New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-31

the other for any dark horse Second incox
sstency: The two lovers excellent friends Third
their heads together aud resolved to kill her Morris
called her father doors days ago and had telk
el and then killed himself The lady may recover ,e
Her marriage with tho surviving lover would bring this
extraor iinary romance to a hitting climax.
The Western press is greatly incensed by the
inventive genius Of the East which has covered the
greasy, copper-eoored hide of Sitting Bull with tie
glamour of romance. II informs the mendacous fiction
writer's Of the East that the said Sitting Ball Is
West Point cadet IN disguise; that be doesnot speak
Tden; that lie is not picturesque Logan Mctamora
pacing with melancholy mien up and down his wigwam
that he il ,ereiy dirty bloody cut-throa indian with
game leg and an enormous capacity for whisky.
Fiction, English and American, is at its wits
end to find plots and new ideas Human experience, like
tie Emma, when Mr. TreDor W. Park went to London TO
Minister schencS, is a workcdout mne The condi-
tons of Chinese society anomalous that the incl
dents or domestic life which the CeteSa! Empire
ates with admirable simplicity, exceedingly fresh
and interesting Several OF these stories have been re-
entitled k i' aThe Rival Mothersn-Ia%" marleS
couple living in the suburbs OF Hankow, had serious
quarrel which the husbands mother Joined by abusing
the wife such mony that she away from her
husband and returned TO her mother The husband.
wife and cOaxed her return with him. She said she
would if he would allow her mother 20 accom-
one horsehoId-shade OF Give Newcomcjnst fancy i'll
While they were making the journey the exasperatins
husband renewed the quarrel and the moteriDaw had
word to say. The despairing young wife resolved to
end her misery. and deep pond being handy, plunged
into it while her husband was walking short distance
behind her. The mOtherin-law without hating 10 up
braid the husband, jumped into the water to save her
child, and both sank TO the bottom III heap The hus
band forward eaped into the pond after them, and
would have persisted with them Il the bystanders had
not insisted upon saving MN and sending MIN home TO
his mother The two women were drowned.
Mr.. Charles Readc, who is too honorable to
steal plots and too sensitive to newspaper criticism to
renew his early practice OF purchasing them has let the
world into the secret OF his scrapbook system The flies
OF Out-ohe-way American newspapers would give him
many bints like this story which comes from HOnesdae
Penn Thirty years ago John seitz, German clerk in
New-York store, was engaged to young girl named
Katherine Ref The California gold fever broke out
aud he Joined party OF adyenturers. The hst letter
that received from home bore the tidnSs that BIS
sweetheart was TO become the mother OF his child
He pledged himself to return AS soon as possible ana
marry her. She went TO HOnesdale to live with her
brother and 10 wait for her lovers return Two or fee
letters came and then there was silence for years
blacksmith named WenGt pr0IesSed great love Tor
her and after putting OF for fonr five years she
accepted him. fully convinced that her gOldhunter was
dead. she took ner child to New-York ana hyed WIN
her husband He q brute. lie abused ner, neg
looted her. and threw her into consumption Mean"blle
setz instead of writing letters dying had made an
enormous fortune and returned to HOnesdae after LIS
sweetheart and child The news OF her marriage stunned
him. He went to New York; and found her dying IL
tenement with no one near her Dut her DaDy-hls chd
seitz buried in Greenwood, and week afterward
Weudt, overcome with remOrsc, shot himself her
grave The child lett IN HOnesdale with her
brothers family, and bis father returned 10 san FRAN
CISCO where he married built fine house with an ele
CANT apartment known as "JOhDnys roOm, ana pro-
yded literally for the boy his will johnny" was
fral lad with his mothers cOnsumptive tendencies. lie
occupied that palatial room ne qed week ago
Tuesday rich prince But he did not Know OF bis
good fortune for the father died IN San Francisco barely
an hour before the sons death The boys inheritance
goss TO his aunt.