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Gold Bnr was a mfnfng camp
among the foothills of California—no
matter whore—and had sprung up
as mining eatnps are apt to
the detriment ol Case Hardened
Dead Man’s OulJy^* and H&ngmfftiV
Canyon; for by such lovely names as
these are Western ramps named.
How Gold Bar escaped from the usual*
l*to in nomenclature is impossible to say,
except that the discoverer of the lucky
Unci happened to be a man of education,
Who; havingjot lost in tli.-e Western
t new OegLiii* way lw v k, ami
I.an aimless life anion"
the foothills and canyons.
A strange man was tlio “Professor,”
ns lie was known among his comrades in
the mine. He had lieen for some months
at Dead Man's Gully, and, and getting
tired of tlie monotory of working a claim
which only showed pay dirt—although
he might stand a chance to “strike it
rieli ’ on a lower level—he had one day
left his partner to work the claim, and,
taking his pan and shovel, had gone out
on aprosjiect.
One day he snt down by the side of a
little creek, which came creeping over
the sand of the foothills, and, tired with
long Wandering, took off his moccasins
and dip|>cd them in the water,-and
hurled his feet in the shining sand at the
bottom of tlie shallow stream to cool
them.
Something in the feeling of the sand
gave him a strange thrill, and, stooping,
he took up a little in his lia.id and look
ed at it. A moment later ho hud a pan
ful on the lunik and was was washing it-
in the dextrous fashion which only the
old miner knows, and when he had lln-
ished, nearly half an ounce of gold dust
lay at tlie laittom of the pan, anil he
had “struck it rich."
This singular man was strangely care
less about his lucky ilnd, and had no
thought of keeping it for himself.
lie fore he went, he marked down sev
eral claims, and stuck up notices, writ
ten in his round clerkly hand, chuckling
lieliintl his.long beard as he did so.
He came Strolling j.ito Dead Man’s
Gully before tlie cradles had ceased ts
work next day, and went at once to his
claim, where lie whispered a word to his
partner, ami |iassed on.
Jiin Moyd gave a long, low w histle,
hut, with a miner’s instinct, continued
his work, although lie had little interest
in the pay dirt which hp was turning up
around him.
The Professor passed claim after claim
Ix-foro he stopped again, and at last halt
ed before one when- a young man was
working a cradle, while a gray-haired
Ilian, old and feeble, was slowly turning
up the dirt at the bottom of his claim.
The young man had a fair, delicate
face, and looked up quickly as the Pro
fessor stopped.
“Hullo, Jenny!” he slid, with Ids jolly
air. “How does it pan out?”
"Not very rich," said the young man,
with a weary air. “Pay dirt—that's all
you .can say of it.”
I lie nickname of “Jenny” had been
bestowed upon tin* hovon account of his
feminine ap|>e'arance.
rhe two laid come to tlie Gulcli rather
laic in the day, so that their claim was
not a very good one, all the likely places
having been marked down.
“Pome totny c.»t!n to-night, after sup-
|wt, Jenny,” said tlie Professor. “I
want to tell you something. Bring the
old man with you, and don’t forget.”
“I’ll come," he said, quietly. “Ami
to keep quiet about it?”
“ V es. lie sure and come.”
Ilcpassed v on,juid spoke to..several
other parties, and then went home. By
the time lie reached it, tlie sound of tlie
cradles had ceased, and Jim Floyd came
hurrying in.
“Keep cool, Jim!” said the Professor.
"Wo am all right; hut don't howl it to
tlie four winds of heaven. Wait for the
others.”
lVad Man’s Gulcli was quietly at rest,
when dark tlgures began to steal out of
it, in the dead of night, and headed for a
little knoll to the west. In a few moments
the whole party were there, and at once
set out on their midnight tramp for the
new find.
As the sun rose they reached the bor
ders of the little creek and threw down
their tools, when the Professor explain
ed the situation to them, mid each party
juuqs'd into his claim and commenced
to work as if life depended on it, and
among the first were “Jenny” and his
father.
"Kinder easy, partis,” said an old mi
ner next to them. “It’s along, steady
pull that does it. That Professor is a
brick.”
"1 would lay down my life for him,”
saiil Jenny, “for he has saved my fath
er’s life. J didn’t say anything at Dead
Man's Gully, hut we didn’t makeenotigli
to buy grub. Now we are all right.”
“Should say we was,” replied the mi
ner. as he litokcd into the till cup in
which lie had just washed out a handful
of tlie sand. “We ought to go down on
knees and bless the Professor. ’'Piin’t
many who would have taken the trouble
to mark dow n claims and then come and
tell his pards.”
Two ot the younger men took their ri
des and went out into the foothills to
look for game, and had the lnck to strife
a (young liear, which they brought ill,
and the party had fond for several days.
But before two dnye had passed the
miners had begun to flock in from every
direction, and Gold Bar sprang into be
ing.
With the rest came many darkbrowed
men, w ho did little work in tlieir claims,
and were looked at with suspicion by tlie
honest miners.
There was one man especially who
was an object of suspicion—a tall, laiard-
isl fellow, who went under the aobrie-
quet of “Colordo Cass,” and who was a
walking armory. He had como into the
camp with four other men ns unprepos
sessing as himself, and before many
days his true business was developed.
He was a “can! sharp” of the first
quality ; and, putting tipu big slab shan
ty. he ojiened it as ngainhlli.g place, and
set out to beat the miners out of tlieir
dust.
One day, as lie was passing about
aiming the claims, he met old Mr. Stan
ford face to face, ami each started back in
astonishment. Then Colorado Cass gave
one quick loon at Jenny and passed on,
nod the boy staggered and seemed about
to fail.
• Cur-o him!” cried the old man, lay-
log his blind upon his revolver. “He
has made us trouble enough; I’ll
what lead can do!”
“No father!” cried Jenny. “You
must not quarrel with the villinn, al
though lie robbed you of all you hail.
I will do this work myseir. You know
that he will not bo satisfied with robbing
the miners slowly, and if he takes the
same course he did in Cinnabar, we have
him. Leave It all to me.”
That night, Colorado Cuss was sitting
in a room at his Rambling place, and his
four companions with him. Th ey had
been engaged in earnest con venation for
some time.
“The thing amounts to this, pards:
We may as well commence work now
J've marked down the cabins where ths^
have th<‘ moMt. t
night. The lVaoest-r is our
be reidv at 1 o’clock.”
At the appointed hour the party as
sembled and began to gather about the
cabin of the Professor. It was known
his claim was financially rich, and that
he had over twenty thousand ilollars in
dust.
But the camp had been so honestly
conducted that no one thought of watch
ing, and it is not surprising tint the par
ty of villinns were able to make their
wav into the cabin unseen
Perhaps, they might have completed
their work in silence and departed, but
the man who led, in entering, stumbled
over something in the doorway and fell.
The Professor was on his feet in an In
stant; but In-fore he could draw a weap
on he went down under a crashing blow
from tha butt of a revolver.
A dark lantern, in the hands of Colo
rado C’ass, Hashed, and the bunk of the
Professor was torn to pieces, sliowin be
low it n number of shot-bags, which no
doubt contained tlie gold which the
Professor had collected with such’
trouble*
“All right!” hissed Colorado Cass.
1*a cry man take wluit he can carry!”
Kadi rnttian picked up in bis arms a
load of tlie lags, and started for tlie
door. At this moment, a slight figure
apjieared there, and a dear voice cried;
“Trapped, Dick Manton ! Here they
are, hoys! Down with them! Kobliers
arc in the camp!”
Without a moment’s hesitation, Colo
rado Cass tired at the speaker, who was
Jenny Stanford, mid he staggered.
Before he fired again, the Professor
bounded to his feet, with a bowie in his
hand, while the companions of Colora
do Cass sprang through the open door.
•Colorado Cass found himself locked in
the sinewy arms of the Professor, and a
terrible struggle took place. The knife
did silent but awful work, and tlie Pro
fessor sprang up just as the aroused min
ers began to pour in. Colorado Cass,
badly wounded, was secured, and the
Professor sprang to tlie side of the
won mled boy.
“If he is dead, 1 stvear that lianginc
won’t lie the worst you sutler, you black
villain!” he cried as he licgan to tear
away tlit necktie from the bine hunting
shirt which Jenny wore. “Where’s the
doctor?”
There was a doctor In the camp, ami
lie came up quickly, and pushed the
Professor away.
“This is my work,” he said, as he
opened the shirt to look at the wound.
He bail scarcely done so. when he
looked up in utter bewilderment at old
Mr. Sanford, who was hurrying in.
“You old fraud!” he said. “What is
this game you liavc ( bcen playing on us?
This is a woman!”
“My daughter, gentlemen,” said the
old man ; “and the liest and purest little
woman In California. She said she’d
give her life for the Professor some dav
and I reckon it’s a near thing."
“No it ain’t," said the doctor. “I’ll
cure her. Carry her to your cabin.”
VJfjou cure her, doe., yen -etur take
my pile,” said the Professor. “You
know me; and while we are about it, I
reckon w e can’t do hotter than to ’tend
to these critters. Have you got the
others?”
Kvery rip, ’ said one of the miners.
“1 leave it to you, then,” said tin*
Professor. “You know what to do. We
can’t have this kind of animal loose.”
It was enough to say that none of the
men ever appeared again at Gold Bar.
The story of Jenny Stanford was a
simple one. liiclianl Manton, when she
and her father hail lived at Cinnabar,
had sought to marry her. but she refused
him. Then they were robbed of every
thing and driven out penniless. They
had wandered from camp to camp to
avoid him, and had thought lie had giv
en un the pursuit, until lie arrived at
Gobi Bar.
The Professor never left her, night or
day, until she had recovered, and one
day the camp was wild with excitement
at the news that the two were to lie mar
ried, and a “Gospel sharp” was to be im
ported from a distant camp.
The Professor actually shaved for the
occasion, and surprised every one by
turning out to be a very good looking
fellow, not more than thirty-five years
old, and they had suspected him of l H -ing
sixty at least.
Jenny, now dressed in feminine at
tire, was .voted a perfect beauty and the
pride of the eainp. The Bar went wild
for three days, and then tlie cradles
reckon again, and everything went on
as liefore.
“I didn’t ask what you did with Col
orado Cass,’ said the Protv-ssor, a week
arter his marriage, as he met Jim Floyd
Jim, by way of answer, put his hand
under Ids left ear anil jerked an imagi
nary eonl, ami the Professor asked no
more questions.
11c is one of the shining lights of the
Pacific slope now, and there is talk of
sending him to Congress, a position
which he might have, but he says he is
too honest.—Saturday Xight.
AFRICA’S DEADLY, MALARIA.
_ Only an Isolated Siolloa HI Jta White BaMta-
-Vnr York Star.
Until within a comparatively recent
period the greater portion ol th e continent
of Africa has been a sealed book to the
world. Thousands ol years after Asia
and Europe were seats of great empires
tlie vast interior of Africa had never
.been explored. It was only cn a nar
row strip of this vast continent that civ
ilization obtained a foothold. The
northern and eastern coasts were the
homes of the civilized people from the
earliest times, but east of them, for 3,000
miles, the country was an unknown
world, save to the native tribes who in
habited it. The main reason for this
was tlie fact that tile .deadly malaria
claimed as Its victim every white man
who endeavored to penetrate into the in
terior. That certain portions of Africa
are suitable for the white man, however,
has during the present century been
fully demonstrated, although the gener
al. Irmit Pott-Dupa&A. J|
“How on earth do you, trai:
dogs?” said a Post-Dispatch
the other day to Mr. L. A. Kaye, p
etor of the Missouri Breeding and
, Queenland blacks upon the
it’s easy enough., Here’s ani JJtartt Island fishing station,the brave
h setter, lovely as a picture, ain’t he ? defense made by Mrs. \Y*tsonantf her
11, now, when I say.‘charge’see liinj Chinaman against overwhelming odds
al belief is that all portions are alike string_.to tlie collar au
Hporllv tn ' Ov/innf tli n nnatn .L..J TalAait-^. tV.!.
liberal educatioqwhen it hak
to ‘charge,’ ‘hie on’ and ‘steady-’ I be
gin tlie educt ion Of a dog by placing on
his neck a steel collar with/the inside
lined with short spikes. 1 then say
‘charge,' and press his head down. I
repeat the word, and if be does not as-
sume the attitnde of “charge,’-1 pull the
collar and the sharpened spikes remind
him that he has a duty tp perform. This
process is repeated until he willassapie
a recumbent position-on the pronuncia
tion of the word-'chargo.’ * r ^ . : f \
“How is ‘hie on* taught?” * '
“In almost the same wayf* {attach a
A Circus Rider.
Lizzie Marcellas, the circus rider,
w ho was lost with Stowe’s show- on
the burned Mississippi steamer Golden
City, went off with Dan Klee when
only six years of age. Dan’s circus
passed through a rural town near
Heheneetaday, and Lizzie rode a short
distance with the clown in his buggy.
She was a remarkably pretty and
briglitchild, and on leaving herat her
parents' door he gave the family tick
ets for that evening’s performance.
She was infatuated witli. the circus,
and begged to be taken along. Dan
and his wife offered to adopt her, and
the parents gave her up. She was
soon put into training for horseback
riding, nt which she became expert.
At the time of her death, at the age
of twenty-two, she owned most of
the horses in the Stowe establish-
W ' e ment, six cages of wild animals, and
$5,000 worth of dresses and diamonds.
Tha Cabinet.
The cabinet as now constituted is as
follows: Secretary of State, Frelinghuy-
sen; Secretary of Treasury, Folgcr; Sec
retary ofWar, Lincoln; Secretary of the
Navy, Chandler; Secretary of the Inte
rior, Teller; Postmaster General, Howe;
Attorney General, Brewster. Lincoln
is the only member of the Garfield cabi
net remaining, and he was always
known as a strong Grant man. Of the
others, all are < ’stal warts,” for Chandler’s
undoubtedly a “stalwart” now, although
was at one time one of Blaine’s most
earnest supporters.
deadly to everybody, * except the negro.
“Tlie popular idea,” said Rev. Dr.
Strieby. of the American Mission Socie
ty, to a Star reporter yesterday, “ii
that the whole continent is unhealthy
That is a great mistake.”
“What portions of Africa are suitable
for white men to dwell in ?” asked the
reporter.
“All of South Africa, as far upas
Madagascar, is a fine country, and white
men as comfortable as anywhere else in
the world. Tlie climate is as healthy
and salubrious as that of America.
"Do yo recall one single instance in
your experienca in which a white man
has ever lived for any length of time r”
Yes. Rev. Sir. Tyler, a missionary,
was atxjiit to go there. His wife was a
very delicate woman, and his friends
told him he was taking her there to die.
That is twenty years ago. I saw Mr.
Tyler a year ago, when he visited this
country. His wife is a strong, healthy
woman, and six healthy children fill the
house.” *
Key. W. F. Paddock, of St. Andrew’s
Protestant Episcopal Chnreh, Philadel
phia, said: “What Africa needs is men
constitutionally suited to the climate,
who possess tlie intelligence, skill and
energy of the white man, but do not,
like him, fall easy victims to the malari
al iiithiciircg and burning • equatorial
heats.”
“What inducement lias Africa to offer
to emigrants?"
“It lias immense quantities of salt and
vast beds of eoal and iron; rich mines of
copper and gold, which lavishly repay
all who who work them. The yield of
the South Africa diamond fields for 1879
aggregated *18,000,000. Soudan alone,
which is more than ten times as large as
Great Britain, possesses soil productive
enough to supply staple articles of food
for all Europe.”
“Has the country any internal im
provements?” '
“It has six partially completed rail
roads iu South Africa, and five other
TJWJtcteJf lines across theSahara TJerertT
Telegraphic communication is complete
from each colony to tlie mother country,
and there are several steamship compa
nies abroad established, with more in
prospect. Thirty English steamers reg
ularly trade along the western coast.”
“ You speak of a railroad across Sahara;
is not that impracticable?”
“The Desert of Sahara discloses rich
oases hundreds of miles in extent, and
fertile mountain regions dotted with
towns containing from 10,000 to 30,000
inhabitants.”
Rev. Dr. Nicholson, of the Reformed
Episcopal Church at Philadelphia, said:
\ work of civilization is waiting to be
done for Africa, but only colored men
can do that work. The white man can
not live there. Roman Catholic mis
sionaries have tried it for two hundred
and fifty years. The Moravians tried it
for thirty-four years, making five at
tempts, commencing in 1738, and did
nothing. Englishmen tried it in 1702,
for two years, at Bulama Island, with
the loss of one hundred lives. The Lon
don, Edinburgh and Glascow societies
tried it in 1797; but their missionaries
died. Many other attempts were made-
before Liberia was settled, all of which
tailed. Missions have been established
in Liberia, but at cost of many lives.
The white man ennnot live and labor
there, and it is a remarkable fact that
only infinitesimal portion* of the mighty
continent are owned by white men.”
Rev. Dr. Henry M. Scuddnr, of Brook
lyn. was at one time a missionary to
Africa. In alluding to the physical fea
tures ol the country he said to the re^
porter : “Africa is one of the most fer
tile, productive and beautiful countries
In the world. There are great deserts,
but there are also great lakes, mighty
rivers, fertile plains, beautiful forests
and lofty mountains. There are water
falls which, though not as great as Ni
agara, surpasses it in beauty.”
“What can bo produced there by the
lalxir of tlie emigrants?”
“Everything that is necessary to sup
ply the wants of man. Tlie soil can
produce wheat, rice, cotton, sugar, cof
fee, tobacco, dates, yams, plums, pome-
granites. grapes and figs. It is an infi
nitely producing land, with great capac
ities and resources.”
When questioned in regard to the set
tlement of Africa by white men, Rev.
G. D. Pike, of this city,said: “Tropical
Africa is a negro land, spanned with a
malaria which is deadly to the white
man. Of seventeen missionaries sent
there by Germany—to the west coast—
toil died In a single year. Out of eleven
men taken by Lieutenant Gordon to de
fend a fort in Liberia, eight died in four
weeks. Mungo Park took forty white
soldiers with him, but thirty perished
liefore he reached the Niger.”
“Can you mention a particular in
stance where the distinction was mark
ed?”
“The famous Niger expedition was fit
ted out with all conveniences. It was
manned by 150 white men and 108 ne
groes. They proceeded a few hundred
miles up the river and selected a beauti
ful site for a model farm. Speedily all
the whites were stricken with fever, and
the only one was sufficiently strong to
navigate the boats to the ocean. Nearly
one-third died in two months, while of
the 108 blacks, not one suffered from the
climate.”
This testimony, from persons who are
conversant with the country, makes it
evident that Africa, in the tropical por
tion, can never fall under the sway r ,j
the white man, and thatonly the nort' a .
em and southern, portion are fitted fo
lds reception. 1
ahead. I tlieta dry liie'bn^. and niy as
sistant pulls the string and forces the
sharp spikes into the dog’s neck. Oh,
they learn the tricks in a little -while.
Now, when I want to teach a setter or
pointer ‘steady,’ I just tie a long string
to the collar I showed you and attach
the string to my wrist. T say ‘steady,’
and the dog starts off, but I hold him
carefully to a slow pace. Iu like manner
I teach the dogs to ‘charge’ upon the re
port o’ a gun. An untrained dog will
usually run in at the first shot and dis
perse the game, and among professional
sportsmen no canine accomplishment is
rated higher than that of ‘charging’ at
the report of a gun.”
There are between 300 and 400 dogs of
all kinds at this kennel. One huge New
foundland dog weighs 300 pounds and is
as large as a small cow. Besides sport
ing dogs, there are a variety of poodles
that would make the truly lah de-dah
young lady’s mouth water. Toy terriers,
Yorkshire terriers, Irish terriers and
fox terriers, looking as uearly alike as
lion and leopard, frolic together. One
of the tricks performed, allowing to what
extent a dog may be trained, was to send
“Gipsy,” a black eyed fox terrier, a full
half mile over a hill to get the evening
I’ost-Dispatch, which the carrier had
thrownqVertlie fence. “Gipsy” brought
the paper back with a smiling counte
nance and a self-satisfied air that seemed
to say: “I’ll bring you all the latent
news of importance from the four quar
ters of tlie earth.”
The Athena Disorder.
Jarkmnrillr (Fta.) Vulon.
A few of the bolder Georgia dailies
have openly and fearlessly charged home
this state of affairs upon the inflamma
tory precepts and disreputable practices
of tlie Independent party as led by Hon.
Emory Speer, of Athens, and fostered by
tlie encouragement and patronage of the
stalwart President of this republic.
There is no questiou but that these and
similar
—- its i'-s-.j. 1 * -maoeew. _
u€n<
to politu
They are not confined to Athens or Geor
gia. Ill our own State and city these
race antagonisms are frequently made
manifest, amidmost frequently in the ag
gressive conduct of negro children to
ward white children, frequently forcing
the latter to leave the sidewalk and oth-
wisc treating them with rude
ness and indignity. If tlie negro were
not e voter this tiling
would not be so. Certain political par
ties flourish and exist only by encourag
ing and keeping alive the unnatural an
tipathies between the two Rices. It is
rapidly becoming with the negro a thing
of education, instilled into him by polit
ical teachers and taught under bis paren
tal shelter. Tlie evil must be remedied
at its source. Teachers and parents must
be made to see the terrible future conse
quences of this unchecked feeling, and
must instill other and better lessons into
the minds and hearts of the next gener
ation. This state of affairs must stop and
stop soon. Tlie forbearance of-the impe
tuous and hot-blooded Southrons to
ward this inferior and but lately servile
race, lias never had its parallel in the
history of the world. Every day, all
over this Southern country, chivalrous
Southerners submit to indignities and
insults from negroes that they would not
tolerate tor an instant from a white man.
Their toleration and moderation have
beensupefb. But this forbearance, like
all things else, has a limit.
.The fate of poor Mrs. Watson and
her child has at last been defflnitely
jnedl Our may readers remem-
the description which we gave a
weeks ago of the attack of the
taught* survivors had been drowned while
making, in a leaky little punt, for the
mainland. The final of the sad trage
dy is told bv the last mail delivery.
Mrs. WatSn and her child had es
caped murder and outrage from the
savages, but were fated to -a linger
ing death on a distant desert island.
The master of a trading schooner
found three skeletons on No. 5 Island
oftheHorwich group, and these are
proved to be the remains of Mrs-Wat-
son, her baby, and her faithtal China
man, Ah 8am. A revolver, . tall
pocked and loaded, was lying by the
toother and child. The- dead China
man was found under a tree a few
yards off with a loaded rifle at* his
aide. There was no water on tlie is
land, and the unfortunate castaways
had no doubt died from the most ter
rible affliction of thirst. Ah Sam had
beeti speared in seven places, and the
bandages showed that Mrs. Watson,
in the midst of her woes, had not
neglected to dress the wounds. The
presence of mind and heroism dis
played by the courageous woman are
soen to be even greater than was at
first supposed. The flight from Liz
ard Island was made, not in a boat,
but in half of an iron tank used for
boiling brrhe uV inn.
The woman, child and Chinaman
set forth on their perilous voyage on
tlie 3d of October, landed next day on
a reef and remained there till the 8th.
Then they went from islet to islet In
search of water, of which they could
not have had a drop for at least five
days. During this horrible period of
suffering and suspense Mrs.’ Watson
kept her diary and never lost sight ot
her husband’s papers and account
books. The extracts from the heroine’s
diary tell us much of the touching end
of the harrowing story as will ever be
known, but imagination will but too
vividly indicate the closing scenes of
this brave woman’s life. The supply
of water on hand had evidently lasted
the fugitives during their earlier wan
derings, but prior to the date of the
first entry it liad altogether failed.
The pencilings iu the diary speak
with pathetic force for themselves:
Oct. 9—Drought the tank ashore, as
far as possible witli this morning’s
tide; made camp all day utider th<*
trees. Blowing very hard. No water.
Gave baby a dip in the sea. He is
showing symptoms of thirst and took
* dip myself. Ah 8am and self very
patched with thirst. .Baby showing
symptoms. Sunday, 10th—Baby veri-
bad with inflammation; very much
alarmed; no li»4).q|terjii
VOL XXVIII.
—
should strike at the root. he symp
toms I have just mentioned or any’ un-
nsual action or irritation of the water
channels indicate the approach of
Bright’s disease even more man a cough
announces the coming of consumption.
'Ye do not treat the cough, but try to
help the lung* We should not waste our
time trying fo relieverfhe headache, stom
ach, paius about the body or other symp
toms, bat go directly to the kidneys, the
source of most of these ailments.”*
“This, then, is what you ment when
y in Mid that more thou one-half the
■eaths which occur, arise from Bright’s
disease, is it Doctor?”
•‘Precisely. Thousands of so-called
diseases are torturing people to-day,
when iu reality it is Bright’s disease in
some one of its many forms. It is a Hy
dra-headed monster, and the slightest
symptoms should strike terror to every,
one who has mem. I can look back and'
recall hupdreda of deaths which physi
cians declared at the time wen caused
by pandosls, apoplexy, heart disease,
pneumonia, malarial fever and other
common Oom plain* which 'bee now were
oeu^dbyBright’s disease/’
“And dltrall these oases have simple
symptoms at first?”
“Every one of the, and might have
been cured as I was by the timely use
of the same (remedy—Warner’s Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure. I am get
ting my eyes,thoroughly opened in
this matter and think I am helping
others to see' the facts and their pos
sible danger also. Why, there are no
end of truths being on this subject. If
you want to know more about it go
and see Mr. Warner himself. He was
sick the same as I, and is the healthi
est man in Rochester to-day. He has
made a study of tlus subject and can
give you more facts than I can. Go
too, and see Dr. Lattimorc, the chem
ist; at the University. If you want
facts there are any q'uantity of them
showing the alarming increase of
Bright’s disease, its simple and de
ceptive symptoms, and that there Is
but one way by which it can be es
caped.”
Fully satisfied of the truth and force
of the Doctor’s words, the reporter
bnde liim him good day and called on
Mr. Warner at his establisment on
Exchange street. At first Mr. Warner
was inclined to be reticent, but learn
ing that the information desired was
nl lout the alarming increase of Bright’s
disease, his manner changed instant
ly nnd he spoke very earnestly:
“It is true that Bright’s disease lias
Increased wonderfully, and we find,
liy reliable statistics, that in the past
ten years its growth lies been 250 per
cent. Look at the prominent men it
has carried off; Everett, Summer,
Chase, Wilson, Carpenter. Bishop,
Haven ane others. This Is terrible
and shows a greater growth than that
of any other known complaint. It
must lie plain to every one that some
thing must be done to check this in
crease or there is no knowing where it
may end.”
“Do you think many people are af
flicted w ith It to-day who do not real
ize it, Mr. Warner?”
“Hundreds of thousands. I hnve a
striking example of this truth which
has just come to my notice. A prom-
nent professor in a New Orleans med
ical college was lecturing before his
class on the subject of Bright's disease.
He had varidus fluids nnder micro
scopic analysis and was showing the
students wliat the indications of this
terrible malady were. In order to draw
the contrast between healthy and un
healthy fluids he had provided a vial
tliecontentsof which were drawn from
A New Comet.
Really thought I should have died
last night. Monday. 11th—Btill all
alive. Baby very much better this
morning, self feeling very weak. 1
think it will rain to-day; clouds very
heavy; wind not quite so high; no
Jain \ every appearance of flue weath
er. Ah Sam gone away to die; have
not seen him since the 9th. Bahv
more cheerful; sc If not feeling at ail
well; have not seen any boats of any
description. No water. Death with
thirst. ’
The relics were discovered by Capt.
Brenimer, of the schooner Kate Kear
ney, and over the remains he raised a
mound, aud read the Church of Eng
land burial service, heard for the first
time upon the lonely island under the
Southern Cross. Subsequently the
people ofCooktown sent across for
the remains and accorded to them a
public burial.—London Daily Xnr*.
A Cool Murder.
Members of the George family, in
Chicago, heard somebody open the un
locked front door of their house. Then
the gas went out. Charles George
went into the hallway, relighted the
gas, and saw a negro lying on the
floor. The intruder was slight, boy
ish, and in no way formidable; yet
George placed a pistol at bis head, as
he lay quiet and inoffensive, and de
liberately fired. “I thought he was
burglar,” is George’s explanation.
The negro, who was dangerously
wounded, turned out to be a harmless
waiter. Being subject to fits of un
consciousness, he had entered the
house while dazed, mistaking it for
the one in which lie served.
his own person. ‘And now, geutle-L 4 '
you Bow K appear* in a utate of
Jumbo's Safa Arrival at tha Battarj and His
Difficult Landing*•Znoldants of tha Voyeg*--
Hla Dissipated Habits and Fondness for Whis
key.
Jumbo hasflrrived. He did not have
an opportunity to Jumboverboard
daring the voyage, and he reached
New York in safety yesterday after a
tempestuous passage of fourteen days.
The Assyrian Monarch, the staunch
s’eamcr to which this distinguished
cargo bod been intrusted, anchored at
Quarantine shortly before midnight
on Saturday, but it was not until half
past twelve o’clock yesterday noon
that the steamer was moored at her
dock at Jersey City. A steam derrick
was to have been in readiness to trans
fer the monster to a lighter, so that he
oould be brought at once to this city
and lodged safely in his temporary
home In Madison Square Garden.
Through some misunderstanding,
however, the derrick was not in readi
ness. It lay in the slip, but was des
erted and useless; because captain,
engineer and firemen were not on
board, and the fires were out and no
steam on. After a delay of several
hours some of the hands were found,
and another elapsed betore the clumsy
craft, which combined the functions
of a forty-ton steam derrick and a
lighter ns well, could be brought
alongside the steamer and prepared to
receive the elephant. At five o’clock,
in presence of a crowd of about a thou
sand persons, among whom tlie small
boy was ubiquitously and noisily nu
merous, the covers were removed
from forward hatch No, 2 and the top
of the great wooden box containing
the monster was revealed. Enormous
chain cables were then carefully pass
ed under the cage, the gigantic arm of
the derrick swung Into position, and
at half-past five, witli many precau
tions to see that the ropes and cables
were properly adjusted so that the
box and its living freight would move
smoothly and safely, all was declared
in readiness for the difficult and some
what hazardous work of lifting Jum
bo from tlie hold of the steamer and
dropping him gently upon the deck of
the lighter.
his trunk’s first appearance.
It was just twenty-five minutes to
six o’clock when the order, “Hoist
away!” was given, and, with clatter
ing of chains, straining, of ropes,
creaking of pulleys and puffing of the
engine, the box rose very slowly into
the air. A slight rocking motion at
tended its upward movement, th*
cause of which was soon apparent.
The box, studded with wooden beams,
clasped about with, many bands of
iron and dotted wifflii bolts and rings,
was closed on every sidebutone. This
front was open except for five heavy
lateral bars of timber, and as the cage
rose above the combings of the hatch
a huge, dark, swaying mass was visi
ble through these openings. It was
head and trunk- of Jumbo, and a
. used to enter bis cage at tlie last too*
ment, although lio was docile enough
at all other times. In addition to the >
freight charge of $l,u00 the steamship
company expected pay for fifty tons
of freight displaced and for two hun
dred emigrants, at $30 per head,
because tha. emigration, authorities
would not permit passengers to be
carried in the same part of the ship
with Jumbo. ■ ' '
• jcMho’s wiiAky. ;
.^eoageinwh 1 ich Jumbo was con-
flnetF during tli&yoyqge law feetfv?
Inches wide and,I3,feet high, inside
measurement. It -is hnade of* seven
ineh Umbers of yellow pine, with
double lining of three inch oak
planks. Heavy bands of three-quarter
iuch angle iron, with five incli
flanges, pass around the cage in all di
rections, and the receptacle is ns strong
as stout timbers and iron can make
it. It weighs six tons—within half a
ton as much as Jumbo. It rested on
the flooring of the main deck of the
steamer, under one of the framed
hatchets, and extended through the
shelter deck to the hatchway of the
spar deck. The ship had a rough pas
sage, experiencing a series of severe
gales, but Jumbo bore the journey
well. He was frightened and restless
at first, and was sen-sick on the sec
ond day, but he soon recovered Ids
appetite, and was In fine condition
when he reached here. His dally al
lowance of food was about as follows:
Two hundred pounds of hay, two
bushels of oats, one bushel of biscuit,
ten or fifteen large loaves of bread,
two or three quarts of onions, five
buckets of water, and apples, oranges,
figs, nuts, cakes, candies and dainties
of that sort in unlimited quantities.
The Baroness Burdctt-Coutts, and
other distinguished personages in,
London who visited the steamer to
say good by to Jumbo just before tlie
Assyrian Monarch sailed, left iioxes
of candy and buns, of whieli Jumbo is
very fond, for Ills use during the voy
age. He was a great pot of officers,
crew and passengers, and was liberal
ly fed with good tilings. He has de
veloped a great liking for strong drink
and he swallows the contents of a
whisky liottle at one gulp, without
winking, and then holds out his trunk
and pleads for more. Beer he likes,
also, and drank dozens of liottlcs dur
ing the voyage.
He is very fond of the society of his
keepers, and one of the two had to re
main with him him constantly, espe
cially nt night. If they wandered out
of his sight lie would arouse the ship
with his deep trumpeting* of com
plaint. The two keepers were assisted
by eleven men In caring for him.
The question of duty has not yet
been decided, but the Custom House
authorities have permitted Jumbo to
lie landed under bond. Mr. Barnum
claims,that Jumlio is to be used for
breeding purposes, and as such should
be allowed to enter free. He lias
twenty-two other elephants and paid
duty on them cheerfully, he says, but
Jumbo was originally purchased for
breeding rather than for show.
P.TII.A.DEI.PHIA, April 8, 1882.—Pro-
fesso r Isttac Sharpless, the Haverford
Collej te astronomer, say* that the new
comet will be visible to the naked eye
in abot it two weeks, jnst after mid
night, : Mid will remain in sight until
dawn. , tbout two o’clock in the morn
ing it wi 'll be seen about half way up
to the ze oith in the constellation of
Lyra and*- near Vega, the -brightest
morning : itar in that part of the sky.
The comet: is travelling about north
east at the rate of about a degree a day.
Calculatinj 1 that the comet is about
hundred mi'Jlicin miles away, one de
gree of its eo«r se would be nearly a
million mile*. It is coming .toward
the earth, but will not come nearer
than e l*hty *» JUfen-^lleq to.it; Jtj,, ^ farther'in**-
will go down I o the northern hernia- ^g^ion of theknbject was deeniedan
phere, andthf re be at its brightest, editorial necessity
EXCITEMENT IN ROCHESTER.
The Commotion CausodJ by th* Statement of i
Physician. »
An usual article from the Rochester
N. Y., Democrat and Chronicle, was re'
published in this paper and was a
subject of much conversation, both in
professional circles aud on the street.
Apparently it caused even more com
motion in Rochester, as the following
from the same paper sayB:
Dr. J. B. Heninn, who is well-known
not only in Rbchester hut in nearly
every part of America, sent ail extend
ed article to this paper, a few days
since which was duly published, de
tailing his remarkable experience aud
rescue fiuiiiwliat seemed to be eertaiif
death. It would be impossible to enu
merate tlie personal enquiries which
have been made at our office os to the
validity of the artiste, but they have
and catalogue is the- best y et * ant *
shovld be in every o ?untiy house
hold. It U mailed, p<* «t-pald, to all
who apply for it.
\*ith this end'in view a representa
tive of this paper called on Dr. Hen-
ton, at his residence on St. Paul street,
when the following interview oc
curred: -‘That article of yours, Dr.
has created quite a whirlwind. Are
the statement! about the terrible con
dition you were in, and the way you
were rescued-such as you can sus
tain?!’ V/> /;
“Every one of them and many ad
ditional ones. Few people ever get so
near the grave as I did and then re
turn, and I am not surprised that the
public 'think it marvelous. - It was
SaHHSa^miSUac -i? v
The best view will be had in Austrail-
ia and Sooth America. It will fade
rapidly to tb» unaided eye in the
South, but It can be followed for
months w ith a telescope. The comet
differs froi n tele -scopic comets gener
ally in hav ing a tail. As a role tel
escopic con lets are only masses of
light. The pro te nee of a tail Indicates
that the con let is a large one. Its
orbit has not bo ;n sufficiently deter
mined to say w hether it wlil oome
back or not. Wi ) may look for the
comet of 1812; to 1 'ollow this.
)G. -i
CoraplinM -niary Notice.
AVe are in rxwij >t of some beautiful headaches; felt tired most of the'tini^
executed ehroom --lithographic seed could- eat- nothing one day and Wai
packets. fa>m IXIt andreth* Sons of
Philadilphla, tha ploneerSeedmenof Ifer/butInotthtak Itm^ntany-
thisc ontinent. H »e artistic designs thing serious.”
*nd - coloring are so true \a nature and v" But have these common
•ore iriortotheord inary Illustrations 3° VF i . th i‘W? e
as? jo be beyond cost iparison. But the hold on you?
m erlt of illustration is not the moat “ AoytblngV-Wey,' they are the
bare Indications of the-first
apiiears in a state or per
fect health,’ and he submitted liis own
fluid to the usual test. As he watched
the results liis countenance suddenly
changed—his color and command
both left him and in a trembling voice
he said: ‘Gentlemen, I have made
painful discovery; I have Bright’s
eiseaseof the kidneys' and in lesstliau
a year lie was dead"
“You believe then that it has no
symptoms of its own and is trequently
unknown even by the person who is
afflicted with it?”
“It has no symptoms of its own and
very often none at all. Usually no two
1 >eop!e have the same symptoms, and
i requently death is the first symptom.
Tlie slightest indirations of any kid
ney difficulty should be enough to
strike terror to any one. I know what
I inn talking about fori have been
through all the stages of kidney dis
ease.”
“Yon know of Dr. Henion’s ease?”
“Yes, I have both read and heard of
it.”
“It is very wonderful is it not?"
“A very prominent case but no more
so than a great many others that have
come to my notice as having been
cured by the same means.”
“You believe then that Bright's dis
ease can be cured."
I know it can- I know it from the
experience of hundreds of prominent
>ersons who were given up to die by
10th their physicians nnd friends.”
“Ybu speak of your own experience,
what was it?"
A fearful one. I had felt languid
and ungttrd for business for years
But I did not know what ailed me.
When, however, I found it was kidney
difficulty I thought there was little
hope and so did the doctors. I have
sinrejearned that one of the physi-
cians of this city pointed me out to a
gentleman on the street one day, sav
ing: ‘there goes'a man who will be
dead within a year.’ I believe his
words would have proven true if I
liad not fortunately secured nnd used
the remedy now known as Waruer’s
Safe Kidney and Li\-er Cure.”
“And this caused you to manutic
ture it?”
“No, it caused me to investigate. 1
went to the principal cities with Dr.
Craig the discover, and saw the phy
sicians prescribing and using it and
saw that Dr. Craig was unable with
his facilities, to supply the medicine
to thousands who wanted it. I there
fore determined, as a duty I owed hu
manity and the sofferitat, to bring it
within theirreach and now it is known
in every part of America, iS sold in
every drug store and has become a
household necessity.” *
The reporter left Mr. Warner, much
impressed with the earnestness and
Alncerlty of his statements and next
paid a visit to Dr. S. A. Lattimorc, at
his residprice on Prince street. Dr.
Lattimorc, /although busily engaged
upon some matters connected with
the State. Board fit Health, of which
lie is one of the analysts, courteously
answered the questions that were pro
pounded him:
“Did you make a. chemical analy
sis of the case of Mr. H. H. Warner
some three years ago, Doctor?”
“Yim dir”
simple symptoms, I did not think '
was sick. It is true I had freuuen
l’ mnortant feature ’t la the centente of »ure Indications of the-first stages of _ _ ■ , .
l ^ oualitv of their that dreadful malady. The fi?t is, Lattjmore In the commuuity is be-
Jie packets, and tba queUty oi »neir fe w people know or realize what ai’ —* “*‘
seeds has been piovcc thy tests extend- them, and I am sorry to say thutt<
ing up to a century. Their almanac few physicians do either.”
Hft—That is a strange statement, Dj
Yes, sir.
, “WfaldM^isanalysisshowyon?”
I “The presence of albumen ana tube
casts In gifeat abundancer” - ,
“A^nd what did . the symptoms indi-
“Aseriousdisrewlofthe kidneys.”
“Diijyou think, fin Warner could
recover?” .
-■.“No.’sir. I did nflt think it possible.
Jt was seldom, Indeed, that so pro
nounced a cape had;wp to that time,
ever blien cured.”
“Do hmmfeisAranything about the
remedywiichcured him?"
“Yes, Khave chemically analyzed
and tjnon%itlca|fe2aininatton, find
itentiiMj AuPfionaTmy poisonous or
deleterious substances.” ,'
We pUBifehtue foregdlng statements
Jin vleyf of tlie commotion Which the
publicity tigDrJ Henion’s article has
caused Sudfelneet the protestations
whieh have tieen-made. The stunting
of Dr. Henlonralr. Warner and Dr.
tor.”
“But it is a true one. The medical
profession haknfcern treating symptoms
I Instead of diseases for years, and it is
yond question and the statements
they make, cannot for a moment be
dsunted. They conclusively show
that Bright’s disease of the kidneys is
one of the most deceptive and danger
ous.of all diseases, that it laoxoeed-
pier, clamored
over adjacent vessels and blackened
the roofs of sheds and warehouses.
The great brute rolled uneasily and
restlessly from side to side in his nar
row quarters and pushed his trunk be
tween the bars with quick aud nervous
motions, causing his cage to rock very
perceptibly in spite of guy ropes aud
cables. MettheW Scott, who has been
Jumbo’s keeper since the elephant
was imported from Africa seventeen
year* ago, stood on the ledge of the
cage just outside the bars as it rose
int o the air. He talked to the animal
as ii' it were a human being, quieting
and s’oothlug him. Jumbo seemed to
understand, for as the cage rose high
er in the air he swayed less violently
and gradually quited down, so that by
the time he was lowered upon the
deck of the lighter be had ceased to
manifest sign* of uneasiness or fright.
At six o’clock the cage was safely
sto'wed upon the lighter’s dV'cl £ > and
with three rousing cheers and a tigt r
for Jumbo/three more for the Assy
rian Monarch and three more for Cap
tain John Harrison, "her hardy com
mander, the assembled multitude saw
the lighter, in tow of a tugboat, move
out into the North River in the derec-
tion of pier No. 1 at the Battery. Up
to this time Jumbo had uttered no
sound; but when, fora moment, Scott,
the keeper, descended from the front
of the cage and moved off to speak to
Mr. Hutchinson, one of the managers
of the show, the animal uttered a
hoarse bellow and butted his head
against the bars as though he wanted
to follow him. As soon as the keeper
returned to his side he was quiet agnin,
and from that time on either Scott or
William Newman, the American
keeper who went to England to fetch
the elephant to this country, had to
remain in his sight. If they showed
any indication of leaving him he
manifested his displeasure by bellow
ing. When the lighter reached the
battery pier at seven o’clock the whole
of the First ward seemed to have
turned out to welcome Jumbo. Near
ly two hours were spent in landing
the cage and adjusting to it the low
broad wheel truck which was to be
the means of conveying Jumbo
through the streets to Madison Square-
Garden. A team of sixteen horses
was in waiting, and these, after much
delay, were finally harnessed to the
cage and it was started on it way to
the Garden, where it arrived without
nccident.
Jumbo Is a monster. Mr. Barnum,
Mr. Baiiy, Mr. Hutchison and Mr.
A ratings tall, the elephant trainer,
agree in pronouncing him the largest
elephant ever imported. He stands
over eleven feet six inches in height,
weighs six and a half tons and' meas
ures fifteen feet across the head from
the extreme tip of each of his enor
mous ears. He is twelve feet long
and hla trunk is seven feet in length.
Mr. Barnum and his partners paid
$10,000 for him, and his entire cost,
landed in New York, Mr. Hutchison
states, will be nearly $30,000. There
have r been many unforeseen expenses
in getting blip here. In the first place
the opposition in London to hip sale
to Mr. Barnum was so strong that
several lawsuits had to be contested,
entailing a cost of $2,000 for legal ex
penses alone. Then the experiments
in making a cage in which to trans
port him were costly, and the expense
of bringing him across the Atlantic
was very heavy. Passage was engaged
for him twice, and two steamers were
fitted up for him and provisioned
A Serious Charge.
Colored Pastor* Accuaed of 8*lllnff Communion
Wine to Their Flock* end of Being Drunkards.
We And in the New York Times of
the 10th instant, a leading Republican
journal, an account of a meeting of the
National Temperance Society, held in
the Free Baptist Church in that city
on the previous evening. At this
meeting the temperance needs of
Was th'^ topic unrfer eonftfd^
eration. Among the speakers on tlie
occasion was one J. N. Stearns, the
corresponding secretary of the society
who, it is stated, has been la tlie
South a great deal during the last
seven years, and therefore “knew what
he was talking about." Tills speaker
asserted that the great curse of tlie
colored population of the South was
alcohol, and unfortunately in this, we
regret to say, he is a great degree cor
rect. But Mr. Stearns went further,
and declared with emphasis that “in
Savannah there were twenty-eight col
ored churches and each paetor mat a con-
firmed irhieky drinker. In a Florida
church he had known tlie minuter to
peddle out what was left of tlie wine
after communion to the congregation
at five cents a glass.”
A Negro Shot by Mistake.
Ei.i.entox, April 8.—A case of mis
taken identity occurred near here, day
before yesterday, that is causing con-
iderable suffering to the victim. A
negro* the nnrnf nf Henry Coates
was shoiT and Painfully wounded by
two white n.*" 11 ’ who hailed from Au
gusta Ga The white men hnd a war
rant for a negro n.L* ,lerer ! Wm \ G T'
gia, and received inforn' Hti<in t J at t ,e
negro calling himself Henr.'*
living on Mr. L. F. Dick’s place* w “
the party “wanted.” When tht' w
went to make the arrest the negro be
came frightened and attempted to
run, when he was shot down. On in
vestigation it was found that Coates
was the wrong man. One of tlie party
who did the shooting gave his name
as Hackle, and assumed the res]>onsi-
bility ot the affair.
The Betty end the Baby Fund
Has reached $7,000. Mrs. Mason de
posited last Monday $1,500 In Biggs’
Bank Washington. She and her rel
atives are dilhppointed in the sums
contributed. She doesn’t wish her
husband pardoned if it results in keep
ing him in the army to serve out his
enlistments, as she wants hiiu to use
his money to buy a Virginia farm.
$3,000 were expected yesterday from
Philadelphia. The Sergeant states
that he is well treated at the prison.
A Very Hungry Wildcat.
An almost famished wildcat a few
days ago appeared in the midst of a
flock of sheep in the valley near Big
Hole, M. T., and selected a fine lamb
from the flock. The owner of the
sheep was attracted to the scene by
the noise of his dog. He found the eat
busy devouring the lamb and his lit
tle three-year-old son clutching the
tail of the cat, attemping to pull it off,
and the dog barking and scampering
around it. He soon removed his lit
tle boy from his perilous position and
dispatched the wildcat with his rifle.
WantJd—A .Baptist Bible.
New York, April 10.—At a meet
ing of the Baptist Conference to-day,
the opinion was generally expressed
rthat they should have a true transla
tion of the Bible In all known tongues;
that it should be circulated, and that
they should organize a society to do
this great work. The Conference was
generally agreed that the formation *f
a new society would be infinitely bet
ter than to attempt to resuscltiats an
old one. *
m
jngiy common, alarmingly increasing the. Assyrian Monarch, but on
and that it can be cured. both occasions Jumbo positively re-
Robbcry In-..Covington.
Atlanta, April 13.—Last night bur
glars blew open a safe in the sure of
Heard, Wright & Co., at Coving*^
and got away with $1,500. No arrest