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ivcl. xvm. ATLANTA. GA^ TUESDAY MUJtNING. JULY 27 1888 PRICE FIVE CENTS 1 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. "mnlSTIHCT HtlHT