OCR Text |
Show ut to the water. Across the slimy mud bed the watchman carefully brick alms crept fo the etftrancVof the"Elizabeth v0ni little cot lrthe N. J., lie. sewer, and there be shoHted again BIHabethtown bouse of wh.. and again into the sileut depths, but Gilgemaon, a GermaH, For he heard no answer. Jackson saon a horrible adventure. his" companions, and both men fwdavs and four nights imprison joined stood on the uncertain footing caveros poised ed and lost in the unlisted for a half hour in vain, essaying by wander-muhe f K!izbethtown sewers, the labyrinth of winding threats and by coaxing to draw the to cat or to man from his retreat. It, was midchambers, with nothing of the gutters, night, and the watchman was obliged driok except tha filth last he to return to his night patrol. Then until on Sunday incrning his way back to the upper Jackson ran up to his hotel and twc-- J On Wednesday afternoon awoke his boarders, aud with them world. dressed and and Officer Dickson he Went back to last a stranger, roughly the accent of the wharf. The offic?r went into the uushaven, and having Elizabeth sewer, and on his return German, enured the Taylor House, said that be had heard footsteps in Elizabeth-pott, Mr. Jackson, in kept by and asked for a glass of beer. the direction or the fcmger sewer. The officer stripped off his coat, Vte'r he had drunk, he seated bim-jel- f laid his club aside, took his dark at a lunch table, and culled for lantern en his arm, and saying, "I'll bro in talked he ate dinner. As he have that man now or 1 11 lose my ar.d by tea English to the waiters, entered the Singer sewer. life' smiles and favors sought to ingratia'c After Stooping bw, and pressing through himself loto their confidence. dinner e drank freely, and walking the heavy stream that rolled at his down the diniug room, ta'ked feet, often pausing to catch the up and and turning his and as they laughed at sound of a foot-fa& every one, face to he words regain his breath, he upward laughed hi unintelligible Soon he heard a dis them. with hands At crept along. too and shook and then tant he went on a plash, length he went through the hall and little but as fast as ho advanced fister, into the wok's room and gave her a he went the retreating footsteps showed that Then dollar. a of quarter the man he sought was going further upstairs and into many chambers, and further into the sewer. Thicker down was ordered the last and at by and thicker grew the heavy miasmatwho man's the thought proprietor, ic air, the walls of the noisome dun- behavior suspicious. a In the saloon down s'airs he at? and geou seemed to be contracting, drank again, and became 60 familiar cold chill arose from the stream, the brain reeled, and turning with the employees that Mr. Jackson officer's ordered him into the street. Alter about he made his way as fast as that ho was not seen until evening, possible back to the entrance. While when he returned to the hotel, and he was turning around he heard tho fhile the servants were not looking waters splash afar off, as though the was hastening away, and at him unlocked the hall doors and fugitive then all was silent. unbolted a window. The officer was so weak after his Ia the evening he made free with in and salthe one long stay in the fetid air of the sewevery everything oon, and spent money freely. When er that he ree'ed like a drunken man. the hotel was closed at 10 o'clock he The party sUyed long at the mouth went out and walked up the street of the tunnel, but as the stranger had toward the centre of the town. Early not come out at 3 or 4 o'clock, all He that evening Mr. Jackson- went with wpbt home except the officer. until after daylight, and his wife to her home in Elizabeth., remained lie returned on the 11:40 p.m. train, soon afterward, the rising tide having and as he neared the hotel frjm the filled the sewer so that there could be depot he heard a peculiar rattling uo possible escape for the man, the ' After this the Bound from the interior of the house. officer went away. II ran up the steps, and t he eras- subject was dropped in Elizabeth-por- t, ed the verandah he heard the same and the stranger who had been noise agaio. He threw open the chased through the 'nig it into his frontdoor, and, entering the saloon, probable tomb was almost forgotten. As far as can be learned from the lighted the gas. Everything was iu eonfusiou. Piles of coats and other rumbling sentences and broken Engclothes, boxes of cigars and bottles of lish of the man who now lies in par wine littered the floor near the couu-tetial delirium oa his cot in Elizabeth-tow- n and the money drawer that had almshouse, his story is substaneontainei several dollars was open tially that after he penetrated for a md the money gone. One of the short distance into the sewer, he rear windows had been thrown half heard the footfalls of his pursuers, and learing that he might be overway up. Mr. Jackson's house is od the out taken he ran further in. He was un "skirts tf Elizabethport, at Trumbull able to stand upright on account of aad First streets, and is not mure the low walls, and as he went bliadly than twenty rocs from the shore of on, he often- fell aad bruised his arms Newark Bay. Right acrosss Truui and knees on the solid ravemeut. At bull street are the great workshops length Yq had gooe so far that he of the Singer Sewing Machine Com- CJuld hear no sound from behind, pany. Just as Mr. Jackson lighted and he stopped to. think. He became the gas the night watchman of the sonfused, the whole passage seemed Singer workshops ran up to the- hotel an inextricable tangle, and then it window and shouted, "What's the flashed upon him that ha was lost. trouble?" ''That's what Vd like to The maiu channel was intersected by know," was the answer. Then Mr. crossing and chambers, Jackson said that there had been a and in the darkness he knew not burglary, aad the- watchman said which way to turn. Suddenly he that he had been watching a sus- heard an unearthly sound. The solid picious person who had been wall trembled and, swayed, aud there prowling around for several hours. The was a dull, heavy roar, a rush, and two men weat out. to the verandah, then theno.se gradually died out, the and they discerned the figure swaying ceased, and again all was faintly a maawho was making down silent. H concluded that the great frumbull street toward the boy. roaring had beea caused by the apThey rau toward him, and as they proach and passage of a heavy train gassed on him he first quickened his on the Central Railroad, whose track Pce and then broke into a quick is near the sewer. He cannot tell trot. Down the street the pursuers how long it was before the sounds of ran at the top of their speed, and as life above, faintly audible, told him tney neared the edge of the bay they that it had become day, but the first were only a short distant from the sound that he beard after the passing iQgitive. of ther train, was that of the distant From the rear of the workSinger clashing of maehinery. He' thought QP8 a long wharf extends far out that the sound was the noise of the into the water. At the base ot this heavy machinery, in the factory. He "art, on the southern side, ia a hi-'dropped oa his hands and kuees in ooden offset at the bottomof the filthy water and probably became wall, we the mouths of the large unconscious. He was awakened by jnich Wuabeth eewer and that f the a strange, cold, creeping sensation Company's workshops. Both abo it the knees, and he noticed inare five feet high. Wack stantly that the .water oa the bed of S 1 Sm,th were within a few feet the chamber was much deeper, and UUnning at fuli then he knew that the tide was eom-in- g thf Jugitie disappeared. in. He sat and watched it as it 3 low tide, and the - "w rtrDa: rose higher; it rose gradually up to vMvauu wVea had UVv - a i i . 01 mua aar and Dis waist, men it gwueu auum. uio chetou8, that reaehed from the throat, and at length he had to turn etwees tot afcnj tea, rods Jjhis face ugwatd. to, keeg his mouih. A Horrible Adrciilnre. K h I ll - a-- r, - - - ru " BARHARD WHITE, out of water. He gave himself up ia despair and shriekedand shouted for help. He next noticed a gradual but evident decrease in the flood, and DEALER IN ALL KINDS OF- soon afterward he was left to wander Hour afigaio along the chamber. ter hour passed, the tide rose and fell, the railroad trains.thundered on, and day succeeded night. SomeAND times the niah was consumed by an intolerable thirst, so fierae and terri ble that he swailowed whole quarts of the filthy water. He ate the gar! bage that drifted down. At length, after what seemed an age, the man in sheer desperation determined to travel straight ahead, let the sewer lead where it might. JUST RECEIVED, A CAR LOAD OF Sometimes half upright, often on haDds and knees, he struggled on, and, after many faints and long periods of exhaustion, at last a gleam of light told him that he was not far These Plows are warranted to do good work in any soil, and give perfect from the entrance. The light grew satisfaction; or, after two days' trial, the money will be refunded he and went on if purchasers are not satisSed. brighter, encouraged rapidly. At last, at about 8 o'clock on Sunday morning, he got out of ! the sewer. He made ais way slowly and with difficulty up the street to Schaubler's Hotel, opposite the Post Office iu Elizabethport. His apHis clothes was frightful. pearance BARNARD WHITE, Oodev, Utah. Address: were soaked with filth and covered with salt, his limbs were swelled to double their natural size, his fuce was stained and ghastly, and his elbows and kneejoiuts protruded through the skin. As the reporter address3d Gilge-manin the almshouse yesterday, he brightened up and tried to rise, but fell back trembling and prostrate. He said that he must have drank forty pails of water in that dungeon, for he had a terrible thirst. He said: ''Once they let in steam from the factory, and it nearly killed me." Gilgemana says that he was born in Strassburg, aud that he fought with the French in the late war with the Germans, being an artilleryman. He U ibriy-fou- r years old, and has, as be inferred from the forgoing may The story, an iron constitution. swelling of his limbs has partially Have just received their ipring stock of all kiuds of gone down, and it is thought that he may recover. Elizibethport people say that only an adverse wind kept the tide from drowning Gilgema'nn. - Tie largest and moet Trie 1 assortment of New York Sun. -- BAIN WAGONS AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS OLIVER'S CHILLED PLOWS. Farmers, and Call Them Soo ORDERS PROMPTLY FILLED. Main Street. Ogden. CABINET WARE. Itlnnageinent of Homes. Parlor, IMniiig Room, Kitchen, Library audi Chamber Furniture Also "Window Cornices, Clock ShelveH, Rraekets, and a eomplete-stocof Chrouios; Pictures suitable for Sunday Sehool Presents; JJaby Feed liberally, work steadily, and clean thoroughly, is my motto in the Carriages, and a largo variety of Picture Frames. My great management of horses HAVE THE LAllOEST STOCK trouble is to have the horses rubbed the Lowest Country dry and clean before leaving them advantage to yiue u call, for the Bight Where horses are worked six days in the week, a good grooming is absolutely essential to their health. The more highly they are fed the more iniportaut it is to clean them. Most men use the curry comb too much, and the whisk and brush too little. I do not myself in sist upon it, but I believe it would pay aWays to take the harness from the horses when put in the barn at noon, and rab fhem dry, washing the shoulders with cold water, afterwards drying them with a cloth. I question Boyle'M if one farmer iu a hundred duly ap- i'tcc.a at lealer IX OGDEN ami Miff thtir s34 tf will find U to Jv One Prico Dry Goods & Clothing One Door South or preciates how much he Joses.from having poor horses, aad in not keeping them in vigorous health, and iu condition to do a maximum day's work. American Agriculturist. DET GOODS. The Best Prints linton 4-- Bes 4 PUBLICNOTICE. -4-- erder of the County Conrt of Morgan County: The public are ber.bj notified, that aaid County will not be rtapmuiilile for any ncckfontl tlmt mar occur, nor pay any damages that may be amemM, for any audi arcident, on that portion of the WV ler Kanyon Koad aitunted ttween the Bybee Toll Bridge aud the upp r end or the Deil'i (iat. at a point of roci known m the 1'evU'i Chair. That the Rotd Commissiouore of Darin, Web rand Morftau Coiintiea, authored by the renpectWe Connty CourU of iid Counties, met in Weber deKanyon is tue montl of September, 18VJ, to termine- the boundary liHe between the eaid Counties; that laid Commissioner!, alter a careful examination, Hnnnimotmly determined that the boundary line between aid Counties crowed the We ber River at the upper end of the Deil"i Sate, at the a orenaid point of rocka. It in indented that it would be a benefit to the public tor noma Id person or persons to keep said portion of road good repair, and cliaree toll thereon. SAMUEL. PANCI9, Count J Clerk of Murgan County. 8 4 Blciched WATCHMAKER AND Dealer In. Watehe, dork. Jewolry Silver and Plated Ware, MAIN i TBKST. (HIDto. JUpairictiteeJll cm aad til work warranted, ttrXt 10c " 9c per 9c " 12 l-- 2c 1-- 2-- CLOTHING. Fine ass. Suits only Satinet Suits only 100 100 100 200 JEWELER, " l-- 2c " " 4 IVVf J. per yard 7. 8c 12 Domestic " Angusta prs lino Cass. Pants- " " 34-ln- v S. LEWIS. (Jc Best Bleached "12 2 1C 3 " A line line of Dress Goods, only 15c " 1,50 Shawls, the latest styles, " the liner quality, from 3 to $4 4-- By " Biwn " .Island " Albion ,- -4 ") Cocwtt Cuwk Omci, fo ,TJh, V Mtrgau City, Morean J April 17 th, 187 6. Furniture Store. " 12-1- 5 C-- 12 6.00 - worth 9.00 Pants, 90e worth 1.75 Yets only 1,50 worth 2.75 OtlllUUK X Calico tav V" vliu tJWtfXJ' Best French Cass, only 250 4.00 II. ROSENTHAL S. UOBEXTIIAL. wnrth will start now after January . S. ROSENTHAL and w$ sll al th( erj lowest jtlaaat lstllt u, Qr Ten, |