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THE SUSNY SOUTH.
THE WHITE LILT.
BY CHARLES E. McDANIEL.
CHAPTER V.
Adrift, cut away from its moorings, and
ca-it adrift was my bark. From l ribut.ary
to stream, on towards the sea’s broad waters,
drifting
"i
oars to stem the rushing tide, for tuere was
no incentive to lend strengi'n in those
straggles—no good in sight. Drifting. slow
ly drifting, carried here liy the current,
washed there by the waves, ever drifting to
ward the hidden rock, upon which the bark
of lite is cast to -ink forever neath the deep
<la k waters.
ing away at the clay pipe he had lighted,
matte no move toward gratify ing the aroused
curiosity by the explanation which he knew
was waited ami wished for. A minute or so
pass* d, in which the old Missourian seemed
totally oblivious of bis surroundings, puffing
away, his thoughts as it would appear
Story of the West. **
| “Well, Rube,” finally said a successful nt-
*** * i tempt to tease the old man into speaking,
“some old Indian’s hut must be nigh here—
some old Indian who has a pretty, black -
eyed squaw, ami she’s your angel. Oh yes,
old chap, we understand now. You remem
ber, Joke Ransom, when we three was trap
pin it together and t he redskins got ahold of
us away below the Big Timber, ami took us
prisoners to their village on the Del Norte.
.. . . , ,, , , t i Well, didn’t you notice how Rulie’s eyes f«l-
,ig. .so hand at the iud.,.1 ' I lowed the tall, black eyed sip.aw when she
t! 1 e<".*um*-iiO i more struggles "uli the oame ,1s water? Anybody could see
just as plain as daylight that lie thought she
w is aii angel Siv now, old p.ard, aiu t the
angel you’ve been tellin’ us about an Indian
squaw ?’
The ei (levant trapper couM contain him
self no longer. “Squaw!” lie cried scorn-
fnllv, eastia ■ • upon the other a withering
1 „,k. “Squaw! The idee! No, Mr. IVrtness,
she air uone o’your kind er angils—squaw
angils. The little gall speak o’is a white
gal. ami she air as party as er angil too, how-
soinever she air got a leetle o’ the Mcxikin
blood a runnin’ in her veins. Mayhap some
o’you here present is neern of Miguel Diaz,
the Spaniard, if ye wur ever in S *e >rro,
along 'bout IS—, afore lie left there; or may
hap ye I.ain’t. Anyhow, in* lines not inore’n
a mile rn’a half from here, down the crik;
leastwise his hut were there a year or so
a gone. It wur his little gall wur talkin’
'bout; an’ I’ll b*’t any o’ ye a plug o’terbaecy
ver h is never .b awd bead on purtier ’oinan
fie h.”
“Well, Rube,” spoke up another miner
after a short pause, “you have seen the
White Lily <d' Mon low’s Valley—how will ihe
angel you’ve been telling us about compare
with her?”
“Oh, ineourse I did i,t m»an as s!ie wur
purtier than the White Lilly,” said tile old
M ssourian. “You know that would he on-
* 'ssible, fur there ain’t nothin’ oil •he top
side o' the verth as kin hol.1 a light to the
White Lily ’’
“The White Lily! This was the fourth or
fifth time I had heard that name called since
Frank and 1 had joined the miners. It was
">t tile name so much as the tone in which it
as always spoken, that had been the means
of arousing my curiosity. I had noticed
that it never c inie from careless lips, but in-
• id was always uttered with a certain rov-
"■ence. something like, I imagined, that
■diown by one in speaking of some beloved
.inted being. With the thought, that 1
tould learn more of the one who bore the
■ me possessed of such a strange charm
i mong tin se rough men, l was about to speak
o Rube, when Fite Rogers again engaged
• lie old Missourian’.-, attention by requ .-sting
n to pr «eeed with the “yarn,” and i sat,is
le I myself with ray own mental answer.
■ No doubt, thought I. “this White Lilv is
■- mie old miner's daughter, tall and fair, that
“i se rough, untutored, though not liard-
Something like t occur, b ittle scarred and
homeless, that, falls in with other curs time
may chance to stray hi.-, way, tell 1 in with
the small party of mi .ers that some weeks
later, passed through Fort L , en route
for Santa Fee. At Suita Fee, l again met
Frank Hamilton, and tol I hitn how \\ ill and
1 were chased by tin* Pawnees while alter
the mustangs. “And Will ” .“Is no
more, Frank. I saw him fall under tin* In
dian’s hatchet.”
Then Frank, with tears from his honest
heart, dimming hi.-, eyes, told me that his
friend, Sinclair Lyman, had never been heard
from since the fatal day upon vvhi h we
chased the mustangs; and there was nodoubt,
whatever, that he, too, had fallen a victim
to the s ivage hand.
My venture as a trader had been crowned
with a success far d ove my most sanguine
expectations. Frank H. had attended to my
interests in my absenc , not ki,o ng whether
1 was s ill among the llv u o.- dead, and I
was surprised to learn the increase of my
original sum invested. But what eared I
for gain now? To have been thus smiled on
by Dame Fortune weeks before this, would
h ve proved gladdening to my heart, for it
would have carried me nearer to the bright
star of hope then shining uheai 1; Imt that
star had set now—its rays were no longer
thrown athwart my path—and let fortune
smile as brightly as she might, s’ill the gloom
surrounding me would no: be dispelled. A
few weeks m Santa Fee, and one morning
Frank II., laid before me his plans for the
future. He informed in*.* that i.e would not
return to St. Louis just then, and that lie in
tended to continue a trailer no longer; but,
instead, was g ing to become a miner. A
party of miners that had arrived at Santa
Fee ilu- day before, ha t reported some rich
“finds” near a mining rump * known as
M do* 's Valley, n ‘ .1 rid i, to which place
they would shortly return.
“And, Aleck,” continued Frank, “1 am
going with them to Meadow's Valiev, and
try my suck as a miner. These fellows will
not start o,. their return forsev-ral d >vs ye'.
They are down for "a little fun,” and will
have it, too, hef re they leav-•*. They must
have a few rights with the Mexicans—“grea
ers,” as they ea 11 the n, and whom i hey
seem to hate w< r than poison; and to carry
away any of the g Id in their belts, would be
against their natures. They nni-t leave i.
all here; and, to do so, must attend several
“fandangos,” and, under the jealous glare of
their biaek-eyed, swart enemies, dance with
’ the viv. eious senoritas, and draw out the
“chinks” for wine to go down the pretty
thro ' and c-igaretts to be held between the
the prettier lips By-the-way, some of these
dark-eyed sencritas are pretty—perfect beau
ties. Don't you think so. Aleck?”
“Oh, yes,” I replied, “their faces are love
ly enough, cert .inly. Spain amt Mexico
have their beautiful women—their Deldahs —
you know, as well as our own haul. Frank,
let one advise _v • 1g.h • careful l-ow you ever.
” O y 1 (ioii’t intend to tall in
love with any of these dark eyed daughters
°* this tropical clime, f • that would !..-
scnrcely possible. You so*, *.i V h artis with
a little girl in my own land, to whom I drill
some future day return for a life of happ-
ness. She is beautiful, and as good as sh • is
beau.iful—as fair as a lily and as good as
good can be. But we are off the subj et; v .*
were talking about the miners As I said 1
have mad up my mind to wii wit h.-m
when they n t irn to Meadow's Valley. \\'
not you go, too, Aleck?”
“Yes, 1 will go.”
A week or so later, we had ridden away
from the Capitol of New Mexico, with the
miners, and were en route for the camp of
Meadow’s \ alley, C :o , To.
* * * * * * *
“Now, Rube, i.11 feilo v, give us the “varn ”
> on promised, this morning, to tell us'ubou’
th it bit of a scrape you got into with the
Lapahoes, when you was trappm’ it the
Arkansas ill is , I know it's a
and we are anxious to lic
it, Rube.”
VYe had left Santa Fee, many miles behind
us. 1 pon the bank ..I a spark i lit ;.
stream that danced away through the*forest
towards the south, to mingle its waters with
the larger stream that claimed it; as a tribu
tary, we bad pitc ;ed camp. The nocturnal
voices of the fore t had ceased to-hunt—
frightened into silence for some distance
around by the crackling and iilazin-*’of t!io
camp-fire. The “crop, crop,” of our horses
as they reaped clo-e the nutritious grass
which grew along the banks of the siren nlet,
came to our ears as we ate our evening meal’
The meat finished, we had gathered around
preparatory to becoming auditors to the
miner who was to spin the first “yarn" for
the evening.
“Now, Rulie, let’s hear about the Rapa-
*'* tough one,
1- '. us have
rt •’• men h ve enthroned in their minds
the embodiment of all that is good an 1
-tutiful. or rather, as some oele-tial being
tin should be ill a brighter sphere instead of
'.’oiling with mortals here below. “U'nire
. ly!” Bali! 1 wonder if her heart is as pure
. her name. The siren of Meadow’s Valley
• doubt would lie a more appropriate appel-
ition.”
“Well boys,” began Rube, “I’il fell ye
• itlt he 'll qiah.ies now, as we air done tulk-
i* o' Miguel Diaz an’ his leetle gal. He, he,
I -’Rapahoes, cussed skunks, they thought
•ey li.ul the old chile, he, he. It wur least
s’ four year ago, i-i iS —. I”
■'Mc ped Diaz!” ex Inline.1 a voice at Rube’s
ok, interrupting him in the very beginning
:' his yarn, “didn’t I hear you say something
' out. Miguel Diaz?”
it was Frank Hamilton that spoke. He
■ d stepped out to whe'e our horses were
there;! to arrange something about their
ill; i’s, and had not heard the above conver-
M.aTeilm ta - b.ij s about the Spaniard’s
• rter. He lives down the crik, not liin.-h
or-’ii a mile fni’ii here, the Spaniard do”
“Miguel Diaz lives not more than a mile
• an here?” exclaimed Frank in much sur
i -y_. “Did he once live in Socorro, in i8—?”
‘tes. he lived in Socorro at that time.
■■ a the same identical chap, an’he fives
ova the crik where 1 say, leastwise his
"tuty wur there when I tramped this ere
■ ay l *s,’ an’ he too an’ I reckon us how
•\ air both there viV
“U'liy, 1 know him well.” said Frank, tum-
- to “I him for (ho first tone in
mtn l e, and a noble-hearted fellow he is
•a But l never exj. oted to find him living
t!i.s wild place. Poor fellow! I guess he
ias mad.* him a home here to bury his ,, r -
• v and himself out of the world’s way. Hj s
f e h- s been darkened bv a great sorrmi-
• woman’s infidefitv. He seemed to Ute
nte a fancy to ni- from the first; an 1. dur-
ig the few weeks we were in -ach oth rs
■;’iety made a confidant of me: and. among
•her things of the past, told me the secret
i the 'me great sorrow of his life Tibs trou
had been upon him but a few months
; hen first we in ft. I had known him but a
"• ’ft time, when he rendered me the inesti-
'able service of saving my life. I was at-
e'ke'i one night, while walking the streets
Santa Fe alone, by two Mexicans that at-
*.11iift*d tqrob me: and, but for the timely
distance of Diaz who most opportunely
ippenwl that way just then, I would no
was, i
doorways; and besides these, we juld see no
other aperture save the one elay-dnbed chim
ney. To the left of the house, al a little in
the rear, was an enclosure somtwenty to
twenty-five feet in diameter, fonsrt by lash
ing small poies with whang, or slips of hide,
to posts set in the ground. Nea the center
of this enclosure was a shelter, hegntb which
stood a beautiful little nuistangas 1 after
wards learned, tile property of ie “argil,”
Rube had told us about lieforeve left the
“Truly, an unpretending and (ieturesque
home,” ! exclaimed, as my ey< r«n from
the sparkling streamlet over tbe“niea<l” to
the rude dwelling, and then to thdark bluff
that frowned down from behind nil on both
ies The blue smoke curling sk ward from
tlie clay chimney told of some "ft at home;
and to Frank’s call, the Spanird himself
came to tin* door.
\Vi
by an c-art
ksibX , r -
ag.
1 knife o
i <1 a blow
The speaker was Fite Rogers—a short fat
good-natured young fellow who hailed’from
tho red lulls ol the good old State of Georg : i
The man addressed as Rulie, was a dill rent
looking individual altogether. He was a
Missourian, long and lank, and with a beard
less face whose swarthy surface you no.bit
easily imagine had never been broken over
by a smile, did you not catch the occasional
twinkle in the small, keen gray eyes, which
told you that the heart beneath was ’not un
known to merriment. Ru'ie m ,de no imme
diate reply to the request for the “yarn”
He was turning to one side, and eyeing in a
highly satisfactory manner, the long black
bottle which had just reached him in i s
passage from hand to h ind around the circle
A moments sweet anticipation, and tin* bot
tle was raised to lips that could wait no
longer: and the continued “gurgle, gurgle,”
told of til-- old Missourian's ze-ilousness in hi-
vrorslup of the god Bacchus.
“Ah,' he said, with a loud smacking of the
lip', its the bottle was pamed on, “ui .t's the
stuff fur this ’ere child—the old corn juice!
You may talk about yer wines yer Madi rie i
and yer other pig-slops—but none o’ ’em ones
down this ere child's tliroat. He’ll takethe
s'tiffin his every time—the pure and .*-ure
‘•mountain com.” So, boys, ver want the
story, do ye—yer want to lieer as h uv 1 „ u t-
witted the cussed Raj'ahoes on the Arkansas
about five years .go. afor>* I quit b aver ami
turned to huntin’ gold. Web, I’ll tell ve- fi u t
fu-t, boys, do yer see that jii-.-an as a ands
j'anderr
Ituiic pointed towards a tall pecan tree !
which stood within the space lighted u** by ’
t « nip-li re, in plain vie v. ° ‘ ~
_ “Well, yer see the tree, now Jo ye s.-e the !
chipped place as is on the left side o’ it- j I
I put that there leastways a year an’a half
ago, when 1 trumped this ere wav. I hadn’t 1
thin k as where v, e wur tell jist n ■ . when 1 '
seed that. Boys, we air in a squr’l’s jump o’ !
er angil!” .
. “Angel!” came from thesurpris *d list ners
in a breath, “what mean you, Rub ? Ex
plain yourself.”
“Well, I mean j.*st what I say, boys—we
air in a squr’l’s jump o’ er angil!”
The old miner lapsed into silence and pn/f-
ulit have been murdered. As it
ly received a scratch on my si,le froVii
knife of one of the would-be assa- un--
in my bead which rendeied me
unconse ills. When I regained mv sense**
■ .mi’s later, 1 found myself surrounded l.v
• acndly faces, with only a few lines from
Ib.iz to the effect that now he had seen me
' uely delivered from my enemies, and in the
ire "f friends, he would bid me farewell—
i:i f* 1 probability farewell forever; that he
Fe th
ed by duty many miles from Santa
night, and that he h ul decided never
'-> return: but, finding him ahorue away from
the busy world, seek in solitude that solace
. lla ! ! 1 ‘ finrt elsewh -re. Since then 1
nave neard not a word from the noi.l ■ Sp ln .
iun t il to-night; and Rube says he lives
near here! Bus you said something about a
daughter, Rube There must be some mis
ta.ice. he had no child.”
, ,“ U ,j11 ’ Vo' 1 , Mla - V V®>” re PHed the ci-devant
i.ipper 1 know h- called her his “leetle
g d, n an 1 knowed by that she wur his dar-
‘ Strange -I can't sec how it is,” said Frank,
it may he some little waif though, that tli
a;es have treated kindly by throwing her
into his bands to be cared for. If f a t,,
was .'.deed kind to the waif, for no one could
11 into gentler hands-hands that will deal
■ at as little uiikiiidness us those of Miguel
D*az Aleck suppose you and 1 get on our
’. ' 1SiS down to his home, and spend
' Hight there. [ cannot pass so near to my
«>; j ii' tMitl and not sec him asrain ”
“Weil.” '
A few moments later, we were mounted
a i * tiding down the bank of the streamlet
towards the Spaniard’s home. Fifteen min
utes, and it was before us. Tlu* streamlet
was ov Hooked from the si le opposite to that
■ e were by a steep, rugged bluff. The bluff
• *s i.ot eoniiauous. There were occasional
br.-.ks forming, .along (he margin of the
s’r -ante.r., fi tie “meads” covered with the
“ffmmma” gras& Near the cen , cemunes go
t. i ,.f one of. they' meads” stoid the house Ilu*toft lifer
l^ n wl’^cav/sn, I «ubmarine forest; at. the former pi
light that i: scarce seemed like night* 1 ; ' washed St Clem f nt > said .‘“
wasalittl removed from the d . t** washed away centuries ago with l
tiring among^he few°tal 1 s m e i r< i At «»e lowest el.bs of (
tr! sthat cov^ed P tK ^wRh ' P*- * ^ and decayed
a .scattering growth; and in looking at the
! rjidc dwelling, the ilea that the ite had l r -en
i ed«^ , *if}’o h f ‘ V!e .' v fo concealment suggest
e itself to one’s mmd. The aborescent mfeca
i which grew m abumlance along the ton of
tnc bluff, ha* furnished building material
SWALLOWED B T THE
SEA.
[From All The Year Ib'Ud.j
Shakespeare tells us “The se's a thief,”
and our experience fully eorrobrates him.
t )ur coasts have been tln>roughlv^vaged bv
the relentless force of this poueril element,
au*l many are the towns .’inii ’.(lages that
have fallen victims to its insattble maw.
Nodoubt the sea has always lien washing
away our crumbling cliffs, and lanv tra*ii-
l ions still finger of ancient citie and vast
tracts of I oid forever buried iineath the
wave. L"t us recount a few.
Dunlop, in his “History of Ficbn,” refer
ring to Sir Lauueelot du Lac, ays: “The
country of Leona's, or Leonnoy, of which
Meliadus was king, ami which w s the birth-
pi n-e of Trist m, though once cqtiguous to
('ornwall, has now disappeared ad is said to
he fairly f,thorns under wate ” Again,
Carew’, in his “Survey of Cormtdl,” refer
ring to the same suTij“ct, infornius that it,
is thirteen miles from the Sei!!«<d.-s-upl a!!
buried under the water, except arocK which
can be seen at low tide. It is .-'id that the
(isherinen there occasionally briig up pieces
of doors and windows! One of:he legends
current in Llandudno and the nighborhoo 1
is, that thejiart between Abor ill Peiiin ien-
niawr, and in the direction of treat O ine.s
Head, now covered by tho sea, was once a
“delicate vale abou ding in loiiji'aliiess.”
file credul-ms fancy fail detect IT; traces of
ancient building foundations. Tieplar e was
e tiled LlysHeiig (the Court of Helig), and
:.ne sands arc now called Traeth Iafaii, which
latter wonl is suppose 1 to be a e rruptioa of
wvlofa u twailingl. The story s that. Helig
held a large court feast, and in the revelry
\ lie watchmen forgot to close the Seagate,
-.i that the whole district ivin inundated
through their negligence Tills event was
siiil t*i have been prophesied for generations,
■ engeance having been threattned to the
family of Helig ap Glenawg for the crimes
0 'Ins ai.ee ii-s. Another tradiiica i- r f r-
1 (1 to by the Rev. T. F. Thi-eton D>er in
liisexcellent little!) >"k, "EtiglishF*ilS-L*ire.”
'ie states that the cemetery of a place called
Kilgrimal once stood on the sands near
Blackpool, and that wanderers nea*' the spot
h ,ve been terrified by the “dismal chimes of
tae bells pealing over the'murmuring sea.”
According to the “Norfolk (inland,” a sim
ilar superstition prevails in Notfingh unsliire,
when* the people of R 1 igh believe that sev
eral hundreds of years ago the valley adja-
c nt was caused by an earthquake, an i a
e lurch and village were swallowed up at the
-one time. They confidently place their
e irs to the ground on Christmas morning,
“hoping to catch the music of the
Mysterious chimes in the subterranean
temples.” They actually *1" hear bells
r.n ;, but they are th<»e of a neighboring
village church, the sounds being carried
■ ">ng the ground. A ..out half a niiie west
• r Tlirunseoe, in lvt.c .’.nshire, fheraKa place
•died Church "Well, where the ciijyfcli of this
llage is said to be sunk; anotbi 11* 1 the
Well, is supposed to ha j u* used
t the same tim * bv an earlltft'/. r‘*'.d.’i!t tin
th of Sejiteml
Uii'th’e doast of v i
'rough Heart to Spurn l’..iu .
I n * by the sea for ages has b .’jr*. rv
•sive; Professor Fmilips estimates lie loss
>• land at the rate of -.bout two and. qua
;• yards per year o.i an average. Man
• idages h*vi lieen washed from itsfiiore
w hich are now forg -tteii On someof our
old maps we may read u ' items as “Hart
umi, washed away bytuesea;” ”H\1
in the se • Here .to< d Auburn, wl ch was
washed away by the s-a " The lev. R
Uilt .ii. M. . has compose, 1 a grueefil little
! oem oil the latter place. It is said tmt th.
ruins of Auburn are - * iit to B ■ s en .p*u sit
Auburn House. Bridlington Q-.u,y hu bee
.objected to many ravages; iu is ; after
■s 'l iny weather, the weole W"S a - tine
'■'tin, houses being destroyed, and tia north
pier sev re 1 from the l.-.ad, llou-*.s liave
i equ'iitiy liacn t-.kea .loan to si'e them
from being swept npo the sea.
••r eighteen hundred y.-ars ago w‘* *r* told
'■lilt a Roma ; villa of grea pr oortions
stood on Fii< j Bay (tb«*r Felix Portts;) ho
much remains of it now? Within the la
twenty years Professor Fillips tells is of the
s :ov< ry of th** tr *<• - of a buil li m > he
very edge of t.he cliff, rudelj [i.av«d, will
cornerstones mortised in the middli for uj
right posts; a central stone; the II , )t cove re
from a foot to a foot and a half < eepwith
the bones of animals use,’, for food » great
r,mount of pottery, nearly ill Homan; coins;
and many other Drugs,’ showing i*. to hav>
| be. n a large resideuce'luxuriously kept, pos
I sibly part of a prmtorium.
A street called Hornsea Be tk, near Horn
sea, ha long disappeared.
Outiiorne is another departed village. In
i S-.'S its churchyard remained with only one
tombstone, which the sea soon claim *,1 for its
own. The following places have pwished
with it at different periods: S.dtehagh,
Tharlesthorne or Tliorh*sthope, Fri jerk or
Frisiiiark, \\ ythelliet, l)yuielt"ii. R* !mayr
or Redmayre, Pennysmerk or Pentifsniark,
Ups'tl, Pottersfleet and Kffnsea. 'At the
letter place stool across, said to have been
first erected a ; !! ivenspurne to comi>. *iniorate
tlie landing of Henry the Fourth ia i '/yj: but
it was removed t . Bur;... Const il' iu iSiS,
and re erected at Hedon in iSL; it stiii
adorns the beautiful grounds of Mr. ’.V'atson,
Hedon. Half of Kilnsea Church fell in ISjQ,
an ! ten years later th • village was removed.
< >n th" coast of Lincolnshire, tlie ravages
of the sea, though not extensive, have still
been very considerable. From Gr msby to
Skegness there are still many visible vestiges
of a submarine forest. Dugdale, however,
attributes its submersion to mi oartliqtiakc.
Itt *rby, Owie, and Ciee Ness were so despoil
cd and fl»)')detl, that they'Originated I t local
t.’i'm, “(.one to Humber!”
At Thruscoe, a church, village, mil seven
hundred acres of land are s * id to h ive dis
appeared. The old town of Saltflees is also
b.v 1 to have been destroj od by the s'a, and,
near the low-water mark, 't ji- s have been
found which seemed to have belonged to a
church. About sixty years ago a fisherman
drew up a i ■ rge bell-clapper in the oi
Ids net. At Stain in Mablethorpc. St IVter’s
Church and th greater part of its parish
were carried away by the sea sever: ! centu
ries ago; and its rec’ory, valued in K, B. at
seven pounds ten sli’fiings and twopence,
was onsofiV.ated with Theddlethorpe iSr.
Helen's in 1745. The original churcho!' the
village of Ti’ustorpe is aid to ha ? been
washed away by the sea three and a half
■enturies go. N ,1 Sul t in-thi M r h an !
lere are ag*iu distinct tra.'es of a
"'l’estja 1 the former pi Ce a great
have been
riginal
the tula a
trees may j
be set a. When the late Sir Jos.4.’. Banks
examined these islets ir clay huts »- they ,
are sometimes called—th * people toil him,
that their ancestors could discern tiicruuis 1
of the old church at very low wat r.
At Addletborpe and M iblethoi’pe traces ol ;
a submarine forest are especially visible. •
Birch, fir, aud oak are the trees which
thick. Dr ge de b Serra“ agrees with Dugdale
in attributing the overwhelming of this for
est to an earthquake, considering it impos
sible for the trees and shrubs found “P° ,1 .‘ t
to vegetate so mar the sea, and below tlie
common level of the water. Another writer (
however, suggests thatJj. was probably em
banked in from the sea by the Romans, and ,
that after some centuries it was again over
flowed owing to the decay ot tlie lianks tor ,
want of repairs and the accu'»ulation of slit, .
which enriches and protects the marches on
the shores of the Wash. Leland says ol
Skegness, it was once a great “haven towue,
with a castle and surrounding wall, but it j
was “clene consumed and eten tfi' with the .
In digging a well at Sutton it was found j
that the upper stratum of day, accumulated ,
by the deposit of the tides, was sixteen feet
thick, resting on a moory soil >imilarto that !
in which the trees of the submerged forest 1
are found. Canons have been found neartbe
JVctus Items.
Continued commotion in Ireland.
Liverpool cheese market is quiet.
The market for iron is improving.
Snow storms all over the country.
Gen. Sherman wants a larger army.
Severe weather ail through the West.
Sharp advance in wheat at Chicago.
There is a regular annual poultry train on
the Central Vermont Railroad, which starts
from St. Albans, Vt„ and runs thrmU > ^
Boston, carrying the poultry for 1 *
giving.
j Mr. Stephen Morgan of Colchester shot
. Sunday night, an owl measuring v ,lir
I and seven inches from tip to tip. 1'ie o
, fondness for poultry is what brought him to
grief.
. Mr. Forster, Chief Secretary for Ireland,
Mr. Gladstone and Earl Cowper are daily re-
; eeiving threatening letters from tlie Land
League agitators.
Emili'h hunting season has commenced.
The apple crop of England this year was
National Dog Show in Indiana this week. ver y fiirht. Immense <juantities of Amen
The Adiromlacks are eovere 1 with snow, j ^
The hens are on a strike—eggs are higher, is the retail price on the streets of London
I and Liverpool.
We do not wonder that all parties con-
Frmtiug cloths are dull and slightly lower.
. , „ ... .... 1,f VYe do not wonder that all parties ou.i-
Ncw Zealand flax i^cultivated 111 California. cer|)fid jn the Chinese letter fraud arehea' ti-
bed of the Witham, and in the sandy valleys: Tfie Liverpool grain market continues firm. ' ly ashamed of it. It was a terrible blunder
between Gainsborough anil Barton. Another : ,,.,111 ' and awkwardness: the lie was not even wed
The wreck of the steamer Rhode Island
has been sold at auction for ?.v ** >.
The stock of wheat in port at X
uts to 4,53o,ooo bushels.
ork
account suvs that Boston am! the neighbor
hood must at one time have been sixteen m
eighteen feet lower than at present, and so
sound and dry that large timber trees grew
on it, the roots and trunks of which have j aDW >“
often been dug up in many parts of Lincoln- , Choice hay is 0:1 the increased demand at
shire. , , , I higher rate.-.
The ancient port of R iveiiser has shaied f
the general fate, as also the little island near j B .'ton exported barn Ls ot apples
it, 1 brown up by the sea, called “O id,’ or : last week.
Raveuser-oU. These flourished during the , j U1 Brcdit is opposed to coercion in Ire-
thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, after | 0
which they decayed. The orthography of
the place lias In en very ch ingeable; the Col- ( Co<l fishing ou the west shore of Cape et-
lowing have been some of its appellations:
Riveiiser, Old Raveuser, Ravensrode. Rav-
Ravenspurgh, R tveuspurn. Rav
enspurg, Ravensburg, R ivenspur and Rav- ■
ensrodd. While it fl'itirisheil Hull wasgrow- j
iug t.i the detriment of Hedon. It stood < p- |
posite to Clee, and only a short dis auce
from l, and was sheltered by Spurn Head,
it being about mid-Humber. It - said to
have been built by Willi 1111 de Fortiter, Earl ,
of Albermarl, 1.11 tie* mud aud stone collected (
at the m *uth of the Humber. Iu ij'5 it sent .
members to the Parliament of thirty-third |
Edward tho First with iledon; also in 142'.,
ihe twentieth Edward the Second; and in
1 taS. tils second of Edward the third. It
was consulted on navai affairs by the king in
1 li 11 Leland says: “X11 Richard the Secon i’s
days the town of Hull waxed very
rich;” in lzffS, when Hull and R iv-
eiiser presented petitions to Edward the
First for privileges, the former offered the
gift oi' one hundred marks, and th latter of
three hundred. In 1 Edward Baliol sail
ed from here to invade Scotland. From the
frequent inundations in 144b, the merchants
removed to Hull, and the de.:d_were trans
ferred to Easington, and in 1407 very lit
tle of the port remained. I11 CV/). however,
i> iliiigi.roke, Duke of Hereford (afterwards
K.ng Henry the Fourth), landed here from
France, and found Matthew' Danthorp, a her
mit priest, engaged in building an oratory
without royal permission. As Henry tlie
Fourth, he confirmed him in liis possession t
with Die rights of wreck and waif for its
maintenance, and other profits of the shore,
e.\- vpt the c’.'ief lord’s “royal” iislits. for two
leagues round 11. ■ place forever. Richard
Reedbarrow, another hermit, built a towel*
her ' in 14oS ; the first lighthouse, or “beken,
it the entrance 0* tin* Humber. By the
('hi.rtulary of Meaux, Raveuser was accessi
ble from Easington by a road on the pebbly
From Thompson’s “History of Hold.-rness,”
Win. Worcester’s “Annals of England,’’ and
Stow’s “Chronicle,” we find that the Dukes
of Hereford and Lancaster arrived at Raven-
M»ur to meet tlie Earls of N irthuinb.-rlaiid
and Westmoreland, and other discontented
nobles, for the purpose of deposing King
Richard the Second, who had taken refuge
in Ireland. This was in 1499, about the feast
,,(' St.John the Bapti-t, and they rode by
Bristol, etc. The sword Henry wore on iand-
..,;r there is s? ill carried at a coronation, and
'•ailed die “sword of Lancaster.
Shakespeare mentions Ravenspnrg eight
'OS.
on lias been excellent tills season.
We note tt sharp decline in the Chicago
pork market.
More than vV-°o bulbs have been planted
this Fall in tlie Boston Public Garden.
The thermometer indicated sixteen degrees
below zero at Cheyenne last ihnrsda} .
mcocted or well told.
The Russian grain merchants have reduced
the price of rye and tl-mr twenty per cen f . by
reason <f significant hints fiorn Gen. M“li
koff, who does not propose to have famine on
account of high prices.
There wiis a man in Litchfield, Conn.,
lately, with a load of apples to sell. Finding
no sale, he offered to give them nway. He
could find only one man who would take
any, and he would take only a half-bushel.
Two million tons of pig iron are annually
made in our furnaces; fifty million tons of
coal are taken every year from our mines.
Of Bessemer steed one establishment alone
makes a hundred thousand tons a year.
With the opening of spring, two thousand
In borers, more or less will he einpl \Ved regu
larly in excavating the Cape Cod ( ’anal. It
is to be ten miles in length, 20O feet in width
. r ««nd twenty feet in depth below mean low
The American minister will make no fur- watep .
tlier effort at mediation between Chiu and ■
p eru | The putlivg down of ob'cene literature has
, . been begun in Paris none too soon. French
Watch wheels travel incog, so do not tiy j literature Ins lieen made to suffer on this ae-
to become familiar with them. j count, and nearly every book published in
Hop growers will be glad to know that the 1 Paris is objectionable,
demand for bops is improving. ^ The Engli'h government has received ad-
The s nlburv and Concord rivers have not ' vices fn.ni the governor f Capetown which
UeorT so i in.-e iS-S have induced it to order the immediate des-
beensolow sl,,, " e lS - ' . i patch of four million cartridges, shells and
• Fool has become so Scarce in Duleigno . ammunition for (south Africa.
that the people are leaving the place in hun-
j j, 1 lhi* Internationa! boat race between r. 1-
s ' ward Hanlnn of Toronto, Canada, anil Ed
ward Trickett of New South Wales, for
and tin* championship of England, was
won by Hanlan, with Trickett only three
lengths behind.
The recent census shows’ New York city to
contain 1,206,077 inhabitants.
Steel hulls for steamers are likely to super
sede the u-e of iron for that purpose.
Vast numbers of blacks are preparing to
l.-ave the Smith, for the West and Southwest.
East Tennessee has a cave two miles in
length.
There was a heavy snow storm iu Arkan
sas last Wednesday.
A Des Moines woman led her truant soil to
school by a rope tied around his neck,
A11 Ateliinson County, Kansas, corn spun
dent reports the weather very favorable for
fall wheat, of which a very large acreage is
The beef trade in this city is rather inact
ive, owing to the near approach of “Turkey
season.”
All the conductors 011 the Indianapolis &
Jefferson Railroad have been discharged fia
stealing.
Minnesota's Insane Assylum partially de
stroyed. About twenty-five patients lost by
burning aud freezing;
The exp lied French monks are flocking to
Madrid, where they are hospitably received
by the government aud tlie nobles.
A former citizen of Surrey, N. H.. who
nrw !iv. s in New York, ha- paid the debt of
that town, which amounted to severla thous
and dollars, and also given Alooo to establish
a town library.
T. « British seemed destined to ceaseless
trouble with its native tribes of Cape Colony,
O”, to give it its official title, the Coony of
the Cape of Good Hope, of the almost daily
despatches from Cape Town testify.
A lively market occurred tit Watertown,
N. Y., on Saturday. Forty-one factories
registered S066 boxes from August to Nov. 5.
()( these 55S4 Coves were sold at prices rang
ing from ir to 12C. c; 2784 boxes went at I2 1 ..
c mts, which we suppose to have been Sep
tember.
The National Grange of the Patrons of
Husbandry met in animal session at Wash
ington. D. C., W-dm slay. all the States of
the Union being represented Mr. Saunders
of 'h- Agricultural Department, delivered an
address of welcome. Prof. Woodman deliv
ered the annual tddress.
F.rc arms at e ’ in, -eeretlv introduced into
Ireland. A lot of eight thousand rifles have
been brought from Switz rianil by way of
uch
, , if tho imnles should chfxnee to get frozen, been brought from Switz rlmul bv wav
V’ : U -.sen.i jjjpif "*«»
ago ther stood a cliff fifty feet Eign, witn 1 ' ... .. . ... | der balls and bayonets will not risrht I
uluses upon it. The aiu*ienl villages of Ship- ' ^ u **ulili\ ?k yv oinan lost $ ),ooo ( hinds ’.roiigs.
d m, Winipwell, and Lecles liav.- been lost, j *'! I,ills fr V?* hw 5,an ‘ J " b ?S ' vhile out -hop-
lie site of ancl nt Cromer is now a part j P ;n S * a!> ** Thursday.
f the German Ocean, the iuhabimnts l.aving 1 xhe population of Massachuse'ts is 1 74;; -
gradually retreated inland to the present | r> s fj consisting of 858,5-21 males and (Cj.565
females.
A poor fellow naii
atself dead in Boston, M .’id:>y, because
shot hi
of his ilia
1 Robert H. Houghton
J
ty to support himself.
Efforts are being mid * to ext«ud the nar
row gu ige railroad no.v running between
Farmington and Pniiflps, to Gardiner, Me.
before
-Turing
last
No-
In Suffolk, at Dunwich, once the largest
seaport 011 tilt* coast, the loss has been very
great. Monasteries churches, and public
niiiidiugs have at differeut times been des
troyed, including four hundred houses at
1 ice. The town is now reduced to a small
v.llage, with about two hundred inhabitants.
In the time of Queen Ei zab th, Brighton, J suited to it.
t Sussex, st'.io 1 where the c! a -pier nou
s' ieteh .-s into t : • sea. Part of tlie town was
■1 s'royed in 166.), and in 1704:111.1 17.14 ! h -
.■ lua .id r was over .* Iielined, consi-ting of
•itt* hundred and thirteen houses.
Referring again to Cornwall, old histo-
1-ans mention a tradition of a’, ract of land
xteading from th.e L nil's Em? t > the Scilly
i 'ies, n distance of t u'rty mile. : but this can
I. irdly bo credited, as the sea 1, now ‘.fr'ee
eandred feet deep at the same place. St.
.'[•(• aael's Mount, infer wall, now an i.-l-uid,
said to have beeu situated iu a wood several
miles from the sea; in fact, its old Cornish
une means the “Hoare Rock in the Wood.”
uder the sands, between the mount and the A man in Backs County, Pa., ha
tinland, may be foiin ! hlack vegetable Ll lawsuit of forfcv two pears stai
om.I, containing hazel nuts, and the j u ,,,, h , 3 recovered six cents damages.
•anohes, foots, an 1 leaves or torest trees,
giving some ground •** th • belief. j It appears that 478,000 persons born in f >r
There are many more similar traditions eign countries are residents of New N ork
>11 the Continent, and elsewhere, where the J oity, while 7-7.*) >0 of the inhabitants are
At the Mag.i.sins de Louvre Pari^
the la.-t few _weeks,
w e.'.. D: and v.ation liave been detect.-,I aj i.r,.
r^ Ch . thy ' h:i<1 for K<>tten
German lady, sister of afTrcign miui^ter^''
During the week 995 cattle
i,..,. ,i " ■ “ wo ’ auwe and 40j liotN
have l«;e U seat steamers for the English
They are trying the experiment of growing }'V‘ •^'d-s !'•; 1 b-es-el cuttle. T 1 .,
ginger in the South. Sod and climate are j . S J“ 1 e P ;' tS from the Liverpool aud I
do 1 market was 7o th** (-ffe.-i ,!...* .1 . ,
for \ ,, .* (Ucj that the trade
1-.i -i..iitric.t'i ea,tie v\*as verv .fill: 1 1,.
I. rs were advise! n,.t f.. .(■„! 1' hh I”
I re.se 1 . olt Jse ‘id any more at
The oldest inhabitants never
week, s tvv a snow .storm in Texas
veniber.
f chees from Montreal la t
2i box*-, and from Boston
The exp,
week were
4(>7i boxes.
It has been e timate l that the total co f
torchlight paraphernalia used in the !.te
political campaign reached -44,ooo,oo0.
just
ling,
ea “ranges horribly
i’he poet Fhhmd refers to one of these in
Die W’rtoriu’ l\i thus trs 11-I .ted:
Oft in the forest far one hears
A p issing sound of distant bells;
Not legends oi l nor human wit
Can tell as whence the music swells.
From the lost church ’tis thought that soft
Faint ringing eometli on the wind:
Occe many pilgrims trod the path,
But 110 one now tho way can find.
There is also a poem euSitled “Dus
snu/;■(■/((. Kfostcr,” which commences,
Ein ICIoster ist versunken
Tie. in dem vvilden See.
<«oo<! V.l > i<T lo NIarricd S'cojil.-.
A worthy wife of forty years’ standing,
and whose life was not all made of sunshine
and peace, gave the following impressive ad-
ict- to a newly-married pair of her acquain
tance. The advice is so good and well suited
to all married people, ns well as those enter
ing that state, that we here publi-h it for the
benefit of such persons: ‘‘Preserve sacredly
the privacies of your house, your married
state, and your heart. Let no father, moth
er, sister or brother ever presume to come
between you or share the j..y or sorrows that
belong to you two alone. With mutual help
build your quiet world, not allowing
your dearest friend to be the confidant of
ought that becomes your domestic peace. Let
moments of alienation, if they occur, be
h ui .I a once. Never, 110 n v r, speak oi ii
outside: l.ui to each other confess, and all j
will c me out right. Never let th ■ morrow's ,
sun still find you at variance. Renew anil '
renew your vow; it will do you good, and |
thereby tour m uds will gro v together con
tented in that love which is stronger than
death, aud you will become tJuly one.
na- ives.
The Chilian invaders are devastating
northern Peru iu the most barbarous manner.
“Kush, fruitless war! the sink of all injustie.”
One is liable to get a little mixed in one's
geography. For instance, Kansas City is iu
Missouri, and Arkansas City is in Kansas.
i Those gentle lambs the Ute Indians, b >!dly
I threaten war. Can’t tlie philanthropists pat
1 them gently on the back?
1 Deliver is about to establish a hotel in
i wnich deluded indivi Inals who have come to
Colorado in search of health can go and die.
: Forty-pound wild turkeys, with beards a
} foot long, are the formidable game that
sportsmen bag in Georgia.
The new union depot in Chicago will cost
$i,5o0,o<>0, aud will be used by five different
railroad companies.
The young lady who thought she could
make her voice clear by straining it, made a
great mishake.
A Kentuckian has by practical experiment
settled a long vex d question, and announces
that it takes just five shots to kill a lightning-
rod man.
A year ago Mr. Marden of Baltimore built
out door (li es and saved his pear trees from
the pest. He succeeded so well that he is
going into the calorie business this year.
The receipts of internal revenue since the
commencement of the current fiscal year !
amount to $44,240,768, while last year’s re
ceipts for tho same period were $43,469,833. j
The French beet crop is among the worse
for several years as to quality. Advice '
from Germany and Au tria arc better.
There seems to be a growing prejudice J
against, th * proposed reproduction of t!. .- Pas- J
sion-play in NV-v York. We certaiuly trust
it will not be offered in Boston.
USEFUL HINTS.
i lies, I Jit’s may be effectually dis-
|ios’.':l of without tlu* use of poison
rakt-halt a teasjftoonful of Black pepivr
1 iu powder ouo tea,spoonful of brown
sugar, and one teaspoouful of cream
Mix them well together am] place them
' :l1 :l ou a plate where flics are
troublesome, and they will very soon
disappear.
Ants.—Red ants may lr. banished from
a pantry or store room by strewing the
shelves with a small quantity of cloves
cither whole or ground. We use tlie
former, as not being so likely to got into
tlie food placed upon the shelves. The
cloves should be renewed occasionally
as after a tune they lose their strength
ana efficacy.
Moths.—A writer in the New York
7iiii'.s says : “I have for many years
tried camphor as a preventive against
moths, and it has never failed, either in
furs, woolens or feathers ; if the camphor
gum is rolled i:i soft, white paper there
wiil be no discoloration from it, neither
does it appear to fade the fur,’as some
an to think. I put a good-sized piece
huge, and put tlm articles iu
1 newspapers.
j Hcgs. —As an insect destroyer the
juice of the tomato plant is said to Lo . *
great value; the leaves and stems aX*
!>o> ed m water and when the liquid is
; , l! . Is sprinkled over plants attacked
wuh insects, when it at once destrovs
cdorpiliurs, black and green flies, ^
and other enemies to vegetables, and in
no way impairs the growth of the plants
A l"’ rail “ r * remains, and prevent'
insects from coming again for a 1 ’
t Liilv*.
ill th
The lt-'Y. Dr. Cuylcr says, in tho Congro-
gationalis’, that a vital question is the small
attendance at religious services, “It requires
but halt'an eye t 'discern the alarming fact
that this atteiiadauce is steadily failing off,
both iu the cities an 1 the country, both at
the Bate and in ;Uu \V st. Forty years ago
it was claimed that one half the population , ,
of thee ty of New Y nt were either wholly The Aino women, who inhabit some of tlie
or parti illy counected with some ProLest nit j , ’ u l‘ : ‘ Islauds, are pi'iai. y olr ae.-onlmg
congregate *ii. Now only one-fourth of th • to -.liss Bird 111 her new book on Japan. 1’hey
popuiation are evei seen in any Protestant! m*e melancholj and hopeless drudges,
place of worsl ip.” Dr. Cuyler adds that on j The R( E ran cis Brennan, fifty-two
A construction train on the Dallas & Wich
ita Railway went through a bridge Tuesd ly
last, killing three laborers and wounding a
dc zeii-or more.
>ng
St vixs —R ; move ink stnius from car-
i' s mi tli milk, ancl afterwiril 1
:: cIean brush, and watm!
; ; Fo " {f Vi ? S0 spots Use powdered
earth, or buckwheat
‘ f j 1 ": k u c '. u V lc i ’Pots and let lie until
tin. giease is aosorb d ■ rem ivtl.
1 .... l.uiivlt Mt imtil tiK ‘
id. Time and patio
remove the
is re
tiiis
6p' t:
givus,
will ii
worst of greas
Ch
te'Auo h
ts 3,000 liquor saloons.
A V
the niost' distinguishable("the” soi 1 hi which j ^ »
“Sb y:: s&f&Jzs: ^ * v». >.*> w ■
the fifteen most
capable of
10,500.
A is IS.
To.ll who are suffering from tin
discreiions of youth, iiervou
cay, loss of manhood, etc I
"cure you, Ki e 'of ( h
weakness.
that wi”
old, one of the priests of St. Mary’s Catholic America. 1
church in Iv **, Mass., dropped dead of heart Rev. Josern T. Inman s>< ‘ ! ' ’”
disease on. Monday morning. I c - ■
rs aud in-
eariy de-
d a retipe
This gti.it
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