, 1880-02-07

table; be heard a boy 10 The streets crying
the evening papers, and. stepped to the. door
to get one-that man was never seen again,
dead or alive. There seemed to be no cause
for elf.destruction, his manifestations were
all that could be desired, and his income
from his profession ample, but if he had
been dropped in the mid-ocean, he could
not have been more completely extinguish-
ed. Another man, an eminent merchant,
bids bis friend goodbye 10 front of the
Astor House at four o'clock 10 the after.
noop, and starts for his home in Brooklyn
be, like the artist, was never seen or heard
of after. What seems particularly
strange, is. that only a small percentage of
these lost people are from the country out
of the $50, New York furnishes over 200.
II is a terrible thing to think Of, this sud-
den wiping out, but it only illustrates the
precarious chances of life in q large city,
and it may be that the escape of the old
fool Blair, whose would-be assassins are
now doing the state some service, may fur
nish a partial key to the disappearance Of
this grim army, which the Board of vital
statistics dismisses under the brief heading
of "missing."
About eighteen months ago, a man
walked deliberately up to a show window
and broke it, and then quietly waited for
arrest ; he made not the slightest attempt
at escape, but boldly proclaimed his guilt.
When taken befors the Judge, he was
asked why he had done it, and he replied
that he was starving. and took that means
of getting into Jail. rather than perish in
the street. Public sympathy was at once
aroused, and there was a general rush to
bis rescue; one sent him a new coat aud
pants; o kind hearted woman baked him
q mince pie, another sent him q roast chick.
en-, while many sent money and other pre-.
sents, from different parts of the city.
Everything went on swimmingly for three
or four days, when one of the sharp detec-
tives happened to see him by chance, and
it turned out that he was an old state
prison bird, who had done the same thing
a number of times before. and who was Just
out of Jail. A person would naturally think
that one such lesson would be sufficient, but
last week a fellow by the name of Howard,
startled the town, by smashing a window
and stealing some things, to save his wife
and children from perishing. Again the
people got q craze, merchants rushed for
ward to bail the man who represented
himself as a poor. sick carpenter, out Of
work. The Judge on the bench bad the
wool pulled over his eyes, and in "a hours
collections were taken up in his behalf,
which amounted to over 500. Enough
of furniture and provisions were sent him
to stock a respectable charitable asylum
he, too, was smoaked by a sharp detective,
who recognized the unfortunate carpenter,
as an old and experienced thief, who bad
passed several terms 10 states prison, and
at that very time, he was wanted for ano'
Their offence which may send him up again.
IT is a dreadful damper on many people
who are charitabIy inclined, and many a
poor sufferer will go unrelieved, 90 account
of the trick played by this villainous fraud.
Mr.. Beecher and the Bible Society are
at loggerheads about the Scriptures. It is
now pretty generally conceded that King
James Biole contains many flaws which
the lovers of that good book wish were not
there. A band of learned men in England
have been at work many years hunting up
the errors. geographically or constructive
which have crapt in during the many cen
turtles which it he's been the guiding star
Of the Christian Church. Some thousands
of these errors had been expunged by a
body Of scholars selected by the Bible So
ciety, and the revised edition went forth