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Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1886-08-02

SHILOH'S COUGH and Con-
sumption Cure is sold by US on a
guarantee. 1t cures Consumption.
For sale at Tracy's Drug Store.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

A youth of 20 years, rather unsteady in his
gait and with very grmy face, hung on to
the bar of the TOmbs police court yesterday
An officer had found him in William street
drunk and surrounded by a crowd. He gave
his name As Frank Lennon of Staten Island.
Justice Duffy looked at him over his glasses
in a paternal way, and said Frank, you
are not treating yourself we'll Fors young
a man | hear very bad things of you"
'Be M lenient with me ~ you can, Judge,
be hiccoughed.
81 will, reassuringly answered the justice,
How many mouths shall give you?'
MAKE it a. low as you can, judge; I'm
not as bad as l look
"Wel fix the time yourself, but don't
make it too low
A long pause ensued, during which the
culprit struggled between humiliatng sense
of his own deserts and his desire to get oil
easily. Finally he said, in a mildly sugges-
tive way; Give me couple of days, your
honor. think that'll be enough"
Two days! Oh, no that's too low.
That would never do"
"Well then, judge, say 10 days
Now you're making it too much the other
way. Wen split the difference and make it
seven days. Will week suit you =
The young man expressed himself entirely
satisfied with his sentence. The little Judge
looked happy too.-N. y. Times.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

The Springfield Union reminds the ladies
that the feminine exclamation, Dear me
SUI :" is derived from the Latin phrase, Deus
me sustinet!" or God help me !"
"Has my client any right ?" asked a coun-
selor, out of patience, of a brother wranger
at the bar 81 know not, was the response
but one thing is certain-when you got
through with him, he'll have nothing left.
The most prudent man on record is the ono
who, when retiring at hotel and finding only
four matches in the match box, for fear that
they might be wet and 80 prove useless in
case of emergency during the night, carefully
tested them one by one, blew them out in
turn, aud TRANQUILITY laid down TO rest.
Among the stories told of the late DE-. KEN
per of Nashota, Wis, is this; One day he
asked a divinity student home to dine with
him, adding that there might not be much to
eat. When they were seated at the table the
doctor at once began to carve at "A boiled ham
that showed evidence of having seen consid.
cradle service "Why, my dssR" exclaimed
his wife, "you have forgotten something,
You have not asked the blessing" Eyes, /
have, too" bluniy responded the doctor f;
''Tve asked the Lord to bless this old ham all
I'm going to-"
An amusing incident happened in Liver
| pool church the other Sunday. The pews OF
the church had been vanished the week pre-
yious aud were not yet entirely dry. The
congregation did not know this. The clergy
man came out of the vestry-room and began
the service by reading the sentence, "Rend
your hearts aud not your garments, " etc, the
people rising as he began. But to the horror
OF everyone they found themselves stuck fast
to the seats and, though they had just beer
told not TO do so, many OF them literally ronl
their garments in their efforts to get up.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
Miscellany.
The Funeral.


was walking in Savannah, past a church decayed
when there slowly through the window came plain
And a sympathy awakened, aud wonder quickly
grew,
Till found myself environed in little negro pew.
Out at front coored couple sat in sorrow. nearly
On the altar was a conn, in the conf was child
could picture him when liying-cury hair, protrud-
ing lip
Southern trip.
But no baby ever rested in the soothing arms Of Death
That had famed more flames Of sorrow with his little
huttering breath;
Aud no funeral ever glistened with more sympathy
Than was in the chain OF tear-drops that encasped
those mouruers round.
Rose sad old colored preacher at the little wooden
desk
With manner grandy awkward, with countenance
grOtesque
with sympathy and shrewdness on his Ethiopian
with the ignorance aud wisdom Of crushed, indy
ing race.
And he said; "Now don be weepn for dis pretty
bit o. clay
For de little boy who lived dere, he done gone run
lie was doin' very finely, an he 'preclate your love-
But his sure nun Father want him Ia de large house
up above.
NOW he ddn give you dat baby, by hundred thou
He just think you need sunshine an He lend it
for q Whilel
An He let you keep an love IT, tin your hearts was
bigger grown;
Au desc silver you're sheddlns jest de Interest
ON de loan.
Here yer oder pretty chrun don't be maxim 1t
appear
Dat your love got sort o. nopolzed by dis little fellow
here;
Don pile up too much your sorrow on DER little mem
SOS to kud o set en- wonderin if deyre no account
themselves!
Gust you think, you poor deah mounahs, creepln'
long DER Sorrows way,
What blessed little picnic de yere babys got to-day
Your good faders and good moders crowd de little
fellow round
In de angel-tended garden OF de Big Plantation
Ground.
"Au dey ask him WAS your feet sore2 an take of
his little shoes,
An dey wash him, an dey kiss him, an dey say 'Now
what's de uews2
An de Iawd done cut his tongue loose den de little
fellow say,
All our folks down in de valley tries to keep de heb
beuly way
IAN his eyes dey brightly sparkle at de pretty things
Den tear come, an he whisper, But want my pa
ryents, tool
But de Angel chief Musician teach dat boy little
song;
Says II only dey be faithful dey will soon be comm
long
An hen get an education dat will probarbly be worth
Se6eral times as much rs any you could buy for him
earth;
Hen be in de Lswd's big schoolhouse widout
tempt or fear;
While dere's end to de bad tings might have hap
peued to him here.
$50, my pooah detected mounahs let your hearts wild
Jesus rest,
An don 60 to crtercisn dat ar One wat knows de
best!
He have sent many comforts have right to take
away
To de lAwd be praise au' glory now and eyeri-Let
pray
-Harpcr's Weekly.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
The ErceI.Ior Gexser.

The sudden outbreak of the Excelsior gey-
ser in the Yellowstone park preceded the more
wdely-extended earthquake shocks OF the
more eastern country by u day or two. This
geyser is the largest and most powerful known
in the world, and is Of recent development to
the public knowledge. 1t has played for a
period, and then ceased for years It comes
from out of that fearful body of hot water
populArly known in the park as "Hell's Half
Acre" This Immense spring covers an acre
and quarter of ground, aud flows over on
the east side into the Firehole river, which it
reaches in cataract of boiling water, de-
scendng over Il surface OF the most gorgeous
colors. The spring presents the aspect Of an
acre and a quarter of water agitated by the
most intense heat. 1t boils and bubbles with
undesirable fury. Its temperature cannot
be taken at the centre. At the point where
the overflow takes place it reaches ! 20 Fab
renheit vast column of steam constantly
arises, which obscures the sight of everything
else, except at intervals, when momentary
views of this awful caldrOn are obtained.
When first brought to public attention in
1871, there was no suspicion of geyser ap.
peariug here, and il so continued for nine
years, until, in 1880, it was revealed to be a
Reyser surprising all others in volume and
power. Il played each day for two years,
and then ceased. Marvellous stories are told
of it during that time. Gen. Sheridan aud
| others reported to have seen rocks weighing
| 100 pounds hurled into the air and sent into
the surrounding territory, making it very dan
gerous to be in the vicinity. The body Of
water discharged was about 20 feet in diane
ter Four years ago this geyser ceased tc
flow, and the spring has since remained as il
was originally found, except that its area il
constantly increasing toward "Prismatic lake,
a short distance to the west, with which /
bids fair in time to be united. Accounts o.
this latest eruption will be awaited with in
| tereBt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

A party sent out by the geological survey,
under Capt Clarence Z. Dutton, United
States army, has made a complete survey of
Crater lake in Oregon, whose shores, with
the possible exception of one point on the
south, have never before been touched by the
feet of white men. The party's boats were
hauled 100 miles by mule teams, dragged by
a detail of soldiers up the snow-cad sides of
the ridge which surrounds the lake, and low
cred by ropes from the crest to the water
800 feet below. One hundred and sixty
soundings were made, the result of which
gave the general character Of the lake bot
tom. Two large subm rged cinder cones
we're found respectively 500 and 1900 feet
high, the rest of the bottom being fiat. Capt
Dutton believes this to be the deepest body
of fresh water on the continent. The great
est depth attained by the sounding line was
2005 feet Gas regards the origin of the ba-
sin, he writes to Director Powell, sit has |
think, been formed in much the same way as
the great Caderas of the Hawaiian islands,
by the melting of the foundations of the
original mountains and the blowing out of
the molten material in the form of light pun
ice and fine tufa"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

Within the last few centuries New England
has experienced several earthquakes of con-
siderable severity. The first occurred in
1855, the second in 1927, and the third in
1888. That in 1927 was followed by about
100 shocks extending over several years, The
centre Of the disturbance was in Newbury
port, Mass, and the shocks were Of such viO-
lence that the rumbling sound which accom-
panied them was loud enough 10 rouse peo-
pie from a sound sleep even after they had
become so used TO the occurrences that they
thought little Of them. The first shocks we're
the most marked, those following for mouths
Rfterward gradually decreasing in intensity.
In 7j5 Boston was shaken to such an extent
that people could keep their feet only with
difficulty Chimneys were toppled over, and
but for the fact that the houses were low and
Of wood, the destruction OF property and lost
of life would have been great A shock Of
equal severity at the present day would carry
death aud devastation in its path, owing tC
the ference in the character of the build
ings in the cities OF Eastern New England.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

A special from Topeka, Kan, says; For
several days parties have been searching on
Parsons creek, Washington county, for four
persons known AZ the wild family, consisting
of a man, woman, girl of about 10, and a
child. Yesterday the search ended in the
capture Of the entire family. The man, wom-
an and girl have black hair on their faces, and
the man has much hair on the body. That
on the girls face is very fine. The color OF
the faces Of all is Rshy gray. They cannot
talk, but the woman makes a peculiar noise,
something between a grunt and a groan,
which the girl appears to understand. On
top OF the heads of the man and woman are
slight evidences that they have been scalped.
Tue opinion prevails that they were scalped
by Indians years ago and became insane, and
have wandered in the woods ever since Sur
geons propose to perform an operation on the
party, in. the hope of restoring their minds.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
ne.ritntinnin TeNn,.

Rev. John Brown of Shsckleford county,
Tex, is in Chicago representing to the bust
ness men the needs of the people in the great
drouth region. He says that territory 800
miles wide and 800 long is totally destitute,
no rain whatever having fallen the past year,
and the crops being an entire failure. There
are fully 100, 600 families requiring immedi-
ate relief. The most of them immigrated to
their present homes when very poor, depend
ing upon crops for future payments and for
support. The terrible drouth this year has
deprived them of all support and rendered
them wholly unable to seed their farms. A
recent rain has rendered the land in good
condition for the fall sowing, and if the seed
be not sown soon the season will have passed.
Mr.. Brown is trying to raise a sufficient
amount to seed the farmers They estimate
that it will require $4,000 bushels of wheat
and lO, 900 bushels of corn and oats. The
Chicago board of trade, it is understood, will
take prompt measures for the relief of the
sufferers
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

A GshastIy Picture Of Life at Panama.
There are some gruesome sights sometimes
in this capital city of NJ. de L5ssepss Second
Republic. Sitting on your veranda late Mt
night, you see the door OF thu little adobe
house across the way open. The woman Of
the house, who lodges two or three canal en-
ploS "a, peers cautiously out into the street,
re-enters the house, aud when she comes ont
again drags something over the threshold,
across the narrow sidewalk, and leaves il ~
ing in the dirty street. When she closes the
door again there is no noise but the plash OF
the tide on the shale. Soon it grows
lighter buzzard drops szily down from
the roof of the Cathedral aud perches on the
something in the street. The outlines be-
come more distinct. You walk down, drive
away tho bird, who flies sulleny back to
his watchtower, and stand looking in the
quick dawn Of the tropics at what was ycster-
day a mana week before a strong man--a
month before a hopeful man, sailing out of
Hivre. He is dead Of the yellow fever. The
woman with whom he lodged might have
sent him to the companys hospital true,
but she did not know Just what forms or ex-
penses that might mean for her. She did
what she could, ~ she will tell the gossvs,
and no doctor could do more. When the fe-
yer came it was Gods judgment on these for
eigners He had but little in her house, and
what he had was surely hers. It could not be
called bi1 now. A man comes down the mar
row street. turns aside, avoids the corpse, and
goes on to his work By-and by, when many
more have passed, a wagon comes and stops.
Two men lift down from it a wretched broken
coffin, bound with knotted ropes and roll the
dead man in, face down as it happens. They
drive him to the pauper burial ground leave
him there, and take the coffin of again. This
is the seamy side of life in Panama. N. J.
| TfjbuDe Iefteg
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

One cannot but think, sometimes, how
strange a spectacle the wreck left on the
Isthmus by the attempt to build canal will
present to the twentieth century. Most OF
the machinery will be left, as much of II
now lies, embedded in mud and encrusted
with rust. Belgian locomotives confessedly
useless and already abandoned, lie canted on
broken tracks. With a shamefaced formali-
ty the engineer in charge has brushed over
the bright work with some whitewash. But
nothing could make those locomotives look as
II they were ever to be used again, and as
the moonlight falls on these whitened out
lines and hecks the vegetation growing up
about them with grotesque shadows, the en-
gines look like wretehed skeletons. One can
fancy the great clumsy dredges rottng at
their moorings, and the victorious mud slow
" covering their tank-like bulls. Aud when
the iangle has obliterated all the angles OF
M. de Les6eps's little scratch along the hill
tops of the Isthmus, the long arms OF the
ercayators will rise above the tree-tops like a
drownded mans hand above the water. AL
ready one can see in some abandoned por-
tions of the work wondering lizards summing
themselves upon the deserted pan-oars and
buzzards nesting on the derricks. The South
Sea bubble OF our century will only be re-
membered az people see its vestiges from car
windows of the Panama railroad. II the
birds of the air and the beasts OF the forest
could laugh, how they would laugh AZ they
come back to the streams from which Nj. de
Lesseps's miners frightened them away Will
dynamite. -Letter 10 N. y, Tribune.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

In sermon at Round Lake last week Sam
Jones thus told the story of Brother Grigger's
conversion; "Well, Brother Grigger was
converted at one of my old churches down
in middle Georgia. The minister told him if
he would do before he got religion what he
thought he would do after he got religion he
would have religion. Grigger joined the
church. He went home told his wife, and
says, Get down the Bible we're going to
have family prayer. Why are you going
to have family prayer before you have Tsl-
gion ? she asked. Grigger said he wanted
It and the minister said if he'd do before he
got it as he thought he'd do after he got it
he'd have it, Well, Grigger could not get
the idea into his head. But Grigger stuck to
it, and in few weeks Grigger was the finest
case of religion ever saw. 1t broke out all
over him."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
TerrIbIe WRECK Of a Coach.

A pleasure party of young men and WON
en-, gayly mounted on a tally-ho coach, left
Pottsvile Pa, last Friday afternoon to ride
over the Blue mountain. Right in the midst
of the hills, az the road wound along on the
edge of deep and precipitous defle, the
four horses took fright and ran, overturning
the coach, which went crashing and rolling
over and over down into the ravine John
Williams, 20, and George Crooks, 81, from
Reading, were killed Charles Murphy, 25,
Kate Clayton, 25, aud Carrie Holden of Potts
vile were fatally injured. Mary Higgins
alone escaped. The terrified horses dashed
down the mountain, and gave to the farmers
an idea of what had happened. party has
tily collected, and found the coach in the bot
tom of the ravine total wreck, aud the dead
and dying lying under ii.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
NO. 81.

claims adj dining, and he htd just proved NJ
on the former A day after his proof had
been made he was eating his evening meal in
his log shanty with a neighbor. Say, pard ~
he remarked, NOV I've got my proc npton
I'll have to move this house on to the home
stead claim, as it will be cheaper than putting
up another" Hardly were the words out Of
bis mouth when one Of those sudden, small
cyclones struck the shanty, aud strange AZ it
may seem, lifted the house oil the pr, Cnptou
and set il on the homestead without breaking
anything except a shaving cup IPahpetoH
(IlgI0f,g1 NfgrUy,U
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

The Probable Cause OF Earthquake s.
We must remember that we are dwelling
upon the surface Of little e1tiuguished sun,
which ages upon ages ago became covered
with 4 rocky crust through the gradual loss
of temperature, but which still retains in its
interior a remnant OF the pristine heat that
is slowly leaking out. Every schoolboy un-
derstauds that when a heated body cools it
shrinks in size. The earth does the same,
and "a the interior mass thus slowly contracts
the hardened crust settles upon ii. But the
crust cannot thus settle without breaking.
Far back in geological time when the cool
ing process was much more rapid than it is
now, the settling OF the crust broke aud con-
torted it with tremendous power, aud the
edges and sides of the cracked strata Of rock
were thrust up into mountain chains. Now,
when the cooling is very slow aud the conse-
quent contraction comparatively slight, noun
tans are no longer created by the stress up
on the settling crust but slow, almost imper-
ceptible changes of level in different parts
of the earth's surface result from it, So
slowly, in fact does the interior of the earth
contract at present that the settling Of the
crust is accomplished for the most part with
out the knowledge of its inhabitants. Yet it
does contract, and the careful observations of
earth tremors which have been conducted of
late years show that If a complete record of
the motions OF the earth q crust could be ob-
tanned, it would be shown to be slightly
trembling in some part of it's extent most of
the time. In the Charleston earthquake it
may be that the portion OF the rocky crust
concerned in the disturbance, having pre-
scented an unusual resistance to the strain of
internal contraction, finally yielded with II
| proportonately violent result. In that case
we may expect that after the present convul-
sion has completely subsidized a long time will
elapse before another severe earthquake &C
ours in the same region, and such is general
ly the history Of disastrous earthquake.
N Y Sun
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

The NINTH WHITE MAN TO Cross AFRICA
from sea to sea in the central regions has re-
Gently reached Zanzibar, and is now on his
way home. He ia Lieutenant Gleerup, who
for three years has been in the service OF the
International association. When his term Of
service expired, nine months ago, he Was at
Stanley Falls Station, on the Congo. He was
ut liberty to make a comfortable voyage down
the river on a steamer, and could have reach
cd the Atlantic in about month. He chose,
however, to make the toilsome eight months
march to Zanzibar with an Arab caravan de-
spatched by Tippu Tib the great Central AT
roan slave and ivory dealer. Three years on
the Congo had not impaired his vieor or dull
ed his appetite for African adventure. His
route was up the Congo to Nyangue, and then
almost east to Tanganyika and the Indian
Ocean
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
THE CHARLESTON EARTHQUAKE

THE SHOOK DESCRIBED ny ONE VINO EXPERT
ENoED 1r-scENEs AMONG THE NEdBoEs-
PHENOMENA OF THE DIsAsTER-THE THEo-
RIEs or 1Ts CAUSE.
As the first excitement over the Charleston
earthquake has subsidized and the actual facts
have been reached II seems that the first re-
ports of tho ruin of the city were hardly
overdrawn. While very few buildings were
thrown completely down, three out Of four
of all the buildings in the city are 80 far ru-
ined that they are unsafe and useless and will
have to be rebuilt The total loss is at least
$4,000, 600. It IL a terrible disaster to the
busy, thriving city Of 80, 900 inhabitants
with no mean pretensons TO commercial i'm
portance, but its people show excellent spirit
and contributions of money help are being
sent in freely from both south and north 1t
was estimated that up to Tuesday night one
week after the first shock, 100000 in mon
ey had reached the city and another hundred
thousand WAS on its way.
On Friday, Saturday aud Sunday nights
additional slight shock were felt which re-
newed or increased the fright of the people,
but feeling of confidence il gradually being
restored. The sensation Of Saturday was the
falling OF a shower of pebbles in the lower
part of the city. The condition of the walls
OF many buildings is such that fall Of rain
or a moderate wind would loosen them and
topple them over. The deaths up to Mon
day night resulting from the disaster were
LIP white people and % colored. Many
OF the people are living in tents or undei
rude shelters Of boards and cook their food
over fires made from the debris which fill
the streets.
We give below extracts and description
which convey general idea OF the ruiz
which has been wrought aud the phenoment
attending the disaster
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

AN ACCOMMODATING HURRICANE Eocen-
trio ~ these storms are, we maintain that
when II comes down to a genuine aoeommo-
dating hurricane Dakota takes the lead A
good example Of this occurred in this county.
John Eckers had pre- gmpton aud homestead
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-10

100 Doses One Dollar" is true only of Hoods sar-
saparilla aud it is an unanswerable argument As to
strength aud economy.