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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-26
ADVENTURES on THE WAY.

"Our progress the next ie" uays was
rendered very slow by the April storms
which had SET in, swelling the streams and
compelling us frequently to swim our
horses across them. On one OF these occa-
sious had an opportunity to reciprocate
the favor which my eomrade, whose name
was Gray. had done me. We had nearly
reached the opposite side OF ford, when
the girth of his saddle broke and he was
suddenly precipitated into the stream. He
had rot entangied in his horses reins, and
I saw il was becoming desperate struggle
on his part to extricote himself, the animal
meanwhile plunging right aud left in
his struggle to reach the shore. slid
of INV saddle as quickly as l could and
swan to the side Of the horse where my
friend end in blue had fallen of. then plunged
beneath the water, and after few seconds,
which seemed an eternity, i succeeded In
disentanrling him from the reiss and sup
porting him until he had fully. recovered
HE breath. He was enabled after this to
belp himself, and finally gained the bank,
on which he iel in dead swoon. ! resort.
ed to the usual means TO bring him to, and
in a short time he recovered his conscious
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-26

Mr.. Anderson, who is the engineer OF
the new benches Of retorts now IN process
OF erection (and to be finished by the mid
die Of 0ctober), claims for them that they,
will make the greatest possible quantity OF
gas from pound Of coal; that they will
be economical both In labor and In fuel,
and win be put up In style that cannot be
surpassed for lasting qualities and neatness
OF workmanship.
Mr.. Higgins, chairman Of the COMMITTEES
on Light; Mr.. Knowles, Superintendent,
and Mr.. Adams, foreman OF the works, ex-
press themselves we'll satisfied with the
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-26

DANCING AND OTHER ADJUSTMENTS.
REFRESHMENTS At CITY PRICES.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1883-08-26

EXCURSIONS. PIC.NICs, &c.
old CONFEDS!
RE. LEE CAMP, No. l, RICHMOND, VA.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
CHRISTOPHER HARRISON.
The Strange Vicfssitudes in the Life of the
First Lieutenant Governor.
Richmond Palln diIm

Among the early pioneers of Indiana no
one presented a more singular and romantic
history than Christopher Harrison the first
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of the State. Mr.. Har-
rson was native of Maryland, where he
was born about the year l715. He graduated
at st. Johns College at Annapolis about
1895, and soon after entered the mercantile
establishment of William Patterson, the we'll
known merchant, of Baltimore, as clerk.
Here he soon gained the confidence of his
employer, and rose rapidly to the
position of assistant manager. AT
the time young Harrison entered into
business with Mr.. Patterson, Miss Elizabeth
Patterson, the since famous and accomplished
mother of the Baltimore Bonapartes. was
young girl at school, but at the end of few
years she and the handsome and accomplish
ed young clerk were engaged lovers. The
lady had not then developed the ambition
which afterward made her name famous, and
consigned her earliest and truest lover to the
life of hermit. The love between the young
couple seemed to be mutual and aIl-abscrb.
ing and their engagement was with the cor
dial appreciation OF Mr.. Patterson.
This was the situation at the opening of
the wear 1903, when Mr. Patterson found it
necessary to send his confidential clerk to
Europe on important affairs connected with
his extensive business. Mr.. Harrison was
10th to leave his young tiancee for an absence
so prolonged as such journey would re-
quire, but the promise OF an immediate
marriage on his return reconciled him to the
separation, and he embarked on his voyage
across the Atlantic. Soon after his de-
parture, Jerome Bonaparte, a member of
the then imperial house of France, and
brother of the Emperor. Napoleon, Wis
tied this country. Everywhere he was
received with distinguished honors by the
first families of America. At Baltimore he
was presented, as matter OF course, to the
reigning belle OF that city-Miss Patterson.
The Young Frenchman was at once snitten.
with the beauty and grace Of the Young
American, and became an ardent and per
sistent suitor for her hand. The homage Of
so distinguished parsonage, the brother OF
an emperor, and himself prospective King,
and. besides, young, accomplished and anna
BILE. hattered her vanity and aroused her anu
bition. She forgot her absent lover, and, in
December 1903, became Madame Jerome
Bonaparte,
This unfaithfuness on the part of his be-
trothed fell with cruel and crushing force
upon the heart of young Harrison, blasting
his fondest hopes and covering his future life
with a cloud, relieved by scarcely a ray of
light Fte suddenly disappeared from Balti-
more and for years his friends, and he had
many friends heard nothing from him.
| With no companion, but his faithful dog, he
came TO the then wilderness OF Indiana, and
building a rude cabin on a bluff over
looking the Ohio river near Hanover,
he lived for years the life of a her~
nit. He did not directly hun the society of
his fellow-men, and greeted them kindly
when they sought him out, bat be did not
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24

tant earth as if they were shOd with the
heaviest of boots, and their muscular arms
and broad backs are able to manage burdens
at which many man would. look askance.
For Them not broken down by frequent
child bearing, one has not so much sympa-
thy. They are physically able to perform
without Inconvenience the tasks allotted to
them. Coarse in features and IN manners as
they are, with hands like giantesses, they
still show many feminine traits not yet
smothered out by hard work, and delight in
adjoining their persons with bright colors
and tawdry jcwelry whenever occasion will
permit of it. Their brothers-big. raw-boned.
uncouth, hulking fellows, stoop-shoudered
and shufiing-g aited-work alongside of
them, doing no harder work than they, but
probably accomplishing less OF it on account
OF the frequent stoppages in order to light
the always-present pipe and such similar
masculine offices. They never hesitate TO
let the women carry all the burdens in
fact, they force them to do it. and they seem
never so happy as when loafng and smok
ing while their mother and sister drag along
bent double under a couple OF hundred
pounds of potatoes or some similar bur
den. They and their father most always
wear boots, while the women go barefooted.
Such an arrangement is economical. 1t
saves the cost Of several pairs of boots per
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24

the facts relative to those revelations of the
Goodman letter On Monday morning, be-
fore the crowd of hungry cormoraDts who
had Hooked to the carcass at Concord mad
slept off the fumes of their Sabbath pota-
lions, | was at his room in the Eagle Hotel.
a most cordial reception was accorded me,
and | spent a most agreeable hour in his
company We discussed preachers and
preaching, Had heard Maffit?" Yes
had heard the great orator Then he gave
me & specimen of Mathis elocuton; so
gradually drew him on to his old chaplain.
Goodman. On mention OF that name he fired
up at once. "Mr. Goodman was the most
wonderful preacher ever listened TO in my
life" said he; 81 was greatly interested in
his sermons and prayers, more so than in
any before. I admired the man. His fate
was sad, very sad" Yes, I replied, land
he was greatly interested for you, as l learn
from letter from him to your old friend,
Merritt CALDWELL" and then l gave him
brief synopsis OF the communication, An
expression of pain seemed to fit over his
countenance, and, with a forced smile, he
remarked, 81 think Brother Goodman laid it
on rather thick, but will tell you what
did; 1 went to class and prayer-meeting all
winter in old DR.. Sewell's house, on the cor
ner of street, in Washington"
But that he was profoundly moved, if not
soundly converted, and sincerely intended
was so deely indebted. is evidenced by the
fact that after his return to his home in
Concord he worshiped regularly at the
Methodist Church for some three moa tbs, as
was told by DR.. Prescott, prominent
member of that society. But his family were
strenuously opposed to his course and per-
haps the church members were afraid of him,
as the Jerusalem Christians were of Saul
when he essayed to join himself to the disci-
plies, and so he 1rifted back to his old church
home but, l firmly believe never more to
his old habits.
But the reader will ask, "Why did he re-
sign his senatorial chair?' / answer, '"Fo be-
come Methodist preacher" He confessed
this to the Rev Eleazer Smith, long chaplain
in the State prison at Concord. 1 had this
from Mr., Smith himself in person. Could
We see the letter which Mr.. Caldwell doubt
less wrote to him. at the instlgation of Mr..
Goodman, we should see the immediate cause
of that decision. Alas! he missed the great
opportunity of his life to secure immortality
of fame.
Goldman, Caldwell, with their collabor-
ators will be remembered to the last throb
of time; while, after so short time, the mass
of intelligent people even will ask, as was
asked when his nomination was announced,
Who is Frank Pieree?"
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24

Lieutenant Storey, who went TO Alaska on
the last trip OF the Corwin reports. on his
return to San Francisco, the discovery of an
immense river. Indians had vaguely spoken
of the river to former explorers, and Lien
tenant Storey determined to see if it existed
He proceeded inland from Hotham inlet in a
souUbeas terry direction until lie struck what
he believed to be the mysterious river. He
traced it to its mouth, distance OF about ff-
teen miles. File went up the river for Il dis
lance OF fifty smiles, where he encountered
natives from whom he learned that TO reach
the head waters of the unknown stream would
take several months The Indians told him
that they had come down the river distance
OF 1, 500 miles to meet fur trader, and that
it went up higher than that. 1t is his oprn-
ion that the discovery of the river accounts.
for the large quantities OF floating timber in
the Arctic ocean, which has popularity been
supposed tO come down the Yukon river
The Indians said that the river in some places
is twenty miles wide.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
MAGGIE MITCHELL.
Was that Her Real Name, or Was 1t Mary
Baker?


Cleveland Herald
A special dispatch from Trenton, ~ j., a
day or two ago contained the following rela-
tive to Maggie Mitchell:
Mrs. John Able, who claims to be a sister
to Maggie Mitchell, the actress, was inter
viewed to-day at Bloomsbury in reference to
the statement of Maggie Mitchell contradict
ing her claim, which appeared yesterday.
Mrs. Able says now that so much publicity
has been given to the affair, II propose to
compel the actress to acknowledge me as a
sister. The woman who nurSed Maggie
Mitchell, as we'll as my brother and myself, is
still living in New York. | do not care to
divulge this woman's name at present. but she
can be procured at any time, and will testify
that Maggie Mitchell was given away to some
theatrical people by her mother, Margaret
Baker, when the latter was on her death-be
When my brother and were at the Orphans
Home in New York, our sister visited us at
one time and said to my brother Willie, if
you will be good boy, l will come and take
you away from here some day. My name
isn't Maggie Baker any more; it's Maggie
Mitchell
Mrs. Able claims to be in possession of
facts that will surely establish the relation
ship between the actress and herself.
The above dispatch was shown to Captain
T. S. Paddock, father-in-law to the actress
by a Herald representative yesterday.
in the woman S statement" said he. Il have
known the Mitchell family for years. Mag
gle is the perfect picture of her father who
is still alive l did not know Maggie until
she was fourteen or fifteen years of age but
she has often told me OF her youthful days.
l have heard her people tell of the interest
she took in school theatricals which were
given in New York when she, Maggie was
school girl six or seven. years of age. She
watched them with great attent ton, and one
day asked her teacher to be allowed to take
part in. one. The latter replied that she
was too young; that only scholars
of twelve or thirteen years could properly
carry out the parts. She persisted, however,
and with such force that she was allowed to
assume a role. She made most remarkable
success, and all were compelled to aclSnowl-
edge that she was the best actress in the
school. The statement that she was given.
away to some theatrical people seems hardly
credible, as the people she has lived with
since l have known her were not theatrical
people at all. There is family of five or
six children, of whom perhaps Maggie more
closely resembles her parents than any of
the others. Her father was at my house
only year or two ago."
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
Henry Bergh's New Hobby.
Brooklyn Eagle.


Henry Bereh has struck a new hobby. His
fertility in discovering cases of awful and
awe-inspiring cruelty toward the lower ami
mails is certainly amazing. 1t was only a
week or two ago that he electrified the ma
ton by a vigorous eloquent and pathetic
protest against the outrages, committed upon
the donkeys in Central Park. Half a dozen
of these sturdy little animals were obliged to
work eight or ten hours az day carrying feath-
erweIght children up and down the mall
Their condition under these trying circum-
stances moved Mr.. Bergh's heart to the ut
most depth and brought out all the 6ner ele-
ments of his nature But the donkeys are
still carrying the children, despite his
protest. Mr.. Bergh has now gone
step further and issued forcibe
and whole-hearted protest against the grow
ing custom among the etfete mllionaires of
New York to have live butterflies for dinner
1t will probably surprise the ef1ete million
aires no less than the run of humber citizens
to learn that butterflies are so common at
their tables, but we have Mr. Bergh's word
for it and Mr.. Bergh never makes mistakes
1t must not be understood that the million
aires actually eat the butterflies. On the con-
trary, their barbarity consists in pinning live
butterflies of various beautiful varieties to
TO the bouquets of flowers in the middle OF
the dinner table. The butterflies gracefully
wave their wings in dying agones, as the
meal progresses, and the effete .millionaires
gaze upon them and have their appetltes
pFoporuonately sharpeneG by the barbarous
sight. Mr. Bergh has done so much that is
noble and great that his descent to donkeVs
and butterflies suggests feeling sOnew hat
akin to commisseration
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
HARD-WORKING WOMEN.
Wives and Daughters of German Peasants
Who DO the Hard Labor of the Farms.

letter in San Francisco Chronicle
The peasants wife has no easy time of it.
She has not only to attend TO what few house
hold duties her humble cottage demands and
raise a family of children, the mum Der of
whom generally corresponds exactly to the
number of years she has been married, but
she has to lend her aid in, the field and do as
much, if not more, of the farm work as her
lord and master. Angular, stoop-shouldered
from the heavy burdens she carries and hard
featured from exposure to ali kinds of
weather and cares, she digs, hoes, plows and
reaps. Her bare, clay covered feet, her dirty,
ill-6tting garments and her general air of
slatternly neglect show how completely all
her womanly qualities have been eradicated
by her hard life. Laying the elosely-wrapped-
up infant down upon sack
or a truss of straw and charging
the younger children, too young to be
of any use in the fields, to keep out of
mischief, she pulls weeds, bent half double
until one would think her back would break
yields the heavy mattoek as lightly as the
best man about, or swings the heavy scythe
as gracefully as such an awkward instrument
can be swung, stopping now and then to
still the crying infant exactly as crying in
fants are stilled all the world over. And
when it comes night she shoulders the heavy
basket, in which are packed all the tools and
other things not to be left in the field. picks
up her baby, and, with the other children
hanging to her skirts, goes swinging Off to
the village followed by her enlpty-handed,
pipe-smoking lout of husband. 1t is not
to be wondered at that she soon becomes old
haggard and broken-down. The wonder is
that she lasts as long as she does. Yet she
never grumhles or complains Her mother
and her mothers mother for scores of gene
ratious have done exactly the same thing
She knew just exactly what she had to ex-
pect when she married. And, knowing Of
nothing better, she toIls and m0ils from year
to- year eontented and as happy as she can
be if she has enough TO eat and place to
sleep.
Her daughters, great, strapplng, robust
Amazons, with arms like blacksmiths and
bones large enough for the Cardiff giant, are
able to do and do do mans work. Their
great bare feet push spade into the relHc-
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24

Woman's Description Of Her.
As to Miss Terry anyone who has a previ-
Gus notion as to her possessing beauty, or
even ordinary good looks, is doomed to
great disappointment when he sees her. In
plain words, she is the homeiest of the
plain, and, if the English have all along
been considering her beauty, it is no won
der that they have raised such fuss over
Mary Anderson. Instead OF the hook nose
of Irving, Miss Terry's nose juts ont in
profile on cooncaye line; her jaw is square,
square across the back OF the neck in a line
with that jaw. She has high shoulders, a
fiat figure and Il waist broader than the
Venus de Milo. Her hand is large her arm
is thinner than Sarah Bernhardt's, and all
her aesthetic costumes add to the angularity
OF her figure. The lank and lissome. creature
wore such a scant white satin dress. the
other night, that modest people caught their
breath involuntarily at sight of her
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
Prigs of the Peerage.
LONDON World.

Comment is made of the preposterous airs
which some English and Irish men give them
selves on the Atlantic steamers. Lord H.
(the identical Irish peer who was thrown into
a state of irrepressble Indignation when, by
an accident, his wife was sent down after
some lady of lower rank at a Brighton din
ner party, and exclaimed excitedly to the
CONSERVATION of the company: lady I'll.
must have her rightsl') assumed ON the
Adriatic airs such as all the Queens sons. put
together never gave themselves in their lives
81 wanta bath by 8, his Lordship said imperi-
ously to the barber. ''You can't have it, sir it
is engaged" But must have it, said this
magniiic of the peerage of Ireland DO you
know VINO amp mo, sir" II am Lord
H.' "Ah. indeed" pleasantly rejoined the
barber; glad TO make your acquaintance,
I'm sure;" and in Gfice the barber gripped
the lordly paw and vigorously shook the
same, to the ecstacy of the bystanders and
the ineffable disgust of the shaken. 1t is
really blessing when such men as the Dukes
of buckingham and Sutherland, Lords Dun
raven, Elphinstone, and men of that stamp
visit the United States as a set-off to, the
miserable specimens OF the peerage and prigs
of nobility who bring discredt to their order
there.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24

Pail Mall Gazette.

The brain of Tourgueneff is said to have
weighed 2012 grammes. The average weight
of the human brain is 1890 grammes.
TonrgueAeff's is said to be the heaviest which
has yet been weighed. Cuvier's brain is said
to have weighed 800 grammes. There are
many cases in which an extraordinary in
tellect has accompanied a heavy brain, but
men whose mental superiority is undoubted
by both friend and foe bad often brains
under the average weight. The cast of
MERCHANTS head was but of the average
size; Charles Dickenss head was rather
smaller than the average; Lord Byron's
head was remarkably small; Charles Lamb S
did not come up to the average weight, and
it is well known that at the death of Gam
beta his brain was found to be smaller than
that of an ordinary Partisan ouvrfer.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24
WOMEN WHO WORK.
They Have Better Chances in Life trs
America than in England

They Have Better Chances in Life trs
America than in England
Interview with Emily Faithful.
What are the differences. as you have ob-
served them, Of the opportunities Of women
in America and EDgland?'
"All American women have better chan
ces in life than English women There are
openings here for them which we have not
at home Take the press alone. There seems
hardly newspaper in the United States on
which women are not engaged. The verv
reverse holds good in England. In other in
dustries the same may be said. cannot
partlcularize them in the professions. We
have, think, one lady who has started as ii
conveyancing lawyer, while in this country,
especially in the West, there are many
women lawyers. | don't suppose there are 4
dozen women doctors in England. Here
there are hundreds, and | certainly think
that for the practice of medicine among
their own sex and children these wonTen
are in their place"
One point on which am keenly interested
is the advancement women have made in
this country in decorative art. and | am ex-
tremely anxious to learn all | can on this
subject. There has been much done in the
way of china painting. glass pain ting, tile
decoration OF door panels and other house
decorations in which | have noticed great
improvement. The good which will come
OF this IS that women will lind remunera-
tive and 2ongenial labor. A mans work is,
and should be, devoted to things of strength
and the creative, while thatof woman nat
urally tends toward decorative art and mat
ters which lead to refining influences in the
matter OF taste"
Have you noticed any striking difference
between the tastes OF American women and
their English sisterhood?"
I'm England the women Of the wealthy
class, who, naturally, have nothing to do.
make work for themselves. They interest
themselves in the condition OF the parish
poor, the night schools. the technical eluca-
ton of appointees and in many other kim
dred ways, which result in great good to the
masses. Ii | have observed correctly, the
aristocracy here is merely moneyed aris-
tocracy. They live, men and women, to En-
JOY life, and do not take cares on themselves
such as | have mentioned OF course, there
are many and increasing exceptions to this
rule but however much our European aris-
tocracies may be laughed at. the arstocracy
OF wealth in America is its brothers keener
and the sooner tine fact IS acknowledged the
better for all concerned. Do not think. by
any means, that believe Eneland is fulfill
ing her duty on this point We're it so we
should not have in London alone such a ter
rible state OF things as has recently called
forth that remarkable pamphlet The cry
OF the outcaSt poor of London
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-11-24


Arabi's influence among Mohammedans all
over the world has greatly increased since
his arrival in Ceylon. Thousands of his In
dian co-religionists have visited him at Co
Jumbo, which is now regarded rs sort of
halfway house to Mecca. The signatures of
the pilgrims already fiji five large albums,
and the local authorities have communicated
with the colonial Office on the subject. 1t has
been decided. however, not to interfere in the
matter. Arab has shown throughout the
greatest loyalty to the English government,
and has gained many friends in his place Of
exile