The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-03-22

tucius hir dnhlfs Bettiuk uofc nnu mofo
tan gled, he resorteu to the relief more and
more. till at last he had created an indebted.
ness OF some two million dollars, sold the
bonds and used or kept the money. He pre-.
pared for fight, and started for Europe one
summer evening. Just before ascending
he got time to run home mo longer in Amity
street, but handsome edifice on Twenty
second street near Eighth avenue, still
known as the Schuyler mansion') and
there ne revealed himsel to his wife-his
name and his crime. He put his family in
charge of q frieE d-Courtlandt Palmer, i
have been toid-and babe good by TO Amer
lea forever. His family soon joined him in
Paris, where they suddenly became Schuy-
lers; there the children were educated, and
there, some years since, Mr.. Robert Schuy
ler5picer went the way Of all the living
dust to dust. His body was entombed at
Pers Ia Cbaise; but his widow had the body
disinte red, frozen in ice, and brought back
home. Determined to escape the CALLING no.
toriety that disclosure of his identity at
quarantine would have caused, she bribed
stewards and inspectors, who hid the body
In roll of carpet and so carried ii ashore.
In the twilight three men were seen bearing
Q heavy roll of arpeting up the high steps Of
the old Schuyler mansion. Curious neigh
b DIS watched the burden from the opposite
viii dows and louugers regarded Ii from the
sidewalks, but there was no suspicion of its
identity, though somebody may have re-
marked, They are going to refurnish the
Schuyler mansion for Q hotel, I'll bet
That carpet must be Moquette, rolled
tightw
l believe the burial took place NJ der some
third name-neither Schuyler nor Spicer.
Two of the children of this strange double
life live in New York city now. 1t was
Go dsmith who said, There is no solitude
more dreadful than q great city,: and En-
ers IN ssys IF you would know and not be
known, dwell In q CITY"
HoEoRs TO JIMMY JUNE
On Monday the women's club Sorosis.
elected its officers for the ensuing year
there were several candidates for president
Rev. Phoebe Hannaford, Mrs Mary Kyle
Dallas, OF the Ledger, and Miss Minnie Swa-
zey, bright and ready speaker, as we'll as q
woman of important accomplishments aud
aoq uirements-but Mrs. J. G. Croly was re-
elected for the tenth year. few were op-
posed to what they called monopoly, and
some would have been glad to see what
would happen under the experiment of q
new president; but there was substan tial
unsnimity, and Mrs. Croiy bad the largest
ms jority ever given for president since she
was chosen by reclamation on the retirement
OF Alice Cary, fifteen years ago. Sorosis has
nominating machinery which the white
mae citizen" might borrow to advantage.
When the day OF election approaches the
three hundred members are requested to
molly the executive COMMITTEES of their
tirt choice for president. Every person who
has six votes is declared in nomination, and
may be vote for on election day; the scat
tering are dropped. This results In q con.
Ger tration of preference, and saves consider.
able friction, bad feeling and delay. An
other thing: Sorosis has never been beset
| by any dangerous scandals. Rivalries and
resulting hostilitles have ended in raking up
some ancient history gossip sometimes: but
these have never amounted to much, aud 1t
10 fact that, with all q woman's jealousy,
the re has been far more real scandal in every
male club in own Except the Authors and
the Twilight which are too young) than has
cropped out in Sorosis.
YANKEES IN THE SOUTHWEST.
The time is coming. suppose. when what
IL technically called 1.-THE Vest W Ill include
the whole country beyond the Mississippi.
from the dominion to the gulf. Yesterday
met E. Moody Boynton, the Mas sachusetts
Congressman, just returned from south west
ern Louisiana. He was generous in his
praise Of the country he saw. Il went to the
cotton centennial" Boynton said. and
joined an excursion some public spirited
citizens had organized to give Northern jour
nalists ana pubic men . notion Of Western
louisiana. 1t was an unknown land to me
aud all of us In the cars of the Southern
Pacific railroad Straight west We went, till
We struck this big farm, In the extreme
south western corner of the State, 1t is aboat
one-halt bigger than the whole State of
Rhode Island, aud 10 called the Watkins
Purchase 1t IL ABOUT one hundred miles
in length and twenty or thirty broad. 1t
was originally swamp, or low land, only
few inches above the surface of the sea
which washed its lower border; but efforts
are being put forth to reclaim it, and bat
tie il b ing waged against the watery foe
like that IN which the yeomanry of Holland
have been for centuries enlisted. Already
there are some four thousand people on tins
land, which was once deemed uninhAbita-
BILE: and little ridge OF land, twelve miles
long. on tie Calcssien river, is a ontinuous
orange grove, supporting q population OF
200 people Scho9ners sail up the river
into Lake Charles, sixty miles from the
sea-"
/ asked II they could raise any of the
Northern crops.
Wheat does not rlpen," said Congressman
Boynton, land corn does not yield more
than half as much as in Minnesota aud Wis.
consin The soil Is . rich alluvium-a veg
etable loan. from four to ten feet deep
Some 800 600 acres have already been quite
rec aimed till they are dry and fertile aud
1T for settlement The drainage is Effected
by canals twenty feet wide and six feet deep.
lOf tneee nineteen miles have already been
cut, and these are being ex tended at the rate
of four miles month. 1t is, of course,
Northern enterprise and energy that is do
4 log this, and the settlers come mainly from
the North aud Esst-people who want to
strike sunny ATTITUDES. The water is let into
aud out of the canals according to the need
1 of the land. 30 that there eau never be q
drouth. The great crops here will be rice
and sugar. Ths land easily produces from
i sixty 10 eighty bushels of rice 10 thu acre.
which sells at at 81 80 abushel Ii 10 a. good
sugar ground as there is in the South. and
all sorts of grass grow aoundantly"
'Our msaos of transit through the rivers
aud lakes were unique-two Darges each
sixty. five feet long, fitted mp for our tempo
rsry home-snd these were drawn by steam
Yacht and pushed by steamboat The
; Southern Pacific railroad runs through TIE
purchase. For the first 100 miles after leav
ling New Orleans the country Is gently undu
latipg and the vast cypress trees with
abuncant tapestry o. Spanish moss trailing
gives quite tropical aspect to the land
scape. Some hundred and thirty miles wes
We see some distance of, AZ the right OF tho
ira *, "Avery's Mountain" 30 called, sor
. of nd fortv faot b,oh al tinO of aOliC