New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1877-03-30

cior went the window and threw out coppers to the
crowd.
Ii necessity be the mother Of invention, the
Maine Liquor law must be its father The expedients
which resorted in that for getting drop of
something to drink are really lively On Saturday last
in Portland the sheris seized lot OF eggs which
ingenious person had emptied and reled with whisky
These odd reoeptacles OF old Bourbon meeting with
ready sale at 81 so per dozen-ffteen cents drink.
and mighty small drink ut that. II is matter Of
speculation what kind of fowl these wbisky-fed eggs
would hatch out If placed under patient and able
bodied hen.
Mr.. Conway, in his last letter to The Gin
einnasi Commercial tells n romantic story. While
sportsman shooting stray shot entered one of
his eyes and extingushed it, This gentleman highly
educated and connected though without fortune and lie
was only % years of He was taken TO his lodging
house in London. where he lay suffering. But wealthy
aud handsome young widow on whose estates he hap
pened be shooting when the accident occurred took
her abode in the house in order TO him. Her
extended through several weeks. but alas! the
other sympathzed with that which had been put ont
and it, too. extinguished leaving the youth and
scholar h0pelessly and totally blind the pretty
widow equal TO the occasion She proposed to him
marriage. The result a splendid company allghDg
AT the door of ashiOnabe church m the neigborhood
a beautiful dame 80. attended by her two little emil
dren, leading a blind youth of % to the altar
The compartment of the postal car which was
entered by a desperate thief last Monday night on
the NewYOrk Central Railroad, contained the through
Rochester. The thief got the train at Syracuse, and
evidently considered himself safe from intrusion. Mr..
Gallup entered the accidentally and seeing some one
there asked, "What are you doing herel" The THIEF
threw him down and drove a knife, as he supposed,
twice into the PROSTATE clerks breast In the breast
pocket of Mr.. Gaup's coat a small leather account
book and although the force OF the blow was sufficient to
penetrate the clothing book the knife did not enter
flesh Invountarly Gallup threw his left arm up as
IL TO ward off the blow, and the knife, being drawn
out cut through the sleeve OF the coat and made two
ugly gaShes in his After drawing the knife out,
the assassin thinking he had accomplished hs murder
Intention released his victim and made for the door
The wounded sprang up, and drawing his revolver,
fired at him The cartridge did explode but just
he passing through the door Mr. Gallup seized one
OF his coat tails, ana he door sanlng 10 AT tic un
caught the cloth and held the intruder fast Without
waiting investigate matters, he cu the coat tail loose
miles hour, without any hesitation jumped from the
platform and was lost in the darkness
The Justice of the Peace OF the First Arron-
basement has granted 90 damages to Lady Gu
zeaux against The omnibus which runs between CEchy
OG6on because the conductor let her catch tall
and herself with mud The Journal des Debats re-
produces the benefit of the public, the rules adopted
by the Council of Administration in lsjs for the onni-
buses, which an active Imagination may regard as ap-
plicabe to the Third Avenue and other lines in this
city, Here are some of the rules verbatim: 4" Con
dnctors will always have boards brushed and their
hands clean. In service, the of cigar pipe, and
Guids Is expressly forbidden. They SHAH abstain also
from ament the oGor of which may possibly be too
strong for comfort OF the Travellers The traveller
having cleared the footbosrd the conductors must not
pull the strap order start the omnibus until the
traveller is seated" " However numerous may be the
times of stoppage they should obey an instant, and
without observation. he signal gven them ny each nav
elrr: they should the driver the signal To STOP
The step, Offering the hand especially 10 LADIES' ana
children and the old aud infiru and not letting them n
-ccud while the vehicle is moving To avoid as much
As possible causing The 10 mount or descend IN
puddes mud" They are charged 10 N 'intan 10 the
interior Of the vehicle good order anu lopriety anu 10
politely i'll Of discussion about opening or
closing the windows
The pathetic story Of the Wisconsin girl who
was driven into insanity and suicide by the drlgery OF
teaching district school has already been told in tins
column Her fate enlists the sympathies of The Ma-
cqaLee Sentinel Five years in district school, 1t
says will break down the strongest woman III the world
physically Flowing, hOdcarrying, blacksmhng bdying
and selling, writing and preachng-a the empl0ymcnts
of men are easier than teaching" This saying good
deal teacher il ordinarily employed in the school
room about seven hours. and has vacations OF at
least ten weeks during the year. She has less physl-
cal fatigue to endure than working"Omen III
shops or factories; her working time is shorter
she has more rest. 1t WAS not physical fatigue
that unhinged the mind of this delicate Wis
consin girl; it was the discipline the worrying,
the nerve-rrDding the sOul-harrowing; it not
WEAKNESS OF body WEAKNESS Of soul th1t tortured
and wore out her life Probably she did not have the
physical any serious work in life and, at all
events she learned the art Of arranging her life
and woriimeut The naughty boys and stupid girls were
never ont her head her exhausted spirit worried over
them in her dreams. Happily her sisters IN ths Gaining
do not teach school "a hours day; they learn to forget
fOr time the things that annoy and fatigue tGn ana
so they ud health, ana not dcah in their schooro0ms
indeed. they have better health than other working
wCmcn.
For ways that are dark and tricks that are
vain the heather Texas editor is peculiar He prints his
and p Uasi n a
william T. Dodge Because that surviving partner OF the
Cheeryble Brothers absurd enough to want the
Texas Central TO pay what it owed. So he resolved to
Get even with him. In rustic secluSiOn of NewHO rk,
where scandal is unknown and tale-bearers draw not
nigh the old gentlemans character mas been Thought
fair to middlng. But when the bulls eye of the Texas
editor was turned upon him. his niqutes stood out as
the MONDAY. IL found that he had sandered the
soutb that he used the holy Sabbath 10 concoct schemes
of railroad yiany with his depraved and reckless asso-
cotes be turned prayer meetings into caucscs;
that he was one the wIckedest OF the wicked gamblers
in Wallst. who lend money to buLd railroads III the
South and are INSCRIPTIONS enough 70 want paid back
Rut somehow these discoveries did not to wither
the bad old man or the face Of the earth Something
else must be DONE and the Texas editor was equal to the
occasion. He straightway announced that arriving
in AUSTIN in all pomp OF bis arsiOcratc secusion in
his palace car the bad old had insisted that the car
should be street railroad tracks, where had
no right in order his trumpha progress TO the no.
tel might be unmpeded, and tnat III CONSEQUENCE de-
serving boy travelling 10 sunday school was run over
and killed by the gdcd wheels Of his travelling palace
Worst of ALI the bad old actually refused to attend
the funeral pay the mother The trfing circumstance
tain ARRIVING some hours later and occupied not even
by Mr. DOdges associates, Dut DIV MS acllVo oponeuts'
docs not have interered III the least with the
success of the story. 1t is regarded IN Texas as
crlsher
PUBLIC OPINION.