Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, June 8, 1886, Page 5

THE OMAHA DAILY BEE: TUESDAY, JUNE 8. 1886 TWO CAMP-FIRE ~ STORIES, The Wonderful Mines of Gold Which Bave Never Been Found. The Madre D'Oro in the Valley of Gold—The Lost Mine Which Yielded $60,000,000. Denver Tribune-Republican: In no place in the world perhaps are so many tales told of wonderful hidden wealth, which fire the imagmation, asamong miners and prospectors. Around the camp-fires they repeated, time after time, and every prospector has a store of them. None of the stories are more fas- cinating than the one of the undiscovered lode known as the “Mother of Gold,”" or Madre D'Oro, as the Spanish and Mexi cans call it. Tl re thousands of pros- pectors in Arizona and New and Old Mex- ico who tirmly believe in it. The story has an ancient paternity which surrounds it with a fascination that many do not It came from the Azt and they perhaps received it from the Toltees, who preceded them, In the Aztee leg- ends we are told that some Monte- zuma will return to earth, to 1ift his peo- ple out of =la id lead them tov tory and grandenr. When that day comes he will need vast stores of wealth, and the story goes that the knowledge of the existence of the wonderful fissure of gold—the Madre D'Oro, which he queathed to a few of his |{n]lu\\'(-l'~1. possess will supply the wealth required A BEAUTIFUL VALLE' Somewhere there is a small tale , 1n southeastern Ar Mexi It is always deseribed as being about five miles long and two miles broad, and walled in by towering moun- tains and almost idicular elifls, from 3,000 to 5,000 feet high. In one end falls over the cli a beautiful stream, which then runs thre ley and in a cave at the lower end. ve is the only entranc: and it is hidden and prote Montezuma, t by Adents of e to the Indians live valley, and the) t well, and would, if necessary, protect 1t with their i Only three men in the tribe whii Is it ever knew of the secret They are among the oldest the tribe. When one of them men dies,the other two choose a man to whom they confide the the se No one ever knows who the three are that possess it The third man to whom is imparted the seeret is led through the long and wind- ing age which Jeads to the valley. There the two who possess the sceret show him the ledge they have guarded, and which he must ever after guard with his life and honor, The valley, which is surrounded by such stern and cliffs, is a paradise, Through its center runs the clear and beautifullstream;its banks are shaded with beautiful trees; its soil is rich and covered with grass, 1 which s sprinkled a profusion of rare and f’l sous flowers, butterflies of countless NIt W col and bright-plumaged birds of the southland flit through the delicious atmosphere; the only reptiles are the gold snake; th their greenish- yellow “scal Stretehing 088 the valley is the great ledge, shining in_the sunlight like a golde be five feet, ten fect, fifty fect and a hun- dred fect ‘wide. 'Lhe gold_ occurs in rreat masses and nuggets white quartz, whose broken zone. It is said to or ter in the sunlight like gigantic dia- monds., The stream runs over the ledge, forming a little waterfall, and the spray, etlecting the color of the precious metal, ns to be a golden mist. Growing be- side the stream, below the waterfall is an i the base ot whici hes v: h;h‘m* with unmoving Monte- zuma. It1s the war god who guards the place. Gold in the ledge, gold in the scales of the snake, gold in_the color of inseets and birds, gold, gold, gold is the ofrain of the story. The fearful preci- P which surround the Ylnun, the tribe of Indiuns which live only to preserve the treasure for their coming king, the horrid uvrenr;uic by which the secret is kept secret, has all aided m giving inter- est to the story. It is not told as an Indian legend only. 'J'Im{ tell of white men who have stood on the high mountain and gazed down into the valley and seen its wondrous wealth, The Mexican miners believe it firmly, and can cite a thousand reasons or superstitions to support their belief, Many & man has gone to hunt for it, and probably many more will go in the fu- ture, A WONDERFUL GOLD MIN Another story, which has many cre- dentinls of truth, locates a wonderful gold mine on the plains of castern New lexico. It is smd that a gold mine in that region was discovered somewhere about 1660 or 1665, and that in the follow- ing fifteen or twenty years it yielded $060,000,000 in_gold, ‘estimated from the amount of tithes paid to the Roman Catholic church. In the insurrection of 1680 the mine was closed up, and all traces of its existence destroyed as much as possible. After a century had gone by the priests tried to l‘mt{ this mine, records of whose oxistence and richness were found in the Spanish archives at Madrid. Many a search is said to have been made for it, but all were fruitless till ghout 1804, when San Antone, a pricst, Hsdoverst Ho and lus followers loaded thomsdlves with g0ld and started for a mission on the coast, driviig St 8 on the glnins to guide them on thelt 1s: turn. Ban Antone died at the place now known as San Antonio, Tex., and the story goes that his foilowers, who. knew of the existence of the lode, were ll murdered by the Indians or Mexicans, for their gold, The Staked Plains of Texas are said to have der] i name from the trail which was San Antone. LOSING THE LOCATION. The loeation of the mine was then lost and has never been discovered. Severa u;‘u, while General Lew Wallace, late minister to Turkey, was governor of New Mexico, he discovered some historical re- cords of that mine. In the old pal Santa Fe, which was used for 200 y the Spanish governors of th i and which since the acquisition of New Mexico by the United States has been used for tercitorial offices, eourt rooms, ele., there were several bushels of records which had been put away in barrels and ne touched, except as some ignorant k ernor burned them for kindling fires. WVlhien General Wallace beeame governor assorted and arranged the remair records. He is an ent i student, and he found many among them of priceless interest. of them wa visit to the wonderful gold mine. [ he One u nceount by a priest of his It told of cach day's journey, the number of leagues traveled, the character of coun- try passed over, and the names of the water-holes ' where stoppages were made. In that country, where ater is scarce, the springs and water- g places are the famous land marks. \¢ aceount told of the virgin pure gold in the quartz, which was eut out with chisels. This was the only manner in ch the gold was obtained. Equipped with the information given by the record a search was made for the “wine, but it was not successful. Out upon the dry, cactus-covered plains, men travelea day after day, but found nothing. -Here and there on the brow of some low hill would be tound an outcrop of trachyte, showing that the oonnll] rock was ingemious lllh in water-washed gulches could be found an oual trace of ore, but ue trace of the gold Tode was discovered. This is the way the story goes. It is also ramored that General Wallace took oc- easion to have the records in Madrid ex- amined for more information relating to the mine, and that his late quict visit to New Mexico was not entir uncon- nected with another effort to discover the richest gold mines of which history gives any credible record -~ WHITE ELEPHANTS. How One Showman Got Even with Another. St. Francisco Call: There are times in life when his peaceful a showman's thoughts broken rudely, when the glitter of spangles, the roar of the eamels or the squeak of the majestic lion is no musie to his deh nk-edged It w. ne oceasion like this that the writ strolling up Fourteenth street in New York, saw the portly form of Phincas T rnum vanish within a cab, and his h x_and one-half foot business manager, Tody Hamiltor turn from the cab after slamming tl door with a vehemence that betokened ill-feeling of some sort. The writer walked ap to hum and asked “Did you get out of bed wrong this morning?” Tody smiled and said: *“No, my boy, but I'm not liking the job that the old” man has sot me at.’ “What is 1"’ “Whitew. “Aha! th 15 a fake, ¢ long an elephant.” acred white elephant ue into the Morton “‘No, siree; but house and sit down Ve adjourncd to the oflice of the Mor- ton house, lit ci; dy's expense tive ¥ hear num was brin elephant from Indin, he whitewashed one of his small clephants and is gulling the public with what he calls the only and origi ‘Lightof Asin.’ This rankles the old gentleman a little, and now he ts an_elephant that it will not rub off, I thin ing process would do it, but it's a devil- ish costly experiment.” At this in it Nr. (i, B. Siceardi, bet- ter known as ‘“Jack,” came strolling in and cheerily greeted Mr. Hamitton, who id: "I think you are the very man I of Asiaisa fraud.” S ere a fow minutes until T get my partner,” and Siccardi went for him and returned shortly with Mr. Paul De Spotte, whom he introduced b, ““Here is a man who ¢ er white clephant than sw, " It did not t: ong to make a bar one of the no cure 1o pay kind, journed to Madison Square garden, ere the animal selected for the experi- s driven into a large room at the of the garden. As she le aved a sigh that was echoed by the big fellow, who waved his trunk and ears un- casily. “That's her lover." smd Tody. Sixteen men went to work on the ele- phant immes li-m-l_z with hot water, soda and ammonia, and worked in four hour shifts for three days continuou: This was for_the purpose of removing the “scums” of an oily nature, being the exu- dations from the skin that had hardened and permeated the pores to the depth of three-cighths of an inch About four times a day the writer visited the room, where a double rap admitted him, as the Dleaching process was carried on secrecy. At the end of the third day Mr. De Spotte pronounced the_elephant sufli- ciently cleansed and the first appli of the bleaching wash was appl sat on pbox and held his i expecting a streak of dazzling whiteness to follow the path of the crush, but he was disappointed. At the end of the sixth day Tody gave it up in disgust There tie elephant stood ascalm and col- rcted as ever, eating hay and waving her enr thourh there had never been a bleaching in the world, Tody did not show up the fhe had” his heart would hav oy. On the morning of the seventh day Lalittins ofia pink: ish zm{ color was r])urunc and we threw up our hats with hout and then went out to take a drink. Four times daily the wash was applied until at noon on the twelfth day Mr. De Spotte pronounced his job complete, There stood her majesty, hale and hearty, witha coat about'the color of skim ™ milk, it having that bluish tint. Every six hours from that time tne first mottled spots appeared, the shin became of u lighter tint, until Mr. Barnum_was lledin. He looked at the his hand over rubbed it on his sle off, but it did not. ing matter. Tle turned to Mossts De Spotte s Siceardi and said, “Gentlemen, you v done well, You have nccomplished what no other man has ever done before e then handed § the price agreed upon, and we left her nlone in her glory. , then to sce if it came There was no color- 2 The next morning when she was taken in with the other elephants, her lover looked at her, recognized 'her through her transformation, but was wrathy atit. Ruunln;.i his trunk along in the dirt, he gathered up about a barrel of dirt and blew it all over her, as much “Youare not of my kind.” sitated another cleaning and applicatio of the wash, The bleaching liquid was peroxide of hydrogen,. thirty grade proof, stronger than any ever made in Europe, and was ally prepared for the purpose by archand, the head chemistof New cil An average of twenty gal- long'a day was used, costing $10 per gal fon:~ 4hus the actual cost of the expe ment to Mr. Dompotte was about §2,500, leaving him a profit 8t tho 5.‘"-?? imount. Peroxide of hydrogen is tho Ilgita-us: by hair-dressers to bleach hair white,and it was only a speculation on the part of Mr. Do Spotte as to whether it would have the same coffect on the skin. Thus it was that Mr. Barnum vindi- cated his su d white elephant and cast ridicule on Forepaugh's Light of Asia, the latter being bleached or painted a dirty yellow color, the process of which caused sores on the skin which nearly re- sulted in the Light of Asia being put out. (O Barnum’s bleached elephat grew fat on the treatment, the wash being supplied once in two weeks, whick kept the skin white and eloan, ——~— - A Legal Document. Boston Record: Lawyer W -——— of Middlesex bar a young man looking to build up a practice, und willing to adopt all proper means to that end Partly, perhaps, with that view he joined the orthodox church, and at once began to take an actiye part in its aflairs, sug- gosting that the church ought to be re- vaired, the pastor’s salary raised, the debt paid, and other things undertaken which would eall for the expenditure of considerable money. The congregation “fell in” pretiy well and appointed our friend to draw and eirculate a subserip- tion paper to raise the funds, His train- ing in the law hadfbeen greater than i the gospel, und the phraseology of his appeal to the pockets of the faithful was de- ciaedly more judicial than evangelical, for after introducing the matter in the first line as something “‘to promote the worship of God,” he was careful after- ward throughout the whoie document, whenever the whole name was again used, to! guard against any po: sible misunderstanding or obscurity by s)wnking in full legak phrase as the “‘aforesaid Ged.” e Ouly lwoutyive out of Ee 200 saloon- keepersin Saginaw, Mich., bave paid their state ticense. NOTED PERSONS IN PRISON. Sing Bing a Noted Sanitarinm for Bracing Uv Fast Men, Ward's Decorated Cell—How Jaehne and Jobnny Hope and Others Get Along. New York Sun: As a rule it takes but a fow days for a convict, no matter from what social cirele he may have come, or what may have been his previous asso- etions, to settle down to the level of the minal horde by whom he is surrounded in a state prison, to fall with at least a good semblance of content into the rou- tine of their common life. Ex-Alderman Jaehne has done so already. Perhaps he did not have far to fall morally, but there must have been somethingof a drop from the conditions of physical comfort in which he was used to live to those that are now the laws of his being. But he aceepts his fate stolidly,uncomplainingly, ng as fow words as possible to any- body, and has already won the approval of the keepers, who prophesy that ho will make an excellent conviet. A letter came to the prison yesterday addressed to “Alderman Jaehne, Prison Laundry, Sing Sing, N. Y. The envelope con tained simply a circular advertising starch. Chaplain Edgerton, whose duty it is to open and pass upon all letters that go from or come to convicts, de- cided that there was no reason why the stupid joke should reach its ob, It took Ferdinard Ward a good while to scttle down into being the human automaton that a model conviet 1s ex pected to be. i 4 and contented running a s printing strikes off lubels for the various the stoves made for Perry & C prison contractors, So long the treadle steadily, pays enough atten- tion to what he is_ doing to kecp his fin- gers from being nipped by the form, and sees that there s suflicient ink on the rollers, he may send his mind wandering wherever he will. In point of health he vus never bette He attends the Prot- estant services, conducted by Chaplain Edgerton, pretty regularly, and reads a great deal in the eveni enings of the better of fiction, and occasionally a mor: 'n o religious book that is not fiction, t the chaplain has some hope of h 1al weltare as a consequence to his present season of chastening. Mr. Ed- rton has had so m:u\i' criminals to tell h Tim that their souls had found peace, and that they were resolved to lead pure es, and all that sort of thirg, 1t hie no longer ta much stock in the formation of convicts until they prove their good faith by their w y get out; consequently b confident that Ward™ will always be he now is, but the worthy 1 He does not forget that Ward® resbyterian minister, who ry in India,but the ining giyes to ministers’ n not be depended on. cell'is the nicest in the prison, like all the cells, smothermgly small full-grown , and the white- 1l promising rt decorations as he ean d P & Ward It i credit for what he has accomplished. H bed he has managed to swing up against the wall, so that a ribbon’s width mg s p concealed by a pateh-work Ytk ¢ bright in color and pretty in Zn, which has been provided with Toops so as to be hung up or spread over the bed. At the head of his bed is a large photograph of e and one of his child. Upon the walls are two large photographic views of a residence sunbowered among trees, each labeled *Grove Place, Roch- er; Home of S. A. Ward.” Then there are a number of cabine views of landscapos, reminders of nature’s beau- ties that for years to come, may, for him, exist only in‘memory and hope. The only cell at all approximating to Ward’s in style is that of Walter C. Allen, ork in an Bighth avenue store who pzzled some $40,000 from his employ- ers, and by special invitation came h to live for fen years., He is now a cle in Perry & Co.’s office, enjoys excallont health and scems quite contented. Hi b;:d is spread with a cove plus of photographs among whicl g of silk h, and upon his walls are & number I a photo- graph of his wife is conspicuous, both by ils size and_its attractiveness. A large album of photographs occupiesa place of honor on a shelf at the end of s bed. Another of the high-toned convicts is the embezzler William R. Morse. who 1 yacht club vresident, and a y man, and no eud of a good fellow, as lots of people said. The keepersspeak of him with a liking that is almost enthu- s , and that, notwithstanding hi present position, has in it a tinge of re . He is so manly, open and above y, 50 above all the mean and dirty tricks of the common convicts, that they are all sorry that he is in for a ten years’ stretch of this life, Smoking tobacco was a luxury up to within a few months, and even yet the line is drawn at cigars and cigarettes, which are held to be luxuries, as are fancy meorschaum pipes, narghiles and chibouks, but any tobacco, however good, with which a conviot’s friends may sup- ply him, may be smoked in a plain clay or briarwood pipe, and 3o put down as ono of the necessities of life. Juehno had no tobacco from the time he was sent up until Suturday, when some one sent him some, and then he had no pipe to smoke it in until a kind reporter gave him one on Bunday. Now he is fixed. Ex-alder- fijen may as well take a pointer from his exporience and provide themselves in nd- Vance, 8 dacine doubtiess will if ho ever has to go back w Siug Sing a second time, 16 may go back, Some ¢ wicts get into a habit of doing so. There 1§ o2¢ here now-——a kpocket ilarly b known as *Big Red, , latest fancy in the way of an alis George Watson-—who has just n the river toserve his ninth term in this prison. The longest term he has had 10 serve was five years. The his sentences has'been two year: time he is only in for a year and a éach time when he is abotit going ou i8 80 confident of soon coming back that he hides in some sceret place about the up prison his razors and other tools, When he returns he brings them out and is set to work as the prison barder, an oflice upon which he scems to feel that he He always gets fat in ainly must Iike coming here, for if he did not he woul to become more skillful in his A endeavor profession as a piekpocket, and so avoid such frequent arrests. Another prisoner who has been here before, a famous one, too, is the old king of the forgers, W. E. Brockway. Forty years ago he served a term in this prison, und now, when more than sixty winters have silvered his locks, he comes back to the dear old prison of his youth. It agrees with him. IHe never has better health than whiie here. There is hardly a probability that Johuny Hope, the Manhattan bank burg- lar, would, if he were at liberty, be in such physieal condition as he enjoys here. He has been here since 1579, on'a twenty years’ sentence. He works in the laun- dry drving-room, and likes to read novels at night, those of sentimental iendency preferred. But none of the sentimental uovels he gets here are of the lurid type that might intlame nis imagination. Chaplain Edgerton sees to it that his in- teresting charg®s et no reading matter that is likely to contaminate their minds All the books sent by friends have to pass hig censorship, ana he has about 6,000 volumes in the library that are in large part the results of his careful selections, About three-fourths of them are good works of fiction; the others are nistories, travels, biographies and philosophic, scientitic and religious works. Most of the real good, books, outside fiction, quite nice and clean.” To a conside extent, the Rey Edgerton is influ- enced in_his selection of hooks, when he has not time ro read them., by the reputa tion of their pablishers, But sometimes he reads them v saysth miserable stuff, Dr of Paris,” and did not deem it enter the library. Just now he is getiing ready to kle “A Romance of the Nin ntury,” but seems to have misgivings about it. He weeds out, as i were, from among Ouida’s hooks two or th but shudders at the thought of Zola D MET A "“"BUNKOER." The Innocént Tale Told About a Nice Circus Man and a Pea, Cincinnati Times “I knotved it before Ileft hum, Squire,” mournfully re marked a tall ('mlulr? man a8 he swung his broad at, ‘“‘and the last id afore I left was, Vi the way of hard as shore as fate you'll word Tir Don’t te licker, John, or jes it into the ealaboose “John Gill, you were in the bargain! “Where do you hail from " *‘0ld Clermont county, "Squire. done sold some cherries, an’ I'd come to sce the circus. Ti she had a powerful toothache, and couldn’t come. So T hitched up Dick in the light spring wigon and drives in ter town."” ) , ch?” asked the court Got down inter the tent, and I elephant and the eag T had I allowed h Ann, he around.” the court. “Excited! Gosh ding itl Why, T got y watehin' them pooty gals “a flyin® ‘round on the white hosses. I spent cents for red lemonade and pea- travagance!” exclaimed the court, ““An’ I bought five cents worth o’ wi ter apples, and giv’ em to the elephant! Funny how them animals Kin git away them, ain’'t it, jedges" “Did - the of«nl.x.m get you drunk?” asked the court. , squire. After 1 an’seen them coored paid ten cents fellers play the banjo an’ sing about some girl with fove- ly blue eyes an’ golden hair, I went out an’met a real circuws feller.” “Well?? asked the court. “He a downright bully fellow, he an’ he spen mwuch as four bits a atin’, Then we met an out-and-out city feller, who had a couple o’ shells an’ apea. He showed them things around an’ then wanted tebhet that nobody could find the pea. ‘W'ile he had his back turned my circus friend he lifted up one them shells, and leg gosh, the pea was udder it. Saysche “Ef 1 had $10 I'd bet him. Have you got it? We'll win his $10 an’ divide it up.’ So I opens out the wallet an’ gives him a $10 bill that I was ince Febrinry. ts it, and 'l be dinged to Jude pea wasa't gone, L never s carry on so ia my hfe as that air 1s feller,”” “John Gill, you .ave a fool! sternly said the cour “Reckon I hat air city feller “Yes, and so was that ci got half of that ten!” “Gee whizz! An't 1 adarned fool, though? Whavll Dirzah Ann say?” Gill, yon step around to the clerk here and deposit §2,” said the bunkoer?” us fellow! He cour! “You will then go down to the stable and get outthat nag of yours and get right back to Clermont and Tirzah Ann, " 'S0 that air nicc eircus fellow bunkoer,” muzed John, as he w out, ‘Tirzah Ann 'l just scalp me!" B A Most Liberal Offer, The Voltaic Belt oompany, Marshalil, Mich., offer to send their celebrated Vol- taic Belts and Eletric appliances on thirty days’ trial to any man sfilicted with Nervous Debulity, Loss of Vitality, Mah- hood, ete. 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It is under this guise that several unscrupulons manufacturers are trying ;;: reap benefits from our name and pres- ge. " Tue Durry MALT WHISKEY Co aious Baltimore, Md, Never in the history of St. Augustine, Fla., has there been, at one time, such ex tensive building operations. - R oo e The Portland, Ore, paper mill gets paper stock, jute butts, from Caleutta for the manufacture of maniila paper. Aman in Wellsville, N. Y, last weck bought and sold 17,000 dozen of cggs AFFAIRS AT CRETR. Progress of Preparationa for the Chautanqua Assembly, Crerr, Neb., June 4 1« ‘orréspondonce of the B, ]—Mr. J. R, J to-day from California, after an absence of several week F. B. Stephens returned this afternoon from a trip west on legal business Capt. Misner came into town this morning and carried home with his Capt. and Mrs, | r, and Rev. anda Mrs. W. Lewis to feast on strawberries to- Capt. Misner and his entortaining wife noted for therr generous hospitality, and many an outing do the Crete peopl y, during the season, at their fincly Kept farm. John Fisk sold to-day, to Mr. Miles Frenen, the finest snd Jargest lot of cattle ever shipped from Satine county. Their average weight was seventeen hundred nounds and they brought five cents per pound Mr. C. G Cone recently purchased a fine horse from Toogood Bros nd, with his new buggy and harness, quite a dashing outfit. It is rumored that a very interesting social event is to occur soon after commencement, in which Mr. Cone will take a prominent part. rgar sold to day for 5 s been his especial pride for soveral years. Some of the F Templar joined t Beatrice to-day. Equestrian exereise is becoming more popular than eve! Many are learning who never rode before and some have joined the party who have not ridden for years. It is pleasing to note the nervous p of the rein and the anxious brow v to keep pace with those constantly. arty who went over to the tair Tast night should continue the and give us an exhibition of 1'durmg fair time. ey MeClain,of Wellsville, Kan,, directors of the Ottaw: sembly, visited our town yost end and Crete Knights the prirpose of exchanging {deas with our assembly workers. Mr. McClain is_en- thusiastic over this work, and is wonderful interest all over the He predicts for ourassembly u Inrg tend ance than the most sanguine to expect. different committees are zealously ork_perfecting plans gnd_executing them. The suvcrintendent of grounds, Mr. D. J. Jon dili yursues the at method- 1 exactness which alway him The men under his supervision are pushing the work on the grounds,and we all begin to feel as though we were on the eve of a great event. The anagement of the assembly have made especial provision for com- plete instruetion in the normal depart- ment, as well as for a lecture platform of the highest exc Rev. E”A. Dunning, who has charge of the advanced normal cluss and is author and publisher is justly cel- cebrated for his eminent scolarship and a8 an instructor. sssor R, S. Holmes, w of the regular normal el a great part of his time for o the normal work of the Chau sembly. He will give two less through the cntive session. ence of these two instructors at the sembly will insure large and enthusi normal classes. Dr. R. R. Meredith, who for many years has been prominentasan author, teacher, preacher and lecturer, and who gathers every Saturday afternoon, in ‘I'remont temple, Boston, an audience of over two thousand people, the largest Bible class in the world, will deliver the address to duates. uarked last year by one who heard his lecture, “I would” walk five miles in the mud to hear that man again,” Many who were equally delighted will need no other inducement to insure their presence than the fact that he is to be bhere. vho has charge has devoted o pres- as- ——— EXETER ECHOES. News Notes from a Lively Town. EXETER, Neb,, June 5.—[Correspond- ence of the BEe.]—Some excitement was caused here last night by a rumor that Baroch had failed. On investigation it was discovered the report was unfounded. An “infair” was held at the house of one of our prominent citizens Wednesday night to celebrate Cleveland’s weddi Our democratic postmaster and a num- ber of others were present. A letter of congratulation to the bride was written, read and approved, but whether it was sent or not, we have not been able to learn. This town stands stry )n;i for Van Wyek. A paper was put in circulation by some of our people to secure the mes of those who would pledge themselves to use all honorable means to secure his re-election. Out of over one hundred persons to whom 1t whom it was handed, only two refused to sign it. ‘I'he Exeter Creamery Company is turn- ing - out between 300 and 400 pounds of butter daily, and expect to double the capacity soon Mr, Stewart, the manager has several gold medals, and | i reputation as a first class rother Pflug, of that temperance organ “The Advance” says in an article of a recent date: “‘Hardly a day passes, but what drunken men are scen reciing nlong our streets without the least at- tempt of the ofticers of the law to arrest them. Elder Waite of the *‘Enterprise’ aenies the charge made against the fair record of our town, We agree with Brother Waite. Surely, that article was written before prohibition became the law here and must have been uceidently resurrceted from the waste basket to appear in the columns us fresh copy. “Consistency than art a jowel.” Our vity is ereating bankers by whole- have gone west this spring to grow up in that business, and roport says that more will tollow, - - A TALE OF THE SEA, Oply an 1diot on Board. T had been up the Rio de la Plata in a British brig,'" said Charles Witliamson, “and as we came back to Mntevideo to finish our loading we had to make con siderable repaivs above the water line, There were ten or twelve of us all told when we hauled out und were about to trip anchor tor home, and of all the hard cases I ever saw put aboard a ship this erew capped the climax. The captain and m 1w he only two left of the w which had come out from Liver- yool. Some of tie men had died, some skipped out, and we had Up ne- groes, Lascars, Americans, Englishmen and Swedes, just as we happened to find them, until we had a sprinkling of every- thing under the sun. We had hauled out iuto the harbor to sober up the crew and finish the repairs, when the captain was taken suddenly ill, This was directly after dinner, and he was rowed off to town to consult a doctor. The proper thing, as it seemed to me, would have been to send and bring a medieal man aboard; but things took place as I told ou ’ The old man was no sooner clear of the brig than the half sobered men broke loose from their restraint. The mate was seized and secured in his state room, and the mutineers, for such they had now be come, ed things with a high band. They rummaged the cabing and the stores, drank thewsclyes into a frensy, and, a8 night came on they hoisted out the long obnson returned | | boat, filled her with plunder, and all de- sertod the brig together had not ;mnrll with them, and, but for having ound a safe hiding place they would either havo done for me or forced me to o along in the boat. As soon as they ore well away we took the dingy, which had returned after leaving the captaim on shore, and rowed in to inform the old man of what had happened. As the cook went with the mutineers not a soul was | left aboard of the Cl: It seemed that the cavtain was taken much worse after getting ashore, and when we found him, which was only after a_ couple of hours, e had a high fever and was out of his head. The doctor said he was in for it for a month at least, and <o Mr. Carpenter | that wasthe name of the mate--and my- self—start Kk tothe brig. We had not yet reached our | when a sudden and violent storm arose, and it continued during the entire night' with such fury that it was idle to think of leaving the wh During that storm a ship in the harbor was dismasted, o schooner dragged her anchor and er thousands of dol to shipping. We w look for the Clarence, but she was no- where to be seen, The crew of the dis- masted ship reported to have seen the brig drive out to sea with the gale, and there could be no doubt of her loss “Inaday or two we heard from the mutimeers, or at least the long boat was picked un at sea, bottom side up, with every chance that not a cap Inside of a k the dead, and the mat Lthe other. I made 3 voy Janeito and back again, then 1 shipped for a run around the Horn, and up the Chili const. Sixty-five days after hed into a brig, and s damage was done out at daylight to .the Clarence drove out “to sea |'was on the American ship Henry Jordan, with the Falkland islands bearing due | west, and thirty or forty mil It was mid afternoon, with a when I heard & man deck with “*‘Dismasted about I iling hreeze, from aloft hail the hulk dead ahead and ve miles away, sir, ' here wi general stic among ofli cers and men, and every one of us had the wreek under his eye long cnough be- fore we came up toit. She was driving br e on, masts and jibboom gone, tangle of wreck stult alongside, but appeared perfectly sound. When ad approached her within a quarter of a mile the ship lay to and a boat was lowered. It was my luck to be sent along and to be allowed on board with the m B passed over the pcognized the hulk as that of lost brig Clarence. The bulwarks were stoven in plac but not fifty dol- lars damage had been done to the hull. She was dismasted. nave said, but shie hadn't a quart of water in her hold, and her cargo had not been disturbed or 1. That was strange enough, ering how far away she had drifted and the storms she had éncountered, but there was something stranger still. In the cabin we found a man in_hiding—a white man and a sailer, of age. bout forty ycars We had to drag him out by main force, but we could not get a w out of him, IHe shrank from him as if terribly frightened and we had to drop him into the boat neck and heels. “The weather being pl |)rns‘m(:t of its holding decided to pick up the derelict and take her to the 1slunds. Her steering gear was in good order, and inside of thirty hours we had her securely anchored in u sheltered bay in the FalKlands, and two of us were left aboard as shipkeeper The stranger we had found aboard was ant, with a ur eaptain taken along with the ship, but on the third day, not having yet spoken or made a_sign in answer to & question, he flung himself overboard and was drowned, T am just as certain he was not aboard of the brig when the mate and I left her I am that [ am alive. We had no such man among the erew, nor coulil he have come off to the brig after we left without being seen. Itis a solemn fact that he must have boarded her in mid-ocean, How? From what? How long before found him? Was it the loneliness of olitary existence thatdrove him mad or idiotic? The land may have its mys- teries, but those of the sea oyershadow them.” 1 about it, and asked thom to think it over. 1 do not think they will. It seems almoss wicked to cut off the best part of a dross and put_it at the other end of the sk to be trodden under feet of men, a8 v, They smiled good humoredly fried to impress my views at as upon them, but should I go there again next summer and mingle in tho mad whirl of Washington, where these faie women are also minghng in said mad whirl, I presume that 1w f‘ tind them clothed in the same gaslight waist, with trimmings of roal vertebrm down the back. Still, what does a know about the proper costum: wornan? He knows nothing whatever. Heo is in many ways a little inconsistent. Why does’a man frown on a cortain costume for s wife and admire it on the first woman he meets? hy does he fight shy of religion and christianity and talk very freely about the church, but get mad if his wife is an infidel® Crops around Washington are lookin well. - Winter wheat, crocuses and indefi- nite postponements were nover in a more thrifty condition. Quite a number of veople are here who are waiting to be confirmed, Judging from their habits, they are lingering around here in order yme contirmed drunkards, here to-morrow with a large, wet towel in my plug hat. Pe 1 should have said nothing on th reform question while my hat s fittin me so immediately. 1t is seldom that step aside trom the beaten path of recti- tude. but last evening on the way home it sectied to me that Tdidn't do much else but step aside. At these parties. no charge is made for punch. Itis perfectl; free. Tasked a colored man who stood near a puneh bowl and who replenished it ever and anon what the damage was and he drew himself up to hi full height. Possibly 1 did wrong, but T hate to be a burden to any one. It scemed odd to me to go to a first-class dance and find the supper and the band and the rum all paid for. It must cost a good deal of money to run this government Bir. NYE, TUTT’S PILLS 25 YEARS IN USE. ‘Tho Greatest Medical Tflnmgh of the Age! SYMPTOMS OFVAER wr TORPID LI Lossof appetite, Bowels costive, Pain in tho bond, with a dull sensation in the part, Paln unser tho shoulders after vating, withn CONSTIP . J TUTT'S PILLS aro especially adaptad to such_eases, on® doso effects such & change of feeling aston: oy Incronse the A fo Take o Y X 4 TUTTS EXTRIGT SARSAPARI Ronovates the body, makes healthy fle wtrengthens the weak, repairs the wastes of Ao system with pure blood and hard muscle; wnes the nervous system, invigorates the ©rain, and imparts the vigor of manhood, 81, Sold by druggists. TTRCE 44 Murray S ew York. Curo modk cine. cntod Octo- ber 18, 1876, the most obtinate caso in four days or less. Mlan'sSoluble Medicatad Bougies No nnuseous doses of cubebs, copaiba or oul of sandalwood that are certain o produce dyspop- sia by destroging tho coutings of tho stomch, Sl WASHINGTON'S GAY SOCIETY. As Seen Through Bill Nye's Spec- tacles. I have just returned from a polite and recherche party here. Washington is the hotbed of gayety, and general headquar- ters for Lhe recherche business. 1t would be hard to find a bongtonger aggwega- tion than the one I was just to, to use the words of a gentleman who was there, and who asked me if 1 wrote *“The Heathen Chinee.” He was a very talented man, with a broad sweep of skull and a vague yearn- ing for somcthing mors tuugiblo—to drink. He was in Washington, he seid, in the Interests of Mingo county. I forgot to ask him where Mingo county might be. He took an interest in_ me, and talked to me long after he really had nothing to say. He was one of those fluent conyer- sationalists frequently met with in soc He uscd one of those web-py ers—the kind that can he fed with raw Roman punch and that will tarn out punctuated talk in links, like varnished sausnges. Bemng a poor talker myself and rather more fluent as a listencr, I did not interrupt him. He said he was sorry to notice how young girls and their parents came to ashington as they would to & matrimonial market. I was sorry also to hear it. It pained me to know that youuf‘ ladies should allow themselves to be bamboozled into mat mony. Why was it, I asked, that matri- y should ever single out the young and fair’ “Ab," said he, “it is indeed rough." He then breatlied a sigh and shook tho folinge of the speckled geranium ne: by and killed an artificial caterpilliar that hung on the branches. **Matrimony is all nght,"” said he, properiy brought about. It breaks my heart, though, to notice how Washington used as o matrimonial market. It see to e almost as if these here fu“"g dies were hrmlfhl here like slave exposed for sale.” I had noticed they were somewhat exposed, but I not know that they were for sule I asked him if the walsts of party dresses had always been 50 sadly in the minority, and he'said they had. I danced with a beautiful young lady whose trail had evidently catght in a doorwuy. She hadn’t noticed it till she had walked out parually throngh her costume. 1 do not think & lady ought to give too much {houghtto her apps should she fecl oo ‘mucl! abi suy thix n the Kinde did gpirit, b bélieve that_mun should bo & fricud to woman. No family ¢ 1y complote without a womau. Sheis like 4 glaa landseape (o the weary eye. Individuall und collectiv junct to civiliz is fon and progress electric light is a good thing, but how pale and feeblo it looks by the light of a y, womian is a great ad- The good woman s eye. ‘The telephone is a tmvention.” It s a good thing to t and murmur into and deposit anity in, but to (ake up a conversa- tion and keép it up and follow a man out tirough the front door with | it, the telephone has still much (o learn from woman It is said tl are not suflicie that 18 the cas v government officers and I presume ne necessary to W A’), nut, why should meentrate all their | . and therd is privation and ash ington scapula than [ ever saw But 1 do not hope to ehange thi eustom, though I spoke ta several ladigs Prico 81.50. Sold by all druggists or malled on receipt of pric. For further purticulars gont forcircular. _P. O, Box 1533, 7. C. ALL.AN CO., #Johnst., Now York. tles-th-satlym&e Ponitively tering Haines' Golden Specific. 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