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, 1885-12-25
TELEGRAPHIC.
Graphic Story of the Hurricane
at Colon.
Resignation of the Members of
the French Cabinet.
Ordnance Commission Favor
American Steel.
A Story From the Sea.

NEW YoRK, Dec. 24.-Captain Pc
ter Nordefeldt and crew of the
Swedish barkentine Kaiman, which was
destroyed in the harbor of Colon during
the storm of Dee. 3, arrived in this city
to-day by the Pacific Mail steamer, City
of Para. To a reporter Capt. Nordefeldt
told the following story: I'VE arrived
at Colon on Nov. &c, with a cargo of coal.
We had discharged a few tons in the af-
ternoon Of Dec. 2, when the wind began
to blow fron the southwest. A heavy
swell from the sea set in and compelled
the lighter to leave the ship and seek shell
ter near the shore. The wind at 5 o'clock
shifted to the northwest and the rain fell
in torrents. The sea became angrier every
moment Finding the ship was beginning
to drift we threw out a second anchor.
This did not hold US, so at I O'Clock we
threw out the third anchor. w paid out
all the chain we dared. but as there was a
vessel loaded with explosives lying at an
Choir Just at our stern We had to be mighty
careful. At 10 o'clock the sea broke over
the ship; mountain seas tumbled over us
and for time it didn't look as though
we would keep afloat till morning. When
daylight came | climbed up in the rig
ging and looked about. The sea ali
around was scattered with wrecks and
six vessels were going to pieces on the
reef. Just beyond the bar | saw a yes
sci bottom upwards with a number Of
men c~linging to it for dear life. Con-
GLIDING that We were going to sink with
our cargo we put out signals of distress
In the afternoon we observed a three
masted schooner drifting directly toward
our ship. Seeing II collision was i%nevita-
BILE we set sail and run the ship ashore.
we struck a reef and cut our rigging. The
American schooner Veteran drifted
against our ship and part of her rigging
fer over on our decks. | sent one of our
sailors ashore with a line and a crowd
there received him. We then took our
long boats and went ashore. Here we
fonud Captains Pierson of the Swedish
bark General Nicholas, and SIgnor Up
holm Of the stranded Norwegian bark
Douglas Castle. These insisted on taking
our boats and making an attempt to save
the lives of the crew OF the British bark
Synton. They were unsuccessful at that
time, but next day they reached the YES
sci and rescued the captains wife and
child and three sailors. Twenty-Five yes
sells and sixty lives we're lost in that storm.
, 1885-12-25
Projecting Home Industry.

WASHINGTON, Dec. "a. -Messrs. Ran
dali. Hewitt. Crisp. Hiscock, Phelps and
Reed, composing the ordnance commits
sion, appointed during the last session OF
congress, will report to the house of rep
resentatives, soon after the holidays, that
all the steel needed for armor lates either
for ships or land Qualifications. and all the
steel ingots needed for the manufacture II
guns for the navy or for coast d%efenses
can be manufactured in this country.
The will also recommend that the neces-
sary appropriations for the work be made
at once.
, 1885-12-25

1t is reported hat cholera is raging in
Cayenne, the capital of French Guiana.
1t is reported that the English gov
eminent intends to prosecute one of
the recently elected Irish members Of par
Lament Tor a speech made at the National
League meeting at Cork, on the ground
that the language used on the occasion
tended to excite his hearers to commit
murder.
Minister Pendleton has been notified
that it is intended to expel German
Americans residing at Schlesswig who
emigrated to the United States before be-
coming liable to military service and re-
turned after being naturalized. The re-
cent order of the expulsion If the German
Americans remsins suspended.
, 1885-12-25
Charged With Conspiracy.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.-The trial Of
George L. Work, Samuel Work and
Shrove Ackley, members Of the late firm
Of George F. Work K Co, brokers,
charged with conspiracy to defraud the
Peoples Passenger Railway company,
ended tonight in a verdict of guilty as to
the first two named ON account OF involv-
ing the company to the amount of $780,
600. They were acquitted ON the remain
ini counts, referring to mounts well up
in the hundred thousands, Ackley was
acquitted altogether. The Works will be
granted a new trial.
, 1885-12-25
Wires to 60 Underground.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 24.-Chief Walk
er. of the city electrical department, said
to day that the ordinance directing him to
move all the telegraph and telephone
wires that may be overhead on the LIST
day Of January. 1886, had not been re-
pealed, and hat he had no option in the
matter. Unless instructed to the con
trary before Saturday, Jan. ., he will
then set men to work cutting down the
wires, in obedience to the directions oI
the councils.
, 1885-12-25

NoRTHLAND, Dec. 2l.-A dispatch
was received from Santa Claus last even.
ing addressed: My Dear Children
send down greetings and a Merry Christ
mas to you all. Am all ready to start.
Shall visit Cheyenne first this year, BY
special arrangement with Rhodes & Trox
ell, who are my agents, and through
whom orders have been sent in for pres
ents fJr every child in Cheyenne. Only
a few more days left to send in the order,
for this year, and | hope that not a little
one will be neglected in this time Of
kindly remembrance"
, 1885-12-25

Ell PAso, Tex, Dec. PA band OF
Indians was surprised by a body Of vol
unteers while epcamped near the railroad
track between Clifton and Lordsburg.
Eleven savages were killed and their only
three horses captured. The assaulting
party was mainly composed of M,x'can
residents, under the guidance of Big jim,
a colored deputy sheriff. The attack took
place before daylight. The Indians,
though well armed, were 50 completely
demoralized that they fed without making
resistance, and are now scattered through
the mountains.
, 1885-12-25

SALT LAKE. Dec. 24.-Thc jury in the
Brigham Young Hampton case, after
being out one hour this evening, brought
in a verdict Of guilty.
The Gentiles are rejoicing to night over
a telegram from United States Attorney
Dickson to Governor Murray stating that
he had Withdrawn his resignation and
concluded to continue the good work here.
, 1885-12-25
The Pope's Reception.

RoME. Dec. 24.-The pope gave a
Christmas reception to-day to the cardi-
mails in Rome. He complained of the
present trying position of the pope in
Rome, and said it would ever be so until
Rome was given back to the vatican. His
holiness, in an ~encyclical letter, proclaims
1856 a year of Jubilee.
, 1885-12-25

Bloodless cheeks, hollow eyes, tight
skin, ioyless life. Poor little child Do a
good deed Tor it. Hand its mother a bot
tie of Browns Iron Buffers. The drug
pist who sells this famous medicine will
tell you what wonders it has done for very
feeble children. Don'tthink it is only for
grown up people. 1t is gentle in its in
Auence aud not unpleasant to take, 1t
cures weakness and Indigestion. regulates
the bowels and enriches the blood.
, 1885-12-25
schaefer Rattles the Frencnman

CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-0nly 200 people
witnessed the game tonight between
Vignaux and Schaefer in the continuation
of the balk line tournament made neces-
sary by the triple tie. Vignaux lost
GIL to 500. The play was uniuteresting
until near the end, when Schaeier made a
beautiful run of 1877, in which he played
at top speed, using the balk line purse
with marvellous proficiency. Schaefer'
average was %, and highest run 1877
Vignaux's average was q 20-3l, and
highest run l09.
, 1885-12-25

WIeathing for festoons.
Bouquet green, by the yard, for deoora-
ton.
Holly, with scarlet berries.
Mistletoe, with white, waxy berries,
At the greenhouses Of V. S. Glaicke.
corner Warren avenue and Seventeenth
street.
Orders should be handed in at once
telephone 6s.
, 1885-12-25

The fine art department Of the T. L.
Warren Mercantile company contains
some of the finest cngravings, magnificent
Photographic views and water color paint
inVs ever offered to the public. Those
who are looking for holiday presents
should inspect these productions of art;
they cannot fail to please the most fastidi-
Gus.
, 1885-12-25
Cattle Receipts.

CHICAGO. Dec. 24.-Cattle-Receipts,
5000, market steady; shipping steers.
$50 to l,500 pounds, SO 50(95. 50;
stockers and feeders SLOW. 81 SOFAS 90;
through Texas cattle steady, cows, 81. 40
(G3. 50; steers. So 75(d3 so.
, 1885-12-25

p. Bergersen. the well known proprie-
tor of the gun store on Eddy street, has a
fine stock of operi and field glasses; also n
large assortment OF the best pocket knives
of domestic and foreign manufacture;
guns and rifles Of every description; revolt
yers and pistols of the latest designs.
, 1885-12-25

There will be on Christmas day at the
Valley ranch, an elegant turkey lunch at
noon, a sociable in the afternoon and a
dance in the evening.
, 1885-12-25

The largest stock of tine brandies, old
WHISTLES, choice i%ioueurs and superfne
cigars at George Masten's well known
house, corner Sixteenth and Ferguson
streets,
, 1885-12-25

For RENT Three nice front rooms
over Cowhick & Whitcomb' sstore, cheap.
Inquire over store OF at our office.
Cowhick a. Whitcomb.
, 1885-12-25

Christmas tree supplies, nuts and the
best candies at satisfactory prices at Pea
body candy factory.
, 1885-12-25

You can buy moro goods Tor less mon
ey at Masi's, than anywhere else in the
city.
, 1885-12-25

Our tailoring department Is now com.
plete with all the late novelties in fine for
eign and domestic fabrics. b. Hellman
, 1885-12-25

Overcoats are being sold regardless o
former prices at Pulack's.
, 1885-12-25

Omaha steel barbed wire. Call for
prices at Arp q Conveys.
, 1885-12-25

|r1cal DePtj Cheyenne, Hyo.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
ThOreau.

Thoreau was, probably, the widest
civilized man.thi country has produced,
adding to the shyness of the hermit and
woodsman the wildness of the poet, and
| to the wildness of the poet the greater
ierity and elusiveness of the mystic. An
extreme product of civilization and Of
modern culture, he was yet as untouched
by the worldly and commercial spirit of
his age and country as any red man that
| ever haunted the shores of his native
stream. He put the whole of nature be-
tween himself and his fellows. A man
/! of the strongest local attachments-not
! the least nomadic, seldom wandering be-
yond his native township, yet his spirit
| was as restless and as impatient of re-
straint as any nomad or Tartar that ever
plived. He cultivated an extreme Wild
ness, not only in his pursuits and tastes,
but in his hopes and imaginings. He
says to his friend, "Hold fast your most
indefinite waking dream" Emerson says
his life was an attempt to pluck the
Swiss edelweiss from the all but inaces-
sible cliffs. The higher and the wilder,
the more the fascination for him. In
deed, the loon, the moose, the beaver
were Dut Ialnt types &Du SymDOls OF tne
wildness he coveted and would have re-
appear In his life md books not the
cosmical, the universal--he was not great
enough for that-but simply the wild as
distinguished from the domestic and the
familiar, the remote and the surprising
as contrasted with the hackneyed and
the commonplace, arrow-heads as dis
tinguished from whetstones or jack
knives.
Thoreau was French on one side and
Puritan on the other. It was the wild,
untamable French core in him-a dash
of the gray wolf that stalks through his
ancestral folklore, as in Audubon and
the Canadian Voyageurs-that made him
turn with such zest and such genius to
aboriginal nature and it was the Puri-
tan element in him-strong, grim, IN
compromising. almost heartless-tLat
held him to such high, austere, moral
and ideal ends. His genius was Saxon in
its LONELINESS and sincerity, in its direct
ness and scorn of rhetoric bus that wild
revolutionary cry of his and that sort of
restrained ferocity and hirsuteness are
more French. John Burroughs, in Cent.
ury Magazine.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
Margaret, the Mother of Criminals.

In an article in the Century Maya.
cine, by E. Y. Smalley, the influence Of
heredity in crime is forcibly illustrated,
as follows:
At one OF the meetings OF the New
York Charities Aid Association, when the
subject Of preventing pauperism by CIV
ing 8 proper training to children Of
paupers was under consideration, Dr..
Elisha Harris related the terrible story
OF Margaret, the Mother of Crimi-
nails" 1t has been published in the
newspapers, but can profitably be read
again to illustrate the great importance
of one branch of the associations work.
Margaret was pauper child, left adrift
in one Of The villages Of the Upper Hud-
son, about ninety years ago. There was
no almshouse In the place, and she was
made subject of outdoor relief, receiv-
ing occasionally food and clothing from
the town officials, but was never edu-
Gated or sheltered in o proper home.
She became the mother of long race OF
criminals and paupers, which has cursed
tho county ever since. The county rec
ords shows 200 of her descendants who
have been criminals. In one generation
of her unhappy line there were twenty
children, Of whom seventeen lived to
maturity. Nine served terms aggregat-
ing fifty years in the State prison for
high crimes, and all the others were fire.
quent inmates of jails and almshouses.
1t is said that of the 623 descendants OF
this outcast girl, 200 committed crimes
which brought them upon the court
records, and most of the others were
idiots, drunkards, lunatics, paupers or
prostitutes. The cost to the county Of
this race Of criminals and paupers is es-
timated as at least 500, 600, taking no
account of the damage they inflicted
upon property, and the suffering and de-
graduation they causedin others. Who can
say that all this loss and wretchedness
might not have Leen spared the COM
munity if the poor pauper girl Margaret
had been provided with good moral
home life while she was growing up to
womanhood?
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
Epidemics Among Animals.

At the meeting of the Internationa
Medical Congress, at London, among
the most notable of the addresses deliv-
cred there was one made by NJ. Pas
teur, whose researches in fermentation
have made him so celebrated. This
French savant has been devoting him.
self of late to the study of epidemics in
the lower animals and the propagation
| of their special diseases. Two subjects
had particularly attracted his attention
one was o species of cholera in fowls,
and the other the terribly destructive
disease known in cattle as the charboa,
splenic fever, or Siberian pest. Start
ing with the idea that an attenuated
form of the disease would protect the
animal from more aggressive and gen
erl attacks of the same disturbance, he
proceeded exactly as did Jenner with
had been this method Of treatment in
France, what NJ. Pasteur said may be
summarized as follows: By this splenic
fever in France alone every year the
loss in cattle had been 10000, 900 of
francs, or about 81, 900, 900. Wishing to
convince agriculturists that by means OF
vaccination their cattle could be saved,
he experimental on fifty sheep. TWEEN
ty-fve Of these were inoculst-
ed with an attenuated virus. In
two weeks afterward all the fifty sheep
were inoculated with the unattenuated
virus. Every one of the sheep that had
not been vaccinsted died of splenic f.
yer in fifty hours, while not one of the
vaccinated animals suffered. Since that
experiment, NJ. Pasteur stated that his
time and energies had been taxed to
their utmost to NEE. the demands for
supplies of this vaccine, and that in the
space of fifteen days in the departments
surrounding Paris moro than 20,0O0
sheep and horses and cattle had been
vaccinated. Could there be q more con-
vincing proof Of the usefulness of hu.
man vaccination? The testimony OF
certainly the greatest authority in the
world on germs of disease ought to 81
lence those insane persons who not only
take their own lives in their hands, but
are DESTROYS of preventing others from
benefting by the great service rendered
to humanity by Jenner. With few IA
natics at their head in England. they are
not satisfied with giving trouble ct home,
but are just now distributing grstuitous.
iy their foolish publications in this
country.-NeW York Times.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10

mes ana eXcessts II mature Ntars-suci.
rs loss OF memory. LassiIHde, Nocturnal
emissions. evasion To society, dimness oi
vision, n''ises il the head. the Nitsl fluiG
pdssing uEobseryed in the urine. and
;rary other diseases that lead to insapi.
md death.
DR.. Mintie. who is a regular graduated
physician, will agree to forfeit Five Hun
dred Dollars For case OF this kind The
Vita; Restorative, Under his special sd
vice and treatment, will rot cure, or tu,
thing impure or injurious found in il
DR.. Mihtie treats all Private Diseases sue.
essfuily, without mersury. Consultation
rec. A thoruu-h examination and adj
nee, including analysis Of urine, IS
rice OF Vital Restorative, s.. so a bottle
our times the quality. IS; sent 10 any
address, upou receipt of price, or C. o. d..
secure from obrervation, and in private
name. II desired, by A. Z. MINTIE, NJ. D.,
No, II Kearny street, San Francisco, Cal.
SAMPLE BOTTLE FREE viii be sent
d" anv one applying by letter, stating
symptoms, sex and age. Strict secrecy
in regard Ia siness transactions.
DR.. Mihfie's KIDNEY REMEDY NEPHRET-
iCrM cures ali kinds OF Kidney and BIad-
der Complaints, GOnorrhea, elect, Lu-
corrhoea. For sale by all druggists; 81
bottle, six bottles for SIS.
DR.. Mintie's DANDILIoN PILLS are tbt
best and cheapest Dyspepsia ard Bilious
cure in the market. For snle by all
druggists, my Is II.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
Perpetual Ice and Snow.

The Hon. G. W. Stapleton returne,
yesterday from business trip to Glen
dale, and while there was told of lax,
which hunter had seen near the hea.
waters of Wise river, about eighty mile:
south OF Butte. It is situated high III
in the mountains and surrounded b
steep crags, and the water is froze soli1
Notwithstanding the remarkably warn
weather in this section. The hunter i
convinced that it never thaws, ant
states that in the center of this grea
body of ice is an avalanche of snoy
piled up to great height, which ha:
evidently slid down from the crags sur
rounding the lake. 1t is described as {
beautiful spot, scenery grand, and the
whole country alive with game.
glorious place, no doubt. for summe,
excursion.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
Capturing H~skeys.

The monkeys are frequently captured
In nooses and traps built In the shape OF
houses. The only entrance il q trap
door in the roof, which communicates
with trigger set upon the ground.
Food is spread about inside, the mon
keys enter, and, skirmi.hing around,
disturb the trigger, and the trap shuts
them in. The third method for catch
ing them Ia q most ludicrous one. An
old, hard eocoanut La taken, and very
email hole made In the shell. Furnished
with this and pocketful of boiled rice,
the sportsman sallies into the forest,
and stops beneath o tree tenanted by
monkeys. Within full sight of these in.
quisitive spectators he first eats little
rice ana then puts q quantity into the
cocoanut with all the ostentation posi-
BILE. The nut is Len laid upon the
ground, and the hunter retires to con-
veniept ambush. The reader may be
cure that no sooner is the man out of
sight than the monkeys race helter-skel-
ter for the cocoanut. The first arrival
peeps into it, and, seeing the plentiful
store Of rice inside, squeezes his hand
in through the tiny hole. and clutches
handful Now. SO paramount is greed
over every other feeling connected with
monkey nature, that nothing viii induce
the creature to relinquish his hold
With his hand thus .clasped he cannot
possibly extract it, but the thought that
if he leaves go one of his brethren viii
obtain the feast is overpowering. The
sportsman soon appears upon the scene;
the unincumbered monkeys fly in all di-
rections, bnt the unfortunate brute, who
still will not let the rice 60, Is thereby
handicapped beyond hope with q Cocoa
nut IS large as himself state Of affairs
quite fatal to rapid lscomotion, either
terrestrial or Arboreal. The sequel il
that he falls an easy capture to the hunt
Ct, victim to his own greed. Even
when caught he reads in the actions OF
his csptor design to rob him of his
rice, and he clutches it all the harder;
and the very first thing he does when
the nut is cracked and the hand released
is TO cram its contents into his mouth.
Thoughts Of escape come aftervard-
London Field.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
Holland.

Sunset Cox says: Amid the advancing
elements of our electric and steam civili-
zation Holland changes less than any
other nation. She preserves Ill many
places most distinctly her old customs
and habits, and the individuality and
simplicity of her people. The steam
engine may be disturbing many old and
picturesque usages-such as the wind
mill as motor to pump out the meadows
and keep back the sea-but upon her
roads and canals, at her fishing isles,
and in her cities and cafes, the spirit of
the elder times prevails, so that he
who runs through Holland may read its
history.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10
WE'LL, NOT THIS EVENING.

Twas . bright and moonlight evening
As they wandered on the shore,
And she gently pressed his coat-aleeve,
As she oft had done before
And they talked about his college,
While she charmed him with her loo1h:
Then she called him very naughty,
Not at al well up In books
Hsve You ever read, !" hhe murmured,
"Squees' Nemoirf I wish you woulds
swell, since You insist" he whispered,
VI viii try and be 50 good"
Take yoLI arm 1way--you nonsesyf
From my waist, you awful mani
That's not what meant AZ all, SIR
There, you're hCsaktps my DsH fan
"'Twas the Life Of Joseph squees,' airs
And think you're awful badl
Am RngryH Take ME home, dk
ya, la, just fearful madis
twas . bright moonlight evening"
A he wandered on the shore;
But no maiden pressed his ooat-ElssvS
As abe used in days Of ToyA
-HsTrard CTfDss0sA
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10

WHY do birds eat so much! 1t i
because more pourishment is required
to supply feathers than flesh or hair
The heat of the blood is 5 degree,
greater than that of man, and the rapid
ity of digestion is in ratio proportional,
to the greater energy of their move
ments. As it has been terse:y stated
"Their life engine works under hig
pressure, and demands much fuel" Ac
curate experiments by Prof. Treadwell
of Cambridge, show that those specie
that are fed in the nest will, during tn
si1 weeks of their growth, eat Al pc,
cent. more than their own weight of in
sects in day. A pair of old robins
with the usual number of four youus
ones, would require, according to th
consumption of this bird, $50 worms. O
their equivalent in insects or other food
6Ruy.
The Arizona sentinel., 1885-01-10

PRoF. WHITNEY does not lay any
weight on the removal of forests as
cause Of the dryness and desolation of
former fertile and populous regions of
the earth. He admits that the greater
proportion of land to water in late geo
logical areas may have little to do with
the decreased rain fall; but he attrib-
utes the diminished precipitation mainly
to lowering Of the intensity of solar
radiation during geological time.