New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-19

So centuries ago, Bishop Pontoppedian saw MN, ms
made record OF the Gay N bis naIerS nstpce was
a. IoacRlm Anderson DANISH Consul AT Attsuu, go
way and member ~ Witness too believers
eeaserpent will saw II was on su9 I e, "a bSsef
eiafes Consul Anderson, that the animal Ite o %
UTfsce OF tie water showing bead as La5go sS
nc dogs bet every HAT and narrower IOuu So,sTl
necIh oT with feet OF boats chased blm for three
dave bot captured him not lie disappeaieu ""u W.
seen no more cta
THE est1lence-Williams, the nurse at Ste
vsDsop. Ala who was left alone in box car anu
received no attention until physicians came iron M -,
borug towns "a wOrse and cannot recoVer'-.--'O4 O.
the men who were employed in the three oep" mons "
The Memphis Appeal Office month ago. ohS W. o.
left The only editor now on duty alternaIes oo'"o"
l'.,a,S ts-.stt,ng through sixteen hours day.
the undertaken IN Memphis last week. IuesuAy'
,as 100 bodies behind his inerments Bouies were
living unattended ~ many parts OF the ei'y' anu
and relatives appeared In the streets DeseechnS pOP
40 belo them bury their dead When going into the olS
a., the uorning, Il was common 70 meet twenty-five
bearses in procession on the way to the cemetery
1,sness man accustomed to this sight, says he oiten
met large express wagons loaded with cOhrs ana boxes
containing the dead Sometimes. from the long oeiay
I'm burvng the dead, the boxes would De seen bursting
omen bv the force OF the swelling bodes- Day ana nghI
tbe sound of the underJaker's saw and hammer WAS
hoard in the city, and frequently the sidewalks 'front.'
of the shops were bloekaded the distance OF Whoe
block with co6lus aud boxes piled upon each Oer..'.
Al Holly Springs, Miss, s. T. Thomas nurse rOpoou
bs Daent Of the money he had, and hid lt IN ms own
Sa1sV foapd There were people who favored ynching
him, but temp rale views at IaS I;ic
Foriv-fEO cases are reported from Grand JuhctOn'
Tenn aud last physician in the Town mas JUS iT
The postmaster has gone ana ms oinS S - al s de
Thncydides records that, during the second sum
er of The Ptloponesan and the two years that ol-
iSgeS the Ma ne I'm Athens carried Of 44OO men De-
longing the army, while OF te lower oiass0s, P
women and children mention is mace by Ihucyo9eA
The total Of life he places higher lnan the HuO'
Barent dc Klyna Anthony, the gOOd-for-
otbnp lover who from this city went to Kansas eav-
ing his hat aud cane the rivers edge, TO convey the
idea that he had been murdered or had com
mitted suicide, possessed considerable imagination
and nonsense in him, no doubt; but ID MOTIFS
town lives q young lady who could Guido him
in a match competition for championship. twelve
month ago an anonymous letter to her. saying her
father a rich farmer ten years before had lieut. the
writer sum Of money 10 start in business wlth All
through her ntercessOns and that he had since become
rich Neither father mother remembered the CIR
eumsanee aud the girl was then young to have re-
membered It, few days later another letter was
slipped under the hal-lOor while the family were at
dinner Several more letters followed. and often con-
tanned presents Of the letters saying that the
writer was Paris but that he had agent in Norris
town Finally, September z, the young adys mother
received letter from the mysterious correspondent
saying he had returned from France and wished 20 dis
close himself He had, he said issued fifty invitations
for a surprise party her house the following Friday
evening the sixteenth anniversary Of the young ladys
birthday Inquiries proved that such invitations bad
actually been issued. and preparations were at once
made by the household for the interesting event The
day duly came, and refreshments, apparently ordered
by the young man. we're left the house. and IN the
evening the guests all came and assembled in the paror
with the family. to await the arrival OF the hero OF the
romance. Hour after hour was passed IN waiting. aud
no stranger Late IN the evening the young LADY,
eagerly watched by her intimate companions. openly
admitted and had devised the entire scheme
lust for fun" This story has gone far aud wide IN
newspaper columns, and the name Of the family has
gone with it. The father described as " an old,
highy-respCCted and prosperous farmer" with VIE
and iOur children, of whom the eldest Guild was tins
daughter Of I recorded that neither father
nor mother found any further enjoyment in the festv
Of light, and when the guests were gone ana
the parlOr lights extingushed the father told his
child plainly she hal SWndlcd her mother and him.
II would have been wise and wholesome example to
the younger children had she then and there been