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EDITORIAL EAGLETS.
4 Senator Thurman will stump Ohio
I for Hancock and English.
The republicans are beginning to
I show a good deal of uneasiness about
Ohio.
Judge Wm. Gibson, of Augusta, is
a candidate for the State senate from
I (he eighth district.
The Phildelphia thinks the
I democrats will certainly gain one
I congressman in Pennsylvania, and
91 ay secure four.
The report that Dr. H. V. M.
Miller would not accept Senator
Brown s place if it were tendered
Jiim, is not considered reliable.
If Mr. Norwood’s speech delivered
at that ratification meeting is the
best he can do on that line we should
think his friends would advise him
to discontinue speech-making.
We' see it state ! that Dr. Miller is
in Habercham speaking for Norwood.
And be shall gnaw a file, (not gnaw
wood, and llee to the mountains of
Habersham, or words that effect.—
■ Rome, Courier.
If Speer is, as has been alleged,
the principal stockholder in a bank
| selected for a depository of State
funds, would it not be a little irregu
lar to elect him State treasurer? We
make the enquiry to be correct-
■ ly informed.— Madisonian.
Mr. Norwood will presently be
I confronted with some of his own
I utterances that will make him ex
| plain until October. He will have
i his hands full of defending himself
[ instead of attacking Gov. Colquitt on
; the charges he does not know or as
sert to be true. — Chron. <£ Con.
It is plain to every one now that
certain leaders of the minority in the
| late convention wont to Atlanta with a
I determination to split the democratic
party. If the majority rule had been
I adopted they would have bolted,
r but as the two-thirds rule was agreed
I to, they then set out to produce a
rupture, or defeat the will of the
I people.
All Hancock and English cam-
I paigu clubs, and other organizations
which support the democratic candi
dates, are requested to Rind “the
name and location of tneir organiza
tion, a statement of lie m.mber of
I members enrolled, the naiu.o of offi-
I cere, and accounts of meetings held,”
I to Wm. H. Barnum, chairman of the
national democratic committee, 138
Fifth avenue, New York City.
This is the spectacle presented to
the country—the republican candi
date for the presidency traveling
around and uttering liapdoodie about
early rising and the privileges of
youth, while the democratic candi
date quietly remains at his post of
I duty, daily doing that duty, and
I calmly awaiting the will of the peo-
I pie, who soon will call him to a yet
higher station in his country’s ser
• Vice.
r *" Some of the Norwood papers are
parading quite a list of gentlemen
I of more or less distinction whom
B they say will oppose Gov. Colquitt.
■ Some of these may do so, but others
I probably will not. There is, how
ever, a coterie of gentlemen who
want Colquitt defeated and ex Gov.
J Brown shelved, for then you know
there would be a nice place that
I some one of us would get. Can’t
U you see ?
A Norwood paper says “the news
s papers supporting Colquitt will have
to resort to a more powerful weapon
than ridicule to have any effect on
the minds of the people.” Well then
here we go. If there has been so
much incompetence for the last four
years, how is it that Georgia’s credit
I is higher than ever before and the
I people’s taxes nearly one-third
lower than they have been since
the war? The people like this
S, sort of incompetence and want more
of it. Is this ridicule ?
The Thomasville Enterprise has
heretofore opposed Colquitt, but now
supports him. It says: “We con
sider the unity of the party in our
county of the very first importance.
We cannot afford to have a split
among our people here, as it would
make an opportunity for the election
of a republican. For the sake of
5 this unity we waive all of our objec
tions to Gen. A. H. Colquitt, to the
manner in which the campaign was
conducted, and the management of
the convention. We have only to
ask that, as we, and many others
who have felt with us in the whole
canvass, are willing to yield cur
opinions for the sake of harmony,
those who have been for Colquitt
will meet us half way and help us
bury all differences. Gov. Colquitt
will be elected, anyhow, and there is
no use in talking about him; let us
drop all discussion in regard to him
I l ' and his merits or demerits, ifid
unite in working for our Hancock
and English electors, and H. G.
Turner for congress.”
The Gainesville Eagle
VOL. XIV.
A Tribe Diving m Tree Tops.
Among ths papers presented to the
British Parliament relating to the
South Sea Islanders, i> a report by
Captain C. H. Simpson, of her Majes
ty’s ship Blanche, giving an account
of his visit last year to the SolomOn
and other groups of islands in the
Pacific Ocean. While at Isabe 1 Island,
from which three men and seven
women were kidnapped in 1871,
Captain Simpson, with a party of
officers, went a short distance inland
to visit one of the remarkable tree
villages, peeuliar, be believed to this
island. He found the village built on
the summit of a rocky mountain ris
ing almost perpendicularly to a
height of 800 feet.
The party ascended by a native
path from the interior, and found on
the extreme summit a mass of enor
mous rocks standing up like a castle,
among which grow the gigantic trees,
xu the branches of which the bouses
are built. The stems of these trees
rise perfectly straight and smooth,
without a branch, to a height varying
from 50 to 150 feet. In the one Cap
tain Simpson, ascended the house
was just 80 feet from the ground; one
close to it was about 120 feet. The
only means of approach to these
houses is by a ladder made of a
creeper, suspended from a post
within the house, and which, of
course, can be hauled up at will. The
houses are most ingeniously built,and
are very firm and strong. Each house
will contain from ten to twelve
natives, and an ample store of stones
is kept, which they throw both with
slings and hand with great force and
preciaion. At the foot of each of
these trees is another hut. in which
the family usually reside, the tree
house being only resorted to at night
and during time of expected danger
In fact, however, they are never safe
from surprise, notwithstanding all
their precautions, as the great objtct
m life among the people is to get
each other s heads. Captain Simp
son, in returning, visited a chief’s
house on th3 beach, and found a row
of twenty-five human heads, captured
in a recent raid, fastened up a cross
the front like vermin at a barn door.
It was acknowledged that the object
of the raid was to get heads, and to
eat the bodies, which is always done.
The heads of men, women, and chil
dren are all taken, and the wonder
is that the whole island does not be
come depopulated; the people of thia
and other islands are not, however, a
courageous people. Such a thing as
a stand up fight between tribes is al
most unknown, but they prowl about
r or prey, attacking whenever they
have a victim in their power without
risk to themselves. In some of the
islands, Captain Simpson observed
the men have long hair, which they
wear in fashions like those adopted
oy the ether sex in Europ , the favor
ite modes being the ordinary chignon,
or loose down the back; the women,
whose hair is shorter than the men’s,
wear it loose and undressed. In
clothing there is not at present op
portunity lor European or any other
fashion.
The BeiHier Btide]>cries.
The crimes for which a price has
been set upon the Leads of the Ben
der family are of a fiendish and re
volting nature. It seems a strange
reflection upon the capacity of the
authorities in Kansas that such hide
ous-butcheries should have for so
long a time and so successfully been
perpetrated in that so-called model
commonwealth.
On the 9th of March, 1873, Dr. Wil
liam H. York left Fort Scott on horse
back for bis home in Independence,
Kansas. He never arrived at home,
and on the 28th of March the Law
rence Tribune gave a brief account of
his disappearance and hinted at foul
play York was well known through
out the State—a brother of Col. A.
M. York, whose expose of old Sena
tor Pomeroy had at that time made
him famous. The story of York’s
disappearance was now in every
mouth, and every effort was put forth
to solve the mystery of his absence.
Rivers were dragged, spots fit for an
ambush were probed foot by foot,
lonesome places were quested as a
keen hound scents a trail that is cold
—and still no traces of the lost man
were discovered. Not a shadow of
evidence rested anywhere to say that
Dr. York had been murdered, not a
sign anywhere told how he came to
bis death, if indeed death had ove
taken him unawares. He was traced
to Cherryvale, in Labette county,but j
no further. There ail track and!
t* ace of him ceased.
About two miles south of Cherry
vale, in a rude frame bouse standing
in a lot of two acres in dimension,
lived
the bender family.
There were four of them—father,
mother, son and daughter. The
mother was a Spiritualist. She cal
led herself a medium; the neighbors
called her a she-devil. She had a
way of boiling herbs and roots that
were supposed to have charms and’
spells about them, and she dealt in
incantations. She was repulsive in
GAINESVILLE, GA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 27, 1880.
aspect—tall, angular and scrawny,
with hard, steel-gray eyes, and thin,
ragged gray hair straggling over her
temples. The rest of the family seem
to have been totally under the in
fluence of this ungainly creature. Her
word with them was law. The Ben
ders ostensibly kept a grocery; a sign
to that effect was displayed in front
of their rude dwelling. However,
the only article they dealt in -was
cheap, native wine, which was served
on the spot. There were two rooms
in the house—one used as a kitchen
and dining-room, and the other as a
sleeping apartment.
While the excitement over the
mysterious disappearance of Dr.
York was at its hight, a party of
Cherryvale citizens casually dropped
in at the Bender mansion and as
casually inquired of the family if they
had at any time during the past six
weeks seen anything of York. The
answer was in the negative, and the
subject was dropped’ The visit and
the questioning of the Cherryvale
party had a strange effect upon the
Benders. 1 hey
SUDDENLY DISAPPEA RED
From their former home, nor were
they seen again till their apprehen
sion at Fremont, Neb., was accom
plished last week.
A man riding into Cherryvale from
the country one day was impressed
by the deserted appearance of the
Bender place. He entered the yard.
In the stable he found a dead calf,
the miserable creature’s emaciated
carcass gave ev?ry sign of having
starved to death. The man walked
up to the house, opened the door and
looked in. Not an article of house
hold furniture had been removed,but
the dust lay heavy on everything. It
was very suspicious. The man pro
ceeded to Cherryvale and told his
story. A. M. York, the brother of
the missing man was there. To his
suspicious and eager mind the sud
den and strange flight of the Bender
family was a revelation. He had found
the first clue to his lost brother. He
divulged his suspicions and a band of
men accompanied him to the Bender
farm. The front room of the house
was carefully searched, every crack
and crevice being minutely looked in
to and subjected to the application of
rods and levers to see if the flooring
was either hollow or loose. Nothing
came of it. No blood spots appeared.
The floor was solid. .The wails were
solid. Next the party searched the
back room. The beds were removed.
In their flight the Benders had
LEFT EVERYTHING UNTOUCHED
A slight depression was noticed in
the door, which, upon close examina
tion, revealed a trap-door. This was
immediately lifted up and in the
gloom a pit outlined itself,forbidding,
cavernous, unknown. Lights were
procured and some of the men des
cended. They found themselves in
an abyss shaped like a well, six feet
deep and five feet in diameter. Here
and there damp places could be seen
as if water had come up from the
bottom or been poured down from
above. They groped around over
these splotches and held a handful
to the light. The ooze smeared itself
over their palms and dribbled
through their lingers. It was blood,
thick, foetid, clammy, sticking blood!
Every awful suspicion was now
realized. The murderers had fled,
leaving behind damning evidences of
their hideous guilt. But where were
she bodies of their victim? For an
hour the party of excited people
traversed the lonely garden in the
rear of that human slaughter pen,
prodding the earth with a long iron
rod. All at once the iron seemed to
strike fleshy matter. In a moment’s
time a dozen eager spades had resur
rected from its shallow grave the
putrid carcass of a human being.
The body had been buried face down.
They turned it over to the sunlight,
A cry of terror went up from the
crowd.
IT WAS YORK’S CORPSE.
Although far advanced in the stage
of decomposition, the features were
p’.ainly recognizable. How the mur
derous deed had been done was
speedily and easily learned. A terri
ble blow on the back of the head had
crushed the skull down and in upon
the brain and the throat had been cut
from ear to ear.
The work of discovery went on,
One after another were laid bare the
graves of ten murdered people. Most
of the bodies were identified and the
roster of recognized victims were as
follows: W. H. York, George W.
[Longcar and daughter, L. G. Brown
W. F. McCrotty, Henry F. McKen
zie, Peter Boyle and John Bogert.
From evidences at hand it appeared
that the modus operand! at the kill
ing of a victim was as follows: At
tracted to the Bender mansion by
conspicuously displayed.gro *ery sign,
a stranger was inveigled into the
death trap and invited to a glass of
wine or something to eat. As he sat
at the table in the back room one, of
his treacherous hosts smote him
with a hammer, crushing in his
skull and killing him instamtly. But
to insure death his throat; was rip
ped from ear to ear and he w as hur-
riedly dropped through the trap door
to the
BLOODY CAVERN BENEATH.
In the dead of night the body was
removed to the garden and buried.
Here it was that th j bodies of
George W. Longcar and his infant
daughter were exhumed. Longcar
was one of Dr. York’s neighbors,
and had started for lowa with a
view to locating permanently. Cas
ually stopping at the Bender place,
he was brutally murdered. His
skull was mashed to a jelly, his
throat cut, and his body mutilated.
His little child had evidently been
tossed into the grave, upon the man
gled corpse, and buried alive.
The discovery of the inhuman
butcheries perpetrated by the Bender
family was made seven years ago.
For seven years diligent search for
the bloody murderers has been pur
sued in every land upon the face of
the earth. Up to four days ago the
search was unavailing. But
JUSTICE, THOUGH TARDY, IS SURE,
And once in the toils of a grossly out
raged law, the Benders will speedily
suffer the penalty of their fiendish
atrocities. The gallows upon which
they die should be built so high that
all the world might see and enjoy the
death throes of the most inhuman
wretches civilization has been cursed
with since the days oi Sawney Bean
and his incestuous family of Canni
bals.— [Kansas Cihj Times.
Chicago, August 6.—. An Omaha spe
cial to the Tribune says: To-day
Mrs. Bender was visited in jail at
Fremont by an Omaha reporter, to
whom she said: The first murder
ever commit ed by her and her
husband was in Illinois, on their
farm, near Jacksonville. The victim
asked for lodging and supper, and
in paying for the same in advance
exhibited considerable money.
While eating supper
BENDER CUT HIS HEAD IN TWO
From behind and he was dumped in
to the cellar through a trap door ar
ranged by Bender, who got the
money. The corpse was buried next
morning behind the house.
A few weeks after this they went to
lowa, remaining for a few months.
Then they went to Indiana, living on
the murdered man’s money; then
they went to Kansas, where Bender’s
children by his first wife were living
together with Cousin Maggie. They
kept a resort for travelers and called
it “Bender’s Hotel.” They had com
mitted no murders prior to the old
folks’ arrival, but in the course of
time old Bender
ARRANGED A TRAP DOOR
And then the murdering operations
begun. Kate at one time had a man
in bed with her and she cut his
throat and slept till morning beside
the corpse. His money was divided.
She never injured horse thieves and
cut-throats who came to the house,
but entertained them well with her
cousin Maggie. No murders were
committed by the family after they
fled from Kansas.
BENDER CONFESSES.
Old Bender has confessed, believ
ing the old woman has escaped. His
story tallies with his wife’s exactly.
He relates the history of the whole
family and their crimes.
A sheriff from Kansas is now prob
ably at Lincoln obtaining a requisi
tion from the Governor, and will be
at Fremont to-morrow.
Talmage on Mormonism.
No need of a description in his
case—he is too well known. His
lithographic prints are most excellent,
and those who have failed securing
them have probably seen his portray
ad in Puck as a saltarian or prize
fighter. Known as a sensational
preacher, he has received many a
knock, and knows very well how to
take the roughs of life as well as the
pleasantries. He has a nature which
always makes him on good terms
with bimself, and is a most pronounc
ed optimist. His religion is sunshine,
he said in his lecture Wednesday
evening, and certain it is that for all
he has a warm fraternal grasp and
kind word. In truth he does not ap
pear to be such a man ae the papers
generally make him out to be, such a
one as prompt'd the remark of a
friend who, upon hearing that an in
terview bad been had, queried: “Did
you ask him whether he was going"tb
run a circus or a church next year?”
‘Mr. Talmage,’ questioned the re
porter, after both had been seated in
the Walker House parlors, ‘you have
doubtless given some thought to this
question of Mormonism, and what do
you think of it ?”
‘Oh, well,’ was the half laughing
and half serious reply, ‘I take it there
can be but one opinion among Chris
tian ministers, that it is an abomina
tion.
‘Had you any idea that the church
was as strong as you find it?’
‘Among eastern people there has
been an idea that with the death of
Brigham Young it would go to
pieces.
‘What is your opinion now ?’
‘That the question can only be
solved with guns There can be no
doubt but the downfall Mormonism
will not come un‘i the National Leg
islature passes laws and then executes
them. The church has become too
powerful and is too well well organ
ized to fall to pieces now. And I■
understand it is steadily growing and
placing its proselytes in the sur
rounding States and Territories.’
‘Do you not think that the minis
ters and Christian papers of the east
have been derelict in the matter of
stirring Mormonism up ?’
‘Possibly, and I think probably.
While here I have been questioning
many people and finding out all I can
of the affair, and have been collecting
Mormon literature, etc.’
‘For use when you return East ?’
‘As to that I cannot say—possibly
so.’
‘You had good houses at Denver?’
‘Excellent. I was there three days,
and preached on Sunday, and en
joyed my visit very much. I met
many old New York friends who
showed me every attention to make
my visit pleasant.’
‘I see by the dispatches that you
were around through the dens of
that place?’
‘Oh, that is a mistake,’ he answer
ed, laughing, ‘you know how newspa
pers exaggerate some things. I was
in just four places—the Windsor
Hotel, the Opera House, the bank
and the chunk.'
‘Did you go to Leadville?’
‘Yes.’
‘And what do you think of the
place?’
‘I think Leadville hasbeeu malign
ed and traduced. All the gambling
and wickedness are right on the
street, but I never addressed a more
intellectual audience than at Lead
ville, and it can’t be beat. Leadville
has more telephones than any other
city of its size in America. To be
sure there is a great deal of wicked
ness there, but it is open and plain.
You can look through many gamb
ling places from the street and see
men playing. And yet every Sunday
the churches are crowded. They are
small, of course, but then they are
always jammed, lam told, and that
is a good sign, you know,’
‘Certainly, certainly,’ assented the
reporter, who upon recovering him
self asked if Mr. Talmage expected to
stay long at San Francisco.
‘About two weeks. During that
time I may go up to Portland, but I
think not. I may stop at Virginia
City coming back. It depends on my
time. I must be at New York by
September Ist.
‘How is the Tabernacle;, out of
debt?’
‘No, but we can see our way clear,
and will have no trouble over that
matter.’
‘Yours is an Independent Church,
is it not?’
‘No, it is Presbyterian,’ he answer
ed, evidently mistaking the question,
‘but we have people of all denomina
tions.’
‘But are you connected with the
Presbytery?’
‘Oh, yes. You know we had some
trouble, but I teat them, and t ey
treated me so nicely that I can’t com
plain.’
‘How are politics?’
‘Not enlivened up yet. It’s too
warm. But in New York Garfield’s
nomination gives great satisfaction,
while Hancock has cemented the
Tammanyites and Tildenites.’
‘You will stop here returning?’
‘No, I shall go right through to the
East.’
Mr. Talmage is accompanied by
his wife, a most estimable woman.
The Chinese New Policy.
Secretary Evarts has been formally
notified by the Chinese Minister to
the United States, through a circular
issued by the Tsung-li-Yamen to all
the foreign representatives of the
“Central Flowery Kingdom,” that
China has revoked the ancient degree
prohibiting its subjects from engag
ing in foreign trade. In future, ac
cording to this circular, Chinese
merchants may trade with foreigners
at will. The possible future effects
of this final overthrow of the Chinese
wall of seclusion are hard to pre
figure. It is well known that the
Chinese are among the shrewdest
traders in the world, and that they
Lave already secured a monopoly of
the business of the Siam and some
adjacent countries. A merchant long
used to trade with China thinks that
the measure will at once increase
trade by bringing down the prices of
Chinese products in our market. He
thinks that the Chinese will soon
import American ideas and Ameri
can machinery, along with American
notions, and then “cheap Chinese
labor” will be ruinously felt all the
world over. Speculations of this
sort, however, are obviously prema
ture. The immediate practical ef
fect that is important is that this
uew measure will break up the mo
nopoly which certain American and
other merchants have enjoyed in the
Chinese treaty ports, and by which
they have built up immense fortunes.
This monopoly is not so valuable
now as it used to be, when the only
spot where foreign “factories * were
tolerated was at Canton, but it has
still been a source of great profit,
and has made Chinese goods more
costly than they would otherwise
have been. The new decree breaks
the monopoly up finally, for the mer
chants of the “Hongs’’ will Tind it
impossible to compete with Chinese
free-traders. Our trade with China
is already so important that we must
welcome any measure tending to
develop and increase it. The popu
lation of China is put by Consul
General Bailey in his last report at
363,000,000, and of this vast hive of
people nearly 300,000,000 have water
communications enabling them to
trade with the United States. The
people nearly all wear cotton cloth,
and nearly all of it is made of Chi
nese short staple cotton, woven on
hand looms. The possibility of sup
planting this with machine made
fabrics has been constantly before
English and American manufactu
rers for a generation. China now
imports only about $100,000,000
worth of goods per annum, and these
importations could easily be increased
to an indefinite amount. To clothe
with cotton and woolen fabrics the
inhabitants of the valley of the
Yangtse alone, at a cost of five dol
lars per capita, would require a trade
of $1,000,000,000 per annum. Rail
roads and steamboats, foreign ways
and foreign ambitions once planted
in China, will be sure to give an
immense impulsion to the develop
ment of that great empire, and make
it the best customer which the Uni
ted States can secure. China now
imports $23,000,000 worth of cotton,
$6,000,000 worth of metals, nearly
$2,000,000 worth of coal, $1,500,000
of raw cotton, $1,000,000 of lumber,
$1,500,000 of ginseng, $1,000,000 of
salt fish, etc. To take a single arti
cle, China buys every year $600,000
worth of foreign made lucifer match
es. To supply this vast empire with
illuminating oil the United States
would have to double its present
production. One thing the United
States needs is a number of coasting
and river steamers to gather up the
local trade, to penetrate the interior
at all points and put us in direct
communication with the local mer
chants. Consul Bailey writes to
Mr. Evarts that “I am fully con
vinced that there is a wide field for
trade in China, It is true that the
masses of the people are not able to
buy much per capita, but a few dol
lars each would in the aggregate
amount to a vast sum. China is lit
erally a land of manual labor. Out
side of the open ports there is no la
bor-saving machinery. ** * Al
though labor is cheap and food low
priced, such unaided labor does not
result in cheap products as compar
ed to the results of labor-saving
machinery in Europe and the United
States. I believe that there is not
a single article of clothing worn by
these people, not a piece of house
hold furniture, or a single agricul
tural utensil that could not be pro
duced by machinery and brought
here cheaper than it is made in this
country by hand.”
Goats for tiie Lodges.
‘So you’re the new reporter,’ said
Capt. Harrison Clark, the Grand Ty
ler of the Masons, who holds the fort
in the Masonic Temple at Broad and
Filbert streets, and protects each
lodge from intruders.
‘Yes, sir,’ replied the budding
scribbler.
‘You look pretty fresh. From the
countrj, I presume?’ interrogated
the Grand Tyler.
“I’ve been cent to interview you,
and learn where you get ail the
goats you supply to the lodges. I
don’t want you to give any secrets
away.’
‘l’ll give nothing way,’ replied
the Grand Tyler. ‘I think there are
two or three goats running around
the Temple now. So you’re the new
reporter? So young—and so fair!’
The latter part of this sentence was
in a gasp.
‘Have you any objections to show
ing me one?’ asked the young man.
‘We don’t often do that; but I al
ways like to oblige the reporters, and
you said you were the new reporter.
I’ll see if I can catch one for you,’
kindly replied the Grand Tyler.
‘First, we will go into the Grand
Holy Scoophole,’ said the Masonic
man, as he led the way down a long
flight of steps into utter darkness.
Just then the young man heard a
distinct ‘Bah!’
‘Ah! there’s one,’ shouted the
courteous Grand Tyler, and just at
that moment the young man ran
against a pile of kindling wood
and rolled over a cual shovel. -Right
above him came ‘Bah!’
‘There it goes!’ shouted the Tyler,
as he rushed around a corner of the
furnace. As he disappeared, there
came a ‘Bah’ from his direction. The
reporter hurried, but the goat had
turned another corner with a ‘Bah!’
Up the steps they went with a rush,
into the banquetting room, and just
as the Tyler reached it ‘Bah !’ came
out in full force.
‘That’s a fine goat,’ said Capt.
Clark, puffing. ‘I remember the
night Mayor Stokely rode him in
Solomon Lodge. Now, let’s go for
him again.’
Up into the second story, into
the Egyptian Room, they went, and
as the Tyler entered ‘Bah’ was
heard.
‘There it goes out’at the other door
into the lonic room,’ shouted the
Tyler, who was trying hard to catch
it. ‘That’s a good goat. One of
yoor newsmen was tossed by him
in the Crescent Lodge. I saw him
do it.’
‘Good heavens! Let’s catch it,’
cried the reporter, and they started
off on a run down the long corridors,
then up stairs to the Knights Temp
lar Asylum. Just as the Captain
entered there was the familiar ‘Bah’
and the paper man knew the goat
was there. Catching up the Grand
Sacred Thingumbob the Tyler vowed
he would knock its brains out if the
other fellow would go in and drive it
out. The goat could not be founL
It had eluded its pursuers, and crept
through the Grand Exalted Gates of
Somethingorotber, and reached a
lower flower. The Grand Tyler
started in pursuit, and when the
office was reached he handed the uew
reporter to another Tyler, who put
him through another rushing around
the building.
‘You see, we don’t raise these goats
ourselves. They are a special breed
gotten up by Dr. Kingston Goddard,
in his incubator, out on his farm at
Morton Station,* remarked the Grand
Tyler. ‘He’s been in the Masonic
business so long that he knows just
how to train the goats. When they
are very young he files off the hard
part of their hoofs, and gives them
the white of an egg to improve their
voices. Being taken in hand when
they are so very young, when they
become old they are very intelli
gent, and if a fellow puts on any
frills they know just when he should
be tossed ’
Good Looking Presidents.
The Boston Traveller, apropos of
the silly season, prints some reada
ble padding in regard to the personal
appearance of the various presidents
of the United States, premising that
no one was elected president because
of his good Loks. It quotes the
Qumcys to prove that Washington
was not near as handsome as Gilbert
Stuart’s portrait makes him; that he
was neither graceful nor elegant,
but, as Josiah said, “He reminded
me of the gentlemen who used to
come to Boston in ihose days to at
tend the general court, from Hamp
den or Franklin county, in the wes
tern part of the State. He had the
air of a country gentleman not ac
customed to mix much in society,
perfectly polite, but not easy in his
address and conversation, and not
graceful in his gait and movemtts,”
John Adams was short, stout,burgher
like, with a bland forehead and a
twinkling eje, Jefferson was very
tall, very thin, very fair, very flexible
in his spine. Madison was small,
grave, careworn, w th a calm expres
sion and penetrating blue eye. His
head was bald, his stomach protu
berant, and be had spindle shanks.
Monroe was not imposing, while
John Quincy Adams, though small,
was a picture of concentrated stu
diousness and resolution. Jackson
was wan and thin, but erect, and a
superb figure on horseback. He
rode like a centaur. Van Buren's
bland countenance was improved by
hie baldness, and his dapper figure
recalled Tom Moore, the poet. Har
rison had the reputation of having
been handsome once—he had out
grown when he became president.
Tyler was handsome, but Polk was
small, dark and plain in every way.
General Taylor had the face and
hand of a farmer used to guide his
own plow. The handsomest of our
presidents, according to the Traveller,
was Milard Fillmore, a most striking
specimen of masculine beauty. Abra
ham Lincoln, by common consent,
the ugliest. Grant is a plain short
man, stout and florid, with heavy
jaws, and Mr. Hayes looks like a
cleverly well-to-do country store
keeper, who is a deacon in his church
and fond of good dinners. Garfield
and Hancock are both men of strik
ing and commanding appearance.
The electric engines, as adapted to
railways by the many recent im
provements made by Edison, Sie
mens, Bone of Belfort, Lilly, Coltons
and others, are about to be applied
to a practical purpose. One great
advantage which the elec ro locomo
tive possesses is its freedom from
smoke, making it very useful for pas -
ing through long adits and tunnels.
The administration of the St. Gothard
tunnel are seriously contemplating
the employment of these locomotives
for the conveyance of trains through
their gigantic tunnel. The existing
circumstances are very favorable to
the employment of electric power
here, foa at both ends of the tunnel
turbines of enormous aggregate pow
er were established to assist in bor
ing, and these still stand ready for
use. All that will need to be done
is to insulate the rails and connect
dynamo-electric machines of suffi
cient power with the turbines and
the train. The energy thus genera
ted and stored up will easily send
the trains through the tunnel.
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NO. 38
SMALL BITS
Os Various Kiatfs Carelessly Thrown
Tagethea.
Steel is taking the place of iron in
British marine construction. Ameri
can iron is nearly as good as British
steel and much cheaper.
A woman went to the races at
Rochester in men’s clothes, to see if
her husband was there with another
woman. The disguise was not good,
and she was arrested.
Thirty convicts in the California
State prison were lately confirmed as
members of the Roman Catholic
Church. A zealous and eloquent
priest had won them.
A portly swindler, in the garb of
a Catholic priest, collected t 1,6000 in
Rhode Island by pretending that
the money was to build a church at
Narragansett Pier.
A man at Essex, Conn., having
long refused to admit any one to his
house, where his wife lay sick, the
Sheriff forced an entrance, and found
the woman covered with probably
fatal bruises.
The committee appointed to ascer
tain the causes of the recent epidemic
among the students of Princeton
College have reported that the sick
ness was traced immediately to defec
tive sewerage.
A hill in Texas, on the Brazos
River, is believed by the inhabitants
to possess curative qualities. A
speculator has bought it, in the be
lief that there are millions in the
business of selling the earth for
medicine.
Old Brin is an enormous old grizzly
bear living in Nevada. He lost two
toes in a trap, several years ago, and
his tracks are therefore easily recog
nized. He has killed three men, the
last being an Italian, whom he shook
from a tree and devoured.
The State of Maine has only in
creased 12,000 in population since
1870, less than two-tenths of one per
cent. As, according to President
Hayes, mischievous politics is at the
bottom of this slow growth, may we
ask who is to blame,Blaine, Garcelon
or Solon Chase?
The American colony in Paris is
smaller than at any previous time in
twenty years. It costs twice as much
now to live in Paris as in America in
the same style. Formerly it cost
double Paris prices in America.
There is nothing now cheap in
France except apparel, and only
parts of that.
Daniel O’Neil was arrested in Chi
cago on a charge of murder. He
was not considered guilty, and had
good reason to expect a speedy re
lease; but his reason gave way under
the excitement, and he constantly
imagines that he hears the hammers
on a scaffold which is being erected
for his hanging.
A friend of Clara Bagnal, of Toron
to, dressed himself to represent a
ghost, and presented himself before
her. She was of a nervous tempera
ment, and the shock proved too
much for her. She fell jin a fit, only
to wake a raving maniac. For six
years she was bereft of reaaon, and
now she is dead.
The French Academy has distri
buted its auuuil prizes for virtue.
Four hundred dollars each were
awarded to a woman in humble life
for adopting deserted children; to an
artisan, for forty years' devotion in
saving lives from fire; to a peasant,
for preserving lives from drowning,
and to a widow, for fifty years’ ser
vices to the sick and needy.
The colored people of Little Rock
are divided as to the needs of the
soil. One congregation has been
praying for rain, while the other ask
ed for continued sunshine. The
minister of the wet district sent the
following note to the people of the
dry: “You folks oughter be ashamed
of yourselves. This cross cut prayin’
is enough to get the Lord so bother
ed that he don’t know what to do.”
The failure of Keen’s attempted
“corner” in wheat, with the loss of
thousands of dollars to all the parties
interested in the scheme will, proba
bly, have the effect, at least for a
while, of detering others from en
gaging in such enterprises. There
was capital plenty to support this at
tempt and still it failed. This coun
try is getting almost too big for “cor
. ers’’ in agricultural products to suc
ceed.
The Rev. Dr. John Hall thinks that
American English contrasts favora
bly, as a whole, with that spoken in
the British islet, and that in London
there is more barbarous and indefen
sible English uttered than in all the
United States. He is now in England,
and in a letter to the Ledger says:
“There are many phrases in use by
our English cousins which we ought
to shun. They ‘stop at home* all
day. We ‘stay at home.’ They talk
of a ‘couple of pounds’ as if the
pounds were linked together. In
fact, the list of Londonisms would
be a long one. ‘Not as I know* is
the frequent confession of ignorance,
and if blame is to be laid on one it
is ‘all along of him.”*