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The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16

Milton l.. Lewis.
Inc deceased was brothor.in-law of Mr..
John Worley, foreman Of the Herald job Office
The body is being brought mp from Houston by
Mr.. Worcy and. will reach here this III orning,
Mr. Lewis was an exemplary young man and his
untimely taking Off is sal bereavement to his
friends to whom the HERALD tenders its sym.
pathies and condolerce in their grief. The re-
mains are to be carried to Altoona, Pennsylya.
MIA, for interment.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16
SUFFERERS OF CHIC.
Appeal to the People of America for
Ala.

Appeal to the People Of America for
Ala.
Washington, April l5-Mrs. Blaine, Mrs.
Sherman and a number of other ladies' prom.
nent in Washington society and we'll Known
throughout the country, make the following
appeal TO the people Of the United States In
behalf of the sufferers from the recent dis.
sstrous earthquake in Chic:
WASHINGTON, April Is.
To the People OF the uuited State;
The calamity of Chic touches the whole
world. A disaster which no human error
caused, and which no human foresight could
perceive or prevent, has laid waste the
beautiful island whose songs have been
among the worlds most treasured pos
sessions for five and twenty centuries. A
single Sunday afternoon destroyed the fruit
of sixty years of industry and turned q
peaceful and pleasant country into scene
of desolaton and horror. Without one
moments warning, by the unherslded and
irresistible forces OF nature, 1000 human
beings were crushed and buried beneath the
ruins OF their own happy homes, 10000 more
have been oxtrlcated, wounded and dying,
and 10000 are le # wandering without roof OF
food or plan for the future, stricken by an
unseen hand, famished, appalled,, despsiring.
PRESSING SITUATION.
The situation admits of no delay. The
differing is present and pressing. No
community could recover from SO m, sterious
aud terrible blow, except through the
slow lapse of time. The neighboring Powers
have rushed to Chic with instant aid, but the
shocked and sorrowful people must be
nurtured through many long day back to
comfort and confidence, TO hope and home
joy, to moral strength and selfdependence.
In this sudden and overwhelming anguish
the accredited representatives of the
desolated province have appealed TO us to
implore the generous assistance of the
American people. We do not appeal to the
American people, They need no appeal
In this sweet charity the New World insists
upon the RICH. to stand and share with the
Old.
COLLECTION SUGGESTED.
But gathered in the national capital from
all sections of this great land, feeling pro.
foundly that the kings business reouireth
haste, and confident that in thus complying
with the request of our friends and neighbors
from over the sea, We rightly interpret tho ca,
gerness OF every American to minister not
only sympathy, but prompt and definite
succor, we venture earnestly to beg the pas
tors OF all churches, Catholic Protestant and
Hebrew to take upa collection in their
several congrega ions at the earliest
practicable moment. And we pray the
presidents of boards of trade and
managers of all moneyed institutions TO cir.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16
Died.

:.
NoRWoOD-At Port HUDSON, Mississippi, ON
the sth nst., Mrs. Maggie b. Norwood, wife
or Captain rhos. L.. Norwood, and daught er
Dillon Jno. NJ. Bright, of Tennessee
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16
Dissolution and CO.partnershin

=, Tne partnership heretofore existing between
NJ. harrington and II, +. Underwood mn.
S wnot tne nrm name of Darlington & Under.
II, =, Underwood retiring, The business u' vii
hereafter be carried on by M, ID, Gnriinvtnn
anu Ihomas Field, who have entered I'M
psaa,,nhership, under the name OF Darlington <
r'e'u' NJ. ID. 9ARLINGTON.
UNDERWOOD,
DALLAS, Marchl, 1881.
The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1881-04-16

Ealing attention 70 the above notice. Ire.
spe,c c ask for the new nfm the continued
by iu friends. H.oF. irNnEpSwyWunnnr urn
DALLAS, March 1, ISL, '"S~D'
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
DIR. AGNEW'S AFIER-THOUGHTS.
He Never Was Sansuine of GarficId's
Recovery.
Philadelphia Record.

i never was sanguine of President
Garfield's recovery, and always regard
ed his case as one of the great hazard,
as you know | said several times to
you, said DIR. Agnew last evening, ad
dressing Recorder reporter, after his
return from Long Branch. There was
nothing remarkable about this case.
There were many such cases of gun
| shot wounds during the war. The ball
| did not pass through the spinal cord
but through the vertebra, scattering
minute dusty particles in the tissues "
What Of the story of the New York
Herald asserting that you acquiesed in
an erroneous diagnosis because profess
sional ethics n
Il would refer anyone who desires to
know anything about it to the person
who furnished the information. Now.
if anybody had been told what was the
real situation of the bullet and it's true
course Immediately after the shooting
they would have said: Mr. Garfield is a
dead man. There was nothing strange
in the fact of the Presi ient living eigh-
ty days, for it often happens that per-
sons affected with septic troubles linger
as long as three or four months
The death was due to liberation in
the track Of the bullet, as stated in the
autopsy. DR.. Woodward will prepare a
minute report of the case, including
detailed report of the post norton, for
the information of the medical frater-
nity."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
Two New York Vice Presidents

New York Letter in Rochester Democrat.
The fact that General Arthur is the
most recent vice president elected from
the state of New York recalls the mem
DRY and character of the first. One
point of similarity holds in this paral-
lei their clerical parentage. Aaron
Burr was the son of a Presbyterian
preacher, while Arthurs father was
prominent III the Baptist ministry. |
well remember the latter as a man of
both robust body and mind. He stood
six feet high and was we'll proportioned,
and yet, Notwithstanding his great
strength and physical development, he
was mild and gentle to an extreme.
He was teacher as well as a preacher,
and seemed indeed best adapted to the
aforementioned Office | remember
hearing an address which he delivered
on this subject and was 50 impressed
with the freshness and power of his
views that it led to some personal in
quiries. He told me that he had al
mays loved TO teach, and had been to
greater or less degree in that service
since hoyhood Indeed" said he,
when ! was mere boy they called
me the wee schail master, and | have
been at it ever since" He published
several books which Indicated his pecu-
liar love of research, and one of these,
Arthur on Names" is a work of per-
manent value. Toreturn to our paral-
lei, our first and last vice presidents
We're lawyers, and were residents of the
city of New York. Had Jefferson
been removed by death BUR- would
have become president, and his evil
destiny would have been escaped. All
his bad luck, indeed, occurred after
he was nearly through the vice presi-
dency.
Another point of similarity is found
III the fact that both were widowers.
Had Burr reached the white house.
\ TheodoSa would have been It's tempo
rary mistress. Burr had then been a
widower five years, and was DESTROYS
Of marriage His daughter Joined in
this desire, for she knew how lonely
her father must be after her union
with Aston. The latter deprived Burr
of his best support-the society of
| heightened daughter-and when thus
bereaved he became the victim of evil
influences. Theodosia was married
month previous to her fathers entrance
iuto the vice presidency, and having
witnessed this gratifying ceremony she
accompanied her husband to his south
ern home. The next time she met her
father he was a mere refugee who
sought her hospitality, being crushed
by public vengeance awakened by the
death Of Hamilton. Tho first New
York vice president, indeed, was the
most remarkable political wreck in
American history, and hence his
name will always hold an unenviable
distinction. He was the only one Of
our vice presidents who was an avowed
duelst, and though that was one ofthe
sins Of the age, it really seems strange
that SO tragic an affair should have oc-
cured while he was holding the second
office in the gift of the people--thus
leaving the vice presidency stained
With blood
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
How They Salt a Claim.
Laramie Boomerang.

Il wish You would explain to me all
about this sailing of claims that | hear
so much about" said meek-eyed
tenderfoot to grizzly old miner, who
was pannlng about six ounces of pull
verized quartz. 81 d Mt see what they
want to salt q claim for, and don't
understand how they do it."
Well, you see, hot season like this
they have to salt claim lots of times
to keep it. A fresh claim is good
enough for fresh tcnderfoot, but old
timers won't look at anything but a
picked claim. You know what quartz
is, probably"
NO"
'Well, every claim has quartz. Some
more and some less. You find on.
how many quartz there are, and then
put in so many pounds of salt to the
quart. Wild cal claims require more
salt. because the wild cat spo;ls quicker
than anything else.
Sometimes you catch sucker, too,
and you have to put him in brine pretty
plenty, or you will lose him. That's
one reason why they salt a claim.
Then, again, you often grub stake Il
man"
'But what is a grub stake?"
We'll, a grub stake is a stake that
the boys hang their grub on SO they
can carry it. Lots of mining men
have been knocked cold by Il blow from
a grub stake.
What | wanted to say, though, was
this; You will probably at first strike
free milling poverty, with indications
Of something else. Then you will no
doubt sink till you strike bedrock, or
a true assure gopher hole, with traces
of disappointment
That's the time to put in your salt.
You can shoot it into the shaft with
double-barreled shotgun or wet it and
apply i with a whitewash brush. If
people turn up their noses at your
claim then, and say 1t is a snide, and
that there is something rotten in Den
mark, you can tell them that they are
clear off. and that you have sailed
your claim, and that you know it is all
right
The last seen Of the tenderfoot he
was buying douhle-barreled shot gun
and ten pounds Of rocksalt
There is no doubt but mining camp
is the place to send a young man who
wants to acquire knowledge and fiji his
5 ystem full of information that will be
useful to him go long as he lives.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
Prince Napoleon and NJ dc Mornr-

The Empress EugSnie, who detested
Prince Napoleon, once wanted the En-
peror to render it impossible for the
Prince, whom she treated as \ Garnet
knight. to go wearing the epaulets and
drawing the pay of General of Diyis-
ion. He had been. she argued, nick
named "Craintplomb" by the Due
dAumale NJ. de Morny, who was
present, WAS appealed to by the irate
and exalted lady, who asked him
whether he thought steam would be
powerful enough to drag the Prince or
the ground where the Due d'Aumalt
was ready TO await him with pistol il
his hand and seconds behind him
Alas, nc :" said de Morny. If evel
ball IS found in the stomach of his
Imperial HighneSs It will be through
having swallowed il by mistake" An
other OF dc Morny's mots was uttered
IN response 10 question from little
Prince Louis. WHAT'S, Due" said the
child, the difference between an acri-
dent and a misfortune - "If." returned
NJ. de Morny, your coaSin, Prince Ma.
poleon, fell into the Seine, il would Il,
an accident; if brave waterman
dashed in after him and pulled hin,
out, II would be misfortune.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07

would be able to claim some hos pitality
from the Afghans. who are much more
liable to be affected by the claims of
Mohammedanism than they are
by the distinctions of nation
atty The story they told the
British authorities at Quetta is to the
effect that four British soldiers who
were captured at Maiwand have been
sold into slavery by their captors. What
the sufferings of these slaves are can
not be even imagined, because the At
ghans are brutal to degree with re-
spect to aliens whom they have taken
IN battle. If they save a life. it is only
from whim, that they may put it to
prolonged torture, and these four men
are probably now undergoing miseries
to which death itself would be COM
paratiye relief. When DR.. Bellew en-
tered Afghanistan twenty years ago, in
connection with an Embassy to the
Ameer, he met a man who was pointed
out to him as British captive, who
had been taken in the war of 1892.
The man resembled a beast more than
a Christian human being He had al
most forgotten his own LAM age, and
the little he had left of it he dared not
speak, so terrified was he of his Afghan
masters. Bellew says the case was
singularly pathetic, and in it alone the
world may gain some idea of the fate
of the four white slaves who are now
reported to be alive in the capital of
We>tern Afghanistan.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07

rieneed severe illness if didn't know
it was those terrible racking business
cares which pull you down so. Isee
you have quite lost your appetite, dear.
You haven't even touched your steak.
Now. dear. this will not do. You must
not apply yourselfso closely to business.
1t is killing you," and Mrs. Breezy
mouth curled into decided sneer as
she dug a tablespoon into the fried po-
tatoes.
But, my dear said Mr.. Breezy.
making heroic effort to swallow a lit
tie OF the steak, 1T was most import
ant engage"
''Of course it was, B." said Mrs. Breezy,
as she poured outa cup of coffee with
trembling hand ''0f course it was,
love. Your engagements are always
important They will neye keep over
until morning, never. What if these
engagements-these very important
engagements-do occur five or six
nights out of the week. 1t is a sign oil
your prosperity. Should l complain il
you find yourself obliged to meet your
customers at theatres and concert halls
and a. poker parties In out of the way
hotels? No, dear, you are obliged &c
adapt yourself to your customers mode
OF life. Ii Is all in the way of business
and we snort-sighted wives are very un
reasonable to suppose for moment
that you frequent such places out o.
choice, when instinct should teach Us
that you would much prefer being
home IN the bosom of your families
You dear, abused husbands How
patient you are, to be sure, with u;
hdgety, unreasoning creatures" anC
Mrs. Breezy pushed back her chair
with jerk and left the room.-B Brook
! I'm Ed0L.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07

THE YOUNG HIGAWAYMEN.
Citizan Assaulted and Robbed in
Broad Daylight
New York Star

Upon Sunday afternoon, about four
o'clock, Moses Price of No. II Bayard
street, an old clothes cleaner, was pass
ing through the Bowery toward Chat
ham street, when he was approached
by John Lennon, 20 years of age, of
No. II Pell street, VINO sDatched silver
watch and gol chain from his vest and
then ran to Pell street. Price chased
the thief down Dover street, and an ac-
complica named Thomas Fallon, aged
about 20 years, of No. As Mulberry
street, intercepted his further pursuit
by placing his hand over Prices mouth.
Officer Lay of the fourteenth precinct
was notified, aad from inform alton re-
eeived from the neighbors succeeded
in arresting both the men.
When they were taken before Justice
Bixby AT the Tombs court yesterday.
Price identified Lennon as the man
who stole his property, and Fallon as
the one who tried to stop his course in
the street Both prisoners denied their
guilt. Lennon said he was in bed in
his own home at the time alleged.
Fallon, to defend himself, said he ran
to the roof of his house to help capture
the thief. when the officer came up and
arrested him.
Both men were held for trial il de-
fault OF bail
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
WHOLESOME FOOD.
The Issue Between White and Brown
Bread.

The earliest agitator in the matter,
says a writer in the Nineteenth Century,
observed two years age, when travelling
In Sicily, that the laboring classes there
live healthily and work well upon
vegetable diet, the staple article of which
is bread made of well-ground wheat
meal. Nor are the Sicilians by any
means the only people so supported.
''The Hindoos of the Northwestern
Provinces can walk fifty or sixty miles
day with no other food than 'chapat-
ties made of the whole meal, with a
little 'ghee,' or Galam butter" Turk
ish and Arab porters capable of carry
ing burdens of from 400 to 600 pounds,
live on bread only, with the occasional
addition of fruits and vegetables. The
Spartans and Romans of old time lived
their vigorous lives on bread made of
wheaton meal. In Northern, as well as
Southern climates, we find the same
thing. In Russia, Sweden, Scotland,
and elsewhere, the poor live chiefly on
bread, always made from some whole
meal-wheat, oats, or rye-and the
peasantry, of whatever climate, SO fed,
always compare fayorably with our
South English poor, who, in conditions
ofindigence precluding them from OBJ
tanning sufficient meat food, starve, if
not to death, at least into sickness, on
the white bread it is our modern En-
glish habit to prefer. White bread
alone viii not support animal life.
Bread made of the whole grain will.
The experiment has been tried in
France by Magendie. Dogs we're the
subjects of the trial, and every care was
taken to equalize all the other condi-
tions-to proportion the quantity of
food given in each case to the weight
of the animal experimental upon, and
so forth. At the end of forty days the
The dogs fed on bread of the whole
grain remained vigorous, healthy and
well nourished. Whether an originally
healthy human being, if fed solely on
white bread for forty days, would like
wise die at the end Of that time, re
mains, of course, question. The ten
acity Of life exhibited by Magendie's
dogs will not evidently bear comparison
with that of the scarcely yet forgotten
forty days wonder-Dr. Tanner. Nor
is it by any means asserted that any given
man or any given child would certainly
remain in vigorous health for an indef-
mite length of time if fed solely on
wheat-meal bread Not single piece
of strong evidence has been produced,
however, to show that he would not;
and in the only case in which whole
meal bread has been tried with any
persistency or on any considerable scale
among us-to wit, in jails-facts go to
show such bread to be an excellent and
wholesome substitute for more costly
forms of nutritious food.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07
An Episode OF the Great Battle of
EeftVShurp

Midway between the contending
lines was a solitary tree that IL peace
full times had given shade to the har-
vest hands at their incoming. Early in
the morning some Confederate sharp-
shooters had crawled out to this tree.
and were able to reckon their game at
every shot. So destructive, in fact,
did their fire become that the widest
imprecations were shouted at them bv
the Federals, and threats were made.
that if taken they would get no quar-
| ter. All at once there came a hull in
the firing from that part of the line.
A Confederate was seen to rise up from
the base of the tree and to advance to-
ward the Federals with his hand rails
ed. Shots were fired at him but there
was curiosity at his approach, and the
word was, ''wait till we see what he
wants to do" Some thought he had a
mind to desert, and encouraged him
with shouts of "come over, John
ny We won't fire." But, if the Con-
federate spoke, what he said could not
be heard in the din of the cannonad-
ing and musketry, then growing
heavy and continuous as the day wore
on. Forward still he came, and all
eyes were strained to see what it could
be that he meant to do. There can be
no truce on the battlefield till the battle
is lost or won The man who raises the
white flag there, or gives any signal of
that kind, has no right to look for its
recognition on the other side He may
only trust to their shrewdness to I'M
derstand an emergency. It might be
merely trick to deceive. Suddenly
the Confederate dropped upon the
grass and for an instant was lost 10
sight. 1t was thought he had been hit.
But only for an instant, for thrill Of
enthusiasm passed through the Fed
erals, murmurs of admiration were
heard and then cheer as hearty as if
given in a charge, burst forth from
their Threats, and the cheer repeated
increased in volume, proved that un-
selfish actions are possible, and there
are noble hearts to appreciate and re-
spond.
The Confederate sharpshooter, who
had been doing his best to destroy his
antagonist, had observed in front of
him a wounded Federal, lying help
lessly on the ground between the two
lines, ard begging in his agonizing
thirst for drink, and at the almost
certain risk Of losing his own life, had
gone forward to give comfort to the
distressed enemy. This it was that
caused the Federal cheer and for few
minutes stopped the work of death in
that neighborhood. When the sharp
shooter had performed his act of mer-
cy he fastened back to the tree, and
with the warning cry, Down, Yanks.
we're going to fire - the little, UMPIRE
meditated truce was ended and was
soon forgotten in the grand event that
followed almost Immediately after.
The next day-the Fourth of July
a heap of Confederates was found un-
der that tree Whether the hero of
the day before was one of the ghastly
dead will probably never be known.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-10-07

Cruelty Of the Afghans.
New York Lines

One of the most singular incidents of
the British defeat at Maiwand, in At
ghanistan, has just transpired, and if
the details OF it were only known it
might be shown that tragedy has been
enacted full cf the deepest touches OF
pathos. Some Sepoys, who were cap
tured and taken to Herat after the bat
tie in which Ayoob Khan defeated Gen.
eral Burrows with heavy slaughter,
haze by some means managed to
escape from Ayoob's citadel and reach
the British frontier. How they
could have travelled along the line OF
territory that stretches between Herat
and Quetta, the capital of the Khan of
knelat's dominions, without being muir
dered or captured by the hostile tribs
who swarm Ill the country, is difficult
to imagine; but in all probability they
were Mussulmans, and in that case they