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Leave 'NeW York, Pier 23, E. R., Beekman St., 5 p m, dons NATIONAL BANK. 740' WALL SIC, NOR WALK. URPORATED SEPT. 1. 1076. nx‘l’l‘AL, ,- $100,000 nous M- HOLMES. President. L. Bursa. Vice-President. WlLLIAM A. Uuarrs. Cashier: DIRECTORS : ones M. HOLMES. n. CUNNINGHAM, .. ' Borsn, Ms M. H. E. Donn. J. T. Pnowrr'r S. H. Hours a J. Gousms. J R. ulsoount Day, Saturday. .and early afternoou under a sun that ‘cobwebbed with fissures and cracks by HOOFS AND WHEELS. _ BY, A. 1‘. VANCE. Two bicycles leaning together on an arid, treeless, rolling plain; a few tufts of scattered cacti; no human 'being, beast or bird in sight; perfect stillness blazed where never a cloud had flown for weeks. Even insects had perished from drought in that desolation—so anyone might have imagined had any- one been gazing about on that Califor- nia scene from a point within a hundred yards of the apparently-deserted wheels. Had a native stood there he would not have supposed the wheels deserted} but guessed that the riders were concealed in some crack of the sun-baked earth. Indeed. Del Hall and I were almost within springing distance of our bikes, and much disinclined to remount them. We had lunched fully if not comfort- ably on the provisions and drink we - carried; the earth-crack in which we lay was deep and narrow enough to shade us from the slightly westering sun, and we shrank from more pedal- ing underits glare. Del and 1, college chums, had under- taken to wheel from San Francisco to Los Angeles, nearly 400 miles as the crow flies. Our guides were a poeket compass and the “lay of the land.” Our interpreters were the natives and ouii- selves—their much Mexican being about as clear to us as our little Spanish to them. But they were wonderfully quick in understanding all demands~ made in the name of the white almighty dollar of Uncle Sam. Without good letters of introduction to various owners of ranchos, who passed us on with equally good letters to others of their hospitable kind, we could not have traversed the country. Much of it lacks inns and stores, and even places of public resort. But for hospitality we should have starved. And on this blazing day we were mak— ing for the Rancho del Paso, an interest- ing old mission ranch established long before gold-seekers rushed to Cali- fornia. We had not met a soul for ten miles before lunching. “Are you sure we're on the way?” Del asked, as the time came near when we must remount. ’ “Certainly; the track is plain enough,” I said. “The last- man we met said we couldn’t miss it as long as we kept about this far from the foothills.” ' “But he said something else. I wish we had stopped longer to make out what he did mean. It was something about Plaza de Toros. I‘ve been think- ing he was warning us against cattle " “Pooh! Are you afraid of cows‘.‘ Come along; we must move. There’s a rise about half a mile ahead; perhaps we shall see the rancho from there; it can’t be more than 15 miles away; may~ be not half so far.” Again we sped over the vast plain, the long drought, 'which had made a veritable desert of the tract within sight. Five miles nearer the coast the coun- try smiled with grass and grain, vine- yards and olive groves, but here we were running through a waste drearier than any we had traversed. As the fissures and cracks mostly ran on a sOutherIy course, we seldom need- ed to dismount, though frequently forced to short detours. So we soon climbed the gradual rise, whose suin- mit extended on a level broad enough to hide the lower tract immediately oe- yond. Yet the more distant. ground was in View, and there, as if it had suddenly sprung from the earth, we saw the ir- regular. broken line of the adobe walls of Rancho del Paso, our resting place. “Hurrah! It can't be more than four miles away, Del I " l cried. “Come along; let us drop into this dried-up arroyo and get its shade till it runs out in the next lowland," for we knew that such an arroyo, or water course, cuts somewhat deeply through the slow rises and but little into the hollows of these plains. While we dipped into the arroyo thc tufts of cacti on the upland seemed moving in the shimmering sunlight. No more of the plain did we see until we reached the lower level, when our heads were higher than the frayed sides of‘the water course. Then Del and I cried out together in amazement, for countless cattle were near us on the plain. As we ran up out of the water course we saw groups scattered as far as the eye could reach. They flanked us on both sides; hundreds were behind us; a compact array, almost numerous enough to be called a herd, stood on our path to the ranch. Toward this mass all the others seemed to be converging, as the Slop~ ing sides of a funnel trend toward its hole, or rather as the horns of a. cow often curve in“ ard at the tips. Our course to the rancho lay almost evenly between the sides of this living funnel. But its opening was blocked. Still, we believed we could pass round that small, massed herd. It was not at all necessary for us 10 make the attempt, and we would not have tried it had we imagined it to be dangerous. Nothing but a little shade and comfort could we gain by reach- ‘ ing the Rancho del Paso quickly. Time was of no account just then, for We meant to stay at the rancho until the next morning. And yet we went “‘scorching” along with never a thought of prudence or delay. None of the cattle that flanked us on either side were within 200 yards when we began the run. They were slowly moving in groups, and those which formed, as it were, the tips of the horns were not within 150 yards of the herd directly in our way. An opening lay on each side of these, and we started for- the easterly gap at moderate speed, not imagining how the strange spectacle ol bicyclors would hurry the cattle. Scarcely had we started when the commotion began. Thousands of eyes turned to us; a thousand snorts made din; beasts near and far on our flanks were leaping as if to catch a glimpse of us over Others; the sounds of wonder and alarm went to the massed herd in' front; " These leading cattle never seemed to glance behind to see the cause of thesud- den tumult, but broke into a slow run,- heads down and tails in air. Within ten seconds the whole multitude of cattle went crazy, as if with desire to mass with the leading herd. The leaders seemed equally desirous to maintain their distance. They ran faster. they galloped, but they were massed and could not go at the top speed of the fastest among them. The quicker gallopers in the groups that formed the sides of the funnel could set their own pace and fOrce that of their companions. So the groups strung out; they soon became two con— tinuous but narrow columns on our flanks, and these long columns 'were in- cessantly widened and solidified by the inrushing of flanking cattle that made short cuts to reach the stampeding throng. " “We’ve got to get through quickly or they’ll be on top of us,” cried Del, look‘ ing at me with great alarm. “We’ll get through—they’re not clos- ing the gap,” 1 shouted, for We had to shout if we would be heard above the dull, strange din. “They are!” he roared. “The cattle in front are not running as fast as those leading the sides. Don’t you see the sides slowly closing in?” If it had been possible for us to stop them we should have rejoiced to do so. But masses of cattle behind us were galloping furiously—a dark, bellowing array under the cloud of their own dust. We dared not risk a stop; we could not turn aside; our only chance of escape seemed to lie in outrunning the flanks of the cattle impi, and so es- caping by the front. , ,, ' We had good hope to get through, and pretty easily, though the course of the leading flanking cattle seemed to slant more than ever across our line, and the front herd, perhaps because they instinctively wished the others to mass with them, seemed to slightly slacken their speed. As we hurried toward the narrowing gap we came over nearer to the thun— dering beasts of the side columns. We were so near them that the heated, nameless smell of their galloping bodies, their breath, the very fumes of their hot blood seemed enveloping us in a smoky air, which became thick and blinding as a light, transient wind blew from the foot-hills, and bore around us the fine dust from frantic hoofs. "Take more ground," screamed Del, “spread out. We must keep further apart. They‘ll keep back, maybe. Try it. It's our last chance." “No—let us stop—let us turn and run back. There may be an opening be- hind us in spite of appearances." “There’s not,” roared Del. “I looked behind before the dust closed in. Don’t you hear the rush back there? I saw a perfect horde right behind us—a reg- ular line. Cattle have run in from the plain and caught up to the rear line. Take more. ground, I tell you!” I was so close to the galloping column on my right that i could see the beasts" eyes. 'They had not given way as I came nearer, but still did not seem in- clined to crowd me. I have since thought that they did not see us at all after the stampede began. but rushed blindly on with the impulse to mass. Well, I knew that those directly be- hind us were pouring on in a frenzy that would, did we fall, carry them over us as in perfect unconsciousness that they trampled anything living. I felt my strength failing fast. It seemcd that the course was carrying us up a slope. But now we were so closed in that the dust was quite blinding, 1 could no longer see Del. I yelled to him, but heard no reply. With a hor- rible cowering realization of what a formlcss mass he must be now, if he were down among the hoofs, I pushed my pedals desperately. , Right ahead of me the dark places that denoted cattle intermingled with the dust seemed still unjoined. The gap was not yet closed, I believed, and drove for it. Could l but get through and a little more than through—1 might swerve 011' against the breeze, pass round the front of the furious, wedge- like mass, and escape the wide, flanking ends. More choking, more acrid, more evil- smelling, more blinding the hideous dust enveloped me. I was close on the leaders now. I was so close that I could dimly see the gaunt, ridgy backs, the muscular hind parts, the crazy tails -——these cattle, tried by drought and lean with much wandering for water, were in condition to run far—even in my despair, I noted that. In condition to run! They seemed in condition to leap as if for fun while run- ning! Up—they sprang by ranks—how strange! Ah, I understood! But I understood too late. The earth- crack which they had leaped was deep; my wheel seemed to go from under me; just then I heard what sounded like rapid revolver firing; and down, down I fell. . When my eyes opened I saw a swarthy face close to mine. A peon from the Rancho del [’aso was holdingalittle tin of wine to my lips. Others sto'od about. And Del—could it be possible? They had lifted me tenderly out of the earth- r:rack, and now told me how Del and I had been saved. He had fallen into a crack, too, but had escaped with fewer hurts than I. As for the peons, they had ridden from the Rancho del Paso in an attempt to stop the stampede, and [the sound of their shooting into the leaders was that which I had heard at the moment of my full. We were at the Rancho del Paso four (lays before I was fit to travel; and when next we crossed that dreary stretch of plain it was with a wagon _ train. Del and 1 had learned to a ppre- ciate the dangers of bicycling among range cattle, and the value of a con- siderable acquaintance with the. Mexi- can vernacular. When next we heard a peon warn usto avoid Plaza de 'l‘oros we knew that he meant something more dangerous than the bull fight circus ground.——Youth's Companion. A HEREBY TRIAL. - cites Great Interest In Connecticut. NEW HAVEN, March mil—The heresy , trial of the Rev. William T. Brown. which began at Madison today, is the theological sensation of the day in this state. Brown is charged by prominent members of his congregation with having attacked the fundamental doctrines in the Congrega- tional creed in his sermons during his pas- torate, which has occupied three years. The charges, five in number. which were drawn up by the Rev. Dr. Blake of New London, were submitted to a mutual council, which met in the Congregational church at Madison. The council was a formidable theological body. It embraced the pastors of all the neighboringCongre- gational churches, including theologians of national reputation, the Rev. Drs. N ew- man Smyth, J. J. Munger and W. L. Phil- lips of this city. The Rev. D. M. James of Fair Haven was chosen as chairman of the council, which set in its judiciary ca- pacity on the charges. The alleged heretical teachings were listed under five heads. as follows: “The Rev. William T. Brown does not hold the doctrine of the atonement as it is taught in Scriptures and as it is com- monly held by Evangelical Congregational churches. » “He does not accept the doctrine of the incarnation as taught by the Bible and as it is commonly held by Evangelical Con- gregationai churches. “He seems to deny the doctrine 'of the Trinity as Evangelical Congregational churches hold it and understand the Scrip- tures to teach it. “He minimizes if he does not deny the authority of the Bible as Evangelical Con- gregational churches hold it. “This charge includes expressions at- tributed to him which tend to lead men to think lightly of the religion of the Bible'and of Christ as our Saviour.” MET A HURRICANE. Warrimoo’s Officers Think Suva, the Fl- Jian Capital, Has Been Destroyed. VICTORIA, B. 0., March 25.——If the ter- rific storm which destroyed the banana crop of the Fiji islands in January, 1895, is any criterion, Suva, the capital of the islands, is today suffering from the effects of a hurricane such as that region has never known before. The hurricane was felt by the Canadian-Australian liner Warrimoo, which has just arrived here, whilethe vessel was one day’s steaming from that port, and it was identified by her officers as being exactly similar to the memorable storm of a little overa year ago, only its fury was greater, and its effects are believed to have been more dis- astrous. Although it was early morning when the storm developed, the sky became over- cast within a few moments, and inky darkness prevailed. The ship plunged and lurched with great labor for hours. huge seas washing her decks and carrying away everything movable. It is the opinion of. the Warrimoo’s officers that the storm must of necessity have passed over Suva, and if such should prove to have been the case the little capital must have been wiped out. So firmly convinced‘a're the officers of the steamship that Suva has been at least partially demolished that they made it one of their first duties on arriving here to report the matter officially to the Brit- ish admiralty. What action the imperial government will take toward relieving possible distress will probably be known in the course of a few days, as the Warri- moo is scheduled to sail on March 25. Veteran Fell Five Stories. NEW YORK, March 25.——Jeremiah J. Murphy, 3. member of the Grand Army, fell from the roof of the five story tene- ment at 45 Madison street today and died shortly afterward. Murphy had recently arrived from the Soldiers’ home. Today his Wife went out shopping. Before she had walked to the corner grocery a .boy ran up and told her that her husband was dead. Sentenced to Be Hanged. WILKESBARRE, Pa., March 25.—George Windisch, the Pittston wife murderer, has been sentenced to be hanged. When Judge Woodward asked him if he had anything to say why sentence should not be pro- nounced, he said: “I am not guilty of the murder. I don’t want my case taken to the supreme court. Let them hang me and be done with it.” The ‘Veather. Fair; warmer; southerly winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. NEW YORK, March zit—Money on call nomi- inally 3@3% per cent. Prime mercantile pa- per. 5@li per cent. Sterling exchange firm and higher. with actual business in.bankers’ bills at [email protected] for demand and [email protected]% for 60 days. Posted rates, 84.87%7M.88 and $4.39. Commercial bills, 34.86%. Silver certificates 68%@69c.; no sales. Bar silver, 6854:; Mexican dollars, 5454c. Government bonds steady. State bonds dull. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchison .......... 25 New England . . . . . 43 Eur. & Quincy. . . . 74% N. J. Central. . . . . .1064 C., C., C. & St. L.. 35% North American.. 5 Chesapeake & 0. . 15% Northern Pacific... 1% Chicago Gas...... 66% Do.pref....-....... 1% Cordage” 4% N. Y. Central ..... 95% Cotton Oil ......... 15% Omaha ............ 38 Del. & Hudson. . .126 Ontario 85 West. . 14 Distillers‘ Trust. . 17% Pacific Mail ....... 26143 Erie ................ 14% Reading........... 10% General Electric.. 35 Rock Island....... 60% Hocking Valley. . . 16% Silver Bullion" . .. 68% Lackawanna ...... 161 St. Paul........... 74% Lake Shore ........ 146 Sugar Refining. . . “4% Lead .............. 23 Texas Pacific...... 7% Louisville & Nash 49% Union Pacific"... 6% Missouri Pacific. . 23 Northwestern . . . . 102% \Vabash pref...... 16K W’estern Union... 83% General Markets. New YORK, March 24.—FLOUR—State and western dull: city mills patents. [email protected]: winter patents, [email protected]; city mills clears. [email protected]: winter straights,[email protected]. WHEAT—No. 2 red opened weak under big receipts and weak cables. but recovered one short demand: May. fiofiiibcillfic; July, 68 9-16@ 68 15-160. CORN—No. 2 farily active and steady; May. 35%@35 5-1604 J u y, 36%0. OATS—No. 2 dull and featureless: May. 24% @24Mc.; track. white, state, 25rfii29c. PORK—Dull; mess. 89.753.10.25; family, 810.60 @11. LARD—Dull: prime Western, steam, $5.45; nominal. BUTTER—Stead y: state dairy. 11®mc.: west- ern creamery. 12%220. CHEESE—Quiet; state. large, 0®10%c.; small. 6@10%c. , EGGS—Steady: stage and Pennsylvania. 1%.: western, 1] 5641115130. - , ~ SUGAR—Raw strong; fair refining. 3960.: centrifugal. 96 test. 4 3-16c.: refined steady: crushed, 55.30.; powdered, 5%c. MOLASSEQ—Firm: New Orleans, 29@37c. TURFE V'l‘INE—Dull: 281661326910. RICE—Firm; domestic.. 3969360.; Japan. 8% @4Mc. - TALLOW'—Quiet: city. 3%c.: country, 3%c. HAY—Steady; shipping. SUUJ good to choice. 9021350. I Advertise in the GAZETTE. The Rev. William '1‘. Brown’s Case Ex-A Now is. olimo ~. e To _Sean in Your Advertisement J or 3 ring Trade. THE ’ » + . EVENING GAZETTE IS THE RIGHT MEDIIIM THROUGH WHIGII T0 REAGH THE READIIIG PIIBLIG. The Only Eight-Page One-Cent Paper in the Norwalks. ‘ ehhonluMm ‘ 1 AAA DEPEIIDS OR THE PGGKETS OF THE PEOPLE WHO READ IT. ADVERTISEMENTS III” no. EVENING GAZETTE one mo BY mos: wno HAVE mom T0 SPEIIII. ONLYICENT- \ OFFICE OPEN EVENINGS.
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