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the joysb to the ider von -was sent sntennial the dele-■ evening1869. able to ration of boldii, to t let the ny entire 3 society le danger ch a manontgrow-breaking aage, has the oom-ition andltemplat-•Bytnme-.He was direction yon felt atrengtb. spprecia-; of Eze-d about.” tre, and pbiloso-his hu--student* cas never is fellow ital, spir-ntolerimt id hearty m in th e ;otton by vil days, d sympa-ip human of wasted icomes ns itly those lonorableman, and lower and i and cnl-itherhoodby Alfred formerly 3 24thu.; ; Griffin, raet:ri’e of .the e -people 0 govern-ie colored Itarysnb-LT Of BOID0officers of cases, and m get any irhitecitL-untlnaally leers give s can give 'So yonftholand•witn lear, nox Knowing wuax iu no, me aw-inl sensation being entirely new to me. The shock followed within four or five second?, rocking the house to and fro, as if it were: a plaything.- Notwithstanding the confusion of those few moments—tome. the . most dreadful . I had. ever experienced—I observed the balls on the table driven to the cushion on one side,-then to the other, then back' again to the middle, where, they remained nearly , stationary, moving only very slightly, from wbkt I supposed to be a vibratory motion consequent upon the first shocks. These could not have hart a duration of more than 30 seconds, by which time I had sufficiently recovered my senses to hurry to the street, and make the.best of my way to the plaza, or the alameda.. Hundreds of people'were running in the same direction—men, women and children. In my flight I had sufficient presence of mind to pick up'a little girl of 8 or 9 years,1, who’ had foiled down iu a fainting, fit, . caused . by ■ sheer fright. Thus burdened, I had not proceeded ’ the length of our street, when the piteous wailing of a poor woman, prostrate in the street, again arrested, me. Many hurried by without noticing her. agonizing cries, intent only upon their own safety. .1 quickly divined the unhappy situation of the poor creature, and lamented my inability to- succor her, but she seemed indifferent to her own fate as compared with the safety of a little child of two years, which clung to her in mute terror, and which she implored me to take to a place of security. I seized it and rushed on in less time than-1 have taken to tell it, leaving the unfortunate.woman andherun-born babe to their fate—I could not help it—I had no remedy, I did all I could in saving the' two little - ones. In . a few minutes, during which I experienced another shock of earthquake, which nearly threw me off my feet, I reached the plaza, in the center of which were nearly all the inhabitants who had not taken refuge in the alameda. The sceno can scarcely be described. Men, women and children were in their night clothes, most of them on their knees, and all praying most fervently amidst defeaning wails of Dios mUt Santiisima Seiiora ! mhericordia! and the frightened cries , of little children of papa 1 mamma 1 I remained in the plaza all night, not knowing what,to expect Daring this time so many earthquakes occurred; that I did- not cotint them, but I should :Eay -there must havo been at. least thirty. I see the papers say forty, but I do not think any person could, have had sufficient presence of mind during that fearful night to keep a correct record; The next day I hastened to Axica with all speed to await the steamer on the day following for the. North. - .There I found the scenes and horrors of the previous night in Tacna had been repeated on a smaller scale, and the- people equally alarmed. ‘The -poor woman. I mentioned was afterward cared, for, and’woa likely .to'; recover. /This -has been my experience of a second-rate, earthquake, and . I- trus.t'. I...shall never :witness/ one ' of a wotse or more violent nature, such' as M. Falb predicts.. Hero m Lima and Callao we have experienced but two or three slight shacks of earthquake,' barely worthy of;mention; but the people are nevertheless much alarmed, at the accounts received' from the south, and -'many, .ihcltidihg- foreigners, mil-be1 prepared to leave these cities toward the end of September.' :Seyeral:6ciaatific men have done all in their power id/cbeck the conic cansedbv the - urban os ticaticms1 dfyesterday alone; and if the combination which has invested perhaps thirty millions of dollars in the “comer“con secure even s' twentieth of this difference for themselves, they-, axe : likely to close their accounts at last with alange profit.- - . . :-tTha writer of a book against woman;: Suffrage, says that “rnanUneaa ia a.djagraca in* woman's character.” Will the1 writer . defifie!what is meant bymardinesg?1 ~. ’ ' ‘The Welsh Fasting Girl.The London Times has an account of the Welsh fasting girl, written by Df. Robert Fowler, District Medical Officer of the East London Union, 'who recently visited her. He says, the child, who is . thirteen years of age and very pretty, 'was lying in bed'decorated as a bnde, having around her head a wreath of flowers. Her face was plump, and her cheeks and lips of. a beautiful rosy color. Her eyes were bright and sparkling. There; was that resSess movement and ' frequent looking •oat of the comers of the eyes bo characteristic of: simulated disease. Her parents positively declared that, save a fortnightly moistening of her lips with cold water, the child had neither ate nor drank anything for the last twenty-three months.' Her mental faculties and special senses are perfectly healthy; “ The dbctor’a conclusions hi regard to - the ;case are .as follows: : ■ ; *’“ *'“The whole case is, in feet, one of simulative hysteria in a young girl having'the propensity to deceive vary strongly developed, Therewith may be probably associated the power .or habit of prolonged .fating. Tb s oidy apparent difficult about the case is the .means of the obtain®ent of food. I am informed that the parents are very respectable people, and Lave no particular pecuniary need above the class,to' which they belong. The moat.suspicion's’ evidence of their collusion is the circumstances of their 'making the patient a complete show-child, recei ving money and presents . from the hundreds of visitors to the farm. - • .“From my observation and examination of' the giri, from my acquaintance with analogous, cases, and from my long experience as a public medical officer of various forms of malingering, I am inclined to believe that Sarah Jacob in realitv deceives her own parents. The construction, of the bed, and the aurxounding old Welsh 'cupboards and drawers in the room, .are all favorable to the concealment of food.. The cunning stratagems 'and' deceptions: sometimes practiced by young girls afflict-' ,ed with this form of . hysteria; are well known to medical men, though mot;*0;-generally, credited by non-professionals.I can,_ therefore, quite understand, these poor simple p^enfebemg jeasily deceived by their own ehfld,- thfr mdre^’especially as in their ignorance they seem to impHoitly believe.that there is a miracle and some-thmg,superhuman in the case. Admitted into a London hospital, or into the ,Car-martheiWiire Infirmary, this' ’poor child would, doubtless, be quickly relieved froma. malady which in a year.- or bo may - not only become ■ chronic, but hlso be the foroi runner of tome physical or tome' more severe form of mental disease.”. ’'—The famous glen- at Watkins, N, Y., near the head of Seneca Lake, has beenEnxohased lor twenty-flva thousand dollars, : y,E. B. Parsons,, of .Bradford coxinty.Pa., who proposes to improve it as, a popular, sqmmer resort. . .. _,0.■1 — “Axkixidale, one of jthe finest estates in Virginia, lying on the Potomac, in Stafford county, and.‘ containing 2,253. acres, waa sold at publio auction, in Alexandria; h few days ago, at $21 per acre. • -- —A former Auditor of Dearborn county;' InL, named Grosby, has juat entered the State Penitentiary for forgery. It seems, that he-was tried and sentenced on hia own. -Confession, the act having been the result of intemperance.. • ''! —The export of human hair from France ., to the United States has recently increased • so rapidly that the supply proved inadequate to meet the requirements, and_ the price was doubled.-~ Germany; ’ Belgium, Poland and Russia have have joined- to fbrnish ua with supplies.| 4—Some one has estimated the agxicul-itoraL,products of the United States this., year in part as follows: Wheat, 271,000,-Q00 bushels; corn, 1,050,000,000 bushels;. 'oatP; ;300,000,000; rye, 50,000,000; barley*' ^0,000.000; potatoes, 175,000,000. The to-: tal value of all products Is,.put down at $2»r: 451,750,000. -• . ...-r-The vessels engaged in shipping iron / ore from the Lake Superior mines are in. the habit of throwing overboard fifteen or . twenty tons when they get out of port ftito the lake. The captains complain that their cargoes are always about, so much heavier -than is shown by the.freight bills,, and take , this criminally wasteful way fo'; 1 ’get even” with the shippers. 1 ■ '‘ —Observers who have made_ “the .trip’', ovet.the Pacific Railroad, notice- tha' ab-senae of song birds from the region through' r^hiah .tho road passes. One of these observant .travelers says that for 50Q miles be. saw nothing in the .feathered shape . but. -Hawks‘and sage hens—the'.latter a grayish- ' white and somewhat mottled ■ bird,; rather1: larger and longer in. body than . our' part- -ridges..-rj-TheTe is on exhibifion at the Institute Fair Ik New York a. Bullock ,pr^s^.;;y»hidi. feeds itself, prints both- Bidea at once from rolls of paper, and cqts off and piles up as fast to'printeffi It iaii novel ana beautifql triumph of;art.-Cl-■'{—The, LpniaviUe, Courier-Joumal.vT_.; found out that , th'e . gay belles; and be*ux of that city use their prayer-books for ffiedfnifiA’ of goaaip and flirtaridnl and suggitotftfiafTir» ewiton Kicked Death hf A Vi-elous H«rse»'■ jgear Canonsville, Delaware: county, N. Y.,'there occurred, on Wednesday'of last: waekf one. of those accidents which, thrill. the community with horror, and ;enta'to shudder as they confempfete. what.v inay happen to toeir^y^/i qfpring.* Lt Beems that Mra'An'gustuaflower^ the wife of a fanner, had prepared * dinner,' AfeJda-Biring her husband; to come' to hiB *meal^:i sent two children,, aged respectively ,-three.. and five years, to call him. , Soon ..after,... to mother'' was; horrified .' ;beyqnd ' expression ; td'eee - her huaband enter1 toe, house .bearing' the-twa.Bttteoneainihia-.;arms—ones lifefeffl mfaacWJaggftd.ileeh, :.and blood,; while the otoer was,;tonseleea . from a terrible blow oh the head, frpm the . effects of which it died next day.-' It'ap- ' pears that toe children/ m going for to«r fetoer/bad to pass torough a paatuxw can- ; taining a,rilt;nom.jhor?eT7;iwhiito-a^topk^r.-ihemwitoaBtoa^.ofmadqess, mtoft , Jacking, and staiaj)ing_fne pdor unfortu-
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Semi Weekly Wisconsin
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, US
Sat, Oct 02, 1869
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