Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1871-11-25

another region without any disastrous eonse-
sequences. what would be the fate of the ten or
fifteen thousand inhabitants of the borough?
Our attention was called, a few DAYS ago, to
the mining operations going on in HYDE Park i'm
the vicinity of the Scranton Stove Works. The
hands employed in this mandatory can dis
tinctIy hear the blasting beneath and feel the
tremOr of the earth succeeding the explosions.
This district is rapidly being built up, and some
of the buildings are heavy brick structures; If,
therefore, there is little left but props of wood
to support the earth, a caving in may naturally
he expected some day, attended with terrible
results.
AN INTERFERING EXAMPLE of kleptomaniaI Is
recorded of very respectable Scottish clergy
man in the prime of life, and otherwise dis
tiDguished for his learning, pety, and charity.
HIS manSe was little missionary society of
stolen Bibles" and he was a much in earnest in
the conversion of souls by the contraband pro-
cess a. the most enthusiastic foreign missionary
could be i'm his calling. He was at last detected
in wholesale Bible stealing. 1t was further dis
covered that he had organizeda wide missionary
district, and left Bible OF Testament at every
cottage where il was needed along the route. A
most touching fact in the story is that he ar
rested while on his knees by the bedside of the
diving old man, with stolen Bible living open
before him on the bed ''What made you steal
the Bibles, Mr.. B.?'' asked the sheriff, with
a pious horror in his face. ssGod made me
steal them, good man." the reply.
8. He was weary of seeing his poor people perish
of gOspel-hungeT, because the rich Bible society
could not afford to feed them without the bau
bees. we'll knowing that they had no baubees;
and 30 God set me to steal them and save them"
He could not he persuaded that he had done
wrong. The delusiOn of the clergyman, who
a very poor man, naturally suggested in
sanity, but lie was perfectly sane on all other
points. and il is doubtful whether he would have
received the benefit of his malady-whether in
deed IL would have been admitted as a malady
at all-if a learned and philosophical physician
in a neighbOTing town had not positively sworn
that he was the victim of moral mania.'
A QUEER Law SUIT.-A novel suit was
10. in he at Han i
ton, Ohio. last Monday The plaintiff was
John =. Robinson, and the defendant Daniel
Sortman. 1t was suit for damages in Al 900.
caused by the plaintiff being horsewhipped by
defendant. II appears that Robinson was in
cined to drink. and he made a ba gain with
SOrtman. for whom he worked, that he would
consent to take a whipping. IL also appears
that lie got suit Of clothes from SOrtman.
obtained his horse and buggy, went off s1d
got drunk, and smashed up the buggy,
besides causing lasting injury to the horse
This enraged Sortman that he used a
hOrSeV hip on Robinson pretty effectively, when
the plaintiff started to run, and Sortman gave
him some more OF the same curative remedy
The testimony being all in, the court charged
the jury that a contract whereby one man
agreed TO permit another one TO whip him in
any given contingency was a contract contrary
to law. and. therefore, the parties being in pdri
delicfu. the law will leave them as they are. But
any man might abandon and avoid his contract,
and the other party has no remedy but by suit
for damages for breach of contract. The court
not include blows on the head or face, but, as
school bows well know, on other 'paTts" of the
body. The jury returned a verdict OF SI5 dam
ages for the plaintiff.
CNREurITED LOvE-The Latest Case Of .Sai-
eide-CorOner Herman this afternoon investi-
gated the circumstances under which Jean
Baptlste lie Chen committed suicide, last nj ght.
AT No. 415 Pearl street IL appears that deceased
was in love with young c9untrywoman OF his
own Che was a native OF Belgium), but she, full
OF the COntTarineSS OF her seN, would not return
his affection. although he made every effort that
has jmag nation could suggest to win it. From
his inability to succeed in accomplishing this he
became depressed in spirits. for, as he said him
self to one of his friends, who endeavOred to
use, he could not live without her. Seeing that
persuasion useless, friends advised him TO
return to the old country, and that he might
there in a wear or two forget his passion. He ac-
quiesced seemingly to this proposal, and yester-
day he went and prepaid his passage. Last eve
ming some of his friends remained with him in
his room until O'Clock, at which time they left
him in very good spirits, and 10 all appearances
resigned TO the step which he was about to take;
but what was their astonishment this morning.
when they came to bid him good bye, to find
that he had hanged himself in his room. YER
dict of suicide was rendered--N. L. Express, 22d.
BAD COUNTRY FOR GAY DEcEIvERs.-
L tab il not a healthy country for gay deceivers,
and il any man from the outside world, pridng
himself upon his cOnquests with women, warts
10 have his skill IN this line tested, he will find
splendid opening among the fair maids OF Zion.
III somebody don't make IL very tropical for him
within the first three months, he must have
been born under lucky star. The would be
SeduceT in this country i a marked man, a. the
villain out TO be in every county. No sooner
does he step into this city or any other Mormon
settlement than the police are upon his track,
watching his every move with the stealth of
bIOOdhOundS. If he is once caught violating the
chastity OF a Mormon woman, or il known to
have done so. there Il no mercy for him; Nor
mon public opinion, which il the common law
thinking no more OF killing man under these
circumstances than il does in killing "A dog. In
this respect Mormon vengeance is terrible. The
marked victim is shot down or assassinated at
sight, no cry for mercy ever escaping from his
Hps. Iii ffeless form lies mangled on the road
side until the authorities cart il away, pass
sort of inquest, and cOnsign il to the worms
San FTaEcisco CbTORicte.
FIVE DOLLARS REwARD-Ran away from
the subscribers, on the sd OF November last,
the negro hoy Oscar Dunn, an apprentice TO the
Plsstering trade. He is Of grife color, between
twenty and twenty-one years Of age, and about
hve feet ten or eleven inches high. All persons
are cautioned not to harbor said boy, under PEN
atty OF the law. Wilson & Patterson, corner
st. John and Common streets.-Netc Orleans
IiedyuHe, 1s4l.
DEp-In New Orleans, Wednesday, Nov = 1871
Hon. Oscar j Dunn, Lieutenant Governor Of Lod-
isiana-
Put this and that together, and the tale of the
war is tOldi-N y. kdil.
THE PULL DRESS" OF society danes now-a-
days il bad enough, but IL was a great deal
worse in the Byronie age. The story Is told that
the poet Moore once called at the house OF some
super-fashOnable friends who had just installed
an unframed rustic as coachman. The latter
answered the poets knock, and, non-plussed at
the interrogation whether the ladies were at
home, when the question was repeated finally
stepped forward and confidentialiy replied, in a
suppressed tone -" They told me TO say they
were out; but they're in. They're gone up stairs
60 strip for dinner"
THIS IL THE WAY a western editor welcomes
a newborn contemporary: 20 We ere sorry to
receive No. Of the CORoRehe County World
The World is badly printed, and has q sickly,
IOyeTty-stricken appearance. Mr.. John Smith,
its publisher, Is an idiot. III the leading men
OF ComaAehe county are responsible for the
foundation Of this paper, they ought to be sent
TO the pcnientiary. We trust that Mr.. Smith
will stop the publication OF his paper and save
his money!