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. .- .-'V- - u.rjn n ii BABjEsaiiX ' "trs" right i)Eisxv4?'nAl' t?08 JfP''.ii ' i; JfV-iv'uV'w-. ;v,:!-' vi --v - ! -: '- - " ' - ' ' - u....i .: .-I '3: .i;u'.'- ! r ? n t ' 5" ' J POLKTQJT, ANSO .QOTHUBSPT, j'ilXiUClI ! .1$&S iS NUMDER ;47 ' ' --n-A-r LU 'JU 'jljjlrl : J . .i .U,.. : Vri;s,,X , Jl...i-lX-A-v.N.o jin"&R.jmwr,.' J f r t A ISF 3. in rcr . f a'K' 1 I : eurly.ghi head, and parehad apoa U ,, f3A ahoea, tonim an tied. Vhles hT bolw. VrboM tpM pin tli or come akad odtoe ibinoreonM . rain. . i ., ; .. - tOa Bag-tag It'a erw th urn ' ! . of ifeajaojt mprtma eontant, Bha paddlag and pUy tifl thtky torapanO Why Poplaooniplain aha never can see, " n uen uod la aa good aa ever cw be i Hh0 ki iellAUaod SnA About Jhf uorlpd ita beaufiful hln'gi But, tkoh&feeia gwxl to aUM thareai ,J Wiai Teiy.,urathati,H krea her the bant ! i, how much better thia world would wag righttuS1 Against Fearful Odd Bow the Ztoy wa Oiridctt The Results., - JJir, a. VV. Juaglake g long-expected f f-ory of that ever:memorabl flght at In I nan, when in tlie thick misk of a Ko- 'rtoornii;if,0(18,jl'I3h 1 1,( 1 Sons of the Czar," is at length v- "d. iCh8' Vltj"wldob ob1iui deals ouly.wi&,the.im.bat-; s ( ' .... (nan, 'the first teibg that in "i , t Dttlcy Evana defeated with , ; - J iueh' three times tflai nnmber ,c?f I" jaria. ou.' the 26th' df October. No 3 4ihan44(4pe,4pe5fe.l4ng!ua f1 vote to the one great day hich we '! fakermpn, anjl we cannot even pre ' tbffllbiii anything like adequate I flig Wy of that lorig day's strug Th6 tuitiior divides- the day intd enods, he 6t being from 5:45 , the seooncl from 7 30 to8 30, the .jom 9:15, the fourth from '.thefifth from 10 to 11, the from .11 tol, and tho seventh from ,8 jbywhioh time the KuBsian Jhad .4 ihelr ' retreat,1, thanks to Cm, i-obert.'i refusal to press the retiring iiftis.-k;'llr, Itinghike saves us the ble 'jaummarizing fh$ points of by-fvjjBgai'Mmlirelf a succinct hvM; impleading features o"f the outlines of the fikht, like those oT Jb&ermaa itself, are indented and il, ut well marked, ?J First period : uumig us frpp thi( west 'deriWon- AndirOm. tho east wider Pauloff, assailants moyej forward, under iLinjttft cover 'pf'darknesB and mist b no ' greater effort than that of pviifjr x& an ofttlying pioket Gem. Soi fyjvjlT was able to plant oft Shefi hill jbfttl fcrttery supported "by heavy , areoj. loop. xroui tne eommanuuig ipolhus'- ra'pijdly, scaled, , jftud, how. lajfid lr ', sixteen , battalions, twenty 5rWUlipas; with a strength of fully UCuf mlrtwere thrown forward to at P jcnncfather along his whole f ad-. r hfle'a iorce, called the under olumn, moved up unobstructed 1 . 14 pt the, utreenage ravine is .ir t ) tarn his left flunk.. On, his 'right Lima (i'ima iYiA AiAmW vin A.Y TTn ' i P" Ufjpe of our guns, he drove from i, , fT !liafwild!d body, ol nearr40( J (JBd-' column ho successfully Ruined the $oaition tmmg up Ty. the Well-way at ast to within stone's throw of. Penne- Jather's .tents. ! ifhero! i however, . all i i i. . i. i. : .i. . i xi -j (uujgei, auu lut? iuibi limcu utm uiua r protected tlia piiemy, began to favor a-r,fl.'ZTrU.tk. 'tVP06' rU?htly wielding big num- v jrs aad from the few their sense of weakrless. It resuTUJ that-"With' the - aialof fjjuo batteries S.'SOO of our iu- ,ntry, "ftid'er Pennefatber arid Buller, ' i ) imd mvans t defeat' with great stangh- ;,fevento xpulge from tllo but-. ii1iiha',rhol of ho 15,000 men ' lii lljjjftilod their front, opd, more prowl able to rout the "under , i " oolultft at a ibontept winiv, ft was i 'a 5to,the fcrf oarap of the Second " S Q-hl nmnbiJ It ftdMiaa. offl-i i4rtowt Wpallingrygrcat, i n. buincaaf himaolX fill KiorUUv period; - Oen. Dannenberg, fWy asaiuned th command, I an to nc! Sritn fresh troops. laiignot only Hle"front of the i ')!, imt also tb valaalai ; ! by the sand-bag bat- f ugd bisv advrMries to 1 1 : two separate oombats, and . . ' ' th lieving, tho ' , t i - ..iUttnlod MJrlr1 1 11 ' Tr ' t ' r:UU defonses, i k.. trr . i r ragera hold that 3 . . . - .... i lievinff. thoueh wroniriy. nasf be "pint fastened on it Lord Baglau, in t!.n r ulgtf roliMftiqlfl Tipt M iv 1 4tyr to wftbara ; rX 1 ahJg'fr.nrtnned.lp' f ! . f.cU, and the.')umiU w" nrm. im work its bane- cU, ana luemoauuit part 01 lUi h fovoe, pow angmetitml by the .1) unoonnectoa anwmuiagos, wiui ft i'-infl-eroas P ..bf-f wocn them. In on cf the two simulUpQ' )iti t'uift prb , TOkfd tha if te one iu front of Home Cidf0a. PeouftfatlMC, with very jaat mtftfiii pTOTM ftOM t vi mkw very onset; wEle in tli fight for tho aand-bagbattory, aitr long and obetimU wholfl mnltitnn hii gwarmed pu the ledge ol jtte Ktari.tot Uxea,liap . they went, on to do more, olue ing iiAt I hare called ilse yictorj over Che Russian army. Exoepting only atraea treni 'nuviS & of tl poreTaWnii steepe? attaoaiQiAnd charging the enemy, became dispersed nulled for a time their -power of render ing fresh seryioes. ' The fitisskn troops, it was suddenly" toxSx&) had moved up unopposed through the gap, and the few soSre of Erighsh'-stfl! remaining "orf the heights then seemed to be Entirely cut ofTt'yet proved "ftble to .fight, their , way Wme.. For some time the two Frenoh battalions which had come up would take no part in the fight, but one of them the Sixth of the Line moved forward at length with good, will against the flank of the Russian force, then advanc ing along the .fore ridge. The enemy. thus threatened, fell back, and the French battalion victoriously made good itradvanee to ground on the west of the Kitspur. Thus " the efforts the enemy made in the course of this second period resulted after all ia discomfiture; but,, by the fenlMyd nefor'guardihg our left, by Penuefathr's still ardent propensity to fight out" in front of the heights, and now finally by the losses and ithe dispersiojrustaitied, on the Kitspur the num)?er of inglislj joot soldieihacou be nusteed.for the inimediatlfeng U-llie 1 Mome ridge was brought down to-;diminutive pro- Third period Vt Th4t XmSiaC'de ..I'll V. ' m . -a iense .01 ineir , position, , ior wjucn.r our people were so ill provided, became the problemintfufd. The ehe'my, coiioen trating his efforts on one settled pur pose! deUvered a weighty attack upon Jie Htine ridge,- how almost dthuded of English infantry,, tugttarljb'd tbTe aeventn iieger,! ftitwttallonr time hun dred strong.- His, advateed tooopj bfoke oyer the crest, obteaned som? signal ad vantage over .beth the English and oonfrontexlifegai 6)' .fall aok but jhe bulk of the "assailing ' masses had" not I ceased "to aviface, all this while, , 'aid were seen ascending tne ridge, , Then, with the Seventh Leger; 'with' "little band of zouaveej "and With a , few, of pur 6wn people"" whom & could gather around him, Gen. Pennefatherafter a single struggle, which hung for some minutes uv doubt found ineani ta de- ueat the great columns thus attacking bis center, and the collateral forces brought up "on the right and ou the loft, being almost simultaneously overthrown by other portions pf pur infantry, and. in pari also, too,' by " our guns, the whole multitude of.-the, Ja-ppps, .which iad, un dertaken., this onslanghter was trium phantly swipt back intq the. Quarry ravine. . . ajt 1 i t Fourth period : jThe allies having no troops in hand with which to press- their advantage, the enemy very soon rallied. and with some vigor turaed on his pur suers. Tho French Sixth of the Line had been already driven back from our right front, and our j people; engaged at the center ) were more or .less losing ground, when the' accession of the two eighteenpounder ordered up by. Lord Raglan put an end all at once to the as- oeudenqy of tlia Russians in the artil lery arm, and began to fear open that stronghold on the crest of Shell hill. which had hitherto ftirnishttd the basis, for all their Huodewfut attacks. a When? in this wnduion.. of .things, (ion.. Bos semed'tqbeground-forWieving the endpf the fight must be near,';- , ."Fifth periooS .WhenBosquei'saccfd ing reinforcements had brought up the infantry on Mount Inkerman to ftstrength of 8,500, he was induced to advance with great port of his force to the fals poei- tion of the Inkerman Tusk. Upon the approach of the Russian oolamn moving up to ground 4n. his loft, where ho fancied tlia English stood posted, he was forced to retrenjt in great baste with.t t loss of a gup; and some Russian, bat talions appearing in another direction, it was only by a swift spring to thfc raari that his troops drawn' rp tm the Tusk proved sbls to make good thoir escape. fM at rM an a at iue i.waj rr encn tcoops mspoiMNion Bosquet's left rear fell bark behind the Home ridge, and the cavalry,, which Canrobert brought up to cover the re trt, ,b-bg driven .from the Hold by some shells, all this acoeasiotl of advcrM columns seemed threatening to and in diitstrft , Tho Frenqh troops,- became I aifloonocrtea, ana tne 'Bines were . from Wt f4Ah jh-poueW ftnd Oen. Dannanberg sot aauingLla oppor tunitf, the despoada-oo ef the French bowevor, was maskfld by the vigor of the EiMVlrtWenS, 'rostptAihail U Itlrfs whTletnhsvbsfriar, 4 jrell 4 bj &a passed sway. Upon the accession .ofjfet I further v reinforcements, Oon. " kBosquet resomea e""5ffehsive, aqdTwith "two of his battalions he not only defeated that agile ; Sclinghiusk regiment, which: had pnoe more climed up the Kitspur, but drove it down over the aqueduct and out of the' Ihkerman battlefield.' Ho, also withdraw botb thftLSeveAthljjegfifLftrid the Sixth of the Line from their shelter behind the Home ridge, and again sent them forward, but they- moved by the Course of. the pant road, and there had the English in front of them. Then the share of the French infantry in this Inkerman conflict was unaccountably brought to a closej ih.in it'nit ""Sixth period : While still nunded to hold fast their resnective nositions on Mount tnkermah, toth th MueetsnajnM the 'French now abandoned the offen sive, but our people, still disputing the victory which Canrobert. would thus con cede , to his adversaries, maintained the fight two hours longer without the aid of French infantry, passed irraduallv from their did "attitude 61 aggressive', de fense to pne pf decisive attack, and at lentrth.by the united power of Lord Raglan V two ( eighteea-pounderl ami a small daring ban of foot soldiery, put so snarp a stress on lJannenberg that, without consulting .ince; 3inscliikoff; ne determined at once to retreat. Seventh period : No pursuit worth recording took place. m ,J)annen-l tufiio half formed of fine wide Valencien berg's retreat being,. aoooLVA ndl mseriing andfiniahed "iritU ft' deep eight o clock in the evening, the acuou , came-to an wtd. The Russian JossJVIb. Kimrlake aives 810,729 inlUedf -wnnded Mxitu oners. Among thesd were six irenerals. and if Russian grales ,ere like ours, the number "lhightVberBtated.at twelter The enemy lost alWgether 250 officers, and of the thirty-four fighting battalions twelve' were all but annihilated, and twelve morefiearly: shattered) tad fiven m the remaining ten the losses were ruinously great. The English lost 2,357 men, of whom 597 were killed. One hundred and thirty officers were struck, thirty-nine beinor killed. The regiments which suffered the most were J the Brigade of, Guards, right wing of the ! Twenty-fijfot JTukLUoj-ii, anA ... tha Twentieth and Fifty-seventh regiments. There, were ten English generals in aoUon, and five other brigadiers, And every one of these was either killed or wounded, or had horses ; shot under them; and, "with only a single excep tion, the same may be said of the eight een colonels or other offieejf command ing detachments. The Freneh lost thirteen officers aad 130 men killed, and thirty-six officers and 950 men wounded Canrobert being wounded and ft colonel Of his staff killed. No gun Russian, English, or' French was lost, one taken irop the French being re- r Consumption of lfoodu Hallieayt. u The National Cur Builder reports that at the close of 1873 there were 71, 564.9 miles of main lines. and 13,512 miles of sidings and double tracks, mak ing 85,977.9 miles of railway within' the United States. Upon these roads the larger portion of the locomotives con sumed wood for their fuel. The number of ties nsed varies from '3,200 tot 2,800 '1 .. m, n fw. 1 1 1 pr uuie. isuug a,oou as tne mean, it appears that 212,692,500 pieces of tim ber, eight feet long and from six to eight inches in between the upper and lower surfaces, are required to1 supply" thfs single item. The. durability of ties va ries, with climate, kinij. cf timber, soil, ad usage, from four to ten years. As suming nix years as the average life of a tie, the amount required for annual sup- I'T'T F-M J 630.000 cubic feet In considering this item it must be remembered that a large amount of -waste occurs fr6m hewing and other causes. It must be also borne in mind that the demand for timber by railroads, besides for ties and fuel, is enormous, including fencing,' bridge buildings, and other structures . in great variety ana number; tliat the risk from fires is e,ie eptionally great, and ,that onr requirement (J lif ltfiq K i4 creasing even more rapidly than our sup plies are wasting sway. . ' ' , 4 NylUh XlHmef. Some wealthy Cliines. merchants of San FrmnelseJ Npoitly wave aAlinner of the highest orient! style to a party of American friends. The dining room was gorgeonsly fitted np, and the bill of fare comprised thirty courses. The pastry m wonderful in domc-n. resem- Wing birds, beasts and fishes in undlcss variety. ! After I oaoh( dtiurto the, party loll Uie talila, oonversedr lounged 01 smoked. Following Uie Chinaaa dianer came a European spread of t svelte or thirteen courses, and. the party under went sii hours of hard dining. f . . -tih if J. zcojIQ Vt Paine belirywi that Woachltis oaused by parftsHea, ne -of the richest' dresses worn at the greai nanty via in ew Xor city was an aprioot silk elaborately trimmed with nuapuHanga.vet; ua-w JwPia a white BiaWlasse tunic, combined with tablier of duchesse laoe, so dohcate that if it hail been a frni1 Tnv mnminn it might lftv -been- taken - for eobwebs gathered during garden walk. ' A most atnJung dress was a white' silk, the deep tnaio embroidered with flowers of7 prighteBt hue, withy gay dropping fringe over a flounce scolloped and em broider As ita'woarer whirled through the danoe she looked like some bird of Paradise just -alighted -from tropical shores, but ,hich jtoolt itl8ryikindly to Strauss waltzes and Lander s orchestra. 3,luothar embroidered dresaj if sot ko' fitful in its beauty, waa even more bril. liant.' Fancy a deep cardinal red em broidered with flowers and a close-fitting tunic glittering with'-' jet,1 ind 'corsage draped .with hea,.-J 1 vtaii"W: .tt .its' .'!. . One of the most exquisite ; toilettes on ladies who may no ionger be considered young; Ind whoi "are loot yet ''touched with age, ;was a. mauve silk,' rich and Jasbous, heavily (( embroidered jt with, mauve, liiacung to, purple and up to ' And still another mauva dress on a lady whce vyeara , h4 put by brighter hues, was half hidden under a, deep denciennes flounce 3 that' spoke ! 1 1 of duoVi while it showed its beauty; An unique drees waa 1h;bloss6hi silk, 1 with an overdress of sof V silk meshes, the sam shade aW the 1 edged withe, ajlken fringe, -and corsage nign, wiwiiong,.04se Bieeyesfti tne net. - T J -.1 -.. . .1 . T.' .'1 the qverdress,,in tliat all the, Jwauty, jmi 4.U uoorairaig .uiwbdd, YOU, uesciiue stuay, ana arc 01 tne toilette centers, a white tunic of -fine 1 , silk, pords . .diatin- gmshed, white ailk which otherwise might have melted ,;ite ;radiaiibe!ih 'the lusher ancl color, by which it was sur- rounded.!,, mt r ai.HI."& ni 1 A little burnette lady, emphasized her beauty with great Bkill by a black velvet dress, among whose olds wandered gar btui anotner .black 4reB8 of - tulle in ... . A , , TSW-w-Mimu soft puffs was scattered ,with pansies. their velvet wings spread like butter flies, until its s wearer; except 'for the brig lit face, looked like ' some sorrowing Psyche. t-..Al ",mJ ul Again, another black tulle (dress , woe festooned by triple garlands of lilies of the valley, and wound about toe stately lady's shoulders- and Moonlit! m "her hair in wild profusion! O'-- ' ' . ?' The most' poetical dress was white satin, jwora by a tall,8 willowy blonde. The waist of course, a porsot waist fitted hes perfectly, and from under its purves poured a 'waterfall df?sp'rayln ' '.T J 1. . ii 1 1 m 1 1 . 11 wuiuu wore cuum uiian ox uie vtvuey ; or, toWfflol'r'expHdraTrfeiaf61 tulle, in fall folds, caught 1, up with tk4 The pretffost pfclrr throfinT was a young girl with" a fresh,' lovely fioB,' framed by a halo bf suhny! tiait, nnti an exquisite neck raining above ft pale blue and wTdte' striped 'ronaamovef dress bordered by swan's down. " , , At tliU great" ball i torid lily cuuugi uiuacjr ia spaui, w vary? year jor dress and deoorationa to' provide amply for all the suffering people in the State for half tliil wintAr." 4 W A JJ1 J'lf... ..1 ,,!. ,.,.,,1... ,1 ... Knaland't Houthorn Empire, , ,( England's Empire in the 'Southern Hemisphere covers1 3,000,000 1 square miles, the size of the-United States, less Alaska. The white, population, . pt Amtralafja, as these great islaada are oalled, -was, in 1850, about 240,000. Now it 11 but a little less than 2,000,000, Victoria has grown from 77,000 to 732,- 000 in these twenty-five jears', ft ten-fold growth. Queensland has grown, from 9,000 to 125,000. Tasmania, which had 4 population too small to be counted, in 1850, has 100,000 now1. I New Zealand has grown ten-fold in the' quarter of a century, from 26,000 to 206.000. The j population of Australasia is largely Eng- iwu anu suongiy iipiottant. immi gration has been freely encouraged, Several of the colonies are no longer penal, and the actual number of criml- on the islands bt.vnr amall. ' ' , d 4 ' 1. 1 i-W, fi,H The Annuml Hot War. 1 i The Laref fVmomi teHs with dvv treesing particularity how an old tnan. living in Rich township1, while returning on horseback from a ' dariNi tha othit night, was pnrmied by a park of JrtJvcs, bow his horas turned on llicrn, and ly atampuig and kk king killed aeypral, of " ,ww mm coaiKHI Uim M his own door, which . he entered wit difficulty, leaving the exhausted horse to be ren4ed in pieces and devoured, ' We never could, quite ' bIiav that ,wolf story, ana u reauy aeemfl to M growisf more utaruoM rrerj ytar, TfTtXEti ..il(.-.iai..a,kt... f9rttH mw Ul fa .1 1 . r .. - t- T A "ootfwted'' prise-fighter, known as .'Igendigp, has recently attracted much attention- in London s .ft , speaker , at religious meetings. He is now .sixty two years'- old, ' having spent nearly a auartet fet - century Jef1 hi life ra Ae ring.".- H .oya'ttut-ilistitiiNt'ioil having I "whipped iTom Paddock", And -f .havmgi fought twenty-one -tnatched 1 up to his fortieth year, every one which lie won.' He now ; holds in his possession three belts, ; including the champion's, and several prizes and testd monuua in the shape of silver cups, etc In addition to his success . as '.a fighter. lie has become famous as a Bkillful fisher mom, and his reoord shows 'that he has served '" twehty-eight terms n ! Jail for drunkenness, and" disorder lys- eonducti Ho 'is a broad-shouldered man, light bf foot, and his arms. tne youngest 01 a ramuy of twenty -01 children, all of whom are now dead save himself,! He was early -in file forced "to exert hnnself to secure the nocessitlea pf life-.": He' does notjihink he : ftookto fiKhtinir" because he liked it. but he had a mother to Bupport and Mulct get liv ing easier in this way than in any other. His mother' encouraged him, rind he easily lel into the business,, 1 t.ntm He egaji ttlife in , Nottingham,, where most of his exploits-1 were performed." He was the most notorious man in the town, and a frequent lineTrri5'papers was ! Bendigq in trouble again." His account of his last, term in Nottingham r;i 1 j it. ' jail and pf Ms conversion is rather strik ing. !, His last imprisonment was not, he says,' for thieving.' To " use his' own language a'i.'t' "wxiiiiayijitstt td f " I was never as bad as that. -1 When I ,was .a boy, and fup,to the time when I was a young fellow, my life , was a rough 'un, and if I saw any chap eating, and I iw uuugij x u tune uus gruo away irom him. -O, W rd 'd0that r,'if t was ,dry, and had no money' for a drinkl! I'd think nothing of matogrwilsisotort body cjse s; .but, d'ye? undestan me,t I never would what you might call steal anything. Well, this twenty-eighth tune was for the . old : game, It was one of the public-houses where they were J set against ma, and , wouldn't serve me su .V a'..u -il... ..1' -r had the money to pay for it ' So, sotoe body 'got a pint bf ale for fde4, ahdlust as I was going to drink it thwTandlordcomel along and knocks the jug dean out of my hand. Well, no spouer was he knocked down himself than in oome the police- ' s .'11 : . ,t i:. .,! , 1 h mutt n .1 , 1 IhuM nni ti a , ' - nu. wuo.v AVn. He was taken before the bench of mag istrates, "mho knew him well and who had ften dealt with him. K s. ir, ( "There was one of them," continues llPndigo, f hearty John Bull kind pf a njan, that I took a likin' to, and I used always try and get round,' and 'generally ... . .1 11 . il: 11. . .1 . a man-to-mau kind of way, d'ye see; but there was another, s, vinegar-looking, narrow-jawed cove, who was always hard on. nie. Well.-' 'I 'made mt ntnrV nnl tiit-tty well, and made 'em laugh a bit, ana, tnougnt 1, 1 snail get off light this time; but J didut. . Said my friend ou he bench : , 1 Bendigo, when you're sober you are pne of the nicest men in Nottingham, but when you're drunk you ain't; therefore yoti will go to prison for two months, and afterward give boil td keep the peace for three mouths longer.' Well, somehow that sentence seemed io knock me over more than any of the twenty-seven 1 had tared before, and I took to thinking what a foul I was not t j live quiet and comfortable on my pound a week like another man. Ye.s; a pound a'weektUat's what I've Rot to lire ou. Did I' save 'it up I Not I; I couldn't save.' Ne;what I did wheal was mak ing a heap of : money in the ring was io hand it over o my, brother, f n condition that he always give me a pound a week, ami flof'a lin it nnmna " ' ' ' While in prison he attended the regu lar sendee avert Sunday; and first bad his attention attracted by thai minister's account " of the set-to between David and Poliath,", t ne became so absorbed in hearing how. "David the, little un floorvd the giant aud killed him," tliat he forgot 1 where he was, and shouted oat, MUrayvol I'm giad the Mttla won. When ha got to his ooll ha began to think .seriously about what he had beard, and , could not avoid the conclu sion' that somebody must have helped David to lick Uie giant" T i WW bs eonUnnea, "it was as sin gular as though itwas ions on purpoeet The very next Sunday the parson preach ed another rmonwJiicb seemed hit ting a me harder (lmq; the one the week before. It was'sll about the throe men, Shadraeh, XlaihMh, and Bendigo,' who was oast into the fiery f uxsaoa, and wbq saved by th 3wot4 from being A v r&IZX i riGHTEB 1 exoeodingly ' ; " active, with ' As ho tells Ma story, WVas ue kurnk J0h yea, Pve heard about thai : sinoe; it wasn't exactly Bendigo who was Ue third iauabuT IhiHhame eounded hke it to tne, and I took It- as such. body. . ' If one Rendigo can be saved why not another f 1 said to myself , and l tnougnt about a a great deai. ; Bon- -, . mf aftr Sunday I looked pal for aom-" ,, thing about me in the sermon, and there it always was.- -After the one about the fiery furnace oame one, about the twelve - fishermen. . Sowrim fisherman my self. Bless you T" I should rather think I was, one of the best in England. Well, f , after that came anothersermon about f the seven hundred left-handed men in "-. theBook' of Judges; and I am a left- . ;- handed man Of course I am, , Ik was , that what beat the knowing ones I have had to stafad "op against.. Well, it was ; this always going on that made me make . up my mind to turn as soon as ever I ,t " gpt out. ; it was on a Tnuraoay, ana in -the winter, and when I was let 'out -at1' --" the gaol door there was my old friends ( .1 kindly . ooma t to i meet, , ;me. ' Vi J Come , ' . , f along Bendy, , old boy,' ? they snid, ; f we've got something to .eat and some-' thmg to drink for you auad; v Come ' along."" Bnt I had made up mind, and wasn't to be' shook; so I turned round, and I ses,,' Look ;here, I never will eat u or1 drink along with you, or, along with any man in a pubuc-houso again as t long as I liVS.a 1'ih done witli it.' They looked at each otlierl can tell yott. They -couldn't make it out. s But there was .; one mailt amongst 'em, named Waters, and ha, said, , Bendy, will you come along with me ? I'm going to Beeston,', "And I knewii' J went with him I should -p all' rigl and I Wnt And ' there I . met anothet friend who wished . . me welland said he, Bandy, what do . you say, to , coming to , the. Hall to-night t ta .hear Undaunted 'ickt' - Who's ; he I' says 1 hover 'eard of hun It s Dick - Weaver, says he,' a collier chap, that Was onoe in -a bad way, but , who U u now , converted and turned . preacher, , t Ay," said I, I'll go and hear him; he s one of my own sort;' and I wen' and I set on the 'ptatfdrm,' and ' , there I could hear 'em; , Why, how's this t there's Brtidige up there;'. ' Look, , . look, there's old Bendy.' But I took no ,r, , t notice; only sat quiet and, listened. ( Well, next mgnt l was mere again, ana heard what did hid good more than ever. It was bad Weather, and snewing hard,..'. ahd I bad to make my way liom.e late at . f. night; across a park;, and .when; h was ,, ,. half way across couldn't hold, put any longer. 80, the dark, and with the snow coming 10wn,' I went wt my knees ' and prayed as wall as I knowed howj and 1 when I got j up I folt.aflTV jnan.;n.I ! ; didn't quite go .without ale; I had pne . . auil pint octweeu men ana Bunuay, ana , then I went to the 'chapel 'again and. on ' tne piatrorm, ana in tno iaoe 01 every- ' b)iy who was there; I knelt down and told 'cm how. I was' changed,- aud how that nohmg . should tornpt, me tP.go ; , wrong again, and Pre kept my word.and I mean to go on keeping it.' Eversiuoo' that fime not drop of beer1 or siirits ' has passed iny Up, ami I nevo felt healthier, or stronger or ; more lively tnan 1 ao now". t .,1 'M - - ( - t r hi 1 ,1 Bendigo is not an orator; he cannot even read, but his meetings have been largely attended, especially' by persons Of his own '"ohisVwha listen with rapt attention to his story, of his oouYersion . and his evidently , sincere) . exhorttion, , . He announces his willingness to spend", the rest of his days on tho pluiiorm, per-' suading men ' to embrace religion.' His " proper name is William Thompson He is how at work upon his primer trying to . learn his A C'? m ., Ji .1 ,V !!'! L - ,'Uu-' He A4rertled. , Col. iff. 8. Moody, New Orleans, ho died recently by his-own hand says . .. the Augwdal, OoMtUu(UMli while ,., suffering from, an intolerable neuralgio ', attack, was ia singular man, t He prosper- ed when Louisiana was wealthy, and be prospered ' when Louisiana was as poor - as s rai 'The aconf of his 00a tinned success waesulvartisfng. lie, knew bow t ifl, advertise, and.tua dnlV,he aeasoa th more- persistently he, kept himself and hU wares before the public,' lie was known ss the1 " BUfrt King of tlm South- ' Weal Od every dead wall and on nearly every telegraph pole ia the lfisauvippf valley the wayfarer was invited to " get . his shirts at N. 8. Moody's." Such "was , bis faith in Uie' necessity of captivating the fancy nf. Uie people and winning their ''attention, that ft was seriously de -elared in New Orleans years ago ; h s ' fiend $50,000 t help pay or a new . eV'smboat intended . r the St, . Louis trade, providing he had Uie naming of Uie craft. ' His eflVr (was promptly ao M'pteJ, but almost as suddenly aWliniKL when h became known thai Oeii Your Shirts at Moody's wa to b the sppalhv , ' The amount of lea harvswted on the BakmlbJasawseak about two and a half KUlka Ions. .1' J S i ia- wenroul the' Th, BeJa 4., Imti me that the I thuuwad'doJari.'. -. ' ' . 1 1 1 ' ; 1 1 1 1 0 - (...,.. i . I V r . . 1(4.' laud-lhed HlW; -.T-: W4-Vrt T (.ooaUaii wauimal; 1 ' I r .
The Weekly Ansonian (Polkton, N.C.)
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March 4, 1875, edition 1
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