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Oinmrnr Tonii It tk. . -....rTT HJJWRPW,S-.Jrh- for Corns. bnisiata, or HlSCOX CO-, iTy7 A DESPERATE MSHTT A MODERN VERSION OF AN OLD STORY ABOUT COLUMBUS. An Account of tli Iaya When Christo pher Coliiruhua IMuyed the Hole of at lMrate How He Cams to Nettle la Lis bon A Savage ISattle at Hea. . It is one of those tales that illustrate tire manners of tins cruel age. The pirates hal lonj? leen the scourge of the honest Venetian traders. Sometimes they would disguise themselves as mer chantmen trading peacefully to Candia for wine, and then throwing off their disguises, would prey upon all around them. No mercy was shown in these fearful contests. Between the sea rob lers and the merchants there was a lasting and deadly hostility. It was to the pirate class that the Columbi be longed, and of all the corsairs of the day they were the most renowned. The elder Columbus had apparently lain in watt in vain for the rich fleet that sailed yearly to the north. But he had a eon, known as Columbus Junior, who fol lowed the same profession and whose true name waa Nicplo Griego, or Nich olas the Greek. He at last succeeded in the project which his father had so long essayed in vain. The prize was a tempt ing one to the bold buccaneers. The Flanders galleys with their freight were valued at 200,000 ducats perhaps $2,000, 000 and would have proved an immense fortune to the captors could they have retained the spoil. In 1485 the galleys were equipped with unusual care. We have the decree of the senate under which they set sail. The Doge Giovanni Moncenigo appoints the noble Bartolomeo Minio captain, with a salary of 600 ducats. Four great galleys are provided, and to each cap tain a bounty of 3,500 golden ducats is promised upon their safe return to Ven ice. This money was to be paid out f the tax on the Jews, and calls up anew Shakespeare's unreal picture; it is plain that the merchants of Venice were the true Shylocks of the time. A medical man was assigned to the fleet : his salary was only nine ducats a month. Minute rules are given for the con duct of the expedition. The freight is to be paid to the state. No deckloads of tin or pewter ware are allowed, no entrants nor molasses are to be stored in the hold. Two galleys were to go to London or the English ports, the rest to Sluys or Bruges. On their passage they might touch at Malaga and other port in Spain; on their return a ship was de tached to trade with the Mohammedans along the Barbary shore. The Vene tians were too keen traders not to find profitable markets even in the lands of the infidel. The Columbi or the Griegos were at last to seize their prize. They watched with seven ships powerful, no doubt, and well equipped off the Spanish coast to intercept the fleet of Bartolomeo Minio. The commander of the pirates was Xicolo Griego, the son, we are told, of the elder Columbus. His father had disappeared from sight. But with him in the pirate ships was another Colum bus, the future discoverer and admiral of the Indies. In his "Life" Fernando Columbus boasts of his fathers share in this famous engagement famous be cause it led to the settlement of Colum bus at Lisbon, his marriage and his fu ture exploits. He was now a man of at least fifty, hardened by thirty-six years of ceaseles adventure. V.'iiat position he held in the pirate fleet, whether as commander or seaman, his son does not tell. We only know that he served under his relative. Columbus or Griego, and that he fought with desperate energy in the famous sea fight of Cape St. Vincent. The corsairs, or Columbi, approached their prey in the evening. They waited all night on the still Atlantic, and in the morning rushed upon the Venetians. It was seven, perhaps eight, ships against tour. The galleys were heavy laden and un manageable compared to their swift assailants. The Columbi had evi dently resolved to make sure of their prey. They sailed under the French flag, and may have been fitted out in Genoa. It was the custom of the pirates, it seems, to assume false colors. But dreadful was the contest and fierce the fight that raged all day, as Columbus had told his son, on the tranquil sea the scene, nearly four centuries later, of the battle of St. Vincent; and his narra tive is confirmed by the Venetian ar chives. The four great galleys under Bartolomeo Minio defended themselves with unfailing courage. From the first to the twentieth hour they beat off their savage assailants. The ships grappled with each other and fought hand to hand. They need, we are told, artificial fire, and the pirates fastened their ships to the galleys by hooks and iron chains. Then, no doubt, they boarded and were at last success ful. And then Fernando Colon relates the romantic incident that led, he thinks, to the discovery of a new world. The ship in which his father fought ' was lashed by chains and hooks to a great Venetian galley. The Venetians seem to have set Columbus' ship on fire. The flames consumed both vessels. The only resource left to the survivors was to leap into the sea- Columbus, an excellent swimmer, seized an oar that floated near him, and partly resting on it and partly swimming, sustained himself in the water. He knew that he was about six miles from the land, the coast of Portugal, and made his way toward it. Wearied, half inanimate, he was dashed upon the shore. He had much difficulty in reviving himself. But he was near Lisbon and made his way, a shipwrecked, penniless seaman, to the Portuguese capital. Eugene Law rence in Harper's. A Fraud. Mrs. McCarlem Thot piano lamp ye sold me is no good, an Oi want yez to take it back. Dealer Eh? Why? Mrs. McCarlem Divil a chnne con we git out av it. New York Weekly. i Fire pro) af Mariavla At the Berlin exhibition of means and rontrivancea for the prevention of acci dent in indivntrieH and otherwise, prizes were awarded for the following proc esses for fin-proofing, reiectively dimin ishing the combustibility of tissues, cur tain materials and theatrical scenery. For light tissues, sixteen pounds ammo nium sulphates, five. pounds ammonium carbonate, four iounds borax, six pounda boric acid, four pounds starch, or one pound dextrine, or one pound gelatine, aud twenty-five gallons water, inixed to gether, heated to bO degs. Fahrenheit, and the material impregnated with the mixture, centrifugated and dried, and then ironed as usual. One quart of the mixture, costing about three or four cents, is enough to impregnate fifteen yards of material. For curtain materials, theatrical deco rations, wood and furniture thirty pounds ammonium chloride are mixed with so much floated chalk as to give the mass consistency. It is then heated to 125 to 150 degs. Fahrenheit, and the material given one or two coats of it by means of a brush. A pound of it, cost ing about eight-tenths of a cent, is suffi cient to covr five square rods. Berlin Letter. A Terrible Thins; la m Rattl. The house committee on naval affairs for some days has had under considera tion a bill providing for the addition to the navy of a novel craft. The feature of the design is found in an enormous submarine gun carried at the bow below the water line. The pro jectors feel that they have now a prac ticable means at hand to drive an enor mous shell loaded with an explosive charge of gunpowder or gun cotton into the hull of any ironclad afloat and ex plode it in the very vitals of the ship. According to the design submitted to the committee and explained by Gen eral Berdan, a hydraulic buffer projects from the bow of the vessel This is so adjusted that it will stop the boat a dis tance of eight feet from the enemy's ship without injury to the boat. At this short range the buffer automatically dis charges the submarine gun directly at the hull of the ship, and lodges within it a shell carrying a bursting charge oi 450 pounds of powder, sufficient to blow down every bulkhead in the ship and wreck the bottom. Cincinnati Com mercial Gazette. Glad to Get Rid of Dim. A few days ago Governor Buchanan was called upon to exercise executive clemency in a very peculiar case. The person concerned was a man held in jail at Jackson till he should produce a ;200 fine. He had been there over a year without showing any signs of liquidating with the commonwealth, and it is prol able he would have remained a prisoner for the next fif ty years if payment had been waited for. The county court, recognizing him as an incubus to the amount of forty cents a day, passed a resolution asking the governor "for the Lord's sake" to forgive that little $00 and let the man get out and earn his own living. The trial judge and the attorney general and the members of the jury all appeared on the petition sent up in ac cordance with the resolution, but not a single friend of the prisoner was among the signers. Nashville American. Made Her Loft Handed by a Blow. Three years ago a young lady of Fall River, Mass., was hit upon the left side of her head by a falling sign as she was walking along a 6treet in Boston. This was followed by brain fever. After Borne weeks she was as well in mind and body as ever, but from a right handed person she had become so left handed that she could neither cut, sew nor write with her right hand, but found it easy to do all these things with her left. Her right hand was just about as useful as her left had been before she was hurt. What is strange is that, with so recent a change in the use of her hands, she never makes an awkward motion and is as graceful in the use of her left hand as if she had been born left handed. Bos ton Post. A Greedy Mountain Lion's Fate. Dr. French, a seventy-year-old resi dent of Alamo, killed a mountain lion one day last week at the Tule ranch in the pineries. The lion had crawled into a pig pen through a small hole, and after feasting on two shoats was too big to get out through the hole. Thus he was an easy prey to the doctor, who gave him a hypodermic injection of birdshot in order to see him perform. He per formed to the entire satisfaction of his tormentor. The doctor administered a 44-caliber pill, which put him to sleep. The animal had immense claws, and measured six feet from tip to tip. San Diego Son. A Great Famine Predicted. A prophet in Athens, Ga., predicts that the crop yield this year throughout this country will be the largest ever known, but that beginning with 1893, and for two years thereafter, there wili be the greatest famine the world has ever known. During that time rain shall cease to fall, and the streams of the country will all dry up, vegetation will no longer exist, and all animals will surely die. At the beginning of the famine the land will be infested with all sorts of vermin, and the living will suf fer untold tortures. 'An Australian agricultural paper makes note of an immense increase in the number of sheep in Australia in the last two or three years, and of the enor mous development of the grazing capa bilities of the country. The estimated number of sheep in Australia in 1892 is 60.000,000, against 31,000,000 in 18S4. The number of monarchies in Europe has increased by one during the past year, the duchy of Luxembourg having become a sovereign 6tate by the death of the queen of Holland. A gold brick was recently shipped to San Francisco from Yuma, Cal., the value of which was estimated at between $80,000 and $90,000. It weighed a little over 349 pounds. Hutter, Efrtf . Poultry, Me- ! Green mihI I)r Cider, lleHtia.n Sheep JYltH, ) Grain, Flour; era, Ginning, l ' M. K. y - ('en. Com. A't ! 217 Market Street -1 WANTKI-A:.-nt ! era and Shii-r. ; TIJ10T timi 200. I) COAL ware,'-' oTKK rd and Oflicc 4 yrrrt. PLATTSMODTH, ty. NtHRA.st J5 E. REYNOLDS, Kezlstered YYjU :m xnt l hHraaclat Special attention fjivfn to Ofkice Practice. Kocc BiUFFs - Neb. P J- HfljTSiffi br a lrh in- STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES GLASSOAND QUEEN8WARE. Patronage of the Public Solicited. North Sixth Street, Plattsmouth Lumber Yard THE OLD RELIABLE. I A. WATHBBAH & SON F LUMBER ! Shingles, Lath, Hash. 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