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New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
. Cuup,s DANGEROUS JOURNEY.

A lost boy, about years old, arrived at the
Grand Central Depot last night, by one OF the trains oi
the Ney-Haven Railroad Company, and was taken ny
policeman to Police headquarters On MS oreast 'neo
was tied tag upon which written cara oeuiIS,
No "a Jones-st n v Mother will be at the depot
The conductor said that the boy put upon the Tram
at Springfield Mass. by man who said that hls name
WAS Fisk There is no either in Great Jones OF
in Jopes-st as high as sea- and il is feared that the
child has been abandoned There WAS 10 person III the
depot 10 receive the child.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
RIFLE PRACTICE.

The 10Th Battalion of the Fifth Brigade and
Second Division and separate troop Of cavalry from
the Fifth Brigade and SecOud Division assembled yes
terday at Creedmoor rifle and carbine practice.
der the command OF Capt Koch OF Co. X. Col Mayen-
borg aud Major ReppeuhaGen having both been thrown
out OF carriage ana severely injured, few days ago,
were unable to appear uniform but visited the range
during tie day The shooting comparatively poor,
most Of the being uudrIled. Some disc rder pre-
vailed and the marker target pat ia DANGER
by careless and RAPID tring. There 10 drunken
ness and the rrcgularIty OF nrng due TO the un-
skilliuuess Of the Tie following some OF the
best scores made:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
A GREAT YACHT CRUISE.

THE YACHTS OF THE NEw-YORK CLUB OFF To-Day
TIE RACES AT NEwPoRT-A LIST OF THE YES
Sells PARTICIPATING.
The annual cruise of the New-York Yacht
Club will begin to-day and the interest in this the chief
event of the yachting bids fair to exceed that OF
previous years. The number of yachts participating In
the cruise entering for the races at Newport VIII be
large though the exact list of entries cannot be deter
mined till the cruise is fairly begun. The yachtmen
will meet at Glen Cove L. l., this afternoon, and 1t is
expected that the leet will be made up follows;
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
TO. .DAY,s RUFFAIO RACES

BUFFALO, Aug. 3.-There are "A larger num-
In the city night than any previous
time on the day before the Tue weather is fine
and all things indicate splendid sport. Pooseling is
brsk at all the principal places Of resort Te following
pools were sold at the Tiff House by Major Barker:
For the asa Race-honsrch, SIS H. C. Ill., SO; Field
slI For the x:24 RaccBOdIne. tlOO; Castle Boy $50
IIlumph. Nf; Badger Glrl. 81 Fed. SIC.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
POLICE NOTES.

Wm Grumen, age l2, of No. 377 Gold-st was
dosHs ysssay ~n bathing at Bay Ridge Ills body
covered
of Of bis parents house yesterday and fractured bis ska
Taken 10 Be.yue Hosptsl.
Ann Bryce, age 81. of Ne. 1872 Mulberry st., was
By basbaBa John Br,ce yestsnav AID falling
.tafJ broke her light She Iafen Bellevue iosp
Wm. McAudrew Of No. u Amity-st.. Brooklyn, fell
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
STEAM YACHTS.

Arriving at Newport. the yachtmen viii prepare for
the races which are to begin Saturday. The Corn-
THAN race under auspices Of the Seawanhaka Yacht
Club. will Saturday, August g. The nature OF
the race has described in TIE TRIBUNE. The num-
her entries already sufficient u insure successtul
issue this the first OF its KIND at Newport The
race is open TO all yachts and several connected with
Eastern Yacht clubs Will participate. The entries are
not vet closed, but the appearance or the following
Is air assured: "A
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
NTH BATTALION FTPTH BRIGADE SECOND DIVISION.
On nm 4 Lrd.. lIrauI TOT Al.
HOMICIDE AT GREESPoRT II. ~.

Milton Miller. fisherman, who lived in q
small building the beach near Greenport, H. l., was
found dead stabbed in five places about the head and
body on Friday morning. He lived alone and the cause
his murder is not known, but W. Osborne, another
fisherman who first information OF the affair, has
been arrested suspicion OF being concerned n the
assassination. Coroner skinner held an inquest and tho
iury found that Miller killed by violence.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
LcHoosERs.

Tonight or early tomorrow morning the fleet will
weigh anchor and turn toward New-London. After a
brief visit that point, the yachts will 20 10 Newport
where the principal Of the cruise are TO take
place. The fleet which will leave Glen Cove viii be
strongly reinforced at NewLOndOn Newport and inter
mediate points The following named yachts are ex-
pected to Join the squadron before the Newport races
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
A CHURCH sEMI-CENrENNIAL.

On August 28 the citizens of Gaines, N. Y,
will celebrate the b0th anniversary OF the building of
the oldest church nce In Orleans County being the
nrst church built the Ridge Road between the Gene
ana MaJors Rivers All former pastors are invited
10 be present.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04

went TO the second horse over eight hurdles anu
two miles Four horses accepted the weights imposed
by the handicapper, namely HitchcocRs Limestone,
by War Dance, 152 pounds; wadens Aerohte' py AS
teroid 145 pounds; Green's Daylight py hsn'hns' ,'
rna. and Tp,,v, yesuvius by vandyke, 1I2 pounds.
Tn tho nools the horses sold at the following ratesi
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
HOME NEWS.
THBRsoNgrRR YESTERDAY, At HUpSUrs, IN BHoApwAi'
s.m-e.o soOn-7Oo D m.-7G' Mdngbt-6F
PROMINENT ARRIVALS.

Eth Arenue Hotel-Senator Henry Is. Anthony
and Jng, Rury.s the Hon harsham Of
HoteI BrrnsrckG Yano japanese Charge dAfa Masnng
ton and ~ Asssao of the japanese Legation HoDmdn
Henry Cooke OF the District OF Columbia ;d'D 'S &
Union Square
eineer W W. Wood United Sayy. Erer,n h0n~ pr
II Tibbs steamship City Of Pans. Sturrdn
Commander John W. Philip United States Ssyg Cofnd"
Losing Ridge, ~ GAsty Hou-ihe nc"
David Winters Of Philadelphia
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
CHILDREN'S WORST FOES,
a FRESH ABDUCTION CASE.

,-r,, c,p, .1IEGED TO HAVE BEEN STOLEN BY
FOUR ooLoRED MEN AT EAST NKw-YoRK.
case of alleged kidnapping occurred yes
serdav IN East New-York. Annie Sebastian years
old who had left at home with her father at their
home at Liberty-st and washngtonave. on sunday
afternoon while her mother and two brothers went 10
visit neighbor started out of the house about p m
20 place some flowers upon her grandmohers grave IN
a neighboring cemetery. She was accompanied by sew
eral children and her father told her TO return home
early in the evening. The child dld not come PACK a'
the expected hour and at o'clock much anxiety was
felt and search for her was begun The cemetery was
visited and the father wandered until 9oeoek among
the graves thinking that the little girl might nave lau
down and fallen asleep: but he could find no trace VI
ber and AZ length he turned home with the nope
that the missing one had already been found and had
preceded him there sueh however was not the case
and the father then went the Twelfth Precinct Station
house in Brooklyn. but could find no trace OF the ost
child He then extended his inquiries to the mousse OF
The parents Of the children who had accompanied Anne
10 the cemetery and yesterday morning stopped at tue
house Of a family named Hustead in Washington near
Aantieaye and there obtained information OF most
startling character concerning the missing emu
George Hustead, IL years OF age said that ne Ane"
Annie very wen and that about 10 O'CLOCK Oh o"nuS
night, while looking out OF the mont WINDOWS On 'no
second foor he saw four coored men put Auhie h'ei
An wagon and drive off He knew Annie, as he went 10
school with her She cried out, "Watchl wateh' pu'
one Of the men put his hand on her mouth ana sue
could not shout any longer. They then drove uo"H
Atlantc-ave. =.
Mr. Miller having heard this story, at once went 70
Police Headquarters The boy accompanied h'in anu
again made the statement given above He was closeY
Questioned by Superintendent Folk, but 10 ne" a0''
were elected.
Cant Iech Of the Twelfth Precinct has taken charge
Of the case and will spare effort TO clear W the
mystery.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04

The club races are not vet fulIy arranged, but VIII
probably take place on Monday and "Wednesday. Fur
Iher orders Will be issued at export and the question
proceeding eastward to Vineyard Haven Will be de-
termined when the fleet reaches that point
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
In the pools the horses sold at the I

Vesuvius led the hurdles for iniie anu hah'
four lengths before Limestone with Daylight as far De
hind the latter Aerote having persstenty refused 10
iump the second hurdle On the lower turn Limestone
went up and passed led him two lengths over
the last hurdle midway up the homestretcn' ana won
easily by sx lengths; Vesuyius pe''ins D'Snsn' i0f
second money. Time. 407i.
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
To-pAY's PROGRAMME.

There are three races on the programme 10 morrow
The first is a selling race, mile and quarter for
which there are IS entries The Sequel stakes, two
miles follows for which Madge and Red DICK lilly the
entries OF Col. McDaneD Reform Grinstead' Fandal-
ite Countess and Cupepper are the starters In 'he
,roo.n,o race sorinebok Preakness and Fellowcraft
are entered. The pools sold as follows:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04
THE AMERICAN CLUBS IN ENGLAND.

THE ATHLETICS VICTORIOUS AT MANCHESTER IN IN
GLAND-PoPULAR INTEREST MANlfEsIING IN THE
AMERICAN GAME-PLAY BEGUN AT LORDS CRICKET
GROUND, LoNDON-THE SUPERIORITY OF THE
AMERICANS AT FIELDING CONCEDED-THE RED
STOCKING CLUB WIN AT BAsE-BAL1l-A GAME OF
CRICKET II PROGRESS.
LONDON, Aug. 3-At Manchester on Saturday
the Athletics beat the Red Stockings by a of 10
r. The game lasted two hours The OF spec
tators was large and very apprecatiye Before the
game the players explained the method of laying out
the grounds, and gave exhibitions OF throwing aud
catching the ball The spectators appeared 20 under
stand the game and there some betting on the
result after the second inning.
LATER.-The playing at Lords Cricket Ground in Lon
don, Including game OF cricket between the Marye-
bone Eleven and the twenty-five OF America com
mcuced this afternoon. The Americans won the toss
and sent the Engismen TO the bat FoJr them were
out for ~ runs, when the game vas adjourned for
lunch.
AT o'clock n game OF baseball VIII be PLAYED by the
American clubs after which the game cricket will be
resumed. About 5000 spectators are on the ground
The playing OF the Americans much admired, and
cries of We'll stopped" " Beautifully eied" etc.
the American baseball player, are superior TO the
Elglish crickeers In fielding The weather delight
fu, thoEgG a little windy. All are in fine spirits.
LATEsT-The game Of base ball began at O'clock Mr.
Beals of the Boston Club acting umpire.
The Red Stockings won the game by the following
score:
New-York tribune., 1874-08-04

Athttics....... o o o =
The batting OF the Rcd Stockings very hue while
the fielding of the Athletics generally rather poor
There GO spectators the ground and both the
base ball and cricket playing excited the greatest en-
husasm. After the game Of base bail finished the
adjourned game OF cricket resumed and played until
a late hour in the afternoon, when it was again adj
journes be resumed tomorrow. when the play was
suspended the Mdryebone Club had scored runs and
had lost five wckets.
There will ass be another game of base la PLAYED at
O'Clock TO morrow. The gate money-one sailing en-
trance-was given to the Americans.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
Dickens's Love of Applause and Money

The moment that Dickens felt his in
vention failing in the least degree, the
prospect of retaining the public by
reading the older stories, and tasting by
nearer and personal contact the pungen-
cy of popular applause, was fascinating
and overpowering. His pleasure in it,
as one of the English critics says, is a
little humiliating in man of his great
genius. 1t is the more so when he listen
ed intently for the chink of the guinea
as well as for the murmur of delight.
Yet no man needed money more, nor
might more rightfully earn it. His
family was very large, his estate was
costly and his manner Of living profuse.
But the reader presently sees with sor-
row that, as with his great predecessor,
Scott, the chief question gradually came
to be how much money he could make
out of his genius. And as with Scott,
although in smaller degree, the sum
was enormous. By his readings alone
Dickens made nearly quarter of a
million of dollars, one hundred thousand
of them between the 1st of December
and the 1st of May in the United States
The physical labor and exposure of
travelling, and the nervous exhaustion of
the readings, with the tremendous pace,
as he would have called it in another, of
the rest of his life, were enough to des-
troy any man. During all his travels,
both in the earlier and the later day,
when he ran over to the Continent or
coursed about England to find inspira-
tion or seclusion or excitement, he con-
stantly wrote the most copious letters,
full of fun and shrewdness and fine fancy,
and walked miles and miles, and de-
vised entertainments, and acted plays,
and presided at meetings and feasts, and
made delightful speeches and seemed to
have all the occupation of very active
and busy man before considering the
real business in hand at the time. Such
animals spirits as in his earlier years
were certainly never known. They bub-
bled about him and overfowed all who
came in contact with him. They af-
fected his style of writing, and despite
the sagacious Taine they gave his descrip-
tions much of their singular vitality and
power.--Hdrper's Monthly.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
General Information.

The German Empire has $4,000, 600
Protestants and $4,000, 900 Roman Gath.
olics.
MRS. CHARLES SUMNER is prosecuting
petition to assume her maiden name OF
Alice Mason.
ITis now quite the fashion for rich
women in Boston to remember their pas
tors in their wills.
BISMARCK is using every means he can
think of to prevent emigration from Ger
many to the United States.
The net cost of the Ashantee war was
$4,000, 900, and the net results were the
capture of negro kings umbrella and
the burning of his capital.
The best labels for plants and trees
may be made by writing with lead PEN
cir on slips of zinc, and attaching these
to the plants by copper wire.
THE first country in Europe to make
an appropriation toward the expenses of
having its products properly displayed
at the forthcoming Centennial is Sweden.
EMIGRATION is decidedly falling of
from Great Britain, and efforts are making
to ameliorate the condition of the agri-
cultural laborers, so as to enable them to
remain at home.
The pews of Holy Trinity Church,
New York, were recently sold at auction
for $53, 900, with the condition that they
are to be free on Sunday nights, unless
the holder notifies the usher that he
wants to worship.
ONE of the most wonderful things in
the world is the uniformity of apparent
accidents. Thus in Great Britain, where
the statistics are much better preserved
than in this country, the total number of
deaths by human violence in 1870 was
1888; in 1869 it was 16, ,497; it was &c.
963 in 1868; 1886 in 1867; 16,915 in
1866; 1884 in 1865; and 1908 in 1864.
Not only that, but the same uniformity
extends to the manner in which the vic
tins met their deaths.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
PrecOciOus Children.

Precocity in children is to be deplored,
not encouraged. A dull, sleepy child
makes the best man. The business of
childhood is to grow, rather than to shrivel
up in school and die. Colts put into
harness, or kept under saddle before they
get their growth, make poor or Indifferent
horses. Half our college graduates, who
smoke tobacco and commit other indis-
cretions while pursuing their studies, are
"shelved," being used up and good for
nothing before reaching thirty years.
Would not little physiological training
be more useful than so much Greek, Latin
and rhetoric? Precocious boys and girls
should not be kept in school, but out of
doors--in the garden, on the farm, in the
playground, rolling hoops, flying kites,
riding horses, climbing hills-all in mod
eration--and, if properly fed, clothed and
trained, they will learn enough later in
life. They should also sleep abundantly.
Children grow most when they sleep best.
If the human race is to be perpetuated,
some attention must be paid to the laws
of health. 10 become parents of robust
children--of children with enough vitali-
ty to keep the lamp of life burning into
old age-requires fright living" on their
part. Children are affected by the phys
ical and mental condition of their parents.
Stock here, as elsewhere, is an important
consideration. "Blood tells" We may
improve or impair the quality of our
blood by the way we live, the habits we
form, the pursuits we follow, and by our
very thoughts. But enough. Sensible
parents will have sensible, not precocious
children; take proper care of them, raise
them, train them, and they will live to
perpetuate the family name, and be
blessing to their parents, the state, the
nation, and the race. Silly, foolish, fash
ionable, dissipated, ignorant, and ambi-
tious pas and pa's "shall not live out
half their days"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
Light-HOuses.

Most of the lighthouses in the United
States are on barren, desolate, and exposed
points of the coast. In some of them
the keepers can not communicate at all
with the shore during the winter months,
and in such cases supplies of all kinds for
the lights and the keepers must be accu-
mulated beforehand. In many, fresh
water for the keeper and his family has to
be caught in cisterns; there is an official
circular to light-keepers, telling them
how to avoid the poisonous effects of the
water dripping from the leads of the
lighthouses by putting powdered chalk
into the cistern, and occasionally stirring
it. In many places it has been found that
cattle, attracted to the light at night,
destroyed the strong-rooted grass which
holds down sand dunes, and thus exposed
the lighthouse itself to destruction; and
in such cases considerable area of land
must be fenced in to exclude these beasts.
On stormy nights sea-fowl are apt to dash
themselves against the lantern glasses,
blinded probably by the glare of the
lights, and all light-keepers are specially
warned in their printed instructions to
be on the watch for such an accident, and
extra panes of glass, fixed in frames, are
always in readiness i'm every lighthouse,
to substitute for those which may thus
be broken.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
Minuteness OF Atoms.

GOldbeaters, by hammering, can reduce
gold to leaves so thin, that $4,000 must
be laid upon each other to produce the
thickness of an inch; yet those leaves are
perfect, or without holes, so that one of
them laid upon any surface, as in gliding,
gives the appearance of solid gold. They
are so thin, that if formed into a book,
800 would only occupy the space of a
single leaf of common paper; and an
octave volume of an inch thick would
have as many pages as the books of a
well-stocked ordinary library, of 1900
volumes, with four hundred pages in each
Still thinner than this is the coating of
gold on the silver wire of what is called
gold lace; and we are not sure that such
coating is of only one atom thick. Plat
mum and silver can be drawn into wire
much finer than human hair. A grain
of blue vitrof, or carmine, will tinge a
gallon of water, so that in every drop the
color may be perceived. In the milt of
Goldfish, or in water in which certain
vegetables have been infused, the micro
scope discovers animalcules, of which
many thousands together do not equal in
bulk grain of sand; and yet nature,
with singular prodigality, has supplied
many of these with organs as complex as
those of whale or elephant; and their
bodies consist Of the same substances, or
ultimate atoms, as that of a man himself.
In a single pound of such matter there
are more living creatures than of human
beings on the face of this globe.
What a scene has the microscope opened
to the admiration of the philosophic in
quirerl Water, mercury, sulphur, or, in
general, and substance when sufficiently
heated, rises as vapor or gas; that is, it is
reduced to the eriform state.
Great heat, therefore, would cause the
whole of the material universe to disap-
pear, and the most solid bodies to become
as invisible and impalpable as the air we
breathe. Few have contemplated an an
initiation of the world more complete
than this.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
A New Game.

A story is related of jolly sugar planter
who in the days of specie and slavery
found himself in New Orleans with the
proceeds of his crop in his pockets, anx.
ious to invest them in the pursuit Of
happiness. Having duly primed himself
at the st. Charles, he was wandering
along the streets in search of faro bank
when his attention was attracted by ar
Italian who was turning the crank of his
hand-organ, on the top Of which moved
and danced number of puppets, one Of
which had a plate for contributions
Taking this for novel game of chance
the planter wholly unsophisticated and
more than half inebriated, resolved to
buck the tiger, and placed five-dollal
piece on the plate. The Italian ground
on, the figure dexterously tilted the
money into a basket, and the Italian
solemly placed it in his pocket.
"Here goes to get even," said the
planter, as he planked ten, which
shared the same fate. Fifteen out
here's twenty"
The imperturbable Italian pocketet
the twenty and still turned the crank
The disguised planter departed with the
remark:
"Well, / never was lucky, but blamed
If ever / seen game before where al
the percentage was in. favor of thu
dealer !"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
An AstOnished Darkey.

Not long ago country store, in close
proximity to New Orleans, had one or
two boxes of torpedoes, that are about
the size of wren's egg, left over from
the holiday stock. In rearranging the
shelves one of the little boxes was opened
and all its contents given away except
one torpedo, which, resemblinga a "bird's-
egg" candy, as the colored folks call
them, was left on the counter. A wise
looking old negro rode up to the store
on a Misunderstanding horse about nine
o'clock at night. He hitched his "cri-
ter" and came into the store to get a
dram. While the clerk was pouring this
out, old grizzly head, thinking that
where even the smallest things are
available opportunities should not be
lost, slid his horny hand over that
"bird's-egg" candy and hauled it in.
Then he made out like he was putting a
chew of tobacco in his mouth. He
rolled his apparent quid with his tongue
back to his jaw teeth, and then he must
have shut down upon it tight, for the
explosion of yells, and shrieks, and
howls, and sulphur smoke commingled
that ensued was perfectly awful. The
old negro tore out to his nag bowling,
and, under the impression that he had
got conjured," fled as fast as sorry
bones could fly.
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1874-06-04
WOman's Lot.

At best, life goes i'll with woman in
the main. Affectionateness is her strong
weak side, and man unremittingly at
tacks it. She has haunting apprehen-
sion, that in some great prevailing love,
thrilling her blood and brain, her nerves
and heart, lie her safety and peace. But
she can never anticipate it, nor measure
its force. 1t may not come. To many
it does not to others it comes too late
whence agonizing repression, or broken
vows--tragedies without end, sometimes
without name. Nevertheless, woman's
original stock of hope, elasticity, and
cheefulness is SO greatly in excess OF
ours that, in the third, fourth, and fifth
acts of the tragic comedy, hers is the am.
pier residue. Nature, who allotted her
the larger share of suffering, in mercy
granted her superior endurance. 1t il
particularly hard that she should be be-
set in her youth by the hunger of the
heart, and prosecuted through man by
the hunger of the senses As respects
her, no sin so sinless as her fall, and
none so inhumanly punished. On him
who betrays her through her deepest
trust and holiest feeling, the world YET
refrains from placing the responsibility
So foul an injustice cannot withstand
much longer the advancing wave of pro
press