New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1883-07-08
BLOOD AND THUNDER.

they are capable Of when put on their mettle.
The weather, if we may Judge by the casual
calculations of our fellow-men, has been some
what warm. The only thing which has sur
passed it in energy has been the irrepresslble
and incessant conversation about it. 1t has Gull
minated in several thunder showers of unusual
violence, and foreboding has seized the pub
lie mind that sooner or later the blizzard
of the Western prairie will move East and
take up its home in our midst" There Is
only very slight ground for such forebodlng.
Our most violent storms are far behind the
genuine "blizzard" in power. We have gales
here which break down few trees, upset a
barn or two, and, once in great while, de-
molish church steeple. But that is nothing
to the "blzzard'sn playful work.
There is nothing which genuine biz
card ~ cannot do 1t levels whole towns, sends
COWS in airy fight over church steeples and
puts them down unframed in the next State,
carries houses and their sleeping inmates ten
or fifteen miles through the air and steers them
so gently that they are landed in the adjoining
county without so much as waking the baby.
1t is on record that a Kansas blizzard blew
the works out of hunting case gold watch in the
The works we're su subsequently found uninjured
in the northwest corner OF Colorado. Nothing
of that kind has ever been done by an Eastern
thunder storm. The nearest approach to it was
an incident recorded by one of our most i'm
aginatiye contemporaries after the gale on
Monday night. The blast felled tree across
the track of the New-IIaven Railroad near
village in Westminster County, and at the same
instant struck a woman with such violence as 10
blow her completely out of her red petticoat,
which her husband with great presence OF
mind. seized, and running down the track,
waved as n signal OF danger to an approaching
train, thus preventing disaster. We have
never heard of gallo which understood its
business better than that
The excited condition of the weather has
naturally had stimulating effect upon human
nature. In our own city two men, hitherto
supposed TO be rational. imbibed notion that
it would be tremendous joke to get drunk III
a restaurant, call each other liars, and then
pretend to fight duel. They evolved the joke
with great labor and solemnity and have since
been waiting for the bored public to begin to
laugh. The public, we are pleased to note, is
retaining its mirth without difficulty. West
Fourth OF July and were married in mid-air.
Possibly they had vague idea that married life,
being in some instances a prolonged breeze,
should be begun in q breezy manner. The
Mayor of Waterbury, Conn.,. was visited on
Monday by wild-eyed woman, who hrst
wanted him to support her, and when he de-
clined to assume the expense. took what she
said was laudanum, and promptly sw0oned.
The Mayor sent for three doctors and stom-
ach pump, and after rescuing her from the
brink of q suicides grave, discovered that the
| fatal dose was not laudanum but wine A
ruffian, who was hanged with some difficulty
in Texas on Wednesday. RECALLED the select
assemblage who witnessed the execution with
a thirty minutes speech, pausing in the course
of it to take "two big drinks of whskey." We
are informed by the chronicles of the perform
ance that the criminals religious adviser"
| took the bottle away from him once There is
slight incongruity in the condemned mans
| having a whlskey bottle and religious
adviser at the same time, but it may have
been allowed in imitation of the Chinese
custom of getting the criminal intoxicated
before beheading him. 1t has been said of
this custom that it enabled a man to get drunk
| and vet not have head on him the next
morning.
These are but few of the striking devel-
opments of somewhat remarkable week We
have space to mention only one other An
ALLIGATOR was seen in Mill Rivor, Connecticut,
on Friday night, in the vicinity of the Yale
University boat house. 1t was " three and
"half feet long and the only live saurlan ever
"seen In the State" OF course SO unusual an
arrival has created wide conjecture and many
theories are advanced to account for the
saurian's visit. The only plausible reason for
his advent which occurs to us is not unnat-
ural curiosity to behold tho Yale University
stroke