Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1869-04-08
Sindbad and Robinson Crueso Outdone
-. by Yankee Sailor. EW 80

S1n00ad ana Robinson CrueSO Out00ne
.r.s by a Yankee Sailor. EH -@=l
The Tribune relates marvellous story
of the adventures of Rochester boy
named Jerry Daily, who began sea-
faring life at the tender age of nine
years, and who after an absence of
thirty-twO years, returns to his native
State as the monarch of the Marquesas
Islands, where he rules absolutely over
two thousand subjects, under the terri
flying title of "Cannibal jack" but
which, by right, should be rendered
king of the Cannibal Islands," Daily,
was an apprentice on a Seine steamer
plying between Havre and Rouen; then
he tried life on a Scotch schooner, but
an accident threw him upon the mercies
of a Swedish crew in the Baltic Sea.
1t seems the stock was limited, and
Daily deserted to Russian brig, out of
which he fell into swift sailing fruit
erer upon the mellow Mediterranean.
Next this boy of many adventures sunk
to the depths of a vessel in search of
Goldfish, from which he emerged TO serve.
on "A whaler. Here he first contracted
an Intimacy with his present SUBJ
jects From that time forward his life
was spent mainly among the savages of
the Marquesas, Friendly and Society
Islands. Just here We would remark
that all the accounts we receive of these
terrestrial spots do not seem to correspond
with their attractive. titles. b. There we,
are informed the Yankee sailor reigned
in naked and native dignity, with his
tGppG girdle and his feather headdress.p
And there we may add, Cannibal Jack \
admits that he has fourteen wives in one
house-how many Others have basked
in the light of the Yankee sailer boys
eountenance we are not informed. He
makes the laws, plans the raids on other
savages, and permits his subjects to
roast the bodies of their slain enemies
between big stones, after '.snufffng them
with sweet scented leaves" No white
man is treated in that manner with
Jacks permission or knowledge. All of
these statements are substdntidted. Men
from California, old sailors from the bay
of Naples, and many others recognize in
Jack the boy of the "fruiterer.ni Jack
was brought here in irons. The story
is too long to tell how Jack was seized
with a longing to see his native land
once more, 'fell among thieves and is
out at the elbows in New 4York--a thing
Jack must be used to by this time. He
is preparing to return to his fourteen
wives in one house, as soon as he, can
gather up some tools, ammunition and a
"bundle of old story papers to last him
his unnatural life time, .rr.. D. rdl |
''i-t-ii The Columbus Family.
1t is curious fact that there are no
known descendants of Christopher CO.
lumbus left on earth. He had two sons,
one of whom, Don Diego, rose to dis
tinction as an Admiral, and the other, |
Fernando, as "A scholar. Fernando was
a great traveller. He not only thrice
visited America, but subsequently ira
yersed the whole of Europe, and almost
every accessible portion of Asia and
Africa. He appears to have been pro-
found scholar, ana a thoroughly good
man. In his will he stipulated that his
library, containing twenty thousand
copies, which he gave to the Cathedral
of Seville, should be free to the people,
ard so it. is to this day. From books in
this collection the late Washington |
Irving obtained a considerable portion
of the information on which his "Life
Of Columbus" was founded The fol-
lowing quaint epitapb, almost obliter-
ated by time appears upon the tablet
which marks the site Of his tomb:-
what doth it profit me to have sprin-
killed. the, whole world with my sweat;
to have three times crossed to the new
world discovered by my father; to have
embellished the shore of the tranquil
Guadaluuiver and preferred my simple
tastes rather than riches; or that have
assembled round thee divinities from
the sources of the Castalia and offer to
thee the riches gathered by Ptolemy; If,
passing in silence over his stone, thou
.bn,,Idet foil fo oddrasa n ainu1a co1,,to-