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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLucknow Sentinel, 1890-09-12, Page 2tet VMS MIME* RECORD. rift air New on tate, T. 0. --The Chicago • Switohm.a'r. Strike. An Albany deapatoh, says : The situation of the strike: _on the Delaware & Hudson is ihie ;f. The Schenectady yards were today Manned with a fall force of day and night • FIRE BUGS" woiaa. HE oUTB OFF HEADS. 3aeendlarT Attempts Excite Tonawanda The Population Armistead- The Ghastly Oooupation of a Noted A Tonawanda, N.Y., deapatoh of Thurs. Frenchman. day says : The lumber city had had eleven fires within the past twenty-four hours, all presumed to be of incendiary origin. The HB .DI8LIKzs To SILL woman', ESCAPED FROM AN ASYLUM. Anon. The yards at Green Island have Lumber Assooietion liana offered a reward 14t3 � t iinrew slain -y-+-- ha� �- � 1 1 �, W W UNWELCOME IMMIGRANT. Philli)�1en, the Copenhagen Ynrderer, Captured at New York. YILi ynn�iiM I r .Y1.�i.. Jaya. In the Lumber street yard in this e�$y there is a oomplement of day men ;.st work, but no night force whatever. In 9 ati^_ fUeere s,l''auk v..a ('boot half the usual anumber of day hands are at work, but no Bight. fors° has yet been secured. Chief Pinkerton claims freight trains have been Mont$ for the Iwt few nights as they mead through East Albany. He said two to were fired at a train passing through a at 12.40 thie morning. Mr. Pinkerton :lliw, informed the chief of police that if this ' !fork ie not'stoppedthere. will be trouble, Asad he will not be held responsible. Bushiest! on the Central Road, to all out- ward a • 'renew is being transacted as �."T' � � i h � � _.i._. ..� diary. Last night about 11.30 o'clock, the other morning and the' -ilk of the same Gra 4 muted. At the strikera' headquartera they Say the situation today shows no material change, but that D they feel justified in claimingthe advantage from the fast that their members present as firm and deter- mined a front as ever. They were jubilant when they learned that the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration had decided to investigate the causes whioh led to the airiie. They say the investigation will not' be finished, at the eaelieet, until Mr. Depew returns, when the true fasts of the case can thus be laid before him. Knowing the. tenability of the position they have taken tfiat+ are firm in the belief that their cause will be substantiated by the investigation. and knowing the decided views Mr. Depew bas heretofore ex rtes d in the benefits to be derived from arbitration they expect a speedy Settlement of the controversy after Ibis return. THE CHICAGO TROUBLE. A Chicago delipatoh says : Twenty-seven ' switchmen in the employ of the Lake Shore .B i;road oteuele. last night, completely tie- ing up all the business of the road so far as Chicago is concerned. The trouble growe out of the stook yards difficulty. Supt. Marden took a crew of men down to the stook yard', yesterday afternoon. Just before reaching there the men quit =d -left -their ene.sps ate„ g_c* theft .n Borne time afterwards another orew was started, but it abandoned the engines at Forty-third street. When the night shift me -to oto_rork_theylearned that Supt. Amaden had dieoharged all the men who had left their engines. They immediately held a meeting and the men in the yards at Twelfth eines, Forty-third street and Englewood walked out in abody. Ageneral meeting was oalled at the corner of Sixty- third street and Indiana avenue, and a com- munisation was drawn up and addressed to Supt. Ameden, in whioh it was stated 'that themen world return to work when those who had been discharged were rein- stated. Amadeu replied that the men had •been discharged for refusing to perform their duties. A strike was at once de- clared. The switchmen held a meeting 'to -day at whioh Supt. Ameden was present and • explained thecircumstances under whioh the night force etrnok and asked the men whether they intended to stand by the company or the strikers. Thirty-four of ;may ty men present signed a paper agree- ing to stand by the company and to go to work. The remainder decided to side with the strikers. Two engines were sent to Packington to do the work needed there and the remainder are at work in the Lake Shore yards. • THE STOCK YARDS STRIKE. There is no particular change in the aitnation at the stock yards. Everything is quiet, and the engines, manned as they were yesterday, are doing whatever work is needed. There are no switchmen in the yards. There is no change in matters at the Chicago & Alton yard. Travel in Colorado. A Dallas, Col-, despatch says : The stage running between here and Telluride Was held up Monday by road agents near Haskell. Nothing valuable was secured, excepting what was possibly in the regis- tered mail. There were but two of the robbers, both young men and masked. One was dressed in snit of dark blue, the other in a dark coat, checkered vest and dard pants. They were armed with four revolvers and a Winchester 'rifle. David Wood, proprietor of the stage line, has offered.a reward of $100 for the arrest of 4 either or both of the robbers. There is no doubt that their objeot was to swore the retorts from tha King gold mine, eleven of - whioh were -Gent out -•Monday mor-ning,.bnt. by a different route. There is a strong suspicion that the robbers bad confederates here. The valve of the retorts was over $80,000. Fietia Arguments in Congreve. A Washington deapatoh says: In the House today filibustering against the Lard Bill was continued. There was a scene, occasioned by a remark, made by Mr. Cannon, whioh was interpreted by the House as vulgar, and in a personal contro- versy during its disoussion Mr. Beckwith (New Jersey) 'utak Mr. Wilson (Washing- ton). There was great exoitement, the Demoorete taking dome enjoyment out of the'soene. After quiet had been restored, Mr. Cameron' diaolaimed the vulgar con. struction placed upon his remark. • The Honee adopted a resolution directing the Sergeant -at -Arms to arrest absentees and revoking leaves of absence exoept those granted for illness. In the Senate the Tariff Bill was taken up and some progrelss was made. ' If bad examples were as slowly followed as good, what a fine thing it would be 1 A clever swindler has been doing Florida. He gurantees to rid cotton fields of oater- pillers and on receiving his fee—usually $5 —he goes from stalk to stalk hunting for the " king oaterpiller." Presently finding a big fat follow, he hangs him by a string to a tree. He thentells the orednlone farmer that the string=up iriseot will die at sunset and that then all the other oater- pillere will leave the plane. In only five States of the Union oan a teaohe egally flog a pupil. EddrWeelcly Squib is responsible for the statement that " Mr. James Brown Potter has obtained a divorce from the lady who gave up Goofs y to reform the stride:*' :;rxS,','7T,:3,.,n..,^;'in^"1V1y4�)iY�YHYlfil-^�li:`'%" .,� ...r Dodge's planing mill was discovered to be operation being ere long performed on A horrible murder was committed at on fire, and in rapid succession for the next Byrand- leave once more made M. Deibler Copenhagen, Denmark, last spring. It was two hours fires were found and satin gnie}ied prominent in the ohroniolee of the. day, made publio when the ventilated body, of in numerous pluses, including fient'e, Hol - said :. cs" 'ba uueaeui OI *ub u'"'4" 1 iltba. the victim was found peeked iu lime ia tieher's, Base & Co'e. and Holland Bros'. A great deal festa Limo to time has been barrel in the United States Appraiser's lumber yards, J. S. Bliss' shingle factory said about the Publics Exeoutigner of stores in thio city and consigned to some and twice oars on the Central tracks were France, but still more remains to be told. fictitious personage in a Western State. set afire. To -night t, Central fireman, passing through theTonawanda Company's lumber yards, saw a man running between the piles. He stumbled, fell, arose and dieeppeared.' The observer could not see him distinotly enough to identify him. Almost immediately the fire department was called out to subdue the flames in the minutes later fire broke out in another pars of the yard. The whole population ie aroused. Watchmen are redoubling their vigilance, and if the firebug is naught he is likely to be roasted on his own pyre. THE STRANDED VLUND*. She ie Very Badly Damaged and Will Probably be a Total Loss. A Halifax despatch says : The Furness line steamer Ulunda, from St. John for Halifax, to load for London, whioh sailed from the former port at 5 o'olook last even- ing, struck on the Cow Ledge, Briar Island, at the entrance to Grand Passage,' on the Freeport side, at 11 o'clock last night during a dense fog Her bottom is reported gone from bow to amidships and the water flows in and out the forward oompartments. The engine -room is dry and the after part of the ship floats high, She will in all probability prove a tonal lose. The Ulunda is a splendid Clyde. built steamer of 1,161 vet and 1,769 gross tonnage. She is only 5 years old. Her length is 275 feet, breadth 35 feet, and depth of hold 23 feet. Her engines are 200 horse power. She is a sister ship of the Furness line Damara, the two steamers being built originally fon the Halifax Steam Nevi ation Oompan • and plying ween • n ' on, : a i ax and Roston. They paused out of the oompany's bands and into the possession of Christopher Furness several years ago and have since been engaged`in the direst-London-servioe- of that line. The steamer was worth about 5125,000. SHE DID NOT COMP. A Balloonist's Offer to Marry the Young Woman Who Would Make anAseeneion With Him Not Accepted. Joseph Colwell, a handsome balloonist, of Birmingham, Conn., announced some weeks ago that he wodld marray any young woman who would go up in a balloon with him at the Foresters' picnic held there last Saturday. He reoeived many acceptances by mail, but made no choice. He attended the pions and brought with him a minis- ter. When the hour name for the ascension the announcement was made from the grand stand that the balloonist was ready to parry out his agreement. Colwell stood beside hie balloon with an anxioue expres- sion on his fade. Every neck in the crowd was craned to see the young woman who', wished to win a husband at such a price. Ten minutes paesed,but-no young woman oame. So the balloon was cut away, and up went the would-be haeband, and the band pleyed " Annie Laurie " and " The Girl I Left Behind Me." A. TERRORIZED TOWN. A Gang of Incendiaries Cause Trouble in a Michigan Town. A Cheboygan, Mich., despatch says : The ;oity is terribly excited by an apparent attempt to wipe out the town by a gang of', inoendiariee. Property -owners are petroll intheir possessions armed with revolvers, andall firembaand police are constantly on sail. . Yesterday six fires were started, but were extinguished with slight damage. This morning .,a fire started in Patrick Maloney'e barn, whioh ,was burned with its contents., At 11 o'clock this morning fire was discovered in several parts of Thomp: son, Smith & Son's warehouse. The tired firemen,,; were unable to cope with the flames, art before the fire was extinguished the big werhonee was consumed. The fact that fires were set where there was every chance of their devastating th town has induced the officiela to appoint a large number of deputies to patro the town. Bueinese re almost at it standstill, -and .:de- termined men are watching with ceaseless vigilance the more dangerous fire -traps. Fled From Trial Only to be Killed. A Philadelphia despatch says : Stephen Beck, an old man living in St. Clair oonnty, I11., jumped from a passenger train while it was going at full speed near Holmebnrg Junction to -day and was killed. He was accompanied by his young daughter, and when the ohild saw her father leap from the train she ran atter him and also jumped off. She was ao badly injured that she died soon afterwards. They were bound for Hamburg, and bad over $3,000 in their possession. Inapeotion of the man's papers showed that Beak had been held in $300 bail for felonious aasanit upon a little girl, and that he had given a cheque io his bondsmen to cover the amount end then prepared to flee the oonntry. There was a strong smell of whiskey on the corpse. Shot His Own Father. A Hillboro', Ill., despatch Saye : Jonathan Hart Groves owns a large water- melon patch and has a ohronio fear of the melon thief. Monday night he loaded a big duck gun with it heavy dharge et shot and gave the weapon to his 12• year -Old son with instructions to watch the patch till daybreak and to shoot anyone lie saw in it. The old man wondered if the boy was " dead game " and whether be wonid really shoot. Jonathan dressed bimeelf rind sneaked into the melon patch. He was jest on the point of devouring a Insoions melon when the boy emptied both barrels into the old man'e'body. He may die. Lady Churchill, formerly Mies Jennie Jerome, of New York, wife of Lord Ran. dolph Churchill, has given birth to a son, the third stege Lees marriage la 1074. - He was alwaye an interesting personage in the eyes of the Parisians, and perhaps this is why his post is so eagerly sought after. The last time it beoame vacant no' fewer than 3,000 aspirants applied for it, and when M. Deibler retiree from the profession the number will no doubt be still greater. That there a it, and the attradtion is furthermore in- creased by the official title of the berth, l'Exeouteur des Hautes a uvree, whish is high-eonnding enough to flatter anybody's vanity. Let it be recorded at once, however, that the present holder of it bears hie honors with oommenda- ble modesty, and is not above being interviewed likeany common mortal. Hence I was able to .approach ° him after the last exeoution. M. Deibler never courts popularity by parading himeelf in public. No sooner has he done his duty than, leaving hie assistants to take down and clean, the guillotine, be withdraws from the prison by a bank door and re- pairs unperceived to a small wine- ahop in the Rue Folie•Regnanit, where he takes a plate . of soup before going home to his:: family. His two aide, having carefully packed up les baits de justice and deposited them in a shed set apart for the purpose, also repair to the same wine shop, and the three to- gether compare notes as to the way in whioh the oondemned prisoner underwent his punishment and was put out of the world. ' M. Deibler then calls for a cup of coffee, and rolling up a cigarette, proceeds to chat with the ouetoniers, :who are anx- ious to learn all about thelast momentsf ties -dopa refl-nrirt irnal. This is the moment to observe him. He ie a man who looks much younger than he is—a fast which shows that his lugubrious -calling-does-not-weigh-heavily-on-his-mind: He is on the road to 60 but nobody would think him to be more than 40. He is of rather small stature, think set and muscu- lar, in spite of an infirmity from whioh he suffers., He dresses in blank, with im- maculate linen and bis whole get-up would be most appropriate . but for a heavy gold chain and big breast pin. At first eight his face has a savage air about it but when you examine him oloeely he improves . and he then appears to yon in the light of a typical bonhomme. Hie eyes are soft and at times roguish. He ie .fond of his joke, but his laugh has a strane ring about it, and .gives a kind of unnatgral expression to hie countenance. One o rough tuft of beard o There is now detained at the Barge office one Alexander Phillipeen, who is sup. posed to be the person who committed this fiendish crime, and who is held a prisoner awaiting advises from the authorities at Copenhagen. Phillipeen arrived here on Friday last on the Nor- mannia, s000m• •'vied by his wife and one eyes are deep blaok and piercing. : 0 18 below the average height and rather slender. His appearance indicates that he is pos- sessed of some means. The details of the crime of whioh Phillipsen is Roomed are briefly as follows : One G. Meyer was the collector for a large firm at Copenhagen. It was his habit, on most 000ssions, to carry large sums of money on his person. This fast was known to one Adolf Phillipsen. One night Phillipson invited Meyer into a room at his hotel to have a drink and a good time generally. There the unfortu- nate Meyer was strangled and his muti- lated remains packed -in lime and shipped to this country. The objeot of the murder was money, but, as it . happened, the murderer only got sixty crowns for his horrible work, whioh was all the money the victim had on his person at the time. Readers' of the Herald will remember the details of the ghastly discovery made at the Custom House when the hacked body of the murdered man was discovered. The barrel in which the corpse was shipped was brought to this country on a steamship from Denmark and' seized for duties by the oastoms officials. After committing' the murder Phillipsen set fire to his house in order to collect the insurance. He then fled to Hamburg, where he was terreated ae o and taken back t • Co •enhagen where he was loo e, np o • arge arson. jail Phillipsen confessed to the murder of Meyer. ' He was tried, adjudged insane and committed to an ineane asylum. • At the time of the _.murder E: C. J-aeab. son, now a bartender at the Hotel Den- mark, No. 84 Greenwich street, was stop- ping in Copenhagen on a visit to some relatives. He claims to have known both Phillipsen. and Meyer intimately. When. Jacobson saw Phillipsen in the office of the hotel yesterday morning he• approached him and said, " Is not your name Phillip - eon ?" " Yee," was the response. " Adolf' Phillipsen ?" " No, Alexander." Jacobson once more looked at the man closely, and, as he states; became convinced that he was none other than Adolf Philip - Ben, the murderer of Meyer. This fact he communicated to several people about the hotel, one of whom repeated the story to the authorities at the Barge office. • When Phillipsen called at the Barge office yesterday morning to get his baggage he was asked for his passport. He pro- duced a certificate signed by " Signe," at Copenhagen, who is, Phillipsen says, Chief of Police there. / He was then called before General O'Beirne, who questioned him es to his antecedents. He is, he said, a mann. faoturer of chemicals, and has ale° been connected with the dry goods business. He visited this country about eight years ago and remained here a year. He knew about the Meyer murder, but strenuously denied that he is the Phillipsen referred .to.. He said that he bore no relation whatever to Adolf Philllpsen, although he has been told that he looks very much like him. It will be remembered that at the time of the trial Phillipsen'a'friends' need every means to have him adjudged, ineane, and that ° when this object had been scoom- plished itWas rumored that.a large sum of money bad been raised to secure hiere- lease and have him transferred to this country. Jacobson testified at the Barge Office yesterday that he positively identified Phil- lipsen as the murderer of Meyer. He remembered, he stated, a peculiar defect' in Phillipsen's speech, which failing the prisoner also had. It is not unlikely, therefore, that this is really Phillipeen, the murderer of Meyer. If such should be the case it must have taken emcee powerful influence _teatime. secured .hi xelease rpm the_ ssue.. 'asylum where he had been confined. The Phillipeen at the Barge Office shows no signs of insanity, whioh is about the only thing in his favor. The Barge Office authorities will hold Phillipsen a prisoner pending an inquiry. They will telegraph to Mr. Blaine and have him sable to our Minister at Copenhagen to ' ascertain whether the Phillipsen who murdered Meyer is still in the asylum td whioh he was consigned after the trial. Phillipeen'° baggage was sent, as he said, to No. 191 Baltio street, Brooklyn ; but No, 191 Baltic street is not the residence of hie brother, a physician, as he informed the•polio° of this city. No. 191 is a three- etory honee, with a basement, and is %anted by a Mrs. Holley,•who lets out furnished rooms. Phillipsen, his wife and their child arrived at Mrs. Holley's on Friday night., According to what the landlady says they were the fleet Phillipeens who had ever been in ' her house, so that disposes of " my brother, the physician," part of the (tory. Mrs. Phillipsen told me that on their arrival in New York they went almost direotly to the Hotel Denmark, on Green- wich street, where they stayed a few hour° and then went to Brooklyn. Phillipsen has assorted Olathe was not at the Hotel Den- mark. Mrs. Phillipsen ,did not know that her husband had been Arrested, and knew nothing whatever of the murder of Meyer. Mtn -'Holley said Phillipsen had informed her that be had lettere of introduction to several prominent people in New York and Brooklyn, and among them one to General Christensen, of the latter city. General. Christensen said last night that ho bad never seen or heard of Phillipsen: d feature is a small rarbiohe, into whioh a few white blare have crap and whioh slashes with his otherwise gentle mie His voice, too, ie peculiar. Sometimes 't is harsh, at others caressing. He tatke-s owly and timidly, as it he were afraid 0 com- promising himself. To sum np, he is a curious character ; a mixture of the tender- hearted father of a family and the inexorable messenger of death—a man who has two lives, hie home and the guillotine. So you wieb to know how Godable be- haved himself ?" began M. Deibler. "Well —very well, indeed. I should like to have snoh men always. He wee one of the pluck- iest I ever had to operate on. He bore up to the last seoond in the most heroio style. Pity his oonrage•was spent in crime." What about Pranzini ? " He was the very reverse. The papers said he died bravely, but that wee nos tree. Ile trembled all the time, and when he reached the guillotine he nearly fainted away. Altogether, he was a sorry fellow." Evidently M. Deibler 'admires 'criminals who do not show the white feather ; this to him is their crowning sin. Questioned ae to a female convict on 'whom he will soon have to exercise bis skill in the pro- vinces, he said : "I am fond of travelling ; it relieves my mind and strengthens me to work; but I don't like to have anything to do with women. It is a disagreeable task. They, ory 'se mush, kick up snoh a noise and give themselves snoh airs. The conversation then turned on Eyrans. "I suppose he will be handed over to me in a few weeks, more or'Te°s`."Soine" peiiione' say no but I feel certain of it. He will richly deserve hid fate. Gabrielle Bom- pard, however, will probably eeoape the knife. 1y the way, I don't . like yon journalists ; yon are not always reasonable. For example, where you Gas I am too long about my job, whereas in re- ality I do all I oan to get through it speedily But I cannot risk losing my plane to please yon.. Sup- posing I failed and made a mesa of the execution, it, would create a scandalat 000a. I am not always sure of my assist ants. I an obliged to watch them. When; they have iaid the oondemned man on the eliding -board, I arrange his position in my tern, and it is not till I Bee that he is all right that I let, the kuife drop. It is a seriona affair, you know, and I am bound to take preoantiona to avoid mishaps. I hope you will remember this in future and do me justice." Having delivered'bimself of this mild rebuke he returned to the immediate subjeot of the interview. " I do not, as some people imagine, see the prisoner when he is woke np for the last time by the authorities. I wait in the adjoining Dell, whioh is called the sidle de toilette. I am not curious to eee him. If I were not in the profession I should never dream of going but of my way to witneae an execution, for it is not a pleasant sight by any means." —Mee Frostigne—I broke my mirror the other day and I can't see myself when dressing." Pond wife -.-I am no glad you have that habit of walking In your aleep. Devoted hubby Well, I can't for the life of me see why. Explain yourself. Fond wife—Why, I made you carry the baby for hours last night, and you did not know anything about it. it n It is about aa absurd for a person to vow ture into deep water without knowing,how to swine as it would be to jump Off the roof of a home without knowing how to fly. The Benefit of Newspaper Training. I believe I have done everything which' an.editer pr publisher ever has to do, from directing wrappers up to writing the, biography of a president within an lour after his death. This means, if the train- ing be continued through many years of life, and if one be under a good chief, that, one gains, of necessity, the ready use, at hie o.1.. ,Kia . spa er JRai , e ek? l�. trr�* p� q }, -ria! ^"�^`:� :'F'F4 .TMT.C.. pp «6 . `f` men may write'7yng1Ce�li very -"ill; ut-ve write it easily and quiokly. So that to as, Who have been in this business, there something amazing to hear a clergyman. say that he occupied ti week ih ®'F e r';�-s-tvg a sermon, which wee, at the outside, thirty - lige hundred words in length. One can understand absolute inability to do it at all, but no newspaper man understands - how a man,who can do it, oan spend thirty- six hours in doing it. If you have to sen& "copy" upstairs,. hour after hoer, with a boy taking the elips from you, one by.one, as they are written, and yon know that 300 ` are never to eee what you write until.you read it the next ate. oare n y, writ en ogre a frrir i ver be easily read. That is one thing. An- other thing goes with it. Yon will form the habit of determining what yon mean to say before you say it, how feen awant to go, and where yon -want to stop!" nd this will bring yon to a valuable habit of life— to stand by what has been decided. Napo- leon gave the same advise when he said, " If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna." For these reasons, I am apt to recom- mend young men to write for the press early in life, being well aware that the habit of doing this bee been of use to me.— Edward Everett Hale in the September - Forum. A Lesson in Arithmetic. Yesterday evening a number of teachers oonneoted with a well-known institution of learning were in the Union Station waiting for a train. • They were discussing the businese attainment(' of a friend who is engaged in selling something for 51 a bottle that cost him 30 cents a 'bottle. " Just seethe profit he is makin�Why, . think of it ; 70 per Dent." " I would like to know how you gentle- men figure on per cents," interrupted D. B. Robbins, a quiet -looking,• •travel -stained an, wearing a lead -colored duster, who „ sat near them. " Why, it's simple enough. Hie profit is the difference between 30 cents and 51—" " Yee, his profit is, but that's • not the 'per cent -of his profit. I am not much of e scholar, but I•°have been a travelling man for a good many years and have much to do with figuring out per cents. and. dis- counts. According to my arithmetio the gentleman of whom yon are talking makes 233 1.3 per sent profit on bis investment. How does that strike you ? " The teachers stared a moment and smiled in a way that showed they were bored.— Indianapolis News. The Galley Slave. Think of six men chained to a benoh, naked as when they were born, one foot on the stretcher the other on the bench in front, holding an immensely heavy oar (fifteen feet long), bending forward to the stern with arms at full reach to clear the backs of the rowers in front, who bend likewise, and then,' having got forward, shoving up the oar's end to let the blade catch the water, then throwing their bodies back on to the groaning benoh. A galley oar sometimes pulls thus for ten, twelve, or even twenty hours without a moment's rest. The boatswain, or other sailor, in such a strees'pnts a piece of bread steeped in wine in the wretched rower's moath to ' stop fainting and then the captain shouts the order to redouble the lash. If a slave - fella exhausted upon his oar (which often chances), he is flogged till he is taken for dead and then pitched . unceremoniously inte4,the eee.—From" The Barbary Corsairs," by Stanley Lane Pool. Bombay Oysters. The very newest thing about town is the " Bombay oyster." " The " Bombay oyster" isn't an oyster at all, of coarse, but this is the name that has been bestowed on it. It inn composition sufficiently common- and simple to please the lean and larded, purse alike. 'It is nothing more than an egg dropped unbroken into a tumbler and deluged with vinegar and sprinkled with pepper and salt. It is conenmed always before breakfast and by a great many sporting en in the city.' One of its effeots is .to count act • the evil tendencies of over -drinking nd over- eating. Some etont men like a "Bombay oyster in the morning and eat nothing again• until noon. For a bilious atomaeh is is the finest kind of a • remedy. -.Boston Globe. Decorah Enjoys a Ghost Sensation. ` A Cedar Rapids, Mich., deapatoh says : A haunted house ie exciting the people of the city of Decorah, and promises to dis- close a tragedy of the darkest kind. The house was occupied by a young woman and a man named Johtieon. The woman gave birth to a child, which was disposed of by Borne merino as yet unknown. Shortly after this a woman's screams were heard in the house, and from. that time no one h s been seen or heard on the premises. T a was three months ago. The househo 'sonde remain untouched. It is thought by the Authorities that both the woman and babe were murdered by 'Johnson. An apparition has been seen, it is`alleged, by a number of the beet people of the city, largo crowds congregating near the house nightly. An investigation is being made. The new British army rifle carries a • small ball oonsieting of a steel shell filled with lead, and is said to carry " with a ser- , tain amount of accuracy," a dietanoe of two miles. What a weapon it would be in the halide of trained sbarpaooters 1 James 14raiser, wa•e excused from jury duty at Philadelphia the other day ON the'. ground that he was over 75 year; of age and had shaken hands with Lafayette. —With olooka on every side watches are no longer regarded, as essentials. --Scientists have decided that the mes- quite oan transmit yellow feverandmalaria by puncture with his little bill. They Might have added that the moegaito on,n also _- . oanse profanity.