The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1882-07-15

q ~ u GtlA see mat the SEauUlI was all FlZlL.
As the forenoon wore on, his nervousness in
creased and he took q bath, made a copy OF his
poem simplicity and Of his PRAYER on the
Scafold' for DR.. Hicks TO hold for him while he
read It. his sister, Mrs. ScoNIlle, who had said
that she would not appear, appeared at the en-
trance and demanded admittauce TO the execu-
ton, which was refused. Without the Jail there
was a tremendous thrOng and the occasion
seemed like q festai day with the various booths
which had been erected 10 catch the patronage
Of the multitude, the cries Of the vendors aud
the Iostling and the swayiug Of the great crowd
which found IN inspecting the gray walls Of the
jail something OF unusual interest born Of the
tragedy which was slowly proceeding. hidden
from their view within. When Guiteau was
finally brought from his cell he mounted the
scaftold with his arms plnioned, showing only
silght traces of nervousness. After a prayer by
DR.. Hicks, Guiteau read four verses from Mat
thew, and then read in q ioud tone an arraign-
ment of the American people and President Ar
thur and a justification of himself which he
called his last prayer. Then he began chanting
in a sad, doleful fashion some babbing verses
beginning:
am going TO the Lordy
| am so glad
l am going 70 tie Lordy
l am 50 glad.
It ran through five verses and at the end. the
cap was placed over his head and the moose adj
justed, and just as Guiteau was singing, glory"
glory, - the trap was sprung and he shot down
through, his neck being broken. His body was
4LACilCu III NAC Jan 4bl lGAE OF llElk. the Drain
being turned over to the medical men for micro
scOpic examination.
Dk Longs BODY.
The last sad news that set alt doubt concern
ing De Longs fate for ever at rest came on the
18th, in the shape Of a cabled letter from the
Delta, describing the finding OF the entire party
dead in the snow. They were in two places,
800 and 1000 yards from the wreck OF the scOw,
Melville was closely following the track of the
party when / { came upon a rife barrel on four
sticks. Underneath this, in eight feet of snow,
two bodies we're found. Melville continued a
short distance farther up the bank, when he
espied q camp kettle, and in going towards it
almost stumbled over the hands Of De Long which
were sticking out of the snow. Here the bodies of
De Long and Amber were found about four feet
apart with the body Of All Sam at their feet.
All the others were found together. a short dis
lance away. De Longs diary is one of the sad
dest docum ents il history. Its very simplicity
and the feeble detail OF intense hardship and
understandable sufferiugs are mutely and wonder
fully eloquent. 1t appears from il that Erickson
died first on the 9th OF October, Alexy died on
the 18th, like him of cold and exhaustion. He
was the hunter of the party. Knack, who slept
between De Long and Amber, died on the Goth.
Lee died at noon on the 21st. and Collins and
Amber, too weak TO move the body, simply
covered it mp. Nelson died on the 2Sth in the
morning and Dresser on the evening of the
same day. The journal ends abruptly on the
Both and that day is / believed to have been the
gallant captains last on earth. James Gordon
Bennett has donated to Mrs. De Long $50, 900
in Government Bonds.
THE RODGERS GREW
has returned here safe and sound with the ex-
ception Of master Putnam. q brilliant young Of
fcer who was carried out to sea on an ice float
without provisions or means of help, and perish
ed miserably. His death is particularly regret
ted as he was a most promising young officer,
the idol of a fond and widowed mother and the
intended husband OF a most estiInable young
lady. The circumstances which attended his
departure were also unfortunate. Just before
the Rodgers sailed it was found necessary to re-
place master w. +. Halsey, he having been
drinking hard in an evident endeavor to get out
of the place he had volunteered to fill. Berry
got a brief allowance of time. sent up to Putnam's
house at , o'clock in the morning asking if he
were still DESTROYS of going as he had before said
and received all affirmative reply. Putnam made
hasty preparations, and some hurried farewells,
and sailed that afternoon. The last heard of
Berry, he was at a native settlement some 700
miles from the scene of the Rodgers disaster.
he was hunting the De Long party by sledges,
having with him one companion and a boy.
THE FESTIVE CYCLONE.
We had a slight shock of earthquake on Tues
day morning, and were glad to meet it, since it
reminded US forcibly Of our blessings. As an
Iowa man remarked, You can gimme all the
earthquakes between now and 1900, but deliver
me from one cyclone. The State of Illinois
was visited on the 10th nit, with the most re-
markable and disastrous cyclone in the history
of the country. The loss OF human life, and the
damage to crops and buildings, was something
as horrible as 1t was unprecedented. 1t swept
a path half a mile wide by twenty-five long, and
picking up houses. and human beings with equal
ease in its terrible swirl, dashed them into I'M
accountability, many yards from their original
location. The force OF the wind Was unusual.
In some places, where the houses were without
cellars, absolutely nothing remained on the spot
to tell OF the home that had been. The ground
was eft as bare as Il floor. Whole trains were
blown from the track. cOlliding houses were
punched together and the unfortunates who were
in the line Of the Zephyr, which principally af-
hicted the towns of Malcolm and GrIuneil. met
death ia every conceivable way. The deaths
caused by the few minutes havoc count up over
a hundred, while the wounded number half q
thousand. The damage 10 property is close on
to a million of dollars. Illinois was not alone in
atmospheric misfortune however, for tremendous
storms have prevailed in Kansas and Iowa. the
latter having gotten up a little cyclone Of its own
on the 22d ult., which blew several towns away.
did 500, 900 Of damage and killed twelve pso-
pie.
THE AMI
The local sensation which has caused most
talk of late is the laundering of the Escambia.
This steamer loaded with wheat and coal for St.
Vincent. Portugal; left the harbor on the 18th,
and steamed out to the Heads. AS she was cross
ing the bar she WIS observed from shore to keel
over on her side and then 10 settle down in the
water and disappear. Many hours afterward
Captain Purvis, the mate, the engineer and the
steward. landed on the Cliff House beach in q
state of extreme exhaustion. OF the twenty-five
men composing the crew nothing has been
heard, they having disappeared when the vessel
did. i Consular Court Of Inquiry has been held
by HIM. ) Consul, William Lane Booker, but
il has resulted IL nothing Nobody appears to
have been to blame, the vessel appears to have