The Greensboro patriot [April 10, 1884]

              THE GREENSBORO PATRIOT. ESTABLISHED IN 1825. GREENSBORO, X. C, THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1884.
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i hr following eurious story is
ling much s.-iis.iti,,,, in Bluira,
number of Philadeipbians
'ting for tbe purobas
icl oi land in th.- u><rn ol
county . somewhere
' .:< ml has from time uul
nl loc ited .i silvei mine,which
i • hope to liml, i)n iiu.
is the ''treasure oavo," of
fl i.mil' Tbe legend is
din ing tbe h'rench ami Indian
ii Quukei brothers by tbe
ni Dickinson came into the
II V alley to trade with tbe
Hiey gained tbeir confl-an
extent thai tbe
■ eab d to them the axis-vermine
somewhere
Shaking l'p Sherman*. Aruiv.
[The Southern liivouac.i
I was acting as a vidette, and
waa Stationed several hundred
yards in front of our skirmish line.
The Confederate army extended
From Keniicsuw mountain, near
Marietta, Ga., to Lost mountain, a
distance of some ten miles, and
the federal army completely cov-ered
our front. 1 was in advance
of Pine mountain, which was held
by our division, and this waa about
the center of the respective armies
that were Confronting each other,
and which were then being drench
ed by continuous rains. I took my
position on the outpost in the after-noon
during a blinding shower, and
it was not long until I succeeded
in agitating Sherman's whole army
— not by any deeil of daring, bow-ever,
lint in rather a ridiculous
manner. I had loaded my nun the
; night before, and. in the darkness,
though! I had spilled most of the
i powder on the ground ; so to make
sine. I put in the powder of an ad-ditional
cartridge, the ammunition
beingof English manufacture,heav-ily
charged, and the powder very
stroug. I had not been at my post
long when the heavy shower ceas
ed, anil I looked out for the enemy
in trout. I saw a "gentleman in
blue" step out from behind a large
pine tree, which stood on the oppo-site
side of an open field that lay
between US, and he seemed to be
looking out for "a gentleman in
gray." To let him know that we
were still in the neighborhood, i
immediately pulled the trigger on
him, and my Kntield roared like a
canuonl .Stars danced liefore inv
Tbe Mystery of a <;lrl*. Disappearance
Probably explained.
A Delhi, X. Y., correspondent of
the Tribune writes: One of the
oldest landmarks in the village of
A family Burled I nder an Avalanche.
The papers publish the remarka-ble
rescue of a family of six persons
who were recently buried under an
avalanche in Woodford's canon, a
Delhi was a large hollow chestnut- j deep and picturesque gorge in the
Sierra Mountains, in California.
1 be family, Maxwell by name, oc-cupied
a rude building in a some-what
exposed position, and had
frequently been warned that it
would be unsafe in winter, without
inducing them to change their quar-ters.
The avalanche by which the
structure was bnried 'fell from a
height of several hundred feet, and
so tremendous was its force that it
carried away large masses of rock
which felled every tree in its path.
When first discovered the mass of
snow covered the log structure
with snow to the depth of fifteen
feet, and was packed so hard that
it was almost like solid rock, and
required picks wielded by stout
hands to loosen it. A party of a
dozen men at once set to work to
dig out the buried family. In a
few hours they had reached the
logs which formed part of the struc-ture,
and found that the roof bad
been crushed in bj a boulder. Hy
this time tbe force had been aug-mented,
and, building a rousing
fire in the snow, they worked in
four shifts of six men each, each
shift working an hour. During a
portion of the time two shifts work-ed
at separate places.
By eleven o'clock at night—we
quote the account of the Carson
Appeal— "the workmen cleared
•way a place where they reached
tree, which stood nearly opposite
the home of A. \V. Webb, in Maine
street. It had grown to such huge
dimensions as to occupy at least
one-half of the sidewalk. During
the last three or four years the
tree has been dying, and as many
of its dead branches bung over the
walk the authorities feared that
some one might be injured by them
in falling, so gave an order that
that the tree be removed. The
work was begun several days ago
by sawing off ibe limbs. When
this was done workmen began to
saw the trunk oft' about three feet
above the. ground. They had saw-ed
only one-third through when
the. saw struck a hard, metallic
substance, and the men bad to
stop. Axes were secured and the
tree cut open. To the surprise of
everybody tbe obstruction to the
saw was found to be an old pistol
of French design, bearing the date
1749. It was covered with rust
and the date almost undiseerniblc.
Immediately below the ancient
weapon lay a human skull, in the
centre of the forehead of which was
a round hole evidently made by a
bullet. Tbe news spread like wild-fire
through the village, but no one
ventured an explantiou of the
strange find. There has for a long
time been a tradition regarding the
tree, but, it was not until on Friday
A Female Freemason.
_™5 Ho1'- Elizabeth St. Leger
aas the only feiuale ever initiated
into the ancient mystery of free-masonry.
How she obtaiued this
honor we shall lay before our read-crs:
Lord Doneraile, Miss St. Le-ger
s father, a very zealous mason,
held a warrant, and occasionally
opened lodges at Doneraile House
his sons and some intimate friends
assisting, and it is said that never
were the masonic duties more rigid
I.v performed than by them. Pre-vious
to the iniation of a gentleman
to the first step of masonry, Miss
St. Leger, who was a young girl,
happened to be in an apartment
adjoining the room generally used
as a lodge room. This room'at the
Minister Sargent's Trouble..
WASHINGTON, April L—In diplo-matic
circles here a new explana-tion
is given of the caucus which
led to Minister Sargeut's unpleas-ant
mission to Berlin. Heretofore
his want of success has been attri
buted to matters political, but it is
now asserted that lack of 8|>ecial
tact and want of regard for tbe
forms of etiquette and customs
prevailing at the German court
were the prime cause of the un-pleasantness.
The accomplished wife of tbe
Minister has for many years been
one of tbe leaders in the woman's
suffrage movement, and her hus-band,
m the Senate and at the an-
I convention of tbe Suffrage
use
The Cuban Filibuster*. Omnium (iatherum.
SAVANNAH. GA., April 2d.—A : The Italian Government has or
special to the Morning Xeirs from j dered the graining of the malaria in-
Key West says: Reliable reports i tested campagna in the vicinity of
say that the schooner Shoters left Borne. It finds the undertaking to
last night with General Aguero! be much more difficult than the
and twenty men well armed for | draining of a Human punch.
■ 1 ' , gSt, 0tl',e,r ,l"UgS tl'«<"tl'e ballot bv women. Mr Si
one nan *£**"***?"»*«> •"* and Mrs/Sargent al™ enter
e tn the 3U5& 'f
a,'-V ',aVins It:,i" ».dv»»««> W«» on many social
and nrl.r? . 'V"*™80"8' < V**»« "liich, in the family cir-na
ir, l,o Int J' Vi5 cunos,t>' ?* a» Washington, were discussed
ol,,' ,,wl I ** tbis mvstery, j by the pleasant and refined
g and so secretly locked up
that the Tribune correspondent j 0„e of tbe logs which formed 'a nor-learned
the true story, when he tion of the wall of the Stable. They
Iron, public view, she bad the coin-age
to pick a brick from the wall
with her scissors and witnessed the
ceremony through the two first
steps. Curiosity satisfied, fear at
once took possession of her mind.
There was no mode of escape ex
cept through the very room where
the concluding part of the second
panies that frequently assembled
at their house.
The etiquette of the German
court is as rigid as that of any gov-ernment
of Europe, possibly ex-cepting
that of Swedeu, and not
oaly are the outward forma and ob
servances of royalty strictly main-tained,
but the conversation floirij
within well-defined channels of
!!w!\iWi!SKSli" U>in and that being at tbKe fsaorleemndu.izaendd, : thought »"«■ expression, to trans
the room a very large one, she had
resolution enough to attempt her
escape that way, and with light,
but trembling step, glided along
unobserved, laid her hand on tbe
grcss which would be regarded as
au unpardonable offense.
It is said that the topics of con
venation at social parties given by
the American Minister were inex-pressibly
repulsive to the officers
Cuba. The revenue cutter Dix
left this morning in pursuit. The
Spanish Consul is aboard the Dix.
There is great excitement here.
KEY WKST, PLA.,April •_'.—(Jen.
Aguero, with about a dozen men.
is said to have elenred out last
night about 11 o'clock. A twenty
ton schooner is missing, which thev
stole or bought. The Spanish Con-sul
declares he was net* the beach
and saw them go aboard. He says
he went to the revenne cutter and
requested that she should chase
the schooner, and was told that
the cutter would leave in pursuit
at ."> o'clock. He also visited both
war vessels here, and told that
they had no boats ready. The
revenue cutter Dix went in pursuit
of the schooner this morning.
WASHINGTON. April &—Infor-mation,
originating with the Span-ish
Consul at Key West, was re-ceived!)}-
Secretary l-'olger.through
the State Department channels last
Saturday evening, to the effect that i Gillam of Chattanooga, Tciin.. was
a Cuban revolutionary expedition ! driving a double team down a
Klephaut fighting is one of" the
amusements iu India. To get them
np to the fighting pitch they are
made drunk on rum. when they get
rip roaring mad,just like some men.
and go for each other with savage
ferocity.
A knew edition of I'oe. editetl by
Mr. John Ingram, will be publish
ed iu London during the present
year. It will include the unedited
"Journal of Julius Rodman,"
and will be furnished with a new
portrait of the poet. I'oe'
larity is growing steatlly.
A Modesto. Cal. dispatch of the
30th iust. says: For a criminal as-sault
on two girls, two men named
Bobbins and Doane were notified
to leave town. Kobbins i.ft imme-diately,
but Pone delayed until til
teen masked men visited his place
last night anil shot him dead uli
sight.
On l'tid.iN
popu
night Miss Rosa
was being organized at Key West
by Aguero; that he had collected
100 well armed men and stores ol
explosives, end that the expedition
might be expected to depart from
our shores at an early day. Orders
steep hill near the city, when the
horses took fright at asharp curve.
She was thrown out of the wagon,
her clothes became entangled in
the reins, and she was dragged
nearly a hundred yards, sustaining
were thereupon telegraphed to the | fo**l injuries
commanders of the revenue cutters I In the lower end ot Campbell
liovernor Dix, supposed to be at '
Key West, and George S. Boutwell,
in I beg d for shi I
i. i bis wa - given him.
-. ' he was iu the cabin
i he Quakers talking
I i Iu ir treasure aftei thej sup
sleeping, and learned
reted soi mu here in
lie also li aimd from
il n that they inten-it
tbi i servaul for Phila-
Kl day,and had given !
e !'n another brother
would iniorni him as
Of the treasure
inj thing should happen to
brothers who were working the
ibolical though) en-mind
of the stranger to
e Quakers in the morn
II -in- and overtake the ser-murder
him, and secure the
ng the place where
the treasure might be found. He
it bis plans, but upon get-ill
ni the message
lound that it was writteu in cipher.
lie was unable to find a kej thai
ild solve tbe mystery, and
taunted bj his fruitless crime, he
. taking the cipher
ritli him. l'\.t years he studied it
il i.u.ilU died in a mad
ll -end ol the
U thi regioil handed
i desci iidalits.
In l's-1 'gory Harding settled
ol Jasper. He had
'■ I'm a shorl time when
thai in ai his place
ive, the opening of
Ii was covered by n large flat
pon B Inch was a coppei
In the ea-.e was stored
IS wealth in silver, but it
tied by two gln.-tl\ senti
Dels. Harding did not investigate
of bis dream. Shortly
a twin brother joined
brother had a dream
uding in every particular
li his brother's. The two men
il lor i he cave. They found
isl as they had seen it
- and discovered the
■ ..lid lhell.lt lock, but
ring the spectres that
beneath it.
' ilisl III b il.
ry II uding was
is felling, ami
from a
il. Tbe secrel of the
died with them. In
Irt'MI xlist minister named
mi i • i ecu came from the i leu
1 « uli si worn: u v. In
i looking int.i uim
Id see tin - eci el ca\.
w here the I ;■ a-uie ol ' he nilll'd I
: s uas hiihlei . and its ex
I Ins went iu search
mid i hi- split l in- u II
tin . 188, and then she
ill nl.\ stricken blind and
obliged in return with-ive.
Thej
[hi at the house
lliall Stephens.
lie \ iciuity, where
the? related what had occurred.
3, tried the glass nud
I lie ci\ e and its locality,
but h< wiis the only one n bo could
rothcr Nathan and
stai ted uexl day to search
t as they neared
aine net only blind
and the search was
Ij given up again.
city i- now «ide awake
and di tei II il to liml the silver
* KOH .ii .i Poker i.ibie.
1 II 11,. ('olnmbia coun-ty.
I | iiA-i. I >avis and
lie playing poker
yei and Henry Wil-ful
heavy slakes, when a
j led tn a general
inch scattered tbecrowd
' liai room where the men
When the Bring
I returned and
-. Davis and Williams
dj in seven Ij woand-
- said to be era/.-
■ iii.nr.
the line to the right and left, and
was heard to die away iu the dis-tance,
the commotion thus caused
mi doubt reaching the uttermost
confines of the vast army in our
front
I do not know that 1 can lay
claim to this as having been anv
great exploit, however, for it is a I blood. SI
go
tree then. Leinme see," and he re
fleeted a moment : --Oh. yes. I can
remember what he used to tell us
about that tree. When he was
young they called it the 'Injun's
Fate,' liom the fact that an 11 inn
was oncet hanged there fur iinir
deriu' a poor
made was not over a few inches.
wide at the lower end. When the
edge of the axes went through they
called at the aperture, ami were
answered by a voice: 'For God's
sake, push in something to eat :
my children are dying!" In a mo
ment bread, meat, and a small flask
the Indian, who war a sort o' chief j in the snow sprang to the work
in his tribe—I forget what tiibe it ! and made a fresh i.ftack upon the
war—wanted her to become his I log which imprisoned six people.
Wife. She refused, an' h- met her They cleared away the SHOW several
one night just about dusk an'quar feet above, and it was three o'clock
relied with her under that tree. ; in the morning before thev cut
ing. -It is either I here was no settlement here then ; through the log. about six feet I i**?*1* married Richard Aldwortb,
al- , —oaly a few seatterin' cabins of above the first cut Then came a Bsq*» of Hewmarket. Whenever a
well known lact that often a rabbit
sealed up in a single regiment
would cause a whole army to shout,
it used to be a common tiling in
our army to account for one of
these whirlwinds of cheers that
swept along by Bay in
a rabbit or a gener
Bul t y story: As soon as I
got straightened up.and somewhat
over the shock my own gun had
given me, I directed my attention
to an earth-work of the enemy or
a neighboring bill, where 1 could
see the cannon frowning through
the embrasures, being fearful that
this battery would mistake me for
a section of artillery and open on
my position. The big guns kept a
respectful silence, however, and as
soon as I reloaded my gun (being
careful to put in only one cart
ridge). I stepped out to see what relenting, an' then he grew
execution I had done, fully expect and would not speak. Kve
ing to see the '•gentleman iu blue"
|)oor white girl in cold I of brandy were pushed through the
ie war a pretty thing, an'| aperture, and the wearied toilers
solemn ceremony she had tinlaw
fully wisnessed. This she consent-ed
to. and they conducted the beau-tiful
and terrified young lady
through those trials which are
sometimes more than enough for
masculine resolution, little think
ing they were faking into the
bosom of their craft a member that
would afterwards reflect u lustre
on the annals of masonry. The
lady was cousin to General An-thony
St. Leger. governor of St.
Lucia, who instituted the interest-ing
race and the celebrated Don-caster
St. Leger Stakes. Miss St
lying prone on the ground, and
ready tor a funeral service; but I
had scarcely commenced making
my observations when I saw a lit-tle
jet of smoke spurt out from near
the old pine tree, and a miuie bid
let clipped a leaf off a chestnut
bush near my head. This convinc-ed
me that the •'gentleman in blue"'
was not only unhurt, but was in
for a tight, notwithstanding the
gnat noise I had made. We there-fore
went to work, and had ex-changed
as many as a dozen shots
each, when another heavy shower
of rain came on and put an end to
a bloodless battle. I have no idea
how close my bullets came to him,
but I know his clipped nneomforta
bly close to me several times. Still,
from the result. 1 don't think either
nl us could have been rated aiming
lirst class sharp shooters.
It the "gentleman in blue"surviv
ed the war (and 1 hope he did) and
is still living, the "gentleman in
gray" would like to meet him. and
Settle one of the "vexed questions
of the w ar." so far as be is concern-ed,
and thai would DC to liad out
how close those nice liiiniebiillets
of l.njjish manufacture came to
the "gentleman in blue' on that
occasion.
\ Down r.;i*t View of tilt' lluar-Vntire
Mailer.
I;..-I..II Port.]
The opportunity to read Senator
Vance's reply to Senator Hoar re-veals
the fact that Ollr esteemed
contemporary, the Journal, mixed
these children np slightly, in re-ferring
to Mr. lion's rebuke ot Mr.
Vance. It was Mr. Vanee who re
bilked Mr. Hoar, ami he did it so
neatly and effectively that the gen
tleinan from Worcester must have
felt for the moment much the same
as he did when the complete re-turns
came in from the Massachu
sells Stale election in 1882. Mr.
Hoar was the offender. He had
just snarled out a wanton and in-consequential
sneer at the expense
of the State which Mr. Vance rep
resented, and the latter resented
the unmanly and unnecessary ref-erence
in Keen and incisive Ian
guage. This is not the first time
that Mr. Hoar has been brought
up with a sharp turn for going out
ol his way to insult some associate
ni the section which that associate
represented. But we fear he is too
Hour tempered to ever learn.
A young lady entered a music
stole, ami tripping up to the hand
some clerk, pertly asked:—"Have
you -Happy Dreams?'" She was
nonplussed when be replied, No
ma'am: I am pestered with mosqui-toes."
the hunters. Nex' moriiin' alter
they were seen under that tree the
poor girl was missing. Under tbe
tree thar' was a pool o' blood found.
All efforts to trace the crime failed,
but it was deemed certain that the
Injun had killed her. and the few-white
men that lived about here
made a sort o' vigilance committee
and snore vengeance ou him. They
captured him one day an' took him
to the tree an' prepared to hang
him. He begged pitcotisly to be
allowed to live, but they were iiu-inlleu
when
he hail the rope around his neck
be wouldn't tell what he had done
with the girl. So doubt this ex-plains
it all. The tree must have
been hollow, and he dropped her ed the log, and climbed
and the pistol he did the Bhootin' the opening with lanterns
with in there and thought to con-ceal
his crime. The afl'aii made a
good deal of excitement in them
times."
Which Died Kir.t the Unction.
k:.:.-.!.' City (Mo.) Time*.]
Mr. J. C. Tarsney yesterday re-ceived
a letter from a client in
Canada which raises a questior of
a very peculiar character. The
client is a brother of .Mrs. John
Pennington, who, with her bus
band, was found murdered ou
their farm near Frankfort, Kan-sas,
on the eighth day of last
February. The letter contains an
inquiry as to who is the legal heir j bis lather to get out, and was won
fear that the place between the two . benefit was given at the theatres in
cuts would fall inward and crush Dublin or Cork for the Masonic
the family. The second hole, how Female Orphan Asylum, she walk
ever, gave a better chance of com- i l'(1 at ,,l(' ,I<':"1 "f tbe freemasons
munication, and Maxwell said that ' wit1' ll,-r aPro1 •"'«• other insignia I sea-gulls circled around us or float-and
his bitter opposition to all
socialistic theories led him in time
to regard the American Minister
with peculiar aversion.
These feelings, it is said, might
have ltwardly repressed until the
end (■ the present administration,
when dr. Sargent would have been
recalled, had it not been for the
Lasker episode, which brought
matters to a crisis. Whether this
explanation of the trouble is the
true one or not, enough is known
to justify the Administration in ac-cepting
Mr. Sargent's resignation.
The Dead Kca ..I . mr-i ;• a.
A gentleman who has been lately
sailing on Great Salt Lake, thus
describes it: -Soon we were on
our way toward the hazy western
shore. As we passed along the
if they would get a candle in to
him he would tell where the log
would fall. A candle was taken
from a lantern and given to bim
with matches tied to it. In a few
moments the glow of a light was
seen from the outside, and this
light must have been very welcome
to the Maxwell family, as they had
been in total darkness for two days
and nights. He soon culled out to
push the log forward, but it was
fast and required considerable pry-ing
with crowbars before it yielded.
Those nearest the aperture follow-through
There,
iu a space about ten feet square,
was Maxwell and his family. His
wife was lying ou a mattress and
some blankets, with a young child
iu her arms, and three others cling-ing
to her and crying bitterly.
When the lantern shone on their
faces they put their hands to their
eyes and turned away iu fear. The
woman was scarcely able to muv •,
and Maxwell, who had kept a stout
heart through all the long days
and nights of darkness, gave out
at this point and cried like a child.
Chester, the oldest boy, who is but
eight years age. had workeil with
of freemasonry, and sat in the front etl "" tue water, their white plum
row of the stage box The house j aSc shining in the sunlight. Kvery
of the property of the deceased, and
under the laws of Kansas the whole
matter hinges on the question of
who died first. Pennington or his
wife. The Kansas statutes pro
vide that if a married man dies
childless his property sha I go to
his wife. Pennington was child
less, consequently tbe title to his
property at once went to his wife,
in ease -lie survived him. If Pell-iiiiigtou
died ii widower, however,
bis property gees to his heirs. If,
on tl.e other baud. Mrs Penning-ton
survived her husband even for
the smallest perceptible fraction of
tune the estate became hers, and
through her now decends to her
heirs. I'o add to the complications
of the case there were no witnesses
to the crime except the murderer
or murderers. The corpses of the
old people were not found until the
day after the murder, ami though
every indication went to show that
the man had first been shot down
anil the woman afterward killed
while attempting to escape, it is
difficult to sa\ which drew the last
breath. Men believed to bo the
murderers have been arrested, anil
the peculiar question appears to
rest largely upon the disposition of
the parties to make a truthful con-fession.
The estate comprises a farm
ol HRt acres.
A Vermont man has a lieu 39
years old. The other day a hawk
stole it, but after an hour came
back with a broken bill and three
claws gone, put down the hen and
took au old rubber boot iu place ot
it.
A little girl in Rutland, VL.be
out with hunger and exhaustion.
There were two loaves of bread
within reach after the roof fell in,
and the little fellow- refused to
touch a morsel, giving all to his
mother and sisters. This was all
the mot her, the baby and the two
daughters—Mary and Gallic — aged
four and six years respectively,
had to live on from Friday after-noon,
when they took dinner, until
about midnight on Sunday."
\ South American Snake Slory.
. Ingla BnuBliaB Time*.!
In Paraguay, at Guazu-Cua, a wo-man
going to bathe iu the lake laid
her child down under a neighbor-ing
tree and walked down to the
water. A gibola. however, which
was on the lookout tor prey at tIn-shore,
sprang al her and seized bet-before
she could escape. Soon al
terward a horseman passing near
heard some cries and on examining
around saw the chiltl under the
tree. Suspecting some disaster, he
rode down to the lake and there
saw- a huge snake, swallowing the
woman, who was already drawn in
up to tbe waist. Fastening his
two lassoes together the man threw
the noose over the woman and un-der
her arms, and, spurring his
horse, succeeded in draw ing tbe
woman's still palpitating body from
the throat of the disappointed mon-ster.
Whether the woman surviv-ed
is not stated.
Necessary Precaution.
'•My dear," said the czar of Bus- '
sin to his wife, ''will you give or-ders
to have the palace gates lock- ■
ed ami the streets for one mile iu
was always crowdei! on those occa-sions
Her portrait is in the lodge-room
of almost every lodge in Ire-land.
Two View, of Killer.
(New York Band I.
The House, if accepts the unani-mous
conclusions ol its committee.
as t undoubtedly will, can scarce
ly fail so far in maintaining its own
dignity as not also to deal with
Mr. Keifer. His offense is the more
serious because its object was to
destroy the character and reputa
tion of an honorable man. Can
Mr. Keifer hereafter be received in
the society of reputable men ! Can
be have a place iu the House of
Representatives 1 His friends, if
he lias any, should advise him to
resign his seat at once, for he can
scarcely hope to escape expulsion.
No one who knows Gen. Boynton
ever for a moment believed that
Mr. Keifer had told the truth about
him.
[tin v..rk Tuao
This long and unsavory contest
was precipitated by Mr. Keiler's
attempt to prove that his ill repute
throughout the country was the
work of a band of conspiring news-paper
correspondents, of whom
Gen. Boynton was chief. To sus
tain this statement, Mr. Keifer
made distinct and positive charges
against Boynton. An impartial
committee has unanimously agreed
that those charges were unfounded.
The committee virtually agrees in
saying that ex-Speaker Keifer has
lied, and that he has attempted to
fortify his falsehood by the false
witness of disruputable persons.
Before tbe | ublic Mr. Keifer wears
an ineffaceable brand.
The question that is heard now
is, what will Keller do when tin-report
of the committee is adopted.
Will he conftss that he has tailed
ill a dastardly attempt to stain an
honorable man and throw himself
upon the clemency of the House, or
will he remain silent and permit
the House to expel him from the
body as a person unworthy to be
the associate ol honorable and
truthful men T
Gen. «;»riiim'» Pulley llertalier tgress-i.
e.
CAIRO, April I.—Gen. Gordon
has finally decided to abandon his
policy of conciliating the natives,
having become convinced by re-peated
efforts and failures that it
is useless. His new policy will be
more vigorous, and as the first step
toward carrying it out, the Egypt
Ian soldiers who had been detailed J1.11'1? "™f *""
to give safe-conduct to parties
leaving Khartoum and proceeding
to Egypt have received orders to
return to the beleaguered citadel
without delay.
now and then a hawk ninth would
flit, Hy or alight on the boat;
dragon flies would stop long enough
to gaze at us curiously and then
spin off toward the distant islands.
Occasionally a seventeen-year-old
locust would hum past as if to mock
at us for ever daring to believe that
this is the 'Dead Sea of America.'
As the bow plowed through the
water, millions of small diptera
(Hies) would raise from the wafer,
where they were resting, and cover
the bow ol the boat till quarts ot
them could be. collected. Wherev-er
we went WC observed the same
thing. The water of the lake is
their home, and they are as much
at home sitting on the water as a
skipper is on an Eastern pond. Iu
some places where it is calm these
flies darken the water for miles.
Here (not on the beach) they lay
their eggs: here they hatch, and
here the larva- live by the million
till ready for the pupa state, when
they attach themselves to the sea-weed
(floating everywhere in the
water) and remain fill they emerge
as perfect Mies. The larva- doubt
less prey upon the strange little
shrimps that live in the Hater.
There are infinite numbers of these,
as there is scarcely a place in the
lake where a bucket of water can
be dipped without taking up from
twenty to five hundred of them. It
is strange that people should call
this a 'dead sea.' for through the
number ol species does not exceed
ten or fifteen, there is no lake, fresh
or salt, iu the world that contains
ball as many living tilings as Great
Sail Lake."
. IVoil.
[Floytl Kctiorttfr.l
Wm. A. Sutphill killed a large
wolf on the Buffalo mountain, in
this count\. The sheep in that
portion of the county had suffered
a good deal from the laids of his
wolfsbip. His track was discover-ed
and followed a short distance
when he was seen to ruu from un-der
a large rock. A large crowd
of men and dogs were assembled
as soon as possible Stands were
taken and the drive commenced.
W. A. SutphiD and his father were
standing on the summit of tbe Buf
falo and the wolf ran within ten or
twelve steps when thev both tired.
The young man's shot only took
effect. He was struck in the Hank
and the ball ranged forward cut
ting through the kidney and liver commit the crime
and passing very near the heart.
He ran about one hundred and fifty
He weigh
ed Ml pounds
at Savannah, to take steps itnme
diatcly to prevent any such viola-tion
of the law; and instmctions
were also telegraphed to two spec-ial
agents of the Treasury Depart-ment—
one in Florida and the other
in Georgia—to proceed to Key
West and assist in any needed in-vestigation.
The Dix, however,
had left Key West Saturday for
Cedar Keys, three hundred miles
distant, and the message to her
commander reached him only Mon-day,
when he arrived at Cedar
Keys. The Dix then started back*
immediately, and nothing has since
been heard from her at the Depart-ment;
but no lioubt is entertained
that she started in pursuit of the
filibustering schooner, as stated in
a press dispatch from Key West
early this morning. The alleged
delay in starting is accounted for
by the necessity of coaling after a
cruise to Cedar Keys. As the Dix
is under steam and capable of mak-ing
ten or eleven knots an hour, it
is believed she will readily over-haul
the small sailing s> homier un-less
the latter deviates from the
usual course to Cuba and evades
direct pursuit by temporary con-1
coalmen! along our shores' The
Boutwell has probably by this time '
reached a position to aid in the '
work of search or capture, but
nothing has been heard from her
since her departure. Our Govern-ment
was similarly informed sever-al
months ago that a filibustering
expedition against Cuba was said '
to be organizing at New Orleans,
and several of our revenue vessels
have been continuously on the ;
watch C»r it ever since, but without
discovering any attempt at evasion
of law-county
the little daughter of a
farmer named Lee was assaulted
by a negro farmhand. The girl's
father captured the negro, dragged
him to a woodpile and was in the
act of beheading him when the ne-groes
cries for mercy caused him t,,
desist. Lee then strapped him on
a horse and took him to the county
jail, where he is now confined.
The Presbyterian Hospital at
Philadelphia, which some time ago
refused a check for 92,500, its share
of the fund raised by the "charity
ball," has received a check for I I,
OHO from a resident of ilucks conn
ty. The writer explains that *1',-
BOO is in lieu Of the money which
the hospital did not receive, and
the remaining S.'.IMI is a premium
for adhering to principle. Hen
quests that the entire .amount be
added to the principal ol the per
inaiient lund of the hospital.
A microscopical examination of a
piece ot Mrs. Mary Schulters'leg,
who died with symplons of triclii
nae in Westmoreland county, Pa.,
last week, showed it to he'full of
parasites ii, all stages of develop-ment.
Lndwig Schulters and the
Galle family, six in number, who
ate Of the pork at the same time as
Mrs. Schulters. are all in a precar-ious
condition and it is probable
the Schulters ami lour of the < lalle
family will die. The former is in a
semi comatose condition. lie is
unable to swallow solid food and
cannot open his mouth or move
his arms from his side. Louis
Kngle and Silvester Sehuller, who
also partook of tbe diseased meat
are convalescent.
HID.N'T CATCH HIM.
KEY WEST, FI.A , April 2.—Tbe
revenue cutter Dix, after cruising
all day in pursuit of the filibuster
ing schooner, returned this even
ing. Nothing was seen of Aguero.
While the party may have proceed
ed direct to Cuba on its own ac
counts, the more probable theory,
and the one generally entertained
here, is that Aguero had arranged
to first join some other and larger
torce who would have escaped from
mime point of the Gulf.
The Dime Noicl at Murk.
On Sunday night as Henry Horn
holder, a peddler, was driving neai
Tremont. Pa., he was halted ly
three highwaymen and robbed of
1900 and a gold watch Ilornhold
er noticed that the highwaymen
were small of stature, hut could not
obtain a glimpse of their laces. AM
soon as they had robbed him they
commanded him to drive down the
road as fast as possible. As he
turned iu his seat, when about
twenty yards away, one of the trio
tired two shots at bim, one of which
took efleet in his right arm.
The next day Joseph Elmboltz,
aged IU, was arrested at l.iver onl.
a neighboring town, while in the
ait of selling a gold watch to a
jeweller, which was identified as
the one stolen from the peddler.
and 9275 was found on his person.
Bttlboltsclaimed that he purchased
the watch from two tramps for *'i.
hut finally confessed that he ami
two others had conspired to rob
the peddler. Hi- confused to give
the names of his companions. Hv
also confessed to several other small
robberies during the past two
months.
Elmboltz is uneducated, and has
always been a had boy. Ilrrbeil
Klinger and Luther Martin after
waril arrested on susp linn, and
$120 in notes, four gold mounted
revolvers, a number of pictures ot
actresses, and two dime novels
were found Oil their persons. The]
made a full confession, and said
that Klmhollz had induced them to
W.iite ll.ii.ipi.iii'- ma I ilend.
[LaUar to lagwia Chn .
A middle aged man approached
Gen. Hampton the other day and
asked Ins influence in pressing a
claim belore tbe Military Commit
tee of the Senate. Th,. stranger
then said :
"General, I am glad hi see yon
again. You do uol recognize me,
but you personal!) made me a pris-oner
ol me during the war."
i in comparing notes. Hampton
found out ii was a fail, and recall-
: ed the circumstance. He was re
connoiteringone night and missed
his way. Around him burned
many more camp flies than be had
left behind him. I'.nterin- a house.
be discovered that he had strayed
into the enemy's lines, A few sol
diets were seateil at a table, and
abruptly addressing them, as if a
superior officer of their own army,
he asked who they were and what
they were doing there. One man
spoke up and replied : -We belong
to the Eighth New Vmk Kegimenl
ami Gen. Warren sent us to gel
milk '' Hamilton fell that all his
nerve and address would In- requir
cd to extricate hiomelf from his
dangerous position. He reached
lot his pisii I, held ii along his
thigh, and, on leaving lliehoa-e,
commanded the man who had
spoken in him to follow. He did
so. Hampton mounted his hoi MI
and called the man to him. Kind
in- down lo the Federal soldier's
ear he whispered : ••! have H pis
tol aimed at Joui head ami will
shoot.\ou if any alarm is made."
The surprised soldier whhqieied:
"Don't shoot. 1 surrender." Hauip
Ion then bade him move on just
ahead of hi, h,use, m,i| so brought
bim into the Confederate camp. It
was this man who. alter u • than
twenty years, met his cuptoi and
asked a favor ol him. a- a Senator,
that hr was more th in willing to
grant. 1 wus a strange and ronian
tic coincidence in the retun
cycles ot time. f.
During the Cincinnati riot.
coming wearied with thequarreliug j every direction cleared of people !"
of two children over a glass ol
milk, exclaimed: -'What's the use
ot lighting forever over that milk 1
There is a whole cowful out in the
barn."
"Certainly,'" replied the czarina;
'•but what are you going to do V
'•1 want to look out of the win
dow to see what kind of a dav
it is."
The head less and legless corpse
Tan u
a dam in
last week. The trunk was sewed
up in a eoffoe sack and upon being
mob undertook to take guns and
aniiinitiou from the store of Mr.
Powell, who met them on the
\ Mississppi mule, 4-1 years of threshold and defended his proper-age
so far forgot itself the Other ty. The statement is made that
day'as to got mad and kick a lie "the first man who entered was
gro. Having made the effort it fell (shot dead, the second shared
lead. Examination
The l.viidon I.UMIH I T, ii,
Journal states that a new method
of tree foiling by dynamite has lieeu
succcsfully introduced. A car-tridge
of the explosive soimiauee is
placed in a channel bored dnectlv
under the free to be operated upon,
a , and when exploded the tree i- aim
showed that
the
same fate, and the third was scri
f il\'T.MT;r/.w,Tn,'VnV'.s"!,m; ;r,','e'ir I Selar bad dislocated both Shonl onsly wounded. A effort was then
of an""^^^^^ SeXn detached all the ribs from made to burn the building, but the
the spine. A completer wreck has proprietor from an upper window
been since that of the one- fired a well directed shot, and
family effort was iriviu up." This
ply forced up bodily and tails intact
on itrt side. It this sv.stein works
as well as it is represented to do
ai'd the in-e is n.it fractured b\
the force ol the explosion, a large
proportion of valuable wood at the
trunk can 1M; utilized which is now
lost Forclearing forest propertii s
to convert into arable land Ill's
method appears admirably adapt-ed,
as it brings up the roots of the
tree at the one operation and dis-penses
with the tedious and costly
could lead to its identity. Bim. - •
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