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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-07
APRIL TEITHER.
4 SUDDEN AND FATAL STORM.

A SUDDEN AND BAIAI -IDEH.
BURLINGTON. Iowa, April 5.-The most terrible
rain hail and wind storm ever known here came mp
az minutes notice tlis afternoon. creating fearful
havoc and causing loss Of life Fhe storm struck the
city On West Hill tearing the roof from one Of the
schOol-houses, and descending thence through the
business portion of the city. Buildings were IN
rooted and a great damage done. The most horrible
part of the catastrophe the destruction Of I. O.
Ponds butter and egg depot IN Jetfersonst and the
death Of seven persons. The house was blown down,
aud 3 persons buried beneath the ruins. Mr.. Pond
and three others taken out dead. aad 10 others
were rescued more or less injured
III.
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MARRIED.

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Brooklyn ~ l. Price Of L@nssvale
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Al Notices or Marriages must b. iEd0rsea risl 'aA
sans and address
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NEW-JERSEY

JERSEY CIrY-rke residence of Wilbur
wrkhain. on Nadisonaye., was entered by burglars
saturday morning. ana robbed OF .ilyerware ~na ''th
ing valued at s5o The strike The Zinc works ended
saturday by a compromise TIE men haa demanded Sou
resumed work FOR VI % per day The Rev suydam Of
the First Congregational Church. sails for Europe on
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HUDSON RIVER COJNTlES.

WHrTE PLASs.-There has been cOnsidera-
bic activity in rral estate market IN Weschcster
County during the past fortnight. In villages within
convenient from the oity, having good railroad
facilities unusual number Of dwellings have changed
hands the purchasers Ia nearly every instance being
residents OF New The Rev. q. W Glow OF Har
lem. having accepted . Uan from the First Baptist
Church. began ms pastoral duties yesterday Eek
cavatuns the foundation vals OF The Court house
extension being made. The Fire Department have
elected Richard Manning Chef Engineer. VIM. II. Car
p-utsr Engineer; y Clark, SECRETARY Of tue
Hook aud Ladder Company. Frank J. Brown, Secretary
u tbs Hope El-ine C0mpsnI.
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HOME NEWS.

CENTRAL PAzx METEOROLOGICAL DEPARTMENT
.usrnacr o, nEros~r roS >. - arsu
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-04-07
LONG ISLAND.
STATEN ISLAND.

PoHr RICHMoxD.-The North Shore Ferry
Company's boat. the Thomas p. Way, which has been
running between Port Richmond and New brighton dur
nag the past four months in opposition 20 the Old
compauy wa- withdrawn on saturday the Old company
having consented - return % their Old rates or fcs
80 The Island Oysterrnen viii plant unusually
larre ouRntlty ths All the available
We ..as abOG the Island have been chartered FOR the
Virginia beds, and many have already sailed Tor their
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

mems hearts and made the rafters ring:
"Mr. Bailiff, call Williams Adams
The old man sprang from his seat, and
hurrying across the courtroom to the
entrance beyond, called, in weird,
thick manner, the dead mans name,
civilian Adams, William Adams,
William Adams, come into the court"
The criminal shivered in his seat,
mems blood flowed coldly, and the 81
lence was as death. Justice seemed
crying to heaven for retribution the
faces of the jurors grew white and
blue, and each man glued his eye upon
the door-as if he expected the appari-
ton to answer the summons.
"Gentlemen," continued Byrne,
"that witness can never come. The
one who can relate to you the circum-
stances of this tragedy lies in his cold
and silent grave. No bailif's voice
can rouse him from eternal sleep;
naught save the clarion blast of the
Archangels trump can pierce the adj
amantine walls of his resting place
He has been deafenede forever by him
who stands arraigned at this bar
Base, brutal, bloody man, upon you
hangs this awful responsibility
Your hands have dabbled in his blood,
and as the instrument of outraged So
ciety, l demand your conviction"
Genius triumphed. Justice was
yindicated, and the prisoner expiated
his offence on the scaffold.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
The Wonders of the Deep.

During the recent passage of the
British xploring ship Challenger from
England to the West Indies, the sound
ing line and dredge were keptconstant-
ly going. The former showed that a
pretty level bottom runs off from the
African coast, deepening gradually to
a depth of 3,125 fathoms at about one
third of the way across to the West In
dies. If the Alps, Mont Blanc and al,
were submerged at this spot, there
would still be half mile of water a.
bove them. Five hundred miles farth-
er west there is comparatively shall
low part, a little less than two miles in
depth. The water then deepens again
to three miles, which continues close
over to the West Indies. At the deep
est spots both on the east and west
side Of the Atlantic, the dredge brought
up quantity of dark red clay, which
contained just sufficient animal life to
prove that life exists at all depths
No difficulty was experienced in obtain
ing these deep sea dredgings, and it
was merely aquestion of patience, each
haul occupying twelve hours. In
depths over two miles little has been
found, but that little was totally new.
One of the lions of the cruise is new
species of Holsters perfectly transpar-
ent. Not content with obtaining ami
mails with eyes so fully developed that
the body may be said to be an append
age, a new crustacean has now been
dredged up, in which the body has cut
itself clear of the eyes altogether, and
the animal is totally blind. TO make
up for its deficiency Nature has sup
piled it with the most beautifully de-
veloped, delicate lady-like claws, if one
may use the term, it is possible to con-
ceiYe. Nearer the West Indies, in a
depth of only half a mile, some sim
liar creatures were brought up, and
here the claws, longer than the body,
are armed throughout with a multi
tude of spike-like teeth, looking more
like a crocodile's jaw than anything
else. At short distance from Tene.
rife, in a depth of a mile and a half, 9
rich and extremely " interesting haul oil
sponges and coral was obtained, but
the latter was unfortunately dead.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
gelfrteo Miscfllauy.
Notes on Ghosts and COLLINS.

Among the most perplexing circum-
stances in the common belief about
ghosts, are the accepted ideas about
ghostly habiliments. For instance,
why should so many ghosts be clothed
in white? If the answer is that grave
clothes are white, we may inquire what
ghost wants with grave-clothes? 1t
might as we'll refuse to appear without
a coffin. And then, many ghosts have
appeared in their habit as they lived.
If we inquire what is the real concep-
ton in the ghost-seer's mind as to the
nature of the vision, we find a difficult
ty in understanding what idea is form
ed by the real believer in ghosts respect
ing the vestments in which spirits make
their appearance. This is an old diff
fculty. In fact, it has probably oc-
Cured to every one who has thought
over a ghost story. So soon as we
come to the description of the ghosts
vestments there is always hitch in
the story. For my own part, [ must
have been very small child indeed,
when | first pondered over thequestion,
Who made the ghosts clothes?
Of course there is no difficulty in
the case of those who believe only in
ghostly apparitions as phantoms of the
brain. Here a distinction must be
drawn. [ am not speaking of those
who regard such apparitions as either
due to diseased action Of the brain or
to the power of fancy in forming real
objects indistinctly seen, the picture
of a departed friend; but of those who
look on visions of the dead as produc-
ed by supernatural impressions on the
brain. Those who think that at the
will Of the dead a vision may be caused
to appear, can of course understand
that the vision would either be cloth
ed in the grab which had been worn
during life, or in grave-clothes, or in
such other dress as suited the circum-
stances under which the vision appear
ed. But this view is not ordinarily
adopted by those who regard appari-
tions as supernatural Phenomena
They commonly regard the phantom
as something really existent in the
place where it is apparently seen. The
dead person is there in some form
some essen tial entity representing him
has the power to transport itself from
the place of the departed into the pres
ence of the living. This ordinary idea
of ghostly visions is aptly rendered in
Hamlet's address to the ghost. He
does not speak Of it as a vision, but to
it as something real, although not un-
derstood:
Be thou spirit of health or goblin damnd,
Bring with the airs from heaven or blasts from
hell,
Be thy intepts wicked or charitable,
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
Curious Habits CF Plants.

From sHow Plants Behave" by
Prof. Gray, we extract the following:
''Some Orchids, whether wild ones,
such as Ladies Tresses, or those vari-
Gus and more gorgeous ones, mostly
air plants of tropical regions, which
adorn rich Conservatives, curiously
resemble butterflies, either a swarm of
them, as some of the smaller ones in
cluster on long, light stalk, f1utter-
ing with every breath of air; some are
like large, single, gorgeous, orange
and spotted butterfly; another takes
it's name from the resemblance of its
flowers to moth. Can the likeness be
a sort of decoy to allure the very kinds
of insects that are wanted for fertiliz-
ing these flowers? When
fresh and active tendril in climbing
comes in contact with a neighboring
stalk, or any similar support, it hooks
OF coils its end round it, then having
secured hold, it shortens by coiling
up its whole length, or good part of
it. This commonly draws up the
climbing stem, nearer to its support,
and make it easier for the younger ten
drills above to gain their hold. A ten
drill which has taken hold and coiled
up, usually becomes stouter, rigid, and
much stronger than it was before
One which would break with an ounce
weight, becomes capable of support
ing two or three pounds"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
Thou comest in such questionable shape

Thou comest in such questionable shape,
That will speak to thee: I'll call thee Hamlet
King, father, royal Dane: O, answer mel
Let me not burst in ignorance; but tell
Why thy canonized bones, hearsed in death,
Have burst their cerements; why the sepulchre,
Wherein we saw thee quietly inurn'd,
Hath opened his ponderous and marble jaws,
To cast thee up again.
Nor does the poet shrink from invest
ing the ghost with the garb of life
This had been already shown in the
first scene. "Such," says Horratio,
''was the very armour he had on, when
he the ambitious Norway combatted." !"
And now Hamlet asks
What may this mean,
That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel,
Revisit st thus the glimpse of the moon,
Making night hideous and we fools of nature
So horribly to shakeo our disposition
With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Say, why is this ? Wherefore What should we
do?
Again, it is curious how thoroughly
the conventional idea of a ghost or
goblin is associated with the thought
of a shrouded face. 1t may be that
this is partly due to the circumstance
that while the imagination may quite
commonly present to US the idea of a
vision in all points complete except in
the face, it can be but rarely that real
objects are mistaken for the actual fea-
lures of deceased friend. Be this as
it. may, the ghost has been pictured
with concealed face from time immem-
orial. So Flaxman draws the ghosts
encountered by Ulysses in Hades, and
no really fearful ghost has shown its
face since the days when fear came
upon Eliphaz, the Temanite, "and
trembling which made all his bones to
shake; when a spirit passed before his
face and the hair of his flesh stood up;
and the spirit stood still, but he could
not discern the form MereoE-Cornhil
Magazine.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

Go-go to thy Wilaiam-go to your
Billy Let him clip to his BOSOM
his own Amelia"
ellis who ?"
ellis own Amelia repeated; and
I think she began to understand my
meaning then, partially.
go: you've found it out?" she cried,
trying to throw herself into my arms.
"You are decidedly cool about it, y I
remarked. perhaps, Miss Gigzjig,
you think there is no harm in thus
trihing with a young gentleman's af-
fections. Perhaps YOU can go on do
ing this thing with tinpunity; but no!
you shall suffer for it! I'll strike you
through your Billy! Ill have his
hearts D. mol III HwiU haze his
glass eye"
That shot took effect, and she wilt
led. I thought that she snickered, but
I may have been mistaken. [ saw my
advantage, however, and determined
to follow it up; and Haunted it before
her eyes.
"NoaO do you know what | mean?"
said I. EDO you recognize this letter"
She snatched it from my hand, and
then burst out laughing. go Tomp-
kins! where did ygu find this? I've
hunted for it all over the house"
'I dare say you have, Miss Gigzjig,
and it's great pity that you couldn't
have found it instead of me-"
."Billy? Why, Tompkins, you didn't
think that?"
She just folded me in her arms then,
and kissed me fourteen times without
stopping to breathe. "Why, you fool
ish fellow, that is only leaf from my
great story, entitled 'Kaura, or the
Belle of Moscoe IilI,' now being pub
lished in the New York Bzowhard.-
Didn't not you EGpw that I was an au-
thoress?0
can authoress,,''
Eyes,
sAnd you don't love Billy?''
'No. I don,t love any body but
you.
s0 Julia conc to these arms.'''
Shecam I'm we kissed.
@And now, Tompkins, promise me
one thing" said Julia.
Anything, darling
"Promise me that you won't take
Billy's glass eye"
"I won't take anything but you,
dearest I said. And [ didn't.
I don't think this is much of story.
dear reader. I know my wife could
write great deal better one but then
she writes fiction, while [ stick to facts
]-B1IZOu's MOntbZY.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

B~A farmer went into his field one
day, and found his men "lying off, un-
der tree, when they should have been
at work. Taking silver dollar from
his pocket, he exclaimed, 81 will give
this to the LATEST man among YOU"
All, save one, jumped up and claim
ed the prize.
"That fellow has won it." said the
farmer, pointing to the man still sit
ting on the ground and he stepped up
to hand him the dollar.
"Wont yes please put 1t in my pock-
et?' was the thanks he received.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
130emu.
TO -
From the Aldine for June.
THE STAMPEDE.

Do you like horses?
Well, so do [;
But look out, though,
When storm is nigh:
They lose their wits,
And crazy then;
I suppose it's because
They are so like men.
Did you ever see 'em
Out on the Plains
Capture mustang?
It's worth your pains:
You throw for the head,
And catch the same:
Then blow in his nostrils-
The creature is tame!
But about being scared?
I was going to say
That horses in storms
Is no child's play:
Old trappers know it,
And fight 'em shy,
When thunder begins
To growl in the sky.
I was riding once,
When a tempest came;
The sky and the earth
Was sheet of flame:
Ny good horse trembled
In every limb:
Twas enough for me
Too much for him!
I gave him the spur,
And dropped the rein;
/ don't care to take
That ride again
Phew how he flew,
Outrunning the wind
Till I suddenly felt
There was something behind!
I turned in my saddle,
And saw by the glare
Of the binding lightning
That something soos there!
A herd of wild horses,
Maddened with fear,
Were coming upon us
a Were close In our rear
I wheeled my horse round,
hardly knew why
Pulled him up, and waited
The death that was nigh!
What mad tossing names
What light in their eyes
What plunges s,-What swiftness-
What terrible cries!
1 rose in my stirrups,
And gave wild yell;
Picked out the head stallion,
Fired-and he fell
They parted,-went round us,
We escaped! Indeed?
But made up my mind
No more stampede!
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
'tShe was Of all sweet perfectness
The fsa4rfess prototype.

But I didn't think Billy really meant
that. It was altogether too poetical
to be true, and he knew it; but then
he was in love, and when man is in
love he don't care what he says in
praise of mistress, unless he's a real
conscientious young man, just like
George Washington and me.
Miss Julia Gigzjig was an only
daughter. suppose that was what
made her feel so lonely. That was
what made her banker after my socie-
ty, perhaps. Her father was nice
old gentleman, with real nice jolly
red nose, and he owned the incest house
in Yangtcheoo, and his wife was just
the incest old lady you ever saw.
I loved Julia. Iloved her for four
teen years steady and [ love her still.
It is a popularity of mine, that when
I once get to loving woman [ can't
stop. There are men, you know, that
can.
live in Yangtcheoo. My name is
Tompkins Thompson, and I'm the best
looking, most agreeable, and the rich
est young man in town. If you don't
believe what I say about my personal
beauty, just send for my photograph.
Any young lady in Yangtcheoo will
tell you how agreeable I am. AS to
my wealth, l am worth between
forty and fifty millions. It was left
me by my father, who belonged to
a. 'sring." AS | have no very extrava-
CANT tastes, I generally manage to
squeeze along on the interest of my
money, without expending any of the
principal.
Well, as I said before, I have loved
Julia .Gigzjig fourteen years. She
knew that [ loved her, for I told he1
so several times. One night I asked
her if there was anything that could
induce her to change her name.
"Tompkins,' said she, gently lower.
ing her. left shoulder to conceal hel
emotion, .Tompkins, do you mean it?'
"Honor bright" said I. "The fac
is, my dear, although ] believe Gigz
jig to be the most euphonious name
that ever mortal bore, it's nothing bu
@ bore to write it, for the g's will ge
mixed the best I can do. Now if yor
could be induced to change It tt
Thompson, you would make me tht
happiest' man Yapgtcheoo eyer hello
within its limits.
Quickly taking off her ohignon, sht
laid her head down upon my bosom
and rolling her beautiful blue eyes int
position, she said, in that sweet voice
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

R9rI meant to have told you of
that hole" said an Irishman to his
friend, who was walking in the garden
with him, and tumbled into pit full
of water. "Nomatter," says Pat, blow
ing the mud aud water out of his
mouth, 81 have found it"
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

EXPERIMENT ON SoUND.-The fol-
lowing beautiful experiment, described
by Professor Tyndal, shows how music
may be transmitted by an ordinary
wooden rod: In room two floors be-
meath his. lecture-room there was a pi-
ano upon which an artist was playing,
but the audience could not hear it. A
rod of deal, with it's lower end resting
upon the sounding-board of the piano,
extended upward through the two
floors, its upper end being exposed be-
fore the lecture-table. But still no
sound was heard. A violin was then
placed upon the end of the rod, which
was thrown into resonance by the as
cending thrills, and instantly the mu-
sic of the piano was given out in the
lecture-room. A guitar and harp
were substituted for the violin, and
with same result. The vibrations of
the piano-strings were communicated
to the sounding board; they traversd
the long rod, were reproduced by the
resonant bodies above, the air was cary
ed into waves, and the whole musical
composition was delivered to the list
ening audience.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05
Gin tnteresting gtury.
A VERY SUSPICIOUS LETTER.

Her name was Julia Gigzjigg, and she
was remarkably handsome-for a wo-
man. Making the allowance for her
sex, I think she was almost as beauti-
full as I am, although her mustache
was a decided failure, and her should
ers-well, if you fancy the ''polished
marble" kind, such as poets rave about,
why, you ought to see mine! Still
Julia had very fair kind of should
er, considering her sex. The righton
I refer to, for as to the left, that was
about three inches too high.
If you admire sloping shoulders,
though, Julia's would have suited you
admirably, for they did slope beauti-
fully.
: Miss Gigzjig's neck was not quite SO
swanlike as mine; still it was quite
swany. Her complexion was good
Yes, / should say that her skin was
nearly as white as milk, though it had
an azure tint that I never could ac-
count for, except on the supposition
that she used too much of Bartlett's
Liquid Blueing in her washing water.
/ have another idea, though, regarding
that azure tint. It might have been
caused by the reflection of her large
and very brilliant blue eyes, for she
had pair of the bluest eyes that ever
winked.
Julia's form was not quite SO firmly
rounded as mine; but you must re-
member that she was woman, and
don't believe I am. Her features were
decidedly fine, and SO was her hair,
which was of a golden hue, and very
luxuriant In fact, taking Miss Gigz-
jig altogether (and you could not take
her any other way,) she was, as | re-
marked before, a very handsome wo-
man, considering her sex.
/ was not alone in this opinion of
Julia's physical charms. Forinstance,
? Billy Jagazz went SO far as to declare
GndG
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

B0 Carl Pretzel says: ''Der young
man vot did said der yorldt owed him
some lifn vas lately turned der door
out on akound he's landlady vos un-
Wiling to take on her shoulder plade
der indebtedness of der vorldt."
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

wThere are two reasons why some
people don't mind their business. One
is that they haven't any business, and
the second that they have no mind.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

BwThose who prosper in youth
know little what dark and cloudy days
may, be in reserve for them.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1873-06-05

B9Instruction ends in school
room, but education ends only with
life.
The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1873-05-31

In numbers, the two sexes are nearly
equal IN the United States Males 49,
1886; females, 19,O64,s06. But the
distribution i not even. The greatest ex-
cess Of males IS found in Idaho, 1884 to
2,S15 females; Montana, 1871 to 1924;
Wyoming, 1929 to 1899, and Nevada,
2,370 70 1912 Females are in excess
in Alabama, 504 $50 to 4S2, 40; District
Of Columbia, 81 PSI to 54,129; Georgia,
COG, 1856 10 572,126; Louisiana, 336, 345
to 32s,743 Maine, 1900 to $50, 434 /;
Maryland, 800, 246 to 342, 236 Massachu-
setts, 56s ,1sO to 5s5,S52; New Hump
shire, la, sos to 14O,991; New Jersey,
363, 668 to 353,485, and New York
l,647, 214 to 1891, 1872. Virginia, Yer
mont, Tennessee, both Carolinas, Rhode
Island, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Mex
leo show Ike excess Of female popula-
ton. In Utah there are more males than
females q, 1884 to 1880.