THE CHARLOTTE MESSENGER.
t()L, IV. NO. 4
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AT
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Address,
w -C. SMITH . Charlotte, N. C,
A foreign scientific journal announces
the discovery of a beetle, christened Cc
tonia aurata, which is tS render unneces
sary a 1 the knowledge gained by Pas
iteur concerning the treatment of rabies.
.A Russian naturalist, Alexander Be k r,
:is credited with having made known th<
.properties of this valuable b ig, and a
being the authority for the siate:r.eu!
~\ that, in Southern Russ'a it is the coin
•c\monly recognized and always efficient an
Z o idote for rab es. All that is necessary foi
° w person to do, after having been bitter
y a mad dog, is to cat a piece of bread
i which a Cetonia aurata is enveloped, j
3 eufid he will be secured against liydiopho !
H * Ain. The insert is said to be of a metal
*~fic green color, with some white linet
g °lmJ spots upon it, and it is represented
S .2fcs common among the flowers, not onh
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GIFTS.
• Oh, World-God, give me wealth!" the !
Egyptian cried,
His prayer was granted. High as heaven,
behold
Palace and pyramid; tiie brimming tide
Os lavish lil'o washed all his land with gold.
Armies of toiled out slaves rise at his feet,
World-circling traffic roared through mart
and street.
His priests are gods, his spice-balmed kings
enshrined,
Set death at naught in rock-ribbed char
nels deep,
Seek Pharaoh's race to-day and we shall find
Rust and the moth, silence and dusty sleeps
“Oh, World-God, give me beauty!” cried the
«*• Greek.
His prayer was granted. All the earth be
' came
Plastic and vo:al to his sense; each peak.
Each grove, each stream, quick with Pro
methean flame.
Peopled tho world with imaged grace and
light.
The lyro was his, and his the breathing
might
Os the immortal marble, his the play
Os diamond-pointed thought and golden
tengue.
Go reek the sunshine race, we find today
A broken column and a lute unstrug.
“Oh, World-God, give me power!” the Ro
man cried,
His prayer was granted. The vast world
■was chaine l
A captive to th_* chariot of his pride,
The blood of myriad provinces was drained
To feed that fierce, iu-atiable red heart,
Invulnerably bulwarked every part
With serried legions and with close-meshed
code.
Withiu, the burrowing worm had gnawed
its home.
A roofless ruin stands where oqpe abode
The imperial race of everlasting Rome.
‘Oh, God-head, give me truth!” the Hebrew
cried.
His prayer was granted. He became the
slave
Os the Mca, a pilgrim far and wide,
' mrned. and scourged, with
save.
h e Pharaohs knew him, and when Greece
beheld
His wisdom wore the hoary crown of Eld.
Beauty he hath forsworn, and wealth and
power,
Peek him to-day, and find in every ?anl
| No fire consumes hirn, neither floods devour,
Immortal through the lamp within his
Land.
~~ rr when the xarMß. _ ;
CHARLOTTE, N. C. SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1886.
! stream from which the; had first ap
| pcared.
“Mates, saye I, as we were being
towed ashore. *it*s plain enough that
I we hare been made prisoners and dis
armed. It doesn't apjn-ar. however, that
they mean us any great harm, and it will
peihnja be our wisest plan not to provoke
them to violcr ce.’
“I expected we would be landed on the
bank of the creek, but in plaee of that
two of the natives came into the yawl,
her painter was taken by one of the
canoes, and we went up the creek at a
smart pace. The forest was >o dense on
either side that it was twilight in there,
and we cculd hardly see each other's
faces. The creek was ab nit thirty feet
wide and quite deep. Wc were about
half a mile from the river when we heard
the report of a musket. The gun had
been tired on board the schooner for a
recall*, The report son,J what excited the
natives, and at the command of their
chief they pulled ahead the faster. Price
was a mau of hot temper aud when he
had recovered his wits and realized that
we were being carried off. he advised
that we make a tight for our liberty.
While it might be that the natives un
derstood a few words of English, it is
mare likely that the tone of his voice and
his excitement gave them the cue. One
of the fellows in the yawl with us had a
musket, and he cocked it and held the
weapon within a foot of my mate's
breast. That was to warn him that any
move on his part would be his own
death, and he soon subsided.
“1 think we must have gore up the
river fully eight miles before we came to
their village. It was not on the bank of
the stream, but half a mile away, and
approached by Midi tortuous paths
through the dense forests that it Was
plain to understand that they were a
warlike and strategic tribe, and that all
the redcoats in British Guiana could not
successfully attack the place. Each
path, as I afterward came to know, -was
defended by a sort of abattis, and a
sentinel or scout was always on duty.
| Our advent into the village created 'out
little surprise, and this mostly among
the women and children. This was
pretty good proof that the sight of a
| white man was no novelty to the men.
We w ere held under guard on a piece of
| vacant ground w thin the village for a
few minutes, while one of the natives
l went off to se- the chief: and during
1 this interval I said to the men:
'* 'lt is true, mates, that we have been
made prisoners, bat We must hope for
the best. It is more likely, from the
looks of everything, that we are being
held for ransom. In case we arc separa
ted here and one of us has the luck to
get a .vsjcjNstJriax take the creek for his j
do they wantl Could a boatload of tha mm
release youf 1
“The chief and his interpreter were
watching me as I road the letter, and
they were quick to discover that I had
bad news. The interpreter could not
read writing, and they must, therefore,
take it as I gave it. I explained that
i the Captain had only a few goods left,
and that he advised them to conduct us
to the nearest outpost down the river
and make a bargain with the authorities.
It was plain to see that they were disap
pointed, and after a confab the interpre
ter was ordered to say to me:
“You try one time again. Captain
give canoe full, we let you go. He no
buy, we kill you. We no take you down
river.”
“I wrote another letter to the Captain,
giving the above information and an
nealing to him not to leave us to perish.
For the -.rages which would be due lis
a pan our retu’m u a Georgetown hejfguld
probably ransob the offer and" the effort!
he would innkiy appeared, he did make
As subseqncnta good deal more. He of
the offer, and skets and a large quantity
sered four mu r for our safe return, but
of other barlethst the natives wanted the
the stick wasance. They were a sue
goods in adv ]( j wou j,j not trugt the s a p.
picions lot, ai to his bargain. On tho
tain to stand he had no faith that they
other hand, heir promise to him, and
would keep sengers were returned empty
thus the mejreat was the rage of the peo
handed. G I was brought out of mv
Ele and cuffed about until I
ut and kic>d, and the same treatment
fell oxhaustout to Keys. It was only
was served iad thus maltreated us that
alter they s letter was shown to me.
the Captaired his willingness to pay a
He expres, but wanted me to make the
fair ransoifferstand that they must act
osrives me matter. This I tried to ex
'iu te chief and his interpreter,
pm. k teithcr could not or Wouid not
but I. I think the killing of Prico
und retain knotty point in the transac
was also ev probably expected the Cap
tion. Td seek revenge for that, add
tain wougot the opportunity he would
that if bn to release ns without ransom,
force thit to bed sore and supperless to
“I wakeful night. Early the next
pass a wf was routed out to write a
morninjfer to the Captain. While I, of
third lctcsired to save my life, I had
course, llv made up my mind that the
pretty lad no intention of giving us up.
nativesthe Captain to that effect, tell
I wroteto give them nothing until wc
ing hinught down the stream to a point
were Iwe could be exchanged. The 1
wherat the village was full of stuff for !
fact that the tribe had fought
j it" cpts/vvnor woe
1 ' t-s Yvond. i
TRICKS IN BANK NOTES.
JTORIE3 TOLD BY AN OFFICIAL IN
THE NATIONAL TREASURY.
Clever Counterfcits—Detcctivc Skill
of Clerks—Kcdcoming Mutilated
Bills—Stories of Crime.
A Washington letter to the New York
J fail and Kr/ireas says: The: ois a white
haired, sharp-eyed little limn in the
Treasury who has been one of tire features
of the place for years. Into this gentle
man's hands, speaking metaphorically, I
happened to fall, and it reqtiircd no par
ticular effort to make the official talka
tive. lie was inspecting at the moment
a spurious SIOO note, aud this circum
stance gave rise to his first anecdote.
“I tell you,” he said, “there is appar
ently nil limit to the eferer tricks o*
I It douftSSA aXn'Cd
people before it came into our hands. I
know for a fact that it was accepted as
genuine by a bank teller in high stand
ing, and yet the instant a certain young
woman in one of our departments let her
experienced eye fall upon it, she detected
its worthless character. The neat work
manship on the bill reminds me of a case
which came to our notice s me time ago.
A .counterfeiter had got up a number of
SIOO notes on six separate banks. The
copy used was on a bank which made its
SIOO notes in this style. On one end of
the paper was an engraving of a ship,
the yard-arm of which ran between two
delicate flourishes underneath the word
‘the,’ which was the first word of tho
name of the bank of issue; as, for in
stance. The National Rank of the Re
public, or The First National Bank.
The fraud would have been a particu
larly neat one had the counterfeiter made
his notes p lyablc by the same bank from
which he obtained his original specimen.
Instead of being sufficiently shrewd,
however, to avail himself of that precau
tion, or perhaps through an excess of
caution, lie made them payable by six
other banks. Each of these latter insti
tutions had fine distinctive feature on
their one hundred dollar notes. The
yard arm of the vessel irate d of running
between the twominuts flourishes barely
touched the outside of the flourish nearer
the top of the note, and approached
closer to the word ‘the’ by the sixteenth
of an inch. Os course the counterfeit,
which was a capital piece of workman
ship, with the one exception mentioned,
deceived merchants easily, and deceived
many bulk tellers as well. The moment <
the notes passed through the hands of a ;
lynx-eyed young lady at the Treasury, i
she discovered their spurious quality in 1
, Ji
Terms. $1.50 per Aide Single Copy 5 cents.
recovering the missing part, wc would,
on its presentation, pay you twenty-live
cents more. Suppose you brought us a
shred of a note, with the edges singed,
and asserted that it was I he remnant of a
$1(10 bill which had accidentally been
destroyed by fire. We would request you
to make an affidavit in support of your
story. If you could still further sub
stantiate your statement by the affidavit!
of several reputable persons who had
witnessed the de-truction of the bill, we
would then accept the shred and give
you SIOO. Os course, people frequently
try to impose upon us, but they invari
ably come to grief. A man once sent us
a lot of small pieces of various denomi
nations which were very ragged looking.
He wrote that they were the remaining
portions of bills which had been carried
from his money drawer by mice and nib
bled into shreds. They were turned over
ito somv -V female employes, women
Vr experienced that., they have.)
only a tiny shred to go by, can tell posi- -
lively from that shred the face value of
the note of which it was a portion, it s
origin and the dale of its issue, even
should there bn not a single letter or fig
urn upon it. It took these experts only
a trifling space of time to discover that
the nibbled fragments had formerly be
longed to counterfeits. However, ai the
sender had made no affidavit in the mat
ter, be escaped punishment.”
“Can you show me some curious speci
mens of notes which have been re
deemed?”
“Certainly. Here is an odd-looking
affair which is asl note. A man care
lessly left it in the pocket of a white vest,
which garment was shortly after both
washed and ironed. You can imagine
the state of a legal tender after undergo
ing such a thrilling ordeal. Here is a
s‘•2 note pierced with four hoICT. It war
found carelessly folded in the pocket of
a murdered man. He had been shot
several times, one of the bullets tearing
its way through the folded note, which
wns shortly nfterward sent here for re
demption by lire dead man's relatives.
Wo did our host to alleviate their griel
with a brand now bill. Still another
specimen comes from the Chicago fire.
It is simply a quantity of ashes pasted on
a sheet of paper, aud represents a $1
note. Y’our inexperienced cyo cannot
discern a figure or a letter upon it, but
our clerks displayed little em harassment
in recognizing it as an old friend. We
received a vast amount of charred money
from the Chicago fire, and redeemed the
larger portion of it.
Apropos of fires, I recall an interesting
case which occurred in 1870. In that
year a steamboat was burned on the Mis
sissippi. Among other valuables which
went to the bottom of the river was an
Adams_ Kxnreas safe containing over