Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-06

Dacks 10 DroHen wall, one only protesting
his innocence as he was dragged to the end
of the line. Before the fatal 7olley was fred
he darted nimbly round the corner of the
wall, and ran along the front of the troops,
but was recaptured and taken back to his al
lotted place. A voice from the ranks cried
out that they had the wrong man, the real
criminal being soldier of the same name in
hospital at Bourgos. Espartero ordered the
man to be removed, while the rest received
their deserts. Upon inquiry being made at
Bourgos, the guilty one was found there,
taken from the hospital and shot, his name
sake, of course, being set free.
snake once prevented thief com hitting
something worse than theft. A woman of
Dude and her daughter once alighted at the
station at Hurdee, and hired conveyance to
take them to their village. When they had
gone half dozen miles on their way the
driver, pulling up in lonely spot, demanded
their 1ewelry, and, upon their demurring,
tied the pair to the vehicle and seized the
trinkets. Then, bethinking himself that the
dead women could tell no tales, the ruffian
drew out his knife; but, slipping from his
grasp, 1t fell into a ditch. He plunged his
hand in the water to recover his knife. and.
as he clutched it, black snake fixed its fangs
into the would-be murderer's hand. He sue.
cumbed to the poison, and In ten minutes was
past hurting anybody. The women were dis
covered by some villagers, and released, but
the corpse of the driver was left alone
until the police. coming on the scene, re-
moved the body to the police station.
Of all the wonderful canyons or gorges of
Colorado, the Grand canyon of the Arkansas,
with almost perpendicular walls, in some
places several thousand feet high, is the most
wonderful. The gorge of this canyon used
to be impossible except in winter, until rail
way operations were commenced and paths
OF sort cut In the sides of the precipices.
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progressing, Prof Mallet and a party of
friends set out one afternods from Canyon
City. Al long as they kept to the horse
trail all went well; but upon reaching point
just beyond it, Mrs. Maliet's horse stumbled
and fell. The lady tried to dIsentangle her.
self from the animal, and, dropping some ten
feet, caught with her fingers the end of
dangling in air above the rapid
rolling Arkansas; and, to make mat
tiers worse, the horse following its mis-
tress, had fallen or slipped on the same
ledge, where it stood close to the wall, and
almost as motionless as the rock itself. The
Mortified party hasLened to the rescue, and
the professor, after some anxious minutes,
had his wife safe and sound by his side. To
help the horse was a more difficult matter,
and an hour elapsed before men and ropes
could be got from the nearest camp, and all
that time the poor creature, seemingly aware
that he was not to be left to his own
resources, stood quietly on the narrow shelf,
hardly appearing to draw breath; nor did he
attempt to use his limbs until he found him
self upon the sure footing of the pathway
above.
On the fourteenth of October, 1877, Miss
Lizzie Wise made her twentieth balloon as
cent at st. Louis. She had nc companion,
and soon after starting found it advisable to
throw out ballast. The balloon shot up half
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and the aeronaut determined to make dart
for earth. Nov, says she, "came the most
trying of all my balloon experiences. l
could not see thing on earth, and the bal
loon made fearful plunges through the woods,
crashing and cracking the limbs of the trees
as it went along. All of a sudden l was
lifted up several feet above the treetops, but
only to plunge down more suddenly between
the tall trees, where the balloon became
edged in, and | partly made up my mind to
have a nights lodging there. In
another moment heard voices and called
out for help, to which came the pleasant re-
Spouse: Where are you?' l cried: up
here In the treetop; help me down, pleased
Mr.. Sheva asked how he should do it; and
threw him a rope and he pulled and pulled,
but could not get the balloon low enough
My car was now partly bottom up, when he
babe me slide down into his arms. He was
big and strong. | slid down headforemost
into his arms, and thus reached the earth
unhurti''
Astonished as the deliverer of the dis
tressed damsel must have been at coming
upon lady up tree, his surprise was not
greater than that of the wheel-examiner at
Rugby when he saw mans leg protruding
rom under one of the carriages of an ex-
press train and found that it belonged to a |
sailor cooled round the brake-rod, who had |
adopted that risky mode of travelling for |
want of the wherewithal to pay his fare, |
md was quite unIpjured, after a journey |
rom Easton, distance of eighty-two miles, |
lc ,omplished in couple of hours; although |
when the engine, while at full speed took in |
water from the between rails tank, there |
we're only six inches between him and the |
rough-a striking example of the foolhardi-
less of Jack. Not but what railway servants
ire just as reckless as sailors, putting their
;:-hs and lives - jOopardy -sithos..- The
highest necessity, and SO swelling the tale
# railway disaster; for they are not always
o lucky as the Ettingsbail signal-man who,
attempting to cross the line in front of the
Flying Scotchman," was caught by the
,utfer of the engine and sent whirling over
he enthusiastically twenty yards deep
o come down on his feet unframed