Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, May 15, 1885 Page: 3 of 10
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RAItE AMERICAN BOORS.
f ho History of Printing on This Sido of tho
Atlantic Homo Curious Works.
A plain sign hanging over the en-
trance to a narrow stairway on Nassau
street reads: "Hiiro American Books."
A long narrow room in the rear of tho
second story of tho building contains
tho stock to which the sign refers.
When asked yesterday by a roportcr
for The Mail and Express wlion book-
printing was first done on tho Ameri-
can continent tho proprietor of this
book-store said:
"Printing on this side of tho Atlan-
tic was first done in Mexico in 1536.
Tho earliest American book extant is
dated 1539. It is a doctrine of faith of
tho Roman Catholic church entitled
Doetrina Christiana' and was printed
in Mexico in tho Spanish language.
Another book to bo numbered among
tho oldest printed in America is a
Mexican vocabulary a dictionary of
native Spanish and Mexican. It was
printed in 1571.
"In the United States tho first print-
ing done was in 1039. In this year
Freeman's "Oath" and "Almanac"
woro printed in Cambridge Mass. tho
"oath" being printed on one sido of a
half sheet of foolscap. Neither of them
is extant. The earliest printed book
now in existence of those printed in
this country is the book of Psalms
which was published in Cambridge in
1G10. Tho next placo where printing
was done was in Boston. Wo have
here in stock a book printed in Cam-
bridge in 1671 and it is one of the old-
est we ever had."
Tho speaker ihen showed tho report-
er a small and very ancient looking
brown-paper pamphlet of thirty-four
pages It was partly torn and had
evidently seen hard usage. It was an
election sermon preached at Boston on
May 15 1667 on election day by Rev.
Jonathan Mitchel "late pastor of the
Church of Christ Cambridge." Its
title was "Nehemiah on the Wall in
Troublesomo Times." Another curi-
osity which was shown was a text-book
used in Harvard college in 1758. It
was printed in Boston uy John Draper.
It was a text-book of logic and was
printed in Latin. Its title was "Com-
pendium Logical Secundum Priucipia
D. Ronati Carte (it ot Catechistico Pro-
pofitum." A rare book also found here relating
to this city was in the Dutch languago
printed in Holland in 1667. Two vol-
umes in volluni were bound in one
and its price was $20. "This book"
said tho proprietor "is said to con-
tain tho first printed report of tho
capture of NewNetherland by the En-
glish in 1661. Ltis considered tho most
complete and authentic account in ex-
istence of tho war between Holland
and England and includes a list of
vessols and goods captured by the En-
glish from tho Dutch.
A curious volume in tho stock was
a selection of handbills circulated in
this city just previous to tho general
state election in 1810. "It is an amus-
ing gubernatorial campaign docu-
ment" said tho owner "appearing
mainly to Methodist and somwluit
to the" Baptists. Jonas Piatt was tho
federalist candidato and Daniel D.
Tompkins tho republican. Brother
Elias Vandorlip and Samuel Winton
of the Methodist church wore tlioir
rospectivo champions in this rather
acrimonious controversy. Each as-
sumes high.moral grounds and each do
procates tho bringing of politics inside
the church and ot course denounces
the other for doing it. Neither claims
his candidato as a communicant or
oven as an attendant of the Methodist
church but seems to consider him a
good enough Christian until after
election.
An interesting volumo seen was
written by Cadwallador D. Coldon
printed inlS25. It was of half-morocco
binding with gilt top and is held
at $13. It is a "Memoir Prepared at
tho Request of a Committee of the
Common Council of tho City of New
York at tho Celebration of tho Com-
pletion of tho Now York Canals."
Many maps views and portraits are
included in the volumo. Another in-
teresting book is a collection of tho
laws of tho legislature of this stato
"in force against loyalists and alVoot-
ing trade of Great Britain and British
merchants and otliors having proporty
in that state." It was printed in Lon-
don in 1786 and is hold at 10. It
contains tho confiscation aol and gives
tho names of many of tho old residents
who wore known as torics.
An odd book rotating to the politics
of this city was tho "Report of tho
Controller of Persons in Employ of
Corporations and their Salaries." It
contains 140 pages and printed in
1838. "That book contains tho names
of tho whole gang" said tho proprietor
"with tho amount of composition op-
posite tho names. Why Aaron Clark
got $3000 for being mayor 'Old
Hayes got $500 and Ira looker and
his compeers who perhaps could not
control more than two or three votes
each got 50 cents per night as watch-
n
men-
"Can you toll mo something about
the celebrated Indian biblo translated
by John Elliot?" asked tho reporter.
"Yes sir I can and its history is
ouoof great interest among all who
aro in our lino of business. There aro
believed to bo twenty or thirty copies
in existence and Ehavo soon one of
them sold for $1000. There aro very
few perfect copies extant and there
aro no reprints because even tho In-
dian tribe for which it was printed has
becomo a thing of tho past. 1 have
taken great interest in tracing ono
copy ot the Indian biblo and I think it
has been sold fully twenty times
bringing hundreds of dollars. It is an
unusually perfect copy the printing
being remarkably clear. Its history
is this: It was printed in 1661 and
1663 tho New Testament in tho form-
er year and tho Old Testament later.
Then the two parts were bound to-
gether. It was printed at Cambridge
and tho first traco I havo of it was
when it came into the possession of
Mr. John A. Rice of Chicago a col-
lector who paid $1130 for it. Ho
bought it at tho Bunco sale in this citv
in 1868. When tho Rico collection
was sold in 1870 it was bought by
William Mezies of this city for $1050.
This gentleman paid $100 for having
the book elegantly rebound. In 1876
it was sold to Mr. losepli J. Cook of
Providence for $900 and upon his
death it was bought by Mr. Bravton
Ives of this city for over $1200.
This gentleman now holds tho precious
volumo. My assistant hero owns a
copy of tho Indian biblo of a later edi-
tion; though it is imperfect it is worth
$200. New York Mail and Express.
Garfield's Maiden Speech
Gen. Garfield mado his maiden
speech m tho house of representatives
on the 28th of January 1861 in ropiy
to Mr. Finch a democrat from Ohio.
Ho advocated tho contiscation of tho
largo landed estates at tho south and
spoke with such vehemence and pro-
fuse gesticulation that ho exhibited
signs of physical exhaustion before
tho expiration of his hour. "If" said
ho "we want a lasting peace we must
put down the guilty cause slavery
and take away tho platform on which
slavery stands namely the landed
estates of tho rebels of the south. Tho
negio has been our true friend on ev-
ery occasion." There was scarcely a
surprise or battle where the negro had
not como to us and told tho truth. Ho
had found that while tho rebels wore
fighting black men were cultivating
their lands tho products of which
wore placed in tho rebel commissary
department. And it was not until we
took away the main support of tho
rebels that we could conquer. If this
was an abolition war it was because
wo have an abolition army; and ho
would toll gentlemen that slavery was
dead forever unless tho body-snatchers
of tho other sido should resurrect it
and bring it into life. lie said "I an-
nounce gentlemen your friend has
departed. Hang your emblems of
mourning on the bier and follow the
hearse and shed tears over the grave;
but I have no timo to wasto to hear
eulogies on the deceased.11 Ben: Per-
ley Voore.
A Newspaper Without an Editor.
A newspaper m Madrid called the
Correspondencia is peculiar in its way.
It has tho largest circulation of any
papor in the capital reaching 200000
to 300000 a day. It has no editor but
a dozen wide-awake reporters who
scour the town for every kind of in-
formation. They como to tno ollico
and drop their manuscripts in a bag
and there thoy stay until tho foreman
wants copy. Eerything is then
thrown into" tho forms without regard
to order or anything olso and the
paper is road from end to end in spite
of tho fact. Si. Louis Globe-Democrat.
BUiUED BY PALLING COAL
An Incident of tho First Mlno Disaster In
America
'J ho fall of tho roof of tho coal mino
at Raven Run and imprisonment of the
ton minors underground recalls to a
survivor of tho first groat mine dis-
astorin this country a most marvelous
escape of some of tho minors who
woro imprisoned behind a wall of fall-
on coal a mile thick at tho timo of that
disaster. Tho mine writs a Hones-
dale Pa. correspondent to The New
York. Times was ono of tho Delaware
and Hudson Canal Company's minors
at Carbondale. For several days in
the winter of 18-11 it had been giving
warning to tho minors by what is
known anion" thorn as "working"
ominous crackings of tho roof horeand
there through tho mine -that they
were laboring in constant danger but
with the proverbial recklessness of
their class they continued to work.
Suddenly while nearly ono hundred
miners were below and most of them
working in tho distant galleries an
immense area of tho mine roof fell.
Tho superintendent of tho mine was
a Scotchman named Alexander Brydon
and ho hau a son among the laborers
below. Bryden was at the top when
tho fall occurred and ho rushed at
once into the mine to see if it were
possible to rescue any of the workmen.
Before he reached the fallen mass of
coal ho mot several miners who had in
some way escaped being crushed by
tho roof. Thoy told Bryden that it
was not possible that any of tho other
miners could bo alive. Ho insisted on
making an cJVort to work a passage
through tho wall in tho hopothatsomo
of tho men might bo alivo behind it
and could bo rescued and the miners
ho had met on their way out of tho
pit where top coal was still falling on
every side refusing to aid him tho
superintendent went on alone. His
lamp threw but a dim light on tho
scene but ho lound a small opening
mado by the tops of two large slabs
of coal having struck together with
their bases on the bottom of
tho mine ttirce feet apart. Into
this crevico Bryden crawled and
found tho opening continued in a
devious course into the depths. It
grow so narrow and low that ho was
compelled to lio Hat and drag himself
along. Now and then he found it
necessary to remove with his pick an
obstructing lump of coal and know
that by so doing he might remove a
support to the mass above that would
bring it down upon him and crush him
to death. In that way he worked him-
self for a mile through the wall and
then found himself at 'the end of tho
choked chamber where he emerged
trom tho passage into a small open
space. He was greeted by a shout
that told him sonic of tho imprisoned
miners woro still alive. The fall had
extinguished every light and they had
failed to find any opening in the" wall
that lay between them and the mouth
of tho mine. Among the miners was
Brydcifs son. The superintendent
quickly told the men what thoy must
undergo in rrdor to escape. Ono of
their number had been crushed by tho
fall and lay moaning with both arms
and legs broken. Bryden took this
man on his back and creeping with
him back through the opening told
the others to follow. Twelve of the
men were able to keep strength
enough to roach tho opening on tho
other sido of tho mino without aid
but eight of them it was necessary for
tho others to drag along over tho
jagged floor and sharp edges of tho
passage. Tho ominous cracking could
be heard at short intervals coining
from diil'oront parts of tho mine and
everyone of the minors toiling through
the narrow and crooked crevico in the
wall expected every moment to be
crushed by tho settling of the mass of
coal. Thoy were all saved however
and the writer's informant now an
aged residontof the county is tho last
survivor of the party the bravo Bry-
don having only recently died. Tho
old miner referred to had two sons in
anoihor part of tho mine who wore
among tho victims of tho disaster.
Among i hose who were in tho mine
at the timo of tho fall of tho roof was
Asst. Supt. Ilosio. Two days and
nights after ho crawled from tho
mouth of the pit. Ho was Haggard
and bleeding and his lingers were
worn to the bono. Ho dropped un-
conscious at the mouth and it was
hours before ho could givo any ac-
count of his experiences in tho mino.
He had occn surrounded by falling'
coal and when tho mass had settled
ho found himsolf without lightorimplo
montof any kind. Aftor groping about
in tho space in which ho was imprison-
ed ho found a small aperture in tho
wall and ho crawled into it. Fronu
that time ho dragged himself thrown
places which woro barely largo onough
to admit his body sometimes boing
furccd to dig away obstructions witTi
his hands never once thinking of
sleeping choked bv thirst ninl" imt:
even cheered by a'knowledgo of tho
direct iou ho was going until aftor
forty-eight hours of constant and dis-
heartening toil ho oinergod from tho
prison wall and know that ho was in
tho tunnel leading out of tho mine.
Hosio survived fiis torriblo exporionco
until a year or so ago and his two
days' and nights' struggle for lifo in
tho choked-up mino is referred to as
having no parallel in tho history of
coal-mining in this country.
In removing tho fallen mass of coal
the discovery was mado that but few
of tho miners who woro victims of tho
disaster had been killed outright.
Groups of workmen woro found sur-
roundod by unmistakable ovidonco
that they had worked desperately with
their picks in tho hope that thoy might
cut a way to liberty but without
water or light and with loul air fol-
lowing tho tumbling roof had at last
succumbed to thofr fate. Ono poor
fellow was found alono. hold fast to
his waist in a mass of coal. Ho had
worked with his pick-ax until ho died
with tho tool clutched in his hands.
Mino rats had eaten tho ilesh almost;
entirely from his body. Years after-
ward skeletons of other victims woro;
occasionally found beneath the coal.
KoinavolFs Career.
Those who remombcr Gen. Komar-
oil' in St. Petersburg iiftecn years ago
as tho mili tar' critic of tho Lctcrsbtirg-
skiya Vedomosli could hardly havo
iorcsccn that tho quiet little dark-
haired man who seemed to havo got
"army reorganization" upon tho brain
would over becomo famous throughout
tho whole civilized world. His namo
of "KoinarotV" (son of a misquito) is
ominously suggestive of very great
mischief done by very small" means.
It is possible that like Prince Saeha-
koilskoi at Plevna in 1877 he may
havo exceeded his instructions in tho
hope of winning for himself and mak-
ing his success atone for his rashness.
But in Russia it is always hazardous
to conjecture from a man's public
acts what his secret orders may havo
boon and even should tho Russian
government recall KomaroH'in accord-
ance with the demands of England its
disavowal of his dash upon Peujdeh.
will bo no proof whatever that that
movement was not mado under tho
direct inspiration of the St. Petersburg
war ollico. New York World.
The Party.
"I attended a swell party last
night" says Dr. Funny tonic to his
friend Stead.; boy.
"1 didn't know you were a society
man" answored Steady boy.
"Well as a general thing 1 am not.
But you see tho party I attended had
tho mumps and I couldn't well re-
fuse. It was a very swell allair I as-
sure you."
When Dr. Funnytonic crawls from
beneath tho wreck of matter anil crash
of worlds which ensues he goes away
muttering "Well all's swell that
ends swell."
But it is to be observed that ho does
not speak up big and strong any more
and that he furtively scans tho land-
scape as ono who lives in momentary
expectation of tho downward on-
gulphing swoop of some bold black
shallow of impending doom. Wash-
ington JJalehcl
Masonic Charity.
During tho eleven years in which
tho prince of Wales has been at tho
lioad of tho Free Masons m England
that craft has contributed 17600000
to tho three Masonic charitable in-
stitutions in London. London Letter.
What is the difference all rlijlit; you can
leave the iouin if jou don't want to hear It
What Is the difference between a pickpocket
who feteals a watch and a girl who Hopes with
an irishman? He makes oil' uitha tick and
she hikes oil with a mlek. WashlwjtQn Hat
ciat.
i 01iiiiiii-i
A dentist Is no chlckeu. He is always a
pu 1-lt. JJostoti Globe.
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Maffet, Geo. W. Cheyenne Transporter. (Darlington, Indian Terr.), Vol. 6, No. 15, Ed. 1, Friday, May 15, 1885, newspaper, May 15, 1885; Darlington, Indian Territory. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc70606/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed April 17, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.