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: HENRY A. PARSONS, Jr., Editor and Publisher. NIL DESPERANDUM. Two Dollars per Annum.
: VOL. XI. RIDGWAY, ELK COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY, iTOYEMBER 24, 1881. . NO. 40.
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All lor Nothing.
Happy the man whoso far remove
. From business and the giddy throng
Jits liiiu in the paternal groovo
Unquestioning to glide along,
Apart from struggle and from strife,
Contont to live by labor's fruits,
And wander down the vale of life
In gingham Bhirt and cowhide boots.
Ho too is Mossed who, from within
By strong and lasting impulse stirred,
Faces the turmoil and the din
Of rushing life ; whom hope doferred
But more incites ; who ever strives,
s And wants, and works, and waits, nntil
, The multitude of other lives
, Fay glorious tribute to his will.
' But he who, greedy of enown,
Is too tenacious of his ease,
Alas for him ! Nor busy town
Nor oountry with his mood agrees j
Eager to reap, but loth to sow,
Ho longs nwnslrarl dlgiio,
And looking on with envious eyes,
liivoB restloss and obscurely dies.
A QUEER THANKSGIVING.
" It's the loneliest old place in Bom ,
this Palazzo Comparini," said Thor ,
an American painter, to Giuseppe, the
porter. Giuseppe always lounged at a
door that led from the court-yard into a
darkness and a dampness supposed to be
his apartment. Giuseppe was white
haired and Lent, and after the fashion
of the Italian lower orders, felt almost
past work at fifty, but certainly not past
the pleasures of conversation.
"Certo, signore, the palace is lonely
enough nowadays, but the Oomparinis
used to bo rich, and kept tip a great
state. No grass in the court then, no
mold on those marble steps, no silence,
no foreign painters on the top ; floor
(without offense to you, signore). Then
tho young count ah, well, he was a
rare one " here the old porter fell to
laughing "and a gay one, and a care
less one. He went to Paris, and. whew!
away went the money. The villa was
sold, the property on the Oorso was
sold, the palace at Naples was sold, and
back came the count, as merry as ever,
and got mariied Married a young wife,
and then away went her fortune. Paris
aga:n; horses, gambling, betting, Bnd
worse. Five years ago he died died
merry, too. A pleasant man was the
oount "
" V ry plciFaut man," paid Thorn
primly. " Then he tquandered every
thing?' .
" Except this palace; and that would
have iroue if lie hud lived."
" How atiout his wife V '
'Vteil, her father &ave hei some
thing more, and then here's the palact
et. W-iit, Kifrnore."
Giniieppe sui JU-d off toward a vonng
lady who l ad jm-t entered, and whi
becltoned him fri.iu the staircase. She
was a ittle person, wiih a low brow ai
.wonderful liquid Southern eyes and a
row of SiuaU teeth like, as Thorn men
tally remarked, sweet corn, She had a
dimple ia ono cheek only. You couldn't
ask a mate in the other cheek, for such
a dimple couldn't possibly be repeated.
She hud a small straight note and a full
mouth; the was brown, and she vas
quick, yet languid. She talked with
Giuseppe iu lively fashion, yet leaned
against, a pedestal, like a weary nymph
in a picture. All this Thorn noted
Then he caught Giuseppe's name as she
pronounced it, with that gentle separa
tion of the syllables, as if for lingering
more tenderly on each.
" What a lovely name tho old wretch
has I" he thought. As the little lady
tripped lightly np the stairs he was very
glad to ask the old wretch, and right
eagerly too, "Who it the sigaorina?"
" The Countess Vittoria Gomparini."
" Does she live here ?"
"Olcourso. On the second floor."
"Does she does anybody does Bhe
have many visitors?" stammered Thorn,
adding, to Limself, " Confound this
foreign tongue 1 it won't let a fellow say
whnt he means."
Giuseppe caught the meaning pretty
surely, for he answened: "Certainly,
signore, the countess sees her own
friends." -
' You mean the foreigners that is,
the Romans."
41 1 mean the Romans, not the for
eigners. ' Ladies like herself, and gen
tlemen like the count, her late hus
band."" "Like the fellow that spent her
dowry."
I. mean gentlemen people who
don't work as I do, or as "
" Ha ! ha ! as I do," laughed Thorn.
" Well yes, signore," said Giuseppe,
with polite hesitation.
"Here's a genuine old woid crea
ture," thought Mr. Thorn, nr-t a little
amused, " untouched by repuMicanism,
communism or nihilism. Prny that his
mistress is rr" moderr -kn J so, access
ible." A vain prayer it seemed, for in pay
ment of a month of cold sentinel duty
on the marble stairs, often an hour at a
time, Mr. Thorn had met the Countess
Gomparini but twice. Once she passed
him with a slight bow and downoast
eyes aa he politely lifted, his hat; and
one morning she looked up with a
"Grazio,- signore," as he restored the
prayer-book that she had let fall on re
turning from early mass. This wasn't
the American way of getting on with a
lovely woman, so Thorn applied to an
Italian fellow at the banker's who talked
English.
"Posseeble to know the Countess
Comparibi, my dear follow ? No. The
couutessa is of an old house. Bhe likes
not the foreigners. Impoeseeble, my
dear boy."
"Is ift" said Thorn, and shut hia
toeth In good New Er gland fashion.
"We'll see."
Then he lounged about town for days,
making acquaintances among the nobili
ty. Counts and marquises in plenty he
came to know, for Thorn was only pleas
ing a Bohemian fancy by lodging in an
old palace, and could ailord to stand
dinners for even the bungtiest nobles in
Italy. But no luck. Invariably he
found the Countess Gomparini inap
proachable, frequenting a small circle,
but cot inclined to foreign society.
Sometimes he saw her piquant little
face on the Fincian, aa she drove alone
in an open carriage, and then he went
home and laid the maddest schemes.
Fie even knocked some motUr out ol
the solid wall in his apartment, and told
Giuseppe that he required, as a tenant,
to see the countess about some repairs.
"The signore will go to the agent on
tho Oorso," said Giuseppe.
At last Thorn became horribly jealous
of this old porter, who was sure of a
smile and a pleasant word, or perhaps a
little confidential talk, as the countess
would come in from her drive. Gloom
ily pondering Giuseppe's good fortune,
an idea struck the American. The
countess was out. Giuseppe was some
thing of a connoisseur" in wines Now
Thorn had a certain flask containing a
certain liquid that might easily be called
American wine. Giuseppe, without
much persuasion, swallowed a good pin
of whisky straight, and swore it was
better than Montepnlciano. Soon he
lay senseless in the court yard, and
then Thorn coolly sauntered into the
street waiting for the countess' car
riage. Before long it came, and ho
lounged discreetly in the porte cochere.
" Giuseppe I" called the countess, in
that cooing way that always set Thorn
wishing to be an old serving-man. Then
seeing the man's prostrate form, she
gave a little cry, and going to him in
sweet womanly fashion, turned up his
rough face, and said, "Ob, the poor
Giuseppe is ill Teresa !" This last to
her maid, who might have heard through
one of the open windows, but did not.
Teresa, help me. Poor Giuseppe 1"
This was Thorn's time. Advancing,
he said : " Pardon me, signora, but I
have a little skill. I can help the
man."
" Are you a doctor, signore ? I thought
you were a
"A painter," said Thorn, secretly
exulting that she had thought of him at
all. " So I am, but so poor a ono that
I'vo wit enough outside my own craft
to treat a simple case like this.
"Oh, he is an old and faithful ser
vant." " Leave him to me, and iu a short
time I will let you know his condition,"
said Thorn, formally.
Reluctantly she went. Thorn moved
tho man inside, and in five minutes met
the countess' anxious face at the door
of her own salon. Be sure Giuseppe's
recovery was delayed ; be sure that only
Teresa, the maut, who did not under
stand the symptoms, was allowed to
approach him ; and be very sure that
bulletins were conveyed every few
minutes to the countess by a tireless
oietsi nger. During the evening the
invalid became conscious. Then Mr.
Worthington Thorn, with every claim
to gratitude, with a year of formal ac
quuintacce, franchised at one luckv
iiound, reposed his six feet of American
pluck and expedient on an ancient
Coinparini sofa, and secretly laid down
before the ladys dainty little slippers
all his honest New England heart.
Now Giuseppetoo, was indebted to
Thorn for not mentioning the nature of
his illness, and obeying the order to re
main iudit'posed for several days
Several days 1 why, they were more
like several weeks, so common had it
grown for the couutess to say, " A
riverderla, Signor Torn;"
" Thorn, if you please, signora."
Then, with a violent exertion to ful
fill the rules of enunciating "th," tho
troublesome combination would some
how slip away iu a laugh, and the
countess would say, blushing and look
ing very lovely indeed, " Ah ! I can
never say that foreign name of yours."
" Try my first name Worthington."
" Vortinton. Is that right ?"
"Whatever you say is right."
" Ah I your Italian improves. You
can make compliments already."
In truth, Thorn got on wonderfully
in Italian. With so much practice, no
wonder. Not only had he much to say
on his own account, but the countess
was insatiable in her curiosity about
his home and the ways of the American
people.
" How strange and how foreign I Ah I
an Italian could never like such things,"
she would exclaim.
"Then you do not like, anything
foreign, countess ?"
A little shrug for answer, and a little
elevation of the eyebrows, that might
mean polite reluctance to offend, and
might mean bashful hesitancy to speak
a flattering truth.
" And do women speak," the countess
asked, "in public- in America?"
" Oh, yes; that's common."
" And their husbands, what do they
say?"
"That if a woman has ideas or opin
ions, she has a right to express them."
" An Italian wouldn't like that. And
how about a woman's dowry ?"
"Most women marry without any."
" Italians wouldn't like that," laughed
the countess.
" But if a wife has property, it is
protected so the husband shall not
squander it. Would the Italians like
that?"
"I I think the women would," and
the countess looked thoughtful.
Thorn felt he was striking home and
making progress; but the countess see
ing him dare to look happy again,
Btarted her raillery again. "Now tell
rue about your festa days. What do
you do at Easter ?"
" Nothing much where I live. Some
people eat a few eggs or put a few
flowers in the churches."
" How sad I No Easter 1 But you
have a carnival ?"
" Not where I live."
" No carnival 1 But tn Italian would
die without the carnival. Pray what do
you have ?"
" We have Fourth of July."
" Forterhuli and what is that ?"
Thorn explained in few words, add
ing : "We make all the noise possible ;
send off fireworks all day andull night;
but it's very hot and disagreeable."
" It must be dreadful. But you have
holidays. There's Christmas."
" Oh yes j we go to church then."
" Stand up and hear prayer V"
"Yes."
"Then we haveThanksgivii)g."
" Tanksgeevin V
Yes ; that's a great day in late No
vember.jwhen we have turkeys."
" Turkevs t where ?" and the countess
opened her soft eyes so wide that Thorn
qutte lost himself in their Drown
depths.
Where? Oh, on tho tao:e, ti ut
sure."
"Turkeys, and little trees, and a great
noise on a hot d.T7. and no carnivaii
I could never like American ways." The
countess shook her head with decision,
and for the rest of the evening smiled
upon a stout, middle-aged marquis, who
had a waxed mustache.
For weeks Thorn haunted the old
salon, meeting the stout marquis at
every call, while Countess Vittoria be
stowed her favors evenly. If she ad
mired Thorn's last picture, she admired
the marquis' new horse; if she lot the
marquis play with her fan, she let
Thorn steal "a flower from her bouquet.
When she was not present, the marquis
glared at the American, and the Ameri
can whistled softly to himself and
looked over the stout gentleman s head.
He was tall enough to do it in an aggra
vating way. At last matters came to
a crisis whon Thorn sang a love song to
Vittoria's own guitar, and pointed tho
words very dramatically. The marquis
followed him out, and on the stairs said,
very red and short of breath: " You
will fight me, signore."
" Why ?" demanded Thorn," quietly.
"You know why. The Countess
Comparini."
"Well?" and Thorn leisurely lighted
a cigar. " I don t quite see your point.
If you are an accepted suitor of tho
lady"
" I fancy I am to be so favored," ro-
plied the marquis, fiercely.
"Then I esteem the countess too
highly to injure her future husband.
On tho other hand," continued Thorn,
with provoking calm and distinctness,
1 ' if you are not an accepted suitor "
" Well, suppose I'm not?" blustered
tho marquis, rather betraying weak
ness in his haste.
" Then, ssignor juarchese, you are
less than nothing to me. I wouldn't
waste the time walking out to a re
tired spot to shoot you down."
"Then you won't fight?"
"No."
The marquis was purple with rage by
this time, and exclaimed: "Coward!
At the .vord Thorn asked: "Have
you pistols?"
"I have;" and a valet was beckoned
who presented a pair. " Ha 1 you will
fight, then I sneered the marquis.
Thorn made no reply, but exami;aed
one of the weapons.
" Do you observe," he said, still
smoking, "tile forefinger of that
statue?" It was a cast filling a niche at
the foot of tho long flight of stairs. As
he spoke he fired, and the finger, shot
off, clicked as it fell on tho marble
Btairs. The marquis had just time to
note that, when tho American said:
" Now this is for calling me a coward,"
arid delivered a b.ow right between hi
enemy's eyes which sent that titled gen-
tlemau roiling downstairs in a sense
less heap. Then Thorn went up to his
. - ! .i.-ll .I'll.
rooms, rue cigar ehh aligns.
Now Teresa, the maid, had overheard
this scene, and the next day th
countess said : " An Italian would have
had a duel with that gentleman, Signer
Torn."
"We dor.'t shoot fools in America;
we whip em, answered the young man
" Your ways are not like ours," sighed
the countess, with a mock regret, for a
emtio was playing in that one un match
able dimple.
Countess, could you never like our
ways?
" They are so singular," she answered,
evasively.
" Could you never like an American?
a ruau who loves you sincerely, who will
make of you not a plaything, not a
household ornament, but a companion,
a mend, a wite I
" It is all too strange;" and t-he spoke
low. I could never get used to you.
ion are so "
" Well, so what ?"
"So tall and so blonde, and "
" So ugly."
" No, but so different from us. And
your name I could never, never pro
nounceit. Vortinton Torn."
" I will pronounce it for you; I will
do everything for you." He approached
her, and she took ingiit.
"No, no, signore; don't ask me.
couldn't I couldn't."
" Then your answer" said Thorn,
growing very white.
" My answer is no."
"Good-rieht, countess, and good
bye. I have lived at Rome so long only
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iu me uope wuiuu you nave jusi oiast-
ed."
"Do you go soon?"
"I shall stay merely for a celebration
that my countrymen enjoy at this sea
son, and which I am pledged to attend."
" I know," said the countess. " It is
Jsovetuber.
He went off bravely enough, leaving
the little woman standing with her
pretty head on one side and her eyes
cast down.
It ought to be easy for a young fellow
of fortune, cf talent, of many resources
both wittun and outside of himself, to
shake off the thought of a little woman
standing with her eyes cast down, To
that end the American occupied him
self during the days that intervened be-
foro the Thanksgiving dinner. Besides
having promised to be present he
feared his absence, coupled with break
ing oil his known, intimacy with the
Countess Vittoria, would give rise to
remark and set gossip all agog.
One, two, three times twenty four
hours went slowly round. It was the
eve of Thanksgiving day; it would be
his last evening in the Uompariui pal
ace, his last but one in Rome. Poor
Thorn was seized with a desire to see
once more the face that had cost him so
much divine misery, to look once more
into the eyes that had banished him a
foolish, inconsistent impulse known
only to lovers. Half unconsciously he
tramped out into the great hallways
auu np ana aown the cold staircases,
imperfectly lighted by wretched oil
lamps. I here was confusion on the
floor where the oountess lived. People
were hurrying in at the doors, and then
men seemed carrying in great boxes.
He oould hear Teresa's shrill voice call.
ing on the Madonna as they stumbled
awkwardly under their burdens. Tho
noise ot arrivals ent on lor a long
time; then it wan hard to hear anything
distinctly, the place was bo large and
the walls so thick. Yet there was the
,-oiind of voire and laughter, nnd at
last some Beivinc-men went out in a
crowd, and Teresa's shrill whisper called
after them : "Bring enough for them all
to eat."
" Enough for them all to eat." It
was a party, then. Perhaps more had
come than were expected, and the care
ful Teresa had to make provision duly.
In a moment Thorn convinced himseli
that the stout marquis, who had proba
bly1 recovered from his tumble, was
being entertained by Countess Vittoria's
most winning smiles. In his excited
mind he could Bee them both; that
waxed mustache (how he hated it I);
and Vittoria from her dainty foot to
the topmost braid of her little head, he
could see her, too see her smile and
coquet and bandy compliments with
that detested fat fellow he had knoeked
downstairs. Thorn raged, shut him
self in the Btudio, walked up and down
all night, and looked like a specter in
the morning. Toward noon he fell
asleep, and waking with a start at 5
o clock, he got no to drees for the din
ner, heartily wishing it all over. Trying
to cogitate some verse, or toast, or epi
gram lor the occasion, he spied among
the brushes on the dressing-table a
dainty envelope. Evidently Giuseppe
had brought it while he slept. " The
Countess Comparini's compliments, and
she would be happy to see Signor
Thorn" (the h very carefully written)
"at 5 o'clock."
Thorn vowed he wouldn't go; then,
seeing it was already 5 o'clock, hur
ried his toilet. He whisked out a
clean handkerchief, he dashed a little
Cologne water about, still swore he
wouldn't go and be tortured anew, hasti
ly left his rooms, and marched straight
down to the familiar great door on the
second story. He was ushered as far as
the little antechamber. The drawing
room was closely shut. From another
entrance the countess advanced to meet
him. She was charmingly dressed, but
very gentle and Bhy.
She hoped she saw the signore well.
"That could hardly bo expected," ho
answered, all renontment gone, as he
looked down upon the tender, girlish
little creature who was so dear to him
"I have been," she faltered, "thiuk.
iug very seriously since we talked th
other day; and last evening "
Thorn' braced himself to hear she had
accepted the mat quia at the party.
" last evening I made up my mind.
I I want you to feel at home, bo I
arranged a little surprise. I hope you
will like it." Hero she opened 'the
druwi d g room door. "I hey make a
dreadful noise, but it pleases me for
your Hake."
The tears were in her eyes, she was
ready for his arms, yet Thorn stood in
route amazement. The Compnrini draw
in g-rom was half filled with tables,
cud oh every table was a crowd of gob
bling, screeching, flapping, living tur
keys, some tethered, somo cooped, but
all jnitjing in the dreadful din.
" What is the meaning " Thorn be
gan, in wild astonishment.
The countess broke down completely.
"It's tho custom of your country on
this day you told me bo turkeys on
tables," she sobbed. " I'll try to' be a
perfect American."
" You're a perfect angel," said Thorn,
and all Counters Vittoria's tearp, by
some strange law of hydraulics, ran
down an American-cut waistcoat.
"And do you feel very much at
home ? ' Bhe asked, in a happy whisper
" I never felt no much at home in my
life," he answered, clasping her closely.
"I knew you would. I'm so glad I
did itall right. The men found it hard
to fasten so many of them on the tables,
tuoug'i ; and the feeding, that was
dreadful."
Thorn laughod very muoh. "For
pity's sake, have them taken off," he
said.
" No ; they shall stay. I don't mind
the noise. Ah 1 caro, when these
tilings gobbled bo frightfully all night
long, I said, I will love them, for this
is the custom of his country perhaps a
part of his religion."
" Dearest," said Thorn, as well as he
could through the flutter and cackle
around them, "love has all customs,
all religions, and all countries for its
own. Nothing is hard, or strange, or
foreign to hearts that cling together
like ours.
It was not until the next year, when
the countess met a party of her hus
band's compatriots, that she found out
the real use of the great American
turkey.
A Question of Etiquette.
Among the humors chronicled of the
xorktown celebration it was mentioned
that the President was introduced to the
governor of Virginia, instead of the lat
ter being presented to the President of
the United States. Referring to the
story the Washington Star 6ays:
If so, it was merely another render
ing ot the old question of etiouette be
tween President George Washington
and Governor John Hancock, of Massa
chusetts. When the former made his
first visit to Boston after he became
President, ho accepted an invitation of
the governor to an informal dinner, but
t-xpecteft a call from that functionary as
soon as ho arrived, instead of which he
eceived a message from him pleading
that he was too much indisposed to do
bo. Washington doubted the sincerity
of the apology, as he had been given
to understand that the governor wished
to evade making the first call, holding
mat as governor or a State, and within
the bounds of that State, it was a proper
point of etiquette that he should receive
the first visit even from the President
of the United States. Washington re
sisted this pretension, so excused him
self from the dinner aud dined at hia
lodgings. The next Jay the governor's
mends advised him to wave the point
of etiquette, to be eent his best respects
to the President, informing him that if
at home and at leisure, he would do
himself the honor to vit.it him
in half an hour, intimating that he
would have done it sooner had his
health permitted, and that it was not
witnout hazard to his health that he did
it now.
"Three Shadows.
' ' t looked and saw your eyes
In the shadow of your hair,
As'a traveler sees tho stream
In tho shadow ot tho wood ;
And I said, 'My faint heart sighs,
Ah me I to linger there,
To drink deep and to dream
In that sweet solitude'
"I looked and saw your heart
In the shadow of your eyes,
As a seeker sees the gold
In tho shadow of the stream ;
And I Baid, 'Ah me 1 what art
Should win tho immortal prize ;
Whose want must make life cold,
And Heaven a hollow dream ?'
" I looked and saw your love
In the shadow of your heart,
As a diver sees the pearl
In the shadow of the sea ;
And I mm mured, not above
My breath, but all apart
' Ah you can love, true girl,
And is your love for me ?' "
HUMOR OF THE DY.
Light work The incendiary's.
The banana skin generally opens the
fall business.
No philosopher has explained why
stones are so scarce when a big dog
jumps upon the scene.
Diogenes sought for an honest man,
Bought him but couldn't find him ;
We look as vainly now for a man
Who will shut the door behind him.
Whatever you may have to do, do it
with your might. Many a lawyer has
made his fortune by simply working
with a will. Statesman.
You'll find many friends, as you travel lifo'e
road,
Who urofo'S to be friends of the heart.
Are much like the bad dog that stolo the oat's
meat,
And then said: "Oh, yes; I'll tako your
part."
Wit and Wisdom,
" The same thing," says a philosopher,
" often presents itself to us in different
aspects." That is true. For instance,
it makes all the difference in the world
whether you sit down upon the head or
point of a carpet tack. Sommcrville
Journal.
Charles Dudley Warner has written
an article on camping out, iu which
says nothing about tho rapturous ej
citement attendant upon stealing tu-
nips at moonlight, or !pttiDg up iu the
morning and cutting slices off a ham
with a dull hatchet. rtick.
Story of an Indian Caplive.
General John R. Baylor furnishes
the San Antonio (Texas) 7yrm with
the following incident connected wi'h
ins late visit to Corpus Chnati, where
lie met a Spaniard by the name of Tito
Rivera, whom he rescued from the
(Jomanehes a quarter of a century ago:
In lbOb I was United States Indian
aaent at the ComaDche reservation on the
Clear Fork of the Bruzos, then Throck
morton connty. One day I found a note
on my table from a boy, who asked that
he be taken from the Indians. Soon
afterward the boy walked into my office
with a bunch of turkey feathers fastened
to the top of his head, and his face
painted and dressed in the Indian
costume, and said he was tho bo
who left the note on my table. I asked
him where he come from, and he said
that his father was a Spaniard, anil
lived in the mining town of Tapio, iu
tho state of Duranpo, Mexico. He spoke
bpanish and also Comanche. I didu t
believe that he had written the note,
and to try him asked him to sit down
at my desk and show mo how he could
write. He wrote a beautiful hand for a
boy. Questioning him as to how he
came to fall into the hands of the In
dians, he said that his father owned a
pack train, and ono day ho went out
with the mules and the men in charge
of the mules aud camped. The Indians
came on thorn and took him into cap
tivity. After hearing his story I sent
for the Indian who claimed to own the
boy, and when he camo I told him 1
must- have Tito. He replied that I
could not, nnd I told him I would or
we would fight. He said that fight it
would be then ; the boy could not go.
I went to see General Robert E. Lee,
who was then lieutenant-colonel of the
Second United States cavalry, at Camp
Cooper, and who had been stationed
there to protect the Comanche camp.
hile there, Chief Cateman, of the (Jo
manches, who had heard of the object
of my visit, came to see me and said
that he wanted no trouble between my
self and the Indians, and that if I would
give up $100 worth of goods I could get
the boy. I gave him an order on the
sutler, and he was given the goods, and
the boy was tnrned over to me, I sent
the little fellow to my house ani he
lived with my children for about two
years, being treated as one of the family.
Afterward I met Major Neighbors, who
then lived near San Antonio, on the
Salado. Major Neighbors said he
wanted him, and if I would give him to
him he would send him back to his
mother. I turned him over to the
major, but he didn't send him back to
his mother, and the war came on and
he went into the Confederate army,
The bov was twelve vears old when I
took him, and the Indians had captured
him when nine, having had him three
years. He spoke the Comanche lau
guago perfectly, and I used him as in
terpreter. Major Neighbors left the
boy on his ranche on the Salado, near
San Antonio, and the boy entered the
Confederate army when about sixteen
years. Upon returning from the war
he stopped with Captain Albert Wal
laoe, on the Gibolo, fifteen miles
north of San Antonio, and from
there went to Galveston and thence to
Corpus Christi. While with Captain
Wallace he earned his living as a cow
boy. I went to Corpus Christi to see
the boy, Tito Rivera, now cashier of
the bank of Davis & Dodridge in Cor
pus Christi, and one of the most respect
able men of Corpus. lie married
Miss Mollis Woodward, and now has
one boy and two little girls, aud the
best of my visit was that the little
ohildren came about me threw their
arms around my neck and called me
grandpa. Rivera is a man now about
thirty-six years of age and ia a magni-
ficent-looking man.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.
Mrs. EdwtA ootb, wife of the tragedian,
died the other day in New fork.
The Massachusetts Taper company, of Spring-
fluid, Mass., has failed, with liabilities oi
1800,000.
Official returns from every county In Penn
sylvania give Baily, Republican, for State treas
urer, 7,002 plurality over Noble, Democrat.
A skiff ferryboat containing nineteen per
sons, while crossing the liver from Troy, N. Y.,
to Port Schuyler, was swamped by the swell ol
passing propellers, and five men were drowned
Colonel 3. Howabd Welles, a well-con,
nected New Yorker, has been caught in at
elaborate scheme to blackmail Jay Gould, ths
well-known stock operator, by sending him
letters threatening death In oase the sender wai
not given "points" regarding the probable ris
and fall in stocks. It was loarnod that all th(
letters wore mailed for station E, and on Sun
day fifty detectives and fifty letter carrier!
watched all the lamppost boxes in that district
Presently a letter was posted which a lottcl
carrier lound to be directed to Mr. Oould, and
at a Bignal a detoctive arrested Wollos, who hti
dropped it in the box.
A Boston dispatch says that the commission
to investigate tho oonduot of the Ninth Mas
sachusetts regiment, during its recent visit to
Yorktown, has reported to Governor Long that
members of the regiment wore guilty of gross
misconduct in Richmond, some of it of a very
grave character. It is recommended that the
colonel of the regiment be required to make a
searching Investigation, so as to discover and
discharge the offenders. Governor Long at
once directed the issuance of a special order
requiring tho colonel of tho regiment to ascer.
tain within thirty days what oQlcers or men had
been guilty of improper conduct. Failing to
present Buch names as required, the dispatch
says, the entire regiment will be held strictly
responsible for the reported misconduct and
will bo liable to such action as the governor
may direct.
At the International Labor Congress, hul 1 iu
Pittsburg; ninety dologatos, representing 220,.
000 workmen, were present.
The bark Low Wood arrived in New York a
fuw days ago having on board the captain and
crew of the barkontinn Bond Or, which was
wrecked in mid-ocean. Inrocsuingtho men a
mate and four sailors of tho Low Wood were
drowned.
Two pugilists, Holden and White, have been
having a fight fur tho " lightweight champion
ship" in tho vicinity of Erie, Pa. A large
crowd of roughs and " sporting men " wi r
present, but the brutal exhibition was stopped
by the police after four rounds had been fought.
Hon. Jou.n Bright has just celebrated his
seventieth binhdav.
Advices from Mecca, Arabia, say that 500
persons are dying daily there from cholora.
Bv an explosion supposed to bo of hidden
dynamite on board tho ston.mor Severn, from
Bristol for Glasgow, nine persons were killol,
sevoral wounded, and a portiou of tho vessel's
dock was blown away. The Severn was towed
into Kingston harbor.
The official count in Pennsylvania gives the
following vote tor State treasurer: Baily, Re
publican, 205,203; Noblo, Democrat, 258,387!
Wolfe, Independent Republican, 4!),969; Jack
son, Greenback, li.aio; Wilson, proniDition,
4,512.
Tub value of personal estate In Massachu
setts is $198,271,140; total value of real estate,
$1,119,965,827 ; total valuation, $1,048,239,976.
Total number of dwelling housos in the Stato,
280,563. Total number of acres of land as
sessed, 4,487,769.
The Pacific National bank of Boston, Mass.,
was compellod to suspend payments in conse
quence of the failure of Theodore C. Weeks, a
stock brokor.who had been allowed to overdraw
his account. At a meeting of creditors ot
the bank it was found that the Pacific National
had out about $500,000 of overdue paper, all of
which amount was held by a single concern.
Most of this paper consisted of Woek's notes
aud when interrogated the Pacific bank people
admitted that they had no money with which to
meet them.
Jons Reillt, aged 100 years, died the oth-ar
dny in New York from the effect of burns re
ceived by his clothing catching fire from a
pipe which he was smoking.
The ermont supreme court has sentenced
Bmoline L. Meeker, the convicted child mur
derer of Waterbury, Vt., to be confined in the
State prison till the last Friday of March, 1883
the last three months solitary and then to
be hanged. This is the first time a woman has
been sentenced to be hanged in Vermont.
South and West.
Prairie Creek broke through into a coa
mine at Streator, 111., doing damage to the ex
tent of about $100,000.
Low water caused an explosion of ten boile
in a large lumber manufactory near East Sagi
naw, Mich. Four firemen were killed and
property worth $25,000 was destroyed.
Snow has fallen in large quantities in West
ern Kansas, Colorado and Nw Mexico, and
trains have been greatly delayed. In othei
portions of the West very heavy rain hav
fallen.
A FUBioca storm on Lake Huron has done
great damage to shipping.
Trree inon were overtaken by a heavy snow
storm near Gunnison, Col., lost their way and
were frozen to death.
Two boys, agod respectively ten and four
years, quarreled at Shelbyville, Ind., ovor a
game of marbles, and the older stabbed the
younger, inflicting a fatal wound.
Jesse Baldwin, of Boardmaf township,
O do, who recently created a sensation by ap
pearing in the treasury department at Wash
ington aud demanding gold for $17,000 iu
bonds, was robbed of the money by five bur
glar at 3 o'clock in the morning. Baldwin
kept his money in an old-fashioned safe, which
was blown open. The robbers were fired upon
by Baldwin's son-in-law, and returned th
fire, after which they escaped In Baldwin'
two-horse carriage.
The people of Dakota are taking measures to
have that Territory become a State.
A fire near Columbus, Ohior destroyed the
insane asylum, causing a loss of about $250,
000. The 764 inmates were all removed iu
safety.
Levi Sparks, a colored man, was hanged at
Lumpkin, Ga., for chloroforming and assault
ing a sixteen-year-old white girl, and at Ham
burg, Ark., Doge Jackson (colored) waehauged
for the murder of Reuben Jordan, also colored.
Last July Charles and Milton Coleman,
brothers and deputy sheritfa of Dunn oounty,
Wis., attempted to arrest Edward and Lon
Maxwell, alias William, for horne-stoaling.
The Maxwell brothers resisted and shot both
the Colcmans dead. Thon the outlaws fled to
one of the most Impenetrable forests of North
western Wisconsin. Large bodies of citizens,
a company of militia, Indian scouts and blood
hounds hunted for weeks for the desperadoes,
but without success, and it was finally believed
they had escaped to another State. Recently
the brothers were discovered la Nebraska, and
Edward Maxwell was captured and taken baok
toDuraud, Wis. On tho morning of the day,
when his examination iu oourt was to occur ha
was taken away from the officers of the law by
the citizens, hundreds of whom had come into
town from the surrounding oountry, and
hanged in the court-houBO yard.
Dick Little, one of the prominent members
or the notorious James gang of train robbers,
has been captured in Kansas.
A. B. Thohntos, editor of the Boonville
(Mo.) News, was shot and instantly kUed by
Thomas A. McDerman, city marshal of that
place. Tho paper had contained an article
eevorely reflecting on McDermau's official acts;
and the two men, meeting in the stroet, came
to blows and then drew pistols, with the result
stated.
From Washington.
Dr. J. L. Cabell, president of the National
board of health, in his annual report, says that
yellow fever appeared in only one looali'y (Key
West) in the Unitod States during last summer.
Fifth Auditob Alexander, of the treasury
department, reports that the consular service ia
not only self-sustaining, but contributes in a
mcasuie to the support of the diplomatic ger
vico, the excess of receipts over exponsos last
year being $25,243.65.
Upon the adjournment of the court on tho
Bixth day of Guiteau's trial tho jail van started
as usual for the jail, having one policeman,'
Officer Edelin, aa a guard, who sat on tho seat
with the driver. Before reaching the capitol
tho guard noticed a youn? man on horaoback
riding leisurely behind the van. Near the cor
nor of East Capitol and First streets tho horse
man rode directly up to the rear of the van and
peerod through the small gra'ing. Gnitoau .
was alone in the van, sitting on the right-hand
side. After evidently satisfying himself of the
exact location of the prisonor tho horseman
wheeled euddonly to tho loft of tno van
and fired directly through it. He then
spurred his homo and rodo rapidly away.
O.licer Edoliu fired ono Bhot at the fast-disappearing
horsom.iu. and the driver of tho van
whipped his horses into a gillop and kopt in
sight of him for several b ocks. Tho would-bo
avenger was, howover, mounted upon a blooded
liorso and readily escaped out into the count y. .
Tho van was then drivon on to tho jail, aud
G.iiteau was taken out in a eUto of great ex
citement. Ho exclaimed: " I have boen shot.
Notify Major Brick at once. Toll him to ar
rest tho sconndiol mi 1 have him dealt with as
ho deserves." On examination it was found
that the b ill had just graze I Guitean's left
wrist, indicting a mero scratch. The ball
struck tho opposite side of tho van and fell upon
the floor, whoro it was ton nd on reaching tho
jail. The mau who was Biippog-jd to havo fb od
tho shot ono Bill Joins, a dit-sipated farmer
living on the outskirts of Washington was ar
rested in tho evoni ig iu an intoxicated con
dition and locked up. Ho donied having shot
at Guileiu, and t"i.- -r Edoliu said positively
that l.o was not the man. This was the third
attempt on Guiteau'Blifo since his arrest.
Foreign News.
Advices from Capo Coast Castle, Africa, state
that the king of Ashautee has killed 200 young
girls for the purpose of using their blood for
mixing mortar for tho repair of a state build
ing. Durino a horse race near Liverpool Mac-
donald, the English jockoy who rode the Ameri
can horoo Foxhall to victory in the race for the
Cesarewitch cup, was thrown and had his skull
fractured.
The total loss throughout Ontario by buBh
5tes during the past season is estimated at be
twoen $10,000,000 and $15,000,000.
There are more than 45,000 cases before thi
Irish land commission.
Forty persons have been killed and forty-om
injured in a mine explosion at Gesaolunzo,
Italy.
A London special says that the EnglUi
farmers are almost convinced they cannot com
p: to in wheat-growing with American farmers,
an 1 are beginning to turn their attention t
grazing and dairy farming.
A Dublin correspondent says that the experi
ence of extensive laud agents is that rents ai -b
ing paid in Sligo, Roscommon, parts of Gal
way, Limerick, Quoen's county and Kilkenny
but that in Wexford, Clare, Kerry, parts o!
Coik and other couuties there is a genera!
determination not to pay.
Diphtheria, scarlet fever and smallpox are
levastating the center and south of Russia.
Moodx and Sankey, the American evan
gelists, are holding largely-attended revival
meetings at Durham, England. -
Toe following is the new French cabinet:
M. Gambetta, president of tho council and '
minister of foreign affairs; M. Cazot, minister
of justice; M. Waldeck-Rosseau, minister of
the interior M. Paul Bert, minister of publio
instruclion; M. Bouvier, minister of commerce
M. Coehery, minister of posts-and telegraph;
M. Alliin-Targe, minister of finance; M. Com
peuon, minister of war; M. Goujeard, minister
of marine; M. Profit, minister of fine arts; M. -Deves,
minister of agriculture; M. Raynal,
minister of works.
Advices from Panares state that the town oi
Manzanillo, containing about 200 dwellings, ,
has been completely destroyed by a storm.
Four vessels were wrecked, and every launch
and lighter in the bay was driven ashore. The
hvs is estimated at $500,000, independent ot
tho value of the shipping destroyed.
Prince Bismarck read Emperor William's
epoech at the opening of the German reichxtag.
At the Hatton Garden (London) poetoffica
registered letters containing diamonds and
jewelry to the value of $200,000 bars been
stolen.
The custom house at Valparaiso, Chill, has .
boen destroyed by fire, the loss being $1,000,
000. An earthquake shake has hern felt in Switz
erland aud neighboring countries.
Four Arabs, implicated in the recent mas- -sacre
of the twelve employes at the Que 1
Znrgha (Tunis) railway station, have been exe
cuted by the French,