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 'fflf*J«Rl.%^-';; -M'^Vm" ,,â- ,. I r^lf' I S' ii- S£ i? mM r^'^i lU.-'-* SOSSI^ mi?^^"' TOLD 15 A BACKWOOD TATEEN. at every jamp, BtoriM of WUd Ufe Heard Sixty Tean Ato toy aa Old Maw Yorker. " I lived twenty jrears in the wilda of Sullivan county, and Irft them over forty years ago," aaid the venerable William B. Sands, now a resident of this city, " and have a lively recollection of the old hnotars Preferred to by Pin Teeple, the Pennsylvama Kimrcd, in his narrative of old times m the woods of that region, as givim in last Sun- day's Svn. I wtM mucli surprised tj hear that Peter Stewart was still living. He must certainly be between 90 and 100 years old. The last time I was in Snllivan Cwnnty was in 1872, when I attended the funeral of Stephen Currv, one of the p.-oneers (rf the county, who died at the age of 101. T[ re- member Nelse Crocker, the panther hunter, whom Teeple mentions as having killed him- self because he broke the temperance pledge. He, as well aa many others of the old hun- ters, us^ to lounge at a tavern kept by an undo of mine when they were in that vi- dnity. In those days ram was the favorite beverage, and those free and easy woodsmen punished quantitiea of it. I can remember, when 1 was a boy, lixty years a3(0, sitting on a bench in the bar-room of t^.at old tav- ern and listened in open-mouthed wonder to their leoitals of adventures with panthers, wolves and bears. ' At that time some o them were old men and had roamed the woods before the In- dians had given up their claim to them as hunting grounds, and they enlivened the meetings on such occasions with tales of In- dian atrocity and personal encounters with the savage, wbioh were then still fresh in their memory These men lived in differeat parts of the county, but they seemed to fook upon the whole region as a common stamping groimd, and it was no unusual thing to see half a dozen hunters in that little bar-room, which was in the town of Neversink, whose homes were thirty miles away in different directions. " Nelse Crocker was a general favorite be- cause of his great fund of lugged wit and humor and his great cociabillty. His stories were told in a vein that kept lus hearers in a perpetual roar of lanshter, his illustrations being broad and original and his powers of mimicry wonderful. He seldom made his own adventures the subject of narration, but always had some ^ood thing to tell, either in favor of or at the ezpenae of some one else. HiB great bane was rum. Under the influence of that he was but UTTLB BBTTBB THAN A DBIVBLLINO IMBE- CILB, and his sprees lasted for weeks. One of Nelse Crocker's adventurea with "panthers, or rather the story of it, I recollect as well as if I had heard it only yesterday, although it occured sixty years aeo. Crocker lived near White Lake, in Bethel turnpike, where his grandfather had been a pioneer Mttler, and kept a tavern. In the fall of 1820 Nelse had his cabin in the woods near what was called B'g Pond, and one day he and his dog struck the trail of panth^trs along the edge of Painter Swamp. The practised eye. of the hunter discovered that there were tracks of no lees than seven of the ferocious ani- mals. He followed the trail with his dog a long distance in the swamp without disoov- erini; any game, and then sat down on a lot; to eat his lunch and rest himself. Suddenly his dog began to bristle up and growl, and the next instant a large panther sprang from a tree near by, almost touching Crocker's shoulder as it shot past him. It struck the ground a few feet beyend and bounded off into the swamp. " Crocker caught up his gun, and lost no time in starting in pursuit of the panther. The dog had followed it immediately, and was yelping along ahead on the jack of the animal. Crocker's dog was an exception to most hcnting dogs, for, as I have many times heard the old hunters say, there were very few dogs that would follow a panther's track. NeUe's dog overtook the panther, or probably the panther waited for him. At any rate he pitched into the pantherwith- ont delay, and was whipped in three sec- oiras. Crocker met his dog coming back badly used up. The hunter wait on, and found the jMnther in a tree. As he was liming at it, a noise off in the swamp at- tracted his attention, and locking in that direction, he saw another panther rushing toward him, bounding over the tops of the laurels like a rubber ball. Crocker's inter- est in the animal in the tree vanished at once, and he turned his gun on the new ar- riviJ, and by a lucky shot killed it. The report of the gun was followed immediately by yells of panthers from all parts of the swamp, and, as Crocksr had now no dog to aid him, he thoueht that the best thing he could do would be to' beat a retreat irom the swamp. Two panthers brought up his rear, but did not approach to wit^ shoot- ing distance of Neliw. They followed 1dm, however, to the edge of the swamp, " When he reached his cabin he found his dog there ahead of him, looking sheepish and ashamed of himself. The more Nelse thoughiof the way he had left the field idona to the panthers the madder he got, and when he discovered that ke had left hia hunting-cap, wjiich was made out of a wolf's skin, behind him in the swamp, he swore that he would go back and recover it, skin the panther he had killed, and tackle the rest of the drove, if bo got chawed up him- self. The dog wasn't hurt so badly aa he thought, but ne did not suppose that it would ever go around where there was a pantiier again. Yet, when Nelse started back for the swamp next morning to redeem his reputation aa a (anther hnnter, what was his surprise to see the dog gather him- self up and inarch raaolntely along aa if aware that be oa^t to letriere his repata- tion, and was detemiaed to do it. '*0n reaching the scene of bis eoooonter with the panthers tiie d^ before, Crocker found his hat and the body of the slain pan- ther. Nelse began taking off its akin, when in glancing n|p in a tree near by, be saw an- other crouching down on a limb. Crocker shot it, and it tumbled to tiie gnmnd, but jnmpsd to its feet and climbed to the top of a small chestnut tree, which bent over witii the weight until it was only a few feet frmn the ground. The panther iropptd to the ground, and cuockxk's doo At'OKOB suzed n, but with one blow of its ^wit knocked the dog twenty feet away. Croeker had betn trying to re'oad his gun, but the ramrod stuck in the socket, and delayed him so that the panther, after its bout w^ (b«d|g, rushed upon him while his goii wUr atiil empty. The second expoacnoe of the dog was again too mudi for his vklor and be ran away. Crccket, taken at a disadvantage, ^as dao compelled to seek safety i^^^J^^ The panther followed him, and " an,p. when Crocker «»e\itT5 his rifle: The Pother itm to wh«e hehad thrown the gnn and paused a 8h«rt "» » iSJSit, «^«i»RNehetonu,keg^dh» escipefcomthe swamp, beyond which the animal did not pursue mm. • "When Cffcker cooled off he curjed His cowardice, and ^oing tohfscabm, betook his hunting axe, which, for some reaso^ that he was never able to /xplam, ha h^ failed to carry on either of his oth« visits to the swamp. Armed with this, he went back to meet the panther he had woanded He had not long to wait, for he had grao but a short distance in the thicket whence infuriated beast sprang out of the busbes. alighted directly in Iront of Nesle. It japped for bis throat before he could deliver ibliw^Htbbis axe. He drew8 knife, and by a lucky thrust buried it m " paa- ther's heart. It was more than ^fo^jJ^J the panther'a f orepaws were on Ma breast, and ito wide open jaws at b" *hro»t. to falling back it set its claws »*^« ""*![." dothmg, and tore them from him from the shoulders down. Leaving the PM*^«^» its death throes, Crocker hastened to the spot where he 'Bad thrown hu nfle, and found it. He loit no time in Icadmg it, for he knew that it was more than likely trat the dying cries of the^panther would sum- mon others to the spot, and he had barely his rifle ready before he heard one tflE 8HAKKB5 tiie Uve Dlaeiplasof „_ittlet-Preperty hrtd by tke Conmnattyfiartlw- ' Baoeflt eC AIL What are known a. «»• Sl«k«r JjettJj situated seven mil« "^^ v Watervliet. a. i. SyJ^iBf wda shskarg of the body^ got It soon springing from a tree toward him. came in sight, and, discovering Crock«, crouched for a spring in the crotch of atree, a few feet away. Nelse waited for the leap, and as the panther left the tree he teed The ball entered its heart, and the animal fell dead at Crocker's feet " Nelse's dog, probably unable to face hss master after deserting him twice in a atmt, had disappeared, and Crocker never saw him again. Fmding himself thus left to oombat panthers alone, Nelse concluded it would be best to let the ones still remaining have the swamp to themselves, so he took the skins of ^e three panthers he had killed and broke camp. Crocker signed the tempjr- ance pledge in Montioel'-o in 1843. and did not drink anything until the fall of 1844. Ha joined a paity on a hunt that fall, and they bad plenty of rum in the camp. Nelss go* drunk and renuuned so for a week. When he became sober he was eo ashamed that he shot himself in camp. '•' Another hunting story that made a deep impression on my mind in that old back- woods tavern was about a man named Di)dgu who was a great panther hunger. He was driving a deer once near one of the ponds of Sullivan county, and was walking along the edge of the pond, when he discovered a pan- ther glaring at him from a tree and making ready to spring. Quick as a flash he had bis- rifle to his shoulder and before the panther had time to spring he sent a bullet in its brain. The panther fell dead and rolled in- to the pond. The echoes of the shoi had hardly died away whon the woods seemed literaLy sJive with companions of the dead beast, Djdge said he saw them leaping ab- out in the trees en aJU sides. He^knew that he had no possible chance for his life in a contest with such numbers unless he could obtain some advantage which they could not overcome. It suddenly aocurred to him that no member of the cat family would en- ter water under any circumstances, so he waded out into the pond until he was waist deep. He counted seven pantiiers leraing about in the grees, uttering blood-cnrdling yells, and glarag at the hunter. From his position in the pond Dodge would shoot at a panther whenever one would rush down to the edge of t£e woods. He killed four, when the other three retreated into the woods and disappeared. Fearing that they had gone after reinforcemento, iX)dge made all haato to get to his cabin. The next day, in com- pany with another hunter, he followed the remaining three and succeeded in killing two of them. " Bat panther stories were not the only ones those hunters of the olden time used to tell. Wolves, bears, and wounded bucks furnished aubjeots for endless tales of back- woods prowess. If that old tavern w«re standing now, and its walls would speak, the life of Davy Crockett would be as tame as a dictionary alongside of the tales they could nafold." meats are A bany, in the town ot There are four -villagee ~â€" -t"!.-,;"' _.i-' d^^t beta each other about balf a mile. The principal "ettl««»«'» » "^^Ivt^u "ChuS^^* The '5'»"±.j;SnTs Ti all tiie members worship m oommonis lo- cated here. Tne other thrae viUajjes are SSwn ttie -Noriib.' "Soatb." «d "West." The names indicate their dmw- tionfrom the Church s;.ttlemen«. _** h community holds ite own ptopety and oon- SIsit8oWntemfOC*Uffaiis. Inrehgwus nutters tiie four settiemeiits are controlled hr tiie pastor of^e church,^ tiiough each 2. one Sjr«idi»g elder." The l*»dheld by the four oommunities forms a total oi 3.000 acres. Some of it is woodland and a s^iaU portion of it is mwshy. There are no hills of prominence, and generally the land is level, fertil^ and cultivated with tx r^e care. The land owned by the Church vil- lage comprises 769 aorei. The term village is rather a misnoaier here. Ordinarily it conveys the idea of a greater number of dwellings, steeets, a tavern, and some signs of pubUc business. The baildmgs which compose Vie Choroh settlement number twenty or thirty about. They form a sort of square or oours. There is nothing which at aU repjosente a travelled highway. Nor do these bu Iding appear like dwellings, as they serve vanous osher and different purposes. The first, which stands near the pubUo road, is a neat and sabetaatial structure. This contains the of- fice, the "stord," and reception-room. Here Samantha Bowie, Barbara Hooper, and Ella Benedict preside as hosto, and re- ceive the. public gracefully and graoioosly. In the store various articles of home maan- facture are exposed for sale. B*skotwork, needlework, mate, canes, etc., represent the patience and deft hand labor of these inter- esting people. The female costume, like that at the Oneida community, is peculiar to themselves. It consists of a dress with long kilted skirt of bhusk alpaca and a cape of the same material. This, with a white apron aad a bonnet-frame for the head, covered with white goods, makes up a neat and effective indoor co^tame. The general appearance of the women here, with the white apron omitted, is notunlike thatof the Sisters of Charity. When the women folks goto Ttoy and Albany on business they wear the straw bonnet and cape wbioh is known to the female creation everywhere as a "shaker." The luen wear no peculiar or distinctive oostume. Theirs is that of society at large. The members of the Church family num- ber about fifty. The total of the four vil- lages is not more than 150. Two-thirds of the whole number sre females. All, or the msjor portion, of the Church family sleep ana eat in one lurge building. The sleeping rooms are dividra, the male from the fe- male, by a long hall. The meals are taken at a long table in silence, and with strict de- corum. A bell on top of this building gete the members out of bed at 4:30 a.m. in the summer and at 5 a.m. in the winter. It summons them to breakfast at 6, to dinner at 12, to supper at 6. Tne male members do very little msnnal labor. They superin- tend the outdoor work, which is mostly performed by hired help. About twenty hired men are employed, at a salary of $2C0 a year, with board. Although some Jersey and Holsteins are raised, no effort is made to rear thoroughbred cattle. The women are engaged in tailoring, mending, making shirto ana other garmenta for family wear. Brooms are also made here, and small pails. The buildings, aside from the church, the office, the house, and the seed store, are de- voted to factory or workshop parpoaee on a small Bpale. Tfcose familiar with the Oneida a:SS. ^e the Qaakers. spj^^hen^ SESrStttdfiSScngingto-Uthevil- the Starrs, »^oughj^ -;j»"'f,„ t ^.^rfy earned on. loe "r"-* ThA finest early lo rained nine thoasani of the Hnest e»^jy ^ni»«t« Taase can not be repiacea. aC.£«^%P»"«dTtber fruits are can- SdhSTbyUe Sh»ker8 for the Oaeidaoom- lS.Si5SteS-L%~^'M rt/le;*^ronfSS?«Steth"od.^of ?repar^ S liiedlS roote «.d h«rl» fof. °2l5? MPBOSI.^ ff "legen the broom^m b"ri»«J: ^h. first buM-saw was made by the Shakeri « Thi« i" "ow in the Allwny The Sbekere here at Wa- The MartyrOom of St. Peter. The notion of the Apostles crucifixion head downwards is derived from a pasting allusion in Origen, and seems to contradict an expression (« Tertullian. It was possibly suggested by an erroneous translation of some lAtin expression for capital punish- ment. At any rate, it stands condemned as a sentimental anachronism, bearing on its front tiw traces of later ud more morbid forms of piety rather than the simple hu- mility of the Aposties, who rejoined in all things to imitate their Lord. Those who accept these legends must do so on the au- thority of aa beretical novel, written with an evil tendency, not earlier than the be- ginning of the tiurd century or else on that of the apracrypbal "Acta Petri at Pauli," which appeand at a still ktar dato. All that we can really learn aboat the dosing years of St. Peter from the earliest Fathers may be Bummed np in a few words, that in all probability be was martyred at Borne. That be died by martyrdom may be regard- ed as certain, beoaoae, apart from tradition, it seems to be implied in the words of thf risen Christ to his penitent i4osti«. Tua^ this martyrdom tosk place at nome^ thonga first aasnrted tav Tertullian and Gains i^ the beginning of the thri oentory, nay theabaenoeot any rival tradition) be aoospfc ed as a faot in sftite ot the eodeaiaatwal tendeaoiea wbioh night have lad to ili la- ventiOD bat the ouy Scriptural authority iridoh can be quoted for any visit ot St Peter to Roose is the oae word, "Ttae Chorob in Btebyhm salnteth yo«." OOtDr muni^cannot avoid making compn»oaa. ' ihe Shakers bear a time OdMM Cai^aBttlaa, The Gblmae compositor has while working. One would ioaigine OB a nx-day-go-aa-yoa-phaaewalkininateh instead of settmg type. He-eniaot altat the case aa oar printers do, but must coO' etantiy travel from one case to anotiier, as the obaraotoce n eede d are so nomennu and cover' io mneh Bgaot that it is Impossible to keejp then ia anything like the room Re- quired for the ordinary caaes. Insettingnp a pieoe of copy the Chinese printer will walti up and oewn fte lOMi for a few mo :|nemts, and then goaoilnMairs for 4.Une of 4ower-case. Then he takes tiie devator and goes up into the third storey after some caps, and then out into the wood shed after some astoniabers. Intelligence in his w mib is not so much a requisite as beine a (mod padestriaa. Though the Utter and the general reesmblaoce one to the olh( they are nnlike ia some particularly and in one point are as dissimilar as the antipodea: Befon Oadda commnnity resolv^ itself in- to a stock oompany and conformed to the state marriage laws ite members were ** free lovers." Their peonliar aad abhorrent prao- tices wen a part of their creed. Ttae Shakers' faith is b ased upon the pUb of pr» pcrty in common, but also npan *ttae prac- tice of living a strictly virgin, celibate life." The Oaeida community contains mmre mem- bers aad has immease trap-ahope, silk- works, blooded stook, bama, and a canning factory. The Shaker aefctiwsMiit have none of these. They may lack the collective vigor and talent for business and nannfao- ture which formerly charaoteriMd the Oneida community under the leadership of J. H. Noyes, the foondsr. There is no pi*, tense here to laadae^e gardening no hand- some lawna. er flower-beds, or maceanw. The boildings are not onlike in gsnenl diaraoter those of the ordinary farm sort There is mora evideaoeof aimplidty and contentedness than of aa ambitions desire to poite twfore the world; Tkta is tiMpvreat Shaltsr MtUemaat. Menhtr Ann Lee went fr^tn Itnffi^H toNew Eoi^and^n 1774 She daiaed' to have n- flc^ved- a revelation aad a osnimisiai from Ohrist to form a kingdom of Chilst oa earA. In tbis, kingdom tiie sexee were to dweU togettier la virgin pari«e. She had bee* the nother of tour etaiUnn, aU of whom died in Intaaoy. Odd aa her Vtmtr was, she brought with hsr from EaOmOL seven converts, tn witdMnfl NewTfe? tand she net with ao laver. ThHi, wftS^ aoaety aaabtriag ten BMBbenu aha wandered iato the Trildsmen here la Al- baayeooatyaboottiM year 1780. Thetek ohoroh was bant iaNew LshaMm. Coiaa- Wa cooaty, ia 1786. Ia i7»5ai»aoeietr appeared oader the aaoie of 'Tha V^ikA tiee m tiie United states, Jlere^aw aona. fa any other part fli tU..|^ T5k» noa naaae "Shakera" waaTralW to people in deiision, and, Uk?m^ Z^Sk the epithet stuck until 'it ^WMierW^ opprohrionsaa was at first, inteaded. Ia their rdigious services the worahinDers. Sf^ SSI!i^ S|drit, shake or SSSi They hold.pAao aervibes iatiie ohordhw Sunday, beghuuBg^t 10 a^m. Thapablw â- emoes beldTlaBt Slnday W^ tiie first hdd **««»«»• These oocaefams attract larn Wert Troy. Some of Um pubUo wft •£ tend tiieae servicers aieso)l£naBd diskorb. New Lebanon. made of brass aad sdver. AU dwtiU^ U- p. wero abandoned -•^-'Sf.^J^; Shakers sixty years ago, and donng the past g^TUSrS^ermStod Hq-^.of •»yp'S has b^a used except as a »«fw»«- ^J?^; sni tobacco aro a'so numbered .among the "fcrWddw^a'fnles." Though the Shakers are not strict vegetarianjjbe amount of meat nnd grease used as food u reduced to the minimum. Males and females are "not aUowed to touch each other uunecewarilynw to hold Secret oorrespondence." Toe Shaken dam to be auti-Mormon and anti OnodMn. Be- fore a new member is admitted be or she must confesi aU sin m the pro"«of, « »5 elder or an elderess and confessor. Mwned and single persons are admitted on conf onn- Ine toSercquiremente. Whatproperty they bring goes voluntarily into the oomaon^ fund., So-netimes- a member "baokaUdes. As Philip Smith, one of the managers, SMd: • They come and go." When a member "baokslidee" he » she may rotum, if no serious objection be made. Childien with their parentesre received with roluctanco. They are educated in the commn school, branches and are given trades. In the of- floebulding members receives visite from relatives and aoqoanitanoes belong to the outeide world. Theae friends an permitted to remain for days or weeks, though mdis- criminate intorcourse with "worldliags" is discouraged. Soakers poiat with pride to their mortal-- i(7 record, which testifies to their longevity. The average age at death in the seventeen societies, embracing nearly five thousand persons, is 57i years. "Aunt DoUy," who reoently died at Mount Lebanon, was 108 years old. She had been a Lhaker nearly all her life. The ooly peoaliarity notice- able in a Shaker's speech is the omission of the fin»l letter in "yes." It is odd at first to hear "ye" instead of the usual affirma- tive. It is a corruption of the Quaker "yea," parhaps. As one of the Shakers ob- served \o the writer, Vlt tokes all sorto of people to make a world." An Iriand of Cocoannts and Bananas. Bonaoca is an island and in its way is one of the liveliest places in Spanish Hoaduras. Ite liveliness, however, is peculiar to itself, and there are Uw places like it. The island has two uses. It grows exoellent baaaoas and cocouiuta and affords a refuge for all the flies of the surroundiag islands. Then are many banaaaa raised at Boaac- ca, but they da not mn so large as on the mainland the ooooanuta do splendidly. In- deed, it is to enoonrage the cooaanni grow- ers that the fruit men take their banaoas. At present there is a sort ot a boom in the coooanut basiaees, and many an starting coooanut plantations, or "eo3oa-nat walks," as they an called here. It ia a aaf e invest- ment of money, bat the retom ia alow. The trees an plaatod along the sea-ahon ia a saady sou mixed ^iritn loam. F^m the time a tree is i^aated ittokeaeavea yean befon it is aaffioieatty large to bear aats. Bat just aa eooa aa the oocoeaute form on toe t r ees then a steady income sete in. Tae average aumber of ooooanats to a tree is 120 per year. Io the beet piaoee trees will bear 150 pec year. They an add acoordiag to the season of the year, from $16 to $80 per thonsaad. Oar captaia was payiag |20 per thousaad for good aats. The ooooa- aut walk aeeda bardly aay oare. When ripe the nata fail off themaalvea, and all that Is necessary is to pick them np. The biisk- ing of coooanata is the aiort tiieaome work on a plantation, but the native iahabitante an very ekiUfal at it, and they charge very Uttie tor thdr services. After being haak- ed the ooooaauto an piled np, aad when the first steamer artivee an loaded iato doriea and paddled to the ship. As they an paaa- ed up thesidea they an ooanted, aad a obeck givea immediately to the plaater. 1^0 on goiag to the oa^aia or purser re- ceivaa his moaey ia Mexican dollan or Hon- dariaa money. The whole bosineas is con- dncted on a oaah basis.' Then an plenty of small islands which caa be boaght cheap for cash on which then an now saffident tnea to pay for the money iaveeted in a abmrt time, as well as to support the pbnter while waiting for his new trees to Aliased laorease of ths ftw.. \J Vao'flo Coaat-v sttuatw^' wnicb laAppaUing iai^' Cisco. ' The insrease of leorosy intii, ning to attraot mcri ttiaa u^ raye a Sm Francisco letter, Xh' i cry for some systematic methol *^ of the authorities whtrabythL* be kept cff but np to this tiin« ab health, althoogh ds vising the to ods for preventinj; the landii,*' have not pa'dsnffitjientattenti^J already here. A "careful in vegtijSi that the cases already in thi«3, numbered by this hunireds, â„¢ At one hospital there are now t Asiatic lepeni and one fio n H»w,? eight case^ have been snippy ^^ the iM-ge number of cases altera,, majority are engaged in JQgt f^^ will aid in spreading ths disease a manafaotnra of cigars, the nu shirts, and as cooks for CiucisiiM sfflioted people are aware of the may fuUow the spread of their are jising all kinds of devises to condit'oa from the anthorities, A they sncoeedfora whilemelndiitr by the lynx-eyed inspectors but fii^l an tracked. If they cone al thssS,] painful sores and scabs which ilql' oompany the disease from view tkf safe. The whites, atrange to m themielves but little concera, but thdr own race are in most dread of ease. The afflicted CninamaD ii ih a degree tiat partekes almwt of _, ter of inhumanity, so far as hiicomi an concerned' When redoced to i tion of almost utter helplessness, tht removing the victim by means (^ then enterteined by hij fellow coui .who have escaped the evil. Sine oases of leprosy to be seen in thiicitr such a diagusting character as to shudder even to those who have pai a battlefield or ara familiar with work. How these poor bein|i are by those of their own blood, howL put out of sight aod allowed to rot to asait wen, an facts cot to bs denied. dnoed to this condition, the leper thai saken by all the world, is not infreqi carried to some oat of-the-way place he occasionally is gladdened andrevivj a draught of water from the hand of compassionate member of his family, Igj] the majority of initancea even thii denied him and he is allowed to k inches, his life being terminated by In this city the probabilities of a of leprosy are undoubtedly greater any other city in the world. later arrivals from Hawaii is a who is now confined at the Iffentf stroet hospital. Her case is a pe(A sni her recovery is considered Molokai, one of the Sandwich isludi, regular settlement for leperi, and it proposed to send this young woman for treatment. She escaped however, pursuit, and determined to make h to this city. No one suspected her condition. Her fe'liw-passengers n it.amer to San Francisco did not dc slightert traces of her disease. She freely with those on beard and wai coi ered the belle of the ship. When Vx neared Su Frincisco soineone the girl and notified the authorititi, made an cffjr* to prevent her landing il was aoo3mplished after quite a Btraq;it. is now ia the hospital and will probtUyi survive many days. At Honolulu the idea has that San Francisco is a most desirabL fcr lepers. The r'gid and somewhat tr. atment to which patienta are subjec the Molokai settlement hM driven the to seek other fields, and the east which they an permitted to land oi shores has been heralded at home, Hi bai followed somewhat of a stempedeb; army ol lepen to ome hitherwardb; rteamer. A gentleman who recently nesaed the departon of a vessel from dnla for Mok^i informed me th^ soeae was the mort tsrrible one he had witieseed. Thcri were aboat sixty bonad for MolokaL Some of thia dmply masses of rottenness aid filth. steamer was a small one andt*ie wen crowded int-) a narrow sptos. fanwells ef the nlativeswho had cc bid a last adieu to their strioksn waa a i^tifal sight for it was kn oeriaiaty tiiat aot one of the lepers ever leave Molokai alive. The medical fratsrnity of HonolnUi so far made but littie progress in " " tempte to ward off the disease. them assert that the discaw is simply i( of ajmhilis. Othen do not share u Uef. Iti8 0on3ededthattieraisqaitp' aemhlanee m leprosy and tertiary 'ri. The kproqr of Hawaii and that of A« proaoonoed to be totally unlike. On Feb 13 then wera thirieen ««f leoroiy in the hospital here, and at the scat time then an twenty-three. ^^ ther apnad depends upon the ^n»»^| In 'we« Tbel armed oar I bold hu hisappl _g bi» i kair,»ndl foot. itha4 ropeB ^terl I watetl Presei id, and w taken your SW( ludthec ,e next whei for y trSa"w by the C: in aâ€" wer« F taipoois Tae ooooaaat indnstry Is inoceariag every. ?iar, wfaUe the demand for the note fa N4* oft aad New Orleaaa is always sqaal to the sapply. The nsaal methadt of a plaater who oomea iato tixii eoantiy toirtin a new Plantatioa is to begfai with the banana. NfaM manths after the banana ao^er ia Watada yield is obtaiaad. The yoong â- booiiaM alantadeighteaK ortwan^fiS wart* and between them a ooooamitiNaii riMd. IbehaavT grawth of tha ^ftMna ahadeatl»_y«uig^«Blaaiai| iavaiMM " --• ^___ .^^ ^^aA iaak ad, whan it'soooaboota an ahaadT Tae Afl ie aoridrthat baoaaa^^SiaMrwS aooa interfere. Then Hm bi^MirMekMi ara oat dcnni and tta Ihm jlmi^S^ Tba% «Mla the juAt-.-^^^Mrn'mk makeeajprofittrom hia^^i^M^«^tiSa' yontnlttiili ib. Then is maUngplantatioMiathiaQonntrr. Land; ~-^ thuig, aad la«t/eoaoeiilo5i fl^«rTJ ' from th« Hwdnriaa gtfyenaaiii t^ antboritiea. and they donbtles} take aaoh actioa as may be required in^j lag with thia terrible soourge. The Great C«aL It ie aow ptoposed to job the Bay oay with the Mediferraaeaa S^.^^^tki of a great diip carnal, which will •*" J voyage anmng the Spaaish poninsuli. I woaU be a work eeconrin unportuoeo^i to the Caez Caaal itMlf, for aU the v«^l from Eaglaad and Ncrtiien Botopa «^| be fbraed to oae thia new means of o^l iaation. It would be a gigantic work. I itwoaMoartainlypayintime. Intbenw^l MawtbePManaewal ia bdng ^Jj^A pMOMWted by M. de Lesseps. .^^1 adi^ty work, for it aims to jou »*^^| SfooNna bfa gnat diip oaoal cat jx^JI OsnhralAaML AvaitamouitjifJJ^I Bach tsaj. Tt t la iti »1 l«4haiK ft* my hai^Ma dmn, aad tiie most P1^^\ ankdng made to finish this extrsor(»»1 TUke Af55L.*^."*V« IWPa ol Hearaa aad *J*|jfl *mld d^j^tetTwDfi bii^^i£2 ^J«J«^ on of tte pura fam4h light for Qod'a^Ortidle, tiie heart of the imraU. darkaeas for tiie devU's soaadal. ""P™™' W.S! S^^L^*" " • ohvnk featival kettie, la aooordad man hoaor^than a whale m a aohodl of loviatha-m.^^ o^teBdVtheoioaeqflSSe Bitit-^ ,4^4llurt oaly 1 60 of tiie dredging, 1 5",^ t^ J3f ootting. and 1-16 {2.967.000 nette»^^»| " ear«i%f excavation had been «o!igj; OK the first of Mjroh last. Theiwj^ tut aapplementary work, tiie Obagf' b'aotjet began. Then is re«f "jgd ^ha osaal wffl not be finubed before ' Of. the 600.000.000 frsnss subson')^ $00,000,000 have been spect in pi MA plaui^ mid 100.000^ » .P^J uid improving the railway. It u .* ^c, tt that»».000.000 more of franos wUi quired to oompleto the work The plaoe maa ooonineein thiawori^ tha hue of hia oharaoter.