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Year: 1875

rocked forward with him, turning a COM
plete somersault over the handles throw
ing McStinger halfway across tho room
and landing on top of him, digging into
his abdomen like bulls horns, as he lay
spread out on the under side. II would
have heen good thing for McStinger IL he
had lain still then and let the chair have it's
own way. 1t lay fiat on its back, with tho
rock ers EN- bracng his abdomen, and didn't
seem to want TO do anything active just
then. But McStinger couldn't make up
bis mind to give it up yet. lie rolled over
sideways and upset the chair. 1t fell with
q crash on It's side giving him furious dig
In the liver which made him straighten
out his legs spasmodcally, barking one
shin from the instep 10 the knee on the
rosker which hung in the air, and getting
the chair on its feet again, where 1t stood
rocking back " ard and forward at him like
wary old ram making feints of buttiDg its
adversary, in order TO throw him Off his
guard. The blow in the side nearly finish
ed McStinger, aud while lying there rub
bing his wind back again, he was just be-
ginning 10 reflect whether his honor re-
quired him 10 proceed any further in the
affair, when Mrs. McStinger suddenly be-
gan screaming all the names in the crimes
act, under the impression that the Charley
Ross abductors were trying 10 commit a
burglary, bigamy, robbery, and everything
else on her. Up TO this time she had been
speechless With terror, and had lain there
trembling, shedding perspiration, and ac-
cumulatlng shrieking power, until she had
gained the screaming capacity OF camel
back engine. She had just reached her
third sforrdndo Jortlssip,o dccelerdndo,
when old McSlinger succeeded in getting
TO his feet once more and became dimly
visible to Mrs. McStinger. With one last
wild parting shrek she sprang from the
bed and made a dash for the door, near
which the rocking-chair still stood menac-
ing the whole universe with butting mo-
ton. Mrs. McStingor had no time for in
vestigation just then, and she pitched into
and over the rocking chair and clear on
down stairs, the chair after her, turning
over and over, and kicking Mrs. Nesting
er every bump until they both landed in
the hall below, where the chair broke all
to atoms. This ended the fight.


If wives will learn from this sad story
not to leave rocking-chairs standing around
the middle Of the room for their poor hus-
bands to fall over, we shall not have writ
ten In vain.-Coluubus Journal
Year: 1875

An exchange says that one sign Of the
advance of civilization is this: 1t is not
considered impolite when a woman comes
late into church on Sunday, 1.-two or three
men are already seated in the pew she en-
ters, for them TO move quietly along and
make place for her at the head OF the pew,
instead OF rising and ostentatiously filing
into the aisle, kicking over footstools and
stepping on each others heels, to allow her
TO pass to the farthest sitting In the pew.
The old custom yet prevails In too many
churches. 1t is a relic Of the past ages,
when the men of the congr6 CATION were
momentarily liable TO be called to take
arms against their craly foes, the Indians,
and 1t was important that the men should
sit whore they could the most quickly an
swer TO the summons.
Year: 1875

Enjoy the present, whatever 1t may be,
and be not solicitious for the future for If
you lake your foot from the present stand
ing, and thrust il forward TO TO- morrow's
event, you are in a restless condition 1t is
like refusing 10 quench your present thirst
by fearing you will want TO drink the next
day. Ifto-morrow you should want, your
sorrow would come time enough, though
you do not hasten ii let your trouble tar-
ry ill its own Gay comes. Enjoy bless
ings this day, If God sends them, and the
evils of 1t bear patiently and sweetly, for
this day is ours. We are dead to yester-
day and not yet born to to-morrow.-Jer-
eBiy 7dylor.
Year: 1875

Old McStinger was going to bed . little
wavy the other night, and not wishing TO
disturb Mrs. McStinger, who has tongue
like rat-tail iils, he thought 1t just rs we'll
not to turn on the gas. He got on very
we'll until he reached the door Of the cham
Der where his patient wife lay sleeping.
Here he paused a moment balancing on
his heels like a pole on aJuggler's nose.
Then he made a dash for 1t, in order to
make q bee line across the floor. Mrs.
McSlinger, with her usual exemplary for
titude, had placed the rocking. chair with
such gifted skill that no man could come
into the room without running over II so
the frst thing he knew McStinger stubbed
his toe-nail of against the rocker, which
knocked the seat against the crazy bone of
his nee, and made one OF the long arms
prod him In the stomach. Simultaneous
ly he fell over the chair crosswlse, aud 1t
kicked him behind his back before he
could get up from the floor as he stood on
all fours. Tho engagement was now fully
opened. When man begins falling over
rocking chairs In q dark room be ought al
ways to have three days rations and forty
rounds. Before McStinger could get up
straight his knee came down on one ofthe
long rockers behind, and the back OF the
chair came down on his head with whAck
that laid him fat on the hoori and, before
he could move, the chair kicked him three
times In the tenderest part Of his ribs with
the sharp end OF the rocker. This made
him perfectly furious, and he scrambled
up and made blind rush At the chair, de-
termlnsd 10 blow up the ensmy's works
He ran square against the hack and II
Year: 1875

The cause to which the grasshopper
plague is ascrlbed by some of the knowing
folks is the determination of the grouse,
the prairie chicken, wild turkey and such
small game upon the plains. II let alone
these sufice to keep down the grass
hoppers by eating them and their eggs.
This thing sounds very likely, and there is
probably enough ground for 1t TO justify
the Legislature of the affected States In
prohibiting for period of years the de-
structlon Of wild fowl ON the plalns.
Year: 1875

"A young fellow In San Francisco sud
denly snatched kiss from a lady friend,
and excused his conduct by saying that 1t
was a sort of temporary insanity that now
and then came upon him. When he arose
to take his leave the plying damsel said to
him, "If you ever feel any more such hts
coming on you had better come right here,
where your infrmity IL known, And We
will take care Of you"
Year: 1875

A


LUMBER YARD.


AZ lzlf-past twelve yesterday named Joseph
Iangan was found dead having been shot through the
heart in lumber yard the corner Of Fifteenth street
and Ninth avenue The who fired the shot is as
yet unidentified, and the causes which led TO the as
sault are also unknown


TnE MorHEHs STORY


The mother Of the young states that her has
been out of employment for long time; that he did
not come home until two O'Clock yesterday morning,
and thai as he in he called for ale, OF
which he drank full goblet before retiring She
That he let home quite carly yesterday morn
ing and that until he killed. she had him.


gvIDENcE


Joseph Mooney stated 10 the sergeant follows:-l
work IN the lumber yard whore this young
shot have known the party by sight for little while;
was nccr intimate with him IN my iie to-day while
was i,s-ling my horse, the man lying dead down
stairs rushed by me to the lumber yard,
iuriously pursued by another man very
neatly and tidily dressed; pretty soon
he'3' pistol shot, and scaling
fence twenty feet high the man whom saw enter the
yard, coming near the place to which had run sadr
Nv hat have you been doingYn He replied ~ have
either killed wounded or frightened man. don't
know care which"


THE SEQUEL.


This isthc only story save one from which the police
work mp the John Conncrs says that yeser-
day, whe he was standing on the corner of street





eupcd from horse car caught him by
the collar and pulled him on board the car. Upon look
ing his face the stranger released him. and sprnging
from the platform, he began furious chase alter the
man whom he subsequently murdered. The witness
says he - unaware Of the motive which moved the
stranger 10 force him the and Immediately re
lease him, what the cause that led him 10 rush
after the dead.


O0the dead mans body was found German silver
chain. ehis chain, the mother states not in her
sun possession the night before the murder A mer-
chant who appeared last night before the sergeant OF
the sixteenth precinct states that Langan 10 him
in order to inquire whether watch and chain which he
had IN hs-possesslon were really German silver.


From the statements OF the mother, father
and all the witnesses. Joseph Langan was
Wild dissoute character, q pickpocket
and thief. No doubt the man who shot him the
very party who robbed Of the German silver watch
chain, which his mother says never his, but which
the time Of his death was found upon his body
Coroner Croker visited the Sixteenth precinct station
house last evening ut seven O'Clock and empanelled
jury who after viewing the body of the murdered man,
were dismissed until next Friday, when the inquest will
be held.
Year: 1875

A Boston letter to an Eastern news
paper relates that upon one of the fash
ionable South End squares of that city
there has lived in swel-front, four
story brick house, until very lately, a
woman, who has hired for her servant
her own sister. The latter was treated
in all respects as a menial, and though
the woman and her husband, having no
children, dined alone when there was no
company in the house, they never per-
mitted the sister to sit with them. Not
only this, but the sister-servant was kept
at work from early till late, and there
was no such thing as leisure for her, or
a particle of the consideration due from
one SO nearly related to her. Finally
the woman moved out of town, and the
sister determined to find an easier place.
Accordingly she engaged to go to sum-
mer resort as pastry cook in a fashion
able boarding house. Now it has trans
pired that her sister and former mistress
has engaged board for the warm season
not only at this very resort, but also at
the very house, where her sister is to
furnish the daily pies and puddings.
Year: 1875

Capt. ID. d. Thurlow, of the fishing
schooner Ct. f. Brown, sighting a
school of mackerel off Fire Island, on


Wednesday, set out in small boat to
capture them. He got them into his net
and was hauling it in when an unusual
commoton showed that he had caught
something larger than mackerel. He
though that he had shark to deal with,
and watched it's movements anxiously,
expecting that it would break through
his ne 6 and iberate the whole school of
mackerel. AS the Captain stood with
up under the boat and Dearly capsized
it, sent the Captain sprawling on his
back, and threw the other men off their
seats. When the men regained their
feet, they found that their antagonist
was swordfish. He had driven his
sword clear through the bottom Of the
boat, and was for a moment held fast.
But as the planks of the boat were not
thick enough to hold him long, the men
lost no time in getting a complicated
series of half bitches around him with a
stout line. Just as the last moose was
tightened the fish freed himself, and
darted off into position for another
charge. But..as the grip of the rope was
tightened with every movement, he was


at the mercy of his captors. The fish
ermen stopped the hole in the boat and
pulled FOR the schooner, landing their
captive safely on deck, and brought him
to Fulton Market. Yesterday morning
it was sent to Overton's restaurant, in
Park Row. Ii is much larger that those
usually caught in New York waters.
The sword measures feet inches, and
the body from the base of the sword to
the tail, is over IL feet. 1t weighed 800
pounds, net. To-day its skin is to be
stripped off and stuffed for the Central
Park Museum, and the flesh will be serv-
ed up in steaks and chowders to Over
toms customers. York San, 18Th.
Year: 1875

He Cor EvEN.-A party of rough
miners near White Pine, away out West,
played rather severe joke upon green
hand, one Perley, and had afterwards
occasion to regret their fun. Perley
and the rest went to q dance, and the
boys, feeling rather well, concluded to
duck Perley in a running brook. When
he came out he was shivering like q cat
pulled from a well. Perley said little,
but thought a great deal and waited.
The dance over, the party camped out
for the night, and then Perley rose for
revenge. He took the cook into his
confidence, paying him for his assistance,
and then did some more waiting. Much
whisky had made the miners drowsy,
and they were soon all lying on the
ground sleeping soundly. Then Perley
andthe cook went out into the darkness.
The former had matured his plan for
vengence. The design was to SO turn
the mountain torrent from its natural
channel that it would whelm the sleepers
below. It was no light task they had
undertaken, but one was labor1ng for
money and the other for revenge. 1t
was nearly morning, when the dam was
completed all ready to let the water into
the new channel. The final blows were
given and the chatting stream escaped into
the new channel a roaring torrent. 1t
ragged down upon the sleepers in the
tent and went over them as the waters
did over Pharaoh and his hosts. Tent,
provisions and tools went, and the min
ers, half-drowned, escaped to land with
difficulty. When daylight came Perley
and the cook were gone, and band of
wet miners sat upon the bank, very mel
ancholy, and full of sorrow. Perley
was more than even with them.
Year: 1875

Last winter good many depre1ations
wood-pile, and as he was unable to de-
tect the thieves by watching for them,
he concluded to try another plan. He
procured an auger, and boring large
holes in several of the logs he charged
them with gun powder, and then, plug
ging the holes, he laid the logs in the
most conspicuous place on top OF the
pile. He forgot to mention the fact to
the servant girl, and that being, with the
faculty of her class for blundering, the
first time she wanted wood lighted on
the loaded logs and brought two of them
into the kitchen. That evening while
the family were sitting at the supper
table, Keyser was just saying that he
wouldn't care if the head was blown off
of the man who stole the wood, when
Mrs. Keyser got up and put q fresh log
on the fire, and Keyser was in the midst
of an exulting description of the terror
that would fill the heart of the thief
when the logs exploded, when there was
slight ''sizz'' in the fire place, then a
tremendous chang" was heard, and the
next instant log of hickory whizzed
across the table, knocking over the cas-
tors, bursting the coffee-pot to flinders,
and just missing Keyser's head.


Before he could imagine what was the
matter log battered open the parlor
door and brought up end foremost in
the mirror over the mantlepiece. Then
Keyser realize the sitrstion, and going
into the kitchen he communed with the
hired girl upon the subject until Mrs.
Keyser had to hurry the children up
stairs SO that they wo6ldu't learn how to
swear. When his feelings were relieved
Keyser drew the loads from the other
logs, and told Mrs. Keyser that he be-
ieved the only way to protect wood
pile was to put it into the charge of a
whole-souled and earnest Watchdog that
expressed his sentiments with cordiality
when he was angry. He is now looking
for dog.-Mar Adeler.
Year: 1875

TIE rural papers of North Carolina
announce that the failure of a circus
concern down there was entirely due to
lack of advertising, and sternly re-
mark: "Iet this be warning to others. "
Year: 1875

The Country is being treated to the
regular annual accounts, through the
Western Associated Press, Of the capture
Of counterfeiters, with their plates, and


the work by the Secre: Service force Of
the Treasury Department. This force is
gone through with every year, just before
the meeting Of Congress, in order that
such showing may be made as will
induce that body to make ample appro.
priatlons for the maintenance oi the force,
While for oil practical purposes it is not
worth . picayune. 1t is not believed
that one.fourth the stories told of the
work performed by these fellows have
any foundation In fact, in many instan-
ces, the arrests are but rut.up jobs Of a
similar nature TO- that which came to
light in New York last week, where it
was proven that the members of the
Secret Service force had deliberately
persuaded certain persons to pass coun.
terfet coin, and then arrest them for
doing so. The Judge promptly released
the prisoners and severely reprimanded
the detective. The Secret Service force
of the Trea> Jury is, under Washburn,
more efficient than before, but in tho
Year: 1875

Kansas figures up m increase Of several
thousand in population this year, and as
the state has been very unfortunate, we
are sure that nobody will object to their
counting in the grasshoppers in their
census.
Year: 1875

LONG continued rains have indefinitely
postponed the Autumn sowing in Eng
land, and there is prospect Of another
short crop. As long As Americas gram
aries are full our people will not read this
news with that feeling Of deep sympathy
which humanitarian view of the case
would demand.
Year: 1875

The peace they have in Europe requires
nearly eight million Of soldiers, and an
annual expenditure Of six hundred mil.
lions Of money to keep it, while the peace
Of America is securely kept by twenty.
five thousand soldiers.
Year: 1875

The supreme court Of Iowa has attract.
ed much attention by its decision that
when the loser in game Of billiards pays
for the same he is guilty Of gambling and
liable to Indictment.
Year: 1875

A Paris correspondent writes: "Mlle.
Croizette as Queen Anne in Scribe's
T-ey-re de Eau, wore a toilet the skirt Of
which was composed Of alternate bands OF
cold embroidery and broad gold fringe, with
an immense long train Of azure-biue satin
heavy enough to stand alone, and 0roldeIed
am round with a narrow band Of gold EN-
broidery. Down each side OF the under
skirt ran a wide scarflike band OF dead
cloth Of gold embossed with scarlet flowers
in raised embroidery. The cOrsage was OF
blue satin, cut square in font, and with
halflOng sleeves coming to the elbow,
from which fell wide, open sleeves Of white
gauze worked with gold and bOTdered with
cold fringe. A magnificent brooch OF tur
Guoises and diamonds blazed upon her
breast"
Year: 1875

ONE of the colored members of the
Louisiana House Of Representatives,
who has been ousted, said he had the
satisfsction in giving up his seat to
know that his old master, who had
always been just and kind, would
take If.
Year: 1875

The preliminary surveys for the
Canadian Pacific railway are rapidly
approaching completion, and the
actual construction of various sections
Of it viii very shortly be in progress.
In the Government estimates for next
wear there Is an item Of S6.25O,OOO
under the head Cf Pacific Railway,
and on the occasion Of its discussion
IN Committee Of Supply, the Premier
Indicated what the Government pro
Dosed TO do IN furtherance of this
Undertaking. a telegraph ser
vice is to be established along
the entire route in advance of the
railway. and Sl,OgJOOO is asked for
that purpose. The contracts for this
are already let. Two millions Of dol
lars is for the payment Of the large
purchase Of steel lads recently made N
England by the Government $4,000
tons of the best stael rails "a ere secured
at the average rate IF 1880 per ton,
w la is claimed To b a lower rate than
iron rails were sJl8 for during 1873.
and a little more than half the price Of
steel railS during the same period.
Year: 1875

Mining, with the help. of moderate
capital, is one Of the most certain. and
profitable industries in which men of
enterprise can engage The more
thoroughly and systematically our
mines are worked, and the greater the
milling facilities for the reduction OF
ores, the more satisfactory, in cor
responding degree, the amount Of
bullion produced. Nearly every eff.
fort in the latter department has been
Year: 1875

TRY IT.-Chances for fortunes slip by
every day often unknown to us, but when
we see the chance and do not avail our
selves, then the negligence is almost Grim
inal. The golden drawing of the Louisiana
State Lottery Company, which takes place
in the latter part OF this month, offers in
ducements which, if let slip, might never
offer again, and we would advise all to take
a chance. Lotteries have been objected to
on moral grounds, but with one fairly con-
Quoted there can be no more objection than
in risking ones money in the regular course
of business. There will be no scaling of
prizes, and the drawing will positively
come off as advertise d, so those who do not
wish to lose this chance TO become rich had
better come forward and at once secure
ticket. All business is risk. A lottery is
nothing more-nothing less. Every one
investing in the golden drawing can calcu-
late his chances. They are one in six for a
gold prize certain, and stford the oppor-
tunity of winning splendid fortune. Who
would be rich, themselves must strike the
blow.
Year: 1875

The worst feature of the loss of the
Schiller is that it resulted from a eau Sc
VIII ch is ever existent, and for which
there is no remedy. Fog cannot be
seen through with human eyes, aud IL
cannot be uplifted or removed by hu-
man means. Every steamship that
crosses the ocean is liable to ron for
hours, and for days, in fog so dense
that an approaching vessel could not
be seen in time to avoid collision {; and
when nearing the shore a like risk is
run in regard to rocks and breakers.


This is a danger attendant upon the
great increase in the rapidity of transit,
which science and art have not, as yet,
found any means to avert.


To run slower In fog might diminish
the danger somewhat; but 10 be effect
i've, in any considerable degree, it wOuld
have 10 be adopted by all the line s,
going both ways. And even then the
travelling public would not tolerate it.
People viii incur any amount # rick of
going TO destruction rather than not to
go fast.


There seems to be nothing 10 be done
toward diminishing the chances of be-
irR sunk a. sea in a fog except the pro
vision Of more ample means Of escape.
These do not appear to have been what
they should have been on board the
Year: 1875

A writer in the Fortnightly Review
makes an effort to show that, although
we can in no way time the beginning OF
the universe. we have much evidence to
show that the world began to solidity
between one and two hundred Of mil
lions Of years ago, and that, though We
can say nothing as 20 the end Of the
universe, the end of this earth, and with
il Of consciousness upon the earth, Is as
probable as science can rn~ke anything.
The reader will certainly not be tempted
to patient reading by the gloomy con-
clusi0h that study Of the origin and
Is'obable destiny of the universe IS use
less. because we have from a scientific
point OF view no data whatever 20 go
upon " In any case all We know 10 that
the sun is going ont. If We fall INTO
the sun then we shall be fried II we go
away from the san, or the sun goes out,
then we shall be frozen. So that, so
fax as the earth is concerned, We have no
means of determining what viii be the
character of the end, but we know that
one Of these two things must take place
in time. Bat in regard to the whole
universe, IL We were 20 travel forward
as We have travelled backward in time,
consider things as falling together, We
should come finally TO q great central
mass, all in one piece, which would send
out waves of heat through q perfectly
empty ether. and gradually cool itself
down. As this mass got cool Il would
be deprived of all liie or motion; It
would be Just mere enormous frozen
block in the middle Of the ether. Bus
that conclusion, which IS like the one
that We discussed about the beginning
Of the world, is one which We have no
right whatever 70 rest upon. IL depends
upon the same assumption that the
lsgs Of geometry and mechanics arc ex-
actly and absolutely trDe, and that they
have continued exactly and absolutely
true for ever and ever.