STAR or THE CAPE.

I STA.R OF THECAPB

VOL. VI.

CAPE MAY CITY, N. J., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1874.

i trotted • tnlL

absolotrl; Imir, ud Jonte k On. begin '—.«—•-e. n dunghill ‘ C - J -

«tighter.

feer that off bla o<

In lie ««ljr days, many year* N ten .tor Jonea was engaged in mini m the Slanielatu riw, ChUI/omia, a

- — lie'og anpeeked. A .mile atrngged abont the corner. [ iii. month aa he oeme. Walking up to the beaat and eyeing im from atem to a tern for a time. Jog-

glee aaid:

" Forty good dinnk of a iaekaaa. Bin

ln r hlmr

Well,” aaid Jonea, "I don't know, we have him on trial. We may hny him. He la big and atrong, and aeema nine and qniet—may be a trifle laay.” Joggtea, whoaeemed to booaloulatmg abont hoe many monthfnla be «onld ' jhiake for Old Piaen, at laat aaid: “ Well, yea, he aeema rather qniet." Haring unpacked the Jack, one of the “ boja ” gare him a .lap with a .trap, aa much aa to ear: “ Ton are

place celled Cherokee Flat. email camp, containing aearoely more than a Aomen habitation., all told. The moat impo.ing atrnotnre in the ea— waa a bowdiughonee, owned by a Jogglee, a Mueonneu. Thia Joggloa waa a man of aporting procliritiea He owned a rieiooa-looking old boll-dog, with but one aye, wlioee noee waa eorered with aoara, and whoaa front teeth Were alweya riaible, eren when in Un moat frieudlymood. Thia dog he ww reedy to beek egainat any dog on Ihi rirer for a fight. He alao had two 01 Utree game rooeten of whoaa prowesa ho waa boaatfnl. Bnt hie eapecial glory —‘ bla fighting *— ~ _ moack'd and

pimen " bi

be waa a] moat polaon to blmaelf. Thia fiaroe and nueocial beaat taken poaaeaaion of a larga graaay fiat, abont half a mile above the camp, and would allow no other animal to oome upon what be viewed aa hie private do-

whipped The rfd* Tengeanee egainat “01 wonld ham shot him, bnt they li Jogglee, and the aoul of Jogglee liehied in Old PUen, therefore they let Not content with conquering i trod era, the old broncho wonld chi

Abont all thia Jogflea didn't) cent Whan told of one of the exploite of the animal he wonld laugh in epite

with hla tail gnawe.

r£2

1 off to

ntump. When he tbonghl of to on] appearance the maimed hone moat

The fame of

Pvoepeeiora paaalng that way whh pack anlmala were warned againat him. “ Beware of the fighting hone I' the word through all that aeetu eouotry. Bonora, the eounty meat of Tnelumne

minen at Oberokee Flat drew their aupThe town wae fifteen or twenty mllee diatant, and the minen wonld oooaaionally go up there, order whet they want- * and ham it " packed” down to their taday J. P. Jo night in town, intending to ntum the next day. In the morning, anon after they aruea, they heard a terrible comrSj<^'c„ , S£L k 5=: hie way into the atable throngh a ar'S'S.sjKjfiissr eonflned by a atrong . he i rafter the beat of

Oberokee Flat end drove . r of the “ Buckeye Company'. Their partoert bad anil work # np from the bar. They getting .upper, but, for a time oil tinned the work of frying baeon baking flap-jaoka to oome out end aek •'J. P." and companion how they cat by the big donkey. In aa few word, ee poaaible Jon m acquainted with the oh an ■ beaat. When he had flaiahed ■"a aoene at the livery ivay iu—i of the Buckeye Com- . ■ firmly convinced that the big 1 could “ walk the log ” of oi 1 Slot _.eelf; bnt mnm wae the word, lint of the fighting qnalitiee of

now at libartv, old fellow ; go off and

enjoy youreelf aa yon pleaae."

* what r.edad Jr— ,—

M in amaaemei tnrn that Jack

ng yon know he'll poke off op to the ! where Old Pimen la. Then he'll be lead jack aa euro as yon lim I Why,

ten I"

• Well, I don't know,” said Jonea; he jade ie a very qniet old fellow, and I gneee Old Piaen won't think him bothering with. Betides, the e are that be will stay end piok abont oamp—won’t find his way up to

the flat ut elL"

“Well, jnet aa yon pleaae,” Bald Jogglee, pretending acme eonoem; “ ont yon know what old Pimen ie!” "Yea, I know,” amid Jonea; “bnt Pimen ia getting old. I gueaa he don't Ihint for the fray aa in hie yon lay a. I ehouldn't wonder, now, if ild jtok were to whip him—in ibry ahould gat together," added

lone., laughing,

“ What I" cried Jogglee, taming red. “that blamed old iaekaaa whip Pimen I Hot mnoh I I'll bet yon 8100—yea, I'll bet yon 8200-bo een't whip one

‘ ‘ > of him P Oome, now I” The trouble ie," aaid Jonea,

the jack ia in a -.trange place ' ' - not light. However, he lo !i there might be aome fight in. If the two ever do get together, I rather think hell make It warm f— _ on do, eh f" aaid Jogglee. “ Wi I don't. Here, here, now—back opinion or take water. Her I I'm willin' to jiet let the anlmi

—”(M ito

.. meet, Old Piaen whipe—tl e role your jack up elim I Oome, or 'ixlny, here, abmll hold the atakec E ie, aee me! oome down I Two hundr

oea that Pines whins I”

Thna nravd, "J. P." covered I i!n in Pixley'e hand, and oooe it »_ one a better pieaeed man than Joggles va never.seen on the Blanialr- "

wngfat ha had the dead eat

ie world.

The bet made, away ran Joggles to tell all the “ boys ” in the oamp what a dead thing he bad on Jonea; always winding up with-" Old Plsenll him upm-obaw him np alive P Tb thing be eeid to hie lodger, that night, before he went to bed waa i “Koowii' Pisan aa ha done, Junea must be goii. ora ay. That jack'll be chawed np— -U—a np r . — the evening the jack remained browsing abont the camp, and the —* ing waa .till there—■ tending down and eyes closed, dreamily moving bin ears, and lasUy switching

' wanty tail.

lYe looked at the oii/'ji

A pnff of wind showed t

be the bronobo-OM Pi Stance of three or four hundred yards behind rolled a rapidly-following olond,

metimee seen two .nail playful mood. What

Down into the camp charged the terrified broncho, aborting with fear at every jump and oooasionallv half taming uia brad in order to ace’if the tern-

behind. Joggles . _ „ wildly from the root of hia house, '' Whoa, Piaen I whoa, PiaenP Bat

ie till hi . the river, here fully — height At the

outstretched neck, ears Ir back, and scant tail whipping np a down with each boned, on he can Then the old broncho erected hie ta

THE 6RAS8H0PPEE PLAGUE.

The farmers of Minnesota. " - ring n “ the loaaea of' last year. I of detraction baa extended through

grasshoppers inooeedod in gaining

— nae of their wings, they would rise

with the wind and travel thorn miles ewey from lews and Mi

The day of their departure waa looked lor meet eagerly. At last they began

iparad the heavens and darkened ■on like a snow olond but instead riding upon the winds to the far

' mda, they presently descended upon

ew pastures, and began to devour the rope with renewed vigor. A writer in ie St. Paul Prtt* any. thmt one ir x column covered e space of mon iventy-five miles in width. Thr

of terror, sod

Btond-

e oi toe

inquired whether any of them “ke to heck " That thar ferocion. neai ginet Old Piaen for another #200 J" At last all the men at the camp wei own qn the river at work. About 'clock in toe morning (me af the me of the Buckeye' Ootnpany happened t go fgrm the bar up the beak of th

i?tor

grinning gleefully; he

those below: “ The impatient Joggles U going to bring on the gome. There'll become fun Iwfore long; I see him

startin' the old jack."

*J1 the while Jogglee waa etretohing neck to aee if the jack was going in right direction, kewm. jnat dying lave the animals get together, t laat a man who had climbed upon

— bank reported that the jack w«. not to be seen, and that he had no doubt

one over toe ridge into the flat

All warn now exeitemeet among the ■an, mod two ar three of them were oon-

-tly on the river-bank listening for ids of the fray. Presently they t put that the battle had begun, bands hastened to the top of the

ing foe, gave leaped from the bank river. Luckily for him opposite shore, end came out all right on a bar that put out from the bank on that aide. Here he belted, evidently feeling himself safe, ” n -> jack thondered on, and came plunging into the river before i of iu presence. But by bracing .back till him baneebaa almost touched the ground, he came to m halt. the old bronoho on the other ebore he itretobed out hia neck and giving a liabolioal “yee-haw,” unheaitatingly plunged into the river and diligently struck out for the hone. Thia reckless and energetic persist. Me on the psrt of the enemy —

tail aloft and giving ■ ha dashed away di top of hia a pood.

head and catching a glimpse ol the fleeing horse, away he plunged in keen P A bend in the river soon hid the anlmala from view. Aa the men were still atanding gaaing after them, e great crash waa heard. More than one voioi then cried : “Thegnloh I the geUh By heaven I they have both gone into Drvil'a Onleh r What waa referred to me “ Devil's Onleh" wae a narrow ravine, with rocky perpendicular walla which pnt into the river abont fifty yards below the bend. “Something fell into the gnloh.enre,' either toe horse or jack, or both.” All non started fur a eroeaing somi distance np the river, in order to gi down the other shore and see what had happened. Jogglee, who had before thia deaoended from the roef of hie

".Confound a jackass, any 1 aa all that Jogglee said, aa lie u with the crowd. Aa all knew hia .k.— . n —ij i *

iuttered, as they moved don r, after having eroased over. bend, they oeme in f n K uloh. There, npon il reeky brink, stood the jack. With on' stretched neck he was gaaing intently into the chum below. Hia es lopped forward, aa though fo si eyes and give bim e clearer .. . "hat lay at the bottom of the gnloh. The errand of approaching footsteps at K attracted hie attention. Turni hud and seeing toe party dm ing near, be meved beak from the brio, of the precipice, gave bis tail a flonrisb, and uttered a eerie] of triumphal “Yee-haws I" * lokiug i' beheld

ing hone of the BUnielaua. Hie bead Was doubled under him—him neck wu

ickiog hia slx shooter, ■wal'd the party and aaid Jones, yon knowed what — Don't'SpeakI Let: K thia he turned suddenly to the jack stood with head dewn, moping sleepily, and sent a ballet throngh hia brain. The beast fell withont a moan, when Jbratlea advanced and deliberatelyemptied *—*- -* ‘ver into its e of the p red pise, and tumbled it down npon the body of the old bronebo, saying: “ Ae yon are the only thing th whipped him, yon shall lie and r old Piaen—Old Piaen, the Kill of the 8 ton is la us."

, JU aee a man going home » two o'clock in the morning and know hiawife ia wailing for him, it is likely

dree a bill

bis wife hu bought unknown to bim, look ont for thunder and lightning. Whan a man gnu home and floda no supper ready, the fire ont. and hia wife visiting the saloon “with the m the bora," it ia likely to be cloudy.

from thia course, ha had perverted, hatur bj him when on the etreet, and light for him, if be got in a diSenlty. Thia decided Blow u to hia action, and he took a position in Warren’s store, and shot him the first opgortunily that

.t will b

if they do not api

deeolstion throngh tl— Afflictions fall too often npon

are least able to bear them. the great majority of those whose lands

1 from which

nrohaeed

of pnb

for them with the proor. _. , •nbeoription. The food and fuel which enabled them to pan throngh the i ' ter were procured in a similar mam and now, after all their hopee and tlcipetiona of prosperity, it ia very disheartening that they ehonld be oblige- 1 to fall back oooe more npon the oonti

bntiona of the ohnritablo.

Il ia all the worse considering to many, perhaps hundreds, of these sc tiers a few years ego had oomfortub

intries. The land ■

prom iso to tl land of aorroa

of the Min-

same. Lut year they, too, lost their crops through the grasshoppers, and they, too, were snpplied with need to try again. Thna far these settlers, like those of Iowa, hare been the greater sufferers because of the plague. They have nothing left, and nnleu to* * of charity be noon extended thei knowing to what lengths despair may drive them. Private charity ia aaid to have bean already! '—' * *— B peals for aid, an- _ fund at the disposal of the Governor Minnesota, it hu been suggested at it would be well to call a meeting the Legislature and bare a law passed -over thee

nd children a

rore augmented by the silly at groundless reports that the other tan: intained naphtha and benaine. I liduigbt five of tho southerly tan ere on fire, and hundreds of poop imo from Hoboken and Jersey Oily ■ok at the spectacle, which wu grot t the extreme. Many of the spectato oolared that they would not torget t! sight aa long aa tliey lived. The abee no glare of the light oonld be se. miles and miles. At Central Pa u plainly visible, and one laborer, i wu formerly engaged in tbe oi' yard, declared that ho could read i ipsper plainly anywhere on Uniot

If there wu a reasonably encouraging prospect tost the grasshopper plsgne would end with toe present year, the poor settlers of Iowa and Minnesota might beable to drag through the fall and winter, and have enough life left to begin agricultural operations in the spring; but the wont of -* , - that there ia no such prospect he] to them. It wu from the millions of eggs laft “ iu the track of the di

deposited in 1878. Tbe seitlen certainly make ,a ealonlation of — kind, and If they do not receive assurances to the contrary, upon which they can rely, we shall eonfeu ourselves greatly mistaken if Iowa and Minnesota ’ - not lose thousands of inhabitants t spring. A continuation of affiioia like these they bare bun compelled to endue for two yean in aaoaeseton would be too much for human nature. (The entomologists, in the meantime, may be able to And a way to destroy tbe eggs of the gratahnpper in the ground without the expenditure of mneh motley. If they should, the -ion will of course be entirely Jed, and emigration will begin to flow again in the direction ol thou rich and fertile lands that are at present u n u a desert.

Why He Shot From • Wiador.

Written to a Memphis paper r lion of hit action in shooting Long, th •landerer of bis daughter, front a wit dow in Totoombia, A‘a. He uyi "The young lady wu in delicate health, being eonaumptive, and by the envies of phrsiciane tbe family tho winter In Thomeeville. Go., a' >f no little repate u a resort for ■fflietad with consumption. It appears that Long onmmenonl bis alandernns while the family were in Georgia, — became bolder in his language ninoe their retain, abont a mouth ainoc. Still toe family heard nothing of thou rumors, those knowing of them either — over-mod eat or afraid to tell. Mr. Slou came on the street af - ter hia return from Oongreu, he wu made acquainted with the feqts, and oever got it from his family, for they knew nothing. He wanted to attack the fellow oo tbe etreet immediately.

The history of tbe terrible con Bon which destroyed tbe Erie parry's oil works at Wehawken, N. J., u thna told : The fl rat tank which w~ atruck by the thunderbolt wu on Si an bonr. Tbe flames were finally e linguished, bnt not nntil they had a fire to the next tank. Meonwhi atrong efforts had been made to ■»' some of the oil in the fl at tank ; pamj were pnt to work and 6,000 barrels p About a third of the oil in the first taxnad been saved when it wu discovered that the second tank wu on fire. Thia wu at eight o'clock in the erei ing. Tho excitement at that time w« intense. The oil yard employed shot 600 men, who have their dwellings i the immediate vicinity. Several ro« of wooden cottages are within a atone throw of tbe tanka. Tho poor laborer families who lira there were seated ■ their tables, partaking of their frugal sappers, when tha flrat shook of the ex plosion struck upon their ear. At first nobody knew wind it wa«. Some womei paralysed by the awful ahool

I only guip •• God havt I" "What ia it?" ont “ie it on earthquake:

■ta and coal

1 l* ?U U

Everybody Amidst the laceuitnt confus larm wu given, and the engim lot when the aeoend tank wu ■re the people were afraid tot.. wellings wonld soon be reached by i— a So they proceeded *

ir furniture out iu

■ and t!

— ..’id fluhea of lightning it afi looked more like one of toe sublime and weird pictures of Dora than like reality. Ttiotuauds remained awake all night and stood for hoars iu the pouring * to game at the awful, wondrous bet

of toe fire storm.

The five tacks kept burning till the next morniu?, when the fire oommunloaled itself to toe four other luge tanka,

o the bonded wuehottae. ft- — laborers described It, ^tbi flame.” There were three terrific plosioni, and every time the a crash wu heard, toe broad volute

flame leaped up u though it w reach toe very heavens. The fire spread

tautly. Between tho bonded waree and one of the tanks wu a pile imber, and this wu alao ablaxe.

Some of toe people who were atill working in the vicinity of the yard cecaped only by a miracle. Several tele

ticks discovered eaddenly that a i of bnrning oil had flowed toward

‘ fled almost speechli y of laborers on to

- — dock (which adjoin were trying to bring a lit a tugboat, when the oil

bridge and threatened _ speedy * and terrible death. They jumped into toe water, and Ihna eluded the flame. Six men were blown np from one of toe tanka; all escaped unhurt, with the exorption of one, who «— slightly injured in tbe side, ao tost to a . . iinmon life hu been aao

5 000.000gtlloui of oil we..

I toe entire louof oil, bnildinge, tanka, docks, eta, will very nt '

8780,000.

wC

One* Half Guilty. A fellow named Donks wu lately led at Ynba, Oal., for entering a iner'a trank and stealing a bag of „t>ld duet valued at 84- The testimony showed that he had onoe been employed there and' knew exactly where the owner kept the dost; that on tbe night epeeifled he cat a slit in the tent, reach ad in, took the bog, and ran oft Tin principal witneva tcetifled that bo saw toe hole eat, uw toe man reach in and ' him run away. rushed after him at once," — I toe witness, “ bnt when 1 Hatched him I didn't And Bill’e bag,' found it afterwards where he

- . -See yonr Honor," inter posed tbe oonnael, “toe indictment isn't sustained, and I ahall demand an aoqnittal oo direction of the Court. The on trial for entering a dwellnight time, with intent tc steal. Tbe testimony ia cleu that he ' n opening through which he ed himself abont half-way and d ont hie arms and committed the theft. Bnt toe indictment chargee that be actually entered Ur * dwelling. Now, your Horn of hia body ia in and- the other half out?" " I shell lam the whole matter the jury. They must judge of toe le ud tbe fact ia proved, replied t Tbe jury breught in a verdict — ” Guilty u to one-half of his body and sot guilty u to toe other half." The judge eenlenoed tbe guilty part to two year*’ imprisonment, leaving it to the prisoner v option to hare the innocent part oat oil or to take it along

C MJFOBXIA TWEXTT YEARS AGO.

Mr. Henry Sedley, in his address before the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, said of California twenty years ago : Almost everybody wu engaged in merit. There were clergymen doing"the work of porters, and a college profe

ve air of bnrleaqae or ma-qu< a heightened the novelty o Lion. Vul - '

itreet, in

■u day and

io of bands, toe *brisk chatter in doatra different tongues, toe diver

idcrfnl vivacity m

bustle; while blending with dapp

' b 7. ‘

otoiug bn a, came fl iee,' rod-ab ..vily lade.

booted, and hit

shaded by Spanish hats, fit; iu ■ to bo painted by Salvador c Murillo, and frequently owning gold t

enfouDdod." There osme what proved t once San Front taco's greatest oarae nd greatest blessing—a prodigious re. A day or two before we got in aero hod been another. Newly the -hole place had gone down before tbe aya of oar passage roucif Cape Horn — ill on hundreds of tento* whereof the atona 11 Ijixwwka. bowerer* hod been

mpte time to build the prostrate c iapUy^TheVaoSea of M.me' < o/" ambling hells and fW 1 ^ n o 8 1 “ ^ h c 0 h p,, * bio oatnbUshmentH—and there w tiier edifices of almost equal pomp s on—lath sad pluler chiefly, olthoc ad a very few " Eastern'' brick ws utises, in one of which I slept. It was just St the break of day o ere asleep on the third floor of a hr emun°—w'bT'tt^pild 0 *' misfortu ilbor for himself or neighbor, wit

A Reputed Remedy far Hydrophobia. Au alleged preventive of hydrophobia, which for many yean hu enjoyed popular fame u a secret nostrum in Sussex. England, is published iu the /fririsA Medical Journal by Mr. Print*-, a surgeon of that ilk, who, haring

“The several ingrediei

> draohms esc] [ iron. T hsv. uidful each o

e stem of tbe toad-flax as possesses if toad-flex six drachma. Three e leavee with the axils, which,when ., weigh about two scruples. Tbe sseutial, and bad been omitted for years. I wonld suggest, however, TOrt should’bctmbaliintedfwUich alone >u held iu mnoh repale two remturies h ” B. rm Bux'i h 'umpSwiren , tto! 0l Ira’"l; ntirrhini linariio, dr. 6; bellebori mtidi, so. 2 ; liohi-nis cinen-i terreetrio. Ir. 3. Powder toe dry, or braise toe Teen herbs in on iron mortar; pat r I gascoigni, dr. 3 ; pnlv" islspie, 'ferri •| carbon., sing., dr. 2. M.—One-third

s!:

^kT^nert.wak'

»n to druggists as a mixlata proportions of crabs

The dose prescribed IS intended for Jhinoe*refers to twenty reported cases

el-ghtauT-'

cklh-ld T

ANOTHER CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA, j

night recently.

Another snppoaed case of bydropho-1 Batter down I u the goat remarked

bio, which terminated fatally, wu re-) to himself when h" uw the foraer'a

ported from Believne H apital, New wife croaeiog the field.

York. The following we thefaots of | Tb „ nrol ,i n gave for being ihecase . Oc toe 27>h of May last, . utcat acbool. Mooday. was that ahoy William MoOinneao, a fine looking boy . in neI , honae w*a going to have a paren^at OS^smx sTret-q 0 wsT'cnt in | dr r“' n k '' 0,,n oot ^' * n ^ •t*

a little girl near Lin-

his oi:

imon play ground f. md while they we entered tl

utlfh

he I leuly had been injured, and his mother, he- j A V ing afraid of hydrophobia, immediately nsed all t took him to the Eldritlge street jxilioe , in bnying ■ being sewed np and inattnotions given eventful os

i ere her brother wu m

not noticing her, deot id with hia ceythe.

I n City, Nev.. lawyer has t placarded on the door of •' All book-peddler* and t who enter herein will bn n laughtcred and destroyed." rmouter, who sold his farm

ahould it show Tho mother sal boy appeared t

my si

j, she had

rv tirfcpt. drew 830 an tx uw ami closed h

■ likely b

■mplam

. u .. s the bark of a dog, nd he was at tunes^ao^violMit thaMi imoelf or any one attending him. He MD MtiDR S ipest droi o“ f^lit the ■other did not attribute hia ciokneaa

if toe boy very critical. I ,

<-» of hydrophobia As he grew wort og’m tbe^oom, althongh no dog w,

it Los Angeles, icc□ red by toe na have formed ore Uian 81 GO

;.ct

inlftoppoaite the city, atiug $800,000 span-

tie Hospital, performed the

uffi Dr. Cnylrr desires that yonng ladie ken should band together in behalf c

if my garments which triko hia fancy. Proao... window and looked out

id after a moment’s deliberate con deration, observed aflhbly Ibat if w rated to get out alive we might wiscl bestir ourselves to that end without dt lay ; since the street above wu in light j>laxe, and the Samoa wonld b .. . tint waa required, it may we be believed. Quicker timr ~ - ' ' ’

‘r l ofTh T .

gold dost and coin, baiidea valuai To get the safe out of tho buiidi u most importaut, and to this ti u’drae'bnt^ytho 1 ttme’the'hea on box ’was rolled into the atre

na, and the warehonae wu one v ' ' ' flame. Only then did so;

t that a huge pipe stood by filled with canisters of gunThia dangerous^neighbor wan

ha? t bey thifught it wa

The Hill lUter Dlsai

nted o

bay. Probably among -.- *'-* Sun Franoiooo fires, n< to “ tha dangernna thing* " than this. Ferhapa

edge

clotlies in tatters, without food or

wretched plight

of toe

property destroyed,

drink, .wi

ing within reach to buy, even had they tbe means to purchase, their aituation wae doleful indeed. On the end of toe rharf were several sheds, or hfw shalliu, which were barred nr padlocked. Oueof us for toe purpose ol washing, descended by a boat ladder to. the eea, -id thus discovered a way-for getting to these bmldinjpi from below. rr "- 1 ~ found a great stock of readyololbing, books, hats, in short, all thlnga requisite for a gentleman's wardrobe. In a trice, after preliminary “ e bay, tbe who'*

the inner man of .snug bench,

Rapid Traveling. The motion of the earth, uyn a noted r, ia 1,380,000 miles per day ; sue comet about 4,000,000 miles y, and will oontlnne a boa > long u it remains visible, of that part of the tail ni jjearly 0.000.000 mile* per that ta, 70 miles per second, whi 8,000 times footer toon the moti i exprou train. The thickness t il I aunme at abont 5,000,000 mnu the distance of 28,000.000 miles from —e head, whea it shall hare rvi ' ' that length. If the earth were to , " through it, the postage would lout 24 houra. Pasting through ana edge, so I at first thought possible, would not occupy more toon tour to aiz hours. My computations that the nearest approach Vw of to# tail will be not Iu than 4.000,'•00 milu, which would be 'istanoe from the edge of tbe tall o ,500.000 miles, which it mix times th distance of toe moon.

Where the Cutten Gees.

mille. wi

ly 400.000 loom-,

Neat oome. thr «. with 8,000.000 spindles

aoe, 6,700,000; the German Stoll iin, 4,300,000. of which Alsace pcsee 1.700,000; Rasa is, 2.000,000; _ J Zetland, 1,800 080; Austria. 1,400.000; Spain, 1,400 000; Belgium, *00.000; Italy, 500,000, and over 2.000,000 . for other conn tries. According In the > reparlofM. Alc-ra. mode in 1887, tbe

sceptical os to its unfailing efficacy. Of : its alleged curative properties alter the disuse has set iu We have said nothing, , of a pint could bardlv be ^adminl-t.-red to a patient incapable of swallowing , number of animals with undoubted hvdruphobie vlruo, and giviug or withhuidiug the antidote in an equal pro-

xr;s. Queer St

e dog, and toe Chester, Middlefleld, and I! ' biting bv a dog , lie in among the ragged hills tl ose. j ate the boundary line between ed, and I arrowed by dr.-; icd by too bridges wide and railroads have made

A Broken Up Gambling Den. Tbe gambling fraternity cf Era Fra cisco have beeb cor-eiderably pmturbt by toe recent dise'esareo attending tl demolition of the Mud House, / i. where the l(naaiT have been round fleeced in years gone by, and who proprietors rtaliaed tho snug r rofit of 865,000 yearly. In don of too rooms on the upper floor was au arrangement which enabled a player to know i-i

the floor, and terminated iu levers b. neslli the carpet, upon which tbe chea ing gambler placed bis foot. Ao Hi wires were pulled the number af ta[ rageniously contrived thing in tt house. In too first place, wires n from the door oo tost a rigual waa give thing was in readiness for tbe dro; This was accomplished by two level and a apace beneath let into the floe:

' ie gamblers witbdre

grabbiu

ibbiug his checks and money, and

■lion ol

d, and d.

it toe whole

The carpet

over tbe spot, and when the officers hove in sight there wss nothing in the shape of gamblers' implomenta to be seen. In the bouse there were taken ont no lua than 150 wires and ilveral eonlrivaiices for suddenly hiding gam-

bling implements. ' A Nlnnreoia Rain Storm.

As if too grasshoppers were not enongh for one Stale during one season, Minnesota has been having the most

tbe damage wi The olond was „ .. and the oonditiuna necessary to to precipitate iu contents to the earth in an incredibly abort space of time. In fact such a rapid fall of water wss it that by many it waa called a veritable watcr-apout. We have no means ol determining how mnch fell, bnl il ie oompntod that at laiud 6ltocn inches third as many minutes. Even toe ridges for a moment were covered with a abut

Hon Francisco, Cal., having become enamored of Mies Mary Hein, and having failed to impress that yonng lady aa favorably at he desired, met her on the street one afternoon and blazed away at her with a piatol. She waa with another yonng men at the time. Mansfield find three times at her. Two of the shots took effect, end for some time Miss Hein's life wae in danger. Mane-

number of apiodlea used in cotton apin-1 nolle

a romantic affair ia toati

sw days ago, the County Clerk its nod marriage license lo Mr. Mansfield and (iu Hem, and daring the week they ’ " all. No plaee In the

the local lodge of Knights of I’}tins

Tureo montlis ago nt-r uusuanti, who wiv> a musician uomed Frank Lamad* rid, died of heart disu-o, as the pbjsi-

Lodge Knights of Pbythiaa. 1

is admitted into full fellowship, iccsme a Knight. After bis ioitisic was called off to pla^with hie

light some of hie friends took him ' ind eared for him. Hie widow, r. has differed from the opinion death, ‘nn?'filed* the 10 Mlow“^7tUt fo'r damages in the sum of 8100,000: The plaintiff, Maggie Limsdrid, says that she is the widow ol Frank Lamsdrid, deceased. She says tost on the dey of , 187—, the defendants, Cox, Kellv, Series, Sbadbnrue, and others to this plaintiff unknown, did, in the City of Louisville, so best, braise, and injure her husband that by —“ng, dragging, etc ,

These feeders hav thrifty corporation! expanded their wor of every stresmle

-e cloth milla, paper milla, cotton fa

great damage. The pla

support an< ,aud to hr ■tiff, M»«gi

at toe dt

-, 187—, in ivillr, did conspire togethi

into a certain secret society, commonly called Knights of Pythiao-Uooue Lodge—and that said defendants, and '' s to her unknown, did beat, drag,

tributary of the Connecticut, is fed along the boundary of Berkshire by

iixed by

ions) prudnetiMU. Wideui

i of

irisbing village# found eutbo Middlefleld resTho broken work wae

situated on a brook near Middlefleld,

orth o

Two rt

implying into

is, tost by resaon thereof he died, reby depriving ber of the support, d, end protection, end that by reason __ their said unlawful, cruel, and wicked conduct, abe bos been damaged $100 000; therefore she prays judgment lor StOO.OOO^damages, and for all other Tarklsh Beds, A correspondent, writing of a Turkh karam, says; “Each lady had . tree rooms to herself, and too furniahing of them was generally left to ■her taste or caprice. They were arranged very well, and the fnmitorewaa f hacilsomo, bnt curioua in form. _ .egnlar Turkish bed is aomoththg quite different from onro. There ia no bedstead or mattress, bnt abont thirty very thickly padded quilts, covered with tilk or satin, laid one on top of toe ■liter on the floor nntil they are abont wo fret deep. Tbe theeU are invariably of silk, embroidered, end toe coverlid ia e marvel of gold and silver embroldi ry on satin or velvet. The pillow* are of pink, bine, or yellow eelin, covered with beantifnl lace. From the oeiling hangs a large jeweled and gilded hoop, and from tom rich lace onrUins which enoirole the bed. To bold

they hai

»r broke loose, flooding an area of :ra! thousand acres. ^ Tbe widening

dy of, saved the villages below Irom total dos .oA The stream grew shallower

ed, end tone a vast extant of thiokly-acltled country escaped therein 'hat a flood carries with It. We an ■pared the recital of another Mill river heller planned, bnt liecause-the phyel-

ble to a greet deliverance. NeUrall; ludlgemnL

Allow na to express onr disgust, says n exchange, at tho new jeanm cf the ■n-eent and tweuty-five-eont scrip, end io errors into which an bourn man lay be [nvelgledby their oluee\reaemlanco inlghie FW appearance to the ew flfty-oent scrip. A case in point; On Saturday wo bonght twenty cents' ‘ something somewhere, and tendered adollar bill in payment. The storekeeper gave na in change one tenmi and one twenty-flve-cenl scrip and ue flvercent nickel, and thinking we ad got two flfty-oent scrips and a iokel, thereby being twenty-live cento in," we hastily Bluffed the money into ar vest pocket leet toe trader ehonld discover hie mistake before we got clear of his store. An bonr -later, when we found we had only received forty cento in change instead of the eighty we were entitled to, we went back and the storekeeper wonld not make np toe differaaying we ehonld have looked at

mpbor-wood trunks, el

as one of these after another waa tnrm ont for me to oSe toe oontenta, I h gan almost to lose my bead in tl oonfusion of colors and beauty of m

Tea Tioxrr.—A yonng ma- _ home to bis mother lo select a wife for him, expressed himself in tbe followieg language : " Now, mother. 1 went yon for lo pick ont a girl for I went cme to be my wife. She nraet have dark eyea light hair, pearl teeth, may charts, and a Beman ncee; and I think T

KlUed by Lightning. » per* in in a party of tore* ^ed death by lightning in the vib lege of B*JDold»ville,N. J.. In * remarkable roaniH-r When a shower came op, toe wife of Mr. Georg.- C untidy and her eon and sister were mnch Inghtaud they ran down into the cellar Jety. Presently the bouse was k, Ibodightnin* pisalnx down the pipe and throngh the floor, deal; nstant death to two of toe small group huddled iu.jmppooed security in toe darkness. The little boy was ™ oJ. old. of Hre. Oeaeidy aid her aiatar on th. othm. TW-ere both kilW^while Mrs. O—Wy «