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Year: 1879

Presence Of mind has lately proved
valuable In several interesting cases.
HeL1y Kuhn, at the bottom Of Il
Dubuque well, drove Il plckaxe into the
slide, and stood under it when he saw
the earth laden bucket falling, thus
saving himself from being crushed.
John Carey, when lightning struck the
New Haven mill of which lie was fore
man, knocked down three of the panic
stricken operators, who were madly
rashing toward the narrow exit, and so
prevented dangerous jam on the
stairway. Mrs. Dunkin OF Long Pra-
RE, Minn., was threatened with M axe
by her crazy son, she said, "well, if
you want to cut my head off let's 90 to
the chopping-blook." He nodded, and
they passed out to the woodpile. 1t
was dark; addressing him with "Now
l'll put my head on tho block, She
drew tho white kerchief from her neck
and threw 1t down and slipped away.
The lunatic struck the kerchlcf a heavy
but harmless blow. Julia Clarke, a
San Francisco factory girl, was caught
In machine by her long hair. She
seized pair Of shears and cut Off her
trcsses so quickly that she was not
drawn between the wheels and killed,
as she otherwise would have been. Ten
men started down the shaft of Nevada
mine in small skip. The donkey en-
gine broke and tho miners felt their
vessel sink downward with lightning
speed. DcaLhly fear turned every face
white. In the panic most Of them
clutcbod the skip to wait for tho crash.
At the first intimation of disaster Pat
rick Mccarthy the engintcr at the top
of the shaft, seized "a heavy plank
and thrust tho end between the pinion
shaft and the reel, from which tho
cable was running of. The drum was
revolving with terrific speed, and the
friction produced streams Of fire and
smoke. But tho engineers thrust was
exactly at the right. point, and tho ond
Of the board soon checked the descent,
bringing the skip to q standstill a few
feet from the fottom.
Year: 1879

AT traverse City we were joined by
a man from Boston who had "Injun"
on the BRAN. He shook hands with
every redskin he could corner, patted
on the head every papoose he could
reach, and the sight of bark wigwam
would send him off on a journey of
three miles along the sandy beach
When we got up to Old Mission "Hia-
watha," rs we called this Boston man,
found plenty Of rood for his character
istic. Lots Of Indians were loafing
around-greasy, slovenly redskins who
hardly knew enough to catch fish, and
the Bostonian let himself loose. He
was the friend of the red man from the
word "go." His charity extended to
the Indian and no further. The ingen-
uity of the Indian surprised and de-
lighted him, and after paying three
dollars for bark lamp-mat worth
about twenty-five cents he exclaimed


"Why, sir, give the red man halt n
show and his ingenuity would outshinc
the white mans in no time at all! lie
has been Knocked down and stepped on
and kept down, but I'll improve him If
l have to stay here all summer"


The next day, while we were hunting
around for harvest apples, we came up
on about twenty Indians on the shore.
One was using "Hiawatha' g" fine comb
another had his tooth brush cleaning
the sand out Of a sore heel; a third was
trying to wind up his watch backwards ;
a fourth had his wallet; fifth had his
hat and cane. The Boston man had a
bottle of perfumery In his satchel, and
one old squaw was pouring the contents
on the soles of her big, black feet, and
then smelling each foot in succession
Her face bore the broadcast, blandest
smile one ever saw, and was darkened
only when her husband came along
and drank up what perfumcly she had
left.


They sailed away down the bay In
their canoes, and an hour after we
came across the Boston man. His en-
thusiasm had so carried him away that
he had spent the night in wigwam.
While he slept and dreamed Of i'm
proving the poor indian, the poor In
dian had remained awake and inprov-
ed his chances. 1t was sad blow to
tho trusting man, and when we took
up shake purse to send him across
to Petoskoy, he had only one wish. He
wanted to be turned loose in paddock
with all the red men of Michigan for
about half an hour.
Year: 1879

noise of the report came from a
canebreak, a quarter of mile away.
Taking lights, two of the hunters made
their way thither and found their COM
rake but Il few rods from the brake,
lying on the ground so badly injured,
as to be helpless and well nigh ex-
hausted. In reply to inquiries he said
he had tracked bear and fired at him
wounding the ferocious beast. he
thought, fatally. On going up to his
prize the bear arose and seized hlm. A
terrific struggle ensued between the
two. Losing his knife in this contest
the hardy hunter said he had no other
means than TO seize Bruins nose in his
teeth. He declared that he had done
this. and with snch effect as to bite Off
the tip Of the entire end of the nose.
The Garth near by was bloody and
trampled, but his comrades ridiculed
the idea of his having bitten Off the
bears nose He continued to assert it
and said that the bear, discounted had
fled and taken refuge In the brake,
where he would wager he then lay
dead. The wounded man was taken
into camp and his injuries attended to
At daylight next morning several of
the hunters went into the brake, and
there found the bear shot through the
body aud with the tip of his nose bitten
Off. The old hunter lived many years
but always spoke with peculiar pride
of his having thus overcome the bear,
and exhibited a score of wounds made
py the animals claws, as proof Of the
story.
Year: 1879

In publishing the names Of those
members Of the late Legislature who
acted in accordance with the wishes of
large majority Of the people OF the
State by steadily favoripg the various
bills introduced in that body, having
for thier object u proper reduction OF rail.
road freights and fares. that Of Senator
Shepherd, Of Elko was inadvertently
omitted, and in simple justice to the
gentleman, in order that there may be
no miHapprehension as to his position
upon that question, among his constit.
uency.wo will state that the record will
show that In every instance, his vote
was cast squarely in favor Of such re.
duction. and whatever influence he
could exert toward the success Of those
measures, was heartily given.
Year: 1879

In concluding his recent very nbls
speech upon the Chinese question in
the United States Senate, Senator
Jones in single paragraph. covered
the entire grounds Of opposition to
Mongolinn immigration. in the follow.
ing words, the full import OF which is
fully appreciated by every intelligent
man and woman upon the Pacific
Coast:


1--WE cherish no bitterness OF feeling
for the Chinese, but We demand that
they be kept out of our household be.
cause they debauch and contaminate
our youth with their degrading and
nameless vices and drive our manhood
from the fields of industry and poison
the very fountains Of economic order
with their slAvish virtues; because they
como among us slaves Of conditions
more powerful than law; because they
accept with willing. slavish obeisance
all the Conditions of seryitude; because
IL is iaIalIy true that II we, by contact,
do lift them little above their original
dull. dead inanity, they drag us far
down from that high destiny which
ages OF heroic effort and self denial
have fitted Us to inherit, snd whereio
our race climbs with such continuous,
unnHBg'ng, and elastic step; and,
finally. because it thwarts the wise
designs OF our National Constitution,
which its trainers declared in its pre-
amble was ordained to establish justice,
insure domestic tran guilty. provide
for the common defense. promote the
general welfare. and secure the bles.
sings OF liberty to ourselves and our
posterity."
Year: 1879

The parties owning the ground ad-
joining the site Of the present Eureka
Court house. have agreed to accept the
$4,000 fixed by the appraisers as tho
value OF the u feet front. With this
acquisition, the county will have ample
room for the new building IL is about
to erect,
Year: 1879

On Thursday there was great fear of
a food In Marysville, many peoply NOV.
Ing into tho second stories OF their houses
and indeed the danger was not past at
last accounts from there.
Year: 1879

Scarcely had the audience deserted the galleries
and auditorium OF the Grand Opera House last
night when alarm of fire brought the fire engines
TO the spot, causing great commotion the neigh
borhood as it was supposed that the premises
burning. Frank Mayo had been playing Davy Crockett
There full house. and had the accident hap
pened fifteen minutes earlier In all probability there
would have been panic and great loss Of life. The
house was almost empty; few straRglers still
in tho gallery and ounging around the vcsti-
Dule. man, whose could not DO
ascertaincd when passing out at the lobby
the Twonty-fourth street entrance, lit
his cigar. and threw the unburnt end of the match
away careessly. 1t fell in crack in the partition,
where a defective gas pipe located IL ignitcd
the escaping gas. and loud explosion followed.
The attaches of the theatre applied n Ilabcock
fire cxtingrnshcr to the hafncs and a signal was
sounded for the Fire Department contingents.
They promptly responded 70 the call. but
on their arrival the danger had passed. The
entire structure filled with the smell
of the burning wood and the smoke dense. The
woodwork around the pipe for an area of ten feet
was consumed. Every precaution is taken, the
managers say, TO avoid against such accidents but
in this particular nothing was known Of the
lcaky gas pipe until the explosion and tho flames had
drawn attention to II.
Year: 1879

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Year: 1879

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THE TRIBUNE, New York.
Year: 1879

During the coming Presidential year The Tribune
will be IA effective agency than for telling
the news best worth knowing, and for enforcing
sound politics. From the day the war closed it has
been most anxious for an end of sectional strife.
But it two years ago. and was the first persist
emily to Proclaim the new danger to the country
from the revived alliance of the Solid South and
Tammany Hall. Against that danger it sought to
rally the old party of Freedom and the Union. 1t
began by demanding the abandonment of personal
diskes, and set the example. 1t called for end
to attacks upon each other instead of the enemy
and for the heartiest agreement upon whatever fit
candidates the majority should put up against the
common foe. Since then the tide of disaster has
been turned back; every doubtful state has been
won and the omens for National victory were never
M chpprnp
Year: 1879

OF The Tribune's share in all this, those speak
most enthusiastically who have most Of the
struggle. 1t will faithfully portray the warning
phases of the campaign now beginning. 1t will
earnestly strive that the party of Freedom, Union
and Public Faith may select the man surest to win,
and surest to make good President. But in this
crisis it conceive of no nomination this party
could make that would not be preferable the best
that could possibly be supported by the Solid South
and Tammany Hail.


The Tribune is now spending much labor and
money than before to hold the distinction it has
enjoyed of the largest circulation among the best
peOp2e. 1t secured, and means TO retain it, by be-
Year: 1879

A prudent contemporary gives a word
OF caution to young ladies on a very in
iteresting subject. 1t says-"We don't
know much about it, but VIC have an opin-
ION that the girl who is not fully prepared
to support husband should be little
cautious about matrimony these days. y
Girls, do you hear that?
Year: 1879

When man is hanging by his toes
from the corniee Of high building, and
expects momentarily to drop, nothing 50
completely treasures and so thoroughly
satisfies him as the sudden discovery that
be Is safely at home IN bed.
Year: 1879

urging his horse to his utmost speed, as though
they were on the last quarter mile in an en-
glish hurdle race. It IS needless to add that
ever aftcrward Ned was driven with safety
rein. J.S,
Year: 1879

Officer Whalen was called in yesterday by Prince
street barkeeper to arrest woman who had strolled
into his store in state of ntoxcation and battered
its contents. WhaleI found Jessie Gregory an
amazon in rags. holding high carnival in the place
and attempted to arrest her. Jessie would not
yield. however, and a struggle began between the
pair which the officer glad TO end by summoning
two Of his associates. The three had difficulty
enough in getting their prisoner to the Jefferson
Market Police Court. There Officer Whalen
accused her Of intoxication and disordery
conduct, and had barely concluded his charge when
the woman sprang at him, struck him full in the
face with her fist. and then catching hold of his
whiskers pulled out the hair by the roots. In her
grasp the officer staggered forward, when she sud
denly caught him about the neck. pressed down his
head and fell with him upon the floor. There
quite a sensation in court as this peculiar
being enacted before the Judge and it only when
quartet of court officers interfered that the pris


forced to release the officer. When she
led upon the stand again the Justice sent her
the Island for six months.
Year: 1879

Charles Allen is q negro with an unprepossessng
face and not very satisfactory character who
arraisned before Justice Murray yesterday and
mitted to await the result of injuries he had in.
ficted on Dennis White. The pair it seems. met in
a low drinking place in Thompson street. and were
engaged in conversation when Allen suddenly mani
tested his homicdal disposition. Without any prov
ocation he caught up big fork and made
lunge with it at his associate. which
cut the latter in the palm of the hand
The man was surprised at this sudden attack, and,
believing his wound To be due to accident only
made aware of the negros design upon his life when
the latter came behind him and plunged the fork
into his back when he fell to the floor and his assail-
ant fled. Seemingly there motive for the
attack and the wounded man inclined to at
tribute it to his assailant's inebrety. Detective
Reynolds of the Eighth precinct. called in and
mad White removed to the hosp.ta while ne secured
the district Allen In the Jefferson Market Police
Court the latter produced during the afternoon
and committed
Year: 1879

The session of the Senate yesterday was
one OF more than usual interest, and though
the routine report does not show great
amount of business transacted, yet several
matters of Importance were acted upon.


AT the morning session joint resolution
memoralizing Congress to appropriate money
for the construction of dams at the head
waters of the Mississippi river, thus forming
reservoirs for holding water to be utilized in
the interests ofnavigation during the drought
OF midsummer, was introduced and passed
under suspended rules. The bill reducing
the mileage of members of the legislature
from fifteen cents to five cents per mile came
up for 4 third reading, and call of the House
was ordered SO that every Senator MIGHT
have an opportunity of placing himself
upon the record in the interests of retrench-
ment and reform, and right nobly did they
conduct themselves. Thirty-one Senators
voted for the bill, nine voted against it,sand
one did not vote. When it is understood
that this bill does not affect the present
Legislature, the members having already COL
lected their mileage, and that the next iegis-
lature will have the right to vote themselves
such an amount of mileage as they may see
lit, 1t will be seen that the sacrifices of the
present legislature are not very great.


Inc afternoon session was devoted to the
consideration, in committee of the whole. of
the bill reducing the salaries of State officers;
ana after hammering away at the bill until
dark, about one-third of the salaries of Of
hcers which it is proposed to reduce having
been acted upon, the following results were
reached:
Year: 1879

Both houses of the legislature yesterday
adopted memorial to Congress asking for
an appropriation for the improvement of the
navigation of the upper Mississippi river.
The plan proposed is that suggested by Gen.
Warren and Col. Farquhar, of the engineers
corps-that of building cheap dams at the
outlets of the several lakes that form the
source of supply of the river, and thus con-
fine part of the volume of water brought
down by the spring floods until it shall be
needed in midsummer and autumn, when it
can be released just as the wants of navipa-
tion may require. The river and harbor
appropriation bill is now under consideration
in the committees of Congress, and hence
there is no time to lose in bringing the mat
ter before that body for consideration.


Every resident on the line of the Missis-
sippi river above st. Louis will appreciate
the necessity for some means to improve
navigation. Take last summer, for instance
At no time after the first of August was the
river navigable for ordinary ight-draught
boats above La Crosse, and for a consider
able time no vessels of any description could
ascend higher than Hastings. AS conse-
quence the business at all towns for dis
tance of two hundred miles suffered in
calculable inj Year by year the stage of
water has been decreasing, fact that is
attributable in part to the cutting of timber
on the tributaries of the river, and in part
to the decreased rainfall. If the Mississippi
Year: 1879

A correspondent calls attention to the in
famous SANDER upon St. Paul perpetrated
by Bill King in his paper yesterday morning.
A more base and dastardly attack was never
made, and the baseness is intensified by the
fact that it appears in paper printed in St.
Paul. The effort to prove that 13 mills tax
alton in st. Paul is more than % mills in
Minneapolis needs no refutation, and we only
allude to the matter to call attention to its
meanness.


The GLOBE, some time since, told the Deo-
pie of this city what the situation was, and
stated that they could have Minneapolis
paper, printed in st. Paul, so long as they
made it an object for Bill King to furnish
that style of paper. We do not need to en-
large upon the remedy. The people of St.
Paul will not apply the remedy in any event.
They are so tamely craven that they enjoy
having Bill King eject his Canada spittle
into their faces, and will doubtless urge him
to continue instead of rebul1ing him in the
only practical manner in which a rebuke
can be administered.
Year: 1879

A DISPATCH to the Cincinnati; Commercial
estimates that the next census will show an
increase of eight and half millions in the
population of the United States over 1870.
This, the correspondent adds, will necessi-
tate an increase of sixty-six in the member
ship of the House of Representatives, and
proceeds to enumerate the States that will
derive benefit from the increase, totally
ignoring Minnesota. This prize idiot doesn't
seem to know that during the past ten years
the population of Minnesota has more than
doubled, and that to-day she has greater
population than the four States of Colorado,
Nebraska, Nevada and Oregon combined,
and that under an apportionment that was
even half way fair we would be entitled to at
least six Representatives in the Forty-seventh
Congress. Before correspondents settle mat
ters of such Importance they ought to inform
themselves of the facts that may have boar
ing on the case.
Year: 1879

IS to be maintained as navigable stream,
some artificial means must be employed for
the purpose, and the people have right to
demand that Congress take some action in
the premises. Millions of money are being
expended every year in the vain effort to
make nayigable streams of muddy little
creeks all over the country, while the grand
est river on the continent is neglected almost
entirely, and threatens to dry up and blow
away Tor want of comparatively small
expenditure of money at the proper time.


we have no reason to doubt the practical
olllty OF the plan suggested. The officers
who have reported upon it have made care
full surveys, and are firmly of
the opinion that it is not only
practical, but expedient, besides
being comparatively inexpensive. Instead
of being flooded for month in the early
spring, the waters can be confined in the
lakes until such time as they may be required
to float the products of the Northwest to tho
waters of the gulf. As tho water in the
river falls sufficient can be released to MAIN
tain navigable stream at all seasons, and
our fleet Of river steamers can be constantly
employed from the date of the breaking up
OF the ice to late day in the fall. The plan
IS simple and it is cheap, two requisites that
ought to commend it to favorable considera-
tion. 1t is needed, and the people interested
have right to require that Congress give
them slight return forthe taxes they have
paid for other public improvements in which
they have had not even the most remote in.
terest. We trust that our representatives in
the Senate and House will see to it that this
matter is not neglected. Minnesota asks
very little of the general government, but
when she does ask it her needs are impera-
tive and ought to be fully respected.