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DinbOIIcnI Attempt TO Wreck II
Train.
THE PIENDs THwARTED by A won

THE PIENDs THwARTED BY WOMAN.
One of the most murderous attempts at
wrecking a train and at Il murder besides,
that has ever occurred in this country, took
evening last. Just before the Boston cx-
press train for Concord was due, about
eight o'clock, a woman came into Suncook
depot exclaiming 1.-THE train they are 60
ing to throw the train from the track ="
Her frightful words and wild appearance
at first betokened insanity, but soon by her
earnest manner the confidence of those
present was enlisted and Immediately men
were sent to warn the engineer of the COM
ing express that always stops there. The
train soon arrived, the proper warning CIV
en-, and the train moved cautiously on to-
ward Concord. When about one mile be-
low Suncook the reported distractions
placed upon the track. The spot was one
where the train always runs at great speed,
and if thrown off it would have gone down
a steep embankment into the river.
The woman told her story, which was
that early in the evening, while going along
the railroad track near Suncook village
she noticed two men piling slecpers onto
the track, and on coming up to them one
asked her where she was going. She said
"to SuncOok, please let me pass" The
man replied mo, you shall never 90 to
Suncook, tell We that" and at the same
time catching hold of her, throwing her
down and choking her till life seemed ex-
tinct, when the men threw her into the
bushes and soon went away. The woman,
as soon as she recovered consciousness,
crawled on to the track and run to the
station.
Prompt measures are being taken to ar
rest the men, whom the woman remembers
distinctly, and it is expected they will be
found.
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The Cholera,

The course and ways of the cholera the
more they are investigated, indicate that
men are more responsible for its visitation
than Providence. The springfield Un-
ION suggests, that, since the modera-
ton of the scourge in Memphis, the full
details indicate that it was the shocking
hygenic condition of the city which invit-
ed the disease, and which kept it there so
long. Memphis has never had board of
health or body of corresponding power
until since the appearance of the cholera,
and at present it is without money, and
consequently without efficiency. During
the prevalence of the cholera the disposal
of the bodies was left to irresponsible par
ties, who selected "potter's field which
drained into the city aqueduct, and made
the graves so shallow that the rain soon
washed the sand away and the stencil per.
vaded large part of the city. The injury
which the epidemic has inflicted upon
Memphis is not measured by the number
of deaths. For seven weeks the business
of an active commercial town of 10000
inhabitants has been at a stand still, and
the loss is to be estimated at millions.
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News md miscellaneous Items.

The Watertown police convey drunken
men to Jail in hcarscs.
Crop reports from Iowa are very favora-
bic. The recent storms did but little dam
age in that state.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors
have sustained the Mayors veto of the or
dinancc taxing Chinese laundrymen fifteen
dollars for licenses.
There has just been opened in Broadway,
New York. a bar for the sale of cider
alone One of the attractions of the place
is cider mill worked by a Siberian blood
hound of immense size.
The two convicts who were missed at
Auburn prison the other day have been
found. They were concealed in box UNI
der a pile of rubbish. The box was only
five feet long and three feet wide. Each
of the men was supplied with rubber hose
through which he obtained a supply of air,
but both were nearly dead when unearth-
cd
The pastor of Baptist church in Berk-
shire county, Mass, last Sunday, noticing
a large number of sleepers in his congrega-
ton, stopped midway in his sermon, gave
brief reproof for their drowsness, and
emitting the benediction and the commun
ion which were to follow, closed his bible
took his hat and walked out of the church
leaving his hearers in their pews.
Monmouth Park races Tuesday The
first race, for the Hopeful stakes, was wor
by Beatrice in fifty-two seconds, Regard
less second. The second race, for purse
of 5000, two mile heats, was won by Katy
Pease in 3.44 and 3.46, Stockwood SECOND
in both heats. The third race was for the
Monmouth cup, value $500, added to the
sweepstakes of $50 each, p. p, second t.
receive $500, third $3.50, out of stakes, two
and half miles five started Preakness
Business, Survivor, Wanderer and Hub
bard. The race was won by Wanderer il
434t, Preakness second and Hubbard
third. The following distinguished per
sons were present Secretary Belknap
Mayor Havemeyer, Simon Cameron, JEFF
ferson Davis, and Gen. Wade Hampton.
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THE DAILY GLOBE THURSDAY MORNING. JULY TO- 1873

growth. We shall now see how wisely 1t
Is ordered that plants should use this
element that makes the air impure and give
back the needed oxygen for animals.
Some of this carbonic acid Is washed out
of the air by the falling rain and reaches
the plant through the roots, but most of 1t
enters the leaves which are spread out to
receive it, and then is made into nourish-
ment for the plant AS fast as carbonic
acid becomes carbon the oxygen is given
back to the air. Thus vegetable life purifies
the air on which we are so dependent.
Even If We had some other source of food
and no plants to purify the air, we could
not live.
Though there is u reciprocal relation in
this respect, yet plants are not dependent
upon animals, for decaying vegetable mat
ter would produce carbonic acid and plants
would continue to grow without any animal
life. Such was the case in the early ages
of the world.
In the next we will speak of plants in
sleeping-rooms, and then consider further
dependence MATIETEs
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The Dependence of Animal upon
Vegetable Life.
I i'ustees,


In the first article we spoke of plants rs
the sole producers of food for animals we
will now consider relation that Is some
what reciprocal. AS We are not writing
exclusively for scholars we shall try to ex-
plain such terms as it may be necessary to
employ.
we shall use the terms oxygen and car
bonic acid, or carbonic di-oxide for it is
not an acid in the popular sense.
Oxygen is the active principle of the air
which we BREATH to us it is the vital prin-
ciple. Carbonic di-oxide &C. o. is COM
pound of carbon and OXYGEN and carbon
is the name of an element that exists in
abundance in the mineral crust of the globe
and enters largely into the composition of
every living thing The form of carbon
most familiar to us is charcoal, it consti-
tutes the bulk of woody fiber, and more
than one third of the nourishment of the
plant. III lie burning of wood is stopped
before the carbon is consumed, as it is
done in coal-pit, we shall see how much
of plant is carbon The charcoal is not
quite all carbon, for when this is burned
there will remain some earthly matter called
ashes.
Carbon is insoluble, that is, it cannot be
dissolved in any fluid ; therefore the plant
cannot feed upon pure carbon. 1t must
first be changed to carbonic acid. When
ever wood or coal is burned "to ashes the
carbon is freed and unitcs with oxygen,
making carbonic di-oxide. The same
thing takes place whenever any living
thing decays.
When we breathe some of the carbon of
the system unitcs with the oxygen of the
air and forms carbonic di-oxide. During
twenty-four hours one man will use in
breathing about $50 cubic feet of air and
breathe out 10 cubic feet, or over 100 gal
Ions of carbonic acid and in one hour he
will render about 500 cubic feet of air unfit
to breathe again. Even lamp will make
the air Of close room impure and poi
sonous. Thus in many ways this carbonic
acid is made in immense quantities, and
when 1t accumulates in the air, the air be
comes unfit for man or beast Pure car
bonic acid will suffocate man at once.
One can get some idea of Its effects by sit
ting in close school-room, hall or church.
But plants live upon carbonic acid they
it and from II manufacture the
carbon essential 10 their structure and
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Mrs. jIiihes "n6iTi OF Newport, N. II

mrs. 5'iihes .ndtH OF Newport, N. H.,
suicided by hanging Tuesday.
John F. Hulseman, brought from St.
Louis to Philadelphia on charge of for.
gerry, escaped from the court officers Tues.
day night.
j. B. Pepfield of Oswego, N. Y, aged
about sixty-two, died suddenly in the cars
at Harrisburgh, Pa, Monday night of APP
oplexy.
Alfred E. Lagrave, extradited from
France for burglary, is to be held for in
dictment in New York He has just been
discharged from arrest on civil suits.
A boy aged thirteen, named Chittick,
was shot through the head in Philadelphia
Tuesday, by another boy named Reilly,
aged eleven. 1t is supposed to have been
accidental.
Patrick Halleck, who robbed the jewelry
store of Charles II. Phelps in New York,
and feloniously assaulted the latter. was
Tuesday sentenced to state prison for five
years.
George Edward Curtain was examined
before Justice Balloon in Boston Tuesday,
on the charge of numbering the little lame
boy at South Acton, and committed to
East Cambridge Jail to await the October
court at Lowell.
In Boston Tuesday afternoon Michael
Desmond shot his wife dead and then shot
himself. On Saturday he drove his wife
and children into the streets. Tuesday he
sought them in their place of refuge with
the result mentioned.
AT Carmi, H., on Friday last a lad
named Upton, while driving reaper, was
killed by lightning, as were also his two
horses A terrible storm visited that place
Tuesday night, demolishing orchards, fences
and crops. Several men and horses were
killed by lightning.
A MIR. Smith of Milford, Mass, aged 70,
was struck by lightning in the doorway of
his house recently. He remained uncon
scious for two hours, and was restored
with difficulty. When he fell pail of
water was dashed upon him, and this, it is
thought saved his life.
An Evansville, Ind. dispatch reports
that destructive tornado passed over
Southern Indiana and Northern Kentucky
Tuesday, doing much damage to houses,
fences, crops and timber. No lives lost as
far as known.
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DEATH OF LA MOUNTAIN THE
ERONAUT.
His struggle for Life and Terrible
Fall.
THE BODY TERRIBLY CRUSHED.

Prof. La Mountain who, many of our
readers will remember as having made sew
eral balloon ascensions at Rutland several
years ago, met with horrible death on the
afternoon Of the Fourth of July, In an
Iowa town. The balloon In which he was
assembled about five hundred feet, when it
suddenly collapsed and the unfortunate
man was dashed to the ground within a
short distance Of the point from whence he
assembled. A letter from Iowa gives the
following details of his death:
When fully half mile from the earth,
and when the whole structure looked no
larger than hogshead, the balloon slipped
between the ropes and was instantly invcrt-
ed. The car and occupant dropped like
shot with the most terrific velocity, the
unfortunate man clinging to the basket.
That he was conscious was evident from
his struggles With all the intensity of an
imperillcd life he sought to seize the bas-
ket above him, evidently hoping to use it
as a parachute. He succeeded in his OBJ
jcct, but when about one hundred feet
high he loosed his hold and folded his
hands and arms before his face. His feet
first struck the ground with a dull heavy
thud. Then ensued panic and uproar in
the crowded multitude. Women tainted,
strong men wept aud the carcass came fly
ing over the crowd like huge bird. Some
one cried out to get from the way as it
would fall with crushing force. Then the
cry was taken up and general rush made
for safety, in which many were more or
less injured. La Mountain was crushed
into literal pulp. A medical examination
disclosed the fact that hardly whole bone
was left. Many were ground and splinter.
ed to powder. His jaws fell upon his
arms, and were pulverized, and the blood
spurted from his mouth and ears.
The corpse was laid out and placed on
the public square, where it was visited by
thousands during the afternoon, and was
sent home at Brooklyn, Mich, the follow
ing day.
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Musical Notes
Mrs. Jennie Van Zandt is in Europe.

Mrs. Jennie Van Zandt is in Europe.
Madame DeRyther is to locate in Boston.
Mrs. II. M. Smith has given up her choir
engagement in New York on account of i'll
health
Lucca has spent the coming season at
fourteen different watering places, thus
far, according to the newspapers, and all
the back towns are not in yet.
Mr.. j. E. Perkins, the young American
basso, has received flattering offer for a
four years engagement with Mapleson, at
Drury Lane Theatre, in London.
MIR. Geo. l.. Osgood, the popular Ameri-
can tenor, has associated himself with the
Board of Instruction of the New England
Conservatory of Music.
Adelaide Phillips sailed for Europe on
the 2Sth ult., for summer concert tour.
The summer concerts of Theodore Tho
mas inimitable orchestra, at the Central
Park Garden, furnish New York their only
musical entertainment just now.
The Lucca Opera Troupe commence the
campaign at the Grand Opera House, in
New York, on October 9th.
The Strakosch Opera Troupe is to rein
troduce Madame Nilsson to her numerous
admirers in this country, at Boston, on
Oct. 9th.
1t is reported that Clara Louise Kellogg
is to take the field with English opera on
grand scale about the second week in Sep
TENDER, at the Academy of Music, in New
York, she herself to be the bright particu-
lar star.
The new singing-book, "The Church
Welcome" by w. o. Perkins, is in press
and will be issued in few days. From
advance sheets sent us we prophesy an ex-
tended sale of the same throughout the
country.
The Chicago Jubilee last month was
financial success, its managers clearing
$4,000. Its musical success was some
what limited, the only feature of impor-
lance being the playing of Gilmore's Band.
Madame Parepa Rosa is to produce Eng
lish opera at the Lyceum Theatre, London,
next autumn. Castle and Campbell have
been engaged, also Santley, while Mrs.
Van Zandt has been offered asituation-al-
though not as yet accepting.
Rubinstein announces his intention of
writing sacred operas, to which he is to de-
vote the greatest part of his future.
Dudley Buck Ia compiling musical die
tionary.
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The rate of taxation in EasthamL ton this
year is $3.50 per $1,000 against li.?G last
year.
Elhanan w. Fairbrother Of Lowell has
been missing for month under myster-
ious circumstances.
Mr.. Charles NJ Comston has finally been
elected principal of the English high
school at Boston
The effects of the drouth are proving
very disastrous to all kinds Of crops in the
eastern part of the state.
William Eastman. Amasa Alexander and
Clara Alexander, who were confined In
Edgartown Jail for store breaking, escaped
last Saturday.
Robert Fitzpatrick who was arrested Il,
Boston for the murder of his wife, has
been discharged, as ii was proved that
''rum did it.
The sixty-first anniversary of the settle
ment of the venerable Rev. DR.. Richard s.
Storrs over the First Congregational
church at Braintree was appropriately OBJ
served on Sunday.
The seven 81 900 bonds which Hender-
son, the Taunton forger, had in his posses
sion, have been given up to the officers of
the New Jersey Central railroad, who
claimed and identified them.
Christ church, at Leicester, celebrated
its fifteth anniversary, on Friday. The
historical discourse was delivered by the
rector. Rev. Benjamin f. Cooley, and
many other clergymen participated in the
very interesting services.
Mr. Mrs. George Young of Young:
Hotel, returned to Boston on the midnight
train from New York, saturday night, after
an extended Western tour, of two months
duration.
Edward S. Sears has resigned his posi-
ton on the Boston Journal to become city
editor of the Boston Globe, under its new
management.
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An United States Senator is to be elected
by the next Legislature of California, in
place of Eugene Casserly, whose term of
service however, does not expire until the
4th of March, 1875, California is, never
thclcss, stirred up to its very center in con-
sidcring the question of who shall be his
successor Although it is impossible to
predict what a day or an hour may bring
forth, yet James Mem. Shaftcr, formerly
Secretary of State of Vermont, is, just now,
especially prominent He is a man OF
wealth and talent, is familiar with "politi-
cal tactics, polished and eloquent orator,
and, witlml, an honest man. lie is
brother of the late Hon. Oscar l.. Shafter.
Another candidate named is our former
townsman, Henry Edgerton. Either gen
tlcman would honor the position and reflect
credit upon their native State.
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We publish in another column circular
from the trustees of the Art Gallery to be
added to the University of Vermont through
the li,eralty of r. w. Park, which should
he read by all and in which every lover of
art should take a personal interest. All,
likewise, who arc interested in the advance
mcnt of this enterprise for the good of the
University and high standing of the State
in such matters should announce themselves
ready to help on the work by contribution
as the trustees suggest and which large
number of our citizens can easily do. Mr..
Park has inaugurated a wise movement and
it should be carried out in the best manner
possible by the friends of education and art
culture throughout the State, thus showing
to the world we are not behind our sisters
in the refining and elevating influence which
such movement establishes.
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The complaint of the public that the
trains over the Addison railroad have been
reduced to one, and that one mixed train
seems just. Ticonderoga, Port Henry,
Crown Point, Orwell and Shorcham, all
thriving towns, are entitled to better &C.
commodation, and it would pay the mana
gers to afford ample facilities for business.
We are glad to learn, however, that this
reduction of trains is not made in accor-
dance with the views of the managers of
the Central Vermont. They desired to
keep the full number of trains on the road
that have heretofore run, but the new
managers on the West side of the lake re-
fused to run more than one train to con-
meet with the Rutland road, and that a
mixed train, asserting as reason that sit
won't pay While we concede that the
Delaware & Hudson" directors are econom-
ical managers, yet there are times when
men may be 'penny wise and pound fool
ish." These managers may have another
object in view to compel travel to go by
boat to Whitehall, Troy or Burlington, in
stead of by rail to Rutland. Railroads
were chartered in part for the benefit of
the people not for their erclusice interest
and managers of railways should well con-
slider this point before the public get fully
posted as to their rights and begin to assert
them.
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CIRCULAR FROM THE TRUSTEES.

SihtULAh flsoA IHE TRUSTEES.
1t has for some years been favorite pro-
ject OF few art loving friends of the Uni
versity to establish, as one of its means of
instruction and culture, a gallery of the
fine arts. To those who know what the
Institution has long been doing in the way
of art culture, this will be no surprise. IT
is matter of just pride to the graduates of
the University, and it deserves more public
recognition that it has hitherto received,
that this Institution was the first in the
country to introduce into its course of
study systematic instruction by lectures on
the theory and principles of the fine arts.
The lectures by Prof. Torrey, beginning al
far back as 1880, anticipated by many
years not only what, under the name of
aesthetics or high art, has now become
recognized department of liberal education
in all high institutions of learning, but
also those principles of art criticism
which have since been made familiar by
European and American writers on the
fine arts. The results of this instruction
are manifest in the heightened art
spirit manifest in those upon whom
the culture of the University has had its
best effects. This may explain and Justify
the conception of an enterprise which
might otherwise appear somewhat ambi-
tious for an institution of such limited re.
sources. BY the liberality of Trenor w.
Park, ESD, of Bennington, that which has
long been a dream, or at most hope, is
soon to be an accomplished fact. Mr.. Park
has offered to assume the expense of add.
Ing to the library building third story,
which will greatly Increase the architectur.
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THE DUELLO.

Preserved in the Burgundan code will
he found the laws of Gundebald, which es-
tablished, in A. d. sol, the judicial duel
or wager of battle" 1t was believed that
brave man did not deserve to suffer. and
that coward was not fit to live, and the
presumption followed in the simple creed
of the day. that the one would not be per-
mitted by a just God to die or the other To
live, in such contest In the same way.
il was presumed, that there would be a
providential interference between the
right and wrong. This wager of battle
differed from its off-spring-the duel-in
that an aggrieved person, no matter how
bitterly he had been wronged, could not
avenge himself upon his own motion.
The forms and ceremonies preceding the con-
flict, were of the most imposing and solemn
nature, and the final appeal was resorted
to, only after request had been preferred
to, and granted by, the courts, that the
truth might be determined In mortal COM
bat. Each party made oath to the truth
and justice of his cause and the whole
theory and foundation of the proceeding
was that each was fighting for truth and
justice, and that God would determine the
right. This custom, recognized as right
over thirteen hundred years ago, and hay
ing origin we know not in how remote an
antiquity, has remained as such almost to
our own day. So late as 1774, when bill
was under consideration in the British par
lament, relating to the administration of
Justice in Massachusetts, clause was con-
tanned abrogating the duel in cases of
murder, but upon the objection of Burke
and others that 1t was violation of the
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The western half of the territory in the
United States requires irrigation in order to
develop the fertility of the soil. This will
require united and legislative action for the
canals to distribute the water, as in the val
leys of the Pc and the Oranges. A con-
vention has recently been held in Denver
to inaugurate the necessary measure for a
system of irrigation on an extensive scale.
preventative of the Kansas Pacific Railroad,
which owns large bodies of land, offered
to cooperate with the people. In view of
the great importance of the work, the
many millions of dollars that will be re-
quired, and the vast extent of interest in
volved, stretching over Colorado, New
Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Montana, Idaho,
Nevada and California, another convention
was appointed to be held in San Francisco
in September, that full discussion may be
had, and united action secured.
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We know not whether the fact may be
ascribed to "hasty legislation" or simply
considered as a want of capacity on the
mart of Post Master General Creswell, but
certain it is, that there is general opinion
in the departments that the appropriations
for postage stamps will prove much too
small, and very serious business complied
tons are feared.