New-York tribune., 1877-07-10

..so fov, ocousintonces: thev seemed to court se-
-luson; they wandered up and down the grassy hisi
occasionally they were sitting under tau Plhe
anon the man carried plckaxe on his shoulder ana nau
tbe air Of who was hunting Tor pocket Nei"'
ho vvere eccentric and mysterious On June 80 they
disappeared and after their felowboarders had gos
sinned about them for day or two search was
made for them. The queer couple were iouhu
nm the top OF Bald Mountain not far from
,he town They had been outdoors about ninety
bours: they had not lost their way; they had gone
on, INTO the woods with the deliberate purpose OF starv
ING TO DEATH they had eaten nothng they had lour
onnce bottle filled with water, with which they had
ostcned their parched lips they were dying by inches %
10 eat something. The husband Is graduate i oi "a
PENNSYLVANIA Medical College ana owns hocs,vu , III
New-Jc~sey once he wealthy but he lost CIV,
erythg in stock specuations IN san Francisco ~ na
ben waiting rcmitances from that city his last
renny had gone he debt to the hotel proprietor;
he resolved 20 mp the mountain and starye ana ms
whether these reople are lnatcs or spiritua'sts
A correspondent of The st. Paul Pioneer Press
describes the OF gold dust currency as the creates
ruisance Of the Black Hills Each man is provided with
his buckskn sack, and no matter what he buyS ne u
Ming of tobacco ten cents an outfit for several
hundred dollars he must weigh the amount out in dust
qbis is vexatious process and Of course II cannot be
often repeated without considerable percentage OF
asfe Gold is taken az eighteen dollars in greenbacEs
aud all shopkeepers give two prices movement rs on
foot TO remedy this evil by adding considerable per
eentage price OF goods sold for dust and many OF
e more sensible miners beginning to sell Their dust
as they bring it in. and do their trading with paper
Topcy Formerly there mu h risk in taking eold
dust as mixed with material that 1t was 1mPos
able detect by any test except that OF acld ana o"
roud spare the time submit the dust tc that process
Now dust Is comparatively cleanaud SAFE 10 hdhoe
Two curious probate cases have occurred IN
Western Massachusetts,. One of them NJ Springfield
The estate was supposed to have been settled over h
teen years ago. hut the executor casually observed the
name OF the testator in list Of advertised depos tors in
an Albany Savings Bank He reOpened the probate ani
obtained about 81 40. In the other case, also IN Ham
den Countya by will gave Onethird Of his estate to
his wife, one-thrd to his only living child and onethrd
70 child be born The posthumous issue proved
10 be twins and several pretty law questions arise
Shall each OF the twins have Onesixth of the esatef
Shall the twOthirds left after payment oi the esaGy 10
Sbau inc widow aud children each have One-qudrir ot
tie estatel These are queries which can Oniy De an
swered by the Supreme Court to which the case Will DC
taken
A correspondent of The London Necs, while
riding toward headquarters of the Turkish army ou
the Soughanu range suddenly felt his horse sinking be-
meath him, and in another instant be was enNelOpeu
in a cloud Of dust and splinters. lie had fallen
through the roof Of house into an apartment
,rb.rc n family was breakfasting An Armenian village
from stance resembles the heaps OF refuse one sees
around iron smelling works. Here and there couple OF
feet OF dry II ne wall and caveike entrance suggest
The possibility Of the existence OF human dwellings Be
tween these dwellings the spaces are carpeed with an
elastic layer Of dung and oI five or six feet thick Huge
uneany buaoes with bodies like bsons and the eye o.
an octopus low and moan, standing md-eg deep in the
6thy paths Turbaned men perched here and there
Ike storks the housetCps-pung their boards ana
giving the whole place Scriptural appearance caves
dos and fowl wander promiscuOusly among the Chin
rcvpois aud now and then darkeyed Olive-faced
woman comes stealing shyy by her face half ayeried
from the gaze Of the Giaour and partly concealed by the
folds of her linen headdress. The gloomy interior OF one
Of the houses earhheaps is 10 feet in length, and Is
divided into two compartments by low boarded paIu-
to feet high That next the door devoted to horses
aud Oufrt oes--the inner space affords accommodation
10 travellers little terrace of beaten earth inches
sboye the floor anks both sides of the room. IL Is Gov
cred with coarse rush mating and constitutes seat by
cav a bed by night Two square holes IN the roof admit
llht aud