Bloomington Courier, Volume 9, Number 32, Bloomington, Monroe County, 9 June 1883 — Page 2

The Rloemington Courier.

BLOOMINGTOK, : : INDIANA A BRIDGE HORROR. ?

The Great Brooklyn Bridge the' Scene of a Fearful Panic, and Many Liveware Destroyed by a u Inexplicable Grusfc

IPBOOKIjTS EtBlMB. , , A dcanlv'UrtslroAamcl on the .Brook lyn bridge Wednesday afternoon at font o'clock, by which fourteen perso 8 were killed anil many more fatally oreerionsly

injured. The narrowness of the foot-way for passengers is the cause of the horror, fJhe long line of people it op fofcV jrfthe center w alk of the structure, going from and coming to the New Xok side, was" thickened, swelled 'and stopped in its n?o Hon just at the stairs lead in grip from Hit rourrete roadway to the bridge .proper. Siring raen and feeble women, manhood .a 1 infancy,, were wedged tog -ther in Hi f&jam by thef earful pressure of 4he crowd,wiiich extendedi? for miles, one might say, on either end of the line. It was a remorseless, fearful, stupid force that held its victims as immovable as the stone foundations of the bridge .jteeJf. Thestoppage lasted nearly an hour, du r

ing which time scores of people fainted: To relieve the jam the bridge officials removed some of the iron aling a, few feet from, the stairway s on the New York side, when, ef couree,those unfortunate enough to be near the opening, weak and fainting' as they were, immediately fell helter skel

ter, Ue!ft: oyer head, down on . toe jaggFiJ

graveiljH reiad beneath, a mass of bruised.

m -cojoi ea ...nnnian uesii. scores we;e

tranipied upon instantly, audio stum U a was d ath. Meneie dragged-oufeof L4hat heap of ljplpless humanity with faces blue as indigo' and the 3ife blood trick iingout'ot their nOstrjls.end children and women pale, dishevelled and dead. The roadway on either side of the walk was strewn with the dead and dying e." pitiable eight. The dead and dj ing were carried off in wagons, carts1 etc impro

vised on the moment for services, and it!

was a long time before-ihe prficearrrverrf

and any thing like order restored or an ambulance appeared. .... INCTDEJiTS ASt DESCRIPTIVE. I was walking along the bridge tor ward the New York entranee-"said a man who held a young girl, who was ciying

bitterly, by the hand, 'when I haid.

6honting ancfc screahnn, j suddenly a rJh in front of me. Then I saw hats, sticks, and hands suddenly stretched aloft, au; with one scream the vhole dense in- ss surged and swayed toward! -the gates. I suppose t he peopK tin Might the . bridge was coming Sown. Ac way,they fough fe, Boreamed and ill u iri e demons. VU 1-

fchere. Messengers were sent to the police station in Oak street, but before any outside help came the bridge police, assisted by citizens, impressed two grocers wagons into ambulance service, snd they-were loaded up with the deaci and

dyihg and driven off the bridge, followed

by crowds-of distracted meii and women.

NEWS AND INCIDENT. 3ur Compilation o the. Important Happcamga ot the Week,

nrnc liruHi-i. Tfiea f '.found-

- A

ren ncilomfcin w j !

trampled upon, and I bly uPof tif entrant i.

this little fcir!, who had Uvt ler ' tMen'ds, and here we aVe, entlnk Giid." Said another:"! x&rrt ?ii thericge at ?ujl?fe andasJL was. approaching the river span I found myself unable move either backward or forward. "Women and children commenced screaming, and hundreds ofmenlirabe&r. ithf gi eat diarctilt y "oB t b er "be tifts runnings-over the railrajads and wmd efeuw&y tot the carringey. Mant rhiaWeFveVftrp through bet ween the beams and were caught by those beneath; a number f women also escaped in this way; I m caped in thia way myself. The polioars: I others helped? pull cut the tdead and dying, and t hey wejp lmdonthe oawiiy until ambiflabcacWk: THl sfiriAs if the children on tie pathway were blood curdtijg. They criec!, 'Help, help, save me for Ocd's eaHe buhero) rewcVe we could do othic " " It is said the panic was brought abuii t by pickpoekete who were operarinsr on.tl e TUB SUN'S ACCOUNT. The Jfegr York Sure gives a succinct tccount of the horror : f llThere were thou?ands of people on.,, the bridge, most of them ebraingfr BrobklyDl " The sir was clear and brisk, and the people were walking rapidly As the crowd approach ed the short aight of steps those in front pushed baok for.fear they.wjuid be pre-: ciDitateoiver the isteps, a- distance? of about sixcreee heei people; in drawiz g back from the steps, made the nucleus of the jamor thousands behind them pnshT ed on unheeding. Almost instantly iho people began to shout, rSTA3n BACK AXI GIVE TJS RfOMf' Meanwhife.ihe crowd from New York, which Was atthe foot of the steps, got Mocked. Men at the ijaead ( f the Nev York crowd fought iheir way back, having a clear space at the foot of the steps. The shouting and crowding from the Brooklyn side Sucre sed. -It was utterly inexpUcabte.! Tne people in the advance of the Brooklyu throng were pushed in spite of tuemselves towards the .steps. 'Jtey seemed to have a horror of going over the etepp, although the flight is not v over flavor six feet

ey locked arms and pushed

furiously ba rgasnst the thousands

a few minutes, the point just above he steps, thereVas a slow" yieldinff to

' America is expected to raise 15,000 for heceeljslmid ? - Tlius far this year 50,000 fewer emigrants have arrived in New York than came in the corresponding period in 1882.

The yield of the mines of the United States Tor the year 1882 was1 $32,500,000 in gold and $46,800,000 in silver. Compared with the previous year, this shows a decline of 2,200,000 in gold and an in-

iojeaseof $3,800,000 in silver. The 'com

parative decline in the production of gold was greater in California than;any other state or territory, the yield being 1,400,000 lees than in 1881. , Til e following general order has been if suedl'by the- Postoffice Department: Pdstmasters at first and eoond-class offices will hereafter give their personal attention to the business of their office1, and not absent themselves therefrom without authority granted upon a written application to this department. A

violation of this order is deemed sufficient

cause for removal. INDIANA ITEMS:. .

T'5 e iiry in the case of John Green chsrgo I w ith setting fire to the Wabash O'jHege buildings, returned a verjdicfc seiitencing hinT to imprisomnent in the county jail for one year, iepheu Phlipprt, with no hands at all; W. R Richagfwith only one hand, and George Fhilnott, with two, covej ed seven scieo: corn, on the ?inahip farm,., near, t

Varsaw, the other day.

John Henry, of Shelby ville, chastised liis step son, and his wife, the boys' mother, had the father arrested for assault and battery. Then John beat his wife1 and she had him arrested again and sent. to jaiL ...... Tiie'hom'e-andvforein missionary board of the United Presbyterian ohurch closed ah interesting meeting at Dublin. The Iward contracted for the building .of a steamboat for the use of the workers in Africa and also arranged for the publication of a newspaper there. vby, an act passed by the last Legislature of this State, County Boards are nnthorized to pay a bounty of not to esr ceed 2'foT?each scalp of an owl or chicken hawk. Onr Commissioners should make a note of this. The payment, however, was made optional. ..." 5" William Strieker, one of the wealthiest men in Clark County, has deeded a farm

by osch of his six children. The srnalle?i

form is i valued at $11,00(1 and the largest

vk pQQjX He does not want his will contested after death, aud desires to fee all of his children satisfied before he dies. A burglar attempted to enter the residence of Mr. John Leonard, in the suburbs of Jeffersonville. Mr. Leonard got up to shoot the intruder, but instead of doing so, 6hot his wife through the palm of the handLThereport of the pistol an 3 theulafmvof Mrs. Leonard frightened

away the intruder.

41m frightful pressui e from 'behind, aud fce front of thJcrowwasibrced nearej and nearer to the edge gfihe steps. Women and children? were screaming f . help, andinenmere shouting confusedly . Umbrellas and canes ier e thrown over the rails at thepsit&by peopleB who netrd--ed their hands to tight thoir way out of the desperate crowd. At last, with a

vAupw Buuux iiuaujfuft bxuuugn LLeeiaiiyy

SarahiAbrigaBt, residing ner Shoals nhile sweeping aroouw in her father's house, accidentally knocked over a gun standing loaded in a corner of the toom

L, she was sweeping, which, was dircharged

by the f all, ' and the ball passed clear through one" of her feet and lodged in the other. It is feared that. both of Her feet will have to be amputated. Three or four families of paupers shipped from Ireland by thfe British government, to get rid of them, have arrived in Bichmond and are living on the bounty of the community. There is sickness in two "of the" families and the township trustee Is supplying them with theneces6aries of life, while the men, from their inability or unwillingness to get work, are idle end dependent for their bread In the case of the State vs. James Moore, chief engineer of the Plymouth fire department, for an assault upon Chas. Kellison, who refused to aid at a fire, the jury, after being out twenty minutes, re-

tnrned a veidict of notcuilty. A vote ef

thanks on behalf af the department was tendered the jury by M. A. O. Packard counsel for the defenoant, after they returEed into court The verdict, however, is sharply Criticised as being directly contrary to the instructions of the court, TherepoTt' of the State-house commissioners for the quarter ending March 31 was submitted to the Governor last Sat irday. The'only notable thing abou t it is that it contains nothing of interest rhe action of the General Assembly is elaborately set forth, but thecommieeioners say nothing in regard to their intensions. At their present rate of progress they are not likely to reach any concl uslon or take any decisive action for the aext several years. The expenditures up to the present time amount to $781,762,12. A severe storm struck Edinbnrg last Tuesday evening. The new cupola of the M. E. church was blown off and dashed through the root of the parse jaege, almost demohehmg the building. Rev. C. W. Lee, who was ur the house at the time, came near losing his life, a3 some of the timbers were blown within a few feet o hinr A barn on the larm of JarrettBcm ings, who lives rive miles wefit of that place, was blown down, and his son Johh and a farm hand by the name of Daniel Lane buried in its ruins. The state convention of "Shorthorn"

The barn of Silas Alber? sou, ncrfch of Mineola. L, J burned on -Friday night. Thirty-nino milk cows and three horses buroedto death. It was incendiary work.

A olose watch placed over the management of the Freedman's Hospital iu Washington has resulted in the discovery that meat has been delivered there that was utterly unfit for food. ... For . the first time in fifteen years grain arriving in 'New; York is being stored there, instead of being immediately ship

ped toGeat Britain and thecontiuent

by vessels previously chartered.-

The non-appearance of all but one of a large number of Catholic priests wbo were advertised to attend a meeting at Boston, on Sunday evening, addressed by Thomas Brennan, secretary of ?ho Into Land League, is attributed to an admonition from the ;archbishop. Bayard and McDonald have written let ters to -the Kew York World on the tariff question. The former favors a bold course in opposition to protection, The latter says the public will not be satisfied while the tariff remains above the re renne point. . The conference of the iron manufacturers and the Amalgamated Association committees, in Pittsburg last week, resulted in the manufacturers siting last years scale of $5.50 per ton for puddling.

This action averts a strike, aud insures tiie. running of all the milts in the West for at' least one year longer. T'he Pittsburg manufacturers gave lis their reason for this unexpected step that they had information that a number of Western mills would continue to run under t he

old scale, and rather than see their business go to other points they decided to accede to the demands of fcbo Amalgima ted AesoeiatioD. The manufacturers in this vicinity had the new scale under consideration, and refused to accept it. Had .the-agreement not beeu reached in Pittsburg, nearly all the mills hereabouts would have shut down Sunday morning. The action iu Pittsburg prevented any such necessity. THE WEST: Senator L ogan in a two column letter Tuesday morning reiterates in detail his denial that he located any hauls cu the Zuni Indian reservation. Frank Brown and John Anderson, notorious desperadoes, undertook to "run" the town of Wiota, la., on Friday night, threatening peaceable citizens and firing their revolvers. As they passed up the street a public-spirited citizen fired a load of buckshot into them. Auderson has since died, and Brown cannot recover. A party of seven host iles were seenSun day neaT Johnson's ranch, fifcy miles cast of Tombstone and forty north of the Sonora line. They were going toward San Carlos reservation. Tliey had evidently been driven from the Sierra Madras. The hostiles fired on the herders, but the latier escaped unhurt. McGcoch, Everiugham & Co., of Chicago, rt fused to accept the delivery of HyXK) tierces of lard, representiBg $350,000, from

Fowler Brothers, claiming that it was adulterated, although it had passed the usual inspection. McGeoch, Everinghaai

Uo., claims that lo,uui tierces tney received from Fowler Brothers on May 1 have proved worthless. It is alleged that there is 1,000,000 worth of udulleratod ilard on the market. Dodge. City, Kansas, is much excited lover a proclamation posted stopping all gambling. Lukc'Short is defiant, and at .his place of business. The arrival of Bat Masterson being announced, parties heavily armed, being for and against him, were at the train. Short declared his determination to live in a community where he has a large business interest. A com

pany ot ioriy-nvo munia was sworn m

and mustered by H. E. Gryden, of the Governor's staff. Fifty Sharp's ritles in possession of the sheriff, and ordered to bo turned oyer to Major Gryden, are lost and distributed among the Degar faction Dispatches are hourly i cceived from Eastern parties asking the situation, and Short's determined stand, declaring that he comes here with a flag of truce, but willing to obey the law, aud defying all the mob, has made a change in Ins favor.

HU!T? T .1 T ' PT .1?. T? T Ti lUVAUM

The littlo rod ribbon, l;ho ring and tlie tosp! . . TJio Bjunmortime comos mid the sumuiortimo And never n blossom in fill of the hind As whilo i.s i'io slam of lior hookonine' tmnd! The Ions winter months, and the glnru of the snows; The little red ribbon the ring and tha rose! Aud never a glimmer of nun in the akien 'As bright aa tho light of hor gloiiouH ey!s! t. Brenins only nn true; but thoy fude and lire gone, And hor fao is not here when I w ikon at dawn: Tho littlo rod ribb'Mi, the ring and tho r-so, All all 1 give up f tom my w nlth of rep we!"' '' lam weary of waiting, and weary of tears,

And my heart tir.M, too, aU thoe das i!afcn ya'ira Moaking over the oioe only song that i known, The littlo red ribbon, tho ring ami tho roes'. f.

FITTED TO A HAIR.

Expert Ti stimony Put to tho Proof A Microscopic View. 1 T'sfl other day a Dispatch reporter be iug in eonvcisation with ancminout local surgical authority the talk turned oii expert testimony, "I'hoonly safe expert is the aneroscope,' said the doctor. " That, aided' by gootl judgment, is vcrynarly infallible, I have, a? you know, given a gool deal of attention to w usrative anatomy, cspe-

ciauy to toe structure or tne nair as it appears under the microscope. To tne unassisted eye, indeed, all hair appears very much alike, except as it is long or short,

anTK or tair, scraignc or ouriy, coarse or

tine. Undr the microscope, however, tho case is vary different; the white man's

is rouna; tne negro s oval; too mouse s apparently jointed; tho bat's jagged, aud

so on, ludeed, every animal has hair of

a peculiar oaraHer, and, what is more,

this character varies according by the part

of the body from which it is taken an important circumstance, as wilJ appear

from my story, which is t his:

i o ice recsiverl a to liter by oost con

taining a few hairs, with a request that

would examine thorn, and addtng tuat

thoy would be c -tiled for in a few days.

Accordingly, I submitted the hairs to the

microscope, when I discovered that they were from the human eyebrow, and had been bruised. I made a note to this effect, and folded it up with the hairs in au envelope, ready for the person who had seut them. In a few days a stranger called aud inquired whether had made tho investigation. " 'Oh, yea I said, 'there they are, and you wiil find them and their description iu this envelope,' hauling it to him at tho same time. He expressed himaelf as being much oblige, and offarl me a feft, which, however, I (tecliued, tailing him thai I could not think of talcing anythiug for so rmall a nutter. cXt turned out, however, of more consequence than I had imagined, for within a

of thousands opvoidiyfc young' girl ibu I cattle breeders heard appropriate papers,

had lost her footing-on the penona edpe fell headlong. She struck the pathway at the foot of the steps and lay for a moment. She raieeclherself on her httH'a and would have, goj: upj lut in anotlV r moment she waa buriecTfour feet "deefrnn der the bodies of others who fell over the steps after her; She was dead when they got her out, more than half an, hour '-rt terward. ; Men sprang up n- ther rails ab the side and waved the crocls back from both the New York and iBrookin tides, but the people continued to crowd on toward ti e steps. No police vin sight, and each minute the excitera eSew ortev M m in the crowd lifted their children abr e their heads to we hem from the cruh, and people were still paying their penni i. at both gates and swarming in. - ' At last the people at the New York end of the bridge understood what was happening. The gatee were closed, and word wa sent to Brooklyn to close the gatf a

and discussed a resolution to change the

association from an organization devoted exclusively to Sborthorn"cattle interests so as to include alK But the "general sentiment was the admission of advocates of the "Jersey" and other breeds would lead to interminable wrangling, and the resolution was killed. The association adjourned after electing, the following officers for the ensuing year: President, E. S. Frazeel of Fayette county; vice president, C. H, Chapman: secretary, J. W. Robe, of Putnam county: treasurer, W. Thrasher, of Rnsh county.

THE SOUTH; Lynchburg Va., had a lire Wednesday that nestroyed property to the amount of over $250,01)0, and sour lives lost. During a terrible thunder slcrm at Crystal Spripga, Miss.oii Saturday, Mrs. Mayfield was struck by lightning anil killed, as was also Mrs. Clara Cook. They were surrounded'by several young ladies all of whom esca ped. A cyclone in Bartner county, Alabama, Sunday, demolished houses on the plantations of Betronment, Neely Wilkinson, Stiles Herner and jSrs. Neigham. One colored man was killed, and several fkther persons wounded.

THE EAST: The national convention of colored people, which was to have been held in Washington, will be held in Louisville, Sept. 24. - ... The puddlers of the Blondin rollingmill, at Reading, Pa., were granted twenty-five cents a toy fyjypnce, and returned to work,

FOREIGN; Dayitt, Healy an 1 Quiun were released from Kilmianham jail Monday. A Vienna correspondtmt reports that Turkey is seeking a coalition with Russia against British influence in Egypt It is reported that another conspiracy to murder has been discovered in county Mayo, Ireland, and six persons arrested. Four members of the Black Hand so cicty at Xeree, Spain, charged with the murder of a pubiican, have been sentenced to death. The jam at the fete at Petroffsky Park, Moscow, Saturday, in honor of the coronU . ...... ation, was so immense that five persons

were crushed to death. The correspondent of the Mauehester Guardian says: Another encyclical letter "will shortly be issued by the Pope to the faithful iu all parts of the world denouncing secret societies, and will enjoin priests to refuse tjoe sacrament to all persons connected withVseditious movements The Malagassy envoys, in an intervieWi Monday, stated that they have received no fresh instructions from home since the recent' attack by therenoh on Malagascon territory. They expressed the--belief that property belonging, to Americans must have suffered durirsg the bombardment of Majunga,. as there are- two large American houses in town. James Oarey and other informers who testified at the trials of the Phrenix Park murderers have been notified that they

must indicate the places out of the country to which they wish to be sent Carey protested that he would remain iu Dublin, but the authorities ointed out that he would receive no police proleotion,and that on no condition would he be allowed to remain in Ireland. It is inferred from this action fcha;t; the extradition proceedings in tho case of Walsh, Sheridan and Tynan are collapsing.

week I was served with a subpoena to attend as a witness on a trial for murder. This was very disagreeable, as I have said; but there was uo help for it now. Tho case was this: A man had beeu killed by a blow with some bint instrument on the eyebrow, ahd the hiira satit to me for examination had lecu taken from a hammer iu possession of the suspected murderer. I m put iuto the witness-box, and my testimony, that the hairs were from the human eyebrow, and had been bruised,' was just the link in the chain of evidence which sufficed to convict the prisoner. The jury, however, was not ea$ ily satisfied that ni statement was worth anything and it required the solemn assurance of t he J udge that such a condition was withiu the roach of science to ckmvinca them that tbey might act upon it. "Oue juryman in particular aud old farmer was very hard to satisfy. " 'Does thee raeaa to say, said he, 'that thee can tell any hair of any animal V "I answered that I w.iild not take upon myself to assert positively that 1 could do so, although I believed I could. u 'Well,' said he, I 11 prove thee.' "The prisoner, as I said, was convicted, and I went home, and, in the busy life of an extensive practice, forgot all about my obstinate old farmer. About two years afterward, however, a person, an utter stranger to me, called on me with a few hairs screwed upon a piece of paper, which he asked me to examiue aud re port on. " fs this another iriirJer ease?' I in quired; 'for if so, I will have nothing to do with it Tve had enough of that sort of work.' "No, no,' said he, 'it is nothing of that kind. It is only a matte? of curiosity, which I sho m uchobliged i f you would solve; and if you will do if, I will call or scud for the result of your examination iu a few days time.' "Having received this assurance, I undertook the investigation. ""When ho was gone, and I had leisure, I put the hairs under the microscope, and soon discover; d that they were taken from the back ot a Norway rat. "Two or three days afterward, as I was sitting in my consulting-room, an old farmer-looking man was ushered in. " 'Well said he, 'has thee looked at them hairs?' " 'Yes,' I answered, 'and I find that they are from the back of a Norway rat. " 'Well, exclaimed he, 'so they are. TJ)5u hast forgotten me; but I have not forgotten thee. Does thee recollect the trial for murder at I? I said I would proveithee, and so I have, for them hairs come from the back of a rat's akiu my son sent me from Norway,' "So the old gentleman was; quite satisfied with the proof to which he had put me, aud I, as you may, well suppose, was well pleased that my skill and sagacity

bad stood such a queer proof as this, and more convinced than over of the value of the microscope."

William Vandefbilt George Alfred Towiisond. William Vauderbilt, according to my advices, is only sixty-two years old. He has to a large extent given up active interest iu railr Dads and other property. He made a large investment in government bond?1, iu order not to have his mellow years liarrassed with business. Not exactly a hypochandriao, he is so much delighted with this life and his large revenue in it that ho gives much of his time up to his doctors, and annoys his friends by his sensitiveness about his health. With the health of a bull ho has the nerve of a woman. For some time past he has had the movement cure, or the rubbing cure, whatever it may be called, involving somebody to come and scrub his mus

cles over and delude him with the idea

that friction is health. He is also a victim of the homeopathic people, and both

ers liis friends by taking out of his pock-)

I'll Jjupuio Ui. uuuiuui uumuvi t"1

and number nine, and swallowing thorn in the midst of his ordinary social demonstrations.

He is so far free from railroad occupa

tions now that he does not go more than

twice in one month to the New YorkOen-

tral stock. He recently said that he aud

his family altogether had not over 100,OQ0 shares of Central. I am told that his

son George, who is just about coming

to lie 21 years old, possesses 20,000 shares of this stock, left him by his grandfather.

'therefore Mr. Vauderbilt has not over

80,000 shares of New York Central. This

at par would be only $8,000,000. S v that we may say that he has but 9,000,000 at

present in New York Central Ltock. I have inquired what has been done with the money , he obtained by selling out hie New York Central. Some say that he bought his long line of government bonds with it. Others say that he possesses

long lines of oak in the Granger railroads, in the Snexioan railroads, TOE JHDBOY. Wl, Td like lo go behind the scenes with you some night,'' said the groeory man, offering the bad boy an orange to get solid with him, in view of fixture complimentary tickets. "No danger, is there?" "No danger if you keep off. the rass. But you'd a dide to see my Sunday School teacher one Saturday night last summer. He keens books in a store, and is pretty soon week days, 'but he can toll you more about Daniel in the lion's den on Sunday than anybody. He knew I was solid at the theatre, aud wanted me to get him behind the scenes one night, and another supe wanted to go to the sparring match, and I thought it wouldn't be any harm to work my teauherin, sol got him a job that night to hold the doga for the Uncle Tom's Cbin show. Ho is oue of the wings holding the chains,nud the d ?s were just anxious to go on, and it was all my teacher could dc to hold them. I told him to wind the chains around his wrists, and he did so, and just then Eliza began to skip across the iof, and we sicked the

blood hounds on before my teacher could unwind the chains from hia wrists, and the dogs pulled him right out on the stage, on his stomach, and d rawed him across, and he jerked one dog aud kicked him hi the stomach, aud the dog turned on my teacher and took a mouthful of his coat tail and shook it, and I guess the dog got some meat, anyway the teacher climbed up a step ladder, and the dogs treed him, and the steplacldor fell don, and we grabbed tho dogs and put some court plaster on the teacher's note, where tha fire extinguislier peeled it,and he said he woul 1 ifo Home, cause the theater was demoralizing iu its tendencies. I spose it was not right, but when the teacher stood up to hear our Sunday school lesson the next day,c.iuso he was tired where the dog bit him, I said, 'sick -em,' in a

( whisper, when his back was turned, and

ho jumped clear over the Biblctolass, and put his hand around to his coat tail as though he thought the Uncle Tom's Cabin party were giving a matinee in the church. The Sunday school lesson was about the do;r's licking the fores of Loza roe, and the teacher said we mast not confound the good dogs of Bible time with the savage beasts of -the present day that would shake the daylights out of Lazarus and make him climb the cedars of Lebanon quicker than yon could say Jack Robinson, and go off chewing the cud of bitter reflection on Lazarus coat tail. I don't think a Sunday school teacher ought to bring up personal reminiscenes before a class of children, do you ? Well, soma t i me next fall you put o l a clean shirt and a pair of sheet iron pants, with stove legs on the inside, and I will ta&e you behind the scenes to tee some good moral show. In the meant me if you have occasion to talk with pa, tell him that Booth, andffiarrett, and Kcanc

GENERAL MISCELLANY.

commenced on the stage as eupes, au 3 Sal vim roasted peanuts in the lobby of some theater, I want our folks to feel that I fttn taking the right course to be come a star. I prat"e au reservoir. I go hens, but to return. Avauut!" And tin bal boy walked out on his toes a la Booth. Early Law in Michigan. Detroit Free Press. When Gratiot county first began to be disturbed by pioneers, and eocn after it had its first justice of the peace, a farmer named i)avifoh walked three miles to secure the arrest of his neighbor, named Meachim, for assault aud battery.- To save the constable a six mile trip tho defendant walked in wijh the plaintiff They encountered his honor just leaving his house with a gun on his si oukler Davison halted him: "Squur, I want a warrant for this man for striking me." 'I'm in an awful hurry; come to-morrow. "So'm I in a hurry; and Tin going to have a raising to-morrow," "Meachini, did you hit himT "Yes." "D ivison, did you strike first?" "No." "Meachim,had you rather work for him three days than go to jail?" "I guess so' ' "And will that satisfy you, Davison?' "Yes."

"Then make tracks for home, and don't bother me another minute My son just cam? iu with the pews that an old bear and three cubs are up in the same beech tree down at the edge of the slashing.and Fm going to have some bear niat if it upsets the supreme bench, of Michigan. Court stands adiourned." Nothing Easier. A thief was caught iu a London establishment a short time ago opening a safe

contaimug a fortune with a key as perfect as though made originally for the lock. The man was convicted, and his prosecutors, out of curiosity, begged him to tell them how he got the key. 'Nothing eas icr," he replied. "We know who carried the key and what it was like. So me and my pals we gets into the same carriage, with your manager when he's going home by rail. One of us has a bag which he cant open. Has any gentleman got a key? Your manager produces his bunch, aud my pal, he has wax in his palm,,, and .takes a likeness of the key of the safe whilesoemiiivj tt open his bag, There's tho secret for you. Railroads in 185'r. In 1851 there were only 8,764 miles" of road in the Duited States, or8l per cent of the present mi leage,and o? this amount only ninety-six miles lay wit hi 11 tho state of Illinois. At the time the Hudson river railroad was onlj completed as far as Poughkeepeie, and passengers for Albany took the boat at the former place , for the j-emainder of the journey,

The King of Bavaria has appointed a niece of the late Richard Wagner to be "Royal Professor of the" School of Music," this being the first appointment of the kind which has ever Feon given in Germany to a lady. Superintendent Warner of the Allegheny, TaM workhouse says: "Prison labor is not worth over 40 cents a day. When a ski I! fid workman can be had for $2 a day I should pcr'er The latter. Men who go to tho prison arc usually those who have rulfcivuted all their life a natural distaste to work." The feasibility of growing lea seems to be sufficiently settled in the United

States. In different portions of tho country the healthy and promising growth of plants has been secured. We may expect that by degress this !inoortant industry will be established, adding to the wealth

aud natural resources of the American people. It 'i corns strange t o hear that the Yellows tone country, which onlv a few ) ears ago was toxuirted by Indians and buffalo, is now proposing to supply the East with its surplus beef, and will have great slaughter houses for this purpose erected at various joints along the North Pacific Railroad. Now York i3 a hard place for rent payers and its becomes harder every year, A decent "flat" four miles from Wall street now rents for $400. A house of five stories thus fitted 1ip brings the landlord 32,000, since the lowest iloor will rent for 8000 and the highest for $300. The laboring for rooms in tenements which are only abodes of miste ry. Such, however, eity life always has been and alwayawill be. Tho adulteration of food is rot .monopolized by Ame ioa. A manufactory has been found by thv panitary inspectors in Paris where ground acorns and burned wheat arc made into a still paste, arid afterwards stamped into cdtlee beans It was then colored and packed in bags for sale. Thi ; almost equals Yankee ingenuity which invented wooden nutmegs and altogether discounts tan-bark con di-

i meats. vh,

There nn regal r epidemic of mad dogs raging in Goojgir, and nothing like it be? fore was ever known. Cases of bites are given daily -in the papers, and there have been senesal fhtak 'csults. Several hundred hogs, cows, &e, which have been bit tan have been killed. The negroes own thousands of woithless cures, aud thousands more travel in drove3 killing sheep rmd chickens and sndking eggs. General

alarm pievads, and the towns arc passing dog laws. A SUt& law fo stringent as to

cause the slaughter of every dog in the State on which a tax is not paid is advocated by the press.

Pr of. George P. Fisher of Yale says that t-hep e valence of religious skepticism and

disbelief is by 120 merins confined to comma uitie i u v Inch ne wspa pers an d mag

amines abound, but is manifest in the fur

thest frontier settlemeut'-s. He thinks that the conceutrat:ort of attention upon tho study of material nature, the wondrous

Inventions and improvements, the in

crease of material comfort and prosperity,

are among the influences which have in

directly produced the eristing state of

thingj. The direct ihclncatiou of the truth

of Christianity, in his opinion, espeeialy

as to the need and ways of salvation, is

the most powerf ul means of reformation. A Modern Bore. The plan of voting gifts for popular persons is being worked to death in Wash ingtou. At the Garfield fair there were pre seats for the prettiest lady, the handsomest gentleman, the most popular barber, and so ou. Each present was to be voted for, and each vote costs from 10 cent upward. Young ladies went about the fair and begged gentlemen to vote for thorn and their friends, ' The same bore is in existence at the Light Infantry fair for the benefit of a company of -militia at Washington, and the extent to which it is pushed is quite laughable. There is a silver composing stick for tho most popular printer's apprentice; a gold-headed cane for the most popular florist: a boat for the most popular oarsman; a babycrib for the mast popular baby;, a gold watch for the most popular drug clerk; a hammock for the laziest mau; a base ball outfit for the. nio'st popular base ball club; a steam whittle for the most popular steamer on the Pot-mac; au organ for the most popular wife of the corps; a wagon for the most popular gentleman; a double batrcied shotgun for the most popular sportsman; a gold pen and pencil for the most popular bank messenger; a silver punch-btnvl for the most' popular saloon; a desk for tho most popular newspa per. man; a butcher's scales for the most pop ilar butcher; a barber's chair for the most popular barber; a Florence stove for the most popular letter carrier; a byciclo for the most popular bycyclist, and so on for a dozen or two more of the most popular characters. The beauty of the scheme is that yem buy votes for people whom, a1? a rule, you don't care anything about, and nine cases out of ten whom you don't kuow. It is a polite system of begging which has lately come into vogue. It is generally successful, and the well dressed baggar, or the most popular lie-? carrier or spittoon cleaner has little difficulty in getting ten cents or twenty-five ceuts out oil each person she meets, while these same persons will steadily refuse to give a cent to the little match girls ou the street or, the families all around them known to be iu want.

fers to gad about rather than

turn at-eetting, and on such

frnnnentlv hannens that the latter Tire-

take her occasions

her lord and master administers to her a deserved "chastisement - by kicking her heartily around;- the paddoojk until she manifests proper contrition, and signifies her willingness to settle down on the eggs. There is a moral somewhere about his i ucident which, when found, make a

ncte'of?

Curious,.Usefui and Scientific.

uriCK comes as ajuuuuig w uoinj? fire-oroof, and cannot be improved.

; Post Office- Gurosities.?' The Post Office Department Has ju t opened a musouin of articles which have reached the Dead Letter Office, either as undelivered because the proper parties

could not be found, or asJfnnmailablet

a r tides. The collection is certainly a

queer one, and.the.use.to-which'themails

are put, as exemplified by the articles

here, is really a- tonishing. The museum

occupies a good sized room; and the cases

reaching from floor to ceiling,' ere tfnll'

and might have been so a. hundred times over. AmoDg the articles is a huge, rat

tlesnake coiled in a glass jar, with open mouth and forked tongue.' He was put into the mails alive," inclosed in a 4 perforated tin can; Beside him - hi another snake, perhaps four feet ,dn length, tand

next to that a couple of centipedes -equally as poisonous in their bites, and almost

invariably fatal.' They" were all put into

tho mails alive. On the other side of the

jar containing the rattlesnake is a lbaby alligator, and the head of - another,- per

haps a year ohh Below is a collection of

specimens from various mines, in the West, the value o? which is considerable, One' little package among 'these contains about $I00'Worth of gold, f ' ' " . ' ' Oil a shelf above is a collection of coins which would provoke the' envy of the most relf-denyipg collector of articles of this nature' Some of these are very rare, several coins dating back full 2,000 years being amoiVg the number. There is a

looKet noariorg on tue back the msenp

tion "Mrs; Imoy Randolph,, died 1798' a hundred years ago.. The locket contains a picture of a soldier, and it is supposed that he confiscated it somewhere in the South during thewar; had his ovn picture iiii'erted instead. of the ohe whoso name' it bore, and sent it . to his sweetheart, ; whenever called-for it at the oflice of : delivery

Beside it is another picture, a jgentlenum ,

'and lady; in a gold frame, which has been' in the Departmentfover forty years' awaiting a claimant., Besidethis is a set of falsB teeth upon a gold-platej'and just bet; owls is a bottle of bear which some kindhearted person had jent to a becir drinking friend, but wliich tailed to reach its destination.' There rfro several bridles various parts" of a- sidle;5, horse -sho aala lighi 'iroi hitch ihg -p isfcnsvory'

thing,, as the lady in charge of the, museum 1

oddly remarked, everything, ,but a horsed : .... ..- -t "A gentleman who.wn9 in Sere the othgs day,"- shesaid, "remarked that ws had everything but a tomahawk 'vnd?? Bible. That same day I discovered a . tumaha wk, up there on that shelf, and a day or two later a gentleman who. Was lopping at the

collection pointed out that bookas being

s, uniuese Testament. uver Tnere onrnar pieee of parchment-looking paper, 1 is? the Lord's Prayer in fifty-four-languages.'' Thare is so ne beautiful pen work in a

calendar ior 1883, accompanied by a very r

finely executed sketch of a summer scene all of which -mufc' have taken Sn immense amount of work, -and which- might' have reached its proper destination or returned to tho oyvriec if a little care -had .lieen t x ken in mailing ami registsrig it, ,A ghastly feature of the collection is a skull and near it a human ear, the latter petrified and blood red. " Some curious VishVir the other day asked if this was-Giiiteau's-sknll. There is a saw, a chisel.- a pair of. revolvers, a lpt of of Continental andCon- : federate money, a large "pound cake," hard and' dry ja -box of "brides cake," tiel with white ribbon, a miniature bale ot cotton nearly, a foot an' length and of proper proportions; , a base ball and catcher's mask, ,a lot of cigars, fire-crack

ers aud other explosives, a telegraph in

strument, tambourines an l an accordion,

dancing dolls, Indian arrows,' ' a striug of sleigh bells, a cob" pipe, a couple of washboards, a horned toad, a garden hoe, a couple of couple of collars euclosed in a a glass jar, three umbrellas,, .and a ,fulU sized valise.. v;4 - - Oii orie shelf was a little package-' or

sachel containing a fine powder an3 bear

ing this ihscrip'tkri: "Dust collected around the urn in which at the end of 1230 was placed theaored remain of the seraphic patriarch St. Francis, w'hioh remained there until. 1818, at which time they were fortuU-ttely discovered, and at present lie in' the Patriarchal feaMlic and papal chapel el ected and dedicated to the same most glorious saint,posr ossed by the R. R. Father, Coavoutuals within the walls of the city of Assissi."

-Granite will stand anything but fire; but

against that it is leas durable than sand

stone.

' A Cleveland man hasinvented A barrel wliithont hoops or ataves, It is made of papier mache, being revolved veryvtosfThemache lined .the inside,-- and by -ai? is pressure hard. The iron cylinder i then opened and the papier; barrel takena out and baked. 'J'he bungrhole is lef(s open in the mannf acture. A Provisional Committee, the Presid eut of which is M. Charles Boysset, ha t been formed for organizing an-international exhibition of appliances to insure-'

- the-safety of railroad passengers, It is in-

tended that the display of the various de f vices will take place this year in Paris. It ought to do much good to inventors and the public.' y , A very simple and i mpor ban t test lor determining the quality ot drinking water, aud especially as to its freedom from sewage coataraumtion, is given in the Pharmaceutical JournaL This consists in placing a few grains of tho best white lump sugar in a pint of water in a per fectly cleans oolo eless 4glass stoppered bottle, freely exposed to daylight in the. V widow of a -warm room. If the TOter perfectly free from sewage contaaiina- ? tion, it should not become tarbid, even after an exposure of a wc k or t9n days, in which case it! is almost . certainly safe otherwise not. v 7 r ,r ' ' . The attention of medical men at Grer monahas been engaged by the . reaiarkable performance of one Antonio CasarOj, animna c pf the hospital there. C.asato is a sort of man ostrich, Pur sixteen years f he-ha3 been ini the; habit of swallowing: iron nails and pebble etoues pt considerable size, Sis capacity in thia respect increased by exercise until he could makar. way with fifteen or twenty stone3 in thecourse of the day varying mweight;f ro'Ku 16D to 150 gram no?. Of iron- naibi could consume two dozen at a meaLv ? Casaro affirmed to the physicians that he never felt any pain or uneasiness inthel stomach.. . , ;t ". .

Habits of California Ostriches. The editor of the Anaheim (Cal.) Ga zette has been vjewing the ostriches on a ranch near Ccsta Station. He says; "The female lays an egg on alternate days to the number of fifteen, when, if permitted to set, she considers her work done. If, however,, her egg are taken from her, she will lay thirty before she discovers the deception. And such eggs! The one showed us weighs t'aree and a half pounds, and contains food sufficient to furish a plentiful breakfast for '-four men. One would suppose that' the flavor of such eggs would be unpleasantly pronounced. Such is not the case, however, the flavor not; being as decided as that of duck eggs. What sdiool-boy has not read of the ostrich eggp, and its being hatched in the be t sun Of Africa's sunny nhore? But this pretty legend, like

many other cherished stories of the past rs all gammon. Tho chickens are brought forth in the good old way. The female sits on the egs in the daytime, and the male aesnmea the duty at night, allowing the female to eeete- rest and recreation while he attends to the household duties. It mnet be acted here that the mule is much more solicitous for his household than is the female, It not uu-

What He Meant! Detroit Froe Press. , - -; In a sliit before a Detroit justice the other dajV the defendant desired to prove his financial stand'n? was solid, and when his witness harl taken the stand anl testified that the defendant enjoyed the reputation of promptly paying his debts, the opposing counsel asked: "Mr. Bland, you say you consider Mr. White perfectly gotdr "Yes, sir."

"If he owed you S50 youtt expect to re-; ceive it when due?' "Yes, sir.'- ' he should ask you for the loatip 25 youd hand it bright out?, , '. . uY-yes, sir.? '.'Very well very well, Mr. Wiute, ask the witness for a loan of S2a;?'- - "Mr. Blank, loan me the sum .named," said the defendant, as he reached out Jus.

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Now YorfcTi rae Suaday,. . ': VV '-T.t "Domestic and City Life wJernsalem was the subject of an interesting lecture by Miss Pinkelstein last evening in the

. Co oper Union. The lecturer was dressed

iu Oriental costumes a pink -frocjr witit :

' wide blue trousers, and a little bineboa-- .

net 'with gold trimming.XShe was led ap ou tho stage by a gentleman, her brother, ' 1 in the dress 1 of a nati ve of Jerusalem, who; sefitc:: diimself on a divan in the middle otplatfonn,and smoked a hubblebnbble (

; pipe with a long tube. Miss Pinkelstein -5

began with an Eastern song cf weleome, which sounded to the un tutored ears of ' the audience like "a sprjb-of Cheyenne war- .. wh jop" i'h9ei liei: matt m of Jerusalem," said the lexjfcn the days of Abraham, 4,000 YearB 'agojbttt it was not until David was king ' Itiat the. city fell into the ands of .the Israelites. ; .It was s Wrongly fortified and eotosej-f impregnable. When the Ark of the Gov nant' was convey eel thither the city becanie " the a el igious as well as the political eeter. The city is surrounded by a wall to to 80 fS3t in height1, with mighty battle-. ; ments and towers with loop-holes, The" " walls are guarded by soldiers night "-and day,and the si : great gates were formerly - f all closed at sundown and wot opened n- ? til the day broke again. As the sun set the gatema'a came fovtb and irtllel in a loud, voice: r Coine, tiw sun is. setting; : come into the city or the g ites will shnt you ou.'-.;' and just as the last rays disap- , peard the massive portals closed with a . '

erahj All who came afterward-were ad

mitted by ;a little i iloor .in the middle vot v!: the gate which was called fchej eye of the ?1 J needlv ' The streets are very narrow in 4 Jernsaiem, and there is no such thing as ? right of way, so that you sea donkeys and . people tumbling over one another in theX crowded fcorqnghfares. There are -no , obliffiue- nolieemau there to h&V one --

across. . A lady who had lived iu Jerasa ' r -lem all her life, and wlio was visitingNe w York for the first time once said tot mer? ,& that New York policemen reminded- her f very much of te Savior. She said that she had wanted to cross over Broadway to the As tor Hon --a one dr and was much terrified by tho vehi 'e, when a great bigffi A poli xnr.au japped up and ssfa29 $1 on t bei afraid; when I'ni with y n yu are perftly ssfV, ... i: , '.. - ' rhe popVt?ation ot je iaiem eontin iued tho tectuer, "is ?ibirt, tJ0,i?;Tae,7 i iuhai it a i fi d wfol i '"t di fforent ijua?ters ao? - , c rdsfe -.t to their- roftgion,ui tvioh nation- f a?itv haie the others cordialbv Bach speaks-its o.wa 1 uuguage and preservee-ite own1 customs. The donkey is a very usefnUlave il in the Hoi? Juand, aud you see bun every where. When a donkey is losi " a crier goes arpttnd the city chanting All good people who brieve in Gariat or Mhamraed, or who have no "religion at : alVgive up that donkey and jpa-11 getj.rs dvatiou, and anyway a dollar.' When a Jew gets up in the inoming ha thanks God that he was not born a Woman. In Mohammad in countries alt -brides are ' paid for C. a IX the8 aroom provide the trousseau. There are no latch-key ; -in the East When a man coiner homo flate and knocks at his door,, all the wiu , , ' dows in4 the neighbjirhood 6pen and eir 1 one is nolitelv auxioiis to know wherS

you have been at that hour.

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hand. , ::.-;,v ,, Mr. Blank grew red and pale bv turns hi t.hea around like a boy on a, .tearnefetack, an 1 finally repjied: . 4 What I meant fo say was that I'd lend you $2r oirii Erst moirgage" on about

02:000 worth ;of jrcal .estatel- Makepout

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