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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1S66.-TWELVE PAGES.
, U TI1E I’A! L OF NEW YOKK.
Tbo Bombardment uf the ( Ity by a South
American Man-Of-War.
New York Telegraph of June 2,1827.
Ht is with no ordinary emotions that we
*r bounce to our readers in both hemis
pheres the surrender of the city of New
E»rk t aft jr a brief bombardment, to the
Knbined fleets of Chili and Patagonia.
Ris event may be characterized as one of
tbe greatest iuilitnry surprises of modern
fimes. The articles of capitulation were
signed late yesterday afternoon. The city
is now quiet.
HBh’.ing to the earliness of the hour at
which we go to press, we can give but the
most abbreviated summary of the circum
• stances which culminated in this great mu-
uioipal and national humiliation.
r It appears that the Republic of Chili had
r. often preferred an old claim against our
go' rument, growing out of certain raw
^Irupl er and guuno contracts entered into
\ with a former mayor of this city, who was
•■ejnted to bo a citizen of the United States.
‘Jteboated demands had been made for the
settlement of this claim without attractinj
the attention of our Secretary of State, am
' it ^emg that more than five months ago
Cl'fli, forming an alliance with Patagonia,
• formally declared war ugainst the United
1 -SMtcs. This formal declaration being ver
bally conveyed to onr Minister in Chili in
th<» Spanish patois peculiar to the west coast
jMSonth America, he, being unable to
a imulerstand Spanish unless spoken with
d i the pure Castilian accent, failed to per-
! ceive the gravity of the situation, and di
plomatically presumed that the communi
cation was an invitation to attend a ball in
thd Presidential palace at Santiago. This
incident has betrayed a serious defect in
our civil service system, for our minister,
lijur. O'Briou, who was fonncly custom
: houso weigher in Brooklyn, has passed
> through all the grades of the civil service
J. before his promotion in the field of diplo
macy, and yet it appears he had no enact
knowledge of South American dialects. Presi
dent Mahone, who owes his elevation to
'* the chief magistracy of our nation sorely
to his devotion to civil service reform,
nlnhiLl see that this defect in civil-service
re< nireuients is remedied at once,
bjl As to the responsibility of the Secretary
Stile for the shameful affnir of yesterday,
kjhtjro is much difference of opinion. It is
affirmed by his friends that it was impossi-
lililfor him to bestow any attention npon
So 4th American affairs while the complica
tions with Austro-Hungary, growing out of
tkiUndiscreet management of the Keiley
imbroglio by a former secretary, remained
imicttTed. It is intimated that at the very
tinie when Chilian wrath was excited to the
highest pitch by what was considered the
-^Hied neglect and cold injustice of onr
trnment, our Secretary of State was ah-
*d in preparing a reply to the ultimatum
ie Austrian government that no Amori-
ninister should ever bo officially receiv-
Viennese Conrt unless his wife owned n
;in sacqne and his children had been
lated by Pasteur. While some allow-
inay be made for the absorbing nature
lif the secretary s duties, it is probable that
Congress will take a very different view of
.‘ It and will immediatelynppointacommittee
„lif investigation to take testimony and ro-
> f resh incuts at one of onr most costly hotels.
It is absolutely necessary that an example
skdnld be made of somebody.
— Until 12 o'clock yesterday the citizens of
this metropolis were in profound ignorance
f the fact that they were threatened by
iintile fleet of font gunboats maneuver-
tig for choice of position off Barnegat.
at hour Mayor Sharp, who was at
>eon in the Astor House, was ap-
hed by a military official in full dress,
mi he mistook for one of the corporals
ie “OM Onard.” Tho official presented
with n formidable looking elocument,
hlcli the mayor at first thought was a
proposal for extending the Broadway
1 through the Bumble in Central
He could make nothing of the com-
tion, but Chief Justico Oliver, who
cippc ned near, called ono of the courtin-
'" crpt t rs, and this official, after much eliffi-
ilft, translated tho document as follows:
I lUSNSnAT. June 1. 1S07.—To the Mayor of
llty of New York—Mis: I proisiee to Inov. 1
lately ujM>n your work.. Unconditional
r 1, the only alteraetive.
lyor Sharp simply threw the commnni-
■tioie into n spittoon nnd went on with his
dhenn. Littlo did he imagine . the os-
ding result of such indifference. The
an and Patagonian gunboats were then
■widen fifteen miles away with guna
cel upon onr devoted city, each gun
do of throwing with inconceivable ve-
an electrical projectile of a character
:o unknown in the onnnla of war.
insnlted South American marine
! haughtily on bis heel and disap-
. Ho purchased a ticket over the
oto onu Ohio Bailroad across Staten
. thus evading the recoil of tho guns
rt tVailaworth in case they should lie
K and arrived safe on board the fleet,
than nn hour later, by the watch,
rill booming of n mighty projectile
card cnmiDg high over the bay, sersp-
e top-knot of the Btjitue of Liberty,
Ring with a sickening thud in the
orkood of lower Broadwny. Irules-
a nt lightning began to play about the huge
cad* of agnanite building leased for offices.
■li> moment it had crumbled to atoms,
nr. ha fearful electricity, stored with forty-
. cl irse-candle power In the bosom of the
hroHSiointed shell, had been turned loose,
I * 1 l8wo effect, not only upon the building
instantaneous and, no doubt, painless.
Some of the rude crowd that had gathered
around, giving awny to a morbit curiosity
and taking advantage of tho anarchy of the
hour, pulled greenbacks by the thousand
out of the pool Alderman's pockets.
Scarcely had the consternation which
followed the effects of the second shell be
gun to spread like n contagion, when
■•B-r-r-r-Boom” came another, directly in a
line with the last. The Spanish Americana
had plainly got the range nnd were accom
plished artillerists. This shell, poising high
m mid-air, seemed to waver for a moment
over the Department of Public Works,
nnd then, taking a north by west direction,
it descended with fierce momentum in the
vicinity of Forty-sixth street and Brondway,
evidently making for the office of the Con
solidated Goa Company. The clerk who
takes the live dollar preliminary deposit
and requires y.>n to sign a receipt permit-
■ oek. The detonotion resounding
h the Stock Exchango won like
nl thunder. Delaware and Lackn-
anna fell off four pointa, Texaa Pacific
' ka doubled up, and there waa a decided
'! Bible in Elevated. One moat impressive
” Went occurred. A natty-looking gentle-
iu with a carpet bag, who had just
keiged from a bank in the vicinity, waa
ilfrizcd into thin air by the concnssion
w Wpet bag anil alL Only a through tick-
f<V Montreal was found on the spot.
hiK little remained of the stricken build-
l B was a sorrowful spectacle. Tho direc-
h* rs of seventy-two bogus mining companies
,<1 Offices in the building and they were
L f t«rly annihilated. The benevolent gen-
1 man who mod to loan $50 on household
i rnilnre at GO per cent a month, had an
i,. flee in this bonding and ail his little sav-
ere swept away. Several lawyers
literally melted. Considering the
of lawyers in the city, this of itself
a gnu some casualty.
, , But there was no time for aolili
M , mentation. “Boom!" came another
d 11 mobster. Flapping np Broadway 111
mi 1 Aeiul in the "Black Crook,” it struck
**’ kt in front of the old Herald building,
—fw a branch office of the World, and,
ing, it paaaed over tho poet-office,
cing against the statue of Justice
th.-'city hnllit buried itself in the elder-
chamber, where a fall board was en-
in a hot dispute over a street railway
i' laehisc. Then came the awful explosion
pato'oomplcte in itself as to leave no trace
til foundations. The debris was wafted
-layin a veporooi column toward High
r» idgi. Every ono rushed to tho
1 * There lay the dead twenty-
nViddermen, tide by aide, each with
i foab’ed fist under his nearest ecm-
nJfo's nose. Their extinction had been
floor at his &et. The fuse was sizzing away
with implacable rapidity. The clerk wub
undaunted. Fortunately the door of tho
largo safe was open. It contained the wa
tered stock of the compnDy. He seized the
shell swiftly, but without visible signs of
trepidation. He plunged the hissing fuse
into the watered stock. It was extin
guished.
By this time the city was in an uproar.
Citizens were running inall directions with
out apparent object or care for the future—
the present nbsorbed all their energies.
The torror was universal. Even the Bud-
densick Hats above Seventieth street were
observed to tremble. The yacht Atalanta,
loaded to the hawse holes, was seen steam
ing awiftly through Hell Gate, seeking on
outlet to the trackless ocean. A frightful
rumor spread about that Ludlow Street jail
had been struct by a shell, liberating all the
inmates who were marching in n body to
ward Delmonico'a to get a square meal and
charge it to the city. Taxpayers
rushed for the office of the
mayor only to disco7or that the City
Hall no longer existed. The mayor had
escaped up Broadway in one of his fast,
nevor-stop cars, and was en route to his
farm in Sknnentles. Thouaands nssembleil
in City Hall Square, and daring a slight loll
in the tiring a conncil of war w aa held. The
damage already done by the bombardment
was beginning to be appreciated.
Speeches were made by prominent citi
zens denouncing the inactivity of the artil
lerists in Forts Hamilton, Wadsworth, La
fayette and Columhua. Bnt it is now clear
that no one waa to blame in that quarter.
Tho guns had not been, fired since
they saluted President Arthur’s flag
away back in *83; through long disuse they
have become embossed with lichens, nnd
plugged up with toadstools and cobwebs,
and there is little or no communication be
tween the rusty vent holes nnd flaring cali
bers; besidea it was expeotedthat any en
emy wonld como up the liarbO in the regu
lar way. and the sights could not be ad
justed for Barnegat without the aid of the
balloon corps. The attack was so sudden
that it was Impossible to get out the bal
loons, wnich, for greater security, had been
stored in a government magazino in Mon-
tana.
At last a pugnacious taxpayer addressed
the crowd and poldly proposed to surrender
the city at once before further damage waa
done. He urged, in rapport of his propo
sition, that tho hoard cf aldermen was ex
tinguished; that tho gas monopoly waa bad
ly scared; that Jay Gonld had fled to parts
nnknown and Jake Sba-p had retired; that
New York was absolutely unprotected by
military defences; that all tho great gene
rals of the war were dead exeept Gen.
ler and citizens might imagine the conse
quences of inviting him here to take pos
session.
This last argument prevailed.
A white flag was dispatched to the Lower
Bay. *
Two hours later Admiral Juan Sancho de
Lynchio.at the head of apaltoonof marines,
marched up Broadway, and calling for Su
perintendent of Police Byrnes, told that
official that he would be held responsible
for tho preservation of order.
affecting incident of the eonqnerer'a
mnrch np Broadway waa the recog
nition by an old lady of the Sixth Ward
of her long lost son in the person
of Admiral d« Lynchio, who was formerly
known here ns Johnny Lynch, nnd
who is said to he a great-grandson of the
Mr. Lynch who wrote a celebrated treatise
on Law and Order. The admiral's replies
to the old lady’s affectionate greeting were
in broken Spanish, and very touching.
Whole blocks of people wept.
The admiral's flag is now floating over his
headquarters in the Fifth Avenne Hotel.
The metropolis of the Western world lins
fallen—a victim of municipal corruption
nnd national neglect.
A DANGEROUS MAN.
Can Open and Rob a Safe and Get Away
In Twenty Minutes.
A Norwich (Ct.) correspondent writes of
the yonng burglar, Williams, of Bridgeport,
who is now in New London jail: “Give
him twenty minntes nlone with a safe, nays
Sheriff Hawkins, and Williams can open
tho most intricate lock that ever was de
vised ; and, if yon will tell him merely the
name of the safemaker, he will tell you in-
in the lock and give
never
ply finds out inside
of twenty minutes the combination in which
it is set, opens the safe, and takes out what
he wants and rclocks it, and when the
owner returns he finds the safe apparently
i nst os he left it. To accomplish
iis work, Williams needs, in ad
dition to his quick wit and mechan
ical knowledge, three ordinary wire*,
which he forces into the lock about the
handle in snch a way that the number of the
combination is reduced to twenty fonr. He
reasons that all persons in lockings safe
make a certain number of moves, and a
knowledge of this fact enables him to far
ther reduce its probable combinations to
two or three movements. These two or three
moves he finds oat by actual trial, which
consumea the greater part of hU twenty min
utes. In the ease when the safe is in an
apartment that is in full view of the atreet,
he drops a little quicklime on the floor,
pours water on it, and the steam that arises
effectually cloaks the windows. In three
instances, Williams unlocked safes, ab
stracted the contents, relocked them, and
made off in the time that the men who were
In charge of them wire at their dinners. He
got awsy with the valuables in a Stratford
in th»*
nsino oi me Hiuemiuit| u*. win ten jui
stonily all the parts in the lock end
yon a diagram or its mechanism. He z
breaks a lock; be simply finds out ii
IN PASTEUR’S LABORATORY.
Parii Cable to New York Herald.
The Newark children continue to receive
their regular morning inoculations. The
rest of the day they play about, and are al
ready verifying M. Pasteur’s prediction by
getting fat.
Just before the inocculation this morn
ing M. Pasteur showed me through his lab
oratory. We first entered a small room. A
wooden table stood near the window and
on the table.were two large rabbits—one
white, tho other gray. M. Pasteur said:
"Every day two rabbits have to be sacri
ficed in order to obtain virus to inoculate
the little children from Newark. To-day
these are the two victims.”
M. Loer, M. Pasteur's new and principal
assistant, then caught one of the rabbits by
the ears, took a pair of sharp scissors and
cut off all the fur from tho top of the rab
bit's head. He then stretched the rabbit
out flat, bel’y down, npon a square piece of
wood. The rabbit’s feet were then tied
with strong cord to each corner of the piece
of wood. M. Loer then sprinkled chloro
form on a piece of paper and held it to the
rabbit’s nose until the animal became un
conscious. He then took a very sharp knife
and made a slit about an inch long thronr*
the skin of the rabbit's head just between
the eyes. The skin was then stretched apart
with pincers, and a sort of wedge of
silver wire was inserted so as to hold back
the skin and to expose the bare skull. With
a delicately constructed instrument, like a
small auger, M. Loer thin bored aholo right
through the animal’s skull. Into this hole
M. Loer inserted a needle, like the point of
a syringe, and ini ec ted right into the rab
bit's br.dn a solution of virus prepared
from the brain of a mad dog. The syi*
was then withdrawn, the wedge of the
ver wire removed, the wound dressed, the
skin carefully sewed together and tho rabbit
was labeled with the date and quality of
the inoculation and put into a cage.
In exactly six days this rabbit will die of
rabies, and the Newark children will be in
oculated with the virus taken from its
brain. By a series of inoculations and re
inoculations M. Pasteur can obtain virus of
any desired degree of intensity. The
strongest vims that he uses iu inoculations
is that which causes a rabbit to die of
rabies six days after inoculation, the
weakest virus used is that which causes the
rabbit to die of rabies in fourteen days.
In a small room kept constantly heated to
tho temperature of 3o degrees centigrade,
and called the "inenbating room,” M. Pas
teur keeps a supply of virus ready for in
stant use. Each bulb of virus is labelled
with numbers. The bearing No. 6 contains
virus that will kill a rabbit in six days. No.
7 kills a rabbit in seven days. No. 8 will
kill a rabbit in eight days, and so on np to
No. 14, which kills a rabbit in fourteen
days.
I then went with M. Wassersuct—ono of
M. Pasteur’s assistants—into a cellar con
taining several hundred rabbits confined in
cages, most carefully and minutely labelled.
We stopped before a cage containing a
large yellow rabbit, M. Wassersuct asked,
"do you notice anything peculiar about
that rabbit?” I said: "He looks very
sleepy; he twitches and quivers strange* ■
nnd kicks ont in an eccentric manner wit
his hind legs.” M. Wasamuct said: "He
showed symptoms of rabies on Cnristmas
day nnd will die to-night. This yellow
rnbbit now proves a fact of vital inipoil-
once.
DESERTING A HAUNTED VESSEL.
Sailors Claim the Captain's Ghost Hangs
About a Certain Boston Schooner.
Boston Special.
The three-masted schoonor William H,
Jordan lies at the Iron Works" docks, at
Somerset, deserted by all except her col
ored cook. She is reputed among the vil
lagers to be haunted, nnd her owners find
it almost impossible to ship a crew. She
arrived here three weeka ago with a cargo
of coal. A week ago Saturday Captain
Theesherwas killed while overseeing the
unloading of an anchor from a train at the
railroad dock.
That night tho mate and cabin boy went
to bed about 0 o'clock. Tho mate says he
woko and heard the captain’s voice giving
the order, "Take hold of that anchor.”
"At last,” says the mate, "I dozed again,
and j ust as I was about to lose myself I heard
something going on up forward on deck.
1 thought it might be tbe cook rolling
barrels about nnd paid no attention to it
until I heard a tearful thump on deck
Then I sprang np nnd rushed on deck
aud looked around. I could not see a soul
on Aboard, and after waiting awhile I went
below and laid nwako until daylight. When
1 went on deck I found that the bower an
chor had been dropped from the bows aft
nearly to the waist, whore the shore plank
is. It takes a good many men to handle
that jiiece of iron, and how it got tbero I
don't know.
That same day tho mate and cabin-boy
quit the vessel nnd left for parts unknown.
The ghost story has been so widely circu
lated tlmt the owners are unable to en gage
a new crew.
safe in this way,”
Fannie is a little girl who has a big wax
doll as a companion. A few days ago a new
sister came to her house, and after a few
days she went over to a neighbor’s. "Well,
Fannie,” said the lady, "where’s yonr wax
doll!” "Oh,” she answered, turning np her
nose, "I don't have nothin’ to do with wax
babies any more. We’ve got a meat baby
at onr house now, and that takes np all my
time.”—Merchant Traveler.
NenroM, Debilitated Men.
Yon are allowed s free trial of thirty dsjs of the
OM of Or. Dye'e Celebrated Voltale Belt wltb eleo-
trleeoapenec nr appliance*, for tbe epeedy relief end
pmloSofpwoe. debility. Um ofVtttf£
aod manhood, and all kindrai troubles. Aleo, for
many other Complete rcetoratlon to
heeJm. vigor and mauhood snaranteed. NorUhU
Sound. lilMtTWd ruspUM. «nu ran tmfo»n>
non, dim, me.. B-iUti fro bj xUrMsts, Toltale
BtitCs. MuibsU tilci.
NOTIONS ABOUT BABIES.
Mup.r.Ution. That art* Fooll.li .ml Other.
Ihkngeroiu.
Chicago Mail.
'Tbe way some of these old woman's
notions about tbe core of babies bang on is
simply marvelous," said Dr. Tomlinson, of
tbe health department, to a Mail reporter,
“and not leaa marvelous is tbe abject
deference which the men of the bouse pay
to these notions, particularly if it is bis first.
Take, for example, tbo superstition that
saffron tea mast be given to the baby to
cleat its complexion. I suppose that every
fond mother who baa any regard for her
lialiy at all, instructed by a long line of il-
lnstrioas paternal predecessors, nud fed her
baby enough saffron tea to paint Madison
street a gorgeous yellow from tbe lake to
Western avenne. Hhe might jast as well
have dosed it with so mach hot water as far
as any drag action is concerned. Bat, law
me, tbe milleniam will be nigb at
band, indeed, when this useless practice is
discontinned. I think tbe most careful,
conservative doctors will admit that saffron
is a very Inert drag, indeed. There is an
other superstition, in which there is possi
bly a grain of truth, bnt every stomachache
the bony has is always laid to it, and that is
change of milk. To hear some of those
mothers talk yon wonld think that yon
might aa well kill tbe child out
right as to change the cow, I
couldn’t begin to tell all the
fool notions people have about tending ba
bies. The worst is that the child mast lie
fed all the time it Isn't asleep or it will
starve to death. Gorging carries off about
half the children who die. I don't count
the superstitions which solemnly forbid the
placing of three lights in a row m the same
loom with the baby, nor allowing the child
to look in the mirror, for in . either case
before the year is oat a little white coffin
will lie in the front parlor. Bnt sorely it is
a superstition which fsan to hare a cat in
the room with a sleeping baby, for fear it
will jump into the crib when no one is
looking and sack tbe innocent's breath.
What good do yon (appose it would
do a cat to draw into its lungs
breath which a human being hoe fast
exhaled? Bat jast eee how that fond
delusion hangs on. The primitive cat got
into the pre-Adamite cradle to enjoy the
warmth ot the contemporaneous liaby, and
tho savage mother believed the cat to be an
embodiment of nn evil spirit and chased it
away. From that day to this tho supersti
tion has obtained, and each succeeding
generation bolds the faith with greater te
nacity.”
“These people believe,” continued the
doctor, “that if n child looks at any person
with sore eyes the child will bo afflicted in
the Hanie way. They also think that
piercing the ears improves the eyesight.
Another notion which is fostered by
superstitions parents is that if a child
is bitten by a dog the beast must
be killed immediately, not bo much
by way of revenge as in the belief that if
that dog in the years to come were to go
mad the persons bitten would go mod too,
if he were in Chinn at the time.
“There's a good deni of talk about its be
ing wrong to allow children to sleep with
S crsons, and although I think there's a
deal of foolishness about it, I don't
' bnt there may be some germ of
truth in it after all.
“But there's superstitious practice that
is positively dangerous. It is customary
among nnedneated people to‘charm’away
wnrts. So long ns it is done with ‘spunk
water’ and such harmless things there is
no trouble, bnt some of tbe rigmaroles
prescribed tbe picking of tho wort nniil
the blood comee. Thu blood, you know,
most be emenred on a bit of rag
and carefully tied np and laid
where some unlncky neraon coming along
may pick up the bundle and thus get all
the warts, wnich leave the afflicted person
and fasten upon the new victim. Now,
pricking a wart is a dangerous thing, for
very often when a growth like that is ir
ritated it starts a cancer to growing, and
the results are not at all plcsant.”
SHOT HERSELF THROUGH DESPAIR.
A Young Wife Tries to End Her Life
ltather Than lie Divorced,
boston (Mm.) HpecUL
Just before noon to-day hnndreda of peo
ple in and about Fnnenil Hull Market
heard a faint report of two pistol shots.
Investigation showed that Mrs. Muckin, tho
young wife of William Mackin, superin
tendent of provisions, hnd fatally shot her
self in her husband’s office, over the
market. Mr. and Mrs. Mackin were mar
ried under fnvomblo auspices last sum
mer. Mrs. Mackin came trom an exaellent
family, and Mr. Mackin was prosperous,
with a good position. The tint tew months
of their married life were exceedingly
happy.
Five months after the marriage, however,
the husband commenced proceedings for a
divorce on the ground of fraud. He in
formed his wife tlmt ehe should never want,
hut insisted on a separation. She then
threatened to commit suicide if her husband
took steps to have the marriage annulled.
When she visited him to-dny the husband
thought that her object wo* to hare tho
matter transacted os quietly os possible in
order that publicity iu the case might not
affect her cnanccs of earning a livelihood.
The tragedy followed so qnickly that the
unfortunste man was quite overwhelmed.
The pistol with which Mrs. Mackin shot
herself is a new and cheap one, and was
probably bonght especially for the purpose,
rive of the seven chambers of the weapon
were loaded. The two shots aroused Su
perintendent G. C. McKay, of the Fonenil
building, who occupies an office on the
same floor, and, rnBhlng in, he found Mrs.
Mackin lying against a sofa and uucon
Sho
JUMBLE.
•cions. She was taken to the hospital,
where her wounds were prononneed fatal,
although she is still alive. One of tho bul
lets penetrated her brain.
DISGUISED AS A WIDOW.
Attempt of a Thieving Express Agent to
Escape anil Ills Capture.
fit Louis Special.
The express and railroad offleo at Golden
City, in Barton county, Ho., was deserted
yesterday bv the agent. Mr. William E.
Page, and the people wondered what hnd
beooroe of him. So did bis wife. Tho lat
ter also wondered what had became of her
fnU mourning costume which she had been
wearing in remembrance of her dead fath
er. To Mr. Page and to the St Louis po-
lico the matter is no mystery, for Mr. Page
is now behind the bars here and wears u
portion of the costume hia wife lost. Page
was agent of the Adame Express Ccnipn-
ny anil of the railroad at Golden City, Mis
souri.
Yesterday morning, when a package came
to him for the Golden City Bank containing
$K,UOO, ho put it in biB pocket. Ho did the
same with two other packages containing
$1,UOO each. Then be stule his wife’s cos
tume end going to the woods, converted
himself to a mourning female. In this cos
tume he started on his travels, but his walk
gave him away to the train men, nnd the
conductor telegraphed to the chief of police
here. Detectives met the train aud took
the charming young widow into custody,
when she weakened and confeosed. 8ix
thousand dollars was recovered and Page
was jailed.
A Discarded lexer's Revenge.
Ksnsas Cttj Hpeclsl.
Christmas night at Little Blue, Mo.,
Frank Vaughn waa married to Eliza Swope.
Immediately after the ceremony, while
Vaughn nnd bis wife wero standing nt a
window, thoy were fired nt from the out
side, the hull grazing Vaughn's head. It
was thought the shot was fired by Abruhnui
Nave, a cousin of the bride, who had threaten
ed that if she did not marry him he wonld
shoot the man she should marry. Last
night Nave visited the Vaughns at Argen
tine, Kan., and said the reports of the
Christmas affair worried his mother, and
asked that Vaughn and wife accompany
him to his home and deny tlmt thoy sus
pected him. This morning they started on
horseback. When half the journey waa
completed Nave rode np to tbe buggy
end ebot Vaughn dead. He then rode home,
and npon the approach of the officers killed
himself by shooting.
Han Francisco Girl Lingo. »
Hon Francisco News Letter.
The Son Francisco girl of IHH5 is princi
pally remarkabla for her ability to express
herself with a doable-back-action combina
tion of consciousness and volubility. She
has e clever trick of economizing time and
space by running two or more words to
gether. She never pauses for ordinary
obstructions of grammar, and when clear,
comprehensive English tails her she it once
resorts to words of her own coinage. The
T. C. offers os on example the following in
tercepted conversation: “Lo! Whereyer-
goin?” “Lo! Jos down ear to the dress
maker'*." "DrasafinUht?” “Mm—mm! Not
quite; 'agointobe lovely.” “Ilowshimokin-
it?” “Oh! Idunno; little jigger* down tho
front end pleatinirnun the bottom—sorter
•prangly effect. Mostburry—good-bye!"
M. Cnavnaav, a French actor who had
created a stage sensation by hia mimicry of
Sarah Bernhardt, woe set npon and beaten
to insensibility by one of the octresaV cham
pions.
nncklen'$ Arnica Mra.
TtMbMftmlv* In Um world for Cmta, BruUeo
loiw, Cleon, Salt Rheum, Fever Bone, Tetter
Life U full of oorapenmUona;
Huuehioe folio we niu;
Darkeet nighte all have au endltog;
Joy cornea after pain.
When the atockiuga aro euapended
In the hut or hall,
Thou tho girl whoee foot la biggeat
Farea tho beat of all.
Tiik inn to bo built by tbo State of Cali
fornia in tbo Yosemito Valley iu to be the
"General Stoneman.”
"Lbt’h take a drink. ” If he makes no re*
ply, then he ih dead beyond pe rad venture,
ami tho funejal is proceeded with.
A siNOLB London denier last year gold
nearly 800,UOO tropical bird* of gnyplnmoge
for tho trimming of hat* and costumes.
In blasting ont oil wells to increase the
flow, a* ranch as 200 quiirts of nitro-glyce-
rine are sometime* used at a single shot
The very tobacco pipe that Sir Walter
Raleigh smoked before Queen Elizabeth was
sold by auction in London tho other day.
The value of tho contents cf a barrel of
crude petroleum ranges from SGcenta to $1,
while the value of the barrel itself is $2.60.
The Italian custom of publishing ono’i
littlo book iK ptr le noztethat is. to cele
brate tho marriage of some friend, has
spread to Frnnce.
The diamond ring given by tho ex-Em-
press Engenie to the native who took the
dead body of the Princo Imperial from the
field in South Africa where ho fell, has
found ita way into the hands of a Boston
pawnbroker. It was purchased from him
the other day by Col. Daniel A. Potter.
Near Baku, in Russia, the naptha springs
have been discharging for 2,500 ^ ears. Cap
ital which is prove!hinUy timid, though
slow in coming to a conclusion, is now
freely invested in furnishing Pittsburg and
other towns with naturnl gas, and thero is
good reason to believe that the souices of
snpply will not be exhausted during the
present generation.
Five hundred yard* of tho boa wall at Ran
Francisco recently sank almost to the
water’s level. The sink took place with n
crash, and created a sensation in the imme
diate locality. The shattering of the tim
bers, drawing of great bolts and rods at
tached to the piles, and the breaking of rails
could be heard for blocks. It is estimated
that it will take a month to repair the dam
age done.
The average rental paid for offleos in tho
immediate vicinity of tho Now York Stock
Exchange is $5 a square foot, says the New
York Sun. There are instances where this
price is paid in buildings without elevators,
And whoso stairways are not over three feet
wide, and where gas and electrio lights are
required to be kept burning all day. The
agents of the new Astor building in Wall
street, at the bead of Now street, ask $7.50
a square foot for some parts of the build-
tog.
Thomas O. Steed, who enlisted in Mari
etta, O., when the late war broke ont, hua
just found his son, who at that time was
three years old. The young man is nearly
37 years old. He was with a company of
strolling players, and has been floating
about for twelve years past. Thos. Steed’s
wife eloped with a young man soon after
Steed enlisted, abandoning her little boy,
and was not heard from afterward. The
location of the child four or five years later
was unknown. He will now live with his
father.
Root. H. Coleman, a millionaire owner
of oro mines, living five miles from Leba
non, Pa., sent each head of a family among
his 500 employes a nice turkey, and invited
everv man, woman and child to spend a
portion of Christmas at hia beautiful man
sion. Last night his reaidenco was thronged.
A Christmas tree 30 feet high stood in the
centre of his large music hall, And it was
e
1»TK*
loaded down with oifts that wont to every
family. They included some checks for
money. It is said there bos never been a
strike at Mr. Coleman's mines.
At Birmingham, Ala., the other day, n
feather-renovator on ripping open an old
feather bed discovered a nsndsome diamond
ring. It war sent to tbo owner of tbe bed,
a lady, who on seeing it took it and held it
to her lips. She then pressed an invisible
spring, end the picture of ■ handsome
yonng man In confederate uniform was re
vealed. She said that the ring waa presen
ted to her by her hnsband before he left for
tho army in 1803 for safe koeping, nnd she
had forgotten where sho had placed it. Her
husband was killed in one of the battlea
anmnd Richmond.
Tue 12 children of tbo late A. B. Fox, of
Gowsndo, N. V., none of whom is Las than
0 feet in height, tho lightest one weighing
250 pounds, are to have a reunion. Their
pnrenta lived togethar, CO years, the father
dying at the ago of 80, and liis widow the
next day, at tbo same age. Mr. Fox was
0 feet 2 inches in height, and weighed 250
pounds. The 12 chihlreo aro all married,
and each one has 0 children. One of these,
aged 17 years, is 0 feet 3 inehea in height.
Thero aro two years between tbo ages of
the 12 children, and tho same difference
between the ages of all their children.—
Pittsbnrg Oazctfe.
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