STA.ROFTHBCAPE

STAR OF THE CAPE.

VOL. VI.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1874.

NO. 27.

mms

galloped on, ■bonting u I taken on ahead, a irda-roioo crying in the night coming 1 It'a coming I" Thia ed life an indrpcodaot waning, and thrillad him to tM bona. He galloped Omagh Hatfield, ahonUng, “Ban yonnalraa I San yonraalna I" and the people pound ont, and ran (or high gretmd, ahridtlng wildly. Looking back, be aaw the hill dotted with what ’ e took for aheap at firat, but it waa the nlka in their night-elothea. He galloped onto Damflaak, a till hooting aa be went At the edge of the hkmlet ha found cottagewShno• light In it: ha diainontrd and thnndmed at the door. Beetle (or yoor Una I (or year

THE DAI CITES WAT.

The embankment if going. Fly (or rliwar 1 Hay," aaid the man, coolly, “Oneedam win borat noane thia week," and toned to go to bad again.

Banaome polled op ant It will be aU right now, eaa I they bare blown op The words ware scaroel; tooth when he heard a >ar, speedily followed by

delight and Ala by both J at hfin, and ■id—Can thia be a liring man I aee?" Strange eights they aaw that night. They fonnd a dead body cnrled ronnd ‘be top frame of a lamp-poet, and, in le aoDorba, another lammed between beam and the wall of a bonne. They found some honsae with the front wall carried clean away, and, on the eeeond floor, inch uf tbs inmatea aa had aorriTed huddled together in their night clolbea, unable to get down. Those, Banaome and bin men speedily

Tillage of

^L?taa,» hurried on at th

ttmolhLb^'t’ni prying ' The enormona rise and double alone of the bank, its apparent similarity in farm and thlcknaaa to natural banian with which nature beau in lakes of large dimensions, acted on Baneome’s aenaea, and aet him wondering at the timidity and credulity of the people in Hatfield and Damflaak. Thia aentlmant waa uppermost in his mind when he rode up to ths south aide of the Han waa a lake nearly fall h brim on one aide of the barrier an ° I Ho had enooonterod^a little wind earning np, bat not much; hen, bowernr, the place being entirely exposed, the wind wae powerful, and blew right down the Talley, raffling the artificial Mu. Screws wan applied and the Tains c the double act of aluioe* pipes was forecd span, bnt with infinite diffloultj owing to the tremendous pressure c the water. Thia operation showed aUoonoerne what a giant they were dealing with while the sluices wan being lilted, th noise and tremor of the pipes were b< yowl experience and ocnccptioi When, after vast effort, they were i last got open, the ground trembled riolently, and the water, aa It rushed ont of the pipes, roared like discharges of artillery. Bo hard la it to resist ths mere effect of the senses, that nearly ok appalled, althongh thia roaring could only

iranearth whan ha a i distant. . UuUkeof wSeh'h^hedi heard before, and hopes narer to bear again, Bansoma spurred away at all his spaed, and warnea the rest of the Tillage with loud inarticnlate cries; he —” —‘ wail to apeak, nor wa- “ At the'top ol the hill ha turned a mant, and looked up th# Talley; • he aaw a lofty white wall tanning down on Hatfield "III: it struck the mill left nothing risible bnt the roof, u_ ..bite foam. moment, and ha distinctly ill swim s yard or two. tf —

Bansoma altered s cry of horror, and galloped madly forward, to SSTO what Una he might

and mine would

one of the polio

on something soil. It waa the body of

a woman, imbedded in the mud,

A little further they aaw, at some distance, two ooltagea in a row, both gutted and emptied. An old man was alone in oae, seated on theground-fioor , . and caked what

they could do for him.

•‘Do? Why, let me die," he aaid. They tried to encourage him ; but he Dswemd them in words that showed ow deeply old Shylock's speech is

landed In nature:

'■ Let the water take me—It has taken

111 had."

When they asked after his neighbor*. he said he beliered they

Unluckily for •“

drowned.

„ , he had been out

when the flood came.

Little clambered into the other oot- * found a little boy and girl

As ha galloped along, his mind worked. Ha obeerrad the ——

plaeea, and he hoped

A of the *^Upon thia, Mr. Tucker ordered them all to stand clear of the suspected pari. “ How, then," aaid ha, ••IbnU»“-‘-ambankment, and IT tall yon whs it’a going to bural or nok’ r Tuokar thought that It was a stronger then waa no Immediate danger; and > ' Farmer .{ma pot In hla word, can't leorn from any of yon that a

the contractor,

thing. I shall go home, but won’t go off thia night." ' by this, Mr. Mountain.

w Mr. Tucker, mid he, "don't de-

•• Wa?l," aaid Mr. Tnoker. "nopre- ! caution baa been neglected In boMlng I thia dam; proriaion haa been made . eren for blowing np the waste-weir ; a i at the TaWe-honae. Ill blow up the waate-wrir^thnufth.I think it needlHa.

.....

force baton which ha Imd — • - - - - ™ go down. With thb hope, ha galloped on, and • * Fane Bridge, fire - to Uacnamare, l_ thunder sound aa near to him i whan h« halted on the hill DuriU*; b-l fc. —. oaring to a tun In the — , At the bridge itself he fonnd *‘ng with—‘ v - the rail * on toHuisooroufl- ^ winded, send another on. You'll be —is -i .w- Hstl " thedaeroes the bridge. jd it, he caught sight ol the flying lake once more; he had gone orer more around, bnt ha had gone no farther. He aaw the white wall strike there was a tight in . He aaw the farm* boose, arith ita one light, aarim bodily, and then melt and disappear, arith all ic poor souls in it. He galloped on : hla hat flew off; be me under the comer's boose, and yellI a warning. A arindow ana opened, _>d a man looked ont; the tight ana behind him, and, sawn in that terrible moment, ha recognised—Shifty Dick. “ The flood l the flood I Ky i Get n Ugh grannd, for you tiraa r At the lint blow, the house it stood nearest to the flying lake w l want to pieces soon i houses quiTared aa t ronnd them taro a tor hl f*esrfnl aa the situation waa, a ah cuing horror area added to it by't__ horrid small of the water; it had a foul r.ssrss' Aa Henry Little, the hero of Baed'a try, left the bam in which ho had tarn refuge, he tried to find H _ the road, which ha knew lad hill to Woodbine Villa. But a

„ ..aa one horrid quagmire, in whioh he. could take few steps, bur-

I area, arithont sticking, or rainst sons sure sign ol

inddeath. Within thocompaaa of fifty yards he found a steamboiler and its appnrtenaoea, (they must

of death.

Here and there, a band face appearing shore the

be hidden altogether. and Banaome buried home to get more

flying lake had broad, doing frightfnl damage to property bnt not much to life, because arhererer it expanded it shallowed In P 'lnput of thia flat a gentlemen had beautiful garden and pleaeore-grounds rar night; they arere now under amir, and their appearance waa incredi-

tidings aa fast mid allow, and

ble ; the flood expanded here and then contracting, had grounded large objects and left small ones floating. In one pari of the garden it had landed a Urge wheat-rick, which now stood as if it belonged there, though it had been bnilt -as an inrerted sumboth of them great traTolor* that night. " ‘ * fish pond, now much fullfloated a wheelbarrow, a an old wooden cradle, and an enormous box or chest. > -went aplsahlng through the

richly r child in

and enjoying i and the buoyant bod l

Si i Hi

iir pretty i Oh. The

t a thousand pounds, at hia < , in relief of the suffer*. n be want home, eent a means to Baby Hall that ha was all right, te clothes, rolled exhausted it

b-.y Li

I him In re

to window, and the

n fall of

, they themsSrea i the bed so high he had le sister on the top shelf, I it himself, and than they

dt rery sleepy.

» a dear good boy, and I taka

a petted, up at

d got o d both I

frokeurr

Judge if this pair w

the Town Hull.

At Foma Bridge thr horrible. The flood 1

fifty houses,

i utterly that owy uuu *rou v> one cellar remained ; the Tory foundations were torn np, and huge holes of incredible breadth and depth bored by

““ '—' Idles. stho inhabitants ?

Mod ana looxed, and anoox d*Te, " ihla la nwfnl.

•jLfttle/'

Nobody It

dawn of day. There m' dead bodies hlddr- •- arhapa swept t the Tory see.'

1 cock did craw, or the day daw,” their

that night, loog^baforejthe Ah of ine--barley brae. > know their fate needed bnt m at the miserable, •hattered, gi fragment of the inn that stood, ro waa a chimney, a fragment ol triangular pioea of roof, a quarter of thauuide of ’

ud ploughed away the wall st the miserable wreck had

Sot far^om this amaxing rain tie two-atoned house, whose four

away, ana -sue inrnituro sou mmiw-n swept out: the Tcry fender* and Holtons had been carried away; a birdcage, a clock, and a grate weir bsuiriiig to the threee walla. Aa a part of thlsTlllsge stood ot ground, the aurrlrore ware within of relief; and Little gars a polic order* to bar clothe* at the shop hare them charged to him. Thia dona, ho begged Banaoi

lally gashed and man■d objects with which a peaceful expreakaoo

A HAHIAC ■OTHER’S CRISE.

In the second storr of the brick tens -xml at 85 North Eighth street, Willlsmsburgh, Mary Ann Dwyer, s blnc- — a T rish woman, murdered her and fatally injured her husband. Michael Dwyer waa one of "se striking coopers fmm the oil works Lo married his wifa

large body of cooper* who threw down their tools six weeks ago, in apposition to the demands of their employers, Dwyer quit work.

Two weeks ago and hia wife 1

c again,a

ordered — and be obeyed

tending the coopers' meeting* regularly. Ho returned home st night alter a society meeting, partially under the in- “ * liquor. His wife talked with

how poorly thsy were tiring

ill support the Union gsrc to

him, and told him to gt:

A day. Hr ■te waa r—

papers

A'X 6 !

eouldn’

a but perfectly happy e fluttering birds abort

ray, and it waa oonreyed to the hoapt1 and a healthy nurse assigned it. Banaome prermiled on Little to go

’t stand hia hia being ont of any longer. She asked him r ho didn t lie when ho aaid that

Heaairl uo.ondadd>uld hare the truth ng. They prepared about Dwyer a go-

ly ignorant

Promine

green twig

whioh one or sue j the pandemoninm The performer* art whioh are slashed w all oonociTsblo dime are painted a dead ol the wearer may thus embellished wt

tniYKlUftT, Ageu

Among the Chinese Beggars.

all of whieh hare their head- ' e a species of control orer tnem.

head-men are well-known, and are registered at the office of the magistrate. They were originally appointed *— **-- to leoaen the trouble . ‘ggar* in order, M>d

they hare now beoomt

ibelliahed by ..

nbonrinea, the legitimate uses or y—r " - , • „ i ----- - -•— --- , , • - * - - -her are oonspiouous- ' flowing cesspools and privy Taulta, Drau Siti In receipt of yot ' * Dollar damps, etc. To disoorer ana of 4th inst., I am wilhng and nHS:! £-5cr;I"i,"SSf...

yet talking a

rk. Mrs. Dwyer had put

Idron to bed in the hack room

-Maggie, the oldest, seren year* old, with her head at the foot of the bed, and Jimmie, aged four, ami Timothy, S ad tiro, at the head on two pillows.

w^Dwj-orU^ down bjr her huaband thus embellished would scare a hack-1 . *°,°^; dnUea ^aTollows^ j flOl»d

She did not clear off the Ublo when FromUio top of the tight-fitting hiwd , fU fl°‘* t ; oa °' im ,‘ 1 i “ n “ ,rr “; | parin ^aeu’ion of 'your - rsi they had taken eupper, but raked out; gear carves s fine steel wire with a lit-1 . V*‘ “ ll P'"'', ,, secret, hoping that the 'same ms the fire in the oook stove and laid out her tie wooden ball at the end, which the f "r' 0 pestilences to the oittoa, either I bi | ^ rot | u . r |„g|, " irons ready to iron their clothing, j motion of the body raps against the 1 111 *f 10 air F u or 1,10 P' u '» eD K^ r - Persona j ^ for the same

,t half-paatUve the next morning she forehead, making a moat Bopnlohrsl t"'nenng trom oontsgKms aisessm mus: Respectfully your i dressed and moving about her sound. bo rigidly isolated, and trade and bust-

_ m. She looked into the hall " '

thing to

atitution, and their offloe is,

beard, hereditary in certain .emo.oe. Lika namben of other Chinamen, who, outwardly at laaal, hold a respectable position in life, these worthies live on perquiaitea, and the oontribntiona ol the iraternitiaa whioh they raparintend. Jdfe of the Chinese”

dch the*"

KTbSS . an agreement with the ahopkeepers, maronanta, and hankers within hia dis* 'ist beggars ahall not visit their wharebonaea, and banka, for for a stipulated time, and the beggars of the locality era obV conform to the agreement. B«_ D 'loanta, refugee*, exilea, Ac., from prorinoas, who taka lo bagging tiring, do not come under these regulations. The bead-man receive* from each of the principal bnsini firms, with which he eaa come to

agreement, a aum of mi of exemption from the

beggars; and in proof meat he gives a strip of red paper, on to the effeot that ‘ the brethren musi not come here jo disturb or annoy. Thia paper is pasted np in a oonspiouof the ahop or bank, knd the

away and professedly ng the beggar* oou-

I* tittle doobt

rirtraok! 1

nsa consented stonoe;

difficulty—the bridge,

bridge that the flying lake

- — * -way. However,

tame wagon were afterwards found

n mile* from th* body.)

. j bat sturdy oak that had aurrlTed: and, entangled in ita dose and crooked

er; ISw

nSRST - "”^ 1 ”.

And crawled on, making for higher ground, bnt ^*Saaentiytheyheard aaortof sigh. rand a great Are in the Town Hall huddled a number of half-naked

‘ ' ■ driven ont of

_j*S*a piece ot" masonry, and from that to a broken water-wheel, nd than on to a rook, they got scree*. They passed the ooinar * house. It tood on rather high —> ' got off chaw. iad away the doom and window*. washed evorything mevable out

of it.

re day began to dawn, and unata, for otherwiae they ^ raytolt ■d bodies, an old man of eighty and aa a week old. One fate had M of human life, the ITS? ” “

SStiSufed 1

oeraad, though that their chief

•bare to hla own man haa made this agreement with the head-man of the beggar*, should any local beggar apply for the usual pittance, it ta only necessary te point to the red slip of paper and bid him begone. If be will not depart at once, he may be beaten with impunity by the master of the establishment, whioh beating the Utter would not dare to give unless ho had proof of an agree- * at hand; and it is aaid the headmight, If the beggar repeatedly violated the agreement, nog or neat the AVril to death, and no notlee would be taken of the matter by the hlg' author!tie*."—AH Me tear Hound.

TOO*, and naturally have nervous children, of_ ataader physique — 1 STutUem suck ita Asia and grow fat it U ed, and danoed, and confuse . • ■ t repeat like a parrot The method of placing yoenr

ife begged him to go to id ho dia iso. His society i away from the works.

_ laid h rar, and he -

thought the

read it I hit him with the hammer. When he went out I killed the chil-

beoense my oh I

e all good an

Hay Day la England. All England moat celebrate the advent of May in some form, says the Danbury Metes man in one of lua letters. In the rural -.1 LX riots they have flower* and music and dancing. In the cities they have greens, music

reo days of May are given spa and their infernal perbe parties consist of from

himself generally hidaona by operating on'a aeries of reed pipes with his mouth, _nn u *—-t **i actively engaged on

Boarding against Disease. The fallowing is a synopsis ol Dr. Stephen Smith's paper on the " Dutn* if Health Board*,'' read before th< ioeial Science Convention : A fund* nee tut duty of administration is thr ition ol a complete segistraitor vital statist!ce of the city. It ii rh registration clone that it era

aneh registration should simply give the total camber of marriages, births, and deaths annually, but should furnish all those collateral facta and evidences whieh are necessary to a thorough study of the intricate and obaoura question* relating to the social and physic*' well-being of the people. All contagions may be warded off and restricted by the isolation of the sick. It is not loo much to say that rmall-pox. scralatina, and other.diaeases maybe tolerated or Agonist small-pox. no intelligent physician doubts that any city may be absfllntely protected. Measles and are not leas susceptible ol control by isolation and diainloction. Endemic diseases are mainly dhe to imperfect

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Silence is the Attest reply to folly. Sorrow* era the shadows of peat joy*. Better 1* a portion in a fife than with

a wife.

A near lantern is better than a disA very rare combination—dollars and ^Resignation is a rare grace among el with dead men and yon won't

□ will

'tnforr

I 1

Mach corn lie* under the straw that Yon will not find a deep fox in a ahal-

Pine, Nevada, mahogany is

If your pt gratitude.

ire, both, ■ the de- j

of the l

□d yearly income * People obey willingly where tncy are ive entirely satis-; when does a man sneeze three tirara?

r on my warmest ] «- Jirn i, t , can -, i, 0 ip r. j Water forma nearly three-fourths Tno*. Prune. the entire weight of tne body.

Llareb 11, 1874. lleavineea, headache, nausea, reanlt

Bees

w you j

against public health, as ! Rave t

■ uouei against public decency, is 1 tors ai remains 8 rtdonUy the prorinoo of ssmtary stand time of ofUcers. Their dntisa ahonld also em- valuat ontaido. t,r * < * ,ll y proper regulation J)f tnules oonnitl oolon^fe °’ operatives and tile dwellers in the air faces oe'Rnborhood who are subjected to itroaked deleterious gasea which create eiokneaa he fancy or offensive _ odore which compel thorn ..

1 J manhood by^teadily si * j period of boyhood.

s, March 15, 1871.

i dollars, in

o first I Daring operations or a had 1 and tambourine*, the

» street to buy i

The newsboys bad not reached I part of the city, and * ito the street and found one. no met i Beleeting a .well drosan 'wen Murphy, a cooper, who worked j tlemau one of the numb ilh him. Murphy said that he was | of him, turning ndiculoui tired of waiting for the Union to oom. and extending hia palm promise or conquer, and that ho was | ery. If the gentleman li going to work. Dwyer said that ho ! band-springs wouldn't hold ont much longer. : titled tM-v-'!) Mrs. Dwyer awaited hia retur- —- o aaid ho had not read it yet, id just met Owen Murphy, who said that he waa going lo work on the next r. " If Owen Murphy, who own* a iso and lot, can afford tp go to work, you can," said Mrs. Dwyer. The hnn band said he tkonghthe would in a day or two. Hia wife replied that they were sSsch S/i&f. *. ils with the idle men who were onthe strike. Dwyer sat down by the front window to read.

donly ho waa struck to At 6 o'clock the tena_

heavy fall to the floor, and. running ito the hall, saw Michael Dwyer dart ito Mrs. Blaven'a room, just in the tar of hia own. baring hia head bent -own. Blood waa dripping over hi* coat He called to Mrs. Slaven to do something for him, Baying that he waa hurt. She put a ur‘ 1 - i -

doctor. Mrs. Dwyer m with a cooper's _ , hand, and darted toward

4Mr. ~ uuor^ and

peatilam

iTagrinst the ! ■“ i ho ="8° or th< ’ P ia » co 8 cr -

,s. sepulchral

36 reeds, drum n<au ’ oauslng special forma Ol u.»e«-e lore danoe np amon f operatives or among tlie people

trss;r ; . ,.„„ c '£ : '■istst iSS-rHS ISsHs’i 1 passing gen- i wor ^ s ““A projected public improve- [ hurry to ^laoe yet

roSJ: study°th^ ,nfl'en«‘"‘

The

' C natuJu‘'lo

the hamfrom her, thrust her out of the ■ — 1 stood agajpat^ft until ho som. Then Dwyer ran in the street and meeting Sorgt Fielding, told him that Mrs. Dwyer^hsd^ struok body did not go to the horse aha might hurt the children. The Sergeant J— riad and met Mra. Dwyer at the H* arrested her and started for . police station with her, to Ping her that she had almost killed her husband " The children are dead, too,” she mud

calmly, lookiog into hia face.

rv_ •„«. », her rooms, and she jffleer, saying, "Mr*. Dwyer' aay* aha haa killed her lltt’ohifaren.” The Sergeant looked in

d aaw that the womar

tine. The three del bodies, blpody and repalsive, ley in ,.,, on tl,e trad. He quickly

hla prisoner to the police fent^wilUmrly^and calmly

tan old, and, wi

face, added:

“ I wanted my little children raven, and I thought at first I would ] there alone, but then I thought T ould send them there before me.” She was quiet ud lady-like, but there aa a restleaaneaa in her eyes. Nothing justified the suaptthe cell ah* quietly mained almost lm-^ Captain Woglom ud several offloer* harried to the house. In the dark bad-

bruised bodies i children. The head* of all we.. — blood. Maggie's heed waa mashed se akuD open, the brains protrudHex little brother* wan *-

gave he twenty

atmosphere the baby‘grows and thrive* bast, the -”nd bauMeot to teas exciter * — h healthy ud regular hi foundation of an exoellect lion, while fie mother la not by ita constant praeanoe, or n von* by being oonatantly hare giving directions to ignorant ■ fnailiaa of peeauta lived, of the pricab waa recently J mass in presence of about isas^ffiirr'aEns.ss priest to quit the ritar. He obeyed, I theyetrippsdhun ol hieaueidotai

fi**;

red. The Inful ... .inprint in the soft mattress. The nnde form was dotted with blood. Hia (aee waa as calm u though he had not awakened from his elumber. The walls were stained with blood, ud » spots dotted the ceiling. The of the children were not yeloold. Why did you kin your children,”

oosdfer* and then the tar waa sprinkled flour, amid the jibes and jeata ot; bystanders. It waa then proposed he ahonld be dragged through an adjoining mill pond, which waa. how- —“ not carried out. owing to the in■noo of several bystanders. Ho snded np ud down a abort time „ ud than allowed to march up Bury street to the house of a relative, where he found shelter from the fray ! the crowd. The mu haa three chilren ud a pretty wife. Notwithstud.jg that, ho has lately courted several female*.—J/oncAcafer Examine*.

Sleep

irdner, hypnologist, proxlncc sleep at will, and it that hia system of produ-

oat with his death. MajorOenend Sir. J. E Aloxudor, 0. B., K. 0. L. S-, elates that Mr. Oardner imparted his secret to him. Mr. Q. aaid to him.: "I had a complaint which prevented my Bleeping, ud I tried a all the

failed. I had c

any day*

This is m^B<

o iMnoe aleepT 1 -o sleep for mu; . it. At I discovered

a monotonous deep. Whilst

and if, after bed, wa tty to divest dl else except the aet attend to tne heaving it of the nostrils, thia

is, ud wa fall

it" Gen. Alexander I occasion, whilst

dor; ud got no sleep „ shampooed my feet. Finally, It w fonnd that deep will be promoted I walking about the room for Ion minut or a quarter of u hour before going to bed, ud exercising with a pair light dumb-bell*. The extremities be warmed, ud good circulation duoed ; few ou sleep with cold fee

One noticeable feature observed Ire ling along English roads

snldn’t go; lo honestly say that my children are in i Lewd sent Hta Boat down to earth to die, and I took ths livee ot my olildren but for their souls' sake. ~ killed my little Tim first. He wse .Barest to me. He made some noise, but it didnt lest long. I hit Maggie " ' ' She woke up ud nd I aaid, -It'a me, s a good girl. She soon put her out of to tell-' ‘

S d seren year*, was billed by eoreral oolfellowe at Burgh, in Norfolk, England, a few day* since. Ho waa thrown by them inte a dyke three or ■ times ud killed. He was injured _ Jjat he eonld not got home, ud wae left lying on the bank of the dyke, where be died during the night. The surgeon who examined the body aaid that the lad had a greet and violent tie with death, for hi* hand* were .. were bewhile hie oosstanarea expression of anxiety, dr A wound on the temple

idamharing ivy. The winding . _e bordered, not with straggling unseemly rail fcooes, but either Meetly-trimmed hedges or sabelan_n gr Sjje), creeping

Ssrz: 14‘rd;~ar,i",r

great strength. They hnndred in New Hampshire, wakefulness, this is a sure sign of mon-

in one of the hills of the Oonnootiont talexhaastion. When uv part oftho — body is specially exerted, Uio blood

flows in increased qnantity

nployed for taking the food of tl - ’ probably for defeueii

.rra

picking up uy object of a portable al*e -rbich they find in the water. A genGoorgin, was in the habit of Bonding ' ' negroea down the river to flah with s, as the tide served. On one oocal, two of hia boys reached the flahground before the tide bad fallen latently for their purposes. Coffee else to do. Bo pushing a polo into mud, they lied the canoe thereto 1 lying down intended to sleep nntil tide served. Bat along came a te devil fleh, which grabbed np the e, and tucking it under hi* flipper, _. ju towing the canoe and its con* tents toward the deep water. When the negroea awoke they wc ' *— !

well-nigh out of t' proceeding to se* polling the oanot

The met implus , board, bnt it occurred to them ro time, fortunately, that they were unable to awim. Finally the rope by whioh master devil flah was towing them waa ont, rod they reached the land in a pitiable

•late of terror.

An individual of thia species haa been known to take op the kedgo of a email ichooncr ud carry it away for a mile, towing the vessel that diaUnoe, when he dropped the uchor, apparently fatigued with the amusement. A large devil flah waa atrnck with harpoon in the lower pert of the riv St John by the be- 1 ' ’ *

' Teasel, «"

lire oak nth of the river, dragging the boat rapidly, allh.pugtt,there were eight men cxertingthtefolro* to check his line st last, a* there waa danger of fouling with the hawser of-the vesae

Valley. The scene of this curious phonomena was West Btrer Mountain, whieh rises to the height of nearly 1,000 feet, on the East bank of the Conneeticnt, in the towns of Hinadale id Chesterfield, in Cheshire county, the southwest corner of the Btato. __id a few miles from Brattioboro, VL Load noise# having been heard, one ot * ’ * itants, a Mr. Barrett, went to

throngn the si: ‘->p—evidoi .bout six

wholly in

resembling the soortie of a btacksmi r.

forge. It wae foroed out in Ually liquid, ud driven wt ' against the tree aa n.

d without difficulty. Dr. Dwight. President of Yale College * — ign. published r j

Tbs Club's Fault.—A divoree _** recently been attracting attai in London, in whioh it appear* that the ndent bed obtained u in trod uo-

tuled for the purpose of providing U members with opulent ■vivea. In th SiUk — .4 fauit, for the wife's fortut rn odt'sb large as the oo: beenled to bebeve. Hen

he thonght, by

i.-l'y

A Strange Cue.

The np gency, C

nrissioner of India

t^ wiiU

Affaire

e Con

lost tbt.. he Ute Indinn

Reservation. One of a party of six on arriving at the agency waa questioned u to what became of hia oomponicna. Ho represented that they had probably died from hanger and cold since they left him to his fate, hie feat lutvirg After closer Inveeti'**’'"" mm, iw suspicions circumi the mu (whoso name ie Packer) finally confessed under oath that one after ' teae five persona hail be. e remainder, ud that 1.. killed the last remaining out twenty mi lea frob excepted only tin

__ier. Pecker hi the civil magistrate,

—„jte the affair by a it, ud ho will be pro-

tlrat yirtima

who will inveatigate

„j stock trainBed Oak Branch of the Bralingtan and

ie had ou the omes snroharged unJition ie'lonf

.loop. In ordi

ut difoi tta

probably the rouon why 1 jnat before ——

.een some wonderful Boorhaave, the Dnlch

bm'.y.

ed is so oondnsiTO to a gomf night's ipose. ^It la^ howover^the beet way own gradually, liko a clock, in the

vening.

There ^hsre^

a wu so abaorbod in a particular study that he did not close hia eye* in sleep ' r six week* Thia aeetns incredible, French general asserted that, for a ■ole year, while engaged in active iriare, he slept but oncdioaHutwenprobably oxaggerated. Wo all know how often jieople are^ unwilling to ^adthey have really had a sound nap. The persona mentioned could not have eur'ved snch prolonged wakofulneea An fendant of the late Emperor Louis Napoleon, whose norvona avstom had become deranged, died simply from in-

i^Uty to sleep.

' Kicking, In Lancashire, England, kittling is die favorite mode of fighting among tho colliers ud laborer*. A number of e of assault by thia barbarous moth* amo before the magistrates at Bol* lately. One mu, a laborer, was , to jail for two month* with hard ir, for kicking a police offloer whom tad thrown to the ground. A eolwhoee dogs were shod with iron, __ cut to pnaon for one month for kioking another collier on the head. Two powerful looking fellow* were alio sent to prison for three month* with hard labor for knocking down ud bratally kickiug a young woman, one of the men inciting the ol

time to escape tl rarudng akjlne— — child, one year old, was uninjured. Th# engineer sprained hia ankle, —* —■* considerably bruised, but not