The Yazoo sentinel. (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1878-1916, 1891-05-28
SOMEWHAT STRANGE.
ACCIDENTS AND INCIDENTS OF
EVERYDAY LIFE
Queer Episodes and Thrilling Advea-
lures Which show that Truth il
Stranger than Fiction

New YORK city on every Saturday from
about noontime until midnisht is what
is known as "Paddy's Market.p 1t lies
between 34th and 42d streets on both
sides Of Ninth avenue, and ihele are
fully ive thousand people who 20 hcre
as purchasers within the hours named.
There is no massive municipal structure
covering the three or four hundred buck
sters who make the neighborhood reson-
ant with their peculiar cries and the
description of their wares aud merchan.
disc. The wagons are backed up along
the sidewalks, and sorrier set Of horses
and vehicles could not be found in any
other section Of New York. When
Saturday noon arrives and a thrifty
huckster finds that his stock is still upon
his hands, whether of vegetables. meat,
fish, or what not, he hurries TO "Paddys
Market, pretty certain that the hundreds
of housewives from the big west side
avenues hunting for bargains will give
him chance to dispose of his surplus
stock. From to 10 and II o'clock the
biggest and loudest war Of words
between the hucksters and their GUS
toners takes place. After that time the
white customers generally drop away
from the wagons and toward midnight
the negroes from Sixth and seventh
avenues fill their baskets with what is
left in the wagons, almost at any price
they offer to the ueary pedflers. Taken
altogether. "Paddy's Market is well
worth visitor Saturday night.
YoozHAStS of Kiev reports an incident
of the most revolving barbaIity which
charaterizes the Russian peasants Of some
districts. 4 peasant Of the village Of
Potrovsk. near Odessa, sold his aged
father and mother for 25 roublcs as
slaves to peasant of the ncighboring
village of Balovannoye. A written
agIeement TO the transaction was made,
and the seller received one rouble on &C
count, promising to deliver the slaves on
a certain date. When the time came
and the slaves were not delivered, the
purchaser came to Potrovsk to claim
them The poor old couple were per-
suaded TO go with their new master, for
they were told their son would be sold
out OF house aud home if his contract
were not fulfilled. But their grand
children would not let the old woman go
because she had brought them up and
they were fond of her The seller, then,
for the sake of his children, offered the
purchaser d compromise; he would give
an old aunt who was in the house instead
of his mother. But no sooner did he
make that offer than he came to grief.
The old aunt, unwilling to go shaving
for stranger, kicked up row, and at
last ran away to the Natehalnik (Gov-
eminent AGENT of the district and re-
ported the whole story. Three police
We're sent to the house and the whole
party was arrested. Both purchaser and
seller received deserved chastisement,
and their written agreement was torn up.
on top Of the account Of the recent
horrible massacre BY the Hova Governor
OF Nossive, Madagascar, comes another
story illustrating the ferocity of those
people who are nominally under French
protection. 1t appears that Rannisilofo,
Governor of Mahaaoro, had an uufortun-
ate native tortured in the most horrible
manner because he refused to obey him.
The victim was bound to a pole and in
that position paraded through the village
for two whole days. When freed from
the pole he was placed in sort of coffin,
followed from the trunk of tree and
covered with plank in which there was
nothing but small hole OF about three
inches for his mouth and nose. The I'M
fortunate native was kept screwed down
in this coffin not less than two months
and actually lived during that time. He
was fed through the aperture, his rela-
tives beng permitted to give him food.
At length. upon the payment OF 100
piastres, the Governor allowed the man
to be released. In addition TO these
brutalities the Hovas are everywhere az
gressive against the French, and Euro
peans are not safe even at the port Of
Tamatave The question whether France
will enforce her claim Of authority over
the island is becoming an important one
to other nations that have commercial
interests in Madagascar.
Two or three miles west Of Hiawassee,
on the mountain dividing Hiawassee and
Brasstown. on lot of land No. 81. in the
seventeenth district and first section, and
on the west side Of the mountain, Mr..
Hamilton, of Athens, Ga, is mining for
corundum. On a recent day he found
that his supply Of water. with which he
used to wash his corundum. had ceased
to flow. One Of his workmen was dis
patched to find out the cause. He quickly
returned and said that the mountain was
sinking. Soon the alarm spread. and
parties started to explore and solve the
mystery. They soon found that a very
large assure was opening in the earth in
the shape Of a semi-ciTclc. and large trees
were falling in every direction. The
amount Of and encompassed was about
forty acres. This looked ike it might
be slide. but by examining closely they
found that other assures we're opening on
the southwest and northeast, crossing
the mountain. The opening in some
places is as much as SIX feet wide and
the depth is unknown.
The exhibition BY New York doctor
to q few friends several days ago Of a
singular relic in the shape Of an Indians
head from which the bones had been re-
novel recalls to the Recorder another
remarkable curio now in the possession
Of a weil-known lady Of the metropolis
The original owner Of the head IN the
doctors recession. It is said, was an In
dian Of Ecuador. and il had fallen
through the fortunes Of war into the
hands Of an enemy, who preserved it and
wore It az his belt as a trophy. The