Morning journal and courier., 1880-03-06
devised. The matter is therefore disposed oi for the present.

devised. The matter is therefore disposed of
 for the present.
 An assistant lover is quite apt to dwindle in
 importance as the marriage of the lover-in- chief approaches. John W. Boyle, of New
 York city, has felt this truth and he accord .. ingly sues Philip H. Ottman for pay for ser
 vices which he (Boyle) rendered when the course of true love was running so roughly with Ottman as to indicate the shipwreck of , hope. Boyle ayers that Ottman having been
 engaged to lady of New York city, of posi- tion and wealth, had his relations with said
 lady entirely broken off. Being unwilling to
 lose the lady of position and wealth Ottman
 applied to Boyle, who apparently .'wields
 facile pen,' to prepare and compose series
 of letters to said lady in the endeavor to pro- pitiate her favor and regain her affections. For this delicate and important service Ostman agreed to pay Boyle liberal sum of money
 and also 8 new suit of clothes as soon as his
 relations with the lady were restored. Boyle
 wrote with such power that the lady relented
 and the wedding is soon to take place, and
 now he demands of Otman the sum of $500
 and $35 additional in lieu of the suit of
 clothes. If Boyle did what he says he did his
 charge is very reasonable.
 The experiment of artesian wells in Charles | ton, s. O., is a curious one and just now the
 water supply of the city is the subject of
 warm debate. Some years ago an artesian
 we'll WAS sunk, and produced large supply of good light mineral water, very soft for | ko4 4Ia o,,d fn,- l dyspepsia. A second artesian well has recent | ly been sunk, which has brought up an i'm mense supply of mineral water, very warm, l but not just the thing for household use. Phy- sicians disagree about it's qualities a drink, l and there are reports and counter reports. The board of health and the city government are trying to settle the matter, and the news papers are full of it. One of the complica- tions is the need of relaying the old pipes in private houses, and of clearing out disused or obstructed drains; which the people in Charleston are unwilling to have done, ex- cepting in the very coldest weather. There is city ordinance which prohibits opening the ground for any such work after the first of May. So there are the wells, and there is the supply of water, and people go to the
 
 use at home, and horses are watered at the overhowing troughs and the empty pipes wait underground.
 suggestion of Secretary Evarts to the I New York Chamber of Commerce seems we'll l worth acting upon. He would like to see the | Chamber establish kind of industrial muse- um, in which samples of goods in demand by | the Eastern and African nations may be open to the inspection of American producers. The | Secretary says that our consuls frequently re- | port that eonsignments of goods made up at | much expense for the supposed needs of a | foreign market have proved unstable because | not responding to the traditional tastes and | wants of the people to whom they were of fered in trade or barter, showing that the | local dictates of fashion and conventionality may be as imperious in the Soudan Malay l sia as in France or the United States" /" He also says our consuls abroad not unfrequently send sale, with prices annexed, showing the tastes of the natives as to pattern or material, and he thinks knowledge of the facts thus con- municated might often be of convenience and value to exporters. If such museum were established our consuls might be called upon for contributions to it. which might develop intoa valuable and imposing permanent col lection.
 Strange stories come from India of the feats performed by native mesmerizer named Buni, whose magnetic power would seem to be quite irresistible by the lower animals, up on which he exclusively e1erts it. He gives seances, to which the public are invited to bring all manner of ferocious and untamable wild beasts, and holds them with his glittering eye In few seconds they subside into 8 condition of cataleptic stiffness, from which they can only be revived by certain passes which he solemnly executes with his right hand. snake in a state of violent irritation was brought to Buni by menagerie proprietor, enclosed in wooden cage. When deposited on the platform it was writhing and hissing fercely. Buni bent over the cage and fixed his eye upon it's occupant, gently waving his hand over the serpents restless head. In less than minute the snake stretched itself out, stifened, and lay apparently dead. Buni took it up and thrust several needles into it's body, but it gave no sign of life. A few passes then restored it to it's former angry activity. Subsequently savage dog, held in a leash by its owner, was brought in, and, at Buni's command let loose upon him. As it was rushing toward him, bristling with fury, he raised his hand, and in second the fierce brute dropped upon it's belly as though strick- en by lightning. It seemed absolutely paral- yzed by some unknown agency, and was un- able to move a muscle until released from the magnetizer's spell by majestic wave of his hand.
 According to the Railroad Gazette, there were in this country during the year 1879 % collisions of passenger trains, 190 derail- ments of the same, and 21 minor accidents. Of freight trains there were 199 collisions, s67 derailments and 22 minor accidents. There were also 82 collisions of mixed trains. By collisions 64 persons were killed and 286 in- jured by derailnnents 97 persons were killed and 3s9 injured; by other accidents of vs- ried nature 24 persons were killed and S4 in- jured. Of course many of those injured af- terward died, which would swell the number of killed to much larger figure than given above The ways in which collisions occurred were as follows: Rear collisions Gone train oollided or overtaken by following train). 179; putting collisions Gone train met by an- othsr) 79; crossing collisions Grains eolliding at grade crossings of one railroad by another), 12; unexplained, 47; total, BIO. The total number of railroad accidents happening in the United States in 1879 was BIO; in 1878 the number was TAO; in 1877, 891 :; in 1876, 9S2; in 1875, 1,2O1; in 1874, 980. Most of these accidents could have been avoided, and were due to carslessness on the part of enn- nlovas although the latter as a general rule