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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
LONG ISLAND.

FLUsHING.-James Townsend and James Schuy-
day charged with having assaulted and robbed
David johnson, between Flushing and Bayslde,
were arrapncd before Justice Smith on Saturday;
and committed to await the action OF the Grand
Jury. Schuyler has only been out of prison few
weeks.
BRrsIAU.-Frederlck Radeke, age fifty, who mar
ried Minnie Homer, age sixteen, last Thursday,
was before Justice Wagner on Saturday charged
with bigamy. He pleaded not guilty and was com
United in default of II 900 bonds. Mrs. Radeke
No. l receives much sympathy from her neighbOIs.
She is the mother of four children.
LITTLE NFCK.-Cries Of murder aroused the peo-
pie living at Old House Landing yesterday morn
ing, and Constable Roe, with several other men,
found william Wanser, "a bagman, sixty years old,
living on the doorstep of his house. unconscious
and bleeding from fracture of the skull. Wanser
said later that his son-n-law, james Stevens, had
attacked him with al oar. Wanser is in pre-
carlOus condition.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19

Nothing was known by the Staten Island s,a Ferry
cOmpaniCs. Yesterday, III regard 10 hr. Starlu 5
new line to the North Shore
DROWNED FROM A FERRYBoAT.
An unknown man, 81 years old, fell into the river
last night from the ferry BOAT RoSyn whle crossing
from Weehawken TO Forty-second-st., and was
drowned
RESIGNATION OF A RECTOR.
The Rev. Washington R0dman rector OF Grace
will be decided at the next meeting whether OF not
the church will close
The Italian residents of the city at MaTtinelis on
Saturday evening perfected arrangements for bqud
ing and maintaing national hOspltal. ABOUT
81, 600 was subscribed.
YOUNG TRAVELLERS AT CASTLE GARDEN.
A girl and two boys, age seven, SIX and hve years
respectively arrived at Castle Garden yesterday
on the City of Montreal. They were travelling
alone. Oh their way to their father in Illinois
BURNED BY THE FALLING OF A LAMP.
Francis Dryzal on Saturday night let lamp fall
in his home No. 32S East Ihirtyiirst-st, while as,
sistng his invalid WIFE and so severely burned
himself that the police sent MIN 10 bcIeNue
Hospital.
cHoKED by A PIECE OF MEAT AT SUPPER.
While James Dunwoody, age scventy-slx OF NO
339 tast Thirty ninth-st, was eating his supper
ON Saturday night he attempted to swallow piece
of meat which stuck In his throat, causing death
by asphyxiation.
BRIDGE TRAVEL YESTERDAY.
The travel on the bridge Yesterday was far less
weather that prevailed Superintendent of Tolls
Van Keuren said that the number of pedestrians
would scarcely reach $4,000.
DISCUSSING THE MORMON QUESTION.
Ex-Governor Gibbs, of Oregon, last evening de-
lyered an address On The Mormon Question" IN
the Madison Avenue Congregational Church. he
Sepeated the history Of MOrmonism from Its incep-
ton and denounced it as an evil that must be put
down by the Government.
THE sIAMESE EMBASSY IN THIS CITY. 3,
The members of the Siamese Embassy arrived
from W ashin gtOn early yesterday They occupy
suite OF rooms, on the second floor on the 23d-st.
side of the Fifth Avenue Hotel They will remain III
this city several weeks.
REvIvING MEMORIES OF COLLEGE DAYS
The members of the Psi Epsilon college fraternity
who live Ill NewYoIk and its vicinity will meet at
DelmOnicO's next Monday evening and at q dinner
will form alumni association similar to those in
other cities. Responses TO toasts will be made by
Chauncey NJ. Depew, Frederic X. Coudert, A. w.
Tourgee and others.
ANNIVERSARY OF sUSDAY-sCHoOL-
The Sunday school of the Pilgrim regational
Church at Madison-aye. and One-h
twenty first-st held ts twenty second anniversary
last night under the leadership OF superintendent
Charles T. PIERCE and Musical Director L. 3. Stone.
Addresses wero made by the Rev. ). II. Virgin. Mr.:
PIERCE and Others and there were chants solos and
choruses by the children.
TAMPERISG WITH THE MAIL BOXES ,
Tho Post Office authorities recently discovered
that some of the street letter boxes opened In
the night and the mail extracted. The police have
ordered the arrest Of any person not In iettercar.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19

mar, N,mroa fAust Geronich Havre AZ days In ballast
esTg Mercury of Aberdeen Thomas Bahia 43 days. WIN
sugar to order vessel 10 Perkins CO. Ma, % ssv. via
Delaware Breakwae with to Leaycraft CO. VesSe "
Ra america Armstrong Barbados and Antigua IL days
with and o2sses to II asy with sugar to
LW 4 p Armstrong. o-
suNsET-w,nd AZ sandy Hook light swi clear. At City
Island. fresh. sW' clear rrr
Steamers Australia for Hamburg Louis Buck Jackson
Banks Anna for Hobart Town Galore. =.
Alsosailed-via Long sound-Bsrk Betsy, Cadiz'
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
sHovELFUL sHoAL LIGHTsHIP.
position OF the sgoa mile Ns from ~ her Present
P Esee RIP H1Ea sSsh RS.nsi are
s SsSe q should pass sS to the shh
or oS T eS Sas RRSF S@GS
now mark, tho north end of stone Horse shoa'
by Oruer Oh 'n' Lighthouse i STEPHEN C ROWAN,
Washington DC, May is. 1884
THE MOVEMENTS OF STEAMERS
FOREIGN PORTS
QUEENSTOWN Nav ls-Auved steamer Alaska lBrl; NM
ray NewYork May 10. her way to Liverpool Iana
proceeded go, mn, ,,,,,,+Or and Aurop,a esr,
Hams. from liverpool hence for New.YOrk. ,
As1 sailed Arizona OBJ, Brooks, from Liverpool
corESIAgEy to May l7-salled, steamer Hekia DAM
DOMESTIC PORTS.
BosToN. May 17-Arrved, steamer sidOnan (Br) smarl
Cleared steamers Worcester Bonknshp, Halifai Saxon
Snow. philadelphia ID Ii Miller, HOwes, Batimore neptune
Berry. NewYork. -, -. n =,
garian nr) LnzLolo, LiyerpOo SOuhWoo1 tBrl Waher'
iumscoa; Berkshire HOwes Baltimore; Norman Ooosms'
Philadelphia.
PHILADELPHIA l7-Arrved steamers POttsvllle, bs
con Boston; Rorks OdoIne, and Ce1tlpede Worth, 10
Brggs Pr0vdenco city % savannah catherine savannah
Fannie. Grlmley. and commonwealth Coles New. fork
lsth-Arrived. steamers Achilles, Hand. Portandj IL
Bdde Wallace New York .-- r.r,
BREAKwArER, May 17Saed. steamer fenhSyl-
vnn,a from Philadelphia Tor Liverpool
BNTIHO H. MAY l7-AruTed. steamers MentnoIe DE- AM
lot LverpoJi ALE giany, hallett Boston BacAstohe heh
Provide ce OCtoTaIa Reynolds New lOrs: .,,,o.
Cleared steamers Nneaud, Hart, New.fOrk q + Meyer
Anthony HOi ohon
Sailed, steamer Mounts Ray. ,.,..
lSth-Arriycd CID Br, SaTle Benisaf 10 anne
OBJ auloy POTusn; Bnccntauv 81, Howsage BOSTON,
Martha stevens Glance NeW York -
BICHMOSD May i7-ArTivc. steamer Roanoke, New YORK
WLMNGroS, May l1-Clcared, steamer Regulator Do""o'
New York.
CHAmfsrox. May I7-Arrivcd. steamer santo Domingo
Kelly. New York.
sailed. steamer City OF Atlanta. New.York
1Sth--A rriyed steamer Equator Philadelphia 1890.
SAVANNAH May l7Clesred steamer acoochoo kempton'
NcN-YOrh
sailed. ate amer Juniata. Philadelphia
ISth-ArrIycd. steamer VIM Lawrence Baltimore
Sailed. steamer Nacoochco Now.YOri. ~,
NEw-OeLEASs, May l9-Cleared steamer fucatan tbr1'
Al the Passss-Arrived Rosshre (Brl Messna
Hudson FrcemOn New.Iork.
l9th-At the Passes-Arrived, steamer Hutchinson New
YORK
GALvESroX, May 17-sailed, steamer Lone STAR Quick
kcW.lOTk.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19

Moneurs d. Conuay IN The San Frdneisco Chronicle.
Another play that | saw in India was called
Indra abha" that u.s. the Court Of Indra" The story
ia this One day green fairy went out 10 walk and saw
living asleep on q handsome Prince. she fans in
love with him. and, summOning devil, she babe him
bring 10 her abode in IidTds court, both the Prince
and the garden seat winch no slept On the Princes
awaking she confesses her love aDd for time all pds
intrigue TIE Prince and the fairy are brought before
the King OF Gods" Idra. who orders the Prince 70 DC
fairy 10 be expelled from the court she 10 exed In tears
and, bewaing lover, wanders through Persia and
In this disguise Use she at icnsR returns 70
insra' court she sIsr her coaPR S.ssr .n Of
orders the singer to be brought before him. on her re-
peatng the song he promises to grant her any fsysr se
hay ssk She thereupon throws open her yogi robes d
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
sIrNDRY NEW-JERSEY TOWNS.

ORANGE-George " Hecker has presented bis
property on the mountain to his son.m-law, who
will erect large residence there. Mr.. Heckers
residence was destroyed by fire last winter. 80.
General Mcclellan viii close hishouseand spend the
season with his family at Long Branch. -; The
Rev. Bishop Faulkner, who has completed his
travels in tie Holy Land is expected in Orange to-
morrow. II is stated that another petition for
the division of st. Marks parish is being signed
and has over 200 signatures.
TRoUPIIA-There is a large demand for houses,
which cannot be supplied by property owners, and
building improvements are projected FOR this year
KEARYEY.-The Township Committee has, after
years of dispute and delay, made an agreement
with Mrs. Harriet Watkins whereby two judg-
raents served upon the township to meet her claims
of over sol 900 have been cancelled, Mrs Watkins
agreeing to accept town bonds for the amount of
her claim with small balance III cash.
HoBOKFN.-Richard Irgleson. age ten, OF Car
mlne-st,, New-York. while playing with a compan-
ion on the Ravlne road yesterday, fell down the
cliff, forty feet and was probably fatally injured.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
WHAT is GOING on TO-DAY.

FeceptiOn OF
T..
Board of Estimate and AppOrtonment, 1890 q. m
IIamersley will contest, SuIrOgate's Court, 10 a. IN
Grant 4 Ward case before Referee Cole T. m.
rasc-blu on Polo GrOunds-Ncw-TOIk against Bunalo
Baseball, Washington Park, BrOoklyn-Brooklyn
discussion OF Theology and Philosophy, St. Johns Col
lege Fordhain, p IN.
Anniversary OF War Veterans OF 14th Regiment Brook
lyn. evening . IN. ~ n, w. NJ.
Dyil of sudcnts Of Columbia Institute, list Regiment
New-York Academy of Sciences, Columbia College,
4.
Methodist preachers, No sos Broadway, morning.
Rautis, preachers No. MuTIay-stp morning.
Reformed pastors No. "a Vesey-st., morning.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19

o d.,tv and beps for the release Of her lover the
Prince The request is granted and they 1--we happily
long time The charm IN this piece was the sngnH la
dancing OF the fairies, who seemed 10 DC an
and named by their c0ors. ,., ,,ooo
At the Parsee Theater in Bombay saw modern peG,e
"A satire on the Infant marriages OF the Hndus In tnis
amusing little play wealthy boy, who had been maea
to a distinguished child had fallen into the nau , VI
him an exceedingly cos,ca letter 70 write 10 nus W.T.
stating that he Ia having very pleasant t
where he was tut would TO her again Wheh ne gov
tira1
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
Jersey CITY.

William, alias "Bclch," Harvey, Henry Shellock!
and Thomas GaIrigan, the leaders OF gang OF
ruiians were arrested yesterday, charged with as
sault and battery on Hathaway Cure, a bOatman.
John LAWN and Thomas Kelly, who live at No.
14S Nnthst. became involved III drunken fight
1t is feared that the skull is fractured.
John Meyers. carrying a suspicious looking bun
die was ARE ted at the Pennsylyama Railload
ferry yesterday morning. The bundle contained
goods stolen from J. g. SecOr No. 30o Pavonia-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
NEWS FROM TIE SUBURBS.
NEWARK.

The viii of Ex-Governor Ward has been filed at
Trenton 1t does not contain any charitable be-
quests.
number of singing societies assembled early
Yesterday and wa lbed TO Eagle Rock where they
sang chOTuses to the rising sun.
Michael GOldsticll a Russian jew, who gave his
address as No. II ESseX-st., NewY0Tk, is III GUS
todv at Police Headquarters, charged with swnd-
ling pawnbrokers by pawning bogus gold rings In
bis pockets were found pawn tickets of brokers i'll
q score OF cities.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
FOREIGN STE1MERS DUE ar THIS POR7
SHLPPLNG NEVS.


ARRIVED
PTitanDc Br Perry Liverpool May anu queens
town g. with mlse and passengers 20 r COrtis.
Ctearer CIV ~ Nnnfreal flir Lewis Liverpool Nav and
Queenstown Z with ndse md passcngere 10 ilnAn - %
steamer A SchOlten tDtCh Wis, ROTTERDAM May - Win
rndse and passengers TO Funch. Edye & Co 800 .
steamer GOO " clyde. Holmes san Domingo INV Nay =
SANTANA Porto Plata TO- Iayten II and TURKS Island
5daya with mdse and passengers To " m Clyde & Co.
steamer marlborough Pr Fraser. bermuda days Win
mdse and passengers o 4 T. Outerbridge & 60.
steamer Morse Austin Blracoa days with frn 10
Gomez & PcaTealL -, -. -,
ChatahOOchcc Daggctt savannah "a DAYS Win
mdse and passengers 70 Henry Gongr IT. -.
steamer Manhattan stevens Point. Va, and Newport
News with md-e and passengers 10 Old dominion - Co.
Steamer Wyanoke Huphbfs, Richnoud CIV Point ana
Norfolk with mdsc passengers 10 Old Dominion - Co.
Steamer r Kni. ht Chichester Georgetown ana Alex
sndria with udsc and passengers to Thos W Wighman
Ship Casino Morgan Anterda % d1Ys win empty Dat
rels TO order; vessel ThcO Ringer & Co
Bark c sOuthard Hubert lot Richmond Me-, Maus 'lae
Davis Portland, Or July Honolulu Dec ana Iaiti Jan
30 with order; vessel - Jas " Elwel & GO.
Libby Pratt. 1saguA % Jays WIN lt,ate 81
soda Henmingway q Er)Wni vessel to IL winchester
o.
Bark Conductor Windsor, NSl Kitchener, Havre 80
days with empty barrels 10 order; vessel 10 befau
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
STATEN ISLAND.

NEw-BEIGHTON.-There was a regular summer
travel over the Staten Island railroads and ferries
yesterday. The beer gardens in tia village were
well patTOnized. Extra boats were put on III the
evening to take the people back to the city,
PORT RICHMOND.-A memorial service was held
in the Reformed Church for Supervisor Abram
g. Wood The Rev. DR.. BrOwnel conducted the
service.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
ABANDONING A SCHOONER AT SEA.

The steamer Professor Morse, which arrived yes
terday from Por: Spain, Trinidad, brought Captain
Williams. of the schooner Mary T.. Femerick. and
his wife as passengers. The temerck was aban-
doned at sea on April 3 She left this port for Jack
sonvllle Fla, on March 2, with cargo consisting
mostly of railroad iron. The first day out she en-
conntered a severe northwest gale which blew her
OF the coast. She before il, and one by one her
sails were blown away. On the seventh DAY OUT
fhe RerIuudas were sighted but the schooner
did not have a patch of canvas remaining she was
unable TO make port and was blown to sea again.
She was strained and leaking badly, the pumps
being unable to keep her free. Besides the captain
and his wife there were on board the mate, stew
ard and three negro sal lors They had aboG! aOan-
bonnd for Trinidad came along and carried them
wears old ard was owned by James Ponder, of Will
mingtOn, Del.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
HOME Ne HIS.
PROMINENT ARRIVALS.

Windsor Hotel-Ramon Fernandez, Mexican
Minister TO France; Sir John Mcneil aud Colonel MI
gent England Sandord Fleming OF Ottawa Cahaqa'
and General Lowe, of Firm Arenue folc-
Tie Siamese Embassy, Colonel William L: scott of Erie,
Penn and Mrs. Hicks Lord Grand Central Hotel
Captain Forster Thursby and CAPTAIN Cookesey OF Eng
70,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
Announcements.

Earl e. Wilson's "short-bandn Collars and
beadcdce Cufs are the best. sold everywhere.
TORPID LIVER; Headache. Fever, Dyspepsia,
ChiIls cured by Wells Health Remover"
'RotGH OK" TOOTH POWDER, elegant. l5c
HENRY A. DANIELS, NJ. D.,
Iil LeIinstonaver between 10Th and )bh-SS
EouTs 3 To- tD7. Diseases II the Nervous ,y,t,n
GoniiO Urinary organs Impotence and 5tsrtitE
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
MARINE INIELLIG ENCE.
MINIATURES ALMANAC.

MINIATURE ALMANAC.
sunrises 43j ses7lO Moor ri 'es, los Moons ageds "a
HIGH WATER rO-DAT
1A-sandv Heox 2O6 GOV. Isaal 23O Heu oa'h 4;lS
PM.-sandy hoox. PA GOV. Island 800 iten Oa.a iiO@
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19

A RTISTIC WALL PAPERS.-50,0 600 rolls of
~ fine Gold Paper 30 cts ro factory price 20 cts;
stock OF carpets and on Cloths from 20 cts per YARD
painted papercd and kalsoined JAS. W. COATES,
2S3 Huds0n-st., near Sprngst.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
WEsTCHESTER COUNTY.
AN OLD WORLD FAIRY TALE.

Observation-Disclosures Corrigan yesterday con-
firmed number of persons III ST. Patricks Church.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
Assemble the druggists in
Convention

and request ,hem to decide which is the most
effective and really valuable of all the so
called blood purifiers offered for sale, aud
their first
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
NETWORK CITY.

Nothing was known by the Staten Island Ferry
companies yesterday, in regard to DR. Starlns
new line to the North Shore.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
There is no question OF greater
National

Importance than that which affects the
health OF the people; question, for the
settlement OF which, in the only proper
manner, each Individual must take
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
Ballot
Show

something Of the public confidence in Ayers
sarsapanlla. Its use produces activity in
tie en- culalion. and enables the blood to
throw of poisonous matterfrom the system.
"By tie use OF Ayers Sdr-
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-01-09
Hanging In Chains.

One of the last criminals, If not the
very last, who, after execution, were
gibbeted and chung in chains must
have been Cook, the murderer Of Mr..
Paas, at Leicester in 1888 or 1884. Some
of the elder of your readers may recall
the horrible details of the murder. If l
remember rightly, Cook, being in pecu-
mary difficulties, knocked his victim on
the head with a crow'bar for the purpose
of robbery during a business call, and
endeavored to make away with the body
by burning it piecemeal in the fireplace
of his warehouse or Office. So much
horror was called forth by the atrocity of
the crime that it was strangely enough)
thought advisable to hang the body of
the murderer in chains, somewhere in
the neighborhood of Leicester, in ''ter-
rorum homacidarum." But the gibbeted
corpse proved so powerful a magnet to
the lovers of the horrible that people
came from all parts to see the ghastly
spectacle, until, as l remember its being
described to me by the iailer, ''it was
like a fair under the gibbet" The
scenes of riot and debauchery which
ensued led very speedily to an order
for the removal of the body. As boy
visited Leicester Jail in 1884, and saw
there the so-called ''chains" in which the
lmurderer's corpse had been suspended.
They consisted of a set of iron straps,
framed together so as to encase the whole
body head, arms and legs, with hid
eOus resemblance to the human form. At
the time l speak of, hard upon half
century ago, these irons were kept in a
kind of museum in Leicester Jail, to-
gether with casts of murderers' heads
and other curiosities of the same kind
Notes and Queries.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-01-09
A Sale of 17.000 Pictnres.

A letter from Paris says it has often
been mystery to the world what be-
comes of the thousands of pictures
painted in Paris during twelvemonth
and exhibited at the annual Salon and
other galleries. Some explanation, at
least, is now forthcoming. There has re-
Gently died in the Rue de Rivolia certain
Nj. Borniche, who turns out to have had
in his possession no fewer than seventeen
thousand modern pictures. NJ. Borniche
was retired timber meechant, and had
made great fortune. lie seems to have
been possessed by "A perfect mania for
canvas. Quantity with him went before
quality. lie offered, therefore, a valu-
able market for young and struggling ar
lists, who, it Is said, rarely appealed TO
him in vain. All his houses being
blocked with his multitudinous acquisit
tions, NJ. Borniche was about TO build a
great gallery ON some land near the Bou-
levard st. German, wherein to hang
them for public exhibition, but death in
terrupted the carrying out of this project.
The II, 900 pictures are now to be sold at
the Drouot. A beginning will be made
with 5000 during the winter Four sales
are to be held per week, and ESQ pictures
put up at each sale.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-01-09

reckon that may as well sell il to you
again. What win you give for i'll"
"Oh, don't know that the stuff is Of
any use to me; but seeing its you, sher-
itf, III give you dollar for the lot ef
you raly don't want it.
The sheriff delivered back the medi-
cine at four dollars discount from his own
purchase, and received his change.
Now" said the drummer, 'rve got a
question or tew to ask you. Hev you
got drummers license about your
trousers, anywhereln
'No; | haven't any use for the article
myself" replied the sheriff.
''Hain't, ehG Wal, l guess we'll see
about that pretty soon. Eff | understand
the law, it's clean case that you've been
tradin' with me- and hawkin' and peddlin'
patent medicine on the highway, and |
shall inform on yoe-blamed eff l don'tW
When the Yankee reached the court
house he made his complaint, and the
sheriff was fined eight dollars for selling
goods without license.
The sheriff was heard afterward TO say
that ''you might as well try to hold u
creased eel as live Yankee. " We and
humor Ot the Age.
The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1884-01-09
A Boys Battle with an Alligator.

While Captain r. b. johnson, of
Clinch county, was helping a party of
twenty-five or thirty men haul for trout
in mill-pond the other day, his little
son, Joseph, had a most thrilling expert
ence. Master Joseph carried bag, or
corn sack, in which to deposit the fish
when caught. When loaded with as
many as he could carry he would take
them out and make deposit and return
for more. In making one of these trips,
while wading through water about three
feet Deep and some distance from the fish
ermen, a monster alligator, said to be of
unusual size, rose suddenly right at the
boy and seized him by the thigh. A
desperate struggle ensuedrthe boy
battled for his life and the alligator
for his prey. 1t so happened that
the bag, which hung by the boys
side, was caught in the aili-
gators mouth with the thigh. and it
proved a sort of shield-lessening greatly
the incisions made by the brute's teeth,
and this, perhaps, prevented shock to
his nervous system which might have
made him succumb without the struggle
which saved him his life. BY an effort
-one of those superhuman efforts which
come to men only when facing death
the boy tore his bleeding flesh from the
alligator's jaws, The monster grimly
held to the sack moment with the delu-
sion, perhaps, that he still had his prey,
atfording the boy an opportunity to es-
cape.
He had hardly extricated himself from
the jaws of death before the fishermen,
alarmed by the struggle, were at hand,
and another battle ensued. Thirty men,
armed with gigs, poles, pocket-knives
and such other instruments of war as
were at hand, charged upon the
monster. Being in three feet of water the
gator had considerable advantage, but
those men had their blood up and were
not to be outdone. They poled and
punched and halpooned him until the
brute was almost outdone, when one of
the party made bold to seize him by the
tail. This was n signal for a general as
sault In less time than it wouldtake to
tell it number of the more daring had
him by the tail and legs. There were
too many of them for the gator to slap,
around with his tail, peculiar mode Of
warfare, and he had to give UP the fight.
A harpoon was plunged into his mouth,
and then it was safe to approach him
with pocketknives Soon his head was
severed from his body and the victorious
party marched out of the pond with the
monsters head on a pole - VdldOrta (Gal
Times.