Pittston Gazette

              Miw™»r"1 insert NewsuaDer in the WvomiLg Valley. PITTSTON, LXJZERNE CO., PA., FRIDAY, FfcBRUARY 21, 1890. / A U tenlv Local and FamiJv journal I * IN THE HOLY LAND. The sua huii now set and already it was beginning'to darken, so we hastened back to the convent, for in eastern towns no lights illumine the streets toaid the wayfarer on his journey home. Here sunset practically ends the day, though sunrise rarely begins it. Shops open about half past 9 or 10 o'clock and invariably close at sunset. The lights used in the homes of the people are still of the most primitive character, candles and olive oil meeting all the requirements. crew toiloweu, ana one uy one tne party were carried ashore. The excitement did not last very long, but it afforded another page of Galilean experience that will not soon be forgotten. promptly caJieu to tne steamship company informing theiu of the adjournment of the day of sailing for "home, sweet home." IN THE CAR0L1NAS BILL NYE IN KKNTLCKY. "Well, for two reasons, m tne nrsi place I did not bring my glasses and in the second place, if you won't let it go any further, I can't read anyhow." Cooksey says if there had been no reporters there the prisoner would have been obliged to read the death warrant himself.pwiients Daa to be resorted to to conrsy tha extra travelers in safety. HARROWING HISTORY OF LOUISVILLE AND SOME CITIZENS. Dr. Talmage at Nazareth and At the landing place the whole neighborhood had apparently turned out to greet us. About one hundred men, women and children, and many of them more than half naked, stood ready and waiting for something somehow to turn up that would secure for them a harvest of "backsheesh." But somehow or other nothing of any account stirred, and so they began to start matters themselves with thestereotyped monosyllabic query, Anteek?" with which every foreigner is greeted, and which reported iu plain English would read: "Would you like to purchase this antiquity?" No deception is too barefaced for these tricky people to attempt, and they must either find tourists easily gullible or their opinion of American intelligence is certainly very far below par. Modern coins, with , recent dates plainly legible, axe artificially corroded and offered as the results of late archaeological research. Stones just * picked up with the mud still wet clinging to them are represented as part of some ancient monument or statue cut in altogether different material. Clay lamps fresh from the pottery, with the price marked in Arabic, are offered as specimens just found in recently excavated tombs of the ancients. And here we were besieged by adults, children and even babies whose whole vocabulary seemed to consist of but the two words, "anteek" and "backsheesh." We had quite a number of small coins handy and were about to distribute them either piecemeal or by throwing them at random among the crowd, but the dragoman begged us not to do so, as the less fortunate ones would surely follow us up until in despair we gratified their importunity. So we "set our faces as flint" against Bethsaida and began an hour's tramp through slimy, sticky mud ankle deep rather than risk our lives again on the lake, and gradually one by one the crowd fell away until at last we were again quite alone. Some of these natives have learned just a little English, and these, when they spy a foreigner, generally approach him with "I dank you verrie much for a shilling." Their request being utterly ignored they continue: "I dank you verrie much for a sixpence." Not more successful, next in order is a piaster (about five cents), and finally a para, the smallest coin known here and worth about a quarter of a cent. If failing even in that they turn away with a look of the most ineffable disdain only to repeat the experiment on the next luckless foreigner that crosses their path. Brightened and cheered and full of enthusiasm, we entered upon the last day in Palestine, yet our experience had been such an agreeable one that we would gladly have lingered had Dr. Talmage been able to find any more material for his "Life of Christ;" but he claimed to possess all that he could utilize, and now was anxious to visit the places of Paul's triumphs and trials. The sun shone grandly as we started off, and but very few clouds recalled the heavy fog that caused us so much uneasiness the nigbt before. Dr. Talmage felt, he said, "a» though he could take the whole trip over again." Nearing Mount Hermon, the tops of which were capped with snow white clouds, lie pointed up to the beautiful sight and said that while the sun was doing its very best, there were just enough clouds left to make every hill a Mountain of Transfiguration. Within a short time afterwards we reach Dan, at which the Jordan takes its start. Here over an hour was spent in selecting a stone suitable for the baptismal font of the new Brooklyn Tabernacle, which, when filled with the Jordan water, of which Dr. Talmage laid in an abundant supply, will make a very interesting reminder of the most pleasant trip of all his life. Bidding farewell to the old Jordan we pushed on, and soon learned that the lunch place and the extreme limit of Palestine were at hand by hearing from our dragoman: by the Sea of Galilee. Sherman's Last March, Tvren- ty-fl?e Tears Ago. Th«j Art a Good bat Peculiar People, Nothing pains a man who is unused to appearing in public and who has had no elocutionary training, like having to read his own death warrant to a big Chautauqua gathering like that and have two or three ignorant people yell "Louder!" Death is at all times more or less disagreeable at the bands of the law, but someone ought to be at hand to take the burden of the literary exercises off the hands of the doomed man. THE MISERY OF TURKISH WOMEN. Kxeeatlen Ha* to Read the Death War- Thooe Kentucklan*—A Reporter at an rant—Some .Moral Reflection*. Plains of Extra*Ion—Church of tlie An- SAVANNAH TO G0LDSB0B0. nunciation—At the Busslan Convent—An At the convent we were hospitably entertained and our comfort promoted in every possible way, and that night we rested surrounded by comparative luxury.On Board of the Cabs. [Copyright by Edgar W. Nye.] Extraordinary Hotel Bill—The Mount of Bittln of AT«ry»boro and BentonYilla. Transporting; Pickaninnies—Burning of Colombia, S. C.—Shaman Says WaA Hampton Did It. In the early gray of a February evening a small party, consisting of myself, might have been seen wending its way toward the railway station at Louisville, Kentucky. One may enter the sleeper there at 0 o'clock p. m. and at half-past 2 a. m. he will start for Cincinnati. Precipitation—Tiberias. [Copyright, 1880, by Louis Klopsch, Nevr York.] Constantinople, Jan. 2, 1890.—My last letter ended with a description of Nablous, where we staid for the night. There, among other things, we saw the site of Ahab's ivory palace, to the magnificent architecture once surrounding which over fifty gigantic columns or pillars, still in upright position, give abundant testimony. In fact, so numerous are the evidences to the faithfulness and trustworthiness of the Scriptures, that Dr. Talmage, although ever orthodox, claims that now the Bible has become to him a new book, of which the Holy Land itself is the most stunniqg commentary. While exceedingly interesting in connection with the many biblical associations that cluster around it, Nazareth in itself has nothing of any account to recommend it or render it'desirable for a protracted stay. The Russian convent at which we passed the night was scrupulously clean, which materially helped us to relish the breakfast that we found temptingly spread before us on entering the dining room. After breakfast we called for the bill and found it to contain charges that would bankrupt the hotel fraternity throughout our country long before the Columbus exhibition project assumes tangible form. Among other items we found thirty cents charged for lodging, three cents for toast and tea and ten cents for lodging of the servants. It is needless to add that we paid the bill without % protest. "When the sun turns northward I turn With it," said Sherman at Savannah twentyfive years ago last Christmas. But Not till Feb. 1 did Sherman's army get away from Savannah. The Confederates were looking for the Union general to attack either Charleston or Augusta. Sherman pit wed between and took Columbia, S. C., on the principle which he systematically employed in war: Never do what your enemy expects you to. The army subsisted on the country as before. Howard commanded the right wing, Slocum the left Schofleld1* corps, *1,000 uieufltad bean detached from Thomas and sent down the North Carolina coast to Sherman waited till be could send the negroes and refugees to Wilmington, then resumed his march. Taking with me a small fragment of river water to use when I get home for scouring knives, I paid the bill at me 'otel and went to the depot. The depot of the Louisville and Nashville railroad is a massive pile, costing upwards of $G4 in money. It is built in the Modoc style of architecture and faces both ways, like an independent paper. There was now to be serious fighting. Leaving Fayetteville, Sherman made a feint as if to attack Raleigh. The Confederate forces under Bean, Hoke, Hardee and Wharton had meanwhile been concentrating in that vicinity. . ) * D1 V ■A A PLOT FOR A STORY THE SELF MADE WIDOWER KEPT TALLY The Romantic M»rriag;« of Hi j Charlie and OF THE GAME. tne superior intelligence ana retlneraent of the presence in which I have the honor to appear, I very seriously mistrust my ability either to contribute to your entertainment or to add to your present stock of information by a discussion of &ny subject whatever. Descended, however, from an ancestry who made their homes on the 'Dark and Bloody Ground' when it was a savage wilderness with danger and death lurking on every hand; born upon the bosom of the commonwealth which they in their humble sphere assisted to create while the .tomahawk and the scalping knife were gleaming around them; inspired with a passionate pride in her prosperity and. her prestige from my earliest youth; the recipient of the most distinguished honor within the gift of her generous people, and standing beneath the shadow of this splendid institution of learning—the offspring of her enlightened bounty and the object of her fostering care—I feel that I may at least speak to you of Kentucky, of her resources, of her progress and her possibilities."Meetutne Nance. BATTLE OF AVERYSBORO. "Plots for stories have not all been used, as some people assert," remarked W. A. Jennings, of Wyoming, to a Philadelphia Press reporter. "A friend of mine," he continued, "who lives out in the cattle country of the Big Horn basin, was a witness in 1883 to one of the most remarkable weddings of which I ever beard. At that time a few settlers had gathered in and formed the nucleus of what is now a prosperous farming region, but the sway of the cowboy was undisputed. The Grst wedding in that section on Owl Creek was that of Big Charlie and Meetutse Nance, a native sage brush belle. The bride and groom came seventy-live miles on horseback to the '.squire's, and in exactly the same fashion. When within a few miles of the 'squire's home thev met that official, surrounded by half a dozen cowboys. Then the bride got restive and nervous, declaring thai she wouldn't marry any man on earth. But the judge, the cowboys and the groom were equal to the occasion. At a short distance stood a corral. Sherman left Fayetteville March 15. Th« roads were swamps, as before, but the soldiers had httd so much practice in building corduroy that they were not long delayed by that difficulty. Averysboro is between Fayetteville and Raleigh. Kilpatrick's cavalry trotted gayly out the road towards Averysboro. Slocum was behind Kilpatrick with four divisions of the left wing, while in the rear of Slocum was Howard with four divisions of the right wing. But the wagon trains of both, accompanied by the rest of the army, were on their way to Goldsboro. Meals may be had there at all hours and baggage checked to all parts of the world. Sleeping car berth* and pie are furnished at the shortest notice, and you can get information or victuals there while you wait. My car was made up, ao I knocked out a few brains, disrobed and retired. My window gazed upon the lunch room, and so I could lie and watch people as they came in, nestled up against the counter astride a tall stool and basely betrayed their stomachs. It was rare ■port. Sometimes a woman would spring gayly upon the atool, and, wrapping her heels around those of the stool, would inquire the price of a cup of tea, and if not too high she would buy some in isolated cases. A man generally orders about twice as much as he can eat, and by his manner says, "Darn the price. I reckon I will have enough to eat as long as my money holds out." Early up and early at it—the only practicable way of making a trip like this truly successful—was again the order of the day. and 1 o'clock found us in the saddle ready for the occasion. Mohammedan cemeteries are very numerous in thi9 country, and we had long before this become quite accustomed to seeing them; but this morning our attention was specially directed to one by a large throng of women who were moaning and weeping as though they had just laid away one very dear to their hearts. On inquiry we found that with the Mohammedans it is customary for the women to visit and weep every Friday for one year at the grave of their departed, and the grief manifested on such occasions exhibits all the freshness and earnestness usually occasioned by recent loss. And here this chilly morning thinly clad were probably a hundred and fifty women comforting each other as best they could while grieving and mourning their own bereavement. make an attack from that side, with Terry and Palmer. Howard's army found Hardee's men across the way both at River bridge and Beaufort bridge, on the On our way out we called at the telegraph office and sent the first cablegrar D ever transmitted from there to America. The operator was obliged to telegraph to Beyrout for instructions as to charges. We then went to the Mount of Precipitation, from which the irate Jews threatened to fiing the Saviour when he claimed in himself the fulfillment of prophecy. Although near the end of December, Dr. Talmage was overcome with the heat, which caused us to stop and rest while the dragoman put wet cloths on the reverend gentleman's pate, refreshing him mfficiently to enable him to resume the journey with a sunshade shielding him frow the warm rays, which in Palestine and Syria are considered the poor man's overcoat, the only one, in fact, which we ever saw worn here. Riding between huge hedges of mammoth cactus plants, the barb wire fence of nature's own manufacture, over hills representing the refuse of centuries, amid the barking and howling of innumerable dogs, which by the Mohammedans are considered sacred animals, wo reached Cana of Galilee, where Christ once graced with his presence a marriage feast, the occasion of his first miracle. Dismounting in front of a neat little chapel which tradition says covers the exact site of the interesting event, we awaited the coming of the patriarch, who admitted us and exhibited several large water jars about two and a half feet high and capable of holding about twelve gallons each. These he claimed to be the identical jars that once contained the product of the miracle, a statement which we received cum grano sal is. About midway between Nazareth and Lake Galilee wc halted long enough to rest the horses, and while so doing a large caravan of camels passed us, which suggested to one of the men a conundrum quite common among the natives, which is of interest as indicative of the estimate in which the present administration is held by them: "Why is the Turkish government like a train of camels?" We promptly gave it up, when we received the gratifying information: "Because it is led by a donkey," to all of which 1 most respectfully subscribe. Now the end is drawing nigh, Ctesarea Pbilippi. Salkehatchie. A brisk fight took place, in which _ . General Wager PAXJ1ZTTO FLAG.  At River bridge Gens. Mower and G. A Smith made a remarkable flank movement. When Hardee withdrew from Fayetteville he intrenched himself on a narrow neck of land between the Cape Pear and Sooth rivers, with 20,000 men. A swamp was in front of him. With this force he hoped to hold Sherman till the other Confederate generals could come up with their forces. Then, although the Confederate army was much reduced, there would still be a respectable force to confront Sherman. And so it was. We encamped for an hour, visited the town, read the biblical references to it and passed on, grateful that throughout our trip through Holy Land no accident or evil had befallen us, but that in place of all the rain, robbery and ruin that evil though well intentioned prophets had predicted, there was nothing but pleasure, sunshine, profit and success. Louia Klopsch. The soldiers,- their generals at their head, waded three miles through the icy waters of ft swamp three to four feet deep. Hardee retreated to Branchville, behind the Edisto, burning bridges. Sherman was with the right wing. Kilpatrick's cavalry skirmished with Hardee's rear guard March 15. At noon Thursday, the 16th, Slocum was ordered to advance and dislodge Hardee. "I proposed to ■drive Hardee well beyond Averysboro," says Sherman, "and then to turn to the right by Bentonville for Goldsboro." The general himself was present at the fight, watching operations from an old cooper shop, where he had token refuge from the rain. Gen. Albert Rhett, a brigade commander from Hardee's rear guard, was brought to him at the cooper shop, a prisoner of war. He wore a splendid uniform, with "high jack boots, beautifully stitched," which amused the Union commander not a little. People who run lunch counters are not generally very long lived. I only knew one of these people to linger to a great age, and he had his meal* brought to him. Some kinds of food are improved by age, bat not all. Among those that are not impervious to atmospheric influences or the extremes of heat and cold are eggs, mushrooms and waffles. Celery also suffers somewhat, like a senatorial election, by exposure. It does not thrive under such circumstances so much as a ballet, but pines away and gets coal dust on it, and loses its ambition and hangs over the edge of the glass like a love sick angleworm.Columbia is 128 miles from Charleston by rail. Howard crossed the Congaree river, after some opposition, and entered Columbia Feb. 16,1865. The left wing threatened Augusta and pushed on to Winneboro, thirty miles north of Columbia, at the same tame that Howard entered the city. THE TRAMP WHO DIDN*T COME. "Tako her over to tliecorral, boys, and put her in," said his honor. The Ifew Constable Went for IIlm lu the Name of tlie Uw, but Fulled. And he did so. He started out from that and made a good speech with thoughts in it. He spoke of the fixed carbon and volatile combustible matter in the coal, and said the Iron ore of Kentucky had iron peroxide in it in large quantities. "As Meetutse Nance heard this ordei she made a wild break for the hills, but her days of freedom were over. She was quickly run down, and amid a volley of feminine sage brush eloquence, the delighted boys started on a lope for the corral. Reaching this, Nance leaped from her bronco and started like a scared deer for some adjacent brush, but it was no go. However, she fought vigorously, and his honor ordered: 'Hobblo her. boys.' The boys were in ecstasies. A pair of rawhide hobbles were stripp.nl from a cayuse's neck, and their twist adjusted about the sturdy ankles of the struggling bride. She was taken into the corral, and his honor, mounting the fence, bade the groom take his place by her side and catch on to her hand. This done, his honor assumed the look of dignified importance called for by the occasion, and said: It was in a Wisconsin village, and among the men in the office of the inn after supper was over was a man who had just been elected constable. He was naturally anxious to display his vigor as an officer, and so when a boy came in and reported that he had seen a tramp enter an old barn on one of the back streets, the constable invited us to go along and see him "jerk thunder," as he put it, out of the wayfarer. Half a dozen of us accompanied him, and when we reached the barn it was to find the interior as black as pitch and no lantern in the crowd. We were for sending for one, but the constable protested: The pit in which it is said Joseph was placed by his h*3thren before their disposal of him to the Ishuiaelitish merchantmen was pointed out to us, but on reading the text and comparing it with the place and its surroundings Dr. Talmage pronounced it unauthentic. It is now a well, and whole regiments of women were either coming from it or traveling to it, adroitly balancing oriental water jars on their heads. Sweet water is not to be found everywhere in Palestine, and private wells are altogether unheard of. Wherever a well is found it is public property, and the women come from near and far to secure a supply of the necessary fluid. With faces veiled, bosoms lialf uncovered, feet bare, they present a strange appearance, and though most of them, while naturally quite pretty, have been rendered positively hideous by tattooing and staining, one's heart is moved with pity and sympathy for these patient creatures, whose form alone distinguishes them from the beasts of burden. Here a woman has no rights. Her husband owns her body and soul. He can divorce her at will without consulting any law. One act of disobedience may result in her being cast off. A water jar accidentally broken entails corporal punishment, and not infrequently do these unhappy women, after meeting with an accident of this kind, absent themselves for days from their miserable) homes to avoid such a catastrophe. So far beneath men are they held in some localities that they are not considered fit to pray, and hence are not permitted to enter a mosque, but, when their overburdened hearts yearn for relief in prayer, they may, if they so choose, kneel down in the outer court, without the gate, and there offer up their unworthy petitions. "No woman," said Dr. Talmage, "who has not visited this country will ever fully appreciate all she owes to the blessed influences of our glorious Christianity. Heaven and hell are not in stronger contrast than are the dear women of America and these of Turkey." BURNING OF COLUMBIA. Daring the night of Feb. 17, the beautiful city of Columbia was laid in ashes. Each side blames the other for the burning. General (now United States Senator) Wade Hampton had occupied the place with cavalry, but retired on the approach of the Union army, setting fire to a large number of bales of cotton before he left. Gen. Sherman says the flames spreading from this was what destroyed Columbia. Among the buildings burned was the beautiful Columbia state house, the pride of South Carolina. In the interior of Kentucky one still finds some odd characters, and the plain, unostentatious manner of administering justice attracts some attention whenever it is brought to public attention. A friend of mine went into that country once to report the preliminary examination of a man who had killed his wife by means of a broadax. The reporter had an all night drive, and when he got to the school house where the trial was to take place he found no one inside but the headless woman lying on a door. After a while he went back of the school bouse and found the sons pitching horse shoes with the justice of the peace, while the unruffled and self made widower was calmly keeping tally of the game by cutting notches in a shingle. Gen. Williams' corps led Slocum's advance. He opened the attack by a successful movement on Hardee's left. A general engagement followed, in which a brigade of Union cavalry was at first driven back by McLaws' Confederate division. Then Slocum advanced his whole line. Hardee was driven back to his intrenchments, and during the night of March 16 he made his escape. In 1773 Capt. Thomas Bullitt, who was called a son of a gun by a Kentucky humorist, who only lived long enough to ejaculate, "Adieu, kind friends, I'm going home," discovered the city of Louisville, Ky., at the mouth of Beargrass creek at the Ohio falls, and he could not have discovered a better towu if he had tried. The water was very low at that season of the year and of about the consistency of a farm. Though the water was low the price of whisky was almost equally low, and so the party thinned out the water with the latter. It gently exhilarated them and made them glad they came. Both Capernaum and Bethsaida are utter ruins, the former abounding in choice specimens of artistically sculptured marble, while the latter offers nothing of any account in the way of antiquities, but is now being repopulated and brought under cultivation by a colony of German vine growers, whose beautiful gardens, artistically designed, and few neat, substantial buildings, scrupulously clean, are in striking contrast with the evidences of shiftlessness and dirt that characterize everything possessed by the natives. We lunched at the home of one of these German pioneers, who was very outspoken in his disgust with the Turkish government. They liad purchased and paid for a large tract of land, and now the sultan refused to issue a firman permitting them to build. An appeal to Berlin had, however, resulted in encouraging news from the Iron Chancellor that led them to believe that soon the sultan would be "persuaded" to gram what by right they were entitled to. So uncompromisingly intolerant are the Turks of foreign immigration, or even travelers and tourists, that they hate the sight of the hotel keepers who afford them entertainment. ! ■o &A OLD STATE HODS*. "There is no occasion for a light. I will call upon him to come out, and he will come." BATTLE OF BENTONVILLE. After Averysboro, Sherman resumed the march to Goldsboro. Carlin's division led the advance of the left wing. Dibrell's Confederate cavalry met him on the Goldsboro road and offered stubborn resistance. This was followed with an infantry attack. Carlin's division was driven back a mile through the swamps, when the gallant stand made by Morgan's division, particularly by the brigades of Fearing, Mitchell and Vanderveer, checked the Confederates. Fearing was wounded. He stood in the open door, with the •rowd behind him, and called in a loud ▼oioe: "'Big Charlie and Meetutse Nance, you come into this corral single. I now pronounce you a couple. Big Charlie, unhobble your wife.' "Hoi there, you villain; come out and surrender to the law, and don't be over a minute about it, either!*' Not long ago a colored man named Monroe Wilkinson killed a man at a picnic in order to give variety to an otherwise monotonous programme. He was found guilty and sentenced to be hanged. The execution was to take place within an inclosure, but the obliging sheriff had it in a valley, so that a whole county could sit on the hillside and see it. It is hardly necessary to say that he was reelected.There was no answer, although all of us heard some one moving about inside. There are now 275,000 people in Louisville, I might say, mostly colonels, but I will leave that joke for the use of the large army of bright men who were first to think of it. When Capt. Bullitt discovered Louisville there was not a decent hotel in the place. Now there are a great quantity of them. The following year a house was built, but the.boom was a kind of sickly effort and lots were quite low. "But this Dig Charlie found it difficult to do, and it was not until one of the cowboys had gently cast his lariat over the newly made wife that the husband was able to turn the lady loose. Then the justice callcd his boys together, and saying 'come on, boys, we hain't got no business here now,' led them away. One of the boys looked back, and the happy couple were busy unpacking their camping outfit, and the honeymoon had evidently begun." "In the name of the law I order you to come out!" shouted the constable, but the unknown didn't come. A messenger was quickly dispatched to Sherman, with the right wing, six miles away, telling him that Slocum "bad run up against Johnston's whole army." Sherman immediately ordered Blair and Logan to go to Slocum from the right wing, and started thither himself. Slocum arranged his army for the defensive with all speed. Ki] patrick came up at sound of the artillery and mswed his cavalry on the left. Slocum arranged his force behind a barricade during the night of March 19. We again proposed to get a lantern and then all go in to back the officer in collaring the man, but his official dander had now been aroused, and he replied:Word was brought to Sherman after he bad retired at night that the city was in flames. He sent hasty messengers to his generals to put men at work at once extinguishing the flames, and these did all in their power to that end, but without jnuch avail. A guard of Union soldiers protected the famous palmetto monument during the stay of Sherman. In the state house that was destroyed the South Carolina legislature called the first state convention that passed an ordinance of secession. "Everybody stand back against the fence! Now, then, I am going in alone, and I forbid any of you to follow!" It was late in the afternoon when we entered Tiberias, close to which we were to encamp on the Sabbath. Tiberias is largely inhabited by Israelites, and nearly all of the shops were hermetically sealed, while the streets were thronged with a motley crowd dressed in all the colors of the apparently engaged in and making the most of their day or rest. It is beyond doubt the filthiest city we ever saw, and profoundly grateful were we when, after passing through it, we learned that a return to it was optional, but not necessary. Although once the winter resort of royalty, today it is the cesspool of all Palestine. Nearly the entire non-native population was down with fever, including all the physicians connected with the English church mission. We encamped about half a mile away from the town, right on the banks of the Galilee, from the sweet, crystal water of which we imbibed freely that evening, a statement that will find a more just appreciation when it is remembered that of all the discomforts of travel in Palestine the greatest is the lack of fresh, pure and palatable drinking water, from the want of which we frequently had to endure the most intensely parching thirst. But here at last was an abundant supply of the cool, precious liquid, the mere sight of which seemed to refresh our very souls. We Louisville was named for Louis XVI, Nearly 10,000 people came to witness the great show. They came on foot and on horseback, from everywhere, till they covered the hillside and were like the Bands of the sea for multitude. Lemonade stands sprang up as if by magic, and merry-go-rounds got there from the four corners of the earth. Popcorn, eating apples and wax for chewing purposes were for sale everywhere. The balloon man was there, likewise the man with the machine for showing how much one can lift without injuring himself. Everywhere poor, tired farm bands who needed rest were testing strength till their eyes looked like soiled door knobs or poached eggs in a saucer of stewed tomatoes. He disappeared in the midnight darkness of the interior, and for some time we could trace his progress as he moved about By and by we heard a grunt, followed by a stifled yell and a fall, and we uttered a hurrah under the supposition that he had got his man. We expected him to reappear at once, but he didn't, and after waiting a long five minutes, and shouting to him without receiving a reply, we sent for a lantern and used it to light our way in. We found the constable lying on his back on the floor, his face covered with blood and his nose as big as his fist, and just as we bent over him he opened his eyes and sat up. It was ten minutes later before he could explain that the tramp had struck him a knockdown blow with his fist, and another ten on top of that before he discovered that his watch and wallet and the tramp had left the barn by the unguarded back door. When this fact was known it seemed as if he ought to make a speech or something, and he hauled off and kicked a fence board loose and growled: The above will give the reader an idea of Louisville at about the beginning of the present century. The building with the flag on top is the Gait house. Mr. Henry Watterson has justxone inside the door, softly humming to himself: In tbe Lobby. [Opera just over.] It was truly Johnston's whole army opposed to Slocnm. The Confederate attack began at 3 p. m., March 19, and lasted till dark. Hardee had joined Johnston after the fight of Averysboro. Johnston had discovered that Goldsboro was the objective of the Union army, and set himself to oppose the design. He ascertained that the two wings were separated six miles or more, and his hope wag that he might mass his whole army against them, one at a time, and beat one or both. "So delightful, was it not? I felt so anxious to hear the new tenor that I"  "Isn't he, really? We heard him first Howard's men destroyed everything at Columbia that conld bring any aid or comfort to a Confederate army. "Having utterly ruined Columbia," says Sherman, "the right wing began its march northward." Leaving Columbia Feb. 20, the right wing joined the left at Winnsboro on the 21st. Leaving the German to fight his own battles, wo pressed on, as it had been so •arranged that on the morrow we were to pass out of Palestine and into Syria, and unless six hours more were spent in the saddle we could not push ahead far enough to render this practicable. On our way we visited an old kliaa (inn) built in the time of the Roman occupation and still in use. Here the caravans irom Damascus to Jerusalem, and vice versa, are prone to halt for rest, and so on this occasion we found the inner court idled with camels, burdened and otherwise, and dark visaged, fiery looking men armed to the very teeth. In the rooms on the lower floor, which were simply holes in the wall that surrounded the court, and without windows or doors, veiled women were preparing the evening meal over little ■"wi fin's stnrttDd on thC* iwiirtd in the most primitive style imaginable. Each was filled with smoke, there being neither stove nor chimney, and no civilized human being could breathe its air and live, yet these women apparently suffer no inconvenience whatever. The men looked so vicious that we felt quite afraid, being but a little company and comparatively unarmed, and more grateful were we than we cared to admit to each other when we got out and away from that place. And yet one more experience that day was destined to cause us no little uneasiness. We had jointly agreed to cover a larger territory than usual and to travel later than ordinarily, and were now on the mountain range that divides Palestine from Syria. The afternoon was quite clear, though the morning had been showery. When on the mountain top a fog began to settle and* within ten minutes it became so dense that the riders could not see their horses' heads. We journeyed in silence, while the darkness increased perceptibly momentarily, wondering when and where we were to encamp for the night. Presently our dragoman called a halt and hallooed, evidently expecting a response, but none came. He then confessed that he had lost his way and had hoped that some one at the encampment would hear his cry and answer. Our feelings can better bo imagined than described. Away from habitations of any kind, in a dense wet fog without shelter or food, night fast approaching and in imminent danger of accident from misstep and precipice. But happily our anxiety lasted but a little while, for halting again after a slow, cautious ride of ten minutes or so we repeated the call, and the welcome response away off was distinctly heard by all. I Am a Pirate Xing. in'  "Did you, indeed? That, they say, is his greatest crea"  He will be back in a few moments. The large building on the opposite side of the street is a general store kept by a gentleman who is since deceased. He kept hides, pelts and molasses; also real estate, ice cream and feathers. He sold ammunition, hoarhound candy and hardware, gents' neckwear, cedar posts, honey, plastering hair, fctraw hats, dimension lumber, suspenders, timothy seed, coffins and salt mackerel. He also kept the postoffice and took in washing. He advertised hard cider, playing cards and embalming while you wait. The other houses in the cut are occupied by Many Citizens, Taxpayer, Justice, Old Subscriber, Veritas, etc., etc. "His very greatest; but theu, I simply adore Wag"  "Oh, Wag"  «Wag"  Feb. 22 Sherman received a message from Kil pa trick that eighteen of his foragers had been found dead in the high road, with this label pinned to their bodies: "Thisis the way we treat Kil pa trick's thieves." Sherman ordered Kilpatrick to retaliate to the utmost. Sherman said: "Foraging is a war right as old as history. I will protect my foragers to the extent of life for life." During the night of the 19th Johnston constructed a work in line with that of Slocnm and between Slocnm and Howard. Howard slipped past this line and around Johnston, March 20. On that day Johnston made a second attack, but, after hard fighting, retreated to Smithfield, leaving the Union army to march undisturbed on its way to Goldsboro. Schofield and Terry were now too near for the Confederates to remain in that vicinity. Bentonville was the last heavy battle of the war between Johnston and Sherman. Johnston had here 30,000 men. This was the only serious attempt made to check Sherman in his march through Georgia and the Carolinas. The first attack against Carlin's division came dangerously near being successful on the 19th. The Confederate loes in the battle was 2,825; the Union, 1,646. The attack of Johnston on Bentonville was a surprise to Sherman. March 21 the three armies of Schofield, Terry and Sherman, altogether a great host 100,000 strong, met at Goldsboro. Sherman's second grand march was ended. Eliza Abchabd Comra.. "Wagner. Hie moonlight on the"  "And the groupings; 60 effective. Such fresh young faces in the cho"  Photographs of the murderer were also for 6ale with Lis autograph. His brother had walked fifty miles to plead with the governor for a pardon, but it did not avail. "That is where the charm of his music lies. You seldom find in choruses"  On we went, crossing the magnificent plains of Esdraelon, the great battlefield of Palestine, every inch of which at some time or other has been drenched with the blood of the slaughtered. To the right of us lay Naia, from which the widow's only son was borne out for burial, when Christ, moved to pity, caused him to be restored. To the left was Gilboa, where King Saul and his three sons, and among these Jonathan, lost their lives while in contention with the Philistines. Gideon's Pool, where his faithful three hundred lapped water like dogs, lay an hour's journey off our path, and we were about to pass it by rather than delay more than two hours making the round trip, when Dr. Talmage objected, insisting that he must see it if it took all day. Thither we went, and a refreshing draught of its delicious water repaid us for the effort. The next objective point of the Union army was Goldsboro. The general ordered the right wing to turn eastward towards Cheraw and Fay ettev ilia. The left was to march northward a short distance, then turn east to Sneedsboro. Kilpatrick's cavalry made a demonstration as if to attack Charlotte, then followed Slocum. Both wings of the army crowd the Pedee aud turned towards Fayetteville."Almost never on the American stage. But then, as a nation we are sadly deficient in mu"  "Deplorably bo. Ah, our carriage Euclid C. Cooksey, a bright young reporter, was sent to do the execution for his paper. He and Mr. Morningstar, another reporter, sat up with the condemned man. Friends decided that religious services should be held over the murderer. Mr. Morningstar was selected to lead in prayer. He had never done so aefore, but he was a good reporter, and when was assigned for anything always Vvered the field. He still says has"  "And so has ours. Good-night; you must co"  "I certainly shall. Good-night."—M. S. B. in Judge. The high fence in the right foreground is designed to keep out the Indians, at least the largest of them. •'Doggone my skin if I don't sell myself for a yaller jackass!"—New York Sun. Self Sarriflt-e Could No Further Co. Smifkins is stupidity and conceit rolled into one. | I ? "That imbecile," said some one, referring to him, "spends his time in trying to put the fool's cap on the heads oi other people." lie Kucw Just a Little Too Much. One of the most remarkable men in the city is a conductor on one of the Broadway cable cars. It was Christmas day and the car had been crowded every trip. Among the passengers was a wealthy Denver gentleman, who handed the conductor $1. , Doing a Turn. tl.nt, considering his lack of preparation, he thinks he did pretty well. fairly ached for it, and when at last a jug full was secured, we drank and drank again and again, practically realizing, for a while at least, the experience contained in the line, A fresh reporter tried to interview the prisoner while the service was going on, but Mr. Cooksey, who was reading a chapter from Genesis at the time, paused and told the young man that he was not in it. "But how great a risk he runs." wo* the sarcastic reply, "of catching cold hi niself."—J udge. A Very Ilartl Name. Soon Nazareth, up among the hills, the scene of the Saviour's childhood and early manhood, burst on our view. Our hearts rejoiced at its sight and all the weariness caused by nearly nine hours' saddlework immediately left us. An hour later we entered the village, and the very first house that we mot had a carpenter shop on the ground floor in full blast. Nothing, it seemed to me, could be more appropriate. Never were we so eager to get to our encampment, which for this night was in the Russian convent. Once dismounted we did not even linger long enough to adjust our somewhat disordered toilet and disheveled hair, but off we sped as quickly as possible to make the most of the few hours between then and sunset, and spend them among the interesting points of this charmingly located and very attractive little town, so dear to the hearts of the Christian world. I drink and yet am ever dry. "Take out five cents for fare and keep the ninety-five cents for yourself," said the capitalist to the tired conductor. McFinglo—See that man over there? He has the hardest name in the city tc forge. But even the poor fellow that first sang that must have got his fill at some time, and so did we. Our joy, however, lasted but for a while, and a little while at that. There is lots of water there still, and whosoever will may partake of it freely, but we must really decline. Horrors upon horrors! The mere of it compels me to clench my teeth lest a catastrophe overtake me! Those Russian pilgrims—men and women indiscriminately—bathinsr in the verv water from which we drank! Phew! The hot sulphur baths in which invalids seek health and purification emptying into the same stream! Aye, and still more! The bodies of the dead taken down to the banks and there washed in the floods of the lake out of which every true Israelite hereabouts faithfully believes the true Shiloh shall yet arise! Oh, Galilee! Surely even Dr. Talmage would modify his views on prohibition were he a Galilean. Louis Klopsch. The sheriff then came in to say a few words to the prisoner. He said; "Monroe. you know that I would never hang you in the world at the figures I get from the county if I didn't have to do it I've got to do it or lose the nomination next year. I'm a friend to you, Monroe, and I reckon I've always treated you right" But what did the conductor do? McFangle—Does he write a very difficult hand to imitate? He punched out twenty fares for the company and afterward put the other boys on to the "new spotter."— Denver Times. Mr. Pierre Rouette, well known on the variety stage as the Human Top, gave an exhibition of bis marvelous feat on the ice at Frigid lake this morning. He went through it in fine style, and though the audience insisted on bringing him "No; his name is Steele." American. '—Lawrence Faithful to tbe Present. A Small IJoy's Prayer. "Which do you prefer, Mr. Youngblood, brunettes or blondes?" asked a reigning belle, and he replied. T. lived in the Empire state, and was early taught to remember by name each member of the family in his nightly prayer. One of the inmatesof the household was his Aunt Maria, with whom he occasionally came in conflict. One evening, after a little difference of opinion between them, he was saving his prayer as usual. When he came to her name he hesitated a moment, and then said: "And, O, Lord, there is Aunt Maria, but the less you havo to do with her the better!" —New York Tribune. - Louisville has an average rainfall and mean temperature. "Yes. aah. that's what vou haa." Aa tne morning sun up the oeautituJ hillside and scattered a shower of glory through the trees upon the blue grass turf beneath, it showed a busy scene on the grassy slopes of the natural amphi theatre. Tall young men with amber spattered chins and budding whiskers were pitching rings for a cane or having tintypes of themselves and their financiers taken with the gallows in the background. Mothers brought with them little sunburnt offspring that had only arrived in Kentucky the previous day. Dark red cookies sold for a cent apiece, A tali tree giving view upon the whole jail yard brought two dollars. "It depends altogether on which I'm with."—Sotnerville Journal. Indians, of course, retarded the early aettlemenUi in Kentucky, and lack of funds interfered with some of the later ones, but through it all she rises today like this here Phoenix that they tell bo much about, that can even get out of a strictly fire proof hotel and never scorch * feather. March 9 Kilpa trick's cavalry narrowly neaped serious disaster. Kil pa trick with his command remained on the left flank of the Union army, approaching Fayetteville by a route to the west of Slocum. The Confederate cavalry were constantly in front of the column?, but did not offer serioas resistance. But March 9 Wade Hampton's cavalry surprised one of Kilpa trick's brigades completely; Kilpa trick himself only escaped capture by a hair's breadth and got away on foot. Hampton captured the camp of the Union cavalry. Instead of following up the victory, however, and capturing the man themselves, the Confederates stopped to plunder the Union camp. This gave Kilpa trick a breathing space. He instantly rallied his soldiers, charged on Hampton's men in their work of plunder and recaptured the camp. PAUOTTO MONUXXNT. He Carried IIin Locks Home. I j Barber—How would you like to have your hair cut, sir? Customer—With scissors, sir! Did ye 8'pose I wanted it done with a tableknifeI to repeat the performance. — Evening out again, they coald not prevail on him Louisville owes much of her success to the prosperity which has been incident to and a part of, as it always will be and ever has been, the successful prosperity and the prosperous success of a city that has succeeded prospered. I do not know that I make this entirely clear, so that another city could go to work and succeed, but I have done the best I could. Quoi? Whirled. —Puck. Jessie—I'm sure Charlie loves me, but he's.afraid to propose. Bessie—Well, that shouldn't surprise vou at all.—New York Sun. Naturally we first wended our way to the Church of the Annunciation, said to cover the site of the occurrence described by its name. Here we were met by an Politics. -What are •Protection" and 'Free Trade,' OJ which I so much hear?" I then, kissed her and she kissed me, "That is Free Trade, my dear." "What shall we do," a mother asks, "with our children during wintertide?" It seems to us. if there is ice, the best thing is to let 'cm slide.—Time. Advice to Mothers. Constantinople, Jan. 2,1890.—Before leaving Tiberias, Dr. Talmage arranged for a sail on the lake as far at Caperna- A Surprising Low. diallv received us and undertook to show us around. He hardly made a turn with- exC-eedingly devout monk, who very cor- um, securing one of the two boats that now constitute what shipping facilities Next she asked, this winsome maid, "What is 'Protection?'" Tor answer, round her waist I laid My arm. She blushed, and smiling, said: "Your politics. I think, dear Fred, Aiv just perfection!" All was life and animation. The sheriff had acquired a comfortable jag, but it had not succeeded in stealing away his brain. In fact he was quietly chuckling to himself as he imagined the jag groping in the attic of his massive skull, knocking the skin off its knuckles and cussing as it vainly sought for the sheriff's out half a dozen courtesies to this, that Galilee can boast of, though once the The Effort of Hit Life. Primus—How did Fergus do at the speaking? or the other object either visible or intints interferins somewliat with our progress; out somenow or ocner wo sails of four thousand ships enlivened its waters. It was an ordinary row boat, with rudely constructed 6ails, which During March 11 both wings of Sherman's armv closed down on Favetteville. Hardee naa icrt it ana recreated across Cfcpe Fear river. The next day, March 12, was Sunday. Sherman'8 army rested. The people of Fayetteville, descended from the old Scotch Covenanters, went to church as though nothing had happened. Atrricnltiire, blue grass, trotting horses, oouroon, ginger aie, iron ore, nams, asparagus, butter, eggs, literature, distilling, pro-slavery, store keeping, railroading, etc., etc., have each risen to a great height in the table of industries of the state. Kentucky is no doubt a choice state. Nature did much for her, and Henry Watterson has not fooled away his time either. Early the next morning, while looking from the hill over the valley of Merom, where Joshua successfully fought the twenty kings, we held a family conpcil as to what should be done. That day was to be our last in Palestine, for before noon Dan, the extreme northwest point, would be passed and Csesarea Philippi was designated as our lunching place. The question proposed was, shall we cross over to Bevrout, as originally planned in our itinerary, or cross Mount Hermon and go over into Damascus and from thence follow up Paul's great tour along the Mediterranean? Naturally it was a complimentary council, as with Dr. Talmage alone rested the final disposition of the matter. But happily for the peace and harmony of the encampment, we all agreed that the proposed new addition would be a most interesting one and specially calculated to prove a fitting wind up of one of the most glorious, agreeable and successful tours ever made through Palestine and Syria, and hence with a unanimous vote it was decided to pro- Ions the tour, and instructions w«r* —Katharine Berger in Lite. Secundus—Well, sir, when Fergus' time came there was round after round of applause. did not feel at all put out, for if the truth were told our nearts were no less reverential and solemn than his, though we might differ in the manner of its demonstration. The church, it is claimed, enshrines as it were the home of Mary and Joseph, and rooms in it were pointed out as the kitchen.of the Virgin and the carpenter shop of her husband. All these are hewn in solid rock. Opinion as tc its authenticity is divided, yet there is more in its favor than against. But a seemed quite superfluous, as its propelling power consisted of six oars manned by as many Arabs. We got off swimmingly and keenly enjoyed the sail for awhile, but suddenly the Bky was overclouded and rain began to fall—the first we had experienced since we left New York, and in less time than it takes to pen these lines white caps appeared, a heavy undercurrent became manifestly plain, and the boat began to toss to and fro at an alarming rate. At a Legation Reception. Miss Fuller—When our Americans go to China they build railroads, start live enterprises and are of great benefit to your country. When a Chinaman comes here he is content to open a laundry. How do you account for it?" brains. Primus—' rood! him on his success. I must congratlate Finally the hour arrived. The prisoner was brought on the scaffold. Ho pressed the hand of the reporter and, bursting into tears, presented him with an election cigar. The newspaper men then united in singing a little topical song, of which I am the author and which is designed more especially for executions by electricity, beginning as follows: Secundus—And when he finished you could have heard a pin drop.—Harper's Bazar. A little after noon a tremendous screeching and whistling came from down the Cape Fear river. It was a Union steamboat, up the river from Wilmington, and Wilmington had fallen into the hands of Terry and Cox. It had been defended by the Confederate general Hoke, who abandoned it Feb. 21. Cox, with part of Schofield's army, entered it. The steamer brought Sherman the first news from the world since his army had left Savannah. He sent back by the steamer orders for Schofield and Terry to meet him at Goldsboro. Schofield entered that place March 21. Mandarin Hit Rice — Melicans need bleep more cleaning.—Judge. On the Make. Eflie's Brotner—Do you love my sister Effie? Proctor Knott is a feature of Kentucky which I must not forget as I hurriedly pass along. He would have been more influential if it had not crept out that he was an humorist No man can be respected quite so much after he has shown symptoms of this kind. Mr. Knott made 4 funny speech on once, and now people come from away back of Little Hickory and Hominy Centre and stay all day and bring their dinner, hoping that Proctor Knott may be funny again some day. A Linguitlic Freak. '•Ten dollars for that parrot! Why, it's simply monstrous!" Mr. Kennellv (who always travels with his dog)—Look here, waiter; you've got to get me another sandwich. I just turned to look out of the window and some blamed thief took the other one.— Fuck. Effle's Steady Company—Why, Willie, that is a queer question. Why do you want to know? discussion of that point may be received I Most of the party were painfully seawith better grace from the eminent di- sick, and orders were given to land with vine who engages public attention than the utmost speed. But this the oarsmen from the scribe who chronicles his doings. 1 found impossible. We got as near to the Some things, however, admit of no dis- land as was considered safe and waited pute, and among these the site of the vil- for a tidal wave to carry us over some of lage itself, the lofty hills that surround the rocks between which we could not it and the diminutive valley that nestles pass, but tidal waves did not move in sweetly at the foot of the town. This that direction just then, and finally three was the place and these were the sur- j of the men, divesting themselves of their roundings of Christ's boyhood, and as outer garments, jumped into the shallow Buch none can rob them of their interest t water and held the boat from being to the hearts of a followers. i dultd to pieoes. Soon the rest of tlx I'm sorry I got insulate, But I'm going home to dynamo. "But, sir, please to observe that he •peaks two languages." "What are thev?'' Effie's Brother—She said last night she would give a dollar to know, and I'd like to scoop it in.—Puck. It is a plaintive song, eminently fitted for executions in New York, and has had a great run. "Why, English and — his tongue. "—J udge. native It now remained for Sherman to make his way to Goldsboro. That would close the march through the Carolinas. But it waf necessary to deceive the Confederates as to bis real destination, as before. Swarms ot negroes and refugees had hung upon hi: army on the whole route. They hampered the advance, as many of them were feeblt old people and children. Ail manner of ax- The time now arrived for the execution, and the sheriff asked Mr. Cooksey if he . would be good enough to read the death warrant. Mr. Cooksey said it would not She Took Her Dick. Mitu Struckoyle — Gracious, there comes that horrid Miss Frencher. Her father runs a dime museum. Feminine Lojift He took a her- Dick one storrry night And went to u« a maiden (air. Beneath her ptr- Lor's dim, une-jrtaii. light. On bended knee his love did twear. A Captions Critic. Boarder—Madam, we want hot meals or we'll move. Governor Knott said once, in an address in Kentucky to the graduates of the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, at Lexington: "When I consider be legal Landlady—Hot meals! Why, haven't you got pepper and catsup and horseradish and raw onions and mustard? What mora do you folks «xp«ot?—Hum, Miss Hudson—Why, he is president of the Dime Savings bank! "Well, 111 deputize you then," said the sheriff. C "Whr don't you read it rourteUT She took hat DicJcl Hiss Struckoyle—Same thing! I shan't $mocfotn with her.—Munaey's Weekly.