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Sand 9 not for Almanac t Si tamp taising storm c and weather forecasts 'Storm Prnnltat "n .v.. Dy In K. HiCsS, 8 J. H. McLEM MEDICINE CO., St, Louie, Mo. Romance of Hand S. It is pretty generally known that Cap tain George N. Stone, of Cincinnati, was the original owner of the famous mare, MatidS The following inddent,showing that it was mere chance which made her. his property may not be so familiar. Captain Stone and a fellow townsman, Mr, H.. decided to cro down iivirt t.htt Kentucky Blue Grass region and see what they could pick up in the way of fine yearling colts. They each wanted one. Ksw Mr. H. was a man noted for his shrewdness and ability to get the best of everything for the least money. After skirmishing around among the stock farms two such animals as they were looking for were obtained and shipped to the Ohio River, to be sent to Cincin nati on the steamboat. It was a curious coincidence that the two horses costth same, and, moreover, resembled each other very strongly. The two gentlemen went hack to Cin cinnati by rail, and were present on the arrival of the boat which brought their purchases. As the horses were brought down the gang plank, the first one ap peared with its coat in good condition and spirits way up. The second was rather rough coated from rubbing against cne stau, and came meekly along. Mr. H. sized up these appearances and said he guessed he'd take his colt up himself, at the same time reaching forward for the halter of the first horse. Captain Stone said: "H., I think that one is mine." "Oh, no, it isn't, Stone," replied H. "I remember mine had a smooth coat of hair." "Well, all rights remarked the ac comodating Stone. "I guess there's not much difference. The horses cost the same and are the same age. Trot her off." Captain Stone took his colt home, and when his daughter saw the meek little animal she immediately took a fancy to it and made a pet of it. So her father called it after her name, "Maud 8." It Is perhaps needless to say that H.'s colt has never been heard from. Cincinnati Enquirer. Complimentary Colors. Accidental colors are those depending on some affection of the eye, and not be longing to light itself, or any quality of the luminous object. If we look for a short time steadily with one eye upon any bright colored spot, as a wafer on a sheet of paper, and immediately after turn the same eye to another part of th paper, a similar one will be seen, but oi a different color. If the wafer is red, the imaginary spot will be green ; ii black, it will be changed into white; the color thus appearing being always what js wrmea tne complimentary color of thai , mmtjmmva me eye was nxea. JLry Ktoodk Chronide. - i mm Iwhmalmti ilmkrf - . ' s - -- i X--- - :J v-SsP-V.- '. .- ROCKINGHAM, When spring comes tripping o'er the lei And grasses start to meet her, The bluebird singe "With quivering wings Sri ef rhapsodies to greether, And deems fond minstrel inonemay be the widaworld over, blithe as he. And where the brooklet tinkles by, And the yellow mow-drop dances, And wind-flowers frail And bloodroots pale lift up appealing glances, The flute-voiced meadw4ark dn high Binge, "Noneon earth is glad as I f tghs Corydonl "Your hearts are bold, Yet little ye can measurej oo. silly bffdSi Springes sweetest words, Or guess at my proud pleasure, When Phyllis comes, and all the wold, For sudden joy. buds into gold P, -Flortnc SfiHi CoaUs, in Lippincott. Thepirates ofbqrneo From Singapore, situated at the ex. treme end of the Malay peninsula, the CMna Sea to the north for four hun. Arid miles is studded with islands. They number) great and small) a good hundred. Some of ihrn if than an acre in extent, and some are fif teen miles long. A portion of these islands are occupied by Malays, and the remainder byDyaks. The first eome from the peninsula, and" the second from Bor nea. There is but little difference be tween the two races, but what there is favors the Dyak. He is cleaner in his habits and has more mercy oh his cajp Up to the year 1850 these islands in tne unina Sea were the rendezvous of pirates. The fellows made no secret of their trade, but practised it openly and boldly whenever opportunity offered. It was estimated by Lieutenant Cairn, oi the English navy, that they numbered 15,000 able-bodied men. With the women nd children and slaves the num ber could not have been less than 40,000. I once saw a list of the ships captured and destroyed by these pirates between the years 3838 and 1850, and the num ber was over a hundred. As a rule every body was put to death, but if exception was made the captive was doomed to labor as a slave. In 1850 the English, with some assistance from other nations, opened a crusade on the pirates and cleared the islands. Those who got away fled to the northern end of Borneo and Under the leadership of a Dyak called RiVer tW m.A. k . ie three or four captures .T " . : wPlures in one rear. England hail h v... r,11 -4 . . i . r-j uo bob, ana ine single man-of-war sent out to break up the new colony accomplished nothing. There was about the islands, and John Bull fought vug, vi complicating matters Dy opening i war on people who even boasted that they were pirates tL B , In this emergency the foreign traders on the peninsula, assisted by others in Siam and along the China coast, bought "lr 0wnm and ner out as a man-of-war. one was a large, stout and handsome cram, ana she was outfitted at Fehang. She was armed with nine iruns on a side. Al. u m M . I g, .vm wi a ovvivci, ana when she left Pehsng she had 130 men aboard. This was crowding her some. what, but as she was a clean, new ship and well provisioned there was no growl ing. Her crew had been picked up at v-i - a j.- . . . - uuasn umereni points, ana were bu sanors ana white men. I am quite sure that the Captain and Lieutenant and fourteen English sailors aboard were quietly drafted from H. M. S. Kildare, but the others were runaway sailors from various American, French, German and Russian ships. When the brig went out of Pehang she was a match for anything of her size eter floated, and no crew were ever under better discipline. She carried three extra boats, and, as I had helped to stow her ammunition, I knew that she had a great plenty There were men on the peninsula who were in communication with the pirates, and to befog them we ran off up the Gul of Siam until we sitrVif oA r.n. ru.-.34 Th m.im.ai'm . I.i, : vpuB. once began the work of disguising the bng. An old set of sails were bent on, the paint pots brought out, and in the course of twenty-four hours we made the Relief, as she was called, look like a tea barge or a trader. It was no use to hunt pirates with a man-of-war. Thev were '6"v""i " oua'P 10 D0 caugnt unoer her guns. we cruised up and down iha Chhi Sea for a week, keeping well over toward - . I the Borneo coast, but met with no ad venture. Then we ztat tha tail . . nuiw. o iuue ouc aareiy. and after it subsided we limped along to the """" lorewpmesw aown and sails torn and rent. A sailor looking at u from a distance of half a mile would hftVft flAlH fna wra "Urn. A -..11. J J.1 , . " "c u,,ou t"TOgn Dy I tne sun of our teeth.7 A dead calm I ""7 fws a storm in that sea, and "uu we were opposite Opokonoke, or raiuuigsi ismnu oi xne I'niinpins group, we were not surprised to find wixVyeor-sa mCHlgFcmT green coast ana without steerage way. ThT " tuv oiaic iii Hire saw eimwiA., a very sultry morning, and as the tide set shoreward we drifted in for a couple o; nuies ana then let go our anchoi in forty feet of water. The Dyaks not only had as good marine glasses any ship carried, but they had wv piaworms in the tODS of tall trees, and could see as far out over the ocean as a man at our masthead cmM miaua, we knew that they infested -... i L " tnat island j and had nd doubt we should bean bbieet of scrutiny rfu. reason; ali but a d Z below and "th, Z , i oeww and those remaining bn deck- were dressed as merchant sailors. There Was a man nr twn 5 v : vjr cugagea in making renaira. hnt -4.1 , ' Ft utrmner. annnr. really to watch the coast, and at about high noon it was reported that a sampan was approaching. The craft is a sort of Indian canoe made of bark, and in this case there was but one occupant. pe was doubtless coming as a scout to see I TW, I I to?d He came straight on k&aV: T1 "T"" WU iong eurrey: Our ports were uPi yards akew; a lot of ramp, nanonnrr nr th. . J ij. j-j has :L"L! 1 aiQ urxmne zazz we zl: sstv rr- 7m2 TuTJTZ 0 , , ' " """" lu wme on :tLC" he F wavcu ma arms, as if say- mgtnatne would return to the shore and bring us help. Back he went, pad dling with all his might, and then we felt ntnfs at -l " mat uie game was in our hands. The crew were called to quar ters, shot, shell and grape passed up, and when cutlasses and pistols had been served out we were ready As the tide was settintr inshore the brig's stern was toward the island. We quietly tailed on to the spring which had been set and brought her starboard broadside to bear. This manoeuvre miirht have aroused the suspicions of the Dyaks had we not taken so much pains to dis- guise the brig. As it was, they doubt- less argued that it was for the purpose of TSS r"' v.wa uo aticruuun, we caught sight of their fleet coming out. The sea was smooth and glassy, and we could see the craft almost as soon as they left shore. There were five of the native craft called prahns. These .inm.. vmiup - x a and nilltn flaf A in a laann XT . m " " OI nse approaching us had masts or sails, bul I ' r J aaa were nroneiiert hi mwow, tr-i. i. . j small iron cannon mounted on the bows ana the rowing and steering was done from behind a nr.reen -ms v , . length from the bow. as they came a .a - nearer we could count about twenty men in front of each screen. Some had m kats, and all had the sword-like weapon called a krk. While our gun. were loaded and the norts readv to h A . crew were out of sight behind the bulwarks. The urahns rm i una until about half a mile away, and then thAv fnrmoH n a .1,. " T . " ' ",JW WW on TO US now now on wisn an interval or not more than ten feet between them. You would have thought they would play the hypocrite s bit and try and get aboard of us without any fighting or loss of life, but that isn't tw.1t n.t,, They didn't mean to spare - r- a soul of us, and they probably hoped for a little shindy to make matters more ex citing. They got it, sure enough. At s given signal each one of their howitzers sent a solid ball whizzing at us. Every man raised a yell, and the five prahnj dashed forward to board us. We lei them come within a quarter of a mile be- fore we dropped the ports and run out nine guns, loaded with short fuse shell and grape. "Bang!" "bang!" "bangl went gun alter gun, the muzzle oi each depressed for the short range, and, although we could see nothing for the smoke, we heard enough to satisfy us that great havoc had been wrought. While we waited for the -.1.. tn liff -m..Ki-.t. some ODiect -c the brig, and next moment we were be- hno - hnrdd Kv ihAhh. rwv. tw. belonged to a prahn which had escaped injury, and you can judge what manner of men they were. While they musi have realized tint they had caught a Tartar, and while our broadside had sunk or disabled the other craft, thii soUtary one hoped to carry us by a dash She'd have done it, too, had we been t - v .v i . "loji - iiaitbuiakii, icr sue reaouea us unaej cover of the smoke, and no sooner had we left the shock of contact than twenty- five or thirty swarthy fellows were on the h'1 w. arm. pfctoi, ftnd uiied in with the steel, out but before we had overcome them they had cut down three men and wounded two more. One fellow, who seemed to be a leader, kept six of us away from him for fnr i minutes, and thf way he handled his kris would have doni honor to a fencing master When those left in the prahn saw how the fight "was going they backed hex off, but a solid shot was clapped into one ol 890. i guns,- the muzzle depressed at hi on right moment; Shd the shot sunk th craft as if she had been loaded with e stone. Two of the prahns were sneak ing shoreward, though badly battered when Long Tom was turned loose on them and finished the job. A dozen sampans had come out at the opening of the fight, some carrying one and some two men, and these picked up a few stragglers and took them to shore. A Was afterward "known, the fcumber of r . , f M 143 01 f""6 only feievefl escaped death at our e had no sooner disposed of ihi phraris iah four boats were oWied' each filled with well-armed men, add I - I v 11C tnen we nn fnr l,o Vn.l, tu anchor w.a lift kj after our soundings until she brought up m four fathoms within musket shot of the beach. Then we lay off foi half an hour, while she plied the woods with her shells, and when we landed if Was to meet with a scene of devastation There had been a good-sized village iusi brig, and such of itThad hoi beeri knocked td pieces by her shells was now on fire. We found about thirty '. J d bodi -A cWldreh, and in the mouth of a small river were aiter the brig nacl turned her shells loose again as a Sdd-bye - went on board. foresi was now on fire in twenty places, add the flames were not extinguished until the had burned every tree and bush over g space twenty-five miles long by fifteen vruaa. At about sundown we got a land breeze and made an offing. We were not. yel tnrougn with the pirates. We had sim piy aosea one batch ot them. Standins v - - to the northwrd U night under a light eze brougbt us at daylight about op. Aratort 7, on the coast of hii na" We 81311 held t our dis- 3Mi 88 day dawned we hoisted . (hatlesa- This bay was known to 1,6 piratical "tronghold, and it was soon enougb thatwejweie going to bag more game. A man sent aloft with the n village on shore. with a great crowd of natives running bdoqc m great excitement. We sailed in to within half a mile of the beach, and tnen dropped anchor with a spring on 11 ..ii. -in. . . me caDie. ire couia masre out a great fleet of prahns riding at anchor off the beach, but these pirates had more tact and policy than those further down the coast. Thev did not give us battle the first thing, but a 6am- pan m wmcn were lour men came out until within easy hail, and then one of the men hailed us with: "What you ship want here!" He was informed that we had met with rough weather and lost four of our crew, ana was tnen asked if it were possible for us to ship half a dozen natives to help work the brig across to Saigon. He replied that he would see, and the sam pan returned to the shore. After about an hour the same crew returned with the message that we should ali come ashore in our boats and surrender as prisoners. He said that they had six guns in a battery on shore trained upon the brig, and that if we did not obey the summons she would be sent to the bottom where she lay. Our First Lieutenant did all the talking for us, and now he answered back that we refused to surrender. The natives had perhaps expected this answer for at a signal from the spokesman in the sampan a battery of six-pounders did open on us at close range. Their gunnery was so poor, however, that only one shot struck the brig in their half hour's cannonade. We wanted to reply, but the orders were to wait. Wait we did, and by and by the battery stopped firing and four big prahns and as many as thirty two man sampans came sweeping out to us. The fellows were yelling and screaming and beating tom-toms, no doubt expect ing an easy victory,and they were within canister range when we dropped the ports and began blazing away. Such men as were not needed to work the guns used muskets, and in ten minutes we had the crowd thoroughly licked. It seemed as if the surface of the sea for acres in extent was covered with black heads and the wreeks of their prahns and sampans. Plenty of the fellows were shot as they drifted about or swam for the shore, and when no one could longer be seen in the water the brig opened her guns on the Ltown and the island. For two crrnr hours she whaled away at them, driving every living thing beyond reach of her guns, and when she went out of the bay everything on land seemed to be ablaze. t was a knockout blow for the strong hold, as the entire fleet and upward of 00 men were destroyed Ntw Tori- Sun. sra ma that whrmaa Is the la?gusa(n ipoken in tile royal nursery of England, s well as used exclusively in the Royal aumj wnen tsey are among themselves. Buiiders ''calculbfe" that The "weight of an audience closely packed exerts a strain of eighty-five pounds peUupexa cial foot upon the door. NO. 27. AN INDIAN FIGHTER. THE ADVENTUROUS CAREER OF GOVERNOR ROSS, OF TEXAS. Thrilling Stories of His Conflicts With the Comanches by the Execu tive of the Lone Star State-An Escape From Scalping. Governor Ross, of Texas, is about six feet tall. He has a gray mustache and goatee, and his bair is also silvered. His lace IS full and his eyes light blue, with piainiy marked m his features. He was . bom ifl Bentonsport, Iowa, September 27, 1838; Hie father moved to Texas the following spring. Since that time Governor Ross has been a Texan. His father settled at Waco, McCleUan Countv. and Waco is still the Governor's home. In 1858 he returned from Wesleyan university, at Florence, North Alabama, juot w major jvari van Horn, command ing the United States forces on the frontier, was about to start on an ex pedition against the Comanches. Infif "n.J" i m " iA 1 Young Ross mustered in 235 friendlv Caddo and Waco Indians and reported to Van Dorn. The Governor himself gave me a graphic account of the first engage ment While we chatted fotretVior .t tv. vvuvi sav isvax? Fifth Avnue Hotel. iilt was on October 28, 1858," said he, "that our expedition came upon a large Comanche village on the False Wichita River in Indian Territory. There jvas a sharp conflict and our forces killed some ninety of the Comanches and captured their town, their Supplies and most of their horses. "During the contest Lieutenant Van Camp, an honorary aide on Van Dorn.s staff, a Second Regiment cavalryman named Alexander, one of our Caddo In dians and I found ourselves separated from our command. While we were con sulting, a large number of Indian women and children came running by, one of the squaws dragging with her a white girl about nine years old. I told the Caddo to seife the white child, and he started tc do so just as a band of about twenty-live Comanche warriors came whooping down upon us. "As the savages rushed forward they delivered a volley of arrows, one of which pierced Van Camp's heart. He fell mor tally wounded; "Meanwhile, Alexander, the cavalry man, had been fatally shot, and the In dian, giabbing bis gun, shot me, and I fell across Alexander. The next instant a huge Comanche chief towered above me with a scalping knife. I recognized him at once as Mohe, one of the fiercest of the Comanche captains. Before the knife could descend there was a tremen dous uproar on the outskirts of the mob of yelling Indians, and suddenly Mohe tuiiiGu wiu wim mo omer d raves took to his heels. 3 J lit it. - . I "Lieutenant James Majors, of the ftr.nni? naalnr k.J V, J J . I 1 . ai, y . vunrgcu aau put tne Comanche warriors to flight. The Caddo was then, discovered untouched, with the young white girl clutched in his arms. "General Winfield Scott, then Secre tary of War, sent an autograph letter to me commending me for my services and offering to help me to a place in the regular army, should I desire it. I be lieve this is the only case of the sort on record, and I was only an unknown Texas boy at the time. "The young white girl was sent to my home in Texas and I afterward adopted her, calling her Lizzie, after Miss Lizzie Tinsley, who became my wife. Lizzie Ross married a man who is now a wealthj merchant at Los Angeles. She died there about two years ag"." After this campaign young Ross re turned to college at Florence, Ala., where he was graduated with honors $ year later. He returned to Waco, and on application to Governor Sam Houston received a commission to enroll sixty rangers and give what relief he could to the settlers harrassed by the confeder ated Comanches. . He established a post at what is now Fort Belknap, and then determined to invade the Indian coun try. Leaving twenty men to guard the poet, he obtained from Captain N. G. Evans, at Camp Cooper, twenty of the old Sec ond cavalry and started on the trail, . "We marched into the Indian coun try," said he, telling me the story of the campaign, "and on December, 18, 1860, came upon a large Comanche vil lage at the head of the Pease River. W at once assaulted the village, killing a large number of Indians and capturing their horses and supplies. "During the fight, while the Indian! were running in all directions, I saw one large buck with a younget Indian, mounted behind him, making rapidly toward the foothills on horseback. Fol lowing them on another horse rode another large Indian. Lieutenant Keffi heir and myself, both well mounted, gave chase. Kelliheir overtook the In dian that waa riding alone and I punned the two ahead. "As I came up within a few paces I fired at the younger Indian, intending to in Rockingham Rocket. ESTABLISHED 1883. mPflfipf GUARANTEES A LAR JlWAWGER CIRCULATION THAN ANY OTHER sx ju l D r a f B m Kicnmond County. SUBSCRIBE FOR IT! oauw IT TO Yocb Nnrownfiwf Only $1.60 Tear. SlY Mnnthc seventy five OlA mMB SEVENTY-FIVE 1 kill both at one shot. The ban struck the younger one in the baek and pierced the heart, but the big brave was un touched. In falling from the horse, however, the younger one dragged the Chief off at the same time, and before I eould rein in my horse I was almost upon him. He proved to be the noted Pete Nocona, one of the bravest of the Co manches. As my horse came-plunging forward Peta fired rapidly at me with his arrows. My horse reared so violently that I could not tike accurate aim. bn while hanging from the pummel of M . .... "ck Peta in the rijrht elbow, render. ig the use of his bow impossible. "I dismounted and demanded his sur render. He refused, and welkin hark j a small tree began to chant a wild, Weird war song, when a vonncr WenV ht him dead. I took his shield. 1 bow and arrows and beautiful headdress eagle feathers' as tron I , n . - "Returning to lieutenant KeH&eir. 1 found him cursing his luck because the Indian that he had captured had turned; ut to be a squaw. - " 'Why, Tom,' said I, looking at her, -his is no Indian souaw, but a white. "oman. You never saw an Indian squaw whb Diue eyes. "And she did indeed turn out to be a white woman, and a no less famous one than Cynthia Ann Parker, who had- been captured by the Indians at Parker's Fort massacre, in Limestone County, nearly thirty years before. The State had offered a ransom for her. and the case waa a cele brated one. The Parkers are still promi nent in Texas, Quana Parker, Cynthia Ann's son by Peta, now being chief of the Comanche Indians in Texas. "This battle ended the Comanche troubles and compelled them to sue for rii , l --, peace. Shortly afterward the whole Comanche confederation was broken up.". In 1881 young Ross joined the Con federates as a private, was soon made Major, then Colonel, and then promoted to be BrigadisT-General in 1882. He:; commanded the Texas cavalry in the Army of the West under General Bedford Forrest and General Stephen D. Lee. He was in 185 engagements and had seven horses shot under Mm, but was ; never wounded in the Civil Wan -1 Before being elected Governor ol ; Texas he was Sheriff of McCleUan County, and was also a delegate to the Constitu tional Convention and a member of the Texas State Senate. Nev York World: A Great Adqueduct . The Nadria aqueduct in India carries a canal 150 feet wide or thereabout acrost fit teen arches of 60 feet span. ! In an aot count by the correspondent of Engineer ing, it is stated that the foundations, which are on circular wells, all go down some 55 feet below the bed of the rivei whieh &m aonad crosses. The fiftees T- arches are divided by abutment piers into groups of Ave spans each, the abutmeni piers have each two rows of wells, and the anuria niers one row. ThnlrR to (rfmpie expedient of building the work one row. in a pit dug out of dry land through which the river was subsequently di verted, the work of sinking the 288welfi went on without interruption throughout the year. It is probable that no othei well-sinking job has been so systematic ally carried out and, indeed, in the bedi of active rivers there is no such chance of careful administration ; for as the river rises and falls, the condition to be dealt with change completely. The aqueduct carries the Lower Ganges Canal aci&K what is known locally as a noddle, i.e., a watercourse that draws its water suppl j from the plains of Hindostan, and not like what are here knows as the riven proper from the mountains. The canal that goes over the top draws, in ordinary years, a revenue from the land it watea of some $250,000 a year, and a work that secures that revenue at a cost oi $1,500,000 has much need to be pushed on with the utmost expedition. For- -tuaately, owing to favorable rainfall dur ing the four years that the aqueduct was under reconstruction, tile loss of revenue actually experienced was but a tenth ol the total. Had the case been the other way, the loss of food crops in even one year would have far overtopped the price of the work. The Cauliflower. The cauliflower is one of the most deli cate of the cabbage family. It thrives best in the moist air of the seashore, and suffers quickly from drought in the dry seasons. It requires also generous feeding. It is probably for these reasons. & well as from the fact that sea kelp is .a excellent manure for all the cabbage family; that the farmers of Suffolk County, on Long Island, have been very successful with this vegetable, producing some $200,000 worth yearly. They are sent to New York, Boston and various other New England cities for a market, and very many are used for pickling, for which they are highly chutetU Ploughman. Stanley, In his address to the Royal graphical Society, describes a forest 224,000,000 acres and 10,752,000,000
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