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Evening journal., 1894-11-03

The Parnasse Entered at Marcus Hook.
The Norwegian barque Psrnasse, Cap
tain Jacob Nelson, COS tons burden in
ballast, was entered ia this port yester
day She will load at Marcus II ook with
Evening journal., 1894-11-03

Now Performing n Double Function.
A New York firm is repairing and i'm
proving the organ OF 81. Johns Church.
James Y. Roberts has given up his
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The County Clerk Hears of Another
Imaginary Estate.


Questions regarding imaginary or lost
estates seem to be all the rage now in the
probate department Of the County Clerks
Office.
Within the past few weeks Judge Coffey
has been the recipient of many anxious
inquiries respecting estates that he never
heard of. and now it is the County Clerk
himself who IS coming in for a snare OF
the honors. Only Yesterday the following
communication was received by County
Clerk Haley from an unknown CORE
spondent who is Solicitous OF discovering
whether or not he has fallen heir to an
estate:
NEW BEDFORD, Mass, Jan. %, 1894.
To the CitV Clerk of San FrGrcisc0-DEAR
SIR: VIII you please look over your record and
see II you have the death of John Ormes. He
lett New Bedford In 1867, Tor San francisco,
and was heard from in he first i've or six years
that he was there, aud he has not been heard
from since. IL you have his death Will you
please send me his death certificate, or II you
have any record of him whatever Will you
please send 10 me, and II you fail 10 have any
account OF him Will you please give this notice
on the other half sheet OF paper TO some colored
person, To be given TO the pastor OF the A. Nj. E.
Church. i would like to bear from you as soon
as possible, as 1t is business of im ortance.
Yours most truly, WILLIAM II. MING,
300 Middle street. New Bedford, Mass.
Attached To this communication was the
following notice:
NEW BEDFORD. Mass Jan. &c, 1894
To the Pastor of the 4. ~ Il. Chatrch-DEAR
SIR AND BROTHER: VIII you please be so
kind as 10 READ this notice to your congregation
NOTICE.
Can any one give any information OF the
whereabouts of John Ormes? He left New
Bedford about 1862 for San Francisco and has
not been heard from since the first fve J ears
and Information concerning him Will be thank
fully received. Yours most truly.
WILLIAM Ii. KING,
800 Middle street. New Bedford, Mass.
Needless to say, neither the County
Clerk nor the Probate Judges knows any,
thing whatever Of the estate In question.
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1t is difficult thing for man who spent
four years in active campaigning to tell on
the spur of the moment what he considers
the bravest deed that came under his OBJ
servation during that time.
l have no doubt but that il j gave the
time to it, fol- it requires time to recall
events after thirty years. that l could
name hundred men connected with so
many daring incidents, and 1t would be
difficult, if not impossible, to tell which
was the bravest.
think my memory OF Grants. or was it
Meade's, campaign from The Wilderness
to the James, is more vivid than any other,
for IL was useless struggle. battle for
weeks Other fights l recall as single.
lurid picture, but this was one long piano.
rama of blood.
The terrific and to my mind uDD necessary
slaughter at Cold Harbor is marked in that
campaign by an incident that comes as
wildly to my memory now as if the event
were of yesterday. and which must always
fash DIP when recall the war as the most
gallant explOit-the most dramatic and
thrilling contest ever witnessed.
l belonged at this time to the Twenty
fourth New I ork Cavalry. and as we had
not been able to secure mounts we fought
as infantry down to Petersburg.
If there is any other contest in history
where more than 10000 men, friend and
foe, fell inside of twenty minutes, it is IN
known to me, and, if such there be. 1
should like TO see it contrasted with the
terrific assault and bloody repulse Of our
troops at Cold Harbor.
1t was Immediately after our failure to
carry out the order of the general COM
manding, though the failure. as our losses
prove, was not due to 2 want of energy or
courage, that the incident in mind hap
pened. The enemy, elated by the repulse
of the Union assault, swarmed over their
works. and it looked for time as If they
were going to make counter-charge.
This belief was strengthened when, with
that ringing yell that distinguished the
enemy when making a charge, battery of
horse artillery gallnped to the front of
their line about 200 yards, unIimbered in
fine style. and made ready for action.
| was hugging the ground with my men
about that time, for it seemed Git always
does seem so) that we were directly in the
line of the enemy's fire, when l heard a
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formed the impassive colonel into a demon
and the roar of artillery intoxicated him,
but he never lost his head. | was stand
ing, bride in hand, near the colonel, W hen
orr advance came Gathering, back reporting
yankees in front I'LL you can't rest!'
On the in slant Colonel Grenfel leaped into
the saddle and shouted: mount men and
follow mev'
l obeyed him. supposing the hundreds of
men about would follow our example, but
a backward glance as we neared the
enemy's riie-plts showed there were less
than fifty riders IN the charge. We jumped
the pits and broke up the men in blue, but
they quickly rallied aud formed behind
us. We dashed oE, but 1t was to find a
stronger line in reserve and artillery TO the
left.
The enemy was shouting Surrender"
with uncomplimentaTy remarks as TO our
ancestry added, and the only possible
avenue of escape was over high rail- fence
TO the right.
Again shouting Follow mep Grenfel
led his horse at the fence. but 1T was too
high 10 leap. Quick as fash and under a
terrible fire he flung himself from the sad
die, tore down panel and called 10 US TO
go through. We were quick to obey and
make for our own lines. The cOlonePs
horse was killed. but when he Joined us he
wiped his bald brow and said coOlly: "Ah.
my lads, that was a deevlish nawsty placeW
THOMAS l.. RUSSELL.
Convrfqhted
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longed to his corps, halted near our bat
terry. There was with him spare horse,
from which / inferred one of the staff had
been dsmOunted. Calling Sim Brown.
who had been smoking under tree, the
general pointed to the horse in question,
and said:
!, "Here. my. man; hold this horse here for
the present"
Yes, sir" responded Sim, as he took the
bride with one hand and saluted with the
other.
"We may need him. Don't move from
here. You understand"
Yes, SIR" and Sim took a more secure
hold OF the bride.
The general and his staff galloped away,
and lew minutes after we were COM
pelled by the changing lines, as well as an
order from Lees chief of artillery, Gen.
eral Alexander think, to move farther { O
the rear.
We forgot Sim Brown in the hurry and
excitement, and 1t wasn't I'LL we had taken
another position 300 yards back that
thought of him. He had literally con-
strued his orders to stay where he was.
and there he stood under the trees, with
the bride under his arm and smoking his
corncob pipe as pacidly as if there were
not 100000 men In death graphic all about
him.
That part Of the field was soon swept nv
a tornado OF shots, and the LINES of the
trees above Sim Brown came crashing
down, evidently without disturbing him.
we shouted and motioned to him TO ioin
us. but il he heard. he did not heed us.
After about an hour, be could be seen
siIting down, as we supposed, to rest, with
his back against tree. 1t was near sun
down wnen We were ordered back to our
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CAPTURE OF A GUERRILLA.

Among the guerrillas who in '63 and ga
made the Cum berland plateau in Tennes.
see a land of desolation and terror.
Colonel Dunk Cooper stands conspicu-
Gus. This ruffian was Southern, it was
said, in his sympathies. yet he never had
the manhood 10 enlist in the Confederate
army, and he was quite as ready, il he
could make by it, TO rob and murder a
straggler in gray as in blue.
In March. 1864. Colonel Miner, then in
command at Columbia, Tenn. determined
to use every means in his power to cal ture
or Kill this Dunk Cooper A reward was
placed on the mans head, and scouting
parties. had command of one, were sent
into the mountains to find him, but all
without effect
COOPER was a hero and ideal to his
equally laWless nelghbors, and through
the information obtained from these and
his entire familiarity with every mountain
trail he was enabled to elude pursuit, and
to laugh at every step taken for his cap
ture.
Colonel Miner sent a foraging detail 10
Swan Creek early in the month, and along
with the wagons was bright young fellow
named Stovall. a private III the Fiftieth
Illinois Infantry, who had been provided
with a good mount for this particular
work. There were twenty troopers of the
Seventh Pennsylvania with the wagons.
and StOvall. with six of these were search
ing for fodder over Swan River when they
unexpectedly came on four men dressed in
butrernnt. leiSurely riding toward the
mountains.
AS soon as the men in butterDut saw
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ringing cheer, the crash of heavy wheels,
the snortiug and pounding of artillery
horses urged to gallop, and. above ali.
the battery bugler sounding the advance
A gap was made in our lines, and
through this Battery 3 of the Second Ar
tillery fairly flew to the front.
\ L couldn't understand 1t, for TO me it
looked as if the battery was charging into
the eDemy'S lines unsupported; but when
within less than 500 yards of the Confed-
crate guns the halt sounded, and in a way
that thrilled our hearts and delighted our
souls the Union guns formed for action
and the horses moved to the rear
L have read and heard Of things being
done quicker than the act could be de.
scribed." This was one of them.
Two minutes could not have elapsed
from the time Battery B plunged through
our lines, till it had opened fire on the
Confederate guns.
And now followed the first and only
artillery duep' I had ever seen, though
soldiers hear and read good deal about
such things; indeed, doubt if the records
OF the war furnish parallel case.
Before and after the assault, the artil-
lery and musketTy firing was ceaseless
and was going tG add appalling" but no
mere noise could appall men whOxhad par
tlclpated IN that campaign up to this time
There was still some desultory firing
away to the right and left, out, as if by
mutual consent, LDe men IN blue and gray
within sight of those two batteries, leaped
TO their feet, and forgot their own rules in
the magnificent struggle of those gallant
and well-matched contestants.
They were less than three hundred wards
apart, and soon all we could see was the
vivid flashing of the fire, through the ris-
Ing banks of silyery-white powder smoke.
But we could hear the crash of the shells
and the roar of the guns. and high above
all the shrill yell of the Confederates and
the hoarse cheer OF the Yankee gunners.
After six or eight minutes, that seemed
like so many hours. the fire slackened: a
sudden breeze sent the smoke drifting to
the west, and then deep cheer of eXulta-
ton rang out from the Threats of the ten
thousand men in blue, who had been
eagerly watching the duel
Every Confederate gun was disabled.
four of the limbers had blown up. the
horses were in CHASTITY heaps, but still a
few gallant men 10 gray stood defiantIy
amid the ruins of their battery.
Our men suffered severely. but thew
brought back all their guns. and dis
tinctly recall tall sergeant, who sat on
his horse. with the blood flowing over his
face from shell wound in the head. and
who, as he turned TO ride back, shook his
hand at the Confederates, and shouted:
''Set 'em up ON the other alley,-you!'
a. G. p. Brown.
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his horse fell. Before the guerrilla could
remount Stovall was On him shouting
surrender"
Coopers companion refined in and raised
his pistol 70 fire, but shot from Stovalls
revolver sent him reeling from his horse,
and then the young Illinoisan was alone
with the desperate outlaw.
Cooper tried to get out his pistol, but the
hammer caught iu his belt. Then he drew
a long knife and MADE for his determined
enemy. lie was scarcely two yards away
when Stovall fired again, the bullet cut
ting along the outlaws scalp and bringing
him to the ground.
l had come down from the hill with fifty
men from Swan Creek with the feeling
that all the cavalry in the army could no.
capture Dunk Cooper. When | saw young
Stovall coming back to the wagon with
TWO prisoners | was delighted to find that
one OF them was the wretch who had led
me such long ride and who kept me
awake for many an hour planning his cap
ture. On this occasion the gallant young
IllinOisan proved to be the right man in
the right place. q. II. FIZGIBBONS
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HE OBEYED ORDERS.

We soldiers from the extreme South de-
lighted in distinctive military names for
our organizations. ! have noticed that the
Federals whenever they gave particular
name to regiment it was as a rule that
OF man, as 1.-THE Duryee Zuaves." 1.-The
Harris Light Cavalry" "Rnsh's Lancers''
and so Cd, while our organizations took
The names of places. This is why the
battery with which / served from the first
to the last of the civil war was known as
''The Donaldson Cannoneers." in honor OF
the town across the river from New Or
leans where we were recruited, before
draft was heard of in the South or bounty
in the North.
''Sim" Brown belonged to our battery.
When 1 first set eyes on him he was a man
about thirty. full-bearded, stoeky- built.
reticent as the proverbial clam and as de-
void of nerves as an oyster. Sim spoke
but little. possibly because he had nothing
to say, though | am aware that garrulity
is not an evidence of ideas. If he had any
secrets he kept them to himself. He had
no warm friends and no enemies, except
the boys in blue. He did what he was
told, never more. never less, and he was
never elated by success nor depressed by
disaster. If he was ever actually fright
ened, as some of the rest of US we're at
times, Sim Brown kept the secret of his
weakness tucked up In his own heart and
took 1t with him to the grave.
1t was our good fortune, though / am
sure Sim did not so regard 1t, 10 be i'm re-
serve during much of the campaign from
the Wilderness to Richmond; and from
my own experience l can say there were
times when we were in much more danger,
and our loss was heavier than if we had
been actively engaged at the front.
MOS nj Culd lori
before General ''Zeb" Stewart was killed.
and though not actively engaged, we were
under trying fire from overshots. A
general officer. Hill I think, for we be-
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the men in blue they Strengthened up. put
spurs TO their horses and were away at q
gallop. The troopers emptied their car
bines and two of the guerrillas fell. the
other two increasing their speed and un-
needing the cry TO surrender.
~ believe one of those fellows is Dunk
Cooper!" shouted St0vall
The fugitives overheard HIM. for one of
them turned in the saddle and yelled back
as he fred, Yes. cuss you uns. Pm Dunk
Copper; follow at your parilW
Embedding this threat Stovall, who was
the best mounted of the party, drew his
revolver, gave full rein TO his horse and
dashed after the two outlaws. He soon
left his companions far behind. but, TO use
his own language, he wanted dunk
alone or not.
Cooper and his companion dashed up the
rough bed of a creek, bet about mile be-
yond the point where he was discovered
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RoRsE-PowER-J. j. a., City. Horse
power measures the rate at which work is
done. One horsepower is rsckoned as
equivalent to raising $4,000 pounds one foot
high per minute. or $50 pounds second.
In measuring the work OF horse the esti-
mates of the most celebrated engineers
differ widely from each other: Boulton and
Watt. basing their calculations upon the
work of London dray horses working eight
hours a day, estimated it at $4,000 foot
pounds per minute. D'Aubisson, taking
the work done by horses in whims at Fret
burg, estimated the work at 16, 440 foot
pounds working eight hours day. Under
similar circumstances Desagulier's estimate
was 44.C00. Smeaton's $4,000. and Tread
COLDS 27,500 foot pounds. Horse
power is called nominal, indicated
or actual. NomiDal is used by manufac-
turers of steam engines 10 express the
capacity OF an engine, the element being
confined to the dimensions of the steam
cylinder, and a conventional pressure of
steam and speed of piston. Indicated
shows the full capacity of the cylinder in
operation without deductions for friction.
and actual marks its power as developed
in operation involving elements of mean
pressure upon the piston, its velocity, and
just deduction for the friction IF the
engines operation. The original estimate
of Watt is still counted a horsepower.
The general rule for calculating the horse
power OF Steam engine Is to multiply
together the pressure in pounds on a
square inch OF the piston, the area of the
piston in inches, the length of the stroke
in feet and the number of strokes DER
minute. The result divided by $4,000 will
give the horsepower.
RATED AT Notwithstanding Cjtv
In Lloyd's register OF British and FOREIGN
shipping the character of the ships hull
or hulk, or in other words the BODY of ths
vessel itself. is designated by letters The
character of the anchors, cables and stores
ana, perhaps, masts, sails and cordaee is
indicated by figures. For instance, All
means hull first rate. also anchors, cables
and stores; AZ means hull first rate hnt
furniture second rate. Lloyd's shipping
insurance derived its name from a coffee
house on Abchurch lane, London, kept by
EDWARD Lloyd, place which in 1862 be-
came a rendezvous for the merchants. II
was there that ships were first registeran
ana from that beginning sprang the in sti.
lu'.on Low SHOWN as Lloyd's and located
on the first floor Of the Royal Excnange
LONDON. Lloyd's books are two enormous
ieoger-looking volumes raised on deska az
right ana lett TO the entrance To the insfi-
tuition In the Royal Exchange. These
bnoks give the principal arrivals ana ali
losses py wreck, ire or other aeciden. at
sea. The entries are written in fine
bold, Roman hand legible To Ali readers
ALTAR OF RosEs-Irene, Centerville.
Cal. Altar of roses, sometimes called
lotto of roses" is valuable perfume q
product OF the Orient. 1t is handed down
as a tradition that this perfuma was fire,
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Civil Service Examinations.

The next examination under the civil
service rules for classified positions in the
Custom-house service will be held at the
Commercial High School on Tuesday.
April 3, commencing at O'Clock. On the
list of eigibIes posted in the Custom
house appear the names OF twenty-five
selected for various positions. The list
originally comprised 245 names OF those
who received the requisite percentage to
entltle their names to consideration. AS
many Of these have been posted for nearly
year number of them will be dropped
unless they take the second examination.
Beecham's pills sell well hecause they rure
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Gordon,s Throne

Gordon's "Soudan Throne" is folding arm
chair be always sat III at Kbartoum and carried
with him on his camel journeys 1t was a little
of round iron, carpet back and seal. gilt knobs
for ornaments, aud smi Il pads on The arms for
comfort.
Inc carpet mas grown lin IN the African sun,
which deprives IL OF all royaI prerensIons so
tnat When Gordon returned Fl ON his governor
snip OF Soudan and suddenly asked. "Where is
ny ny .hronr-has 10 been brought 2" they were
al! surprised His throne? Nobody had seen
throne. But al length the camp-stoOl was
IOuno where II had been slowed away.
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They Gave II LIN.

Farmers In Maryland and Delaware slowly
ana unwlllingly relinqush the idea OF growing
and sorrowfully admit that their lands must in
time come TO form market garden for the
great cities of the Atlantic seabaard. There is
an old-fashioned notion In Delaware and upon
the Eastern shore that it is more respectable
to grow wheat IN sixiy-acre fields than half a
dozen vegetables in small plats, and tie
minute peasant farming OF France, Belgium
and Holland has no attractions for the occu.
pants of 3OO-acre farms.
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AMERICAN PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION
f. A. P, Poway. Cal. The initials A. p,
A. stand for American Protective Asso
citation. a society of recent origin. Its
greatest strength is in Canada. Ottawa
has $50 lodges. with mem bership of about
$4,000. Its object is to promote the inter
ests of Professionalism all over the world,
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TUGs-C. W.. City. Several years ago
the tugs Relief and Sea Lion raced from
here to the Farallon Islands, and the race
was awarded 10 the Sea Lion. 1t is gen.
orally conceded that the Fearless is the
fastest tug on the bay.
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GAMBLINe-W. N. A, City. There is a
State law in California prohibiting gam
bling. 1t declares it a crime to play faro.
monte. rouge ct noir, lansqueuet, rondo
or any banking game with cards or other
device for money. checks, credit or other
representative of value.
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But everybody's taste may not run to
Nottingham Lace Curtains. so in order to
please all fancies and make this the great
est curtain sale ever held in Frisco our
mark 'em down" man has cut all profit
off of these. See the curtain exhibit in
our west show-window.
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QUOTATION, CHEss-F. P, City. The
Latin quotation. memo me impune la
cessit," translated into English is: ''No
one attacks me with impunity." (2) In the
game Of draughts or checkers if the player
neglects or refuses TO take checker, when
the chance offers, that checker can be
hutfed.
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ak of the Sale :!
The Last Cuts Are Deep Ones.

We tell you csndidly that the colors are
broken. or the quantity is limited, or its
too near the close of the season for these
dress goods and silks, but if there is any
thing on these bargain counters that YOU
can use, we've forgotten the cost for the
time being.
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BETWEEN You AND MES, City. To
say between you and T. is an offense
against good grammar which is not justi-
fed even by common usage The roper
expression is between you and me.''
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PATSY RYAN's BENEFIT. C. F., Los
Angeles, Cal. John l.. Sullivan gave his
old npponent. Patsy Ryan, benefit at the
new Wigwam shortly after he returned 10
this city from Australia.
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A TANGLED WEB = 81. E., City. In
"Marmion," by Scott. canto vi, stanza II,
are the lines:
Oh! what tangled web we weave
When first we practice to decelvel
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death a communicate of the Protestant
Episcopal church. General Phil Sheridan
belonged to the Roman Catholic church.
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QUERY COLUMN.
HORSEPOWER, What That
Means, How Measured.
FRAGRANT ALTAR OF ROSES
The Origin of Rating Ships at Lloyd's.
Some Fast Trips-Prohibition
of Gambling.

tQueries reaching this Office before Friday
evening will be answered the Sunday following.
Only questions that are of general interest will
be replied TO. Do not inclose stamps expecting
personal repyl