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NIL DESPEIIANDUM.
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VOL. VII.
RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THUHSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1877.
NO. 38.
Bide a Wee, and Dinna Fret
Is the road very dreary ?
Fatience yet I
Host will be sweeter if thou art aweary,
And after night oomoth the morning cheery.
" , Then bide a weo, and dinna f rot.
The clouds have silver lining,
' ' Don't forgot j
And though he's hidden, still the una is shining
.Courage 1 instead 6f tears and vain repining,
.Just bide a wee, and dinna fret.
With toil and eares unending
Art boset ?
' Bethink thee, how the storms from heaven de
scending Snap the stiff oak, but spare the willow bending
And bide a wee, and dinna fret.
Grief sharper sting doth borrow
From regret ;
But yesterday 1b gone, and shall its sorrow
Unfit us for the present and the morrow ?
Nay : bide a wee, and dinna fret.
An over-anxious brooding
Doth beget
A host of fears and fantasies deluding ;
Then, brother, lest these torments be intruding,
Just bido a wee, and dinna fret.
A WIFE'S PRAYER,
For three days a terrible gnle drove
before it the ship Pembroke, bonnd to
Liverpool from the Kandwioh Islands.
Under bare poles, with every timber
groaning and creaking, -with the
tall masts bending like reeds, with
heavy sens and blinding spray sweeping
her decks fore and aftr the vessel boomed
on, rolling, plunging and quivering in
her desperate struggle with the tem
pest. At midnight, just before the ending of
the third !tiy, a fearful cry, not loud,
but hoarse and deep, went through the
ship:
" We have sprung a leak !"'
-Then the light from -the two lanterns
hung up in the main and tnizzen shrouds
fell upon the sturdy forms of seamen,
hurrying to rig the pumps.
Soon the dismal clang was heard, as
tho stout ic!low3 toiled and toiled, but
all to no purpose.
' Oh, Henry, what shall we do ? The
leak is gaining upon us I" cried despair
ingly the young wife of Mr. Rogers, the
nrstmote.
She was a fine, noblo-looking woman,
and was liked nud respected by every
man abo.u-d ship. A true daughter ol
. Eve, hor love for her husband was so
deep and absorbing that she would have
followed him through any hardship or
pern sooner than separate from mm for
a long period.
Now as the sturdy, good-looking
young mate heard his wife s cry of
alarm, he Hung an arm around her waist
H'xl bade her lie ot good cheer.
, ' If it should come to the worst," said
he, " we will probably fall in, ere long,
with some other crait
Meanwhile the leak steadily gained
The captain sent his carpenter into the
"Captain I" cried the 'hitter, when he
returned, " it's all up with us ! There
'must be a big hole in the ship, ris the
water in ner is already seven feet deep,
A loon 01 uusrnay settled on everv
face.
"Get the boats ready," said the
. skipper.
W hile the men were obeying the order,
. the Bhip's hull, settling lower and lower,
was soon nearly engulfed in the rushing,
roanug seas.
The sailors had barely time to put a
bag of sea-biscuit, a couple of cans of
prepared meat and a breaker of fresh
.water iu each of the boats, when, with a
sidelong sheer, the vessel rolled half
way over to leeward, as helpless as a log,
preparatory to going down.
The mate aud his wife, with eight
men, took to the long boat; the lost of
the ship's occupants, amounting to ten
sailors, entered the quarter boat.
Just as the two light vessels put away
from the doomed craft, the latter plung
ing her bows under, a dull report was
heard, as the hatches were burst open
by the rising water in the hold.
A minute later, elevating her stem,
the ship sank out of sight in the stormy
ocean.
In the darkness and amongst the
heavy seas, the mate's boat soon became
separated from the other.
At dawn no sign of the latter could be
discovered by those who looked for it.
Keeping the bout dead all day against
the wind, the mate with his companions
vainly watched for a sail.
Thus, day after day passed, until near
ly a week had elapsed, by which time
the scanty allowance of sea-biscuits hav
ing given out, there was nothing left to
eat iu the boat, while in the breaker (a
small cask) there remained hardly two
quarts of water.
Three days later, neither laud nor a
6ail having yet been fallen in with, the
sufferings of the people iu the boat, re
duced almost to a state of starvation,
were terrible.
" Oh, Harriet 1" gasped the mate, on
the morning of the tenth day after the
ship had been abandoned, "if I could
only obtain food for you even provided
the rest of us had none it would bo
great comfort to me."
" Nay," answered the young woman,
in a fault voice, while tears streamed
down her hollow, flushed cheeks, "yon
should have my share, Henry. I could
manage to wait for a sail, which I trust
we shall soon behold.
Later in the day, a wild, fierce expres
sion gleamed in the eyes of the men.
They exchanged significant glances,
but at the time said not a word.
Each, however, guesse4 ,the horrible
thought that ha I entered 'the mind of
every sailor, although they hesitated, as
yet, to express it
At last a roan named Miohael Kruno
a half-breed between an Englishman
and a Portuguese let loose the dreadful
-idea. ......
"It must be done," he almost
screamed. " Two hours more without
food will put the death seal upou us.
One of us must die."
-"Oh, no. no," cried Harriet. "We
can wait still. We shall see a sail before
long. I feel sure we will."
But nil her pleadings rvere in vain.
Borne paper was cut into strips, and these
being held by Bruno,-the drawing of
JoU to tee who sUuld die was eoni-
menced, it having been arranged that he
who drew the shortest slip was to yield
up his life for the benefit of the rest.
As pale as death Harriot sat watching
the drawing. A moment later she be
held her husband looking at a small bit
of paper in his hand, while the hoarse
voice of Bruno grated on her ear :
"Mr. Rogers has drawn the short
slip I He must die 1"
"Ay, ay, men," said Rogers ; "I will
soon be ready 1"
Wis, wire tlung herself upon Ins bosom.
"Never I never shall thev tear you
from mot" she cried, twining her arms
aDout ins necK.
" But, Harriet," he said, " it is neces
sary. It is only fair that I should die."
Ion must not : yon shall not," ex
claimed the young woman. "We can
nil go without food some hours longer,
during which we may see a sail."
" Mo, no, no," cried Rogers ship
mates simultaneously, " We must have
food now."
Hunger had driven them to despera
tion. Their teeth were clenched, their
eyes wild and bloodshot, their faces more
like those of wolves than of human
beings.
"Let me go, dear Harriet," said the
young niau to his wife. "Let me bid
you good-bye, and may Heaven bless
you."
Some of the men advanced toward
Harriet, who still held her husband in
an embrace from which he could not dis
engage himself. Turning towards the
sailors, she said :
" Back, back, never shall you tear me
from him. But if you must have a hu
man life, take mine instead of my hus
band's." At this the men drew baok. Even at
that dreadful moment they could not
endure the thought of killing a woman.
The first officer, who had watched his
chance, now bv a sudden movement tak
ing advantage of his wife's head being
suddenly turned, and nerved to ad
ditional strength by the harrowing
thought that his shipmates might at
length come to the conclusion of accept
ing Harriet s proposition to sacrifice her
life, broke from her entwining arms and
r:m towards the bow of the boat.
There he was quickly joined by the
other men, ono of whom now placed
himself as a barrier between the young
woman and her husband, whom bub was
making frantic of.orts to reach.
Perceiving that she could not pass the
man, she fell upon her knees, and, in a
voice of the most heart-rending agonv.
again begged the others to take her own
instead of her husband s life.
But her supplications were in vain.
She saw her husband leaning back pre
pared to die, while Bruno proceeded to
sharpen his knife for the dreadful work
oujone of the hoops of the breaker.
Having at length prepared the weapon,
he stooped over the young man to cut
his throat, while a companion stood by
with a tin cup to catch the blood.
"For mercy's sake wait," she cried,
' Look first and see i there is not a sail
in sight."
The men obeyed her request. They
scanned the ocean far an near, but no
sigu of a sail was to be seen.
"How do you know there -is not one
hidden by that mist ?" she inquired,
pointing toward a small fog-bank a
U ague to windward.
"There is none," one of the men un
swered. " I feel sure ; I looked at that
very spot bsfore the fog settled there,
about fifteen minutes since."
"No, no: you may bo mistaken. I
conjure you, I implore you to wait till
the fog clears up, when you may see a
sail."
The men exchange glances.
" It's no use," cried Bruno ; " but to
satisfy you, we will wait a few minutes
before we take your husband's life."
At this Harriet started up. With her
hands clasped and her hair streaming
down her back, she stood, her eyes
turned toward the sky.
In this position there came upon her
face an expression that had never been
seen there before.
It was almost divine, filling the coun
tenance with an unearthly beauty, light
ing the eyes with such a radiant gleam
a look of such strong, concentrated
will, blended with heavenly supplica
tion, that the rough men drew back
with mingled respect and awe, trembling
under a sort of supernatural influence.
A moment the young woman stood
thus, and then from her parted lips
came her voice, full of strange, wierd
power, making the blood leap in every
vein :
" Oh, heaven, a sail ! a sail !"
The words were simple enough, but
the manner in which they were uttered
thrilled her listeners to the heart
Instinctively they all glanced around
upon the ocean, as if expecting that the
prayer would be answered.
North, couth, east and west they
looked, but they saw no sign of a vessel.
When about fivo minutes had passed,
however, Bruno was seen pointing
toward the strip of fog, which, slowly
rising like a curtain, revealed a sail.
Yes, there it was, sure enough, and
with a cry of wild joy on seeing it, Har
riet, no longer kept from her husband,
flung herself upon his breast, while the
others gave expression to their feelings
by hoarse shouts, soba and frantic laugh
ter. Signals were made, the vessel bore
down for the boat, and the occupants
j were soon en deck, to be kindly treated
by the captain of the bark Java, bound
j to London.
i The half-starved men were agreeably
surprised to find aboard this vessel their
shipmates of the quarter-boat, which, it
seems, bad been picked np four days
previously.
In due time the vessel arrived " at her
home port, where the sailors related to
their friends how Harriet Itodgers had
saved the life of her husband.
Some of the men insisted that ten or
fifteen minutes befere she uttered her
prayer, there had been no vessel at the
point where it was discovered. Of eourse
they were mistaken, having doubtless
looked in some other direction ; but
this they firmly denied with the com
mon superstition of seafaring men, de
claring that the sail appeared just when
and where it. did, in answer to the
" Wife's Prayer." . ,
Never tell a man he't a fool j in the
first place he won't believe you ; in the
next; you wake kus jour enemy,
A REMARKABLE RECORD.
An Kpldemlo of Hnlclde In New York
The Cause Generally Intemperance,
Iluslnese or Domestic Troubles Some
Curious ttases.
The record of suicides and attempt at
suicide from August 24 to October 16,
says the New York Herald, is remarka
ble in the fact that the number of cases
far exceed those of any like time in the
previous history of the oity. Many rea
sons are advanced for the apparent
epidemio of suicide, and it is urged that
unless some method is devised to check
it an increase may be expected. The
laws of England until within a compara
tively short period were very severe
against felo de . .The property of the
suicide was confiscated and the rites of
Christian burial were denied the body,
which in many cases was buried in the
open highway with a stake driven
through the breast. These laws were
confirmed during the reign of George
IV., and were continued in force into the
present century, when public opinion
forced their disuse. It is argued that
the season known as Indian summer has
the effect of stimulating suicide ; and in
deed the records of past years show more
suicides during that period than at any
other time of the year. At any rate,
whatever the cause, the death rate by
suicide during the two months has been
alarmingly increased.
The total number of suicides was
twenty-two and of attempts fourteen.
It is a somewhat curious fact that of the
total number of persons wanting to die
sixteen were of German birth. The
other nationalities are about equally
represented, and, although, in some
cases it was difficult to ascertain the
birthplace, the following figures may be
relied upon as accurate. Of the suicides,
ten were born in Germany, four in
America, two in Ireland, and one each in
England, France, Norway, and Cuba,
Two persons were unknown. Of the at
tempts six were of German birth, two
each of English, Irish and American
birth, and one each of Russian and
French.
It is an exceedingly hard matter to as
certain the real cause of many attempts,
particularly where the attempt is suc
cessful ; but t here is little doubt that the
majority of cases are due to mtemper
mice and domestic infelicities. The
classification that follows was made from
a careful investigation of the facts in
each case. Under the heads of "tern
porary insanity," which is unjustly ap
plied iu many cases. " melancholia " and
' family troubles " there will be found
cases differing widely as to their nature
and yut properly classed nndeik those
lieaus.
Of the suicides five were ' due to tern
porary insanity, two to family troubles,
three to business troubles, three to
melancholia, two to drunkenness. - Of
! four cases the cause was unknown, and
in one case a man jumped from Niagara
Suspension Bridge through grief at the
death of a son who had some time pre
viously committed suicide in this city,
Of the' attempts four were due to melan-
cholia, two to family troubles, two t
jealousy, one to drunkenness, one to un
requited love, and the reasons for four
others were unknown,
Vaisel Procheski, a native of Bohemia,
was at ono time a pract-'cing physician
and a man in good standing in his' nafve
town. Some "years ago he enmo to the
United States with the desire of follow
ing his profession here. His money
went by degrees, and as he became poor
er he removed to Boston aud established
himself there. Luck seemed to be
against him. A short time ago he came to
New York and, after wandering about
the streets for some days, gave up in
despair and took a dose of laudanum. He
was taken to the hospital, and his life
may be saved. He is sixty years of age,
During the month of August Dr. Ed
ward Stein committed suicide at French's
Hotel, in this city. His father. Dr,
) Lewis M. Stein, a physician of estab
lished reputation m this city, was so
overwhelmed with grief that he oould
not remain in the city where his sou had
died. Restless and apparently heart
broken he wandered from place to place,
at last reaching Niagara Falls. Ou the
1st of September, Dr. Stein went out on
tho Suspension Bridge. After remain
ing there some hours he was seen to
clasp his hands to heaven, and a moment
after went plunging down to the water.
Geneve Kaiter on the 7th of Septem
ber died from a dose of Paris green,
which she took intentionally. The cause,
as given, was that she had considerable
trouble with her husband.brought about
by his jealousy. Not wishing to pro
long the struggle, as she expressed it,
she put an end to her existence.
Catharine Stines was forty-eight years
of age when she died, on the 8th of Sep- '
tember. She was a drinking woman,
and when under the influence of liquor
evinced an almost insane desire to de
stroy her life. On the day in question
she found her opportunity in a fourth
story window, through which she jumped
and was instantly killed.
Tho case of George Geier, who waa an
old man of seventy-two years, and whose
n U who no uvuuvtnto " cut aw iiic
as deliberate
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cause. Ho was a man of considerable
means, or
l loof l.O.l Won lWro-O
business misfortunes. Bogus insurance
companies were his financial ruin. After
having invested his money iu them and
losing it, he decided that he had nothing
further to live for, and so he jumped
into the river.
Andrew Nelson died on the 5th of
October from a dose of two ounces of
prussio acid administered by himself.
Just prior to his death he explained at
length, in a letter to the Herald, his
reasons for bis taking on. a cnarge 01
LSgi aAimll-aao of the most dangerous and
1.A former aprvant in hi- IiouhO. worried P1? k 6wo.ra nev?rto
by a former servant in his house, worried
and annoyed him. He appealed to the
law, which he thought waa too slow, and
harassed and despondent he left his case
" .:i7 1.a A i.i.
unfinished here and went to plead
cause in the Court of Court.
tt t A n fv. ...n I
age and a cartman. In bis younger days
T- dt :.X; i;.
he had amassed considerable property in
his business, but acquired with it the
habits of excessive drinking and gamb
ling. He drank away hia health aud
gambled away his property, and on the
7th of October hanged himself to a beam
in the cellar of his house. - "
Andrew Cooper .was seventy-seven
years -of age and ailing an' old man,
with gca&i and wliitettuig locks aud yet
he was impatient to meet the dread de
stroyer. On the fltJi of October the old
man took his way to High Bridge, and
walking to tho cehtre gazed for a time
over the parapet. The distance below
was nearly two hundred feet, but it
seemed to'have no terrors for him. He
carefully laid his cap upon the stone,
and as careiuiiy mounted ana stood upon
the parapet, his white hair streaming in
the wind. A moment and he waa over,
and a splash below announced the re
ception of his corpse by the river.
imnnes Martin, a renenman, iorty
five years of age, lived for the nine years
immediately preceding his death, which
occurred on the itith of September, in a
small back room iu the house No. 156
Forsyth street :He lived aa a hermit,
and for a living made children s toys.
He had no friends and made no acquaint
ances, and the sole dosire of his life
seemed to be alone. His business waa a
good one, even during the financial
troubles, and after his death orders for
hundreds of dollars' worth of toys were
found on files it his rooms. His was
certainly one of those cases where
"unknown" might be justly answered
when the question as to the cause is
asked. He was found dead with a bullet
wound in his head with the pistol on the
floor beside him. He died as silently as
he had lived.
A Sister' Devotion.
Never have we been called upou to
chronicle a more heart-rending accident,
nor one which has enlisted a more gen
eral and genuine ympathy with the af
flioted family, than that which occurred
at Union Mills on list Friday afternoon,
says a recent issue of the Nicholasvillo
(Ky.) Jessamine i Journal. Misses
Blackford, Misses Bourne and Charley
Bourne composed a party at Mr. Clai
bourne Rutherford s; hat day. In the
morning some of the company attended
the protracted meeting in progress at
East Hickman, but they all met at the
dinner table, when one of the young
ladies proposed to go to the the flouring
mill, stating that she had never seen one
working. Consequently the party named
above, with Miss Julia and Miss Annie
Rutherford, went down to Steele & Bro
naugh's mill, and Captain Steele, with
his usual urbanity, was showing them
around. They had been looking at the
bolting-cloths, aud passed over some
shipstuff. Miss Annie Rutherford shook
her skirt to rid it of the dust which had
adhered to it, when it caught in a mitre
apg-whecl, about one foot from the floor,
which drew it into the machinery, and
there was a similar wheel about iliree
feet higher, in which her left arm was
caught and was taken i lean off, together
with the flesh and bone off her breast.
Clinging to the shaft, her skirt fast in
the bottom wheels, die was 'whirled
round at the rAte -of iriry-four revolu
tions per minute.
Frautio with excitement, Miss Julia
Rutherford rushed to her sister's assist
ance. Charley Bourue did his best to
keep her from the danger she was ex
posing herself to, and at the same time
doing his utmost to extricate Annie, but
Julia persisted that she conld not stand
to see her sister in such a place, and
putting her arras around her, had her
right arm taken on by the same wheel,
Annie's clothes were so twisted that it
was impossible to pull her away until
the engine was stopped by Captaiu
Steele, which took about one niinnte to
do, and Mr. Samuel Gosuey, perceiving
there was something wrong, instantly
lowered the stones. The scene now
baffled description. There were the cogs
rilled with flesh and bones. An arm
lying on the floor, the glove still on the
hand, two lovely girls prostrate in their
Wood, Uhorley lioumo with his left
thumb cut off, from which he has suf
fered intensely, and was threatened with
lock-jaw, but is now probably out of
danger. Mr. James Bronaugh, Jr., took
Julia home in a buggy, and Mr. Steele
fixed Annie on a board and presented
her to her distressed parents. Thus the
company who, a few minutes before, were
happy and joyous, were plunged into
inexpressible grief by a shocking and
deplorable accident. ' Drs. Jasper,
Woloh and Skillman have been indefati
gable in their attendance on the suffer
ers, and at last accounts they were inv
proving.
Miss Annie did not rally from the ef
fects of the shock for forty-eight hours.
but since reaction has taken place fully
stie bids as fair to recover as Alias j nlin,
whose arm was amputated on Saturday,
A Robber's Wife Suing a Sheriff.
The wife of J. M. Berry, the Union
Pacific Railway robber killed by Sheriff
Ulascock, of iayette county, Mo., has
brought suit against that officer for $20,
000 damages. Sheriff Glascock, after the
wounded robber had been brought into
the town of Mexico, where ho died
stated that he first called upon Berry to
surrender, and only area when he at
tempted to escape, thus committing an
excusable homicide by the fact that it
was committed in the lawful discharge of
official duty. Jt is stated that the real
fact is that Sheriff Glascock crept up on
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! xerry wiiue u wim ueieeij iu me unibii
J.Md both barrels of his gun without
-ttlAHJK UU IllUl VJ nUllOmiU. illiO BUILD-
raent is made the more plausible by the
significant circumstance that eighteen
buckshot entered the robber's leg just
above the knee, ranging upward, and
lodging in or croing oat through the hip,
thus showing that he must have been in
a recumbent position, with hia feet
toward the sheriff when the gun
was discharged. It is furthermore stated
that the sheriff, and one or two of his
posse aiinutted this to be true, and lusti
lied the act by the fact that Rerry was a
tie taken alive, and that, being a dead
6hot, he would certainly have killed one
i mole , 1118 pursuers nau ne received
I a moment's warning. It is also charged
against the sheriff that he permitted the
: WOU!
wounded robber to bleed to death : and
Mhat with timely medical assistance.
which was available, he would have un
doubtedly recovered from hia wounds.
A man near Wasted, Conn., while
lmnting recently saw a gray squirrel
high on the liiar) of tree. Aa be was
about to fire a tawk pounced upon the
squirrel andjraa bearing it away, when
the man ipdg. a second aiin aud, brought
them dfiw down. .
BRIUIIAM'S "AYENHIXO ANGEL."
A Pane or Necret .Mormon History foil of
. Interest.
A correspondent writes to a Cincinnati
paper. " What I have told you must
not find its way into print while Brigham
Young lives? These words were ad
dressed to your correspondent in Decem
ber, 1871, at Omaha. The man who
spoke them waa George P. Case, for
several years a resident of Bay county,
Michigan. I found him in Omaha at
the date mentioned, sick, penniless and
seemingly about to die, and it was only
when he had become convalescent and
was about ready to start for Mexico that
he gave me the information used below.
I had heard rumors that Case had passed
several years of his life iu the employ of
Brigham Young, but he denied these
rumors in the most positive manner un
til he felt assured that he would not be
betrayed. Partly because I pressed him
to, and partly from grntitude at the little
I had been able to do for him, he gave
me such a liistory of five years of his life
as made me almost hate the sight of him,
A year ago, when the John D. Lee ex
citement was at fever heat, certain officials
wero informed where Case could be
found, and were given an inkling of what
he could swear to if he would, but ho
left Vera Cruz about that time and sailed
for South America, where he now is, if
Irvine.
Georee 1'. uase was no more or less
than ono of Brigham Young's paid as
sassins or avenging angels. His ac
quaintance with Young was brought
about rather curiously, lie was at ait
Lake City, on his way to California.
This was in the spring of 1866, and the
Gentile population of Utah was fast in
creasing. Being on the street at a late
hour one night, the prophet was recog
nized by three or four boisterous chaps,
and they were ready to give him a rough
laudtiug. when Uase came up and took
the old man 8 part and beat them on.
He was asked to call on Young the next
day, and before tho interview closed Case
iad hired to the prophet as a detective.
He was led to believe that his duties would
e the same as those of an ordinary
detective, but it was not long before he
iliscovered that his associates were as
sassins, and that assassination would be
come part of his duties.
Case waa rough ana reckless, but he
. . ... ...
was neither ji robber nor a murderer,
When he found himself pomte 1 out on
the streets as an avenging angel, no
sought an interview with Young, and
stated his desire to resign his position,
" It would be safer for you to continue
on, was the prophet s reply,
" But I don't want to," protested Case,
I want to go on to California.
" Men who leave our service after be
ing entrusted with our secrets do not- al-
wavs sret alousr finely, continued louug.
Wo npoke very, pleasantly and he
seemed very friendly, but there was
something in his look and tone that gave
Case a feeling of uneasiness. Ho was
given a day or two to reflect, and he
finally decided to remain. Tho mystery
mid adventure of the new calling wero a
great temptation, the pay good, and the
Micfiigander weut back to duty.
Case had no incentive to deceive me in
nnv particular. He was then tree from
Mormon influence, about to leave the
comity, and ho was giving me infovmu
tion winch he know would bo locked up
for years; and he made in statements
which he conld not back up bv dates,
names, personal descriptions and other
incidents sufficient to prove that he was
telling the truth. Ho said that when
once a Gentile had been given over to
the avenging angels he was a dead man.
They might put him out of tho way at
once or might delay a month, according
t' circumstances, but the shadow of
neatli walked beside tho victim from the
moment his name was handed in to the
"Angels." In some cases tho victim
was imprisoned lor a time, iu order to
extort information, or for reasons best
known to tho Chnrch. When once the
dunteon doors had shut behiud him, no
ninn ciine out ulive. In some cases the
dead body would bo left on the street,
and it would be made to appear that the
man had been waylaid, lu other in
stances it would be carried out on some
highway or flung into the lake. Many
of the Gentiles, and more particularly
those of wealth and standing, had noth
ing to say against the Churh, but in
many cases gave it more or less support.
Such people had no cause to fear. Other
Gentiles wero fierce in their denuncia
tions, and sometimes provoked quarrt-ls;
but unless they heeded tho contents of a
warning letter their tongues were soon
silenced.
Ono day in 1867 a man named William
Foster Bnckley, a resident of Birming
ham, England, arrived at Salt Lake in
quest of his sister, a girl of nineteen,
who ran away from home and joined a
party of Mormon converts ready to sail
for America. Ou her arrival at Salt
Lake she married a Mormon named J.
Y. Thomas, living about fourteen miles
from the city. She was his fourth wile
aud was by no means contented with her
lot. She ran away from him two or three
times, aud was once punished by being
shut up iu the cellar for two weeks and
fed on bread and water. No one knew
of Buckley's presence in the West until
he hod reached Salt Lake and begun
making inquiries about his sister. He
found out where she was and rode out to
the house, and, when ho learned from
her own lips how she was situated, his
hot English blood fired up to the boiling
point. He returned to the city to secure
uu interview with the Prophet At Buch
interview ho was plainly given to under
stand that his sister must remain where
she was, and that Salt Lake City would
not be a safe place for him after twenty
four hours more.
Buckley purchased two horses, ad
ditional fire-arms, aud at eleven o'clock
at night set out for the ranch, his object
bciag to rescue his sister from the house
aud ride away with her. Spies had been
watching all his movements. When he
left the city three avenging angels, one
of whom was Case, rode alter him. In
mentioning this affair, Case said : "He
fought like a tiger. As soon as he knew
we were after him he dismounted, let hia
horsee go, took cover behind the rocks,
aud we did not get the drop on him till
one of our angels had been killed and
another wounded. We left hia corpse in
the road and it was srenerallv believed
that he had been killed by robbers or
Indians, r
Buckley's sister kuew enough of Mor-
nionism to suspect who Had murdered
lier brother, and the tragedy preyed
upou her mind till she became a lunatic
and one day destroyed her own life.
In tho summer of i860 one of the
wives of a Mormon, named Johnson, a
ranchman, fled from his home on horse
back, leaviDg tho place early in the
morning. Word waa sent to the city,
and Cose and five other " angels " were
detailed to overtake the fugitive and
bring her back. The woman had made
considerable trouble for tho Church one
way and another, and it was the inten
tion to put her out of the way alter sue
had been recaptured. The "angels"
found her just at dark in the camp of
four hunters, where she had taken
refnee about noon. A demond was made
for her, but the borderers refused to give
her tip, having promised her that she
should be taken to one of the forts in
Colorado. Arguments and threats were
of no avail, and the avengers drew off
and began an attack on the hunters.
They soon discovered, however, that
they had more than they could handle.
Two of them were killed and a third
wounded, and when they drew off and
despatched a messenger for reinforce
ments the hunters broke camp and made
a safe escape.
Hotel Rents In New lork.
Fully a score of hotel failures have
occurred in New York since the panic,
writes a New York correspondent.
Among the principal hotels which have
changed hands from this cause are the
St. James, the Astor House, the New
York, tho Grand Union, the Winchester
and the Coleman. Tho Rossmore may
bo added, with the explanotion thot the
lessee, Mr. Leland, surrendered it to the
owner because he could not make it pay,
not in consequence of actual failure,
for ho has not failed. Tho transfer of
the Metropolitan and the Rossmore took
place on the same day. In almost every
instance of hotel failure within the time
named the chief cause has been exhorbi-
tant rent. Managers have tried to push
ou under leases made at war figures, and
many have finally had to succumb. Tho
rents 6till paid by tho principal hotels
are decidedly steep. The Fifth Avenue
Hotel property, including tho six stores
fronting on Broadway, brings an annual
rental of 8200,000. The rent of the
hotel proper is about 8150,000. Tho
rent of the stately Windsor, which had
just been brought up to a paying point
when the owner, Mr. Daly, wandered off
to a desolate spot near Cavalry cemetery,
and committed suicide, is $125,000. Next
to this iu steepness waa the rent of the
Metropolitan before tho late reduction,
namely, $110,000. The proprietors of
the St. Nicholas have been paying $80,
000, but I understand the figure has
lately been cut down somewhat. Mr.
Breslin pays $40,000 for the handsome
Gilsey. The Lelands pay the same for
the Sturtevant, which, though not so
stylish in its structure, is considerably
larger than the Gilsey, and the Hoffman,
about the same size as the Gilsey, also
rents for 40,000. The New York nnd
tho St. Denis are each fcaS.OOO, and half
a dozen others, including the Coleman,
Albemarle, St. Cloud, Grand Central
and Continental, range from $20,000 to
$30,000.
A Wild Pigeon Boost In Missouri.
Timid aud harmless animals become
forinidible aud even terrible when con
gregated iu great numbers. They take
no notice whatever ot man, mid m their j
congregated capacity become his foe. A
herd of bnflulo on the plains is ft terror
in its march ; a drove of rats in North
ern Europe attacks all living things that
come iu its way, aud evt u a flock of
pigeons, if big enough, becomes a great
nuisance, if not a danger. A pigeon
roost is a big thing, and they have a big
pigeon roost on the Auglaize river near
Dodson'a camp-ground, Cuiuden county,
Missouri. It is an annual roost, and
disturbs the quiet of tho people of the
section. The newspaper man finds it
difficult to edit and print his paper in a
pigeon rooBt. Millions of pigeons cover
the trees and sometimes break them
down. There is a frightful confusion of
noises iu this pigeon pandemonium the
crashing of limbs, the roaring of multi
tudinous pigeons, and the cracking of
shot guns sweeping the birds down by
hundreds and thousands, all night long.
Nobody can sleep in such an uproar any
niore'than they could amid the thunders
of a "raging battle. Besides this, there
is a darkening of tho air by tho
birds iu their flight, which makes
continual cloudy weather. But the peo
ple of this pigeon roost are making the
best of the situation. The pigeon has
become a leading article of commerce iu
the country. Last year over 100,000
Eonnds of pigeons were shipped from
toutland, and the pigeon yieh. this year
promises to be as good. But every tiling
else stops iu the pigeon-roosting season
except the newspapers. S'f. Lituh Dem
ocrat. cw York Fashion;..
The princesse dress, with waist
aud
i skirt in one, is the popular style for
wedding dresses. Newer than this is tho
empress dress with the brocaded back
and train, having side gores added to
tho waist that extend upward to the neck,
while tho plain satin or gros graiu front
is made to represent a vest and apron
dranerv.
The black silk house dresses are iu
the new empress style, partly of brocade
or of embossed velvet, or else satin. If
they are entirely of silk they ore made
dressy by having plastrons or vests and
sleeves of jet or of clair de tune beads.
Embroidered gloves are o 'ered, but
the refined choice is for plain, untrimmed
gloves without ornamental stitching and
with the long wrists that make the hands
look slender. Those fastened by three
or four buttous are most used for the
street. Old-gold-colored gloves are the
dressy choice for wearing with black and
dark dresses. Undressed kid gloves are
more fashionable than at any previous
season.
Bonnets are chosen with reference to
each dress, but there is more latitude
aud less strict matching of bonnet and
dress than formerly.
Coronet bonnets are suddenly' re
stored 10 lavor. xne coronet is very
high in the middle, very plain and very
close on the aides. The jet aud clair tie
itno-coronets with a drooping fringe on
the edge a,re very handvsome for black
Itcui of Interest.
The young Prince Napoleon resemblea
his father, in the ends of his mustache.
A man in Hartford, Ky., has a watch
three hundred years old that is still a
good timepiece.
A woman in New York recently drop
ped dead on hearing of the arrest of her
son for burglary.
Von Moltke says that it is not possible
to form any just estimate of the German
army, because it has -not been beaten
yet.
It has been discovered that the higher
np you go tho further yon can see down
into a body of water. Victims of the
lost steamboat explosion will please write
out their observations.
The way we see now to pet rich, is
To follow the style in vogue, which is
Peculate with propriety,
Till you're bounced from society
There's where the only real hitch is.
A newspaper thus heads the report of
a fire : " Feast of the Fire Fiend The
Forked-Tongued Demon Licks with its
Lurid Breath a Lumber Pile 1 Are the
Scenes of Boston and Chicago to be Re
peated ? Loss, $150."
A farmer's wife iu Jay, Vermont,
nwhile ago became displeased with the
hired man of the place, and while her
husband was away discharged him and
did all tho household and farm work her
self, digging fifty bushels of potatoes in
a day.
A New York jeweler, from whom a
stranger ordered $800 worth of watches .
in tho name of a well-known man in
Stamford, Conn., took the goods to
Stamford instead of sending them, be
cause he feared a swindle. He found
his suspicious verified, and felt so good
to think he had not been cheated that he
got drunk and was robbed of his $800
package by a thief.
As near as we can ascertain, there are
in the States of Maryland, Virginia,
North and South Carolina and Georgia
80,000 more females than mates in a
total nativo population of 3,000,000, and
in New England a like overplus of 20,
000 in a native white population of
2,500,000. These facts indicate that we
shall, perhaps, by the time we write
1900, have a two per cent, surplus of fe
males as an aggregate of the whole pop
ulation (in 50,000,000, 1,000,000). Cin
cinnatiComrnercial There have been fifty-three steamers
aud seven hundred men engaged in
porgy fishing on the Maine coast this
season, but fewer fish than usual have
boon caught, as the fish have been
smaller and hove escaped through the
net meshes. The largest school seen
was fivo miles long and a mile wide, and
was estimated to contain millions of bar
rels, but the largest single catch was
fourteen hundred barrels. There are
sixteen porgy oil-factories in the State,
each employing from twenty-five to sixty
men, and involving a capital of over one
million dollars.
Words of Wisdom.
In being angry we punish ourselves.'
The only way to make a friend is to
I e one.
Meu are like words ; wheu not prop
erly placed, they lose their value.
Let no ono descend so low as to con
sider money to be the chief good.
"Men ore never so ridiculous by the
qualities they possess as by those they
affect to possess.
" Live on what yon have ; live if you
can on less ; do not borrow, either for
vanity or pleasure ; the vanity will end
in shame and the pleasure iu regret"
Universal love is a glove without fin
gers, which fits all hands alike, aud uoue
closely ; but true affection is like a glove
with fingers which fits one hand only
and sets close to thot one.
The reo-son why great meu meet with
so little pity or attachment in adversity
would seem to bo this : Tho friends of
0 great roan were made by his fortunes
his enemies by himself ; and revenge is
a much moro punctual paymaster inau
gratitude.
Every man stamps his value on him
self. The price we challenge for our
selves is given us. There does not live
ou earth a man, be his station what it
may, that I despise myself, compared
with him.- Man is made greut or little
by his own will.
Tho Sequel to an Elopement.
A fine-looking, middle-aged lady of
Philadelphia recently called upon the
overseer of the poor at Newark, N. J.,
and told the following story : "Eight
years ago my daughter eloped with a
inarried man named Giese, aud her
whereabouts I was unable to aacertain
until a few days ago, when I was in
formed she died iu the poorhouse of
this city." Inquiry was mode, which
resulted iu finding that the young lady
had died a year ago at tho hospital, and
at the time of her death Giese was an iu
mate of t e city prison on a charge o.'
drunkenness. Further, that she had two
children. The eldest chdd was found at
the orphan asylum supported by the
German residents of that city; the other
was found iu the possession of a woman,
who had had tho child since it was six
months old (it is now two years of age),
and implored the overseer to permit her
to retain the baby, as she had become
much attached to it Notwithstanding her
teara and exhortations the little girl
for such it was waa torn from her and
givn, with the other, into the keeping
of the grandmother, who returned to
Philadelphia.
Slander.
Anybody can soil the reputation of an
individual however pure and chaste, by .
uttering a suspicion that his enemies
will believe and his friends never hear
of. A puff of the idle wind can take a
million of the seeds of thistle and do a
work of mischief which the husbandman
must labor long to undo, the floating
particles being too fine to be seen and
too light to be stopped. Such are the
seeds of slander, so easily sown, so diffi
cult to be gathered up, and yet so per
ni( ious in the fruit Tho slandere
knows that many a mind will catch up
the plague and become poisoned by his
insinuations, without ever aeeking the
antidote, aud the mischief U doue