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The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
Personal "Reminiscences Of u Ter
ribie Experience at Sea.
To the Editor of the Boston journal;

TO the Editor of the Boston journal:
Why cannot the press let up a lit
tie on the cannibalism of the Greedy
party. Everybody must know they
suffered enough before being rescued
without torturing their feelings now.
If they tried to sustain lite by human
flesh who can blame them -? As long
as they had life, they had hope. The
longing for home and friends without
doubt racked their brains day and
night, and who of us can tell what
we would do in the same situation ?
/ know of others who cast lots for
life and lived on their shipmates until
rescued. | once saw man taken
from the after house of an English
barque that had sunk i'll hurricane.
She was loaded with coal and went
down in mid-ocean, three of the crew
got on the after house by luck and
chance, and as there seemed to be
some pieces of rope entangled with
it, they tied themselves to this little
Iife buoy, and for days fought the
cravings of hunger and thirst. AT
times they would catch water by their
shirts and wiring it out in their mouth
till finally one, then two, succumbed
to the cravings of hunger and thirst
and the last was living on one of the
bodies of his shipmates when taken
off n days after the disaster. He
was wild and delirious when taker
on board, and would not have lasted
many more days. He weighed about
so pounds when taken off, and If
about three months went up to 1873
Who could blame him for what he
had done to meet his mother, as he
told me he could not give her up
If the Greeley men ate any part o
their comrades in clinging to life lie
the fact forever be buried with th'
dead, and try to forget the deed, a
they had no other alternative. An,
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James Gordon Bennett.

Exchange.
James Gordon Bennett, bent near
ly double with premature old age,
and looking like IA shattered wreck
of even his former self, is back again
in this country. and it is confidently
expected that there will be q shaking
up in the Herald Office, Bennett
has always had his peculiarities, and
one of them is that he never comes
from Europe to this country withou,
ripping the Herald Office up the back
and scat cred its contents to the
winds No man who works for this
paper ever knows what a day may
bring forth One afternoon he may
be copy'holder in the composing
room and next morning he may wake
mp to ird himself managing editor.
By the same token he may 90 home
one night from the position of man.
aging editor and be sent to report
dog fight within the next twenty
four hours. THIS sort of life is ex
citing, but it wears on the nerves
and it gives the whole editorial staff
a haggard and anxious look which is
instructive. Bennett runs his paper
10 suit himself, drunk or sober l
am compelled to admit that Bennett
does get drunk, deeply as may re-
greet tue acknowledgement that a
newspaper man could ever be in.
dused to do such a thing.
Bennett is a chip of the old block
in this particular, though not in any
other. The old Bennett was q sort
Of revised and corrected Satan, but
the ounger is more in the line of a
cross-grained Bacchus. He is gen.
orally called the young man, though
he is considerably past fifty. His
hair is as white as snow aud his face
is the color OF fire. / suppose this
vivid hue is occasioned by Benefits
habit of painting things red. He is
about the hardest drinker ever saw.
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An Automatic Car Coupler.
n. o. Times-D Democrat.

n. 0. Times-Democrat
Mr.. w. Turnbull, of this city, has
patented an automatic car coupler, for
which he claims that it will pick up
any car that works with link and pin;
it can be uncoupled from top Or side;
may be applied to fiat car as we'll as
box cars; locks at the same time that
it is coupled, and all this with no
springs to get out of order, working
as it does simply with an arm in which
an ordinary pin is loosely set, and the
arm held up by an iron plate swung
out Of the centre of gravity. The
coupler can also be attached to the
Litchfeld or any other setting. Be-
low is a detailed statement of the
mechanism:
The coupler consists of a draw-head
or buffer with bell mouth. To the
draw-head a tongue or draw-bar is
secured by pin, The coupling pin,
which is % inches long, is secured
loosely to the forward end of the
tongue. To the draw-bar is secured a
dog or automatic latch, provided with
a shoulder, and passes through an
opening in the bottom of the draw
head. When the draw-bar is raised
the coupling pin is also raised by one
movement made from the top or side
of a car; the dog rests on the bottom
Of the draw-head, and maintains the
coupling pin in position to receive
the link, of whatever length it may
be. When the link enters the draw
head it strikes against the dog, knock
ing it off from its bearing on the
bottom of the draw-head, allowing
the coupling pin and draw bar to drop
and securing the link. The link is
prevented from going into the draw
head too far by a solid iron partition,
which also constitutes a rest for the
tongue. When the coupling is made
the link has full play, as in an ordi-
nary draw-head.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
KATE CLAXTON'S LOSSES.

New York Truth.
Kate Claxton has lost $4,000 in
trying to run the Third Avnue Thea
tire. Miss Claxton is a fre-proof
actress, and stands fairly we'll in the
third-class stage personages. The
single part which she can play or has
ever played, enabled her to utilize
the destruction of the Brooklyn The
atre, from which she escaped un-
scorched, for all it was worth. AS a
stage salamander she was wonder
to the unsophisticated Westerners,
whose knowledge of acting and sala-
manders is about on par. AS a fire.
fiend Miss Claxton was a holy terror
to the keepers Of frame hotels in small
towns where she mostly played, and
her arrivals always gave country edi-
t. r a needed rest by enabling hims to
print another account of the burning
of the Brooklyn Theatre from eye-wit-
ness, with the usual joke about Miss
Claxton's cold flames" Miss Claxton
failed in her New York venture be-
cause she had neither the ability Or
experience to manage theater. She
had only little of money and great
deal of aud,city. When her $4,000
was gone she handed the theater back
to the owner, Mckee Rankin.
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Thirty-TWO Negroes Attacked
With HydrOphObia.
Snerial to The 1imes-De mOCrat.

Special to The Times Democrat.
EuFAULA, Aug. 2S.-People are in
an excited state of mind in this Sec
ton over the wholesale spread Of
pronounced hydrophobia on the plan
tation of Mr.. Punch Daughtie, the
freaks of whose mad mule were tele-
graphed day before yesterday. DR..
E. b. Johnson has just returned from
Daughtie's plantation, where he had
been summoned to attend the sudden
and wholesale sickness. He found
thirty-two persons suffering with a
disease which he at once pronounced
hydrophobia in mild form. All
were negroes. Three of them are
desperately sick, one in the throes Of
delirium, and are SO low that the
doctor says they are liable to die at
any time. The history Of the case is
that over three weeks ago a hog bit
ten by dog died on Daughtie's
plantation, and the carcass was given
to the negroes to make soap grease.
Instead of utilizing it for this purpose,
however, the thirty-two negroes on
the place and in the vicinity ate the
fresh pork, with the consequences
as stated.
Mr.. Daughtie says that on July 20
one of his dogs went mad and bit a
mule and several hogs. On Aug IL
the first hog died and was eaten by
the negroes as stated. Two more
died on the 18th, one on the 22d,and
one on the 9th, and all were eaten
except the latter, when the partakers
of the poisoned flesh became vicious.
The mule first exhibited symptoms of
madness on the nineteenth day after
being bitten. Eleven days after the
first hog was eaten ten of the partak-
ers were taken sick. Two days ago
another dog was Dissolved to be mad,
and was killed after having bitten
another mule, The dog that bit the
mule and hogs disappeared and the
whole neighborhood is in terror lest
he went among the cattle and hogs
throughout the beat before dying, if
he is not yet dead.
A dozen out Of the thirty-two
eaters Of the afflicted hogs are serious
ly sick, and developments among the
others are awaited with the greatest
excitement and interest by the medi-
cal fraternity, as we'll as people gen
orally. DR.. johnson says 1t is ter
rible disease, and he fears the worst.
He saws that it would not surprise
him if the greater number of the
thirty-two persons should perish from
the effects. The mule bitten by the
mad mule, which attacked Mr..
Daughtie, has not yet developed
symptoms of hydrophobia. 1t is
thought the wound has the appear
ance of poison, and the doctor says
it will undoubtedly die.
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w. B. WALKER.
why Bob ingersOII is Quiet.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31,-The alb
eence of all enthusiasm in the pres
ent campaign on the part of the elo-
quent Col. Ingersoll is now explained.
It seems that, notwii outstanding the
eloquence and devotion expended on
the Maine statesman by Pagan Bob,
no returngm the way Ct social re-
cognition have ever been bestowed
by the Blaines on the Ingersolls.
The Blaines, who are straight faced
in the matter of religion, have feared
the consequences of taking an here-
tical squad like the Ingersolls 10
their social bosoms So the honors
now are easy The Blaines have cut
the Ingersolls and the Ingersoils
have cut the Blaines. Col Bob
probably regrets now that ne did not
patent his circus phrase, "The
Plumed Knight" so that he might
either withdraw it from use or else
charge heavy royalty on it during
he campaign.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

The Cameron Republican faction
in the Petersburg Virginia Congress
sional District, achieved a signal vic
tory over the Malone faction Oh Sat
urday, in the nomination of j. 2
Evans, colored, over j. d. Brady.
The result is that the Mahonites are
sulking, and many of them will sup
port the Democratic nominee. One
OF the most significant points in re
ference to this nomination, is that
Petersburg is Mahones home, and
he showed his inability to manage
affairs in his own district.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
The Ear Ring Gu. of Date.

Women are beginning to abolish the
ear ring as ono of their personal adorn
ments, although it will take long time
to wholly Danish this favorite but bar
barous ornament. The recent G''hetic
movement in dress which intI,luce,l
among its absurities, some truly sensible
ideas. has much to do in educating
women to better standard of taste re-
garding personal adornments. The
most exclusively iashionabls women do
not now wear ear rings in the & y time
and only those with jewels or rare stones
in the evening. Finally they may be
discarded altogether. and the money
spent for diamonds in this direc ion will
DO invested for brooches, pendants or
bracelets. Already some of the famous
actresses and leaders Of fashion make
point of not wearing ear rings. They
say pretty ear is disfgured by them,
aud that more attention is attracted to
homely ones with these attached orna-
ments. There are several women in
Newport worth their millions, who own
superb diamonds. hut not one get in ear
rings, as they consider them disfgur
ing. barbarpus fashion. : Hartford
Times,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
A Big s.Bee Cave.@

A writer in a San Francisco paper
describes q "bee cave" which he
claims to have seen in the mountains
north Of San Bernadino, California.
He writes that in the side of per-
pendicular cliff is an opening large
enough to admit man standing
upright, which widens as it goes
back into the mountain. How far it
extends back no one knows. 1t has
been in the possession of the bees
during many years, for great sheets
of honeycomb, blackened by age,
hang from its roof and sides. Con-
tinuous streams OF bees are pouring
in and out. An enterprising settler
has boarded up the mouth of the
cave, leaving il grated opening for
the bees, and when he wants some
honey he puts ON wire mask, goes
in, and cuts down as much comb as
he desires.-Erchunge.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
A WOman's Way.


St Paul Sunday Herald.
'Let me have five two-cent stamps,
please" said lady to the retail stamp
clerk in the post-office yesterday.
"Yes'm," he said, handing them
out.
Cant you let me have them in
one piece?" she asked.
"Certainly, ma'am," said the clerk
"Can | send them home for your"
"Oh, no; don't live far-only on
the North Side-and l am gong
right home. I wouldn't want to put
you TO the trouble.
''No trouble at ALL" said the clerk.
81 haven't much to do to-day, and
could very easily spare an hour"
Every much obliged said the
lady smiling sweetly. "Dear me-" she
said, putting on stamp, "what hor-
rid bother it is to stamp letters! Why
can't we send letters and let the post
office send in their bill once every
month";"
"They might just as WE'LL" said
the clerk, sympathizingly. "Tll men
ton the fact in my next message to
Congress"
"Will you? How nice! But you
mustn't mention my name. Say the
idea was suggested by North Side
society lady, won't your"
"Certainly ma'am," said the clerk
"That's the second letter this week
| have sent to Gerty," said the lady,
buttoniug her gossamer. "Gerty is
the sweetest girl-going to Vassar
now"
allow does Gerty like Vassar?'
asked the clerk.
ooh, Gerty likes Vassar frst-rate;
only she says they don't see much
company"
"Paper All about the electionr
screamed the newsboy.
"Dear mel" exclaimed the lady
"did they have an election yesterday
Who is President now?"
"Arthur, l believe" said the clerk
"Why, | thought Arthur was
President last year?"
ayes, but he is still President
"What is the election for then p
"For gaugers of marmalade and
inspector of hot biscuit" said the
clerk.
"Oh, well, hope they'll get goot
men. / attended the woman,s Con
gress awhile ago, and you know il
was decided that the ladies' ought t.
take more interest in the public
affairs. Well, good bye" and sh'
sailed away.
"Who is that woman?" asked tn,
next man in line, who was shaking
and shivering with rage.
"But me if | know" said TIN
clerk.
And the outflow Of stamps pro
ceeded.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
EELs0NsS CENTRAL.

New Orleans Times Democrat.
A few months ago two very impor
tant branches of the big j. road
were completed, and are now furnish
ing great deal OF business to the
main stem, which is brought to this
city.
The branches referred to are the
Yazoo Valley and the Canton, Aber-
deen and Nashville. The Yazoo Val
ley branch is 10 miles in length, and
and runs from jackson, Mississippi, to
Yazoo City, through the fertile delta
of the YazooRiver, which is noted for
being the most productive cotton
raising lands in the Southern States.
Heretofore the greater part if not all
the cotton raised in the Yazoo delta
was shipped by boats plying the
Eazoo River to Vicksburg, and thence
by the Mississippi River, to this city.
The boats having absolute control of
the cotton traffic, and the "Big j"
road realizing its value, determined
to build branch to Yazoo City and
to compete with the boats for cotton
shipments. The officials Of the "Big
J" road say that this year they will
haul thousands Of bales of Yazoo
cotton to this city, and aside from this
build up large local traffic in mis-
celIaneous frieghts to station between
Jackson and Yazoo City.
Several houriohing towns have
sprung up along the line, stores are
in full blast, and the prospect is that
in the near future the rich country
adjacent to the road will change from
a wilderness into prosperous settle
ments.
The Canton, Aberdeen and Nash
will branch is completed from Durant,
on the main line, to Aberdeen Miss,
a distance of 100 miles, passing the
towns OF West Point and Starkville.
A few months ago Aberdeen, which
is quite Il large town and cotton ship
ping centre, was inaccessible to New
Orleans, owing to the fact that it had
no direct rail communication with city
The only outlet which the town pos
sessed was the Mobile and Ohio road,
and, in consequence, all Of the cotton
which found its way to Aberdeen was
sent to Mobile, and that city became
the market for LARGE productive
region. The completion Of the 9. A.
& n, branch, however, will bring
about a change in the order Of things
and from what the officials of the road
say, it appears that New Orleans will
capture the greater portion Of the
trade Of Aberdeen and territory. The
completion Of the road to Aberdeen
has caused several enterprises to
spring up, and at present there is "A
large oil-mill and cotton compress in
operation.
The Canton, Aberdeen and Nash
vile branch affords the merchants Of
this city an opportunity to place their
goods throughout the northeastern
portion Of Mississippi
During the present year, the Hi
nois Central management has given a
great deal Of attention to the improve
Of the "Big j" road, and it is one of
smoothest and most substantial lines
in the South.
The increase in the earnings Of the
"Big j." within the past two years,
has been so rapid that it is regarded
as one Of the best paying lines in the
South,
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

Judge Story, the founder of the
Chicago Times, has been pronounced
insane by the Probate Court of Cook
County. In this connection it is re-
ported that Mclean, Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, has purchased the Chicago
Times tor three quarters of million
of dollars, If such a sale has been
consumated, the price was doubtless
much greater than the amount stated,
for while $750,OOO is large sum, the
Chicago Times yields an annual profit
fully equal to thirty Or forty per cent,
upon tnat valuation.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

"Maud s." was plainly printed on
the front gate, and the young man
observed it as he greeted Ethelida
and they assumed their customary
balances. "What does it mean, dear
est?" he asked. 81 don't know; pah
put it there, Alfred" 1t means that's
two minutes and eleven seconds
gate by its hinges, young man, and
Pm putting on my boots" remarked
Ethelida's pah from an upper window.
and Alfrod immediately attended to
downtown engagement.-[P Pitts
burg Chronicle.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
let us seek to alleviate the sorrows
of those rescued.
SUBSCRIBER.
IN Last Mondav morninu while II

On last Monday morning, while the
hands on the Aberdeen Branch of the
Illinois Central were at work in the
sand-pit one mile and half below
town, the embankment suddenly caved
in, covering up several workmen'
Three colored men were badly hurt
one had his shoulder broken, another
his thigh broken, and the third was
injured internally. They were taken
to the section-house above here, and
were doing very we'll at last accounts,
- Vest Point Era.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04
4 dditiOnaI Particulars Of the
Late Cyclone.

EVANSVILLE, IND, Aug. 3O.-De-
tails Of the great storm are coming
in slowly, There was no storm above
Princeton or Rockport, Ind, but
great destruction near Harmony,
Carmi, GRANVILLE, Mt. Vernon, Union
town and Henderson, timber and
crops were destroyed in all this sec
ton. But one life is reported lost
here as yet, The lines are all up and
we will get details this afternoon.
The damage to shipping is slight,
except the capszing Of the Belmont.
No more bodies have been secured
so far, but diver Hill arrived there
to-day and will recover the bodies.
1t is still thought ten or fifteen bodies
are in the wreck. At Uniontown
the Commercial hotel, and Hamilton's
nav warehouse was badly damaged.
DR.. Browns new residence was IN
rooted and Eastwelt's Old warehouse
completely demolished. The opera
house at Henderson was unroofed
and many buildings injured. The
loss to this city is very heavy and
alsoin the country to barns and crops
Heavy hail injured the corn crop.
The steamers damaged at the landing
is being repaired.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

Cleveland ticket. Iu conversation with
ern States Gath derives the opinion that
the German vote is drifting almost en-
D;dSss to Cleveland and Hendricks.
These people are opposed TO all sump-
tuary laws, and d sire radical change
in the administration of the government.
-VicISbug Herald.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

TIE competitive examination for
appointment ito West Point Military
Academy, for the 4th Congressional
Distaict, was held at Alderman on
the 2Sth, and resulted in the success
Of D. W. Harper, Of Okolona, young"
est son of Col. A. Y. Harper.
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

Mr.. ". B. WALKER, Democratic Elec
Ton for the First uugrcssional Distric
of Mississippi, publishes IA list OF ap-
pointments covering the District and III
vites Dr. j. NJ Bynnm. Republican
Elector, to me- him in joint discussion
The Aberdeen examiner. [volume] (Aberdeen, Miss.) 1866-current, 1884-09-04

All of DR.. Prices preparations are re-
liable and nnequaled in purity and
strength; DIR. Prices Cream Baking
Powder and Special Flavoring Extracts
have gained reputation for excellence
that no articles of their kind have ever
yet acquired. The most careful physi-
cians and chemists use them in their
own families.