ME STIIJD,
LAKGEST PAPER
PUBLISHED IN CONCORD-
CONTAIXS MOKE READING
MATTKli THAN ANY OTHER
I'ArKU IN THIS SECTION.
POETRY.
MY BABY.
BV DAISY.
0,u' summer night I listened,
Vithbabyonmy arm,
TV a fa5nt aIU distant whisper
That tilled tne with alarm,
It came so still and quiet,
That aniel-whisper low,
nJ it said "Christ want's your baby,
Pear heart, cans't let It go ?"
I ira'd upon the little form,
The dear, sweet eyes so bright,
That looked and smiled into my own
And tilled with rosy light ;
' No: bah' cannot go from home,"
Aiul sad the angel lingered there ;
The Savior wants your baby
(,'au't vou trust Ilis loving care ?"
j ii-ed my head in sorrow,
1 or God e'er takes his own ;
Dentil's angel took my baby
Anil left me here alone.
0 sweet he seemed In perfect peace,
With flowers I decked his bed,
II is face lit with seraphic smile,
I could not make him dead.
And yet I know that he Is gone,
So more his smile shall sweeten earth,
'o more his hands be raised to mine,
Hi voice to melody give birth.
'Not my will, O Lord, but thine !"
Stricken my heart, how can I pray?
Oh. urief so 6trong he was so dear
How can I let him stay away t
And yet I know 'twas for the best,
And that all peaceful is the sleep
(if baby on the Saviour's beast ;
oh. dried be eyes that erst did weep,
A beacon star my babe shall be,
As seen of Bethlehem old,
Lt ailing me to the flowery fields
And streets all paved with gold.
How He Was Caught
t.U'TlRE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS,
ToM by an Eye-WltnetM of I he Scene,
AX HISTORICAL PAPER READ BEFORE
A GUAXD ARMY POST MARCH
THROUGH GEORGIA.
S:. Louis Republic
After the regular meeting of the
Ransom Post in their hall in the Odd
Fellows' building last evening, an
open session followed to which the
families and fnend3 of the members
had been invited. There was a large
attendance, and the exercises consist
ing of music and addresses were of
more than ordiuary interest. Com
uinnJtr Smith V. Gait presided, and
in his address gave a highly enter
taiiiii! account of the visit of the
Ransom Tost delegation to the Mil
waukeo. reunion. The principal fea
ture of the eveniug's diversion, how
( rer. vai a paper presented and read
by Comrade T. II. Peabody, junior
number of the law firm of Bently &
l'ealody, on the capture of Jefferson
I 'avis. Mr. Peabody was the first
man to address Mr. Davis in making
the arrest, and his account of the cap
tare, about which there have been so
many false and exaggerated accounts
can be received as authentic, and be
ing of general interest is herewith
given in full :
Old soldiers will readily recall
that during the month of March,
1C5, there was begun a forward
march of all the Union armies and
forces of the yet bold and defiant
Confederacy. The silent man, Gen.
Grant, now of holy memory, was
tightening the grip around doomed
Richmond. Gen. Sheridan, in many
elements the most brilliant General
of our armies, was pushing his way
northward after the "grand march
to the sea." Victorious "Pap" Thorn
a?, now with those who nobly died,
with Kentucky, Tennessee, and
Northern Georgia all his, subsequent
to the annihilation of Hood's army
at Nashville, and other combinations
made fur a general pushing of things
at the front. With all this, our sol
dier-i, brave and grim, thrilled with
feeling and consciousness that four
long yoars of terrible, red war was
Rearing an end, and that peace was
iiear in the future.
On the 22nd day of March, 1865,
the cavalry corps of the military di
vision of the Mississippi, commanded
ky Maj. Gen. Wilson, numbering
f'ine 12,500 meu, broke camp at and
around Gravelly Springs, Ala., near
the Tennessee line, and, crossing the
swollen Tennessee river, struck out
ton th ward for Selma, Ala,, situated
" the north bank of the Alabama
river.
After several days of rapid marches
and heavy skirmishes down through
Monticello, Birmingham and Black
Warrior river sections, and on the 2d
"ay of April, 1865, our forces
reached Selma, which was being de
fended by Gen. Forrest and a force
d experienced Confederates. Col. R.
JI- G. Minty, of the Fourth Michi
gati Cavalry, of which I was a mem
ker, was in command of the Second
division, under orders of Gen. Wil
6'". Col. Minty dismounted his
whole division, consisting of the
f"iirth Michigan Cavalry, Seventh
'I'lisvlvania Cavalry, Fourth Ohio
VOL. II. NO. 40.
Cavalry, in one brigade, and Wil-
der's or Miller's splendid brigage of
mounted infantry, and, forming them
in line, charged the earth-works,
and a short but terrific battle ensued.
A hail of leaden bullets poured over
the fortifications from the effective
seven-shooter Spencer carbines and
rifles, with which our division was
armed, and sdou Selma, with &11 its
foundries, rolling-mills, armament,
supplies and a very extensive arsenal
and 1,700 prisoners were ours.
Among the prisoners captured here
was Samuel Eennard, now on of
our foremost citizens and the Presi
dent of the great Exposition. "Sam"
was then a dashing "Rebel" artillery
lieutenant and foremost among Sel
ma's defenders. Whenever we meet
here in St. Louis we recall the scenes
of those days, and with us the "blue
and the gray" fraternize and are
glad the war is over and its red bil
lows calmed in peace.
On the 9th of April we left Selma
and pushed straight east for Mont
gomery, Ala., some four days' march
from Selma. Montgomery was evac
uated by the Confederate forces
without a battle. Here we were in
possession of the first capital of the
Confederacy in which Mr. Davis
was inaugurated, and from which
went out a defiance to the United
States. But between that day and
the day of its captare oh ! how sick
was our whole country of war, carn
age and death. Very many beauti
ful, well-dressed women lined the
sidewalks in Montgomery and they
cheered aud sympathized with our
prisoners of war, many of whom we
paroled here. Four more days'
march eastward, and with another
brilliant fight, Columbus, Ga., was
ours.
Old Gen. Cobb commanded the en
emy here, and with forces captured
not by us retreated toward Macon,
Ga., four days distant eastward. On
the 20th day of April we reached Ma
con, and alter a short parley tne
Confederate army, under Gen. Cobb,
surrendered to the "Yanks." All
this four weeks we had no news from
our other armies, and knew nothing
of the momentous events happening
elsewhere. Eemember this was the
20th of April, and on this day we
first learned that "Richmond" was
on the night of the 2nd evacuated ;
that Gen. Lee and his army had on
the 9th surrendered to Grant and
Sheridan and that the Grand Army
of the Potomac, which had helped
to make them great, and oh ! Bad and
sorrowful to hear that Abraham
Lincoln our noble President, had
been foully assassinated on the 14th
of April, and just when the sun
light of peace had begun to lift the
clouds from over our sorely distrac
ted country.
Our cavalry corp3 went into camp
in and around Macon, Ga., and in
the early part of may it was learned
that Jefferson Davis, President of
the Confederate States, was fleeing
to Texas to join Gen. Kirby Smith,
there to try and re-establish the Con
federacy. Orders were at once issued
by Gen. Wilson for his capture. The
First Wisconsin Cavalry was ordered
oat on the north or east bank of the
Ocmulgee river, and Col. Minty or
dered out his old regiment, the
Fourth Michigan Cavalry, down the
south or west side of the same river,
with instructions to intercept and
capture Mr. Davis and the party
with him. At Abbeyville, seventy
miles south of Macon, it wae learned
that Davis' fleeing party had here
crossed the ferry over the Omulgee
and were Moving southward toward
Irwinsville, Ga., thirty miles below
and one hundred miles south of Ma
con. Lieut. Col. Pritchard, in com
mand of the Fourth Michigan Cav
airy, marched the regiment rapidly
down the river road, and after
thirty-mile ride reached Irwinsville
late in the night and learned that be
had gotten in advance of the Davis
party. Early on the morning of the
10th of May he charged into the
camp of the "fleeing Confederacy"
and Mr. Davis never joined Kirby
Smith in Texas. Many false and
nonsensical stories have been related
about this capture and different reg
iments given its credit Now these
are the facts :
Jefferson Davis was captured by
the Fourth Michigan Cavalry in the
early morning of May 10th, 1865, at
Irwinsville, in Southern Georgia.
With him were Mr. Reagan of Texas,
his Postmaster-General ; Captain
Moody, of Mississippi, an old neigh
bor of the Davis family ; Gov. Lub
bock of Texas, Cols. Ilarrison and
Johnson of his staff. Mrs, Davis and
her four children, Maggie, some 10
years old, Jeff about 7, Willie about
4 and a girl baby, a brother and sis
ter of Mrs. Davis, a white and one
colored Bervant woman, a small force
of cavalry, a few others and a small
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train of horses, mules, wagons and
ambulances. Among the horses were
a Bpan of carriage horses, presented
to Mrs. Davis by the citizens of
Richmond during the heyday of the
Confederacy, also a splendid saddle
horse, the pride of the ex-President
himself. On the 11th of May, the
next day after the capture and while
on our way back to Macon, as officer
of guard over the distinguished pris
oner, I rode by the Bide of Mr. Rea
gan now Senator from Texas. I
found him a very fine gentleman.
During that day's march a courier
from Macon notified us in printed
slips of the $100,000 reward offered
for Mr. Davis' capture, and which
notice connected Davis with the as
sassination of President Lincoln.
When Mr, Reagan read the notice he
earnestly protested that Mr. Davis
had no connection whatever with
that sorrowful affair. History has
shown he has none.
Besides the suit of men's clothing
worn by Mr. Davis he had on when
captured Mrs. Davis' large water
proof dress or robe, thrown on over
his own fine gray suit, and a blanket
shawl thrown on over his head and
shoulders. This shawl and robe were
finally deposited in the archives of
the War Department at Washington
by order of Secretary Stanton. The
story of the "hoop skirt, sun bonnet
and calico wrapper" had no real ex
istence and was started in the fertile
brain of the reporters and in the il
lustrated papers of that day.
There were many interesting inci
dents connected with this capture.
but I have not the time now to relate
them. Of the children of this noted
couple Maggie grew up, married and
is now living in Colorado. One of
the boys died early. One crew to
manhood, married and died with
yellow fever near Memphis since the
war, and that "'girl baby" grew np
to womanhood and is now a talented
and beautiful young lady and known
as the "Daughter of the Confeder
acy."
My mind often reverts to those
days of the war, and I often think of
that scene and the march back from
Irwinsville, Ga., through the somber
pine woods, swamps and plantations
of Southern Georgia.
Spendthrift.
Sunday Times.
"lhe young men of to-day are
spending too much money," said Mr.
Horgan of Menken's the other day
"Too little attention is paid by them
to the rugged virtues of economy
and self-denial." While north last
month I visited one of the largest
houses in Chicago, and the head of
that establishment told me that cut
of a large number of unemployed
on good salaries it was stated that
only three young men had laid up
money. By a curious coincidence
not one of them drank, smoked or
chewed. All wtre from the country :
the father of one w&s a rich man and
tne parents ot tne otner two were
well-to-do. In the course of a few
years tne most economical ot tne
thre had saved up 6ome $8,000.
The others had done nearly as well
All the other young men employed
in the same establishment had had
equally as good opportunities, but
several were in debt, some owed board
bills, and the majority lived in hand-to-hand
fashion. It was a remark of
Josh Billing's that when men had no
Tirtue to be prond of they bragged of
their vices and the spendthrifts took
much satisfaction in the fact they
lived beyond their moderate incomes,
forgetful that they thereby displayed
their own weakness and at the same
time were unable to make enough
display to dazzle any one.
He Got One. During the expo
sition one of the deputy sheriffs who
were appointed to guard the public
safety out on the grounds was told
one day by his superior to tak a
walk in a certain direction and keep
his eye peeled for crooked people.
In about half an hour he came back
with a young farmer on his arm and
highly elated over his capture.
"Who've yon got there?" asked
the sheriff.
"A crooked man."
" Do you know him ?"
" No ; never saw him before."
" What was he doing ?"
" Strolling around."
" But how do you know he is
crooked ?"
" How do I know ? Why, man,
look at his legs ! Did you ever see a
more crooked pair ?"
"And durn my hide 1" spoke up
the prisoner, "if it has come to that
pass that a bow-legged man can't go
to a fair without being collared as a
thief I want to know it and be ready
to govern myself accordingly."
Detroit Free Press.
Queen Victoria has accumulated a
fortune of $20,000,000.
CONCORD, N. C, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1889.
Mom Canons BeeU.
BY TLOREXCE GRISWOLD.
Christian Register.
I suppose every boy who has come
into the house from some out-door
excursion with his clothes covered
with "stick-tights" or "beggar
ticks" has wondered why such things
. o
were ever made, and if they had any
use m tne world. Then, perhaps,
he has wondered why the greatest
variety of flowers is found by the
side3 of the railroad track, and how
flowers which he thought grew only
in one locality near his home are
found the next year in ever so many
widely separated places. Perhaps
he will be interested to know the
reasons of some of these and other
curious facts about flowers.
If we are to have abundant vege
tation, and not a land barren, grass-
lees and flowerless, every plant must
produce and ripen seed, and provide
some means for scattering it So we
find many curious contrivances, not
only for scattering the seed after it
is mature, but for fertilizing the
plant and perfecting the seed.
The " stick-tights" which are so
troublesome to us are really a very
interesting example of the way Na
ture devised for disseminating plants.
Each little brown pod is a seed, fur
nished with two horns; and on the
horns are bristles pointing backward,
so that, while it is easily attached to
cloth or fur or anything that brushes
against it, it is difficult to detach.
Thus the seeds of the plant are car
ried far and wide, and you meet with
beggar-ticks in the most unexpected
places.
There is a plant in South Africa,
called the Martinea, which has hooks
three or four inches long. These
attach themselves to lions by fasten
ing in their flesh, and thas have the
honor of being planted by the king
of beasts, when he rolh himself on
the ground to get rid of them. Some
times sheep are killed by pointed
seeds working into their flesh. Many
plants, especially water plants, have
gummy seeds, stalks, or leaves, which
stick to birds and other animals.
Most fruits have indigestible seeds,
to which animals are attracted by
the color, fragrance and flavor of
the fruit. The indigestible seed is
of course cast away. Pigeons and
monkeys scatter a great many seeds
m tnis way. some seeus attract
birds by their resemblance to jointed
caterpillars, with wooly hairs. The
seed of the castor bean looks like a
small black beetle, and breaks away
from the pod with its attachment, or
placenta, which looks like a head.
But some seeds could be digested
if eaten by animals, and these are
usually protected either by being the
color of the soil, and even sometimes
sculptured to resemble grains of sand
or by being buried.
A plant called Aristida has a curi
ous seed, with three tightly twisted
awns. When wet, these awns un
twist and cause the seed to roll about,
sending the point into the ground,
where it is held by the backward
turned bristles. Then the awns
break away, and the seed is ready
to grow.
In feathergrass, the awn is plumed
so that the wiud moves it about. In
the peanut, after the seed begins to
mature the stalk turns to the ground
and buries the whole plant
In the rose of Jericho and the
tumble plants of the prairies, the
whole plant is rolled into a ball and
blown about by the wind. Many
plants have winged or plumed seeds,
like basswood or milkwood. You
have all amused yourselves by snap
ping the seeds of the jewel weed, or
balsam, to hear the slight explosion.
That explosiveness is found in many
plants, as in the violet, and helps to
spread the plant.
I said there were curious contri
vances, not only for scattering seed,
but for Gausing the seed to be formed,
which is called fertilization. You
know there are two kinds of organs
in a flower which have to do with
producing seed : first, the pistil, the
essentials of which are an ovary, or
pod, in which the seeds are to be
formed, and a stigma, or surface for
receiving pollen. The stem which
bears the stigma is called the style.
The second part of the flower which
helps produce seed is the stamen,
consisting of a thread-like stem, or
filament, and the anther, covered
with yellow grains of pollen. Now,
in order that a seed may be formed
in the ovary, pollen from the anther
must be brought to the stigma. It
is wrong for a stamen to let its pol
len fall on the same flower, if it can
in any way send it to some other
blossom. The reason of this is that
the new plant is feeble if produced
by the stamens and a pistil of a sin
gle blossom. Sometimes the pollen
T AND ARB.
even poisons
flower.
the stigma of
its own
t, If the pollen must be carried to
some other flower, who will carry it?
There are three principal agencies
ef this cross-pollination : (1) wind,
(2) water, and (3) animals. Pollen
from pines, which has two balloon
like sacs, is often carried three hun
dred miles, and has been taken six
hundred, by the wind. The animals
that carry pollen are snails, insects,
as flies, gnats, bees, butterflies,
moths, and birds, of which the
humming-bird is best known. To
attract flies and gnats, plants are of
purplish or livid color, with very
unpleasant odors, as the uristolochia,
which has the color aud smell of de
caying meat. Bees are attracted by
sweet odors, pretty colors, and the
honey or nectar in the flower.
The sage has a curious contrivance
for getting its pollen carried away.
The honey-cells are at the base of
the corolla, and the stamen is hung
loosely in the way, fastened at its
middle. As the bee pushes in, he
hits the end, of the stamen, which
swings up, bringing the anther down
to the back of the bee. So, when,
laden with this dust, he enters an
other sage blossom, he brushes off
the pollen on the overhanging stigma.
The laurel, lobelia, barberry and
lady slippers have equally curious
arrangements for making the bee
serve them.
Butterflies fertilize those flowers
which have long tubes, or nectaries,
for honey, like the pelargonium and
puccoon. In the pelargonium, the
stamens appear first ; and in getting
at the honey in the long nectary the
butterfly is covered with pollen. A
few days afterward the stamens have
withered and fallen down and the
stigma is ready to receive the pollen
wnicii tne Dutteriiy brings from some
flower not yet so mature.
To attract animals, the flower
must offer shelter and warmth or
food, which consists of pollen, nec
tar and small insects. Thus you see
that the beauty and fragrance and
even the veiuing3 in flowers are to
serve useful purpose in fertilizing
them, and that even the unsightly
burrs and stick-tights are a part of
Nature's wisdom in keeping the
earth green and fruitful.
The Farmer WUo Robbed Hia Boy
Last spring a farmer found in his
flock a lamb which the mother would
not own. He gave it to his son, a
boy fifteen years old, who saved it
and raised it. The boy called it his
all summer, all the family called it
his, and it was his. But this fall
when the father sold the other
lambs, he let this one go with them,
and taking the pay for it tucked it
into his wallet and carried it off to
pay taxca or put in the bank.
Now this farmer did not intend to
do anything wrong. Least of all did
he intend to wrong his boy. Proba
bly he did not give the matter much
thought any way; and if hi did he
considered the boy's ownership of the
lamb a sort of pleasing fiction, or
reasoned that the boy, having all his
ueeds supplied out of the family
purse, did not need the pay for the
lamb, and it was better to put into
the commin fund. But, for all that,
taking the lamb and selling it in that
way, and pocketing the proceeds,
was stealing. No it was robbery;
and, as between this bay and his
father, one of the meanest robberies
that could be perpetrated.
No only this, but by robbing the
boy of that two dollars the farmer
did more to make the boy diicon.
tented and drive him away from
home than he can undo with ten
times that amount A boy is a little
man, and if he has got any of the
gather and grip to him which will
make a successful man of him when
he grows up, he begins at an early
age to feel that desire to own some
thing to add to the property subject
to his ownership, which is at once
the incentive to effective work and
the motive which reconciles men to
their condition.
No matter how well the boy's
wants are supplied from a fund
which is common to the whole fam
ily, he Ltkes no particular interest m
adding to that because he does not
feel that it is his, and he tires of la
bor and thought, the proceeds of
which he must share with several
others; but give him a piec of
property of his own, to manage as he
pleases, to keep or sell or change,
and let him feel that his ownership
is secure and that his loss or gain de
pends upon his own endeavors and he
will work cheerfully and contentedly.
Mrs. Emma D. E. N. Southworth,
the famous story writer, is now 72
years of age, and although still
bright and active, requires constant
attention, owing to defective eyes.
Got. Frank T. Xicuola.
Governor Frank T. Nichols, of
Louisiana, is descended from aa old
family of Creole origin. He is the
son of the late Judge Thos. Nichols,
formerly judge of the District Court,
Gen. Nichols' elder brother succeed
ing his father on the bench. He is
a native of Assumption Parish, and
wa3 graduated at West Point in 1855.
After having served in Florida and
on frontier duty in California for a
short time, he resigned from the army
in October, 1856, and entered upon
the practice of law in Assumption
Parish. During the Civil War he
served in the Confederate army as a
Brigadier-General, losing an arm at
Winchester and a leg at Cbaucellors
ville. He took no part in politics
until nominated for Governor by the
Democratic party in July, 1876. S,
B. Packard was his Republican op
ponent, and both candidates claimed
to have secured a majority of the
votes cast, just a3 both parties
claimed to have carried the State for
the Presidency. When the Legisla
ture met in January, 1877, it split in
two, both Nichols and Fackard being
inaugurated as Governor. The Re
publicans called for troops, but Pre'
sident Grant refused to comply with
the demand except to issue orders to
Gen. Augur to preserve the peace in
New Orleans. The two factions con
tinued to glare at each other and to
threaten each other for two months,
but neither ventured to assault the
other. Little by little the Democratic
Legislature received accessions from
the Republicans, and when Hayes
was declared elected President, Grant
ordered the United States troops to
leave New Orleans, this course being
taken in pursuance of the policy
which the incoming Hayes adminis
tration had determined upon. It
also sent a commission to Louisiana,
the result being a final settlement of
the embroglio in favor of the Demo
crats. Governor Nichols' term was
a stormy one, the State being the
scene of repeated disturbances be;
tween the white and the black voters,
The Democracy, however, have con
tinued to maintain their hold on the
State government up to the present
time.
lie Cot It.
Boston Journal.
Among tne passengers on a wes
tern train recently was a woman
very much overdressed, accompanied
by a bright-looking nurse girl and a
self-willed, tyrannical boy of about
three years.
The boy aroused the indignation
of the passengers by his continued
shrieks and kicks and screams and
his viciousness toward his patient
nurse. He tore her bonnet, scratched
her hands and finally spat in her
face without a word of remonstrance
from the mother.
Whenever the nurse manifested
any firmness the mother chided
her sharply. Finally the mother
composed herself for a nap, and
about the time the boy had slapped
the nurse for the fifth time, a wasp
came sailing in and flew on the win
dow of the nurse's seat. The boy
at once tried to catch it.
The nurse caught his hand and
said coaxingly :
" Harry mustn't touch. Bug bite
Harry."
Harry screamed savagely and be
gan to kick and pound the nurse.
The mother, without opening her
eyes or lifting her head, cried out
sharply :
" Why do you tease that child so,
Mary ? Let him have what he wants
at once."
" But, ma'am, it's a "
" Let him have it, I say."
Thus encouraged, Harry clutched
at the wasp and caught it The
scream that followed brought tears
of joy to the.passengers' eyes.
The mother awoke again.
" Mary," she cried, " let him have
it!"
Mary turned in her seat and said
confusedly :
" He's got it, ma'am 1"
It is proposed in France to substi
tute electricity for the guillotine.
WHOLE NO. 92.
Rendu Like HntcKtrU.
Denver Special in St. Louis Republic. 1
A most remarkable story reached
hero today from Aspen, Col., regard
ing an unexpected find in one of the
principal mines on Aspen Mountaiu.
Last Thursday night the night
shift in the Minnie mine, Mr, Don
nelly, C. W. Mackey,- Charles -E:
Taylor and C. G. Gilfillan, put iii
two thirty-inch holes in the breast
of the 500-fooUevel of the mine-and
fired the blast just ; before leaving
for the surface. On returning to the
mine it was found that the two shots
had broken into a cavern, the-extent
and dimensions of which they pro
ceeded to explore. Going in a few
feet they discovered that the walls
were covered with crystalized lime
and lead, which glittered . like a
cloth of diamonds in the flickering
candle light. Here and there stalac
tites hung from the canopie,d ceil
ing, and the lime formation resem
bled lace and frieze work of ..won
drous beauty. Going further they
found that the cave .had a descent of
about twenty degrees, down which
they groped their.way.-: The walls
became quite narrow in places, then
widened out as much as twenty feet,
forming rooms and chambers grand
beyond description. ., , , t
They,, had entered about 200 . feet
when they found on the dusty floor
of the cavern a frog, which at first
looked to be alive, but upon picking
it up, Donnelly found it lo.be dead,
but in a splendid state of preserva
tion. A little further on a stone ax
was picked up. Upon close inspec-.
tion it was found to be flint and the
eye was. filled with dirt and dust,
which was easily removed.. How it
got there was a mystery that not
only puzzled them, but as all men
who work underground are, more or
less superstitious, they were not
little scared.
Going a little further they. came to
a steep declivity of about forty five
degrees, down which they clambered
and slid until they reached the bot
tom and a pool of clear, sparkling
water about eighteen inches deep in
the center, crossing which they had
to climb an ascent on the other side
of about the same grade and extent
as the one just passed.
Reaching the top tbey. found a
large chamber. The water dripped
from the side and overhead and dis
appeared .through the crevices of the
floor. There was quite a stiff, breeze
blowing and they had to shield their
candles, making progress necessarily
slow. The floor was covered-with
brownish muck that was very sticky.
Mr. Gilfillan started a little to the
left of the party, and kept walking
toward one side of the room when
he suddenly stopped and exclaimed
"Great God ; yonder sits a boy !',
The rest of the party were oon at
hia side, and sure enough, there did
sit a boy or something in human
form. The head was resting on the
knees and the arms were drawn
around the lower legs, Indian fashion,
At the side of the figure was another
stone ax and a stone receptacle.
something like a bread bowl. The
body was well developed, the mus
cles showing plainly in. all parts,
Upon touching it the sand and dust
would crumble and run down tne
sides to the ground. In undertak
ing to lift him the arms came 'off
at the shoulder joints and broke
where the hands joined in front,
Where the bones joined the sub
stance looked white, but the rest was
of a blackish brown color, and when
touched would crumble and rub off
like sand. They started to lift the
body by the waist, but when just off
the ground the legs came off at Ihe
hip joint and fell over to tne sides.
when they separated at tne knees.
The miners gathered up the pieces
of their stone man and brought them
to the surface without making any
further explorations of the cave,
The face is dearly formed, but the
feature are not plain, on account of
the crumbling away. Mr. Donnelly
took an arm and the lower part ' of
one leg to Glenwood Springs with
him and had it examined by several
doctors, who were at a loss to explain
the cause of the curious formation
To what age or race the strange
dwarf belongs is also a mystery.
Further explorations of. tne cave
may develop some new disco'veries
tnat mav tnrow some ukus wu w
ma
iter.
At a New YorkWTdding the other
day the bride received $1,000,000
worth of presents. -
A steam carriage-in which coke is
used as fuel has lately appeared" in
France. The driving is effected by
two" hind-wheels, and the speed at
tained is about fifteen miles per hour,
twenty-eight' and three-quarter gal
lons of water being sufficient for - a
run of twenty-five miles.
THE STANDI RD.
WE DO ALL KINDS OF
job.wobe:
. IN THE ,
WE A TES T MA NNER
-AND AT "
THE- LOWEST' RATfiS:
After A Nblplond or Hbllllnfa. -
New York World; J . "
Phineas T. Barnum, now in his
eighty-first year, is' " on the ocean' '
bound for England. . Mr. and Mrs.
iarnum, maid and valet, accompa
nied by their nephew, C. Barnum
Seeley, sailed on the JEruria yester
"day morning. A crwd of friends
gathered on the pier to wsh .them
goospeed and a sate return to the
United States.' . ".
""Barnum & Bailey's great. show
yfil be seen- twic? a day in London ,
for a hundred dajs at the Olympia,. .
Kensington. .The enterprise in
volves an outlay . estimated at about
$3,00000., '.There, will be 380
horses used, and 1,200 actors , and
specialty people will participate in .
ma ptTiuruiiiuceB. 411. uuuiuuu iu
the feats of the circus, the menagerie
and the curiosities, Mr. Barnum will
pieeuub xciu uuu tuu ran ui
Rome," which Imre.' Kiralfy pro
duced, withstich goigeous display 'at
Saint "George, S. V. a' little over a
year ago. All the costumes, proper-
ties, &c, were sent over on the City
ot 'ans. me sKeieton and skin of
the famous, old elephant Jumbo.
once the petted and pampered favor
ite 01 Jingnsn cnnuren, were ior-
warded on the same ship. '
- To-morrow night the " Greatest
Show,pn Earth" will leave "Bridge
port by rail, arriving at "Morrisania
eariy xuesqay morning, anu wjii
cross' the Bridge to Brooklyn, to the
Archer Line wharf "and be placed on
board the steamer Furnessia.. Two
hundred and. forty people connected
with the show wiil also go to Lon
don on this ship, while one hundred
and sixty of the attacpes will take
passage , on( the w City , of RoniOj
Wednesday. ... .
The arrangement fc-E.tran3portiug
the mammoth affair are thorough.
Six huge boxes,, .cai'h. 12x10 feet,
have been built, each to contain an .
elephant. When placed on the ship.
these boxes will be set twelve feet
apart, the intervening space forming
another box, and thus .the six boxes
.will be -equivalent to thirteen, the
number of pachyderms to be taken.
JThe camels and horses will be placed
in a series of stalls distributed, all
over the main deck 01 tne vessel.
The cages, after firsj being detached
from their running-gear, ( will be,
placed. side by .side, .with sufficient'
space between to permit the attend
ants to feed the animals and otner-
wise attend to their wants.
An idea of the vast quantity of
material required .to kfeed the virions
animals mav.be had from the fol
lowing list: 1 here will be bO tons
of hay, 2,000 bushels o oa.ts, 6 tons
of bran, 2500 pu.shels of corn, 20
bales of peat , moss, 30 barrels ot
carrots, 6,bbo' pounds of fresh "beef
for the carniverous animals, 1,500
pounds, of .fresh fish", .15 barrels of
potatoes, 150 heads of cabbage, 6,000 .
pounds of fresh bread, 10 barrels of-
sweet apples, 5 barrels of onions, 7
barrels of white-top turnips, 20 bar
rels of sea biscuits; 400 cans of con
densed milk, 4' sacks' of salf, i50"
pounds of Glauber salts, all ' of
which is for the animili and horses
only. ' All 'the 'meat ranrl fisE Vrill''
have to lie frozen ' first ahd 'then
placed between "alternate .layers 'of
ice in - huge refrigerat6?scsp'ecialljr
btjilt 'for tho purpose; ' Tfio con-
densed milk is ior xne monKeyir, i u-
fai-'bear, &c.
. -The expense of the show going to
Ebrope is, without exaggeration; the
heaviest ever' assumed' in this line.
Every movement nere or atroau is
attended with considerable outlay.
Iiiauirv at the offices of the Atlantic
caMe companies discloses that $150
per day has been spent in cablegrams
to. and from Europe ior a periou 01
nearly four months. The advertis
ing material to be distributed 'free" in
London has already cost $166,000.
The' new costumes, including those
modern Paris'for Kiralfy's " Nero,"
in which 'more than eight hundred
people are to - appear, anu iuobu
for the circus department, have cost
$1)0,000, and altogether the expenses
o the .affair before a single per
formance will have been given will
foot up : $350,000, exclusive of sala
ries, and.ali this 'for a probable sea
son of 100 days. ; It' is claimed that
f h st.miatedex'Tense for the Lon-
don. 6easonr calculating $o,oyv as
the regular Thtily 'expense'sf of tne
circus, will bV'iieafiy $12,000' per
day,' from which the experimental
character of the' trip Xh easily seen,
and" The 'greatest risks- attending it
ckn be"judged.
j Th'e' opening night in London-will'
be Monday, November 1L? On the
previouS'Satur-day the festivities of
the seven hundredth Lord Mayor's
Day wijl take place, and in the even
ing Bjirauni's V&x mae
with all th'e pomp and glorious cir
cumstance of the great showman s
lavish display. , .