Rensselaer Republican, Volume 14, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1882 — Page 7

FIRES.

Destruction of a Number of Newspaper Offices in New York. Narrow Escape of Many of the Occupants from a Frightful Death. s' Flour Mills Burned at Lock port, New York. One Fireman Killed, and Several Others Injured. Hotels and Other Buildings Cpnsumed at Oxford, lowa O. S. Baldwin, the Newark Bank Robber Goes Up for Fifteen Years. A $1,000,000 Fire. January 31. 8:30 a. |m—The New York Times building is burning. The flames are raging fiercely, and no doubt the building will be a total loss. 10:30 a. fire reported as breaking out in the Times office originated in the building formerly occupied by the New York World, with the Times building, but separated from 'it by intervening buildings. Strenuous efforts are making to save the Times, but the firejs spreading rapidly and it is feared cannot be controlled short of the corner where the Times office is located. There is an unconfirmed rumor of the loss of several lives. Ambulances" are on the spot. There is a slight snow falling, but the air is dry and crisp, with a light breeze from the north, which increases the difficulty of controlling the fire. The block in which the fire is burning is an irregular-shaped gore, with the building formerly occupied by the World on its southeast corner, and Times building occupying the entire northern angle of the gore. The Tribune office is diagonally across Nassau street from the Times building, and the Sun office is on the upper corner of the same block with the Tribune. The Observer office was at 37 Park row, in the old World building. There were a large number of offices, stores and advertising agencies in that and adjoining houses. In one of those offices there were a number of women ■employed, and it is reliably asserted that one woman fell or leaped fiom the roof over Pettingill’s advertising offices, and was killed.

There are rumors of another woman being burned in one of the offices, but these cannot yet be verified. The pecuniary loss will be very heavy both on the buildings and the atock in the stores, including wholesale supplies of rubber, machinery, etc. 11 a. m.—The southern end of the Sere is a mass of ruins, but it is now thought that the Times office will be saved, though the danger is not entirely over. 11:30 a. m.—The Times building is saved, but considerably damaged. The flames are confined to the Beekman street and Park row corner of the block. Only one life was lost, that of the woman already referred to as tailing from the roof of Petting ill’s office. 12:15 p. m.—lt is stated that four bodies were recovered in Nassau street of persons killed by jumping from win-

dowfl. It is /eared that the loss of life will be heavier than at first believed. The building was crowded with employes, and very few could have escaped by the stairway. An old gray-haired woman was seen the fourth story cf the World build--png appealing for help. Her lips were seen to move fcut her voice could not be heard. All who saw her were hor-ror-stricken. The flames raged about her person, igniting her hair and clothing. She fell back into the flames, ;and was no -doubt burned o death. A young girl, wearing a blue dress, who was cui off from the stairs, ran to *the fourth-story window on the Park How side, and stood hesitatingly, ■while the flames and smoke encircled her. “Jump, jump,” shouted the .•spectators. Casting a frightened look behind, she threw herself out aud fell •on the stone pavement, When picked up life was extinct, her head being •crushed beyond recognition. A few minutes lates a negro woman appeared at the third-story window of the World office, on the Park Eow side, and also jumped to the sidewalk. JShe was badly injured, and taken to the Chambers Street Hospital. Several men and women saved themselves by leaping from the windows in Nassau street. When the woman who was killed jumped from the window there were two ,men hanging from the window-sills by their Anger ends. The ladders were too short to

'reach them, and they were saved by firemen mounting on one another’s shoulders, and the men let themselves down with their aid.! A bootblack on the corner of Beckman street and Park row, seeing some men entangled in the telegraph wires adjoining the burning premises, climbed a pole and cut the wires, releasing them from a critical position. Several people descended from the burning building on the Nassau street side | by reaching the telegraph pole. One boy leaped from the fifth story and would doubtless have been killed but f&r the wires breaking his fall. He was hurt but not dangerously. An express wagon with a heavy canvas covering drew up under the windows, and several men, who were about to leap to the ground, were told by the driver to jump on the wagon, which they did, and escaped any hurt. One young woman stood upoir the window-sill of the fourth-story until the firemen arranged a large piece of canvas which they held at enas and side. When all was Yeady she threw her hands straight over her head and jumped. She fell upon the outstretched canvas, aDd escaped injury. A woman and two men are said to have been seen at a window on Nassau street, and then to disappear in the flames. A man who gained the roof and escaped by way of the Times building, shouted to his rescuers that other human beings were perishing there. Three men appeared in the fouruhstory window imploring aid with outstretched arms. None was possible from without,but a quick-witted negro, a bootblack in Park Row, named Charles Wright, climbed a large telegraph pole in front of the Evening Mail office and cut the wires, enabling the men to slide down them and escape.

Competeut judges sum up the total loss on all property, including the building, at over $1,000,000. The number of losers is prodigious. It is estimated that in the innumerable offices in the building fully 500 men, women and boys found employment. A number of girls were employed in the two upper stones of the building, in which there were many small printing offices and book-bind-eries. New York,J|Feb. 1, —The ruins of yesterday’s great fire are still to hot to admit of search for bodies. No more missing have been reported to the police. The dead are known to be Ellen Bull, Bichard S. Davey and an unknown woman, whom many people saw fall back into a window full of flames. . Inquires have been made at the police station for fifteen sersons. AT LOCKPORT, N. Y. Lockport, February I.—The flour mills of Thornton & Chester, Arnold & Little and Oliver Gibson, burned last night. Assistant Chief Engineer Geo. Woods, was cut off by the fire, and compelled, as a last hope, to jump from the sixth story. He was killed instantly. Several firemen were badly hurt. Loss, SIOO,OOO. IN JOHNSON COUNTY, lOWA. lova City, lowa, February I.—A fire at Oxford village, sixteen ‘miles west of lowa City, destroyed the Central Hotel and Dinwiddie House and the Douglass building, occupied by James Hannon, grocer, at an early hour this morning. Insurance unknown. The property was entirely destroyed.

Murdered His Grandmother.

St. Louis, Mo., January 30. Word was received at Police Headquarters very late to-night that Mrs. Dorris, wife of General Dorris, formerly a prominent citizen of this city, was found dead this morning at her residence, about four miles out in the country. It appears that the murder of old Mrs. Dorris, a very brtef announcement of which was made last night, committed Saturday night, and seems to have been the result of a regularly planned robbery, and not a deliberate design to kill the old lady. Bussell Brown, her grandson, who way arrested last night, confessed at a late hour and stated in brief that he and a companion, who is supposed to be Patrick McGlew, a barkeeper, drove out to his grandmother’s house, situated on King’s highway, about four miles from the city, Saturday evening. Here young Brown had some words with his mother, who lived with Mrs. Dorris, she chiding him for his dissolute course of life, and he went away. Later in the night, however, after the family had retired, he and tits pal returned to the house and went to the room always occupied by him, when he visited the plaqe. Brown then went to his grandmother's room, told her his Uncle Tom wps sick in his (Brown’s) room, and wanted her aid. The old lady, who was 70 years of age and feeble, rose and went to the room, where she was seized by Brown and his companion and herdiamond rings forcibly stripped from her fingers by McGlew, while Brown choked her to keep her from cryiny out. During thestrdgle Mrs. Dorris became unconscious, and was ph o>’ , tue bed by the robbers, who rheu M em to the old lady’s room, took her gold watch from under the w, of her bed, left the house without disturbing the rest of the family, J limped into their buggy, and drove off.

the morning Mrs. Dorris was found dead, with several scratches and bruises on her neck, and the skin scraped from the fingers on which she wore the rings. The Coroner * was notified during the day, viewed the |remalns, and gave a certificate of death fiom natural causes, and it was nob until late last night that the police learned of the true state of the case and took hold of the matter. They then arrested Brown, but McGlew is still at large. His.capture is believed to be certain, however. Mrs. Dorris was the wife of General George P. Dorris, formerly a wellknown wealthy citizen of St. Louis, and young Brown is a son of a prominent lawyer and Prosecuting Attorney of St. Louis county. The affair has created a great deal of comment on account of the position of the parties concerned. St. Louis, February 1. Patrick McGlew, who is charged by the confession of Russell Brown with being accessory to the murder of Mrs. Dorris, arrived this morning from Chicago, in custody of Detective O’Neil. McGlew now admits that he knows Brown, but only by the name of Bussell. He also admits driving around with Brown on the night of the murder and the day following, but professes entire ignorance of the orime. He will be examined before the Coroner this afternoon. Brown and MoGlew are now confined in the same cell in jail.

FROM WASHINGTON

The indications are that the proposed reduction of the tax on cigars may be allowed. The President is very anxious for Congress to suppress polygamy this session. The bill to prevent Chineses immigration will meet vigorous opposition, and is not likely to pass. South Dakota is likely to be admitted, and a new Territory formed north. The House Committee on the Census has virtually agreed to increase the number ot representatives from the State of Illinois from twenty to twen-ty.-one, wnich will make the total number of representatives 320 instead of 319, as proposed by the McCord bill. There is little prospect of Burbridge getting an important mission. Kentucky has little claim on the administration.

Secretary Folger is to busy with applicants for office that he couldn’t attend the Cabinet meeting yesterday. The apportionment bill has been amended by the committee, giving Illinois two new members. The bill introduced in the House by Mr. Smith, of the Bloomington district, requiring the Surgeon General to furnish pure vaccine virus to the public at cost, has also been introduced in the Senate by General Logan. It is said that Captain Eads will obtain British aid for his ship railway if refused by Congress. He has assurance that the money can be raised in England in sixty days. It is said at the Postoffice Department to-day that the nomination of George Bryant, to be Postmaster at Madison, Wis., has been determined upon.

The indications are that the new Apportionment bill will become a law. The Mormons propose to show the private record of some of the Congressmen, if the question of polygamy is pushed. They have detectives working on the personal record of the members who are, the loudest against polygamy, and claim that they have become possessed of most damaging facts. John Boach, by sending to France for four steamers for the proposed Brazil line, seems confident of Government aid. The, anti-Camerons, of Pennsylvania. say that Butler’s gubernatorial candidacy trick will hold the counties for Beaver. The Pennsylvania Legislature will probable redistrict the State soon, on the basis of one additional member. It is safer for the present Legislature to act than to take the chance of the next being Bepublican.

THE GUITEAU VERDICT.

The cost of the trial will be about $60,000. The jury fees will amount to $1,600; board for the jury, $3,000; reporting, $5,000; witness fees and mileage. $10,000; counsel probably $5,000 each. The sentiments of the whole country seem to support the verdict. Scoville evidently has little hope of of a new trial. John W. Guiteau says frankly that there is no hope, and feels sure that his brother must hang. Guiteau is much worried, and shows a breaking down. His appetite is bad. Scoville has little hope of obtaining a new trial. There is no probability that Judge Cox M ill permit a new trjal of Guiteau. The story that the jurors read a newspaper is vigorously denied by all its members. Ths Guiteau jury has made affidavit that they didn’t read the newspapers. The indications are that the whole story Is a job to get a new trial. The party who professed to have found the paper turns out to be a detective or doubtful reputation.

Hr. Sooville is much disheartened. It is doubtful if he will go to the court in banc. John W. Guiteau has no hope of a new trail. Mason, the soldier, who shot at Gqitewa, Is still under confinement. He will probably not be tried until Guiteau is executed. HOW THE VERDICT WAS RECEIVED ELSEWHERE. Freeport, 111.. January 26.—Great relief is felt by our community at the conviction of the assassin Guiteau. Upon the reoeipt of the verdict of the jury there was uuiversal rejoicing. None are more hearty jntheir approval of the verdict than those who knew him best. Cleveland, 0., January 26.—Inquiry was made to-day of Mr. Rudolph, the brother of Mrs. Lucretia R. Garfield, as to how the late President’s widow received the news of Gulteau’s conviction. He answered that he has been at Mrs. Garfield’s home almost every day during the trial, and never heard the subject mentioned. Mrs. Garfield apparently has taken no Interest in the trial fiom the first.

Detroit, Mich., January 26.—Quite an excitement was stirred up at the opera house last night, when Hermann, the magician, was exhibiting. Between the performances the result of the Guiteaujtrial was announced, when the audience at once broke into loud applause. In the midst of the noise a hiss from the gallery was heard. As soon as the signs of approbation subsided a little, the hiss became more audible, and there were cries of condemnation. A special officer instantly discovered the man who was hissing, and stepping down the steep aisle advised him to desist. This attracted attention to him, and before the officer could get him out of the theater a crowd of men and boys near by pitched upon the offender. The fellow was badly cut and bruised by his patriotic assailants, and was rescued with great difficulty. He managed to help himself as soon as put outside the building. London, January 26.—The Standard, Daily Telegraph, Morning Post and Daily News and Times express satisfaction at the conviction of Guiteau, but all, with more or less severity, criticise the conduct of the trial.

Denver, Uol., January 28•—A reporter of the Leadvllle Herald endeavored to interview Mrs. Dunmlre, the divorced wife of Guiteau, to obtain her opinion regarding the verdict, but was unable to do so. Her husband, however, said that Mrs. Dunmire was well pleased with the result, aud in reply to the question, “Does she think Guiteau should hang?” said: “Yes; she thinks that he should have been hanged before he assassinated the President.”

Jersey Justice.

Trenton, N. J., January 31. Oscar L. Baldwin, late Cashier of the Mechanics’ National Bank of Newark, appeared before the United States Court to-day, pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to fifteen years iu the State Prison.

A Mohammedon Messiah.

True believers are greatly agitated over the expected coming of the Medhi or Mohammedan Messiah. The prophet himself foresaw this event.and prophesied that he would be an Arab and a descendant of his own bouse. El Mehdl is expected to unite the faithiul, restore Islam, and rule over the Mohammedans throughout the world. According to a prophecy that has for several years been carefully circulated among the Moorish Mussulmans, be will make his appearance on the first day of the month Moharram in the year l,300(Nov. 12,1882 ) He will be 40 years of age and of noble looking appearance, and one of his arms will be longer than the other. A religious devotee of great sanctity in North Africa is already know as El Medhi (literally, the teacher,) and in personal appearance corresponds exactly with the description in the prophecy. He will probably attempt to play the part of the Messiah, and aided by a fanatical following, any seriously threaten European influence in India, Egypt and Algeria.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago, February]. Opening. Higli’t. Low’t. Clos’g Wheat, March, *1 32% II 38% *1 32% *1 32% Corn, May, 65% 60% 06 % 60% Oats, March, 42% 42% | 42 42 New York, January 31, Flour— Dull and slightly In buyers favor;' round hoop Ohio, $6 20@6 75; choice, 80 80 @8 25; superfine western, 84(3)4 75; common to good extra, 86 00@6 00; choice 80 10(g) 9; white wheat 87 25@825. Wheat—%@%c lower; moderatively active; speculative business; No. 2 red, seller February, 81 45%@1 46%; seller March 81 48% @8148%; seller April, 8149%®149%; seller Say, 81 46%@1 47%. Corn— %@%c lower; heavy mixed Western, spot, 67@71c; future, 60@73c. Oats— %@%o lower and weak. Western No. 2, seller January and February, 48c; seller March, 48%@48%c; seller May, 48%. Beef—Quiet and firm. Pork— Firm and quiet; spot, new mess, 818 00@18 25; old do, spot. 817 00@17 25; new mess seller February, 818 00. Lard—s@7%c higher; very firm; steam rendered, 81127%. " , Baltimore, January 31. Flour— Quiet; Western superfine. 84 25 @5 25; extra, 85 25@6 2>; family, 86 60@7 50. Wheat— Western lower; No. 2. winter red, spot, 40%@1 40%; seller February, 8141%, asked;seller March,Bl 43@1 44; seller April, 8145%. Corn— Western firmer; mixed spot, 09c; seller February, 6»%c, asked; seller March, 70@70%c; seller April, 72@7i%c; seller May! 78c. Oats—Quiet; Western white, 51(@52c; mixed 50@51c; Pennsylvania, 50@52c. Kye— Steady at 90@95c. Toledo, January 31. Wheat— Firmer: No. 2 Ked, cash or seller January 81 40, bid: seller Kebtuary, 81 40%, bid; seller March, $1 42%; seller April or May, 814:)%;seller June 81 40%; seller July 8123%c. Corh—Firmer; No. 2 cash and seller January or February 73%c; seller May, 680. Oats—lnactive; No. 2cash, 46c. Clover Heed-No. 2, 84 85; Frlaie, 8606; prime Mammoth, 86 75. Hoos—Nosol*. ‘

JOCOSITIES.

The man who makes love to in old maid is evidently fond of a sour mash. It’s soold day when I get left.” Xantipper remarkedfwhen Socrates went off to t hit fflftwemhqtaTßi: Ottawa boasts of a hog which weighed 800 pounds dressed, and it was found outside of the newspaper offloee, too. The school boy who put explosives under the.teacher’s chair has a lively idea of that popular piece of music, “The Torpedo and the whale.” A Frenchman whom “Gath” once brought to Washington to make sketch an artist remarked: Are these congressmen? My God They look like bisons!” A Hoboken woman would not roll up her sleeves to be vaccinated, but desired the doctor to cut a hole in her dress. Why didn’t she vaccinate herself with her elbow?

“Crushed carrots” and “frightened mouse” are the newest shades. The young lady who discovered the latter tint mixed colors while standing on the highest chair in the room. It is possible for a man to know |ust what he paeans to say, and yet not be able to express it, as for Instance, when the Hiberniau conductor said, “Sir, if you are goiug to smoke on this oar you must get off to do it.” A temperance man at Cape Elizabeth, Maine, is reported to have risen up in meeting and delivered the following speech: “The temperance cause is a very salubrious cause, and I hope you will all embrace it with validity.” Teacher—“John,what are your boots made of?” Boy—“Ofleather.” “Where does the leather come from?” “From the hide of the ox.” “What animal, therefore, supplies you with boots and gives you meat to eat?” “My lather.” A wag describes a teacher’s institute as a place where the males go to look at the females and the females go to look at each other, while bits of learning are sandwiched in like the dove the young man goes out for between the acts. Considerate: Mistress (on ooming home from the seaside)—"Why, Jane, what’s become of the bullfinch?” Jane —“Well, you see, m’m, it didn’t say much and looked droopin’ like, so cook put it out of its misery, an’ I ’ad it stuffed for my ’at.

They tell the story of a little boy, a young scion of the house of Beecher, who, ou being rebuked foi bis noisy conduct, in which his sister had some share, declared that she ought to be included iu the scolding. “It I was boisterous,” said he, “she was glrlsterous.” The reason given by the colored man for not going too near the,heels of a famous roan mule was so ■fchtisfactory that we can afford to adopt it as an excuse for not doing a groat many other things. “De reason,” he said, “why I nebber ’proach dat roan mule from de rear is dat I’m too foud of my family, an’ don’t belong to no church, nudder.” I A young mau who was proud of his atheism was once ridiculing the story of David and Goliah, asserting that it was impossible for a small boy to throw a stone with force enough to break the skull of a giant. He appealed to a Quaker in confirmation of his tneory, “Well,” said the man of broad prejudices, “it all depends. If the giant’s bead was as soft as thine appears to be, it could be done easily.”

Wonders of Oregon.

Yakima Record. From Adam Duncan, who spends the greater part of his time over on the Columbia, near Priest Kaplds, we learn some interesting facts (a regard to natural wonders in that unsettled region. One of these wonders is described as a sort of lake or basin some four miles long and quite near the Bapids. When the Columbia is at its highest this lake in the ground, leaving nothing in its stead save a great flu tuber of large wells, some of them being nearly twenty feet in width. The number of these wells is estimated to be about 150. Passing about among them they are found to contain waters of different qualities and colors, some of them being clear, cold and agreeable in taste and filled with beautiful speckled trout, while others are bitter and black like those Stygian pools renowned in ancient fable,over which the souls of the damned were supposed to pass on their journey to the regions of torment. As the Columbia Biver begins to run low in its channel these wells gradually rise until they overflow and forma lake. Of the scientist, who is supposed to have a theory for all things, let us inquire: “Why Is all this?” By what sort of subterranean, syphonic, double-back-action arrangement are these things brought about? Why should the water in the wells arise as tbe water in the channel of the river recedes, and why should wells sj close to each other contain waters of such a different character? Another natural wonder presents itself for solution up iu tbe neighborhood of Moses’ Ceolie. In the hottest part of the summer there is a place u there where huge icicles form and bang like in midwinter from the tall rocks. By digging in among the stones or broken shale large bodies of ice are found which seem to form there in midsummer. The water flowing from among these broken stones is as cold as ice itself, but where it comes from and why these icicles form in midsummer, while none are to be seen in the winter time, are more conundrums. The rocky bluff slopes gradually down from the north in such away as to receive the sun’s rays m their fullest force, and just back of the bluff is a level country covered with bunch grass.

Mounted Infantry.

St James Gazette. An incident which affords a striking illustration of the advantages derivable from the judicious employment of mounted infantry is narrated in a lately-published account of the French operations in Northern Africa. At one time during the pursuit of Bi-81ima, in the south of the province of Oran, it became of the utmost moment to send i mmedlate succor to a friendly-disposed frontier tribe, and to attacK without loss of time some bands of fugitives who we.e assembled in the territory of the latter. Accordingly, Colonel Crouzet, who commanded the column which was following ap Sl-Bllmaa, mounted the men of hie battalions of rides on mules; and this body of improvised mounted infantry escorted by

afew squadrons of Spahis, succeeded in reaching a point 180 kilometres for 112 English miles) distant in fifty-nine hours. The sudden and unexpected appearanoe of this force so terrified the enemy that the oolums of the latter at once ***** I—irinnr tutifciA them baggage and cattle, fled across the frontier. ,The performances of UM moles during this march are vary high ly spoken or; and they are staled: v»have displayed as muah enduranqe.Jf camels, even when prpoeedto organize a company of -riflemen mounted'tnr in eaoh battalion of the fonrpeglmeats of Zouaves, of the three regiments. of Tirailleurs, and of th 6 Foreign LegMflb permanently quartered in Algeria.

The Editor and the Shoemaker.

Carson (Nev.) Appeal. - ” v ’ > ;' One day an editor, hard at trotk trying to devise a plan to make delinquent subscribers pay their dues, was (sailed upon by a shoemaker, who dropped, to to give the editor some valuable hints on running, a newspaper. The editor*, oveijoyed at the opportunity, gave the man his bast cane-bottom onahr, hand- ; ed him a iresh cigar and listened, attentively. Quoth the shoemMSralhe lit the weed:. “Your paper needs a hundred improved features. Yop,don’t grasp the topios of the day by the right handle; you don’t set the locals in the right kind of type; your telegraph news 1b too thin; even the paper Itself is poorly manufactured, not thick, enough and too chalky a white. You don’t run enough matter, and what you do run ain’t of the right sort. Your ideas about protective tAriff internally foolish and your stand on the COnkling matter!was bad. bad. I tell you as a friend I dont take yoHr paper myeeir, but I see it once in a while, as a paper is a public affair, I suppose I have as good a right to criticise as any body. If a man want’s to give ms advice I let him; I am glad to have him, in fact” "That’s exactly it,” said the edltM, kindly; “I always had a dim idea of my shortcomings, but never had them so clearly and oouninclngly set forth as by you. It is impossible to expreSf my gratitude for the trouble you' have taken not only to find out these facts, but to point them out also. Borne people knowing all these things, perhaps nearly as well as you, are mean enough to keep them to themselves. Your suggestions (come in'a most appropriate time; I have wanted somebody to lean ou, a» it were, for some weeks. Keep your eye on the paper, aud when you see a weak spot, come up.” The Bhoemaker left, happy to koOW that his suggestions had been received with a Christian spirit. Next day, Just as he was finishing a boot, the editor came in, and, picking up tne mate remarked: “I want to tell how that boot strikes me. In the first place the leather is poor; the stitches in the sole are wide apart and in the uppers too near the edge. Those uppers will go,to pieces In two Weeks. It's all wrong, my ffiehef putting poor leather in the heals and smoothing it over with grease and lamp-black. Everybody complains qf your boots; they don’t last; the legs are too short, the toes are too narrow*, and the instep tpo high. How caa you have the gall tocharge twelve dotlors for sueh boots beats ms. Now I tell you this at a friend, because I like to see you succeed. Of course, I don’t know any more about shoemaking thanyou do ajoouta newspaper.bUt stifl I take an Interest In you because you are so well-disposed to me. In foot ” Here the exasperated cobbler grabbed a lapstone, and the editor gained the street, followed by old knives, placers, hammers, and awls, sent after him by the wrathful oobbler, ,wbo, on regaining bis seat, swore by the niae gods that no impertinent, lopear idiot should ever come round trying to teach him his trade.

Profit from a Two-Legged Horse.

Lewiston (Me.) Journal. A Lewiston gentleman, who visited * New York a few days agp, saw In the museum a stuffed two-legged horse', which, while 1n the flesh, was closely identified with the fortunes of twp Lewiston families. In 1876 a stroller came to Lewiston with the two legged horse, exhibited him iu a building on Lisbon street at ten cents a head, and with his own dulcet notes, accompanied by a hand organ, drew in thousands of dimes. A Lewiston capitalist gave the man $2,000 for a half ownership in the horse. The Centennial Exposition at Philadelphia was then about to commence. The two-legged prize was shipped to the Quaker City, and the Lewiston man sent his son to look out for his interests. The invest* merit paid for itself in a few weeks, and then coined money during the v/hole Centennial. Soon Lewiston got into possession of the other leg of the horse. Two youngLewistonians traveled all over the country with it. They at length settled in New York; city and added to the entertainment a German band and an educated Goat. After tbe horse had made over $15,000, apd had become aged, he was sold for 1400In a few months he died, and took final rations of the straw which now inflates his hide

One Disgrace Spared Her.

Xrom the London World. Irish humor, hard knocks as it has received, is not dead yet. A triend of mine, a Major in the County Militia and Chairman of Potty Sessions in the Province Leinster, lately sententenced au old lady, who bad given the Solice a good deal of trouble through runkeness and disorderly conduct, to two months imprisonment. Perceiving she was rather astonished at tie action of the Bench, the Major asked her if she had anything to say aguinst it, when, advancing to the front of the dock, she thus delivered herself: “I have this to sav; I have been divorced by two huibands; my youngest sister has been unfortunate; niy eldest has lately been indicted fur keeping a disorderly house; but,” —and her© the old lady derew herself up—“l am proud to sav I have flo relashuus in the mlirtia>

At the funeral of Chief Justice Pierpoint, of Vermont, at Vorgennes, tha preacher caused some resentment among the mourners by expreiMn& sorrow that the deceased had “nevqr given expression to those views which are considered necessary to the Christian.” One Key West gardener expects to send north the tomatoes from 12,0(Kfc plants. !