New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-10-01

Denver has the missing link. 1t is either q
fossil giant statue representing one, which has
lust been unearhed Colorado 1t SURPRISES ali ancient
or modern statues in particular; it has tail four
inches in length
The late severe storm in the Gulf States has
not as severely damaged the as was feared
week Reports from the coast line OF Louisiana state
that the canes resumng their perpendicular position
They will thus escape spToutng at the eyeS-the chef
danger The only eject OF the storm will be to slightly
increase the price OF cutting the cane lor INC s Wv"
ing to its beng bent ana twisted
1t was a terrible temptatIOn-that unsealed
letter to Miss -, about whom everybody in town was
talking. And Sarah A. Legrow. postmsiiess Mt North
Herman Me- thus tempted fell she read the letter,
and furthermore told friend what valuable gossip she
had auassed by the The of the letter II is
perhaps unnecessary state, informed by acquant
ances within twenyfour after this revelation Of its con-
tents SIZE vigorously acted the detective for few days
and disc9yered the enlpnt. IKE P2SStIess nas peen
Court in Maine aud ruthessy fined - for her curiosity
Talking Of conventions, there was one of the
Democratic held at Lima, Augaize County ono al
which the County Auditor, smith, for wonder by
name Just when he was making furious speech in favor
Of REFORM" suddenly suatched mp by the consta'
bcs and carried of 10 jail whore he found his friend and
patcal crony Lewis Myers, also incarcerated Myers
tho Of Auglaize County, which, by the
way, has not bad Republican in office FOR twenty
years. few weeks ago. Myers discovered I'm his
Office in a pitable condition. a blanket his head.
and gag IN his mouth. He said that four masked ruf-
fans had seized him upon the highway, hailed him TO
the treasury tortured HIM By applying burning Goals
to ls feet and so compelled him to dyulge the conbi-
nation of the lock- whereby they able to carry
of about $4,000. IL out that the ru!ian who ap
piled the torture the County Auditor, aud that 1t
was all what il yugarly called pu-up JOB Moreover,
there has been steady c1uss Of stealing from the
county treasury for years The Democratic aN-paeis
OF Auga!ze are very much eXlsDerated, ANA are con-
sd,r.ng the prOprey OF lynching BON Myers aud
Smith.
Noyon's heroine is servant girl. y COM
mon sewer OF great depth had been opened for repairs
and four men, passing that way in the dark fell in Il
was not until midnight that their pcrilous situation be
came known. The poor wretches were already suifo
eating from a poisonous Vapnr; their mornings were
heard and their wives aud children frantic with grief
besoug h the bystanders for aid but among All the stall
wart men who gathered around the hole there not
one brave enough to 20 down aud rescue his fellow
creatures Then that Catherine VasSeur lass Of
seventeen volunteered descend into the pit She was
lowered into the sewer where she fastened rope
around two of men, and assisted by those above she
mad the happiness Of restoring them to THEN wives and
children Again she descended, and fastened Il rope
around the body of third man. but her breath began 10
fail her Painting from foll and exhaustion, She had
sufficient presence Of mind to knot the end with her own
n,,tif1ut frasSrs 50 that VIXEN the dasiaIdy fellows
naumlic cody Of the young r swinging hy her HAIR To
the end of the rope. Fresh aG aud stmutnts restored
her 10 c0nc.ousnrss but not in time 10 enable ner 10
save tho ioIuth man. who persisted IN the PIT.