Indianapolis News, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1878 — Page 2

Bed Spreads. UG STOCK NOW ON SALE.

See the Fine M&rteilles Spreads •now offered at about half value. COLORED SPREADS at 30 per cent. e8 3 than regular prices, and stacks of low-priced Spreads.

Close & Wasson, BEE-HIVE.

Tapestry Brussels75c, Extra Supers75c,-Two-Plys25c, PER YARD. We fc*Te placed on rale 25 to 50 pieces each of the abore goods that we offer at loss than cost to Close out. On examination you will find the goods cheaper and better than anything ever offered before in the State. Oreat Bargains in All Lines of Goods. Adams, Mansur & Co., 47 and 49 S. Meridian St

KNIVES, FORKS, SPOONS. Extra Low Prices FOR THE NEXT 20 DAYS. Bingham, Walk & Mayhew, 12 E. Washington St. SIGir OF THE STREET CLOCK.

THE DAILY NEWS. FRIDAY, AUGUST 0, 1 _ 878.

The Indianapolis News has the largest eircnlation of any daily paper in Indiana. Four per cent, bonds are still being bought in large quantities. Another hot wave seems to be coming this wav. In Omaha yesterday the thermometer was over 100°. Bo«ton will do nothrhg with defaulter Tappan. But the embezzling cashier of a national bank has been taken id hand by the government and may get his deserts. The rumor of a general strike in the Pennsylvania co.al region for an advance in wages, given in a di.ipatch to-day, is contrary to trustworthy advices from that region. Thf, United States marshal has obtained possession of the South Carolina prisoners, arrested 'by state officers for the murder of a. revenue official, and there has been no war aker all.

The Iowa republicans are making a strong fight' against financial heresies. If that policy had been followed in this state, there would not be much doubt about the result of the election. Exorand seems-to be in a fervor of excitement about Cyprus, and unlimited schemes of making money there are evolved. Cyprus itself is equally inflamed, and prices have jumped beyond all reason, j The Austrians will have no foolishness in Herzegovina. A proclamation has been issued warning the people that persons who resist the occupation will be tried by drum head court martial, and that means shooting them. The South Carolina republicans have a firm belief that Hayes and Chamberlain were elected. Such faith is touching, and consistency forbids giving Governor Hampton any credit for his wise and peaceful administration. “Look at France!" say the fiaters. Well, on the first of 9uly the entire volume of paper money in France was $465,000,000, and every dollar of it was payable in gold and silver. At the same date the volume of paper money in the United States was $688,000,000, and our paper is not yet payable in coin. France is contracting and we are expanding. Do they want us to follow the French example?

The length of the Colorado republican platform would justify the suspicion that Secretary Dick Thompson wrote it, were it not for the omission of any reference to the administratiop. If the people of that rotten borough think the republicans can succeed by ignoring President Hayes aud his work, like the boy who was kicked by a mule they will know more before they get done.

The Pacific railroads in reply to S tary Schurz’s decision in regard to lands, claim that that they have beei posed of by the mortgages issued to s the companie^’ bonds. The Kansas fie road throwgh its second mortgage holders, has beeun a foreclosure suit I

possession of the land grant, so that lands are not likelr to be pre-empted under such cireumstaneM Until the courts have fully decided tne question settlers certainly Will be unwise to locate on railroad lands.

THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS: FRIDAY. AUGUST 9, 1878

X location Obtained from Ecientiflo Con-

Kearney.

LN THE NAVIGABLE AIK.

Two Little Folks.

A BI LL FIGHT.

greseee. There is something more in the national microscopical congress, which meets here ibsxt Wednesday, than an assemblage of philosophers and philosophical apparatus. In some sort, and no trifling measure, it is a school of taste and manners and refinement. It diffuses all through our best population, cultivated men and the improving associations that almost inevitably cling to intellectual pursuits. It provides both the way and the impulse to a higher level of thought, and wider ideas of God’s creation and infinite wisdom. We may safely assume that such a body could not meet in any town without leaving a train of good influences behind it, and it could not meet frequently without leaving the impress as deeply set as any clyiracteristic that distinguishes a community anywhere in the world. In going into a German community, for instance, one expects to encounter a people almost universally fond of music and well instructed in the science. In an Italian city a similar expectation waits for manifestations of artistic taste and culture, for it has had the tuition of fine galleries and noted artists for generations. In a Nevada mining town one expects everybody to know all about “drift8 r and “levels” and “shafts” and “quality of ore.” An analagous impression will surely be made by the frequent assembling here of bodies of men distinguished for learning, intellectual discipline, elevated tastes and ennobling pursuits. There fb more education in the world than comes through schools. We are not sure but that the best is that which comes outside of school, from afterstudy and association. Unquestionably that which furnishes the material for active life is the aftermath, the second crop that grows not without cultivation but with little other plowing or seedins than that which produced regular crops. In fact, school education is only a provision of tools and skill to use them, and they must win the education that is to serve one’s serious needs in the world. , We get a great deal of it from other sources than books, and among these one of the most prolific and profitable is association with able and cultivated men, a frequent contact with minds disciplined by years of systematic study, a radiation fsom refinement acquired by life-long pursuit of intellectual labors. The worst dullard will show strong marks of superiority to his equal noodle, if the latter has had no better associates than himself, while the other has lived in good society aud among educated acquaintances. It is, therefore, something very much more than the gratification of curiosity, laudable as that is, to induce such bodies as these scientific congresses to meet here. It is a school of the highest order, and sent into every man’s house, to his table, to his fireside, to those household iulimacies that so readily absorb pleasant and improving instruction. The more we have of such assemblies, and the more fully we allow them to get into contact with our home lives, and intellectual needs, the more we shall benefit by them. They will give a refined tone, a cast of superior culture, to our society that can never be acquired so easily or fully in any other way, and we have not been so long out of village swaddling clothes, that we can afford to put aside the opportunity for a better culture. We are making a good reputation as a place for national meetings to come, and we can’t make it serve a better purpose, by hospitality to those who attend them, than to induce them to come oftener and bring more with them or after them.

CUKKENT COMMENT.. Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, says President Hayes is “an infirm, small, cheap man, who likfcs to hear himself talk, but doesn’t mean any of it or remember any of it,” The old court bouse in Plymouth, N. H., in which Daniel Webster made his first plea, has been restored and is now used as a library and reading room. The silver conference meets on Monday in Paris, and all the diuropeau countries will be represented except Germany. The yellow fever in New Orleans was brought from Havana, where there were over five hundred deaths in July. The New York Herald recommends to Kearney the advice w hich it is said Mr. Wendell Phillips once gave to an energetic young speaker. Never call a man a liar,” he said. ‘ Prove that he is one; that is ten times as effective.” All accounts agree that Kearney’s Boston speech was the merest fustian, advocating nothing, telling nothing. He is likely to prove a failure there. The nationals are making a general fight in Maine,.particularly in the congressional • districts. Aleck Stephens will beat the Bourbons. Nice counties out of sixteen have declared for^hira. Mr. Hendricks promises the Iloosiers that in the event of success the democrats will reform the civil service. This is b .sh.^They would make as bad a mess of it as has been made by Hayes.—[Chicago Times. When the Potter committee resnmes its sessions it is now understood they will be held in New York. Perhaps this is for the convenience of Mr. Tilden, who certainly ought to be summoned before the committee. He must have lots of telegrams and letters disclosing the true inwardness of the late presidential election. He could explain, perhaps, where the money came from for election expenses.—f Philadelphia Press. As the period approaches for the repeal of the bankrupt law to become effectual, sellers will* breathe more freely, and transactions will be entered into without qualms of fear and visions of bankruptcy. The long list of voluntary bankrupts has been a shame to the country, and has altogether taken away the feeling of disgrace which used to gather about the names.—[Boston Advertiser.

[Boston correspondence New York Tribune.] He is not at all an ill-looking or threatening looking man, bat just an average hiillethtaded Irishman, with every appearance of being a porter, or a coachman, or a seafaring man. He dresses just like his class, hasn't the least bit of a brogue, uses perfectly good grammar, and except in,his abusive phrases, employs well-chosen words, aad has a straightforward English pronunciation, with a few lingering traces of his early education in such words as “pul-pit." “col-ytira” (column), and here and there an insignificant slip or two. He has no style in his delivery, walks up and down the’ platform, lifts his whole arm, and shouts out hi? utterances in a monotonous way—often at a loss for words, but instead of s*tammering. bringing them out as fast as found, one after the other, with

self-possessed deliberation.

The great trouble with Mr. Dennis Kearney is that he has absolutely nothing to say! He has aa few ideas in his head as any man I ever Heard speak. He has no facts, no statistics, and if lean read the signs aright, a few more victories like that of lad night will finish his career forever. People were tired of him long bufore he was done—fatal signs— several left the hall before his speech was ended. The impression I came away with was that he had been looking about him carefully since Ke came here, and that the vast ditlerenee between this community and the one he glories in “representing" had been borne in upon him in a way to take all the s;arch out of his stock in trade. He has found, too, that nobody wanted his indecency, and that his profanity was not much needed, either. The consequence was that if his reported indecency of speech be not myth, like his "bfutisb looks," he left it entirely behind him, and except about a. dozen vigorous “bells” there wasn't a word uttered by him last evening that might not have been heard

in a Moody and Sankey meeting.

Political. The South Carolina republicans, in state convention, decided it inexpedient to make nominations for state officers. The platform denounces the democracy, and reaffirms belief in the fair election of Hayes and Chamberlain. The greenbackers of Texas have nominated for governor, VV. H. Hammons; for lieuten-ant-governor, J. 8. Raines; for comptroller. H. A Spencer; for attornev-general, Fred W. Chandler; for treasurer, G. W. Whetstone; for commissioner of the land office, Jacob Kanechler. At the fifth district of Michigan greenback convention yesterday, Charles C. Comstock of Grand Rapids was nominated for congress. Colonjl J. B. Richmond was nominated by the conservative congressional convention of the ninth district of Virginia yesterday. The republican of Colorado, have made the following nominations: For governor, F. W. Pitkin; lieutenant-governor, H. A. W. Tabor; congress, James B. Belford; secretary of state, N. H. Meldrum; treasurer, N. S. Culver; auditor, E. K. Stimson: at-torney-general, C. W. Wright; superintendent of schools, Jas. C. Shattuck; regent of the state university, H. M. Hale.

The Revision of the Bible. The revision of the new testament is almost completed, and will be presented to convocation in England next year. Already it is nearly all printed, the two universities having given £20,000 for the privilege of printing it, of which they pay £2,000 yearly. Bishop Kiliott, the chairman of the revisers, w ho has presided six hours daily for four days every three weeks, is said never to have once lost his temper or failed to carry his colleagues with him. The revision of the old testament will require about three years longer.

American Trade Pushing. The large and rapidly increasing importation into Germany of American fresh beef, hams, sausages, stoves, glass, cotton goods, sole leather, canned vegetables, fruits, oysters and lobsters, and machines of all kinds, are worrying the English a good deal. The Pall Mall Gazette says: “There can be no doubt that the United States are year after year taking away from us some of our best customers, and pushing trade in quarters where with the exercise of a Mttle honesty and enterprise we might have done a good business.”

Alabama Crops. [Montgomery Advertiser.] • All through Alabama crops are very good and the yield promises to be large. An immense amount of grain was sowed, and the harvest was fine. The rains of the last few days, it is feared, will greatly in jure the cotton in the prairie and canebrake portions of the state, as during tjhowery and rainy weather the worms flourish and multiply. Of one thing, however, the people are well assured—they have the biggest corn crop raised in many years.

A New Pest. Colorado has developed a new entomological pest. The Greeley Sun notices the appearance of an enemy to corn, which bores through the roots, killing the stalks, and then travels under the ground to the next hill, serving it in the same manner. It has killed about a fourth of the corn in the field, and operates considerably upon adjoining farms. The vjorm is about an inch long, black, and when picked up falls into pieces. No one seems to know what it is.

The Apparatus with Which Mr. Sehrnadar is Going to Loudon in Thirtjr-Two Hoars. , [New York World.] Professor F. W. Schroeder, a tough-looking young German-t f slight build and with a keen eye, came into the » orld office w ith a roll of paper undar his arm. When he unrolled it it showed a pencil sketch of his new idea in aeronautics. There was a cylindrical bag to be made of silk covered with rubber. This bag, in which bis lifting pas is to be confined, was drawn to Be 100 feet long and 25 feet in diameter, and brought to a point at cither end. Over this and extending half way down on either side is a parachute dtcotton drill, to the lower edge of which are fastened the carrying, guy and stay ropes, extending down to the boat, a cigar-shaped craft 64 feet long and about 4 feet in diameter at the centre. The ends for some distance are decked over, leaving a “cock-pit” 20 feet long, in which eight persons might sit. At one end of the boat is the rudder. a great sheetiron fan worked by a steering wheel in the usual way; at the other end a propelling screw with two flukes, also of sheet iron. 2Kx4 feet each in area. Below the center of the keel is another such screw. These screws are to Be worked by a pair of electric engines of Philadelphia make weighing but 160 pounds. The weight of the whole machine when ready for use is only 1,600 pounds; but with the 55,000 cubic feet of gas there will be buoyant ]»ower enough to lift 3,000 pounds of dead weight. The plan is to fill the air ship w ith hydrogen until the buoyancy just equals the weight of the apparatus. The lower screw wiil%ten be used when it is desired to go up or down, while the screw at the head of the boat will be used to draw or push the boat forward or backwards. Professor Schroeder has made 400 ascensions, his first as a boy sitting in a loop below a Mongolgfier fire balloon. During the war he was employed at Washington in the government service, and since has made a trip from Washington to Canada, spending 41 ’‘hours in the air and speeding over 2,GOO miles. In Brazil he constructed one of his present style of machines, and made a trip from Rio Janeiro to Bahia. This machine he sold to the Brazilian government, and it is now in use there. One peculiar phenomenon which he observed and which he will profit by with his machine is that any sheet of water when viewed from the proper distance above seems to act as a giant camera lens and refract a perfect picture of the bottom, every pebble being accurately seen. He first noted this when over the Potomac, and supposed at first glance that the river had run dry. It is his intention to engage with the coast survey in taking views of the bottoms of rivers, bays and jtoints along the shore. Hismachinejcaa be held stationary in the air during the taking of the photographic negatives. “I will have my machine completed in about twelve days,” said Professor Schroeder, “if I can get some money which has been promised me to carry it on. I am no enthusiast on ballooning, but au engineer, and work at the problem in a scientific way and everything 1 do is the result of experiment. When this machine is complete I shall exhibit it for a time in the Union grounds and then make a number of short trips here ami there over the country. The wheels make 1,60<i revolutions a minute with but little expenditure of power, as they have no friction to overcome, merely to create a momentum for the machine. I have studied the wind currents enough to know that there is at all times a double current, one from east to west and another from west to east. This last current extends from 500 to 1,600 feet above the surface of the water. At the rate we shall travel Europe can be reached in thirty-two hours. There will be no danger of fire, as the’hydrogen in the balloon is cut off from contact with the atmosphere by a number of sieves or screens in the mouth of the balloon. There is a valve at the top for emergencies, but this will rarely be employed, for when once filled the machine is not to be emptied, only lowered and tied down. The gas can not escape, for the rubber is on the inside and any pressure will force it into the fibres of the silk. In ordinary balloons . the covering of varnish or whatever it is is put on the outside and is forced off. I shall spend some time in the short trips and start for Europe in October.”

Surrender ef Snake Indians. A courier with a dispatch from Colonel M. Miller, the commanding officer at the Malheur agency, states that 85 hostile Snakes, 25 warriors, the balance women and children, came into the agency and surrendered, aud that Oils, the leading spirit since Egan’s death, was desirii^us of surrendering nitnself and band. The courier states that shortly after leaving the agency he saw HR) to 150 going into the agency, which was very probably Oils aud his party. If so the present campaign in that vicinity is virtually at an end.

The Bishop’s Son. The body of Bishop Whipple’s son will remain at Louisville until the arrival of his relatives. It was buried in the potter's field, and upon preparing to exhume it the officers found that body snatchers had preceded them, though they simply broke the coffin and did not remove the remains. Bishop Whinple, who is in Duluth, has been telegrapfied for and will reach home Saturday, ilis eldest son, C. H. Whipple, has gone after the body. The irregular life of young Whipple has caused his family much trouble.

The World’a People.

Behm k Wagner’s tables have just been published, and show a total increase in the population of the earth of 15,000,000, partly arising from natural growth, partly from the showing of n'ew and more exact censuses.

The total population of the earth is set down at 1,439.143,300, divided as follows: Europe, 321,31*,480; Asia, 831,000,000; Africa, 205,219,500; America, 86,110,000; Australia and

Polynesia, 4,411,300.

Standard ‘Dollars in Demand. The demand for standard silver dollars is steadily increasing. Within the present week the banks called for $300,000. There is little demand for the certificates for silver dollars, which have been printed to the extent of $19,000,000.

Storm in Canada. A Toronto dispatch says Belleville and Norwood were visited j’esterday afternoon by very heavy storms, accompanied by thunder and hail, and great damage was done to the crops. In Norwood houses and barns were leveled, and several persons severely injured. Attempted Murder and Suicide. Henry Vanryn of Milwaukee attempted to kill his wife early yesterday morning and then cut his own throat'. This is Mrs. V.’s version of the tragedy but some of her neighbors think it is hardly truthful.

Held to Bail. The case of Royal B. Conant, the defaulting treasurer of the Eliot National bank of Boston, came up yesterday on a continuance. Conant was arraigned, and, waiving examination, was held in $20,000 for the September term of the district court. Mike Weaver, the notorious burglar, who was recently captured in Chicago, was in the criminal court yesterday, aud after an examination was held in $5,000 Iwil on each of twelve cases, making his total bail $60,000.

Agreement Between Bismarck ami the Vatican. It is stated that Bismarck, in his negotiations with the pap#l nuncio, expressly insisted upon the maintenance of the German ecclesiastical laws, but agreed, that their interpretation should be subject to an understanding with the Vatican. A dispatch from Rome says the pope and a council of the cardinals have decided to accept Bismarck's proposals.

A Coal Strike Impending. In accordance with the program of the miners’ national organization it has been agreed that a general strike shall begin on or about the 15th instant. The trouble in the coal regions of Pennsylvania will be started in all probability in the Lehigh regions. The cause is the operators’ refusal to raise wages.

Moonshiner's Plead Guilty. In the United Suites court at Charleston, yesterday, 138 illicit distillers pleaded guilty, with the’understanding that judgment be suspended, and they no more violate the law. Fatal Minstrel Row. William Rivel, a retired negro minstrel, was fatally shot in a barroom fight at Philadelphia last night by James Lamonte, well known in the same profession.

Work Suspended at Port Eads. Seventeen cases of yellow fever have occurred at Port Eads, causing a panic and suspension of the work on the jetties.

Justice Burnett Vindicated. Investigation of the charges against Justice Burnett, of Dakota, has resulted in his vindication.

Back Taxes in Chicago. Judge Loomis, of Lake county, Illinois, yesterday afternoon rendered a decision in regard to the back taxes due in Chicago, sustaining the constitutionality of the law to enforce their payment. Several million dollars of back taxes are involved in the decision, which is considered a victory for the citp.»

Transfer of Prisoners. Kane, Durham and Moore, confined in the Greenville, S. C., jail for the murder of Amos Ladd have been taken from the custody of the sheriff by United States marshal Wallace,who now has them in charge.

Cardinal Nina as Secretary. The report of the appointment of Cardinal Nina as pontifical secretary of state is confirmed.

Up in the tree beoghs a wise little bird Sat chirping, one bright summer Axj, A-lobbing and twisting his funny brown head In step with hie riotous lay; ■ Fur never was bird chant trio no i gay-

More jolly, triumphant. More foolishly mei ry and gay.

“Twee-dee-dum,” he sang: “oh, how happy am I

In this beautiful world to be!

I wonder who makes it so green and so sweet

For a poor little bird like me,

. And if every new coiner

H»s such a bright summer —

Twee-dee-dum, twee-dee-dum, twee-dee?’* Down under the tree bough a wee UtUe girl Sat sobbing that sweet summer day, tiling and tucking her once pretty lace

a most disagreeable way:

A-ru

In

greeahie war;

Though never had maiden

So very

ver l

ry grief laden

More cause to be happy and gay.

“Oh, dearie,” she sobbed, “if chocolate cream*

Only *rew right np here in the trees! never can do as I want to at alt— I never can eat what I please;

X can’t have out twenty

A day—when there's plenty— No matter how hard I may tease.” “Twee-dee-dum, twee-dee,” chirped the wise little

bird

From his perch in the sveamore tree; “How »trange in the su miner so green and so sweet bo solemn s maiden to see— A sober, gray maiden— So very grief-laden— Twee-dee-dum, twee-dee-dum, twee-dee.” So merry and happy, the wise little bird Sang the hours away in the tree; And still piped the maiden her sorry “Oh dear, What a stupid eld world to me!” And learned not the lesson—

That

Contained in

wonderful lesson—

his simple “Twee-dee.”

SCRAPS. Beaconsfield paid over $1,000 for one garter. The man who smokes a cigar too short smokes it too long. American horae cars are the lightest and strongest in the world, and are bought by several countries. Minnie Sota and Ella Noyes report good crops.—[Boston Post] How about Tennie See and Miss Souri. The prince of Wale* intends visiting Australia and contiguous English colonies next year, also China and Japan. Spurgeon is said to have thoroughly and critically read 1,437 biblical commentaries and expositions, each in several volumes. Persons in Germany bearing the name of Nobeling have been authorized bn the German government to change it to Edeling. Yung man, don’t be afrade to blow your own horn, but don’t do it in front of the proceshun; go behind and do it.—[Josh Billings. Mrs. Commodore Vanderbilt is summering at Bristol, Vermont. The widow is yet young and fascinating, and ardent Methodist. A large colony frdm the oil regions of Pennsylvania is about to settle iu Tarrant county, Texas. They have entered 90,000 acres of land. The southern Pacific railroad is shaded from a continuous line of cottonwood trees planted for telegraph poles. They have all sprouted and live. Hereafter at the 8t. Louis morgue the bodies are to be placed in caskets into which air Will be forced at such a low temperature that the corpses will be frozen. An Irish belle has surprised London with a dress composed of thirty-nine of the blue and white silk handkerchiefs so fashionable at present, with parasol aud hat to match. The tramway compaiTy of Edinburgh pays a dividend of per cent. Street railways in that city have been very successful, and have completely driven out the old system of omnibusses. Two lawyers, while bathing at Santa Crnz the other day, were chased out of the water by a shark. ’ This is the most flagrant ease of want of professional courtesy on record.— [San Francisco Post. Thirty locomotives have been ordered by the Erie railway company from one of the manufactories of Paterson. They are all to be of the narrow-gauge pattern. All the locomotive works there will be kept running on full time until spring. Prof. Leone Levi, of the university of London, says that the aggregate earnings of English workingmen are $1,500,000,000 annually, out of which they could easily save $75,000,000, while in point of fact they save only $20,000,000, the balance being wasted in drink. “Small Talk,” that sweet lone orphan of the Louisville Courier-Journal, finds it hard work to control his temper in these dog-da vs. If he had his merits Haldeman would give him a month’s salary and send him olf to the seashore and the mountains to restore his usual serenity with mankind. The recently discovered carcass of the Siberian mammoth was in the gold-bearing sands of the river Kundola, at the depth of five metres. The flesh was very soft and of a light red color, when first dug out, but it soon hardened, becoming like white clay. It seems to be much impregnated with lime.— [Nature. Senator Beck is 55 years old, weighs 222 pounds, aud has never taken a dose of medicine in his life. He leaves in the morning for the plains on a hunting expedition. He claims that he can vet walk his thirty miles on a hunt, provided that some one will carry the game, the smallest part of the contract. —[Lexington Transcript. The Rev. Dr. B. M. Palmer, the eminent Presbyterian divine of New Orleans, has given a rare illustration of self-sacrifice. While away on his summer vacation, he learned that the yellow fever had broken out, and he at once returned to the city to give his personal efforts towards mitigating the horrors of the scourge. A gentleman, or gent, went into a wellknown fashionable tailor’s, and, addressing the master, said: “1 believe you make for the Prince of Wales!” “Wales! Wales!” repeated the snip reflect!velr; then calling to his clerk, said, “take the ledger down and look under W and see if we have got a customer called the Prince of Wales.”—[London World. “Now, then, madame, please look steadily at this place on the wall,” said a photographer to an old lady when he had put her in position and the plate in the camera. The old lady looked hard at the spot indicated, and then got up and walked across the floor and minutely inspected it. and then, turning to the photographer, gently remarked: “I don’t see anything there.” In Cyprus, house rent, provisions, and other necessaries have risen prodigiously in price in anticipation of the wants of th® British troops. A telegram says that for houses formerly werth £15, £250 is now a‘ked. OtHer things are in proportion. Ag there are no hotels, everybody is. obliged to “rough it.” Schemes involving £25,000,000 for Cyprus have already been started in London. The Richmond (Ya.) folks hare been summine up their drinking capacity for eleven months ending July 31st last, as measured by the Moffett register, and are gratified at the following exhibit of results: 1,443,945 alcoholic drinks and 1,567,120 malt drinks, netting the handsome total tax of $43,937.06. Thu is the. drinking capacity of Richmond alone. The record shows October to be the hardest drinking month, bat it may be that the bar-keepers had not mastered the register then. A reduction from 439,920 drinks iu October to 248,973 must indicate either that or hard times.

Pretty Mach on On* Side However, and aB in the Street* of New York.

(New York dun.]

The steamship Naples, at pier 44, North river, took on board yesterday morning more than 300 beef cattle, consigned to Bristol, England, bat one of- the animals did not go aboard, and the Naples sailed without him. He was a big brown ball, and, disliking the restraints to which he had been subjected, and evidently desiring to see something more of New York than he had, he took a stroll along the piers. He first made his presence known by charging into a group of men in front of John Lynch’s barroom at West and Leroy streets. The men scattered, and the bull banged up against the street lamp, and made despreate efforts to upset the news stand on the corner. Than he withdrew for delil*eration, and a moment later dashed against the barroom. The throng that bad collected ran inside, and the bartender fled precipitately to the second story of the building. Foiled again, tfie bull retired with a low bellow, and strolled off up town, lashing bis brown flanks with his long tail, and anxiously looking for an enemy. Passersby, seeing him, gave him a wide berth, and the men and boys who followed him kept at a respectful distance, and exhibited their courage by throwing stones and sticks at the animal. When, after slowly promenading four or five blocks, the bull turned about, the throng retreated in good order, and the bull again walked back to Leroy street. On the river side of West street, between Clarkson and Morton streets, are large vacant lots. At the foot of Leroy street is the office 'of the Knickerbocker ice company, and the covered pier beyond was crowded with the ice wagons getting’ their loads. Bat the ball paid no attention to horses. He wanted other game and men suited him better. For two hours he marched up and down those vacant lots and bad things his own way. Capt Wild, who-has charge of the Knickerbocker ice company’s office, bad an uninterrupted view of the “circus,” as he tersely termed it, aud

tells what he saw graphically.

“I was standing by the office down there,” the captain said, “when a young fellow hurried down from West street, evidently trying to get an early boat He was dresse

early

throughout in white duck, aud looked neat, I

thought, for him.

The bull thought so too, and went How that chap did run! He straight down toward the office, e bull was right behind him. I stood knew fcould dodge aronod the

office if the old fellow tackled me. Just before he got there, though, he caiigbthis man. I think he stepped on his heel, for the man stumbled, and just as he was falling Mr. Bull tookbim square in the rear, and over v^ent the white duck suit. The young fellow turned a complete summersault, and then rolled in the mud. It was the funniest thing 1 ever saw. 1 laughed till I cried, and I'd hare laughed if it had killed the man. But it didn’t hurt him. for after the bull hit him he turned away. Then I saw an old fellow who comes down here regularly, every morning with a basket after chips of ice. He is a German, and an old, sickly man, too. The bull saw him and went for him. The old man didn’t have time to do anything before the bull struck him plum in the small of the back and knocked him stiff. The old man never stirred. We got ice water and bathed bis face, but he didn’t revive, and so the police got a coach and sent him home. I don’t know whether he is dead or not. By this time there was a big crowd here, but the bull kept them all off of the lots, and marched

back and forward as dignified as a lord.

“John Dougherty, who lives up stairs there at 261 West street, then came on the scene. He picked up a club and said he’d show tbetfe how to serve the bull. So hejwalked out across the track and pretty near the bull.* The bull never stirred, but turned his head away. Dougherty was just about to go nearer, when the bull turned like a flash upon him. You ought to see John drop ihat club and git for the sidewalk. The bull caught him just as he reached the railroad track, and with one butt sent him across the rails. Dougherty wasn't hurt, but he had all he wanted of bull fighting. You see the bull’s horns stuck out backwards, so that he didn’t strike any one with them, but simply butted them, and after he struck a man he paid no more attention to him. He didn’t seem to notice horses, and so four policemen got on a truck and drove as near him aa they could, and fired at him with their revolvers. The old fellow didn’t seem to mind it a bit. Every shot they fired took effect, and at each shot he'd just stand still and shake his head. When I saw that their pbl>-guns wouldn’t fetch him, I sent one of my drivers for a rifle; but before begot back the bull had gone up town. He walked up to Eleventh street, and then back to Morton. At Morton he turned up to Washington, and there they had ropes stretched across the side of Morton, so the bull couldn’t go into Washington street. The crowd was Mg there, and a little boy was knocked down. 1 didn’t see the bull again. It was the biggest circus I’ve seen in years. I shan’t forget tiiat fellow in the whife suit if I live a

hundred years.”

Oie scene Captain Wild did not see. A very fat man stood on the sidewalk add saw the futile efforts of the police to capture the bull, until he lost all patience. “Why, officers,’ he exclaimed, advancing toward the big brown beast, “that ain’t the way to go to work. Yon musn’t let him see tnat you are afraid of him. If he sees that you don’t fear him he’ll ” At this instant the bull turned and charged on that speaker. There was a thud and a grunt, and the bull walked calmly back. “A very narrow escape. A very narrow escape,” the fat man ejaculated, as he got up, brushed the mud off his clothing and trotted back-to a place of safety. After quitting Washington street, the bull walked up Morton to Bleecker, and then turned down into Bleecker. He walked slowly, occasionally turning to face the throng that followed him, and then going on. No one got in his way, and no one was hurt. He was evidently getting.weak for his five wounds bled. AT M&cdougal street he slipj>ed and fell, in front of N. Metzger’s meat market. The butcher saw him, and seizing a sharp knife ran out and drew it across his throat. The bull made a convulsive effort to rise, and then quiefly stretched out and

died.

Charles Lentz was the only man seriously injured. The others were only slightly bruised, and their names were not ascertained. Leutz, the old*man w ith the basket, who was taken up Insensible, lives at 373 Hudson street. He is a tailor. In the afternoon he was sitting up, his head being bandaged, his right hand bruised, aud bis right ankle badly swollen. He was very ill, and

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had been vomiting severely. “I went dqv to get some ice,” he said in broken English, “and saw a big crowd at Leroy street. Then I saw tne bull coming, and then I didn't know anything until 1 found myself home.”

, Shipbuilder's Strike.

The mechanics in the shipyards on the Clyde refuse either an increase of hours of labor or 10 per cent rednetior of wages, the

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