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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron News-Record, 1889-01-09, Page 73 1 .0111. • The Huron News-Reoord #t.lfe a Yesr-41•$5 to Advance. Wednesday., Jaw 9th, 1889 THE PROTESTANT 'WATCHWORD. "NONE BUT JESUS." (Printed by Segued.) Shall I trust my soul'e salvation To a fellow•crcature's care ? Can a grit t, a saint, or angel, Save we in my dark despair ? None but Jesus, none but Jesus, Hears a contrite sinner's prayer. Do I need a Mediator, Other than the Son of God ? Cau the Virgin Mary help me? Jesus sited rut me his blood ; None but Jesus, none but Jesus, Intercedes for mo with God. Is there aught of praise or merit Due to works ray hands hayo done ? Can a life of tears and penance For a single sin atone ? None but Jesus, none hue Jesus He must save, and He alone. Cau the Water's outward washing Inward change of heart supply ? Life and energy bestowing, Can it bid corruption die ? Blessed Jesus, blessed .Jesus, Send thy Spirit from on high. Can the sacramental symbols, Emblems of a Saviour's love— Can these satisfy the longings Of a soul born from above ? None but Jesus, none but ,)esus, Food for fainting souls can prove.' Blessed Bible 1 long has England flail thy tree and glorious light ; May she guard thee as a treasute, Prize glee as her sacred right. Save us, Jesus ? save us, Jesus! keep us still from error's might. FOR OUR STORY -READER'. SAVED BY THE POGONIP, Joe Frust was one of those\fortun- ate melt whoa[ the newspapers mention only ou the occasion of their birth, marriage and death— three times in all; and as Joe was still living and not yet married, the `mighty engine of public opinion' had thus fru' contented itself' with a very brief notice of his advent into this world. Joe was my partner, and I was as much like him as ouo man can well be like another. We were both 'no - account' men raised "way back' in an Eastern county, and had taken the gold fever and gone to California together about five years too late to achieve success. At last, iu '64, we•dril'ted around to the then young mining town'of Austin, Nevada, at about the time its citizens were engaged in a friend- ly .war for existence with the `city' of Clifton, lower down the mouu- tian, and were building the famous `grade' which gave Austin the lead and Clifton the 'go-by.' But Joe and I failed to 'strike it rich' there. The beat we could do was to labor by the day at the quartz mills, for we had no capital to sot up at silver mining on our own account. All bread -stuffs were so dear at that time that it took about all a man's earnings at good wages to pay his board. nia to send rue n bushel orthe'aeed- ends' of Irish potatoes, and Frost wrote home to hie brother --it was the first time be had written for more than two years—to send him a lot of garden seeds and a quart of sweet corn, in two packages, by wail; also some string beans and peas. In a few weeks we got a quantity of such seeds, also the potatoes, for the transportation of which I paid seven dollars. Then in March we bought a mule and went out to the scene of our proposed effolt to sup- ply Austin with garden -truck. First we built a 'root -out' shanty, which we thatched with dry grass stalks and other brush, and set to work to grub up a couple of acres of the soil. The place was along the east bank of the little .creek above mentioned. A rooky hill or mesa, inclosed it.on the northand eastward at a distance of a couple of hundred yards, while to the south the view -opened out towards the channel of the Reese. Wa grubbed up our ground, planted our potatoes, Curu, beaus and seeds, and constructed a dam across the bed of tho arroyo to hold back• water for irrigation, as we had seen done in California. It was by no means the best of soil. Nevertheless, the most of the seeds came up, .and the vegetables thrived much better than we had expected to see them. Ou the sew. enth week we were peddliug green truck in Austin, and found a gaud market for 'all we had. It is rather a large story to tell, but before the first day of October we -had sola nearly six hundred dollars worth of truck growu on, two acres of land. We -decided to stick to the busi- ness; at least, to try it another•year. During October and November wo built an adobe hut and corral, and •began work on a largo reservoir fur storing up water, for water was the one thing needful to make truck grow. It was while we were at work on the reservior in the creek bed, ou one of the last days of No- vember, that we were attacked by a patty of eleven Indians. We knew very little of the habits or distiguiehing traits and appear- ance of different tribes of Indians. These were the first we had seen there, and there had been no talk of Indians. Whether they were Utes or Apaches, I do not know. Two days before—as we subse- quently learned—some wagons had beau attacked and plundered by a band of about that number of red• It was still cold, but bright weather. Tho sun shone into the great hole which we had excavated, and it waa not uncomfortable work- ing.' About noon we were getting gravel up the bank in a wheelbar- row; I had two bite of board laid up the incline, and had' just reached the top of it with the barrowload, when spang ! came a bullet through the side of the barrow, and another bored the air just back of my ears at the same instant!' Potatoes and garden Vegetables had to be brought, either on mules or in wagons, for hundreds of miles. In fact, a mess of potatoes was liter- ally worth its weight in silver, for all the neighboring country is a` -des- ert of mineral ledges, rocky hills and alkali `sinks.' I wish to give no present offence to the Austin poo plc, but that at least, was what it looked to us at that tinge—a place where, by no possibility, anything like a kitchen garden ever could flourish. Joe and I used to 'prospect' a little now and theu, during the first six months of our sojourn at Austin, for we wore still hoping 'to strike it' somewhere. Oue day wo did ytike it, though modestly and not in the tray' we had expected, At a distance of eight or ten miles from Austin there is a rivulet, which is dignified by the uamo of a river—'Reese River.' It flows down from the northward, and not far below Austin- loses itself in a desert, and that is the end of it, for it differs from most rivers in that it gets larger as you follow it back to• wards its source. As we were treeing across the country, we cane to a kind of creek, or arlr of tho Reese river at a dis• tar Je of twenty five or thirty miles from Austin, where there was—it seemed almost incredible—a little soil of alluvial formation, a plot a few acres in extent which it looked possible to cultivate. \Ve had stop ped near the spot to make coffee and fry bacon, and noticing how much darker the earth was in color and how much better grown the grass stalks and sage brush was, Joe remarked that he reckoned `truck' might bo raised there. Nothing more was said about it at that time, but as we went back to town, we got to ,figuring up what a common truck patch would bring in to a man at Austin. The enter- prise promised so handsomely that Joo became really somewhat excited enough so to exclaim, 'By hemp lot's try it!' They told us at Austin that no vegetables could bo grown there- abouts, but wo were not satisfied with their discouraging statements. I wrote to a mann know in Califor- e Under cover of the outer wall of the corral. After a molueut a tufted head rose suddenly into view. for a look at the window then as quickly drew duwu again ; and, although I fired, 1 was conscious of duing so too late. Another derisive yell respov'ded to toy shut, and was repeated from all arouni the doby and the curial. We made haste to. recharge the carbine, but with sinking courage. Joe looked es white as paper. His hands shook. 1 know that 1 was equally seared. Oue of the redskins understood English for we head the sane voice repeatedly call out : • White mau, dog ! White man, squaw ! White man, oolne out 1' Theli the others -would yell in derision. Yet, kuuwiug that we had tiro -arms, they kept out of sight from the window hole ; nor did they approach the door, fearing, perhaps that we might have a loop- hole there. But tirdy'could see that the rest of the hut was solid adobe, mud did nut hesitate to approach on the back side and west end' of it. Several large stones were flung upon the th etch•ruuf over our heads, by way of testing it, 1 suppose. 11, fact, the w retches had things very much their own way. We were like two badgers in a hole ; they had only to dig est out. Then; three ur four stones were flung viulently agaiust the door ; but it was too well -propped to yield. All the time they kept calling out insultingly -' White man, squaw! White, man you die very s0u11 !' at all of which there was great laughter and jouliva. I dropped the barrow arras, and looked iu the direction from which the sound came. Joe who was down in the hole, ran up the boards behind me, at the sane time ex claiming, '\Vho's firing.?' We both saw the powder smoke near the mesa, and caught sight of four mounted Indians galloping around through the sage brush to the west of us, with the evident in- tention • of cutting off our retreat that way. \Ve were so much astonished that for a moment we stood staring et them, tern back at the smoke; but another•• hall sang past our heads, and fully awakened us as to the fact that we • r0 spoken for. `To th- duby 1' muttered Joe, and we both r .:e for our new stud -cake house. 1, stood no more than fifty yards dis• at from our reservoir. Seeing us ruuniug to cover, the reds gave ,a whoop, accompanied by shouts of derisive laughter. Still another ball plunged into the clay wall of the house in front of us, its we eau for the doo'•. We sp.rau' :a and closed the door and !:.us made the inside rather dark, for there was but a single window hole, two feet square, not yet provided with a shutter. While Joe barred and propped ,the door, I seized our only weapon of defence, an old Sharpe's carbine, one of those with the joint at the base of the barrel, and sprang to the window, which was in the end next to our, corral and track patch. Tho gun was loaded, with loose powder and a ball, having a `patch' of cotton cloth; and we had a few charges more. The corral partly obscured tho view; but we could hear the feot of the horses as they galloped around in the rear of tho hut. The corral wall was of sods and mud, piled to a height of six or seven feet—just high enough to shut the view from the window. Our mule was grasing about the bottom. Never was a but worse planned for defeuce, but Joe and I had nothing of the Indian -fighter in us and had never anticipated trouble with the redskins there. The savages soon discovered that we were frightened and in a des- perate situation. They worked gradually up quite near to the hut. Two or three of them cane forward we were in Borne doubt wfleth.er the animal lied perished in the tent peat, or had met his death at the lauds of the Iudiaue. We had heard of Lite ' pogonip the pievluus witlter, but had never encountered it genuine one until that day. These siugular ice -gales often nine on . in the brightest weather.'mThey aro supposed to originate iu the sudden condensa- tion and freezing of vapor along the mountainous ridges of Nevada. In au instant the air appears to be full of icy needles, to inhale which produces excruciating suffering and way cause death. The old miners and the Indians stand in the greatest tear of a pogoui ',' and at once make haste to gain shelter That this strange gale should have come rolling down from the mutietains thus uptwltnnely 10 aid us in our hour u! peril ti ways seemed to me little less than providential. I hive telt y singular reverence for the phenomenon ever since. - I may add tint despite our un ploesaut udveutule, we continued our experi mint at Market -gardening in the desert for tour years, and did very well at it. At length, we betud them break• lege!, the pieces of board, itt the bank of eUl' proposed reservoir, Npll ft ilio and hacking thea) to slivers. It thele suddenly flashed into toy mind, Ora they were making kiudliug wood for a tire. I thought of our thatch -rout' and shuddered. Joe was equally quick to divine what was eulniug. ' Etl,' he whispered, glancing up at the dry onus, ' they're going to burn us out.' What moments of agonizing sus- pense those were ! Soon we heard. the blaze crackling iu the dry slivers. Lu our desperation, we were on the poiut of throwing open the door to fire on them. ]3ut what was one shot? They would pour in a volley. In a few minutes ' we heard, the sound of brands falling on the root', tat' which the entire party redoubled their shouts and triumphant hoot- ing:—' Squaw•mau smoke ! Squaw- mau burn up very soon 1' The roof was on fire, beginissg to blaze ; we could here it and see• little blue wreaths of smoke work- ing down through the thick moss— when au exclamation from one of the Indians, on a different key from the chorus of exultant sliouts, arrest - ed our attention. A sudden silonce followed it, then other exclamations of 'Pognip! Pognip 1' and a moment later we heard hasty steps, moving off, then the more distant gallop of horses, Yet fearing some ruse, we did not open the door at once, nor, indeed until the fire bsgau to drop clow upon us from the bustling brush and glass overhead. ' At a notion from me Joo then pulled away the props and hauled the door wide open ; I stood ready to shoot. No Indians were in sight ; but a teary strange and well-nigh indes- cribable spectacle met our eye. Rolling down from the mesa and enveloping the whole bottom, writl.- ing in vast spirals and whorls and. moving rapidly forward, came a great cloud like steam in ]midwinter. It seemed to fill the entire heavens. A strange elemental sigh of the atmosphere and a sense of chill were wafted forward, in advance of it. In a moment more it was npon us, with a gusty howl and such a smiting, numbing sensation of icy colts as I never before experienced, The ail' was filled with minute crystals of ice. The blazing roof roared in it for a moment, and then - scented to bo swept. away, thatch, fire and altogether. \Ve crouched down behind the adobe walls and protected ourselves there. in a measure ; but our faces and our fingers smarted with the cold, and a deadly chill seemed to penetrate to our marrow. It was dark as evening for a time, and a layer of what seemed to be finely powered ice boat in upon us and covered the - ground to the depth of two inches. In°the cornea of half an hour this Strange storm abated, and - the weather cleared again before sunset; yet it remained very cold through- out the evening, and wo passed a very comfortless night in our roof- less doby, .not daring to venture ferth lost the redskins might be in the vicinity. . • •- - We saw no more of thein, nor slid we ever ]near anything further of the depredations. They rode away in haste, evidently to escape from the fury of that icy tornado, Next -morning we found our mule dead ; and although no 1 wounds were visible on the carcass, THIS YEAR'S CUT and PLUG SMOKING TOBACCO. FINER THAN EVER. SEE -: rN f:R'ONZF' ON-- • EACH PLUG and PACKAGE. 517•y Jnr Ycip__r- Nagv9 s33p�So•Ftf' .p"a4 .rel'• igr5'i. a:47.2.41114" -::e :117^ O11nei::e Os,aoeer0y�8av--Q'^�Es:'oi1-6.: °aR o>t a:e; 6,o. .gey.� moi y V ° Den•.—�2. • 01.5 7=6°Zu wo'naee;a. peep gy.�:i~�EcO�neeOS�vP�menon S°Ao" :11 rc:t000aa.6vsiitTIM a d'y SSy Poo- Cg>o oar: c- P e?,Mag<'ti me:To a-;sn °y',,)to.:sa=eafri P.wya nma eo6sr goo27a a" 2^ l'fitriontyeit2piiii: WQA�Op?e.243: °o2 -ow ICji s F1 S9 pPtl�a°�'�°� IT ge�t'r.att sI: 573oe14.11Cee Vit=a CLOTHIN 1 ABRAHAM SMITH, Market Square,li G©IDERICH. WEST OF ENGLAND StJI1- INGS & TROUSERINGS, SCOTCII 'LWEEI) SUITINGS &- TROUSERINUS, FRENCH AND ENGLISH WOR- STEI) CLOTIIS, BUSiNESS DIRECTORY jentiotrg. G. H. COOK, Licentiate of Dental Surgery Honor 0ra:nate of the Toronto School of Dentistry. Nitrous Oxide Gas administered tor the painless extraction teeth. Office—Over Jackson's Clothing Store, next to Post Office, Clinton. are Night Bell answered. May Made up in Best Style and Work- manship at Abraham Smith's. Now in 'stock one of the cheape- tanrl )hest stocks of WINTER CLOTHING AND CLOTHS. A Full Line of GENTS' FUR NISHINGS always in stook. It will pat, )/nn lo call on ABRAHAM SMITH Flit REEVE. Office—"Palace" Brick Block, Rattenbury Street, Residence opposite the Temperance Hall, Huron Street. Coroner for the County of Huron. O1fi hours from 8 a.m. to 0 p. nt. Clinton, Jan. 14, 1881. 1-y DR. GUNN s W.G M. D. L. R. C. P. Edinburgh L. R. C. 8. Edinburgh Licenciateof the Midwifery, Edin. Office, on corner of Ontario and4 William Sts., Clinton. . ..,4431478-y. ;Segal. MANNING & SCOTT, Barristers, ELLIOTT'S BLOCK, CLINTON. Money to Loan. • A. H. MANNING. JAS. SCOTT. T. 1. 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L/ Chancery, Conveyancer, &Office over Jordan's Drng Store, the roosts formerly ecru pied by Judge Doyle. . 83T Any amount of money to loan at lowest rates of interest. 1•I,v. AttcttOttetriug. • • ---• H. W. BALL, AUCTIONEER for Huron County. Sales at• tended to in any part of the County. Ad - tress orders to GODEalcll P 0, V•17. CIIAS. IIAIIi ILTON. AUCTIONEER, land, loan and insurance agent Blyth. Sales attended in town and country, in reasonable terms. A list of farms and village lots for sale. Money to loan on real estate, at low rates of interest. Insurance effected on all classes of property. Notes and debts collected. Goods appraised, and Bold on commission. Bank - rept stocks bought and sold. Blyth. Dec. 16, 1550 • Pholographel s vosi CLINTON. Life Size Portraits a Specialty. Clinton Illlarble Works, HURON STREET, CLINTON, W. H. 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