Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1886-01-01
GOTHAM GOSSIP.
TIE GEARI MONUMENT FUND IN
CREASING.

Five Hundred Dollars Sent from China
A Champion shooter from England,
Etc.
NEW YORK, Dec. 24.-The steamer
City of Mexico, recently said to be fit
ting out with arms and ammunition
for Honduras, to aid the revolution
there; sailed for Progresso, Mexico, on
Tuesday. The sixty cases of arms
which the agents were warned to take,
have been shipped or board the steam
er Andes, of the Atlas line, for King.
ston, Jamaica, and that vessel will sail
to-day.
The Grant monument fund has
reached a total of SLIPS. Tuesday
Mayor Grace sent to the committee
the following letter which he received
from the Chinese minister :
81 beg to inform you that l have
just received a cablegram from Vice.
roy Ii, Of China, desiring one to do
nate for him, drought the kindness
of your eXcellency, the sum of $500 to
the monument to be erected in the
city Of New York in memory of his
old friend, Gen. Grant. For the same
purpose, | desire also to add 5000 in
my W name. l take the liberty to
enclose a check for the amount, $500,
and ask that you will be kind enough
to forward it to the proper quarters"
E.. NJ. Roberts husband of Miss Leslie,
the actress, and himself formerly n
of the managers OF the Lyceum Thea
ter, died of consumption Tuesday
night. Mr.. Roberts was ia his 29th
year and was born in Cincinnati, and
educated at Kenyon College. A
few years ago he took a scien-
tiic course, then studied medicine
and finally became a p~racticing physi-
clan in Louisville.
William Giles, who claims the title
Of champion wing shot of England,
has arrived here and proposes TO ar,
range a series of matches at pigeon
shooting with American experts.
Being interviewed, he said l am will
ing to shoot a match with any man,
but l prefer to meet Capt. Carver, who
l am told is your best man, but
want it understood that l will
shoot only according TO English
gun rules. If Capt. Carver,
Capt. Bogardus or any other
man wants to arrange a match, all he
has to do, is to put up money and
will cover it. l will probably go to
New Orleans, Chicago, st. Louis, and
other large cities, and make matches
with local experts.
Yesterday, for the first time since
the smallpox became epidemic, there
were no new cases of disease reporte /
Thomas Donohue, employed in Mt
Vernon, Was bitten to-day by q large
dog belonging to Jacob Haas, a build
err, OF Mt. Vernon. The dog fastened
his teeth in the mans thigh and hung
on so teDaciously that it took two
men fully three minutes to
choke him into relaxing his
hold. The wound is a severe
one, and Donohue fears that hydro
phobia may result. Mr.. lass has had
the dog shot Immediately. The spinal
cord of the animal will be removed
by DIR. Bruce, president of the West.
chester County Medical society, and
macerated in alcohol for a few days,
after which, following the example OF
M. Pasteur, a series of innoculations
in rabbits will be made, and the at
tenuated virus then injected into the
patient, if he will submit to the
operation. Mr.. Hass, however,
favors sending Donohue to Paris.
The mad dogs scare has
reach Long Island city. This police
have received notice within the past
twenty-four hours of no less than foul
cases in which persons have been bitten
It's not known that any of the dogs
were rabid, but we're killed as a pre-
cautionary measure. Newspapers con-
tinue to devote a large amount of
space to the subject of mad dogs.