The Portland daily press., 1882-03-22
Gossip
About Men and Women.

| Mrs. Thomas Dixon of Eureka, New, took
hold OF the bride of her husbands horse, and
started to put him in the stable. After she
had crossed the threshold of the stable, the
door closed suddenly and the horse, being out
side, became frightened and drew back. Mrs.
| Dixon's thumb was caught in the door and
| torn from the socket. She did not lose her
| presence of mind, but picked up the thumb
| and sent for the doctor. She desired the MEM
Der replaced, but the doctor said that was be-
| yond the reach OF surgery.
While Henry Jackson, coloTed man OF New
Market, N. j., was leading young stallion to
the barn Friday, the animal suddenly sprang
| upon him, knocking him down, and kneeling
upon his body began to tear his clothing and
| flesh. The horse deied all the efforts of the
| bystanders to drive him off until one Of them
succeeded in throwing basket over his head.
| This gave jackson an opportunity TO get up
| and run for the barn, but before he reached IL
| the horse had him again, and this time tried to
| trample on him. The neighbors then attacked
| the horse with clubs and stones, but he did not
| leave his victim until stunned by blows on the
| head Jackson sustained severe lacerations
| and bruises, but ii is thought that they Will not
| prove fatal.
| One of the Washington correspondents tell
this story of Wormley, the colored hotel man
| of Washington: The first use he made OF his
| prosperity was to bring his old mistress to his
| fine hotel and to give her the best room in 1t,
and, on hearing that granddaughter OF bis
| master was in Washington in 4 government
Office, he went to her, invited her to make his
house her home, and when she told him she
| could not accept that, he proposed that she
| should pay him what she would have to pay
| in boarding house, and take the best his
| house afforded. "Dont you know, she an
swered ''that if it were known that lived at
| Wormley's it would be said that my poverty
| was pretenss. and should lose my office in n
week? And Iif L explained how lived there
| nobody would believe that so much disnter-
estedness existed in the world"
| The popularity of DIR. Strother, of Kentucky,
| is that he thinks he has figured the location of
the Garden Of Eden down fine, and that the
| appe-eating episode really took place at q
point in our Mississippi valley.
Good old Peter Cooper is said to have given
away nearly S2,0OO,OO0, and George j. Seney,
the rich Methodist banker, is treading closely
on his heels His gifts for church, charitable
and educational purposes now foot up 81 ,4S9-
600.
A writer in tie New York World says that
one of the occasions on which Mr.. Conkling
put on his finest manner was the 4th of March
| year ago, when General Hancock, leaning on
| Mr.. Blaine's arm, entered the Senate chamber
| from the Democratic side. AS he approached
the Vice Presidents desk Mr.. Conkling,
| whose seat was near, rose and advanced; and
on meeting each gave bow in full view OF the
Senate and galleries that surpassed anything
in the way Of bow ever seen before on the
floor of Congress.
In the Autumn of 1879 the young son of NJ p
de Billie, the Danish minister to the United
States, on a voyage from Copenhagen to the
Sandwich Islands, threT overheard into the
Atlantic Ocean bottle containing q message
to his brother-in-law, an officer in the Danish
navy, then stationed at st. Thomas. The bot
tle-an ordinary soda water bottle tightly
corked-was set adrift in the latitude OF the
Cape Verde Islands. Last October the Danish
consul at Puerto Plata, San Domingo, Mr.. G..
A. Zeller walking one day in his garden on
the sea shore, observed bottle thrown mp on
the beach by the surf. He picked it up and
found that it contained message, the writing
of which could still be read, though it Was
much faded. He sent the bottle and its con-
tents to the editor of newspaper at ST. Thom-
as, who happened to know the officer to whom
the letter was addressed, and sent it to him in
Copenhagen, where it arrived a few weeks ago
The bottle had Leen carried by the Gulf
Stream across the ocean to the West India Is
lands about 2500 miles.