The Plattsmouth daily herald. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1883-19??, April 05, 1889, Image 3
I ill IHMIHJIISCPirilDlEIISIIIES ever 51 EO Irish Point Flouncing witBa Harrow to Match. Manisooli FommcIh, from Wide. . DOVEY & SON, ii IN LOVELY ANDALUSIA. IMPRESSIONS OF A FAIR CITY ON GIBRALTAR STRAITS. ltrautiful Pictures on the l'nrtneiune Coast. A City Founded by the rhienieianw. 1100 Ii. C. The Three Gradea of Society aa Shown iu the Public Promenades. Tliere is a curious little city on the Gibraltar straits. It is called Cadiz. Some 300 years ago a man named Co lumbus sailed from thereon a cruise to the westward. Kef ore he returned he discovered some islands. It would appear that the little city is still celebrating the return of Columbus, for it is ever a gala day in Cadiz. Laugh terand pleasure arc in the very air. No jort in Spain is more charming than this nrettv little canital of famed - Andalusia. Just the place for a man-of- war to make after a hard cruise on the coast of Africa or a week's drill at target V practice out at kco. It was a lovely run down the Portu gueso coast from Lisbon: a trifle warm; but what was this when offset by the cool evenings so characteristic of the tf Spanish Portuguese climes? As we neared port on the morning of the second day, carrying all sail and a full head of steam, the corvette fairly gamboled over the water. The liazo which had been envel oping the contour of the coast lino grad ually lifted, presenting to the gaze of of ficers and crew Andalusia in all her beauty, charm and grandeur. Many fishing craft came in view, and as the corvette surged past the boatmen raised their caps in respect to the flag flying from the jval: end. ATTRACTIVE FEATURES. The appe:irance of the city from the anchorage is loautiful in the extreme. Hie several convent and castle crowned hills are the background of a lSely pic ture. Especially 0:1 a moonlit night the harbor is to be seen i.i all its !eauty. From the shores the strains of music from the military lands in the parks are wafted across the water, while among the dazzling glimmer of lights the gay promenaders can In? seen winding in and out along the Alameda. As the night advances the gay scenes close, and save now and then tlu black specter of a huge Steamer gliding silently by, or the tink ling of a little convent boll away back in the hills, nothing breaks the silence of 10; night, Cadiz is perhaps not so well known to Americans as many cities of less ira . portance. Situated apart from the main highway of travel, and having but little direct commerce with the United States, it is seldom visited by our countrymen on matters of business, except when pas- I engers aboard one of the Royal Mail j steamers or en route to some of the col- j onies are enabled, by a short stop over, ' to obtain a cursory glance at this quaint and most interesting of Spanish sea- . ports. The city was founded about 1100 B. C. bT the Phoenicians; who was called it Cadir. It successively oassed intp tha WILL OFFER THUESDAY, 51 o J no o "s J o THE IHIeinstitcheit tianas or tne Carthagenlans and Konians, the latter giving it the name of Gades. Then passing into the power of the Goths it was again taken in 711, this time by the Arabs. The Spainarda got control in 1 2C2, and named the place Cales. It was known by this name when captured and sacked by the English in 1596. The loss of the city and the immense treas ure held there at the time caused almost general bankruptcy in Spain. Time and again the English attacked this beauti ful city, and each time it was success fully defended. It was surrounded by the French during 1810 and 1812, being at that time the seat of the Central Na tional Junta. Wellington's approach raised the siege of Marshal Victor's forces. LIKE OXK LOUQ HOLIDAY. Cadiz has long been associated with the liberal movements in Spain, and has been conspicuous during more than one crisis in Spanish affairs. In fact, the first movement which overthrew Queen Isabella took place in Cadiz, Sept. 17, 18SS. Unlike most European cities, the name of Cadiz is recognized by all coun tries. Wo get Vienna out of "Wien," Lisbon out of "Lisboa," by what right I do not know. The Spaniards write the name of the Quaker City "Filadelphia" and New York "Nuevo-Yorko." In an evening 6troll . upon the lovely Alameda one has an excellent opportu nity to observe the beauty of the Anda lusian women. Three parallel walks di vide the people in their amusements as j rigidly as any mark or caste. In the center is the promenade for the upper classes and the military. On " the right runs the walk of the middle class, and on the left that of the peasantry and com mon soldiers. The young women were all accompanied by duennas or chape rons. Hero and there along the Alameda stood a brilliant cafe. All the women are dressed modestly in Parisian attiro. and their beauty is certainly extraordi nary. Cadiz has a clean appearance, due largely to the white stone used in build ing. The streets are narrow but regu larly laid out. Around tho outskirts of Cadiz runs the Alameda boulevard. I: is very fine. Throughout the city are numerous squares, some large, others smalL They offer a refreshing retreat, among the numerous tropical plants, to the heated pedestrian. These squares all connect with the Alameda. The private dwellings are usually sev eral stories in height. The ground floor is retained for a store room, and differ ent families occupy the several flats. The fantastic manner in which the houses are built on the hillsides, and the utter disrr-svrd to grading makes tho tops of ' some bouses on a level with tho first floors of the others. On tho exterior the appearance of the dwelling is plain save for the bright hued tiles of varied. colors. Large, heavy iron doors secure tho en trance, and this is usually attended, as iu France, by a concierge. The interior fittings ure very fine. An exquisite taste, and in most cases lavish expendi ture in furniture, rugs, bric-a-brac, an J unique ornaments characterize t!w ar rangements. New York Times. F ooncings THE DAILY JlEIlALD : PLVlTSMOtJTII, NKHitASIvA, FRIDAY, APRILS, 18!'. 0W shown in Ia city sit s&riccs wfalcla will be tlie very lowcsl X ASSORTMENT CONSISTS OF JL a" a JPouncings. STairrow Swiss JEmforoidery. EmbroMery5 in all widths E. G. DOVEY & SON, OXK AGAINST A IIu.MWKI). HEROIC DZFENSE OF A TACKED BY A SAVAGE ' AT ROE. An Adventore in t!io Sou: It !';u'iils- O.-ean In 1 8M3 Dusky Siv;isf. V:nt I or.;;!:! with Spade Cajil. Jiuu-k WSiipncd :t Hundred of the Fieiuis. About IS'dTi Capt. Silas Jones, now president of the f irst National bank cf this town, sailed from Wood's Iloll as third officer in the ship Awashonks, Capt. Collins, on a four years" cruise in the South Pacific ocean. This voyage was one of most intense excitement and hairbreadth adventure, and. while Capt, Jones is of a quiet and unassuming character and not fond of putting his glory before the world, yet your corre spondent obtained a r.tory full of interest and one that is not known to have been published, although in years past it was a theme of much discussion. The vessel had a crew of about tliirty five men, including captain, first, second and third officers, and made the voyage around Cape Horn without incident. Slio cruised about the South seas, ami when eighteen months out had 900 barrels of fine oil in her hold. "WHEUE ONLY MAN 13 VTLE." Closing in with a group of Islands just north of the equator. Capt. Collins de cided to make a trade with the natives. The ship was hove to. with most of her sails set. in a 6mall bay where the calm water reflected the strip of white sand, green palms and tropical plants that skirted its margin as well as the purple hills of the interior. A number of native dugouts put out to the ship and made fast to her chains, and the savages clambered over the ves sel's rail. At a favorable signal a fierce yell burst from their dusky throats, caus ing the ears of those who heard it to tremble and their hearts to quail. In less time than it takes to write it the ship's decks were full of natives, and the unarmed crew made for the rigging, jib booms and forecastle, in fact anywhere to escape the bloodthirsty islanders. The fight that ensued was a desperate and indiscriminate melee. The natives had been 60 sure of a surprise that they had formed no plan of attack, depending entirely on their overwhelming numbers. At the first rush Capt. Collins and the second mate were engaged in a hand-to- nana conflict with some or tlie savages I who had availed themselves of the ship's euttinjr in spades, and the poor men were immediately hacked to pieces. Thomas Gifford, of "Falmouth, a seaman, made a bolt for the forecastle, end recei ved a blow from a spade. He carries the scar across his forehead to this day. and it is a most unpleasant reminder of that bloody massacre. Capt. Jones, then a youth of about 20, found himself surrounded by a number of infuriated natives, each struggling for a whack at him with the keen edged spades. . He managed to parry the blows, jumping into the vessel's hold and crawled among the tiers of oil casks into the cabin. Here he found tho steward W7 TK) bosh una two seamen on me noor. covereu with wounds, inflicted by the murderous spades. The rest of the ship's company were either aloft or cooped up i the forecastle. In one comer of the cabin was the magazine containing the muskets and ammunition. Seizing the muskets, Capt. Jones gave them to the wounded men to load, while he set about rescuing the Awashonks. ONE AOAIXST A HUNDRED. The natives were scattered over the deck stealing what they could get their hands on. They plucked up the ring bolts from the decks and rails and tugged at them when two tons' strain would not have pulled them out. They pried at bolts and straps, picked at nail heads, wrenched down kettles and stove pipes and threw them into the canoes. The chief, an ill visaged rascal, was at the wheel endeavoring to beach the ves sel, but he was not up in navigation. First he put the wheel down, and the sails not filling he put the wheel up. Slowly the Awashonks headed off and gathered headway toward the beach. An Indian who lived in Mash pee. some ten miles from here, cut the braces and the sails were taken aback. A shower of arrows s:nd beat!teni:Ji maledictions were hurled ;;t l;nn as he sought shelter in the tops. Tiie vessel lost headway, but t!ie chief continued his experiment without t!:e "rudder. The -a!.in. where Car.t. Jones had t;iken rclu; was lighted by two v. do-.vs i:i the stern sirju a large skylight overhead. When li:e cneiuy peered into these apertures a well d I reeled bullet sent them away Li hot haste. For over an hour tliis sL:in:ii.' lictwivn a despt?r iti'Uiun m.i.Iii hundred murderers con lin::;.!. As last as.i.:-.- wounded men cu.il 1 load the muskets t'ajt. Jones would put their contents where they did the U10-..1 good, and the islands to iKjvi- whcl.'some lears of the rt be; jail wi.iuows j.n.l M't al.out !evi; eon.-M better method .i altae';. looting up through the skylight dmv inj; the quiet that followed Capt. Jones saw the chief at the wheel in his frantic endeavors to beach the vessel. Taking careful aim at his broad, nuked chest, he pulled the trigger The bullet passed through the deck, and having spent its force, rolled along the planking to to chieF s very feet. The savage left the helm, inspected the bullet hole, and then laid a piece of board over the splintered plank; he then re turned to the wheel as unconcerned Oi could be. Another bullet from the mus ket pierced his heart and the lifeless form rolled into the scuppers. At the death of their chieftain the isl anders fled panic stricken to the chore, and the Awashonks was laboriously put ti sea. She soon fell in with a merchant man, Capt. Iroetor. and was brought into Wood's Holl by a portion of the merchant crew. Ca pt. Jones was offered a master's berth by the owners of the whaler lie had so l.ravely defended, and up to 1SG-1 he fol lowed the sea in tliat capacity. Three of the crew now live in this vicinity, and two of them lear scars that tell a tale of sore wounds leceived "in the fray. Fal oiouth tilaos.; Cor. New York Herald. APRIL 4, vS nrTTWirrTH mr- i lr7 rJTfJ 1 il JIJLq B. Go doit: IT LOOKS LIKE MINE. PEOPLE HAVE OFTEN SAID THIS ABOUT AN UMBRELLA. They Were night in the Main, but the Inventor of a Modern Industry Cad j "Fixed" the Handle Why the Identity I of Canes and Parasols Changes. A dingy shanty within the shadow of tho city hall shelters a singular industry, the leading feature of the establislirnent being the exchange of umbrella handles. A visit to the thrifty proprietor un ravels the mystery of where unreturned and otherwise missing umbrellas go to. You lose, in any of the too numerous methods by which the feat can be ac complished, the shield which art inter poses between civilized humanity and ; the weaping heavens. You 6can the ; procession that passes your window the : next wet day in the hope of detecting the man with perverted morals who has ! appropriated your property. In vain, j You may see a handle like that attached I to the umbrella tliat once was your j brown silk, but the covering i3 black, I hence the hope raised by the sight of the j peculiar form of the silver or ivory top j is dispelled when your eye travels to the j dripping cover. j A VISIT TO THE "FIXER." I And yet you may Imve been right in i your first guess, though the man who was saving his silk hat from the dam aging effect of the downpour may have been innocent of wronging you directly. The black silk he is carrying was possi bly ornamented by a handle of totally different pattern when it left the shop and was subsequently loaned or left in a corner of the suhxm where the proud j purchaser "set 'em up" for his fellow elcrus on the ntrength of his investment. The peculiar handle was too easy of identification attached to its original silken superstructure and the aforesaid dingy shanty was hastily visited and an exchange effected. The visit was made subsequently to that of the successor to your property and that is how you cam to have that evanescent ray cf hope flash through your frame. This is no fancy bketch. The "ex change" was v; ited in all innocence of its real character by a man whose lack of opportunity has hitherto preserved hi3 honesty pure and undellled in the matter of umbrellas, the temptation to absorb which seems to lie irresistible to the average mortal, and he is r.o better than his fellows in other respects, a:;d given tho right conditions he might with his fellows fall beneath tho influence of a lonesome but lovely specimen. But this time he was a victim, not to ' the loss of his rain defier, but its metal handle. Unequal expansion between it and the stick, combined with faulty ce ment, had caused a divorce fatal to the good looks of tho relict. "Aber wo 1st der anderer gri.T?" asked the "repairer," Jiis gesture supplying the -meaning of wliat otherwise would liavo yiteUi le tit Li visitor. is. 14: inches & SON. 1i1c other handle? TV Tiy, I lost it, and that's why I came to you to get a new me." "Ach. that vas all very veil, but look n your jacket and don't mind me. I xnow all about dat business. Hay all lose dose handles until dey lind oud how to know do ropes a little Lit. loo!: again, now. "DEY YOOST 'MAKES' IIIM." The visitor leing innocent was imper vious to the implication. "What do yo-i mean?" he asked the grinning proprietor of the 7 by 0 shop. What 1 means? Vy, dat you 'made' dot regenschinn you know what dot means and you vunts to change dot handle for another, so do oder man knows him not again ahetty, eh?" ."Do I look like a thief.-'" "A tief, is it? Vy you must bedumm, nopody schteals eineu regenschirm, dey yoost 'makes' him. He i.i lying nrount and you eooms along or some oder man cooms along and ta!;eshmi up. Don dey all cooms here by me and I puts a new handle on and de next Sauntag dot re genschirm to der kirehegoes initdeman and de handle stop mit me. "Aber if you are ko dretfully particu lar I put you a new handle in him for teventy-fifo cents or half a tollar and you keeps de oder handle and puts him in the stove alretfy, eh?' Not knowing at this stage of tho pro ceedings but that the handle he should select might have come from an um brella of the same shade and general ap pearance as his own. and thus lead to awkward complications with the loser of the one it originally graced, and not car ing particularly to do business with .1 man who bad such loose ideas of tho rights of property, even in umbrellas, the would be customer was backing out there was scarcely room to turn. "You needn't be feared dot i gifo you avay. I put you a handle dot vas on a black one, and de von you Imf Vi brown, ehT Dut the comparatively fic-ih air of the alley leading to the novel "fence" had been reached ere this last inducement had been offered, and the job went to a more honest or cautious man. Chicago Times. Hotv Chamberlain Won Ills Wife. A story is now going the rounds aliout ilr. Joseph Chamberlain's rwient wooing and marriage that may interest Amer ican readers. By a romantic coincidet t Mr. Chamterlain's son, Austin, played an important part in his father's mar riage to Miss Endicott The young man had met the lady at Washington the year before Mr. Cliamleila;n went there to negotiate the fisheries treaty. On his re turn he gave such glowing account cf Miss Endicott that Lis father determined to meet the secretary's family a::d took an introduction from Lis hci for this purpose. The sequel U known. The spell of fascination was ca:-.t over the father, as it liad been over the son. and the older gentleman, perhaps in experi ence bolder in matters cf the heart, woed and won the lady, who ij younger fhan any of hL-j children, for his Lrido. St. Louia Star Sayings. I