Las Vegas Gazette, 1872-10-05

Fall of an Asrolttk. -A year 8go, Mr. John J. Murdock, who lives near Laclede Station mentioned can sually to Mr. Frank J, Dowman that he had discovered a peculiar hole in the ground in a meadow near his house, and said for the life of him he could not imagine what made it. It was fifteen inches ia diameter and seven or eight feet ia depth. Mr. Bowmtm suggested an aerolite, hut that was laughed at. To mark the place a rail was trust into it, and it enclosed eight feet of the rail before tho bottom was reach ed. This summer the matter was again discussed, and various specu speculations - lations speculations were indulged in to account for the peculiar opening. After the hay had been cut Mr, Murdock con sented that tho workmen Bhould ex- amino it. They immediately set to work, and, after digging down not eight feet hut, thirteen, came upon spheriod globe of metal, wnich was evidently an aerolite. It presenta the strange appearance of a minia ture globe fashioned after the pat pattern - tern pattern of the earth, being flattened at the poles and incrusted in such a manner ns to indicate that it wa in llames aa it passed through the air. The flattened polea are perfectly smooth, and bear no marks of heat. It is about the sizo of a large twelve pound cannon ball, full fifty per cent heavier, and is a solid metal, tho nature of which has not yet been as ascertained. - certained. ascertained. It was brought to the city yesterday and excited consider able cariosity. It is intended, wo believe,) to present it to the Mercau tile library. Tho velocity with which it fell may be judged from tho fact of its deep penetration into the earth thirteon feet. The farthest that a a-cannon - cannon a-cannon ball has been forced into an embankment is six eet, and this ;s a feat only accomplished at recett experiments by the British navy. -it." Louis Democrat. An artisian well lately sunk at Jacksonville. Illinois, gave forth a jet of water four inches in diameter, which rose to the height of fifty feet. In Jacksonville and the surrounding country there has been a great scar city of water, not only for agricul agricultural - tural agricultural but for manufacturing and and even domestic purpose. Tho public institutions in Jacksonvillo have had great difficulty in procur procuring - ing procuring a sufficient supply for their ne necessities, - cessities, necessities, so that the hucccsb of the artisian well is a matter of great itn pc-rtance to that city. It is prob able that in the near future wells ot this: description will become common in regions now suffering from inadc quite supplies of water. Large numbers of artisian wells have been bored in Algeria by the French au thorities, and "there every well has become the nucleus of a settlement proportioned to the flow of the well. Several nnrcadic African tribes, at attracted - tracted attracted to these wells, have abandon abandoned - ed abandoned their wandering life, and devoted themselves to agricultural pursuits, aome of them havo planted palm trees around tho wells, besides perennial plants. It would be in nowise surpris ing to find before the lapse of many years, artisian wells brought exten extensively - sively extensively into service on the g; eat plains of the far west, to supply wter for irrigation and other purposes. And if that should come to pass we may expect to see villages and toT7r.3 grow up around the most prolific of these wells, as the Arab settlements have grown up around thoca of Algeria. 1 THRILLLNU EXPEttltfXCE. It Í3 a thrilling experience t ride behind a vigorous hone that has escaped all control of his driver, aud dashes along at his owq sweet will, but to. be on a runaway locomotive has still more the thrill of danger in it. An engineer in Kentucky lately had this experience. He was trotting back and forth with his engine on a pretty steep grade, when the cylin dcr head blew out and the iron mon monster - ster monster finding the check gone, dashed down tht grade round a sharp curve through a tunnel, into the strect3 of Frankfort at a furious rate. Finally an ascending grade took tho wind out of it. and it came to a sti nd..till. A little fellow who was '"foolicg" on the cowcatcher, aid hung oa tor dear life during the runaway, saya it vent three miles a minute.

From The New Mexico Union. We are in receipt of letters from our friends complaining that the Union lias not said more about the Texan cattle movement against the people and their property. In our last number in the article leaded Van C. Smith &c., we thought we defined, eoas not tobe mistakeñ-or opinion and position as to the Com Comanche - anche Comanche Indian trade and Texas; in inroads - roads inroads upon the property of the peó peó-ple. - ple. peó-ple. We will now as a public joui nal iat put ourselves beyond any doubt as to our position, In the first place, trade with the Conianches, whether for buffalo mc'it, robes, mules, horses or cattle, has existed since the Amer American - ican American power entered within the Ter Territory. - ritory. Territory. The administrations, whether national or territorial have never in tef posed anything to prevent. The Mexicarojicople have not been con conscious - scious conscious of any moral wrong, in buy. ínj: by traffic "with the Comanche Indifins, things for subsistence or other uses. If they have done any wrong it is not a moral wrong, but simply a violation of a positive law of Congress, which has its existence not in the principles of natural risrht but in the drivilincr, stupid sniviling of those selected for the time, to think, and act and administer for the countrv. As are their knowl knowledge, - edge, knowledge, principles and conscience, so arethencts and laws given to the people for their guidance. New Mexico is supposed to be country in which all mRiitier of bummers may range as wild as the buffalo upon the prairie, aiid where the bummers and their afiinjtias may have prom inence they never would never have obtained in the States, from whence tbey came. Although the New Mexican ppo ppo-pie - pie ppo-pie have traded yearly with the Comanche tribes, they are not pre prepared - pared prepared for the lawless practices of strangers now alarming to the own owners - ers owners of cattle. On the one hand the Comanche cattle trade which ha3 bo long been in operation, must stop. On the growth and extension of American governments upon this continent history and it.terest rench a pointatwhich aradicalchango and new departure must control the ac action - tion action of the people. The people havo now with the government reached a point at which the Comanche trade must cease. It must stop, and the people will, without any special trou trouble - ble trouble to the government direct their interests in some othor direc direction. - tion. direction. Now os to tho conduct of men from Texas seizing cattle by means of armed men, without any process of law, tho violence" of the course has hardly a parallel. We have been amazed, at the patience of the people under .the insult3 and wrongs inflcitcd upon them. In what country but New Mexico, could men from Texas or arywhere else, hire, arm and pay men, to range through the country and drive off any cattle they shall claim have been stolon by Ind'ara from their owners in Toxas ? We are told arm armed - ed armed men have been driving by them themselves - selves themselves cattle from New Mexico under pretence that they have been unlaw unlawfully - fully unlawfully taken from Texas. The sub submission - mission submission of the people to this inso insolence - lence insolence and outrage, is more than ought to be expected from any free people. Two reasons exist why this shameful wro"g has been perpetra perpetrated - ted perpetrated upon tho people. First, the idea of strangers, they may with impunity overcome the people here, with braggadocio, swaggering and offers of violence. Too often these blowing bullies have succeeded with their pretentions. We say, no just, decided, true man." neither under the laws ct God or man should al allow - low allow himself for a moment to he in any manner trampled upon by tb disguting cowardly pretender, Th time has come when peopln should hold their own rights in their own hands. Wcrepeat we wonder at the sub submission - mission submission of the wronged people. For weeks, men in bands from oat the Territory, have ranged with pistols, rifles and knives, and taken cattle where they phased, under the pre tence they had at some t:r ken

press mentions that a single banking firm in that city, has disposed ot nearly 860,000,000 of railroad bonds within the past few years, or since the poverninent commenced to call in its 7-30 and 6 per cent. debt. V The new paper money now manu manufactured - factured manufactured for ihe government of Ja pan is, roming into circulation. In point of size and appearanee $ho riotes remind one of the United States greenbacks, and the;r use is attended with all the disadvantages of "shinplastcr currency," and the additional one that everything except the words ''Imperial Japauese Trea Treasury" - sury" Treasury" is in tho native character, According to a scientific journal, wood soaked in a strong solution of common salt is thereby protected against decay, especially when placed under ground. Crater íf Kkauea. Kilauea never overflows its vast crater, but bursts a passage for its lava through the mountain sido when relief is necessary, and - the destruction is fearful. About 18-40 it rent its overburdened stomach and sent a bread river of fire careering down to the sea, which swept away forests, huts, plantations and everything else that lay in its path. The stream was five miles broad, in places, and two hundred feet deep, and the distance it traveled was forty miles It tore up and bore way with it acre-patches of land on its bosom like rafts rafts-rocks - rocks rafts-rocks trees and all intact. At night tho red glare was visible a hundred miles at sea ; and a distance of forty miles fine print could be read at mid midnight. - night. midnight. Tho atmosphcio was poison poisoned - ed poisoned with sulphurous vapors and choked with falling, ashes, pumice stone and cinders ; countless columns of smoke rose up and blended to together - gether together in a tumbled canopy that hid the heavens and gloowcil with a rud ruddy - dy ruddy flush reflected from the fires be below; - low; below; here and there jets of lava sprung hundreds of feet into the ir and hurst into rocket-sprays that re returned - turned returned to tho earth in a crimson rain; and all the while the la laboring - boring laboring mountain shook with nature's groat palsy, and voiced jts distress in moaning and the rouified booming of subterranean thunders. Fishes wer,e killed for twenty miles along tlo Bhore, where thf Java en entered - tered entered tho a. The earthquakes caused some loss of human life, a prodigious tidal wave swept inland, carrying everything before it and druwning a number of natives. The devastation consummated along the route traversed by the river of lava was complete and incalculable. Only a Pompúií and a '.Ilcrculaneum were needed to be at.the foot of Kilauea to make the story of the irruptioa iaimortcl. Mark Twain. They tell about a young man who Wont fishing, and brought home with him aiive, iu a pail of water, a fine large trout, lie took it around to show it to a lady to wnom ho was attached, and, while he waited for her to come into the room, it occur rsd to him that it would be a good idea to place that trout iu the globe filled with goldfish, which rested on the table. He thought h? would surprise his hostess aud he did. The trout immediately ate all tho gold fi&h, then it drank all the water, nd hen it flapped about with such vi vivacity - vacity vivacity that it smashed the globe into suithereens with its tail and died. That young mun is now engaged in readiag u learned work upon "The habits of the Trout,' in order to ascertain if tho fi3h has any mora peculiarities with which he is not acquainted. Chicago has developed a new branch of furtive industry. Two lidies who had jut drawn 5,000 from a bank in that city, were fol followed - lowed followed by two thieves who dropped lighted Dutches on the dress of one of the ladies, and then exclaimed politely, "Madam your dress 3 on lire," in the hope that ia theconsi quent confusion they might secure the money. The ladies' retained their presence of mind, however, and declined assistance in extinguishing the conflagration.

ITEMS OF INTEREST. Tobacco plants in Wisconsin have leaves three feet long. No less than eight lines of railroad are in course of construction in Northern Texas. Omaha has ju9t manufacturd a complete train of cara for the Uni Union - on Union Tacific road. r The chief exporter of California fruit to the East lost $10.000 the first year he went into the business. Last year he cleared 25,000. Wonderful salt tnarhes have bpen discovered in Republic county, Knn., from which G9 gallons of brine evap evaporated - orated evaporated render a bushel of salt ot un un-equalcd - equalcd un-equalcd purity. In the mills of Tittsburg there are. altogether, 524 boiling furnaces, 172 heating furnaces, 195 steam en engines, - gines, engines, C9 steam hummers and 102 trains of rolls. The steam bam mers vary in weight from 600 to 10,000. The manufacture of leather has increased so rapidly in Ca'ifornia, that not 011I7 Í3 tho home demand supplied, but from 8,000 to 10,000 sids per month are shipped to the East, brides large quantities to Mexico, China end Japan. Tho varieties of wood produced in different parts of the world is far more numerous than most people are aware of. At the Paris Expo sition of 18G7 there were, from forty.x five different countries, no less than 3.7CJ difiprent kinds of wood ex exhibited. - hibited. exhibited. A steam drill, capable of borings hflje eight inches in diameter, Las jiii been introduced in the anthra cite regions by tho Pennsylvania Comoanv. It will bore further in one day than a dozen of men with the old drills could drill in a month. New Orlonns is trying to negocí negocíate - ate negocíate a loan of 610,000,000. London capitalists offer to furnish the money at ninety cents on the dollar if the city w ill guarantee that no new loan will be made within two years. The terms will probably be accepted. Tho planters in some parts of the South are giving considerable at ten ten-tien - tien ten-tien to the culture of the ramie plant, which irows finely in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, and, in fart, almost anywhere from latitude 5-3 degrees southward to tho Gulf of Mexico. The manufacture of dolls' shoes ha3 become quite a business within a few years past. A single concern in New York manufactures oO. 000 pairs per annum, using about 200, 000 feet ot morocco and sheep, mostly pcraps, besides cutting con considerable - siderable considerable whole stock of all the fashionable colors. Apian has been submitted to the French Academy for Storing wfceat' in portable sheet-iron granaries; in which a vacuum is maintained equal to at leaut three or four inches of mercury, this being found sufficient to destroy all insect life and insure the evaporation of any moisture in the grain. The coal fields in the south of Chili aro likely to be better devel opsd. It is said that two companies with a subscribed capital of two mil millions - lions millions of dollars each, have been form ed to work the coal fields recently disovered in the neigLborhood of Concopcion, This is important to foreign Etcamers in the Chiii trade. Ltto discovciics of a number of old furnaces show that mining oper operations - ations operations of some kind has been carried on upon what is called Iron Moun Mountain - tain Mountain in the northern part of Texas. Kcccrtly lead and silver have been found there. Some of the citiz; s have begun mining and have high topes of finding silver in abundsncc,

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unlawfully taken from Texa. Is there another country in the United States where tho whole community would not raie at the outrage ? We say to the people, take care of your own interests. You have no safety but in your own hands.