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THE POET JE E V I8 D A IL Y UHION, MONDAY EVENHSTO^ MAY 21, 1888. f PENA]. SERVITUDE. THE STORY A CONDEMNED MAN TOLD AN AMERICAN, • Tbe Miseries o f Vrolonged Imprisonment la u Siberian Uungeou—^The Growinfi F ear of Insanity—X,os» of Self-Control. Scurvy—Snicitle. Xou cannot imagine the misery of pro longed confinement in a casemate of the fortress under what are known as dimgeon (kartsernoi polozheniei. My case- sometimes cold, generally damp. ' ■ ek conditions mate was and alwa] ays gloomy. after week, and month after month, 1 lay there in solitude, hearing no sound save that of the high pitched, melancholy bells of the fortress cathedral, which .slowly chimed the quarter hours, and which always seemed to me to half articulate the words, “ Tee zdais seedesh—ee seedee tee.'’ (Here thou liest—lie here still). I had absolutely nothing to do except to pace my cell from corner to corner and think. For a long time I used to talk to myself in a whisper; to repeat softly every thing in the shape of literature that I could remember, and to compose speeches, which, under certain imagined conditions, I would deliver; b u t I finally cea.sed to have energy enough to do even this, and used to sit for hours in a sort of stupor, in which, so far as I can now remember, I was not conscious of thinking a t alL WEAK, MENTALLT A^^) PHTSICALLV. Before the end of the first year I grew so weak mentally and physiealh’ that I began to forget woi’ds. I knew what ideas I de sired to express, b u t some of the words that I needed had gone from me, and it was with the greatest diffic them. It seemed Day aftei day, weel onth, 1 la] seded had gone from me, and it wi greatest difficulty that I could i m. I t seemed sometimes as if■ n L recover [ inyown language were a strange one to me, or one which, from long disuse, I had forgotten. I greatly feared insanity, and my appre hension was increased by the fact that two or three of my comrades in cells on the same corridor were either insane or subject to hal lucinations; and I was often roused a t night and thrown into a violent chill of nervous excitement by their hysterical weeping, their cries to the guard to come and take away somebody, or something, which they im agined they saw, or their groans and en treaties when, in cases of violent delirium, they were strapped to their beds by the gendarmes. My inability to so what was happening in the cells from which these groans, cries and soimds of violence came gave full play, of course, to my imagina tion, and thus increased my nervous excite ment, until I was on the verge of hysterics myself. Several times, when I feared that I was losing-all sellTcontrol, I summoned the fort ress surgeon, or the “feldsher,” who merely gave me a dose of bromide of potassium and told me that I must not excite myself so; that nothing serious had happened; that two or three of the prisoners were sick and deliri ous; but that there was nothing to be alarmed about. As the fortress contained no hospital, insane and delirious patients were treated in their cells, and were rarely re moved to an asylum unless they were mani festly incurable, or the care of tl burdensome. The effect of the eternal still ness, solitude, and lack of occupation on the mind was greatly heightened by the want of proper exercise and nourishment for the body, “Accused” prisoners awaiting trial in the Trubetskoi bastion were allowed to - have money in the hands of the “smatritel,” or warden, and could direct its expenditure for white tion; but we, the “condemned,” hat upon black rye bread, soup which it was often impossible to eat on account of the spoiled condition of the meat from which it had been made, and a small quantity of “kasha,” or barley, boiled with a little fat and seiwed without seasoning, and sometimes only half cooked. ATTACKED BT SCXTR-VT. Such food, in connection with the damp, hea-vy air of the casemate and the lack of proper exercise, caused derangement of the digestive organs, and this was soon followed by more or less pronounced symptoms of scurvy. Madame Lebedeva, who was in the penal servitude section with me, suffered from scurvy to such an extent that her teeth became loose and her gums gi-eatly swollen, and she could not masticate the pi’ison bread without first soaking it in warm water. Scurvy, even in an incipient form, intensi fied, of course, the mental depre-ssion due primarily to other causes and made it almost insupportable. 1 never seriously meditated suicide—ir always seemed to me a cowardly thing to escape suffering by taking one’s own life—^but I did speculate upon the possibility of suicide, and wondered how I could kill myself in a casemate where there was abso lutely nothing that could be used as an im plement of self-destruction. Once I went so far as to see if I could hang myself from the small cylindrical hot air pipe which projected two or three inches into cell from the face of the brick oven. 1 d not really intend to take m y life, but I hid curiosityriosity to know whether or thathat -way.ay. Ass soonon ass I felt a morbid cu to know whether not I could do it in t -w A so a I threw my weight on the pipe, it pulled out the masonry, making, as it fell to the floor, a noise which attracted the attention of the guard in the corridor. I was forthwith re moved to another cell, and I never again tried a similar experiment. They say that poor Goldenberg succeeded in committing suicide in the fortress, but I cannot imagine how he accomplished it. I became satisfied that I could not kill myself in my casemate in any other way than by biting into an artery or dashing my head against the wall, and I ultimately became so weak that I doubt very much whether I could have fractured my skull by the latter methofl.—George Ken- uau in The Century. Tlie Parisians’ OiT-liand Manner. In place of their old flowery language, Parisians have of late years adojjted an offi- ind manner (running to the extreme as is BO often the case), a manner which they £ kthd enough to call English or Americi •hich mt iinin degreegree Itill, there are boimds which must never be verstepped, and a certa d of formal ity is always demanded in the inter between the sexes before the world, what ever they may be behind the social scene. A Frenchman always bows when greeting a lady, even when he shakes hands with her. His bow may or may not be perfection; his “shake hand” is almost always awkward. To style it a “shake” at all is straining a point. The hand is taken and as quickly let go again as if it -were of ice and there were considerable fear of melting it. For some years it has been the vogue for the lady of bandand too allll comers—oi i house to offer her b t a c zen quite young n rndescensionndescension sonrometimes co s embarrasses ex tremely, they having their thumbs neatly ensconced between the folds of their gibus. Having joined hands with their hostess, there is an end of it; the other ladies vho happen to be in ir expect more bow aimplfi.—^Paris Cor. Argonaut. their acquaintance who happen to room do not get nor expect more than A— Pari “ POKT JEK VIS BtJSIKESS BRIEFS. —A new ami haudeoine line of jewelry is displayed at Gray’s jewelry store (Mar got’s old stand), fiepsiring done by cx perieuced workmen.—dawlK —liemember that Kadtl’s dcMrable line of ladies fine kid button '•hoes f o r only $2 and t!i,<2.oO demand and are selling very last. Kadtl’s, 100 Pike street.—adv. —C oax , . vnd W ood — .The beat grade of coal obtainable in Port Jervis, screened when loaded, and furnished at the market price. Wood dry or green, soft or hard, sawed and split to order if desired. Jas. Kobertson, 159 Jersey avenue. Telephone call 6 1 .-dtf. —The old stock sold; make way for the new. All new goods at Cray’s jewelry store (Margot’s old stand). All kinds ol repairing done proinpUy.—dawtf. —Emmet \V an Sickle, who has hau 30 years’ experience as a practical jeweler, the past nine years of which he has been connected with A. U. lilargot, is now fully prepared to do all kinds of watch, clock and jewelry repairing at short notice and in a first-class manner at his new place ol jnsiness 128 Pike street. All work bnsiness 128 guaranteed. Watches and jewelry of all Kinds can be purchased at reasonablf ptices.—dawtf- — Everything which belongs to pure healthy blood is imparted by Hood’s 8ar- sapai’illa. A trial will convince you of its merit. A FIJfE .SUIT OF ROOMS TO BET in H. 0. Cunningham’s building on Pike street, corner of Orange Square. The present tenant having bought a place. These commodious rooms will be to rent to a small family from May 1st, 7 rooms, l ath room, 4 closets, water closet, dumb •waiter and speaking tube to cool cellar that never freezes. Call at the store.— —Now is the time to think of gauze underwear. G. Ury’s is 'be place to buy From the Gulf Coast. oaedy that 1 have ev< you keep it at its present standard I si always keep it and advise my custom to use it.” For sale by E. T. Laidley. Uriah Ellis, a wealthy resident of Brooklyn, is sued for divorce at Chicago. His wife sdleges that he got drunk and •went to bed with his boots on, and if she objected he would choke her black in the face. He also kicked and pounded her and put her out of doors in her night i LDGKY FATHER AND SON ur, ttuu as sure as i am w mi jdgement, bis leg Is nealed n . .......... -«dotof:agood man’s-work. - ---- - riling to Dr. David Kennedy’s Favorite Remedy, of Rondout, N. i and bores my writing this wlii induce others to use the medicine who sufier from a Kidney or Blood diaorder. Dr D.Renneds’s Farorite Reiedj Eondout. N. Y. Price $1; 6 for f5. NEW TO-DAY. 1SS8, at Port JervLs, N. Y., will he received by r. 0. I^peotor. D istric t No. 1, ol th e T o w n o f D e e r p a r k , O r ange County, New York, will sell at PUIILIC SALE to th e higrhest bid d e r a t th e i r office in tlie FABNFM UFILDING, PORT JERYTS, N, Y., on T H IT tS D A Y , M AY .OIST. AT 2 O’CLOCK in the afternoon, the follow ing described RONDS OFTHE SAID SCHOOL DISTRICT : 4 Bends of |500 each, a t 5 per cent.lct, due Dec. 31,’88 \ “ »a00 ” 5 “ \ “ ’«9 .. .. .. g .. .. .gy <• •• t50(J •* 5 .......................... ’9l “ I ................... . ’^3 lay, b dlOb District Clerk. Duplex Corset MARK. Cntegiity of material and make. Gives suppleness, ea.se and elegance to the form Dan be depended upon lor satlsfactoiy service. Warranted. Bold everj wliere for One Dollar, sample sent post-paid on receipt ol price, j BORTREEM'Pe. GO,, JAGKSON. MIGH. “Wc Told You So.” FOR THE WHOLE OF THIS WEEK THE BOSTON STORE yyill “ let out ” the Best and B iggest Drives ever fired out” of a dry goods store in this town. We can’t enumerate them for this space is small, but the BARG AINS ARE BIG, and if we don’t do JUST AS W E SAY then we’ll never again ask you to believe one word we advertise. The Old Original Still Lives. M il l io n s o f P ounds ! T housands of T ons U sed ! iiaL m .m .ond.’s S l u ^ S l i o t Destroys Potato Bugs, Currant Worms, Cut Worms, Cabbage Worms, Flea Beetles ( called Black Flies), Striped Bugs, Terrapin Bugs, &c. SLUG bELOT effectually destroys these pests. It is quick, safe and cheap and no mistake. For sale at S Z o r r u l D e c l s : <£a B o r L i i e l T s who have the sale of it for this Territory. Call and get a circular. •pjENRY DOTCHER, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER; NO. 2 Front Street, WATCHES, CLOCKS AND JEWELRY BE- PAIRED OUR CLUB WATCH m HOIVAA ‘iTJsr g f l i o M O FROM 83S 00 TO 840.00. By our novel club arrangement you secure : good -watch for §1 a week. CALL AND SEE. FOR SAJ,r OR TO KENT. XTEW h o u s e a n d t w o lo t s FOR SALE. Price S l.m Situated in Matamoras: house contains six rooms; plenty of fruit and good garden. Inquire of M r s . S c h w e i t z e r , near the old bridge. m7w3 J^OK SALE. SlOOO. H o u se and lot, H u d son street. $1200. Hou.se and lot corner Pennsylvania avenue and Franklyn street. $1300. Hou.se and lot, Barcelo street. $130i>. House and lot,Hudson street,Bergen, $1600. House and lot, Georgestreet,Bergen. $1600. House and lot. Ball street, Bergen, $2500. House and lot, Brooklyn street. $.2800. House and lots, corner Brooklyn and Orange streets. $2600. Brick house and lot, Seward avenue. $351)0. Fine large boarding house,Ball street. $351X1. Large house, sightly situation, Main street .$.5000. Splendid fashionable dwelling, 1.5 rooms, lot 50.xl20 and line carriage house, up- 810,000, Large dwelling, most beautiful sit uation ; Both iiot and cold water; Lot 200x200 f e e t : O rn a m e n tal s h a d e an d a b u n d a n t f r u i t and barn. Dwellings in Sparrowbush $1000 to $1200. Houses and lots in Mataraora.s fTlX) to $20iX). Rusine.«s pruperty on Piiic and Ball street and Front street. JOH.N H. WOOD, F r o n t S t r e e t . P o r t .T e r v i s . N . Y . Sales Pier 42 , 000000 , Lbs. IXONGMAM^ P R E P i i i R E D I»AXW T Actual Cost Less than $1.25 per Gallon, Highest Grade of Excellence. Sold Under finarantee. Any Building Hot Satisfac torily Painted,will be Re-Painted Pree of Cost. FOR SALE BY MALVEN. GORDON & CO. “ Say George, what is the rush over at Kadel’s ?” “ Why, my dear man, have you not heard bow they are selling Men’s Calf, Seamless, Kid Top, Plain or Narrow Toe, with tips, warranted to be all solid. FTone of your doubled up stuff. Look at the p r i c e , only|2,60. B utton , L a o e , E la s t ic , Then lie set another table of Ladies’ Kid Don- gola Top, flexible sole, D or E, 19 buttons. Put your eye on the price, | 2 00 a pair.” Mail orders promptly attended to. JOHN A . KADEL, 1 0 0 P ik e S t ,, P o r t J e r v is , N . Y . A TALL SOLID TOWER OP BestToiatoes Ten Cents a Cai. A BROKEN COLUMN OP THAT GOOD C O E N ^ S '’ 10c CAE D R IE D a p p l e s .H U C K D E B B R ItlE S , A N D B L A C K C A PS TN STOCK. S-o-grar D a t e s S c HOAGLAND’S UP-TOWN. intrANTEI)—A M 4 N OF TEMPER- V w ate and moral habita, seeking employ ment, to represent an old established house In . ...................... .... $100 per It makes belter walls than plaster and you can repair your own old plastered walls with It and Will not cost over one-third as much as ’ “ *Ge old B’ay. I have now a number of walls 5 »n ol Fay’.s Manilla Building Goods which 1 Invite the public to examine. Call and see what Ilia vein use; also the goods. Send a Two Cent btamps for Catalogue and Sam- a large Stock of SLATE m a r b l e i z b i > m a n t e l s of aU colors ivhioh I am selling very cheap. LORENZO WOOD, 15 Franklyn St. Port Jervis. N. Y. 108 sq feet Roofing $2 J do .L Bonnell, Real Estate & Loan Agent (Joramisslonei lor renn’a and Dietary Public, offers All the bnlldlng lots on Main street and Jer sey Avenue and 7,000 acres, Including a num ber of valuable farms, situate In Montague and sandyston, New Jersey, belonging to the late John Rutherford. Agent for the Western Farm 7 per cent. Mort gage Co. Capital and surplus $760,000. 7 per cent Water, Town and School Bonds. Accident Insurance Go. of North America. The new Combination Business and Family Building Lota on Lands of Mrs. Mondon. Dwellings in all parts of the village and Mat- Farms to exchange for villas oney to loan on Bone Money to loan on Uotels, Farms, Stores, Grist Mllla, Pooaeiries and allother property belonging to a General trrespondenoe solicited and inapectioa in- Offioe Fainum Building, port Jem s, H.Y. I -A T T H E - NEW YORK STORE RealG enuine Bargains TO LAST FOR ONE DAY ONLY. Every day we will have some - a .' i : ' X 3 £ b .. a . o ' x i o : n ‘ All we ask is for you to come and see for yourself. S 3 d c e s I F i f e e S t . , l e . T o i d . a , r L . E. T. LAIDLEY, 126 Pike Street, - - Creegan Block. Strictly P u r e D ru g s , M ed ic in e s and C h e m ic a l s . Fine T o ilet A rtioleb , S o a p s , B r u s h e s and S po n g e s . The B e s t P e r f u m e s ob tainable, noted for their fine and lasting qualities. Trusses and Shoulder Braces. A large variety Blank Book8,Tablets,Pads, Writing Paper <fe Envelopes O I C S ’- A . S e S - I M I ’ O I S T E I D - O I C S - . j A - I B S . Special attention given to the compounding of Prescriptions and Family Kecipes. apr21dw6m J. H. W E L L S, 84 PIKE STKEET, Opposite tbe Blnk fox the OEDEKS etteuded to at short notlee for FAPISR HANGING So KAX.BOM1NJNG. Oils and Leads at tbe Lowest Fignres Headstones and Mofuments manufactured fi’om American Mar bling, and from barren Clark’s Island, Westerly, the Celebrated Quincy and other good Granites. Scotch Granites will be im ported upon order. Orders for Granite Monuments are now received for Spring trade. GALEN BENNET, No. 1 Main street. AMUSEMENTS. ^wee|)ir(g f(edudtioi(^. On account of the long continued cold and wet weather, we have much larger stock of D B E 8 S GOODS on hand than we care to cariy. M O N D A Y W E W ILL MAKE SWEEPING REDUCTIONS IN THE PRICE OF ALL S pring D ress G oods - SILKS, SATINS. SURAHS, RHADAMES, SERGES HENRIETTAS, CASHMERES, STRIPES PLAIDS, ' CHALLIS, ETC. L adies and M isses ’ J ackets . JOB LOTS OF A t half price. Elegant assortment of Carpets and Window Shades. WESTBROOK & STOLL TU B IN DESTRUCTIBLE F - X J E ! X j wben'^turated witli kerosene oil, will burn upwaras of JK) minutes at a cost of cents. JUST RECEIVED 1 a-KDBBBRS AND ARPTICS BSFAIRID N. H. Hfeer, lot pike st . to h Gij li Pil? If BO you can And »t JEWETT’S PURE WHITE LEAD. PURE CALCUTTA LINSEED OIL, REYNOLD’S READY MIXED PAINT Reaiy-Mlieil Carriaie Colors to Glow ready for immediate n.». Color and Yarnish Combined, easily applied and require no v-ai’niahtag. Espe.flally adapted for the use of LIVERY STABLE KEEP ERS, FARMERS, and all others who wish to do their own painting.
