The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-06
GENERALITIES.
A Head Cut OF.

Between z and o'clock Wednesday evening" as
dummy engine No. of the Hudson River Rail-
road Company was coming along Tenth avenue,
New York, between Fourteenth and Fifteenth
streets, an unknown man, slightly Intoxicated,
who was riding on the platform of one of the
attached to the engine jumped off. He
fell across the track and the wheels of one of
the cars passed over his body, severing it from
the head and scattering the particles about the
track The fragments OF the mangled body
were collected and tta ken to the station house,
where an inquest will be held.
"Brewers' Grain,
DR.. Morris, the Assistant Sanitary Supern-
tendent of the Metropolitan Board of Health,
writing to a correspondent in Connecticut re-
specting the milk from cows fed on brewers or
dstillers' grain, mentions that the practice is
forbidden by law in this State and should be
elsewhere. The increase of the amount of milk
given by COWS so fed is balanced by the circum-
stance that its quality is seriously deteriorated.
1t contains before any artificial addition,
superfluous proportion of water. It's use is un-
doubtedly detrimental to health as 1t is deficient
In nutriment, especially in butter, casein, and
sugar. 1t is possible that other organic changes
may be detected in it by the microscope.
Fort sumter TO be RECONSTRUCTED.
The Charleston Courier says The work OF
reconstruction, which has for so long time
agitated the country and engrossed the atten-
tion of Congress, has reached the classic walls
of Sumter, and now that battered old fortress,
upon whose walls so much indomltable courage
has been displayed, is to be reconstructed. The
crumbling walls are to be restored, embrasure,
angle and slope to be remoulded, and an arma-
ment placed therein. In restoring the work it
is contemplated to make it a heavy temporary
battery" mounting thirteen heavy cali
bre guns-eleven ffteen-inch smooth bore,
and two twelve-inch rifles. 1t is to retain nearly
its old shape. The outside wall is to be rebuilt
at a height ranging from thirteen to twenty six
feet above low-water mark. Above the wall
heavy earthen parapet will be constructed All
the bomb-proofs and classmates yet visible will
be filed in. new dock and sallyport are to be
ncfrr otaA fhn Gid or tha
dock and stairs will be removed. We learn that
the work has already commenced under the
supervision of Colonel Ludlow, an accomplished
engineer of great experience, and will be pushed
to a speedy completion, so that the old fort will
once again resume its grim and threatening
aspect.
Tho New York ''MnstOdon."
There is another heavy blow in store for the
men of science We mention it in time, as we
hope to have this Mr.. Bradley quieted. Some
thing certainly must be done to prevent this
story going abroad uncontradicted. In the State
geological collection at Albany repose the bones
OF the Cohoes mastodon, the fossil that was
discovered in 1866 that magnificent specimen
which only one geologist in the State doubted
and he only to its title not its antiquity. The
theory respecting the extinct pachyderm was
that an immense glacier, which carried his
remains into q peat-bed, also separated
the parts and deposited them in different places.
A correspondent of the Rutland Herald is re-
sponsible for a Mr.. William j. Bradley, of Ball
sion, N. Y. Both that place and Cohoes, by
the-by, are nearer to us than Cardiff. In early
life Mr.. Bradley was peddler, and followed
caravan" or menagerie about the country in
order to sell his wares to the crowd ii usually
collected. In 1888 he was following at night an
elephant belonging to the menagerle. The
animal was usually taken from place to
place in the darkness, in order to escape
observation. 1t fell dead in the road near
what is now Cohoes; and he and its keeper,
after cutting the tusks off, sawed the rest
of the body in pieces, and buried the remains in
holes which they dug in the vicinity. Now, If
these are the bones Labelled "Mastodon" in the
State Cabinet gentlemen geologists what is to
be done? The Albany specimen hath teeth. If
there be one thing that distinguishes masto-
don from the rest OF creation, II is his tubercu-
lar teeth. For this, so far as his name is con-
cerned, is he mastodon. If it should be proved
that the skeleton in Albany in the flesh travelled
with a menagerie, the professors OF paleon-
tology may as well seek retirement from public
life for the next decade.
The Chicago Times thinks ''the Winnipeg
rebellion no sham. II is Riel one"