Publication: Frank Leslie's Weekly
Date: OCTOBER 25, 1873
Judge Co.Title: TRUST HER NOT.BYJUAN LEWIS,Author of “The Sorcerer's Victim,”
BY
JUAN LEWIS,
Author of “The Sorcerer's Victim,” etc., etc.
CHAPTER XIII.—CONTINUED.
“Hush!—yes—or I shall fly!”
“If you had flown some time before inveigling my niece, dear sensitive soul! into taking your apartments, with such a shadow resting upon them, it would have been better!” commented Miss Strange, with some severity. “As it is, and she knows nothing of it,” she continued, more cheerfully, “she must remain in ignorance. A murder! I have felt it in the atmosphere ever since I have been in the place! Come into my room, Mrs. Griggs, where we can be free from interruption. I must probe this affair to the bottom! ’Tis something stronger than mere curiosity which impels me —come!”
“Wouldn't it be just as well if we locked the door, and so remain where we are?”
Miss Mehetabel, who had arisen in her resolute way, turned and looked attentively at the faltering mother of the nine, whose naturally combative hair appeared to have suddenly become placidly weak.
“No,” she responded, decisively. “Not another word in here. Mr. Ashton may be in at any moment; but I have another reason—I'll tell you what it is when I hear your story. Come!”
Mrs. Griggs followed, with manifest reluctance, to the privacy of Miss Strange's own room.
“Now, Mrs. Griggs, I am ready to hear the details of this terrible deed you have so long kept concealed,” said Carrie's aunt, taking a seat with her back against the narrow door opening on the iron stair, and waving her landlady to a seat.
“Don't blame me, miss—please don't,” cried the Head, wringing her hands. “What could I do? We had leased the ’ouse, and Mr. Joseph was in his den—an’ which you're not to thank, miss, was anything like the lion in Daniel's den—but different, bein’ in the back yard—leastwise, I think so; an’ we had to sub-let to somebody as would pay reg'lar; an’ anybody would a-flown out of their seven senses to have ’eard it—much more to ha’ stopped a blessed minute afterwards.”
“Of course, you are not to blame for what happened, but concealment for gain is never honest, you know. Go on. I shall not fly out of my skin for one murder, nor for forty, for that matter, so long as there is anybody to be caught and hanged for it! Go on.”
“Well, then, miss,” said Miss Griggs, thus admonished, becoming a little calmer, and drawing her chair as far as possible from the bed, but keeping her back always towards it—“well, then, as I was a-sayin’, it was five years ago, come next October, it happened, and I tell it to you just as ’twas told to me.”
Omitting somewhat of the narrator's peculiarities, and frequent interpolations into which she wandered, and was as often reluctantly brought back by Carrie's aunt, Mrs. Griggs's version of the story was substantially thus, in continuation:
“This house was then occupied by a well-to-do family, in good circumstances, consisting of a gentleman, his wife and child, and two servants—a nurse and maid-of-all-work.
“The gentleman was in business down-town, and occupied this house more for convenience than anything else, it was said: for he could have afforded a better one up-town—as most of ’em do, now-a-days.
“One morning, after he had gone away for the day, the wife—and a lovely young woman she was —was found dead in bed by the servant and nurse.
“A large clasp-knife, which was known to belong to her husband, was sticking in her soft, white breast, and half a dozen more cruel gashes, either of which, the surgeons said, was enough to let her young life out, were in her side. The child's little crib was overturned on the floor, with its bedding and clothes in a pile near it, but no trace of the child.
“The nurse, on being summoned, testified that she had last seen mother and child the night before, on the occasion of putting the child to bed, the mother having always been unwilling to have it sleep anywhere out of her sight.
“The evidence of the woman-of-all-work was to the same effect, but fuller. To the extent that neither mother nor child had been seen alive since the evening meal the night previous to her discovery; that her master had come down-stairs an hour earlier than was his usual custom, as he had to make a brief journey into the country, on business which would occupy most of the day, and wished to leave by the early train; that he had eaten his breakfast in a great hurry, and seemed impatient to be gone, referring often to his watch. That just before leaving the house he had told her not to disturb her mistress until late, as the child had been wakeful and restless in the night, and she had consequently slept but little; that, in consequence of this admonition, it was eleven o'clock before she had gone to her mistress's chamber; and then she went at the suggestion of the nurse, who also went with her, when they found her dead, and the child gone.
“Upon this evidence, given at the inquest, the husband, returning home the same night, was arrested, placed in confinement, and shortly after brought to trial. The officers of the law, assuming at once that he was the guilty perpetrator, looked no further.”
“And, as in many similar cases,” interrupted Miss Mehetabel, indignantly, “I suppose the wildest reports arose against him. That one can by any human possibility be in custody, and still innocent, appears to transcend all belief; and I have frequently noticed that those who know nothing of a subject, discuss it with the greater freedom! But, go on!”
“At the trial,” continued Mrs. Griggs, nodding her head approvingly of her listener's remark, “matters took a different turn. The mutual love known to exist between husband and wife, the spotless character of the accused, the want of adequate motive, his overwhelming grief, too sincere for question; these, and other correlative circumstances —noticeably, the rumor that some strange man had been lurking about the place the night before, believed to have been the lover of the nurse, but which she strongly denied, caused some doubts to arise in the minds of some of the jury—of some, but not in all; and a verdict of manslaughter was given. (Though why manslaughter, when it was clearly a woman, as I said to Mr. Joseph, an’ him a hammerin’ away in his den, I never could understand!)
“On that verdict the prisoner was sentenced to three years’ imprisonment at hard labor, which it must have been werry hard for him to bear, miss, an’ him a never ’olding his ’ed up, an’ his hands as white as your own,” concluded Mrs. Griggs, lapsing strongly into her customary habit of expression.
“And a cowardly verdict it was!” declared Miss Mehetabel, decisively. “For, either the man was wholly guilty, and deserved the worst punishment that could be meted out to him, or he was wholly innocent, and should have been promptly released. From all such representatives of justice, good Lord deliver us! Go on!”
“There is no more to add about the man. He was ruined for life, of course, and the house broken up. Some of the things were carried off by the servants, it was said, and the landlord filled two or three rooms full of the rest, whatever there was, as security for past dues; and they were stored here for a while—leastways, I think so.”
“And are stored here yet, Mrs. Griggs, are they not?” demanded Miss Mehetabel.
“I—I believe that they ’ave not yet been removed,” responded the landlady, hesitatingly, her glance resting upon the floor.
“Was the child never heard from?”
“Never.”
“Worse and worse! What were the authorities doing? and what had become of those valiant gentlemen who peddle law up and down the country about election time? But I forget, my good woman, you are not here to read riddles, nor I to propound conundrums deeper than the Sphinx! Go on.”
“There is no more, miss, to tell.”
“Then, Mrs. Griggs, I have something to ask. This story has interested me greatly, why, I know not, unless it be as another evidence of man's inhumanity, the law's stupidity, and the perversity and unreliability of the whole jury system. One thing I feel absolutely certain of, regarding the story. That man never committed the murder! Why should he? What had he to gain?—nothing; but everything to lose. The child, too, carried off, and even its clothes left behind! to avoid detection through that means, of course. Wrapped in a blanket, probably, to look like a bundle of goods, avoid observation, and smother its cries. See! A woman's hand in this—an accessory before or after the act, be sure! What theory did the prosecution set up? for attorneys to prosecute bristle at all points, like porcupines, with theories, and too often, as in this case, apparently, care very little whether their theories are true or false. But I forget again. You are not a witness on the stand, Mrs. Griggs, and I, thank heaven! am not a lawyer to cross-examine you. What I particularly want to ask you is, Did that bed, or its predecessor in this room, stand where it does now when the young wife was killed in it? And was this door, opening on the iron stair, against which I am now leaning, found ajar and unlocked on the terrible occasion of the discovery of the tragedy? Come; I see that your honest face admits the truth of my conclusion already. This was the room where the deed was done. I know it! I felt it before we came in here, and for that reason came. The sensation is a new one to me— decidedly novel, and not to be repeated, I pray and hope. Answer—you see I do not fly out of my skin—did the bed stand there?”
“It did!”
“Was this door open, or closed and locked?”
“Open.”
“Enough! That man was innocent. The evidence that leads me to that belief may not be logical, but I feel its truth. Poor wronged husband and father! Hopes and happiness all blasted! Would that I knew him, if he still lives! A fuller understanding of the details might enable me to look about me to some purpose. I might possibly obtain a clue— even at this late day—to the terrible mystery of his wrecked life; which somehow—is it through my residence here?—seems to deepen the strong impression made by your story. But, no more. Thank you, my dear Mrs. Griggs, for telling me. We must keep our own counsel, as I said before.”
She drew out the massive silver watch.
“Time flies. I must get back to Carrie; she will wonder what has become of me. What troubles you now, Mrs. Griggs? Why hesitate, and for what?”
“The room—you—you will continue to keep the room. Miss Strange?”
“The room? certainly; why not? I have been very comfortable in it since I have been in the city— why not remain? The feeling of sympathy I have been expressing for its former occupants would effectually preserve and shield me from any annoyance of a ghostly nature, were such things possible. I yield no tremor from my firm nerves in the cause of right, to any mere Terror of a dark deed. On the contrary, I brace myself—always supposing that I require bracing—for a conflict with the one who has committed it. Not the Terror, but the Doer, would be in my thought and purpose, in looking about me. Come, I hear the voice of Noddy—bless his dear heart—calling for auntie; and thus we dismiss the unpleasant subject to the silence whence it has been evoked. Come.”
CHAPTER XIV.—THE GENERAL ANNOUNCES HIS
APPROACHING MARRIAGE.
His face, far more cheerful than when we last looked upon it, and wearing an expression of expectation, was turned from time to time towards the door.
“Most women, if punctual at all, are sure to claim the last minute,” he declared to himself, referring to his watch. “Ten minutes lost in waiting for once only, may be little, but what would be the aggregate in the course of a long life, if daily persisted in? Why, a good portion of one's whole existence wasted, I fancy. Yet, nobody ever appears to think of it. Ah!”
His exclamation was elicited by the opening of the door.
It admitted into the parlors the head of his household —the lady who did herself the honor to preside at his table, and regulate the domestic economy of his house—in short, Mrs. Bristowe; and as she gracefully advanced to the place where he had paused, near the window, he thought that, perhaps, after all, the ten minutes he had lost in waiting had been quite advantageously used by the lady—if the perfection of her toilet was to be taken into consideration, and appreciated.
“I fear I have detained you some minutes beyond the time mentioned for the interview,” she said, apologetically.
“Doubtless,” he responded, pushing forward an easy-chair, and placing his own opposite. “But the minutes have not been altogether barren ones, since they have yielded me some pleasant thoughts; and were it otherwise. I think I could better afford the absolute loss of a few minutes this day, of all days. For it is the anniversary of my marriage.”
“Your marriage, general!” exclaimed Mrs. Bristowe, with an expression of genuine surprise.
“It surprises you, I see—as I supposed it would do,” he responded, softly, with a gravely tender face. “Yes,” he continued, reflectively, “I was married thirty-one years ago to-day to one of the fairest and loveliest girls that ever blessed the impulsive, undisciplined heart of a boy-lover. Married —and was happy for a time—all too brief. I need not dwell upon it: it is enough to say I lost her three months afterwards. Not among friends, and amid peaceful surroundings; but by a fearful accident, that, during my absence, destroyed the temporary home to which I had taken her. To those who have supposed me a bachelor—as all my friends do—the knowledge of this must be a surprise, of course; but it is quite among the possibilities that some things noticeable—say, in my habit of depression—my taciturn disposition—may be attributable to the terrible blow dealt me then. But, it was not to recall this memory of my past that I requested your presence and attention for an hour, or less, here this morning. Though incidentally it is as well that so good a friend as you have been to me—” he put from him, by a negative gesture, the lady's elaborate acknowledgment of the compliment implied—“should know so prominent a fact in my early life. It was to inform you —to confer with you, if you please, on a subject of present importance—of very great importance—to me; and incidentally not without interest, I trust, to you. I am about to be married!”
“To be married?”
The violent start of surprise—the tone of voice— the rising flush—with which the words were uttered, were well calculated to cause the general to believe that this was the first time a thought had ever occurred to her of the remotest possibility of such a result.
And yet this admirable strategist had known for weeks, even better than the general himself, that the course of events all tended in that direction.
She had known it, but she had been powerless to prevent it—much as she desired to do so.
“To be married again,” continued the general, with additional emphasis on the last word, as if fearful that his fidelity to the dead might be for a moment forgotten, even in his own mind, by the happy prospect he thus announced.
“Allow me to be the first with my congratulations,” said Mrs. Bristowe, vivaciously. “Do I know the lady? Is it possible that she is of our set, and I have never suspected this?”
She toyed with her fan vigorously.
“I accept your congratulations, Mrs. Bristowe,” said the general, gravely, “in the hopeful spirit which befits the occasion. For they would be but just to any man so fortunate as to be in my position. But you do not yet know the lady. She is very far from being of our set, heretofore—if by our set you mean the gilded butterflies of fashion whom we are in the habit of meeting in wealthy circles. She is not one of those—and I may add, I thank God she is not, or my happiness would be at an end before it could well begin. No; she is a poor girl; rich only in the treasure of her love and the nobleness of her soul; friendless, save in the affection of two or three friends, more humble than herself.”
“She, probably, has accomplishments to draw many to her, under other and more favorable circumstances, and to lead a nobler circle?” hinted Mrs. Bristowe, pleasantly.
“Perhaps—but what special accomplishments to that end I have never sought to inquire.”
“She, at least, is fortunate in drawing one of a nobler circle,” persisted the lady, smiling.
“Time alone can determine that,” declared the general, earnestly. “I am fortunate, beyond the power of words to express—that I know. And you will think so, too, when you see her, I am confident; though you may not choose to express it in those words,” he continued, more brightly. “I will bring her here, and you shall judge for yourself.”
“I shall be proud of the honor, I am sure,” declared Mrs. Bristowe, with as much apparent sincerity as if it had not been one of the unsolved problems of her recent existence how to prevent this marriage.
“Having made this announcement, I now approach a point personal to yourself, Mrs. Bristowe. The precise day for the wedding has not yet been decided on—but it is to be very soon. She has recently met with a great loss—I should say, has been very ill—and her recovery therefrom has been correspondingly slow. It has been arranged, in view of this fact, that we shall travel for a twelvemonth at least; resting at such times and places as may be deemed best requisite to her complete restoration. It is my desire, Mrs. Bristowe, that my prospective marriage shall not make any change of a material nature in our relations in this house, eminently satisfactory as they have been heretofore; but, that you will continue in the future, as in the past, at the head of the establishment. For the sake of our people—by which I mean, of course, the servants—if for no other reasons, it has seemed to me in every way desirable that the house should not be closed during my proposed absence, if you would kindly consent to remain. But, if on the other hand, you should prefer, for any reason of your own, to retire now—to relinquish at once the social position you have hitherto so admirably filled —I have only to suggest that a comfortable annual income, the amount to be determined by yourself, will be immediately placed at your disposal. Should you, however, prefer to hold such settlement in abeyance until some future period—also to be determined by your own wishes—I shall be equally gratified. I trust that no event in either of our lives can ever make me wholly indifferent to your welfare.”
Thanking him for the consideration shown to her wishes, and the delicacy in which the proposition had been conveyed, Mrs. Bristowe expressed herself as already decided to adopt the first proposal, to keep the house open during the period of his expected absence—as, thus, should he at any time weary of wandering, he could at once turn his steps homeward, with a certainty that a rejoicing welcome awaited him. To which view of the subject the general readily assented; for, he said, should the benefit expected to be derived from travel prove less than experience led him to fondly hope for, he should immediately retrace his steps.
And after some further discussion of details, of an unimportant nature, but more or less bearing on the contemplated event, the general withdrew.
And a few minutes later, the lady saw him from the parlor-windows, in his light trotting wagon, driving rapidly down the Avenue.
CHAPTER XV.—A CORRESPONDENCE WHICH BEARS ON
THE FUTURE.
In front of her inlaid cabinet, in the same apartment, sat Mrs. Inkerman Bristowe.
Her head had been resting upon her jeweled hand, and her elbow upon the miniature writing-case.
It was evident that she had sat down to think, with some view to a definite purpose.
She was alone.
Her usually carefully considered toilet may have been, possibly, a trifle less elaborate than customary, but showed no essentially diminishing care for the world's opinion, resulting from the general's revelation of the morning.
The prospective change of position, foreshadowed by that announcement, had not, apparently, affected her underlying purpose to the extent of nervousness. For, was there not another twelve-month before she would be called upon to decide whether she would remain the head of this establishment —for what would be a young girl in her hands—or become the head of an independent one of her own?
Thus deliberating, she had sat for some time, but at length she opened the cabinet, and unlocked the secret drawer, wherein on a memorable occasion, it may be recalled, she had locked up the extorted confession of Mr. Jules Bonard, with other papers, that indicated it as the safe depository of private matters pertaining to herself alone.
From this drawer she now took a letter, closely written on foreign paper, and read it over carefully. It was evidently not new to her, having, in fact, been received the day before; but as her present action was to be predicated thereon, the re-perusal signified a desire to more thoroughly familiarize herself with its contents. It was dated at some sea-coast town in Brazil, and read as follows:
“HARRIET: You will see by the postmark of this letter that I have done what I agreed to do, at your rather forcible suggestion. I have left the country which now has the honor of being your place of residence.
“You may notice also—but for fear that you will not, I mention it—that I took the precaution of coming to a country where extradition treaties are unknown; where no process of law, for deeds committed elsewhere, can reach me.
“But, though I am thus out of your or anybody else's reach, you are not beyond mine. I cannot strike you in person, it is true, but a letter, such as I can write, can!—always supposing that I find myself called upon to write it in self-defense.
“Your little scheme of becoming the mistress of that fine establishment—which I lightly alluded to at our last interview—can be blown upon at a moment's notice; nay, it is quite possible that, were it not for certain considerations personal to myself, you would have found the ruins of your plans about your ears already.
“I saw enough before I left to know that you had
no chance of legitimate success in the direction to
which you aspire; nor of any success without some
assistance—perhaps not even then. Accident has
mixed
“Of course, you know I did not claim the child; you knew—or you thought you knew—the reason: through fear of you and what you might do. In part you were right, but not entirely.
“I found by merest accident, and that accident connected with my attempted seizure of the child, that a greater danger was in my path—a danger which overshadowed you, and will, as before hinted, at a word from me—the accident of a breath —destroy you!
“The combination was too strong for me, and— well, I fled.
“How I got here little matters to you, or to any one, now. If I worked my passage as a common sailor, or if I was a stowaway, and had myself carried on board in a ventilated box, as so much merchandise, is no concern of yours. In either case, it simply gives but a faint idea of my personal resources— resources which you have of late held in far too light estimation.
“But I have led a dog's life while here—nay, worse. My usual dependence of languages failed me because of lack of means to present a decent appearance, and I was fearfully ill on coming off the voyage. I have even had to descend to beggary when nothing could be found worthy of my steal—grim joke, this!—or stiletto.
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Not only is such a fog disagreeable—it is also dangerous. If it is a steamer that you are on board, you will notice the officer of the deck—he in the pea-jacket who is nervously pacing the bridge— pull the fog-whistle every minute or so. There are two men on the lookout who wipe the mist from their eyes and continually peer ahead. Now and then the “toot-toot” of a fog-horn will be faintly heard, and you will know that you are in the neighborhood of a sailing-craft. In such cases the greatest care has to be taken to prevent collisions. Many a fisherman's wife and children wait on hopelessly for him that sleeps at the bottom of the sea, owing to his smack having been run down in a fog. It is a narrow escape from just such a doom that the picture we present this week illustrates. The man at the helm in the fishing-smack has put the tiller “hard down” just in time, for the monster looming up in the mist is an ocean steamer, and in another moment more it would have been too late. When such dangers are considered, we can readily see what a life of hardship and hazard is that led by those hardy fishermen who dwell along the inhospitable coast, and spend most of their existence in a fog.
TIN IN OHIO.—The rolling and tin mill at Wellsville, O., is in full operation, and the quality of the product is said to be satisfactory. This is the first tin manufactory established in the United States. The capital stock of the Company is $60,000, and the works give employment to 300 men.
A NEW BUILDING BRICK.—The last invention of note is a coal brick, composed by chemical processes of the dust of anthracite coal. The inventor of the process claims that they will burn equally well with the best coal now in the market, and that he can supply them a great deal cheaper.
WOOD FLUMES.—Those in use in Nevada are great curiosities. Many of them cost from $30,000 to $50,000. They are built upon a certain grade, and pass over and wind around many hills in their course to the valleys or other places where the wood and lumber carried down may be reached by teams or sidetracks from the railroad. The flumes are built so large that timbers sixteen inches square and as many feet in length may be floated down them. Down a properly constructed flume these large timbers are floated by quite a small head of water; and not single sticks, but a long procession of sticks. Wood and lumber are carried off by the same means as fast as thrown into the flumes, and dumped miles away in an almost incredible short time.
AMERICAN SILK CULTURE.—It is said that thirty years ago there was no home market for the silk produced here. Now there are, as shown by the census, more than one hundred and fifty factories using raw silk in their manufactured goods; of these fifty are located in Boston, fifty in New York, thirty in Philadelphia, fifteen in Paterson, N. Y., one in Kansas, one in California, and others (but no numbers are given) in Schenectady, Troy, Yonkers, and Oneida, N. Y.; and in Mansfield, Hatfield, and Manchester, in the New England States. In the two or three years that have elapsed since these statistics were gathered for the census report, it is probable that others have gone into operation in California and elsewhere, and that not less than two hundred such factories, probably, are consuming raw silk at the present time in the country.
INDUSTRIAL PROGRESS IN PENNSYLVANIA.—Pittsburgh will soon have another important industry in operation, representing $400,000. The works are located in McKeesport, and will offer employment to about 150 men and boys. The enterprise is the manufacture of tin plates. There is no question as to the demand for the article to be produced; strange to say, it is now imported from Europe, yet the margin of profits is so considerable that even with a large reduction, of which there is no sign whatever, the enterprise is on the firmest footing, warranting the expectation of good dividends by the stockholders. With iron at $50 per ton, the cost of producing tin plate of a given quality is less than $8 per box, the selling price of which is over $11. The works under notice will turn out from thirty to forty thousand boxes per annum.
DIAMOND CUTTING IN NEW YORK.—A company
of diamond merchants has been formed within the
past fortnight for the prosecution of an enterprise
that has made Amsterdam rich and famous. Agents
have scoured Holland for experienced diamond-cutters,
with
GREAT IRON ENTERPRISE IN CALIFORNIA.—Mr. A. B. Potter, of Shasta County, in behalf of the Iron Mining Company recently organized in Sacramento, has secured the extensive deposit of ore situated near the site of the old Silverthorn Bridge, on the McCloud River. He has purchased a portion of Silverthorne's road, and will soon be taking out ore for shipment below. It is estimated that millions of tons of good paying iron ore can be taken from the surface of the ground claimed by the Company, and that the expense of taking it up from its original place of deposit will be very trifling. The Iron Company have done work enough on Iron Mountain, above Shasta, to entitle them to hold the ground and apply for a patent for mineral land; and it is their intention to do so. Tests show that the ore on Iron Mountain contains not only iron, but also other valuable minerals, which establishes the fact that the ground is subject to entry under the Mineral Land Law exclusively.
THE FORT ST. PHILIP CANAL.—Prominent citizens of New Orleans are considering a project that, it is claimed, will revolutionize the trade of the Northwest. At a point about eighty miles below New Orleans is a narrow neck of land which divides the main channel of the Mississippi River from Breton Island Sound. On that neck is located Fort St. Philip, a massive structure, which is a standing testimony that a firm foundation can be had for the proposed canal. A few miles east of this narrow barrier is the harbor, which it is proposed shall be connected with the Mississippi River by means of a ship canal. The harbor which it is intended to reach opens due east, with a clear and unobstructed way to the high sea, having an even and increasing depth all the way out, varying from about 30 feet until all soundings are lost. When constructed, the canal will be filled only with salt water from the Gulf, and the lifting lock will be placed at the river end. To avoid the possibility of injury from unusual storms, a grand lock will also be erected near the outer end of the canal, on Sable Island. For the canal, as stated, two doors are projected—one to overcome the difference of level between the river and the gulf; the other to close the canal at its outer end during the continuance of hurricanes. The first will be of the ordinary form of canal locks, but will be larger than any ever before projected or built. It is to be 400 feet long between gates, 80 feet wide, and 27 feet water over sills. It is to be built on a timber platform, and of beton, making the structure of a single artificial stone. The gates are to be of iron and hollow, with sufficient flotation to support their own weight—flotation to be regulated by water ballast to suit changes in the heights of tides. The water for the lift will be taken from the near surface of the river, to be received on a cushion of salt water to prevent deposit, and will be discharged outside of the canal. The guard lock is to be of similar construction, but it will only have one pair of gates. The whole is to be rested on courses of timber bolted together, and these will be rested on the firm blue clay which has been found to exist there. The gulf entrance to the canal will be between two parallel piers, one mile in length, built with timber piles and stones filled in between the piles to the level of extreme high water. The entrance to the river will be between timber wharves 400 feet long.
THE Grangers of Ross and Pickaway Counties, O., have called a meeting to devise means for purchasing their farm supplies from first hands. A warehouse will probably be established either at Chillicothe or Circleville for the distribution of supplies.
There are eight granges in operation in Canada.
Seventy-one granges have been organized in California.
Vermont leads the New England States in number of granges, having 26.
Twenty-four granges have been organized in Delaware County, Ind., since March.
A new grange, the third in Maryland, was organized at Rising Sun, Cecil County, October 3d.
The Grangers of Missouri are indebted to the Paris
A large number of Republican office-holders are stumping Iowa against the Anti-Monopoly or farmers’ ticket.
In forty-one counties of Illinois the farmers have put candidates in the field, proposing to carry the next Legislature.
The farmers of Saline County, Kansas, will hold a convention at Salina on the 25th inst., to nominate a county ticket.
Convoy Grange was instituted at Convoy, Van Wert County, O., September 27th, with A. Mentzer, Master, and John Shaw, Secretary.
The Grangers of Vermont have made arrangements by which, for the first time, they obtain their groceries from Boston at wholesale rates.
The farmers of Perry County, O., have a grange store, and report its flattering success. Over 60,000 pounds of wool were packed last week.
The farmers of Champaign County, Ill., are shipping grain on the co-operative plan. In a shipment of nineteen car-loads at one time they saved about $500.
The Secretary of State of Iowa has received for record the articles of incorporation of the Grain Growers’ Manufacturing Company of Cedar Rapids.
The Convention of Grangers in the Thirty-seventh Congressional District of Kansas recently nominated a full ticket, with C. R. Johnson for Representative.
S. H. Ellis, Master of the Ohio State Grange, organized subordinates, on the 16th, 17th, 18th and 25th of September, at Lockington, Hardin, Potter and Cherry Grove.
Dudley W. Adams, Master of the National Grange, has revoked the dispensation of the Grain Dealers’ Grange, of Boston, on the ground that such organizations must be composed of farmers.
The Patrons of Husbandry in Marshall County, Ill., declare by resolution that no man without good moral character, or who is entangled with political, job or ring alliance, need expect their vote or countenance.
If it be asked what the Patrons of Husbandry have already accomplished, let it be told to their credit that the progress of their movement has led to a reduction of the passenger tariff on the Illinois railroads from five to three cents a mile.
A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Patrons of Husbandry for the States in the Mississippi Valley will be held at Keokuk, Ia., on the 10th of October. Cheap transportation, the Improvement of the Mississippi River, the natural outlet of this region to European markets, and other subjects of interest, will be considered.
Dudley W. Adams, Master of the National Grange, thinks that it would be impossible for the Grangers to become a political party, as the questions of free trade and protection would divide them at once. Nothing could be more unwise than the formation of a political party seeking to unite one class in opposition to others.
A mass meeting of farmers was held at Muncie, Ind., on the 2d. There were thirty-four granges represented, and the attendance was variously estimated at from eight to ten thousand. The procession was one mile and a half long. There was a basket dinner, music and addresses by Ezra Olleman, of Morgan County; Hon. J. J. W. Billingsley, of Indianapolis, and State Lecturer Lansing.
The Grangers of Jefferson and adjoining counties of Iowa held a harvest home festival at Fairfield, at the new fair grounds, one and a half miles south of the city. The procession was over a mile long, comprising over 500 wagons, besides many horsemen. It is estimated that there were 5,000 people on the grounds. Music, banners, speeches by Miss Laura Garrison, of Mount Pleasant, and others, and a most bountiful and sumptuous dinner, were embraced in the programme.
CITIZENS of Iowa have subscribed $50,000 to the endowment of Tabor College.
Nebraska computes her wealth at $70,000,000.
George Sand has an annual income of 100,000 francs.
Delaware peach-growers claim a loss of $200,000 on this year's crop.
Chattanooga, Tenn., claims to have $2,124,000 invested in local industries.
The Odd Fellows of Wyandotte, Kan., are spending $10,000 on a new hall.
The boot and shoe manufacturers of Portland, Me., have a working capital of $375,000.
The National Grange Patrons of Husbandry have $30,000 on deposit in a New York City Bank.
Miners estimate that at least $30,000 worth of silver ore is brought, into Ogden, Neb., daily.
The sum of $800,000 will be expended in constructing a new tunnel through Bergen Hill, N. J.
It is said that $2,000,000 are to be invested in a mammoth boot and shoe factory at Indianapolis, Ind.
Mr. Gladstone receives $37,500 per year for his services as Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Ex-President Johnson's loss by the failure of the First National Bank, Washington, D. C., is now figured up to $75,000.
The Masonic Widows’ and Orphans’ Home of Kentucky has received $20,000, the proceeds or a jubilee on St. John's Day.
It is said that the Spanish Government intends selling all the ecclesiastical property in Rome belonging to Spain. It is valued at $4,000,000.
John Bright, as Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Eng., will have the patronage of forty-one livings, varying from $580 to $7,350 each.
Charles Macalester, of Philadelphia, has presented to the city of Minneapolis, Minn., a gift of property worth $100,000, for educational purposes.
Hon. Alexander H. Stephens has given $500 towards the establishment of a Catholic college in Georgia, and General Robert Toombs will contribute the same amount to the same object.
The gross receipts of the Western Union Telegraph Company for the past year, from all sources, are $9,388,018.51; gross expenses, $6,575,055.82; net earnings, $2,757,962.69.
Marfori, husband of the ex-Queen of Spain, complains legally of his wife's extravagance, asserting that since residing in Paris her income has dwindled from 1,000,000 francs, annually, to 500,000 francs.
There were 4,285 life-insurance policies issued in Maryland in 1872, insuring $10,096,018, and 16,603 policies insuring $46,967,155 were in force upon the lives of citizens of Maryland at the close of last year.
A Baptist chapel in the city of Paris has just been completed, capable of seating 606 people, at a cost of $60,000. Mr. Spurgeon and Rev. Dr. Neale, of Boston, were expected to participate in the dedication services.
The Post Office Department finds that there is an average weekly balance of about $20,000, or $1,000,000 per annum, due Great Britain on account of the payment of money orders issued in the United States in favor of British subjects.
Bishop Potter announces that generous subscriptions to the fund for the erection of a great protestant Episcopal Church in the city of New York continues to come in. Two laymen have each subscribed $100,000. The sum of $2,000,000 will be needed to meet the cost of ground and superstructure. The sittings in the cathedral, when completed, are to be free.
NEW ENGLAND.
MAINE.—Work on the new Custom House at Rockland has begun.
The United States Fishery Commission reports that cod and haddock are quite as abundant along the coast as formerly, but are in deeper water. The plan for the restoration of salmon to the rivers has been very successfully carried out, great numbers of young fish having been placed in all the principal streams, and fishways constructed around the dams.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.—The steam fishing fleet at Portsmouth have commenced operations for the season.
The excitement over the trials of working cattle at the State Fair at Manchester rose to such a pitch that the contests were continued till nearly midnight, by the aid of lanterns and torchlights.
VERMONT.—Wallingford will combine an agricultural fair with her centennial celebration on the 15th and 16th insts.
Some sharp rumsellers are running a floating barroom up and down the shores of Lake Champlain. They bid defiance to the powers that be on land, saying that, being afloat, they are not selling liquor in either the State of New York or Vermont.
MASSACHUSETTS.—The Masonic Grand Lodge attended the funeral of the late Bishop Randall at Boston on the 7th, the deceased having been one of the P. G. M.’s.
The Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company celebrated the usual Fall parade on the 6th, by a visit to Indian Hill Farm, where dinner was served, and a concert and ball at Newburyport.
The annexation campaign terminated on the 6th, and the election occurred on the 7th.
The Worcester Musical Association commenced its sixteenth annual festival on the 6th.
Amesbury has formed a Natural History Society with about fifty members.
At the last town meeting the citizens of Montague voted to rebuild the Oakham Schoolhouse, recently burned at Turner's Falls, and appropriated $14,000.
Captain Merriman, of the United States Revenue Marine, has visited Nantucket to make arrangements for establishing a new life-saving station.
The workingmen of Boston are preparing a grand reception for Joseph Arch upon his arrival in that city.
A village for women is to be established in Woburn, where Mrs. Aurora Phelps has bought sixty acres for the new community. This land is to be laid out in small house lots, which will be sold to workingwomen on favorable terms, and they will be encouraged to work upon and improve the land.
The new free public library for colored people in Concord was dedicated. The building is the gift of Mr. William Monroe, a wealthy merchant.
CONNECTICUT.—A State vote was taken on the 6th upon the proposed constitutional amendment making Hartford the State capital, and resulted in the adoption of the measure.
The statue of General Israel Putnam will be erected on the public park in Hartford this month.
The Connecticut Training School for Nurses will go into operation this month at the State Hospital.
Professor Sumner, of Yale College, is a Republican candidate for one of the City Aldermen of New Haven.
Arrangements are now being made for a centennial celebration of Stamford Baptist Church, which was organized in 1773.
The foundations for the new lighthouse on Southwest Ledge, New Haven Harbor, have been built in within eight feet of the surface of the water at low tide. The material is solid masonry.
RHODE ISLAND.—The Freshman Class of Brown University has elected the following officers: President, W. P. Sheffield, Jr., Newport; Vice-President, W. I. Ballou, Woonsocket; Secretary, R. Gardner, Providence; Treasurer, H. F. F. Handsel, Philadelphia, Pa.; Historian, J. P. Kelley, Newport, N. H. The following honorary titles were bestowed: Class Giant, J. G. Bucklin, Providence, weight 110 pounds; Class Infant, E. France, Burrillville. weight 190 pounds.
THE MIDDLE STATES.
NEW YORK.—The International bridge at Buffalo will be completed on the 27th.
The Union Theological Seminary has received from Mr. James Brown, the banker, the handsome donation of $300,000, to complete the endowment of professorships in that flourishing institution.
NEW YORK CITY.—The Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America met on the 6th.
The Senatorial Committee on Privileges and Elections met on the 6th, and adopted an amendment to the Constitution, to be submitted to the Senate for its action, looking to a new mode of electing President and Vice-President.
A National Convention of Carriage-makers will be held in this city, November 19th.
The members of the Evangelical Alliance were the guests of the city on the 9th, and visited the institutions on the Islands.
John T. Irving, the self-asserted murderer of Benjamin Nathan, arrived, with guards, from San Francisco.
The Woman's Centennial Association met at Steinway Hall on the 9th.
NEW JERSEY.—The Constitutional Convention reassembled at Trenton on the 7th.
Miss Annie Scholefield is the first female school trustee elected in New Jersey under the law passed by the Legislature last Winter.
Newark is the only city in the United States that manufactures ultramarine blue.
The Grand Lodge of the Sons of Temperance held its annual session in Trenton.
The Odd Fellows of Newark forwarded handsome contributions to their brethren in Memphis.
THE SOUTH.
MARYLAND.—The Hon. Joshua Vansant was renominated for the mayoralty of Baltimore.
The fifth annual exhibition of the State Agricultural and Mechanical Association opened, on the Pimlico Grounds, on the 7th inst.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.—The President directed that 10,000 rations be issued to the citizens of Memphis suffering with yellow fever.
The crew of the
President Grant, with Secretary of War Belknap, Postmaster-General Creswell and General Babcock, left Washington, and visited the Maryland State Agricultural Fair on the 9th.
SOUTH CAROLINA.—The citizens of Charleston are going into the courts to test the recent so-called election in that city.
NORTH CAROLINA.—Mecklenburg County has issued $320,000 of county bonds to aid in building railroads in that county.
FLORIDA.—The orange groves are heavily taxed this year.
It has been demonstrated that hops can be raised in this State with success.
Jacksonville shipped 31,200,000 feet of lumber in 1870, and 42,328,000 in 1873.
Two hundred bales of cotton were raised on 300 acres near Mariana, in spite of the caterpillars.
A convention of the editors and publishers of Florida newspapers was held in Jacksonville on the 19th inst., to organize a State Press Association.
KENTUCKY.—The Southwestern Kentucky Medical Association met in Paducah on the 15th inst.
The Churches, Odd Fellows, Masons, Knights of Pythias, Comrades of the G. A. R., and other organizations in Louisville, are collecting funds and materials for the sufferers at Memphis and Shreveport. Ten thousand dollars were raised in two days.
Paris bid $150,000 for the location of the Central University.
The Ohio River Commission met at Louisville. Each of the six States were requested to contribute $30,000.
TENNESSEE.—The total number of deaths in Memphis since yellow fever appeared is estimated at 575.
John M. Lee, of Nashville, has just given a beautiful locality in the suburbs as the site for the Tennessee school for the blind, paying the sum of $15,000 for the ground.
LOUISIANA.—The New Orleans National Banking Association passed into the hands of a receiver.
The mortality in Shreveport was fifty per cent. of those attacked by fever. The total deaths are above 600.
Fifty extra nurses were sent to Memphis from New Orleans.
THE WEST.
OHIO.—The Pork Packers’ Association at Cincinnati elected Briggs S. Cunningham President.
The Chamber of Commerce of Cincinnati appropriated $1,000 for the relief of the sufferers in Memphis.
The Executive Board of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations met in Cincinnati on the 12th.
INDIANA.—The “Big Yearly Sunday” of the Western Association of Quakers was celebrated on the 5th, at Richmond.
Twelve new coal-shafts are to be sunk in Clay County between now and February.
The State Christian Missionary Convention will meet at Wabash on the 14th, and continue in session three days.
ILLINOIS.—Grand Master Brass, of the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows of Illinois, has issued a call to subordinate lodges in the State for contributions to be made to the suffering Odd Fellows in Shreveport and Memphis.
The Masonic Grand Lodge of Illinois held its annual session in Chicago.
The Supreme Court of Illinois, in session at Ottawa, has rendered a decision, through Justice Scott, affirming the validity of the State liquor law.
J. C. Pickard, Superintendent of the Chicago public schools, has been trying the effect of abolishing corporal punishment on the discipline and condition of the schools, substituting therefor an “appeal to the better feelings” of the refractory pupils. He considers that the plan has been very successful.
MICHIGAN.—A base-ball tournament was held near Cassopolis on the 8th and 9th. Three prizes, aggregating $170, were offered.
The Union Fair of the State Pomological Society and the Grand Traverse Agricultural Society was held at Traverse City on the 8th, 9th and 10th.
WISCONSIN.—The Presbyterian State Synod began its session at Beaver Dam on the 9th.
There is a rise in the Chippewa and Black Rivers, and logs are running lively.
IOWA.—Lead ore has been discovered in Lyons.
Over $2,000 are offered in premiums at the Council Bluffs House Fair, which is to be held October 16th, 17th, and 18th.
The State Fair yielded $18,000.
Prairie fires are raging near Council Bluffs.
The State Convention of Spiritualists was held October 2d, 3d, and 4th, at Des Moines.
IDAHO.—More bullion will go from Owyhee to San Francisco this season than in any season for years past.
Considerable interest is being awakened in the Alturas region over the wealth of the Rocky Bar and South Yuba silver and gold quartz ledges.
The grain harvest of Idaho has been greater than ever before, and the aggregate yield of the mines is the largest that has been taken out for several years.
Silver City is a very busy camp. The silver mines there are all paying richly, the quartz mills are all busily employed, rich strikes are frequently made, merchandising is in a flourishing condition, and the evidences of prosperity are visible on every hand.
THE PACIFIC SLOPE.
CALIFORNIA.—Los Angeles makes 200 tons of salt each season.
Increase of population in California during last year, 40,000.
The Sacramento Beet Sugar Factory this year will make 8,000 barrels of sugar, valued at over $200,000.
OREGON.—The different educational institutions of Salem are all under way, with a very fair attendance of pupils. Besides the district schools, the Deaf Mute School and the School for the Blind, the Academy of the Sacred Heart, and the Willamette University, are all in a most flourishing condition. There is no place on the Pacific Coast possessing better educational facilities than Salem.
An immense fishery is to be established this Fall at the Dalles.
The woolen mills of Brownsville turned out $3,000 worth of blankets cassimeres and cloth last month
FOREIGN.
GREAT BRITAIN.—Sir Samuel Baker and wife arrived in London.
It is stated that the church of All-hallows, Broad Street, London, is to be removed. It was in this church that John Milton was baptized, and the following register may be seen in the vestry: “The xxth day of December, 1608, was baptized John, the son of John Milton, scrivener.” The font which was then used is still there.
The Irish Nationalists in London are endeavoring to get up a convention on an entirely new representative principle. Each delegate is to produce credentials signed by fifty compatriots, neither more nor less. The convention will sit in Christmas week, and on St. Stephen's Day, December 26th, a mass meeting will be held in Hyde Park to ratify its decisions.
Sir Richard Wallace has made another gift of 25,000 francs to the Public Assistance of Paris, for the purchase of Winter clothing for the poor
FRANCE.—M. Grévy, formerly President of the Assembly, declared in favor of the Republic.
The trial of Marshal Bazaine is progressing at Trianon.
A grand pilgrimage to Jerusalem is being organized under the auspices of the Archbishop of Paris. The pilgrims will leave Marseilles about the middle of October on one of the steamers of the Messageries, and after stopping a few days at Alexandria, will visit the works at the Isthmus of Suez and then proceed to Jerusalem.
SPAIN.—The Republicans bombarded Cartagena.
Carlists report the defeat of the Republican army under General Moriones near Ciranqui.
ITALY.—The Roman journals which published the charge of the Archbishop of Paris have been confiscated by the Italian Government.
A treaty has been concluded between Italy and Germany, abolishing the use of passports by travelers between those countries.
The Bavarian Government has prohibited Bavarian theological students from attending the German college at Rome as long as that institution continues under the direction of the Jesuits.
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With a population of about fifteen thousand, Denver has, perhaps, a less proportion of objectionable elements than any town in the “States.” Notoriously an unhealthy climate for criminals of the lower grades—by which may be understood those who are out of political recognition and power—and for “beats;” not easily reached by the begging class: and, perhaps, without sufficient spiciness and life for the needs and tastes of the metropolitan loafer, she is fortunately spared the trouble of including them in her census-returns. The “floating” and “transient” class is almost entirely made up of tourists and respectable people in search of work and a home. For the accommodation of these, good and reasonable-priced hotels abound, and for about the same scale of charges one may live as comfortably as at the East. Among these, the American, affected by business men and “travelers;” Charpint's, the home of the “heavy respectables” and famous for a good table and quiet, comfortable, home-like style; Munger's, a new house, very popular, and having, perhaps, the best mountain view from its balconies; Ford's, the Tremont, and Broadwell's, and Wise's Bay City House, are all good, and range in prices to accommodate the pockets of all, from prince to poet-pedestrian. Anent this, it is worthy of remark that all nights are cool here, and one may find the neighborhood of the roof less objectionable than would be the case five thousand feet lower down, in New York.
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COLORADO.
A drive to the highlands, in the rear of the town as it fronts the “range,” reveals at once its geographical features and the reasons for its growth, as a central point from which must radiate the travel and the traffic of the mountains. The sketch at the head of this article may help to a comprehension of these.
At the extreme left the plains rise almost imperceptibly and cloud-like, even at times to the slightly promontorial termination of the “divide,” or its apparent edge fronting the mountains. This divide, running counter to the range, separates the north and southward-flowing streams, and turns those that do not originate near it. Being some three thousand feet higher than Denver, with a gradual ascent, it is a feature in the view, though insignificant compared with the structures it abuts upon. Here is the source of Cherry Creek, seen winding into the picture from the extreme right. Pike's Peak is like a white-seamed dome, the highest visible thing next in the panorama; and Plum Creek is seen below it marked like the Platte, next to the right, and Bear Creek still further, by lines and clumps of cottonwood, from their respective cañons to the junction with Cherry Creek, in the heart of the town.
Near the centre of the horizon Mount Lincoln marks the head of South Park and centre of the Fairplay mining region; and beyond it are the Saganche Range, the Valley and Cañon of the Arkansas, Twin Lakes, and still further the San Juan region and the Ute Reservation. The road to these takes a nearly direct course through the mouth of Bear and up Turkey Creek Cañons, and is a stage road. The new South Park Railroad is to follow Platte Cañon, the easiest grade to the foot of Lincoln, whence its waters flow. To the right is seen the Colorado Central, winding up Clear Creek, and at Golden City entering its cañon to tap the Idaho and Georgetown regions; South Boulder and Middle Boulder Cañons succeed to the right, and the Julesburg and Golden Road passes them all as closely as the hills permit, taking Boulder City in its course, at the mouth of the Great Cañon, up which the Salt Lake Road will eventually go, and opening up the rich Gold Hill and Grand Island regions. This is the best route by wagon to Middle and North Parks, and the foot of Long's Peak. Long's himself is seen always the grandest feature in this three hundred miles of visible continuous ranges of rock and snow, under varying lights and cloud effects as mysteriously beautiful to-day to the “fifty-niner” as when he first halted his oxen at the long-sought ford.
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The Denver and Rio Grande Narrow-Gauge Road, taking Colorado Springs, Manitou, Monument Park and the Garden of the Gods, the Ute Pass, to Dutch Park, Cheyenne Cañon, and many other famous points, on its way to Pueblo, and eventually to the “Halls of the Montezumas” themselves, winds up the Platte and Plum Creek, and is lost on the Divide, fifty miles away. Down the Platte goes the Denver Pacific to join the direct line at Cheyenne, and passing us eastward is the line of the Kansas Pacific, and following it, the eye loses in distance the limit of the plain, the limit of the sky.
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IN THE NATHAN MURDER.—SEE PAGE 107.
It will be readily seen that Denver has but one feature, the distribution of travel and the collecting of the riches of the mountains for exportation, and, as a manufacturing town, but one interest of importance, the reduction of ores. The junction of the “D. P.” and “K. P.” Roads, about three miles out of town, has been chosen as the location of this industry, and the Denver Smelting Works, Swansea, as this suburb is called, are in full operation and success. Room for details concerning the growth of the enterprise and its processes being beyond the limit of this article, our artist's brief short-hand report will have to serve the curious and satisfy the speculative. It is important only to say that experience proves the fact that ores can be reduced more cheaply here than in the mountains, the various kinds mixing to produce easily a perfectly natural flux, and doing away with the costly importation of lead, limestone, iron, etc., for the purpose, the ores containing in various combinations all these essentials within themselves. Judge Bond, to whom the city owes many other enterprises and improvements, is the originator of the plan, and is justly rewarded in its success, the average daily reduction being about forty tons of ore, yielding a large percentage of metal, the lead alone paying the cost.
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The Platte, Father Platte to this as the Tiber to Rome, furnishes water through ditches, that begin far up towards the hills, for irrigation; and wells, easily dug, and with a bountiful supply of excellent water, suffice for other needs. Still, a large portion of the highland is “above ditch.” and a company has undertaken to sink an artesian well for its reclamation. The derrick marks the spot in our sketch, and is the beacon of many an ambitions lot-owner's hopes. Success, we may say, is considered certain, water in quantity being already reached, but a stronger flow still desirable.
There are many fine churches, and bank and commercial buildings, and a handsome new public school-building, of which we give a sketch, testifies to the progress of ideas. The Governor's Guard, a citizen corps of fine material, has built a hall that rivals any private or independent armory we have ever seen. This we also illustrate, and remark that it is the place of many a brilliant gathering during the gay season. It is significant of a residue of chaos that the Denver Theatre is still only a huge barn; but as Art is the latest blossom of improvement, we may wait patiently to see her appreciated here. A public library is in hopeful progress, and its growth testifies to an ambition older towns might emulate.
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Block upon block of marble and brown-stone and iron and brick rises like magic, and still lots go up, and still the stranger cries, “Oh, that my coming had been sooner!” Next year he will wail again, “Oh, that I had bought those lots when I came, and so doubled my money!” And still the town grows, and still a stray prophet here and there sits under his gourd and prophesies the end, and scorns to enter a homestead. Some have waited and watched ever since “59.”
Still there were a few even in those days who
either had a grain of faith or were of that class
who for luck are even as a poor man is for progeny.
Mr. H. G. Brown, proprietor of the Denver
Passive faith, however, was not the rule. Mr. J. W. Smith, who built the first flouring-mill in 1860. ves to boast that he has caused to be laid two tricks to any other man's one in Denver, and means to hold the position for some time to come. Brief mention of a few of those who have been most active in promoting progress will not be inappropriate here. Among them Hon. John Evans, the man to whom Denver is said to owe her railroads, is, perhaps, oftenest mentioned. Of Quaker origin, he was born in Ohio, educated a physician, and began the practice of his profession in Indiana, where he rose to eminence, and was intrusted with various important State Commissions. He became a leading spirit in Chicago railroad enterprises, and especially known in connection with the Fort Wayne and Chicago Railroad. In 1862 he was appointed a Governor of the Territory of Colorado, and removed at once to Denver, where he has resided ever since. He has contributed largely to the growth of the city, and is the acknowledged leader in all her railroad enterprises.
Hon. Samuel H. Elbert, the present Governor, is also a native of Ohio. In his eleventh year his father removed to the frontier of civilization, then in Iowa, where, three years later, the boy Samuel became the actual manager of an extensive farm, in which laborious occupation he grew to man's estate. Acquiring then a knowledge of the law, he was admitted to the bar, practiced with honor in Nebraska until the year 1862, when he was by the President appointed Secretary of Colorado, at once entering upon the duties of that office. After his term of service expired he resumed his professional labors, adding many valuable building improvements to the growth of the town, and meantime serving in the Upper House of the Territorial Legislature, being an acknowledged leader. On the 19th of March, 1873, he was appointed Governor of the Territory, an office he now fills to the universal acceptance and satisfaction of the people.
On the 21st of April, 1859, a wagon-train unloaded
in the rude log settlement then known as Auraria,
the material of a printing-office, and just one week
from that day issued the first number of the
Mr. Byers was also born in Ohio, a farmer's boy, “self-educated,” as the phrase goes; became a Government engineer; was known in 1854 as a supporter of the Kansas-Nebraska Bill; elected to the Assembly, and after a long time of public service was disabled by a gunshot-wound; and retiring, as he supposed, from public life, came with press and type to establish the pioneer paper of the West.
Public attention at this moment is directed to the
labors of a little party of men than whom none deserve
more of praise for persistent effort in the
cause of science. They are there to map for us the
Professor F. V. Hayden, in charge of the Department of the Interior Geological Survey, has made Denver his headquarters for the season, and since the middle of May has been, with his able assistants, at work among the parks and passes and peaks. The most accurate of maps and descriptions are in progress, and the country will wait with impatience for the results of these labors.
THE CLIMATE OF COLORADO.
Dr. W. H. Buchtel says: This climate is proverbial for its mildness. The average temperature of the region about Denver is from fifty to fifty-five degrees; the mercury rarely indicates below zero, even in the coldest weather, and seldom exceeds eighty degrees in the warmest. Damp, chilly days, or hot, sultry nights are unknown. Snow seldom remains on the ground longer than twenty-four hours, the Winters being usually very mild. There is no “rainy season” in any portion of Colorado; the absence of clouds the year round is remarkable; the clear sky and warm, genial sunshine are seldom hidden. The purity and dryness of the atmosphere are unsurpassed. Possessing a large degree of electricity, consequent upon altitude; entirely free from humidity, wonderfully clear and exhilarating, malarious or poisonous exhalations never burden this pure air. Decomposition of animal matter takes place so slowly, that the noxious gases engendered pass away imperceptibly. We have warm days and cool nights, there not being half a dozen nights in a season when a pair of blankets are in any degree uncomfortable. There is no such thing known as “damp night air;” although the air is cool, it is perfectly dry, and one may sleep with doors and windows wide open, Summer and Winter, without once “taking cold.” There are not a score of days in any year in which invalids may not sit out of doors, ride or walk, forenoon or afternoon, with comfort and pleasure. Add to this the fact already cited that the nights are always cool, insuring plenty of restful and refreshing sleep, and two of the most essential conditions for the restoration of shattered nervous systems and broken constitutions have been secured.
For most forms of disease, the increased activity imposed on the respiratory organs by residence in high altitudes is a direct and constant benefit. Nothing is better for a dyspeptic or a sufferer from hepatic disorder, or general torpor, than to make him breathe. Increase his respirations from sixteen to twenty-four per minute, and you give him a new experience. His blood circulates with increased rapidity, and is much more perfectly aerated; his appetite is increased, digestion and assimilation promptly responding to the increased demand and increased action. The bed of the Platte River at Denver is a lineal mile higher above the sea level than New York or Philadelphia. Here, one must breathe, both more fully and more rapidly; the result is a permanent increase of the breathing capacity, formation of the tubercle never taking place in lungs expanded by this rarefied air. The results of these climatological conditions are an extremely healthy and invigorating atmosphere peculiarly beautiful and enjoyable—as a whole, the most equable and desirable of any portion of the Western Hemisphere. Probably one-half of the present population of Colorado are reconstructed invalids. Some came with intractable dyspepsia; some with asthma or bronchitis; others had commenced “bleeding at the lungs,” or were confirmed victims of “consumption;” many came too late to be benefited. On the other hand, thousands whose cases were considered hopeless have here found permanent relief. This is especially true of asthmatics. For this class of patients the atmosphere of Colorado is almost a certain panacea.
TELEGRAPHIC PRINTING.—Some Milwaukee inventors have perfected an ingenious attachment to be applied to the ordinary telegraphing instrument, whereby the operator not only receives but prints his reports in fair Gothic type, all at one operation. The instrument is operated with a key-board, which the operator manipulates somewhat after the manner in which a pianist fingers the key of his instrument. From sixty to eighty words can be transcribed per minute—every letter impressed clearly and distinctly. The manager of the Milwaukee Telegraph Office is so pleased with the contrivance that he contemplates its immediate introduction for the transcribing of the Press dispatches, an act which will call down upon his head the blessings of all the compositors in the newspaper offices of the city.
THE Forty-second Annual Exhibition of the American Institute, now in progress at the Great Hall, on Sixty-third Street, is complete in all its details, and crowded day and evening with interested visitors. A greater number of manufacturing processes by labor-saving machinery may be seen here than ever before under a single roof on this continent, embracing manufacture of clothing, shoes, gloves, all kinds of ivory-work, glass-blowing, corset-weaving, wide-sheeting; the various kinds of printing, machinery in motion for shaping wood, drilling rocks, lifting water, forging and finishing metals; engines for transmitting power, from the size necessary to drive a single sewing-machine to the great engine actuating the vast system of shafting and pulleys required to give motion to the multiform machine-tools and devices that meet the visitor at every turn in the immense area covering a floor-space of more than 200,000 feet. Among the special novelties is a button-sewing machine, the corset loom, the new No. 6 manufacturing sewing-machine, exhibited by Wheeler & Wilson, in use by several firms, producing, with other appropriate devices, beautifully finished clothing, boots, shoes, gloves, and all the multiform varieties of stitch ever made by machinery, with a delicate perfection hitherto unequaled, by common consent. The picture gallery, agricultural and household departments are crowded with interesting and remarkable examples of artistic, inventive and industrial skill. Travelers on railroads, and employés and engineers can see a very perfect and simple automatic car coupler, a Missouri invention. The set of burglar's tools, and the remarkable safes for which they were designed to be used on, had it been possible, exhibited by Valentine & Butler, attract a vast deal of attention from all classes.
The display of silk, woolen, and kindred manufactures is varied and instructively attractive. The arrangement of the articles on exhibition is more symmetrical than heretofore, and the improvement and decorations of the hall, also the lighting and ventilation, business offices, police and telegraph offices, music-stand, restaurant, soda and water drinking fountains, and toilet accommodations for all classes of visitors, are very superior, and leave nothing reasonably to complain of. Families, ladies and children unattended can visit the exhibition with perfect safety day or evening, finding all the safety and comforts of home, with the addition of a wonderfully bright and instructive display of brilliant-hued, ingeniously devised and rapid-moving products of human ingenuity and skill, the whole enlivened by the busy hum of the busy multitude, the melody of musical instruments, the merry song of birds, and rare music from Keating's well-balanced orchestra. The exhibition will close November 15th.
“JACK HARKAWAY AMONG THE BRIGANDS,” now publishing in FRANK LESLIE'S BOYS’ AND GIRLS’ WEEKLY, is the best story out ever published for boys. We highly recommend parents to take the paper for their boys. The variety of the paper, as well as the useful and instructive matter contained, cannot be surpassed.
IMPORTANT TESTIMONY TO WILLCOX & GIBBS SEWING MACHINE.—A physician writes: “My wife some nine months ago exchanged a———machine for one of yours (Willcox & Gibbs). I unhesitatingly testify that from personal observation and experience, I regard it in a physiological and sanitary point of view preferable to any other of the many machines I have seen. It has given entire satisfaction to my family, as it is not liable to get out of order, and runs easily, requiring but little effort to work it.”
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