Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, July 4, 1880, Page 7

CHICAGO TRIBUNE: SUNDAY, JULY 4, 1880—SIXTEEN PAGES OVER MOUNTAIN-TRAILS By Freight-Wagon Across the San Juan Range of Mountains. the Natuzal Parks of Colorado and a New Mexico. special Correspondence of The Chtengo Tribune. ANIMAS City, Colo., June 2.—The unpre- cedented travel over all the railroads leading to the Colorado mineral distr “ts isin itself. 2 remarkable evidence of the faith of man in current boon. ‘Trains and hotels south and chet of Denver are crowded to overflowing; he stage-lines are overrun with business, and even frelght-wagons are called into yequisition to transport the ever-inereas- ing crowd of fortune-seekers. The searcher after ponanzas who would find tis fortune jn this part of the San Juan country, will in ost instances be forced to content dimself with such accommodations as a freighting establishment can offer, unless he fortunately possesses. & private conveyance. The ma- jority do not possess this luxury; conse quently they stow thems: Ivesaway with other freight; and, in addition to paying a round gum for passage, they are privilized to pro- vide and cook their own victuals; lay down and take Up theif beds and walk—a good deal of the the; and to fexst their eyesupon awealth of river, mountain, and woodland scenery such a: rarely falls to the lot of the seereter, such has been my experience for i; past; and, while thare were some in- drawbacks to the pleasure of the trip, it has been, on the whole, not only ini- teresting, but instructive and exhilarating. ‘Dr. Sears, of jtensselaer, Lud., and myself, were the only two passenger booked. YER “ MYERS’ EX" iad wagon and four hhurses), from on the Nth mst. We left that active city of the San Luis ‘Valley on the afternoon of that day, and went in camp on nk of Alamosa River in All hands were enlisted fi of the camp,— king, washing: dishes, attending to the Hees and other necessary duties. But sleep was sweet, and “grub”? highly -rel- ached at neon jshed, Conejos Creek was ne n0n eae : nd forded with sume diti- culty. The stream is nearly = four the current id. et deep, any {eet or detached one of. the lea plunged into the ereek. By making a de qad deseriving 2 dozen ingles, we finally reached the south side w hout mishav, and Tntered the old Mexien ‘Town of Concjos, a eof adobe huts, highwinds, gin-mills, ~ebaniks, and a xeneral air of deeay. We lingered only long enough to purehase ome necessary provisions, and were off arain, The wind blew a hurricane, and, were itnot for our goggles.—a very neces- sary adinnet of el in that. Jocalit ¥ inevitably ei dae i vapbily, this discomfort came to an end as we began the ascent of the mountain. We camped that night under the pine-trecs, andin the morning started again for the sumsnit. Need Ladd that avE WERE PERMITTED TO WALK? But this was not felt as aprivation. The air was exhilarating, and the constantly-enlarg- ing vision of Jandscapes many miles away uentralized fatigue. At 10 o'clock we had reached a point commanding the San Lois Valles, Conejos, Alamosa, distant Sierra. Blanca,—one of the highest peaks in Amer- ica, and a chain of mountains more than a__ hundi miles to the east, their summits . almost Jost in the blue ‘haze; while the nearer hills, cov- ered witly luxuriant green timber, added a rounded y tothe panorama. The high- erwe uscended,the more beautiful the picture untilat Jast, as evening-shadows gathered on the hill-tops, the eye, satiated with so much ot grandeur, gladly sought relief in the con- teniplation of the material duties of the time. ‘A graded section of the route of the Den- ver & Rio Grande’ Railway was crossed in the evening, and, as we toiled up one of the precipitous hills in that neighburhood, I re- ceived my first impressions and realizations of the true inwardness of. 6 STLE BULLWHACKER place in Colorado. The oaths of the gen pirate, and the curses and maledictions of the most amiable and courteous ariny-mule driver, sink into ridicu- Jous insignificance when compared with the wary of expletives employed by the unmitignted brutes who drive the ox- teams “of Colorado. We arrived | at the base of a steep incline where an ox-team—or more Properly, ala Colorado, bull-team—was_ stalled. Armed with a whip of ample length and thickness attached to. a handie of proper calibre and sharp-pointed at the butt, the bullwhacker procecds to reason with his gentle team: fi “Dandy! come up there! Whoa! W-h-o-al — your rotten tripe, ll jerk the rotten daylights out of your infernal at) eareass! {Whack whack !] —— _yuur_in- nal soul! gve up there, Baldy! Hey! Bob! at eve ‘there—geel. If I don’t snatch you bald-headed, you —— ornery scalawag of —, jest pick me up fora rotten, lyin’, — boiind Grease from Santa Fe. D’ye hear me, —— your double rotten tripe! kK! whack!] Haw, haw there, Bill Dandy, whoa now, and be —— to yo! ‘This is but _A FAINT REFLECTION OF THE TRUTT. When a whip fails, stones ure used. Hurled with ail the force ‘of enraged fury, directed bya wall-developed muscle, straight in the faves of the helpless cattle, they rebound and fall at the feet of the incarnate devils who employ them. noticed ene of these villains who had made himself so hoarse cursing his cattle that he could hardly speak above a whisper. On another occasion 1 saw one of them kicked on the head by an enraged animal as he stooped to adjust wun, and Jaid out on the ground. Let us hope he is dead! imagine a bullwhacker's Hades, where he is eternatly tossed and trampled by the beasts qlee lives he has rendered unbearable on Karth, ‘The road from Alamosa to Animas City— 185 miles—is at present crowded with freight teams; and these poor, helpless, patient estaned and goaded to fury every te of theday. Yhere ts no let-up,—ab- ‘The Mexicans are even nore un the Aucricans, if you can imagine cruel U such a thing, Our party crossed. THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, in New Mexico, on the 15th, and entered one of the magnificent natural parks of the coun- ves on the banks of the Chama River, at us We found a camping-place on, the bank of the river, but fitteen miles from Sania Amarilla, the reported scene of re- gent operations of the Apache | Indians. lee elt was a- good deal of alarm het _ for a few days, until it x rertained that-the Indians came only ir ths iburbose of purchasing arms to fight cele Hatch. ‘Thetr mission did not.succecd. e were not particular: ined, but were nevertheless watchtuL Nor were we alone, Be N fi ral ‘aron-trains vere close at hand, and To repel po ase forces had been joined lested, however. - We Were not mo- THE NATURAL PARKS of New Mexico and Colo: i beyond deseription. sue ake Ate, beautiful guide-books have so otten ‘attempted to de- serive them that it would be a work of super- erusation in me to repeat what has so often been told. retain, however, a keen recolivetion of — their’ charms. ’ Im- mense. pines, planted in-.the midst of a_ lovely valley; -broad and fertile erazing lands, bounded by mountain-streans, ut which the lordly deer slakes his thirst be fore daybreak and, when the twilight falls upon the jJend, betaking himself in the in- terim to the neighboring hills; the view throngh distant imountain- passes — to- Wards still more distant abe peaks crowned with snow; and « i@ gentle breezes that sweep through ne Pine-boughs and lose themselves in sighs, —iake up 2 picture and a memory not easily effaced. And, while these are the scenes and the impressions in the valleys and by the side of munnuring streams, the fiercer elements Okt high exrnival on the summits. Atnoon we day we found ourselves upen one of. the Bieter elevations ofthe San Juan Range. The " ind was blowing a gale, and the snow, diled h ereat masses in places, admonished us that vercouts and Hloves Were not to be dis- posed With, 1t was. almost impossible to ‘lapts, this wa complished, it burned so fereely that we could barely secure wood it enough to feed the devouring flaine and vil our coffee. And it was here THE ONLY JOKE of thr expeditiun was attempted, The Doc- tor is a young gentleman of few words. He stood the gule for some minutes without Jinching, and fonght the blinding dust with- outa word, until @ fiercer gale blew 2 cloud of dustand gravel which nearly knocked him over. Then hesaid withont a smile-that he “couldn’t see, why Government didn’t have these mountain streets watered”! Jehu awakened us:at 8 o’clock on the morning of the 16th, We were encamped near a stream thickly lined with.young cot- tonwood trees. “Boys, wake up! ‘There’s a. deer at the creek.” I shall not soon forget. the three hours’ search. I ind for that deer. I did) not find him, but I had the advantaze of an early strall through one of the most, charming of the series’ of parks on the line of our route, The woods resounded with the songs of many Dirds,—the robin calling to his mate, the meadow-lark in the distant fields, the California blue-jay twittering on a swinging limb.of one of ‘the giant pines ‘magpie adding his discordant ‘notes to the inelody. pose, “which no tellow cn find out.” “PAGOSA SPRINGS— so named from the mineral spring which bubbles up in the centre of the town—proved one of the principal attractions along the line of the route, If real merit formed the basis of people’s judgment, the town might become in time ‘a favorit resort for in- -valids. ‘The people are ambitious and hopeful of future benefits. "At. present the town is a collection of frame and Jog build- ings of uninyiting exterior; yet, the ‘ave- nutes and. boulevards” of this future resort forsuffering humanity are already laid out cand named, ‘There is also a military post here, commanded at present by Lieut. Dela- ney. . P UTEs. ef Our first sight of a Ute was had at Pine : Pasi-Oilice; on the banks of the Los ver, We had been traveling through the reservation all the morning, aud suddenly: emerged in full view of a dozen bueks and squaws trading at the store. I | was attracted by the superior condi- tion of their ponies and the _ fine personnel of the Indians themselves. They very quiet, and apparently very much pleased at a joke one of them had perpe- trated,—at whose expense [did not learn, T lad occasion te write some postal-cards, and. gut ata table in the centre of the store to do it. One nriddl ed Ludi f gra’ rapidly as ced, and betrayed his interes when I had finished, and never took is off me during m .- ile may have thought me an emissary from the Department of the lnterior! . THE TRIP ENDED on the evening of the 18th, after we had been seven days on the road, Now that it is ded, Lean afford: to look Jack at ft with some degree of pleasure, hut there were, and must inevitably be, many discomfort ttend- ing such a journ the road is in many pkicesyery rough, and the frequent ascents and descents precipitous and dangerous. Animas City, 186 miles southwest of Ala- mosa, “is situated on the Animas Niver,— the most ambitious stream in this section of the country. ‘The town lively, and will soon experience 2 boom if the mines in its neighborhood turn outhalfas wellas they now promise. ‘She Denver & Rio Grande Railway will be constructed, either to the town or toa point within afew miles thereof, by next fall,—by which time it is confidently hoped and believed that the mining interests in this But he mere v i nd at Parrott, twenty miles away, will have developed into meritorious prop- erties. HB. H. ———atar> OVERBOARD WITH A SHARK. Capt. David Lonesirect’s Adventure with a Man-Enter, New York Sun. Capt. David L. Longstreet, of Seabright, N.J., isa fisherman. He isa very success- ful fisherman, too, and at this season fur- nishes the hotel boarders and cottagers of Seabright with choice biuetish and sea-bass. Although hardly 25 years of age, Capt. Longstreet is above the medium hight, . tanned - to Indian-like prownness, and 2 model of sinewy strength and activity. He is almost as much at home in the water as in his stanch little sloop-rig® ged seaskiti Salby, being an exeelent.swim- mer. Capt. Longstreet and his lifred’man hoist sail on the Selby at 4 o’clock every morning, when there is a wind, and make for N the rocks three miles straight away off Sea- Inight Beach, known to the fishermen as the middle ground. If a wind does not serve, Capt. Longstreet’ and his hired, man raise an ashen breeze that soon puts them alongside of the rocks. In the cool, shaded waters, ten fathoms deep, about the rocks, bluefish and sea-basg, alisport, feeding eagerly upon the varieties of shell fish that make the rocks their home. Capt. Long- street knows. every nook and pool in the rocks, and his boat rarely returns to the beach without a heavy lading. At, the tisual hour on Thursday. morning, a ‘fair Jand breeze _ ser ia Capt. Longstrect made sail on the Selby and put off for. rocks. After the anchor was cast, the ian chopped mossbunkers into fine pieces, and at dawn Capt. Longstreet began toscatter them astern. . 4 - “Fishermen,” said Capt. Longstreet yester- day, ‘call this making ‘a slick,’ because the oil in the mossbunkers gives the water a greasy look. The bits of mossbunker float ‘ay, making a Jong trail from the stern of “the boat. With this trail blue- ean be brought from miles away. They run up-the trail, swallowing the bits of mossbunker ur they ne: : the boat, and then they are liab® swallow a hook baited vith a tempting bit of mossbunker. We fis! with a stunt line, the hook being fasten with several feetof wire. ‘There is no sinker on the line, and when the tide runs strong the baited hovk keeps just a foot or two below the surface. When I thought I had made a long enough trail on Tuesday morning Least any ]ine and stood up in the boat to handle it sprfly. Well, Lhauled in blue-tish and sea-bass now and then until about 11 o’clock. Then 1 noticed that the bites became rarer. I told my man to heave over more moss-bunker, aid he did. But that didn’t seem to do any good. 1 was puzzled. - ‘The day was fiue, the sea was right, and the trail was’ strong. Suddenly I telt'a strong pull, and a spla tuld me. that I had hooked a prime blu fish. I began to haul it a2 leisurely. When it “was within about fifteen feet of the boat, on the port side, it made a sudden plunge forward. At thé same instant L saw the dorsal fin of a: shark close nd it, ‘The shark’s tail churned the ur twelve feet away, and I knew that the rk must be at least fifteen feet Jons, Next; the head rose out of the water, and the great mouth, set with teeth like those of a log-saw, opened and shut in a vicious snap at the blue-tish. ‘4 comnion shark has 2 shovel nose, and nist, on account of the shortness of the under jaw, turn over on his back to seize his prey. But the black shark, the ‘iman-eater? of southern latitud has a longer under jaw, and snaps at his victim as an ordinary i I saw that the shark jearing the vas a man-eater, the largest that I ever heard: of in this part. ofthe world. I say frankly that I lost all interest in the Dluefish on my line. I was willing to let the shark haye it if jhe would steer clear of me. I let go of the line, but the binedish darted straight for the boat, slipping under it and escaping. The shark, following closely with open mouth, plunged his nose through the ‘tuck’ of the boat, about 2 foot forward of the stern, and his under jaw closed on the keel with a crash like the cnt of an ax in a dry tree trunk. Water spurted into the boat. Theshuck threw me headforemost out of the boat. J sank and, as Lyose, I felt that I was kept unde: by the agitation of the water by the shark tail, whieh stirred the water like the pro- peller of atug. But I struck out vigorously, and, to my horror, came to surface alongside’ the tail of the shark. I put out my hand b fore realized fully where I was, and touched his cold body, and I remernber I thougttt, “How hard arid strong this is? As Ipturne: to swim toward jhe boat my right foot struck. his long tail, and hereis the mark of the con- tact. Ag soon-as I got to swimming 1 felt atense. Ididn’t seem to realize, as I now do, the horrible fate that awaited me if the struggling monster alongside of me_got his head ¢lear of the hole in the boat. But Lex- vected every moment to see him tum and shap me up_as he would’a weak-fish. i climbed into the beat, Helping myself by uut- ting my knees on the shark’s back. The boat was nearly full“ of water, and sunk nearly to the water’s adze. Aly man had re- mained in ft. -We threw over fish and bal all the while shouting for help. “John Irons, of Seabright, and his hired man had been ‘fishing about ‘a quarter of a mile away. They had hauled in their an- chor and began to row home. They heard our cries, and pulled for us like, men. We sprang into their boat, and felt like which here abound, and even the chattering | LT wonder that these lands are‘not + ‘taken up; but the reason is something, [sup-. men rescued -from a shipwreck. 1 gof our anchor aboard, and we began to pull toward-the beach, towing the Selby. I tell yousho wasa heavy tow, a quarter full ot fish, water-logged,. and dragging hungry sea-dievil, weighing probably close on to athousand pounds, pulling and splash- ing. Another fishing-boat, sighting our strange tow, overhauled us. ‘At that instant there was a.tremendous splash behiud ts, and our tow was lightened. The shark ha got clear, and next we sitw his dorsal fin circling about the boat. We concluded that the best way to get rid-of him was to right we could. We got C n two other boats, stuffed “my “Oilskin coat and trousers and my ‘hired man’s in the | breach made by the shark, and-baled. Then we shifted the fish to the bow, canting her for- ward, and towed her stern foremost. But the sharl: still cireled-about us, tiis dorsal fin hissing through the water. AS. we got to shallower water he rolled over, and, with, a heavy lurch and a parting splash ef his ti plungetl out of sight. ‘This dogged pursuit is a charattcristic of ‘man-esters.’” They hold on like a bulldog when theic teeth meet in thet: prey, and drag it down by their sheer weigh: aed When we beached the Selby we found gashes in her keel, made by theshark’s teeth, that looked as though they had’ been made with 2 hatchet. A man could crawl through the hole inher side. The: city -p ing in the hotels and -cottages flocked to look atthe boat and listen to our‘story of the en- counter with the shark, T have followed the sea for a living: for years, and [ must follow it for many a year to come; and so, if the good little Selby-is ready for me on Monday amoming, VI put out to the rocks again, bright and carly.” . MARY 0’CONNOR’S CRIME. fhe Killing of ‘Khreo Children by ®helr Mother. New Yorks, July 2.—Three children were killed in Jersey City to-day by their mother, Mrs. Mary O’Connor, who is the wife of James O'Connor,.a poor laborer, living in ai old wooden tenement house at No, 42 Water avenue, Jersey City Heights. The woman her_ between is ‘37 years of age and ‘the mother of five ‘eltildren, all boys. At $ this morning W O’Comior, who was sleeping on a mattress on-the floor, was awakened bya ery from one of his children in an adjoining room. He sprang up, and as he entered the room whence the, ery came his foot slipped on a wet spot. He lighted a mateh and a dread- fulsight presented itself. David and“Frane were lying on the bed with their throats cut from ear to - ear. was the youngest boy, a baby, with a gaping wound in the neck. ‘The blood from histhroat had run across the flour and caused the father to slip when he entered the room. In one corner the wife was crouching, with ayrazor dripping with blood in her hand. In atiother corner was a bed on which lay the bodies of two boys. Tt was saturated with blood, which slowly dropped to the tlopr be- neath. Under the mattress of the bed used during the night by Mrs. O'Connor and the baby Was found a butcher-knife with a long dull blade. When the reportof the triple mur der spread throughout Jersey City it caused much excitement, and hundreds of persons gathered about the hou: which was guard- ed by special police ollicers. A reporter of the Tribune was allowed to enter the apar ments occupied by O'Connor and his family, quer, are in ‘the rear, on the second floor of the house. The two rooms were devoid of carpets, and contained but little ,fur- niture. In the front room |‘ the three murdered_children were lying side by side in little coffins. ‘The cuts on the throats lind been covered, and the faces were pale, but showed no marks of -agon: ‘The walls and some of the chairs were spattered with blood, and bloody footsteps could be traced. aeross the floor. |The father of the murdered vhildren was walking up and down ina rear room. He made the foliowing.statement: “J was awakened early this morning by a sort of groan, and went Into the back room and struck alight. Lsaw my wife in the cor; ner with a bloody razor_in ‘her hand, and en the floor was the body of the baby. Lying in alarge pro of blood on the bed I saw the lifeless bodies of the two other children stif in death, I ran out and called for Lelp. The razor was kept in a chest which was locked. I cannot give any reason why my wife should .commit sueh.a horrible deed. We have beeminarcied stielve yenr: She has been sick with chronic dyspepsia and malarial fever. Yesterday she cor plained of feeling worse. When I first covered the bodies of my poor children, I thoughtsome one had come in to murder the whole family.” : Subsequently, Mr. O’Connor stated that his wife had quarreled with him last night, but when she showed anger he stopped tal! Inte her, a, ‘ounty-Physician Converse .reached the police station at. o’clotk in the morning: and found Mrs. O’Connor lying ona lounge in the private office of Capt. McKaig. She is of medium hight, but much emaciated, Her face was palé, but she exhibited: consid- erable self-possession. Her hands were cov- ered with bloud, and her dress w 2 tered with it. To que County Physician she gave with ~ much diticulty. Vien where her children” were | she idly “They are dead. I killed them with the razor. People used to call them little devils, but now they have gone to heaven She also said that her baby had beon sick and she had no money with which to getit medicine and food. The woman was allowed to wash her hands and was then taken ina coach to police headquarters ahd arraigned “before Justice Peloubet, _ in the ‘First District -Poliee Court. Sho tottered when led into the | éourt- room, and was supported by ex-Strect Com- inissioner Whelihan and Patrick Whelihan, her two brothers. In answer to the usual questions she gave her name and place of residence, Ren t “You are recused of killing your three children,” said the Justice, after telling Mh O'Conner that she could refuse to 21 any questions which would tend to criminate Hessel killed them,” she answered, quiet- ustice. ‘hree of them—l1 am guilty.” _ Where was your husband?” “Te and the children were asleep.” © What did you Kill them for? Were they not good children 2” « They were very good children. Ido not jnow what I killed them for; I wanted to send thei to Heaven.” 4 2 ‘In answer to other questions, Mrs. O’Con- nor said she had not been very well. “I was pretty well out of my head: sometimes.” she contined, ‘and was not able to take care of the children, but 1 only thought of killing them just at the time {did it. I first killed the baby. It made: no noise. Then I killed the second. oldest, and he made no noise, The oldest one made a noise, and ny hus- band Zeal into: the room and then ran down-! ae ‘The w padded that she had placed the butcher-knife under the mattress of her bed. She intended to kill her children’ with it, but it not sharp enough, so she took the razor. “If the razor had failed Iwould have used the knife,” she remarked. f _At the conclusion of the examination Jus- tice Peloubet committed Mrs, O’Connor to the County-Jail to await the action of the Grand Jury. a She displayed no emotion whatever during the time she was in the court-room, and gave her answers in a distinct, but lanfuid tone. lier neighbors regarded Mrs. O’Connor most affectionate and considerate mother. is believed by all that she was insane. John and Patrick, the tworemaining children, were taken to the honse of their uncle. Jol stated thiat he heard his father’s screams and sew his mother walking up and down the room in a frantic manner. He was frightened, and asked her what was the matter. “I have killed your three brothers because the neizh- bors called them little devils, and Iam not gore. to have them called Ifttle devils any ore,” Was the answer. . $$$ A Thrifty: Virginian. = Toledo (0.) Blade. A Uttle while ago there was considerable parade made of returniug some trophies taken from Rebels by Northern soldiers. The articles were returned free of charge as soon asthe whereabouts of the owners could be nscertamed. Here is°a letter which gives a glimpse of au- other sido, of similar matter “ Newrrs, Va., June 1, 1868.—Mr. A, MeMa- han—Sin: have in my possession a pistol capt- ured on the field of Chickamauga, ougraved with your name. The pistol is one of the Sinith & Wesson patent. If you desire to recqver this pistol you can do co by sending $50°to the ex- press agent of the Adams Express Company at Dublin, Vi., directing him to pay it overon de- livery of the pistol in shipping condition. You address me at thisplace, Yours, ete., : ~ “OW, BRascerre.”” The pistol in question was. not found in the tields of Chickaniauga, but taken from Col. Mc- Mahan’s person upon his surrender after the desperate resistance made by his regiment—the ‘Pwenty-first Obio Veteran Volunteer Infantry— to ovérwhbelining forces of the Rebels. As‘the pistol only cust $12 oriinally, the chivalrous sun le board Near the door. looking straight into the face of the- aking -of Old Virginia evidently counted on mi Pe oe moeproit out of the Colonel's desire to. regitin possession of his old weapon. $$. SIXTEEN-CENT PISTOLS. A Very Rangerous Toy in Common Use Among Boys, |, New York Truth. The toy’ pistol, that. most prolific of all sources of accidents to children,: has once again been brought before the public. This time the complaint comes from a source which not only gives it greater weight, but which should draw public: attention to this nuisance, and, if possible, suppress it, _ The protest is sent by Superintendent George Bates, of the Chanibers Street Hospi- tal, to Superintendent Walling, of the police. ‘Mr. Bates states that-hedeems it his duty to call attention to the dangerous species of fire- arms now generally sold to children as toys. ‘Theso pistols are loaded: with an explosive coppercap and a blank cartridge, “In ex- ploding the cap flies to pieces, accord- ing to Superintendent Bates, and many ugly wounds. ensue. So.very many cases have been brought to the hospital from this cause, aud the matter began to assume so serious an aspect that.it was clear that some- thing should be done to hinder, if not to do entirely away with, such frequent and un- pleasaat results. Dr. Bates was found yesterday afternoon atthe Chambers Stroot. Hospital, where he freely expressed himself concerning the mat- ter in question. Said he: “Twas -induced to send Superintendent Wailing that protest, because T felt that something. shduld be done to prev seemed t meto bea rapidly-growing evil, and neause of innumerable accidents more or less serious in their character. Why, cases ure brought here nearly every day, al- though they haye not been so frequent in the last few days. The cases were so numerous that they actually became:-.n nuisance tous.” “What was the general character of the } wounds 9”? asked the reporter, “The wounds were chietly in the face and hands, ecially the left hand., I considered the greatest danger to be about the eyes. hese children are.apt to put anything what- vr into the barrel of the pistol, and then to fi way promiscuously. ‘They are just as x up-to each other and fire rees, ‘The results are very & away at their dangerous, indeed.” : “ TIave you known any’ such accident to result fatally? “Certainly, Only a few days ago a boy died of lock-jaw caused’ by a wound froma toy pistol. Many others ‘have been quite se- rious. It is assuredly a great nuisance and a great danger, and the af such toysshould be stopped as sven as pu! ivle.? ‘fhe reporter visited -a umber of stores in which these toy pistuls*were for sale. The only pattern found was ‘the “Climax,” a though two others are said. to be upon tl market. This especia pattern is.made wholly of-cast-iron, and ¢ a. No, 2 blank cart- tridge. ‘The barrel moves up and down on a hinge or rivet, in order to lad or unload the pistol. 2 ‘The whole thing ‘is loosely and clumsily made, and apparenlly very unsafe. The point of the hammer is sharp and projects, A bo taking the pistolin his hand would natural- ly move the barrel up and down with his lett linnd. This motion brings the sharp project- ing hammer in coutact<with the cartridge, anid a quick motion causos an explosion, Lhe result is a fearfully Jacerated hand. ‘The loose construction of the instrument also‘renders a bursting cap or cartridge dan- gerous. Even with the greatest cure, this weapon could not be used without danger, but when it is placed “into the hands of thoughtless or careless, children it is no wonder that the Cliyubers Street Hospital is frequented with its victims, The dealers -claim that the“ Climax ” is not- very dangerous because it is bored out only to the length of a blank cartridge, the rest of the barrel being’ very much smaller than the cartridge. Ueénee, they. say that only blank cartridges ean be used. They forget, however, that the boy who possesses a penknife would soon tit a piece of lead into any barrel. If they do-not do this there is always any quantity of gravel, slate-pencils, old nails, ete., ete. at command, which, pro- jected by a large quantity’of powder, are by no means hamniless. The other patterns di ,used.for real cartridg ‘and Consequently the.choice of using either one.or the other is left, tthe discretion of the small boy.:‘Lhe fact that-theue:pisto! re sold ‘or'i6 cents pices thenyA PM, te TeAch’of almost every child, and iberefore largely In- creases the probabilities af dents. None of the dealers intérviewed-atterpted to make any defense of. these toys, but all agreed that they were very dangerous and should be abolished. —. RAINFORTH’S MISSENG CHILD. Her Skeleton Found in the Den of an Enormous Blacksuake. Correspondence New York Sun. West Uniox, Adams: County, 0., June 22.—Ginger Ridge, a rigged, sterile upland, about six miles northwest from here, is much excited over the killing of an enormous blacksnake which for several years has played havoc with the farmers’ flocks. logs, poultry, calves, sheep, et have imysterjously disappeared, al- ways at night. Two,years agoa band of gypsies were camped.in..the neighborhood, and they were accused ‘of stealing the mis; sing property. John Rainforth, a farmer, who greatly suffered from these depredations, | swore out a warrant before Squire Peter Anns, and had several_.of them arrested. ‘They had had a preliminary examination, but nothing was proved against them, and they were discharged. They went away, muttering threats of vengeance, Mr, Rainforth had a. golden-haired little daughter, 4 years old, whose beauty and stmny temper were the pride of her parents. On the day after the arrest of the gypsies little Nellie Rainforth, was missed.” She was last seen playing with a pet lamb on the edge of a rocky ridge, a short dis- tanee fromthe house. Search was made for her, but neither ‘she nor the lamb was found. The whole neighborhood was aroused and men scoured the fields and woods for miles around, Mr, Rainforth suspected the gypsies of: abducti if her, out of revenge for their arrest, and followed the party across the Ohio River into i County, Kentucky. When he came up with them they indignantly denied all knowledge of the chills whereabouts, and a search of ther camp failed to, discover ‘his little daughter, He returned to his home broken- hearted. z ie oo * One day last week, Mr. Rainforth was planting a field of abot twenty-tive, acres, situated near hishouse., Ie had not been at work loug when ‘he discovered what at first seemed tu be afresh furrow across the mid- dle of the field, He stopped work and fol- lowed the track to a fence which separated the field from a denge thicket of underbrush. On the fence he .foand blood and some sheep's wool, which atonuce convinced him that the body of a sheep had been dragged across the fence. He went to his pasture and found that a large Cotswold rant was missing. Accompanied by four or five neighbors, Mr. Rainforth made search for the missing sheep. The track-through the brusl was marked by drops ef blood and tuits of woul. About sixty rods from the fence they canie to a ledge of rocks, forming one side of a steep hill, The tmek lec directly to this ledgé, in which was found an opening of sufliclent size ‘to adinit the Dody of a large aap. A large charge & of giant powder was exploded in the “opening, and. the rocks | were thrown asunder by the Diast. When the smoke cleared away the ‘farmers drew near and peered down, the opening, and there, antong at léast 2 wagon-load of bones, lay a huge black snake, quivering from his hurt. ‘Che farmers waited until the-snake was. dead, and - then attached a chain.to his body and, dragged the monster gut of the hole. ite measured fifteen feet seven inches in length, and the biggest part of his.body was over two feet incircumference, He had ‘an uely-looking head ‘and. enurmous ‘fangs, sharp as needles. ‘The tissing ram lay be- side him, crushed out of shupe, and covered with astieky, glutinous substance. L visited the spot to-day, and saw the mon- While I was there, mon were at work clearing the den of ‘the bones. Ina coruer one of thent picked up a human skull. It was small, like a elfild’s, and he brought it forward to the light, 3 Rainforth was standing by my side, when the man_ came toward us with the skull in his hand. Ie glanced at it, and, sigggering against a tree, Buried his face In his hands and burst into ‘oor little Nellie,” he cried, through his sobs. “ My-God, itishorrible!” — - ‘After atime he controlled his feelings and told nie“the story of his little ‘daugbter’s mysterious disappearance two years ago. “Phe bones of the little one were guthered to- getherand buried in the family-plot in the cemetery at West Union. The discovery was-kept from Mrs. Rainforth, for the poor woman has never ceased to mourn for her Jost child, and ‘her husband feared that this intelligence would seriously atfect her, she being in delicate health. There can ‘be no doubt‘as to the identity of the skeleton, for a gold chain which she wore around her neck was found among the bicaching bones. FASHION IN ART. Riow William H. Vanderbilt Bought a *Pleture tn Paris, Purixian; Tune 47, _ A now phenomenon was invented last week in Paris. The badauds ran to see, and now it isallover. The phenomenon’ was‘ Mr. Vil- Jegas, a pupil of Fortuny, who had hitherto been almost unknown. ‘We had indeed seen one or two little interior scenes with figures, Which showed some talent and a great know!l- edge of the'tricks of ‘his master. - About a fortnight or three weeks ago, Mr. Villegas arrived in Paris from Rome, bringing with him a large and important picture represent- ing a baptism in the Cathedral of Seville. ‘The picture is the triply concentrated essence of Fortuny’s style. ‘the cathedral itself is a eur ty-shop, and the uiultitudes of figures in it -are dressed in a. va- riety of vestments which could only be tound in an exhaustive and comparative his- tory of costume. tt is.impossible to imagine a picture more rich in detail and more caleu- Jated, with its tricks of light, of colur; and of ininuteness, to astonish.the innocent specta- tor. ‘The curious point Is that now that twenty years -of retlection have -convinced people of the utter falseness of Fortuny’s art, people should come and hold up to our ad- iniration@ pupil of Fortuny-who ‘has not as much talent as bis master had. The fact is however, that the Parisian ‘badauds did not troop to a picture-dealer’s gallery to see a picture by Villegas, but to see a picture for which the American millionaire, Alr, W. HL. Vanaerbilt, hay paid 150,000 francs. obody was more astonished, perhaps, than Villegas himself at the vastness of this sum. Delleate and rickety, the young Spaniard came up from Route with his picture, He hired-a Studio in the Boulevard Clichy, and pnt himself.in communication with the lead- ing picture dealers of Paris. Villegas wished tu gyt 100,000 franes for his picture; that sum would have made him dance with joy. “The dealers, however, hesitated; the speculation Was not sure after all. One day two gentle- men called at the studio ad asked ff the could see the picture, and If Villegas: was still at liberty to dispose of it. ‘The artist reptied that he was in treaty, but that he had not yet sold it. “Well,” said one of the gentlemen * Lower you 150,000f, for it, Do you accept?” Theshock to Villegas was terrific; he was half stunnesl, but, having reeuvered from his emo- tion, he stammered out that he would tike time to reflect. “No,” said the gentleman, “you must say yes or no; Lwant to know whether the picture is mine or not at the price I offer.” Villegas then accepted the werms; the gentleman, who was: no other than Mr. W. U1. Vanderbilt, went to the cab, brought in pen and paper, aud wanted topay and take away the picture at once. llegas, however, said that he would like to keep it’a day or two to touch it up. Mr. Vanderbilt gave him 20,000f. on account, and on the following Monday he came round with a van, paid the balance of 130,000f., and took the picture away. Meanwhile, an enterprising dealer otfered Mr. Vanderbilt the use of fiis gallery to store the picture. Mr. Vanderbilt naively accepted the offer; the dealer then sent out invitations to the press and to amateurs, and so they wl flocked to see the monster picture that the Amerivan millionaire had bought for 150,000 ‘The ingenious dealer-netted a few fish for himself out of thecrowd, and the coup was necomplished, The news of Mr, Vander- Dilt’s purchase having been spread abroad, the badauds trooped :up to Villegas’ studio, and any paltry little sketch that was lying about was bought up for ridiculous sums. "The above is the true and unvarnished his- tory of the way in which an Amexican imill- ionaire patronizes the-fine -arts, of the way in which a new artistic phenomenon was dis- covered in Paris, and of the way in which an ingenious tradesman took advantage of both these circumstances. LIVINGSTON’S 16-IN-HAND. Tbe Breakneck Run, under the Guid- ance of a Driver 70 Years Old. Fronexce, June 10.—The - fashionable world, and for that matter the common one, too, has had a first-class senation— indeed, searce—of late of American origin. Every visitor here has remarked and com- mented on, according to his particular humor, the team of sixteen handsome horses at- tached to a. London drag, with which -for many years Mr. Livingston, of New York, has .been accustomed to take his daily alr- ings, handling the ribbons and guiding the animals, with a masterly circus dexterity. Indeed, his novel turnout has become one of, the staple sights of-Florence. Whether his countrymen could feel flattered by the na- tional distinction in European eyes thus con- ferred on ‘them or not, all, could not fail to admire the sang froid with which @ man of 70 could. -control so many ‘horses and, take them through the narrow, crowded streets without accident. ~ Three days ago, coming from the Cascine, while near the city gutes, the horses did tuke |: it into their heads that they had done the triumphal procession on: their driver’s ac- count in his way long enough, and that they would set up a httle exhibition on their own account. The idex no sooner struck one horse than it was unanimously adopted, and they started on a dead run down. the Lung Arno toward the bridges, at the hotir when it was crowded with fashion- able vehicles and was the most favorable for the equine interview and a general smash. In a-second. there was a universal “ Sate qui peut”—clear the way—panic; carriages and foot passengers inaking for side streets and putting themselves out of the course of the excited animals, as they came furi- i ‘dead run, bounding ously on, in a and banging over the smooth | pave- ment, Mr. Livingston erect and cool, but ut- terly powerless to stop them, and expecting every second either to kill somebody or be killed in the midst of a crash of colliding ve- hicles. .On they went, fortunately clearing everything, until they had passed Ponte Carraia, Ponte Santa ‘Trinita,, Ponte Veechio—nobody . | hurt, but ‘awfully frightened, the police shouting like mad to: clear the and every Florentine much disposed for once to obey; until one horse fell, and it looked'as if, the climax had come. But.such was the impetus of the others they pulled him o1i to his legs almost before he knew he was off them, and on they: went for another race until exhausted and panting, and thinking they had had enougl: fun fur this time they” came to a stop, no- body’ hurt, and My. Livingstone moro of a hero, eentuur fuchern, than even he had, ever anticipated, but ‘with his occupation gone; for, it is snid, the City Pathers have now resolved to do what they should have done long since, i. e.; forbid any’ such ama- teur opportunities for breaking people’s necks, at least within the limits‘of the town, by limiting Mr. Livingston’s equestrian feats to the regulation complement of horses for a decently behaved carriage. It was next ton miracle that no one was injured this time, None could be certain that at a repetition of the spectacle several lives wight not be sacri- ficed, and the city muleted in damages for allowing so perilous a show ‘in its confines, for the gratification, too, of a foreigner. THE SON’S RETURN. .. Another Plot Ready Made for the Dime Novelist. The Neue Freie Presse of Vienna relates the story of acrime which occurred a few days ago in a village‘near the Austrian Cap- ital. Some fifteen years ago a young Aus- trian left home to seek his fortune in ‘America, We ‘left a large family of younger brothers and sisters to be reared by his “mother,” who kept a small country hotel. The young man. arrived in ‘America almost -penniless. He went West, and after fifteen years of work in the mines was worth $80,000. As he did not know how to read or write, he did not‘correspond with the family. and the latter believed him dead, Two months. ago he determined to return .to' his country “and = share his wealth. with his family. . He enme to New York and converted his ‘old into_drafts upon. the chief. banking» houses of Vienna._ Some six weeks since he sailed froin New York, enjoying in sulelpe tion the surprise his arrival would cause his folk at home. Ife reached Vienna without accident, had his drafts cashed, and left at once for his native ‘village. As was natural, after an absence of fift years, which he had ‘spent in -mines in Caliornia, no oue recognized hi He finally de himself known, and spread: before lus two: brothers the handsome roil of bills.of which he was the owner, and which he ‘announced he would share with them and their mother. The latter had now removed to a villaze about a hundred iniles away, where she kept aninn. After a couple of days of revel with his brothers the traveler resolved to visit his mother incognito. It was arranged that he should not reveal: his identity until his brothers should join, him. The Austro-American made his appear- ance at his mother’s. hotel. When he saw the old woman he could scarcely forbear dis- eovering himself to her. But he managed toconceal his relationship, of which of course the woman was in. total ignorance. ‘The pair had various Jong talks during the day. When night came, before - retiring he t her to the room that had been assigned to him, stating that he had in his possession a large sum of -money and begged her to tuke charge of it, ashe deemed it imprudent to keep it in his room, particularly as the latter could not be locked. The woman hesitated ainoment, saying that she had no place in the house where the money would be’ per- fectly safe; but she finally consented to re- ceive it. When the stranger counted over 300,000 florigs.in bank notes, a sum such as she had never. dreamed of, she again de- clined to assume the responsibility. But as he insisted she at lust took the money and disappeared. Whatpassed within the brain of that wretched woman during that night is more readily imagined than de- sctibed. Upon reaching .her ‘bedroom she hid the treasure under her mattress. But the temptation to look at the enormous roll of bills was too strong for her, and she sprend the bills out on a table. The sight .of the money so excited her that she became mad, and, jumping from her seat, she took arazor from her bureaa drawer, and stealing up to the room where her son was fast asleep, cut his throat trom ear to-ear, killing him almost instantly. She theu put the razor in her son’s hand, so as to make it look as though he had committed suicide. Next morning her sons x ad inquired for the stranger. She sent them up to his room, saying that he had uot yet come to breakfast. ‘They found:him deatt-and yells of despair filled the house. The mother, like all the other persons in the house, went up stairs, feigning to be utterly. lenurant of the cause of the disturbance. She then learned that the murdered man washer son. ‘The effect that the startling intelligence had upon her ind need not.be told. | * “My son?” she exclaimed, “Kill me, my clilldren! Kill me! It wasI.who murdered Min ‘The woman is now in the Vienna lunatic asylum, and no hope is entertained of her recovery. NOT BORN TO BE HANGED. _ Death of.a Respected Citizen of York, Pa., Who Thirty Years Ago Saw His Gallows Built. i, York (Pa.) Correspondence New York Warla. Paul Kunkel, a well-known citizen of this place, died on Saturday, aged 7 years. His death has recalled a most remarkable incl- dent in his life. Thirty years ago he was convicted on circumstantial evidence of a inurder, was sentenced to be hanged, and es- caped only by the providential discovery of the real assasin eight days beforethe sentence was to have been executed. A son of the de- ceased gives the following as. the family ree- ord of the incident: 2 In 1819 a brother of Paul Kunkel, who had been living with the latter’s family, resolved to return to Germany whence he had come some years before. Paul accompanied him to Baltimore, and after seeing him safely on shipboard started homeward on foot, He met with no notable incident until he reached Parkton. Near that place he came up toa juan sitting by the roadside. He had anum- brella and a new pair of women’s shoes in his -possession. He spoke to Mr. Kunkel, who stopped and engaged in. conversa- tion with the stranger. ‘The | latter said he was traveling in .the direction of York and the two walked on together. The stranger said his name was Conrad Winter. On the way he offered the umbrella he carried, which was a valuable one. in ex- ehange for an old one that Mr. Kunkel had. Kunkel unhesitatingly made the trade. By the time they reached York the two men had come to be on friendly terms, and, Winter expressing a desire to remain.a few days in York to rest and lovk about him, Kunkel profiered him the hospitality of his home, which Winter .xecepted. He remained: three or four days with the Kunkel family, during which time he ex- chanzed# variety of articles he had in his parcels for others of no value belonging ‘to different members of the family. He offered to give one -ot the children a hand- some snuff-box, but this gift wag declined by the parents. Winter, soon «after meeting Kunkel on the York road, gave the latter the news of 2 murder that had been com- initted down. in :Maryland somewhere, and ‘told Kuukel that the murderer had not_yet been captured. The day atter . Winter left York, © Kunkel learned that a woman had been murdered in Parkton.on the very morumy that he had passed through that place. A day or so afterwards two ollicers from Maryland ap- peared at Kunkel’s house, ‘they recognized n him one of the strange persons who had, been seen in Parkton .on, the morning after -the murder, and who were. suspected of the crime. The woman who had been killed was a Mrs. Coop The. ollicers found an umbrella, a pair of, shoes, and several other articles in Kunkel’s house thet were identified a3 the roperty of the murdered woman. unkel was arrested, charged with being the murderer. His mind was at once so affeeted by the ter- Tible situation in which, he found bimselt that he was unable to give any connected or lucid explanation of the possession of the articles. His wife knew nothing of the cir~ cunistances connected with her husbands meeting with Winter. She told all she knew, but it was insufficient to have any ef- fect on the authorities, and Kunkel was taken to Baltimore and Jodged in jail. ‘Ten months afterwards he was placed on trail, - Irs. Cooper, who was a luly of good family, living near Parkton, had been found covered with brush by the roadside, with her skull crushed in. A stone was discov- ered near by with which the deed had been done. It was proved she was returning irom the village store, where she had pur- chased a pair of new shoes; that she carried on the oceasion a large alpaca uinbrells with a peculiar mark on it, and that Kunkel was seen passing along the road near the ‘scene of the murder on the morning the erime. was committed. , The pair of-new shoes and the wnbrella were ound in his kouse in York. Mrs, Cooper's silversnuti-box, which she always carried, was also missing, and the authorities were then in ignorance of the fact how near that article had come to being another damaging’ i inst this unfortunate German. vas convieted. He was sentenced ed two months from the time of his conviction. Despite the strenuous exer- tions of his friends who believed him inno- cent, among them being the then Catholic Bishop of Baltimore, no | Executive clemency coukl be obtained in his case. himself Te. was .in a state .of mind that did not permit him to realize. his fearful position up to within about eight days of the day set for the exection. ‘Then there came -a, singular searing up of his mental faculties. He sent for his counsel, and for the first time informed him of the circumstances of is meeting with Conrad Winter dt Parkton, and the exchange of property he hod made with him. Officers were detailed to hunt up Winter. No trace of him could be found until, two days before the day set for the hanging of Kunkel, an_offiger,. from Ashland, Pa. appeared in Baltimore with the missing man. Winter owas a blacksmith. Le had:‘been working at Ashland ever since the arrest of Kuul ‘under another: name, ‘The trial of Kankel created w widespread interest, and ‘among: those who had discussed it most among his fellow-workinen had been Winter, who was known in Ashland under the name of Grover. He was particular bitter against Kunkel, and hoped ‘that lie would not be permitted to escape unhanged. A young min who worked with Winter was suspicious, after the story of Kunkel had been made public, that -bis fellow-workman was the man for whom the dllicers were looking. One day Winter.took a pinch of snuff from a box he carried and offered his helper some. Lhe Tatter took the box. ,On_ the inside of | the i ‘engraved. ‘the was, era The young blacksmith at once’ communicated "his suspicious to friends. ‘By careful watching they discov- ered that’ the’ blacksmith’s name was not Grover, a5 he had given it, but Conrad Win- ter. ‘The arrest was made at once, and Win- ter taken to Bultimore. A reprieve was ranted Kunkel, Winter was placed on.trial or the murder. Ile was convicted. Kunkel avas given 8 new trial to elear him legally of i “word “Cooper.” @ charge of mur dope - ge ‘der, which: was speedily m the scaffold Winter confessed murder of Mrs, Coover. Ie had ialstakes her fora Mrs. Goodrich, who had procured his incarceration in State Prison for stealing sheep. -He had just been released from prises. and was approaching Parkton, when he saw © woman walking in the road ahead of him. He thought it was Afrs. Goodrich. “He. picked up a large stone, stole up to his victim, and felled her to the ground with a bi She died instantly. Upon turning her over he discovered that he had not killed his enemy, but BMrs. Cooper. He took her umbrella, snoes, snuff-box, and other articles, and then covered the body up with brush. When he met Kunkel the Idea was conceived of plac- ing Mrs. Cooper’s property in his possession and thus destroy evidence against himself. Winter was hanged ‘aud Kunkel lived to be- come one of York’s most useful citizens, SOME NOTED BOHEMIANS. Murger and Alfred D’Orsay~Archbish« op Paley’s Slothfal Youth, and John Bunyan’s Early Wickeduess. London Standard. Bohemianism may .be characterized as a moral disease revealing itself by certain physical symptoms, suchas idleness, alacrity to contract debts and reluctance to pay them, unpunctuality, disregard of the most solemn pledges and promises, a preference for no- ~ mauic instead of sedentary ways, a cynical indifference, real or assumed, to the ordinary customsandconventionalities of life, coupled with a desire to partake, in season and outoft season, of the enjoyments of that life without incurring {ts responsibilities. “Carpe diem” is, in reality, the motto.-of the true Bohemian; and if, now and again, in a moment of repent- ance, or of newly-formed good resolutions,he _ takes up the burden which every good citizen must bear, and “gives hostages to fortune” it is generally found that he is in a desperate hurry to: lay down his pack again, and that he leaves his hostages, unrausoimed, to take care of themselves. There is no absolute neetl that the Bohemian should be either a profligate or ¥ drunkard, or that his coat should be shabby or his shirt dirty. ‘There have been Bohemians who throughout their lives were = in purple — and fine linen, and = who were neither rakes nor sots. | Henri Murger, the Prince of the Purisian “ Pays de Bohéme,” was | water-drinker, and scrupulously neatin his dress and person. The Inte Count d’Orsay was a model . Boheinian of the grand type. He toiled not, neither did he spin. ‘For fully twenty-five years of his highly ornamental life he never had any money of his own, although he had, us -was said of another grand Bohemian, Sheridan, # great deal of other people’s money. He was for jens so deeply in debt, and so harsssed by _baliffs, “that it was only on Sundays that he could stir out of floors; yet he was the glass of fashion and the mold of form and Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed more grandly than was the penniless Count Alfred WOrsay. Bohemianism, or petty, may be broadly qualifi en as a psychological nalady, either congenital, in- nate, or * connatural,” in which case it is ordinarily incurable, or else acquired;—usu~ ally by contagion,—under whieh Jatter_cir- ebinstances it may, -by judicious treat- ment, be subdued, - and -even totally eradivated, Julius Cresar was, in early the veriest of Bohemians; but s rescued from" the stews of ungucr the worla, Paley, when date at Cambridge, was an un- His uncouth awk- nel gated Boltemian, wardness: his fellow-students, who dubbed = h “Tommy Potts.” During the first two y ot his residence at the Oniversity he was idle and extravagant, lying in bed until noon, and frequenting fairs, strolling play- ets, and puppetshows; but he was roused. from these sad habits by one of his gay com panion: caine t him one morning as the scapegrace iny in bed, and pointed out how much better his talentsimight be em- ployed. ‘The remonstrance took immediate effect. Paley entirely reformed; thence- forth he rose at 5 “in the morning; next year he came out senior wrangler, and he lived to write the ‘evidences of Christia alt and to become Archdeacon of Carlisle, Prebend of St. Paurs, and Sub-Dean of London. John -Bunyan, in kis acole: was a rank Bo- hemian. Southey spe: of him as having been a blackyuard; another of his biog- ruphers calls hin “the wicked tinker of El- stow”; and he himself confesses that “he “danced, rang church belis, played pent and read Sir Bevis of Southampton,’ ’”ai ted the cruelest mirtlramong ak that his indulgence im - profanity was such that a woman of “low charac- ter told him “he was the ungodilest fellow for swearing she -ever heard In all her life, aud that he made her tremble to hear him”) Itwould be idle to dwell on the brilliancy of Bunyan’s conversion, It was as signal as that of the illustrious Will- iam Wilberforce, who began his career in newhat of a Bohemian fashion by 1 bling furiously at fairs; but Mr. Wilberforce was a guntieman of refinement, education, 1 fortune. while the famous author of ilevim’s’ Progress” was an illiterate tricken enthusiast, and, aecord— . George Smith, of Coalville; not ouly a tinker, but a gypsy to boot. A MURDEROUS AFFRAY. Fred Vater, S2loonteceper, Shoots and Mortally Wounds Jolin Haghes—Tho Former Arrested. | _ Fred H. Vater, a saloonkeeper at No. 204 West Lake street, shot in the Fourth of July in good shupe last midnight, and he never ceased ‘until he -had ‘fired six shots, and had seriously. and in all probability fatally, wounded Joho Hughes, 13 years of age, living with his pareatsat No. 246 West Lake street. The suloonkecper did not ¢lose, aa he should haye done, 2 few moments before midnight; in fact, it is sald by some parties that he was too intoxicated” ‘to know the time fur closing. Atall events nis saloon wus widd open at 12:15 In the morning, and there were nine or ten young ncn all, more or less unler. the Inilnence of Mquor, and nearly -all »minors drinkivg and carousing in nis saloon ut that hour. Some minutes later 2 row nrose. What caused it the reporter was unable to iiscertain, so vurious and so con- tnidictory were the versious tld. A good clear account of what transpired was given by a gen- tleman who witnessed the affray from an adjacent corner, ‘There was great noise in the saloon, un- tifone of the men was thrown bodily out at the front door. He wns followed by tive or sixof bis party, and one portion of them evidently feared trouble, for they gut outinte the way. ‘The stlooukeeper evidently had uigre trouble with those remulning-inside,.us they cinerged one. by ‘ove, und tossed chairs unduther missiles aginst the suloon-front, Thereupon. Vater rushed our from bebind bis bar and tired six shots.tn rapid Succession out of tue door, The first two nppusently) went .bigh, but the. . four aubscquent ones were fired fullat the party, who were all soine little distance away, from the snloon. Immediately thereafter Vater closed up his snioon, and, thouzh be ives up-stairs, be could not be fount tins morning, either the policemen who went there lo urrest him or by the reporter. No response was given to loud raps. One mixht judge from this that Vater's story wits not worth listening to, or that he had jumped town to wvold arrest. ‘Even thuse why witnessed the shooting did not know until some time later that one of the arty radicto~ had been shot, and then there were cont: Ty statements that itwas Jimmie ‘Cusic! was ghot. Whoever Cusick {s, or wherever, John: Hughes, 2 member of a band of young * sports” of the nefgbbvorbued, ts lytag at his bome, No.26 West Lake street, in a pre- carious condition, Dr. Shugart. whe attended bin, gays be received a boilet-wound iu the left sie The peritoneum or covering: of the bowels fy perforated, and the bullet appears by its course to have lodged in tho hypogastric region. The Doctor considers the woucd most Serious, and is reported to have said there was ‘but one chance in fifty for recovery. ‘An attempt was made to seg prune. Hughes this morning, but it failed. the reporter, policemen, W23 ‘A feml- beaten otf. butsoever wig obtained. ‘Then it was fuctign at the wounded boy was too low to. sue any one. The Hughes Yamily was determined to ‘disagreeable. Sune John {3 employed: at a. picture fruwe factory hard by.: He trains with a bad gang, keeps inte hours, and the ‘police sig- hiliciently suy “ they know bun, “ “if Vater can be found be will be arrested. Atbo'clock this morning Duvis and John Reid forced their way into Vater’s abode, nim, and locked hun up at the West $$$ The New Weathen God. ew York Commercial Advertiser. y ‘The entiemun was execedingly buppy In-giv~ ing the clements in the Baal [ately ereuted ut Cincinnati: -* The head of u Union soldicr, ae Prank of exHebels : leg of Tammy Hoult’ Having bui one lex te stand un it must falb