Evening Star Newspaper, August 25, 1875, Page 1

Sundays Exeepted, 4T THE STAR BUILDINGS, Peumsyivania Avenue, cor. llth st BY The Evening Star Newspaper Oompary, ‘&. H. KAUFFMANN, Pree't. renee eae TsB ae ts serecd arias Pabscrsoert as Pog o Forty fOUR Cents PER moNTH. Copies as tne Comnter ‘Two Cunts xacu. Sy mati—posiace prevani—60 Tenis a month. mz months. $3.00, one year, BE.00 THE WEEKLY STAR—pwditshed om Friday— 3 © year, postane prepaid. li aedccriptions taeariahty tm adeanss, ana semi ionaer team pad for. Rates of atwertioms fures hed om wevltcation pee uid the At 30% Jo FERASURE SEEKERS, sux cH PIL MENT win f makes these most or families and social the 4 pleasant aod healthfnt trips gariies. Fare. singi¢ trip, $2; round trip tickets to Elsckiston’s Usland sand Leouardiuwa, 1 tse Appis te 8 br rznved., Agent, = Xtb-stroet HO THE White Ueantalns ard Mount Desert, via NORWICH LINE the “Notch” » seo the BOUND TRIP f and retarn pal = Hyania. ond the Phil imore railroads, w & for White Mountain tickets by the“ Nor. i-wks aw Fe? EXCURSIONS. THE MALY WASHINGTON des larger room for plenenre parties taan any ot ret FOX CHARTER BVEKY DAY AND EVENING. Beguiar tripe to Giymontazd return Mon. Gays, Wedrestays snd Fridays, leaving ath-street wharf at9a.m Apply on board, orto Da. HOW- ND. 219 436 street 5 = py 2. B TROTH, President, THE TRADES. SANDER BELL, WILLIAM BALL, {Late with @. W. BarkerJ BALL & Co., At Maunfacturers and deslers in Doors, Sesh and Elinds, Gines, Hardware, snd alt Builing M ©27 Nawachusetts ave! tween Atl streets uoribwes than any other b REeove. JAMES ¥F. SALES, PLUMBER ANU GAS FITTSA, 7 STREST NORTHWEST aw Sty Public Bui NG FRAMES 2 Patter, ber, City und Comp 4 - try tigtiiences, St Tactory Prion, aia snainccared {Sum G. HOGAN, TIS Marke: Space, Letwoos 7tL aud Sth strec Bags aud Camp- Meeting Teats for ents Bole agent Proot for the only Genuine Mildewod ortas ap's tr BAOTRER DOSES Soe beurens, 301% Pennsyivanis sveque, (soush side) FINt ¥O ae trecialty nor™-3P SM PORTANT HOTICE? GWLNG TO THE ADVAN* AND HAVING A MUCH LAR STOCK GF fien’s, Youths. asd Boye’ Clothing THAN USUAL, 1 HAVE DETERMIN "D s : 2 * 10 & - aI lu te tate il te. 16% 33 from 2 a from Ww ls AMportes « ase" Sule rom 39 w 16 Aaie. cots et Similiar Keductions, YOuTE 1 BOYS’ CLOTHING the awort- ¥ tcll,end will be offered at propertion- low price: 2 x ay ime IATES aOLa P NSYLVANIA AVENUE 1018 Barwees LOTS ann 11Te Sraveys A. STRAUS. sy tr GP247 Sem ANNUAL SALE or DRY Goons. eerie ects Oar tem stock mast be aced. eo EE ee¥ worth of nnmnts, )» Rods, &c., will be sold at One quarter thete regular price, , tance of our stuck will be sold at Oost tur thirty daw pies W. W. BURDETTE a co., gyM-tf =Nos. 985 7th and 706 K streets oaee 7m Sr. vee. 46 N°. 6,994. ae WASHINGTON, D. C.. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25, 1875. TWO CENTS. EVENING STAR. Washington News and Gossip. sbdad thane CrSToM RECFIF fe-nal revenue to Tuer a> receive 5,107.88; In- wal bank note eur- WNT of at the Treasury to-day for RIT. re RDECED.—T! 1 the disc On Fe neral court- S.— Midshipman Vincen- reported bis return bed from the Tusea- as been placed hipmea Harry M. TS Haghe: detache {from ter 1 to the Richnond, per steamer of 36th others who pay for their dispatches. One of the most important of the many-needed re- forms under this government is a law abso Intely prohibiting the aeceptance of “dead- head” compliments of any Kind by any one, either in the executive or the legislative branches of the government.— Was). Balt. Sua. Cr. St. SwitHi~ a Watery HumsreG—in connection with the mofsture of the past torty da is Interesting ta note the fact .Swithin proverb has been now selentifically investigated and completely ex ied. At the celebrated Greenwich Ob- gland, a record was kept of aitand drought subsequent to St. jay for twenty snecessive years, ty days’ rain or drought” affair n any one of thove twenty s. Undonbtedly St. Swi- « of a sal but there is rare record of bis having been able toaccomplish forty successive days of paddling. That he has succeeded this season, after @ thousand years’ i, is merely & moist happening. THE COLORED ME: The colored educ: sion at Richmond, Va. initiatory steps tow: socie.y to be known estional and iress Tras AND Epucation. — opal convention ia scs- yesterday took the the formation of a sthe “Virginia E.tu istorical Society BS J. W. Cromw. jeulties surrounding fa in obtaiving by Rev. W. B. Derrick. ¢ Reso- fora monthly vered b: rtsinouth, on the di , youth of V edneation, an Fuehmond, on compulsory edneation. jutions were adopted providin, ton of edu rr tue Hin 2 m Port Hi says: A bott 5 mo. pin aining the following “Over Lake Michizan at § p. m. of tt rting. about thirty miles fron pont three thousand feet high ing from the northeast; batloo- £ out of onier, gas escaping fast up munch long: rfat storm © y lant will sure, 4 KEEEVE wt, of R Salli var shot, probably . While stand? Fourteen b 4 it 18 scarcely po: ivan was shot At Monday Mol calc f r A " 1 t r raing after aa ab.onc f ork, aud has rn : utie:. -+--Kepresenta- | ty r ering itiat Lit- t 5 atin, ‘ A Jharles 3 NNFRLY BARBARIANS.— Recently he American consul at Tripoll was grosly Insnited by some of the people, and two war v © from our syue tron in the Mediterra- re order 4 there todemand an apol- st Onelt sirival provoked @ fresh ont. | burst of bad feling, the officers who went ‘ t by the rabble in the ets. E g of eparation hal not ben completed at the latest advices, and the ships remaincd fn the harbor. THE DFAD-HEAD BUSINESS.—Some of the papers are making @ great a io over the dis- covery that Cenator Morion’s dispatehes ver the Western Union telezrapb lines are “deo l-Leat 4 The truth is that a great many other members of Congress beside Senator Merton are “cead-headed” over the Western m. Most every prominent of- fictal, whether in Congress or in the depart- ments. whese influence is considered worth anything, and who will accept the tender, ¢ fries in'his pockets the dead-head stamps of the Western Union. It is probably this dead-head business which inflicts a higher tariff than is Just npon business people and ide for gislation f dietary and police, ar right of suffrage ons bribing or years of all per ved At elections. ATTACKED BY A DE in sabmar: 2, Which held fast to aneigh omrade came to his ass dt Was seized alse. It was only with great difficulty that they could gtve the sig- na they need help. Others went town. Cutlisses were brought and tie mon- ters arms were hewed off DEATE OF THE “QUEEN OF THE LOFTY WIRE."—Virtoria Anderson, @ rope dancer trom Sheffield, who will _be remembered as the “Queen of the Lofty Wire” at Barnum’s Hippottrome, aged twenty-three, fell, Mon- day. August 9, from a velocipede on ‘a rope eighty fet bigh, on which she was perform- ing. She was fearfully injured and died shortly afterw THE PROTESTANT CONVENTION. — The steamer City Pormt, from P5ilatelphia, ar- riv i at Sea Grove, N. J., yesteriay, with nearly two hundred delegates to the coa- vention of all Protestant denom!natious, whieh meets there to-day. Among the num- ao were Rey. Dr. Newman, of Washington, Gas Laan ip IN cara ype ex- eaused escal , occurred St evening at the residence of L. G. Web- ster, Brooklyn, N.Y. Mr.and Mrs. Webster, Mr. G. Thrall, "and Eliza Wilson, servant, ANNE ARUNDEL'S REPUBLICAN DELE- on sean Arandel county repuh!t- Gelegates chosen to the state i ‘W-stininster, ther, J. Hen: Springdeld | nerthe men went into th | heay rain. About three ¢ | left Gloucester in a tughe | thetr pliots and judges | With steamers and sail raft. / plunged into the water simult: both took the Pe | advan THE PEACH TRADE—Light Supply ant Good Prices.— ‘ontrary to general expecta- tion, there were not more than 6,000 baskets of peaches at Light street yesterday, the rain probably interfering With picking. Twice as much more fruit could have been sold at remunerative prices. The range of the market was from $1 to $150. A small Qnantity: not altogether prima, sold at 75 cents. Shippers were the largest bayers, the packers in most cases declining to pay the prices. Reports from the peach shipments to the west are favorable, and the growers and shippers are encouraged to contiaue sending in that direction. The Baltimore market is aches, none being here yesterday for the use of eltizens, Woo are essentially a community of peach consumers. Advice is | siven to the growers torend goct trait to market freely, Uke prospect berg that pay- ing prices will be realtzed, York ant Philadelphia peach markets have greatly improved s Friday. The Wilmin: (Det ay says: © We are That wh .mneh mie braces of their Mixons, bare of p Commercial of 16 Craw- . Ti Old arest the shc After p: isjand they shot ont nearer the river, From the fit Johuson was ahead swimming ¥ éasily. but swiftly When they had passed over about si istance Coyle trainer noticed t ed bad, and took him out of tha wat Jennson af this time was abont a rail Coyle showed! every i Ned and w heing rwded with pe over Jousson ATTA oN Commopore Go f AND CeeW RY Native Ac: TRaLIA Tie British colonial office has received the foliow on Comircdore g details of the attack xienough and a portton of the erew of the Pearl at Carlisle Bay, Aus- trali: Tie Commodore ani party on tae n instant landed in Carlisle Bay to open course With natt of Santa Cruz Island, who attacked the Sandfly in the same place last After remaining atont an hour ashore and malcing apparer ly satisiactory progress in the object of the:r mission, they were preparing to return to the ship, when suddenly the natives who ere only afew yarts off, shot al Commo- dore Goodenough, and a potsoned arrow yenetrated his left side. The boat then put off rnder a fight of arrows. Seven inen on boast were wounded, iueluding Lieutenant Hawker. Two of the wounded have since dicd frem the effects of the poison, the others are improving. As soon as the boat returned the Pearl shelled and burned the native vil- lage, and then returned to Nelson Bay. TRANSPORTATION OF CENTENNIAL Goons —A. T. Goshorn, director general tie United States centennial exposition, has received a letter from Mr. A. J. Cassatt, third vice president of the Pennsylvania rallroad, in which he says: “We have re. ceived responses from the New York Central, the Erie, and Baltimore and Ohio railroads committees, assenting to the proposed ar- rangenent with reference to the transporta- tion of goods to and from the centennial ex- position, It is therefore understeod that reg- ular rates shall be charged on all goods ea: - ried to the exposition tor exhibitors over tue roads controlled by the above-named com panies and by this company, and that a'l unsold goods shall be returned free—freight and a]l charges to be prepaid in every c we this arrangement to cover all articles tu- tended for exbibition, as well as ail other articles forwarded by exhibitors for th own use in connection with the exposition. This announcement covers between 7,000. 8,000 miles 0 id ra‘iway, and includes map} Very important lines. Josern LoapEr’s NFi seph Loader, the upholsterer dicted for perjury,is in a crow Raymond street jail and has » uneble to obtain bail A says. his wife found an ol¢ which eo | Tiiton’ 1 Eyip Jo no was in. pets.” Next to it is workman's name, one Pa: age who went with Loader to Mr. Tilton’s house on the day before the carpets were laid. Mrs Tilton was or them and asked tday. The following man namet N rork ov the lower she says, Mr. Baec Mrs. Tilton for. Price is co < 8 with Loader, but they do not con- verse with each ‘ Y. 2h. OLp DEFENDER OF BAL- a an old defender tied on Monday 1 ety-elght, at the resi- is son-in-law North Caroline r. Coe was a of Baltimore abont ¢ rths @ eto reside with AS & CO rediner y and worked for about forty years ai the Ghnpowder Copper Works, bein? able | to' work nptilabont five years ago. He r tained his © et g tothe last, the mes at Bowen. ing that they He r. groin, t seized Miller and ve him @ terribie ishing, breaking his own pistol over his d aud toaking him beg for merey. Bowen only stopped when the loss of blood mate himi too weak tostrike. Two negroes came up ard earried him back to thecity. His wounds are serious SURRENDER OF SEO DE URGEL.—The gov- ernment forces in Spain have obtained an adventage of some importance over the Carlist insurgents by the success of the siege of Seo de Urgel. The little city in the Pyre- nees bas beld out valiantly for many weeks, but the efforts to reinforce it having fatled and the besieging force growing stronger, its fate was only @ question of time. By its Sur- render the Carlist forces will be rived of @ considerable number of troops the ser- vices of General Li , one of the most prominent soldiers of the cause. The gov- eroment will also profit by having the be- cane army released for Other work in the el = ANOTHER ENGLISH BANQUET TO AMERI- CAN NAVAL OFFICERS.—The banquet by the corporation of Southampton to offi- cers of the American —— took place last night, and was at led by @ distin- guished company. Themayor of tham p- ton preidea, and the health of Admiral Worden, oy ely limentary terms to the services of 3 officer during the war, and hoping that America and Eng- land would continue band in hand as ex- amples of and unity. Admiral Wor- den, in reply, said that the kindly feelings of England were reciprocated by America. TENNYSON GOING ON A CONTINENTAL Tovr—In a recent letter to Wait Waitman Mr. Tennyson deveribes himself ay in the idst_ of LSI up to ‘t torthwith from ‘ehgidnd, with wife sons, for a tour to continent. Mrs. yn has been ill for two roan ‘nd the jour: is taken with the hope it may benefit her. says he won'tadire3s the convention Sena’ Tt was were to was wounded In the t notwithstanding, | s7The With the eldest daughter of Montpensier is announce et Speribve = cid ‘Telegrams to The Star. | THE SARATOGA REGATTA. CAPT. WEBB’S GREAT FEAT. a—— HE SWIMS THE ENGLISH CHAN? Se NOT CHARLIE ROSS NED O'BALDWIN DYING THE GE onver 1 NBACK CONVENTION on Considered a Fatiur hour esent at the nearly 3,000, ge FOREIGN NEWS, Captain Webb Swims Across the Lag. | lish Chiaan Webb t Dover for his the channe in feat w ating or Life apt praratus, The en received a other side of the channe: CaLals, Augu -Captain rived here at il health and spir pussage from Dover minutes. THE SARALO The Argennut« Win pane Webb ar- TRA. the Pair cared SARATOGA, Ar ateur regatta i iter Disnppot HAUG, No Yer Auvune oh drove from Plattsburgh to early this morning to see the child in poss sion of 2 Fre » family ii was not Ciarti Ros The re a the mouth of the child np wa: Died aries. St. Josera, A H. Arnold, one of those injnred by the late accident on the t. Louis, Kansas City and Northern rail- way, died of bis tujuries in this city last eve- ang Several others are in a critital cond tion. —— A Dying Giadtator. NEw YoRK, August O'Baldwin, the Irish giant and well-known prize-fighter, who has but recently been discharged from Moyamensing prison after a two-year term, is dying in this city of lung disease, Didn't co to Saratoga. ‘OLR, August 25.—Put in here to-day schooner Clipper, with the Lent Lenape boat club of Philadelphia on board. They hod reached the I re breakwater, and were forced back by northeast stoi.n. Boston dl says the Bar: Vermont, w: $22,000; ins Special to the Jo e, in West Ratland, yesterday. Loss A CURIOUS FREAK OF NATURE -A Whirl- t Zrees and Curoofed Hi reoon, about hal Vv, were alarmed ofa whirlwind extendin d over one hundred feet. It rk, snapping off arge trees, crosse? tle Pennsylva- nia Ratly and smi aneys, and up Pennsyl- venia ed by Unree water a apple orchard and then took an obliqne where it nprootet large trees on Mr. Young's property, lifted up the water box poud, took the roof of ack belonging fo Mr.Gramesou, and did other damage. A lady 1s reported to | Nfred to the air and castso vi k to earth that her ai broken. residing in relinghuysen describes : the appearance of t whirlwind as wonderful in its destruct! ness. He says it was 306 feet high about three feet six inches indiameter, aud moved quite slowly AU. Intro 1) Prec webdcl, a heer sale into the United When Mr. Schwan- : proprietor, was broueht States court in Brookly yesie mn a charge of not caneelins the | Teven mpion his beer barrels, Assist. ant District Attorney Herbert G. Hull asket for the warrant, and giane KR at it, ex- claimed angr » “this most be stopped and be tore It in @ butdred, pieces, and. t the a prisoner officers ecus that he looked ¢ 1 against the m cht, a clerk in tl erwards told a boy to ¢ of the warrant and pas er. This tor: 1 pasted warra ven lo the commission ™ gut home. twas r,and the United is office tuformed of the dis. prisoner. The rr shal was ion of t tant. dis. nd refused lo sizu the copy N.Y. Stur, 2t AEKKL.—Freder ed Schimpt be- in 8 saloon on usin came it ad @ man nal oived ina quarrel Susquebanga av on the 9th instant. Tae ispote lasted some Ume, aithongh neither 5 came Lo While the two we Angust Vogel, who was in truck Brasius rendering pon the head Insensible. alto his bor West Nor- he contin ter from ble Sunday, when The Started ont to a 1 Vevel, bot for Hamburg, Gern occurrence. he had satled ny, shortly after the was arrested and locked up lo awail th co ers action. A Pposuinortera examina! of the body apie yesterday afternoon by Dr. 'T. H. Andy: elicited the fret that death was caused by an absevss of the brain, which was probably cavsed by.# blow or other violenos.— Phild- detphia Record, 2ith. A NEw Jexsry RovGH SHOT.—About 2 ociock yesterday morning, a8 Dennis Mur- phy, @ youth about nineteen years old, re- Sidiag at No. 116 Brunswick street, Jersey City, way bome, accompanied by some com- ilons, ney met a party of three men, and Murphy exclaimed, “Shoot the hat,” at the same timé knocking the bat oif the head of the roan. The man drew a revolver, and saying, “I'll shoot you,” fired,the ball taking effect in the left side of Marphy’s neck and inflicting @ serious, though not fatal wound. After the shot was fi anes oon his companions ran away. Murpliy was re- morn to the City Hospital, and’ yesterda afternoon he was re] as doing well.—N, YY. Times, 21th. A SURPRISED CALF.—As the night pas- senger train on the Virgivia Midland Fair roa going south on Tnesday night, left the upt station, the engine struck a caif, and the engineer sup) = had Knocked it off the track; but ; eae Bie sates ween the Sraln, stopped 65 Sits piace find the Robbery of a Miser. ‘OF €2 ‘ated that he was a men cant, ca’ “nurch Home and In: ary,on North Broadway. and made in of the ladies in charge as tow be admitted 3 tution. He gave Mannaban. He ass 208 in his imme owned land i of Dr. Thou at he had app by mm om W antity ot the notes thro per ine 2 the athered up { rey ar on the ot S and s¢ ne small notes, which w pockets. in small mourht all the arti zim, yet he could not niissing package or the th ar bills whieh the old man ce been in his vest wh ‘As to these bills, how afirmed that he had not s On F riday morning I made acquainted with the trustees of the Chureh Home. took steps to After a thorou: Monday eveni arrest the ma peeted an party. sth - lasting until owing, he concludet to ary. Who had been sus- owed from the first. He was co: fined in the middle district station until this morning, When the marshal, accompa- nied by O'Leary, proceeded to the Church Home, and Detectives Pontier and Hall went Home for the porpose of making a néral search of the building and grounds. The detectives commenced operations in the lower part of the building, while the mar- shal, attended bf O'Leary avd an aged Ppaticni of the institution named Ross, began searching the outbuildings. In the space of balfan bour a package containing $2,290, in- closed in a newspaper, was raked up among some chips and shavings in the dirt floor of the wood-house. Detectives Pontier and | Hall joined the marshal a few minutes later, and Subsequent seareh led to the recovers: of the three twenty-dollar bills missed, near the same spot, making the sum &, exact amount Which was said to be m: The marsha! at once not i Dr. Mannat of the recovery of the money, and the latter expressed his delight in the most extraya- gant manner. O'Leary was taken to the middle statin: > he was locked up for a fart rill take place tod ing. Ep STATES Fisn © Tre United States Fish Commi: ters at We : Loing good war irection ot ssor Spe F. Chief Commissioner, P easor By secured already @ very and in | clon of drawings in color, photographs er casts of rare and corions 3h and erful productions of the a. iv The government has placed the steamer Bluelight, Lientenant-Commander Peardslee, at Pcofessor Baird's service, she ts fittcd out with trawls, dredges ar mpiements, beside a fleet of sails row boats with fishermen to man ther. Every day these boats come in with patls apd cans of fish Their catehes sometim: | comprise horse-mackerel weighing upwandis | of six hundred pounds, and other specimens, down fo the smatlest’ mieroseopie taverte | b.ate. Protessor Batrd’s work ts attr } great attention among scientitie m | Le bas with him most of the time \ number of professors and students fron | ferent colleges, who are making studies « | classifying the naval prodnetions of th { | ' ocean Whieb are daily discovered. Among the most.prominent professors from tue co! leges engaged in the study are Messrs. Gil M aton, Hyagt. Vi B y'and Faslow, togethy sts, plolographers, mot- ographers and assistants, whi ted with the commission. “W. iHol- the fish painter, has recently been at —N.Y. Bvening Post ner, Goode, conn) bertc the He EXTRAORDINARY GRAVE Al Alteny Bolu dean's Pathe J tes, ae Mr. Sites notified Father on of the grave, and nd Dr. 5 An Inspeatic parih as fa: the the coftia thrown o1 disturbed tlonists bec work. ver | and dre spectre} back of The cen with the boxy. is believed that rad not $he rv a Pp tn the lan ther has been dead for more and it t< ily like t desired for dissec! that the roby the rej than t the hody some tt levers pected to get a rewar | for a Of the hady.—Somer set (Olis) Pres A REMARKABLE Cat.—Col. D. F. Slau, longing to htm, which we publish for the benefit of our readers. He says this cai bad a litter of kittens whieh he drowned. His wire had three gosling In a box, to which the cat immediately transferred her affections after the death of her own progeny. The gos- lings died, and three young turkeys were taken into the house tn their stead, and the cat transferred her affections to them. She Watches them with all the solicitude of a motber, and tries to treat them in all respects as if she were their mother. Who will sa: affer Unis that a cat bas no redeeming quali- ties.— Culpeper (Va.) Observe. THE WHiskY RING ASSASSINS —J. E. J. E. Miller, the ex-gauger, whose life the cago whisky ring assassins attempted to take on Friday nigh’ Hor, Car] Schurz. with internal revenue affairs fo. geno! ue Sallie Withite ran away some ago with her brother-in-law, Aaron ; he, however, returned to his wife and she mar- Fo sar any fr cousin, Peoklelranaway both Jeaving famille mat Aaron son, bis modhers r imatiors his thiher has’ again eloped with bis sister-in-law, Sallie. A MISERABLE OLD “MENDICANT” ROBBED an elderly man, whose and th om he nam iw vied to his aftairs, | would shor and would seit ny indebted car repsired to the HOnEEL Lo plaee Lo prepare 4 and bad for Was engaged in grave hik son a & corner of Strolied about the It 18 Supposed that the tr patina d not Knowing ae churse grave of Job a tam- | ne with was los with, aud at_once informed his father cried, 24% ter tells us & remarkable story of a cat be- | The Warehouse Tragedy. ARREST OF SUSP’ ous PAS £S-—ME. NOE DYING w York Heras of w York mer | asly assaultet tr bis wa urgiars, na n from the sixth ne Chambers st acti trume om th es to Mr. Noe’s yur on Sunda Imot, wt that the tarts ghier whist Thomas S Both lenied a der, Da spots on his Cout were pain he declined to open hts eoat w the officer because his shirt was takes to the Chambers street x 1. Sanders and shown to Mr who «did not reeogvize either. Tuey ntly discharged jon last night was very were pair the att Mr. preca Psurgeons of the Chambers | Street Hospital considered that he was fast sinking into death. covery whi eoned Mow nets began to fail the patient. He was un conscious Monday night at twelve o'clock, | when the physician announced that they be- | beved he would last but @ very littie while longer. It will now be useless for the police to take any new prisoners to the Lospital for identification, and they will have to rely upon their own sagacity and the evid others than Mr. Noe to procure the fellow who gave such fearful blows to the unforta- nate merchant. P.T. BARNSUM Boys A AMUs— How if was Crpturedand What It Lives On—The New York Evening Post is author!- ty for saying that Mr. P. T. Barnum bas just | paid $20,000 for a baby hippopotamus, wien frrived tu New. York ph Satunlay, from Bremen, by the steamer Mosel. This is said by Reiche Brothers to be the second hippe | potamrvs brooght to this country. It was carght in Upper Nubia, and when take: from its dam, Which was slain in the strag- gle for the possession of the calf, was searce- ly able to stand alone. It hay been safely ded at very great expense. The animal was carried # thirty-seven days’ journey | across the desert to Suez, slung between | camels. On the way to the coast a pit was | every evening dug in the sand, a Jarge skin was sunk in the pit, and’ the “baby” was allowcu to roll for a short time inahath ofa patl or twoof water. Forty | koats were carried with thecaravan to sup- ply, the young hippopotamus with mili, as 1@ is yet too tender to take more substantial | nourishment. He is about fouror five feet | | in length, two feet in height and weighs be- tween three and forr hundred pounds. He ts | but follows } be found the } proscration. | but whose mouth, nose, eyes, | pent's. ‘The body, arms and bands were well | formed and natural, aud so were the legs 00 Hiippopot- | j A Cool WE TAKES HIS FLEEING WIFE MACK To MIs | BOSOM, AND SPARES HER Loven. | The « mt Case that came to light | Thursday and Sure! fn our police news evelopet its denouement yesterday. the late train that night the a | Land. Hendricks, arrived from Crofoa, Ky., | ') company wit! whom be brought ® ong for emergencies. He visitat the Four Coarts ac once, but was too late to secare an | 'oterview with his ranaway wife and her paramour, Seely. Next morning, however he was at the chiefs office tright and earl | Sod wanted the thing settieal at once. He ssked thi ef to place the child in his | eostody, and to let the wife and her man go Shere they pleased. He thought it no better thon Seely deserved to let bin koep the mal The chict, however, would consent to ho such arrang He tolt Hendricks that the babe was as mneh Uo property of Dis wife as bis.end Hust ether take them Loiti or neither. So an offer Was sent down and the wh eWay party —Secty, M Hendricks, Seely’s son and Mrs. Hendr shy The woman uy set ks tre 6 tan at he sare om = m., 2343 ult us: was shown to the baiside wt lady in a sta After adn agitation b sary remedies, which her nerves, he was shown Into another room, where be beheld a strang: wich the lady had given birth t ents before bis arrival. Even who Was accustomed to see stra ge sights. was she ai this. Wrapped in its swa iting «lay the child, if child it con! he calied, weighing abont cight pounds, with & head whose forehead was weil de" ral countenance were the exact cour of @ cat's. though the eyes trom th zling brilliancy looked’ much like the knees. From the knees they J almost exact resemblance to the lez ofa chicken—the foot was as near a chick en's toot af can be imagine’—and the inant wou ract its toes Just as a chicken would aead and neck were covered with @ growth of fue black hair, the bedy and limbs chicken when place tof its te rs; 18 cries were those of a cat Other peeulia 8 noticeable, bat\per. haps it is best not to make them pablic this time. it is said that this wofo stance was brought about five or six months age, whi nnate circum. this wise: Some the parents re- sided ip another sta? lady was wate! ing a fight between nd @ reostes adjoining yard. Two boys, ag™i 10 years, respectivel test Wi Were waichinug the con n great interest. Finally the cat caught the chicken by the neck and instantly cuspatched bim; the older boy grabbed a light «x and uplifting tt rushed towanl the younger saying.‘ D—n you, your cat killed my r ter, ap kill you.” The younger brot in attempting to es Died and Al this stax to the foo pass f tinned the birth of this monstrosity. aswoou swoon t who has been his constant ¢ 1 the way from the desert to Suez. across the Mediterranean to. Trieste, and thence to this country, with many demc strations of pleasure ind recognition, pan- j ool oe este | _ A Bov INSTANTLY KILLED WHILE PLay- | ING WITH aN OLDCARBINE.— Another fatal | accident ci by the careless ase of fire- arms, occurred yestenlay afternoon, 0: yhich a boy of twelve antly killed. It appears that sh fore 4 o'clock James O'Shaugtinessy, Une v: | tam of the sad accident. waose rest | No. 200 west 50th was a room on the upper He had been gone and Mrs. 0 | stairs! only to find hoor, the blood oozi directly behind t , wad a carbine touching ASSIStALs, neousiy "a une Says U a is overrun With bar nor ter: Ir ed horse thieves, i | INDIANA—The Coi- | | v s having thin a s san voring slates of nized anc disciplined barde Under the name of r athority of & special lature, the citizens orzan- ed the countey, captured oyer Lwo- he gang, revised nding country ty valuable About SeVEnt 1a l8 ¥ ago thi convic 9 4 participate roasting Aman io order to make lim } the depository of his money, was taken to the borders of Diamond lake, near Ligonter, and executed before thousands of peop RESCUED FROM A LIFE OF SHave—A |} sixteen years of age, posses:ing y and intelligence, the daughter of a prominent and wealthy citizenof Baltimore, Whose name is suppressed for obvions rea- sons, Was Laken by the poiice last night from a@ notorious house of ill-fame on Josephine reet, kept by @ woman named Minnie King. The latter, it ts said, induced tue girl to enter her house and adopt a life of shame. Sbe has been absent from bome for more than a week, during which Ume her parents wave mrde every effort to ascertain ber whereabouts, and finaily applied © the po- lice. She was detained ‘he western poles Station last. vight, and this morning her father will have her sent to the House of the Good Shepherd, were she will be tained until she is eighteen years oc age. police say that cases of this kind are of quent occurrence. Faito. Garetic, 2th, DEA’ ‘THE Ratt.—A collision occur- athe. Delaware, Lackawanna it i i 52 § wl The parents wished the ehild put ont of the way by violent means, but, after a deal of persnasion and the promise of @ large sum or money, the doctor wes allowed to retata it provided he would never make tts pareataz known or exhibit it for two years. He has d an old negro man a’ an out-of-the-way place on th karsas line, to rase the infant. Less the week ago he bearc from it, aud it was er ing finely dt his wife, why Ar last evening. Tn’ ps B. Dixon, of India of this city, d th Gallagher and Paite + former! recons Dr: ing operat lool Was tak us sob, & young when a che Larrive in the am was periormed very 1.80 far ae the transfasion went, suc At first there were indications w lresalt in the desired restoration, bu the man bad become too much exhausted aud no earthly Lelp cou att reatdenee IN Nouway- Copenhagen correspon dent of the Pall Mall Gazette, writ 4h, says: “ Aboul & week ago two Gern brothers. arntved by steamer at Chris- tania, aud took apartments in the Hotel King Geri. In the middie of the night a ter- rible noise was heard tn the room occupied by the two brothers; chairs, tables and other a furniture were thrown about, aud even ou* of the windows. The other gers rusbet to the room, when the door was suddenly opened, and one of the Germans, armet with a poignard, strack the nearest geutle- man a blow in the abdownen, after which ne ” in. The noise lasted closed the door aga a ‘Sere found teed, with their Spon ts elder first murdered ee setnger gne and then cut bis own ehrost, i bi 5 a, fi