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Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-01

Some months since an official in this
city received letter from Sing Sing,
Y. Y. A slip taken from newspaper
was pasted at the top of the letter,
which stated that during that year
there was large number of widows
in Gloucester occasioned by the loss of
lives among the fishing fleet. The
letter says: THE thought occurred
to me that there might be some one
among these widows who would like a
good husband. | am a widower, no
children, sound and substantial, the
owner of two good farms, also hotel,
and have considerable personal prop
erty, so that have the means to take
care of wife. AS lady she must be
25 or 30 years old be of good family,
we'll educated and fond of music. l do
not care to have one who has children,
as | prefer one without any. Now, if
you can find me such woman as |
have described | promise you a new
suit of clothes, gold watch and you
shall have the first kiss from the BRIDE
Gloucester Mass 1drertiSer.
Bridgeton pioneer., 1886-04-01

An Army officer told me an anecdote
of General Hancock about his love of
dignity and discipline. He was in COM
mand of the train which brought the
remains of General Grant from Mount
McGregor to New York. Gen. Han
cock and his staff were in the coach
next to the last. In the rear car was
party of Pennsylvania militia officers,
who were popping an occasional l9ottle
of champagne and smoking quite So
ciably. General Hancock saw from
his car what was going on in the rear.
1t did not comport with his ideas of
the proprieties of SO solemn an occa-
sion, and, calling the conductor, he
said: Twill you please present my
compliments to those gentlemen, with
the request that they cease smoking?'
In few moments the conductor re-
turned with the announcement that
the convivial officers returned their
compliments with a peremptory declin-
alton to relinquish their cigars. Where
is the next switch y asked Hancock.
about five miles below" replied the
conductor. when you reach it, if
the smoking in that car has not ceased,
switch it on side-track and leave it.
You may tell the gentlemen what l
have said" In two minutes there was
not cigar to be seen in the appending
coach. The occupants knew that Han
cock meant just what he said.-1tlantic
Constitution.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

Almost everybody in Connecticut knows
the Leather man." Everything about him
is leather. His hat, coat, breeches and
travelling sack are made of coarse tanned
stuff which he has patched and sewed to-
gether himself. 1t is seldom that this eccen-
trio individual speaks a word. Year in and
year out he tramps about the state, obtaining
bis food from the kind-hearted people along
the route. Always visiting the same houses,
knocking at the kitchen door and pointing to
his mouth, his wants are supplied.
With almost no variation he makes his ap-
pearance at each place along his route once
in thirty-four days. On recent occasion a
woman shouted to him: "Come here and get
bowl of coffee" At once the quaint fellow,
who is said to understand no English tongue,
turned and followed her to the kitchen door
where huge platter Of meat, potatoes and
bread was put before him. Depositing on
the ground his huge gripsack of rough
leather, in which he carried his ak
and other tools, he threw back his
variegated leathern tunic and revealed be-
meath a parti-colored woolen shirt, mended
and remended. This was open enough at the
neck to show breast which had about the
same color and consistency as that of an OK.
His trousers were of the latest London fash
ion, wide-fowing to bagginess, and were
composed of two-foot patches of leather
joined by rude leathern thongs, His shoes
were shaped something like a Chinaman's.
with soles at least three inches thick.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
OLD TRINITY CHURCH.
ITS llTlGlOUS HISTORY AND ITS
GREAT POSSESSIONS.
The Long Battle Over q Famous Piece
of Ground - Early New Workers and
Their observation-disclosures That Date
Back to Queen Anne.
Especial CorresDondence.l

Especial CorresDondence.l
NEW YORK, Sept. 27.-Trinity church, of
this city, is the richest organization in this
country. 1t owns more acres of solid blocks
in New York than any outsider can find out,
in the most compact and business portion of
the city, too 1t stands on Broadway facing
down Wall street. The roar Of traffic is loud
about it from morn till night. 1t has an in
teresting history, which dates back to the
reign of Queen Anne.
The first church was completed in 1857 and
stood unchanged for forty years. when it was
almost rebuilt. At the outbreak of the revo-
luton Trinity was accused of Tory senti-
ments Its clergy persisted in reading the
prayers for the king of England, until it was
closed by authority. When the British army
held the city the doors were opened, but only
for a few days, for it was destroyed in the
great fire of 1176. The congregation wor-
SHIPPED in st. Paul's until it was rebuilt,
twelve years later. The new building was
pronounced unsafe in 1899 and was pulled
down. The present one was finished in 1916
1t is Gothic in style, its steeple reaches to q
height of 2S4 feet and its material is brown
sandstone. 1t stands in the very heart of the
financial center of New York About it rise
huge commercial buildings, past it hourly
flows the great human tide that moves the vast
financial interests of the country. About il
lie the bones of those who were identified with
its interests when New York was a mere ham
let, as well as some of those whose names
figure in the history of the country.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
different DAYS

Cincinnati seems to be having boom in q
general way this year. A new bridge and
elevated railway across the Ohio is in con-
temptation, to cost SO, ,0O0, 900, making the
fourth fn5Jge over the river here. The new
structure will havean elevated railway along
with its foot and passenger roads.
The chamber of commerce building now
being rapidly completed, is seen in the illus
tration. It will cost 100000. Money is
plenty for public uses in Cincinnati. That is
more than can be said of most cities. The
chamber of commerce building will be q
handsome and imposing structure. It is at
the corner of Fourth and Race streets, upon
the site of the old pcetoffice. It is hoped and
believed that it will be genuinely freproof
and no mistake.
One of the chief beauties about the new
edifce in the eyes of Cincinnatians is that it
will be paid for "spot cash" when done, with
the exception of comparatively small sum-
There will be Offices and rooms to rent in il
from which an income of $50 ,000 year will
be had. Times have been supposed to be
hard since 1872, yet since then the trade In
certain lines has increased in Cincinnati some
700 per cent.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

DOy Dee-l SluSu uldIly KEW. lkl. H. ulChS
fond of studying and speculating upon
weather changes. Four years ago he arrived
at the conclusion that astronomy held the ex-
PLANTATION of all the weather phenomena seen
by the inhabitants Of the earth, and after a
long and earnest examination into all the
theories of meteorology connected with as
tronomy, he at last settled upon that which
has been given to the world by
Professor Tice-that the planets all ex-
ert an influence upon each other,
and that all the meteorological eff
fects felt by this planet can be traced to
causes arising from the movements Of other
planets. In 1884 Mr.. Hicks felt that he had OBJ
tained enough facts to be able to fix the time
for all the great weather changes during this
decade, and issued what he called the Weather
Prophet, a small past-board chart upon which
the disturbances were noted by figures, and
the planet given to which they owed their
origin. Below is portion Of the chart with
the storm predictions for the next three
months:
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

How did Trinity acquire its extraordinary
wealth? The story, which involves even more
litigation than Dickens celebrated case of
Jarndyce and Jarndyce, begins ten years
after Peter Minuit, governor or director gen.
eral of the colony known as New Netherland,
on behalf of the West India company, bought
the site of New York, al 900 morgens," or
% 600 acres, from the Indians for beads
and trinkets which cost sixty guilders, or
about S24.
In the year 1850 sturdy Dutchman named
Roeloff Jansen, landed at New Amsterdam,
now the city of New York. He had been
somebody in his native town, Maasland, and
he meant to be somebody in the new country
to which he had come, and he was. More
than that, he is somebody still, in history.
He lived six years at Rensslaerswyck, on the
Hudson, and then in 1886 came with his
family to New Amsterdam, and obtained
from Director Van Twiller ground brief or
patent for the farm or "Bouwery" of sixty
two acres, which has been for nearly 200
years bone of bitter contention This was
the original conveyance of the valuable estate
since known as Trinity church property. 1t
begins south of Warren street. thence north
westerly mile and half to Christopher
street, thus forming sort Of unequal triangle
with its base upon the North river.
Roeloff Jansen did not long remain in the
enjoyment Of his new possessions A year
later he embarked for another world that
world whose boundaries no mortal man has
defined Behind him he left five sturdy chill
dren and handsome widow. Women, par
ticularly rich and good looking ones, were
scarce in the little colony, while men were
plenty. She, who has since been known to so
wide a circle as Mrs. Anneke Jams, ceased
her weeping early, and within a year took
husband, in the person of dominic,
Everardus Bogardus, the second established
clergyman in the settlement. He was man
Of education and intellect, as well as great
force and independence of spirit. He held
his trust directly from the directors Of the
company in Holland, and wasn't afraid to
differ from the local government and say SO
in plain and vigorous language.
Human nature in that primitive day seems
to have been quite as far from perfection as
it is now. History has recorded acts of
malice, envy, cowardice and malevolence on
the part Of the colonists, quite equal to any
thing perpetrated in this unregenerate day.
The first families, too, were the culpable
ones There was bad blood between Dominic
Rogartlus and Director Van Twiller. They
called each other opprobious names, charged
each other with reprehensible conduct, and
finally brought up in the courts with an
affair which was only settled by the inter-
ference of mutual friends. They undoubtedly
had warm times.
Director Kieft Jared no better. The dominic
frequently let drive at him from the pulpit.
Tn one of his sermons he said: "What are the
great men Of the country, but vessels OF
wrath and fountains Of woe and troubles
They think Of nothing but to plunder the
nroperty Of others, to dismiss, to Danish, to
transport to Holland" Everybody in the
congregation knew that that shaft was
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

The beautiful Cincinnati exposition is oua
that artists never tire Of copying. Many fins
views of it have heen taken from different
points. Its architecture is unique and unsur-
passed.
So was the procession that inaugurated this
great display of the victories of peace. The
line of carriages was led by one containing
Senator John Sherman and Governor For
aker In some features the procession was
sort of carnival show, initiating the grotesque
and the comic with solid business advertising.
A group of byciclists formed part Of it, riding
slowly and solemnly upon their shining
wheels. Among them was trycicle con-
tanning lady and gentleman.
The Geological garden in Cincinnati had
been levied ON for contribution gathered
from many lands. A great elephant, with
load of merry children in a cage upon his
back, paced along snuffing the ground with
his trunk, and wondering what it was all for.
A troop Of living little Shetland ponies,
ridden by gayly dressed, pretty children, fol-
lowed the elephant But the part of the
Geological contribution which attracted most
attention was an immense leopard 1t lay in
the bottom of light cage at the feet of its
keeper, sometimes raising its paw toward
him, playfully, so it was said. But what an
awful row he might have raised, a consterna-
tion and a panic, with one little stroke of that
paw. Spectators looked at him with great
interest, and were relieved when he had
passed. He was like ghost story, intensely
fascinating just because he was a little
scary.
The floral show this year, it is believed, will
be surprising. 1t must be remembered that
Cincinnati set the fashion of industrial ex-
positions in America. Her first one was held
in 1870, in an unpainted, barnlike. wooden
structure. The shed was temporary, and was
soon pulled down. Unplaned board walls
were the background for the high art display
which the spectators looked at that year.
These unpainted barns were thought good
enough for expositions in those days all over
the country. We have changed our ideas
since then.
Special attractions for various days of the
great show is the programme for expositions
in recent years. Interest had quite died out
in viewing. year after year, the same indus
trial products, arranged in the same order.
However excellent, they got very tame at
last. The modern exposition is more like an
entertainment than fair. Cincinnati has
very full list of the special attractions for
different days
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
A Lesson in Table Manners.

1t was a country Sunday school picnic,
where great quantities of the regulation eat
ables, chiefly apple pies, had been brought
for the children to eat Little Mary Jane,
from away back in the hills, was there, and
with her mother, who kept an eye on the
child constantly to see that her behavior was
perfect Presently Mary Jane was observed
digging into an apple pie with her knife;
whereupon her mother spoke up: "Mary Jane
Beals!" "What, ma;amg" "What be you
a-doing?" "Eatin' pie, ma'am." what be
you a-eatin' it withs" "Knife!" $50 you be!
Now what have told you about eatin' pie
with your knife, Mary Jane? Take that pie
up in your hand and eat it as you'd ought
tor'-Boston Record
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
THE SKELETON AT THE FEAST.

Bright shone the lights III splendor down
Upon banquet hall
And priceless pictures. hung on high,
Adorned each gilded wall
While music's sweet refrain swept by
A fountains FLASHING fall.
There luxury was crowned queen,
And regned in regal state
And dainty vi nds were prepared
To heap each costly plate;
While naught that wealth could buy was
spared
To grace the brilliant fete.
And there on woman's snowy breast
Rare diamonds baZed and CLEANED,
Their shafts of coruscating light
Like shining arrows seemed;
While drifting past in drowsy flight
The languorous music dreamed.
And roses in the windows hloomeu,
As if in summers glow
When sunshine lights the fields and lanes
And balmy south winds blow;
And ct outside those window paneS
The world was wrapped In snow.
And gayety and mirth were there
To Jest and feast and dine,
To make the tagging hours fly,
While streamed the bubbliDg wine;
And ever came the music by
In harmony divine.
Which he could not escape;
And suddenly above the rout
And flow of sparkling grape,
AS from n mist, came slowly out
A weird and awful shape.
II fixed on him a sightless gaze,
As close its form he scanned;
II spoke to him in ghostly tone,
II raised withered hand.
And said, Il come to you alone,
For you can understand.
II am the despot of the poor
A slow, consuming flame;
/ am the messenger of want,
The harbinger OF shame;
am a specter, grim and gaunt,
And hunger Is my name.
II walk in many humble homes,
Mid whispered hopes and and fears,
know where men and women wet
Their daily crusts with tears;
Where furrowed brows know naught but
sweat,
Through the long, tread-mill years.
What boots religions solemn farce,
Can tracts restore the dead?
Have sermons any soothing skill
To ease the weary head?
Theology can never fill
A mouth that asks for bread.
THE greed of gain has gone abroad,
And truth and manhood rust,
The world but one mad impulse feels
And all for riches lust,
While Riches at her chariot wheels
Drag Honor in the dust.
II tell you, W ealth, like some great snake,
Holds virtue in its fold;
! am the counter over which
Young girls are bought and sold
Your kings among you are the rich;
Your chains are forged from gold"
Then as it vanished came in tones,
Clear as a silver chime,
II am unto all men a law,
Relentless and sublime.
Co. tell the people what you saw,
That they be warned in time.
II say to you, the land is filled
With povertys low moans,
And vengeance yet will pour Its HOOD,
swear it by these bones.
Your brothers and your sisters blood
Is crying from the stones"
Then flashed sheaf of mornings darts
Athwart the purpling east,
And slowly rose the sun. serene
The revelry had ceased
None but the poet there had seen
The Skeleton at the Feast.
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
A "WOman's Bible.'
Buffalo News.

Very few people know of remarkable
enterprise that is being undertaken IN New
Jersey in the shape Of a female revision OF
the Bible The work is being carried on IN
this manner: In richly furnished draw
ing room about a broad table sit half
dozen women with intelligent faces and
busy pens. Each one has cheap copy OF
the Bible, which she reads carefully and
occasi Jnally clips out verse and pastes It
at the top of long slip of white paper.
The others then cut out the same verse
from their Bibles and dispose OF 1t IN the
same manner. With this before them they
began to discuss it in turn. One OF these
commentators is an excellent Greek and
Hebrew scholar. Another is profoundly
learned in current Bible criticism, while
still another has gone through with care
and has at her fingers ends all the great
commentaries of Henry Scott, DIR. Adam
Clark, and others. After each verse has
been thoroughly discussed each woman
writes under it what she has to say, and
the sheets are then passed in to secretary.
This secretary is recent graduate from
Vassar. She cuts out this much-talked-of
verse from still another Bible, puts 1t at
the top of larger sheet of paper, and then
appends under it the notes of all the learned
lady commentators. When asked what
was the object of this revision, one OF the
ladies who inspires and carries on this
tremendous labor, explained that they
were doing what might be called femi-
nine revision of the scriptures.
I'VE fnd," she said, sin going over the
old and new testaments that about one
tenth of the Bible touches, in one way or
another, upon women. We wish to know
whether the male readings, translations,
and interpretations have been strictly falr
to us, and in spirit friendly to our SEX
We and a great many other women have
our doubts on the subject, and so we pro-
pose issuing what may be called Ine
Woman's Bible On our revising commit
tee sit able women from England ana
America"
A well known publisher has agreed 10
issue the revision when it is completed.
and by next summer the "Woman's Bible"
will be given to the public.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

AMOS FERGUSON. with him, ere
somewhat peculiar, he never failed to draw
a crowd He had daughter whom he in
duced to accompany and assist him on these
occasions, but when maturer years showed
to her the sarcastic applause, which to the
old man was the highest appreciation, she
forsook the barrel or box on the street corner
and the old gentleman was compelled to Ego
it alone"
Perhaps the greatest triumph of Mr.. Fer
guson's life was the transcribing of the Bible
into verse This translation he published in
book, but its sale was limited, notwithstand
ing the book possessed great deal of merit.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
A CINCINNATI BOOM.
HER EXPOSITION AND HER NEW
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

A Procession Six Miles LOng-The Ex.
position Now in Progress the Most
Varied and Extensive Yet Held in Gin.
cinnati-Ncw Chamber of Commerce.
The thirteenth annual Cincinnati exposition
is now in progress, and will continue till
October. The opening is claimed to have been
the finest show ever witnessed in the Queen
City. From the noise the usually quiet Gin
cinnatians made that day, it seemed as if for
the time "Solid Cincinnati p" had been changed
into Chicago
They had reason to tickle themselves and
be happy The procession inaugurating the
exhibition was six miles long. They say it
was looked at by $50, 900 people, though per-
haps it may be necessary to fall a person or
two in accepting this statement of a reporter
in his enthusiasm The greatest of Ohio's
statesmen were present and made speeches,
among them Senator Sherman, Governor
Foraker and Congressman Butterworth. In
the course of his happy, though brief, re-
marks, Mr.. Butterworth made this striking
observation: "The inventive genius of man is
the divinity within him, and it never worked
to the detriment of mankind"
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
November.

In the chart as printed the black figures
show the dates upon which small storms or
disturbances not Of an extraordinary charac-
ter will occur, while the lighter figures indi-
cate storms Of greater violence and the names
turbances are also given.
Mr.. Hicks says further: I hope some day,
and believe the time is not far distant when
we will be able to predict exactly when o
storm will break, where it will strike first,
and its exact nature-hurricane, tornado,
cyclone, food or earthquake.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21

fantry, and was transferred to the cav
airy in 1870. During the last seven years
he has been captain Of Company B, Fourth
cavalry, and was much esteemed for his sol.
dierly qualities by Gen. B. s. Mackenzie, ON
whose staff, we believe, be served. In his
great pursuit Of Geronimo, Lawton "kept
him shooting until he had nothing left to
shoot WITH" as Gen. Stanley once expressed
it, and it was no doubt their lack of ammuni
tion that largely influenced the surrender Of
the ApaHhes When once Geronimo and his
son Chappa came in, and the hereditary chief,
Natchez, followed, the campaign was crowned
with complete success
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
A CONNECTICUT MYSTERY.
The Leather Man." a Wandering Tramp
of the Nutmeg State.

The Leather Man." n Wandering Tramp
of the Nutmeg State.
Generation after generation have heard tell
of Connecticut's "leather man." but here is
The first time that his quaint figure has been
portrayed by an artist. 1t is another triumph
of instantaneous photography. for in no other
way could the old hermit's portrait be cap
tured. So shy is he of public scrutiny that it
would be impossible for an artist to sketch
him. The instantaneous photographer has
been cunning for him for long time. Sports
men can understand the difficulty of bringing
down such rare game as this. To J. f. Rogers
is the credit due of capturing a photograph
of this rara avis, and on the wing at that.
The old man had just seated himself to eat,
when the photographer quickly unlimbered
his camera on him, and fired just as the shy
leather man discovered that the cyclopean
eye Of the camera was beaming on him. This
accounts for the coy expression he wears in
the picture.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1886-10-21
THE BARD OF CHATAUQUA.

Death of Man Who Translated the
Bible into Verse.
Amos Ferguson was born upon farm in
Chatauqua county, New York, about four
miles from the city of jamestown, in the
year 1914, and the seventy-two years of his
life, which recently closed, was spent on the
same farm.
Mr.. Ferguson was an odd specimen Of
humanity, withal a very good, patriotic
and devout man. During the war the
composition of war ditties lured more
than did the pursuits of agricult-