The Portland daily press., 1870-08-23

A horrible tragedy occurred at New Haven
on Saturday night, which shocked ard exct-
ed the whole city. Otto Baumgarten, who
had not lived with his wife for seven months,
went to her fathers house, where she and her
child, an infant of year old, made their
home. He found them in the garden. An
angry alteration was heard between them,
followed by three reports Of revolver. MI.
Katsch, the father of the woman rushed 10
the spot where he found Mrs. Baumgarteh
with the babe in her arms, which the husband
had given mortal wound by firing bullet
into its head. Mis-. Baumgarten was found
with bullet wound in the side Of her head,
which extended into the eye, putting It out.
Several yards distant the murderer was found
lying upon his back upon the grass, dead,
with bullet fired by his own hand in his
brain The child soon died, and physicians,
upon probing Mrs. Baumgarten's wound,
foune that the bullet passed through a small
part of the brain, and it is very doubtful if
she RECEIVERS. She is about twenty-five years
old, intelligent and highly esteemed The
parties had never lived happily together, and
separated, and the husband wanted the child
and it is supposed that the quarrel in regard
to its possession led to the fearful tragedy.
Nearly all the official war maps published at
the early part of the European war are now
worthless. They gave Prussia in minute de-
tail, but showed very little of the territory of
France. The expectation was that Prussia
was to be invaded, but the reverse is the fact :;
and military men and journalists are all adrift
"Sam Soey" is the name of liquor dis
TILED by the Cinnamon in California. The
still in which it is concocted is peculiar and
complicated, and the liquor is thus made !:
Rice-cakes is taken, together with the leav-
ings Of boiled rice from the hotels, and placed
in barrel with water, where it is left to fer,
ment, the water being drawn off into the
boiler over the furnace. Passing through
condensers it comes out as pure rice whiskey.
Alcohol, fat pork, and one or two other alb
surd things are then mixed with the COM
pound, which after standing few DAYS, is
ready to he drunk. Quaffihg this delectable
liquor, the Chinaman is to become perma-
nently and well drunk. ....-l
at Quincy, Illinois, John Davidson has ac-
complished what is called the most remarka-
BILE feat on record. He walked on a thirty
six-foot plank backward and forward for one
hundred and five hours, stopping only twenty
eight minutes each twenty-four hours for
medical treatment The "feat" seems to hay
been performed, but with much distress to
the performer, who became Eighty, and had
to be p'nched and thumped into sensibility
TnyrarIlc ho o1oso <ba &c
ton became fearful, but he was upheld in the
last few minutes, and completed the "feat" in
state of stupefaction. What is the good Of
such odious exhibitions? Do they even cul
tivate manly development? Is any physiologi
cal truth demonstrated? The limits of human
endurance are a problem of no practical i'm
portance. But that the genius of our social
institutions permits every one to brutalize
himself at pleasure, it might almost seem that
such "feats" ought to be repressed as immor
alities little less noxious than .felo de Sc.
Another female regatta came off at Pitts
burg, on Saturday. The prize was but q
trifie, but no less than four aspiring females
sienified their intention to compete. There
were Misses Lottie McAlice, Maggie Lew
Rachel Welsh, and Rosa Steele, all under
eighteen years. The first two were competi.
tors in the first female regatta, while the lat
ter two We're new claimants to public notice
Miss McAlice and Miss Steele declined to
compete in the row, on the ground of an in
fraction of professional etiquette; but the
race finally settled down between Lew and
Steele. Some 1000 spectators were present
The contestants were attred in loose wrap
pers, and rowed in cedar boats. At the star
Miss Steele took the lead, and maintained i
to the buoy, when Lew made spent and
went ahead, coming in two hundred yards in
advance.