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eight die by drowning.
theih boat capsized within
twenty feet of shore.
A Child’s Thoughtlessness the Cause
of the Accident—Four of Those In
the Boat Survive—The Craft Only
Intended to Carry Eight People and
Twelve Were in Jt.
Fall. Rrvgß, Mass., May 25.—One of
the saddest and most heartrending acci
dents which has occurred in this city for
years happened on Wautuppa lake about
12:15 o’clock this afternoon.
A party of twelve persons, comprising
Samuel Wittles and his wife, Henry Wit
ties, William Wittles, Lena Buckley, Willie
Buckley, Frederick Buckley, Willie Turner,
John Buckley, Edwin Turner, Edwin At
tles and George Hammer hired a boat at
the pond and went out rowing. There was
a strong wind blowing and the water was
ruffled.
THE BOAT TOO SMALL.
The boat ipto which the party embarked
was a common flat-bottomed one, and its
seatiug capacity being eight, it was too
small to accommodate so many people. The
party was observed trying to work their
way toward shore just north of the pump
ing station. This was diiiicult work, as the
water was rough, the wind strong and the
rowers inexperienced. The boatload of
pleasure-seekers was within twenty feet of
shore when one of the children rocked it.
The men cautioned the child to remain
quiet, but the little ona was unmindtul of
the advice.
ALL THROWN INTO THE WATER.
Suddenlv, without a moment’s warning,
the boat capsized. Heartrending cries rent
the air. which were heard by Fireman Bul
lock of the pumping station and James
Lafferty, but they were unable to render
assistance.
Turner was the only one in the party who
could swim. He grasped Mr wittles by
the waist and attempte i to bring his body
ashore, and, although Wittles was a heavy
man, Turner succeeded in doing so.
In the meantime the women were strug
gling in the water. Three or four parties
ou shore called to them to cling to the boat,
but their failing strength was unequal to
the task, and the women and children sank
out of sight.
Four of the party had struck out for shore
on their own hook and succeeded in reach
ing it in an exhausted condition.
NAMES OF THE DROWNED.
The following were drowned, their bodies
being recovered later in the day:
Samuel Wittles, aged 50.
Mbs. Wittles, aged 46.
Henry Wittles, aged 10.
Samuel 'Wittles, Jr., aged 13.
Lena Buckley, aged 35.
Fred Buckley, aged 3.
Willie Buckley, aged 8.
Willie Turner, aged 9.
SHAKEN BY AN EARTHQUAKE.
The People of the Mohawk Valley
Given a Scare.
Tribes Hill, N. Y., May 25. — An earth
quake shock was felt in this vicinity soon
after 7 o’clock this morning. Buildings
trembled and dishes in cupboards rattled.
The inhabitants wore considerably alarmed.
The duration of the vibration was one
second.
THE ENTIRE VALLEY SHAKEN.
Utica, N. Y., May 35. —Shortly after 7
o’clock this morning the Mohawk valley
was disturbed by a slight shock of earth
quake, accompanied by lightning and heavy
winds. The shock in this vicinity was very
light, but increased in intensity to Mont
gomery county, where, at Fort Hunter, it
was quite severe. At Little Falls dishes
rattled, and rumbling as of distant
thunder were heard. At Fort Hunter
buildings were shaken and beds moved so
that the occupants were awakened. In
Utica dishes rattled and some people report
a slight vibration,but the shocks were hardly
perceptible. No damage was done in any
quarter. This is the first seismal phenom
enon of note here since 1884.
GREAT ALARM AT GLOVERSVILLE.
Albany, N. Y., May 25.—A special to
the Fressand, Knickerbocker from Glovers
ville, N. Y., says that at 7 o’clock this morn
ing the city was visited with a severe shock
of earthquake. Large buildings were
shaken, people wore thrown out of chairs
and out of bed and glass was shat
tered. The earthquake was preceded
by a loud, rumbling sound. At the
same moment the fire alarm bells
rang out and the whole city turned
out, the excitement being intense. A small
dwelling was burned. Later in the morn
ing, when the excitement had hardly sub
sided, the fire bells again gave an alarm,
and a large brick building in the rear of the
opera house was discovered in flames. It
was occupied by Julius Cole as a laundry,
and was entirely destroyed. Another slight
shock of earthquake was felt about noon.
The shock was the most severe ever felt In
this vicinity.
A FIRE DEALS DEATH.
Two Men Horribly Mangled by an
Explosion of Dynamite.
Cleveland, 0., May 25.—A fire, be
lieved to have been of Incendiary origin,
started in the hardware store of J. S.
Charles at Lucas, Richland county, early
this morning. Shortly after the fire
started it reached twenty-five pounds ot
dynamite in the hardware room, and a ter
rific explosion followed, completely wreck
ing the two-story frame building, breaking
all the windows within a radius of 200 feet
and spreading debris in all directions.
DECAPITATED and mangled.
Jerry Jones, aged 50, who was assisting
to remove goods from the store, was fright
fully mangled, aud when his remains were
found in the ruins, several hours later, there
was nothing left but his charred trunk.
His head was missing, and has not boon
found yet. Jones leaves a wife and five
grown children.
HURLED LIFELESS.
B. J. Smith, marshal of the village, aged
•0, was outside tho building when the ex
plosion occurred. He was caught by flying
debris and hurled lifeless against an adjoin
ing building.
Thomas F. Hannan, his son Joseph, H. F.
“mart, D. B. Jones and John Gallagher
were all seriously but not fatally hurt by
flying timbers.
Chicago's Socialists.
Chicago, 111., May 25.—The finding of
dynamite at the Haymarket monument was
the topic of discussion to-day at the regular
Sunday meeting of the socialists. A reso
lution was adopted declaring a belief that
the explosive matter was placed there by
men opposed to the pardon of Fielden,
Schwab and Neebe.
Dropped Dead on the Sidewalk.
Cincinnati, 0., May 25.—At 2 o’clock
this morning a well-dressed man fell on the
sidewalk on Lohgworth street. On his way
to a hospital he died. He is supposed to be
o. J, English, of Selma, Ala.
fp)c JHofnittg JfctojS.
THE WEEK IN CONGRESS.
Several Important Subjects Before
the Senate.
Washington, May 25.—Several subjects
of importance are likely to engage the at
tention of the Senate this week. The naval
appropriation bill, over which a debate of
unexpected length occurred last week, is
still undisposed of, and will come up to
morrow as the unfinished business. That it
will be disposed of in one session is uncer
tain, as an attack upon the appropriation
for three battle Bhips is expected from the
democratic side of the chamber.
I? By agreement reached last Friday, Sen
ator Wilson’s bill to place imported liquors
in original packages under state regulation
is a special order for Tuesday, to be dis
cussed to a finish.
PUGH ON SILVER.
Senator Pugh has given notice of his
intention to speak on the silver bill after
the naval bill is disposed of, but will doubt
less withhold his remarks until the silver
bill is taken up after the vote on the im
ported liquor bill. Under the conditions
;hat will exist it is doubtful if the silver
bill will get a hearing this week.
Friday will be Memorial day. and the
Senate will adjourn from Thursday to
Saturday, which, under the present arrange
ment, is devoted to bills on the calendar to
which there is no objection made. The
committee on appropriations expeot to have
the fortifications and legislative, executive
and judicial appropriation bills ready to re
port during the week.
In the House.
Probably the small remainder of the
river and harbor appropriation bill which
bas not yet been considered will be disposed
of by the House to-morrow before it em
barks upon the consideration of District of
Columbia matters, including the Rock
Creek Park bill, which for some time stood
as the unfinished business in the way of
other local legislation.
The conference report on the anti-trust
bill may be presented early in the week,
and will doubtless give rise to much debate,
as the report is unacceptable to Mr. Bland
and other democrats.
ALABAMA’S ELECTION CONTEST.
The Alabama contested election case was
to have come up Tuesday, but has again
been postponed by agreement in order to
afford time for the preparation of the
minority report. It was the intention to
allot two days during the week to the public
building committee and the judiciary com
mittee, which latter is urging action
on the judges’ salary and bank
ruptcy bills, but the absence of
Speaker Reed may cause a postponement
of the proposed arrangement. It is possible,
however, as Mr. Carlisle’s retirement from
the House leaves a republican majority in
the committee on rules even in the absence
of the speaker, that this programme may at
once be carried out.
The postoffice appropriation bill is within
easy reach on the calendar, and the confer
ence reports on the District of Columbia
appropriation bill, the service pension bill
and the administrative customs bid are
among the possible subjects for considera
tion.
RAIDING THE TREASURY.
A Gigantic Political Plot of the Re
publicans.
Washington, May 25. —Representative
Sayers of Texas, one of the leading demo
crats of the House committee on appropria
tion, is quoted in the Gazette as saying;
“If the Senate shall pass the McKinley till
with its high protective features not ma
terially reduced, this government will have
to meet a deficit of least $60,000,000 at the
beginning of the fiscal year beginning July
1, 1890. These figures are not my own, but
were obtained from the highest republican
authority, and are based on the assumpti n
that the appropriations for the coming fis
cal year, with the exception of pensions,
will be largely in excess of those for the
present fiscal year.
WINDOM’S ESTIMATES.
The present secretary of the treasury es
timates that the net surplus at the end of
the next fiscal year would be $43,569,522 30,
but he made no allowance for the $71,264,-
414 which Chairman McKinley has esti
mated os the reduction in the revenues
which the tariff bill will cause if it becomes
a law in its present shape. There may of
course be slight increases in the revenue
received under cortain clauses of thnt bill,
but Mr. McKinley has officially stated that
L.o increase of revenues will arise from the
articles upon which duties have been ad
vanced takiug the bill through.
PENSIONS OVERLOOKED.
"Neither did the Secretary of the Treas
ury allow for new pension legislation. The
two pension bills which have passed the
House and Senate respectively, and which
are now in the hands of a conference com
mittee, carry, according to the republican
estimates, $36,000,000 and $38,000,000 re
spectively, and it seems certain that one or
the other of them, or a compromise between
the two, will become a law at the present
session. In addition to this, it is generally
believed by well informed men of both par
ties that the regular annual pension appro
priation bill will be at least $10,000,000 short
of the amount required by the pension office
for the next fiscal year.
REDEMPTION OF BONDS.
"Another matter which ought to bo pro
vided for now, although not coming within
the limits of the nut fiscal year, is the
$117,969,400 of 4>£ per cent, bonas which
will mature Sept. 1, 1891. This deficit will
have to be met in one of three ways. The
law setting aside $100,000,000 in gold for the
redemption of United States treasury notes
might be repealed and that money used,
but, speaking for myself, 1 should oppose
with every means at my disposal any prop
osition to use this money for any other pur
pose than to reduce our bonded indebtedness.
ANOTHER PLAN.
"The next remedy would be to repeal
the law governing the sinking fund aDd to
use the money thus accruing, but that
would be an outrage upon the tax payers oi'
tho country which should never be forgiven.
The last, and by no means the least objec
tionable method, would be to borrow money
by issuing additional bonds. I regard the
situation as a very grave one, and what adds
to the peril is the fact, which I am perfectly
certain of, that the men who control the re
publican party are deliberately planning to
make a deficiency for the accomplishment
of certain ends.”
Result of tho Ocean Rac e.
New York, May 25.—The ocean race be
tween the steamships City of Rome, Aurania
and Alaska ended to-day with a victory for
the first named. The time of the City of
Rome to Fire Island was seven days, five
hours and four minutes: of the Aurania,
seven days, six hours and twenty-six min
utes, and of the Alaska, seven days, eight
hours and forty minutes.
Shot Hia Brother Dead.
Charleston, 8. C., May 25. —At Lydia,
Darlington county, Saturday, two brothers,
young white men, Murray and Ben Knotts,
were working in a field, when an old quar
rel was renewed, aud Murray shot Ben to
death. Murray is ready to surrender when
ever called on, and is not afraid of trial.
A FLURRY IN IRELAND.
The Nationalists Meet at Tipperary
Despite the Proclamation.
Dublin, May 35. —Notwithstanding the
fact that the government had proclaimed
the proposed nationalist meeting in Tip
perary, A crowd of 2,000 persons met Messrs.
Dillon and O’Brien and seven other mem
bers of parliament on their arrival at Lim
erick junction to-day, and a meeting was
quickly organized. Speeches were made by
Mr. O’Brien and Joha O’Conner. The
police were powerless, and had to oontent
themselves with warning the speakers.
A CONFLICT AT NEW TIPPERARY.
After the meeting the nationalist mem
bers of parliament drove to New Tipperary,
where an attempt was made to hold another
meeting. The police, however, stopped Mr.
Mr. O’Brien when he attempted to speak
and dispersed the crowd by free use of their
batons. Mr. O’Brien denounced the police
as oowards, but he advised the people uot to
offer undue resistance, as the nationalist
leaders earnestly desired to avoid bloodshed.
During a banquet in the eveniug at the
national schools two bombs were exploded
in the street, but no one was injured.
The French Oaks.
Paris, May 25. —The Prix de Diane (the
French Oaks) was run to-day at Chantilly
and was won by three lengths by Pierre
Donan’s chestnut filly Wandora, by Bruce
out of Windfall. P. Aurcont’s chestnut
filly Native) by Saxifrage out of Or
pheline, was second, and Lailiane third.
Panitza’s Trial.
Sofia, May 25. —In the Panitza trial
yesterday Panitza’s counsel demanded that
Ministers Stambuloff, Stransky and Vulko
vich be examined. The oourt refused con
sent.
MISSIONARIES FOR THE BAST.
Six of the Laborers in the Good Work
Make Addresses.
Chicago, May 25.—Rev. T. Edwin
Brown, D. D., of Providence, R. 1., gave
the annual sermon before the American
Baptist Missionary Union to-day. After
the sermon, six men who were going to the
foreign field were introduced and briefly
add reused the congregation. The names
and designations of the missionaries are os
follows:
W. a Cussum of Hamilton Theological
Seminary, who goes to China; W. W. Cooh
rane of Rochester Theological Seminary,
who goes to Upper Burmah; Charles
Hadley of Newton Institution and P. M.
Johnson of Missouri, who go to India;
Thomas Moody of Rochester Seminary,
who goes to the Upper Congo, and William
Dring of Kansas, who goes to Assam.
There were also twenty-seven other ap
pointees to foreign fields this year who
were not present at the meeting. This was
the cioso of the foreign mission meeting.
A FLOOD IN THE CONBMAUQH.
Torrents of Rain Cause It Eut It
Won’t Prove Disastrous.
Johnstown, Pa., May 25.—A terrific
rain storm, accompanied by heavy thunder
and lightning, occurred here this after
noon. The rain fell in sheets for about half
an hour, flooding streets, filling cellars and
doing a great deal of damage.
Railroad street, in Cambria City, was
under water, the water being up to the first
floor in about fifty houses on that street.
The east-bound track of the Pennsylvania
railroad was covered to a depth of two or
three feet by dirt washed down from the
Hills at several places between Stone Bridge
and Morrillsville. delaying trains for a
couple of hours. The west-bound track was
similarly obstructed between.Conemaugh
and Johnstown. The rivers are rising rap
idly, but it is not thought that they will do
much damage.
A COMMITTEE PUZZLBL
Reed Anxious to Keep Mills Off the
Committee on Rules.
Washington, May 25. —If Speaker Reed
follows out his present intentions he will
appoint Mr. Blount or Mr. Turner of Geor
gia to succeed Mr. Carlisle on the commit
tee on ways and means. If he should ap
point Mr. Blount he would get out of
appointing Mr. Mills as Mr. Carlisle’s
successor on the committee on rules on the
plea which he used before, that he could not
take two democrats from the ways and
means committee, and he could then ap
point Mr. Wilson of West Virginia on the
committee on rules. Should he appoint
Mr. Turner on the committee on ways and
means, as he would like to do for Mr.
Turner’s sake, because he likes Mr. Turner,
he would find it difficult to avoid appoint
ing Mr. Mills on the committee on rules.
HENDRICKS' STATUE.
July 1 Fixed as the Date for the Un
veiling at Indianapolis.
Indianapolis, May 25.—July 1 has been
fixed as the date for unveiling the monu
ment of the late Vice President Hendricks
on the state house grounds of this city. The
address will be delivered by United States
Senator Turpie. The President, ex-Presi
dents. Vice President and members of the
cabinet and governors of all the states will
be invited to attend. The committee on ar
rangements extends a cordial invitatioa to
societies, clubs aud other organizations of
the state and elsewhere to be present and
participate in the ceremonies, and request
the attendance of the general public.
WRECKED BY A SWITCH.
An Engineer and His Fireman Lose
Their Lives in Kansas.
Paola, Kan., May 25.—A south-bound
freight train on the Missouri, Kansas and
Texas railroad, from Paola to Parsons, was
wreaked six miles from here this morning.
The wreck was caused by a switch being
raised too high by workmen who had
repaired it. The engine and six cars were
derailed and demolished. Engineer Casey
•was terribly scalded and Fireman Downes
was badly injured about the head and face.
Both died from tne effects of their injuries.
Brakoraan Delano was also badly injured.
CARELESSNESS ON THE RAIL.
A Collision in Which Three Men Were
Injured the Reault.
Chattanooga, Tenn., May 25.—A col
lision occurred between a passenger and
freight train on the East Tennessee railroad
at McDonald’s station this morning. En
gineer Dougherty and Mail Agents J. H.
Schroeder and J. J. Gibb were badly hurt,
but no passengers were injured. The acci
dent was due to carelessness on the part of
the passenger conductor and engineer.
Eatonton’s Canning Factory.
Eatonton, Ga., May 25.-—The canning
factory company met Wednesday and
formally organized by elect.’ng a president,
treasurer and board of directors. Enough
stock has been taken to commence work,
and the machinery will be purchased in a
few days.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, MAY 20, 1890.
PRAIRIES AND ROCKIES.
BIOHTB AND SCENES IN FAR FAMED
COLORADO.
Notes About Chicago— Denver’s Won
derful Growth—Extraordinary Ad
vance In Real Estate— Magnificent
Buildings—Colorado Springs—A Re
sort for 76,000 People a Y ear—Grand
Scenery of the Rocky Mountains—
Travelers from All the World.
In thk Heart of the Rocky Mount
ains, Colorado, May 24. —Chicago received
us in her ususual style—first, a cold, pene
trating wind off the lake, and then a damp,
drizzling fog. These were not mentioned
among the attractions of Chicago for the
world’s fair, but there they are, and the
visitors In 1893 had better keep close to
their umbrellas ana overcoats, even if the
day should accidentally open with sunshine.
Everybody knows, I suppose, that when
you strike west from the Windy City there
lies between you and the Rocky mountains
a belt of a thousand miles in width of
monotonous prairie, both treeless and shrub
less. It extends from Canada southward
to Texas, so that all the Pacifio roads are
compelled to cross it. Over these vast
prairies once wandered the tribes of red
men and herds of buffalo, at whose im
mense numbers the imagination grows be
wildered. An old miner aud frontiersman,
upon whose ranch I am now staying, in
forms me that in the ’6os ho has seen herds
of buffalo so numerous that he has traveled
for three days through them
with thousands in sight every hour of the
day. The first train iuto Denver
reached that city on June 15.
1870, and for several years thereafter it
was not an uncommon matter for the train
to he several hours late on account of the
troops of buffalo crossing the track. This
will give us some faint appreciation of the
vast multitude of these monarchs of the
plain that once wandered over these great
prairies, going north in summer and to the
south in winter. And now in the year
1889, a government report informs us "that
there are only 125 buffaloes in existence,
most of them in the reservation at Yellow
Htone park. The destruction of them begau
with the forty-niners, as they journed across
the country to the gold mines of California,
but as they only destroyed for their own use
their ravages scarcely equalled the natural
increase. And the same with the sports
inau, who hunted them for sport. The real
destruction began in the ’7os, when a con
servative estimate tells us that there wore
10,000 to 20,000 men for several years on the
prairies hunting them for their hides and
leaving the carcasses to rot upon the prairies;
and the average to oach man was from 400
to 1,200 a year. This at the lowest figure
makes the annual destruction 4,000,000, and
at the highest 34,000,000! Thus barbarously
and wastefully did manmake way with what
might have given food to. countless genera
tions. For years after their destruction the
plains for miles upon miles shone and glis
tened, like a snow field, from the whiteness
of their bones, until men gathered the bones
from this great cemetery for commercial
uses, so that now not oue femur to tell of
the glory of the great animals that man so
ruthlessly destroyed remains to break the
monotony of a journey across the plains.
MAGNIFICENT SCENERY.
At first, the very strangeness of the
scenery attracts. The dry, level plains
(without a tree save the cottonwood raised
by the hands of man) shining under a
vernal sun, and looking for all tho world
like the vast unbroken surface of the sea
ou a hot summer’s day, merging itself olf
into the distant horizou; but soon the eye
accustomed to the rich verdure of the south
wearies of the dead monotony. We look tor
si ard to the crossing of the Mississippi river
as furnishing a change, but it is still the same
prairie; and then we hope that the Missouri
river will certainly introduce some variety,
but when we find that there is no change,
but the same hot, dry landscape stretched
out indefinitely before us, we resign our
selves to our condition, and henceforth give
our attention to a novel rather than
to the scenery. Farming is only
possible by irrigation, and when
properly irrigated th%land is the finest in
the country for corn and wheat; so fertile,
indeed, that corn has been selling this spring
at 12 cents a bushel, and at that price is
certainly cheaper than fuel, when wo con
sider the absence of timber and the heavy
freight on coal. As I write I see that a
committee of congress, through Senator
Reagan, has made a report on these great
prairie lands, looking forward to their re
clamation for agricultural purposes by a
national system of irrigation. If this could
be accomplished, and it is perfectly feasible,
then millions of acres would be thrown open
to the public use and the plain that now con
stitutes our American Sahara would bloom
and blossom as the rose. W ith an occasional
glance upon the mysterious deiert, and
another upon a young dude from the east
who was endeavoriug to impress himself
upon an unsophisticated maiden of the west
within tho car, we sped along to our des
tination ; here a short stop for a few mo
ments to gather corn out of the queer long
and narrow barns that spotted the prairie,
and now and then alone upon the vast table
land a single grave with its cross, swallowed
up in ‘the vast contiguity’ of sand—an ever
present reminder of man’s mortality; and
here and there, miles apart, a single light
glittering in the darkness of the night that
told of a human habitation. These were the
sole objects arousing our contemplation and
affording food for thought.
THE CITY OF DENVER
And than suddenly, out of the dead level
of the prairie, arose—as if called out of the
earth by a wand of some genie of tho land
—the city of Denver. I don’t know why,
but wo expected to find Denver on the foot
hills of the Rockies, but instead of that the
city rises up in the midst of the prairie.
Aud it fairly takes one’s breath to think of
a city which in a few years has grown from
a population of 50,090 to that of 175,000,
more than trebling itself in so short a space
of time. It is a “Prairie City,” with streets
unpaved, destitute of that magnificent foli
age that gives to our own homes the fit title
of the “Forest City.” There are a few man
planted trees, kept alive in summer by
trenches which hold the snow water
comiug down from the mount
ains sixty miles away. And the
original Denver, which still remains to a
large extent, was a town of small, one-story
brick hou-es, but the centos of architcturo
has struck this city of the plains, and now
immense buildings, hotels, stores, clubs and
publio edifices arc rising on every hand to
the hight of eight or ten stories. In a few
years no city on this or any other continent
will be adorned with such magnificent
structures. Glance at this list, which I ab
stracted from a daily paper, of a few build
ings now in process of construction.
Equitable building $1,609,000
Boston block 1,000.000
Crammer block.. .. 750,000
New hotel —... 1 ,#OO.OOO
New theater 265.000
National bank 350,000
Kettridge building 500,000
Masonic temple . 500,000
Three other buildings *50,000
Total „ „. $6,810,000
Six millions eight hundred and ton thou
sand dollars on just eleven buildings! This
does not include any of the smaller build
ings and residences which are springing up
ou almost every block within an area of six
miles.
These figures indicate something of the
city’s wouderful growth. We are now in a
condition to answer tho question of any
young man. anxious to make his way in the
world: “Does it pay to go west!” Well,
let us look at the reasons which make an
affirmative answer reasonable. In spite of
the great growth of which we have
spoken, Colorado is only in her in
fancy. She is the fourth largest
state in the union, Texas being the first,
California the second and Montana tbo
third. She has only begun her career of
unexampled prosperity. Not a thousandth
part of the mineral riches stored in bor 000
miles of rocky mountains has probably been
’touched. Her climate, ranging anywhere
from an altitude of 600 feet at Danver to
15,000 feet, the altitude of her higheet peak,
will always attract vast multitudes from all
over the world, persons afflicted with ner
vous or pulmonary disease. Iu every group
of twelve men, there will be represented on
an average persons from ninediffereut states
or countries. I have tried the experiment,
and it is amusing to hear the confession
come forth from each member of the group;
“I am from Maine," “I am from Ohio,” “I
ain from England," until almost every state
of the union and almost every civilized
country has been mentioned All the world
and his brother are coming here, either for
the purpose of bis health or for the immense
business that is just in process of develop
ment.
DENVER’S BUSINESS INTERESTS.
If I were asked to summarize the business
of Denver I would say, “Real estate and
mining interests.” The real estate agencies
are about as numerous on the business
streets as liquor stores are in a mluing
camp. We were so bewildered by tho
various signs, and the column after column
in tho daily papers of notices for the sale of
lots and residences, that we took the troulde
to count the number of those agencies in tho
city directory, aud we found that there
wore exactly 425 real estate firms iu Denver 1
Property enhances in value while men sloop.
And this is tho more astonishing since,
situated in the midst of a prairie, with
hundreds of miles of the same prairie land
ou every side, save the side that faces the
mountains, and, with cable roads reaching
in every direction, you would imagine tho
city had indefinite chances of growth. And
yet real estate is undoubtedly the paying
business of Denver. Everybody, with any
money at all, buys a littlo piece of treeless
prairie, holds it awhile, aud in a fbw
months sells at au advance, and so the city,
liko a great octopus, stretches out its tenta
cles on every side, and drags in every year
to its capacious maw a little more of Uncle
Sam’s big desert. One peculiar feature I no
ticed, but will leave its explanation to some
religious Denverite—that is, the number
of abandoned churches. Within three
blocks of the Albany hotel woro three such
desecrated buildings—one turned into tho
hotel stables, another into a blacksmith's
shop, and tho third into a store. Wfiether
tho congregations bad outgrown them and
moved into more sumptuous quarters, or
whether mammon has the best of the day
and these churches have been entirely de
serted, I know not; yet there they are—
buildings once resounding with the praisos
of God now turned over to secular uses—a
curious feature of this far western city.
We will not speak much of the mining
interests of the city, as wo desire in a future
letter, after wo have visited and inspected
a few more of the many thousand mines, to
devote a letter to “Minos and Mining in
Colorado." Under the kind guidance of
Mr. William Havwood, the son of our es
teemed fellow citizen Mr. Alfred Haywood
of Savannah, we were shown over the large
smelting works of Omaha & Grant, the
largest of its kind in the state. This young
gentleman came west only a year ago, and
we had the pleasure of dining with him and
his charming wife (whoso mother was a Miss
Bond ot Florida) under his own vine and
fig tree. His younger brother has recently
joined him, and he informed me that there
is no difficulty whatever in the way of any
honest and industrious young man obtain
ing lucrative employment in Denver. The
account of the smelting and assaying of
gold and silver ores, which we investigated
that afternoon, will come better in our ac
count of the mines.
THE SNOW-CAPPED ROCKIES.
All these days, while we lingered in Den
ver, the white and snow-capped Rockies,
only sixty miles away, and forming tho
western outlook of the city of the plains,
kept appealing to us with irresistible
charm. At the hight of 5,000 feet, so clear
and pellucid was the atmosphere, these
mountains looked as if near at handL The
fable runs that an Englishman set out to
walk to them before breakfast. We did not
undertake to do this, but chose the Rio
Grande and Den ver railroad as the easiest
way of reaching our destination in the
heart of the Rockies, some 300 miles away.
This lino is without doubt the grandest
scenic lino in the world, aud it is a subject
of wonder that travelers speed through on
the Union Pacific, or else make tho
fatal mistake of traveling by
night on the Rio Grande, when
the finest scenery in tho world awaits him
who chooses the Rio Grande route aud
travels only by day. Being forewarned, I
made the first stop at Colorado Springs.
Hero at this famous health resort, 7,000 feet
high, where 75,000 people come every year,
one day can be ipent in visiting Manitou,
tbo Garden of the Gods, through whose im
mense portals one posses on his way to
the summit of Pike’s Peak. It has
to be done at present on horse
back, but before July a cog railroad will
take visitors to the summit. This famous
Alpine peak of the Rockies lifts
its snowy summit, to the hight of
14,147 feet above tne level of tho sea, an
altitude almost as groat as that of Mont
Blanc. “Standing on the desolate, echoless
peak, the swift-glancing vision is servant of
all it surveys. I had not even imagined a
wilderness of loneliness comparable with
the absolute desolation of this awful sum
mit. I stood for a moment oppressed with
the majesty ttiat enveloped me. You con
template the mighty scene with admiration
and amazement. No human pen or voice
can word or write the wondrous
speotacle. Mountains rise upon moun
tains, like heaving billows, and over
lap each other as far as eye can scan,
and broad plains spread out below like a
shoreless sea. Beneath your feet a wild
rabt-le of broken rocks, that seems tumbling
downward, noiselessly, forever into an un
seen abyss, and a mystery of somber forests
through which the untamed winds revel in
ribald harmony.”
Those who would see the lovely and the wild,
Mingled in harmony on nature's face
Ascent our Rocky mountains. Let my foot
Fail not with weariness, for on their tops
The beauty and the majesty of earth
Spread wide beneath shall make thee to forget
The steep and toilsome way.
THE ARKANSAS CANON.
Resting that night at Colorado Springs,
the next day brought us through the crown
ing scenery of this magic circle of beauty.
At Canon City tho train stops a few
moments, as if for a breathing spelL There
is a rush of passengers to the observation
car. Two or three mighty engines seize
upon the palpitating train. There is a
scream of e ginee, a rush, a roar, aud we
are carried into a mighty gorge. The
canon of the Arkansas, ten miles through a
winding, twisting, tortuous, narrow pass.
where on either side rise cliffs, steep,
sheer, precipitous, solid walls of granite,
sand-stone and red porphyry, up, up, up
some 3,000 feet into the air. To cut this
gorge through, on the bank of the Arkansas
river, which had cut its own way through
these solid hills, man and machine had to
be let dow.i over the cliffs on a single rope;
brill’es wore suspended in the air from cliff
to cliff; provisions wore tent down to the
workmen, living in their canvas homes, by
pulleys, and ./hen their gigantic work of
engineering was finished, men said with
bated breath: “What hath inau wrought I”
Hut long prior to this though’, the sight of
the towering mountains on each side of the
gorge; the wild-waters of the untamed river
rushing through th 9 mighty divide; the
broken scenery of hill and plain, upon which
the train enters, after the Royal gorge, is
passed, covered and carpeted with bright,
beautiful flowers of spriug; all these had
insensibly sublimated thought, and men
said to each other: “What hath God
wrought 1"
Thus slowly we came through these
mighty mountains up Into this valloy of
Sau Luis, 0,000 feet in elevation, itself
flanked on every side bv the snow-clad
ranges of the Sangre de Cbristo. Here wo
settlo down to life on a ranch in the heart
of the Rockies. C. H. S.
LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS.
A Union Meeting Addressed by Arthur
and Depew.
New Haven, Conn., May 25.—A union
meeting of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers was held at the Hyperion theater
to-day. At the public session in the after
noon fully 2,000 people were in attendance.
Addresses of welcome wore mode by Chief
of Division Corbett, Lieut.-Gov. Merwin
and Mayor Reek. Grand Chief P. M. Arthur
then delivered an address, in which, after
telling the audionoe “Who wo are and
what wo aim to do,” he said among other
things: “The moral standing of the railroad
man twenty-soven years ago was not very
high; there has boon a marked improve
ment in his standing since that tune. In
regard to strikes. I hold that the policy of
the brotherhood is a just and wiso one In
dealing with the differences that arise be
tween employer and employes.
REASONING TOGETHER.
“My idea of solving such a problom is, in
the words of the Bible, ‘Come, let us rea
son together.’ Whenever there has been a
railroad disposed to meet the brotherhood
anil reason with its members a strike has
never occurred. There is no such thing in
the brotherhood ns ordering a strike. No
one is vested with the authority of ordering
the men to quit. I am opposed to our
brotherhood forming an alliance with any
other class of labor.”
DEPEW INDORSES THE SPEECH.
As C'hauncey M. Depew stepped to the
front of the platform bo was given a
rousing roception. He began his remarks
by saying; “I want to say at the outset,
and to say as president of the New York
Central and Hudson River railroad,
that every word uttered by Grand
Chief Arthur is indorsed by me. The
railroad man is universally known. Every
body knows him, aud such a man cannot
have a bod character without there comes
such a cry from the community that his
place is gone. The question between capi
tal and labor has boon hotter settled by the
brotherhood tuan by any other organisa
tion in the country. Labor has come to
the protection of capital against dema
gogues. ”
RICHMOND'S GALA DAY.
Maryland Preparing to Send a Large
Representation.
Baltimore, May 25.—Maryland is pre
paring to send a largo representation to
Richmond on the occasion of the unveiling
of the statue of Gen. Lee. The Fifth regi
ment of this city, the seventh regiment of
tho south, will leave, together with its vete
ran corps, in a special train on the evening
of Tuesday next. Tho Maryland societies
of the army and navy of the o mfederato
states will start the same evening for Rich
mond. Many smaller parties are forming
here to participate in tho unveiling cere
monies, and not a few Baltimoreans havo
already loft.
VETERANS GOING TO RICHMOND.
Pensacola, Fla., May 25.— A largo
number of confederate veterans of this city
will attend the unveiling of tho Lee statue
in Richmond on May 2D.
MBS. BEN HILL, JH., DEAD.
The Funeral Services Will be Con
ducted This Morning.
Atlanta, Ga., May 25.—Mrs. Ben H.
Hill, wife of Hon. Bon H. Hill, Jr., died
this morning at 1 o’clock at tbe residence of
Senator Colquitt. Pneumonia was the
cause of her death. She had
been sick two weeks. Her
funeral services willjbe conducted at II
o’clock to-morrow from the residence of
Senator Colquitt. In the absence of Rev.
Dr. Morrison of the First Methodist church
Gen. Evans will oiiiciate. Tbe remains
will be interred in Oakland cemetery.
Mrs. Hill was 36 years old. Her father
was Samuel Carter of Murray county.
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
Horrible Fate of a Negro and His
Wife Near Albany.
Albany. Ga., May 25.—Last night about
7 o’clock Shephard Davis and his wife,
Winnie, negroes employed on A. W. Tuck
er’s Lee oounty plantation, attempted to
cross the railroad track at Newsom’s cross
ing, about four miles above the city. Just
ahead of the passenger train, due here at
7:30 o’clook, and wore run down. They
drove a two-mulo wagon, which the engine
struck about the center, killing Davis and
his wife instantly and breaking the legs of
one of the mules.
DID THE TOV/NBY GASLIGHT.
Two Bervant Girls Create a Sensa
tion at Albany.
Albany, Ga., May 25.—Two white girls
of foreign birth, who have been employed
by families in the city as house servants,
became disgusted with their positions yes
terday and gave them up. it is reported that
the two, under the protecting care of two of
Albany’s men about town, took in the city
by gaslight at a late hour last night aDd
drowned their troubles in several glasses of
beer and wine which they took over the
counter of some of our tony saloons. It is
reported that they left the oity at an early
hour this morning.
PIERCED BY A BULLET.
A Shooting Near Milligan, Fla., That
May Result In a Death.
Pensacola, Fla., May 25. —On the Mil
ton and Rock creek road near Milligan last
Friday a man named John Mallory used a
Winchester rifle, with possibly
fatal efToct, upon Scott Cavendish,
the bullet penetrating the latter's body
through and through. The men were neigh
bors, but 111-feeling had existed between
them for a long time, resulting from a dis
pute over the ownership of some lands.
I Mallory has only one leg.
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HAM AN ON Til E GALLOWS.
TALMAOE TAKES THE STORY FO
HIS SUNDAY SERMON.
No Wonder the Hebrews Cry to Hava
Hainan's Name Blotted Out When
ever it la Mentioned— The Lessons
Applicable to Modern Times to be
Drawn from the Story.
Brooklyn, May 25.—1n the Brooklyn
Academy of Music this morning, after the
preliminary exercises which in this oongre
gation are considered as important as any
of the others, Dr. Talmage preached from
tho text, “So they hanged Human on tho
gallows that he bad prepared for Mordecai. ”
Esther vii., 10. Following is his sermon in
full:
Here is an oriental courtier, abont the
most offensive man In Hebrew history,
Hainan by name. He plotted for the
destruction of the Israehtish nation, and I
wonder not that in some of the Hebrew
synagogues to this day when Haman’s name
is mentioned, the congregation clench their
lists, and stamp their feet and cry: “Let his
name be blotted out!" Hainan was prime
minister in the magnificent court of Persia.
Thoroughly appreciative of the honor con
ferred, he expects everybody that he passes
to be obsequious. Coming in one day at the
gate of the palace, the servants drop their
beads In honor of bis ofHoe, but a Hebrew,
named Mon local, gazes upon the passing
dignitary without beading his head or tak
ing off his hat. He was a good man and
would not have been negligent of the ordi
nary courtesies of life, but he felt no respect
either for Hamnn or the nation from which
be had come. Hut he could not be hypo
critical, aud while ethers made oriental
salaam, getting clear down before this
prime mmiater when he passed, Mordecaf
the Hebrew relaxed not a muscle of his neck
end kept bis chin clear up. Because of that
affront Human gets a decree from Ahasu
erus, the dastardly king, for the massacre
of all the Israelites, and tliat, of course.wlll
include Mordecai.
To rnako a long story short, through
Quoen Esther this whole plot was revealed
to her husband, Ahaiuerus. One night
Ahasuerus, who was afflicted with insomnia,
in bis sleepless hours calls for bis secretary
to read tohim a few passages of Persian
history, and so while away the night. In
the book read that night to the king an ac
count was given of a conspiracy, from
which Mordocai, the Hebrew, had s ived the
king’s life, and for which kimliie-s Mordecai
had never received any reword Hainan,
who had been fixing up a nice
gallows to hang Mordecai on, was
walking outside the door of tho
king’s sleeping apartment and was
called in. The king told him that he had
just had read to him the account|of someone
who had saved bis (tho king’s) life, aud he
asked what reward ought to be given td
such a one. belf-oonceited Human, suppos
ing that he himself was to get the honor,
ami not imagining for a moment that tha
deliverer of tho king’s life was Mordecai,
says: “Why, your majesty ought to make
a tr.umph for him, and putacrown on him,
and set him on a spleudid horse, high step
ping and full blooded, aud then have oneol
your princes lead tho horse through the
streets, crying, ‘Bow tho knee, here c mesa
man who has saved the king's life!’” Tbeo
said Ahasuerus in severe tmes to Hainan t
"I know all about your scoundrelism. Now
y>>u go out and make a triumph for Morde
cai, the Hebrew, whom you hate. Put tha
best saddln on the finest horse, and you, the
prince, bold tho stirrup while Mordecai gets
on, and then lead his horse through the
street. Make haste I”
What a spectacle! A comedy and tragedy
at one and the same time. There they go)
Mordecai, who had been despised, now
starred arid robbed, in the stirrups. Hainan,
the chanoellor, afoot, holding tho pronoiug,
rearing, champion stallion. Mordecai bends
his neck at last, but it is to look down at th
degraded prime minister walking beneath
him. Huzza for Mordecai! Alas fot
Hainan 1 But what a pity to have tha
gallows, recently built, entirely wasted.
And Hainan hud erected it for Mordecai, by
It is fifty cubits high, and built with care,
whose stirrups he now waiks as grooms
Stranger and more startling than any ro
mance. there go up the steps of the scaffold
ing, side by side, the hangman, and Haman
tbs ex-chancellor. “So they hanged Haman
on the gallows that bo had prepared fot
Mordecai.”
Although so many years have passed
since cowardly Ahasuorus reigned, and thl
beautiful Esther answered to bis whims,
and Persia perished, yet from the life ana
death of Hamau we may draw living les
sons of warning and instruction. And first,
we corne to the practical suggestion that,
when the heart is wrong, things very insig
nificant will destroy our comfort. Who
would have thought that a great prims
minister, admired and applauded by mill
ions of Persians, would have been ss
nettled and harassed by anything
trivial? What more coula the great
dignitary have wanted than hit
chariots and attendants, and palaces aud
banquets? If affluence of circumstances can
make a man contented and happy, surely
Human should have boen contented and
happy. No; Mordecal’s refusal of a bow
takes the glitter from the gold, and tbs
richness from the purple, and the speed
from the chariots. With a heart puffed up
with every inflation of vanity ana revenge,
it was Impossible for him “to be happy. Tbs
silence of Mordecai at the gate was loudei
than the braying of trumpets in the palaca
Thus shall it always be if the heart is not
right Circumstances the most trivial will
disturb tbe spirit
It is not the great calamities of life that
create the most worrirnent I have seen
men, felled by repeated blows of mis
fortune, arising from the dust, never de
sponding. Bat the most of the disquiet
which men suffer is trom insigmfleant
causes; as a lion attacked by some beast oi
prey, turns easily around and slays him,
yet runs roaring through the forest at tbd
alighting on his brawny neck of a few in
sects. You meet some great loss in busi
ness with comparative composure; but yo
can think of petty trickeries inflicted upon
you, which rouse all your capacity foi
wrath, and remain in your heart an ua
bearable annoyance. If you look back
upon you life you will And that the mos*
of the vexations and disturbance)
of spirit which you felt wen
produced by circumstances that were nol
worthy of notice. If you want to be happy
you must not care for trifles. Do not b)
too minute in your inspection of the treat
ment you receive from others. Who caret
whether Mordecai bows when you pass, oi
stands erect and stiff as a cedar? Thai
woodman would not make much clearin|
in tbe forest who should stop to bind up
every little bruise and scratch he received
in the thicket; nor will that man accom
plish much for the world or the church
who is too watchful and appreciative ol
petty annoyances. There are multitudes oi
iieople in the world c nstantly harrowed
because they pass their lives not in march
ing out those things which are attractive
and deserving, but In spying out with af
their powers of vision to see whether they
cannot And a Mordecai.
A join: I learn from the life of the mai
under our notice that worldly vanity an
sin are very anxious to have piety bo*
before them. Hainan was a fair emblem a
entire world Knew, and Mordecai the lepra
soutuuve of unflinching godliness, Hud