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A J. HARP, Publisher.
jfflfD ALIVE.
I II R IlflRHUII.R DEATH OP AN 01.1)
PA t It Bit AND HIM WIFE.
M,il!.Un K alluusetn Prevent the Very Thl»»
Heuecljilll.) that Occurred.
A dispatch says that the do*
tails of theikvstsriuus death of Mr. and Mrs.
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morning,,tit} one suffocated aud the other
etna ted, make a horrible story. Foul play
18 suwpeefcod, but the circumstances
j ‘r oly justify the suspicion. Rooney
v 3 seventy-three years old and the
\ Rthiest being farmer in Central IHitnds, his
s estate valued at $200,000. By
*‘ rst wife he Im.l four sons, all of whom are
Carried. He never was known to give them
Sy much as a cent. Twenty five years ago he
Carried his second wife, a childless widow.
Plie was twenty years younger than ha It
' ssuined in all the country that she
"WUmhcrit tiie major portion of liis estate,
H>rltaY~twtie no wiU, but was expected to
i i •1 in a Id’ rer after New Year's.
by ye i agohe Chicago caused a great sensation
engagin a architect to design
f or him a r idence which should be not only
ni ignificeit in nil respects, but air tight Irom
foundation |o garret. He little knew thathe
death was careit I ly preparing for the frightful
of inself and wife, as the sequel
shows, I jouey had a horror of
lire, and t was to provide against
the fate \ liich befivlis so many unpro*
teeted coin try homes that he directed
the architee and contractor to spare neither
time nor exj nse in making the building as
close as a j*o table refrigerator. The neigh-
l.ors alt agre 1 that the tottering old man was
losing completed his ml 1. When the structure was
tb artisan* had done their work
so well tba with all tllo interior doors
o ..-n {the holt e had sixteen rooms) feather-
weight tests i all parts of it failed to show
that there wa tho slightest'draught. Ilooaey
ami hia wife had a sociable fondness for
punch whisky ami often browed their evening
with the favored hired man,
who also vas allowed room
in the ne mansion, and was thoir
spoke solitary few guest} Eng Wh Ho words. was a His deaf Bwede and
|lecthor room was over
tbe kitchen. evening; Hoon ycaine
into tho viilagf AfterItieJsttfter |nd bought ti ii ilf gallon of
whisky. Mat dishes find been
Vi! l: "Zt kitchen, fl ' v,t - v wurii I 1 the iittlo down jug with between his wife them. in
V remained r lure is not known.
“Ti "IJfii join !f!6lv tfi Swede and retired had ho was punches invited
the old folks two
with them. When he left they were merry
but not intoxicated.
“In the luuruiug the hired man awakened
with a headache. His pillow was covered
with soot and a sickening odor pervaded the
Utmospliero of ho room. Descending to the
lower ball, the stench increased. Adjoining
(he kitchen was the old gentleman’s bedroom,
find next to it that of Mrs. Rooney. The door
of Rooney s room was op m. Peering in, the
i man saw his master prone upon tbe
■V >-ifi^lothing undisturbed. Upon sliakiu;
rated form the .Swede found
And lifeless. Over the faro of tbo
U^Hftirk. dinging to ev -rything in The Hi ■ room,
"Hill sticky substance. hire I
looked into Mrs. Rooney’s room
k "Ij^^^klteUeq, ..af”o the and h failing of to of tin 111! t her it.
'lis one soil-,
on • a mi\ a If atl ,| related as i Ost, lie could
,s n;ih, \ his discovery, A party
■ si , iau,» nel rdUjii S|tL, with including tlm hired a pin
man
a careful investigation of
■tli i „ j vims . Rrare made. (lit tho center table
tho baftu||ty jug and the glasses. At
oti‘ I lo thin etas a hole throo feet l ng an l
ear ieat by 'In 'jt<e candle, burn id hair through burned, the and door. at
a
^fcihl^rel leg protruding and muscle. from the Tho shre Is
llo»li tab
lock io the corner was ,pm
^Kingx. ^n, 1 t|tiike t wa*on cdh had the burn Hoor. -d up The close hingi to the ig
ulaftdj ■ «
o ofahe ta'de and tlwn «:n
iliiillii'h as lia< the small patch on tile door,
aliiim.in form Ind wr t icd m
the An resff a living 1 10 nation. In the
'o'tfd a handful of <>f vertebral while r.«e», oul- a
'd|k I and part, a
I'[t ,in. wale ,'iifrnt Mrs. Rooney
1'Jpk ti*^t was wind-
fc Kite* up tic when the candle accidentally
|,taki'naJl t #■ .litheliqryjx tlolliing. vfff^Giad i-ffie vy.gs_.dQlhthHS drunk and.
,nik Pfhiug Fhe was a large
jcmiiH, Yu unable pound*, to or more- and
jJ ■ l *lie was rise,
‘ eating through
ne ■mss ranidy 1
clothing to her holy inciner- non
“ 'wm' of
thm A fire cavity formed beneath her
to tho floor and an tbo concave furnace
Burned slowly through to tho cellar the
(remains were gradually melted into
L„ i,” handful Apparently found on <>no the log cement w as extend- floor
l' at length ntrffiMsOut-r and burning rim “f off tho just fire, above the foot tho
Inkle, Itself vrinn dismembered. Rooney
elite-1 siUcated death. Tho hired man is
as ;.b)d to exported to live, llio
,w and not divided tho
ropery will probably bo among
iur without inquiry or contest."
BOASTED t© death.
Terrible End of a Ne«ro MUrrrniu
rw , in Alabama.
Friday week, at Gaincst -wn, Clark,, county,
Alburn,* young ally, Miss Carrie, Hover,
.iwvontec-n, was waylaid while on ter way
, m , front a neighbor’s. She was foui,Llj i ; , K
' , tho hack of her neck, and
*1 h ,, . U i!et hole in
|, | gkull crushed in. A broken Kin-stock
I li'll, 1W 'ying in th
blood upon it,was found r„„<l.
ti ender . ami-stack whs recognized as Iw.i.njing to
V Iteid, a negro living near at, ami.
Jed when til avengers called f, him
O broken gun w s fot„l i„
V,,, ill'# barrel of the and hair
I, turns'. It had blood U],I, it,.
, , V ,])'.e mid "f t black-, liike and organized adjoining a hunt (-tallies, ir the
", ,i, white captured him ln,rs-
i(,,vr. It two negro: # Ill march t:> Cine#.
the countv liu . ■
I u»rt'i#»> ted in by hundreds of mm.
m.ralp'aeos a ong the route the i-uln.
' tmmd out and demanded a lymiug.
tho garni pss-cd on in silence uni the
jlOt ' Will reached where tin crime wa* ,.*
led, At two o’clock on Sunday Kot was
),, llC Uc abne. dte 0<nibB* e d Ihnt 1 hiei
"mil! llie dat'd, it, but that his gun went nftioei-
j and » h<- was fared l>.v oi-niii-
‘••sm-es to pOTiii'ete the murder. The man
iji ,i built it (a a i.:' iglitwood around ihe -i,n-
"i * ■ iioitkc mniK-re wet« s meanwhile tattered aniha.-w Miffing
„ , uilt ag'liv. up. the iiegto
«im£ Tie prni-cw was o p,ted
!, hi fore death reiiovod him.
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■ I Moulded . „ Snow.
HEP™ 1 in l
Mi 1 IIOUIUBLB ¥ „ ________ ro»nWTtl»\in, ., (W1T |,, N in wi,
I 1 TWO BODIES Vt Elite POEM). •
li' bodies of Burke Hovey atvl ,|. j,{.j
tho Prodigali»Son —*rs-..re. mine, near btlvelem, (
3
a few day* since, by a snowslide, wpm f u ,„j
at the bottom of the shaft. Both bjdios v ( . r a
f jiackedln t,ho snow as in a mold, loveyiv#*
hWtk 't'evito-ateteAh-.A"tVr,ril haml win,
hand'and " as shading his i, s
right an I lookias 11 V a * though t#'We what
ifwaseomhjg ttewn the mtna peon ap-
pfaram-es, tliatc dea.^ Woodlo-.lt, fi ,.f (l ^ #
“tei*rand _
1 Hovoy from y c w
,* $ unswick. |
THE NEWS. ,
interesting Happenings from all Point*.
eastern Anii mouLtt ntAtEn.
A CHINESES girl baby, the first infant of
the pig tail nation —. t,, Philadelphia,
has just been added to the Ch. oso colouy in
tl1 ® Quaker city.
I HE number of emiprantH ai riving at the
’“.IT,.?*_y .s."!i5, ln a ^ ln K
“ "" u '' . ,
'
,
fishermen. Five vessels and eight lives have
reported 1. «t
Ten men were badly burned by an explo-
^ p"“‘ urnl *“ at “ «** wel1 near Kittan-
Ahihnrv' eartbqii l.-tfshocka *"*** *
-ever i ".
Many .. nerd< . . of f rattle being killed in
are
snveral authorities, i eniiNylviiflbi because counties of by order of the
State pleuro-pneu-
PeterB Sweeny, the brains of the no
furious Tweed ring, has returned temporarily
to Now York after a long absence in l’aris.
ilKHKi-CA Uatteiison. said to lx- I IT years
old, died a few days ago in little Falls, N. Y.
NOllTtl AND WEST.
Alexander Reed t colored man, brutal¬
ly murdered Miss C'n tie Boyd, at Qaines-
town, Ga. Reed the was captured the by two colored tied
men, taken to scene of murder,
to a tree, wood piled around his body, and in
the presence of »X) people he was burned to
bath.
mail AceonniSit dozens of to familic< a prominent have been Arizona massacred ranch
and by Apaches the news itl of distant their death parta has of the never Territory, spread
beyond the immediate vicinity, owing to tho
long distance and a separation from the out¬
side world.
A tike at Greenville, Miss., destroyed lubes a
large oil mill, together with 2,4tKJ of
coturn and ten small buildings, causing a
total estimated damage of ♦200,000,
The wife and two children of Ferryman
James Saunders, were drowned by tho cap¬
sizing of their boat near Nicholasville, Ky.
Hon. James E. Hailey, Uuitefi States
Senator from Tennessee from 1877 to Tenn., 1881,
,iied a few days ago at Clarksville,
aged sixty-two years.
JaMes Tt'HSEil, a nephew of United States
Senator Brown, wits run and over killed,, by a freight
engine in Atlanta, Ga..
Two negroes, caught setting fire toaqtiftn-
tity of cotton near Crawford, Miss., were
taken from jail by a crowd and hanged to a
tree.
A CUIOaOO {taper states that the total
length of main lines of railroad laid in 1885
was a. 113 miles, which is about 700 miles less
hau in 1884.
WASHINGTON.
Mrs, Della Benner, the widow of the
gallant officer who sacrificed his life while
endeavoring to relieve the yellow fever suf¬
ferers of the Lower been Mississippi postmistress river several of
years ago, has appointed
the village of Rogers Park, III.
President Cleveland has written to
Senator Voorhees expressing a desire to aid
in lat*V the ieo-President proposed erection Hendricks of a monument at Indianapolis. to the
The government will dispatch the revenue
steamer Rush from San Francisco to search
for the lost whaler Amethyst.
Mil V, P. Snyder, of Hudson. \. Y.‘. ha* i !
heeii appointed deputy comptroller “» ’
currency.
routed A detachment large hand of of Mexican United States revolutionists troops j
a
who had taken possession which of an belongs island in the
Rio Grande river to our
government.
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FOR KIRN.
A severe storm lias caused many wrecks
along the New Brunswick coast.
Jules Grew has been re-elected president chamber
France by the French senate ami
deputies' ballot being at Versailles, 185. his majority on
joint
It is stated that Russia and Austria are se¬
cretly arming, and that both countries have
sent orders to England for large quantities of
for their respective armies.
Great distress prevails among the fisher¬
men of the west coast of Ireland ow ing to a
lack of food, and many condition. families are reported
to be in a starving
The eccentric king of Bavaria is a bank¬
rupt..
Captain Holleys, long the American
iu Culm, has committed suieido in
Barbndoes.
An Italian organ-grinder was struck dead
while leaning against an electric light touched pile in
NeW Orleans, and a companion shock who which
his body also received a
knocked him over and burned one hand to a
crisp. i King Al¬
Queen Christina, widow of
fonso, has 1 >«oii sworn in as regent of H|miu.
THRICE A MURDERER.
Dtek Townsend,the Murderer q£Tlir(fOMen,
The negro, Dick Townsend, who has mur¬
dered three men recently, and for whom a re¬
ward of $800 has been off. red, was captured in
Mitchell county,Ga., on the turpentine farm o:
A. M. Collin*, about thirteen miles from
Camill*. A short irhi' ago he killed K Mr.
Cohen, of Bradford county, Florida. Af it
11.at lie killed in tie same state a negro, Luki
McCormick and about a week ago he killed in
LownddJ county, Ga., the sheriff of Bradford
county, Florida, who was in pursuit of him
When captured lie. g.,vo iris name as Richard
Bell, but on arriving at. Camilla ho was Townsend, reeo :■
ii zed by several in grocs as Dick
n.d tl t-n he contV s,od having killed two of the
ni' ii, the negro McCormick and the sheriff ol
Bradford. Townsend hag been hotly pursued
f.w s >eral days. Hh captors are Messrs
Joshua Dees, of Valdosta, and Judson Oobbi
11 ( Muilla.
(Jropts of the Country.
AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT K8TI-
MATES FOR TIIE PA »T YEAR.
The estimate* of fho statistician of the do-
pigment 1 of agriculture for the principal
cereals for 1885 are computed, and , the
aggregate bushels are as follows: In
round millions: Corn, 1,886; wheat, 357;
acres; The value of wheat of com 84,000,000; averages of nearly onta gMMD.OHO. 83.rents a
bushel, and makes an aggregate of of ♦&.«,»»,- the last
IKK), $5,000,000 less than the value wheat
in-op. The decrease in tbe product of
is 80 per cent an,l only 17 percent in valun-
tions,which Is $275,< 100,000. The valuation of
»atsis*180,000,000. Tho reduction in Wheat
is mostly in the valleys of the Ohio and in
California. The Slates of Ohio, Indiana,
]1Un , )iK _ Missouri mid Kansas year*),000,<W0, last year pro-
dum { 170,000,(JOfl of 00.000,000 bushels, this bushels. The pre-
a reduction bushels to
diction of all cereals is flfty-Wree
b
1 .
I MME. AdELIni PATTI will . . , be UiHirted
L U to Big-NicoJini in June next—that is to
»m*. 1^1 MSodot ^ »“tn.
.'(UfK..''<‘r i d Wua y„ t [m hUm^'iV ’btlKiJ
ip Nicholas, and he belongs to a he
ren ch family. Hie wife, from whom
{.„d , as been divorced by mutual con.-ent,
from whom he bad been separ.ved named
Many years, is an Italian lady
itlaria Annata.
ELLAVULLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY > 18S6.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Tint nvorage cost of a session of Congress is
13,000,001).
Tint Prince of Wales has entered on his
forty fifth year.
J BNakW poison, it is stated, kilts at least
17,000 people per annum in India.
in An Indian Bernardiue high school Is to Is. established
Nan comity, California
A wild stall ion has killing animals
and scaring men near Cheyenne, YV. T.
The Missouri Cremation society has 40®
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u' V f l o! '! I* ver ? h ‘‘arce in some parts
with!' " 8en ° Usly iaU ' rlVmi
The new town of Punreith, in Dakota, of¬
fers $300 and a town lot to the first boy baby
bom in the place.
The Burnt esc capital. Mandalay. Is said to
, be tufested by hordes of small black pigs, which
are protected by the government as xeaven-
gers
At the (^n.iiing of last year Vermont had
thirteen ex-governors living, but four of them
died during the year. Nine ex-governors
still live.
The Congregattonalist church at Walling¬
ford, continuous Conn., period has had of two but hundred five pastors in of a
church life. years
The value of the pig iron produced hi this
country in 1H85 was $73,000,01)0, or nearly as
much as tho combined values of the gold and
silver products.
As watermelon fall approached a that Georgia farmer pulled
up a vine had lieeit bearing
all summer aud transplanted it into a green¬
house. It now carries half a dozen melons,
which will average twenty pounds each.
J. M. Walker, who had a fifth interest in
the fa n ms “bouauza firm,” was worth
so much money once that he thought poverty
never again though would knock at his door. But it
does, for, once a millionaire, he is now
moneyless.
The largest vim- in the world is said to be
one bearing growing since at Oys, 1802. Portugal, Its which has yield l>een
in produced maximum
was in 1804, in which year it a suf¬
ficient quantity of gra)ies to make Kid gallons
of wine; in 1874, 1441 1-8 gallons, and in 1884,
or.lv 5,Mid 70 1-1 gallons. and It covers an area of
square feet, the stem at the lw.se
measures 0 1-2 feet in circumference.
MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC.
Juvenile “Mikado” comjmnios already
hive sprouted up.
“U and I” is the title of a new farce pro¬
duced recently in Boston.
Queer companies and queerer plays are
tumbling all over the country.
Patti is said to have lost $15,000 in by Hol¬ not
being able to keep her engagements
land.
Mr. J. H. Haverly is now quietly Han Fran¬ man¬
aging a comic ojiera company in
cis, s>.
Kaure, tho great French baritone, is on
the (mint of publishing a work on the art of
singing. Prince’s
Mrs. Lanotry has leased the
theatre, London, for six months, and open*
the new year with a new play.
Miss Genevieve Ward has ended her
Australian tour and celebrated the 1,000th pic¬
performance of “Forgot-me-Not” by a
nic in the bush.
Miss M argaret Mather accomplished
p iu formidable task of writing her name on
2,000photographs. They were performance given assou- of
venirs of the seventy fifth
“Romeo and Juliet” in New York.
_ -v. Adelina Patti contemplates Craig-v-Nos re¬
tiring to her Welsh estate at on
the completion of her European tour at
Faster. She wishes to leave her professional full vigor,
life while her voice is still in
and she is still the idol of the musical
world.
“Harbor Lights," Messrs. Sims and Pete
tit’s new melodrama, has been successfully The
produced at the London Adelphi in five theatre. acts and
work is a romantic drama,
eleven tableaux. The deck of an ironclad
with all its details faithfully represented, fur¬
nished one of its striking scenes.
One of Thebaw’s last acts as king of Bur
inuh, was to receive a party of Parses actors.
After witnessing their {flaying he arranged there
on a table as many silver cocoanuts as
were actors, each nut containing a handful
of precious stones, aud invited each player to
take one as a token of royal appreciation.
Miss Bertha Ricci, the priina donna, is a
finely educated young woman. She speaks
and writes German, French and Italian with
gramntical precision, and is at home with the
classical literature of all three languages.
A portion of her daily leisure is devoted to
study. She is a close reader of the daily
papers aiid evinces a strong interest Before in poli¬ she
ties, both of home aud abroad.
determined to study for the operatic stage she
was an overworked and underpaid 1 earned school $1100
teacher in St. Louis. "Then a
year,” she remarked, laughingly, “now I
ma ko $15,000." Several of her relatives are
ungrudgingly supported by her vocal notes.
The stage obituary list for 1885 is a long
one, and includes several names of eminence.
The stage has lost since last January Edward
Arnott, Mine. Sainton-Dolby, W. H. Bcek-
mnn.John Parsello. Ryder, Mrs. George Vauderholf, Thomas E.
John George McCullough. Browne, The death
Morris and John
list also includes .Sir Julius Benedict, the dis¬
tinguished composer; Dr. Damrosch, tho ad¬
mirable conductor of German opera; James
\V. Davison, the famous musical critic of the
1/mdcm Times, and Richard Grant Hugo, White, wha
the Shakesnorian scholar. Victor
is claimed by tho stage as well as by literature,
has also dittd within this year.
thrice a mubderer.
ntek Townsend,the Murderer of Three Men,
('augiit.
The negro, Dick Townsend, who has rum-
ill red three nu n recently, and for whom a ri
ward of $800 has boon offered, was captured it.
Mitchell county, Ga., on the turpentine farmo
A. M. Collin-, about thirteen miles from
Camilla. A short rime ago he killed a Mi
Cohen, of Biadford county, Florida, After
that he killed in tin same state a negro, Lukf-
McCormiek and about a week ago he killed in
Lowndes countv, C5a., the sheriff of Bradford
county, Florid*, who was his in pursuit Richard of him
W hen captured arriving he gave at Camilla name he aH was recog-
Bell, hut on several Dick Townsend,
u'zed by negroes having as killed two of the
and then he confessed sheriff
men, the negro McCormick and the of
Bradford. Townsend has been hotly pursued Messrs.
for several days. His captors are
Joshua Decs, of Valdosta, and Judson Collins,
of Camilla.
Crops of the Country.
AGKICVI/NIKAl. DUPAUTMENT ksti.
mates for the past yeau.
The estimates of the statistician of the de¬
partment of agriculture for tbe principal
cereals for 1885 are computed, and the
aggregate bushels are as follows: In
round millions: Corn, 1,986; wheat, 857;
oats, 629. The area of corn is 78,000,006
acres; of wheat 34,000,000; of oats 23,060,000.
The value of corn averages nearly 83 cents a
bushel, $.3,000,000 and makes less an than aggregate the value ol of SO-teuOjK) the last -
(too. in the product of " iw«i
croii. The decrease cent valua¬
is .'id per cent and onlv 17 i*-r iu
tions',vltaii is $275,000,000. The vnluat ton of
is mostly in the valleys of the Ohio and iu
California. The States of Ohio. Indiana,
IUiuois, Missouri and Kansas last year pro-
duced 170 , 0 (X ),000 bushels, tins venr so.tioo,ooo, The
a reduction of 90,000,000 bushels {
du<-rum of all cereals is fifty-three bushel! s to
each inhabitant, and the aggregate \o,aiu€
is larger than any former year.
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Below the Sea.
Deep in tlu> Imy llie old church lio,
Beyond tbo storm-wind's (lower,
Tho wind* tint whelmed it uvorplny
In ripples round the tower.
And if you look down through Ilia tide—
Many and many u time—
Yon tuny ontcli the glimmer of thu stones,
Or hour the sweet hells chime !
For they tlmt dwell deep in the sen,
Below tlie wind and rain,
The Mermen and the Mernmidens,
Have built it up again !
They have made lust the ruined walls
Willi their immortal hands,
And strewn the aisle with red soa-flowets,
And with the wet sen sands.
And when a drifting heat comes hack
Hock shattered to dio shorn,
With never captain at the helm,
Nor sailor at the oar,
Then dow n lieiow the stormy fomu
The sweet old halls ring tree,
They cal! upon the mariners
That come no more from sea,
—May Kendall, in Magazine of Art.
‘’A Secret of the Sea.”
The following story was told me a
short time ago by a friend, who had it
only at second hand from an eye-wit¬
ness of tho whole affair. My friend
began thus:
“The strange thing I am going to
tell you is true; 1 know it because 1
have it from a friend, or, rather a re¬
lation, of one of the officers on board
the ship.
“Some years ago, before the exist¬
ence of the Suez Fan el, a large East
Indiaman was making her way easily,
with light Summer winds, along
through the Indian Ocean to Calcutta.
The Cape had been passed several days
before, and now, with charming
weather, officers and passengers, to say
nothing of the crew, were looking for¬
ward to the end of what had been a
pleasant, though quite uneventful,
voyage.
“They had had nothing more serious
than a ‘half-gale o’ wind,’ had met only
three or four ships, homeward bound;
and in spite of a score or more agreea¬
ble passengers, in spite of the last sen¬
sation novels, of musical entertain¬
ments, of flirtations by moonlight on
deck, and even in spite of unlimited
gossip, the days had grown very mo¬
notonous,and the weeks unaccountably
long; even light-hearted middies bad
begun to chafe and fret over the long
confinement on shipboard, and the
young ladies to sigh for an excitement.
“I take it for granted t hat, you know
that the service of the East India
Company’s ships was like the Naval in
its organization; there were captain,
lieutenants, midshipmen find petty of¬
ficers; the ships were mounted with
heavy guns, and were well armed, and
manned with men trained for fighting.
The voyage was long, and in time of
war the Indiamen were regarded as
very desirable booty. The ships were
large, strongly built and very commo¬
dious, and often luxuriously fitted up.
“The day had been hot, and the light
wind had died almost entirely away;
the great ship rose and fell on the
waves, and her sails hung loosely from
tho tall masts that slowly swayed buck
and forth with monotonous, cracking
sound one knows so well who lias been
much at sea. It was ‘sundown,’ and
the short twilight of the tropics was
fast deepening into night; everybody
had come upon deck to enjoy such
whiffs of air as might be stirring, the
passengers and officers on the quarter¬
deck, while the crew were hanging
over the side or lazily lounging on the
neat coils of rope about the deck.
“Suddenly a faint, very faint sound
—so faint, one knew not what it was
wheneo it came—or scarcely if there
had been a sound at all. People asked
each other about it; some had heard it
and others had not; and after some
discussion it was decided there really
was nothing at ali. And just as they
reached that conclusion tffe sound
came again, and a little clearer, more
positive than before, so that every one
heard something. ‘It was the moan of
the breeze through the rigging 1’ ‘No,
it was the bell for’ard !’ It was fifty
most ordinary sounds in tho world,
and quite a matter of course that it
should have been heard; and then—
again it came—as if it dropped from
the air, and were the sob of some sad-
hearted spirit floating by. And then
the thing was talked over and
over, and everybody had a theory, and
nobody was satisfied with any of them.
“Meantime L grew darker, and the
great stars of the Southern World
started out, making the night lumi¬
nous with their wonderful glory. A
silence fell upon the busy tongues, and
all eyes were gazing upwards, when
suddenly through the hush broke the
tone of a bell. Full, clear, musical it
rang out, then died slowly, seeming to
go further and further away, until the
last faint sound came from a long dis-
tance off; then again silence, and ne<>-
pie louKuu suangeiy at each other, and
almost us if they were fearful (,f break-
in . lfiat .. . stillness .... . by speaking . the h
£ .
words that hung on every lip. At
last Captain Stanley hailed the mast-
head.
“ ‘No, sir, nothing in sight. It’s a
little misty up to windward.’
•• ‘Keep a sharp lookout -d’ye hear?’
H t Ay, ay, sir !’
“A slight jmiT of wind blew past the
ship -just enough to bear the distinct,
tone of the mysterious hell, and also to
tell from which direction it came; it
was deeper, clearer, fuller than before.
The mystery deepened, but Captain
.Stanly said, quietly: ‘That mist tin-
doutedly holds the solution of the af¬
fair; it is some ship’s bell, as wo shall
see as soon as It lifts a little.’ But
hour after hour went on, and still the
midst hung low on the water, and
still the mournful sound of that bell
was borne to the ears that listened all
hrough the night on board the Hare.
Few left the deck, and all night long
that sad, weird tolling kept them com¬
pany—now seemingly closer to them,
and again so faint and far away. It
was uncanny, and to the sensitive ones
sounded like the strokes of doom.
“Just before the early dawn, while
it was yet only a clear starlight, the
mist lifted, and at once came the cry
from the masthead: Somethin to
windward.’
ti t What is she lik
“ ‘Weil, it’s a queer sort of a ernft
altogether.’
ti t Mr. Crabbs, will you go up and
see what you make cf her?’ said Cap¬
tain Stanley; and Mr. Crabbs, a light-
footed young middle, sprang up the
rigging, and in a few moments re¬
turned, saying:
.. . She, or it, is a very queer-looking
thing, sir; it is pretty dark yet, but, as
well as I can see, it looks like a big
ilatboat with a sort of house on it—it
floats low in the water. Aud that bell
sir—keeps on tolling sir,’ said little
Crabbs, hesitatingly.’
“ ‘Yes—yes—we can all hear the
bell plainly enough, Mr. Crabbs!’ and
turning to the first lieutenant, Cap¬
tain Stanley went on; ‘Mr. Fraser, see
a boat lowered away at once: send Mr.
Crabbs in command of her, to board
this stranger and find out what this
means.’
“ ‘A few minutes later' one of the
ship’s boats, manned with a crew of
six men, and little Crabbs in the stern,
was pulling towards the flatboat, which
had become visible, Irom the ship’s
deck. There was no steady wind, but
a slight puff or two had been made
the most of to draw a little closer to
the strange thing, and the Dare now
lay almost or quite becalmed about
two miles distant from it; the house or
cabin—the top of it at least—could be
seen, and a sort of crossbeam arrange¬
ment on which hung the bell whose
solemn voice was heard as the boat
rose and tell with the waves; but no
living soul was visible. Every glass
was directed upon the little boat its it
came up alongside. .Mr. Crabbs was
seen to climb up the side and instant¬
ly disappear, while in the same mo¬
ment the boat pushed off and made
lor the ship, pulling in a disordered,
hesitating manner, stopping for a few
minutes’ discussion seemingly, then
their way with a long, regular stroke.
“Arrived at the ship’s side, they
came on bo;mi in a dazed sort of a way
with white scared faces; and upon
Captain Stanley’s stern demand for an
explanation, they managed to tell their
story.
“They saw no human being, they
heard sound of human voice m that
haunted thing; but as Mr. Crabbs
stepped upon the top of tho high bui
wark, a largo black figure readied up
and seized him with its long arms and
dragged him down; and there was a
sound of rattling of chains and shrieks
and yells of fendish laughter; and the
tiling was loaded with devils, and the
Foul Fiend himself had got poor Mr.
Crabbs, and they got away as fast as
they could.
“And sad and terrible enough it all
was, and that horrible bell went on
tolling an awful knell for poor, blight-
hearted little Crabbs. There wore
sobs and tears, and pale cheeks, and
mourning for the lad; and after a lit¬
tle the captain said, with a hard voice,
and a set, stern look on his pleasant
face:
<t < Mr. Fraser, send that boat back
with a fresh crew; or, rather take com¬
mand yourself, sir—take the best men
and plenty of arms.’
“And in a few- moments the little
boat went back, carrying men who
had rather fight a man-of-war twice
their size than face a foe that was un
known, and doubtless belonged to the
unseen world; but they went, and res¬
olutely, for everybody loved little
Crabbs.
“JIow earnestly and anxiously they
were watched from the decks of the
Dare one can well imagine. Mr.
Fraser an.' the boatswain. ' vuU
and revolver in hand, climbed cautious¬
ly up the sides of the flatboat, and
were seen to raise their heads slowly
above the bulwark. And this is what
they saw: a magnificent Bengal tiger
of the finest breed just finishing his
revoltingmeal ! They fired together,
anil the great creature tell over a nil
died without a struggle.
“Then the heat’s crew were ordered
to come up, and they carefully climbed
oil board, Mid with .t pistol in c;uh
hand, began an exploration of the cab-
in; there was indoor to it, and as they
entered (lie wide doorway, there right
before litem they saw two skeletons—
of a man and a woman, chained, one
against each side of the re. mi. Be¬
tween them, in the midst, whs ti brok¬
en chain, one end still riveted to tho
tloor—the other hung to the ock of
the slain tiger!
“Fronting the doorway, on the wall
was written in Arabic: ‘Such is my
vengeance upon those w ho rouso nty
jealousy.’ The ghastly tale was told.
“Silent from horror, they gathered
together all that was left of the gay
middie, and covering them with a
boat-cloak, the Date’s men rowed back
and told their story..
“Lieutenant Fraser told it all to the
person who told it to me, and strange
and horrible as it is—well, you know
‘nothing is too strange,’ or too horrible
‘to be true’; and my story is true.”
Great Salt Like.
Great Salt L ike is in fact not a
branch of the Sea at all, but a mere
shrunken remnant of a very large
fresh water lake system, like that of
the still existing St. Lawence chain.
Once upon a time American geologists
say a huge sheet of water, for which
they have even invented a definite
name. Lake Bonneville, occupied a
far larger valley among the outliers of
the Iiocky Mountains, measuring 300
miles in one direction by 180 miles in
the other. Beside this primitive Su¬
perior lay a greet second sheet—an
early Huron—(Lake Liliontan the
geologists call it) almost as big and
of equally fresh water. By and by—
the precise dates are necessarily indefi¬
nite—some change in the rainfall, un¬
registered by any contemporary, made
the waters of the big lakes shrink and
evaporate. Lake Lahontan shrank
away like Alice in, Wonderlaud, till
there was absolutely nothing left of it;
Lake Bonneville shrank till it attained
tl»© diminished size of the existing
Great Salt Lake. Terrace after ter¬
race, running in long parallel lines on
the sides of tiie W’ahsatch Mountains
around, mark the various levels at
which it rested for a while on its grad¬
ual downward course. It is still fall¬
ing indeed, anil the plain around is be¬
ing gradually uncovered, forming the
white, salt-encrusted shore with which
all visitors to the Mormon city are so
familiar. But why should the wa'er
have become briny ? Why should the
evaporation of an old Superior pro¬
duce at iast a Great Salt Lake? Well,
there is a small quantity of salt in
solution even in the freshest of lakes
and ponds, brought down to them by
the streams or rivers, and, as thu water
of the hypothetical Lake Bonneville
slowly evaporated, the salt and other
mineral constituents remained behind.
Thus the solution grew constantly
more and more concentrated till at the
present day it is extremely saline.
Prof. Geikie (to whose work the pres¬
ent paper is much indebted) found
that he floated on the water in spite of
himself; and the under sides of the
steps at the bathing places are all en-
encrusted with short stalactites of
salt, produced from the drip of the
bathers as they leave the water. The
mineral constituents, however, differ
considerably in their proportions from
those found in true salt lakes of marine
origin, and the point .at which salt is
thrown down is still far from having
been reached. Great Salt Lake must
simmer in tho sun for imfhy centuries
yet before the point arr'ves at which
(as cooks say) it begins to settle.-—
Cornhill. .
fche Paid Extra.
A widow, whose age might have
been forty, went into business on
Grand Itiver avenue a few weeks ago,
and the first move was to get a sign
painted. The services of a sign
painter were secured, and when he
finished his work he put on his “im-
print” by placing his initials ‘W. A.
H.” down on the left hand corner of
the sign. When the widow came to
criticise the work she queried :
“What does ‘W. A. II.’ stand for?”
“Why, ‘Wanted, A Husband,”’ re¬
plied the painter.
"Oh, yes—I see,” she mused. -“It
was very thoughtful in you, and hero
is a dollar extra .”—Detroit Free Press.
The Student’s Recommendation,
Professor to medical student: “We
will suppose another case. By the
blunder of a prescription clerk a man
taken twenty grains of cyanide of
potassium? What would you recom
mend?”
“I would recommend that the ob¬
sequies be conducted in strict accord¬
ance with his bank account and stand¬
ing in society, sir.”— Chicago Ledger.
VOL I. NO. 1
Ycaring for (lie End.
Breathe soft and low, O whispering w.ad,
Above the tangled grasses deep,
Where those who loveil me long ago
Forgot the world and fell nsieep.
No lowering shall, or sculptured utn,
Or mausoleum's empty pride,
>j- e {i„ t0 ,| M , C uifon* passer-by
Their virtues or the time tlioy died.
I count tbo old, familiar names,
O’ergrowii with moss and lichen gray,
Where tangled brier and creeping vino
Across the crumbling tablets stray.
'fiio summer sky is solUy blue;
The birds still sing the sweet, old strain;
But something from the summer time
Is gone, I lint will not come again.
So many voices have been hushed.
So many songs have ceased for tiyo,
So many bands I used to touch
Are folded over hearts of clay.
The noisy world recodes from mo:
I cetvse to hoar its praise or blr."
The mossy marbles echo back
No hollow sound of empty font
I only know that calm and still
They sleep beyond lifo's woe and wail,
Beyond the fleet of sailing c .ouds,
Beyond the shadow o( the vale.
I only feel ‘.hat, tiled and worn,
1 halt upon the highway bate,
And gaze with yearning eves boy
On fields that shine supremely
— i’h ilti'h I[ihin llccnrit.
10R0U8.
The proper dessert for an under¬
taker is ’wirry pie.
A man Isn’t necessarily related to b
hen because he lays bricks.
An astonishing sign at a tobacco¬
nist’s in Paris: “No Smoking.”
The school ma’am who married a
tanner had evidently a glimmering of
the fitness of th'ngs.
Notwithstanding the depression in
business circles, the business of the
thief seems to be picking up.
What is the worst thing about rich¬
es?” asked the Sunday school superin¬
tendent And the new boy said, “Not
having any.”
“The way to sleep,” says a scientist
“is to think of nothing.” But this is
a mistake. The way to sleep is tc
think it is time to get up.
A contest between two dentists as
to which of the two could take out
most teeth in a given time resulted, as
was expected, in a draw.
After all, it is the condition of trade
that regulates the fashions. Nearly
all kinds of garments are worn longer
in dull times than in prosperous
times.
A young man who was jilted f>y his
girl, and subsequently married her,
says she treated him like a bottle ol
patent medicine. He was “shaken”
before taken.
A writer has discovered that per¬
sons in captivity live a very short
time. This may be a rule, but we
know of some married men who have
attained a remarkable age.
Naturalists say that the feet of the
common working honey bee “exhibit
tiie combination of a basket, a brush
and a pair of pincers.” This may be
true, but wo never knew before that a
basket, a brush and a pair of pincers
were so warm to the touch.
Kelic-Huntcrs nt Washington.
Oh, those relic-hunters!
They seized on everything that they
could pull apart. At General Grant's
first inauguration, the President hat)
scarcely retired from the grand stand,
when a crowd of citizens clambered
up the sides from the ground below,
and, witbiu a minute, the chair which
the Chief Magistrate had occupied
was split into a score of fragments,--
one man capturing a leg of it, anothei
an arm, another a part of a rung, and
all marching away with them as tro¬
phies of the event 1 After tho funer
al ceremonies over Senator Sumner,
the relic-hunters sought to obtain
pieces of the mourning emblems
around his vacant chair. The crape
was cut into bits by a score of knives.
Indeed, the jack-knives even attacked
the mahogany of the desk Itself, and
a policeman had to be stationed at
the chair!
The relic-hunters go to Mount Ver¬
non to visit the tomb of Washington,
and break the mortar and rocks from
the walls of the old vault, cut twig; ;
from the shubbery and trees, and car¬
ry away any little thing that wil!
serve as a memento of the place t—
Nicholas.
What <he Matter Was.
“So Clara Felton is married ?” said
one Clifton belle to another.
“Yes, married last week in New
York.”
“Who was tho man ?”
“Mr. Clarence McSpouter.”
“What, that fellow we met at B:u
Harbor ?”
“The same one.”
“Gracious me, bow did she come t<
mar-y that green thing ?”
“Oh,” w;ts the reply, in a commiser
ating tone, “poor Clara was always a
little color blind, you know.—Aft)--
c hunt Traveller.