Rensselaer Union and Jasper Republican, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 February 1876 — A Heroic Policeman. [ARTICLE]

A Heroic Policeman.

The Committee on Rules and Discipline yesterday reported favorably upon the case of Patrolman Thomas Mcßride cf the Fourth Precinct Police, and the matter will come before the full Board, to-day. Mcßride, at the peril of his life, has saved four persons from drowning in the East, river, HO rs regarded by his " wmrades ar fr?av«tTffeir' , Oii : ' the force, and has never been known to flinch in the face of any danger. Some time ago a watch was stolen from a lady in the middle of the afternoon. Officer Mcßride saw the thief running away, and ran after him. Finding that the officer was gaining, the thief ran into a tall sixstory tenement. Up stairs he went and out through the scuttle upon the roof, which was steep and very slippery. The thief ran along the ridge, and when he was opposite one of the large chimneys, slid down to it, believing that no officer would risk his neck by following. MwBride did not hesitate an instant. He followed the thief, and slid down to the chimney as the thief had done. The thief worked himself around the chimney as far as he could, but Mcßride seized him by the collar and shouted fbr help. A comrade saw Mcßride, went out on the ridge of the roof, and reached down his club, which Mcßride caught and drew himself up to the ridge with his priseper. The thief was sent to Sing Sing for a term of years.

The last time that Mcßride saved a drownihg person he was obliged to jump into the water with all 'his clothing on. The cold water nearly rendered him powerless at first, but he struck out manfully and saved a life. For his heroism the Life-Saving Association of the city of New York' have presented him with a large silver medal suitably inscribed. The Police Board have ordered his name to be inscribed upon the roll of honor, and also to be placed on the record of meritorious officers.—JV. Y. Tribune. It is stated that the strongest saline spring in New York State is what is known as the Liverpool well, near Syracuse, the specific, gravity of which water has been found to be only 1,114, While that of the Dead Sea is 1,211; also, that 1,000 grains of water from this well yielded 149.84 grains of dry solid matter, while the latter yields 41 percept., when the residuum is dried with a temperature of 180 degrees Fahrenheit. —A returned missionary makes the suggestive statement that in all his travels round the world he never saw a new heathen temple, all the pagan worship he< had witnessed had been In old, dilapidated fractures. ’ ■