New-York tribune., 1877-08-04
GEhEHiL AOIES.

The tranmen at Albany have been chalking
the back fences until they have Worked out the arhnct
ical calculation that when Mr. Nanderburs one hundred
thousand is divided every engineer VIII get fourteen
dollars every eight dollars, and the brahemen
and freuen only three dot'ars apie e.
The ideal railroad of the ref0rmers may
have been dragged into the Courts but the company
treats its men well they stand by IL in emergency
When the excitement the strikers was at It's height
the engineers Of St. Louis Iron Mountain aud south
ern Railroad held secret meeting at Carondeet, and
assured the company they stood ready to perform
their duty the call of the officers regardless Of cOnse-
quences The General superintendent OF ine road mas
tnKed the engineers or teir expressions OF sympathy
and their acts OF Loyalty.
Loom Hing, brother of All Wing, Bati-
more laundrymau whose pis-tal pulled by an Irish
soldier last "Wednesday deposcs and says "sloia man,
lie say nOng only comee upeen II mylee bna hlp um
foo mylce blulia say nong, doee nOliing; Me!lican
man e wee dam foolee; All Wing say Meican man no
kie Chlnaman'; he mine; my blalla xiv lind police
man takee 'un wash'Ous-alle light - The IRISH
mans testimony took the nvectiye. It's purity
pass that the countrys comm 10 when free American
czen, an sour To boot that cum IN e lur ye, kant
have Dt Nv shnty Md Lay thSn Clnec "ldOdt gUln
tu TIE lookup iur IT,
In this seascn of special anxiety about hydro
phob may be important for the public 10 know that ID
the opinion Of yscian of merit and no doubt OF
many other medical men, the disease with all It's symp
toms may actually created b. the force OF the imag
/
I'm recent paper He thinks that the disease may DO
brought on through the emotions OF fear and eNpeeta-
ton alone" ami moreover tiat tc NINA hJs iitdt III
u nee M The ana OF many other diseases.
Perhaps there nothing very novel III the ldea Dut
with regard 10 hydEOphVOla, especially, II Is worthy OF
careful attention.
The battle-ground of Orisbany, where Uhca's
pent-np oratory is to lind next Monday. is now
entirely bare OF trees although the rayne was covered
with dense forest hundred years ago. The
remains of old by which licrkner and his men
crossed the hollow in close order, family outlined
Battle Creek has shrunk into trout brook ana the bat
te-ground is Farmer Lanfears yard, half milo
from the canal and the railroad. The main stand, where
the orators are 10 run over VITA Parotsn rs soon as
they uncOrked Il norm or the OH roa IN e hude
OF the rayinc. flagstaff viii mark the spot where
Herkimer sat and directed the battle after lac Was
wounded.
The newest English topedo Is the Rocket"
It's minimum speed said Dc tnee times that OF tho
Whitehead and il costs oneenth as much. IL fired
from skeleton tube trough by means OF an electric
fuse and it eau be discharged with equal facility from AN
ordinary ships launch from the side OF hrstclass
ronclad gatc the special fittings requredfor being of
the simplest IL will bear any amount OF rough
usage while It has not the element OF danger which ID
present the Whitehead IN the form OF compressed air
al pressure IL has no delicate internal
machinery projections haole 10 injury; its motive
power being gas, generated by the SLOW combustion o
composition evolving rapidly expanding gas.
An engineer of the British Navy, who had
served Her Majesty faithfully for fourteen years, was
dismissed In disgrace weeks the evidence OF
n parrot. lie charged with stealing parrot from
Mai. Dooley, Indian officer, who was returning 10
England the steamship smoom. There were 40 lew
er than 200 parrots board, all looking alike aud Tho
great point OF proof the identity OF the bird which
d been lost with thai which had been found In the
ino ROOM The courtaIal determined u put tile par
lot Oh the stand twas objected that the CONVERSATIONS