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JOURNAL AND MESSENGER
THE FAMILY JOURNAL—NEWS—POLITICS- LITERATURE—AGRICULTURE—DOMESTIC NEWS, Etc.-FRICE $2.00 PER ANNUM.
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, FRIDAY* MAY 26, 1882.
VOLUME LVI -XO 19
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SOME DAY.
Some day. my dear, you’ll remember,
You viii understand all aome day.
Some day, my dear, you’ll wonder
How you could ever go away;
You may be among the mountain*,
Or down by the *ea on the aand,
But aome day you'll rarely remember.
And remembering—understand.
You may think that you have forgotten
My love and my life and me;
The memory of that wintry day
May not come back to thee;
That day when we loved and we parted.
And yon left me for farolflanda.
But someday you'll rarely remember,
And remembering—understand.
You will think of that bitter quarrel.
And the cruel words that you said.
You will wonder If 1 have forgotten
And forgiven them now 1 am dead;
You will look in vain for a something—
You will miss the clasp of a hand—
Oh. then you'll rarely remember.
And then you’ll understand.
•—Hartford Post.
CURIOSITIES AT LEISURE.
Giants Friendly sslUa Dwarfs, Fat
Fsnsss Sociable with
aad Extremely Good
ward Everybody—Tbe
ed Woman's Accompli
Sew York Ssa.
“He’s passionately fond of blm,” the
manager said, referring to the giant, who
was gazing at the dwarf. "He follows
him all over In bis travels. At first tbe
dwarf was very coy; but tbe last proof
of tbe giant's affection softened bis heart.
’the giant followed bim from Liverpool,
and after Uiat tbe dwarf gave bim his
friendship unreservedly. Since then
they are together nearly all tbe time.
Curiosities are not usually so devoted. I
only know two other cases of genuine de
votion between curiosities. Capt. and
Mrs. Bates, tbe giants, are hap
pily married, and Hannab Battersby,
the fat woman weighing 720 pounds,
who married a living skeleton, is passi%-
ately fond of her husband audbeofher.
Tbe giants as a class are affectionate.
They are like big mastiffs, fond of being
petted and kind to all who are kind to
them, but at the same time time ready to
reseat an insult. Of course there is some
rivalry. Size is a very delicate point with
giants, and it hurts tbe sensitiveness of a
giant to see some one bigger than himself.
Then, again, some giants are active and
quick-tempered. There was Monsieur
Blen, tbe French giant, who died a few
years ago in Brooklyn. Ho was quick,
gallant and passionate. He once got into
a row with Goshen, and they bad a round
or two, in which the Frenchman got a
little the worst of It.”
"Do giants usually have the character
istics of their countrymen 2”
“As a rule they have. Of course they
have seen many countries, learned many
languages, and are consequently more or
less cosmopolitan. SU11 they retain some
national traits. Chans, the Chinese gi
ant, for instance, like all Hs countrymen,
is cautious, cute, and thrifty in bis living.
He is a great reader, especially of books
In his native language. His library forms
a considerable part of bis luggage. Then
be is continually receiving newspapers
from China which be peruses with great
interest. He is also a close observer of
men and things. During off hours, when
be is not reading, be takes a carriage and
has himself 4flven all over town. When
be gets a chance of an evening he goes to
the theatre. He made an engagement
with Judge Hilton once, and spent an af
ternoon in being shown all over Stewart’s.
Curiosities are stared at so much daring
exhibition hours that, as a rule, they do
net like to go in public during the hours
they have to themselves.”
“What do Captain and Mrs. Bates do
when they are not cm show?”
M Tbeir pursuits do not differ much
from that of ordinary persons. Captain
Bates was born and brought up on a farm
in Kentucky. Being intelligent, b% lias
acquired considerable education, and has
the frank, pleasant address of a Southern
gentleman. His wife, who was a Miss
Swan, was bom and brought up on a
Harm in Nova Scotia. They met in a show
in England. Both were homesick, and*
being tiom the same continent, were nat
urally attracted toward one another.
Sizes and dispositions being about equal,
they concluded to get married, and have
never regretted their conclusion. Both
are very domestic in their tastes. They
are wealthy, and spend the greater part of
their retirement on their farm in Ohio.
During tbe day be potters around out of
doors, and in tbe evening be sits in his
luge rocking chair and tells stories on an
“Is story telling on an extended scale a
characteristic of giants?”
“Well, I should say so. Bates once
kept me here from 11 o’clock at night to
1 o’clock next morning telling me a story
tha* a man of ordinary size would have
told in ten minutes. But did you ever
bear Goehen tell stories -tbe story of bis
life, for instance? This is the way he
starts off: *1 was bora in Old Jerusalem.
I come from a family of giants, and am
one of fifteen giants. 1 am the largest
m»n in the world, exoept my mother, and
sbA only half an inch larger. I am
larger than all other giants, Norwegian
giants, Southwegian giants, and all the
net. I’ve writ abook. I writ In it all I
know, and wbat I don’t know I didn’t
write.’ At this point somo ona in tbe au
dience called out to him. *Tbe book you
didn’t write must have been a big one.’
He laughed like tbe rest of os. Eie’e the
bost-natnied man 1 ever met. His prin
ciple amusement is to bottonbole*people,
and tell them about his inventions. He
once told Mr. Bunnell that be had
Invented tbe phonograph, and that
Edison must have stolen it
from him. He claimed to have rigged one
up, and to bave bad it m full operation in
tbe barn on his farm in New Jersey, and
his theory is that Edison peeped through
a crack and stole the Wtoa. Bbortlyafter-
ward be informed me that he bad of late
cause he was afraid of
by day, when they saw him £soending
toward them from mid air. TbemacMne
was only adapted to a person of his sixe
and power, but he hoped soon to finish
his calculations for making flying ma
chines ona smaller scale for otdinaiy
persons. He is also fond of telling about
bis adventures in tbs Crimean war,
where be claims to have won hm titleof
Colonel. I believe he hasfoven tetchy
time—and instructs puplw on his farm-”
“How does be spend most or his time?”
“He likes to si ton a chair and whittle
away at a slick. Heis quite skillful at
man, being especially attentive to small
ladies. He^ias been married several times,
but one byonsof Us wives ran away from
Urn. Heis also a very accomplished
linguist, for there are fewliviiig languages
in which he cannot convene. I may add
that be sleeps on an extended scale.”
“Are fat boys and tat women at all like
dlDti In tdtwinftrtniftniy 1
good-natured,
amusement Is to go to sleep. I have
know many of them to fall fast asleep in
their chain wUle
“Tea. And a very interesting couple
they were. There was, you see, tne
charm of contrast and variety in this
couple. She used to carry him up and
down stain and prove her devotion in oth
er ways. A very nice little girl was born
to them, and they live together very bap-
ily.”
“Is the inference in temperament be
tween fat curioeltiee and living skeletons
as neat as their physical contrast ?”
“Yes, quite; for while fat boys and fat
girls are extremely good-natured, and so.
dable and generous to a fault, tbe skele
tons are an aggrieved, melancholy, peev
ish, and saving lot. They avoid making
acquaintances in order to be able to
hoard their earnings and get out of the
business as soon as possible. A living
skeleton is extremely difficult to get
along with, because he always considers
himself tbe most attractive curioeltyin
the show and is constantly making de
mands accordingly. Most of them have
come from from Massachusetts, where
they were rural school teachers or shop
keepers. They are usually well educated
ana ready with their tongue, especially
when It comes to talking politics. In
deed, to talk politics Is their especial
hobby and amusement, and with these
discussions and reading they spend their
time. Despite their thinness, they eat
about as much as ordinary folks.”
“Tbe Circassian women resemble ordi
nary persons more than other cariosities.
How do they amuse themselves?'’
“Well,” the manager said, after a little
hesitation. “I’ll tell you something.
Thera are no Circassian women in this
country. Those called Circassians are
simply pretty and shapely women who
hare married side show managers or
members of tbe troupe. They soak their
balr in sour beer and then pose as Circas
sians. Of coarse, a good deal of their
time during off hours is spent in arrang
ing their hair; the rest of tbe time they
spend like ordinary persona.” '
“And the doable-beaded woman?”
“She la tbe most charming of them all.
She has had a liberal education and hae
traveled extansiveb. Having kept four
eyes open during her travels, and looked
about with intelligent appreciation, she
cau converse in a very lively and engaging
manner. She was bora a slave on a plan
tation in North Carolina. But the owner
ef the plantation took a fancy to her and
bad her educated with his son. Somo
tiis-e ago she was enabled to buy tbe plaee,
and now, when she is not on exhibition,
she lives on the plantation, where she
cares for her father and other members of
her family. She has many friends, sod as
she speaks French, Spanish and German,
ahe ei\Joys the society of foreigners at well
as that of her own countrymen. She re
ceives thirty or forty letters a day.”
“Do cariosities generally earn much
money?”
“Some have very large salaries. The
two-headed woman gets $600 a week;
Capt. and Mrs. Bates, $500. Single gi
ants, if well known, get all the way from
$100 to $209. On tbe other baud, a new
giant will get only $25. Fat boys, unless
very famous, rarely command more than
$50, while the salaries of dwarfs run, ac
cording to their intelligence, up to $200.
SLA VES TO QUEER WHIRS.
Sense of tbe Odd Notions that Govern
the Urea of Those Who Live by
Gambling
It happened tbe other day that a re
porter of tbe Stdi found himself in a com
pany where the superstitions of gamblers
was tbe topic of conversation.
“Tell me there is no such thing as luck!
You might as well try to convince me
there are no poor people in the world,”
said a veteran of the turf, continuing, “I
used to have an old penny that I found
on tbe track. I would put my miud on
any bone that I thought pretty well of,
and then throw my penny in the air. If
tbe bead turned up 1 backed that bone
for a winner, and 1 always won. I made
s pile of money. One day I lost tbe cop
per, and after that I lost nine bets in suc
cession.”
“Wbat is your opinion ?” was asked of
a long time faro dealer.
"Ob, of course I believe in luck,” was
the answer, “and I could tell you some
cartons stories. Some yean ago, when I
was dealing bank on Broadway, a black
cat found its way into the place, and
from that time on we had luck without
We believed it was the black cat
that did it, and we took tbe best of care
of her. The cat was with us six months,
and night after night the bank was ahead,
and made big winnings. There were
three of us, and we .made $59,000 apiece
in that time. One day tbe cat was miss
ing. We always believed some of the
boys put it out of the way, because they
bad got onto our notions shout the ani
mal, and three months afterward we were
completely cleaned out.”
Gamblers have acquired something of a
reputation as free givers to charitable ob
jects. In part the performances on which
this reputation is hosed, are no doubt due
to tbe well-established tsw what is easily
won is freely spent. But there is another
cause for the phenomenon. Charity with
tbe gambler is in tbe nature of a propitia
tory sacrifice to tbe goddess of luck. He
is especially generous to the blind because
luck is said to be blind.
“I knew a gambler,” remarked a mem
ber of the party, “who used to gives
quarter every morning to a blind woman
who ground a hand organ on the corner
of Slxlji avenue and •Fourteenth street.
Once or twice be forgot hlmartf, and I
have known bim to xo back a mile to
make his offering. If it .rained, and (he
old woman was not there, he would not
gamble. He kept that up ever so long,
and he waa one of the luckiest players I
ever knew.”
“I am not a professional gambler,” re
marked still another of tbe party, “but I
do love a quiet game of poker now and
then. I am not superstitious, and have
often had my Joke at tbe expense of some
of tbe boys for their fancies; bat when a
man telle me that there la no such thing
aa lack, I pat him down as wrong. Luck
runs in streaks and when a fellow has it
1m can make tbe most foolish beta and
win. 1 have had Just such streaks, made
the most ridiculous bets, and yet won
right along. 'Again, I have been very
careful and calculating, and lost without
intermission. When you are in luck teh
thing to do is to force it. That’s my ad
vice?*
Seme gamblers will not play unless they
eats do so In a particular seat at tbe table.
They must face either east or west, north
or south. Others will not play while a
certain parson is present, having deter
mined In hi* own mind that tbe individ
ual has an evil eye—or, in the language of
tbe profession, is a .“hoodoo.” Gamblers
employ only colored men as attendants
in their gaming houses, because, as they
■ay "there’s luck in a change of color.”
They are careful to note tbe first number
they see on a cart or other object in the
street each morning; and whether it be
odd or even makes a great difference in
their feelings daring tbe day. There to no
school guTa superstition that does not
find a resting place in the mind of the
average gambler. It Is with blm, as
with them, unlucky to spill salt, ominous
to be in a bouse when a minor la broken,
unfortunate to see a pin pointing toward
you is. your path, fruitful of evil
to see the new moon over your left
shoulder, bad to meet a cripple tost after
~e bouse; for worse to see a
person first, dangerous to pass
carriages in a funeral proces-
to count tbe
tame carriages. Nqwly gained posses
aiona are closely watched by gamblers. If
a gambler wins his first risk after porchss-
S ; a ring nothing can induce him to part
tbit. If be loses, he will give tbe ring
away sooner than keep it. Each suit of
clotbea he puts on is subject to the same
test. Even the days of the week and tbe
houses where be plays are considered
lucky or unlucky, according as he ob
serves an apparent tendency to win or
lose on certain days or in certain places.
Every act of a veteran gambler’s life la
thus regulated to meet the exactions of a
celf-impoeed fatalism.
When be walks it most be on a certain
side of the street, and with some, when
the sidewalk is flagged, they must never
take more than one step to each flag.
This produces an exceedingly uneven
S t, with now and then a tremendous
up by way of variety. Many are sub
ject to tbe plague which beset Samuel
Johnaoo, of touching with a cane each
enccesalve paling as they along a fence,
and under no circumstances permitting
themselves to miss one. Of coarse none
could be got to make one of a party of
thirteen at a table. At most gambling
houses free dinners are served, and the
plates laid are always either overor under
this tabooed number. If it happen
that ‘only twelve are seated and
the thirteenth comes along, be
will wait for the fourteenth. Should
It happen that the thirteenth man is an
outsider, professionally speaking, and not
being under the spell of the snperstitlen,
Is disposed to take a seat, he will either
be reminded of tbe terrible calamity to
which he exposes tbs whole party, or
some member already seated will, with
out more ado, absent himself until some
supposed kicky number is again made
possible by the addition of his presence.
Of course, every gambler has bis favor
ite card on which he takes risks. Some
make ventures with particular sums of
money, sometimes represented by curious
fractions. Others make only a prear
ranged number of ventures. But let the
gambler be outwardly ever so cool find
indifferent, Inwardly he is the slave, not
only of a general dominant passion, but
of an endless variety of childish and in
consequent superstitions.
SUPREME COURT SHOCKED.
A Kansas Lawyer Appears Itcfore tbe
Anicust Tribunal Without Collar or
Xeefctte.
From ike Chicago Timet.
The Supreme Court of the United
States is the embodiment of dignity and
ponderous solemnity. The justices are
hedged about by bristling points of eti
quette thst protect them from ordinary
people. Yesterday tbe court observed
with uneasiness the presence of a tall,
angular Individual, who sl.uthed Into the
court room without collar or nock tie.
Tbe abeonce ot these usual adornments
was made more conspicuous through tbe
fact of bis neck being very loug and nar
row.
Later In the day he was presented to
the Supreme Court by Senator Plumb,
and was duly admitted to practice as Mr.
Lynn, of Allen county, Kansas. The
newly admitted Kansas lawyer appeared
at his presentation still without collar or
tie. It was announced that be would
make an argument before tbe court tbe
next day in tbe case of the Phoenix Mu
tual Life Insurance Company vs. Caro
line A. Dester et al. A perplexing ques
tion at once arose in the minds of tbe
court. Poesibly Lynn of Allen county,
Kansas, might outrage tbe court by leav
ing ofTbis collar and tie when he came to
make his argument. It that was already
reasonably certain, might he not take off
bis coat in the beat of his argument, and
grow excited and yell bis brief into tbe
sensitive ears of tbe now deeply agitated
court. Justice, Gray who bad sternly re
fused a lawyer witbont a collar permis
sion to make an argument in the Massa
chusetts court, where he formerly pre
sided, was naturally consulted in the try
ing emergency. It was finally agreed that
the chief Justice should check Lynn ot
Allen county, Kansas, in his mad career,
if he should persist in his outrage upon
decorum. *
Just before tbe case was called Lynn
entered the court room accompanied by
his partner. Mis partner, a dark, sallow
faced man, wore a collar about which a
black tape was Ued. After a hurried
consultation it was resolved to first con
sult tbe partner who wore tbe one collar
belonglug to the firm before proceeding
to extreme measures. The partner was.
mysteriously summoned to the olerk’s of
fice, where tbe matter was submitted to
bim by a subordinate of the court: “Why
does your partner refrain from wearing a
collar or tie ? Has he taken any vow that
compels bim to assume such a peculiar
attitude towards society?” It was ex
plained to the partner that tbe Supreme
Court was exceedingly doubtful of the
propriety of permitting Lynn, of Allen
county, to appear in the case until he had
at least corrected the details of his garb.
The partner explained that Lynn bad a
throat trouble, and could not wear a col
lar. “Oh, that is it.” An explanation
was made to the Chief Justice, and be
smiled, glad to be rid of tbe disagreeable
task of reprimanding tbe offender, and so
Lynn was allowed to appear.
Tbe appearance of Lynn before the bar
of tbe court made a sensation. His gen
eral appearance of roughness, his angu
larity of manner and reckless esse made
everyone expect some absurd contre
temps. He was an object well worth a
sketch as he began his argument. His
high, white forehead was surmounted by
a high peak of dark hair that curled back
ward. His sharp nose, heavy lips, and
pointed brown goatee stood in bold relief
upon a countenance tanned by years of
exposure to prairie winds and sun. His
shirt was open at tbe throat, showing a
red flannel undershirt. At the wrists
tbe red flannel appeared again in the
place of cuffs. Tbe argument was clear,
shrewd and able, bat the manner of lte
delivery was aa uncouth and peculiar as
the makeup of tbe speaker. He stood
with his hands in his’pockeU at times,and
then would bound at the Justices, snap
ping his bony fingers in their faces as If
they were so many Jurymen. But tbe ar
gument came to an end without accident,
greatly to the relief of the justices, who
bad been upon the rack of suspense for
nearly twenty-tonr boon. Lynn is the
first man who ever made an argument in
the court without a collar.
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UNDER QUEENS BURY RULE*.
How » Oswta; and a Sport HUM a
Salt Lai* Trihtne. •
Night before last an Arizona cowboy
and a sport got into a dispute at a gam
bling tabic, and in tbe altercation which
followed, the gambler pulled out a six-
shooter and placed It against the other’s
breast. The cowboy, looking at the re
volver, laughed and remarked: “I haven’t
any weapons.” “Then go and heel your
self,” was the reply, “and come back aud
have a deal.”
The cowboy-went away and solicited
several people for the loan of a six-shooter,
but he being a stranger, no one would ac
commodate him. He returned, however,
and stated to tbe gambler that Tie lad
"boned a dosen men for a whistler,” but
could not get one. He expressed a will
ingness. however, to settle tbe row acco; J-
ing to tne usages and customs of the P.-H.
and mentioned the Queeusbory rales as
tbe schedule J>y which he would like to
run his train. The gambler aaid he was
ready to settle the row in any way that
was satisfactory, and If anybody had a
copy of the Queensbury rales, he would
like to look them over. A man was at
once dispatched to a book-store, and a
copy of tbe rules was secured.
The gambler then sat down on a s*ool
and gave tbe rules a critical Inspection.
He finally remarked that tbe absence of
kicking, gouging, and frce-blttiog accord
ed with his ideas of a squat* fight. He
was ready to make tbe game right there.
“I tell yon, boys, the man who drew up
tboes rales bad a heap of good horse sense.
He wanted to see tbe best mau win.”
At this point the cowboy wanted to be
allowed to take a look at the rules him
self, with a view to refresh his memory
on a few points. This being allowed,
everything was settled, and tbs two ad
journed to the rear of a saloon, where an
extensive back yard, surrounded by a
high board fence, gave tbe contestants
every opportunity to have a square fight,
aud was sufficient protection to the police.
An impromptu ring was pitched by stretch
ing a clothes-line across the comer of the
yard, thus giving tbe men a triangle to
fight in. By mutual consent seconds were
dispensed with, and extra bottle-holders
appointed to restore the equilibrium of the
occasion.
When the two toed the scratch tbe cow
boy sent a heavy right-hander, but Idled
to land his pocket, and got a counter in
tbe jaw that sent him to grass. In tbe
next round the cowboy was badly punish
ed about the face, but closing on the
gambler, threw him heavily, falling on
him with considerable vim, and knocking
the wind out of him, the select audience
cheering loudly. In the third round the
sport did some clever work of a decorative
character on tbe other’s face, but tbe cow
boy dosed again, and by hit superior
strength, downed the other in his corner
as before. In the wind-up, the gambler
reached the other 1 * nose with a well-plant
ed left-hander; and was again thrown
and badly punished about the bead. The
repeated falls used him up, and his'bel
lows were in such a bad condition that he
elevated the spongo and asked for a recess.
The cowboy, although tb? winner of
the fight, was much the worse punished
ot the two. It was fairly fought, quite
satisfactory to all hands, aud there is no
danger ot a resort to six shooters.
INDIAN ANTIQUITIES.
Valuable Adeline
Secured lor tbe
The Omaha Bee.
About 11 o’clock yestorday tbo men al
work on “Stephenson’s dump” ran iLto
an Indian bone-yard and exhumed all
that is mortal of a squaw who once roam
ed up and down the valley of the Missouri
and over the prairie to the West. The
relics were carefully gathered, and orna
ment the broad window of Jim’a private
office in the stable. They]*re numerous,
and literally embrace “sucks and stones
and a dead squaw’s bones.” The anatom
ical collection, however, is incomplete.
For instance, if the Un-colored Daugh’.er-
of-the-Mule, or whatever her soubriquet
was, was here and saw and lelt her bones
taken up and shaken np, she couldn’t
gnash her teeth if she was raging, for
there is only one Jaw to gnash. Or, if she
wanted to snatch tbo offender bald-head
ed, she’d have to go it one-handed, for
there are only bonee enough to construct
one arm. There is aome jewelry, but
Max Meyer^or Hubermgnn, or Edbolm,
or somebody else, needs to polish it up
before it can be presentable. An Inven
tory of Jim’s collection would be about
like this:
One skull.
Bones.
Beads.
Buckskin thong (“petrified,” Stephenson
says, bat hu cheek mast be petrified to
think anybody will believe it.)
More bonee.
The jaw aforesaid, with all the teeth
that the buck hadn’t knocked oat when
be came home to dinner, and found the
squaw bad ccoked the same old entrails.
More bones.
The top of her powder flask. (Stephen
son is authority for this.)
An ear-ring, with lobe of tbe ear re
sembling tanned bog skin.
A few more bones. /
A ladle wherewith she used to serve
dog bouillon.
Still more bones.
A bracelet.
Small piece of bone.
A baby. This article Is made of wood,
ughly carved. Next week Stephenson
will claim it is alpetrified pappoose.
Miscellaneous bones.
Miscsilaneous Jewelry.
Dirt.
Etc., etc. etc. *■
This completes the show. Mr.Stepben-
aon says the dump contains more graves,
which be will open and endeavor to sup
ply the curiosity demand as fast as the
graders get to them.
SHOOTING BY WHOLESALE.
ployed by a Cali
fornia Planter to Herd Wild Geose.
San Franeieoo Call.
Various methods have been devised of
exterminating wild geese without avail,
until geese-herdlng has become a profes
sion as distinct aa herding or trapping. In
tbe early winter the geese appear in tbe
grain counties lu myriads, traveling
about in vast flocks.- Their hunger is in
satiable and the new wheat is rapidly de
stroyed. Dr. H. J. Glenn, whose ranch
in Colusa county covers most of the ara
ble land in that county, numbering some
75,000 seres, or nearly twelve square
miles, expends about $10/XX) a year in
herding bis geees. He recently purchas
ed In this city for the present season be
tween $2,000 and $3,000 worth of car
tridges, about 250,000 in number, of 44-
calibre. He hu constantly In his employ
while the wheat is growing, shoot forty
men, all of them mounted and nearly all
armed with Henry rifles and field glasses,
who patrol his property during the day
and on all moonlight nights.
These men are regularly organized into
.a patrol gnard. They dlseover with their
glasses tne flocks of geese, which at a dis
tance oi from 300 to 400 yard* look like a
blanket spread over tbe green wheat, and
they thereupon plant a ballet right In tbe
middle of the flock. This unexpected
visitation tots the flock on tbe wing, and
the geese herder follows them up, kaspa Instance consisting oi leaving tbo
rise tor a great height, and, disgusted,
leave the vicinity. Few geese are Killed,
tbe object being to keep them on tbe wing
and consequently off the wheat fields.
Those that are killed are carried off and
shorn of their feathers, but the revenue
from them amounts to little. On Dr.
Glenn’s nnche about 8,000 cartridges are
used In a day, which represents about
20,000 geese daily put to flight.
Oftentimes a thick log blows In, and
{his appears to be tbe favorite time for
the geese, and they devour the wheat with
great energy. The herders then, fearful
of shooting each other, are almoet baffled,
but when the fog rises the flocks are put
to flight and for hours thereafter tbe sir
is filled with feathers and geese, aud
Glenu’a ranch resounds with the clatter
of rifles and the frightened cries of the
persecuted fowls. To pay hit men, bny
ammunition and maintain horses, costs
Dr Glenn sometlOyOOO per annum, but
it saves his wheat, which yields $100,00
u witbont the geese herders half wool
be destroyed. The herder* become very
expert In their business and are generally
good shots and capital horsemen.
THE ARIZONA COWBOY.
Lacy and Desperate and Always Will-
Ids to Bboot.
pA in
Santa Fe, May 2.—Tbe outlaws of
Arizona, who have been tbe subject of a
proclamation by President Arthur, are
known as rustlers. They are the same
breed, however, as the cowboys of Colo
rado and Texas. Being farther away
from civilization and in a country singu
larly well adapted to business such as
theirs, they have become habitually vi
cious. Wherever tbe cowboy may be
put and under whatever cumstances he
may he met, he will be found to be tbe
earns animal, lazy, fonlmoutbed, desper
ate, Intemperate, full of swagger and
bravado, and careless as well of ms own
life and property as those of others.
He wears a buckskin .suit, with a
bat having a rim wide enough to
cover his ears and neck aad tuck In at the
collar-band. In his leather belt hang two
large and fine revolvers, generally self-
cockers, and in one boot leg, held in place
by two slits in the leather, rests a knife ef
murderous pattern. Tbe cowboys range
in age from 18 to 30. The life which
they lead is not conducive to longevity,
and It Is therefore very rare that a genu
ine cowboy more than thirty years of age
is found. If ona succeeds In dodging the
ballets of depaty sheriffs and tbe gibbet
of Judge Lynch until that period is pass
ed he generally abandons that trade and
taxes to train and stage robbing aa a pro-
fesalon.
The cowboys, who make their appear-
ancu occcasionally at frontier towns in
Nebraska, Kansas aud Colorado, devotjt
the greater part of their time to the cattle
which they are employed to herd, and in
the shipping season drive them to tbe
nearest desirable railroad station. On
tbe great randies they find no opportuni
ty to indulge their lawless propensities.
They literally live among their cattle,
faring but little better than the brutes
which they are hired to guard. The Utr
tie cooking which Is necessary they do
themselves. They are their own tailors
and doctors, sod once or twice a year,
when near a fine stream, if tbe weather
is not too cqol, their solitary shirt is wash
ed after a fashion. When the round-ape
occur and the great cattle drive is begun,
the cowboy’s life begins to
take on a different aspect. The
drive is often long and always
dangerous and laborious. The boys are
splendidly mounted, their bones and sad
dles being, with the exception of their re
volvers, the possessions in which they
take the meet'--pride. They rid* among
the cattle at Imminent risk of being tram
pled to death and at night sleep on the
ground. When the herd has been deliv
ered and tbe boys have partaken freely ot
frontier whisky, tbe trouble begins. If
there is a dance noose near at hand they
head for it and signalize their presence by
attempting to “shoot out” tbe candles or
lamps astbe case maybe. As a rule,
they are not disturbed in pastimes such as
this. If they once conclude before morn
ing to “take the town,” then war Is de
clared and somebody will be killed.
The Arizona rustlers are simply north
ern cowboys on an unending spree. They
are wild men. No Apache that ever lived
had less regard for life than they. They
pretend to pay some attention to cattle,
but aa that Industry in Arizona to not yet
a large one, there to not much in that line
for them to do. Their occupation to pil
lage and murder. They travel in email
parties and rob everybody they meet.
The other dav a cowboy entered a little
settlement ana purchased a can of corned
beef. Taking the meat and keg out into
the road, he sat down on the keg and
opened the can. When everything was
ready be called to a man, a stranger
standing in front of the store, to come and
help him eat it. The man was not
hungry. “You’ve got to eat,” cams the
command, accompanied by a movement
of the hand, which rested on a revolver.
The stranger advanced slowly and par
took of tbe meat, evidently in an unhap
py frame of mind but hto boat seemed to
enjoy tbs repast and the society of hto
newly-made acquaintance not a little.
A cowboy entered a hotel dining room,
eat down opposite to a young man whom
be addressed as a tenderfoot, and began
to throw tire dishes and their contents on
tbe floor. The yeung man endeavored to
remonstrate with him, but before he
could finish his first sentence he was
pierced by a ballet from the desperado’s
revolver. Events like the above are of
dally occurrence in Arizona.
Tbe Widow's Second Toor.
London Life.
Dressed in the deepest and blackest of
crape, In the richest of silks and the most
coquettish ot widows’cape, tbe bereaved
one finds that her lost husband has made
bat little difference In the routine of her
daily life. Probably the principal change
she feels from bis loss to one in her in
come, and men have era now been known
designedly to curtail the finances in inch
Instances in order to ensure that they
should at least be missed in aome degree.
But if tbe fashionable widow to easy in
purse, she to rarely sad at heart. She
knows that she to, for the time at toast, a
prominent point and an object of atten
tion in her own circle. She to aware that
her cap become* her, and that she looks
younger in her weeds than ahe had looked
for several years before. She to not long
before she looks round her for some diver
sion from tbe strict retirement that her
world is supposed to enforce upon wid
ows. It to in reality, far from strict.
She can go abroad with a few chosen
spirits, and who that sees her laugh and
chatter, flirt and amuse herself, os sho
does, could imagine that she to a widow
of bat a few weeks’ standing ?
Even if she remain in England, she to
at no loes to find ways and means of en
tertainment. Her eavalieri serventi have
by no means all disappeared, though
some few have taken fright who are very
nervous as to matrimony. They are
afraid she might marry them. Her suite
to thus reduced, but those left are all the
choicer spirits, and there to invariably a
friend who, being unmarried, baa her own
set of .‘Amiran, and between them the
two ladies can usually muster a very
pleasant party. There arts visits to the
play, paid incog., the incognito to^ this
a music hall or two much frequented In a
quiet way by the fashionable Loudon la
dies. Our widow makes her party and
goes to these, accompanied by her frisky
friend. “Poor Harry would never hear
of my going,” sbe says, “and this ^11 be
an excellent opportunity.”
There are trips to Brighton and pleas
ant little evenings there, unsuspected by
tbe world. Places farther afield than
Brighton are visited, and a little quiet
gambling helps to maka the months fly
around. The year of deepest weeds and
strict seclusion to soon over, and few who
have seen tbe quiet face in public under
that most proper, if moat coquettish of
caps, could have guessed how merrily for
the most part tbe days that have gone.
Tbe second year to thatlnwh'ch the
widow to really happy. The sombsr
depths or her mourning cast aside, sbe
eaten the world again and reopens her
Jewel case. Even with* very becoming
«Msrtia$«a,lllkliMi*srMitMisl
to a woman if she cannot wear her Jewels.
Now, however, tbe diamonds, pearls and
opals may reappear, and with wbat re
newed delight are they not worn! Vis
ions or dresses in delicate half-tints, pearl
grays, soft lavenders, mixtures of white
and gray or black and white, float before
her mind soon to be realized. Her year’s
absence from balls and parties and
Crowded rooms has renewed her beauty,
and tbe same retirement has brightened
her eyes and tinged her cheeks with tbe
freshness of eqjoymsnt with which She
prepares to re-enter the world. Now, in
deed, to tbe fashionable widow a danger
ous and seductive creature. She knows
that she to prettier than ever, and the con
sciousness, »n»fcl n g her more certain of
coeting victories, gives agontls softness
to her manner. Beware of endows in
their second year. Always dangerous,
they are then more so than ever.
There are, of course, widows, indeed,
whose grief does not wholly consist in
yards of crape, ret Jewelry, and a white
crimped cap. These are apart from those
of worm 1 has* bsao writing, and with
them tbe fashionable widow hu nothing
to do. While they brood over their lone
liness, she revels in her freedom. They
look on Into tbe coming yean with a
blank sense of dreary loss, while tbe
looks forward to tbe tutors with a* much
happy anticipation as she ever could have
done to her marriage. Ligbt-heftrted as
a girl, the feels younger every day, and
from her own point of vjew there to no
more enviable being to be found in this
world than a young, badsome, rich and
lively widow, wboee heart is not Incon
veniently soft nor her feelings too acute
to prevent her going through life “well
pleased and careless,” and extracting from
# as mneh of the plsssure and aa llttla of
the pain as may fall to the share of any
mortal creature.
SHOT BY HIS COMRADES.
p' anting bullet* among them until they cap and heavy crape at
.Oj ±, <-.3 v.. gate— „
Folk’s Anar to Fall.
riimi.
Ex-Gov. J&es D. Porter, of Tenn
see, who was on the staff of Gen. B.
Cheatham in tbe army of Gap. Leonii
Polk, has given a Nashville correspond*
of the Weekly Times an account of l
first skirmish that occurred In the fight!
B'shop’s command, just after be took p
session of Belmont and Columbus, K
in 1861.
On tbe morning of the 0th of October
that year, Lieutenant-Colonel Logwo
with eighty men of the Seventh Ti
nessee Confederate Cavalry, composed
what had been known as the Mempl
Light Dragoons, under the immedu
command of Capt. Taylsr and Lie
Armstrong, left Columbus on a i
connoitering expedition to Paducah. T
distance tone marched was about fori
five miles. The capture of the pick
around Paducah had been determined t
on, and to accomplish tbe object a roar
about course had to be taken so as tcsooi
upon the pickets in tbe rear. The n!{
was dark and gloomy, and the Inter
solemnity of the ferest censed strange ai
weird fancies to linger in the breasts
tbe men, all unused to such expeditioi
Au occasional star showed between t
rifts in the clouds, but only seemed t
more lonely from the absence of the on
panions of the firmament. Silently a
stealthily the troop* moved to their pol
of destination.
J. O. Fleming, afterward secretary
.Ate Treasurer Marsh T. Polk, of Ta
nessee, was with the command, nnkl
as third sergeant with Capt. Taylor a
first sergeant at the head of the squad
attack tbe pickets.. Tbe solemn]
weighed upon nlm, and as be left hto eoi
msnd he remarked, dubiously, to one
bis men; *
rill undoubtedly be shot Uwilght. I
feel a dreadful misgiving. I will he
wounded—and by our own men. Some
of thAn are raw recruits, and at tbe first
fire they will have no better sense than to
advance and shoot at random, regardless
of friend or foe.”
Fleming, with ten or fifteen men, came
pou tbe pickets, who, weary with long
gito, they found fast asleep. Tbe noise
the advance suddenly awakened the
slumbering pickets, who sprang hastily to
arms and rang oat tbe wild night cry:
“Who comes there f” The cracking of
Innumerable shots was the answer. The
smell ot gunpowder and tbe sound of the
guns caused the utmost excitement. A
rear guard of the Confederates bad been
left behind, and when they were convinced
that active work had actaaliy begun they
let forth their volley, and as Fleming had
predicted, be was the first man to fall.
Jos’, previous to that critical moment
Fleming was In a hand-to-hand fight with
one of the now thoroughly affrighted
pickets. The latter’s revolver was against
Fleming’s breast, while Fleming’s pistol
rested on tbe picket’s chest. The shot
from the Confederate gun entering Flem
ing’s hip caused him to leap wildly into
tbe air and fall heavily to tbe ground,
firing hto pistol at the picket as h* went
down. Hto llmba were paralysed, and
Fleming was unable to rise from hto
helpless condition.
The pickets, not knowing the strength
of the enemy, took flight, and as they ran
Lieatenant-Colonol Logwood’s command
Immediately rushed to the front. Bnllets
pierced the air as thick as hall. A Con
federate named Gallagher, hoping to se
cure abetter hone than hto own, mount
ed the wild hone of a Federal soldier.
That moment sealed his fata; several of
hto companions in arms taking him-for
one of the enemy trying to escape riddled
him with ballets. He foil from tbe horse
almost as quickly as he had mounted him
—a corpse. All tbe Confederates by this
time had moved to the point of conflict.
Fleming, though badly wounded, manag
ed to raise himself upon hto elbow in or-
dertotaks In review his perilous situation.
Just then a revolver was placed in his
breast, and a voiee exclaimed:
“Now, I’ll fix you for good.” Another
moment and it would be hto last, bat
summoning all the presence of mind at
bis command, Fleming threw np hto arm
and exclaimed!
“Good God, Wiley Jones 1”
Hto would-beslayer recoiled as he recog
nized the voice, and ejaculated a hearty
thanksgiving thst be had been withheld
from killing one of bis best friends.
Fleming was subsequently elected Lieu
tenant, but was never able, after receiv
ing ills' wound, to re-enter tbe army. He
I* constantly and painfully reminded, by
the severe aches of his limbs, that he was
the first man In Folk’s army to be wound-
PREXTY JENNIE CRAMER.
Tbs Basically ESbrta to La X*Ss to
SamMSnkisttM Kntlays
S•**Uau* Car. of the MUfeHs Itsw*.
Whan the body of Jennie Cramer was
discovered by Uncle Asa Curtiss, the
clam digger, esrly on tbe morning of
August 6th last, In tbe waters of £ong
Island Sound that skirts Savin Rock, 5
was attired in clothes quite charaeUctatie
of the t.Tf. Tbo dress was of pure white,
tasteft## trimmed and cut low at the
neck. Her hat was of the Gainsborough
style, trimmed back from the forehead
and embellished with feathers and flowers
to add to its attractiveness. Her si
ingswereofa fashiouabla hue and her
shoes new and of tbe bestmake. Around
her neck was a double row of silver
beads and on her fingers several rings,
one of them haring a gold dollar pendant,
on which was engraved her Initials. As
seen a few days before her death in this
costume Jennie looked
but did not give one the Impression that
sbe was possessed of an over abundance
of modesty. It could be seen at a glance
that ahe was fond of admiration and an
acquaintance could bejeasily formed.
Tbe girl was of a striking kind ot beauty.
Her eyes were black, large and lustrous,
with drooping dark eyelashes. Her
features were regular, the mouth particu
larly pretty, with brlghvred Ups Just a
trifling inclined to pout. Her teeth were
regular and white, and her skin or a
markable whiteness and purity. This
gave credence to tbe report that sbe was
an habitual arsenic eater, but those who
knew her in early childhood say that her
■kin was always white and dear. Her
form waa weU rounded and her carriage
graceful.
Tbo girl had boats of admirers and at
tracted the attention of young met
herin social station. Though not possess
ing more than an ordinary education and
having no gift of conversation, she waa
fond of gaiety, and at times vivacious.
Hex mother allowed her a wide latitude,
much to her regret now, flekitlass. She
was taken from school at an early age,
and for five years before her death—her
age then being 21—sbe had ttttle to do
mt nurse her beauty aad receive the
flattery of young men. Sbe attended bar
father’s cigar store sufficiently to enable
her to form an extensive acquaintance
with the youth of the city. Her facilities
In this regard were enlarged through the
indulgence or her mother and tbe socia
bility which prevails among the Germans.
Mrs. Cramer accompanied her daughter
to balls, sociables and picnics, and fre
quently left her to be escorted home by a
young man. At German dances here as
elsewhere, it to not considered out of the
way for young ladles to indulge in an
occasional glass of wine or beer, and Jen
nie was no exception to the rule. 8’
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Soubtf Agtrl*living a free and easy
sort of life, with hosts of male admirers,
an indulgent.mother,and given to carriage
riding and shore sappers, is bound to suf
fer somewhat in reputation in any com
munity; but ills a tact that in all that
has been said and done since the dis
covery or tbs body of the dead girt no one
has openly assailed her character as to
chastity previous to her carousals with
tbe Malleys and the New York strumpet,
Blanche Dougin.
In her 18th year Jennie kept steady
company with a young German barber of
this city, to whom sbe was devotedly at
tached. For 12 or 15 months tbe twain
were constantly together evenings, and
on fine Sundays went riding. It was
supposed they were engaged tofos mar
ried. In tho latter part of thu Intimacy
Jennie went to New York on a visit, and
was absent several days. On her return
her lover treated her quite coolly, and
finally the pair parted company, and the
friendship was never afterward renewed.*
Strong effort* have been made by agents
forth* defence to Induce this young man
to explain why be so abruptly broke off
with Jennie, but ft to said, without avail.
He refuses to say anything more than that,
so far as be knew, Jennie was a good
girl, but strong-headsd and fluid of
pleasure.
„ Smmm —retire
ELECTRICITY ON TAP.
Sew Fork Bam.
On bord tbe steamship Labrador, of tbe
French line, which arrived yesterday, sev
eral wooden cases orTfoout the else of
a boxes were stored. Mr. Wm. Lock-
an electrical engineer, under whose
care the cases came, connected an Edison
lamp with a senes of them by means of
wires, and. on turning a button, the lamp
ehone brightly. In the boxes electricity
• kept, to be drawn on aa needed.
“The electricity was stored in them as
-4 far back as April 24," he said. They
were then shipped from Paris to Havre,
and taken aboard the Labrador. On
Saturday evening, April 28, we lighted
electric lamps from them. We have
lighting eight lamps from them all
the way across the ocean, and have drawn
off only a small quantity of tbe electricity
stored in them. The lamps rang^l from
5 to 53 candle power.”
The apparatus to known as the Fame
accumulator. Its function to simply to
store up electricity for use when it to
wanted. The accumulstor to plao
circuit with an electric “dyosmo,
lectrlciiy transmitted to It Is i
. ThepaeT *
be sen
jtMiurth
- -- -- .-along
s possible has 1
Leyden jar aton
nearly all off in one (
a area!’, to r
ago Gascon]
frequently *'
certain eon
of storing t
gradually. But he <
covery into shape ot a t
This was done by M.
Fanre something over
not attract much attention until'
1681, when Sir William T‘
ltohed a description of it.
to simple in cons
lead, perforated ^
ed with red lead <
each face of red lead to laid a
sesm np to a cloto^acke^witM
Uon of a small portion of one <
bare for the purpose of e
together In a metallic circa!
arranged like voltaic piles, sei
plates being connected by a mi
at om and of tb* bog to form the j
pole, and tbs seven alternate i
netted at the other end of that
tbe negative pol*. There are i
fanes ox accumulated, bat all
strutted upon this principle. A .
water to poured over the plates so
cover them, and the apparatus to
for use. There to no watte of suhs
and tbe same cell may be ch
recharged. A fourteen-plate
those on the Labrador, to charged
800 ampbores of electricity of two
tension. A sixty-cell battery would
a fifteen candle power Edison light I
ing fbr 400 continuous hours. One*
merits claimed for tho invention to
the current given off is a steady,
flow, so that electric lights fed by
not fluctuate to Intensity. Tbe qu
of power stored can be multiplied I
nately by increasing tbs number of cells 1
A Faure Company has bean torsmd for
tbe United 8taUs, with a capital stock cl
$101000000; VM^OOOpatdup. Mr. Wai
ter B. Whiting to ooa ot tbe promoters.
“What are you going to ooF he was ~
—bed.
“We are going to sell force for any pnr-
posa. We can drtv* locomotives, steam
boats, or tram cars, and light streets or
buildings. We can drive a locomotive
200 miles an hour with easo and smooth-
nem.fortbaietonoeistoarodtor*«kth*
machinery. In Paris last July w* ran*
tramway car . carrying fifty people with
the force supplied from forty Fame Ac
cumulators piswd under the seats. We
lifted a wheel and got tho car off the
track. Its motor was strong enough to turn
it around on tbe cobblestones and put It
hadron tbe track again. Any rate of
speed can b* obtained. Tbe power is
sslf-reyilsting; and can take any gra- .
“What about tbe cost?”
“We will contract to run any number
of street can eighteen boors a day at $4
a day each. We have submitted an offer
to light tbe Labrador at the rate of $10 a
day, which to leas than tbe oil lamps coat.
The uses to which portable electricity
can be put are endless, from lighting a
stand lamD, rocking a cradle, or running
a sewing machine, to driving a railway
train or illuminating a city. Tbe systems
of electric supply which convert steam
power into electric force require machinery
of tbo best construction, u of
cww corresponding ductastion of
force. An are light supplied from an
unsteady machine is in a constant eater.
It does not matter bow unsteady tbe sup
ply comas to an accumulator, and water
power can be utilized aa welt as steam
Power, The force Is stored and given off
to a steady stream.”
THE LIFE OF A JOCKEY.
You have doubtless beard much on
various occasions, says a London letter,
abont this truly remarkable Jockey. I
am tempted to give a alight sketch of him
as beappesrad yesterday. He commenc
ed by winning two races to grand style,
and, later on, won another, though be
was “nowhere” to th* chief event Truth
tossy, the famous - jockey presented a
rather painful appearance yesterday. Im
agine a tali, emaciated-loosing man, ca
daverous of countenance, with large, pro-
jetting lies, a alight stoop; decidedly
round shoulders, and long, somo-.
what misshapen legs. Pletore this
wrapped to an overooat
rad shivering as though nearly every gust
of wind went right through hit slender
frame. Such to tbe premier Jockey of
England. I should be sorry to say that
Archer to of a pronoonded money-hoarding
erly turn of mind; but ft looks ss
though such were the esse. He baa always
been notorious for excessive thrift; noons
ever knew him to throw about money .
with anything approaching recklessness
or even genegosity. He has amassed large
turns and promptly stored them ewty se- .
curely and carefully. It to said on good
authority, that be to worth quite $350,000,
and moreover be to shortly to be married
to tbe daughter of one of tbe richest
trainers In England. Lately, however, fas
has developed a tendency for Increasing to
weight, and this seems to trouble him Im
mensely. Why be should wish to con
tinue riding to races, no ooe with aoy
sense can divine. He would surely do
well to retire; but he will listen to no ad-
vico of that kind. Plainly spoken people
cay hto greed for malting money cannot be
overcome. Anyhow, all I know to that be
hssHottest Ms easternmost earsfhlly to
“scale” above 117 pounds.
order not to “scale” above 117
For three days before the City and Subur
ban, 1 am told fay aome one who really
abonld know, Archer took very little sue-
of any description. Meat and
* he absolutely eschewed, his
diet consisting chiefly of breed and tea ta
ken witboutaugar. Archer does not keep
down hto weight by pedestrian exercise.
I believe hto enfeebled frame to incapable
of the necessary exertion. He goes In for
at all times, aud any
e must know how
to the system,
and again hs breakfasts off a co
seldlitz powders, or son
purgative and cheerful, and he
Known to positively fill himself with
drugs. The result simply to that he al
ready looks L'Jte a weazened and shrunk
en old man. After the first race yester
day I saw him quivering and shaking I
bead to foot with the exertion the
had cost him, and it to a fact
to imbibe hair a pint of *
could steady himself au
ta the City and Suburban. Aga!
that* man who will thus trifle, i
fast and loose with ‘
not be commended t_
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but
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