Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-04-11

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commercial port on the
HE lNS island of Shikoku. 1t is
Il m 0 S valuable to the
A .G@ island, and though very
N shallow and approached
II - by narrow, tortuous
Wa. channel open to / il G
whole fetch of the Pa
cific, it has been practica-
BILE for moderate-sized steamers. and
there used to be daily communication
between Kochi and Kobe and Osaka.
Its entrance is cursed by most Preacher
GUS, constantly shifting sand bar, which
moves to and fro and rises and falls nc
cording to the swell that comes in from
the Pacific, so that it is continual men
ace and injury to fishermen, merchants;
and farmers. Last August three typhoons
swept over Shikoku, which left this bar
a firm beach 300 yards long and fifty
yards wide, and from two to ten feet
above high-water mark The people
appealed to the Governor, who could do
nothing. There We're several engineer
ing schemes for dealing with the bar,
but they required time and money, both
of which were wanting. The oldest
inhabitant then remembered that a SINH
lar calamity occurred thirty-seven years
ago, and had been conquered by the
whole population turning TO and dig
ging channel. The whole population
accordingly now turned to and worked
on the beach for three days, at the end
Of which time they had dug canal
twenty-one feet wide and seven feet
deep and success seemed certain. On
the fourth day the south wind blew
again, and by evening the result of the
three days labor of the population was
entirely obliterated, ard they have now
''to wait patiently the more perfect
methods of the Doboku-kyol1u," OF Civil
Engineering Bureau.
A DISPATCH from Mono County, Cali
fornia, gives an account of the murder
of settler and four Italians by band
of Piute Indians. The Mono Lake
region is desolatc, sterile section,
much resembling the country around
the Dead Sea. The waters of the lake
are thoroughly impregnated with borax,
salt and magnesia, and the only animal
life found in it is sort of a worm, about
one-fourth of an inch in length, resemb-
ling in Appearances shrimp. On the west
ern shore of Mono Lake lived settler
named Louis Samman, n Sclayonian by
birth. He had resided there for over
twenty years, raising cattle on the
stunted pasturage around the lake, lead
ing lonely life. Occasionally he would
kill Piute and cast the body into the
alkaline waters of the lake, where it
would soon petrify. This fact was
well known to the whites residing III
that section, and the gentleman who
gives this information says that he has
seen four of these bodies calmly repos-
ing at the bottom of the lake. Samman's
avowed intention was to use the bodies
as soon as they became sufficiently
hardened. for hitching- posts and door
steps. 1t happened that body Of
Pintes strayed near the cabin ofSamman,
and in the clear waters of the lake near
by they saw the bodies Of their mur
dered brethren lying in the water under
going the process of petrifcation. They
became frenzied for revenge, and gong
to Sammans cabin took him out Che
was alone) and shot him through the
heart. They then went several miles to
a place where four Italians were, and
killed three of them, one escaping to
Bodie and alarming the citizens, telling
them at the same time not to go out
there for few days, as the Indians had
sworn to kill any white man that came
out. The county officials have started
to capture the Indians.
THERE is a case of human ossihcation
at Glen's Falls, N. T., in the person OF
Mrs. i. Palmer, of Clinton. Mrs. Pal
mer fell a victim TO her peculiar disease
about eight years ago. Some three
months ago she was brought to Glen's
Falls by the Rev. George Eddy, OF that
village, for the purpose of giving her
the benefit of ''faith cure, " under his
own treatment. Locally the case is
know as that of the retrltied woman,
and it is causing much comment among
medical men. All her joints except one
shoulder are perfectly rigid, and her
whole body is as stiff as bone. Her
lower limbs have stiffened in bent ro-
sition. while her arms lie helpless, but /
as though at case, by her Sides Her
laws are securely locked, but as some OF I
her teeth are gone she manages to take I
food and 10 carry on all necessary con I
yersation. As if to aggravate her condi- /
ton, she is totally blind, and yet she IS
of cheerful disposition, and especially /
enjoys having people tax TO- 70 ner as maT.
ried some years ago and was tnen Ia
good health, but after she became thus
disabled her husband went to Connecti-
cut AID procured a divorce, Mrs.
Palmer's mother left small fortune.
Her sisters waived their rights, thus en-
abling the afflicted woman to have every
comfort possible to her conai'io on,,, It.
case of Justification as ever came under
their notice. Her mind doe not appear
TO be at all affected. During the pro
DRESS on Of her disease she has taken par
f6cular pleasure in composing verses e
and her memory Is so tenacious that she
can mentally frame poem anu Il, olcts'le
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