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Year: 1879

SECOND DAY OF THE LONG RANGE TOURNA-


MENT-MAGNIFIcENT RECORDS.


phenomenal record marked tho second days
shooting in the long range tournament yesterday
Creedmoor. The struggle will close to-day. and if
the weather continues good the aggregates promise
to show array Of figures that have
been equalled in this country. or. far
is known, in any other. Out Of the thirty
three competitors thirty completed their scores
yesterday two retired and one was barred
from shooting account OF, the accidental dis
charge of his rifle OF the thirty who shot all
the ranges nineteen made 200 points over. out of
possible 225. This is all the remarkable from
the fact that during the day there was not a full
score made at any Of the ranges. The inference to
be drawn is that the average shooting is far above
what was done three years ago by the American
team of 1876 when they defeated the Irish and the
English in the great international contest for the
Palma. The nearest approach to q full score
made by Captain Jackson. Of Boston. who at the
first range recorded clean OF bulIseyes with
the exception Of centre. which stopped him his
eighth round The captain. who is well remembered
as the captain OF the American National Rifle team,
had bad luck at the third range. for he got
miss on his fifth shot. But for this misfortune he
would have headed the list instead Of taking second
place, as he now does upon tie as to the
number of points. with Mr.. Brown who comes in
first man. washington yesterday. Massachusetts
to-day and New York tomorrow. remarked one Of
the riaemen when speaking OF the chances of men
from the different localities winning the aggre-
gate It will be noticed that Mr.. Sumner and
Mr.. Washburn made each ~ out of 10 points at the
1000 yards butts. very remarkable feat
complished by Captain L. A. Perry. the originator
of the tournament He is one armed veteran of tho
late war, yet he managed to total Of 2O8
points. The difficulty OF this achievement will
be the better understood when it is borne in mind
that he has lost tho right arm below the elbow. Mr.
Frank Hyde, who made 2l1 with a twenty-six inch
barrel proved yesterday that for good shooting
thirtytwo inch a larger barrel, is not essentially
necessary.


The weather continued to be all that the
testants could desire. The light brighter, but
better, if good the day before, though the
day pieasanter and warmer AS the wind blew
rather gently down the ranges in a direction known
from six to eight O'Clock the dial. and the
light was stronger, the ono influence neutralized
the other and kept the elevation relatively about
the Monday. Shooting commenced at
eleven O'Clock. and continued without intermission
till a quarter after three.
Year: 1879

THE OWNER OF THE STOLEN TEAM,


MENTIONED IN THE GAZETTE OF


YESTERDAY, VISITS THIS CITY AND


CLAIMS THE PRISONER AND TEAM.


Mention was made in the GAZETTE of
man being arrested on suspicion of
having stolen team in his possession.
The arrest was made on the strength of
telegram received from Samuel Ely, of
Penn station, on the Baltimore Central
informing the police of the theft, and
giving description Of the stolen team
and the thief.


This morning Mr.. Ely visited this city
and calling at the police station, was
shown the man in custody, and recogniz-
ed him as being the thief. He was next
taken 10 the Swami Hotel stables and
upon being shown the horse and wagon
Immediately recognized them as belong
ing to him.


The prisoner who gives his name as
Harry Waters will probably be given u
hearing before the Mayor this even
ing.
Year: 1879

This morning reporter Of this paper
was shown specimen Of the work done
by DIR. VIM. Fields process of desulphur-
izing and smelling mineral eres. There
haps of Q quarter of dollar which the
doctor said he had taken this morning
from an ounce and half of silver taiiin0
which had been sent to him from Color
ado. The tailngs are silver ore from
which the metal has been taKen.
Year: 1879

re Committed an AtssHis Upon a


GuRrd at the State PenitenIfarS


Ye,terdsy Afternoon and VIII nave


His Examination T0-rIGrroNv Morn.


Ing.


A most oowardly attempt at murder oc-
CURED in George Strobel's grocery store, at
thu corner Of South Fifth and Linn streets
yesterday afternoon about four o'clock, the
assault being committed upon Z. L Cutler,
a guard at The State Penitentiary,b by Joseph
Reynolds, an eX convict who had served
one term in the penitentiary for horse
stealing, and who has been out OF the prison
about SIX months. The cause of the murder
Gus attempt Is not known, but it was prob
ably the case OF a grudge entertained
against Cutler by Reynolds which was
eugendered during Reynolds' stay at the
State boarding house, although il may have
been the result Of something else. Reynolds
was in the grocery when Cutler, who was
on his way from the city 10 the prison, tied
his team outside and came in 10 make some
purchases. While standing by the counter
REYNOLDS came up behind him and struck
him upon the left side of the head with
heavy hickory club, inAicling great gssh
but not breaking The skull. Reynolds
was about 10 strike again WHEN
the club was taken away from him, the
wouid-be murderer bound tightly with
cords, aud put into a wagon and taken 70
the police station, where he was placed in a
cell and warrant sworn out sgairst him
charging him with assault with intent 70
kill. Cutler went to the Office OF physi-
clan and had his wounds dressed. The eI-
animation of Reynolds will probably come
off before the Police Court TO morrow
morning. He is a hard case, and is well
On his way to the institution from which
he was SO recently released. Mrs. Strobel
aud man named John Robertson were in
the grocery at the time the assault was
committed,
Year: 1879

Anyone who was there and didn't enjoy
himself has but himself TO blame for it, as
there was every inducement there 10 con-
duce that end. The assemblsge was as
selsct as our city can boast and constituted
az elegant party a. was ever known in
the West. The ball room presented gilt
tering and magnificent eight, resembling the
different changes of the Kaleidoscope as the
masked fitted around, the varied costumes
tending TO be
Year: 1879

the Metropolitan Guards have good rea.
son to congratulate themselves..upon the.suc'
cess Of the grand masquerade ball given at
Odd Fellows Hall last night, for if any
thing was ever a complete success this most
assuredly was. The attendance was very
large, too large in fact for comfort, although
notwithstanding the crush, everyone man.
aged TO enjoy Themselves to repletiou. The
number OF costumes was larger than ex.
pected, and were Of every variety and char.
acter, from the clown and slippered panta
loon to The courtly gentleman in gold ani
lace, and the pretty peasant girl 10
Year: 1879

CARL ScHURz, Hayes's Secretary
Of the Interior, has faculty, at
once, of happy expression and
philosophizing, in which few
men in America, though to the
manner born, can rival him. The
other day in Boston, in speaking
Of demagogio attempts to stir up
dissensions between different class.
es, he said:


To excite the hatred of the poor
against the rich has In all ages and
in all countries been the last resort
of a most desperate demagogy. But
in country like ours, where no
barriers of privileges separate the
different classes of society, where
honest individual effort is hamper
ed neither by legal obstacles, nor
by prejudice and customs; where
every day we see millionaires as
the fathers of paupers, and mer-
chant princes who were rocked in q
poor mans cradle; where fortune
and station. social and public, are
equally open to the intelligence,
virtue and energy of all-in this
country such appeals should be met
with contemptu0us ridicule, as we'll
as abhorrence. Such cry Is bias
phemous calumny on our political
Institutions and our social order.
Within the memory Of the young.
est man before me you have seen q
rail-splitter from Illinois and a
tailor from Tennessee in the Presi-
Dental chair of this great Repub-
lio. You have seen walking in the
streets Of Boston cobbler of Mas
sachusetts Vice-President of the
United States. You see to-day a
man who commenced his career as
an operative in wooden mill the
Republican candidate for the Gov
ernorship Of this noble Common
wealth. Go over the list OF your
merchants and manufacturers most
envied for their prosperity, OF your
men most eminent in the profess
sisps, in literature and learning
how many do you find of an origin
SO humble and obscure that YOU
can scarcely trace it? There is no
workingman within the reach of
my voice who knows whether one
of his children will not in thirty
years overtop them all in wealth or
public eminenee. There is no mil
lionaire who is sure whether one
of his children may not, before this
waning century is out, have to
black the boots of the poor mans
son for living. And In country
like this, with its resources and op-
portunities, where. the survival of
the fittest is the order of the day;
where a measureless field of labor
and enterprise never cease to en-
courage every honorable ambition
in such country we must ap-
peal to the hatred of the poor
against the rich Truly, the man
who makes such appeals insults
the people, and the man who
listens to them does not respect
himself.
Year: 1879

A writer from Niagara says: Those
who want to see the Horseshoe Fall OF
Niagara must, 1 fancy, come out soon,
or they viii not be able to form an idea
of what it was, for [ think it is going to
change its form more quickly than it has
done for a century past. Already a
great change has taken place in its ap-
pearance. About two years ago the
shoe was rent in twain, and a vast rent
made in the toe of the foot by a tremen-
dous chasm cut in the cliff over which
the river falls. The consequence is that
instead of diving straight down a circu-
lar wall of water, the course of the col
umn is rudely broken in the middle, and
a foaming torrent collapses in 4 Jagged
gorge of the cliff, thus splitting the cas-
cade into two sides of horseshoe, with
a cataract in the center. Much more
mist, too, is produced by this cataract
than was formerly OccasiOned by the
sheer fall of the horseshoe, and the view
of the fall is consequently Obscured.
The river might have fallen for centur-
les over this solid weir of hardest schist ;
but a fissure having been made in Ma
ture's masonry, it is not unlikely that
the river viii continue its excavation,
begun near Lake Ontario, and do its
work more quickly than of late. Now
that a breach has been made in the fort
ress, it seems certain that the volume OF
water, acting as a perpetual battering-
ram on the walls of each side of it, viii
soon detach other portions of them, and
thus alter the whole form and character
of the famous Horseshoe Falls.
Year: 1879

The marriages of the BOnapartes play


an important part in the story of their
fortunes, and none of them were so sig
nificant and important as those of the


Emperor. To one who, like him, looked


upon the world as made for him, and
upon laws merely as something which


were good for him to impose upon 9th
ers, it must have appeared that his two
wives were admirably planned for his
use. Josephine de Beauharnais was an


ideal wife for a young and rising man of
genius. She had every thing which
would appeal to a fancy like his, at once
selfish and passionate. She had beauty,
rank, the power Of pleasing, and GER
tain indOlent grace that promised an
obedience reasonably free from jealousy.


Up to the time that he mounted the i'm
perial throne and seated her by his side,
She was all that his narrow heart and


bOundless ambition could desire But,
after the marvellous victory of Wagram
had opened up to his fevered imagina-
ton still wider perspectives of dominion,


he looked for another style of wife, and
found her in Maria Louisa of Austria.
Her blonde beauty, formed of pink and
wife color and roundly curving lines and
the golden floss of a child's hair, appealed
strongly to his jaded taste. He was not
old, but, as he said to the Directory,


q one ages fast upon the field of battle, -
and he wanted some such solace as this
soft, unintellectual beauty (somebody


has called 1t the Alderney style of pret-
tiness) in his home, if such a word may
be used of the Tuileries. Besides, he
doubtless felt that an Emperor should


have an Emperor's daughter to wife,


and this was young girl who had a
4 hundred mOnarchs for her ancestors,
and vet she would be gentle and
/ obedient, and not argue with him or an
swer him, and would give him heirs.


He was genuinely attached to her, and
/ if he knew nothing about her, and had
/ no premOnitiOn of Count Neipperg, il


was all the better for him. She alsc


was quite taken by storm with him, and


for a while the novelty of being loved 10y
J an ogre-for such she had always con
Year: 1879

In the first place, her furniture was
this woven willow basket work, and that
costs a good deal, but it was the only
expensive thing she had. She had her
self wound it in and out with narrow
blue ribbon wherever an opening offered
the square low bed, the armchair, the
small rocker, the wOrk-stand, the little
bureau, the waste-basket. Her curtains
were hght-blue lambrequins she made
and put up with her own hands, good
quality of Nottingham lace leOped over
them. In the bay-windOw chirped her
canary, his cage draped with white
tarlatan, gathered underneath and tied
with blue ribbons. The pillow-shams
and cOverlet were of run lace over blue
silesia, the coverlet made in two pieces,
so that frill of edging ran across the
bed so as to simulate a sheet-sham. A
horseshoe of gilt with blue lines dangled
from the chandelier for luck. The pic
lures were not many, and they were
simple and inexpensive, but common
blue fans at D cents apiece were grouped
on the walls, sometimes three or four
running ObliqUely up the wall, or three
to form q rOsette or one wide spread up
on the curtains. A towel, brown linen
towel, was fringed and hemstitched at
bAtC ClANAos anu bItAC
bows placed helter-skelter on it, and this
was put on the wall slantwise as a work
of art. You'll laugh, suppose, but it
was such an odd little qUirk of an idea
that it quite struck me. She had other
odd things. A couple of clay pipes with
stems crossed and tied with blue,
fastened up, a couple of powder-horns
ornamented and slung from hooks, and
oh, me! two pigs tails, from two pig
friends slaughtered up the country,
decorated also in blue and placed either
side a window. Once in n while there
was a carelessly tied bow of ribbon
about two inches wide, with long stream
ers floating about on the walls, and
sprays of trailing fern, of which you can
get ever so much in a package by send
ing to a firm in the East, wound about
the chandelier, the pictures and the
walls, with clusters also of bright autumn
leaves. it just seemed to me, as l stood
upon the threshold and 'ttOOk i'm the
salient points of the little room, that l
stood at the entrance of fairy chamber,
it was all so light and feathery and
g chippery," if you'll know by that what
l mean And there stood the bride, her
hair lying in flakes on her forehead and
piled up in puffs over self-esteem, look
ing at me with very bright brown eyes
to see what the effect was on me-
Kate Heath, IN Sacramento Union.
Year: 1879

EARLY AMBER CANE.-A correspond
ent of the New York Tribune says that
this variety of cane, if planted the 10th Of
May, is ready to work ordinarily by the
middle of August. Recent experiments
have satisfied him that one acre of this
cane viii supply the annual wants of
most families, or, to be more explicit,
with the rudest implements, such as a
S65-milI to express the juice, two 20
gallon pans of galvanized iron that will
cost less than so, and the common
cider-mill or cheese-press to express the
sirup from the sugar, one acre of aver
age cane, drilled, viii yield 500 pounds
Of sugar, and 700 pounds of fine sirup.
This is based upon a yield of 140 gallons
of molasses, weighing 13 pounds per gal
lon, per acre. A recent experiment of
his upon one-fourth of an acre, indicates
more than this, although the object was
molasses solely. In addition to what he
has said Of the Amber cane for the farm
er, he is satisfied that If a neighbOrhOOd
will organize company with a capital
of 81 200, the yield of sugar can be raised
to seven pounds per gallon, by the use
of lime and sulphurOus acid, and the
process IS within the capacity of the
most ordinary farmer, but let it be dis
tinctly understood that the Amber cane


viii yield a fine sugar, in paying guam
titles, treated exactly as sugar or maple
water Is treated, save that 1t must be set
aside in proper vessels to granulate,
Year: 1879

4 YOUNG man not more than y years
of age, a son of one of our best families,
came into this office yesterday and Of
fered us S3 to print a paragraph stating
that a young girl had been fatally
poisoned, dying in indescribable agony,
from eating oysters ut a church sociable.
We have enough mercy on the young
man to refrain from publishing his
name, but the next time any man tries
to save S75 by S3 paragraph, in goes
his whole pedigree HG5rkeye.
Year: 1879

A number of desirable rooms to
let at No. Z Third street. The loca-
ton is accessible and desirable
from every standpoint. The neigh
borhood il good and the house. Is
barely five minutes walk from the
Court House.
Year: 1879

A lady who once watched a rat lead his blind brother across plank over the water by a straw which each held in his mouth, ever after felt @ new respect for this animal which is SO little esteemed.

 The rat has a kindly side which good treatment will bring out, and people have been found who took the pains to make friends with them. Generally they were people who had plenty of time to invest in such pursuits. As for instance, a convict in a penitentiary, who lately trained rat to come at his whistle and follow him about like a dog. A more faithful little follower he could not have, and both seemed very fond of each other. All day he stays by his masters side and goes back at night to his cell. He is not afraid of the other prisoners, but hides quickly when any one comes near not clad in the striped jacket. He evidently considers him as not belong ing to ssthis set." For all he knows, poor little fellow, the striped clothes are a badge of honor. He dimes on prison fare, and whatever else he can industri- ously pick up in his travels.

 Rats as we'll as mice have been known to come from their holes at the sound of music and listen with apparent delight.

 Tue people of a certain dwelling in a Western town were surprised every night to hear a guitar sound in the parlor, though no one was in the room. There was great deal of speculation over the mystery, and some foolish people called it "spirit" work. One night gentle man kept watch and saw, when the house was still, a great rat glide out and go at once to the corner and scratch the guitar strings. He dispatched him with a cane and missed his chance of making a fortune out of his musical rat.-Ln- thern Observer.
Year: 1879

the diphtheria was palpably suhsidiRg the child continued to have 8 very high temperature, leading to the suspicion that some other poison was disturbing t-e system. Suddenly very intense form of scarlet fever was manifested. The child was extremely ill for several days, and then, during desquamation, the diphtheria again appeared. But this young girl perfectly recovered. Diphtheria, therefore, while causing grave. apprehension, should not be re- garded as necessarily terminating fatal ly. A child sick with scarlet fever in a house which is exposed to sewage gas, or in which there is defective plumbing, would be likely to have the disease complicated with diphtheria.

 "Does the term scarlatina mean a mild form of scarlet fevera"

 "No; the two forms are precisely identical" ]"

 els scarlet fever always fatal dis ease in women just after confinement ?"

 "It is not; but after confinement sometimes women are very susceptible to the poison. have always heard physicians loosely say that under these circumstances the women always die, but this know to be far from the truth. A WOLudu Wlbu du luIdut luSb DOIu Wdo some years ago brought into one of my wards in Bellevue hospital. The next day scarlet fever appeared in her case. 1 immediately had all the patients in the ward removed and took every precaution to prevent the spread of the disease. This patient, whose system was com pletely broken down by want and ex- posture, died within twelve hours after the appearance of the eruption Three other women who were in the ward when she was brought in, and who had recently been confined, were attacked with the disease on the third and fourth days after exposure. Two of these ra. covered. It is a singular fact that neith- CT the baby of the first woman nor any of the sixty or more in the hospital had the disease. In private practice have seen few cases of scarlet fever in women who had recently been confined, but a majority of these have recovered
Year: 1879

the scars remained. He had parted from Rutherford, as his enfeebled state was a danger to both, and he had not had the hardihood to attempt to make his way through the cordon formed by the vigil lant guardians of the peace.

 But to his companion he was true as steel, and would give no clue to the direction Rutherford had taken. The latter, who was much more ex- perienced bushman, and in stronger health, was successful in evading his fate for some time longer. As was after. ward ascertained, he had contrived to elude the police, and made his way to the McQuarie river, some three hundred miles nearer Sidney than the scene of his late terrible outrage. He was a smart young fellow, Q native Australian, | though of English parentage. and of good address. Arriving in a district where he was unknown, he had no diffi- culty in getting employment, and was for some time engaged breaking in horses on cattle station, duty he was we'll able to perform.

 Had he been contented to remain at honest work he might have long escap- ed detection; but it was not to be. He was soon at his old work, and one day walked into the Pine Ridge hotel, near Canonba, kept by Frenchman named Beauvais, and unceremoniously an- nounced: "I am Rutherford. Bail up. {" The process was without excitement, orderly and business-like, and Beauvals knew there was no alternative but to submit.

 He pleaded that he was not rich pub- lican, and begged moderate terms, offer ing any refreshment he demanded. Rutherford money and nothing else hthat or your life." With his revolver at the head of the unhappy Frenchman, he marched him into the private room was the cash box was kept, and stood by while his victim reluctantly and slow ly opened it. However, he stood little too close, and Beauvais. as he described it to me, thought: "I will not part with my money without struggle" There was no time for bandying words or re. monstrance. Quick as thought he threw up his antagonists revolver arm, and grappled with him in deadly strug- gle. He was plucky fellow, but the odds were against him. Rutherford was younger and stronger man, armed, and now desperate.

 Beauvais' grasp on the revolver arm prevented Rutherford from getting an opportunity to fire; still the issue could not long be doubtful.

 At this moment in the unequal con- bat some good chance caused one of the men to stumble, and both fell heavily to the ground. There was a loud re- port; Rutherford's pistol had gone of in the fall, and Beauvais, jumping to his feet, found that the wretched murderer had perished by his own hand, and with out struggle.

 an glad to be able to add that this rplucky act was not left unrewarded, the New South Wales government present. ing Beauvais with e100 for his gallant conduct in having been instrumental in ridding sodiety of this dangerous and desperate felon.