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VOL. 31.
pn!)lislel by Theodore Schocli.
( - f a 1 "s il sr ii year in advance o.r.d if not
'. if ' lie "'! "f Hie year, two dollars anl fifty
v ,'. i ut !( ioni uiMtv.l until all .imn rages rt? paid,
if .irlhr;: 1K0I'1 ions 91 5rt. Each adi'llloiml
V, 1 nt ronu. I.rtjjor ojiestn proportion.
"JOB iMtST8G,
OF AfeL KIKD8,
.r ...t0, -,hT MshrM fj.V of Hie Art, and on the
' ' lH4i. iMn:ihlc terms.
"TviLLIAM S. REES,
Survoycr, Conveyancer and
feeal Estate Agent.
f'arnn, Timber Lana3 ana Town L.ots
FOR SALE.
OTre sr-xt iot above S. Hoes' news Depot
n 1 'J,! i1-mt 1-!ow the Corner Store.
March 1 :j-tf.
" D R. J. LANTZ,
t 1 TV
Surgeon mm Aiecnamcai uentisi,
s::il ins laY1 M;iin Strpt, ia the (second
.liV'.'i r. Wail. lie's tnU'k liuiliting, neaily onpo
j ! Si mil li'it s rinnse, -and Uvt tLitters (itm.-elf
, it ru 'H-f ii (?.i i i'musI utt ir;u-tire and tlie ittorl
l. n j) j c.ii r' i ii l 'it i ill 'in i .til i iiti 1 1 ii a peri i-.ti 111 119:
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( h: .it "!' l 1 ;iv ik" is iiiiiy nuic m riiniin 7111
-,cr .1; ",i 111 l Sic ilf it'. il line Hi tlie niocl ere fill, l.irft1
,1 4 1 1 u t i : ! I niiiniier.
s m-. i.ii uitciiU'iM sivi:i to snvin-j! We. Natural Teolti ;
I i, 1.1 IV' Mwru. f 4r! iljrial rrrlli tin Kuhtic-r,
SiiiTur i:.ui:.itDis Cuius, anil ;erle-l lils lu
,i r.i.' liiMUfd.
M '-1 (ht.iiin kn iv His stent f il'y and danger 0 cn
m tiit-Hii-k U" titt; i;i-x nrie ik piI . ortu lh-
vi, k il 1 1-! I'i' i'- April 13, IS7I. ly
I
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
. -i , T1 T T
( 1, li e !-l noor anove mrouur nnrg iioum.-,
.i l-i l.t door nlmve Vo-t OtTire.
( K;i.-2 h :irs from 'J to 12 a. m., from S to 5
M.
Jlay :J '7:i-ly
jji:. x:o.
jrnrsiciAN, surgeon & accoucher.
Iij tie uM oIIkt of Dr. A. lteeves Jackson,
rr-iJ-.nce, i-n:n r of .S:iru!s ami Franklin street.
STROUDSBURG, PA.
jy:. i:. .1. PATTKKSOX,
j i)rZRi AXD 3ECUAXiC.lL DEMIST,
III ivinij Wttcl in Ka.t Strrmusbnrp, Pa., an-
iiui-t'.- t!i il Ik- is now jirirruiml to insert arti
j.iriiii te.-t ii in l!ie most bcMwtifnl and life-like
lu.iiim-r. Also, great attention given to lining
i . i 1 jirr-crviii the natural teeth. Tcelh ex
without j'.iin ?.v use of Nitrons Oxide
t 'n. Ail t tiu-r work iiwi.h'nt totlie profession
i .ic in : he in -wt -kiilful ami approved Myie.
i ii wurii ;i
inu'tl to prompt! y and warranted.
y "aat.: -
n:aonahle. i'utnm tsre of t!
iC HiljlIC
lilice in A. V. Ixider's nev,-liniiilinqr, op-j"-its
An-i!o;:iink Hou.-e, ICast SiroiKlslmrs:,
lVi.1 July 11, 17:'. ly.
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ii. "v. fj. it:cai.
Anno'.ncfs lli it Invin? j.t?t returned from
Dfijiai Coilcs-, he is fully prepareJ to make
srtiricial teeth in the most beautiful and life
like inin.ier, and to fili decayed teeth ac-c-irJin
to tiie most i-nprcved method.
1Ve:h extract 'd witlmut p.iin, when de-
i'lrei. liv tin;
of Nitrous Oxide Gas,
!iic!i entirely Irirmless. Repairing of
ii iv I iiiij" u
Jone. All work warranted.
Oiu-:; in J. (I. Keller's new
P.rick
Luild-
in;. Mti.i S reef, .Stroitdsbur":, Vn.
au.' :)i-tf
O.Ti i i the buil llu fornierly occupied
by L M. H nson.
ana ),)'.
ite tlie .Stnmds-
h-v-l !i:tk. M a: j ,-treet, Stroulsbur, l'a.
.1 .;! l:;-tl
The sr,h-ci":icr would inform tlie public that
lie In b a.-,l the house formally kept by Jacob
Kr.erl.t. in the r.oroii-h of StrmnUburar, I'.,
an I having repainted and refiiriii.-bed the same,
is prej. rui.1 tt cnttrtain all who may patronize
j'hn. It is the aim of the proprietor, to furn
i"ii -:;p;-rI'r aecomnm lations at moderate ratt-s
n l vi!l fjmre no pains to promote tlie eom
fjrt ufi!;e frr.tsts. A liberal .share of public
piitrrnuie solicited.
April 17, '72-tf. I). L. PISLE.
Jiim: ii of si:,
H0NE3DALS, PA.
Mot central location ot any Hotel in town.
It. w. kipli: & SOX,
l''0 Main direct. Proprietors.
January y, JS73. I v.
LA C It i W A X X A IIO I S C.
Ul'j'U-iTK TJIK DKrOT,
Kast StrouJ.burjr, l'a.
P. J. VAN COTT, Proprietor.
The r.Att containa thfl rhoiest TJouors and
fie table is supplied with the best the market
(.liarges moderate. may 6 lHili-tf.
irvrsovs
Blount Vcrxioii House,
117 and 119 Worth Second St.
asove Ancjr,
PHILADELPHIA.
Ji, lb72- ly.
Ms
EV. EDWARD A. WILSON'S (of Wil-
liam.burnrh, N. Y.) Recipe for CON
UMPTlONand ASTHMA carefully com
Pounded ct
HOLLINSHEAD'8 DRUG STORE.
CO" Medici net Fresh and Pure.
Nov. 21. 17 W. HOLLINSHEAU.
'mwi,"t,MiroroiaRiamjn
THE LAST OP THE
VYTTTnTTTTT
V AiVUiiXlUO.
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Sank South of Cape Fear Light.
THE CAREER OF THE VESSEL FROM THE
TIME SHE LEFT THE STOCKS OX THE
CLYDE UNTIL THE MELANCHOLY TER
MINATION OF HER CRUISE IN COMPANY
WITH THE OSSII'EE THE VOYAGE
FROM THE TORTUGAS TO TRYING PAN
SHOALS, AND THE CLOSING SCENE ON
FRIDAY, DECEMBER -Gfll.
The Vircinus question is finally fettled,
at least so far as the vessel hereelf is cob
cerncd, for she novf lies in eij;lit fathoms
of water at Frying pau Shoal, ten miles
south ol Cape Fear lilit, on the southern
coat. Brought up a blockade runner,
her career has beeti aa eventful one. uilt
on the Clyde moic time about 1SG2 or
lSGo, lor speed mainly, she bejran by
running into our Southern ports during
t lie war. When Mobile was captured in
1SG4 she was lying in that harbor loaded
with cotton End was confiscated. She
was then called the Virgiu. After the
close of the war she passed into the hands
of the parties who used her to run into
Cubn with supplies for the in?urroc
tiouists there, and her trips, up to the
ever nieaiorable event that resulted in her
capture, the end of October last, were
both numerous and successful. About
eighteen months ago the Spanish navy
about Cuba received orders to destory the
Virginias wherever and
whenever she
could be c night. As to the fate of the
crew, nothing was said, though it was
pretty well understood that Spanish
reir'et would not be very loud if they
went to the Lotto?). Sis months after
that orde& was issued the Virginius was
cornered up in the port of Aspinwall by
the Spanish war steamer Pizarro, and held
there three months. She
might have
i i
been there yet had not General Hurlbut,
who, during several years of late, has
represented our Government in various
South American Republics, visited As
pinwall in the way of his duty. Upon
his arrival there the Colombian Governor
i fncially communicated with him, remind
ing him that the United States was bound
by treaty to protect the neutrality of the
Colombian waters, and informing him of
the state of affairs. Tlie Pizirru had
threatened to fire into the port upon tbe
boat, and ic so doing must inevitably
damage the town and jeopardize the lives
of parties cot concerned. General Hurl
but sect for the commander of the
Virginius (the since murdered Captain
Fry was not in charge of her then), who
answered in person, bringing with him
the ship's papers. These were all right
and legally clear. They represented that
the bhip was owned in New York, whence
she had sailed with a cargo of merchan
dise ; that she hsd put in at several p&rts
Ly the way, where she had been regulaily
cleared; her register was perfect;
furthermore, he had aboard nothing
whatever of a contraband nature. The
Untied States steamer Kansas coming
into Aspinwan at this juncture, Gpcceral
Hurlbut instructed her commander to
escort the Virginius out to ?ea and to sink
the Pizarro if iuterferencc was attempted.
Tho Virginius wa3 accordingly taken out
Little of her was heard afterwards until
the Tornado rati her down and towed her
into tlie harbor of Santiago de Cuba.
With tlie events that immediate!' follow
ed the whole world is familiar. General
l'yati and three of the Cuban passengers
were shot on the morning of November 4,
their execution being followed, on the 7th,
by the shooting of Captaiu Fry and thiry
six of the crew, smd another batch of
twelve on the lOih. This made fifty
three iu all who were executed. It is
unnecessary to ucraw me international
imbroglio which en?ued. The Virginius
was despatched to Havana, wjicre she
arrived on the afternoon or November 18,
with the Spanish colors at her masthead.
The survivors of her crew and pacseugers,
102 in uumber, were delivcrod over to
Captain Uraine, of the Juniata, at San
tiago, on the lth of December, and ar
rived at New York on the 28th. 1 he
Virginius herself was towed out of the
harbor of llavauaoa the 12th of Decem
ber, and taken to JSahia Honda, where
she wai formally delivered over on the
morning of the IGih to the United States
steamer Despatch, Captau Whiting com
ujandiog. She was then takea to the
Tortugas, from which point she started
for New York on the 19th in tow of the
Ossipee and with a prize crew on board.
Here the melancholy termination of her
career Legnn. Fair weather was ex
perienced until Saturday, the following
day, when a gale sprang up. Rough
weather continued, and the Virghius
signalled that she was leaking badly
Captain Waters, commander of the
Osvsipee, therefore determined to shape
his course for Charleston, S. C, but as
they got into smoother water the Virginius
behaved bttter, tiud the water was kept
out of her fire room. On the morning of
Christmas day, however, sovcre weather
having coutinumed, the Viriniua was
leaking as badly as ever, and the vessel
put into Frying Pan shoals, about ten
miles south of Capo Fear light, where
smoother water could bo obtained. Here
the vessel came to anchor, Captain
Walters hoping that the Virgiuius would
ride out the gale. ' Defore daylight next
morning (Friday), Commander Woodrow
signalled with lights that the Virginiu.
was leaking rapidly, with fires out and
pumps stopped, and that the crew wished
to be taken off. louts were lowered from
the Oilt't at daylight, and ly eevcu
STROUD3BURG, MONROE
o'clock A. M. alb on board the Virginius
were transferred to the former vessel. As
a heavy sea was running, the work of
removing the crew was one of much
danger acd difficulty, and, therefore, no
lives were risked in endeavoring to save
their porsonal effects or any other pro
perty on the Virginius. The hawfer of
the Vigrinius was cut, and a buoy attach
cd to mark her position, in case she sunk
out of sight. The Ossipee remained at
anchor during the day, aud at quarter
past 4 o'cclck P. M., the Virginius, which
had been gradually settling, went to the
bottom.
OFFICIAL RErORT OF THE OFFICER IN
COMMAND OF THE VIRGINIUS.
New York, Dec. SO The following
is the oScial report of Lieutenant D. C.
Woodrow, who was in command of the
Virginius at the time of her sinking :
U. S. Steamer Ossipee. third rate.
At sea, lat 34. 18 N., long, 7-. 45 W.,
December 27, 1873.
Sir : I have to report that I took com
mand of the steamer Virginius on the
evening of December 17 off the Dry Tor
tugas, relieving Lieutenant Marix. 3'n
sign George A. Callowmen, and Second
Assistaut Engineer N. II. Lambiden, to
gether with three machinists, two boiller
makcrs, six seamen, six ordinary seamen,
cijiht seamen, and fourteen landsmen
composed her complement. Second As
sistant Engineer Kirby and Midshipman
Underwood J. Tyler subsequently joined
the ship. I found about seventy tons of
coal in the ship and over twenty tops of
dirt and ashes in her fire rooms. The
bilge was very dirty. She was leaking in
the forward compartment, and had water
in all her compartments. During the
evening wc received stores on board and
a working party from the 0sipce, who
coaled the ship all night from the schoe
ner M. A. Hand. The crew of the Vir
ginius were exhausted by constant work
from the time of leaving Rahia Honda.
The next morning I stopped coaling, and
put all hands at wsrk pumping and bail
ing out the ship, the water having gained
two feet during the night. At 8 a, rn.,
the water was up to her grate bars in both
fire rooms. The forward compartment
had a depth of four feet, and the after
compartment ten foct six inches of water.
Daring the day I received assistance from
the Ossipee, in the way of working par
ties, to help clear the ship of water, re
pack the stuf?.ng boxes, and overhaul the
pipes about the engine.
One party repaired the breaks in the
forecastle aud caboose. Captain Whiting
was on board during the day and. ex
amined tlie leak around her fore foot with
Chief Engineer King and myself. The
leak was the only ono of any conscquancc
that I couli find in the ship. At 5 p. ni.
the water was so much reduced that I
was able to start fires in the forward boil
ers, and at 8. 15 in the after boilers. As
soon as steam was reported, I commenced
backing the engine to clear the ship of
water by her bilge pumps. At 1 30 a
va. Captain Whiting expressed himself
satisfied that she was in a fit condition to
go north and left the ship. Shortly after
we we went to sea in tow of the Ossipee.
During the day and evening, as the
sea was comparatively smooth, we managed
to keep the water down with the main en
ginc pumps. As wc proceeded north and
the sea rose, the working of the ship
gradually loosened the rivets of one of her
plate?, and the old patch on her bow be
came loose and she leaked so badly that
I had to plug up her timber holes in the
forward bulkhead to keep the fire-ooms
clear. During the forenoon of the 22d
threw overboard her port bower anchor,
and all the heavy weights in her fore
hold, consisting of old iron, rigging chain,
cables, etc., and shifted the coal from the
forehold aft iu order to lighten her for
ward. On the afternoon of the 23d wc bad
from eight to ten feet of water in the for
ward compartment, aud so much water in
the firerooms as to endanger putting out
the fires, and I signalled not to go fur
ther north, that there was a dock at
Charleston, knowing that it would be dan
gcrom to risk the carrying away of her
forward bulkhead, and having no reliance
on any of her pumps, which had been
constantly breaking down ind becoming
choked ever since starting; besides this,
my wen were worn out, their bunks
drenched, and they had no place to sleep.
Her booms were then working so much
that the bunks in the forecastle came
adrift from the ship's side. At 3 a. m. on
December 24, the crown sheet of the
middle furance afterwards caved in, and
hauled fire from that boiler. Shortly af
ter, blisters were reported in the forward
boiler- At daylight I signalled the con
dition of t her boilers and vater,and you ent
Chief Engineer King on board. He. in
spected the boilers, and I undertood that,
in his opinion, they were not safe, and I
gave orders not to enrry more than five
pounds of steam, unless in extreme neccs
kity. With this low pressure one of the
furauces gave out ia the afternoon, hav
ing a blister on one of her crown sheets
three feet long.
From this time until wc made fast to
you again on December 25, wc had about
the same amount of water in the ship,
but when we stopped our engines tho wa
ttr gained on us, and I asked your per
mission to back my engines. Owing to
having but three serviceable furnaces in
our forward boiler, we could not carry
steam to work the engines lart enough to
throw
Ui'jcb
water, and us the sea iu
COUNTY, PA., JANUARY
creased so did the water, and I asked you
toward night to haul up close, and take
us off Half an hour after I got the
donkey pump working, and, as we were
keepiug the water at a stand I signalled
that I could hold on until day-light. The
water gained on us gradually during the
uight until it put tbe fires out at 5 a m.
on the 2Gth, when the donkey pump stop
ped. The hand pump was broken and
could not be repaired with any means at
our command, .so I signalled for you to
take us off immediately. The forward
compartment .was full of water up to with
in a foot and" a half of the spar deck.
There was five feet of water iu the hold
over the grate bars in the fire rooms, aud
the after compartment was dry. The sea
was very rough, and i was blowing a gale
of wind from the northeast, aud I did not
thiug it safe to remain on board a minute
longer than necessary. When ycur boat
came under the Virginius' bow I put the
landmen in her first, and then only stop
ped the work of passing water out of tho
ship. It took five trips to take us all off,
the officers going in the last boat. As it
turned out I might have been able to save
the men's bags and hammock?, but under
the circumstauces I deemed it inexpedient
to attempt it. At 4 17 p ni. tho Virgin
ius sunk, bow first, in eight fathoms of
water, the cros3 tree above water. Very
respectfully. D. C. Woodrow.
Lieut. Commanding United States Navy.
To Commander John Walters, Com
mantling Untied Stales steamer
Otsipcc.
NASBY.
The Downfall of Tweed -Hr. Nasby
Indulges ia Sad RemlniscerioS, but
does not Give Up Tike One without
Hope.
From the Toledo Blade.
Coxfedrit X Roads, )
(Wich is in the State uv Kentucky,) -November
2, 1S73. j
The nooze uv the convickslien uv the
great Tweed by a corrupt court, and li Is
sentence to a common penitenshary, by a
heartless and mercenary judge (I refer to
that modern Jeffries, the infamous Davis)
pcrdoost a pcrfound sensashen at the Cor
ners. Dcekin Pogram, when he hcerd
that Tweed bed bin convicted uv plun
drin the Treasury, and bed been seutcuced
to prizn, drawd a long sigh and sed that
our liberties wuz gone now, shoor. He
didn't know who Tweed wuz, but lie felt
it-safe, ez a Deaokrat, to draw a sigh for
anyboby who wuz in limbo for plundrin
a public treasury. That maa'u- instiuks
alluz guide bim safely, aud his faith hcz
in it suthin sublime.
Rut the ooozo did effect me seriously.
My mind leapt over the past, and lighted
down upon the days when I wuz the sole
proprietor uv the Harp uv Erin S'loon,
in the Gth Ward, Noo York. Oh, them
happy days ! Oh, them hours uv delite !
There wuz no long dry hours, sicli ez I
now spend, with parched throat and shaky
system, waitin for a frendly invite to take
uthin. No ! There waz the bar, with the
glasses onto it, tho barrel underneath out
uv wich I drew both Rjurbou and Rye,
ez the customers wanted it; there wuz
my own privit keg, wich wuz not watered,
for my own privit drinkin there wuz
the red hot stove, the pipes and the crack
ers, and the back room !
Ah ! that back room ! It wuz there that
we held our caucusses far our deestrik.
Many a time hez the great Tweed hissclf
sat in that room many a time hez that
great diamond uv his fljshcd its light
across that pine table. In that room
Patsey McGonigle, Dennis O'Shaugn
nessy, Tom McGrath, the Ross and myself,
hav many a time and oft arranged our
repeaters, our fightiug committees and our
counters.
I myself hcv seen the Boss in that room
make hi bargains with his repeaters
this one to vote so many time, iu that
ward, the other to vote bo many times in
the other, aud so on. In that room the
ballot boxes and the poll books ussd to be
brought after the polls wuz closed, and
there we wood wait till wc got the returns
from out uv town, to see how many votes
we needed to stuff into em to carry the
State, and it wuz a site Touchsatcd to but
few men to see that great man take peck
of ballots atiJ chuck cm iuto a box, and
tell Thad Hamerley (wich cood write) to
put the names to corrspond on the books
from a directory.
Ross Tweed wuz not only a great man,
but he wuz a good man and a just. I
shall never forgit that nite when I hed
got four nigger drunk and look em to
the poll myself, and changed tbe Repub
lican tickets they intended to vote, to the
Demokratic ticket, and then took wat
money they bed iu their pockets to pay
for extra repeating.
"Nasby," sed be, "Yoo arc a man who
deserves eniouragin. Go on ez yoo hcv
begun eud a high plicc awates yoo. For
the present take this."
And be banded me five clean hundred
dollar notes.
'Charge Sl.OOO," he rcmai ked to bi
Secretary, "to the account uv paviu iu the
City Hail square."
Then I remember when Patsy McGee
wuz seriously hurt iu an clecshuri fite.
how the Ross took material that he'd
bought for tho new Court House, and toak
carpenters aud brick -layers and masons
wich wuz at work for the city, and built
'Patsy an elegant littlu house on a lot he
owned up town. That wuz urruuged iu
my back room.
Aul iu that same rooa, Dcaais
8, 1874
O'Shaughnessy, ez a reward fur repeatin
twenty times more than he hed agreed to,
wuz made Assistant Counsel to the Roard
for the condemnation of private property.
"Take this," pCd Tweed, "and draw yer
salary promptly."
"Rut I don't know nothin about law,"
sed Dennis.
"Yoo knew entiff to draw yer salary,
don't yoo, ai-d yoo know cuulT to repeat.
That is ecuff for mc."
And Dennis drawd his 5,000 a year up
to the very day he wuz Listed.
Rut I can dwell on this theme no
longer. It is too painful. "Joys that
we've tasted" aint good to taste over agin
There is bitter in cm.
A corrupt set uv Republikins and
rc-ercaut Dinincrats got after the great
and good Tweed, and down he weut,
and with him down we all went. The
Harp of Erin S'loon became a wreck.
There wuz no more caucusses held in
the back room ; them ez held ofDa under
him bed their pay stopped, and instid uv
payin cash for their likker I herd per
pctooally the di'gustin words "Chalk it
down." Then come a crisis ; I got iu
debt, and the Sheriff, the most successful
ov all collectors, got after mc.
Well do I recall back that terrible
night. I knowd my stock wood be levied
onto the next mornin. There wuz a gal
Ion and a half uv farish likker left in
one bail.
"lie sbel not Lev that," I muttered
thro my clen?hcd teeth
And so I closed the door and locked it.
closed the blinds and locked 'cm, and
lightin every gis burnct in the house
sot me down for my lost revel, all alone
2(c 3(c 1
They busted the door open in the morn
in. The found me on the floor, the
crackers gone, the red herrius gone, and
the iast drop uv likker gone.
"Gentlemen," aaid I. calmly, ',you are
welcome to the 14 empty boxes, the empty
barrel, the glasses and the portraits uv
Jackson. Rooknnaa and Jeff Davis on
the wall."
And I walked out into the street a
rooiued man.
Rut I do not mourn ez one without
hope. Tweed is in prisn, so is Ingcrsoll,
but Twccdism aint squelched in Noo
Yoik. John Morriesey hez taken bis
place, and wat Tweed did he will do
Men change in Tammany, but Tammany
docs not. The sperit is there ez it alius
wns, aud alius will be, so long ez the
hard fisted yeomanry from Cork control
the eleeshun.
Whilrt a tear starts to my eye for the
fate uv iweed, I wipe it up with the hand
kcrcber uv faith in his successor. "The
Kin:r is dead. Long live the King."
i O
kin serve under Morrisrey cz well ez un
der Tweed. I shell agin open the Harp
uv Erin, S'loon, only Morrissey's portrate
will adoru its walls, insted uv Tweed s.
So long ez Dcmokracy lives, there will
be Tammany, and so long cz Tammany
is, it will Lev need uv sich men ez me.
So long ez Dcmokracy is run by Tam
many, there will be stcelins, and it will
go hard with me if I can't git my hand in
somewhere. Petroleum . Nasby.
(Which wuz Postmaster.)
FIGHT WITIl' A DEER.
A Shovel Saves a Man's Lifo.
The LitchSeld (Minn ) Ledger says:
About two weeks ago a -S wede by the
name of Torgilerson, who resides iu Swift
county, was proceeding to a neighbor's
soma three miles distant from bis own
home, carrying a shovel on his shoulder,
which he was returning to his neighbor,
from whom he bad borrowed it. lie had
accomplished about half bis journey and
was passing through a small grove when
he heard a crashing in the underbrush
and, turning round, saw a stalwart deer,
of the buck persuasion, making for Lira
with every demonstration of hostile inten
tion. There was but one course to pursue,
and that wa to fight for bis life, and, be
ing a powerful mau, be anticipated au
easy conquest. Mistaken man! The deer
charged with autlers lowered even as an
enraged bull would lower bis Lead when
dashing at his foes. Ncls grasped his
shovel and stood stoutly on the defensive
As the enraged buck ueared him he aimed
a desperate blow with bis shovel full at
his head.
It struck one of his antlers with " such
force as to break it, but the concussion
was so strong that it forced NeU. back
ward several feet, and hurled him breathles
against a tree. Just how the fight weut
after that Neli. don't remember, but he
known that he fought with all the
strength of despcrntion, and at last the
deer and himself both fV!! io the ground,
and Nek. lost all coticiousness for a time.
When be "came round to his feoul
Hain," tli deer was lying stark dead near
by him, and could baiely crawl away.
His clothes were in rags, his left cheek
torn open, a gash on the light side where
the deer had inserted one ofvthe prongs
of his antler, and threi fingers of his loft
hand j-'.mnied up. The shovel was a to
tal wicirk, and the carcass of the deer
was pretty well lucked around the head
and shuuldcrs.
Thii blow that caused tho animal's
death was inflicted by a sharp corner of
the shovel remaining on tbe handle after
most of the blade had been broken off
The wounded man succeeded iu crawling
l ack to bis homo, which be reached in a
terribly exhausted condition. U
thought tlut bo will survive List w jaud.s
ISO. 34.
Ill tJUUiiiv.
The wind had risen, and there was
considerable tossing of tbe surface, mak
ing it difiicult to guide tbe canoe. Peter,
put to his mettle, paddled like mad, with
out once stopping to take breath. " On
vq went, across the lake, toward a bay a
mile and a half away upon tlie other side.
"Look right over that rock," said Peter,
"that is tho moose." And sure enough,
there was a huge, ungainly, misshapen
bunch of a dingy color visible close to
the shore. "How near can we get to
him ?" I inquired. "About as near as
those rocks," said Peter in reply, pointing
to a spot within forty yards of us. Pre
sently he said, "I don't thiuk wc c.na get
vcr7 near him. He were then a quar
ter ol a mile away, and thereupon 1 lised
my sights for a dead shot at a long dis
tance. I had been striving, ever since
the start, to master my emotion and show
Peter I could shoot ; but when he said,
in an exciting whisper, "7e's got h'm.
on him," I very nearly gave it up. for a
hull moose, of all the deer that roam in
the woods, had been my dream for a
month, and hero wa3 this lumbering,
elephantine creature, slowly, turning
around his unwieldy bulk as he cropped
the feed that grew about him in-the wa
ter, monstrous beyend all my imaginations
of his kind, and showing, as he raised,
aud lowered his head, a pair of horns that
surpns-ed anything I had ever seen for
size and beauty.
The dead sights were un, with whiJi I
had freqently bit a dollar at ten rods.
ihc splash of the paddle had given place
to the noiseless movement, without tak
ing tho blade out of the water, with which
the hunter approaches game. We were
going nearer, nearer ! nearer ! ' It be
came evident that we were to have a Io.?o
shot, but I did not dare to alter my rights,
for fear the beast would look round and
csfeh tho motion of :ny arm. A sudden
thought had struck Peter. He had pad
dled across the bay, to tlie leeward ol tho
beast, and was approaching him frcai the
direction of the sun. lie would natural
ly feed with his back to tbe sum, to avoid
the glare of the reflection from the water,
and if he looked round, toward the figures
which were gliding down upon him like
messengers from the fpirit world, ho
would get the sun in bis eyes, already
siuking toward the water, it being a little
past the middle of the afternoon, and
what with that and what with the glare of
its reflection upon the surface, be might
not see i3 until we were very near.
"Don't shoot him about the head ; shoot
him about the heart," was Peter's las?:
advice ; "and don't fehoot till I tell you to
shoot." My gun was at my shoulder,
but it was with great difficulty that I
could get the fine sights upon him. I
must peep through a pinhole and put the
head of a piu upon his shaggy hide. He
was dark, end the sights did not show.
"Shoot!" whispered Peter. I could not
sec
the
sights.
"Shoot r said Peter
again. 1 would not pull the trigger till.
I was sure of my game. Meanwhile the
moose was turning from right to left, feed
ing at his case, occasionally looking up
and stopping to feed agaia. At length,
after what sceaicd to rue, and no deal t
to Peter, an age of hesitation, aud after
tho command to shoot had been three
times repeated with ever increasing em
phasis, I got a sight upon his dingy coat
just as he turned his broadside aw;?y from
us, and his hiud quarter came round iu
ronge. " One'1 spake tlie little barrel,
and there came back, a second after
sweet sound to a hunter's ear the soft
thub cf the ball ia the yielding Ccsh.
Slowly he turned, and looked upon r.s
like a lamb Then slowly turning tigiin
he commenced to walk with gentle steps
toward the shore. "Shoot again," said
Petcrt and this tia:c I had more troub'a
than at first. "Shoot," said Peter ; and
I fired in utter desperation. A sccv-iu
thud. "Don't shoot now," said Peter, as
I drew up my x ilia for the third time ;
"he's down !" And, lo ! in a moment tho
immense beast, turning bis bead toward
us, rolled over upon bis side. There he
lay kicking as we cautiously approached,
and ia half a tuiuute he was dead. The
game was up.
A Rostoa paper has the following near,
way of disposing of the case of a cleric: I
criminal : "Rev. John Hutchinson, tho
swindling clergymrn, by tbe kindness of
Judge Aldrich, is now permitted to lis
ten to the faithful monitions of Rev. Jo?.
II. Clinch, for eighteen months, at our
bouse of correction."
The- Ncwburyport Herald says :
"Quite a' number of men are employed in
this city iu catching frogs for tbe Ruston
frog-eaters. One man has taken KH'J acd
another GOO this season. They are keft
in tubs aud fattened with meal, aud ship
ped to order."
They have funeral games like tho oi l
Greeks in Palmer, Mass. At a burying
.there the other day, those in attendance
couldn't agree upou a route from tho
bouse to tbe grave. A lively fibt fol
lowed, and the stronger party had literal
ly its own way.
The Methodist Episcopal Church is
said to have increased 5000 in tuemb.-r-ship,
and 1,000,000 iu funds during tho
past year.
A shooting match took place nt S! a
mokin tbe other day fr a tbou-ui ) puuuu
hog.
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