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Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-08
A Boys Grip for Life.

William Stonestreet, q twelve year old
lad, had narrow escape from a sudden
and terrible death recently, In Louisville,
Kentucky. The boy says he was. throw
ing base ball up against the side of his
fathers house, near Hancock and Lamp
ton streets, when the ball lodged in the
gutter at the top of the house. He imme.
diately started up to get it. getting out on
the roof through hatchway. The house
has three stories and an attic, the roof is
rather steep, and as the boy slowly edged
over toward the gutter he felt sinking at
the heart. His little sister Mary was stand
ing in the yard eyeIng her brother, and
calling out to him every instant to come
down. He made some boastful answer,
and continued his dangerous journey. He
reached the edge of the roof, caught firm
hold of some projecting shingles, and lean
ing over seized the ball. Before he could
arise from his STOPPING position. he felt the
shingles to which he was clinging giving
way with him. He clutched them nerV-
ously and began to draw himself UP slow
ly. Suddenly the shingles gave way, and
IN an instant the boy seemed TO be hurryIng
to instant death. The pavement was fully
thirty feet below, and there seemed nothing
TO prevent his being dashed to pieces on
the bricks. Just as he was rolling over
the gutter he Involuntarlly seized hold OF
it and clung there desperately. The gut
ter was an ordinary tin affair, not very
strong; nor was it bound to the roof very
tightly. The sudden weight of the boy
made the TIN sag down, and few OF the
fastenings gave way, leaving the boy hang
ing down over the abyss, with only bro
ken rotten piece of tin between him and
eternity. William was now thoroughly
aroused TO his danger, and cried out for
help. His sister ran into the house and
happening to find colored man there told
HIM Of her brothers. danger. The man
ran ont and getting long ladder which
wac lying in the yard put it up against the
house. The boy was now almost exhaust
ed. The perspiration was running down
his tace in streams. Als eyes were dilated
with terror and exhaustion, and it seemed
impossible for him to hold on till the as
sistance came. The colored man ran up
the ladder nimblY. Scarcely had he
reached the top when the boy, who could
hold on no longer, dropped into his arms.
The colored man took him down and when
the boy reached the ground he tainted. He
was taken into the house and physicians
we're summoned.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-08
A Great Catch on Fish.

A great catch of weak fish, was recent
ly made about two miles off Rockaway
Beach by the steam smacks E. T. De
Blois, Capt. ]. A. Keene; Leonard
Brightman, Capt. Elijah Powers, and
j. W. Hawkins, Capt. J. Wawkins
These smacks are engaged in the
menhaden or ''moss bunker" fish
cry for the oil-rendering and
fish-scrap works on Barren Island and
were cruising off Rockaway in search Of
schools. About noon vast school OF
what the fishermen supposed at first to
be menhaden was discovered stretching
along the coast for miles. To borrow
their language, "the water was red with
fish, but they didn't break the surface,
as menhaden always do" The boats
were lowered. the seines spread, and
then it was discovered that the school
was of weak fish and not menhaden. 81
have been in the business for twenty
years, said the mate of the Brightman.
"and | never saw anything like it before.
The fish varied in length from one and a
half to three feet, and in weight from
three to seven pounds. The De Blois
caught over 200 barrels, the Hawkins
80 barrels, and the Brightman $50 bar
rels. The entire catch was estimated at
comething over 100000 pounds, which,
at the ordinary market price for weak
fish - seven cents a pound - would
amount to $14, 900. But, of course, the
market price could not be maintained in
the presence of such catch as this, and
it was said recently that strong effort
was being made by the wholesale fish
dealers of Fulton market to prevent the
greater part of the fish from being put
on sale. The Captain of the Hawkins,
which landed at Pier No. %, East river,
foot of Fulton street, obtained a promise
from a Fulton market dealer to take
part of his catch, and then made over
lures to Mr.. Eugene G. Blackford, of z.
G.. Blackford & Co., Beekman street, to
sell the remainder As soon, however, as the
Fulton market dealer learned of the offer
to Mr.. Blackford, he refused to take any
of the fish. The captain of the Bright
man, however, had better luck. H. NJ.
Rogers & Co., of No. IL Fulton market,
engaged to take his entire catch of $50
barrels, and Immediately put two men
in charge of the boat. The Du Blois,
meanwhile, had made fast to the bulk
head at the foot of Beekman street, and
Captain Keene, failing to come to terms
with the Fulton market dealers, engaged
p. Owens, of No. 104 South street, who
manages the peddling trade for the Full
ton Market dealers, to dispose of his fish.
A crowd speedily gathered about his
boat, and the fish sold almost as fast as
they could be handled at twenty-five
cents pair. The pressure of the crowd
became so great at one time that police
assistance was invoked, and Officer VIII
liam Brown, of the steamboat squad,
was detailed to stay on the boat.
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-08
THE DESERT OF THE HEART.

oh, desert of the heart, in those long ewes
When autumn brings our iowerless winter on,
What bleak wind across thy wild waste grleves
With hollow murmurs for the dead and gone
oh, desert OF the heart!
In our fresh youth, when all things are newborn,
Before we love, in our impatience, old,
We mourn our fate as though we were forlorn;
Then, also, how thou seemest vast and cold!
Oh, desert of the heartl
We long for love, we think the heavens are rude,
The future looks all cloud and storm and rain,
And fierce against the barriers that exclude
our bliss we strike, but seem 10 strike IN vain,
oh, desert of the heart
Illusions Run, oh frank and bounding youth!
There at two PAGES is the bush IN dover;
No more the desert. But for age, in sooth,
Is there whte-rose bush, or jasmine bower,
Oh, desert OF the heart?
Ritter DELAYS and longings unattained!
Oh! say, beyond the sands and frowning noun
tainS,
Dim in the distance 10 our weak eyes strained,
IL there not hid some Naucluse with its foun-
tains,
oh, desert of the heart?
Millheim Journal. [volume] (Millheim, Pa.) 1876-1984, 1881-09-08

The official list of property in Yer
mont shows total value of $163, ,391, :
1913. Last year it was $109, $50, 900.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
Mines Of Northern Arizona.

While the mines of the northern counties
fhe Territory have not had the send-off ac
ded those of the southern counties, the day
ast coming when their fame will resound
and wide. YavAria, Mohave, Apache and
ncopa counties have some good bullion
Bducing mines, such as the Vulture, Tiptop
McC Crackin. There are hundreds Of 9TH
pod mines that will be successfully worked
n after the railroads now being built shall
Fe pierced these counties. Let no man
falter and fall by the wayside in North
Arizona, where there are at least 100 rich
nes out of several hundred poor ones !;
ere poor men are every day making money
crushing little piles of rock IN arastras
III horse and mule power. Tuscumba
| running; Daks's furnace, OH Lynx
fek, is turning out bullion; Governor
Ser's mill, near Peoples Valley,is running
paying. The Belle mine, in Big Bug
flrict, is yielding fine ore the bottom OF
shaft is about 800 feet below the surface.
I Silver Belt is, as usual, giving up rich
ellng ore more bullion will soon come
nit. +. w. Blake and other local capital
are interesting themselves in mining,
owing that to this business must we look
success in almost everything. B. I.
gs, formerly of Virginia City, New, is do
his Vest to arouse our property owners to
necessity Ut opening and working good
hes. We have good news from Mohave
iniy, where mining for the precious metal
ne principal Neutrality-suspicious. Miner.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
His Last Words.

.:The Americans are outdone," triumph ant
ly declares a French editor, and to prove IL
he relates this singular story.
Lately at Calcutta a dangerous criminal
WAS arrested aud condemned to death. On
the day of the execution, when the jailer was
about to prepare the condemned man Tor the
snpreme moment, an English gentleman ar
rived huriedly and presented an order from
>be governor of the city authorsing him to
hold private interview with the prisoner
They were left alone for quarter OF al
hour. and when They separated the condemn
ed man was heard to say
at is distinctly understood that you are 10
Give E1OOOO sterling to my heirs =
81 swear it upon the Bible" relA'eo the
mysterious Englishmar.
The prisoner was then prepared anu iea ~ 1
the scatfold. where he claimed the exercise Oh
,he right always awarded to those apou' W W
sutier exrcuti0n--the right before uylh@ W
say farewell word. Advancing TO the front
Ibc srati,Id he at once won the ateliCioii
of those present, and then exclaimed III
steptorial voice, "Thc best chocolate II, .!e
world is that of the firm OF S"-ahd-no' Vi ~
cadilly, London. >, ,ba
Then he calmly yielded himself up |" the
eXecutiOner.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
Too Much Learning.
a(V /.

New YORK, July l6.-A Hartford dispatch
says the abolition of the Chinese educational
commission and the recall Of the students iIl
this country is a matter which has been un-
der consideration by the present government
of China for many months. The step has
been taken because Of fear upon the part OF
the home authorities that the progress made
by students in matters outside of the strictly
educational work in the schools is not to bt
of advantage 10 the Chinese future. The
young men who have come here only for the
purpose of learning our language, in order te
have free advantages in our schools, have gone
so much further in their advances in all diI
rections that it has attracted the serious atteni
ton of the home rulers. The whole tenden'
cy of the studies has been to liberalize the
students, which is what the home authorities
do not want, as they see in 1t grave possiblt
complications in the future. A large amount
of money has been expended since the worl
began in Is, 4 at the present time th'
expense to China just in taking care OF TIN
students alone, saying nothing OF contingent
expenses is over 100000 year.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
A Curious Story.

SAN FRANCISCO, July l6.-Among the pas
sengers from Honolulu, by the last steamer
was Major I. W. Macfarlane. Aid de Camp
and bearer of dispatches to King Kslakaua.
His mission has excited some enquiry from
number of prominent merchants and planters
from the Islands. 1t is learned that the King
was at the time induced by the notorious Co.
sar Celso Moreno 10 enter into arrangements
by which the Chinese Merchants line Of
steamers were to land million Cinnamon on
the Islands, on which capitation tax of 81
each would be levied they were then to be
made citizens and the kingdom turned over
to the Chinese Empire for this consideration.
The scheme was baked by the action Of for
eign residents and officials. Chagrined at
this issue and his resulting unpopularity, the
King vent of on a tour around the world. 1t
has been supposed that the arrival OF Macfsr-
lane had some connection, Tor or against,
these schemes, but Claus Spreckles, leading
planter of the Island and a merchant of this
city, SAYS his mission is to officially announce
the death of Chief Justice Harris, and "tl,er
news of importance,
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
BILL ARP
Writes Upon the Tragedy and Says
Some Exceedingly Good Things.

I'm glad the president didn't die. l like
him better than thought l did. Heis moth
ing more than any other man to me but Pm
for anybody that brute tries to assassinate
and wish the brute could be hung for it,
crazy Or not crazy. It's them kind of crazy
folks that amt tit to live, and it only short
els their lives few days to hang 'em, as
Gutteau said about the president reckon
he is crazy after fashion, and don't see as
how the stalwarts or Conkling or Arthur, or
anybody is responsible for it. any more than
the reb were responsible for Booth killing
Lincoln. 1t was the devil and mean whisky
that got into the feler, and that's the whole
going to try to purify the administration of
the goveinment-but he wasn't going out of
his party to find any help to do it. ] don't
think he would tolerate such a crowd of plum
derers and thieves as Grant had around him :,
and therefore was hopeful OF his making a
pretty good president. May the good L. rd
deliver us from any dynasty controlled by
Conkling and Grant and Arthur is my prayer,
and If General Garfield lives l shall feel that
the country is safe for awhile whether the
democrats get any offices or not. wish they
could get few. Good sakes amt it beel a
long time since they got nubbin out of the
national corn crib. But it's all right l reck-
on or it wouldn't be so, and it's best to be
reconcied to what we cannot help. May be
if we had the offices, somebody would be
shooting at us and that's a perquisite of Cffice
don't like. Now if Garfield had been away
off OH little farm he wouldn't have been
shot at, which proves that it is safer to farm
| than be president. Young men, 60 to farm
! ing or take the consequences Yours,
| BILLY ARP.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
MANAGEMENT OF Boilers.

The following rules and regulations, issued
ton for the guidance of engineers and fire.
men in the management of steamboat boil
ers, will he found to be interesting and use
full
1. Getting Up Steam-Warm the boiler
gradually. Steam should not be raised from
cold water in less than four hours. If prac-
ticable, light the fires over night. By getting
up steam too quickly the boiler will soon be
destroyed.
2. Fring-Firs regularly. Keep the sides
up, and use the slice gently and as seldom as
possible.
3. Feed-water-Let the feed be regular and
constant.
4. Glass Guage and Try Cocks-Keep the
glass free, and try the gauge cocks every tif-
teen minutes.
| 5. Safety Valves-Lift each safety valve at
least once a day, and always before getting
up steam.
6. Low Water-Put out The fires by draw
ing them or throwing ashes on them. Never
use water. Low water should never occur.
I. Blowing off the Boiler-Don't blow of
by steam pressure let the water run off il
possible. See that the fires are all QUE.
s. Boiler Purgers-Never use any compost
ton to keep down incrustations unless sup
piled through the feed pumps.
9. General Rules-Keep the boiler clean
inside and outside and free from leak. Ney'
er throw water in the furnace. Under higt
pressure raise the safety valve gently. Lower
the fires, or, if necessary, stop the engine
when ioaming to find the water level.
S. RIsLEY,
Chairman Board Of Steamboat Inspection
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
What Commissioner Howe Says.

NEW YORK, July 16.-A Tribune reporter
boarded the steamer Celtic, at quarantine
yesterday afternoon, and on the way up the
ha Dor, held talk with 7. .. Howe, United
States Commissioner to the monetary confer
ence at Paris. In speaking Of the conference
he said sit has been not quite SO success
it!l as the Government of the United States
had hoped. When left Paris my colleagues
thought could do SO without neglecting the
interests of my Government in fact, it was
expected the confereI ce would adjourn before
| reached New York" "Why was it not
more successful % 81 don't think the result
of the conference will eiftctually compromise
future good results. The only obstacles to
the universal standard were presented by
Great Britain. She was not prepared to &C
cept bi-metalcsm for herself, and still less
prepared to see the rest of the world reject it.
Tier government is now engaged with other
cases. Her commercial and financial classes
are very much interested in this great ques-
ton, and the success of it has been ultimately
very much quicke,,ed as result Of the con.
ference. l have many reasons to believe that
as soon AS the government of Great Britain
has time to take up the question, it will re.
ceive very careful and favorable considera.
tio..."
Howe, after inquiring particularly after The
condition of the President, said there was in
tense indign ltion expressed in Paris at the
attempt upon his life, and universal sympathy
expressed for him and his family. There
was only one relief, it was merely the act o
an assassin and not the res,:t Of conspir
acy
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
PACIFIC SLOPE.
NEVADA.

NEVADA.
Sierra Nevada continues to take out "a tons
of ore daily.
Peter Van Sickle, of Carson Valley, claims
to have lost 125 acres of grain by grasshop-
pers his season.
Last week John Flemmer sawed his way
to liberty for the second time and left Battle
Mountain Jail behind him.
Work has been resumed Oh the State Prison
quarry. Stone is to be taken out with which
to complete the new refinery building at the
Mint.
The White Pine Ne,os says the Spruce
Mountain Company has commenced work OH
their property at thar place, alter suspension
OF several years.
Lake Tahoe is nearly five feet above its
natural level, One gate is open and two
closed, and unless more of a head is turned
on it will be impossible to drain the surplus
water off before it rains
OREGON.
The water in the upper Wi amette river is
very low, and boats cannot reach Albany.
The town site of Rockford, in the Spokane
country, has been surveyed aud lots offered
for sale.
There will be a tirst-class tannery in full
operation in The Dalles within ninety days
from date.
The Railroad Company has found an OBJ
struction to their line to Baker City in the
shape of line of basaltic rock, which will
| take them two months to overcome.
In a cut made by the South Umpqua dur
ing the high water last year, two Douglas
county men recently found the remains Of a
white man, supposed by old residents to be a
Hudson Bay trapper who mysteriously disap,
| peared 20 years ago.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
New Orleans and the Southern Pa
cific

The New Orleans Democrat grows quite
enthusiastic over the future of that port in
connection with the Southern Pacific. "With-
in twelve MONTHS we are told "New )rleans
will have realized her brightest co,nmerc al
dream, and have become the southeastern
terminus of 2, 400 miles of transcontinental
railway. Just what this road will do for New
Orleans, especially when the system of feed
ers from Mexico and the Northwest shall have
been completed, is almost bewlderng to
contemplate. The simple circumstanc that
it will furnish the shortest, cheapest and most
direc' communication between Asia and
Western Europe that it will form the prin-
cipal channel through which the grain and
cattle trade of America will be conducted,
that i, must become the vehicle Of commerce
between Mexico and the outside world-this
of itself is enough to disclose for it future
brilliant beyond description. There is no
risk in assuming that corporation which
has been powerful enough to accomplish this
vast work without eXtraneous assistance, will
have the foresight as well as the ability. to
consummate and perfect it,, The usefulness
Of this great railway will be incomplete with
out steamship lines. There must be fleets
awaiting here the coming of the trains from
California and Mexico and the great North
west fleets to bear away across the sea the
grain, the cattle, the gold, the silver, the in
Vulnerable stores of which New Orleans will
then ecome the depot. 1t is not to be pre-
sumed that the Southern Pacific Company
will leave to others the labor and the profit.
They have the means to finish and round up
their work"
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
THE SANDWICH ISL IANDS.
The Drunken King Wants to Sell
His Kingdom.

New YORK, July 14.-This morning the
Times editorial says: 1t is an open secret
that kalakaua, King of the Hawaiian Islands,
is on a voyage around the world for the pur-
pose of selling his kingdom. We have a
right to regard with some uneasiness the
trading eXpe dition of King kalaka a. Vir
tuals the United States has a mortgage on
the Sandwich Islands. That we have mo-
nopoly of the trade Of the Islands, both as re
CARDS imports and exports, is we'll known
The government is Independent of all other
nations il is true, and it is true that the gov
ernment is nominally native, but it is unde-
niable that the worthy gentleman who is
King of the Hawaiian Islands by virtue of
his decent from the head chief, who seized
the government once upon a time, is merely
a figure he ad, and that he is less of ruler
than constitutional kings usually are. The
tiercest annexationists in the Islands are nat
urally American planters and traders. They
fear to nave their property interests transfer
red to the dominion of European power.
They long for the time when they will not
be obliged to submit to the payment of All
import duty Oh their own products imported
into their own country. They argue that
nearly everything the Hawaiian Islands ex
port goes to the United States, and nearly ev-
erything imported into the islands comes
from the same republic. If annexation ever
arrives, it must take the islands to the United
States That this step would be denounced by
foreign residents, who are not American,
is also true, but in any event, although our
government cannot afford to promote any
policy of annexation, the olher governments
of the world should be notified that any at
tempt of their part to acquire the Sandwich
Islands by purchase or otherwise, would be
regarded as an unfrlendy act by the United
States. If we are to foster and maintain the
great commerce between the Pacific Coast
that commerce Will need protection whicl
can be given it from naval and military
station on the Hawaiian Islands. We have
already been offered station of this charac
ter on the Island, but the policy of our gov
ernmenL has been adverse to any such bar
lering of reciprocal commercial treaties TO
political advantages as this proposition col
templated. If King Kalakaua really wants tt
cede his kingdom to the United States, O
place it under American protection, tn
shortest way to his object would be to oiler t.
sell out to some European power.
The weekly miner., 1881-07-26
LA.RRIE O'DEE.
the Widow McGee

1.-The Widow McGee
Iiarrie O'Dee
Two little cottages, out on the green,
lust enough room for two pig pens be-
tween.
3vidow was young and the widow was fair,
the brightest of eyes and the browneSt
of hair.
In frequently CHANGED, when she came in
| the morn
] the swill for her pig, Larrie came with the
| corn,
some OF the ears that he tossei from his
hand
pen of the widow Were certai = to land.
morning said he:
] Mrs. McGee,
! waste of good lumber, this runnin' two
rigs"
! The sweetest OF smiles upon Larrie O'Dee
h thin it looks kind O. hardhearted and
name
| m two friendly pigs SO exceedinIy near
whenever one grunts then the other can
hear
yit kape cruel partition betwane!'
waite Widow McGee"
|wered Larrie O'Dee,
he see in yer heart we are name to the pigs,
| we name to ourselves to be runnin' two
rigs?.
1T made me heart ache whin l paped thro
the cracks
ne shanty, last March. at yez shwingin
yerax.
bobbin yer head, an a sthampin' yer fate
! yer purity white hands just as red as u bate
3hlitn' yer kinlin'- wood out in the sthorm
in one little sthoVe would kape us botf
warm! -
w, piggie," said she,
= 3ries courtin' O me.
his dilicate, tinder allusions to you;
low yez musht tell me jusht what must Go
film to say yes sthir the shwill wild ye
Shnout;
! film to say no. yez musht kape yer nos,
out
Larrie, for shame to be bribin' a pig
tnsSin' a han'ful of corn in its shwig!"
edarlint the piggie says 'yes =" answered
| he,
that was tho courtship of Larrie Dee.
". Fink, in Independent.