne I am obliged
to believe, and I will tell you where
fore. Three or four times in my life
that I know of it has happened to me
to walk in my sleep. The last time
(about nine vear3 ago), I was next day
to preach a funeral sermon over the re
mains of a man who had unexpectedly
met with a dreadful death. I was at a
loss for a text, when the words of a wise
man among the ancient Greeks sudden
ly occurred lo me : ‘Call no man happy
until he be in his grave.’ To use the
words of a heathen for a text of a Chris
tian discourse was not, methouglit,
seemly; but I then remembered that
the same thought, expressed the same,
was in Apocrypha. I sought, and
sought, but could not find the passage.
It was late; I was wearied by much
previous labor ; I therefore went to bed
and soon fell asleep. Greatly did I
marvel the next morning when, on
arising and seating myself at my writing
desk, I saw before me, written in large
letters npon a sheet of paper, ‘Let no
man be deemed happy before his end
cometh” (Sirach. xi. 34). But not this
alone. I found likewise a funeral dis
course—short, bnt as well written as
any I had ever composed—and all in my
own hand writing. In the chaml>er no
other than I conld have been ; I knew
therefore who it was that had written
the discourse, and that it was no other
than myself. No more than half a year
previous I had, in the same marvelous
state, gone in the night time into the
clinreh and fetched away a handkerchief
which I left in the chair behind the
altar. Mark now—when the two wit
nesses this morning delivered their
evidence be'ore the court, then my pre
vious sleep-walking suddenly flashed
across me; and I likewise called to
mind that in the morning after the
night during which the corpse must
have been buried, I had been surprised
to see my dressing-gown lying on the
floor just beside the door, whereas it
was always my custom to liacg it on a
chair by my bedside. The unhappy
victim of my unbridled passion must,
in all likelihood, have fallen down dead
in the wood ; and I must in my sleep
walking have followed him thither. Yes
—the Lord have mercy!—so it was, so
it must have been.”
The pastor was removed to the goal
at Genau the same night, and on the
following day came the judicial exami
nation. The witnesses confirmed
their former statements on oath. There
now appeared three additional witness
es, viz : the pastor’s two farm servants,
and the dairy-maid. The two former
explained how on the day of the mur
der they had been sitting near the
open window in the servant’s room,
and heard distinctly how the pastor and
the man Neils were quarreling, and
how the former had cried out, “ I will
slay thee, dog ! thou shalt lay dead at
my feet!” They added that they had
twice before heard the parson threaten
Neils with his life. The dairy-maid
deposed that on the night Lawson sa w
the pastor in the garden she was lying
awake in bed, and heard the door lead
ing from the passage into the garden
creak, and that when she rose and
peeped out, she saw the pastor in his
dressing-gown and night-cap. go out into
tho garden. What he did there she saw
not; but about an hour afterwards she
again heard the creaking of the door.
On the following day sentence of
death was passed upon the prisoner—a
sentence which many ielt to be severe,
and which led to a friendly conspiracy
on his behalf, and had it not been for
his refusal to be a party to anything un
lawful, he might have escaped. The
jailor was gained over, and a fisherman
had his boat in readiness for a flight to
the Swedish coast, where he would
have been beyond the leach of danger.
But Soren Quist refused to flee. He
longed, he said, for death; and he would
not add anew stain to his reputation by
a furtive flight. He maintained his
strength of mind to the last, and from
the scaffold he addressed the bystauders
a discourse of much power, which he
had composed in prison during his last
days. It treated of anger and its dire
ful consequences, with touching allu
sions to himself and the dreadful crime
of which his anger misled him. There
after, be doffed his coat, bound with his
own hands the napkin before his eyes,
and submitted his neck to the execu
tioner’s sword.
One-and-twenty years after the pas
tor, Soren Quist of Vellby, had been
accused, tried, condemned and execu
ted for the murder of his serving-man,
an old.beggar applied for alms to the
petiole of Aalsoe, the parish adjoining
to Vellby. Suspicions were aroused by
the exact likeness the beggar bore to
Morten Burns of Ingvorstrup, who had
lately died, and also by the curious anti
anxious inquiries the man made con
cerninci events long past. The pastor
of Aalsoe, who had buried Morten
Burns, look the vagabond to his par
sonage, and there the fellow, all uncon
scious of the portentous nature of the
admission, acknowledged that he was
Niels B ms, the very man for whose
supposed murder the pastor had suffered
the shameful death of a criminal. Had
his brother Morten survived him it is
firetty certain the truth, concealed so
ong.bad never been known, as Niels
had only returned t# the district in the
hope of profiting by Morten’s death,
the ncwß of which had accidentally
reached him. He professed—aud, in
deed, plainly experienced,—the utmost
horror on hearing the dreadful history
of the pastor’s cruel fate. It was all
Morten’s doing, he said; but he was
so overcome by the terrible narrative
that he could scarcely gather strength
to reply to the questions put to him.
The result of his examination and
confession may be summed up very
briefly. Morten had conceived a mor
tal hatred of Soren Quist from the time
that he refused him his daughter, and
had determined on revenge. It was he
who compelled Niels to take service
with the pastor, who he had spurred on
to the repeated offenses, in the expecta
tion that violence would result, owing
to the pastor’s hasty temper, and had
carefully nursed the fend which soon
arose between master and man. Niels
told him daily all that took place. On
leaving the garden on that fatal day, ho
had run over to Ingvorstrup to acquaint
his brother with what had happened.
Morten shut him up in a private room
that no one might see him. Shortly
after midnight, when the whole village
was asleep, the two brothers went to a
place where the roads cross each other,
and where a few days previously a sui
cide had been buried—a young man of
about Nit l’s age and stature. In spite
of Niel’s reluctance and remonstrance
they dug up the corpse and took it into
Morten’s house. Niels was made to
strip and don a suit of Morten’s, and
the corpse was clad, piece by piece, in
Niels’ cast off eioihes, even to the very
ear-ring. Then Morten battered the
dead face with a spade, and hid it in a
sack until the next night, when they
carried it into the wood by Vellby par
sonage. Niels asked what all these pre
parations meant. Morten told him to
mind his own business and to go and
fetch the parson’s preen dressing-gown
and cap. This Niels refused to do,
whereupon Morten went and fetched
them himself. “ And now,” he said to
his brother, “you go your way. Here
is a purse with a hundred dollars—make
for the frontier where no one knows
thee; and pass thyself under another
name, and never set thy foot on Danish
soil again as thou wonldst answer it
with thy life!” Niels did as be was
commanded and parted from Morten
forever. He had enlisted for a soldier,
had suffered great hardships, had lost a
limb, and had returned to his native
pi ce a mere wreck.
Vanderbilt.
The wealth ot the Vanderbilt family
has been variously estimated, and the
reticence of the commodore himself
has admitted of little else than mere
conjecture on this point. There is a
general opinion, however, among tkose
who are in a position to judge most cor
rectly that the wealth vested iu Com
modore Vanderbilt exceeds one hun
dred millions of dollars, and a promi
nent member of the family recently
said that the “old man” was worth more
than that sum. This vast fortune was
acquired by Cornelius Vanderbilt
through his own efforts, starting early
in life without capital or influence. His
parents were poor, and his first money
was earned in conveying people to and
fro in a row-boat between New York
and Staten Island. He made a large
amount of money in steamboating, but
the great bulk of his wealth has been
acquired in railroad combinations and
iu the manipulation of railroad stocks.
He is and has been all his life a very
remarkable man. His self reliance and
pluck are as natural with him as draw
ing breath, and his will and purpose in
domitable. A man of such tremendous
mental force has he been that he has
moved forward to the accomplishment
of his objects with a power as irresisti
ble as one of his steamboats. His one
purpose in life lias been the acquisition
of money. To this end he has trained
his mental and physical resources with
the greatest care. He has made of
himself a machine that has always
obeyed the requirements of bis intel
lect, and wherever he has struck it has
been with telliDg force and effect. He
has always drank moderately and lived
regularly, taking just the requisite
am iint of exercise always. Smoking
and whist-playing.are the only indul
gences which he has permitted him
self to any considerable degree. Every
day be is to be seen driving on the road
with a stump of a cigar between his
teeth, aud until within a year past he
has had every evening some of his cro
nies, in for a rubber at whist and to
talk horse, a subject at which he never
tires. Latterly, however, his evenings
have been passed very quietly. He has
always been a strict man of business,
kept his own counsel, and admitted or
known no partners. He never allows
the plea of affection or charity to in
terfere with his business matters. Ap
peals to liis sympathy have about as
much effect as a straw forced under the
wheels of a locomotive. He has been
well, active and in the harness all his
life, and has never tired or weakened.
He will be 80 years of age in May, and
his 60 odd years of constant hard work
show that he has had one of the strong
est physical constitutions ever given to
a man.— New York Graphic.
The Anacontla's Cats.
When the anaconda was on exhibition
here, says the San Francisco Alta, it
was customary to feed him with a rab
bit every few days, and the reptile
throve on his diet. When the snake
was taken to Sacramento for exhibition
it was uncertain how long the show
would stay; but the patronage of the
Sacrame tans was generous, and the
agent at once telegraphed for hie showy
posters to “bill the town.” The dis
patch read : “ Send two hundred cuts
immediately,” but when received it
read : “ Send two hundred cats immedi
ately.” It was a little bit of a surprise
to the agent at San Francisco when he
read the message, but he reasoned that
rabbits were scarce in Sacramento, and
it was necessary to substitute cats for
the regular provender, so he started
out an army of boys to catch all the
stray cats. ‘By the afternoon train he
sent a crate of seventy-five cats, with a
letter saying : “I seed seventy-five
cats by this train, and will forward bal
ance to-morrow, but I am afraid that
number of cats will eat the snake, if
they get loose, instead of being eaten
by him.”
Crop Prospects at Home and Abroad.
The reports from Austria are not so
favorable to the crops, and only the
most propitious weather can preserve
certain districts from partial failure.
The crisis from which Austria still suf
fers so severely would have been check
ed in a great measure if the crops last
year had been good. Should a second
poor harvest follow this year, it will be
difficult to over-estimate the disaster
which must ensue. Abundant crops
here, iu conjunction with the active
demand from Europe for our varied
products, have played a moie impor
tant part than is generally supposed
in rebutting tho effect of last year’s
panic npon the commercial system of
the coun'ry. With exceptionally good
prospects for the crops here and an av
erage demand from Europe for our Bur
pins, there is no reason why our indus
tries should not rapidly recover. If
Enropean countries are still in the
slough of despond, some of them have
good reasons for it. — N. Y. Bulletin.
Transfasion of Blood.
A reporter of the New Orleans Pica
vune has recently acoom .lished a sensa
tion. Near St. Bernard market, in that
city, he discovered what appeared to be a
spotted negro, but who, upon investiga
tion, proved to be a Norwegian sailor
strongly infused with Cambodian blood.
While sick in Singapore years ago, a
physician to prevent liis dying of para
lysis infused into his veins the blood of
a Cambodian boatman. Tt restored ani
mation to his dying frame, renewed his
lease of life, but entailed the fearful
alternation of a black instead of a white
skin. Since then the man has been
steadily growing black, and two of his
children born since the medical experi
ment was made, aro deeply tainted with
the Cambodian blood, presenting all
the characteristics of the half breeds of
that race,
TIIE BRINKLEY SUIT.
It U Again Before lac Hew fork Courti-
A Hew Version of an Old Story.
New York Sun, May 12.
The case of Mrs. Elizabeth Brinkley,
who is suing her husband for a divorce
a mensa et thoro, and for alimony, was
yesterday resumed b.-fore Judge Van
Brunt and a jury. The defendant,
Hugh Liwson Brinkley, is the rever
sionary legatee of an estate worth sl,-
500,000, the property being principally
near Memphis, Tennessee, but is de
pendent npon bis father, during th e lat
ter’s lifetime, for an allowance from the
estate. The plaintiff is the orphan
daughter of James S. Charles, an i ctor
and tlu atrical manager, who prosecuted
liis business last in Memphis, and who,-
at his death, left his daughter under the
charge of the Masonic fraternity. The
Masons adopted and educated her. The
t.ory of the plaintiff’ is romantic, ii not
true.
She first made the familiar acquiint
ance of the defendant in 1860 at the
town of Inka, Miss., on the Memphis
and Charleston railroad, celebrate! in
ante-bellum days as a kind of watering
place, where Jefferson Davis and other
‘outliern dignitaries hail summer resi
dences, and where several edncatimal
institutions were situated. At that
time, under the name of Lizzie Charles,
plaintiff was a teacher in a young la
dies’ college in luka. The defendant's
ather had an elegant summer residence
close to the school, and a festival occa
sion, participated in by the pupils and
teachers of the school in common with
the neighboring gentry, brought plain
tiff and defendant together. They had
known each other in Memphis, but bad
not had then a speaking acquaintance.
For two or three weeks, during which
young Brinkley lingered about Inka. he
was assiduous in h ! s attentions to nliss
Charles, taking her out riding and mak
ing himself her escort on all convenient
oocasions.
When the war came on later, Miss
Charles lost her occupation teacher
in the south, and she came to New Y ork
to secure the protection a; and assistance
of some distant relatives. She obtain
ed employment here as a teacher in
families, and at length it? the g rls’
school of Madame Bernard in Madison
avenne. While she was thus engaged,
in April, 1864, young Brinkley cam a to
this city, and lost no time in renewing
the cou tship commenced in luka.
From April until June he was very at
tentive, and on the first suitable occa
sion proposed marriage. Miss Charles
accepted the offer. While young Bri ik
ley was continuing his attentions as the
plaintiff’s promised husband, he ex
plained to her that his father and fami
ly expected him to marry a southern
heiress, and admitted that he had gi’ r en
the heiress and his friends good reason
to believe that he intended to fulfill
their expectations. But he said t aat
nothing should separate him from fire
bride of his heart’s choosing, and he
pleaded with plaintiff to assist him in
concealing for a time his intention to
defeat his father’s matrimonial project.
This appeal was strengthened by the
asseveration that he was wholly depend
ent upon his father while the old gen
tleman lived, and that am intimation
of an intention to defeat the parer tal
purpose would inevitably result in the
cutting down of the son’s allowance to
a starvation figure. With much can
vassing of the subject, be proposed that
their marriage should be without relig
ious or magisterial solemnization, rad
should rest solely upon the ground ol an
agreement meeting the requirement!! of
the law of New York, which makes
marriage simply a civil contract. With
forms prepared on the spot the marri ige
contract was consummated as be p ro
posed, and for more than five years the
young couple lived and traveled as bus
band and wife.
In 1871 the elder Brinkley tried to ef
fect a separation. He offered pi ain tiff
money to go to Europe, where she was
to have a monthly allowance. Under
the persuasions of young Brinkley she
assented, but her positive declinat.on
to sign a paper saying she was not a
wife, broke off this engagement. Some
time afterward the defendant deserted
her in Memphis. She came to New
York, and in due time instituted he
pending suit. The case has twico been
to the court of appeals, the defendant
fighting interlocutory orders for ihe
plaintiff's maintenance. Both appeals
were dismissed.
About a year ago Judge Van Brunt
spent over ten days trying the case on
its merits, and finally concluded t lat
the issue of the fact was too import rat
t be passed npon by a single man, fnd
he ordered a jury to be empanneled for
the purpose. The cross examination of
the plaintiff had not been concluded
when the court adjourned yesterday.
The plaintiff is a small, fragile woman,
very sprightly and elegantly dressed.
The defendant was not in attendance,
and it was hinted that he was absent to
avoid a commitment for contempt of
court for disobeying an order touching
the payment of an allowance to the plain
tiff to “assist her ia the prosecution.
A Son of Napoleon 111.
The ghost of Louis Napoleon, or w bat
looks strangely like the wraith of the
defunct emperor, may be seen drily
haunting the restaurant Morel, bad ol
the Opera Comique in Paris, a cafe
much frequented by artists and authors.
The ghost in question is no other than
the son of tho dead ruler, the eldest
child of the late celebrated Mrs. How
ard. He is remarkably like his father
(an advantage which the prince impe
rial does not enjoy), and is said to re
semble him also in conduct. He :s a
middle-aged man now, but is not in the
least a settled or steady one, and iis
habits of dissipation and extravagance
used to give the emperor much trouble.
To get rid of this wild scion, and to
avoid the scandals which might hnve
been set afloat by the liberals respect
ing bis conduct in Paris, bis father s.mt
him, first as consul o Belfast, and find
ing that still too near to France in all
probability, he transferred him to the
consulate of Zanzibar. He is now res id
ing iu Paris, and bears the title of
Count de Bure. Some day perhaps he
mav play the part of Duke de Morny
to Napoleon IV.
The Spanish Commander-in-Chief
Marshal Concha is far from having
reached the venerable age generally at
tributed to him. He was born at Bue
nos Ayres in 1808. His father was
Captain Boncha, who was there killed
by the insurgents. Manuel, who is now
in command of a corps d’armee against
the Carl lets, is sixty-six years of age,
and is a fine specimen of the veteian
soldier. His great fait d’armes was thc
eapture of Oporto in 1847, when the
British fleet, ul der Admiral Parker, ■-
operated in the suppression of a Por ;u
--guese insurrection against the reigning
dynasty. Ft* this he was created M ir
quis del Duero. In 1854 he again
showed marvelous courage on the oc
•asion of a military revolt in Barcelona.
The troops in the citadel refused to s ir
render, and he entered the place alone,
telling his supporters to storm the i or
tress if in half an hour they did not nee
the white flag hoisted, for then tl ey
would know he was dead. His audacity
overawed the insurgents, and they laid
down their arms at his command. He
is considered the first tactician of Spa in.
Serrano, who is his junior in the army,
is younger by two years.
The year of jubilee has come 1 The
sewing machine agents of Indianapolis
are using each other as targets for pis
tol practice. Now let other cities foil rw
the example till it becomes a tidal wa re.
VOL. 15-NO. 22.
SAYINGS ANI) DOINGS.
Head-light —Bngut eye?.
Heaven means principle.— Confucius.
Faith and hope enre more diseases
than medicine. —Martin Luther.
A blacksmith is always striking for
wages.
The wise men of the yeast—The
bakers. |
Great hopes belong only to' great
souls. — Martineau.
Necessity knows no law, but law
knows a good deal of necessity.
A Georgia editor was bitten by a dog,
“being evidently mistaken for a bone.”
What throat is the best for a singer
to reach high notes with ? A soar
throat.
The feeling of gratitude has all the
ardor of a passion in noble hearts.—
Achillea Poincelot.
An article yon can always borrow
—Trouble, and are not obliged to re
turn it.
Purchase no friends byj gifts ; when
thou ceasest to give, such will cease to
love.— Fuller.
There is but one kind of love, but
there are a thousand different copies of
it. — Rochefoucauld.
Success has no secrecy "about it save
this : Never attempt to do,that you are
not able to perform.
An old wine-bibber says that an emp
ty champagne-bottle is like an orphan,
because it has lost its pop.
An old Scotchman used to say “Pm
open to conviction, but I’d like to see
the man that can oonvinoe me. ”
An Akron, Ohio, man has had his
wife jailed for two weeks for hitting him
on the heal while he was saying his
prayers.
A Kansas book agent says he can sell
ten dime novels to one work on relig
ion, and he looks for earthquakes and
hurricanes to visit that state.
Some New York state men have com
menced wearing linen coats, but fire
places ought to be painted on the back
to give them an air of comfort.
Cremation Obituary.—
Dear Jane is gone, my darling Dan,
She was calcined yesterday ;
But the wiud upset the tomato-can.
And blew her ashes away.
The esteem of wise and good men is
the greatest of all temporal encourage
ments to virtue; and it is the mark of an
abandoned spirit to have no regard to
it.— Burke.
Now that the word “hymeneal” is so
commonly used in reference to wed
dings, it is suggested that births should
be hosded “crymeneal” and deaths“die
meneal,”
What a foe the farmers have to con
tend against in the potato bug is shown
by the experience of a man in Joliet, 111.
He placed some in a bottle eight months
ago. They have been exposed to the
extremes of winter and summer, _ have
had nothing to eat, and are still living.
A Chinaman shot an American eagle,
near Sacramento, one day last we- k,
and cooked and ate the deceased mon
arch of birds. A few hours later sev
eral patriotic citizens were “ loyally”
yelling around a newly dug trench, and
there was a dead Chinaman at the bot
tom of it.
In Truckee, Nevada, the other day,
a group of five able-bodied individuals
were conversing about fire-arms. One
offered to wager the drinks that there
were not three revolvers in the crowd.
The bet was taken, and the result was
six revolvers, three derringers and a
horse-pistol.
The wheat crop is promi ing through
out all the grain-growing states, and as
a result of a drain to India on account of
the famiL e, and the prospect of a short
crop in England on account of labor
troubles, the chances of a brisk demand
at good prices is such as to make glad
the heart of the granger.
We once heard of a traveler at a hotel,
who rose from his bed at night to ex
amine the weather ; but instead of look
ing out on the sky, he thrust his head
through the glass window of a cupboard.
“ Bless me !” he muttered, “this is very
singular weather. The night is as dark
ac pitch, and smells of cheese.”
I wish women to live first for God’s
sake. Then she will not make an im
perfect man her God and thus sink to
idolatry. Then she will not take what
is not fit for her from a sense of weak
ness and poverty. Then, if she finds
what she needs in man embodied, she
will know how to love and be worthy of
being loved.— Margaret Fuller.
Chubby, a three-year old boy, was
much puzzled to know what made it
rain, when his orthodox mother told
him that God made it rain. A few days
after, Chubby was discovered amusing
himself by throwing wa*er from a two
story window on the heads of passers-by,
and, on being remonstrated with by his
mother, said: “ Why, mamma, I was
only playing God.” Of oourse, the
mother was horrified at the comparison.
I found myself moralizing on the su
periority of money over other virtuee.
It is always appreciated. No ghost
need rise from the giave to proclaim its
transcendent merits. It makes the hid
eous beautifnl, the foolish wise, the
stupi 1 witty, and the wicked saints. It
can patronize genius, and dictate to na
tions. It is very fine to be Shakspeare
after death, but how much more com
fortable to be Rothschild while living !
Kate Field. . ,
The three-foot narrow gauge railroad
system is rapidly becoming popular in
this conntry, and but few people are
aware of the fact that since it came in
vogue, during the last three or four
years, no less than 1,345$ miles of nar
row gauge railway have; been built in
this country and in Canada, which
roads, when completed, will have a
mileage of 4,562$ milts, while there
are 1,591 miles under construction.
Let not mistakes or wrong directions,
of which every man, in his studies and
elsewhere, falls into many, discourage
you. There is precious instruction to
be got by finding that we are wrong.
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to
be right, he will daily grow more and
more right. It is at the bottom the
condition on which all men have to cul
tivate themselves. Our very walking
is an incessant falling—a falling and a
catching of ourselves before we come
actually to the pavement! It is emble
matic of all things a man does.—Car
lyle.
A correspondent writes as follows of
a celebrated place in Colorado CanoD,
called Echo Park : “ When a gun is and s
charged, total silence follows the report
for a moment; then with startling sud
denness the echo is heard, seeming at a
great distance—say five miles to the
south—whence it comes back in separate
and distinct reverberations, as if leap
ing from glen to glen. Louder and
quicker grows the sound, nnth appar
ently directly opposite, when a- full
volume of sound is retnrned ; then once
more the echo is heard, like the snap
ping of a cap, far to the eastward.”
Povebtt is the safest lady-love for
an artist, as one of Dante’s friends was
always telling him. With her, at least,
they can enjoy the perfect freedom from
care which alone makes want supporta
ble ; they can throw around their desti
tution that halo of romance which the
prosaic details of a household invaria
bly strangle out of existence. But in
the early choice of a wife more hopes
go down, more aspirations *re smoth
ered, than those whose aim 4s worldly
success and the favor of the great. The
ideal is the victim for excellence ; the
spark of genius dies; the incentive to
do and dare has dwindled down to the
necessity of earning and eating,