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Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17
klLLSD At SEA.

The barkentine Grace Roberts, Cap.
tain Merlin Larsen. sailing in Chas. IL.
Wells line of ooasting packets, arrive d
here yesterday morning, bringing $50
tons of freight for Seattle merchants.
She left San Francisco August oath and
enjoyed fine weather. On September 3D.,
In latitude 40 degrees north, longitude
1872 degrees west, while the vessel was
under full sail, the chain of the upper
topsail tie was carried away, and the
tOpsail yard came down and broke the
main topmast, and killed a sailor named
y. Nicholson, by striking him on the
head. Death came instantly. Michel
son was native of Norway, aged %,
and WAS buried at sea on the day of the
accident.
ANOTHER ACCIDENT.
Two DAYS after this, Frank Hill, cap
tain of the schooner La Gironde, bound
for Seattle, fell from the foremost head
of his vessel and knocked his brains
cut. He, also, was buried at sea two
days afterward. Hill had been in the
La Gironde rs first mate for some time,
but on the present trip he was sailing
as captain. After Hills death Second
Mate West brought the vessel on up the
coast.
CHAPTER OF coINcIDENoEs.
II is not little remarkable that two
vessels, both built on Puget Sound, both
from San Francisco. both for Seattle,
and both arriving here the same day,
should, each lose man on the trip, yet
this chapter of condolences occurred
during the late voyages up the coast of
the La Gironde and Grace Roberta.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17

fRKIaarER IS.-Barkentine Grace
Roberts arrived yesterday frora San
Francisco, bringing freight in ,he Wells
line. q lisa Of which we have alread
published. On the way up the coast
she lost her nasntopmsst. The Graca
Roberts was ouilt in ls6s, at Port OR.
chard for Colman 4 Gleddin, and has
been good vessel ever since. { letting
almost constant employment, and mak.
ing much money for her owners.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17
House to Let,
WANTED.

A LARGE. WELL NISHED
"A house. centrally located. Inquire at
this Office. sec
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17

Inn CORDS DRY WOOD. AT THE
wv Barrel Factory.
sel66 VIC. REVEAL.
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17
UNION LIVERY STABLE

THE BEST SADDLE SEES
L finest carriages, hacks and buggin
to hire at any and ali times, at most re-
soma BILE rates
Horses boarded by the day. week g
month, and the best care guaranteed.
PHILLIPS & SEARS.
Proprieto's, Comm ercial street, opposin
The Arlington. au&
Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-09-17
For Rent.

1.-TWO LARGE NEW HOUSES vi
] Eleventh street. For particular. "a a.
AZ this Office.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19

consciousness returned, the clasp of
arms about me, and l struggled into a
sitting position, and reaching out my
hand flor 1 was only stunned) felt
Roberts face close to mine, with the
life blood trickliDg from wound on
his forehead. He was insensible, yet
he held me in "a vice-like grasp.
"Robert, l cried," and all the love
of my being was centered in my voice.
Robert, speak to me ; it is 1, Bessie.
Oh, Robert, love you do you not
hear mep Icannot, cannot, live with
out you" Slowly his eyes unclosed
and rested on my face. cared naught
for the strange faces surrounding me.
1 clasped him to me and kissed him in
delirium of pain and passion. Too
late, had known my own heart.
"Bessie, it is sweet to die thus, with
yonr arms around me "
"You shall not die, my own, you
will live for me-" whispered softly
but shadow passed over his face and
he said, gently and calmly
"No, my queen, my heart is your;
unto death let me look my last in youl
bonnie eyes. You love me, sweetheart
and 1 die content.n And so under the
pitying stars his grand soul passed out
into the great beyond.
They bore him to my home, for so
willed it, and then they laid hint res
on the hillside with my kindred. II
his grave my heart lies buried. loved
him with the grand passion which
comes only once to any heart, ant
though my life has been a srllliant ant
successful one as the world sees it, deel
down in my very heart Of hearts is the
grave of my only love, and above it il
written
| tRes1Lrgd1n -
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19

Says a correspondent; being in Brit
tany last fall, on going down one side
of a hill towards the valley, 1 had the
misfortune to be caught in a shower.
As 1 was back to the sun, which was
then shining, saw rainbow opposite
in the sky. Looking down to the
ground suddenly to see where l was
going, my eye was caught by flash of
colored light, so l looked up again to
the rainbow and then slowly down it
until was locking at the trees opposite,
and there l saw the continuation of the
said rainbow. l got nearer and nearer
till, when being about fifty yards from
it, it disappeared on account of the rain
stopping. According to the trees the
RAINBOW was about ten yards in width.
Some nights afterward had the pleas
ure of seeing a lunar rainbow. The
moon was then full and l was back to it.
AS above, 1 was caught in tho rain, and
saw rainbow in front Of me, circular
like sun rainbow, but narrower and
less color in it, the red being most pro-
minent.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19
NUMBER Is.

bello. he was so imprudent as to attack
a great dog belonging to the cook, a
fierce mastiff who LAID him low with
one bite. Josephine was in despair,
and the cook thought it was all over
with him.
''What are you running away forr"
"After what my dog did, general,
was afraid that my presence might be
disagreeable."
"Where is your dogP Have you sent
him away?"
mo, general, but he never comes in
the garden any mole, especially since
madame has another dog"
''Oh, let him run about; perhaps l
shall get rid of this one also.n
The gentlest, most lndolent of creoles
controlled the most self-willed and inn
porous Of men. Bonaparte could win
victories, accomplish miracles, create
or destroy governments, but he could
not turn dog out of doors.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19

While was in the "Dead Letter"
Department the other day one Of the
clerks engaged in opening letters-at a
table near by-called to the gentleman
who is entertaining me. He went to
him and Immediately beckoned for me
to follow.
snow, what can be done in this casef"
he says. "Here is letter, this instant
opened, and you see what it contalnss'
There is clean, new twenty-dollar
bill, neatly folded and wrapped In
piece of perfectly blank brown paper
not mark of pen or pencil to show
from whom it was sent. The letter
had been advertised as unclaimed and
was dead, and the examination of its
contents made it more complely dead
than before.
"We have nothing but the postmark
and even that is almost obliterated, but
our expert will take hold of it and do
the best he can with it. There's pretty
slim chance in this case. Iguess Uncle
Sam will get that money. This reminds
me of something in my experience. A
few years ago, when 1 was opening
letters, 1 found one Just like this, except
that the amount was $50 and on the
paper wrapped around it was written
in pencil, "A friend, Matthew vi. 3D. l
looked that up and found it to be: But
when thou doest aims, let not thy left
hand know what thy right hand doeth.
The letter was addressed to woman
and it was clearly case of charity. L
really felt bad that we could not succeed
in finding either party and that money is
in the Treasury to-day"
The number of letters opened last
year containing currency, checks, drafts
and negotiable paper was over "a 900.
The amount of actual cash taken from
letters was nearly $50, 900 and the value
Of checks, etc., representing money,
81, 100000. During the last year the
number of pieces of mail matter that
reached the Dead Letter Orce was
nearly four and half millionsI The
exact number was 4, 40, ,S22. This is
about 14.500 for every day.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19

One of the principal treasures of the
Rathhaus collection in Bavarian
Rothenburg is an immense pokal or
goblet, holding twelve Bavarian schop-
pen, full SIX quarts. 1t was intended
to be passed around the table at grand
feasts but on one memorable occasion
1T was drained to the last drop by a
single individual, who was none the
worse for his excess. Perhaps his
motive was his protection. 1t happen
ed in this wise: When, in 1851, Count
lilly, with his whole army, took pos
session of the city, he called the couD-
Gil together, informed them that they
were all to be beheaded, and sent the
mayor to summon the executioner
forthwith. As may be supposed, the
man did not hurry TO do his errand and
when he at last arrived at the house
the executioner plumply refused to
undertake the task of cutting off the
heads Of his respected fellow citizens,
tue councillors. During this interval,
while the people were lamenting, the
executioner protesting, and the mayor
shaking in his shoes, the councillors in
their desperation, hit upon a bright
idea. They filed the great pokal with
their choicest wine and offered it to
Tilly and his attendants. In a few
moments the temper of the naughty
conqueror was softened, he grew more
compassionate toward his victims, and
at last, becoming jolly over his frequent
draughts of the mellow liquor, he
promised to set his trembling prisoners
at liberty, if one of their number would,
in his presence, drink the great pokal
full Of wine. This offer seemed at first
only cruel aggravation of their mis-
cry; but after an anxious discussion a
certain Herr Nusch, a former mayor,
accepted tn challenge and succeeded
in tile apparently impossible task.
Tilly kept his word, servant was sent
in all haste to call back the mayor and
bid the executioner cease his prepara-
tions. The street through which the
servant ran OH his welcome errand is
called Peace alley (Friedensgassohen)
to this day, and the descendants Of the
brave ex-mayor still enjoy a yearly
pension from the public funds, besides
remaining owners Of the famous pokal.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19
The Value OF Beauty.

The most valuable and lasting spe-
cies of beauty is that which is least
cultivated. The young and capricious
Miss, with an elegant person and finely
modelled face, illuminated by brilliant
orbs and splendidly bedecked with dark
shining locks, very often destroys the
moral beauty Of her nature merely to
humor the perverseness Of her physical
attractions. She trusts in the power of
her bodily charms, and she even re-
fuses to provide herself with those of a
less perishable nature, which are not
serYiceable while bodily beauty remains,
but especially so when it is fled forever.
She prides herself in her wardrobe of
silk and satin, and would encounter
any species Of pain or hardship to in
crease 1t, and to furnish herself with
gold and with diamonds but the ward
robe of the mind and the heart she
takes little care to replenish, as if a
young beauty were independent of this,
and, if she played her cards well, might
make her fortune without it. 1t is
time enough to begin to be amiable
when you begin to be ugly, say some
young ladies, or they seem to say it.
But nature Furnishes this perversity in
very striking and remarkable manner.
They who refuse to cultivate the moral
beauty during the reign of the season
of physical beauty lose the opportunity
of possessing themselves of it, and
moreover, they destroy their favorite
species of beauty by their independence
and neglect Of the other. The temper
imprints its mark upon the countenance,
which very speedily reveals the char
acter of the disposition which turks be.
hind it. Being growing power and a
vigorous power, which Is even strong.
est at death, it. gradually oyercomes
every obstacle which stands in the way
of its own escape into outward observ-
alton. 1t wrinkles the brow, lowers
the eyebrows, bends down the curve OF
the mouth, and pouts the lips, when.
ever it happens to be of dlsagreeable
nature and it gives life and permanent
animation to all the lines of the face
whenever lUs course of feeling happens
to be of a kind and generous character
1t comes out at last and shows itself
and once shown and impressed upon
the face, it is there so long as it con.
tinues to act from within, and that il
generally for life. 1t is no easy matter
to begin to be amiable with an un
amiable expression of countenance, ant
an unamiable and fixed habit of be
hayior. Few have strength Of will
sufficient to make such a change il
their mode of life. 1t is not by mert
moral resolution that such conversion
can take place. We are far more like
ly to become worse than better whel
we find attraction of the person to ceas,
after a heartless and imperious reigI
of saucy beauty. 1t is no easy task
indeed, to resign ourselves to our fat
when our attractions have disappeared
and all at once to correct the scow
and the frown, and the naughty air anl
the satirical grin, and the heartles
sneer, which have already left thei
imprints on the face and made them
selves quite at home in the very citade
of expression.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19
Papyrus.

The papyrus collection recently
bought by Archduke Renier of Austria
is now being examined, under the
direction of Herr Karabaczek, at the
museum in Vienna. Hitherto, 1900
papyri have been examined, about half
of them being perfectly preserved.
This is but a small proportion of the
mass. There are two papyri dating
from the beginning of our era, This,
having been written at the end of the
third century after Christ, is of great
value, as the oldest manuscripts of
Thucydldes are OF the eleventh CEN
tury. Anere are Latin papyrus of
the fifth or sixth century, fragments
of Greek Gospels of the fourth century,
and large number of Arab and Greek
writings.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19
THE GOOD CoMRADE.

A comrade dear once had /,
No better one can be.
When ragged the battle tide,
He ever at my side
Kept time and step with me.
There came a bullet flying
"For me or is't for thee?"
1t tore my friend away,
Before my feet he lay
And seemed a part Of me.
His hand he tries to reach me,
E'en while I'm taking ain,
"l cannot give my hand;
Be in tn eternal land
My eomrade good the samel"
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1884-04-19

pity, as though futurity were opening
before me. But 1 will not anticipate.
The days flew by ON wings of light,
and as the time to return to school
drew near, began to shrink from the
thought Of leaving home-the home
which, if possible, was dearer than ey-
er before,
L begged papa to let me stay with
him, but he was firm and paid no heed
to my pleadings, saying:
"Only one more year grille, then l
shall have you always, unless some one
should want to rob me of my treasure. ~
1 flushed warmly and protested /
would always stay with him. The last
evening came and the morrow would
see me on my journey to the famous
finishing school of Madam Milla, at
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26
Reports from a Prospector.

Day before yesterday We met Mr..
w. 4. Terris, Of Providence, in town.
He informed us that he had been out
prospecting for several months among
ranges of mountains that had hitherto
been unprospected. He prospected the
Kane Spring range northwest OF Dandy
to within short distance Of the Colo
RADIO river. He found no mineral
deposits, and no signs of water
with one exception, until after the
rain storms, when small quantities OF
water were found in 'tanks." Lime
stone and iron arc the principal charac.
teristics Of the mountains in that regien.
lie discovered large mountain OF IRON
rock, and ii II is of value for CONNIE cial
purposes it will afford an ineXhaustable
supply of iron ore. From MIR. Terris
we learned that Mr.. j. Z, Van Winckle
and Jos, Bolan have discovered fine
looking prospect Is miles southeast OF
Dandy station. The ledge is located in
q limestone range. The vein has
been stripped for a dis.
tance OF 100 feet, showing an
average width of three feet, the foot
wall consisting Of porphyrItic granite
and the hanging wall OF slate, running
east and west. Very little ore has been
taken out. Assays taken so far range
from $50 to $500 per ton. The indioa-
tions are that there is a large body ot
ore there that is principally low grade.
A spring of brackish water is situated
within three miles of the mine. The
mine il eallcl the Grand Central. A
good, natural wagon road leads to it
from Dandy. The owners are confident
they have good piece Ct property and
are preparing TO sink shalt ON it. =
CuI;ro Print
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26
ssnin at Narysville.
Murdcrin the Frst Degree
rested for RnpR

SALINAs, Cala., Jan. 25.-Argument
in the case OF Torres, on trial for the
murder OF Chinaman, was concluded
at II O'Clock this morning. The jury in
less than five IN nutes returned verdict
of murder in the first degree. Judge
Alexander will pronounce the death sea
tence next Mond ".
William Lynn, aged about - years,
WAS arrested to-day aud lodge in Jail ON
the charge OF rape, on complaint OF Mar
tin Redington, depot master at the rail
road station here. II is alleged the crime
was committed On the eight year old
daughter Of Redington. E,
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26
Munchausen Outdone.

The Fresno Erpostor says; "a few
weeks since mention was made in these
columns OF the discovery of remark
able lode Of gold and silver bearing
quartz near the summit of the Sierra, in
this county. At that time we stated
that the ledge was two hundred feet
wide and three miles long. About three
weeks ago Professor Beck of New York,
who was the discoverer of the lDde, ac
companied by &. c. Pierce, John Besore
and Nelson Kirk, started from Fresno
Flats for the purpose of making more
thorough examination OF the lind.
The party has returned and makes
marvellous report. Instead OF
u ledge two hundred feet wide,
they report that it is nothing less than
q mountain of precious metal. MIR.
Pierce, one OF the party, stated to an
Erpositor reporter recently that he had
been mining and prospecting for thirty
years, and that he never had saen any
thing that would approach this find in
extent or richness. He says there are
hundreds of millions of dollars worth
of ore in sight. So extravagant are
his statements that were he not well
vouched for as man of truth and
veracity, we would be obliged to doubt
this statement. He describes this bo-
naAza as being apparently the crater OF
an extinct volcano. 1t lays at an alti-
tude OF about $4,000 feet above the
sea level, and towers mp Il
solid mass of gold and silver
bearing quartz over 900 feet
thick aud fifteen hundred feet above the
surrounding valleys. A Oomstocker to
whom we read the above has become
much excited about the find. He is go,
ing for a controlling interest. He de.
clares it is just what he has been hunt
ing for for years. He says he already
has plan for working the deposit. He
will ill up the old crater with charcoal
and coke, and as soon as he gets the
whole mountain red.hot will tap it at
the bottom, draw of the molten gold
and silver through bitches, and spread
it out over all the Fresno Flats until it
is cool enough to divide up into sections
and half and quarter sections, when he
will invite settlers.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26


PERHAPS the idosyncracies OF the fair
sex were never more thoroughly illus
tratei than in the cass Of Wheeler, the
Stfangler, who was hung at San Francis
co the other day. In the whole annals
OF crime II would be difficult to discover
q greater monster than this fellow. He
was without one redeening trait what
ever. Married to one sister, he was liv-
ing in concubinage with the other, and
he seemed to have Lis wife terrorIzel to
a degree which made her passive under
such an unnatural and i famous
state of things. TO cap the iii
max of his villaines, he strangled
the victim OF his lust on discovering
that she wished to break away from
the unboly connection and enter upon
reputable life as the wife Of man who
had beoA paying court to her for some
time previous. One would suppoie that
we have recited facts that would repel
rather than attI act women. On the con-
trary, quite the reverse. During the
whole period of Wheeler's imprison
ment three women in especial were I'M
remtting in their attentions to him.
We mention these three because with
them 1t was no transient impulse,
which might be explained on the theory
of momentary caprice. On the con
trary, they stuck to this modern B.ue-
beard like patent porous plaster. and
coddlel him as though he had done
some self denying and mer.torious deed,
which ought TO immortalize him. One
of the three actually capped tho climax
of ecceniricity and absurdity by trying
to obtain Sheriff Connolly's permission
to marry him the night before he was
hung. request which that official very
properly pooh-roohed. Strange are
thy ways. oh woman though surely
never stranger than in thy morbid SYM
pathy with red handed murderers !
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26

the amount needed to environ our prin-
cipal sea.ports with proper armaments
of defence. In nm especial degree Is the
Pacific Coast upprovided with adequate
defensive works. In all likelihood the
navy Of little Chile could head in this
direction and with the utmost ease lay
San Francisco undor contribution. A
few million dollars spent in erecting
Notifications on this coast would be well
employed. Economy, not parsimony, is
what the people look for at the hands
of Congress.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26

THERE is nothing new, bat ON the con-
trary something very stale in the an.
ouncement that Mr.. john c. New has
resigned his position as Assistant Secre.
ta-y OF the Treasury. This individual,
who belongs to the small fry tribe of
public men, is very unhappy unless he
manages to get his name into the news
papers at least once week. Having
accomplished this darling aspiration of
his through the medium of announcing
his resignation, he will probably achieve
it second time, before the intelligence
has had time TO get cold, by announcing
its withdrawal.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26

HENRY LABoucHERE, the abba and
statesmaulike editor of TrHfA, and who
is a radical member of the British Par
lament, tells Mr.. Gladstone aud his as
sociates that the right way to meet the
Irish question is by restoring to Ireland
her old time parliament, thus permitting
her people to make their own laws. He
points TO the happy effect of home rule
inthe United States, where each Common
wealth makes its own laws and every
thing works harmoniously.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26

WITH a few United States Judges
like Hoffman on the bench it would puz-
zle the most astute Philadelphia lawyers
to frame restriction act that would
keep the Celestials out of the United
States. This eminent Judge has con-
verted the existing act into sieve whose
bars are too far apart to hold the Mon
golian. The statute has, in truth, been
converted into kissing and byword
by judicial Interpretation.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26

control. The fire department wcrxed
nobly, aud Chief Engineer Daniel Scully,
in spirit Of zeal, remained in the build
ing until suffocated. He has since died.
The building was damaged to the extent
of several thousand dollars. which is full
ly covered by insurance. Strausse was
insured for $1,000, which will not meet
half his loss. The town had another
providential escape.
Daily Los Angeles herald., 1884-01-26
Important TO AngelenOs

san Francisco, Jan. 25.-During the
Sullivan exhibition this evening the an
nouncement was made that admission to
morrow would be one dollar. Tickets
to-day were $3.50.