New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-08-19

Rha Invention hardly be recommended 70 cau,,ous
Inc Lomscfae Coarier-JournaJ prints a ro-
manuc s'ory' furnished by special correspondents
winch IL pronouncee either the biggest sepsattop n, ,
biggest lie Of the season., about Italian named Fr.
cisco Bernin recuse and scholar who ccrnms,,e,
suicide at his home In the southwestern part OF Pulask,
County, KY, last Sunday. The only nossible w., :,
penetrating TO the solitary hut in which he live6 yas
by scrambling half mile through a tangled srow,h q,
underbrush and mp rugged mountain side But when
once the threshold OF his isolated home t
correspondent found himself the midst OF luxury ana
with every evidence of refinement about him The -
gle room was elegantly furnished. adorned with van
able works Of art and supplied with but choice
library The ceiling covered with skyblue silk ana
wardrobe contained number Of expensive and ela.o
rate costumes On under the window lay the dead
body of the Italian. his right hand still holding the ps
tol which had ended his strange existence On the
table was diary containing evidences that a NJ of
jealousy he had committed atrocions murder years
drove MIN into the Wilderness had pursued him thither
ahd eventually bounded him To his death Accepting
the ALTERNATIVES which The Courierourndi consdersseiy
t III :, sale 70 pronounce this weird tale the big
The construction committee of the Nissjs-
sippi River Commission consisting of General O. A. Gill
more Major c. II. Suter and Mr. Is. NJ. Harrod has for
several months past been holding monthly meetings
In 81 Louis for the purpose Of Fastening prepars
ton OF the outft required for vigorous prosecution
Of work under the Appropriation of sooooOo made at
the last session of Congress- all of which will expen
ed on the river below the Of the Ohio AS bad
navigation on that portion of the is invariably due
to excessive widths produced by cavng banks con-
cave bends the first thing stop this cav
ing by suitable works of bank protection brush
mattress weighted with stone other species OF
revetement covering extending from the crest
OF the bank into deep water The next step will be TO
narrow the stream 10 such widths between the river
banks that the current with the velocity pro-
duced by the narrowing. win out and maintain,
even during the low river stages the depths required for
navigation. This viii he done by contracting stream
usually at points opposite the concave bends through
the agency of light, permeabe placed either long,
tudinay ransversely to the shore, both. These
dykes composed Of brush hurdles, Of and brush
screens similar device, will allow water 10
pass through them with more OF less freedom, By
checking without arresting the current win convert
large areas next the shore into shilling settling basins.
within which the river itself is expected during the
hood stage to build up new banks and establish aud
advanced shore ines by constantly depostng the solid
matter which It TRANSPORTS, but which the unimpedel
bow would carry down Ia the Gulf Of Mexico Works Of
thus general character Will be begun she
ing plant Is ready nearly seventy miles i'm lelgth
the worst navigation below Cairo, viz about forty mikes
ON the Plum Point stretch, above Memphis and thirty
miles in the vicinity Of Lake Providence above Nicks-
burg Nothing will be done upon the levees IL il
pected that work will begin about October ].