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Show was to pass through the Straits of Then he hail tin cheek to orHaul dow n your flag and on a kind cm ape or no id parole, 1 suppose he meant. I wrote First capture, then on tin board: parole. This answer vexed him, I am sure, Surrender for he immediately wrote: I wrote: That or I will sink you. Call it would he murder, not battle, what you will, I will do it. he wrote. Attempt it, and by the living (led I will run von downy and we will sink toI wrote in reply. 1 knew his gether," Threat was in vain, for iu that heavy sea, rolling his sails under, lie did not dare free his guns, which were already double They would have carried awav his tackle and gone through the bulwarks overboard. that lie had made empty threats, he said no more, but doggedly kept on our CHASED BY THE ALABAMA. SCENE. AN AFFECTING HYDROPHOBIA. Punda. der to Asteroid Iiaa the Dreaded lrl-- v from ijTja rvueer Antics of t a of t'hlokons Away from Tli at Were Bitten by Mad og. ateer. surroundm The circum-taucFarmer B.uher is a great lover and father contnued the Our Dubois, voyage of John The Pl.ilvh lJiia Sews. and death was discovered were very pathetic, and nothing quadruped patron of this town, ssa addition to the )i:bol Sermn John Death-lie1M- al-o- -- reached How the u:; d. - ofan-inal- I es s. pro-porou- bob-taile- on the and have left a deep impress. on co a.,) (I Dubois a writes in win- - coiumunitv, of The Vo.- fork Sun iu summer and a cow. respondent W, he is the owner of two goats a Although notan mhdel, terrier-- , a gaunt car.le-- s He seldom went to life. tisre Ion-gunudisumfy church, preferring t Jbounl wlio-- e pedigrep is not much hi- - mills or his hue farm his about I tad. walking than his abbreviated a year or been ad- of one thousand acres. bound has since itpy liood had mind his dicted to wandering about the surround- j more, however, ncl ned to religious matters. Be e country, and h.s reputation for jag nlto the preachers with lus per-Hweave able behavior toward heep lias b'.ble and his read last ways been bad. On the lift, enthof with Ids lawyer about it. IDs out of jwonlii the d g was elia-e- d Hon. George A. Jen,vs, w no was law ver ILiiue's potato patch on the plank road, the ami it was ob-- veil then that tlio and hasju-- t of tin interior in order to keep luoutli the was frothing at , but n'proin:-- e t Mr. Dubois that lie would snapping. not only at passers-bytake tin place of the latter as confidenits in path. at every of tial advi-e- r to a young nephew who was thought Nothing particular va-estate. e nets this .it the t ine, but on the day s back r A the t before his death Mr. Duf,,v days I into Barxer dashe dog Mr. Bell, and, after with blood hot eyes, foamed fleck-.,- ! bois sent for llev. vm-,could be heard a long conversation with liiir, he was howl that a and jowls, man bat baptized and received into the Presbyibr a quarter of a mile.andOld todiue terian church, lie immediately sent tried picked up a stake ier animal but the bca-- t for the heads of all the departments in kennel, its into tie around his works, and as many of the men as wfn.vd to obey, and ran wildly exhau-t-fell could crowd into the sickroom, to the it ! until iise yard in a circle BarMr. number of about fifty. When they were fence. the t pailing again.-d man, fathered lie gave them such an exhora ker is not particularly was mad, the tation as had never been heard before tt be turrised that dog ami be so informed his wife, two grown in this region. He told them he was had been well assons, anil a couple of small children. thing and that if lie welfare a week beinstanthis was eternal sured house of A- - a consequence the held. fore he would not be living to talk war of council a and barricaded ly tt was decided that the best tiling to do to them, lie could not let go life, would be to shoot the dog with an old he said, until he got that question setthat had lain in the garret tled, and he urged them not to put it army since the capture of Richmond. By off, as he had done, lie was willing 'ho time the gun nad been brought now to die, but if it was the will of down stairs, oiled, and loaded, the providence that lie should live one year maddened animal had recovered, and longer, he would not wish to take tip wi. dashing blindly around the yard his affairs again. lie would put in every day, he said, going about the tgain. aim was mills telling his men tho great truth A window was lifted, There that lie had at length found out, and "falven, and the trigger pulled. Bus a ternlie explosion, ami one of the trying to undo some of the evil his exILirker boys was thrown on Ins back. ample had wrought in his long lifetime. A great squawking in the chicken coop liis voice and brain was strong, alfollowed the tiring of the musket, and though his body was wasted almost to twenty or thirty of the frightened birds a skeleton, and lie could scarcely sit up m bed propped with pillows. The men glow over the fence. The dog did not appear to notice had worked for him some ten, sonic '.hern, but kept galloping on, snapping twenty, some thirty years. They were The chick- rouglij grizzly fellows from the logging a. everything within reach. ens, could not get out of his way, and camps ami the mills, but there was not as. least half a dozen of them were a dry check in the room as he talked to killed within live minutes. The rest them and called them by name and Three days later were mangled badly, but as the dogs bade them good-by- . second paroxysm ended in another tit he died. He was buried on his own of exhaustion, they had a chance to farm a short distance back of the hou-- e feuddle together long enough to permit where he had lived. He picked out tlui one of Hie Barker boys to come out of spot himself. It is on the top of a ?Ji; hou-- e and club the mad dog to gently sloping hill, and overlooks his ieatlu mills "and the town that lie built. For The Barker family being very matter--of-fa- the three days between his death and people, there was not much .se- his funeral all hands in the town were d either upon the dead as idle as his own. Not a wheel turned ntiment The lut-t- iu any of the mills. Nobody did any JkjudiI or the dead chickens. was plucked, drawn, anil made into busine.--s in the stores. Three thousand and the former was people looked at him in his coffin and lvH;ken buried at the foot of a grapevine. The walked behind it to the grave. injured chickens were driven back to Although his works were divided, lip their coop, and the Barker family re- into different departments, each under lived to bed without any other thought its responsible head, he knew all of the than chicken for breakfast. In a week eight hundred men who worked for flas whole thing was forgotten, and him, and always spoke to them as courwould probably never have been teously as if they were all millionaires Jtonght of again had not a most re- as well as himself. Some years ago. markable phenomenon occurred. when times were dull and lumber fell About live oclock la- Saturday after- to a low figure, the managers of liis noon there was a great commotion in works agreed that there mu-- t be a reClift chicken-yarTwo gray pullets duction in the wages of the men. and mere discovered dying blindly about, so told him. He heard them through and took the figures they had brought rrp.st.aUng and playing ohl scratch generally. him, but made no decision. The next Very little attention was paid to this at day he summoned them to meet him lirst, but it kept up so long that Mrs. again, and said: It.crker went to see if a fox had gotten This will not do. I have examined into the coop. No fox was found, but the books at the store, and find that it She two pullets had been re- taxes about all these men earn to buy inforced by a matronly yellow hen necessaries for themselves and their cocks. All of families. If we must reduce and three I them wore squaking and Hying and will begin with you, who arcwages bettor running about the yard like mad. Mrs. paid, bay no more about it; I guess I Barker called for her boys, and they can stand a loss better than the men eame from the house to enjoy the sing-id- can a reduction. spectacle. By that time every chicken in the yard was in a most reWhat is Marriage? markable state of excitement. Some Is the startling headline in an c were lying on their backs llapping their to which a writer replie and wings; others were lighting imaginary change, We have never been married, but v and others were foes, again seemingly bent on dashing out their brains against have listened to our married frien the fence. After awhilo all tho chick- tell their experience, which is ju- -t ens, except two of the cocks and one good. AS a grammatical propositi of the gray pullets, quieted down. marriage is a plural number in tl These excited fowls continued to roll present tense sometimes about iu the sand and give utterance to anil it takes two persons the most unehickenlikc cries. Their opposite sexes to form the nurubc mouths w ere wide open, like chickens For about fifteen months after the b with the pip, and their antics were so dal day, marriage resembles a unnatural as to eau-- e great merriment. stepping pair of boots travelinghig This was kept up all Saturday after- sidewalks made of anil prccio noon, and became noised about the stones. After that gold it is full period neighborhood. Old Teddy Brown drove wood piles, kitchen stoves, cold nior all the way up from Frogtown, and on syrup of squills, red llanncls ai his way back topped to toll Dr. E. F. ings. that cannot possibly stick anv bod pins Jvhriver, who visited tho house on Sun- Marriage is a state in which nothing day morning, and after a careful exam- taken for granted and in which molination gravely announced that the ing wrappers and untied shoes abonn chickens wore suSVering from hydro- It is a state in which a fellow alwa phobia. Although this was scouted by imagines he married the wrong g physicians generally. Dr. Shrlver was and that all the girls in town save positive that his diagnosis was correct. wife fool sorry for him. A man shou A draught of air started the peculiar never be married until he has arraantics, and the fowls refused to drink nt the years of discretion, and lie mu water. Tho strange behavior contiu-'.ir- d always s permit his maim all day Sunday, and on Monday a to when lie lias reached such number ol persons "visited tho farm and statejudge of years. Marriage is also tli were promptly charged 10 cents to see state where the wife threatens to the chickens dance. home to her mother every tvventv-fA prominent physician was asked hours, and the devoutly' hop this morning by a reporter whether she will. Sationnl Weekly. such a disea-- e could exist in chickens. Tin doctor laughed. No, said he. Several cheese factories in Cliautn 'Hydrophobia could not exi-- t in agran-Ivero- qua county. New York, have lalt animal. It is a malady pecutransformed into creameries f liar to omnivorous animals and affects been of a butter of a lii the carnivora proper more than anv the manufacture other species: I can not imagine what grade. Low protits in cheese is t ails those chickens at B ilkers. I saw reason for the change. them yesterday, and I must confess Six Imlians formed a tranrpoitat: that I never was more astonished or company and have are carrying freight betwi in amused my life." Buffalo (jap aud Kapid City. Lbat drag au antiquated to ln-Ip- s d plow-fejr- e bob-sle- d j -- j Llaek-and-ta- n , -- er Ir -- j con--ulte- j ani-sa- oi a-i- -tant ai ere-tan-hin ob-tae- lc follow-KBMh- -- well-rea- p- - mu-k- et -- -- et wa-te- er pot-pi- e, -t d. meul-jum- s, water-trough- s, half-grow- ar inien-e-prese- d s, 11 until one morning when we were off the Gape of Good IIojk. as we were -ailing along with a fre-- h breeze right aft. in sight of Table mountain, at the entrance of the harbor of Gape Town, with Gape Legullas about twenty miles distant on the port bow. A clo.--e lookout was constantly- kept, if as coming and before long moke, from a steamer do-- e under the land, apparently bound to the eastward, was reported. Soon her hull appeared in sight, and by the aid of a glass I made out that she was a low, nor a craft, neither like a merchant steamer, but at the e to she was from us it was tell definitely vvliat she was. Under the circumstances it made me feel very suspicious. In a few moments she discovered us, as was evident by her altering her course and steering directly- toward us, at the same time hoisting the American I felt that it mu- -t be the famous Hag. Alabama, anil that we would be safer out of her company. But it was a case of sails and steam combined against sails alone. Tho steamer was elc.dng up with us, and presently her signals, asking What ship is that? could be read. I hoisted the American Hag, feeling certain that the steamers captain would not be deceived in the build and appearance of my ves.-any more than I was in his, and, if I was to be taken 1 would lly my own llag to the last. The steamer then hoisted the signals, lleave to, 1 want to speak to you, but instead of complying with this request I hauled my ship about four points to the southward, bringing the wind on our quarter, and made all sail, which increased our speed from eight to ten knots per hour. Seeing this evolution, the steamer threw off all hauled down the stars and stripes, hoisted the stars and bars, and fired a shot directly at us. but tho distance was too great and it fell far short. Then the smoke commenced to pour out of the steamers funnel in heavy, black volumes, all sail was made, and the chase began. Slowly and surely the steamer kept gaining" on ns, sending shot after shot from their forecastle gun, but all fell short. She was now about three miles astern, rolling and pitching in tho sea, which was every minnte growing heavier and heavier, the spray flying over her at times so as almost to hide her from sight. The sea striking us abeam would wet us from stem to stern and send the spray up to the very tops. The intense excitement and anxiety felt at this moment are more easily imagined than ilesinkbed. At intervals strong flaws of wind betokened a gale at hand. Already tiic wind had, increased. Our distance from the steamer had lessened; she was now only about a mile astern; occasionally a shot from her forecastle gun came over or near us. They hoped to disable the ship in spars or rigging, but their aim was uncertain, owing to the heavy sea. However, more than once the shot went through sails and rigging, fortunately doing no material damage. Noticing a commotion on deck, I called the mate to ascertain the cause, lie informed me that the crew were frightened, or pretended to be, at the shots from the privateer, and expressed a determination to take in sail and let the Alabama come up with us to prevent further risk of their lives. Fortunately I had good o Ulcers, on whom I could relv. I ordered them to get their revolvers, and told the steward to get mine. Then, mustering the crew on 1 told them they were the quarter-decengaged in a serious mutiny, and the lirst man who refused duty or attempted to interfere with the orders of my oflicers would be shot on the spot. They realized the situation, anil prom-- raki-li-looki- man-of-w- la-he- il. Con-cio- j - el e, k, ised obedience. nt -- lady-love- o hu-ba- us I Half the afternoon was gone. The sea was rising all the time and both ships strained heavily as they rolled to windward with the press of canvas they were carrying. The steamer could no longer stand tho strain, anil in came her light sails. When I saw this I felt sure of our escape if the wind would We therefore only hold its strength. took in our skysails and royals, and the ship felt easier in fact, we could not have carried them longer, for the wind increased and blew in fitful gusts, a sure sign that a gale was brewing. The sea continued to rise, and I nov felt safe in keeping the ship off a couple of points, to brin the wind and sea on our quarter. The steamer followed my example, both vessels rushing through the water at their highest speed, and both doing their level best. But she no longer gained on us. 1 kept off' dead before the wind on our course due east. This brought the steamer abeam, she altering her course as we did, hoping to keep us in sight until the wind and sea moderated. She now closed up with us near as safety would permit, and hailing us, askeil where we were bound, and demanded the surrender of the ship to the confederate government. I answered through Como and take mix my trumpet: Conversation being too straining for the lungs amid the howling of the winds and rolling of the huge billows, and the proximity of the vessels too dangerous, we separated a little and had recourse to blackboards to carry on our conversation. Simmies asked where we were bound. I answered without a blush Melbourne. thinking possibly he might try- to interce T we i he knew I - Sail was still further reduce 1 on both as the wind kept increasing, and was now blowing a gale. We were gradually and surely drawing ahead of the steamer. It was now growing dark. I gave Rejoicing at my fortunate the valiant Scuimes a parting shot by lioi-tin- g Dipthe signal Good-by- . banner as a ping the I hauled it down, aud the steamer was soon lost to sight in the darkness. ves-el- s, ce impo-.-ibl- ns eonr-- e. ng ar sur-rt-nd- ' sa-lut- star-spangl- I never saw her after our escape, but, indirectly- she forced me to sell my ship in China uoon afer. P. F. S. in The - Argo'iav f Dan Rice ami the Rowdies. Did you Said the old circus man: ever hear how Dan llice got square with the Troy thugs; well. Ill tell you: Trov lias yet the reputation of being the toughest town in New York State, and twenty years ago it was a terror-wel- l, Dan Rices show was mobbed there one night, and the circusmen were all vuitc roughly handled. The next day Dan telegraphed to his advance agent to go back and bill Troy, as the show would go back there again. When tho Troy rowdies saw the return of the show announced tliev smiled grimly, and promised to demolish it entirely this time. In the meantime Rice Went to New York and engaged 10J d brutes sluggers, regular who would rather fight than eat, He brought them to Troy with the show, in the evening the tent was tilled, but there wasn't a single lady in the entire Dan and his nundred pugiaudience. lists scattered throgh the audience, and had the canva-me- n ready to jump in at the word, well, the show went along all right until Dan was in the ring his fanous act his with doing blind horse. There was something thrown into tho ring by one of the That was enough. Dan spectators. yelled Hay, Rube! and those hunderd pugilists began their work in royal Biff! bang! went their ponderstyle. ous blows right and left, and y ou could see men falling in all directions. The cimismen were soon into the melee, and how they did pulverize tho Troy toughs! It was four or live years before the bail men of Trov ever tackled another circus ."Milwaukee Sentinel. short-haire- Ripe apricots arc : Los Angeles, Gal. 0i Several Builalo ei;;t.. erecting a mammoth h!,vV Vermont has ni,v Cl,". than any other New Eni Boiled radi.-he-s eaten .. a New England " 1 here were twenty. at one couples Wah;n" days ago. A motto of au (,)hi Vpn. Whip light, drive no go. ei 'L ent. There have been 600 comets recorded since the beginning of the Christian era, those antedating the telescope being such only as were visible to the naked eye. From three to six comets are usually discovered each year. The bright or large comets do not appear with equal frequency in periods of centuries, in the sixteenth centurv there were twenty-thre- e such; in the seventeenth twelve; in the eighteenth six; in the nineteenth, thus far, twenty; so that this century has a fair prospect of rivaling the sixteenth century. It is known that the earth has on more than one occasion passed through the tail of a comet, but it was not known until after the event and no effect noticeable was produced in the passage. The nucleus of the largest comets is not more than ,00001 of the diameter of she earth, Prof. V. A. - Young. Bronson Howard at a Fancy Ball. Bronson Howard spoke of being with George II. Boughton in London, and said that the last time lie saw liim he went to a fancy ball at his house as Purity. How could you dress such a part? Why, I wore a white dress suit, said Howard. Everything white about me, as I supposed, until I made my addresses to our host. Hello! what are you! said Boughton. Purity, said I, proudly couseious of my clean appearance. Ycs, andyoure gone and lost your character with tho pen, was the quick rejoinder. Sure enough; wc had all been asked to write our autographs iu a book as we entered the house, anil I. hail unwittingly gotten a daub of ink on mv coat. Few York Star. i th - U i t! s. : nch 0'iU ; , , gen i ut e in .j a1 ty Unde Sam wele omosintfO turn e me 200 babies a day, not eve ho come by sea. !a hi Great chan ge s are yacht Priscilla, F r.v L.gir, - onr subordinated to that ot Tw New York lias a j10lice f(,r brin StO! men, and Snpt. Murray r an be increased to at least in.,,. the A hotel at Jefferson, X. jj only up a card that read-- : dy.)" mtii roller age, skating rink con. aslei Several associations j (T r The have recently adopted ao relcv nouncing the payment of L. hecoll In jack rabbit scalps." "'I i The proposed bridge at the A we near Brockvillc, Ganada, i de sixteen spans of steel, will bee. on in length, and will eo-- t am eh t An Indian on the San Carlo,, tion, Arizona, committed so,, ,iinliiso i ccntlv because of grief over :bat a a nephew. He murdered hi .light however, before killing himself s8cd A very pretty deer park hasp, completed at Rachocliico, Cal.V thci Bid well. A fountain pi avs in .j. tt ter, and a large pond habe n' end a swimming place for the dc us a a 3, : , .. V the i swan. nigle Portsmouth members Toot ans p the famous Kear,ar.; time of her battle with to celebrate the of the tight atB war-shi- theALin-plannin- June 17. In the National lev g g ther r oral ' nm-eu- at? ra ton there is a pipe John Brown and that beW tho riile kite cote tfre. tliev Jefferson Davis when lie w as u They are labeled The legim. the end of the war. d Toronto la! An ready a hardened criminal. thing he can get hold, served a six months sentence . house of correction, and has rcscntenccd to that Workmen are busy at Bed!, land putting together Barthold?; It as rapidly as place on the pede-tit is to be unveiled with ceremonies by President Clevek Five of the notorious IhilLy at Dan by, Conn., have been They were arraigned and comm, p. jail to await trial. All are tie: many criminal oflenses, and of imprisonment is likely to oral it's eight-year-ol- D h hi ithepu jw po-sibl- i Oils of the r tral 'ami Stic w.Z e. ense btforeS-whe- al nnei the peat fro on ito and: Am 'vb f, n efer be About Comets. Aristotle's idea about comets was that they were exhalations of foul air from the earth's surface, which bavin !5 ascended into space could not get beyond the moon, and eventually, when the mass became large enough, it took fire and was consumed. The idea was accepted by the ancients that they were the souls of great men on their way to Heaven. The comet which appeared in 415 B. C. was supposed to be the son of Julius Cusar. Science investigation has shown that the theory of malignant influence will net stand the test, and statistics prove that as many catastrophies occur in periods when there is no comet as in other periods when they have been pres- y one. A youngster near, maltox, Dakota, was lost, and: hours was search of twenty-fou- r near li is home in a badgers b' which he had slipped feet fu and which was deep enough to .eon In 0lli d, ii at at tnei 'her ffde conceal him. The Bartholdi statue of Sew! led flee to be lighted at night byashi "4, a seen be will from a torch which tea miles out at sea, and therefore inti fore any lighthouse on theca ivci the also by four large lights at Iron the statue. A small black insect is making with the Concord and Isabella, ;st vines in several parts of or. Other flT county, New York. Yi not seem to be troubled with tja as yet. The crop of grapes an unusually large one for red son. 1 th The bleak, craggy mountain J nc in Chiapas, Mexico, has been: r in two two with clouds for nearly eac n at intervals a subterranean T0( has been heard, and earthqi1 T been felt. As it is thoughi Ibi iTS sleeping volcano, though SUf awakened within the liicinor; q the people are very niueih Tie the of tie On the evening v Ah fu in Marshall county, r Jw ae ccntlv, several the bridal sembled to he w. charivari. They con the house with a varied J - ofof kettledrums, bells, Id and in a short time dro'0 J d us the only alternative lie kait rid of them viz., setting ir, t was then the 3ir it had he s a sonic fun, and flic (n ffeance lie invited t'1 in house and set before hfl l ties of whisky, in which 37 f crotn-oj- l L' of amount large ....g ers drank it with great gratulating the coupm, 1 re was not long ilUb.b tIlC of work, and several hi; a hard time in pullingc tliev recovered at tlicy M fir.; one evening soon afte soon i; comparing notes, 4 cause of their indisp , an hour after they hunt J?, nm. J:, n fortunate groom him a severe hprsewh oIP ai her of warrants have the of arrest for the IS lively time is expected. e J t. 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