Carolina Watchman

              the carolina watchman vol vii-third series salisbury n c september 28 1876 no 53 carolina watchman u*ekki.v-j j llklnkr kd and propr ff jsbt t k wu'xek associate ed si-iisi uirtiox rates : cr payable tn advance 2 00 jffsk *» *" viivi.inising hates ,„, men 00s pubucatlon *. 1 no w '.. two publications 1 5.1 1 nes tor monuis or a year pal deinocratic_reforin ticket for president .- samuel j tilden of nkh york for vice-president : thomas \ hendricks o indiana stateticket for governor : zebulon ii vance of mecklenbuno ]' lieutenant governor : thomas j jarvis of i'l ! i foi st tte t easurt r j m worth ok kandoi.l'ii i'or secretary of slate joseph a englehard of sew iianoykl fu >' stall 1 editor : samuel l love of haywood for alton ey general : thomas s kenan of wilson for sttpl of public instruct inn : j ('. scaubrough of johnston /■'„,- cunyrrss 1st district i1..-si 1 yeatks of likllt.-c-kl /' cong rug 3d district alfred m waddell ok kew iianovkb fur conijres alii district joseph 1 davis jjf franklin z lh7*jami/i<rx bth district : a.-mrscaxes ► • i ik qcilfobt v fur congress — 6th district - walter l steele ok richmond for congress 7th district william m robbins ok iredell for congress bth district robert li vance ok bcncombe electors at large d 0 fowle i wake •' m leach ol davidson district electors ljt district lewis j latham u district loll n e wooten tomwmct-john i stanford jti district fab ii busbee w district f c bobbins felmiruci it p waking ft district wm b glenn s th district — a c avery ujfdrophobia in a horse tfce fitchburg mass sentinel says " a ifiul.ir cafe f hydrophobia occurred g'oti.n a lew days since a farmer 7 "'« name of torrey bad in his posses nsdng who had manifested some fni of being unwell and while in tlm ta j«bit a largo and valuable horse also ■**« by mr torrey the bile was not i.lfreil sennas as it was only a slight ' cr icli upon the nose and not severe j*«gb to draw hied in the meantime i hi died and iho horse worked as until on day he beemed quite un ,, ' h **-* os left in the btabte lor rest 7 br g-"t i show unmistakable signs of jhbohih ami was strongly hound j wpes but freed himself from them j 1 ** bis mesh iu a fearful manner ik v c ' !| z *"*" assembled tu witness i wr but were compelled lo with . *> »» it was so terrible to look upon •"» madness be would only bile one r hi(j or i ll j w | li . n | |( , ggjjjg j t ,|„. w m wen a nothing he continued iu jj toteuuiil he waa shol by order of • lurrey this horse also hit auother jble horse and mr torrey is unx ! u ".)' waiting the result the same dog moody and sanuy in vermont j lth vermont sept 15 messrs jjj y a d saukey will hold services in iu \ l0 > 1 1 on sunday morning and . unlrfi t ld f mr moody's native town that day they will £.»■*- ultir regular fall meetings at tee's n 0el ' l a larg0 buil(lin 6 beat j k l 000 baa been erected in the cent re i r f * c ''^ -* or hese meetings mr o j*j e " r g«0 nccdham tho evangelist l l - a » uccorapanied by mr i 3 n i he singer of boston begins a p - v vr atro tirco iu t!j jere black on hayes o hon jere black in a recent letter ad dressed lo mr gaifield commenting on his speech in congress in reply to mr lamar of mississippi shows what it lakes to make a reformer and demonstrates very clearly that gov hayes is not the man nor his party the sort of support a reformer should have mr black said : you would have us believe that hayes if elected will r form abuses and give us a pure administration your statement and thai ol other gentlemen equally re liable ni..ke it certain that hayes bears nn irreproachable character in all he pri vaie relations i do not doubt bis pos session of that negative honesty which it is a disgrace to want i accord him those tame household vittues which entitle bim t the respect of bis neighbors and con fidence ol his family ; but be can no more stem lhe torrent of republican corruption lhan he can swin against the rapids of niagara his whole history shows that he would not even make an effort to do so he has been most happily called a man of tried subserviency a reformer in these limes must be made of stern material he must have no connection with and be under no ob ligaiion to the authors of the abuses which need reform above all things he must not luve consented expressly or implied to th commission of the pub lic wrongs which bis duties as a refill iner would 1 quire bim to punish when bei comes t oppose wi.-k dness in high places the consciousness i bat he liiiiis it is in pari delicto will make even a strong man as nei \ 1 less as infancy to show h iw bard it would be for a jian like mr hayes to resist ibe worst orders of his own party i must cite a case directly in point and certainly within your recoil ction as well as mine iu the case of milligan you made au eloquent and powerful speech before the supreme court for those free principles which i at lhe same time supported in my weaker way you showed tbe indestruc tible right of every citizen to a legal trial you pioved that magna china did not pemb 011 tbe bade field you demon strated by irresistible logic tb.it the con stitution was as supreme after the war as | it was before you pinned wiih lofty contempt the brutal idea that law was extinguished by victory of tho forces call id out 10 defend il ; and you closed with lhat grand peroral m 011 the godibssof liberty which il sp ken in aniens in the best bijs of her fierce d.'ui'»cracie would have shook the arsenal and ful minated over lcec these were nol the words of a paid advocate fir you had volutii eretl iu ihe cure ; nor the sud den emotion of i ii.-nphyt for you had read and p nnl red the subject well you j sp'ke the deliberate conclusions of your mind and 1 here is no doubt that io your heart of heart you believe tbem to be true this day y<-t when the reconstru lion law was proposed 3011 suffered yourself lo be whipped in surrendered your conscience to your parly aud voted against your re coidcd convictions for a measure that nullified every provision of tbe constitu tion whereby ten millions of people w-»re deprived of rights which yog knew to be sacr<d and inalienable if ibis was your case what subservi ency may not be expected from mr hayes when the party lash comes to be laid ou bis back 1 yon are his superior in every quality that holds a man true to public duty you have been carefully schooled in the morality of ibe new testa ment you have lived all your life iu the full blaze of the gospel you are gifted wi:b a logical acumen which few can boast and wiih moial courage tar above the average ifyou fell down before tbe moloch of abolitionism and give up all j pnociple at once what act of worship will ! hayes deny to that grim idol ? victor hugo on the atrocities o the following letter beaded for i servia appears in the paris ruppel : it becomes necessary lo call attention of the european governments to a fact so small it seems that the governments appear not to perceive it the fact is this a people is being assassinated where ? in europe has ibis act wit nesses ? one witness tbe whole world do the governments see it ? no tbe nations have above them something which is below ihem — the governments at certain momeuis this anomaly presents itself — civilization it in lhe people's bar barism is it willful ? no it is simply professional what tbe liu-man race knows governments are ignorant of this j is because governments are nothing ' through the shortsightedness peculiar to them while the human race looks on wiih another eye tbe conscience we : are about to astonish european govern ; ments by teaching them one thing — viz : ' that crimes are crimes ; that it is no more | allowable for a government than for au individual to be an assassin ; but europe is solidair ; that all tbat happens in eu rope is done by europe ; that ii there exists a wild beast government it must be treated as a wild beasl ; lhat at the present moment quite close by us there under our eyes people are massacring burning pillaging exterminating cutting the throats of fathers and mothers sell ing lhe little girls aud boys ; that the children too small to be sold are being cat iu two by ibe blow of a sabre ; tbat fami lies are burned iu their bouses ; that one town batak for example — has been re duced io a few hours from 9,000 inhabi tants to 1,300 ; that the cemeteiies are chocked with more corpses than can be buried so that to the living wbo have sent tbem carnege tbe dead seud back tbe . pesileoce which is only fair w teach lhc l--jv-,raa-ii of bmope th that pregnant women are being ripped open to kill the children in their wombs ; that in the public squares there are heaps of the remains of women with tbe trace of this treatment ; that dogs gnaw in the streets the skul's of outraged giils ; that all this is horrible ; that a gesture of tbe governs ments of europe would be enough to pre vent it and that the savages who commit tbese crimes are terrifying and tbat tbe civilized wbo let tbem commit ibetn are appalling the time has come to raise one's voice the universal indignation is being aroused there are hours when the human conscience speaks and orders governments to listen the governments stammer a reply they have already tried this stammer they say it is exag gerated yes it is exaggerated it was not in a few hours that the town of b-ttak was exterminated ; it was in a few days it is said 200 villages were burned there were only 99 what you call pestilence is only a typhus all lhe women have not been outraged ; all tbe girls have not been bold ; a few have been captured prisoners have been inultilated but their beads have been also cut off which lessens the thing tbe infant said to have been thrown from one pike to the other wa in reality only placed 0:1 the point of one bayonet where there ia one you put two you exaggerate the two c and then why has this people revolted ? why do not a hock of men let themselves be own ed likeja berd of animal wliy.-jw this fashion of palliating increases ihe horror to quibble with public i digiiatiou hold ing more miseiiible the attenuations aggravate it is subtlety pleading fur barbarism it is byzantium excusing stamboul let us call th'ngs by iheir name to kill a man at the corner of a wood called a forest ol bondy is a criin ; to kill a people at lhe corner f thai other wood called diplomacy is a crime also a greater one that is aii the difference does crime diminish in proportion to its enormity ? alas ! ihat is indeed an old law of history kill six men you are troppmann ; kill 600,000 you are caesar to be monstrous is 10 be acceptable witness the st barthol omew blessed by rome the dragnnnades glorified b bossuct the 2d of december saluted by europe but ii is lime lhat lhe old law is succ-ed.-d by lhe new law however black llie night the horizon must end by getting light yes the night is black we are al the rising ol gliosis alter the syllabus behold the koran from one bible to ihe other people frat emise juiigamus dextras b-hiud the holy ee stands lhe sublime porte we are given the choice of darkness and seeing that rome offered us its middle ages turkey has thought proper lo offer us his hence the things happening iu servia where will it stop t when will finish the martyrdom of this heroic little natisin ? it is lime their i-*su<-s from civilization a peremptory prohibition to go further this prohibition to go furth er in crime we the people intimate to ihe governments but we are told you forget that tliere are questions !" to mur der a man is a crime to murder a people is a question ! each government has its question russia has constantinople england lias india france has prussia prussia lias france we reply human ity also lias its question " and lhal ques tion is this : it is greater ban india england aud russia it is the infant in its mother's womb let us supersede the political question by the human ques tion the whole future is there let us say it the future whatever is done will exist everything serves it even crimes what is happening in servia proves the necessity of tbe united states of europe let the distinct governments be suc ceeded by the united peoples let us have done with the muiderous empires let us muzzle the fanaticisms and despot isms lei us break the swords which are valets of superstitions aud the dogmas which have tbe sabre in band no more wars no more massacres no more carnage free thought free trade fraternity is peace then bo difficult ? the republic in eu rope the continental federation there is no other political reality than that rea sonings prove it and events also o.l this realiiy which'is a necessity all the philosophers are agreed ; and now the executioners join their demonstration to the demonstration of the philosophers after its fashion and just because it is horrible savagery testifies for civilization what europe requires is a european nationality oue government oue im mense fraternal arbitration democracy at peace with itself all the sister nations having for their city and capilai paris — that is liberty having light as its capi tal ; in one word the united states of europe tliere is the goal there is the port it was only truth yesterday ; to day thanks to ihe executioners of servia it is evidence to the thinkers are added the assassins the proof was given by the monsters the future ia a god drawn by tigers aug 29 1s76 victor hugo an absent-minded wife the iudihtiapolis journal says : a few days ago a gentleman ill this e.ity was astonished lo receive a telegram from his wife who was at the ceuleuuial asking bim tor the name of the hotel at which she was slopping he answered of course but the mystery was not explain ed until ber return yesteiday it seems tbat white in tbe centennial grounds she became sept-rated from ber friends and finding thai sho could uot discover tbem was about to inquire her way to the ho tel bat was more than astonished to find tbat she could not recall the name of it nor the street upon which it was located so she placed herself in charge of an offi cer until ber husband's answer to tb telegram relieved her of the unpleasant p-ndteameot who which so bad fallen how is dot 1 a colored gentleman recently sen tenced by judge schenck at charlotte for hog stealing to 10 years in the peni tentiary was a few days ago found lurching near his old quarters in meck lenburg afier being chased and finally i shot he surrendered and what do you j think he says ? why it id this that he : and numerous others ivere discliarged by j the authorities aud permitted to go home j with full ins ructions to do their beet at tbe november elections for the radical i ticket when the judgment of the law is thus set aside and for such purposes — what are we to expect if the republicans again get control of the state if this be true j the whole penitentiary gang will be tum ! ed loose to vote before another month freemen what think you of this can i il be possible lhat the voters of ihe state will stand aloof under such circumstan ces and allow this election to be carried by penitentiary convicts { we hope not — concord sun what has he done \\ ho was one of the leadeis in put tin upon us ibis infamous can by constitution 1 1 om settle who sustained holden in his devilish kirk war ? tom setlle who agreed with pearson when he said the judiciary was exhausted power ! less to take poor men who had committed no crime out of jrisiou ? tom settle who supports graiiti-.ni and all of its stealing i tom seule who went inlo the army as captain ami resigned to come home to prosecute 1 1 tu.-.o tor nol going turn settle whal w bite man has refused to de . nouuee the infamous civil rights bill 1 j tom setlle who is ti lay trying to stir up all the old dead issues of the late war i tom \ setlle who are the plunderers and thieves at washington city supporting for govern or of nor ill carolina ? tom settle who is a leading man in the radical paity ihat has brought so much distress upon the land i tom settle who favors the party that has put up on us the revenue crew worse than ever ; were the lice of ancient egypt tom setlle — albemarle times wasted sympathy one day rn-ently a res■•cctablv-drr-ss ed man carried a well grown child mu filed up and apparent sick inlo a new york hotel he placed the child on the stairs aud began to talk to it iu a very unkind rough way the attention of the guests was attracted and they gathered mound j you an able lo walk up stairs by yourself and 1 won't carry you ." oh oh tbe child sobbed do carry me up : please pa do vou know ever since i was run over by the car and lost both my feet i can't walk up stairs alone that's all stuff the man answered ; get up at ouce or i'll make you the poor child began lo fob worse than before and the brutal man gave it a se vere thump over lhe side of ibe head the child mourned pileously the in dignation of the bystanders was excited and one of tbeui said to the man is lhat child yours v what's that to you ?' answered the man ; t won't tell you he's — my — father the child sobbed and — lie — killed — my mother — just as he's — a going — to — kill — me the man doubled up bis fist and made , as though he was about to give the child a savage blow o.ie of the bystanders interfered and said say ifyou don't stop this i'll call a policeman i never saw such a brutal fattier in all my life the man began to fumble in his pock ets and the child cried out take care he's got a knifo he's going to slick you sure enough the man produced a knife and opened it tbe crowd slipped off one hy one except two i bring au officer one of these cried to , be a friend if i am to be arrested the man said i it shall be tor something and thereupon ! ho plunged thu knife into tbe body of the i child the child shrieked i'm murder j ed i'm murdered and a crowd rushed to j the spot — the man quietly raised the i child iu his arms aud removing his hat 1 said : gentlemen this is a wooden child i'm a ventriloquist any little offering you may be pleased to make will bo very ac ceptable shocking accident to a som nabuli8t a shocking accident happened in eng land on friday night the 1st inst to a mrs mcdauid aged thirty-eight years the lady had been staying with some friends at no ig warrior road keuuing ton and retired to rest as usual on fii day night but shortly afler midnight ber friends beard her walking about ber room it was known that she was a somnambulist but uo danger was apprebeaded she be ing iu ber bedroom suddenly however a great crash of glass followed by a scream and a heavy fall were heard and upon the inmates hastening to ascertain the caose they discovered that mrs mc daniel bad during her sleep walked through a glass door on the second door and fallen into the garden below a dis tauce of thirty five feet medical assis tance was quickly procured when it was found that the poor lady had fractured both legs and sustained severe internal injuries neres-sitaiing her immedia'te re ' uii"ii vt tbe ho*>f/>:il the wise little ones miss ediih , aged three years is deeply interested in ber doll one day she said aunt lottie if it would not in venience you too much i wish yon would step in and l.ll dr to call aud see gracie ihe doll i ga ve her wood bine tea and put ber to bed but she dou'i ! appear to get better little johnny has peculiar views as to • original sin one day he was about to be punished for some misdemeanor when impleaded it wasn't me mamma dear it was the bad man well johnny i'm going to whip the bad man . out of you ah yes but that'll hurt me a precious lot more than it will the bad man the napa oal transcript reports that a little boy after seeing a pretty good prospect the other day obtained from some quanz from a ledge near town want ed lo know of the miner if lit didn't think somebody had buried some twenty dollar i pieces there and they had rotted the rochester express says that last thursday while little carrie and gia^ie solomon of that city aged eleveu and twelve respectively were fishing from the pier at gharlotte one of the hooks ] became entangled iu a log a liltle above lhe water and gracie leaning over to disentangle it plunged headlong into the river there was not a soul near save one little boy who ran away screaming ' for help but carrie grasped ber fish-pole firmly and when her little sister rose to 1 the surface placed the end of it in her hands and bracing her foot iu a crevice 1 of the pur togged and pulled like a lit tle heioiue that she was being nearly - drawn iu herself twice until she landed gracie safely on ihe dock tommy is fond of sugar and asks his ( mother for some to eat with his strawber ries she refuses he appears resigned but adds gravely : you know mamma what happened round the corner there was a little boy and his mother would not give him any sugar on his strawber ries and ," and — ?" and next day he fell into a well ... . frightful scene at a french railway station a frightful scene took place at the vaise railway btation lyons on the 2d inst a superb nubian lion intended for the bidel menagerie which had just arrived was left iti the station awaiting orders from iis owners the superinten dent look the precaution of removing the truck iu which thu animal was brought o lyons into a corner of lhc line of the or dinary traffic aud put a barricade around it to prevent the accidental approach of strangers ah these steps however af forded only a stimulant lo the curiosity of some persons who happeued to be in the station among them was a cattle merchant who was seized with an insane desire to go up to the wild animal and caress il as he mighl do a cow or a sheep ilmt he hid just purchased he put his arms inside the cage for this purpose bul in another moment horrible cries were heard and attracted all the woikmeu and officials to the spol where the lion had been safely placed out of the reach of do ing harm to al but those who might will fully seek danger the bight presented wis a frightful one the infuriated ani mal had the limb of lhe adventurous cat lie dealer between his teeth and was dragging t lie whole body wiihin the iron bars the spectators immediately armed themselves wiih picks shovels and crow bars ; but before ihey succeeded iu forc ing the lim to loo-sen his hold he had torn the man frightfully medical assis lance was soon procured and it was found necessaiy to perform an amputa tion to save the life of this \ ictim of his own recklessness do you the ansonian puis these pertinent queries : do you want lo reduce your taxes ? vole for the amendments do you want separate schools for tlie while and colored children in our state vole for tho amendments do you want to save 12,500 per an num to the state ? vote for tbe amendments reducing the number of judges would you have saved from 850,000 to 100,000 per annum in the legislative expenses ? vole for the amendment restricting the session to sixty days aud the per diem of the members to four dollars ifyou want good economical govern ment in north carolina vote for ull the a me n dm cm s it is certainly highly dangerous to tbe reputation of most men to live very long what would not byron have lost in fame if instead of dying at 16 in the effort to secure greek independence he had lived to be a querulous invalid of so ? here i poor old earl russell who gecaaionally reminds mankind of his ximence by a letter in the loudon times ho much more glory would he have got if he had sunk to rise no mote after iih had as the scion ofa historic house which shed its blood on the scuffi-id in the sacred cause of liberty carried tho reform bill of is31 ? yet the old mau's old age has fallen in pteacaai places his letters are dated from pembroke lodge a charming abode which is crown property generally be stowed upon somo emiuent servant of the crown for life at lord russell's death it is very likely to become the home of mr gladstone lird russell has never had large means and has never eveu by his greatest enemies been accused of greed or overreaching and the queen's act io giving bim this house — he had no other n the country — wji rpplauird bv all parties — n y svn a case of hydrophobia i a death that is the uppermost topic with ! many new york physicians adam hermann who lived in sixrv 1 eighth street near ninth avenue was bit | ten by a spitz dog aboul three weeks ago j lhe bite left a small scratch on the i,id*x finger of mr hermann's left hand he thought nothing of it until 01 monday last he raised a glass of whiskey to his lip then he involuntarily shuddered and a choking suffocating sensation over powered him on tuesday he went to the roosevelt hospital and sought out dr t w rice lhe house surgeon dr rice sent for a tumbler of water and offer i edit to hermann he f ,- a , t ed back threw out his hands to motion the doctor back and his features became frightfully distorted dr rice then fanned bim with his hat a spasm more terrible than the fust seized him hermann was taken to a private room aud made comfortable liter iu the day the spasms increased in severity and frequency they came at the mere mention of water at the sight of rusting leaves or the quivering of a bcreen i that wns placed before ihe door to keep off drafs the slightest draft sent the ! sentittve patient into convulsions dur ! ing tuesday the first day in the hospital i mr hermann repeatedly tried to swallow food and drink but his efforts were not only unsuccessful but they were extreme ly painful in the spasms which were only momentary hermann's face turned almost black iii eyes stood out from iheir ! sockets and the expression of his face be came no only ghastly but demoniac i have never seen anything so fright ful said dr rice yet be was rational i through all and was able to talk clearly and sensible he sometimes bemoaned bis fate in having served all through ihe war to die by the bite of a wretched little cur all these symptoms continued up to 10 o'clock on wednesday morning j when the palient became slightly deliri i ous he sprang at an attendant and was j afterwards lied loosely to his bed he i foamed at the mouth and his head and j face became covered with froth and all ; day long he spat in quantities so great j that he covered the floor and lhe walls i soaked his bed clothing he became uu j ■ conscious in the afternoon and died very suddenly at 5 o'clock in the evening mr { hermann was 54 years of age the case was wholly in the hands of dr rice but while mr hermann was iu | the hospital hia case attracted many of the most distinguished physicians of the ! , 1 city among ihem were profs markoe j dal ton clarke mason and watts of the i college of physicians aud surgeons " they followed the case with interest and it was with reluctance that the body was surrendered lo deputy corouer gold 1 schmidt yesterday he found the inter ual organs iu a very peculiar condition the lungs were iu a state of hypostatic congestion tbe cavities of the heart were dilated the liver was enlarged the peri toneal coat of the small intestines was inflamed the membranes of the brain were | congested and there was an effusion of tbe watery poi tion of the blood in addi tion to a deposit of lymph the base of the brain adhered to the skull as the re sult of inflammation the spinal cord was congested and there were hemorrhagic spots in the spinal canal the coid was softened the spine lungs liver heart and brain were taken out and retained iu the hospital for examination barnum-a tattooed nobleuas — v \ fl'll description uf the wonder the following full description from the ! biidgeport conn daily standard of captain costentenus lhe wonderfully tattooed albinian greek with p t bar nura's great show will be very interest ing to our readers : we saw at ex-mayor b irnum's resi dence this morning a wonder of tattooing ou tbe person of captain george cosieti tenus a descendant ofa noble greek fam ily from the province of albiuia his statement is thai while be together with , au american and a spaniard were min ing in chinese tartary in 1s67 a rebel lion arose and ihe three joined the insur gents ill luck coming to iheir c iu they were taken prisoners and stiljected , to tbe tattooing process for three months as a punishment iti lien of having their . lie ids cut off he says that the process i causes such terrible paiu that it required six men to hold him while one pei formed . the operation af*er it was completed j all three escaped from prison but the american only survived live or six months the spaniard losi his eyesight and died , in mm ilia but captain costentenus sur vives aud is in good health the tattooing was done with indigo and cinnabar pro ducing blue and led colors and there is 1 uot a single point ou his body which ii uot covered with these colors so tbat it 1 is impossible to discover what was tlie 1 natural color of hi skiu except by l'.s ears and the soles of his fec-r which are j the only pans ihey did uut tattoo he j appeared at tirst sight as though he were . clothed with very closed-fitting lights made of a shawl or of very soli fine j druggi-tt upou a close inspection how ever it is seen that he is entirely naked j and that ibe apparent tights are an illu j sion moreover bii whole person 1 t und | to be covered w,:h 1 variety ot an ail figures with their i.aroos most ingeuoas ' and ski'ifu printed into tbe cuticle oi tbe forehead arc s..-...na!s and inscription aud on tbe face star like figiires ou the hands are uuuierous red p-jir.ts and dgarco . resembling sculptures as well as long | tailed panther-iike shapes o.i the necii chest abdomen back and extremities tbe skiu is a mass ot symmeiricaliy arraagea and admirably executed figure f n mi keys tigers linos elephants peacocks storks swans makes crockodilee lizards mingier with bo**vj herr leaves fl ' ti , aud fruits 00 b p-ri 01 **■'-' i are indescribable figures on lhe tiack j and sides of both feet to ihe toes are blue | points and from the toes to the nail red , lines altogether there are 3s9 tattooed i pictures on the entire body ou the fore | head 2 neck s cheat 50 back 37 i abdomen 62 upper extremities 101 lower extremities 137 he is certainly one of the greatest human curiosities ever seen he has traveled in all countries except america nnd is attracted here by lhe centennial exhibition he spoke english french spanish and italian this morning and he understands the arabiac persian and several other ian guages he is about live feet ten inches | high has a feuperb physique his hair is straight jet black and glossy to tbe touch his skin has a very soft velvety feeling and it has so much the appearance of being clothed that he might walk through the public streets wiihout any one suspecting that he was not dressed iu tights caught in his own trap once two ministers ofthe gospel were conversing on extemporaneous preach well said the old divine waxing warm you arc ruining yourself by writ ing your sermons and reading them off your congregation cannot become inter ested in your preaching and ifyou were called upon to preach unexpectedly unless i you could gel hold of an old sermon you would be completely confused the young divine used all bis eloquence but in vain to convince the old gentleman j that the written sermons expressed his own thoughts and feelings and if called upon he could preach extemporaneously as we are of the same faith said tbe young minister suppose you try me j nezt sabbath morning on ascending | tlie pulpil you can hand me a text from : any part of the bible and i will convince you that i can preach without having i looked at the text before i stood up j likewise i must bo allowed the same ' privilege with you and see who will make i the best of it the idea beemed to delight the old j geutleman and it was immediately agreed ! upon ! the following sabbath on mounting j the pulpit his senior brother handed him i a slip of paper on which was written ! aud tbe ass opened his mouth and j spake from whicli be preached a glorious sermon challenging the attention of his delighted hearers and charming his old friend w iih his eloquence lu lhe afternoon the young brother who was silting below the pulpit handed hts slip afier rising and opening the ! bible ihe old man looked sadly around — am i not thine ass pausing a few minutes he ran his finger through bis h lir btraightened his collar blew bis nose like the last trumpet and read aloud am i not thine ass i another pause in which a deadly silence reigned after j reading the third time am i not thine i ass be looked over ibe pulpit at hia friend aud in a doleful voice said "/ think i am brother hidden treasure o ild hunters who still dream of finding the treasure of capt kidd should read the story i hat comes from indiana and j be encouraged in the little town of i eminence about twenty-five miles south : west of indianapolis two indians called j at a farmer's house early in the evening and asked ihe way to a certain tree proper directions were given and the indians departed nevei h iving m-en his boilers belore the farmer wr curious to know their object and wont to the tree by a short road and hid himself in tho j bushes near by s on the indians came lantern in hand they dug a hole in the ground on one side of the tree — they seemed to know the very place to dig — and to the blank amazement of the firmer found a copper chest two feet square opened i by the light of the lantern and took out several bags of gold which they al once poured into a strong sack provi ded for tbe purpose astounded at the j sii lit the farmer jumped fiom his hiding i place toward he men but in an ii slant the light went out all was darkness and ! the iudi.i disappeared through tbe bushes he estimates that s10.000 were found in the chest aud i is believed the treasure w is secreted here many years ago by orn ancestor of the indian in his dg before the em my owning a home the streagih ofthe american republic j is tlie universal d^-ire to u a home it ! is moulding all tbe pe iple n-ilive and i foreign :. ■ nogeneous mass i the ownership ol i h.u is something of i which neithei lhe irish nor tbe german ! laborer have iu their own c inntry any pti ■• ; b il here it is tbe goal of their j hopes an i desires education cook - next '; it is a - ne g the •-•■• d ol wh-ci s not felt until the adornments at home are h jjgu ' ' this des re to own the rotf | ts-ier wbieh one sh -.-. . distinctively ae american characteristic and seems by nature adapted to tbe growth which s raising us io importance :•*. the scale of nations i -•* ti link s!-:;h connects hs mau with the government i 2"*.i to bi est ;_* the making and executioo o i the laws and identities bita wuii tbo osages and customs of the people it ia ibis element which gives iho people of .*-**-. serund their unity ind power aud um lack of causes nine-te lbs ol he unrest ia irtlauri n feeliug is stronger than the attachments of '.. ne md no in*'>n wbn«e i peon a possess •'..'- 2 1 c nrnou scarimeut