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The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09
THE COMMODORE" SIGNED.
A Good story About Old Vanderbilt and n
Revolver.


In the days OF the California gold
fever old Commodore" Vanderbilt
owned a fast line or steamers between
New YORK and Aspinwall, at which
place they connected with line run
ming 10 San Francisco One day,
while the boom was on, Commodore
G. X. Garrison made contract with
Vanderbilt TO buy the fast line. But
while the contract was preparing for
signature and transfer Vanderbilt
received information that caused him
to believe that he had sold out too
cheap 80 when the papers were
brought 10 him for signature he de-
.lined TO ratify the bargain.
Four days after this Garrison came
into Nanderbilt's Office again, Sew
eral people were There. but he waited
until they had all gone. Then he
took from his pocket a roll OF papers
Commodore Vanderbilt" he said In
calm, even tone, "fve brought you
that contract selling your line OF
ships from New York TO Aspinwall
and from Panama TO San Francisco
for you TO sign this morning. Please
look over IL and see II IL Is correct"
and Garrison unfolded the papers and
laid them down before Nanderb It,
The old mans face turred as red
as fire He showed the papers TO one
side, and in voice hoarse with an
ger, said: "By this and by that l
thought told you the other day that
! wouldn't ratify that contract and
l won't Now, that's the end OF II" "
and ne roughly threw the papers to-
ward Capt. Garrison.
The latter picked them mp of the
floor and arranged them without a
word. He then started for the door.
But instead OF going out he locked IT,
put the key in his pocket and walked
back To Vanderbilt who was watch
ing him with some curiosity. lie
carefully spread out the papers again
before the other man, and drawing a
six-inch Derringer he cooked IL and
held IL within n foot OF Vanderbilts
right ear.
Commodore Vanderbilt" said he
slowly, ''do you see that clock on the
mantcl? 1t Is now five minutes tC
IL. II, when that clock has finished
the stroke OF IL, you have not signed
that contract, by c., l will blow
your brains all over this floor"
There was dead silence Wander
bilt turned very pale He knew his
man. The clock sounded tick, tick.
1t was three minutes, then two, then
one minute or IL. Good God"'
thought Mr.. Vanderbilt 'must i be
murdered right here with no chance
for my lfe?" The wheels OF the
clock began their whir preparatory u
striking the hour Before the first
stroke had rung out Vanderbilt seized
the pen before him and by the third
note OF the hour he had written his
name TO the contract.
Then Garrison uncocked the deadly
pistol and put IL In his pocket He
took the papers, walked TO the door
and unlocked IL.
Commodore, he said, IL shall
never tell OF what occurred here this
morning"
From that time, though they
passed each other daily on the street
! and sat I'm the same board OF direc
tors, the two men never exchanged a
word
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09
Valuable EOH skins.

The skin OF silver fox, otherwise
called black fox, varies in price from
$50 20 800, The whole number oh
tained annually amounts 20 only
2, 900, OF which amount !, 900 are inn
ported into England. La Hountan
states that in his time skin Of the
silver fox was worth its weight In
gold. ard an unusually fine skin has
been sold on the London market for
$3.50. Boston Globe.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09
Drafts During the Civil War.

There were five drafts in the
Northern States The first was or
dered August 4, 1862 The second
draft was authorized by the act OF
March 3, 1863; IL began in July OF
that year, and caused the terrible
draft or July riots In New York CITY,
Boston, and elsewhere. The third
draft egan 10 April, 1854; the fourth
In August the fifth and last in De-
cembcr OF Tn same year.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09

BRISTOL, Pa. Dec. 6-Leedom's big
carpet works, which shut down five weeks
ago on account of dull times, have again
started up, giving employment to 900
rprsOns
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09
snow in south Carolina.

COLUMBIA. s g, Dec. 6.-There was
q light fall OF snow and slest here yestsr
day.
The Olneyville tribune. (Providence, R.I.) 1893-189?, 1893-12-09

THERE is certain fascination
about watching men work that NO
loafer can Withstand.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
OFFICES ODDLY WON.
The Applicants Attracted Notice by Dol
Ereapfrf. Thfu..

The Applicants Attracted Notice by Doing
Eccentric Things
People sometimes obtain work from
Uncle Sam in peculiar ways, says the
san Francisco Argonaut. Not so very
long ago a poetesS of fashion in a far
western state became an office-seeller
adopting a novel method of pursuing
her object. She appealed To United
States senator. bomharding him with
poetry by mail Once week regularly
ne received from her a long letter in the
shape of poem. Sometimes he got
two week. The poetry was probably
the worst that any poetess of passion
has ever produced.
AT first he paid no attention TO il:
but at length ii began To prey upon his
mind. When this sort of thing had
gone on for five or six months he be-
came desperate. So finally lac wrote To
her. saying: Your poems have proved
to me that you are unfit for any public
office. Nevertheless. if you will cease
writing and sending them 10 me will
get you job And he did. II is re-
corded that man, appointed sixth
auditor of the treasury. subject 10 ex-
animation. was asked To state the dis
tance of the moon from the earth. His
written answer was simply: Not near
enough To affect the functions of a
sixth au ditor. lie passed
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
FOREIGNERS OF NOTE.

Mr.. GLADSTONE is 10y no means the
oldest member of the commons, in spite
of his So years. Charles Nilliers is the
father of that body, having completed
his Goth year January ..
REV. JOSEPH JAMES CHEssEMAS, the
Baptist minister recently elected presi-
dent of the republic of Liberia, is a
colored man of the most pronounced
type. and is very effective orator and
preacher.
MNfE. DE LEssEPs, so says a fashiona-
BILE London paper. has recently written
10 a friend in England saying that her
husband has constantly remarked of
late that, like Napoleon Ill, he will
die in England
MoNTAGU WILLIAMS, the eminent
English barrister who died recently,
was so overcome with stage fright
when he made his first speech in court,
in a horse stealing case. that he would
have given up the profession but for
his wife's encouragement to persist.
BERNHARDT has sent a diamond ring
and photograph of herself in the role of
Cleopatra TO the English lady who cap
tured and restored to its owner the ac-
tress' serpent last summer. The snake
had escaped and this lady, while out
drawn the more readily To madame's
''cher python" by the gold chain and
jeweled ring attached 10 il.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
BlUE-EYED INDIANS.
Supposed "a BE Desreaded from Wrecked
Swedish Sailors.

Swedish Sailors.
The Mayas. inhabiting the Sierra
Madre mountains in the lower part of
Sonora, are supposed to be the de-
sccndantS of the crew and passengers
of a Swedish vessel wrecked on the
Mexican coast long centuries before the
birth of Columbus. They have. accord
ing u the ST. Louis Globe Democrat. a
tradition that their ancestors came in
II great canoe over the big salt water
many hundreds of moons ago" They
have never been conquered by the Mex
leans.
They are nominally under Mexican
rule, but are in reality governed by
their own chiefs. Whenever the Mex
lean government interfereS with them
they take up arms and they have got
the best of every scrimmagc thus far.
The Iaquis are their neiehbors and
these two war-lille tribes have reciproc-
ity reduced to a science. Whenever the
government interfcres with the Yaquis
the Mayas come to their assistance and
vice versa. Mexican troops cannot
stand before MayaS or white Indians.
They are the most desperate fighters on
the North American continent. Like
their ncighbors, the GaquiS. they are
mostly Catholics Although quite prim-
tive, almost savage, in their mode of
life. the standard of morality Is high.
They live principally by the chase, but
cultivate some corn and garden truck in
the valleys. The men are large, we'll
formed and some of the women remark
ably handsome blondes. They all re-
tain traces of their Swedish ancestry
and the 'linguists say that their Ian
guage evidences North European an
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
FLIGHT OF THE CROWS.
Armies of Birds In the Sky Fastening to
the south.


the south.
The preliminary gathering of crows
before they take their flight To the
southland at the approach of winter is
always interesting to me-" said trav-
eier To- ST Louis Globe-Democrat man.
Il do not think that they take their flight
from this section of the country. as the
winters here are not severe enough
But from the Dallotas and the south
crn Canadian provinces they leave in
great numbers after the first severe
frosts. One cold, frosty morning |
arose and looked out of my bedroom
window in Red Eric Oak, down into
a neighboring cornfield that was
bounded 10y rail fence and from which
even the dry shocks had been removed.
Only the Stubble, bleak and frost-cov-
cred. remained.
The village of Red Eric, Is To-
cally famous for crows. They gather
about there in large numbers and OBJ
tain considerable food from a neighbor-
ing wild rice marsh. | noticed that
the tiers of rails, rising seven in num-
ber, were thickly sprinkled with crows,
perched about and cawing most vOcifer-
ously. l was rather amused at the
spectacle. and stood enjoying it. when
/ observed a long line of crows APP
preaching from over a neighboring
patch of forest. These also settled
down within the incloSure. | watched
for several hours and continually OBJ
served great fioclIs of crows To come
from all directions and gather in the
field. BY noon the fences and ground
fairly swarmed with the birds. 1t
seemed To- me that there were hundreds
of thousands. Then no more came for
awhile. The denouement of the whole
affair was great flapping of wings,
and, division by division. the great gath
cring eft in harmonious order. 1t took
them fully half an hour before all Were
under way. When the last flock or di-
vision took wing l looked To the south
and saw the line dimly fading away
into space. Then | knew they were
migrating. and | fully understood the
beauty of that harmonious simile:
Like the flight of birds
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
THE FIRST PAPER.
From China Its Use Spread Over Asia
and Thencc into Europe

From China Its Use spread over Asia
and Thence into Europe
The first invention of paper manu-
factured from vegetable pulp is lost in
the mist of antiquity, says the Argosy.
1t appears To have been first introduced
into Europe from the east through the
Arabians and Persians.
The use of paper, according To the
modern application of the word, had
become common in China at an eX-
tremely remote period, and Gibbon tells
us in a note that its manufacture was
introduced from China into Samarcand
G5l Il. c., and thence spread over Eu-
rope. The Chinese are said To have So
great a variety of paper that each prov
ince possesses its own peculiar make
The sort commonly known as silk pa
per is fabricated from the inner bark of
the bamboo or mulberry tree. The rice
paper, so called. is prepared from the
inner portion of the stems of 4 hardy
leguminous plant that grows plentiful
" about the lakes near Calcutta and
also in the island of Formosa, whence
the Chinese import it in large quanti-
ties The stems of the plant being cut
into the proper lengths for the sheets
the pith is cut spirally into thin slice,
then fiattened, pressed and dried.
The Arabians appear first To have in
troduced the manufacture of paper into
Spain. On the oldest specimen eX-
tant of this Spanish manufacture a
treaty of peace between the king of
Aragon and a neighboring potentate,
A. ID. 1875, is transcribed.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
EBENSBURG. Pa, FRIDAY. APRIL 7. Is
GETTING OFF THE STREET GAR.
A Reason Assigned for the woman's
Habit of Stepping the Wrong Way.

Habit of Stepping the Wrong Way.
Many women descend from a horse
car in-cNactly the wrong way. says the
New York sun, that is, they grasp
the handrail of the platform and face
away from the horses as they step off.
instead of grasping the handrail at
tached To the body of the car and fac
ing 10 the front. as one should do. A
conductor who runs a car upon what
may be called trunk line, that is, a
line running north and south upon one
of the busiest avenues, says that he OBJ
serves no substantial change or i'm
provement in women in this respect,
notwithstanding the fact that more or
less has been printed on the subject
He mentioned as an illustration a
young woman who had ridden upon his
car for number of years. Her occupa-
tiCn is one requiring especial inteli-
gcnce. bat She gets off a horse car now
just as she did at first.
The conductor, however, ascribed
this habit on the part of women. not to
any pervcrSeneSS, nor even to thought
lesSneSs, but tn Il very simple original
cause. The driver of the ear must not
when he stops, permit the rear plat
form 10 obstruct the crossing; he il
more likely To run past it little than
he is To halt upon it or even upon the
edge of il. The conductor said that
when the ear did stop with the plat
form over the crossing, a woman would
perhaps step straight off. not turning
in either dircction; but that when, as
more frequently happened. the plat
form was just beyond the crossing. the
woman would grasp the platform rail
and step facing away from the horses.
50 that she might take the fewest
possible steps upon the rougher. and
perhaps dIrtier, street pavement, and
reach as quickly as possible the
smoother. dryer and cleaner crosswalk
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
Two Facts About a Ring.

An impressionable young gentleman
in a certain country town recently met
charming girl whose grace and
beauty took his heart 10y storm. While
conversing with her he made a discov-
cry which he fondly hoped would en-
able him to make at one brilliant
stroke an elegant proof of his ready
Wit and his boundless affection, Glanc-
ing at a modest band of gold that en-
circled her fair finger. he remarked:
''Sweet damsel, / pray you present me
with the ring you wear, for | assure
You il exactly resembles my love for
you-it has no end"
Indeed, SIR" promptly replied the
maiden, you must excuse me If / keep
the ring, for it exactly resembles also
my love for you-it has no beginning"
Jewellers Circular
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
Justly Indignant

At q recent corner stone laying in
Newark the corner stone was swinging
in the grasp of powerful crane above
the hole left for it to fit in. Down in
this hole an irishman was fussing
about with a bed of mortar. Suddenly
portion OF the tackle slipped and
down came the stone with a run II
lit on the Irishman's back. and every
body expected To see him fiattened ont
thin as paper when TIE stone was lift
ed half a minute later. No sooner was
the stone clear of the hole. though,
than the man sprang up like n jaclx-in-
the-box- He was covered with mortar
from head to foot and was coughing.
sneezing and splitting TO get it out of
his pose ana mouth. As soon as he
could speak he addressed the men man.
aging the crane: Here, now Here
now!" he yelled. ''Oi can stand a Joke
as well as any mon, but any OF yees
can have me job afther thot," and he
put on his coat and went away, per.
suaded the highly respectable assem-
blage had put up a joke on him Chi.
cago News
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
FAST SKATING IN HOLLAND.
The Dutchman Doesn't Look Handsome,
But He Goes IA Lively Gait.


The average Dutchman of the south.
though he can skate very well. looks
rather foolish on the ice His short legs
and wide breeches are admirable ad-
juncts To his nose. ms thin. cooked
beard and the lumpishness of his ex-
preston, says Chambers Journal To
be sure. this breadth makes him look
important. but if he were less muscu-
lar ii would be sad hindrance to him
in battling with the wind, which in win
ter is apt to make skating in one di-
rection something of trial. The Fries
lander, however, is taller, better pro-
portioned and in all respects hand
some fellow. The yellow beard he some
times wears seems TO put him at once
on a footing of affinity with the other
members of that respectable Anglo
Saxon family 10 when we ourselves be-
long quite much as his provincial
speech and his blue eyes. He is most
masterful creature when once he has
put on those quaint, old-fashioned
skates of his, and thinks nothing of
making "A score of miles from one viii
lage To another before you and ] are
ont of bed. As for the cold. what cares
he for 1t? He knows he must RELY on
that lusty circulation of his to keep
him from being benumbed, though he
clothe ever 50 lightly, and seems more
rcgardful for his head-which seal
skin cap takes care of-than of his
well-shaped body. a Friesland canal
in winter i a. lively as anything can
be. The ice may not be very good or
of unquestionable strength. but no
sooner are the boats penned in and the
broken pieces of ice sufficiently welded
To allow him to skate between them
than the sport begins. 1t is
feat of honor To be the first
in the district to cross the canal
when the wintry season il in its youth
The name of the bold lad is remem-
bered for week or two, and have no
doubt his pluck stands him in good
stead in the esteem of the cherry
checked damsels of his province. whose
eyes dance past one so brightly when
the lee festival il in full swing and
journeying is all done on skates.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
"UNCIVIl KINDNESS"
Tenderness OF Heart But Partially Con
ceaIed by RouEhne-s OF Manner

Tenderness OF Heart But Partially Con-
ceaIed by Roughne-s OF Manner.
Robert Louis Stevenson, in his book
of essays entitled Across the Plains"
gives an example of what he calls the
''uncivil kindness" of Americans-that
rough friendliness which. in its contra
dictOry character, is so bewildering To
the foreigner newly landed. He says:
1T was Immediately after | had left
the emigrant train, and ! am told that
L looked like Il man at deaths door, SO
much had the long journey shaken me.
! sat at the end of the car, and, the
catch being broken and myself sick and
feverish, | had To hold the door open
with my foot for the sake of air.
In this attitude my leg barred the
newsboy from his box of merchandise
l made haste to let him pass when OBJ
served that he was coming; but was
busy with book, and SO, once or
twice, he came upon me unawares.
''On these occasions he most rudely
struck my foot aside, and though | my
self apologized, as if 10 show him the
way, he answered me never Il word |
chafed furiously, and fear the next
time IT would have come to words; but
suddenly | felt touch upon my shoul-
der, and a large, juicy pear was put
into my hand.
1t was the newsboy, who had OBJ
served that l was looking i'll, and SO
made me this present out of tender
heart
For the rest of the journey l was
petted like sick child; he lent me
newspapers, thus depriving himself of
his Legitimate profit on their sale, and
came repeatedly To sit by me and cheer
me mn -
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
INDUSTRIAL NOTES.

THE rice crop in the south this year is
estimated 10 be 225, 900, 900 pounds
The anthracite coal fields produce
more than 1900. 900 tons of coal year.
THE output of American manufacto-
ries for the past year was s7,2l5, 900, 900
in value.
LAST year 100. 1893, 76s feet of lumber
passed through the port of Bangor, Me;
lO5,a44,S77 feet was spruce, LASS, ,O7s
hemlock, and the rest pine.
TOBACCO has been successfully raised
on the banks of the Androscoggin river
in Maine, and one man is preparing 10
cultivate il the coming year on a large
scale
The earliest machine used for making
screws was invented by David Willlin-
son of Rhode Island. for which lac OBJ
tanned patent in 1874. There were in
1870 in the United States eighteen es-
Establishments engaged in manufacturing
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
MEDICAL SCIENCE.

EMETICs have no effect on horses,
which have no gall bladders to be acted
upon
A CASE Of bleeding through the sound
skin is the subject Of European medi-
cal report.
THE imperial cholera commission in
Germany announces its discovery that
wine-claret or hock-will kill the bac-
I'LL of cholera in a few minutes. Tea
will kill them in an hour.
ALL the motions and sensations of the
various parts of the body are repre-
sented in the surface of the brain as on
a map. Thus there is "a separate brain
area necessary for sight, another for
hearing, another for the motion OF the
fingers and so on
NUTMEGs have strong narcotic prop
critics. A pint of tea made from two
nutmegs, if drunk by an invalid, Will
produce sleep of many hours dura-
tion. The symptoms will be about the
same as those occasioned by opium.
Nutmegs in the quantity of two or
three drachms will cause both stupor
and delirium.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
FOREIGN NEWS NOTES.

NEW scheme for the determination
OF rabbits is being tried in Australia.
Cartridges generating poisonous gas are
put in the burrows. the holes are closed,
and the rabbits are killed by the poison
IN the smoke. not by suffocation
ToBACCo and snuff have long been sup
piled To the paupers in the Lambeth
workhouse. and now the board of
guardians has passed a resolution:
That the old women in the workhouse
who do not take snuff be supplied with
sweets"
RUSSIAN female convicts in Siberia
are in future, il a proposal made by the
ministry of justice To the imperial
council is ratified. To be exempted from
logging and wearing leg irons. Re
strictions in diet and solitary confine-
ment are To he substituted.
AMERICAN BEAR and Eagle Elk, two
Sioux Indians, who were taken 10 sgd
ney, y. =. W. as part of a sort of Wild
West show, are in the hands Of the Po-
lice at that place. They broke their
contract, then went broke themselves,
and soon joined the profession of
tramps- --
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
PRETTY FANCIES.

DRESDEN china tea bells are very
pretty.
JUGs are now especially designed for
hot milk.
MIRRORS of Venetian mosaic come for
dressing tables.
DECORATED china pots are intended To
hold condensed milk.
BONE dishes are now regarded as ne
cessity. and are in many charming de-
vices
RosE jars Of crystal and gold of Doul-
ton and royal Worcester are now indis-
pensable.
EVERY sort of article for table use,
excepting knives and forks, is found in
Copenhagen ware.
DRESDEN and Worcester candelabra
are very popular for the aesthetic ban
quets now in vogue.
TOAST racks of fancy china are new
for the breakfast table. and share pop
ularity with those Of silver eweler's
Circ11lar
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1893-04-07
a COUNTRY'S HEROES.

SERGT. CROCKETT, of the United States
colored infantry. claims to have been
the last man wounded by a confederate
bullet in the civil war
THE famous five-hundred-dollar sword
which was presented TO Gen. Il. NJ
Prentiss, ''the hero of Shiloh" was re-
Gently purchased from a New York
pawn-shop for fifty-five dollars.
CAPT. JoHN ADAM COOPER is the
youngest veteran of the Mexican war,
having enlisted at the age of twelve
He is also the pioneer horse-car driver
of San Francisco, having been i'm the
business twenty-nine years.
A. +. PARKER, a street-car conductor
in Oakland, Cal, who took part in the
march with Wolseley across the desert
to Khartoum, To relieve Stanley, is the
fortunate possessor of two medals for
bravery on the battlefield, one given by
the queen, the other by the khedive of
Egypt.