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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1872-10-19
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The New Orleans Pieayune is apparently the
duellist's organ. In its issue of Sunday, October
49, 1872, Two columns and a half are occupied
with ''Ihe Code Of Honor, or, Rules for the Gov
ernmeut Of Principals and Seconds in Duelling,"
in eight chapters, headed respectively: 'The
Person lnsulted Before Challenge Sent" "The
Party Receiving a Note Before Challenge"
"Duty OF Challenge and his Second Before
Fighting DUTY Of Challenge and Second
after Challenge Sent" Duties of Principals
and Seconds on the Ground" "Who Should be
on The Ground" ARMS, and Manner of Load
ing and Presenting Them, - "The Degrees of lu-
suit, and how Compromised" All these points are
treated with satisfactory fulness, and some Of
them with much minuteness Of detail On what
authority this code is promulgated does not APP
pear, but we suppose not that Of the editor of
the Pleayune, since he adds few brief notes
explanatory or in the nature of amendments
which indicate that be is not the author of the
code, though he claims to be capable of inter
preting and revising it. As a relic of the Gus
toms which prevailed in an earlier age, where
society was less perfectly organized, and men
had not learned that it is honorable to respect
the laws and find in them protection in rights
and redress Of grievances, this code would have
someinterest. II is not less interesting certainly
when we md that it is recognized as an exist
ing and obligatory rule Of conduct in a part Of
our own country.
In looking over these rules we find that they
differ materially ia some respects from those
which the earlier literature Of the subject has
made familiar. Everybody has read anecdotes
OF dnelling, in which the right Of the challenged
party TO choose time, place and weapons was
essential TO the development of the story. We
remember one, told US some years ago by a
person who prolessed to be familiar with the
iaeis, oil two heightened gentlemen" of New
Orleans. One Of them, Tom A.. was insnlted
by an acquaintance, but took no notice of the
ahront, and replied to friend who asked him
why be did not challenge the offender "Ab |
know better than that; he is the best sworas
man in New Orleans" Shortly after Tom mo,
his insolter 10 public place and offered him a
gross affront in such manner that all who wer,
present could not fail TO observe 1t. The othe
bore Il as meekly as Tom had borne the preyou
offence and, when asked in his turn by fren
how be could endure the atfront without sent
Ing challenge, replied tom is the best pist'
shot In the state" The revised code says tbi
The old notion that the party challenged had ii
right 10 choose time, place, and weapons b.
been long since exploded" nor would a man
cbiyalre honor use such a right II be possesse
+" The time must be as early as possible; Ii
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oH1NGLEs AND SERMONs.-M inisterial remu.
neration IN the early days Of the great west was
on the worldly basis Of all other matters As
an Illustration, we give the case Of Rev. Jacob
Patch, years ago Of northern Indiana. No
purer, simpler minded man than he Thor
oughly educated in literary and theological col
leges under New England Influences, he soon
adapted himself to his new work of aiding in
Outstanding the west. After few wears
residence in the land Of prairie and forest he
began the building Of a house for himself. His
way of paying for shingles might be new to Mr.
Beecher, but was TOO true with our pioneer
clergy. The good people near the Hog Creek
school house Ia true name) having a shinglC
machine, and using It's products for their legal
currency, and desiring the services Of Mr.. p.
contracted with him TO deliver them certain
number Of sermons at the price of a bunch
(100Ol Of shingles for a sermon. The preaching
and shingles were respectively furnished 10 the
satisfaction Of the high contracting parties In
completing the house half bunch extra was
required. In delivering his farewell sermon
alter relating the good that had been DONE and
speaklng OF their pleasant relations as pastor
Auu people, he alluded 10 their contract, aud
gave an account which showed the balance Of
guy hai pnnch IN their favor unpaid for. "And
lloW, Wy Gear brothers and sisters said he, 81
aIn nol owing you enough shingles TO come 10 a
sermon, put, Providence permitting, | will comc
over 70 you at an early dav and hold nrave,
meetlngF And be did. The currency 10,
change was satisfactory Editors Draieer /,
HaTperg Magazine for November,
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This sketch of Batavia is from a work
published in France:

This sketch of Batavia is from work just
published in France:
In truth there are no streets; here are only
MAJESTIC ALLEYS shaded by beautiful tufted trees
framed in long, vast arbors, known to us in Eu-
rope only as operate decorations. The rays of
the pitiIess sun can butipenetrate their shade at
intervals while they gid with wonderful refec-
tons the countless plumes of the cocoa trees, the
upright branches of the fame trees, which are
all scarlet flowers, the bananas, with green
leaves the size of a man, the cotton trees, laden
with snow white putfS, the travellers palm,
colossal fans of indispensable elegance, which
yield streams of milk to the summons of cane
pushed into their back; finally, the immense
banyans, whence falls thousands OF vertical
lanes, which touch the earth, take rapid root,
and spring up to the summit of the tree, there
to bind themselves into intricate garlands, and
again to fling themselves down. One of these
trees alone forms an entire wood, surrounded
with a curtain, network of INTERVENING leaves
and flowers, through which children, in the cos
tune of angels, pushing back the EdHeS, with
their dark, 1.-THE hands, watch the pirogues and
the swimmers as they glide over the waters OF
the canal. For these alleys and arbors are the
tootpaths of the "arroyos' of the tropical Baby
lon, of those great aquatic ways which the
Dutch would have made by hundreds in mem
ory of the mother country, if the Malay popula-
ton had not already made them by thousands.
Thus have the instincts Of the white race of the
north and the yellow race OF the equator met
Va IN IL II
InIin ~ 10 paniesI ihronCb delicious snpces.
l;nn Of these embowered ALLEYS nv he s,de
oF The tsarrovo . covered with in1umerob1e
6aranes which float amid gioantic water
lilies and catcbinG gIimnSes Of fsirv
like gardens and white marble pal
closing mn the vistas SEEING nothina hnt these
aiIevs 7 beiieTe mvself r. he ina vaiiey, of de-.
iigbts in tba nei%bborbood of tbe city when /
am denosite.l at the boteI Of tbe Netherlands
which is II seems in tbe center of Batavia
This Aowerv forest in the civ itselCI am in
toTicated / cannot beIieye nv ewes and I
swear nv ali the monkevs sacred and profane
which Tbave seen since then. that am ante in
canahIe Of making Won understand NV DELIGHT
and admiration. The huiIding is of white mar
HE snnnorted on a colonnade of MERGED arches.
onposife IN a great oval kiosk omen TO ali the
hreezes nrofected nv a liGbt roof-this is the
dininG room where bnsy ant hin of servants
swarm about LAYING the table. How fine is the
efFrct of their robes of red silk or musIin tbpir
hlne tnrbans. and their golden sasbes. thrown
ont against the whlleness of the marble floor
and balconiesI Il y 4
AtniohtfaIl we dine in the kiosk. around ms
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Miscellaneous Items.

Have you read the Independent for this
weekp asked one subscriber of another.
''No," was the answer; 81 have not been feel
ing well for several days, and ! need all my
strength to handle that paper"
Michigan has a law making it misdemean-
or, punishable by fine and Imprisonment, to aim
drearm at any person, whether it be loaded or
not, and if harm comes of such an act the per-
petrator is responsible, criminay and pecunia-
rily.
The London "Times" says that with the ac-
ceptance of the seals by Sir Rounded Palmer
there will be eight tirst-cass men in the present
English cabinet-Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Lowe, Mr..
Cardwell, the Earl Of Kimberley, Viscount Hall
fax, Mr.. Chichester Fortescue Mr.. Goschen, and
Sir Rounded Palmer.
The German government continues to be
much troubled by the large dimensions of the
emigration to America. 1t is stated that, ac-
cording to authentic adviCes from Berlin, the
numbers are increasing in such proportions that
by the list of January the figures viii be double
what they were in the year preceding the late
war AS usual, the bulk of the emigrants are
young men anxious to avoid military service.
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from it in the way of making gold, and no
doubt will bring about a great revolution in
he mining interest of the county One of
most valuable of the Meclenburg mines is the
old Capps mine. 1t is not worked at present
though there is no doubt fortune awaiting
some energetic miner There have been 4 few
failures in the mines in the Mecklenburg- Ca
5arrus section, as there have been in California
aud Colorado. The average yield is said TO be
richer than thar of Western mines. The adj
vantage Of North Carolina over California is
hat we can work in our mines all the year.
Hands cost less and provisions and wood are
nothing likeso high as in California. augusta
ga Chronicle.
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The GOLD MINES OF NORTH CARoLINA.-
We are indebted 10 the Charlotte Democrat for
some interesting facts relating 70 the gold mines
oil Mecklenburg county. The writer OF the arti.
cle-a communlcation-n the Democrat mem
tions three mines, two Of which are worked at
present. The Wilson mine, belonging TO a gen
tlemau living in New Haven, is rich in the sui
phuretc brown ores common in the quartz for
nation of that county The superintendent
sent some of the ores TO New York 10 be tried by
fire assay. The result Of the experiment proved
the ore to be worth S755 per ton. The mine has
been worked down TO the depth Of 800 feet by
an inclined shaft, through which all the ore and
waste dirt from the mine is drawn up
on a railroad by means Of large
steam engine, which affords ample power
besides for milling purposes. But with
out stopping to take out the ore, except as
they cut through 1t with their tunnels, the
miners have been pressing on, exploring the
niue, until they have established It's perma-
nency beyond doubt; and It is now one OF the
best miues in the United States. The McGinn
mine is situated on the same side Of Meek len
burg county with the Wilson mine, and very
near the celebrated Caps mine, IL being one OF
the veins leading from Capps mine. This mine
is also In successful operation under the man
agement OF an intelligent California miner,
who Is using stamp mill with copper plates
differently arranged and differently prepared
for catching the gold from anything ever
used In that county, and 1t Is under
stood he Is producing wonderful results
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SUPERSTITION IN FRANCE.-During the mid
summer the peasants of the province of Berri
were rejoicing in the prospect of a bountiful
harvest, and were joyous over their splendid
fields of grain. Suddenly furious storm arose,
and the rain, the wind and the hail DESTROYED
the years work in a single day. The fields were
devastated and hOpelessly ruined. The peasants
were furious. A council was held in the viii
lage, and it was speedily resolved that the blame
rested upon the cure. They argued that he
could have prevented the storm if he had so
wllled, by few magical operations belonging
to his calling, and keDt off the hail by going
out Of the church with the cross, or with the
patent sanity relics of the locality. At least he
could have driven the storm elsewhere-which
meant, although not expressed, to the fields of
their neignbors That thought did not trouble
them, however; for once they were spared, the
responsibility was thrown upon The saint
of another parish. Putting themselves in
motion, the peasants went to thdr church,
finding their priest unsuspciously saying
mass at the altar, and at once made
an attack upon him. They kicked him
out; they beat him in the gutter, and then
smashed the altar, and made havoc among the
saints. From the church they went to the
priests residence, threw his furniture and gar
menIs out OF the window, tore up his books,
and sma he'd his crockery. He deserves 10 be
killed, the rascal" cIied one and the band again
started for the half dead cure, with "kill him.
on their lips and murder in their hearts. At
that moment, fortunately, the police arrived to
rescue the cure, and to arrest twenty of the ar
gressors. The reader will naturally suppose
that am relating an event which took place
somewhere between the third and fourth CEN
turtles, but it occurred a great deal nearer our
own enlightened age. Indeed the precise date
was the 28th of July, A. D 1872, and the trial OF
the twenty was completed only few days ago.
They were sentenced to terms of imprisonment
varying from one to three months The locality
was the VILLAGE al (1hatrp.I quplin Rarri cIoca
By the residence of the Baronne Dudevant. bet
ter known as George Sand The charge against
them was disturbance Of public Worship
Paris Cor. ~ Y Times
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place, such as had ordinarily been used where
the parties are, the distance and weapons usual,
the latter Of which in this country is the pistol.
And in another place the choice Of weapons is
still further restricted. "The arms used should
be smooth bore pistols not exceeding nne
inches in length" This code has other curiosi-
ties which might be noticed, butt the most re-
markable thing about it is the fact of its publ
cation in leading newspaper of one of the
great cities of the United States, apparently for
the guidance of readers in a matter of frequent
practical irnnnrtance
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A BRITISH POSSESSION" IN BAD WAY.
1t is reported that the Island of St. Helena is
gradually ceasIng to be a rendezvous for ship.
ping, and the English government does not re-
gard 1t now as OF much importance. The fall
inc off in the number of vessels calling at the
island is due to the great diversion of the east
ern trade from the old route 10 the new one, via
the SueZ canal Both St, Helena and Ascen-
sion have for years been supposed to be neces
sary for the protection Of English commerce,
and as a rendezvous in the event of hostilites
for ships OF war. But if the merchantmen find
that they can get home without calling at ST..
Helena, the island must eventually be aband-
oned. This island was captured from the
Dutch over TWO hundred wars ago by a British
admiral, and handed over TO the East
India company, who used it for years as
a refreshing depot" In 1884 it was ceded 10
Great Britain, since which time its pop
uation have been entirely supported by
the plotts Of their commodities sold 10 passing
vessels. The last report Of the governor Of the
island sets forth great depression on the
island" due in the main to the above mentioned
causes. The internal affairs Of the island, TOO,
are far from being satisfactory. The agricul-
turists are described as "being asleep" some
| thousands of acres Of grazing land being almost
entirely unoccupied, while the stock that is there
| IS OF an entirely inferior quality. Land left un.
cared for and uncultyated will soon ruin ITSELF
! consequently we are not surprised when il is
reported that 1t has lost much of its reputed
| fertility. With these facts before US, we cannot
wonder that the question "whether It's expense
| as dependency Of the British crown can be
longer Justified is being considered by British
statesmen.
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The Wheat Field of America.
HEALTHFgL CLIMATE, FREE HOMES. GOOD
MARKETS.

THE NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD, oilers for
sale its LANDS IN CENTRAL AND WESTERN MINNEsorA
embracing: l. The Best Of Wheat Land; @ Excellent
Timber for the Mill, the Farm and the Fire; g. Rich
Prairie Pasturage, and Natural Meadow watered by
clear Lakes and running streams-in a HealthMl Gil
mate, where fever and ague is unknown.
GRAIN can be shipped hence by lake to market as
eheaply as from Eastern Iowa Central Illinois Cars
now run through these lands from Lake Superior to Da-
kota Price of land close to track, 81 to IS per acre.
further away, $3.50 to a. SEVEN YEARS CREDIT War
ranee Deeds Northern Pacific 100 Bonds now selling
at par received for land at SllO No other unoccuped
Lands present such advantages to settlers.
SOLDIERS under the the new law CMarch 1922 get
$50 acres FREE the railroad by and two years
residence.
TRANSPORTATION AT REDUCED RATES fur
nshed from all principal points East to purchasers Of
Railroad Lands, and to Settlers Oh Government Home
steads,
Purchasers, their wives and children CARRIED FREE
over the Northern Pacific Road.
Now is the time for Settlers and Colonies 10 get Rail-
road Lands and Government Homesteads close to the
track.
III Send for PAMPHLET containing full informa
tion map and copy Ofnew Homestead Law
Address LAND DEPARTMENT NORTHERN PACIFIC r.,
L., ST. PAUL, MINI, or % FIFTH AVENUE, COR grH
STREET, NEW YORK. my23 deop6weov,lyr
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a GAMBLER's GAME BAULKED BY A

h GAMBLERS GAME BAULKED BY CHILD.
A man nearly fifty years old, named Alexander
Deming, living on Lacrosse street, and owning
a vacant lot in the sixth ward worth S15OO, got
on spree about week ago, and fell into the
hands OF two rascals, who deserve at least a
ducking. One of them is young man named
kidder, machinist, and the other a stranger in
the city, but a friend of Kidder. When Deming
started out he had about $50 with him, and his
intention was to purchase a COW of a man on
woodward avenue. He was met by Kidder, in
vited to drink, aud then the two sat down in a
saloon on Michigan avenue and began TO gam
BILE. So infatuated did Deming become that he
did not return home hut once in four DAYS
Kidder won his money, watch, and then two
notes Of hand Of S18 and 1927 each
When Demng had nothing more TO put up
he gave his note of hand for twenty dol airs and
lost that. This was Saturday noon. One of the
men got blank deed, filed it out with de-
scrption Of Deming's real estate and then filled
him up with liquor, lent him one hundred dol
lars, and offered TO play him for the property,
they to run the chances of the wife signing.
The man accepted the offer, and before dark had
lost the money aud the deed. Then, while the
stranger lent him money to Eeep him playing,
kidder went to Deming's house and presented
the paper for the wife to sign. She is not able
to read and he told her that ii was her hus.
bands life insurance policy, and that she must
sign II or she could never get the money in case
vi his death. She was about 10 sign, when one
oil her children read the words warranty Deed"
aloud, and she caught the idea Of what the
rascal was about She seized a chair and in a
moment sent the scoundrel out doors. Not con.
tent WIN this, she followed him two blocks,
cluDDlng MN at every jump, and then got her
neighbors to bring her husband home. The
| TWO men started for an officer TO have Kidder
arrested, Wheu ue handed over the watch and
agreed 70 refund the money, but ran away Sat.
urday night without so doing.-DetroT Free
| Press, oct. 10.
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Leland Co. are receiving. daily those superb
Chickeriug pianos. Purchasers are especially in
yited to call and examine them before they are
sold, nine having been sold and delivered within
week. Messrs. Chickering 6 Sons are producing
sixty per week. and are making arrangements to
make, shortly, seventy per week.
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THE GRAIN SUPPLIES OF CALIFoRNIA.-Th
surplus wheat product of California will be even
larger than was anticipated. Later accounts
indicate that the wheat crop just harvested, after
supplying the home wants Of the people, will
yield a surplus of no less than IL 600 900 eentalS
or 600 TONS available for transportation.
This is more than double the exports of the
former most prosperous year, when Oregon
flour constituted no incousiderable proportion
of the exports OF California. If we add the sur
plus products of the Oregon harvest, which has
been exceptionally good this year, and the bulk
of which usually seeks a market via San Fran
cisco, it will be seen that the grain yield Of the
Pacific states Is beyond all precedent, and is of
greater monetary value than the entire mining
products of which the world takes so much
note. 1t is also 10 be remembered that this
years crops on the Pacific are unsurpassed both
in quality and quantity, and in this respect differ
from the crops in the eastern states, which are
generally poorer in quality than in quantity
This fact places California in the advantageous
position of having vast quantity of the kinds
of grain that are most needed in the foreign
markets.
At present, however, California is embar-
raised by this excess of wealth, and strange to
say, has not the means for turning it to prop
err account 1t lacks, in the first place, the
means for moving the grain crop from the in
terror to the seaboard, and then there is Il seri-
Gus deficiency of shipping at San Francisco for
the transportation of the grain to foreign mar
kets. The railroad and water routes are utter
ly inadequate TO move the crop from the interi-
or, and large proportions Of it must be stored
for another season, of course at a serious ex-
pense of time and money.
The bulk OF the grain so far has been shipped
10 England, only a small proportion of wheat
and -four having been sent to Australia. And
from what is now known of the condition of the
home and foreight markets, these proportions
are not likely to be changed. The choice quail
ty of the California wheat will secure it a ready
sale in the English markets, and give it a pref
erence.
With respect TO the scarcity of tonnage, it is
scarcely to be expected that the deficiency can
be Immediately supplied owing, in the first
place, to a general scarcity of ocean tonnage,
and in the next place, 10 a want OF freghts to
San Francisco, as it would not pay TO send yes
sells in ballast to that port merely for outward
cargoes of grain. So the prospects are that the
all-important transportation question will loom
up on the Pacific coast, and attract increasing
attention. With one half the entire wheat crop
of California locked up for want of internal and
external transportation, and with the increasing
requirements for the movement Of the other
natural products of the state, it will be seen
that, so far as the people Of that state are con-
cerned, they have very deep interest in the
solution of this question ~ y BuHetiD
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