The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1859-10-22

was condemned by the Sultan to fight a laroe
royal tiger, whose ferocity was rails I'd to the
highest point by wan tof food and artificial
IRRITATION. The only weapon allowed to the
human oombatant was dagger with the
point broken of. After wrapping a cloth
round his left fist and arm, the man entered
tAe arena with an air of undaunted coelaess,
auu nAeo steady, menacing gaze upon the
brute. The tiger sprang fui iously upon his
lntended victim, who, with extraordinary
ooldness and rapiiity, thrust his left fist in
60 the gaping jaws, and at the same moment,
WITH his keen though pointless dagger, rip
PED up the beast to the very heart. In less
than minute the tiger lay dead at his con-
querer's feet. Phe criminal was not only for
gwen, but ennobled by his sovereign.
More about FiNibssters.- has
been given to story of the steamer Pbila
oeaphia, which left New York a few weeks
since, for New Orleans, where certain Gill
busters were discovered on board by the II
3 Marshal, having shipped from that port
one thousand stands OF arms, for the invasion
OF Nicaragua. They are said to have CEN
sisted Of 500 Hint muskets, 400 Minnie riHes.
10000 rounds of ball cartridges aad 90. 0Oo
percussion caps. She is said also to have
carried from eight TO ten boats,to carry fill
busters up the Colorado River. 1t was not
tau after several Intellectual searoh.s the arms
and musitions are said to have been discov.
cred.
TIE dsronaas's Experience. Wise, the
eronaut. has made 234 balloon ascen ious.
and In all tha,e, states, that be has only met
with two accidents, and lost his balloon but
twica. he has reached an elevation of three
miles from the earth ll3 ii mes, and ia every
case but one, be has. at that altitud -,ancoun.
tered an easterly current.
SwINDbED. MIR. III. Schultz, a North Care
iiRlin, stopping 10 New York for short
time, fell among the mock auction men at
No. l02 Broadway, Saturday morning. and
was swindled out of 500. He appeared at
the Mayors office Immediately afterwards,
and mad. complaint Of his loss Officer N,
o. Arthur was sent with him, and succeeded
IN obtaining all the money but $40. s q
A Deep Spring.-To some Of our readers
it may be news that there is on the route Of
the Overland Mail, about two hundred and
eighty miles east of Ell Paso, a spring said to
be one huHdred and fifty feet in diameter.
which has been sounded to the depth Of
eight thousand feet without finding bottom.
The surface is as smooth as mountain lake.
1t is slightly impregaated with aIkali; and
contains five varieties Of fish. 1t is called
Leon Hole.
FRIaHrFUL FAIL Faox A TREE A son of
NJ. Spontswooa Harrington, residing near
Hickory tree few days since, ipto which
he had climbed to gather its fruit, distance
perhaps of thirty feet. He came down. head
foremost, but throwing his haads to protect
himself, thSwhole force of the fall was re.
ceived upon the arms, the right wrist was
crushed, the bone protruding through the flesh,
entered the ground from one to two inches
The other wrist was broken or badly dislocated.
Hare ffnrh xns i.
Twelve years old9 was much bruised, and the
being of course great, AFT. cted him |
Drs Waddell and King were soon
On the ground, renderi lg the needed Assistance.
aud the boy Is doing as well as could be hoped
for
CURIOUS VILLA young lawyer, of SYRIA
cuse, Y, died recently, lea wing his properly
to village corporation, with the following
stip9lations LIST, to appropriate one-haH the
and, 2dly, to add the other half to the princi.
pal, and continue so to add, from year to wear.
until the fund shall become the largest education.
~ end,'orsenf in the toorld The property is now
valued at several thousand dollars, but the lie.
saiity OF the instrument is disputed by those
interested,
u TAKEN.-Mr. Patton, "well-todon
merchant OF lafayette, Ind. who ran away
WIN m distress, leaving wife, but taking his
Mackinaw, where he is working for his bread
It the rate of 81 so per day. A brother of the
injured wife followed him to that island and
recovered the child, forcing Patton to settle
MS property at Lafayette on his discarded wife,
and then serving a subpoena on the faithless
husband in behalf of the wife for a divorce,
left the scamp to his poverty, his paramour,
nd his conscience.
VERY SENsIBLE.-A coward says the New
bern Progress, may stand up and be shot at
aye, towards frequently do; and men of true
moral and physical courage sometimes refuse
this barbarous mode of settling difficulties and
healing lacerated honor. The fact Is that what
semblance of remaining respectabillty that at
tached to the bloody code has been forever OBJ
liberated by the bombast, bravado and DISCUS
ting acts Of the heroes Of the sfeld" in these
latter times. Duelling is humbug, and, with
US, is likely to become, If it has not already, a
nltional disgrace. Let all good men then treat
the "ccde" with contempt and all who partici-
pate In affairs of honor as outlaws and MUIR
terers. We say again, it is no test of moral
and physical courage. -"
The Queen Of England has received petit
ton, signed by 460 clergymen of the Ests-
blishsd Church, praying for permission to
revise the Liturgy.
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