| t if Pt t f | t t A BRITISH .VESSEL'S".MISsiIOgN TO. THE AUCKLAND ISLANDS, The Vorlorn Inhabitants Whe Occupied ' the Solitary Tfionse and Whe Refused to Leave--Provisions Lett for Shipwrecked Mariners by the British Government. scuth One hondire: ee ": en to the of the most.southern point of New 7 are the Atickiand ist ands. "Yoo uk on th 'and you will find mn easily', Th _ situated in latitude 1 ders, 90 min, sont rand longi siathe 166 de t " ta thé populated districts o world, and who ming ele hourly 1 wit he their f« c eas. W ix "a carctetahe th is re t rao islaruls, #@ tale of Sori mart ine r, wien hedh Cast away rt-ite of the far Pacific, but whe has lived to rojo 0 in his escape fn inisyS |. -Lut when the story c "pic wero found by a Briti ish vessel, living in one of the islands of this far off | group, @ absolutely reftised to leave, thoujch their stock of provisions wns run- ning very low, it seems almost incredible. aneh is the cus & Uno of the etorr lad nie lies bikwen, the Antarctic, and so to have taken place at which is one of the Auckla 1478 the British govern: search for any castaways that mighd be found on the islands. The ship's mission was also to repienisi: the stores which have been placed on the islands for the use of un- fortunate navigators. An officer of the ves- sel has sent home a report of his voyage, to- gether with sketches of the islands. The ship sailed direct from Dunedin, and after a stormy passage reached 'Sarah's Bosom," or Port Ross, the northern harbor of the in the world South "Patific and the group. This harbor is formed by several islands, of which Enderby is the northern part. The party remained a week here, and made ex- cursions to the adjacent islands, Enderby and another; but first they visited the ca.rn, near which they had anchored; and not far found- a house, which and his oor couple "had collected a number of seal skins. They had been hiné months without being visited and had eaten most of the provisions placed on the island for shiswrecked people. They refuse asec to come away; but on a later visit being hired by a gentleman living in New Zealand, who had some arrangement with the government about the is! Ther , of which a sketch is given, was the only habitation on these lonely islands, which are some cight and twenty or thirty miles in length. The party also saw a hut, which had been built some years ago by a ship- the Zealand in an open boat; the people who re- mained werd rescued, Thero was not a tree on Enderby island, and only scrub and short gram, with tufts of wild flax.» The birds ONLY HOUSE ON THE AUCKLANDS. island, and provided the between magnificent "salt over 1,000 high, and about a mile a It was not till the ship had steamed five or six miles in that then it was ext day they visited the. eairn, which they found by a beacon on " -- a mile and a half from spoiled. They repaired the cairn and replen- stores and provisions; Sage ing finished their work, they\started once more to Campbell island, southeast of tho. Auck- land islands. Here, again, they replenished the stores; and left a notice in a bottle to record their visit; this had also been done at the other cairns. The ship then returned to New Zealand, having performed her mission. The Auckland islands were first discovered in 1806, and were named after Lord Auck- but the companywas broken up in 1952. The soil of the islands is very em te _ their t preclu one inter otal Seine -dchabi wa --He had-no-heart for feasting an + President Lincoln's Rehearsal. President Lincoln felt very awkward when he first began to receive at the White House," dancing when the sa ay "a! both ath and south were mourning their dead. "His wife, how- ever, dressed in 'ee ge ight of fashion, and she wore ber gown at the lowest decollete. + hee of milk, He took one nies are over, gnd #e ogee Rie And the 3% lomin |i » live inside of tho home eed t t is a nage ine j stows that | CUTS A GREAT F'GURE. H. C. Throston, the Seven' Foot Eight ' aches Texas Giant. sfoull of contrasts. of the b that nature f the twé men de ur which threate hang our f¥ I firs t by ONE OF NATURE'S CONTRASTS. the other. -The gentleman had no more' than taken his seat than he was stare t fgom the rear, gazed at from the front and sized up from all sides. Seats were reversed to avoid necks being strained, and near ones. commanded a pre- mium. At Pittsburg the train stopped for supper, and Mr, Thruston, having taken tea before starting on his journey, took a posi- tion on the depot platform, where, for the space of thirty minutes, he was looked at, quizzed, guyed, complimented, interrogated, aind, by the smallest boy and longest man in the crowd, deeply envied." Mr. Thruston served in the Confederate army during the war, and surrendered to Gen. Canby at Sbreveport, La., at its close. Then he went to Titus county, Tex., where he has since lived. A HISTORIC INCIDENT RECALLED. on the Star of the West. Accounts rs a tragedy were recently tele- graphed from South Carolina, wherein two names are associated which were much spoken togethor twenty-seven years ago, Haynesworth and Sumter. It is today the same Haynesworth, = a different Sumter. Then It was thé fort in' Charieston "harbor; now it is a village in South Carolina, On Jan. 10, 1861, when Maj. Anderson, with his handful of United States troops, were being watched from the shore by South Carolina soldiers, and it was a conte as to le garrison w have to surrender or starve, a ship hate the American colors steamed up the bay. It was the Star of the West with provisions for the | P fort. Tt" tad just come abead-were the gnns of Fort Moultrie, on the left Morris Island, and ata place called Cum- mings' point was a fortification over which floated a red Palmetto Sudden! cloud of smoke appeared, quickly followed by a boom and a shot. The ball plunged into the water and Fea along, falling short of the steamer. the first shot of a great war, and, wich cand which succeeded it on that ev entful morning, prevented the Star of the West from provisioning Pad troops in Fort Sumter. That shot fired by G. E, Haynesworth, of the South Carolina army. ont. now, nearly'a third of a century after" Kulling of | the Tefal Justice Who First r the Haynesworth row, Justice Haynesworth, 4 of Sumter court house, South S dimen sits on the bench for the purpose of dispensing justice. A fend, an inheritance of neha lum' times, has long been smoldering. The Keels, of Sumpter, and the Bowmans, of ishoprille, are a ---- had sented different parties in A quarrel arose about the fees to ~ ao Keels. First the Bowmans went to Sumter and beat Keels, Then Keels and his father went to Bishopville, and after sundry pistol shots one of the Bowman's limped away from the ground with a ball in his hip. FIRST anoT. FIRED AT THE STAR © FTE WwW {From Harper's Weekly. Jan. 2), 1861.) It was on a Friday., The two Keels, father and son, had been wa that the we mans out gunning for them. The mayor of the town, understandipg that there t arrested and Brought ivy coor. But rey Were Not disarme The result . proved | that a court is not de facto a court parties to a vendetta, On that Friday morn- ing-there rang out a: It was from the 4pistol_ofone of those _ heen. moned before the court with a view toa keeping of the peace No sooner had the eginning does not matter, Like all beginnings it 'is involved in obscurity. When the smoke cleared after the battle, it was discovered that the two Keels, K. Pen- nington, P,G. Rowman and Walter J. nag were all desperately wounded. The first victim of this affray was Justice Haynes- worth. He fell ont, jac through the orain by a bullet. ' A Day. Wasted. : De day wien-we fails ter think o' suthin' dat we didn' think erbout on de day beto', is wasted. Wen de tinve comes dat we fail 'ter fine some pew truth j The append da picture is an exenip! om ered. ate bale treanen Fee Sa AUSTRIAN: | FIGHTING MEN. Men Who Will Be at the Front if There a European War. ; of the strong protability of a tr, in which Austria will play a@ t, it will be of interest to learn of the men in whee bands Anus 1k pie i In view European leatling in sy the super is ne ae ae re tt an aay rant p art itt many i fe wT ins in the battles at proton enemies at once, oe north and the Italians in over the latter, mpctence of her r one thie rm ~ Bi only Duke Al ve tinction; he a of the Austrian ara exertions af a vigils he great reoryganizer t fli Aus tria's fhe 1 i marshal, occupying a pesition analogous to the one of Von Moltke in the German army, is also known as &) ablo writer on, military topics. ALBRECHT. VON RHEINLANDER. STERNECK. vox ere Another soldier who has taken an nottee part ina number of campaigns is Freibert Von Beck, who, though born in Breisgau, in Germany, has been an officer in the Aus- trian army since 1848. He, too, played a conspicnous part in the reorganization of i latter and is a_great favorite of em- secror Francis Joseph. Te is chief of the ntl staff of the Austrian army. reiherr von Rheinlander has won much renown cs a writer on military topics, and has also distinguished himself on the battle- field. He is said to be thé soul of the general staff. Another man of importance is Freiherr von Sterneck, under whose superin Austria'e navy hes reached 2 state of-perfec- tion surprising for the short time in which it has been accomplished iterneck, who, in the memorable naval battle of Lissa, vanquished the Italian fleet, and it was his vease! that sunk the penises Re d' Italia, FLEET TOM CONNEFF, | The Champion Distance Runner of Ire- and Ged Che North of-Engtamts-------- Now comes to America more bone and muscle in the person of E. T. Conneff, cham- jon distance runner of Ireland and the north = England. He comes to make America his Conneff is 19 years of age and was me in County Kildare, Ireland. He ran his first race in June, 1885, and since then has met with a continuous succession of vic- tories on the cinder path. In 1886 he beat EL C. Carter in a two mile race; time, 9 minutes 443-5 seconds. This race was thus described in an English sporting paper: "Carter came to Europe some three months ago to win for the land of the Stars and Stripes oe four miles and ten miles champi- " land, In both then simply Saisie he as Jem Smith could whip a babe, and the cable was quickly put in motion to tell his friends at hat the Union Jack had lowered in two of the' most important events aay to contare 7 the of the north of gland at two TOM CONNEFF. miles, But thero was also in tho field a Richniond from Ireland. This was young Tommy Conneff, frail--not to say fragile-- lithe and delicate looking, smatl--not-to- say diminutivo--and just half way through his nineteenth year. The cut of the boyas stripped produced laughter, but it was a case of 'those who laugh last laugh est.' The little boy from Clanw simply Reacacs, a opponents one by one, and ran easiest of. winners by some ta pipcioon: tarp foray nnd stout Mills, Carter being a wei Contietf also beat Darter: in a four mile race for the international championship. Con- Sent wage ge German Mails. ~ Merchandise all sorts, nae. of whiskies, shoes, cone and "numerous other articles can be sent through the United. States mail. However, we do not go so far in this matter as does Germany. In land of soot beer and odoriferous limburger cheese nearly everything is i a through the postoffice. For instance, Writer saw assembled in the postoftics ee city of Dresden-.a live alligator, a monkey facel Gwi and a 'typical barrer dog, all quietly waiting to be consigned to their vari- 'has dun deed all de "eed Vite py vat weighs = ea: and is 5 feet Sig | high. | =[ODDS - AND - ENDS Poona Et SaKony Blankets Eider-Down Comfortables, - 12 00, 3 00. a 7 50. = _ Black Mantle Plush, - 175. Was " mT ) - + 225 " 400. 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