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ATLANTA. GA^ TUESDAY MUJtNING. JULY 27 1888
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BLACKWOOD,
By Francis Marlon Gotwalds.
ICopyrlghted, 1886. AU Kighta Reserved I
“Hiccough—death!”
The c'd rutty engine tagged slowly at the
tiump, which raised tho water from the depth
of the mine, two hundred feet below, whilo in
Its iron bosom, the two^worde with which this
narrative is commenced teemed to be pro
nounced, at regular intervals, in a hollow,
■opiilcbr il voice.
Ihad just entered the engine honte, and, an
able to account for the strange sounds,
turned to tho engineer, a short, stout man, en
gaged iu oiling tho machinery.
“Laskey, what is wrong with the engine?’’
“Why, tho old thing is all out of order; that
Is what’s the matter with her. There seems
to be a piece looao at each end of the cylinder.
Notice now; when the piston leaves this end
she says, ‘hiccough."' The engineer paused
till the piston left the ether end of the cylin
der and then added; “Mark that sound—
‘death.’ Cursed if it doesn't sonnd like it,
doesn't It ?’’
It was plain that the engine should not ran
long in that condition, and I remarked that
the day following I would go to Conynham,
the nearest town, and secure the services of a
machinist to overhaul it. I then turned to
leave tbo room; when Laskey placed his hand
on my shoulder and said;
“If you go to town tomorrow, it would be
well to employ a doctor for Blackwood. The
poor fellow most have medical treatment or he
will die.” As the little engineer spoke, he
slowly approached a radfc bench, upon which
lays much taller man, apparently asleep.
The prostrate individual alluded to as Bit
wood was onr night engineer. He had just
returned to the mine alter an absence of two
days. He certainly bore the marks of great
su Airing. His eyes were painfully hollow,
and his sunken cheeks bore the ashen hue of
death.
The old mine, which had descended to me
from my grandfather, at his death, one year
Jbefore, had been idle a number of years, and
was much out of repair. At one time, it
yielded large quantities of mineral, which it
was understood had never been exhausted,
and it was with tho hope of finding valuable
ore remaining that we were pumping the water
out and otherwise preparing it for operation.
The legion trat a desolate one, barren and
nnlnhabited; a high platean, lying among tho
mountains ot Pennsylvania. The only forms
of vegetation to be seen were a few stunted
pipes, which grow out from botwoon tho gray
iocku. TLo ground .v... covered with arnos,
and trunks of fallen trees, charred and black
ened hy mountain dres, -which yearly swept
over the place, lay on evory aide in various
stages of decay. Stagnant pools flllod tho hol
lows, and sluggish streams, whoso waters yel
low and sulphurous sustained no life of fish or
reptile, gurgled mournfully among the rocks.
Hay and night, an ashen haze hung In the sky,
shutting out the cheerful sunshine and ob
scuring the moon and stars.
It was late in the afternoon of a dark stormy
day in November. The clouds in frowning
masses were flying swiftly overhead from oast
to west. The wind want sweeping by with
many a weird and mournful sound—now
songhing dismally among the stunted pines,
now shrieking and bowling at a distance like
a maddened beast of prey.
Ten tulles from any human habitation, with
no companions but my two employes, I was al
most overpowered by the gloom of the lower
ing thy, and the desolate scene around me. It
eras plain that Blackwood would not be able to
take ehaigo of the engine the coming night;
and Laskey had already been on continuous
duty during the forty-eight hours of his com
panion's absence. Nothing, therefore, remain
ed for me but to act engineer myself, for a few
hours at least, while my faithful employe took
his much needed reef.
It was scarcely dark when Laskey threw an
old blue coat over his shoulders and retired to
a rude building near by, in which he usually
slept.
The intense darkness of the starless night
soon followed. Blackwood began to groan
and lament. “Hlooough—death,” the old
engine went on, the weird sepulchral sounds
now teeming to come from under the ground,
now to be attend by tome Invisible tongue
overhead among the dingy rafters. An old
smoke-stained lamp fkstened to the wall be
side the engine gave a pale sickly light, that
filled the room with weird uncertain shadows.
The voice of the tempest, the half-human
sounds of the old engine, and the fitful mur-
munof the sick mao, so expressive of grief
and bodily pain intensified the gloom that I
already felt and caused mo to look forward
With dread upon the long night.
I did not neglect the anlfering man.
“Blackwood, yon are very ill,’’ I said, soon
after daik; “shall I send for a doctor?’’'
“ANATOLIA.”
“No P he replied, with emphasis, turning
his face toward the wall. After a moment, he
added: “Let me die—I want to die!”
“A very unnatural desire, Blackwood. How
do you feel? Is there nothing I can do for
yon?”
A long silence Allowed then he replied'
“There is nothing that you can do for me,
I am crashed, crashed.’’ Another silence,
after which he added, imorewirely:
“Crashed by a great woe that will not leave
me till death. I cannot tell you how I feel.”
As be spoke, be rose to a sitting position.
Be sat for tome time srlth hit heed leaning to
one tide, an affecting picture of grief and de
spondence.
I bad employed the unfortunate man only a
short time before—a stranger well infurmed
on mechanical, and, indeed, on all subjects,
who promised to be nsefnt about the mine. He
was reined and courteous, nod had evidently
teen better days.
The wind grew low and then ceased. Over
head, could he distinctly heard the pnffiog of
tho steam, as it escaped from tho engine. The
rain pattered on the tin roof, and, from a leak
In one corner, it dripped to tho floor, with ■
dreary, monotonous sonnd. The engine regu
ltriy retched out and withdrew its iron arm
followed by another arm, ita shadow on the
amoko-stalned wail.
‘ May I ask what it is that has thus darkened
yonr life?’’ I ventured to inquire a few
minutes later, as my companion fell back on
hie low pillow.
After a painful silence, he replied, languid
ly, like one weak and weary.
“My friend, it la a story of woakness and
folly; but I will toll you all, trusting tbst you
will not judge mo harshly.”
He seemed to suffer great bodily pain, and it
was a few minutes before be began the follow
ing story.
“Go back three years with me,” he said,
wee happy then. I had the friendship of kind
companions and the holy love of a beautiful
woman. I wish I could describe this fair eras,
ture to you. I will only say that the lore aho
lavished upon mo was such as is seldom given
man. There was not a day that she did not
make some sacrifice for me. My trials, my dis
appointments, however great, were all forgot
ten in the joy that came to mo with every
thought of her,
“At length I left the town In which aho
lived. Sho had promised to bo my wifo, and
we had act apart a dato in the future for our
marriage. I soon found congenial employ
ment; but I cannot say that I was bar
Neither was I wholly unhappy. I lived In
past and tha Atom; both were beautiful to
mo, because associated with tho bright bolng I
loved.
“I became eucoeasfhl as a newspaper corres
pondent. A mad desire seised mo to become
famous as an author. Mr companions perrasded
me that to marry wonld bo disastrous to my lit
erary career. Absorbed in my work I began
to neglect the girl who so long had boon my
idol. Several of her beantifal, tender letters
often lay unanswered at a time. I waa a fool i
a madman! At last I wrote back the lie that
my loveforherhaddledwithinme. I advised
her to try to forgat mo—to treat me as one un
worthy of her.
“I soon received a reply. The poor girl
begged me to consider the matter well—to
search the depth of my heart, and if I found no
love for her romalnln a there, then, she declared,
she wonld sorrowfully accept her bitter por
tion. Tho letter waa enough to movo a hardor
heart than mine. I waa almost persuaded to
ntrset the contents of tho cruet letter I had
written and endeavor to restoro tha girl’s con
fidence In me. I thtnk there was bnt one thing
thst prevented this step, and that was a fosr
that a renewal of the Intimacy which had exist
ed between tbo young lady and myself wonld
tske much of my time from ray literary work,
if not quench my desire to acquire distinction
u an author.
Th* engine now demanded my attention,
end when I returned to tho sick man’s side, ho
was sleeping. Therein still pattered on the
tin roof.
“Hiccough—death!”
Tho old engine, with ita slow uniform mo
tion, in the dim light, teemed not unlike aomo
ANATOLIA AND HKB f.OVZB.
great wreathing moneter. reiterating these two
hideous sounds as though they bore some met-
ascboly meaning.
It was past twelve o’clock when Blackwood
awoke. 1 offered him a glass of brandy, hoping
to keep up hit strength nntll morning, when I
intended to summon a physician. Ho drank
tbo brandy reluctantly. A few minutes Istcr
he resumed his recital;
“About eighteen months,” he said, “after
writing that cruel letter to the fair girl who
bad cheered ao many hours of my life, and all
Intercourse between us bad ceased, a strange
melancholy came over me, accompanied with
a disgust for everything of a literary nature.
A long epell of sickness followed. I became
almost penniless. My frlendsdewrtod me. And
at last, when I moat needed the supporting In
fluence of a woman's lore, I realised what I
had thrown away. During the months of
my reparation, my love for the yonng lady had
never ceaaod to exist. Tender recollections of
tho past would nearly every day arouse within
me feelings that made me conscious of its ex
istence. Bnt now It waa growing deeper and
stronger. I bad bat one desire and that wsa
to once more meet the dear creators I bad so
greatly wronged. As soon as I had recovered
I set cut for for tho town in which she resided.
“I went directly to her father's house and
found her at home, alone. I told her thst I
loved her, tbatl had always loved her, I ac
knowledged that I had done her a great wrong,
and pleaded for her forgiveness, A look of
hopeless despair settled on her fees; then, in a
few words, she told me ail—how for two long
J oan aha had waited for my retnrn to her,
oping and hoping, till all hope had died with
in her, and how aho had one week before be
came the wife of another,
“I took her band in mine and said; • * Hy
darling, tell mo that yon lore mo still! It will
bo the source of some consolation in tho dark
future.’ Sho raised her eyes- to mine with a
long and tender gaze that revealed as plainly
as the words that followed: ‘Calvin, I ehtli
love yen till death!’ Immediately afterward
she withdrew ber hand, murumriog to herself,
'This Is all wrong.’ Then failing Inti a chair
and burying bar face in ber hands she mosne 1;
Ob, wby do you tempt me tbns! Leave mi, oh,
lrave me!’ She teemed grander and fairer than
aver. 8o, while she wept eloud I gave her a
' ' ood-bye.
ice afterward, I met ber en the (tract.
She sainted me with a sad smite. How ewaet
was the tbonght that that fair creature iovad
me—thst I was more to her thaa any other
ever could be. The reflection brought me a
moment's happiness which was instantly ban
ished by the sorrowful thought that she be
longed to another.
”1 never taw ber husband—never heard his
name. I had no dmre to form his acquaint
ance. it waa not straage that I should foal a
dislike for the man who had taken from my
life nil that was dear ou earth. My seal was
desolate. My future lay before a dsrk waits,
from which no good could Issue. Why should I
work? wby mould I live? I became n wanderer
frem place to place, !ong!ng/or rot, bnt find*
ing it nowhere.
“Here, I wish to remain till I die. I feel out
of place among the green fields and peaceful
homes of men, where the laughter of children
mlnglo with other sounds of joy and mirth.
Sncb surroundings only remind mo that my
life is a desert-that I am doomed never to
enjoy pioaanrablo emotions. Bat hero in this
sterile, gloomy region Infested wltheerpents—
within sound of the gargling; waters—under
the atben sky, there is nothing to remind mo
of happier lives and awaken within me dreams
that can never be realized.”
Then he waa silent Hla eyes shown with
strange, unnatural luster. HI* heavy blaek
mustache contrasted sharply with hla pale
fare. Ashe lay there, with hit left hand on hit
hesrt, his right raised to hit forehoad, and with
his burning eyes bent upon me, ho formod
picture I shall never forget.
I could not but pity the miserable man be
fore me, aa well as the forlorn woman who
loved him. I contrasted my own happy state
of mind with thatof the burdened man. Then
tho imago of my own lovely young wifo ap-
“I DAVI WOT WAITED IN VAIN,” SHI CBIES.
peered before mo, and what plesanre I found
In tho thought that tha dear creature was all
my own—that unlike tho woman of Black
wood’s story, she had not became the wife of
one, while her heart clung to another.
“When I was asleep I had n dream, a horri
ble dream. I cannot forgat it,”
I started ss my companion spoke. His voice
had now a piercing, doleful ring that quito
appalled me.
“I dreamed,” he continued, “that two days
sgo, I left this place to obtain one more
climpso of tho woman I lovo. The fact that
she was receiving tho caresses of another was
exceedingly painful to me, and I resolved to
remove her as Ar beyond hit reach as she was
beyond mine. I thought I procured a weapon,
stole at night into her chamber and found her
there asleep, the solo occupant. I thought I
stood for some time la tho bright moonlight,
looking upon her dear familiar faoe; then care-
Ally removing the clothing from her bosom,
I plunged my knife into her heart!”
He paueed and shuddered. A moment iator
be rose to a sitting posture. As ho aroso, an
object protruded from beneath his vest; the
next Instant, it foil-'upon his lap. It was
a knife, a plain instrument with a bane bsndlo
sud adirk-llko blzdc. He took tho weapon In
bis hand; ss lio vlowod it, a look of profound
amazement settled on his fsco. Ho sprang to
hla feet and holding tho knife close to his eyes,
exclaimed, trembling with emotion;
“My God! the knifo! There is blood upon
it—ber blood! Do I still dream, or am 1 mad?”
Then, exhausted, ho fell hack upon his bed.
Looking olocely I saw red stains on thi
knifo and tho same horrible stains on his
hsnd.
Hsd tbo unfortunate man committed a ter
rible crime? It seemed so. Indeed. Tho dream
be related was undoubtedly nothing less than
the part be bad played In a torrlble tragedy.
The blood stained knifo in hit possession, so
strangely linked with his supposed dream,
proved it to be a horrible reality. The poor men
had undoubtedly Just recovered from a fit of
insanity. In bis madness, ha had murdered
the object of hla love, and, with the return of
reason, cuts tho delation that his impression
of tho crime bad been received In a dream.
It was sometime before he spoks. Ho turned
his eyea from ono object to another perplexed
end bewildered.
“I cannot understand, I am all wrong. I
doubt everything. If this scene Is a reality,
then what means this knife?”
Be spoke mors to himself than to me.
“Wonld you object to tolling mo the nsmsof
tbo lady concerning whom yon bavo boon
speaking?” I inquired a Aw minutes later.
Ho tried to speak, hut was unable to utter a
word, Ha feebly raised his hand to his bosom:
the next Instant I noticed that bis flunn
clutched a photograph. Ho piaood the picture
in my band, as If in answer to my queation.
His eves then closed, and he lay motionless
and silent.
I tamed tbo picture toward the llght^snxl-
ous to ace the victim of Blackwood’s probable
crime. Long I razed upon tho picture. I
trembled sa I gazed. It wzz tha portrait of
my wife! What did it mean? Had the whose
■flection I thought ail my own, in secret loved
this poor wretch and died a victim to his mod-
ness? I could tell nothing for a certainty. But
what I had seen and heard In the last few
heura, pointed to a horrible probability. For
five minutes I walked rapidly up ana down
the room; I did twenty thlnp, not knowing
what I was doing. I decided to leave tha mine
at daybreak and hurry to my wife. Mean
while, I would try to b« calm. Taming to
Blackwood I found him unconscious. I exsm-
ined his pulse; it bad almost ceased. Ho wss
dying.
Tho engino wsa running very slowly. It had
not occurred tomn that I had neglected the
fire and that steam must be low. One minute
more, end the old engino wu nearly nt aatand-
still.
“Hiccough!”
More weird and hollow than ever was the
strange sound tbnt cam* frem within the en
gine ss the great flywheel mods its last revolu
tion, Clearly tha same, and as holisw and
aa sepulchral, was tha sound that tho naxt in
stant, came from tho iipa of tbo dying man:
“Hiccough 1"
Ha shoddared convulsively. A moment af
terward the angina stopped, Just as the other
mysterious sound came from within its iron
bosom, like a mournful gasp:
“Death!”
Then all waa still. The tempest had eeasad.
I could hear the boating of my heart. Black
wood was motionless and death, Indeed, wai
there.
It wu scarcely daybreak, whan a friend ar
rived at tna mine, bearln'i a message for me. I
read dlauter and death in his looks and man
ner. Ha took my hand—he spoks, bat I
scarcely heard tha words ha uttered:
“Go horns Immediately: your wife has been
made the victim of a terrible crime!”
I expressed no snrpriss on recalving tha sal
Intelligence. I stood motlonteia and silent,
stupefied by my agony of mind.
A Sharp Woman.
Mrs. Hoffman spoke on the subject: ‘idol *-
try to Tarty," In which she took occasion tope’-
vtrize Her. Btra Jones end Ifsjor Edwards; of tbs
St. Jo-eph Gazette, in her usual rlcorous msnuer
A STRANGE CAREER.
Yonng More hold's Adventures tn South America sod
Comoro!.—Amteefos lmtn.ni. Wealth -B«-
. ootae. Associated with lay Gooko-Th.
Cruh or 78-A Wildcat Scheme.
PmLADXLPniA, Pa.. Jnly[25.—[Special.]—
William * O. [Moorhead, now living in this
city it the sgo of seventy years, sraa a
conspicuous partner in Jay Cooke's wonderful
career u a financier.
He hu owned the wheat crop of Chili at a
time wbsn no wheat wu grown farther north
on tbo I’colfie coast; uved San Franciaoo from
famine; lorded it over tha petty prlnoes of tho
Mediterranean when American yachts other
then] bit wore unknown in European waters,
and promoted a company, which, at one time,
threatened to revolutioulzo gu lighting in
title country.
There is probably no man in America abont
whose career morn romance hinges and leu
hu been written.
Sinct/the Allure of the firm of Jay Cooks
A Co., JsjCouko has made another fortune.
He la again a power on Third street, and tha
white slouch hat which he wears at all timed,
in all etmmh.end his lounging walk] like
that of it mild-eyed fanner aeelng the sight!,
arc a* familiar as they ever were to Philadel
phia flcjflnclers. Bnt Moorhead la never scon
on Third street. Uls old friends have lost
sight of'hiin, and tha story of his lifo is yot
to be written. Slnco he surrendered three
millionCto the creditor! of Jay Cooke A Co:
ho has wen a poor man. He la todoy a very
poor one, living oh what his wife doles out
to him.
Long ago his marble palace at Thirty-nluth
and Chestnut streets, wu uld to be the hand-
a quarter of tnUnTTon^Tu^Tj^THnnWoinr
for $£0,000 to Mr. a & Wright, his brother-
in-law. When tho crash came ho discharged
all hla servants qycept aUrcok boy he htdl
brought home from the Mediterranean, end
tiled to make both cuds moot by boarding
General Pardee,tho wealthy coal man, at
fifty doiiara per week. But tbo bouts had tol
go. And then all there wu left to the mM
linnaire was ooo hundred thousand dollai
which in bis prosperous dhys bo hsd settled
on bis wife.
Moorhead beganTife as a civil cnglnocr.and
helped mako the first survey of the Pennsyl
vania railroad acres-t tho Alleghenies. He had
two brotherr, J. B. Moorhead, now a million-
siro plglron uicreiiant In this city.andtho
into Qi-joral.J. K. Moorhead, of Pittsburg,
who dL_v-.eccntly o? canqgr. They began lifo
together its poor young men add all became
millionaires. Tho dead brother ami the bro
ken banker had always clung togetbor with
tnio brotherly affection Tho third is a
member of tbo fubionabio church of the
Holy Trinity.
After returning to Philadelphia from Aho I
railroad survey, young William C, Moorhead
was msrricd hero. The delicate condition of
bis wife’s health recommended a change of
air. Ho secured the appointment of consul at
Callao, the chief act port of Pern, and sailod
Ifor it, round Cape Horn, early In lnl». The
3 Bold Aver wu Just then reaching ita height.
Icrouthe continent and around tho capo
thousands of adventurers were pourlog Into
California, There wu nothing thoro to food
them except what the wagon trains brought
over the plaint and tho Sonth American citlu
shipped up the cout. Tho trade of Callao
taMaiUMdiuhiai'i pod-
two roars*
With this In his clothes, he started north.
Caught in tho awing of that tremendous
and feverish life whiob pulsed up and down
clean, but Instead wanted plenty of
soap and water to trash tha old oust of their Itn*
puutftt. Ber scorching of Jones, though gives in
a kindly spirit, wu very vigorms and wu erl-
stumer and made
San Francisco his temporary home. 8oon most
of the big Chilian abips that esmo up the
cout loaded with flour were consigned to him.
Ho got a monopoly of this trade. Then cams
tho gnat fire which swept San Francisco
from foot hill to ocean. Tha dry pins cabins
burned like pralrlo gram In a high wind
When tho firs wu put out there were Just u
many man u before to feed,and nothing tofoed
them on. The flour bad nearly all burned up
and there srun't any meal. The price of
bread rose hourly. Gold, not wheat, wu than
Ckiifcrnia's staple, and while tbs crop was
large It could not M eaten. Thera was no
markat neucr than Sonth America to boy In.
Here wu a magnificent chanoe of ipeculation
fog a man with eighty tbouund dollars in
bispockat. He had bought up tbaonttra
flour product of Chili before Ban Francissns
knew it wu forule. Bat he didn’t trade on
the ntlaeriee of his follow men, uothor flour
dealers were then doing.
A riot might eatily have resulted the morn-
Ing thouunda of hungry men on tho whtrvu
and the Gold Exchange hurd the whole visi
ble supply of l.tud was owned by a stranger.
Here wea a city Ait of Americans, Mexicans,
Chinamen, Englishmen and Lascars, despera
does of the wont stripe from evory quarter of
the globe, ex-convicta and unpunished mur
derers and auasilns—a city All of men with
scarcely a woman to biers it, and men were
banged to treee In the outskirts of this city of
rough dne story pine cabins any night. Pistol
shots rang out almost unnoticed In tha gamb
ling saloons which divided srith ram ihope the
but business blocks of the city. Moorhead
was unprotected. Bnt bo didn’t need any pro
tection whan It became known that be wu
sailing his entire stock of wheat at such a
small advance as barely to cover tbo expense
of unloading and handling on shore. He be
came at once onajof tha most popular man in
tho town.
Such a start could not fail to bo prod table.
Ho bad contracted for the entire wheat crop
of Chili Ar two years. It wss not difficult for
him to msks half a million. When bo started
eastward In 'R8 be bad Just that in cold cub.
Early in the ’60'c ha becama J ay Cooke's part*
ner. Tfctstyia of tha firm sru Jay Cooke A
Co. Tho extensive eperatlons of this firm in
government bonds, and their enormous profits
have passed into the financial history of tbs
entry.
Much of Jay Cooks A Co.’s (access sru doe
to their admirable corps of clerks end tbajsys-
trmstlc way In which they worked. When
Jay Ccoke expected to talk finance to the sec
retary of the treasury lie went and bnzzed hla
clctks for awhile.
Moorhead, as Jay Cooks's partner, wua
power In Philadelphia. Ha went to Europe
six times.
THE Flggr AMEItn-AN VArllTBUAN APB-IAD.
Moorhead wu in the full flush of manhood
when his yachting exploits in tbs Mediterra
nean gave European tn Insight fate the
boundlessness of American wealth which mnst
have helped fire the averlce they have since
displayed. Ilia income was more than thru
hundred thousand dollars a year and an ex-
pfudttare of three or Aar hundred dollars a
day for a yacht emouoted to a trifle for.him.
He sssetubled a party of friends, chartered an
Italian yeehr, the moat magnificent be could
find In too waters of southern Europe, sad
sailed from city to city along the coasts and
archipelagos with a regal Indifferonee to mon
ey and a royal appreciation of An which par
alysed the potty prineelUnga of many half
starved statu. At Monaco tho orders for
Moorhead’s yacht wu far more luxurious than
those for the palace. At Naples, Venloe and
Genoa half-the population tuned oat on tho
wharves to ieo the new wonder of the west
make her entry. The Islands of Graeoo and
tho ahorea of Turkey tuted his bounty, and
for several months Moorhead’s exploits ores-
ted in reality u much talk u Monte Christo’s
in Dnmu’s romance.
AFTKB JAY COOKE FAILED.
When Jay Cooke wenteo heavily into North
ern Pacifica, Morohead wu in Europe.
Ho wu opposed to the North
ern Pacific scheme and ao expressed himself.
The cruh came on a Black Friday, u all tha
world knows. He promptly tamed
over to the creditors of the firm $2,800,000,
which wu his own. He went so far u to give
the creditors a half a million which stood in a
relative’s name, and which the law eonldn't
have touched. He wu left almost penniless;
but be still bad bis magnificent acqnalntanoo
with the men and products of tho PaelAo cout
of north and South Amerioa to bank on. TIA
■lour speculators whom he had ruined after
the fire in San Frnnclaco-remombered him and
njoleed at hit adversity, bnt nobody in Phila
delphia said harsh things of him.
Already sixty-three years of age at the great
TURBULENT MEXICO.
ST ATS OF AFFAIRS IN THI UNFOR-
TUNATK REPUBLIC.
>bs Gsons Leading to tbo BsMUIon Azatnit tan
Onsnmsnt-Tb* Beveluuonlsta to beaut
Wbsn Captorsd—Tbo Trouble at rut del
Norts-Xszlosn Troops Missing.
climax ol his life, tha stroke fell with crash
ing force on Moorhead's spirit. It Is supposed
from the lack of success In his subsequent
business operations that the failure Impaired
him menially. Ha bad married again in bis
old age, and not happily.
In 1677 bo became the president of tho Amer
ican Carburetter company, a corporation whloh
owned a patent for enriching gu by using a
machine filled with gasoline. There were
supposed to be several millions in tho scheme.
Among tho board of directors were tbo late
Henry E. Hood, the biggeet insurance broker
in Philadelphia, and a wealthy speculator;
H. P. Sloan, tha wool memhant on
Cheatnnt, below Second; Smith
Hughes, tho well known .builder and
organizer of aeuhore towns, Willis P. Hazard,
formerly a partner in Porter A Coato’s great
publishing boose, and a then retired semi-
millionaire; Tom Nelison, the lawyor, and
several other widely-known capitalists, Includ
ing Geotgo W. Colket, the railroad man, aon
of tha president of tho Chestnut and Walnut
streets railway. Through Moorhead's Influ
ence very many of his friends, inoinding
ladles, invested very heavily in tbs stock of
this company,
Tho carbnretting machines were Introdueed
in many largo buildings in Philadelphia, in
cluding all the Philadelphia and. Reading
depots; the North American office; the ltocord
office, and In many warehouses or factories
where large quantities of gu was need. They
wore introduced in many great buildings In
Now York, also in tho office of tho Wells A
Fargo lapitos company, and the American
express olUco A C'ticago. Moe-rhca-l and his
I-,.-ml cf directors fold large unmunti or terri
tory at fabulous figures on condition of the
machines work Ag successfully for oneyoar.
Branch companies were started In Now York
and Chicago, and Hr. Fargo, of Buffalo, the
head of the express company, proposed to
tmbark a large sum In a Buffalo branch of the
company, The stock wont up from fifty cents,
when Moorhead took hold, to ton dollars per
share, and there wss none to bo hsd in a short
time at any ressonahie price. Everybody waa
bolding for a riso of an expectod thousand par
cent.
While things were in this condition tha bub
ble burst. The winter of 1877 came on. and
the “Carbnretting machines” refused to work.
The otlln them which was added to tho gas,
pasting through them “gummed” thegsipipes
and (topped the flow.
One night the 1 SOOlightain thagraat Penn
sylvania depot, at Thirty-second and Market
streets, went out. llorora trains could ho
moved west Philadelphia had to be scoured
for lamps, lanterns and candles. All trains
went over an hoar ortwolato. Moorhead's
private secretary called at hia house at twelve
midnight to inform him of hla disaster, and
the ola man waa abont crasy. Repetitions of
this thing followed. Cold weather rained tho
working of tbo machines. There wen sever-
al explosionr, sod the Carburetter company
burst. Scores of thousands of dollars of stock
holders’ money, ineluding a great deal of Mrs.
1 " ' “ was sunk.
now llvea on tho bounty of his
rhead is an alder in tho West Wal
nut Street Presbyterian church, but he la
broken in health. Ha is bowed half double,
and looks ninety years old. He can be lean
on fair days ambling along Chestnut street
with one or two of bis little grandchildren.
Ills second wife was Cornelia Badger, a poor
school teacher.
After the crash of 1873 Jay Cooke wont
wsat, got an “option" for ninety days on the
famous Horn silver mine of Utah, earns seat,
snd sold it for $1,11(10,000 making
$1,000,000 by tba transaction. The
ayiag tbo buyers big divldauda
. Jay Cooke Is turning bis ample
spiral over and over in profitable railroad
snd other enterprises. He is well and hearty,
and a gnat contrast to his pennlleu partner,
Moorhead hu a son “Blir to whom he gave
$100.000ao a birthday present. Bill Is a gay
spark, but be hu the boodle yet and gats $7,000
a year out of it. Yonng Bill bates Moorhaad’a
second wife, and won't stay nndsr bis father’s
roof with tbo ex-school teacher. Bill lives
mostly in Washington.
Jay Cooke and Moorhead don’t have any
thing to do with eub other. it Is understood
that Moorhead chargu Cooke with being tho
direct cause of bis ruin. Moorhead’s whiskers
are now Whitt; his tray hair is wavy; his syu
surrounded by wrinkles. Ho walks absently,
often whistles u to himself. Since the failure
of the Carburetter eompeny he has made no
attempt to retrieve hla fortune.
RILLING fill IWOTIIEK.
Labedo, July 20.—Intense excitement pre
vails on the Mexican aldo of tbo Bio Grande
concerning the stains of the revolution which
hu broken out In the state of Tamsulipu.
The air la thick with a thonund rumors, none
of which can be traeed to an authentlo
source. It ie stated, however, on good authority,
that a prominent citizen of Mozico now living
in Laredo, and an activo sympathizer with tbo
present outbreak, received a cypher dUpetoh
yesterday from Tamanllpu stating that the
revolutionists wonld publicly pronounce today
in the principal piazza of Matamoru, It this
is dona it la thought bloodshed will surely
follow.
Tombstone, Are , Jniy 2.1—Advices from
Sonora confirm the belief which for somo time
hu prevailed here, that Mexican reports of
tbo complete subjugation of the Yaquls are
greatly exaggerated, If not entirely false.
Trustworthy citterns in good standlog who
haveJnst arrived from Sonora, wherotheyhad
every opportunity to learn the true facts, say
Mexican army officers are thoroughly dis
heartened and disgusted with tha Yaqul war.
The Yaqula number about 0,000 well armed
men and have defeated the government troops
badly. About two hundreaTaqute have boon
captured and shot Orders were given to
shoot all Yaquls found. This order wu mot
by a counter order by Cgjeme to kill all Mex
icans The result is that many more Mexi
cans than Yaquls bavo been killed.
Guaymas, Mex, July 23.—Advices from Ye-
The Story Told In Court by a Man Accuutl
of Hunter.
Frem the Denver Tribnnc.
In the Wilson eau tha dsfenu put thalr
client on tbe stand. lie told hla itory A a plain,
straightforward way. without emotion, giving *
minute description of bow the tragedy occurred.
Prentlra wss my brother. When In a passion
- wu a maniac. On Sunday ho struck me In the
ce, marly breaking my nose. Toward even*
g he ordered mo to let tapper. 1 told him
did not (eel well, and ssked him to get it.
then went In and laid down on too
bed. 8 on after I'rcMIss entered with a lighted
candle in one hand and a botcher knife In the
other. He asked sno If i Intended to loll the peo
ple what he uld about bis being a hlgbwarmao,
end sulking at me with the knifo. 1 Jumped and
trained a hammer and bit bun over tbs bud,
striking him again as ha fell on to tba bed. Than
1 armptd t be w Inch ester and find without ala.
“Then all was quiet, and I realized that I bad
killed my brother. I raw bis pocket book halfont
of bl. breeches pocket, and I took It. It contained
lit?. I walked tba trail back and forth all might,
ot knowing what to da I did not west our
lot her loknow of it, and, to hide the act from alt,
dragged tba body to tbe well and buried It I
ad been In Paradox nine months, but owing to
Pnmtm's srish 1 did tret asaoettte with any ana;
to foot I hardly kasw anybody tzars
"On Tocaday morning 1 want to Mr. Oalloway’sk
Intending to tell blm ell shoot it, but bs wu not
there, arc I returned to tha cabin, took tbo boesse
which father had bought ter us, and st tried to
leave tha conetry. I drank liquor In Kootraag to
drown my friet”
three hundred men, while conveying! provis
ion train frem Kedano to Toarln
met the Indiana, who numbered 1,200, about
one and a half luguea from Medano. In tha
battle which ensued, luting thru hours, Hie
Indiana were repulsed with a loss of 40 killed
end 20 taken prisoners. These prisoners were
Immediately shot. Of tho Mexicans Captain
Arros and I) men were killed and 20 men worn
wounded.
Sr.Lotus, July 21 --Tho following Inter
esting fkctsof the situation In northorn Mox-
iro cornu srom the Now Laredo correspondent
of the Globo-Domoorat snd gtvu a more con
nected statement of affairs than hu been al
ready published:
"It is stated on good authority that tbo
city of Liancs, of about 10,000 Inhabitants,
has pronounced against tbo federal govern
ment. As Ibis city is in tbo interior and soioo
200 miles from tho border, It is evident thst
tho fooling of rebellion and discontent Is rap*
Idly permeating tho whole of northern Mex
it o, The situation in Tamauiipas is identical
with that ef Nuevo J.con lact September.
General Collar-, governor of the ststo, has
poked ami received permission to alisoot him
self from tho capital and his
wbcrcabonti are not known at present. It is
uld by soma that ha it In tbo city of Hoxlco,
and bit return looked for In tho couno of two
weeks. It will be remembered that Garcia,
S ivernorof Kusvo Leon, wu ordered to tho
ty of Mexico bafora tbo uprising in tbst
state last winter, and aa soon as tha recretsry
of state, Sepulveda, took the gubernatorial
chair, thedlscontenta received tbelr sue from
the federal government and rebelled. Now
in Tamanllpu. tbo chief Justice of tha slate is
acting u governor,and all tbe towns of note are
pronouncing against tbo federal government
which, however, hu more to contend with la
tbli state than any other on tho border. Their
appointment of Cuellar, m chief of tho south
military division, comprising tho state of
Tamauiipas, is mcetlogwitb opposition from
tho picunt commander. General Gomu and
Colonel Vlllalr.nl, It is said, will Join the In
surgent treops before they will ulowthem-
eelvostoLe deposed, Tbe uprising of Angus
La Guns bu given tha federal government
some uneulnets and they bavo otdered Gen
eral Naranjo, of Nuevo Leon, to report at tba
city of Mexico, which command
he hu notaeen fit to comply with, and ho
considers such a movement would bo detri
mental to his freodom and perhaps his health.
Tho movemant to depose tha civil govern
ment ofTemtulipuwu first received by tho
federal government, Tbo understanding bo-
tween Governor Cuellars and officiate at tho
city ol Mexico provided for tbs appointing of
tbe governor to a high military position, and
no, provisions wars mads for any troubls
Id Nuevo Lcou, hut now
with a good stead rebellion
in both etates and much discontent amung tbe
federal troops on thi border, tha trouble te as
suming a mixed complexion.
It is reported that on tba first of August all
Important citlu in tbe statu Tamsulipu and
Nuevo Leon will pronounce. It now leaks
out that General Cuoa, of Agua Tagus, wu in
Laredo lut Saturday In disguise, with a few of
bis most trusted followers, and purchased s
large amount of armt ammunition with which
to prosecute hla Individual revolution to tho
fullest possible extent. He wu defeated in s
slight angsgemsnt in the mountains near
Candela, but lost but two of bis men, aud es
caped with tbo balance of bis command.
Galveston, July 24.—A special to tbs
News from Isredo says that reliable nows
was received there last night stating tbst tha
leaden of the revolutionary movement in
Tamanllpu bad been badly defeated near
Kabinsa mountains. The lou 1a not givon.
Tba Mexican commander of tba federal
troopa in Nusvo Laredo asya the government
baa concentrated five thousand troops on
tba Bio Grande frontier, and this la more
than sufficient to quail any revolution.
Bt. Louis, July 24.—Tbe Matamoru corns-
ihu trup* and retreated to tha m
Interior. Tbe move wu not well i
river rancheroe, even those adven
agauunuUMtelt had no nig
to plunder ri
defense and to aid” the' troope. It“Ta
strong
Colozel Cavazos for taking nyprlaontn and for
not traatlDgu bandits tkosa captured, and, under
tbe provisions of a new law. immedrawir ezeming
them. The movement to the state of Nuevo Leon
Is similarly looked on. fioiduo. tha woutd-Ue
rtvolotioslst, recently captured, wu all fixed foe
a breve stealios exnedltlon end wu riding an ani
mal stolen (Torn s Texu ranch e.
El Paso, Texex, July 2V-Mr. Cutting wu
brought before Judge Castaneda last evening,
and Informed that bis cue had b-con» of
such national importance that it would bars
fobs transferred to tbo firstdistrict court,
where sentence would be pronounced at urns
future day. Consul Briaham tried to Io.»rn
when tba trial wonld taka plane, bnt coaid
getnoutlifaetlon. It is now thought Hetici
te determined not to giro Cutting np. It te
rumored on the tucete of Pam del Norte that
strain load of troops; with a park ofartille^,
is approaching tha city from Chihuahua. Tha
situation begins to look serious.
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