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The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1882-11-09
THE HUNTINGTON ARGUS
Fhursday. NOvember 8. iss2.
Guilty or MOI Guilty.

She stood at the bar Of justice
creature wan and wild,
In form too small for q woman,
In features too old for child,
For a look so worn and pathetic
Was stamped on her pale young iaee'
Il seened long years Of suffering
Npst have left that silen trace.
..vour name. said the judge, as he eyed he
With a kindly look yet keen,
as Mary Mcclure, if you please sir,
s4pd your age?"-I am turned fifteen"
oWen. Mary" and then from a paper
He slowly and gravely read,
siYou are charged-I'm sorry to say it
With stealing three loaves of bread.
"You look not like an offender
Add hope that Won can show
The charge TO be false. Now tell me,
Are YOU guilty of this or MOI"
A passionate burst of Weeping
Was at fret her sole reply,
But she dried bereyes in moment,
And looked in the judges eye.
81 viii tell you Just how it was sir,
Ny father and mother are dead,
And my littl brother and sisters
Were hungry and asked me for bread.
At first / earned it for them
By working hard all day,
But somehow times were bad sir,
And the work an fell away.
81 could get no more employment;
The weather was bitter cold,
The little ones cried and shivered-
(Little Johnuy's but four years old;)-.
So, what was / to do sir:
am guilty, do not condemn,
I toOk-oh, was it ealing?
The bread to give to them"
Every man in the courtroom
Gray beard and thoughtless youth
Knew, rs he looked upon her,
That the prisoner spoke the truth,
Cut from their pockets came kerchiefs,
Out from their eyes sprung tears,
And out from the old faded wallets
Treasures boarded for many years.
The judges face was a study
The strangeSt you ever saw,
As he cleared his throat and murmuret
Someth about the law.
For one so learned in such matters,
So wise in dealing with men,
lie seemed on a simple question,
Sorely puzzled just then.
But no one blamed him or wondered,
When at last these words they heard
"The sentence Of this young prisoner
Is for the present deferred"
And no one blamed him or wondered,
When he went to her and smiled,
And teDderlv led from the court room,
Himself the guilty child.
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and hoped to save the poor girls life
a great wave washed her off her sup
port and father and daughter per
ishsd together.
"a second after our boat was up
set and we had a struggle for our own
lives. We held to her, however, took
a hold of the keel, turned her over
and climbed in again. Sixteen times
during that fearful morning were we
thrown out of the boat, and you may
imagine, what with trying to save
our own lives, witnessing the scenes
l nave depicted, and many others of
equal startling character [ could re-
late, we had a most trying time. All
the morning and, indeed, all the day
there was q terrific gale, and the
howl of the wind, mingled with the
shrieks Of the poor wretches who
were trying to save themselves from
drowning, was heartrending. All day
the wind blew a steady gale, and we
were driven about at the mercy of
the waves. AS I ascertained after
ward we were more than two hundred
miles at sea almost On a straight line
out from Savannah. We were in
the Gulf Stream, and when night
came on the air was very cold, and
we sat in the water up to our necks
to keep from being chilled, though
the sea was running so high that we
could not bail it out, and there was
plenty of water in the boat that ena-
bled us to do this. Through the first
night, as we'll as the first day, we
were in a constant struggle with the
waves, upsetting every few minutes.
About noon of the second daythe sea
had sufficiently Gained to permit us to
bail out our boat for the first time,
and without anything bat tarpaulin
jacket to do it, you may imagine it
was tedious business. The pangs of
hunger were, of course, by this time
terrible, but the craving of thirst
were much worse. We had neither
food nor water.
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The True Wife.

The true wife not only has the con-
idence of her husband, but the az
fairs in her special care flourish like
a garden in the height Of summer;
all things beautiful spring from her
touch, and he enjoys the blessing Of
her tact and taste, without fully
realizing how it comes. She loves
the praise Of her husband, which
should not be stinted, and she is de-
sirous to share his life-work; and his
confidence and esteem Is all she asks.
She will never over-tax his income,
for she well knows how much it is;
and her share of it's always econom-
ically expended, and, although she
may sometimes long for an increase
of worldly goods, she never reproach-
es him when he is diligent and does
his best to maintain his farpily in
ease and comfort.
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Of the fast-approaching peril. The
gale increased as we stood on our
course, and by 10 o'clock we were in
a terrible storm. A little after 10
the waves had broken in both port
and starboard port holes and put out
the fires in the engine room, and soon
after one of the crew, half-scared to
death, rushed into the cabin and cried,
"The wheel-house is gone!" This of
course caused great excitement, but
no one comprehended the real danger.
The captain soon after ordered the
crew to cut away the cabins and build
a fire under the donkey engine for
the purpose of pumping out the wa
ter in the engine room. After an eff
fort this was abandoned, and the ship
was left in the trough of the sea, and
at the mercy of the waves. Shortly
after l o'clock the resources Of tie
officers seemed to be entirely exhaust
ed, and the captain came to the cabin
door, and said:
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door, and said:
THE SINKING SHIP.
The ship must go down. You
will have to save yourselves as best
you can"
"The scene in the cabin for several
hours beyond this announcement had
been beyond description, and you
may imagine how its thrilling colOrs
we're heightened when this dread an
nouncement was made. Besides our
company, a French Opera company
and large number of commercial
passengers there were about seventy
lswd women going from New York
to the fast houses of New Orleans
They took on terrible from the mo-
ment the storm became violent, pray
ed, cried, and berated the crew by
turns, but most of the respectable
ladies seemed perfectly resigned to
their fate and showed a great deal of
courage, and many of them deliber-
ately went to their staterooms and
calmly awaited their fate.
''BIiss Kay was one of that num-
Der, and it was with great difficulty
that l got her even to make the effort
to reach the. deck. By great exer-
tons l carried her up and got her
hold on the life line; as l supposed
into a place of comparative safety,
but just as 1 turned to look about for
the life-boats, the ship gave a lurch,
the baggage-room door burst open,
| the trunks tumbled out throwing Us
apart, and She was lost. Shortly af-
ter the ship went down and | was
whirled around in the vortex like
top. 1 grabbed hold Of the hurricane
deck, that had separated from the
ship as it went down, and as it raised
little above the water l struck out
from it and was clear. AS it sank it
| Just grazed nay back, but it did not
have force enough to take me under
and had another chance for life
The waves were rolling housetop high
and the sea was filled with debris
from the wreck, and was every mo-
ment in danger of being knocked in
the head from the floating trunks and
timber from the wreck that was be-
ing tossed about by the angry waves.
1t was just growing daylight as l got
free from the wreck and grabbed a
large trunk with ropes around it, and
kept that in front of me as guard
to ward of the floating baggage and
other things that rode on every wave.
I was an excellent swimmer and used
to the water, which aided me very
materially. As the day broke l saw
a piece of the deck foating-near me,
and l swan to ii and got on it; there
we're then several people sitting on
it.
"The scene as 1 crawled up on
that piece Of deck beggars descrip-
ton. The water for q long distance
about was filed with the debris of the
wreck and with dead bodies, many Of
them terribly mangled; then, too,
every piece of wreck large enough to
bear up human being held one or
more struggling man and sometimes
women, hoping against hope 10 save
their lives. Twice every person on
the piece of deck where l was then
washed off, and the second time all
were drowned except myself Pres
emily it went to peices and l was
again th~ovn ip"- the sea, but caught
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AT SEA IN AN OPEN BOAT.

"On the morning of the second day
after we bailed out our boat for the
first time, we undertook to rig jury
mast out of the coats of some of the
party in the hope of reaching land
or coming across a friendly sail. Our
first passengers died while we were at
this work. After we had bailed out
tie boat he sat down in the bottom
and fell asleep, and when we went to
wake him he was dead. All the pas
sengers who persisted died in the same
way. 1t was from the effect of
drinking salt water. | refrained en-
tirely from using it and my life was
saved. The effect of salt water upon
the passengers who died seemed to
me curious; they would first get de-
liririous, then seem to lose all vitality,
and death would shortly ensue. The
most remarkable thing l witnessed
during those fearful days was the GU
pidity of the sailors. They would,
as each passenger would die, rob the
body of its clothing, jewels and
money, and then throw it overheard.
l doubt that any man among them
had thought Of reaching the shore
in safety, but that seemed to have no
effect on their brutishness. Since the
experiences Of the shipwreck and
rescue, the mystery of why 50 many
sailors are saved and so few passen-
gers are when boat goes down, is as
clear as the MONDAY sun.
eve were FIVE days floating about
on the ocean at the mercy of the
waves, and to recount the story of
those hours would fill a volume
Every passenger in the boat in which
I was died before we reached the
shore. For days the sharks followed
the boat, waiting for the dead, and
devouring them as soon as cast over
board.
"The last passenger besides my
self, a Mr.. Dixon, Of Philadelphia,
died a few hours before we sighted
land. Billie Dawson, Of Philadelphia,
had persisted the morning the boat
went down. There was only one
other of the life-boats except the one
[ was in that reached shore. In that
there were five passengers saved,
three men and two women, so six of
the passengers out Of $50 who shipped
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a piece of lumber and saoated with it |
for a time.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19

To Country Merchants and Visitors in the
Nathan Stern has for the past two weeks,
received a large and well selected stock of
Mems Youths, Boys and Children's Cloth
ing, Overcoats and Gents Furnishing
Goods Every department is well filed
with goods, wholesale as well as retail
to suit and fit the smallest boy to the largest
man.
In Prices and Goods this house can't be
beat,
Nathan Stern has been shipping and re-
ceiving goods the whole season. He has
been visiting the Eastern markets three
times this fall-in July, August and Sep
tember-and this shows that he must sell
goods at lower prices than any other House
in the city.
Everybody is invited to call and look at
his stock and prices, as it is no trouble to
show goods.
will sell to merchants, who are in the
city for the purpose to buy, Clothing at
Eastern Prices.
Special prices given to ministers.
Store on Gay street, marble front, oppo-
site Sanford, Chamberlain & Albers.
NATHAN STERN, Proprietor.
David Haas, r. j. Jarnagin, Siegmund
Porges, Charles A. Jenkins, Statesmen.
oct1edtf
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
The George T.-Larkin Case.

The case of the State of Tennessee VS.
George T. Larkin, formerly Deputy United
States Marshal, charged with murder, for the
killing, in Hawkins County, last fall, of
Art. Larkin, while in the act of arresting
him for violating the revenue laws, came up
for hearing again iu the United States Cir
cult Court, yesterday.
1t will be remembered that,
during the first week of the
term, petition was filed by
the defendant, through his counsel, Messrs.
Andrews & Thornburgh, to remove the
case from the Circuit Court of Hawkins
County, to the United States Court. A
motion was made by the State counsel to
dismiss the petition, but that was overruled
by Judge Baxter, and no further argument
was heard at the time, for the reason that
the case was not properly before his court,
the papers not having been
returned here The papers are here
nV'r, ~~d the argument yesterday was upon
the original petition to remove the case ~
the United States Court. The opening ar
gument was made by W. P. Gillenwaters,
Esq, for the State, and he was replied TO
by Col. j. b. Thornburgh, for the defense.
The court has the matter under Amusement,
and no decision was rendered as yet.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
New York General Market,

NEW YORK. January 1S.-Southern flour
moderately active, and weak; common to
$5.25a6.30; good to choice, Sc. 35a7. S7t.
Wheat feverish and unsettled, opening 1a2
higher, but afterwards became weak, and
lost las of the advance, closing unsettled;
ungraded spring, $1,07al 22ss ungraded
red, 81. 23a1.35. Corn opened tas higher,
closing very strong; No. 2, 69aa703; low
mixed, n; No. 2, January, SO 4a69a; Febru-
airy, 69sa7Ot. Oats shade better, and
moderately active; No. 8, 4S; do. white, AGA
491; No. 2, February, 40. Coffee dull and
heavy; Rio, 8Ra103. Sugar dull, and nom-
inaly unchanged; refined, fairly active;
standard A, 81; foreign, dull and NOMINAL
New Orleans firm, with fair inquiry.
Rice steady, and fairly active; Carolina and
Louisiana, 54a7a. Wool rather quiet, but
declining, strong; domestic fleece, 36a50;
Texas, 14a31. Pork more active, and a
shade higher, closing firm; old mess spot,
$16 75a17 90; new do, quoted at 762Aa
17.75; old mess, January, $1740a17 so;
others unchanged; middles, quiet and very
firmly held; long clear, 9. Lard 5a75
higher. and more active, closing dull and
depressed; 11.2Oa11 rs; February, $l1.2 0t
ALPS
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
A Leg Mashed OFF.

Will Carter, colored boy, who works at
the Knoxville Iron Company's rolling mill,
met with serious accident Tuesday about
dark. He was climbing up over one of the
rolling machines to the water trough above
it, when his foot slipped, and, in falling, his
left leg was caught by the roller, which was
running, and being drawn in, was crushed
in horrible manner from above the knee
down.
Major Tuttle, manager of the company,
when he heard of the accident, had the
suffering boy taken to his home, and sum-
moned surgical aid and looked after his
needs. 1t was found that amputation was
necessary, and the injured leg
was taken off midway between the
knee and thigh joint The operation
was successfully performed by DR.. J. Will
lard Hill, assisted by DIR. J. P. Park, DIR. j,
NJ. Kennedy and DR.. s. G. Bowman. The
boy went through the operation very well,
being uuucA tho i.-a-anoa of chloroform
and was doing as well as could be expected
at last accounts, but what will be the result
cannot be told. The right leg was also
considerably bruised, but not seriously
hurt.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
Federal Court Points

The Federal Court crowd has thinned out
very materially.
The material for an immense record was
furnished by the proceedings of yesterday,
and the efficient and obliging clerk, Mr.. A.
R. Humes, had an all-night's work before
him to get it up by the meeting of court
to-day.
The court is about through with the
criminal docket-will probably get entirely
through to-day, but several days will yet be
consumed in the trial of civil and itigated
causes =.
Fletcher Emmett, of the once famous
Hut Amarine gang of moonshiners was
fcv.nd guilty yesterday in a second
case for resisting revenue officers, and in
a case for rescuing a still, he submitted.
These three cases are all that is now pend
ing in the court against him. Sentence has
not yet been passed in either case.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
DYSPEPSIA CURED.

BALTIMORE Md, Feb. IA, 1881.
tried your valuable medicine, Browns
Iron Bitters, for dyspepsia, indigestion, &C.,
and cured by its use after three leading
physicians of this city failed by their pre-
scriptions to give me relief After eating.
before taking the Iron Bitters, 1 suffered
with full feeling about the breast, with
headache all the time, bowels very irregu-
lar, and generally used up. At night, when
got home from work, thought could
not last until the next morning. now feel
like a new man. j. V. HOWSER.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
GOOD COFFEE.

Everybody wants 1t, but very few get IT,
because most people do not know how 70
select coffee, or it is spoiled in the roasting
has been our study. Thurber's package
coffees are selected by an expert who ul'
derstands the art of blending various na'
vors. They are roasted in the most periec'
manner lit is impossible to roast well ID
email quantities., then put in pound PACK
ages (in the bean, not ground,) bearing ou
signature as a guarantee q genuineness'
aid each package contains the ThurOei
recipe for making good Coffee. We pacA
two kinds, Thurber's "No. 3d." strong
and pungent; Thurber's mo. A, milo
and rich. One or the other will suit every
taste. They have the three great polnts
good quality, honest quantity, redSonaOH
price. Ask your Grocer for TharbTs
roasted Coffee in pound packages, mo u
or "No. A." Do not be put off with any
other kind-your own palate will tell you
what is best.
Where persons desire it, we also furnish
the "Idear' Coffee-pot, the simplest pe''
and cheapest coffee-pot In existence
Grocers who sell our Coffee keep theD'
Ask for descriptive circular.
Respectfully, DC,
H.K.&F. THURBER l. co.
Importers, Wholesale Grocers and oones
Roasters, New York.
P.S.-As the largest dealers in food pro
ducts In the world, we consider it our III
terest to manufacture only pure and WnoiT
some goods and pack them in tidy an.
satisfactory manner. All goods beallhs
our name are guaranteed to be OF superb.
quality, pure and wholesome, and dealeis
are authorized to refund the purchase
price in any case where customers na.s
cause for dissatisfaction. 1t Is thereiO.s
to the interest Of both dealers ana e'T
sumers to use Zhsubers brands
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19

THE COUNTRY SEEMS TO BE FILLED WITH
SPEoIFIo-For the cure of Lung Diseases,
that one scarcely knows which to use, for
want of confidence in their medical proper
ties; but from the remarkable cures and the
high order and extraordinary efficacy of
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM, that we are COM
PEELED to regard the evidence of our senses,
and confidently state for Cough and Cold,
and that Hydra-headcd Monster CONSUME
TON, we think that preparation safe and
certain cure, and recommend it to the
public.
For sale by all Medicine Dealers.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19


= From tide water Of about seventeen feet
at midnight, the river continued to rise at
this place all day yesterday, though not SO
rapidly as the night before the rain having
ceased, and decided change in the atmos-
phere having taken place. AT 8
o'clock yesterday evening the tide
swater reached fraction under
twenty three feet At $50 o'clock
last night it marked very little over twenty
three feet, and was almost at stand, the
rise being hardly perceptible. 1t was
thought by river men that scarcely any fur
Their rise would take place. though the
French Broad River, was reported quite
full and still coming.
The back water of First Greek set every
thing afoat in Mr.. L. E.
Craig's saw mill, the old Atkin
mil, = and operations were suspended,
but very little damage had resulted. First
Greek was still booming during the fore
noon and the old rema ms of the bridge at
Clinch street were washe d away. f
FROM CHATTANOOGA.
The Times of yesterd y reported 80 feet
of tide water at Chattanooga Monday night.
Special Dispatch to the Chronicle.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, January IL.
At S p. m. to day the river was thirty.
four feet and four inches above the low
water mark, and rising at the rate of two
and half inches an hour. The food sigma
committee expect the river to reach forty
feet. No damage has yet been done, and
none is unprecedented.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
Personal.

Miss Margie Mcmillan and her sister,
Miss Mamie, left yesterday for visit to
Atlanta, Ga.
Mr.. George P. McTeer left on yesterdays
train for business trip South.
Mr. John s. Ristine, Of the firm of Ris-
tine & May, Loudon, returned home yester-
day
Mr.. Milo McBee, jr., came down yester-
day from Strawberry Plains.
W. L. Mcknight, Esq, of Charleston,
was in the city and returned home yesterday.
Maj ]. F. O'Brien, general superintend-
ent of the E. T., V. & G. Railroad, left,
west bound, on yesterdays train.
Mr.. E. E. McCroskey left for Chattanooga
ON yesterdays train.
Mr.. Robt Yestal, the popular clothier,
reached home yesterday from the East,
where he went to purchase fresh goods.
DR.. Jno P. Hammer, of Blountville, who
has been attending Federal Court, left yes
terday evening, returning home.
Mr.. j. X. Moore of Danville, Ind, who
has been spending few months among
relatives in the South, arrived yesterday
evening from Sweetwater, to visit Knox
VILE relatives and friends
Mr.. w. G. Perry, of the hrm OF nogvr-
d. Perry, left yesterday evening for bust
ness trip up the road.
Col T. H. McMichael, of Louisville, KY,
the chief civil engineer of the Louisville and
Nashville portion of the Knoxville and
Louisville railroad connection, arrived in
the city yesterday evening.
Mr., G. A. Frame, of the law firm of Coop.
er & Frame, returned, yesterday, from @
business trip to the upper counties.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19

A circumstance with very happy out
come was lately referred to by the Brooklyn
Eagle. 1t was told by Mr.. W. A Dayen-
port connected with the house of Messrs.
Butler, Pitken Il Co., 476 Broadway, New
York, and concerned the marvellous cure of
Mr. Ezra D. Clarkson, near Newark, N. j.,
of terrible case of rheumatism; which
other remedies had failed even to alleviate.
He was on his way to hospital when Mr..
Davenport met him and induced him to try
st. Jacobs Oil, with the result named
Cleveland co. Practical Farmer
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
Smallpox News.

GRAvEsToN, January Is.
Mr.. EDITOR: William Clapp died of the
smallpox, last night; he had been sick
eighteen days.
The disease is still spreading; but steps
are being taken to prevent it from spread
ing any farther, if possible, by placing
guards at every house affected with it.
We learned this morning that there are
eight cases reported in the family of John
Cox, near Bright's school house, in the 9Th
district. We also learn from Dr.. West that
the case of 10. Smith, near House Noun
tain, is improving. WALDEN. o.
Knoxville daily chronicle. [volume] (Knoxville, Tenn.) 1870-1882, 1882-01-19
Shan't / take q Blue Pill?

No, don't take it and run the risk of mer-
curial posons, but when bilious and consti-
pated get package of the celebrated Kid
ney- Wort, and it will speedily cure you. 1t
is natures great remedy for constipation,
and for all kidney and liver diseases 1t
acts promptly ON these great organs and SO
restores health, strength and vigor. 1t is
put up in liquid and dry form, acting with
equal efficiency. Price 81. See adv.