News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1885-07-16
THE WONDERS OF A DAY.
NOTES OF CURIOUS THINGS TAKING
PLACE ALL ABOUT Us.

An Unfortunate BalIoonist-The Result of
PRACTICAL JOke-Whipping n Wife Beat
"A jam of Saw Logan Indiana Jok
ETC., ETC., Etc.
A JAM of-logs in the Kennebec Riv
detied all efforts of the lumbermen
break it. Lumbermen climbed out
the head of the jam and deposited
large quantity of dynamite which W,
connected by wire with battery c
shore. The gates at the dam at Indis
Pond were opened and head of ten fe
suddenl y poured down through the va
ley. The great pile of logs creaked an
twisted, but did not start until an ele
trio button on shore was touched. The
was tremendous explosion. Logs fle
high in the air, and sudden shower
splnters fell for acres around. The jal
started en- masse down the valley. The
was a strange crashing and rumblin
that grew into roar as the immenE
body gathered speed The current rur
at sixteen miles an hour for long di
lance below where the blockade occurre
and the logs, moving as solid bod,
gained nearly that speed. 1t was
strange sight. No water was to be seer
and the great black avalanche, rushin
through the valley with an unearthl
roar, presented a spectacle which thos
who witnessed it will long remember
Lumbermen say there were fully fourtee
million logs in the drive as it finall
swept down stream. After the mass 90
In motion it stretched ont so that it
height above the water was about twent
feet, many of the logs riding down in al
upright position. Many logs caugh
upon rocks and projections, and wer
broken or ground to pieces.
In BALTIMORE Frank Pyers, convicted
of brutally beating his wife and SEN
fenced to fifteen lashes and six months
In Jail, received the corporal portion OF
his punishment. He stood the ordeal
with considerable GOODNESS and nerve, al
though blood oozed from the heavy
blows of the cowhide When brought
from his cell he walked to the whipping
post, mounted the platform and facili-
tated the work of the deputies by plac-
ing himself In position so they could
fasten the iron clamps with ease When
Sheriff Airey stepped upon the platform
the wife beaten pressed his head against
the upright, closed his eyes and clenched
his teeth. He received the first two
blows from the four foot cowhide with
out moving. At the third stroke, how
ever, his knees began to tremble, but,
perceiving his weakness, he Strengthened
up and did not move a nerve until the
tenth blow was struck. This encircled
his neck and tore the flesh on the right
breast. Then Pyers began to shake and
tremble all over and could not recover
himself. The whipping took but six
teen seconds, and when the fifteenth
blow was struck the man was immedi-
ately released. He walked without sup
port to his cell. While being attended
by DR.. Hoopman he exclaimed, ''This
is hard treatment for white man,
BRAZIL buys from the United States
S., 900, 900 to So, 600, 900 worth of flour
in year. American exporters, when
-four is cheap, as it is now, occasionally
send largely increased quantities, and
expect that market will be made for it.
Its cheapness, however, seems hardly to
make difference In the quantity con-
snmed. Some 10000 barrels month
are consumed at Rio and its dependent
markets, and it seems almost impossible
to increase this. At Rio the bread is
made by bakers; it is of good quality
and is eaten by all classes. The great
obstacle in expanding consumption is the
lack of internal transportation, and the
fact that the mass of the people have
never been accustomed to use flour, they
being satisfied with the -four made from
the manioca root, and which they habit
ually eat mixed with their stewed black
beans and dried beef. A large part of
the interior population produce and buy
but little They live in a primitive
manner, in cheap dwellings with matched
roofs and earthen floors, sleep in ham
mocks, use but the scantiest articles of
furniture, and even convey their food to
their mouths with their fingers.
A PRACTICAL joke played upon a
Croatian peasant has nearly caused the
destruction of the chemical laboratory of
the University of Agram. The peasant,
who was coming with his wife into
Agram, separated from her, agreeing to
meet her few hours later at certain
place. As she delayed her return, he ex-
pressed his anxiety to bystander, who
told him, in jest, that his wife had prob
ably been kidnapped by the university
vivisectors, who made it their business
to cut up women and children. The
wife came up soon afterward and went
home with her husband; but the latter
repeated what he had heard, and the re-
suits have been most serious On Whit
sunday an Infatuated mob of peasants at
{ool-a1 4ha IoHaro+rN,xy GCnAyxr,
with the hell kitchent' and had to be
driven off by soldiers. The university
has since been watched every day by
evil-disposed crowds, and there was an
other attack on the succeeding Sunday.
AL the servants of the university have
left their situations, and the professors
have had to ask for police protection,
being in terror of their lives.
A sERGEANT-MAJoR, named Ebrard, of
the Fifteenth French army corps, four
years ago embezzled some of the funds
placed in his charge, and lost all at
Monaco. He ran away, took the name
of Antoine Vorner, enlisted In the
foreign legion, and volunteered for Ton
quin. He was wounded at Chu and lost
his left arm. He received the medal.
Subsequently he was on the point of
being proposed for the cross of honor for
special acts of bravery, when one of his
former subordinates recognized him and
denounced him. On being arrested he
admitted his guilt, and was taken back
to France ON board transport ship. His
trial excited a great deal of interest. His
lawyer pleaded for his acquittal on the
novel ground that his glorious exploits
had wiped away his former crime, and
the court martial, after a few minutes
deliberation, unanimously acquitted him.
The announcement of his acquittal was
hailed with Joy by the sympathetic
crowd which attended his trial, and with
shouts of ''Vice la France!"
A LAD of seventeen, who was with the
Egyptian army under Hicks Pasha, was
an eyewitness of his death, and gives
this account: clicks Pashap and the
very few English officers left with him,
seeing all hopes of restoring order gone,
spurred their horses and sprang out of
the confused mass of wounded, dead
and dying. These officers fired their re-
volvers, clearing space for themselves,
till all their ammunition was expended.
They killed many. They had got clear
outside. Then they took to their swords
and fought till they fell. Hicks Pasha
alone remained. He was terror to the
Arabs. They said he never struck a
man with his sword without killing
him. They named him Abou Deraa
Dougal, the heavy armed (or thick or
brawny). He kept them at bay, but he
was struck on the wrist with sword
and he dropped his own. He then fell. +"
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