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and 10c on rosin, and 90c on spirits to New
Y ork.
GRAIN. PROVISION'S. ETC.
New York, Sept. 19.—Flour easier on new
spring wheat brand, but fairly steady
otherwise. Rye flour firm. $2.605?3.10. Corn
meal easy; yellow Western, 70c. Rye easy;
No. 2, 48%c. Barley dull; malting, 415149 c;
feeding, 33%fi34c. Barley malt quiet, 55 '4
61c. Flax seed easy, 93%c.
Wheat—Spot steady; No. 2 red, 72%c; op
tions o|>ened firm on foreign buying and
better cables. Ruled fairly steady all the
morning, but finally yielded to unloading,
caused by a heavy visible supply increase
aid lack of support; closed unchanged to
%c net higher; sales included No. 2 red
May. closed 68%c; September closed 70%c;
December closed 67%e.
Corn—Spot easy; No. 2. 35%c; options
opened steady with wheat and on a
bullish Kansas state report, but later af
fected by realizing and prospective larger
receipts, sold off a little and closed partly
%c lower; May closed 36c; December closed
34%c.
Oats—Spot easier; No. 2, 24';c; options
dull and neglected, closing*nominal. Beef
quiet. Cut meats steady. Lard weak;
Western steamed closed at 5.05 c; city,
4.80 c; September closed 5.02 c, nominal; re
fined weak. Pork easier. Butter firm;
Western creamery. 15%5r21e; do factory,
11%5r14%c; Elgins, 21c; imitation creamery,
1; state dairy. 14plS%c. Cheese
firm; large white, 7%5i‘80. Potatoes steady;
Jerseys, $1.5f1t&1.87; New York. J1.27%5?
1.75; Long Island. $1.50@2.00; sweets, Jer
seys, J1.75Ct2.25; Southern. J1.00tii1.25. Cab
bage duil; Long Island. $2,005; 1.0(1. Cotton
seed oil quiet and easier, with the decline
In lard; prime summer yellow, 22%0 asked,
spot; 22e future delivery. Coffee—Options
opened barely steady, with prices un
changed to 5 points lower; closed steady,
unchanged to 5 points lower; sales, 14.500
bags, including September,’ 5.10 c; October,
5.15 c; spot Rio dull and nominal; mild
quiet. Sugar, raw, firm; fair refining,
3 13-165i3%0; centrifugal. 96-test, 4%c. Mo
lasses. 3 9-165i3%c: refined strong.
Chicago. Sept. 19.—Heavy receipts and a
large increase in the visible supply had a
depressing effect on wheat to-day, and re
sulted in a decline of about Do in both the
September and December options. Corn
was heavy with wheat, and declined Vic.
Oats closed practically unchanged after
an exceptionally dull session. Provision
were weak throughout, and dosed r/<ti2%c
lower.
The leading futures ranged as follows:
Opening. Highest. Lowest. Closing.
Wheat, No. 2
Bepi 65 65% $4% 64*4
Dec 62%<fi62% 62% 62 62%
May 64%©4% 61% 63% G%@64
Corn, No. 2
Sept 29% 29% 29% 29%
Dec 29%@29% 29% 29% 29%
May 31% 31% 31V* 31%
Oats, No. 2
Sept 20%®21 20%@21 20% 20%4t20%
Dec 20% 20% 20%5?20% 20%©20%
May 22% 22% 22 ©22% 22%
Mess Pork, per bbl.—
Oct $.... J 8 15
Dec 8 37% 8 37% 8 20 8 25
Jan 9 17% 9 17% 9 02% 9 OT%
Lard, per ’.OO iba
Oct 4 75 4 75 4 67% 4 67%
Dec 4 80 4 80 4 72% 4 75
Jan 4 90 4 90 4 80 4 82%
Short Ribs, per 100 lbs.—
Sept 5 25
Oct 5 25 5 23 5 20 6 22%
Jan 4 67% 4 70 4 67% 4 67%
Cash quotations wore as follows: Flour,
steady. .No. 2 spring wheat, 65%c; No. 3
spring wheat. 62©65%c; No. 2 red, 65c. No.
2 corn, 3f1%’0"30 1 s-; No. 2 yellow corn, 30%e.
No. 2 oats, 21%5i22c; No. 2 white, 25c; No.
3 white, 22%®’24%c. No. 2 rye, 47fi47%c.
No. 2 barley, 4151440. No. 1 fiaxseed. 90c.
Prime timothy seed, J1.755i2.10. Mess pork,
per barrel. J8.205i8.25. Lard, per 100 pounds,
$4.72%g4.75. Short rllts sides, loose, J5.12%@
5.32%. Dry salted shoulders, boxed, 14.505?
4.75. Short clear sides, boxed, $5.60@5.70.
PHILIPPINE DEVIL. DANCE.
Horrible Rites in W hich the Natives
Sometimes Indulge.
From the London Graphic.
Like most people who have not crossed
the border line separating civilization from
savagery, the natives of the. Philippine
Islands have some strange customs, and
perpetrate horrors which cause a shudder
among our refined nations. None of these
customs is more imposing, as few could'
possibly be more weird and than
the Devil Dunce of the natives, who resort
to it whenever they believe the evil spirit
has come among them and they are re
solved to cast it out. This spirit, accord
ing to the popular superstition, does not,
however, come into the village, but takes
up its abode in a banyan tree in some ad
jacent plain, from which it can only be
exorcised by the ministrations of the
priest.
For this purpose a night is fixed, the
place haunted by the evil spirit is deter
mined. and, at the appointed time, out of
their huts, out of the streets, out of the
villages, come the men and the women
and the children, all eager to participate
In the ceremony, all eager to dethrone the
devil. Through the darkness of the night,
under the star-lit sky, flows the stream
of humanity to the spot which has been
selected for the rite. There a fire is light
ed and the offerings which are to be made
to the offieiating priest—the fowls and the
goats and the other dainties—are gathered
together and made ready, while the whole
community forms a circle round the tree.
Presently the priest appears. On his head
is a high, conical cap, from the end of
which depends a red tassel. On ills Ixxly
is the moki. a long robe extending from
the shoulders to the ankles, on which arc
embroidered, in red silk, figures supposed
to represent the goddesses of small-pox,
murder, cholera, and other sliseases. In
one hand he carries a spea? and a bow,
whose strings, when struck, emit a low,
booming sound, while in the other hand
is a curved sacrificial knife—practically
a sickle—on whose blade are engraved
many figures. The man has either work
ed himself up into a stale of intense ner
vous excitement, or else, as is common
with savage nations, has taken a decoc
tion of some powerful drug in order to
produce a condition of mental exaltation.
From one cause or other, however, his
gait is invariably curious and staggering.
He advances through the crowd into tl*
center of the circle, where he seats him
eelf, while the men and women exhibit
the offerings which they arc- ready to
make. Seemingly oblivious of their pres
ence, however, is the half-maddened
priest, who sits doubled up, swaying slow
ly from side to side, while he hums or
roons some inspiring melody of madness.
Working himself up into a state of great
er and greater effect, his hands begin to
twitch and his movements become more
marked. His body seems to quiver and
huge drops of perspiration* stand upon
his skin. All this while the healers
of the tom-toms and the other makers of
barbaric music have been keeping up an
increasing disturbance. The music gets
faster and faster. All nt onee the priest
leaps to his feet with a shriek. With out
stretched arms and beating feet he cries
aloud, “I am God! I am the true God!’*
urul in that state the assembled crowd
makes its offering, and begs for informa
tions as to what will be the effect of the
evil spirit upon them, while it prays to be
saved from its machinations. The move
mmis of the dancing priest grow wilder.
With the sharp sacrificial knife he cuts
himself and slashes his tiody, while his
blood spurts out upon the men and women
near at hand, and mingles with the sac
rifices that are to he consumed. Wider
end wilder he becomes, and at times it
has happened that lie has even afflicted a
lalul wound upon himself. If this untow-
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ard circumstance” however, does not take
place, he dances and dances on until the
drug has worked itself out, or until,
through exhaustion, he falls headlong to
the ground. Then he retires, washes his
wounds and goes back to his home as if
nothing had happened. Hut the crowd is
happy, the people are content. The devil
has been banished from the banyan tree,
and life is more free from evil in the
pleasant village.
Terrible as is this orgie, it 19 yet the
least terrible of all the forms of devil
dancing practiced by these people, for if
tile priest be a member of the order of the
Panditas the ceremony becomes even more
alarming. These Panditas are a set of
men who practice sorcery, and, according
to their tenets, one of their chief missions
on earth is to murder Christians. They
have a set of followers who are called
Juramentados, who are bound to carry out
whatever commands may be given to them
and have therefore been, in this respect,
aptly compared to the nihilists or to the
members of the Italian Mafia. Once ad
mitted as a mem ier of the Order of the
I'andita, the individual is trained by the
priest so as to become a tit subject for
iris purpose. To this end he is given exoi
c-ses which will make his muscles strong
er and his limbs more supple, while at the
same time developing his nervous fores
and making him more emotional. When
fully trained these Panditas will under
take any duty, however hazardous, and
will attack a body of Christians far out
numbering themselves, with utter disre
gard and with as much composure as a
regiment of our own soldiers going against
a ■ foe. During these excursions against
Christians the Juramentados carry re
markable weapons—the kreese, a short,
beautiful sword, with its curved handle,
which is the chief weapon of the Malays—
as well as the saw'-tooth sword, made
from the blade of the sword-fish. A part
of this, near where it joins the snout of
the sea monster, is cut down so as to
form a handle, while the cerrateil teeth,
which run down each side to the end, are
sharpened until they become like the
points of a dagger. When they have
been armed with these weapons for an ex
pedition the Juramentados go to the tem
ple where their idols are set up, in order
to take a last look at the face of the deity
and to stimulate themselves for the duty
which they have undertaken.
A FIGHTING SNAKE.
A Pugnacious Moccasin Boldly At
tacks Two Men la a Boat,
From Forest and Stream.
Fishing one day in a bayou of the Pearl
river, with one companion, we sat in op
posite. ends of a long, light boat, which
tapered equally at both ends, but did not
come to a sharp point. It had but three
seats—one at each end and a middle seat.
When a change of position was desired,
we sunk a light paddle in the water and
quietly propelled by the boat by strokes
under the water so as to make no splash
ing. ,
My end of the boat had turned toward
the nearest bank, which was dkstant about
thirty feet, and lying asleep on a log at
the water's edge 1 noticed a moccasin of
very fair proportions.
Signaling to my companion. I pointed to
the Snake, that he might hold the boat
steady while I tried a shot at it with a
small pocket pistol—a 22 caliber—that we
always carried on our trips, and in the
use of which constant practice had made
me very expert. The snake’s head was
not visible, so I concluded to try a shot
at the thickest part of the body, which
showed clear on the highest part of the
log, presenting a fair mark that I could
hit nine times in ten shots, hoping to
break his spine. My pistol was a single
shot, which was usually no disadvantage
in shooting at snakes, as they always
took to the water if not disabled at the
first shot. Taking a very careful aim at
Ahe fair mark presented by the snake’s
ho ly on the log, I fired.
The boat must have moved slightly just
at that moment, for my shot struck one
half inch lower than intended. Instead of
fitting through the snake's body, it went
between it and the log, and must have felt
very much like a hot iron, judging by his
actions.
After a quick quiver and full length
squirm, he began to bow his back and spit
like an angry cat.
This was so very unusual that it amused
us very much, and we sat laughing heat li
ly for a moment or two, expecting every
instant that the snake would take to the
water anil disappear.
Suddenly the snake swung around with
its head stretched out in our direction, and
plunged into the water, but did not disap
pear. Threshing through the water like
mad, he made straight for me with an uir
of business that cured my attack of laugh
ter promptly and effectually.
I was paralyzed with fright, hut could
not believe that the snake was really com
ing to attack us, and sat looking "at his
approach, expecting every moment that
he would dive or turn aside.
But he did neither. Straight on he came
until he was but a few feet from me as I
sat in the boat, and then I recovered my
powers of locomotion and most ingloriously
fled. There was no choice of routes, so
straight, down the long, slender boat I
dashed toward the end my companion oc
cupied, clearing the middle seat with a
jump that nearly drove the bottom out
My companion had started up with a
startled cry to “Look out!” and had
grasped a heavy paddle lying In the bottom
of the boat, but seeing me bearing down
on him in a wiki flight, that was certain
to evarry us both over the end of the boat
into twenty feet of water, he dropped the
paddle stooped low. and caught me with
an approved football tackle hold Just above
the knees, and together we feli with a
crash against the end seat, my head strik
ing with such force that I was dazed and
rendered almost unconscious. Springing
to his feet my friend snatched up the
paddle and ran to the end of the Unit that
I had fled from and found the snake
still in pursuit, although the boat had
moved some distance from the impel us
given by the sudden arresting of my
flight. Not until he had received a blow
that almost disabled him did that pugn i
cious serpent retire from the attack. He
then swam back to the bank and crawled
out of tiie very log which first we had
found him.
When I had sufficiently recovered from
the knock on the head, and gathered my
scattered wits, we held a council of war,
and there was a division in the camp.
The man who was not snake-timid was in
favor of going right in and whipping om
the enemy with our heavy paddies; whi/e
the man who was most decidedly snake
timid was in favor of a general and imme
diate retreat from this unpleasant, and,
to him, unfortunate location. We finally
compromised by landing the boat at a
point some distance from the enemy an.l
the able-bodied contingent went to the at
tack alone, while the sick and wounded
stood guard at the boat. The stjake refused
to retreat lo the wan r, and was killed with
a long pole while still showing tight. This
is no exaggeration of the attack of the
only moccasin that I ever saw "carry tile
war into Africa."
—Jacob Billings, aged 90, was master of
ceremonies at the fourteenth annual re
union of the Billings family at Boston.
THE MORNING NEWS:. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1898 L
MARINE INTELLIGENCE.
LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWS OF
SHIPS AND SHIPPING.
Activity In Siiipliiiililiiiir Along the
Delaware—Ships Abandoning the
Klondike—Steamer Eulalia to Go
to Florida—Other Local Item*.
There is much activity in the ship yards
along the Delaware. Many steamers are
being finished up. It is stated that in and
near Philadelphia 55 per cent, of the new
American ships are being prepared for
the commercial service. W. Cramp & Sons
report that they are building at present
for American account seven vessels. These
steamers aggregate 36,168 tons displace
ment, showing that the size of each is
atone the average. In addition to this
work there are under construction by this
firm throe vessels for foreign account of
23,000 tons displacement, and four war ves
sels. They have also prospective orders
which will keep the big Philadelphia plant
humming for many months to come.
The other Philadelphia yards have been
doing an unusually good spring and sum
mer business. At Hillman’s seven tug
boats have been completed and three are
now under way. Neafie & Levy report a
good outlook in all departments of their
work.
At the Delaware river yards, in close
proximity to Philadelphia, are now well
under way thirteen steamers, all for Amer
ican account. The Delaware River Iron
Shipbuildirfe and Engine Works are busy
with six steel steamships. They have an
aggregate tonnage of 10,000. The Harlan
& Hollingsworth Company of Wilmington,
Del., are running at ful! speed. They arc
building seven vessels. Three are steel
steamships, one steamboat, two tugs and
one government vessels. The total ton
nage under way is 9,208.
Reports front the Pacific show that many
of the vessels winch abandoned their reg
u'ar (rode when the Klondike boom start
ed are returning to their former or other
trades, now that the gold bubble has
bursted. says ihe New York Commercial.
Nearly all of the ocean tramps that
came over from the orient have returned
to their former field. One of.them, the
Pakshan. loaded at Portland for Siberia
and China, and another, the Ningchow, at
Port B!ake!ey and Tacoma, and now
comes a report from Vancouver, B. C., to
the effect that the big steamships Athen
ian and Tartar, the largest that ran north,
wili be chartered for oriental business, and
one or both of them may go to Portland
to load for Siberia.
The new Siberian steamship line operat
ing from Portland has had more freight
offered than they coifld handle ever since
they sent out the first steamship, and it
would require at least two such steam
ships at the Athenian and Tartar to make
anything like a clean-up at the present
time. There are several other steamers
that were in the Klondike trade that are
now lying idle in British Columbia and
sound ports, and they may be pressed into
the Siberian or oriental trade, now that
there is nothing offering on the coast.
The steamer Euialia, which has been on
Jones’ marine railway for several days,
repairing the damage done at Wilmington
Island during tho recent storm, was
launched yesterday. She has been thor
oughly overhauled and repaired, and ex
pects to leave to-morrow night for Jack
sonville and will be put on the route be
tween that port and Palatka during the
winter.
The steamer Ethel left yesterday after
noon on a trip up the Savannah river.
She wiil go as far as Burton’s Bluff,
where she will meet the steamer D.
Murchison and exchange cargoes, both
steamers returning from whence they de
parted.
The steamer Clifton arrived yesterday
with an excursion of colored people from
LaiTics' Island and way landings. She re
turned last night.
The city quarantine tug Theekla was
yesterday hauled on Jones’ marine rail
way to have her bottom scraped and
painted.
The British steamship Wastwater, which
sailed from London Sept. 10, is due here
Sept. 26, to load cotton for Bremen. Ske
has been chartered by J. F. Minis & Cos.
New York, Sept. 19.—The American
schooner Anna, Capt. Woodhull, which
sailed yesterday for Charleston, lost her
fore and main-top masts last night off
the highlands, and returned to port for
repairs. Capt. Woodhull could not explain
the accident, as there was but little wind
and no sea to make the schooner roll.
"Everything seemed to be swept clean off
and the topmasts feli down about our ears
before we could realize what had happen
ed. Both topmasts were carried away at
the cross-trees, and we spent the night in
clearing away the wreckage.”
Snvannnlt Almanac.
Sun rises at 5:48 and sets at 5:58.
High water at Tybee to-day at 10:29 a.
m. and 10:50 p. m. High rvater at Savan
nah one hour later.
'The Plinse* of Moon for September.
Last quarter, 7th, 4 hours and 51 min
utes, evening; new moon 15th. 6 hoars
and 10 minutes, evening; first quarter, 22d.
8 hours and 39 minutes, evening; fuli
moon. 29th, 5 hours and 10 minutes, even
ing; moon in apogee. 9th.
AIIIIIVALS AND DEPARTURES.
Vessels Arrived Yesterday.
Steamship City of Birmingham, Burg,
New York.—Ocean Steamship Company.
Steamship William Lawrence, VYillis,
Baltimore.—J. J. Carolan, Agent.
Bark Admiral Tegetthoff (Ger), Voss,
Rotterdam.—Dahl & Andersen.
Steamer Doretta, Chadwick. Bluffton
and returned.—J. K. Judkins.
Steamer Clifton, Strobhar, Beaufort, and
returned.—George V. Beach, Munager.
Vessels Cleared Yesterday.
Steamship Chattahoochee, Lewis, New
York.—Ocean Steamship Company.
Schooner John L. Treat. Greenlaw, New
Haven.—C. W. Howard A- Cos.
Schooner Mary F. Godfrey, Wicks, Wil
mington, Dei.—C. W. Howard Ac Cos.
Schooner Thomas G. Smith, Adams.
Perth Amboy, N. J —C. W. Howard & Cos.
Schooner J. E. dußignon, Turner, New
York.—Master.
Vessels Went to Sen Yesterday.
Steamship Kansas City, Now York.
Bark Z< tiro (Hall, Rotterdam.
Schooner Maggie M. Keough, New York.
Schooner Mary F. Godfrey, Wilmington,
Del.
Schooner Thomas G. Smith, Perth Am
boy.
Schooner John E. dußignon, New York.
Illver Steamers Departed.
Steamer Ethel, Carroll. Burton’s Ferry
and way landings,—W. T. Gibson, Man
ager.
Shipping Memoranda.
Jacksonville, Fla.. Sept. 19.—Cleared,
schooner Lottie R. Russell, Sharp, Phila
delphia.
Charleston, S. C., Sept. 19.—Arrived,
sieamere Semlnoh Hearse, Jacksonville,
and to v. . v York; Carib, Mc-
Iv sf’ rt Y °fk. id proceeded to Jack
sollt dig Juno (Bn. Doyle, Huelva.
Sail: |p schoone Anna L. Mulford,
PoWelOßaitimor. ; I>. K, Baker, Hewitt,
New York; Dav, 1 Baird, Booye, Balti
more; Emma C. K .vies, Rodgers, Eliza
bethport, N. J.; g nuel Beecham, Steel
man, Baltimore; Mary Curtis, Maker,
Richmond, Va.; T. \V. Dunn, Bond, Bos
ton; Mary Lee Patton, Steelman, Balti
more; Edward G Eight, Fowler, Balti
more; John R. Ea iday, Moore, Balti
more; Susie H. Davidson, Doughty, Eliza
beihaort, N. J.
Pensacola, Fla Sept. 19,-Arrived,
steanu&jgntMH'i, (Hr), Davis, New Or
leans.
Sailed, bark Sum irlide (Nor), Eihngsen,
Buenos Ayres.
Cleared, harkentii.' San Michele (Ital),
Cerast, Marseiil.-j schooner John F.
Kranz. McDonald. Phi tdelphia.
Fernandlna, Fla.. Sept 19.-Cleared,
steamer Roblna ((ir), Lush, Rotterdam;
schooners Laura M Lunt, Cummings,
Boston; Morris W. Ehilds, Pressey, New
York.
Georgetown, S. C., Sept, 19.—Sailed,
schooners Puritan. Sargent, New York;
Hetlie J. Dcg-man, Sabiston, Baltimore.
Notice to Mariners.
Pilot charts and ill hydrographic infor
mation will be furnished masters of ves
sels free of charge in United States hydro
graphic office in custom house. Captains
are requested to ca ! at the office. Reports
of wrecks and deb-le ts received for trans
mission to the navy department.
Steamer I’assenjeers.
Passengers on steamship Kansas City
for New York—L. L. Gibson, H. C. Peters,
Mrs. A. K. Wilson, 'Yilham S. Traveilyan,
L. B. Price, Thomas A. Kelley, John J.
Ktley, Willard E. Dockham, Fred Stone,
E. Lilienthal, M. Bono, William L. Wil
liams, C. Furley Rossignol, R. A. Me-
Adory. W. W. Parker, F. H. Plaisted, F.
L. I leming, W. B. Harden, Miss Marie
Habersham, I. A. Solomons, Edmund H.
Abrahams, Mr. Evans and wife Mr* L
P. Hillyer, Mrs. I’. S. Hickey, Edward
Stewart, Clement < 'hestney, Mr. Lane,
Miss A. E. Robinson, Miss Carrie 1,.
Ryais, Mrs. J. A. Jones, Mrs. A. B. Col
cock, John Reeves, William A. Saule, An
thony J. Carson. I’atrick Fitzgerald,
Guastaf Delin, Turpin Bacon, Jelks
Thrasher, M. Elkan, Martin Cooley Jr
Mr. Hunt, A. A. Gordon, J. Oglesby V
E. Fridenberg, Love Wilder and wife, Ed
Stern and wife, Master Henri C. Solo
mons, A. Bond, Mrs. R. B. Nicoll, Miss
E. H. Charlton, Judge Robert Falligant,
P. M. Chestney, Mr Morgan, three inter
mediate and three steerage.
Passengers per steamship City of Birm
ingham from New York—J. B. Willis, J.
R; Hovey, Miss M. L. Graham, E. W.
O’Connor, Mrs. J. J. Powers, Miss M
O’Brien, Miss Kate O’Brien, John Laria’
C. M. Adams.
ConniirlNe Kxporti.
Per steamship Kansas City for New
York—6l bales upland cotton, 250 bales
sea island cotton, 30 bales domestics, etc.,
132 bales lobbaeeo, 287 bbls cotton seed oil,
303 casks spirits turpentine, 214,528 feet
lumber, 119 bdls hides. 2 bb.s fish, 331 cases
canned shrimp, 64 lioxes fruit, 18 cases
cigars, 173 sacks clay, 148 tons pig iron,
150 bales sweepings, 1 car oak staves, 103
pkgs mdse.
Per schooner J. E, dußignon for New
Y0rk— 461,270 feet pitch pine lumber.—E. B.
Hunting & Cos.
Per schooner Thomas G. Smith for Perth
Amboy-—373,868 feet pitch pine lumber; car
go by Dixon, Mitchell & Cos.
Per schooner Mary F. Godfrey for Wil
mington, De 1.—318,462 teet pitch pine lum
ber; cargo by E. B. Hunting & Cos.
Per schooner John L. Treat for New
Haven—376,o97 feet pitch pine lumber of
which 87,500 feet by E. B. Hunting & Cos
and 288,597 feet by J. J. Cumming.
Receipts at Railroads.
Per Central of Georgia Railway, Sept.
19—2,725 bales cotton. 100 tons pig iron, 105
pkgs mdse, 110 pkgs domestics, 257 bbls
rosin, 87 casks spirits turpentine, 20 eases
eggs, 1 car wood, 2 cars packing house
product.
Per Florida Central and Peninsular Rail
road, Sept. 19—26 bales cotton, 2 cars coal,
1 car chalk, 2 cars grits, 1 car meal, 10
cars mdse, 1 car shoes, 3 cars cabbage, 15
cars lumber, 1 car shingles, 2 cars barrels,
1 car copper, 9 cars wood, 1 car govern
ment freight, 556 bbls rosin, ft3 casks spir
its turpentine.
Per Georgia and Alabama Railway, Sept.
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casks spirits turpentine, 75 cars lumber
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ROUGH RIDERS’ PET NAMES.
Origin of Some Queer Sobriquets Be
stowed on the Troopers.
Wikoff Correspondence New York Sun.
With their return to such parts of civili
zation as they originally hailed from the
Rough Riders will probably get back their
given names, and they who have for the
last four months answered to the general
name of “Buddy” or the more specific
cognomens of "Mike,” “Reddy,” “Pudge,”
“Pop-Eye,” and the like will once more,
not without a feeling of strangeness, hear
themselves greeted as Harry, James,
Charley, Will, or whatever other name
was bestowed on them at baptism. Al
most the first thing that happened to the
Rough Rider upon enlistment was to find
himself the recipient of a name, very in
formally presented, according to no set
rule, which might cling to him during the
entire campaign or might be replaced in
the course of time'by a sobriquet which
some event should fasten upon the wear
er. In this class, belongs “Slimpnthx.”
which is the nearest expression possible
with letters to the pronunciation of the
very remarkable monosyllable designating
a trooper who distinguished himself at
Las Guusimas. After the first rush for
ward, when the Rough Riders were fight
ing frontier fashion, this particular pri
vate was heard between the sounds of the
guns to repeat to himself in unwearying
iteration a formula of words which, alto
gether meaningless at first, becume sim
ply a jumble of sound as the words came
faster and the tone grew louder. Finally
it reached the vocal consistency of Ihe
word quoted above. Those near the ut
terer of the mystic tones opined that he
was saying his prayers in, Greek. He did
not, however, appear to be in a panic,
but cheered Mlrmielf on with the strange
word, for the’ I’istet and louder he shout
ed tho more fiercely did he fight. When
the battle was over several curious com
panions watted upon him with the inten
tion of finding out the secret. Each had
a- try at repeating the sound, but the
originator of it failed utterly to recognize
it.
“Never said such a thing in my life," he
declared. "You fellows have been listening
too hard tc the song of tiie Mausers.”
Buf the others insisted and kept on es
saying the exclamation, until finally a light
broke in upon the trooper and he burst out
laughing.
“Well, (Hat’s one on me,” he said. "I re
member now that I was repeating a set of
woitls when 1 went into the row. I’d heard
that it was a good thing lo keep one’s mind
olf himself in time of danger Just to gay
over and over again some formula. I was
afraid maybe I'd be rattled, so when the
bullets began to sing I tried "to remember
some rhyme or solnt thing, and the only
thing that came into my head was, ’Six
slim. Slick saplings.’ If ever you fellows
tried. Unit at school you'ii know it’s no
siiiae of u piece to speak over and over,
even when everything else is peaceful. I
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guess I got it pretty well mixed up, but by
the time I got fairly into the light 1 must
have forgotten to stop saying it. I know
my tongue feels kind of tangled yet.”
The explanation was accepted, and the
trooper was thenceforth known by his self
given nickname. A similar case of battle
field nomenclature is that of Tarantula
Hank, who was lighting valiantly In the
trenches until one of the hideous and fero
cious spiders came darting along toward
him, whereupon he turned and fled, nor
could he be persuaded to return unti! a
comrade had smashed the tarantula with
the butt of n carbine. "The Rockpicker” is
a trooper, who, while fighting in the
trenches had his carbine ruined by a Mau
ser buffet, whereupon, in a wild access of
wrath, he rose and began to hurl rocks to
ward the Spanish lines wilh furious impre
cations.
As the nearest Spanish fire was directed
from a spot fully a third of a mile away,
it is not supposed that he added apprecia
bly to the day’s carnage. “Pills.” a name
which by right belongs to the troop sur
geon, has Inert bestowed upon a corporal
who. during a swift advance, was heard to
rattle like rain upon a tin roof, a phenome
non afterward explained by the fact that
his shirt was full of pill boxes. Later on
those pills were of great value to his troop.
Many of the nicknames are conferred in a
spirit of derision, their basis lying in con
trast. Two men of diametrically opposite
type were assigned to bunk together in the
same tent, and essentially became sworn
friends. One'was the typical fastidious club
man. the other a tobacco-chewing, cursing,
rough-and-ready bad mein from the middle
West. Immediately the clubman was chris
tened “Tough Ikb,’ ’and his bunkie be
came known through the regiment as “that
damn dude,” pr for short, “the D. D.”
"Metropolitan BilP’ is a citizen of the far
West whose chief claim to being a city
man is that he has an aunt living in New
York. “Sheeny Solomon,” sometimes called
"Old clo'es,” is a tjed-headed Irishman, 0
feet 2in his stocking feet. The “Immi
grant” is a trooper whose family helped
settle New York. “Rubber-Shoe Andy” dis
tinguished himself and won his name on
scouting duty by invariably tumbling over
something with a great clatter at the very
moment when silence was most essential.
There are three bald-headed men in one
troop, known, of course, as the Sutherland
Sisters—Sister Jane, Sister Anne and Sis
ter Araminta. A young fellow—and a
mighty good tighter, too—who is proud of
his Jewish blood, has accepted with per
fect equanimity the nickname of the
"Pork Chop.” In the same troop with him
is a private who is probably the mildest
spoken man in the army. One evening,
however, he got excited over something
and was plainly heard by several audi
tors whose testimony is unimpeachable
to exclaim: “Oh, thunder!” That settled
his case. He has been known ever since
as “Blasphemy Bill.” A Mississippi river
gambler, noted for his quiet demeanor, is
called “Hellroarer,” while the most pic
turesquely and flamboyantly profane in
the regiment rejoices in the appellation
of "Prayerful James.” The fun-maker
for one troop is a light-hearted SWede,
always full of jokes, and because of his
propensities and his nationality called the
“Weeping Dutchman.” “Nigger” is a
young fellow who is so white as to be
almost an albino. “Beefsteak John” has
many times called down the wrath of his
famine-stricken comrades by describing to
them just how he would like a steak
cooked at that particular moment, how 7 it
should be two inches thick, delicately
brown outside and deep red inside, and
how the melted butter should flow over
it. As soon a* they can get him to the
city his fellow troopers are going to make
him buy steaks for the crowd. To a cow
boy who arose one night and fled through
the camp in his dreams, under the impres
sion that he was being pursued by an
army of scorpions, his Eastern bunkie has
given the name of “The Wicked Flea,”
because, as he says, it was a plain case
of “no man pursueth,” until a sentry cali
lared the fugitive. It goes without say
ing that at the start all the fat men were
called “Living Skeleton.” “Bean Pole,”
“Shadow,” “Starvation Bill,” “Dr. Tan
ner,” and so on, while the thin troopers
were generally designated as “Jumbo,”
“Heavyweight,” “Anti-Fat” and the like.
Before the return the former list had
dwindled to nothing and the inventive
genius of the self-appointed godfathers
was taxed to find new names for those
who had fortunately preserved their bones,
but left most of'the covering thereon in
Cuba.
JEFF DAVIS AS A LOVED.
An Old Letter Shown Thnt He Wa as
Silly ns Any Ollier Love Sick Yoiltll.
From the Kansas State Journal.
Rtchview, 111., Sept. 13.—The following
is a copy of a letter written by Lieut.
Jeff Davis while stationed in the west to
Sarah K. Taylor, Prairie du’Chein. Miss
Taylor was a daughter of *Gen. Zachary
Taylor. The letter was confiscated, among
other papers, by Private Spilman Willis
of the Thirty-third Illinois Regiment,
while stationed in New Orleans. Mr. Wil
lis was a native of Richview. His moth
er and sisters are still living here. The
original of this was sold to the Libby Pris
on Company of Chicago:
Fort Gibson, Dec. 16, 1534.—T0 Miss Sa
rah K. Taylor, Prairie du Chien: ’Tis
strange how superstitions sometimes af
fect us, but stranger still what aids chance
sometimes brings to support our supersti
tions. Dreams, my dear Sarah, we will
agree, are our weakest thoughts, and yet
by many dreams have I been lately al
most crazed, for they were of you, and
the sleeping imagination painted you not
such us I left you, not such as I could
live and see you, for you seemed a sacri
fice to your parents’ desire, the bride of
a wretch that your pride and sense equal
ly compelled you to despise. A creature
here, telling the news of the day at St.
Louis, said you were about to be married
to a doctor, McLarnin, a poor devil, who
served with the battalion of rangers. Pos
sibly you have seen him. But last night
•he vision was changed. You were at the
house of an uncle in Kentucky. Capt. Mc-
Cree was walking with you. When I met
you he left you, and you told me of your
father and of yourself, almost the same
that I have read in your letter of to-night.
Kind, dear letter; I have kissed it ofen,
and It has driven away mad notions from'
my brain.
’Sarah, whatever I may be hereafter,
neglected by you, I should have been
worse than nothing, and If the few good
qualities 1 possess shall, under your smiles,
yield fruit, It will be yours, as the grain
Is the husbandman's. It has been a
source productive of regret with me that
our union must separate you from your
earliest and best friends. lam prepared
to exiiect all that intellect and dignified
pride brings. The question, as it has oc
curred to you, is truly startling. Your
own answer is the most gratifying to me;
is that which I should have expected from
you, for you are the first with whom I
ever sought to cast my fortune, so you
would be the last from whom I would
expect desertion. When I 'wrote to you
I supposed you did not intend soon to re
to Kentucky. I approve entirely of
>our preference to a meeting elsewhere
than at Prairie du Chien, and your de
sire to avoid any embarrassments which
might widen the breach made already
cannot be greater than my own. Did I
know when you won Id ire at St. Louis I
cou.d meet you there. At all events, we
will meet in Kentucky. Shall we not soon
meet, Sarah, to part no more? Oh, I
long to lay my head upon that breast
Which heats in unison with my own, to
turn from the sickening sights of worldly
' upheity and look in those eyes, so elo
quent of purity and love.
“Do you remember the heart’s-ease you
gave. It is as bright as ever. How verv
gravely you ask leave to ask me a ques
tion. My dear girl. I have no secrets
from you. You have a right to ask me
without an apology. Miss Bul-
Ut did not give me a guard for a watch,
out if she had do you suppose I would
have given it to Cant. McCree? But I’ll
tell you what she did give me—a most
beautiful and lengthy lecture on my and
your charms once upon an evening at a
fair in Louisville. You can, and I have
left you to guess, what, besides a resisti
bility to your charms, constituted my of
fense. The reporters were absent, and the
sjieech I made is iost.
t manner of message could
La Belle Elorine have sent you concern
ing me. I hope no attempt to destroy
harmony I laughed at her demons,ra
tion against the attachment of dra
goons, but that, between you and I is
not fair gains; it is robbing to make
another poor. But no, she is too dis
cerning to attempt a thing so difficult
and in which success would be value
less. Miss Elizabeth, one very hand
some lady—Oh, Kncx, what did you put
that semi-colon between ‘handsome’ and
‘lady’ for? I hope that you find in the
society of the Prairie enough to amuse,
if not enough to please. The griefs over
which we weep are not those to be
dreaded; it Is the little pains, the con
stant failure of the drops of care, which
wear away the heart.
“I join you in rejoicing that Mrs. Mc-
Cree is added to your society. I ad
mire her more than anyone else you
could have had. Since I wrote to you
we abandoned the position in the Creek
Nation and are constructing quarters
at Fort Gibson. My lines, like the beg
gar's day, are dwindling to the shortest
span.
“Write to me immediately, my dear
Sarah, My betrothed; no formality
proper between us. Adieu mac here
treschere, Annie, Jeff.”
MANGOES IX ELBA.
IVhyOiir Soldiers in the Inland Were
Forbidden to Ent Them.
From the Boston Evening Transcript-
In the long list of suggestions from the
medical department, all of which were dis
regarded, the ripe mango was recommend
ed as a desirable article of diet. But some
body at headquarters issued an edict
against it. and the soldiers were called up
by the company commanders and told that
if they ate the fruit they would be pun
ished. This is the way the company com
manders addressed their men:
“Now, I see that some of you have been
eating those mangoes in spite of our ad
vice to the contrary. Do you know what
the Cubans call this fruit? They call it
Gen. Mango, because they say that the
mango has killedMnore Spanish soldiers
than all of their generals put together. If
you eat it Gen. Mango will kill you, just
as it has killed the Spaniards. I am lold
on good authority that If you eat a mango
every day and then get yellow fever you
will swell up frightfully and surely die.
Now, I give you this positive order that
not one of you shall eat any of this fruit,
and I shall punish severely any man that
disobeys the order.”
After such an order the obedient regu
lars generally let the mangoes alone, al
though they were abundant, tempting and
delicious. The volunteers ate them more
freely, without any bad results, so far as
heard from. When the Cuban officers and
aides were asked their opinion as to the
wholesomeness of the fruit they generally
said: "It is perfectly wholesome if eaten
ripe; all these bad things apply to the un
ripfe mango, which is sometimes eaten by
the Spaniards.” Most of the army doctors
seemed to think that the only way to pre
vent the eating of the unripe mango was
to prohibit the fruit altogether. There
were many cases in which even the most
obedient regulars were impelled by thirst
and by the hunger for a bit of fruit to dis
obey the order; and, as the clear yellow
mango Is always ripe, while the unripe
fruit is green or greenish, it did not take
a very high order of intelligence to dis
criminate between the fruit which was tit
to eat and that which was unfit.
It was certainly hard to believe any ill
of a mango when one looks at it. The'tree
itself is a most beautiful and attractive
thing. Imagine a tree as large as a big
Massachusetts oak, covered with rich and
glossy foliage finer than that of the or
ange tree, and covered also with golden
fruit, nestling brilliantly among the green
leaves. On such a tree there must be a
hundred barrels of mangoes, fully matur
ed, every one of which is as large as a
good-sized pear. In shape the mango is
not unlike a short and thick cucumber,
and it has a thin, tough skin, which, when
matured, reveals a mass of the most deli
cious juicy pulp. The only trouble about
eating the mango Is that one needs an
ablution afterward. Some say that the
ideal way is to get into a bath tub, take
the mango, eat it, and then go on with
the bath. But one is perfectly willing to
take the trouble to seek the ablution for
the sake of the fruit. And imagine the
trees which bear the fruit growing wild
everywhere, and also spring up in every
garden and dooryard; the largest and fin
est ones were away up on a wild moun
tain side, where apparently no one had
ever gathered the abounding fruit. Nor
are they a native fruit in Cuba; they have
been introduced from India and simply
gone wild in the rich soil of the island.
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