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Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

SAN Francisco, June 25.-All is quiet
at Fort klamOth, the two masked men
who murdered the Modoc prisoners not
having been Identified, the Governor of
Oregon has ordered a searching investi.
CATION.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28
The oaIlows.

MURDERER HUNG IN MASSACHUSETTS.
sPRIsGFIELD, June 27th.-Albert II.
Smith was hanged here TO-DAY for the
murder Of c. d. sachett, at We.iGeld.
In November last.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

ST. Louis, June Goth. Il Nc
Queens pork packing establishment con-
tanning three million pounds of pork and
400 live hogs, was destroyed by fire this
morning.
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Tho War Department.
NONE or ITS RECORDS MISSING

NEw YoRK, June a7ih.-The 7inn'
Washington special says Gen. Bpik M.
is unable to and that any record conuii.
ted 10 his charge are missing.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

$4,000 WORTH or PROPERTY BuRNEn.
TORONTO, June ETA fire at Otervl,Ie
Ontario, to-day, destroyed s25.OOO worth
OF property.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

THE KHAN sURRBEDHs TO TIE RussrANs
LONDON. June 27.-The surrender of
the Khan to the Russians Is confirmed h,
dispatches received to-day.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

San Francisco, June 20. Judge Hay.
den and party, supposed 10 have besn
murdered by the Apaches have arrived
safely at Tuscon, Virginia,
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

A gentleman, stepping upon a lady's
dress, excused himself by saving he
thought she had passed some time before.
- Have you one OF them flip naps aud
cool OH ~ inquired HI old lady Of an
astonished dry goods clerk, In Savannah,
he other day. Amer lengthy exainina.
tion the terrified clerk finally discovered
she wanted . palmetto fan,
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28
Esoaped from Pliann.

PORTLAND, Me-, June 26th.-Wagner,
the lsle Of Shoals murderer, escaped
from jail last night with two other con
victs.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28
The PennsvIvanla.

PHILADELPHIA, June 25th.-A special
despatch from Queenstown announces
the sailing Of steamer PeRnsgludnia for
Philadelphia at s o'clock last evening.
Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1873-06-28

LONDON, June 70 The Great Eastern
had paid out 1895 miles Of cable up to
noon Yesterday. 1t is expected she will
arrive at Hearts Conten. on Saturday.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

How TO TURN OuT.-The Duke of
Wellington always slept on an iron camp
bedstead eighteen inches wide. When
a man wants to turn over" he said, 1t is
time for him to turn out" The Emperor
Nicholas did the same, Mr.. Owen says.
The principle is we'll enough but think
the detail is wrong. Sleep itself is far
too important to be made uncomfortable.
NV old friend Rossiter fixed his alarum so
that, at the foreordained moment, the bed
clothes were dragged from the bed, and
Rossiter lay shivering. l have myself
somewhere the drawings and specifications
for a patent (which L never applied for.)
which arranges a set of cams and wheel
work under the abedstead, which, at the
moment appointed, lifts the pillow end six
feet, and delivers the sleeper on his feet on
the now horizontal foot-board. He is not
apt to sleep long after that. Rosslter
found another contrivance, which worked
better. The alarm-clock struck q match.
which lighted the lamp, which boiled the
water for Rossiter's shaving. If Rosslter
staid in bed too long, the water boiled over
upon his razor, and clean shirt, and the
prayer book his mother gave hiE, and
Coleridge's autograph, and his open pock-
etbook, and all the other precious things
he could put in a basin underneath VIII en-
he went to bed so he had to get up before
that moment came.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

ROUGH ON OLD SUNsEr."-In April
last, while the Hon. S. S. Cox was making
a flying visit to the scenes of his boyhood
in Ohio, he attended church as all good
Coxes do, on Sunday, and listened to a
sermon from the following text "As a ser
want earnestly desierth the shadow
vii. 2.
The venerable preacher began by saying
he had seen picture illustrating the text
which represented slave looking towards
the west waiting for the end of the days
work. 1t was entitled, Longing for Sun
set" How be " improved" that text He
called on the worthless of both Testaments;
pictured Jacobs longing for Joseph, and
old Smeon's desire to 60, " since his eyes
we're made glad" He impressed the
thought that life was struggle, and no
man should desire to CO." Work was to be
done, And yet we should look and long
for sunset" When the heart breaks and
sorrow is too painful, and suicide tempts
and the soul lougs for sunset we should
remember that sunset is only the vestibule
of sunrise" But how be perforated d" When
the river is passed; the swollen food passed
and heaven attained, there will be unshad-
owed joy; for there IS no Sunset in heaven.'
-Haoper's for July.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02
Wedding Presents.

Wedding presents again" do hear
some gift-giving, weary soul exclaim :" L
have had thirty brides to bless in that way
this very year, and | am tired of giving.
[ wish the whole business were pushed in
to the past, where it belongs. One doesn't
want to be thought mean, and so one must
give so long as it is the fashion,
am afraid, friend, that it is fash ion
that, like the color of the brides dress,
will long abide. The earliest record of
wedding gifts is made in the book of Cen
esis. Rebekah was the fair recipient of
bracelets weighing ten shekels of gold, an
earring, jewels Of silver, jewels of gold,
and raiment from Abraham and Isaac.
Rebekah must have been as greatly inter
ested in the unloading of the ten camels
which arrived at evening time at her ia
ther's door as an American young lady of
to-day is when the bridal attire is re-
ceiyed from the custom-house after its
long journey over the ocean from fair
France.
Doubtless Rebekah exclaimed, On
how beautiful many times as the treasures
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

above mentioned. The Platte does not
run very rapidly, but the boat had acquir-
ed such wonderful speed in its descent
from the mountains that it far outrode the
current. A Mr.. Walsh, who lives on a
farm near the drift where the boat lodged,
discovered the boys still in the boat, which
was nearly full of water, and took them
to his home. They were restored to their
overjoyed parents the following even
ing, after having accomplished the most
perilous journey, in the quickest time ever
before made by any human being who es-
capped alive. The distance travelled was
one hundred and forty miles in two hours,
but how it was ever done, or how the boat
escaped being dashed to pieces upon some
of the huge boulders or rocky cliffs which
everywhere intercept the course of Clear
Greek, is nothing short of a providential
miracle. Probably not again in thou
sand years could the journey be made with
the best appliances. and.by the most skill
ful mariners.-Central City (Col.) Coach.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

in another fire, at the same time, they
heat sufficient number of fat rocks to
serve as q cover. After the heating pro-
cess is completed, the roots are spread over
the bottom of the hole, covered with the
turf, the heated rocks spread above. FIRE
upon them. and the process of cooking pro-
duces about the same ch.Dge in the camas
that is produced by roasting in coffee. 1t
also preserves it in a suitable form for
ready use.
The yamph is longer and smaller bulb
than the camas, not quite as nutrit ious,
and eaten raw. Either of these roots con-
tains nutriment sufficient to support life /;
and often. in the experience of the tribes
of the mountains, winters have been passed
with no other food There is a poison
camas, which is sometimes mistaken for
the genuine root, that cannot be eaten
without fatal results. 1t always grows
where the true camas is found, and much
care is necessary to avoid mixing the two
while gathering in any quantity. So great
is the esteem in which the camas is held
that many of the important localities of
this country are named after it.-Scrib.
ner's Monthly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

\ TERRIBLE BoAT R1DE.-.Clear Creek
is a miniature river that runs through the
canon Of the same name. 1t decends upon
a down grade of four hundred feet per
mile, with here aud there fall over a
rocky precipice fifteen or twenty feet in
height Large boulders, forty and fifty
feet in diameter, and weighing thousands
of tons. impede its dashing progress every
two or three hundred yards, while its
curves are so sharp and so frequent that
the stream can nowhere be seen for dis
tance ola thousand feet. Granite cliffs
two and three miles high project over it on
either side, and give frightful, romantic
and dangerous appearance to the rushing
torrent beneath.
Just below Black Hawk, on the side
of the stream, small reservoir has been
constructed in which is kept an ordinary
skif. Last Sunday two little sons of Mar
tin f. Walker, aged respectively ten and
twelve years, got into the boat, and were
spashing the water with stick, when the
fastenings gave way and the boat went
drifting towards the rapidly running cur
rent. The little boys soon discovered their
danger, but we're powerless to avert it; SO
they clutched hold Of the sides of the boat,
and with pallid countenance awaited
their DOOM Soon the boat was caught by
the current and began descending at fear
ful rate over Black iiawk rapids they
went like an arrow, clearing distance OF
sixty feet at single dash. Lighting
| again On the torrent surface the boat SEEM
ed to have gained new impetus, and shot
| by the powders aud around the rocky
points with the celerity of sunbeam.
At a distance of about six miles below
the starting point, conductor Gibbons, who
was standing on the rear platform Of the
down G. G. train, saw the boat coming
and Immediately stopped the train. All
hands repaired to the waters edge, and
did everything in their power to arrest the
flying boat, but past them she went like a
bullet from a rife, and was out of sight in
moment. The conductor then ordered
the engineer to put on full head of steam
and follow as rapidly as possible, which he
did, constantly sounding the alarm of dan.
S0i' LIZ Oiu noo S0o ouoSnOA StiMPoO VI
the boat, but the alarm brought the en-
pIoyees at Beaver Greek Station to the
lookout, and quickly making slip moose
they sought to throw it over the bow of
the boat as she came under the bridge.
This they succeeded in doing, but could no
more hold it than they could have held a
thunderbolt, and over Beaver Greek Falls
she went with the speed Of the lightning.
The falls are about thirty feet high, and
at the foot are number of large boulders
but the velocity ofthe boat was such thaI
it cleared them easily, and struck the wa
ter some twenty feet beyond.
From here no one saw the boat, or its
living freight, until it reached point one
hundred miles below Denver. Through
Golden into the Platte River, and under
the Denver bridges she went, unnoticed
) nor slackened her pace until she lodget
in drift at the distance below Denver
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

TIT FOR TAr.-A lady with poodle dog
entered the smoking car on western train
the other day, and when the conductor en-
deavored to persuade her to 60 into anoth-
er car, she refused, saying her presence
would deter the occupants from smoking.
A gentleman, however, took out a cigar,
and began to smoke, when she wrencked
it from his mouth, exclaiming "If there
is any thing detest, it is tobacco smoke"
The passengers who had witnessed the
affair were convulsed with laughter. but
the offenking smoker suppressed whatever
emotions may have been struggling for ex-
preston in words or action, and maintain
ed throughout the same imperturbable
gravity which had characterized him from
the first. Calmly rising from his seat. ne
opened the window nearest him. fastened it
up and reaching over the seat-baek, took
that woman's poodle and threw him out
of the window and as far beyond as poss.
Bile, at the same time saying. "If there is
anything do hate it's a poodle-dog
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02
Personals of the Period.
BY ORPHEUS C. KERR.


Jane used camphene to light her fire the faster,
" We lay her to rest" intoned the pastor
Smith blew the gas out, ere the bed he glided for
Leaving his family quite unprovided for.
To learn if charged, Jones breathed into his fowl
ing piece,
His WIDOWS uncle will support his ho wiling niece
Brown thought he'd firt with Simpsons wife a
little.
The Jury stood dozen for acquital.
" I'll shave" said Ruth, of woman's rights the
forerunner,
"rhe razor must have slipped" observed the
coroner.
stiles jumped up to reach moving raicar's plat
form.
A homes bereavement shocking is in that form.
That whiskey can stand" said Tompkins,
''try, oh let's"
His sleep is sweet beneath the early violets.
His shop girls put topmost floor, did Blaney.
After the fire they didn't count many.
Jinks tried to stop. by hand, some thing other
in a saw,
"My daughters next shan't smoke,'' remarked her
mother-in law.
Daily Graphic.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

JACK IN fORT.-
"'Longside of an enemy, boldly and brave
He'll with broadsIde on broadside regale her;
Yet he'll sigh to the soul DER that enemy's grave,
SO mobiles the mind of sailor"
Probably those who most thoroughly COM
prehend his nature are the boarding house
keepers, who, however desperate on oc-
casion, invariably try to cajole before they
venture to force. As soon as a ship ar
rives in the lower bay the touters Of these
worst of men board her, if, under the new
shipping law, they can evade the deputy
commissioners, and stealing into the fore
castle, demand the sailor to tell where he
intends to lodge while in port. A burly
confederate stands near the touter, and if
a ready answer is refused, the sailor re-
ceives an unexpected and stunning blow in
the face. When he RECEIVERS he finds the
principal demonstrating with the confeder-
ate for his brutal Interference, and appre
ciative Of the timely sympathy, Jack
surrenders himself to the wolf, one of his
best qualities thus becoming a means of
his own destruction. Perhaps before the
ship is fairly moored he is euticed ashore,
and driven to one of the gloomy dens in
Cherry, Water, or Roosevelt Street, where
he has no more hope than schoolboy in
gambling house His stay in port may
be week or month, according to the
amount of wages due to him but his
treatment will be the same as long as his
money lasts, and when it has gone he will
as surely be cast adrift. Formerly he
seldom touched his own pay. The board
ing house keeper made a triaing advance
when the sailor landed, and as seven or
ten days elapsed before the ship-owners
paid off their crews, heavy bill against
him for food, lodgings, and raiment had
been run up. The money accruing, there
FORE, from a winter voyage around the
Horn or across the Atlantic fell by power
of attorney, or less legal instrument.
into the hands of the boarding house keep
er. If the bill represented larger
amount than the wages, Jack was shipped
off at once, an advance note, payable sew
eral Edays after sailing, having also been
extorted from him. At present, under the
benehcent shipping act, the sailor is paid
in person before the Commissioner at the
end of his voyage, and the boarding-ho
heepeF cdu neece MIN no more directly
than by extortionate charges. But that
our seameu unnnnerinn~LIy IiOa III
boarding houses is not the most telling
charge that can be brought against these
wicked institutions. More vital Importance
attaches to the fact that sailor within
their doors is far removed from every
agency of physical and spiritual good, and
that with each successive voyage he be-
comes less able to perform his duties on
shipboard, more nervous in the perilous
moments when life and treasure depend
upon his courage, and further behind the
comprehension of the many recent scientific
discoveries tending to simplify ocean nav
igation-From Jack Ashore" by w. H.
RIDEtNG, in Harper's Magazine fer July.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

PLANTS IN SLEEPING, , - lire ,ne
Gardeners Monthly speaksof :. .;,e - .,as
idea that plants are knowa ri = :i:!ss - :
bonic acid gas at night, thei ~ ,,n -
sleepingrooms is consequently y1ss3SS,s7 r.
Lo;,e -a,se-e,- II = --1t<<E<<e - IL
states that sleeping infant IL q rQon-
which many of us learn to toieteowill
exhale more carbonic acid "a - 1aeht
than hundred pot plants - quotes
certain recent investigations est6s inject
by Professor Kenzie of the Michigan
Agricultural college. Prof. K. has been
analyzing air taken before sunrise from
the college green house, crowded with
plants, and finds it to contain actually a
fraction less carbonic acid than was pre-
sent in the atmosphere out of doors. A
similar examination of air taken in the
day time showed still less than at night.
Prot KS conclusion is:
"Now, if room in which were more
than 5000 plants, while containing more
carbonic acid by night than By day, con-
tains less carbonlc acid than any sleeping
room on this continent, We may safely co.,
clude that one or two dozen plants in a
room will not exhale enough carbonic acid
by night TO inju the sleepers."
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

THE ASSUMED DANGERS OF SHOOTING THE
RAPIDS In contradiction of the lessons
hastily drawn by many newspapers from
last months wreck in the Lachine rapids
of the steamer Renaud, the Ogdensburg
Journal offers the following facts and
opinions:
"Up to the time of the completion Of the
st. Lawrence canals, the navigation of the
rapids was considered dangerous to large
crafts, for the simple reason that none tried
it. There being no way to get back after
going down, those which were below them
had to remain there, while those which
were above could not be spared from the
places they supplied. The opening of the
canals revolutionized navigation and the
rapids, which before were considered dan
gerous, have proved to be as safe as any
other part of the river. Among the many
hundred thousands of tourists who have
taken the shoot, we cannot now recall any
serious loss of life Several steamers have
struck the bottom or sunken rocks, and in
three or four instances have sunki; but, as
in the Renaud accident, which appears to
be the most serious Of them all, such cases
were unattended by the loss of life, and in
but two by the loss of the boat. If we
take the trouble to look up the record We
shall find that in no other one hundred and
forty miles of navigation of the lakes and
St. Lawrence, stretching from the head of
Lake Michigan to the gulf, has there been
greater immunity from accident or less loss
of life, and if this proves anything, it
proves that shooting the rapids is conduct
ed with more care and attended with less
liability to accident.
"In 1859 the Canada and America, fif-
teen hundred ton steamers, which were
afterwards employed by the United States
government in the Paraguay expedition,
shot the rapids of the St. Lawrence in per-
feet safety. In 1861, the New York, the
famous flag of truce boat, of the James
River, the Northerner and Niagara also
shot them in safety. All of these boats
named were leviathans compared with the
class of boats now used, and where they
went in safety the others should navigate
without danger In the extreme low.water
era OF 1872 there was some risk in making
the trip in iron boats, because strike was
certain to sink them, while wooden boats
could strike and proceed without ill effects.
With the present stage of water no acci
dent can be apprehended from striking the
bottom, and such an accident will only oc
cur from recklessness or imbecility of cap
tain and pilot.
"Of course the shoot is attended with a
good deal of excitement on the part of the
tourist who takes it for the first time on &C
count of the peculiar and charming sensa
tion it produces, but the crews of the boat
which 60 down regard it with no more con
Germ than squirt through smooth water
Because the Renaud was mismanaged, o.
failed to obey her helm, will and should M
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1873-07-02

HABITS OF ANrs.-Mr. Darwin pub
fishes in Nature" letter received by
him from Mr.. James D. Hague of San
Francisco, giving some new and interesting
observations on the habits of ants. Mr..
Hague, while confined to his room by
sickness, was annoyed by the presence of
a colony Of very small red ants which,
issuing from a hole in the wall near the
ceiling, formed an almost unbroken pro-
cession to a vase of flowers on the mantel
shelf. He frequently brushed them In
great numbers off the wall down to the
floor; but this course had the effect only of
dividing the colony, and now new settle
ment was made at the base of the smantel.
One day he killed. some of the marauders
on the shelf at the foot of the vase of
flowers, and disabled others. In half an
hour the wall above the shelf was cleared
of ants, the procession retreating from the
scene Of carnage with all possible haste.
For an hour or two the lower colony
continued to ascend, until reaching the
lower beveled edge of the shelf here the
more timid individuals were aware oi
trouble ahead and turned back, while the
more daring ones advanced hesitatingly
just to the upper edge, peeping cautiously
out to survey the field. Then they, too
turned back, and in short time no more
AIS were to be seen. g A curious and
invariabe feature of their behavior y
writes Mr. Hague " was that, when an ant
returning in fright, met another ap-
preaching, the two would always commu-
nicate, but each would pursue its own way
the second ant continuing its journey tc
the spot where the first had turned about
and then following that example" NJ
ants were visible for several days after th'
disaster, but at length few from th'
lower colony made their appearance. They
carefully avoided the vase, which haC
been to their race so fruitful of misfortune
and attacked some violets in tumbler il
the middle of the shelf. The same exper
iment was repeated here, and with th'
same results as before. Occas ionally,'
says the writer, " an ant would advance
toward the tumbler until it found itsel
among the dead and dying then it seemed
to lose all selfpossession, running hithel
and thither, making wide circuits abou
the scene of the trouble, stopping a
times and elevating the antenns with {
movement suggestive of wringing them IL
despair, and finally taking flight"