New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-06-20


Qualifying hee 70 assist BIN In the missionary enaer.
prize 70 which he has devoted himself. dsfa'i
Recently, gentleman rushed into the polios ofss
in London in great perturbation Of spirits ds~rng 10
aid Of detective In recovering two bank nosss %
Of flOO, and one Of f2O lie stated that whs
standing at The counter Of bank they wers sanshss
from before him. ard that be could fern no opinion
TO who the robber wss. He was confident, however,
that ,be notes must have been taken fron' bic hand
just an he was leaving the Once In rather de]ecsd
frame of mind, one Of The ofhcers saw that he en- 10
an umbrella aud asked II he had looked insid at.
The victim Of the robbery laughed IN dsri buf
consented 20 look, and there the money Wa deed
found The heart Of the finder grew light, ibe re-
varSe5 The astuie oaHcial with f5 Of the covered
treasure.
disturbance in the Reformed Doeh Chsrch q; Fiat
br.b I'll. II was made up from a circumstsntia
occonu, widely circulating in exchanges IN which
che names Of the alleged actors are given ct length.
correspoudcnt who was present at the time Of tho
dI.,u,banee and who saw the affair assures rs tba:
the facts were perverted and that the Published ac
counts are not true.
1t appears from Paterson IN. j. Regi,ter, tAAe
Mr. Buckley clergyman Of that place or its vicinity
has been preaching sermon 10 favor Of the rope
walking Of De Lave and Blondin, and that 81
his bearers, lay and clerical object to that style Of dis
course. -f-t
Two Texas editors, both residents Of Crocke re-
Gently fought dne for cause not stated Their nnes
were Dalton and Hepperla The former receis ID
bullet in his throa and was probably fatally iai o
The latter was biz on the head, bus the wound -
was not serious I'd
when John Brown was hanged, the bella we
toled in many country villages among others, Ia Man
chester, N III. The Mayor ntsrfered, and kscked thd
ringer out of the belfy It Is said that the . Scs OF
New.Bampstire" residing at Washington, IN satid-
Grafton Of this act, propose to present TO hha ape
Mr. Hume the medium whose juggler'es havs
caused so much talk both in Europe and Amevicz has
recently been giving entertainments in London ~
is aristocratc in his tastes and will not look OF draw
inQroom under certain rank His mode Of spersfine
is ever the same in lie general arrangements; hrcon
is dafkened and when the spirits of the spectators are
subdued by the gloom, the voice OF HUNS IL heard,
saying that be is risng on ghosty hand N ari 40
corroboraiing testimony, he occasionally takes pencil
az writes on tle ceiling the of his host Several
of the guests declare that against the feeble gtof the
windows, they have often seen Mr.. Humes feet dang
ling in space others ready TO swear that they have
felt his feet upon their shoulders they sa sVfay
silent, on their airs; few, particularly favored
sert that they have dimIy seen him descend xh his
knees on the table after of bis aerial iii. - As
might be expected there is excl ement Ia quar-
ters of London.
On tie night of the 18th inst, Miss Nj . tie
daughter of the keeper of the Lighthouse sFair-
weather bland, just below Bridgeport, Conn, heard
cries for help at distance from the shore, ud deter
mined that an effort should be made TO rescue whom
ever il might be- 1t was too dark to tell the detioa
or the distance but summoning two young rsn to her
aid she launched the boat belonging to the lighthouse
and order cd them to pull oa in the direction OF the
cries. she herself holding the tler. About two miles
out in the Sound they found sal-boat capsized and
cnging to il two men, who were nearly exhausted.
One of them entirely helpless but both were snsy
rescued from death by the courage of this brave girl
and brought safely to shore. Mr. Moore the keeper OF
the light has been for some years afflicted wsh lie
health and when unable to TO the details III ha
Office this daughter the entire managensnt,
trimming the beacon with her own fair haHds.
A New-Orleans paper tells story which msy nos
be true, but which is certainly not improbable. A
New.York school girl thought it would be an excel
lent joke to advertise in city paper for husband;
she did So and, Of course, received replies. The w
ter of of these, who pretended to be the ION Of
rich parents at the South made her acquaintaneswh
out the knowledge of her family, and finally niuesd
her to elepe with him, promising to marry her in
cinna OF course be did not fulfll this promise and,
Of course, the silly girl was ruined. She was then e
alone in New Orleans. She driven by her despair
to attempt suicide but was prevented from acco,cpsh
;p, A xyoInp ~ ourh cfar hoe
would not keep some school girls from ndulgefx N
anonymous hiraions.
Maj. Horaiio Allen, the engineer of the Ne s-York
and Erie Railroad, in speech made during the re- sna
festival occasion, gave the following account Of he
first trip made by a locomotive on this continent:
When was,tf Who was it And who awaken
ed it's energies and directed its movements was in
the year 1898 the banks of the Lackawaxen ~ tho
of the railroads connecting the cana Of
the Delaware and Hudson Canal Company with their
coal mnes--aDd he who addresses you the only
person on that locomotive. The circumstances which
led 10 my being alone the engine were these: Tho
road had been built In the Summer; the structure WIS
of hemlock timber, and rails of large Dimensions
rttobed on caps placed far apart The timber had
cracked and warped from exposure 10 the sun. ANer
abont 800 feet Of straight line, the road crossed tho
Lackawaxen creek on trestle work about 70 feet H.
with curve of 355 TO 400 feet radius. The mpres-
sion was very general that the iron monster Toald
either break down the road it would leave tie =
at the curve and plunge into the creek. Nv xTyL
such apprehensions that il too late 70 90 ade
the probability Of such occurrences there was T. hes
course than to have trial made of the strange iad
which bad been brought here at greas expens bu.
that II was not necessary that than one sh be
Involved in its fate that would take the fis fde
alone, and the time would come when sAou ool
back TO The incident with great interest As IpaeS
my band on the throttle yalve HANDLE was unIek
whether would move slowly or with fair deers
sreed; but believing that the road would proves
ard prefering, if we did go down, TO go hanlrome