Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-05

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Bless Rusticue'
Francis E. Warren, the new governor of
Wyoming, is good example of the Yankee
who goes West and grows up with the coun-
try He was born in Peru, Berkshire coun-
ty, Massachusetts,, the son of Joseph Warren,
who was at one time brakeman on the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad. He was a student
in Hinsdale academy in 1861 and lived in
that place about three years after as tenant
farmer. He went in the Forty-ninth regi-
ment to the war and afterwards was captain
of militia. Ten or eleven years ago he went
to Wyoming, where he began keeping mis-
cellaneous store in Cheyenne. His business
now includes three or four separate depart
ments, together constituting one of the
largest mercantile establishments west of
Chicago, while he is also large owner of
cattle, his herds numbering 10000 head.
Mr.. Warren is a little more than forty years
old
The London Times pronounces the new
Brazilian vessel, the Riochuelo, the most per-
fectly constructed ship of war afoat, pos
sessing, in respect to speed, coal, endurance,
and arrangement and fire of her guns, spe-
cial advantages in fact, are not
contained in any other ship. She is twin
screw turret vessel of six thousand tons and
six thousand horse power, built of steel,
three hundred and five feet long, fifty feet
wide and thirty feet deep. She can make
fifteen knots an hour, and run at that speed
some four thousand five hundred miles with
out recoaling. Her armor plates are ten and
eleven inches thick, and the armament con-
sists of five nine-inch twenty-ton breech-
loading rifed guns in two revolving turrets,
and six six-inch breech- leaders, besides ff-
teen Nordenfelt machine guns In addition
to this superb and effective appointment,
the vessel is also provided with number of
Whitehead torpedoes.
Lecturing in England fortnight ago on
the Nile campaign, Mr.. d. NJ. Cook-of the
famous firm of Cook & Son-related that
having personally conducted" Lord Wolse-
leys army to Wady Halfa, he and his son
made an excursion on their own account to
Dongola There in virtue of his semi-offical
position under the Khedive, he was favored
with an interview with the Mudr of that dis
trict. The Mudir was a man of singulary
powerful mind. He was dressed as a der
wish, and was, in fact, dervish of the most
fanatical description. In his personal APP
pearance and habit he bore II strong resem-
blance to the Mahdi. He said the pretended
Mahdi was not the Mahdi at ALL that there
was no Mahdi; and that if there was Mahdi
he (the Mudir) should be the one, but he was
not. The Mudir offered to send Mr.. Cook,
after a fortnights rest, to Khartoum safely
with the Mudirs own escort, because the
tribes would then have come in and the roads
would be clear IL was notable fact that
fortnight from that time messenger was
able to go and make the journey and bring
back news to General Gordon. To the ques-
ton why General Gordon could not leave
Khartoum, the Mudir replied: 'Who, then,
would govern Khartoums' Mr.. Cook asked
him whether he did not think that he (the
Mudir) himself was the proper man to gov
ern Khartoum, adding that the Khediye con-
sidered he was, and was desirous of seeing
him in that position. The Mudir made
swer that he had not lived with the desire to
govern anywhere, but that he had lived with
the great desire to end his days at Mecca or
Medina.