New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-11-27

and ran to the barn. but HIS horses were not In their
stalls the cavalier and his sweetheart mad borrowed
them. Ihefe was nothing 10 do but borrow I'm turn A
neighbor's mare and follow tho fugitiyes In The early
morning he reached Paradise, but the young folks wers
| already ON Green River on packet boat bound for
| Evansville.
When a vicar acts like a rufian il is charity
| to set him down a lunatIc. fortnight ago the Rev
Samuel Smith, OF the parish Of Landuph, Plymouth
England, was informed that lady had died. and that
the funeral would be In the church. lie the sex
ton with doubebaelled gun, and demanded the KEYS
OF the churchyard which the afdghed sexton gave Nd
Then he went TO the churchyar and seeing the masons
building brick walled grave. seized Of them by the
collar and threatened to put bullet through him n be
proceeded with his work In the afternoon the corpse
brought to the buralpace but the vicar refused 10
bury IL unless the parishioners supplied him with SUP
plico II pointed out 20 him that there was sur
pice IN the church. OF which he had the keys but he
then pleaded that the surplce not cOmely and he
could not IT, The sister OF the deceased lady ex
planned TO him that on such an occasion people would
take no notice Of such trng matter, but be positively
refused to act, adding " ! have got surpce OF my
own II the parishioners will pay thirty sblings for
II, Will perform the service" He then arrested
haudcufed and taken to Jail a charge OF Threatening
10 shoot one Of his parishiOners.
There is much gall and little corrosive
submate in the nkhorns on some Of the editorial desks
In London The Spectator received with evident sasfsc
ton the tldngs Of the collapse Of the Turkish arms in
Armenia and took pains to protest IN advance against
policy whatever whether be OF war or one Of
chicane. which shall have, either for motive result the
temporal the protection Of the evil though
brave, Power the extinction OF which, after four centu
RIGS Of mlsrule 1t would seem that gracious Providence
has at last allowed" This was enough TO put a sbarn
edge upon the acridty OF Tie PdH MqH Gazette 81,
The Specator 1t asks, dyinely authorized TO inform
us that gracious Providence after having for three
months allowed the evil, though brave Power, to
of Ma NJ no cha
tianity, has at last TO the conclusion that tho
good cause having been sufficiently Inundated aud
enough OF tie blood OF its soldiers sped the evil cue
may he permitted TO undergo defeat II that Is tho
meaning " The Spectator, only say that the re
eous eAecilatiOn which is 20 be interpreted appears
US 20 DC 9eer mors nor les, than piece Of simple
nallsm.
One of the brightest passages IN Mr.. STAN
leys last letter TO The Herald his account Of Shakes
pearean holocaust near the confluence OF the Kwango
and The Congo After fighting his thrtysecond and last
battle he Journeyed among natives who wore peaceaby
disposed but who regarded his notebook with suspicion
He had been seen making medicine on paper-wrtne
Such thing had never been heard OF by the Oldest in
habtant 1t must therefore be wItchcraft and witch.
craft must be punished with death. Tho white chief
must instantly deliver his book to be burned or
there would be on the instant my note book"
says the explorer valuable 1t had cost too
many lives and sacrifices TO be consumed the caprice
OF savages What to be done l had a small
volume Of Shakespeare, Chandos edition. II had been
read and rcread dozen times, it bad crossed Africa
had been my solace tedious hour, but it DO
sacrificed" l. II ibis yOu want e. asked M Stanley.
" lcs" is this the medicine you are afraid orr
Yes burl il, burn it, Il is bad. very bad burn IT,
So poor Shakespeare was burned, ard the country
saved. II the author has many incidents like tnis in
that note book, he write book Oh Central Africa
that viii interest everybody.
That most ingenious of all gambling tools,
the diamond drill does not always play the hands
Of the Floods the sharons and the Frys Despite their
opportunities for acquiring the first Information about
the mines in chances out Of ten they discounted
by shrcwd stock operators. In every important drift
cross-cut and winze the Comstock there miners
in league with spectators in san Francisco. notchcd
pickhandle, or chip Of wood often conveys the
news Of a strike from the bottom 10 the surface and
cipher dispatch will carry the tdngs 10 the spectators
in advance OF the superntendents official TELEGRAM
the officers of the company. The with which the
outsiders get the advantage the insiders Is Illus
tratcd by an incident which The Chronicle Of Virginia
City, relates. One Sunday evening Mr. Bonynse Of the
UuIOn, obtained permission OF Superintendent; H2rly 10
take some ladies through the Ophir mine. They de-
scended to the I9OO-foOt level visited the d.ift
which has since become famous. without saying word
Mr. B0nynge put a few specimens in his pocket and,
asslying them the next morning, sent dispatch 10
Robert Sherwood OF san Francisco who rushed into the
street aud picked up all the Ophr he could lag his hands
doing it, thesame day. Of the shit bosses ~ tIe
mine informed the superintendent that there Was
chang in the fomatJ and after three assays hal Dcn
made. report was teleglapled 10 President "tHct
But the news came late The euterprslug Sherwood
had already bought all the cheap Opnr
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