The Sully County watchman., August 04, 1883, Image 5

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HOl.KUA 1NFA XTl'.M.
flirllcBl Illnta Hogarding th« OtN
Children in Hot Weather*
With the arrival of the extreme
warm weather cholera infantum ha*
again made its appearance. Four
bodilv condition. "Cliol
deaths from this disease were reported i Ja,neH N. Bigbee. H. M. Brown,
at the Health Mice yesterday, ando it Haullin, C. R. Narremore, and
M. Tumlin, who heard evidence
w probable that the number will be
increased from day to day until the
last of August. No malady is more
dreaded bv mothers, and none is per
haps more rapid in its action anu so
universally fatal in its results.
During the heated term the little ones
are
never safe, and mothers can not' .,
exercise too much care regarding ,u1-v ^',uh °J /"tflxnt character
their children's food, elotl
regarding
1
day, let the weather be ever so who js
dying in great agony. Teething chil
dren an* more apt than others to be
afflicted with this disease, for the
reason thut the nervous system is in a
constant state of irritation, and the
reflex nervous action generally affects
the stomach lirst.
"Yes," continued the doctor, "in
the great majority of cases children
die fnun neglect: not that parents do
not trv to save their lives, but Iweause
they do not know how to take care of
the little ones. During the warm
months the babies should le kept as
quiet as |MKsihle. During the day it
is a good idea to give them plenty of
fresh air. They should be permitted
to play out doors in the shade all day.
and before they an? put to bed at
night a cool bath would reduce their
temperature and fit them for a good
night's sleep. Mothers who nurse
children should avoid heating their
blotxl, and the lottles fnun which
youngsters drink should le scahhxl
daily and kept perfectly clear of sour
milk. No child suffering from
diarrhcra should be permitted to go a
day without m*dicul attention.
These directions, if followed, together
with a projwr attention to drew will
doubtless save the life of many an in
fant. —Cleveland Leader.
and it can be made as line as the tiucst
lace in the market. Still, for the
most part, the numbers S and 10 are
the cotton used, the lace netting be
ing bought by the yanl and of a size
of mesh to suit the cotton. The
materials are not dear, but the work
ing of them up into the ligun*s and
patterns, and the finished work on
this account, and the time oceuphil
in completing it, comes rather high.
A great many patterns an' produced,
but those known as the star and fern
laaf and five, three, two stitch aeem
to be the most favored.
A Peculiar Scandal.
daughter, Miss Beiilay and an old
vestigatio»* 'hcv soon siwitted
Sjieight a.fc guilty party, ant! sum
moned him before tfiem. Their re-1
I port was that Speight was the guilty
person. He then called for a legal in
vestigation, when arbitration was!
I agreed upon. The arbitrators chosen
W
under oath. As Speight's connection,
with the affair could only l»e proved
circumstantially, the
arbitrators foil mil
him not guilty, except in one instancn!
which he acknowledged, and foi*I
which they censun-d him. The ar
bitrators also found that the Hill
4
alu
warm, a child will not he so much engaged to be married. The man who
affected by the heat a* while sleeping,
and for this reason the warm nights
eause most of the trouble. Extreme
heat in a child's body will arrest the
process of digestion, diarrhcra ensues,
and if this is not cheeked it will
eventually run into cholera infantum.
The disease is sometimes rapid in its
action, the little sufferer dying within
a few hours after being attacked,
while in other cases a child may le
sick for weeks with summer complaint
before eholera infantum ensues. The
discharge in cases of summer com
plaint is fillet! with particles of
curdled milk, which cannot be digest
ed, but in the last stages of cholera,
infantum the discharge is clear and
colorless, like rice-water, and is tilled
with albumen. This discharge is
nothing but the waterv portion of the
blood which leaks through the in- i I
lera The Fort Gaines Tribune is hot against been out of
fantum," said I)r. J. F. Isom vester- Speight. as are most of the people, with a gangof men. had l»een engaged
r, "it isasmuch in superintendent of a Sunday for several day
day to a Leader rejxrter,
like Asiatic cholera as it is possible to
imagine. It is caused principally by
extreme heat. When the teni|emture
at night ranges from 70 degrees up
ward many cases of the disease may
be e\|eeted. but if the nights are cool
there is not so much danger, no mat
ter how hot the days. During the
school.
Ho mors of the Ii|r.
It rather annoys a woman, after she
has had a child christened some ro
mantic Indian name, to learn that the
name translated means "old boots."
Then* is a young lady in this citv
8
won
Little Mrs. "Whedleitn spent forty
five minutes in a vain effort to con
vince Mr. W. that a sealskin sacque
was necessary to her existence. Then
she startled him by the question,
'John, hadn't you better sell me for
,„
v
vo
Kot
a
cast-iron Hub.
testines. Many children die just as the sacque.
if they had bled to death, but in most i A Texas paper tells this cheerful tale
cases of cholera infantum the patients: of the experimental school of medi
an seized with cramps and spasms, cine: "A woman came to a prominent
It is said that David Davis, who has
just liecome a husband, weighs over
.'{00 pounds. *lf ever then* comes a
peri»d in the gentleman's life when he
will wish that lie was an old bachelor,
or was born a living skeleton, it \m11
Ih* when he ivturns home fnun an al-
leged political caucus at midnight and
making them creak like stage thun
der. Light-weight married men who
have tried to jierforni the feat can
sympathize with Mr. Davis'awful pre
dicament at such a moment.
Detroit Free Press: "Dur am nutfin
which ruins a man suddener." said
Uncle Nash, solemnly, to his eldest
hopeful, "dan de custom of visitin'
hen roosts in de full oh de moon. It
wMl nough to tackle de watermillyuu
patches when de (lueen oh night am
.suilin' round in short neck an'low
sleeves. Ikhuiz de squawk of a twisted
watermillvun-vine am not like the
squawk of a ivd-headed roosterer when
The "Darned Net Craze." vou done pluck him out o' de hen
"It is a coarse lace work wroughton P^'h-
lace netting with darningor Jtnitting !mMw
the best known business men of south- K
West Georgia, is an intimate friend of
the family, and has a latch key. One
night six years ago the ladies saw a
man creeping through a window at
them, but lie disap|eaivd too quickly
for recognition. His tracks eorre
sjynuled with Sneight's. The second
night afterwant a missile struck the
door. On picking it up a letter wtus
found attached, warning Mrs. Hill
that her daughter. Miss Ben lay, was
in the habit of meeting young men.
From that day to this these letters
have continued, over 1.000 having
been written, all of the most obscene
character and always coupling
her
l5llt
1,1,1 0,1
cotton, though much of it is done in! When a Reno 1 Nev. mau wants a
linen floss, especially in the West, night of peace and quiet, sars a cor
n\s|omlent, he tellr, his wife that he is
going down-town, and then goes and
cmwls under the led. When she has
got thoroughly mad at him for staying
out she prepan*s ton*tin*. quite resolv
ed to give him a hurrah of a lectuwi
when he n*turns. Of course. lx?ing
alone iu the house, she looks under
the led, sees a man, gives a yell, and
llees from the house to her mother's,
two blocks away. In the morning she
returns, and her husband tells of a
struggle with a burglar ami is implifit
ly believed.
Fort Gaines, Ga„ is in the mid*t of jeVe„»ore, ray darling! For your sake
a social sensatien Mrs. fc. Hill, her I ,i()n
maul sister Miss Indier Brooks, com- mhs
Speight's name with that of Miss jnj, j, ,. devotion to the stranger, she
Ben lay. Mrs. Hill ap|ealed toSj»eight mail, and shook her list at him. "It's
for din*ctions what to do. He always
insisted on her keeping the matter se
cret. Its publication, he said, would
ruin her, and
daughter should not
marry nor keep company with other
yiiung men. Fnun time to time he
"Would, in conversation with Mrs. Hill,
tiirow suspicion upon leading young
Bflten of the city, until at last then*
Was scarcely one who was not brought
Under suspicion. Whenever Slight
Visited the bouse a letter followed the
next day detailing the conversation,
'Which Sneight would clear away by
Miving tlnit young men must have
listened under the house to his talk
...» ..... you. I have accepted a challenge to
Thus the women were
gradually
OUt from all other sm'iety, and
con-
L. L. Sutlive, N. II. McLendon, W.
A. McAllister, J. B. L. Allen. J. U.
lieLendun, A. W. Heuer, (f, S. Sut
live and J. W. Sutlive began an in-
W'U'"
l°
half-shell.
He was on his knees before her, and
with a voice tremulous with passion
he said: "Nothing shall sepenite us
hjs dvn A win
on the 1)lltlK
pose one fam.lv, n.ov.ng ''ithe^s suffering, all misery:" He
Circ es Mr. \V. M. Speight 01 of
..,ieW I will
wiU
and loolm
.lM .mJ.
,.lv
whoK
at htM
Bering in his
eyes. "Will you do all this for the
sake of my lover' said she, gazing
earnestly at him. "Yes, yes a thous
and times yes!" "And if we get mar
ried'" (here she blushed slightly) "will
vou get up first and light the Href"
With a shriek of despair he fled.
Not long ago. as an elderly couple
wen out walking, a lady on the op
posite side of the side of the street
tripped and fell down. The old gentle
man rushed across the street, raised
liis hat, and offered to assist her in
any jjossible way. His wife followed
him across at a slow pace, and witness-
got
all right it's all right, she hotly ex
claimed: "here an unknown woman
hurts her toe, and you plow across the
stivet to eat her up with kindness.
The other day when I fell down stairs
you stood, and laughed, and chuckled,
and tickled your ribs, and wauled to
know if I was practicing for a circus."
A Safe Risk.
want to get my life insured for
*1 0,000," said a Southern editor to an
insurance agent, "but to be frank with
shut light a duel next week. If 011 care
to take the chances you can make out
fined to tliat of Speight alone. At the jiolicy at once.
lust the young men of Fort Gaines.
Ctune to the conclusion that something 1 agent, as he handed over the papers
had
to be done to set this scandal to and jxicketed the ^premium. He was
fl'st, and a committee, consisting of
Who is the other manf" asked the
BURIED BENEATH BRICK.
A Horrible Calamity Near
cuse, Now York.
Mere Than Sixty Men
Death.
v*
and worthy of the deepest sympathy, the furnace
jx fom. inches tall, and is
|,er did it in these words: "Thv
l»eauty sets my soul aglow—I'd wed
thee, right or wrong a man wants
but little here Iwlow, but want's that
little long."
Mis. K. A. Jewitt, of Georgetown,
who celebrated her IWth birthday, re
cently. went out last week on the ice
and coasted down hill several times
on a double runner. But you can't
make us Itelieve the boys enjoyed
walking up the hill with her as much
as they did seventy-four years ago.
Uo Down la
Down to 0iat1i.
X. V. S)x«fiiU.J
A terrible arcident occurred at the
Onondaga Iron Company's blast fur
nace a mile west of this city, in
Geddes, Wednesday Forsevenil weeks
the furnace has been unused, it having
repair. Joseph Dawson.
s in removing the inner
and lire-bricks of the arch, leaving
only the outercourse standing. The
foreman considered thisconrse entire
ly secure. Without the slightest warn
ing the arch caved in, burying the
workmen beneath it in a mass of
brick, mortar, wiot and ashes. An
alarm was at once given, and the
men at the mill set at work with a
will to remove the victims. Iir less
than an hour eight Ixxlies were taken
from the ruins. S.-veral hundred
people wen* at the scene. Sons,
'daughters, and wives wept frantically
as the Ixtdies were removed. People
gathered in knots in t!:e village of
Geddes or hurried to the scene of the
casualty. Business was almost entire
i ly suspended in the village, and the
place looked a.s if stricken by a panic.
It was fully live minutes after the
collapse lefore the dust cleared away
suflicently so that the debris could be
viewed. The weight of the falling
bricks was so great that they were
forced out of the openings in the
a car-wheel* Why .' Because Joseph Dawson, the head mason who tual Union people had not discovered
She got
phvsician and asked for a remedv'for i «1 was married and the. "There arej plenty of old line men'
ieJ husband's rheumatism. The'doc- {atl|er
of
,tw?
ch«^,ren-
tor Kuve h.-r u uu.l said: ."""'- "l"' marri«l for city.
•Grt thut propan.,1 at th.- .Iru* store1 yfaw ami wa, tlw ftither of one wa^s out of ™.|.l...vmMit,
and rub it well over your husband's
back. If it does any gooil, come and
let me know. I've got a touch of
rheumatism myself.'"
victims that was lieanl to make any
outcry.
11 1 The excitement among the employes
alM ma
attempts to ascend the stairs without in((»)lSf. The loudest and most open
C. Washburn.
The late C. B. Washburn receives
a tribute of praise from the jH'n of
Miss Klla A. (tiles iu a recent number
of a Minnesota paper, she writes:
Surely. Gov. v\ashbum's admirers
ami friends are not growing forgetful
of the good he accomplished while
living. And among the many who
furnish fn-sh personal reminiscences
lias rot ton ami other mills employing
alout 10,000 hands and mm«.(MX» in
capital, her free schools numlier 5.000.
and in every way she is getting wide
Syra-1 awake.
TAFPIN4J THE WIRES.
One Lineman Who Know IAII the
Wires—TOethod* of IMapatrh Stealem
—The
hero of the distinguished dead, is one cipher they would be perfectly safe,
who knows him so intimatelv that
his every utterance is frightful with
meaning, and valuable a.s having
din*ct authority. I refer to Mr. C. J.
Martin, who was Gov. Washburn's
esteemed private seorotary during his
term of office in Wisconsin and
whom I now meet again as one of the
most highly rospected, public-spirited their schemes.'"
citizens of Minneapolis, says a Min
nea|Klis clergyman writing of Gov
ernor Washburn. "I knew him not,
but the wonls spoken of him rank
him among the saints. A soldier like
Joshua, and in a humauer cause a
legislature like Moses, and with as
pure a purpose as groat a miracle
worker as either helping to stop our
river and turn in to the services of
Minnesota and mankind by his great
business ability showing the mental,
unil by lus integrity showing the
moral miracle iu man and by his
public generosities helping on the
miracle of human power, knowledge,
justice and meivv. His muniticcnt
gift of &t7.VK)U for the orphans of
Minneapolis is a deed to adorn the Bi
ble of humanity." Credit is also given
Gov. Washburn for his other chari
ties and for his great gift to the Wis
consin State 1'iiiversity in the astrono
mical observatory which he establish
ed at Madison.
llavis' Acres.
Jefferson Davis" estate of 500 acres,
at Beauvior. Miss., is now mainly de
voted to grajH'S and oranges. He told
a recent caller that the neighborhood
was equal to anything in Florida in
natural advantages for winter resort.
He mentioned several |oints on Miss
issippi sound as atVonling rare chances
i for capitalists to make money by erect
ing hotels. "They get the lenetit of
southwest winds that almost continu
ously float over the water." he said,
and back of tlieiu are thousands of
acres of pine forests, the odor from
which are strengthening to weak
lungs. The lishing is excellent, the
bayous swarm with geese, duck, and
brant, and the forests would yield to
to the sjH»rtman's skill plenty of tur-
told, and when he went to bed that key, quail, and deer." Mr. Davis
night he felt that the two policies is- thinks that, considering the cireum
sued that day were the safest risks he stances, Mississippi is doing very well
had ever accomplished. Uochester 111 the way of progress. She produces
Post-Express.
Fr«qiifiit Failure olTrlrgraph
Thlcvr*.
New York Sun: In speaking of the
tapping of the wires Itetween Ixmg
Branch and Philadelphia, the other!
day, and the sending of a false re]ort
by which Philadelphia pool-sellers
were swindled of several thousand
dollars, a telegraph man said: "Such
attempts, in one way or another, are
made every year. The men who put
up the jobsapparentlv have less scruple
about Feating a pool-seller .than they
would alKHit swindling an orphan
asylum. A win- is so easily tapped
that the companies are wholly unable
to guanl against it. An attempt
to beat the Long Island City jwxd
rooms Jiust summer was discovered
city and thence to Long Island City.
Accordingly a Mutual I nton lineman
was bribed.and he tap|ed the win*
right in the cupola over the Mutual'.'*
«flice,
at No. l-"&7 Broadway. The dis
patches fnun Saratoga had. therefore,
to pass through the 'snide' olfice lx*
fore thev reached the Mutual I'nion
otlice. Vrom their up-town otlice the
furnace and crowded several feet into gang sent the message by private wire P°rt- f°r about *2o.oon.
the space around it. to Long Island City, and by haste
The following is a list of the victims, saved several minutes of time. That
.... all of whom were killed outright: i is, thev would have done so if the Mu-
hail formerly been emploved at the the game a lew minutes before I
rolling-mills leaves a wife and ten o'clock, when the mces wen* called."
childivn. John Fogarty, who was a "How are these fellows able to pick
single man, and the support of an out the right win' among the bund
aged and widowed mother. Michael red strung through the stivetsr'" I
Anthony who know all about the hues of the
Lvden. who has been married for city. Some of th»*se linemen are al
It is easy
hild. Frank Hefty, a German, who to hire them for the job. In the conn
was married and had a family. John
Wendall. who had lecu at work but
a short time, ami of whom but little
is known he had a family. David
Reagan, who was married, and leaves
childYen: he is the only one of the! "Not very much more ditlicult. The
ny outside lalxmng men was
throats were heard to shoot Voth
Manager Gere and the general fon*
man, who wen* both pn*sent. The
impression prevailed among these
excited men that they were criminally
negligent iu allowing the men to go
into the furnace to work in the con
dition iu which it was. It was said
by Mr. Gen*, manager of the com
nauy, that it was known that the
lining of the upper pari was 111 a
dangerous condition, and that he
warned the men liefon* they went in.
The fellow workmen of the dead men
say it was not known that the lining
was in a dangerous state. A sea:
idl
ing investigation will be made.
try. as on the Long Branch and Phil
adelphia line, there are only two or
thn*e wires. If thev don't hit it the
first time they can tlie next sun*."
"It is appan'iitly more ditlicult to
an invalid wife ami family. John intercept a mesage and send a false 1
Barry, who was married but had 110 one than to get the news in advance."
wire is cut and a wire is spliced to
each end of the cut win*. These wires
are led to separate instruments in the
one room. An operator sits at each
one. Messages an* allowed to pass
along through until wonl is roceived
that the particular horse thev wisli to
leat is at the start. Then the cin-uit
between the two }Hints is cut and the
message from the nice track stops with
the operator who has cut the line. He
supposed to go. and the operator at'
his elbow, using the signature of the
operator on the track, sends on the
false message. Then the cut wire is
spliced and all traces of the job an*
removed. It would take a smart man
to find 'the phu-e when* the cut was
made. It could In1 discovered only by
accident, because then* an* so many i
,spliced breaks in every line."
"I have heanl that you have an in
strument for determining the location
ofbn*aks."
"It might locate these fellows if the
company had any information that
its line had lw-en tapped at the time,
but I doubt if it would te of service i
under the vaiying conditions of the
lines in hot weather."
"Is it not possible to devise some
method for protecting the pool sel
lers f"
"If they would take their news in
Or thev
rejH'attil.
1
could have their message
They will not adopt either
method. The trouble is thev want to
save every second of time. The
sooner the winner gets his monev the
sooner he'll put it in circulation
again."
"Do the, beats' usually succeed in
Thev usually do not, easv as it is
to tap the lines. It is now four years
since Kelly & Bliss were 'beaten' so
badly in l^ong Island City by a false
dispatch. A11 occasional success
inaKcs up for the failures, and there
fore the wires are cut. with each
recurring seaaon.
Weather Slarnnls.
Mr. Pen rod of New York has in
vented a code of universal signals for
distributing information all over the
country of the probable state of the
weather, as nrediclcd by the United
States signal service. Clear, fair,
stormy weather, cold waves, warm
waves, frost, rain, floods, thunder
storms, tornadoes, cyclones, with all
needful variations and degrees, are to
be communicated from steam ears,
stage coaches, lake and river steam
boats. as they pass along, by the num
ber of bell strokes or whistles, by dif
ferent colored tlags. balls, disks and
lights or nx-kets at nights. Cannon
!and
church bells could also le used
for the purpose. By this code,should
a passing train display the numbers
"2
1 more cotton than any other state, she 1 larger than a inan s thumb.
2." it would signify that a cold
wave is approaching." If a designa
ted bell should toll "4 and light
rain" is probable. If a passing steam
boat should have un "2 4 2," "dan
would
Miss Susan B. Anthony will reach
home fnun Europe next month, and
will at once begin work 011 the thinl
NKWS IT F.MS.
Of the bishops of the Church of
England three are over 80 and nine
over 70 years of age.
Henry Irving, the English actor,
does not want, to be a knight. It's a
i
case of .lack and his supper.
Mr. William L. Scott has presented
a Catholic church in Erie. Pa., with a
chime of lells costing #0,000.
General Sherman is to be at Bar
Harbor. Mount Desert, Me., with his
family, alwuit the first of next month.
John Bovle O'Reilly is on his way
to Long Island Sound, coming down
the Connecticut river in a canoe.
Jefferson Davis reganls Southern
nine tnes and Northern dollars as
liaving a natural ottinity for each
other.
John Kelly, the Tammany chief, is
said to be worth *2.000,00(1. It nays
well to be a |olitieal boss in S'ew
York.
just in the nick of time. It was dur .
ing the Sam toga races. The intention September.
was to get the news ahead of the pool- Rosa Bonheur is in the t'lst year of
sellers. Western Union had an otlice her age. paints incessantly, and still
in Saratoga and one in Long Island dresses in male attire while at work in
City. Mutual I'nion had one in Sara- her studio.
toga, but none in Long Island City, Mrs. Don Cameron has written to
The men w ho worked the job deter- frjends in Washington that the sen
mined to tap Mutual Lnion news and .ltor does not exjiect to return home
run it around through-an otlice in this
Lonl Coleridge, who is coming to
this country, wul be given a banquet
by the New York Union League Club
uu
til the summer of 188f.
Th(
.v
Thomas
Vickers. profess-
or nf historv hl th(
Cincinnati uni-
versitv, has applied for a divorce from
his wffe, on the ground of desertion.
Mrs. Morris, the widow of Com
mander Morris, of the United States
navy, has purehased a very pretty cot
tage on luiode Island avenue. New-
It is runioml in Washington that
Mr. Marble, the Commissioner of
Patents, is alout to resign. Dr. R. G»
Dvrenfurth, of Chicago, the present
Assistant Commissioner, is spoken of
as Mr. Marble's probable successor.
It is stated that Charles O'Conor,
the aged lawyer of New York, is an
inveterate and industrious collector of
literature relating to love and the fair
1
It is stated that he has several
thousand volumes of such books.
Discussion having mirisen as to
Mr. Tilden's age. it is settled by
refeivnce to the American Cyclopedia,
which says he was lorn in New I^e
banon. Columbia county, N. Y.. 011
February 11, 1M4. He is, therefore, in
his 70th year.
Ex-Senator Wallace, of Pennsylva
nia, is said to aspin* to the democratic
nomination to the pn*sideney. During
the time he has leeii in private life he
has rebuilt his fortune and is now
thought to be worth fcl,(MX),0)o.
The patrons of Saratoga are com
bining solid attractions with their
pleasures this summer. Thev an* to
nave, besides a season of grand ojM ra,
a school for the study of languages,
and a series of lectures from distin
guished ]K*rsous.
Chief Justice Waitelias returned to
Toledo. ., from his unfinished trip
with General Sherman. He is still
suffering from injuries received by
iH'ing thrown fnun a horse iu Mon
tana. and fears that a rib is fractured.
He is on his way to Connecticut.
Ex-Governor Harriman,
The name of Abraham Reactor. i9*,hiln?
new to the' most of our readers. I,.,t lie I "M''"tal*
had leen a member of congi-ess, mill-
ister to Portugal and governor of
New Mexico, and President Buchanan
offered him the secretaryship of the
llftVV
Leeshurg, Ya. He is over 80 years of
age, and his health has entirely broken
i down.
A sensation haa oeen created in
I Vienna by the announcement that
the great financier, Baron Wodianer.
is engaged to marry his housekeeper.
Fnun the point of wealth and in
tluenee the Baron is second only to
jibe Rothschilds.
1
gerous floods" would be the transla- accompany him.
tion, or if the steamer used tlags, and Consul Pakenham, whose death un
tliev would read "white, white, der painful circumstances was de
white," "killing frost" is indicated.
\olutne of her history ot woman sil tjjolu,mi
rage.
Rather be the tail among lions than
the head among foxes.
A large farm near Stockton, Cal.,
lias been completely cleaned of its
crops by millions of little birds no
M. Waddington, the new French
Ambassador to England, is himself
English in name, descent ami educa
tion. His imternal ancestor was an
English hotelkeejH'r at Brighton, and wherebv
in his day aided the llight Charles lady of
II. to France and was awarded ji pen
{sion.
i Mrs. Nevius, onee so popular as a
ballad and oratorio singer throughout
the United States, is at
Springs. N. Y. It was of her soft.
rich voice that the celebrated Lucre
tia Mott once gave so quaint yet ex
pressive a criticism by saving: "I can
i understand thee, and thee does not
scream."
The Karl of Carnarvon will sail for
i Canada August 2.'l. I^nl Carnarvon
1
was Secretary for the Colonies during
Lonl Beaconsfield's administration,
and in that capacity prepared the
agreement between Canada and Brit
isn Columbia known as the "Carnar
von terms." Ladv Carnarvon will
scribed by Mr. Gladstone in the House
of Commons recentlv, had been for
twenty-one years British Consul at
Tamatave. Only a few weeks have
*v elapsed since he was gazetted Consul
a
It is difficult to believe that two sound
places could have been found in his
collar-lnme, as this is the fourth time
in as inanv months that he has met
with ft similar accident.
Railroad News.
It is rejnirted that the Wisconsin
Central Railroad Company will lay
track from Chippewa Falls to St. Paul,
on account of encroachments by the
hnalia line.
John Barnett, the first railroad con
ductor ever employed in paissenger
traffic, died lately in England. Heac
companied the old No. I engine in its
trial trip with George Stephenson.
The people »f Prescott. A. T.. have
contributed ¥~oo,noo toward building
a railroad from then' to connect with
the Atlantic .and Pacific Road, which
is distant sixty miles north..
It is announced that by August 1."
the new line of the Grand Trunk from
Pontiac westwanl will be fully com
pleted to South Lyon. The connec
tion then' with the Toledo and Ann
Arlior will yive the Grand Trunk an
independent line of their own to Tole
do.
The officials of both the Lehigh Val
ley and the Pennsylvania Itailroad
Companies, give an emphatic denial to
rejjovts that have Iwen revived in re
ganl to the putvhase of the Packer
inteivst, in the stock of the former
company by either Vanderbilt, the
Gowon interest or the Pennsylvania
railroad.
The Railroad Gazette of the 20th re
ports a total of 197 miles of new rail
road constructed, making 2.5NK milett
thus far this year, against .1,100 miles
n'ported at the corresponding time in
IHSjf. 2.5M miles in 1WN0, 1,0H.'J inile«
inJN7U. Slil miles in 1K7N. 7.'lt miles in
1M2 miles in lJS7t5, 518 miles in
1875,727 miles in 1*74 and l,69fi milen
in 1N7.-1.
IT WAS NOT A UH0ST.
Mjmt«rlou« Intrunlon—A Young C*a
pic Aiinoyt-U by a Nocturnal
Vlalior.
About July 1 a young couple giving
their names as Mr. and Mrs. James A.
Keck, recently married, applied at
No. 51 George street in answer to an
advertisement, and rented the back
iiMnn on the lirst floor as a sleeping
apartment. To all appearances they
had married for love, and for a few
days everything ran along smoothly
enough. Having successfully under
gone the scrutiny which is sun to
greet new-comers in a lodging-house,
they seemed to settle down for a good
stay. They did not appear to be in
clined to he over sociable, but were
evidently satisfied with each other's
com pan v.
alters had progrcssed thus but a
week when the household were star
tled during the night by a noise 111 th®
first floor back room. Investigation
proved that a strange mail had dared
to tivsjMiss upon the privacy of the
I bridal chamber, but had escaped be
fon* his capture could be effected.
About 1 o'clock the next night thi0
young woman was lying 011 the Ix^d
trying iu vain to battle the heat and
to get to sleep, when suddenly th®
dark outline of a man s form pivse nfc
|ed itself at the window and started tto
I enter. With a sereuni she made
bound for him, but only succeeded in
of New grasping his coat tails, which easily
Hampshire, who has just been stricken slipped through her lingers.
with paralysis, was a Vniversalist course the entire neighborhood and
preacher befon* the war, and gave up household was on the alert after this,
his church to command a rogiment in but it was only a few nights later thii
the army of the Potomac. He used to the intruder entered the room again,
be considered the ablest stump speaker and. after chloroforming loth bus
in the state. baud and wife, departed, leaving ey-
iust,
who died in North Carolina, on ,|lP th«J't'h !..• coul.l ^mUy have made otf
till, of .lulv. at ti... of I..-,, will IK-
w',h
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The Hon. ThomasSwann, ex-Mayor 1 occasions, it was thought by some to
of Baltimon*, ex-Governor of Mary-j be a trick he was playing on his wiffc
land, and ex-member of congress, is but the chloroforming act dispelled
lying dangerously ill at his summer this theory. A few days passed, dur
residence, Morven, four miles from ing which a vigilant watch was kept
Richlield Unake it rather warm for the maraud
er. should he continue his visits. From
Mi*s. Kech's own story the visitor evi
dent lv cherished designs upon her, bat
for wliat reasons she cannot tell.
at
I'f i""1 $
amount of prop-
of
money'
•|cwclry
n
governor of J]xu neighlN.rs suspected that some
thing was wrong, and numerous th®-
^pressed as totheobje*
of these nocturnal visits. As the hua
band was absent on several of these
for the intruder, but he came not, and
all wen* congratulating themselves
that the couple were to be left in i*vie®.
The mysterious*, niau, however, put ilk
an appearance both Friday and
unlay nights last, the neigh Wi s, on
one of these occasions, discerning ths
flash of the dark-lantern which he
carried. This was more than the
young couple could stand, and about
as much as the landlady cared to put
up with. Mr. and Mrs. Kech gave
notice yestenlay morning of their in
tention to vacate, which they lost no
time in doing, leaving 110 wonl U'liind
thev might he traced. The
the blouse says that she was
011 the eve of requestingtheui to move
when they announced their intention
of so doing. The room is to be rented
to two young men, who will probably
It was rumored that to marry her
husband she hud jilted a former suit
or. who hail vowed vengeance, but
whether he had adopted this mode of
jetting even or not, they are u 11 wil
to venture an opinion. The noigh
liors say she made t.ie remark that
"the man in the window'' resembled
her old lover.
!ing
Odessa. aiu\ it is therefore
impossible that he could have heanl
of his }«*omotiou at the time of his
death.
Lonl William Beresford, whose
plucky but dare-devil exploits on the
lie Id of battle and in sport are noto
rious throughout India, has again
broken his collar-bone in two places.
The air of mystery which surrounds
the whole affair is the one topic of
conversation in the neighborhood
among those who know of it. All
effort was made 'o keep it quiet, and
why the hushand did not make some
effort to attack the stranger on one of
I these visits only deepens the mystery.
However, as they have removed. itM
1 hojH'tl that they have as effectually
{covered their tracks from their un
welcome visitor as fnun their old
neighlmrs.—Cincinnati News Journal.
They call it a romantic marriage
when a couple of the neighbors get
the bride's father in a back room and
sit on him to prevent his interrupting
ami breaking up the wedding.