The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-02-15
miscellaneous. s
OUR xHW YORK LETTER.
The Fine Fierd on a Frightful Frolic-TIe-
neudous Celestial Fireworks, &C., 30.

neudous Celestial Fireworks, &C., 30.
From our own Correspondent.
NEw YORK Feb. 5, 1888.
Calamity has followed the Inman
line Of steamers. With the City of
Brussels lost they hired the staunch
liner, the Egypt, the Commodore's
vessel of the National Line, to fill
the vacancy, that the successful line
being willing, for a consideration,
to stop the gap, and then they sue
ceeded in setting fire to the Egypt
and to their pier. Over two mil
lion dollars were swept away like q
fash, but the Egypt lost nothing
but her running rigging and sails,
through a sheet Of fame from stem
to stern, as she was towed out into
mid stream, lighting the Hudson
River. for miles with the majestic
display. Here came in the beau
ties of her construction and right
under our noses proved what we
have several times had the occasion
to refer to the guarantee of safety
enjoyed by all who trust this Ma
tional Line for freight or passage.
No fimsy bulkheads gave way and
let her to the bottom like an old
pot with hole in it. Not much.
Her hull is as good to-day as ever,
and $4,000 will cover the damage
to her clothes, as her sails may be
termed,
Lightning in January played
some curious freaks the other day.
It is very unusual for an ordinary
dwelling here, in block where
many houses Of the same height are
together, to be struck. One was in
Brooklyn very near where your
Radix stores the domestic crowd,
and consumes the midnight kero-
sene, inditing these lucubrations,
and played havoc with that home,
while indoors in stores and dwell
ings people in a circuit of miles
complained Of being ':struck."
Some sort of sport was eveident
enough in many cases by kind of
electrical wave rather than bolt.
The sufferers were in some cases
lifted clean off their feet and dashed
violently to the earth as if in an
earthquake, while all complained Of
sudden nausea and acute neuralgia
pains. The whole circumstance is
remarkable, and will give the scien-
lists something to talk about and
ponder over for some time.
The great society of "sluggers"
has been reinforced by the long ex-
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pected arrival of Mace and the
halfbreed New Zealander, Slade.
They are attended by large staff
of admirers wherever they go. and
are nobbed whenever they show
themselves in their walks abroad.
The announcement Of a sparring
exhibition drew forth shekels in
multitudes, but the only music they
had to face was the martyrdom Of
the police court. The irrepressible
Bergh has managed to get them
arrested, and after much fuss and
feathers they have been put under
bonds to keep the peace which there
was no evidence to shcw they had
the remotest idea of breaking, and
this sort Of martyrdom has made
oesofthem and entae best kind
of an advertisement. Perhaps it is as
well, though Mace truly says that
the encouragement of tie noble art
of self-defence discourages the gen
eral resort to knife or pistol, but it
also encourages lot of hoodlums
and ruffianism. AS when walking
matches abounded, half The people
one met were more or less bitten
by the craze, aud indulged in ab-
normal tramps till they tired of it,
milionaires walking several miles
to their Offices and clergymen tax
ing constitutional breathers to brace
them up for the labors of hunting
over their old barrels for something
the congregations hadn't heard for
a year or two, so pugilism breeds
blackguardism, and fourishing fits
becomes a festive fashion.
One plug developed by some
former epidemic of the kind has
just been settled for a while. l
refer to the bill.poster Kenney, who
murdered csr-driver, after steal
ing an old pipe and battrred sill
yer timepiece. This notorious thug
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