The Fairfield News and Herald, 1881-11-23

UliUlICI 5> OdiU oui uua \j?x vile ?L\si+\Ai of 1300 of the first nobles about the royal town and conrt. I was forced t< witness the inhuman butchery, or rui the risk of losing my own head if I ex hibited the slightest sign of disgust So I nerved myself up to it and smokec an exquisitely-carved meerschaum pip< presented to me by Marshal Canrobert who had received it as a wedding gifi from Victor Emmanuel?the King o Italy, you know. Sir," said Major Tom | severely, as one of the circle began t( cough violently and hold his head down "What did I understand you to say ?" The circle looked a trifle embarrassed but no one replying the ornate Texai j went on. "Yes, sir, by the liviDg Jingo ! he cu off fifteen hundred human heads." "Thirteen hundred, I think, was th< exact number," said the convalescen member. " Oh, haDg figure^! I've got no heac for 'em. He cut oil all these heads be fore daybreak, and when the sun rcs< over the snow capped Mountains of thi Moon and shone over the smooth water: of the Victoria Nyanza, gilding then like gold, there were dissevered head and bodies, black fnd bloody, scattere( over the kraal like an unusually blood;

s i known as the Great Sunken lake, ant i' is situated in the Cascade mountaios 3! According to a loc^l paper this ]?k< 1; rivals the famous valley of Sinbad tb< j ! Sailor. It is thought to average 2,001 ! feet down to the water all around r The depth of the wafer is unknown " j and its surface is smooth and unruffled I as it is too far below the surface of tin I 1 mountains that air currents do not- cf feet it. Its length is estimated at 1: - or 15 miles, and its width 10 or 12 e There is a mountain in the cen - ter having trees upon it. It lie 1: still, silent and mysterious in th< s ; bosom of the everlasting hiJs, like i - j huge well scooped out by the hand: j of the giant genii of the mountains i] 1 the unknown ages gone by, and aroum {it the primeval forests watch and war< I! are keeping. A visiting party fired : a rifle into the water several times at a; angle of 45 degrees and were able t . note several seconds of time from th II report of the gun until the ball struc e | the water. Sach seems incredible, bn j- j is vouchsafed for by our most reliabl a citizens. The lake is certainly a moa a ! remarkable curiosity.

?Dj iioanpaiK nouse. Mrs. Eyrecourt's little twinkling eyes suddenly became still and steady. It was only for a moment. But even that trifling change boded ill for the purpose which, the priest had in view. Having the opportunity of turning Stella's mother into a valuable sourca , of information actually placed in his I hands. Father Ben well reasoned with himself as he had reasoned at Miss Notman's tea-table. A frivolous person was a person easily persuaded to gossip, and not likely to be reticent in keeping sej crets. In drawing this conclusion the ! reverend father was justified by every j wise man's experience of human nature but he forgot to make allowances for the modifying influence of circumstances. Even the wits of a fool can be quickened by contact with the world. For many years Mrs. Eyrecourt had held her place in society, acting under an intensely selfish sense of her own interests, fortified by those cunning instincts which grow best in a barren intellect. Perfectly unworthy of being trusted with secrets which only concerned other people, this frivolous ? ?? ? i-J A *1 rt /YI'OT.

European society which is now familiar to so many traveled Americans, his Majesty wanted me to go to Central Africa and buy about 25,000 pounds of elephant's,.ttreth^ivory.- you know?for him. Eugenie wanted to deck her Boudoir in the palace at Fontaine-bleau in ivory, and the European narkets were exhausted. At first I pleaued the importance of the interests intrusted to my care, but the Emperor interrupted me with a gesture of impatience and exclaimed : 4 Consider that loan placed. I'll make Italy and Belgium take it all this week.' The Empress, then the most beautiful woman in Europe and the most beautiful woman I ever saw, except one?a Ss. Louis gambler's wife ?added her entreaties, paying a compliment to my native State, and saying she had heard that I had a faculty for finding my way safely around Greasers, Navajos, newspaper reporters and hackmen. That setthd it! I started the next day with a letter of credit on the French Consul General at Cairo for 2,000,000 francs, about $400,000. The Egyptian Government?Said Pasha was in power?rendered me every assistance, ? 3 i t wv.;+?

it must not be inferred that in serious matters the red-headed ranger of the Bio Grande is at'all wanting in veracity. His word is quite as good as his bond in business matters. Perhaps I cannot better illustrato-rihe fascinating characteristics of one who 13 now a national character than k;, 'lr50?Qa^hic^.tooJi place the other* night at' the* Union League Club, ^hiich has recently removed to new and magnificent quarters on Murray Hill. It is, of course, impossible to put in dull type the major's graceful gestures, his Kaleidoscopic changes of thought and the magnetism of his ardent manner, but a good idea of the peculiarities which have made him famous ma> be obtained from what I was enabled to catch from a sofa on which I sat an amused listener. It was rather a slow evening at the Union League, and the few members sitting around the fire asked Major Ochiltree to enliven them with one of his adventures. Tom threw a searching glance around to '' take in," as it were, his audience, and related as follows : "Well, gentlemen, I've nothing more

o?o ?. of trees. Dr. Creva^x also met wittf earth-eating tribes. The clay, which" ^ often serves for their food whole months,. is a mixture of oxide of iron and organic substances. According to an English geographical writer, there are four vast areas still to be opened np or traversed by civilized mart, and which amoog them constitute about one-seventeenth of the whole area j of the globe. Of these there is the antartic region, which in extent is about seventy-five times r hat of Great Britain; the second lies about the north pole ; the third is in Central Africa, and the fourth in Western Australia. The south, polar region referred to is almost con- ?I terminous with the antarctic circle. j The vast African area reaches on the j west very closely to the coast, and it is j only near the equator that it has more | than snpe)ficially been driven iuland. j in Australia the great undeveloped | region is that w1-*-** j track exploit from north to south by : Ssuart, and which now forms the line of I telegraphic communication across that | continent.

dismounted from his horse, took a look at the man he killed, recognized him, ' he was a deserter from Morgan's first 1 command, raised the body, threw it over his saddle bow, remounted and 1 rode away with his companions. They 1 went pell mell through the town, filed to the right, passed out at the north, 1 bore to the right around the high hill, 1 where the remains of Andrew Johnson ' are buiied, and though pretty hotb pursued by a portion of Duke's men, they reached the Bull's Gap road, neai " the point where tbev had charged the confederate picket a half hour before. Taking His Father's Advice. Not long ago a young man in Carson got married and started for California witn his young wife. As he boarded the train his father bade him good-bj and gave him the paternal blessing. "My son," said the aged sire, shaking with emotion, etc., "remember these words if you never seeme again : -NeveJ go into a place where you wouldn't take , your wife." I mi rinAco /?nnrv

j enjoyed the novelty of the little expej rienco he had just passed through, i That was all the change there seemed to j be in the old cuss's appearance. "Joe looked at me, and I looked at i Joe. Then we b>th looked at the bear, j ancl then at the hole in the ground. ; Neither of us said a word for ten min! utes. Then I said: " ' Let's go home, Joe. There's a i thunder shower coming up, any way, | and we don't want to be out in it.' " There was a heavy snower coming, | but Joe said he wasn't going to quit until he got that bear. So back he started for camp after an ax. I stayed to watch the bear. The thunder and I lightning was something fearful. When Joe got back he went to work chopping i down the chestnut tree. In about an | honr down she came, bear and all. In the fall the tree fell plumb across the : bear's back, and broke it, but before | Joe could get at him with the ax he ! twisted from under the tree, and away ! 1 .J S AU ? TC7?