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2 THE 6 INQUIRER, LANCASTER, NOVEMBER 30, 1889. A THRILLING STORY. Cattle Roasted to Death in Mid Ocean in a Burning Vessel. A TERRIBLE WRECK AT SEA. EP Over 3 Nine Hundred Animals Perish in Flames.

A thrilling story of the burning of the British steamship Queensmore, which sailed from Baltimore on October 26th, took fire November 4, and wils run on the rocky Irish coast three days later, is told in a letter from Walter Holm wood, a cattleman. We were in mid-ocean when the fire broke out." he writes There were 33. 900 head of cattle on board. We first threw overboard forty bales of cotton. Then the ship listed and we killed 200 head of cattle, and by throwing their carcases overboard righted the vessel.

On the second day of the fire the cattle confined in the hold began to slowly roast to death. It was awful. They bellowed, roared and went on like mad. They broke down their pens and leaped and tore madly about. The ordor of the roasting flesh and the volumes of black smoke were suffocating.

No one slept for days and nights. When the sailors gave out the cattlemen worked in the cattle brigade. Ship after ship was sighted. about seven in all, but out of all of them not one was willing to accompany the ship to Queenstown, our nearest land. Finally the St.

Ronans came in sight, and she signalled to the effect that she would stand by us. Then we felt safe, and divested ourselves of the double clothes we had worn for the past four days. That night we were again startled by a thump, thump, and a cry of Man the We were on the rocks. Then was the time that showed the mettle of the men, but two out of the seventy-eight aboard showing the white feather. Such coolness I little imagined myself capable of, especially as the ship rolled till we thought each time she would slide off the rocks and turn over.

Finally the boats were lowered, and we pulled away from the ship in short order. Just seven minutes from the first shock she went down, stem first. She broke, turned over and disappeared from sight. We made the shore in safety." A WOMAN MARRIES A WOMAN. Money the Motive- Passing Successfully tor Count.

An extraordinary story, first published by a Vienna newspaper and then generally disbelieved, has since been confirmed in every particular, says a despatch from Vienna to the London Standard. "A young man, calling himself Count Sandor Vay, who pretended to have fallen out with his family in Hungary, married last August a teacher at Klagenfurt, aged 27, daughter of an inspector of woods and forests there. The marriage took place on a lonely farm in Hungary, a certain Father Imre officiating at the wedding ceremony. "The newly-married couple lived together for some time, and afterward visited the girl's parents in Klagenfurt, where the father-in-law was constantly fleeced by the alleged Count. Quarrels arose, and ullimately it turned out that the young Count's tales of himself were all inventions.

The persons he referred to were imaginery, and the Inspector was convinced he was a swindler. Something still stranger, and indeed unparalleled, some came to light. Ere long it was found that the so-called Count was in reality a woman of 36. the Countess Sarolta Vay, daughter of the late Colonel of Honveds, Count Ladislaus Vay, one of whose daughters, named Sarolta, had been educated as a boy. All her life she had worn male attire, and recently bad appeared in the uniform of the Honveds.

She published a collection of poems under the name Sandor, and associated with young men, who were not in the secret, in manly amusements. From Pesth, where eccentricties of that sort are hardly a rarity, she disappeared about a year ago, after which she was not again heard of till her arrest, on the demand of her nominal father-in-law, at Klagenfurt. It is probable that Father Imre was not a priest, and that the girl, in going through the form of marriage, only executed anotber eccentricity in order to procure money, of which she was in great need." LARGEST DIAMOND IN THE WORLD. The Imperial is for Sale at a Million Dollars and There is No Purchaser. From the New York World.

The largest perfect diamond in the world is the Imperial, now at the Paris Exposition. It was so named by the Prince of Wales. It is owned by a syndicate, who have offered it for sale at million of dollars It is still the property of the syndicate. Two years ago in London the syndicate offered the stone to me in the rough at that figure, and wanted me to bring it over to New York and try to sell it on a large Commission. But I didn't think of any New Yorker who wanted to pay a million dollars for a stone That was and is the greatest price, commercially speaking, that any diamond ever was offered for, so 1 far as I know.

That great gem is an African stone, of course. South Africa is at present the world's diamond supply depot, as Golconda was in the days when the Kohinoor and other great Indian gems drew the world's eyes eastward. An occasional diamond is still found in Brazil, but the product of that country is not now sufficient to make it a regular factor in the market. The Imperial is now cut and weighs one hundred and eighty (180) carats, the greatest known weight of any cut stone in the world. It was cut either in London or Amsterdam forget whichand is unexceptionable in color and brilliancy.

A Balloonist Eaten by Sharks, The Oceanic steamer Oceanic reports that as she was entering the harbor of at Honolulu on November 16 Professor Van Tassel the balloonist made an ascension from shore and dropped from the balloon in a parachute. He feli into the ocean about two miles from shore and one mile from the steamer. He was seen no more, and it is supposed that he was eaten by sharks. Van Tassel left San Francisco a few weeks ago for Honolulu and Australia where he expected to give exhibitions. BOOMING AMERICAN SHIPPING.

Congressman Brosius Makes a Plea for the Building Up of American Commerce on the Sea. In the current issue of Export and Finance, a New York journal which is devoting its efforts to the restoration of the American flag on the high seas, the following article from Congressman Marriott Brosius appears Editor Export and Finance: I beg to express my admiration your heroic exertions in the agitation -5. the vexed question of our commerce with our South American sisters. The importance of some effective legislation on this subject can not be overstated. You will deserve and receive the gratitude of your country it you can aid in removing the burning reproach we have brought upon ourselves by allowing foreign bottoms to steal our carrying trade.

Since England, through her celebrated Navigation Act. destroyed the merchant marine of Holland and recovered her supremacy of the sea, no nation has been so effectually swept from the ocean as the United States under her existing imbecile policy in reference to her shipping. We can no longer excuse our neglect on the ground that our attention is absorbed and our exertions employed in the development of our home industries and the extension of our domestic commerce, for we have advanced so far on these lines that a large share of attention can now be spared to the recovery of our rights upon the sea. In this matter I think our duty is as clear as light, and our path as raight as a line. We must establish regular communication with the leading ports of our southern sisters.

The government must, if necessary. create the conditions under which such communication can exist during its infancy. In a short time it will sustain itself. Commerce flows naturally along meridian lines. The cost to the people is scarcely an objection.

Every good thing costs at its birth. Besides it is the mode adopted by all progressive nations to develop their merchant marine. The uniformity with which all nations have resorted to it-and the concurrent judgment of the wisest statesmen in its favor is some proof of its necessity. When commercial intercourse is established and our position and honor upon the sea are retrieved, we will no more regret the cast than we do now the cost of the late war. One thing, however, we must not do.

It is hinted in some quarters that the removal of defensive duties on imports is necessary to the maintenance of a healthy and profitable commercial intercourse with our southern neighbors. The question on this point is hardly a practical one, as the bulk of South American imports are on the free list, but it derives some importance from the fact that it is an index of the feebleness of some people's attachment to our protective system. As a public educator in an important field of inquiry. Export and Finance will disappoint the expectation of its friends if it does not fire the signal gun at the first appearance of danger from this quarter. The man who suggests the purchase of foreign commerce at the cost of any part of our American system of protection, "the Aladin's magic ring" which has wrought the mightiest miracle the world ever witnessed, utters treason to the public's highest weal.

I trust Export and Finance will be a sleepless sentinel on this post of danger; challenging with promptitude every hostile approach. Yours truly, MARRIOT BROSIUS. Lancaster, November 2, 1889. A Railroad Dog. Napoleon is a dog residing at Salida, belonging to an engineer of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad.

He has been engaged with his master for the past two and a half years in running locomotive No. 86. His apprenticeship commenced at the early age of six months. His first trip was not a success on account of fright. This was speedily overcome.

He can now go into the roundhouse, where twenty-eight engines are domiciled, single out and mount his own machine, and, in the absence of his master and the fireman, defend it. against all intruders. He rides on the fireman's side of the cab, with both front paws and head hanging ont of the window, intently watching the track. He frequently scents cattle a mile or more distant. When they appear in sight he becomes greatly excited, looking first at the cattle and then at his master, as though trying to make him comprehend the gravity of the situation.

On nearer approach he sets up a cry similar to that of a human being. If necessary to come to a full stop, he bounds out of the cab, runs ahead and loses no time in convincing the trespassers of the importance of finding some other stamping ground. When necessary to communicate with help at the pumping stations, frequently at long distances from the track, a note is written and given to the dog, who delivers it and speedily returns with a reply. Signals to start from his own engine are readily interpreted by him, but he pays no more attention to the whistles and bells of other engines than to cattle that may be safely grazing on the sides of the road. His olfactory powers are SO keen that he has frequently given his master timely warning against stock, that, if struck, might have resulted disastrously.

He is well known to all railroad employes between Ogden and Salida. If accidentally left at any of the stations, he returns to Salida on the first train. A Virile, Graphic Writer. From Lippincott's Magazine. The following is an extract from a real composition written by a small boy in New Jersey.

The subject given by the teacher was the extensive one of "Man." Here is what the small boy wrote: "Man is a wonderful animal. He has eyes, ears and mouth. His ears are mostly for catching cold in and having the earache. The nose is to get sniflles with. A man's body is split half way up, and he walks on the split end." The Wine for Rheumatism and Dropsy.

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From Harper's Magazine for December, It was not possible, however, for the active imagination of the early Christians to rest content with St. Matthew's short and plain record of the Flight. They must know more about -how the pilgrimage was made, through what places the Holy Family passed, what marvels and portents happened by the way, and where they found a restingplace. And so the process of mythmaking and legend-building began in answer to the questions of naive and childish curiosity. The brief record of the facts was enlarged and embellished and embroidered with fancies.

The literature of the Flight unfolded itself in the apocryphal gospels of the second and third centuries, and continued its growth through the poems and chronicles of the Middle Ages. Nothing can be more clear than the difference between the simple statement of St. Matthew that the journey was made--a statement which bears every mark of being historical, and reads as if it were merely a transcript of the Virgin Mary's remembrance of that hurried and dream-like episode-and the wild, fantastic fables of later times. And yet 1 think these fanciful stories. which were told SO often at the fireside, in the tent, at the resting-place of the reapers, and by the camp fires of the caravan, are worth reading, because they are so fresh and childlike, and sometimes so pretty, and because they have had such an influence upon art.

But the greatest fund of marvellous stories about the Flight is found in the 93 Arabic Gospel of the Infancy, which was current among the Christians of the East, and was undoubtedly used by Mohammed in the composition of the Koran. It is an Oriental variation upon a sacred theme, an Asiatic embroidery full of all kinds of strange beasts, a sanctified Arabian Nights' Entertainment. It tells of a dumb bride restored to speech by taking the infant Jesus in her arms; and a crazy woman who would not wear any clothes brought to her right mind by the compassionate look of the Lady Mary; and a girl with the leprosy cleansed by washing in the water in which the child had been bathed: and sundry other household miracles even more ingenuous and astonishing. It describes the dwellingplace of the Holy Family at Matarea, a town a little to the northeast of Cairo, where any sceptical person may still see the aged sycamore which sheltered them, and the "fountain of Mary," in which she washed her child's coat. But the most wonderful tale of all is the story of the enchanted mule, which runs on this wise As the Holy Family were entering into a certain city they saw three women coming out of a cemetery, and weeping.

And when the Lady Mary saw them, she said to the girl who accompanied her (the same who had been cleansed of her leprosy) 6. Ask them what is the matter, and what calamity has befallen them." But they made no reply to the girl's questions, asking her in their turn: 6 6 Whence are you? and whither are you going For the day is spent, and night is coming on apace." We are travellers," said the girl, "and are seeking a house of entertainment." They said: Go with us, and spend the night with us. 11 Accordingly the travelers accepted the courteous invitation, and were brought into a new house, richly furnished. Now it was winter, and the girl going into the apartment of these women, found them again weeping and lamenting. Beside them stood a mule, covered with housings of cloth of gold, and sesame was put before him, and the women were kissing him and feeding him.

And the girl said: What is all this ado, my ladies, about this mule 13 They replied with tears: "'This mule, which thou seest, was our brother, born of the same mother with ourselyes. When our father died he left us great wealth, and this only brother. We did our best to get him married, and were preparing his nuptials after the fashion of our country. But some women, moved by jealousy, bewitched him, unknown to us and one night, a little before daybreak, when the door of our house was shut, we saw that this our brother had been turned into a mule, as thou now beholdest him. And we are are sorrowful, as thou seest, having no father to comfort us and there is no wise man or magician in the world that we have omitted to send for, but nothing has done us any good." And when the girl heard this, she said: Be of good courage, ladies, and weep no more; for the cure of your calamity is near yes, it is presently in your own house.

For I also was a leper. But when I saw that woman, and along with her that young child, whose name is Jesus, I sprinkled my body with the water wherein his mother had washed him, and I was cured. I know that he can deliver you from your affliction also. But arise, go to Mary my mistress, bring her into your own apartment, tell her your secret, and supplicate her to have pity npon you." When the women had listened to the girl's words they hastened to the Lady Mary and brought her into their chamber, and sat down before her, weeping and saying our mistress, Lady Mary, have pity upon thy servants, for no one older than ourselves, no head of our family, is left -neither father nor brother--to live with us; but this mule which thou seest was our brother, whom women have bewitched into this condition. We beseech thee, therefore, to have pity upon Then, grieving at their misfortune, the Lady Mary took up the Lord Jesus and put him on the mule's back, and she wept with the women, and said to Jesus Christ, Alas my son, heal this mule by thy mighty power, and make him a reasonable man as he was before." And when these words were spoken, the shape of the mule was changed, and he became a young man of engaging appearance.

Whereupon there was great joy in the household. and the grateful sisters immediately concluded to marry their brother to the girl who had been the means of bringing bim SO great a benefit. All this, especially the happy marriage, is quite in the style of Scheherezade. It is no more like the sober records of the evangelists than a display of fireworks is like the silent stars; and the very contrast goes far to prove, or at least to illustrate, the historical character of our four gospels. GRAND JURY REPORT.

The Grand Jury made the following report, which was read by Deputy Clerk of Quarter Sessions Urban: To the Honorable, the Judges of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Lancaster County: The Grand Inquest of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania empaneled to inquire into and for the County of Lancaster at the November session, 1889, beg leave to make the tollowing report: The District Attorney submitted to the Grand Inquest 144 cases. Of this number 115 were returned as true bills and 28 were ignored and one returned. A great number of these cases were of a trivial character and should not have been returned to Court. We visited the public institutions of the county and gave them a public inspection. In the Almshouse we found 204 maks; 42 females and 1 female child; total 247.

Insane department, males, 34; females, 28; total, 62. Hospital, males, 53 females 28 male children, female children, total 86. Colored department, males, females, total 8. Number supported in couuty buildings, 403. Children boarding 111 private families, between the ages of two and four years, 13.

Feeble minded children in Elwyn institution, 6 State hospital for insane at Harrisburg, 47; whole number supported by the county, 469. Stock on hand horses, mules, 4: cows 13; steers 14; bulls hogs, 30 calves 2. The above departments are under the care of the steward, Geo. E. Worst.

It gives us pleasure to say that we found every department in excellent condidition. The inmates are beyond question, well cared for in every way. In the prison we found Convicts, 66; awaiting trial, 15; drunk and disorderly conduct, 31; total, 112. The carpet manufactured at this institution we found to be of excellent quality. Carpet on hand November 30, 1888 yards.

Carpet manufactured to November 1, 1889, 47,90134 vards; total, yards; carpet remaining, 7,888 yards. The present keeper, Mr. Jacob S. Smith, is to be commended for the manner in which he manages this institution. It is but just to the officials who have this institution in charge, to make special mention of the good condition in which we found, not only the building, but, also, its surroundings.

At the Home of Friendless children there are: boys, 75; girls, 30. Of these 10 are colored boys and 6 colored girls. Total, 105. This home is well managed. Miss Martha S.

Kieffer and her assistants could not be excelled for the responsible position of matron and teachers. We found no sickness. This institution has been greatly improved by the heating with steam. The Grand Inquest would kindly recommend some additions to the apartments in which the Commonwealth's witnesses are crowded, so that they may be better kept for the convenience of all Grand Inquests and the court in general. The Grand Ingest return their thanks to the Honorable court, and especially the District Attorney, for his kindness shown also.

the sheriff. tipstaves and officers of the institutions for the attention shown us. Respectfully submitted, H. H. Bingaman, foreman R.

D. Moore, E. K. Stoner, A. R.

Wenger, S. G. Ressler, Thos. Edwards, M. G.

Peifer, U. B. Kline, V. J. Baker, D.

I. Kemper, W. H. Showalter, John Hart, H. L.

Kreider, Thomas L. Cummings, D. D. Forry, J. L.

Ranck, Jacob Shank, David R. Jeffries, J. B. Morrison, John E. Weaver, Thomas O' Rourke.

A Monster Canal. From the Chicago Times. The great Bear River Canal in Utah, for the construction of which $2.000,000 has been provided, is expected to be one of the most extensive irrigation works in America. To get the river along the side hill along Bear river canvon and out on to the plain near Plymouth will necessitate moving 220,000 cubic yards of solid rock, 19,000 cubic yards of loose rock. 1,528,000 cubic yards of earth and digging 1,200 feet of tunnel.

This canal will irrigate 200,000 acres in Salt Lake Valley and 6.000,000 on Bear river, increasing the value of the land to fifty dollars per acre, while fencing, building and tillage are expected to double this valuation in a few vears. Bear Lake is in Southeastern Idaho. The reservoir for this canal covers one hundred and fifty square miles and the canal will secure the irrigation of a territory extending to Ogden. Using Corn for Fuel in Kansas. The farmers of Hiawatha, are burning corn for fuel, finding it cheaper than coal.

Corn is sold on the farm at 20 cents per bushel. while the average price of coal delivered at the farm ranges from 21 to 23 cents per bushel. The Farmers' Alliance there brought the attention of the farmers to the relative prices of the two commodities, and advised that half the corn crop be used as fuel, thus advancing the price of the other half and saving money in their fuel bills. The farmers have begun to act on this advice. The worst feature about catarrh is its dangerous tendency to consumption.

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