NEWS OF THE WEEK.
-—An express train on the Bee IL.iue
dashed into Muncie, Indiana, on the
morning of the 30th vit, and crashed
into a freight engine standing near
the depot, The air-brakes of the ex-
press were unmanageable, and the
train could not be checked. Both en-
glnes, two palace cars, several coaches
and freight cars were burned by the
fire which broke out. 'A freight en-
gineer was severely hurt, The pas-
sengers and other train hands escaped
injury. A freight train on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Rail.
road went through a bridge near Pine
Station, Indiana, early on the morn-
ing of the 30th ult. A brakeman
named Coder was killed. While other
train hands were searching for his body
with a lantern a quantity of naphtha
which had leaked from a 3500-gallon
tank J ignited and the cars were
burned. Two freight trains on the
Reading Railroad collided near Mohrs-
ville, Berks county, on the morning of
the 30th ult, An engine and 15 cars
were smashed, and two employes were
injured.
~—Colonel T. J. Williams, a promi-
nent lawyer of Palestine, Texus, was
shot and killed on the 20th ult., by
tteorge DD. Hunter, son of a widow
whom Williams had insulted. At
Center Sidney, a towa adjoining Au-
gusta, Maine, Edward Wentworth, 40
years old, was fatally shot. He has
a family of thirteen children, all of
whom were at home but one, After
beating his wife on the evening of the
20th, he struck one of his daughters
and swas choking her when the wife
remonstrated. He then said he would
kill them, and started to his vest for a
revolver, but one of his sons grabbed
the pistol and ran toward a bedroom
adjoining. The father followed and
was in the act of grabbing the revolver,
when it was discharged, the ball enter-
tering the father’s chest and killing
him,
— Owing to (he blockade of a branch
of the Northern Pacific Railroad, over
which most of the wood consumed in
Morris, Minnesota, Is brougit, the
supply of wood in all the yards is ex- |
bausted with po prospects of an early
replenishment, A telegram from Bel-
videre, New Jersey, says the Lehigh
and Hudson Railroad 18 now open and
the first train since the 26th got through
cn the 30th ult,
—A despatch from Providence,
Rhode Island, says the city of Bristol,
Warren, East Greenwich and other
wayside towns were badly shaken up on
the evening of the 20th ult.,, by a dy-
namite explosion in Newport harbor,
Iv many places the shock resembled an
earthquake, and reports from various
points speak of it as a genuine earth-
quake, the cause not being generally
known. In Newport harbor efforts
were being made to clear the harbor
of the unparalleled ice felds. It is
twenty miles from Greenwich and
thirty from Frovidence, where houses
were shaken very perceptibly,
~3"0r SOME Life past a young man,
named Blakeley, has been paying at-
tention to Annie Estes, a sixteen-year-
old girl, in Wallace, Missouri, Her
family objected to Blakeley. On the
evening of the 20th uit. the couple at-
tended church. After the services they
were met outside by Peter Estes, her
father, and Wilham, her eighteen-year-
old brother. A quarrel arose, and
William drew his pistol and shot
Biakeley through the jaw. Blakeley
then drew his weapon, but the old
man was quicker and shot him in the
forehead, killing him. The father and
son have been arrested. The girl has
lost her reason.
—Solomon H., Godarh, a8 cutter for
Solomon Cohen, clothing manufacturer
in Boston, was arrested on the 31st
uit. for stealing goods from his em-
ployer. He confessed his guilt, and
about $350 worth of the goods was re-
covered,
—A young woman giving her name
as Clara Novello was arrested at the
post-office in New York on the 31st
ult. by one of Comstock’s agents on a
charge of using the mails for illegal
purposes. Commissioner Shields placed
her under $2500 bail.
~The ice gorge in the Missippi river
in front of St. Louis began to move on
the morning of the 31st ult. The
steamers Tamm, Mattie Belle, City of
Monroe and the Hayes, together with
several barges were sunk. The Haves
was a large excursion steamer and is a
total wreck, She was valued at 825.
000. The Mattie Belle was a fine large
freight boat and the Tamm a ferry-
boat. It is ht that many more
steamboats and rges tied close In
shore wiil be damaged or lost,
~A despatch from Winnipeg, Mani-
toba, says the latest reports from the
indicate theres has been
great loss of life on the Canadian Pa-
cific owing to snow slides, Near Pal-
liser Station, British Columbia, several
men were caught in a slide, only one
was dug out alive and he was 50 badly
bruised and injured that he is not ex-
to recover, The mild weather
has put a stop to all through Canadian
Pacific trains, and, as the mountain
Cullen, 34 years of age, mur-
i, Deothite mm Baffalo, on the
gagged Law and kis wife, and ran-
sacked the house, They secured $150
in cash, a large amount of jewelry and
drove away with Law’s team, valued
at $200,
—A passenger train on the Pittsburg,
Cincinnpatia and St. Louis Railroad col-
lided with a switch engine on a side
track, near Urbana, Ohio, on the even-
ing of the 31st uit, Frank Brown, en-
gineer, Charles M, Malhann, fireman,
and Roadmaster Welsh were killed.
Many passengers were badly bruised
and cut, The aceldent was caused by
an open switch,
—The tender and baggage car of a
passenger train on the Rome, Water-
town and Ogdensburg Railroad jumped
the track on the 31st ult., and Express
Messenger Hickok was killed,
~—Y¥ lille Jacob and David Campbell,
father and son, of Jersey City, were
shovelling snow for the Erie Rallroad,
at Hampton, on the 30th ult, they
were struck by a train. The son was
killed, the father fatally injured.
~The towboat Belle McGowan burst
her boiler at Marietta, Ohio, on the
81st ult. Her forward part was torn
away, and ber fireman was blown over
board and badly scalded.
—An epidemic of pneumonia is re.
ported from the territory adjacent to
Montpelier, Indiana, which has caused
many fatalities and many are now low
with the disease. *‘1'o add to the
burden, black measles have broken out
in Keystone, a small village three
miles north, A large number of
children are afflicted and the schools
have been closed. Epidemic pneu
monia differs from the ordivary com-
plaint In that the lungs seem to decay
and the system falls to respond to the
usual remedies.”
-—1’leuro-pnenmonia prevails among
cattle on Staten Island. Dr. William
Rose, of Stapletcn, who is connected
with the State Doard of Health, on
the 1st said he feared the diseese
would become epidemic. During the
past Lwo weeks fifty-three head afflicted
with the disease have been killed.
— At Rochester, New York, on the
morning of the 1st, as three non-union
employes of Byrnes, Dugan & Hudson,
shoe manufacturers, were leaving their
hotel on their way to work, they were
knocked down and severely beaten by
a gang of strikers, There were eight
or ten men io the gang, armed with
clubs,
- On going to investigate a mysteri-
ous light ander the sidewalk in Ch.
cago, on the evening of the 80th uit.
two policemen found a small entrance
to a cave in the ground, and on pursu-
ing the search came to a spacious room
guarded by a 13.year-old boy named
Nimmie Rynes, The boy had a revol
ver in his hand and challenge! the
officers. A number of revolvers | ung
about the papered walls. AL the police
station Rynes confessed to a complicity
in several robberies perpetrated by the
gang of which he was a member. No
other arrests have yet been made,
~The recent “chinoek’’ in the moun-
tains of the Northwest Territory struck
Fort McLeod with tremendous force,
raising the roofs off many buildings,
and the mercury from zero to 60
above,
~ A spark from a cigar dropped into
a can of blasting powder which four
men were dividing in & boarding house,
in Gallitzia, Penna,, on the evening of
the 3ist ult. An explosion occurred
and all were injured, two dangerously,
The house was demolished,
— Hav. Corneline Birkley, a minister
of the German Baptist Church, was
found dead in a field near Sowerset,
Penna., on the 3lst ult. He started to
walk home across the flelds from a
neighbor’ house on Saturday. The
snow was very deep and the weather
intensely cold, with a heavy wind. Not
Eeaching home a search was made, and
his body, lying face downward, was
fousd in the snow. Ile was 70 years
-Joseph Mocel, an Italian barber,
on the 1st, shot and killed his wife at
the house of her parents in New York,
where they were living. The woman
was 23 years old and had a two-year-old
child. The shooting was the result of
a quarrel arising from the wife's refu-
sal to leave the city with her husband,
~Moses Tales and James Wells,
both colored, were fatally injured by
a delayed blast in a quarry near Paris,
Kentucky, on the afternoon of the 2d,
~ William Hahn, of Crestline, Ohlo,
was thrown from a sleigh and killed at
Lock Haven, Penna, on the even!
of the lst. Alvah W, Briggs drop
dead in Chicago on the 1st. When
his wife, who was postmistress at
Uottage Grove avenue of the Chicago
Post-office, was informed of her loss
she went into a series of faunting fits,
ing of the 2d.
~& passenger train on the Texas
and Pacific Rallroad was derailed by
defective switch on the 1st near
view, Texns, Michael Cain, the en
neer, was killed, and T. R. Johnson
and Peter Bagler were dangerously in-
jured. As a stock train on the Chics
and Northwestern Rallroad was enter-
May Wilson, uged 11 years. She has
been in the hospital nearly three years,
suffering from wry-nsck, and was about
to be sent home to her father as cured
when the crime was discovered, She
admitted that she had made several
attempts to fire the building, why, she
did not know! The biz fire she started
with some matches which she found in
the doctor’s room. One of the physi
cians examined the child and became
convinced that she was suffering from
pyromania and was not responsible for
her attions. "Lhe caboose car of a
freight train was thrown from the
track by a broken rall and hurled on
the ice of the Thames river, near Nor-
wich, Connecticut, on the afternoon of
the 1st, Seventeen laborers were In
the car, all of whom were injured, but
none fatally. The boiler of a portable
saw mill near Barnesville, Ohlo, ex-
ploded on the afternoon of the 1st, kill.
ing John Arnold and Charles Sullivan
and severely injuring four others,
~Dr. D. O, Penny and his son, aged
18 years, and Robert Barnett have been
arrested in Piftsburg on the charge of
complicity In the Murdock $10,000
swindle. On account ot Mr. Murdock’s
age it is not believed that he will be
able to Identify the swindlers, In the
prelimiuacy examination of IL. W,.
rock and ‘Jim? Burrows at Tex-
arkana, Brock made a confession of
the train robbery at Genoa, December
9th. They got $6300 from the safe,
Both men were bound over in $7600
bail. Burrows failed to get bail and
was taken to Little Rock. Brock, the
mformer, was released on §750 bond,
and the readiness with which two
prominent merchants of Texarkana
came forward as security for a surpris-
ingly small amount of the ball, has
given much strength to the rumor at
Texarkana that Brock is a Pinkerton
detective, who was delegated some
time ago to join the robber band and
betray them. He departed for Dallas
immediately after being liberated,
—'The mixing house of the Standard
Explosive Company, near Tom’s
River, New Jersey, blew up on the
afternoon of the 3d. Two men were
blown to atoms. The blasting corning
mill of the Austin fowder Company's
plant in Newburgh township, near
Cleveland, was blown to pleces on the
morning of the 31, The mill was used
for granulating the pressed cakes of
powder, and the machipery had just
been started by Reuben Wright when
the explosion occurred. Wnght was
killed, Not a vestige of the mill re.
wains, There were about 600 pounds
of powder inthe mill and the report
of the explosion was heard for miles,
An explosion occurred in the works of
the American Paint and Oil Company,
in Cleveland, on the 3d, The plant
was totally destroyed by the fire
which followed the explosion, Loss,
$25,000, Policeman Harrison was se-
verely burned aud may lose his sight,
He saw smoke in the building and had
just opened the door to Investigate
when the explosion took place,
Af James Saunders was walking
along the street in Montreal, on the
3d, a large block of ice fell from the
roof of a building on his head and
killed him,
A farmer living in the woods sev-
eral miles from Duluth, Minvesota, re
ports the discovery in the woods away
from the traveled paths, of a stranded
balloon, and also, wedged in the limbs
of the tree in which the ballvon was
caught, the dead body of a man. The
man had been probably about 30 years
of age. It issupposed that the balloon
was one which ascended Jast spring
from a Southern city and was never af-
terwards heard of.
At noon on the 34, a Delaware
and Hadson train struck and killed
Henry Carpenter and John Hunt, at
Jefferson Junction, Penna. They were
walking on the track. A broken frog
threw a freight train off the track on
the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Menlo
Park, New Jersey, on the evening of
the 2d, and fourteen cars and the loce-
motive were tossed in a heap. The
fireman was injured internally.
-Michael O'Leary, in the 14th year
of his age, was committed for trial in
Baltimore on the 3d, on the charge of
stealing from his employer and at-
tempting to poison Miss Josephine
Nair, employed in the same establish.
ment, A workman named Bowers
swallowed part of some munatic acd
which the young scoundrel had placed
in a glass at the drinking fountain for
the young woman. Fortunately,
Bowers drew water in the glass before
drinking any of the poison, and the
dilution mded his recovery. O'Leary
confessed his guilt,
Two men euatéred the depot build.
ing of the Boston and Providence Rail.
road at Forest Hill Station, Masachu-
setts, early on the morning of the 34,
and while one was buying a ticket for
Dedham, the other
—George MeCarthy, conductor, shot
and killed A. J. Carpenter, brakeman,
at Battle Creek, Micatgan, on the
3d. They were drunk had been at
a dance,
-~An elevator in RB. G.
A FORTUNATE EDITOR.—*] don’t
soe how you can get so much news in
the village
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60th CONGRESS. — First Session.
BENATE
In the U. 8, Senate, on the 30th ult,"
a bill was reported und passed remov-
ing the political disabilities of Andrew
J. Lindsey, of Missouri. Mr, Sawyer,
from the Post Office Committee, re
ported adversely the resolution to re
duce letter postage to oue cent, After
discussion the report was placed on the i
calendar, Mr, Plumb offered a reso- |
lution directing an Inquiry into the!
cases of Inefliclent mall service
especially in the West and South. Laid
over. The House bill making appro-
priations for experimental agricultural
stations was reported and passed with
an amendment appropriating the
money directly from the Treasury in-
stead of from the sales of public Jands,
The Blair Educational bill was consid-
ered. After an executive sesston the
Senate adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
81st uit., the joint resolution propos.
ing an amendment to the Constitution,
providing that the term of office of the
President and Congress shall hereafter
expire on April 30th, instead of March
4th as at present, was agreed to. The
Blair bill was discussed, After an ex-
ecutive session the Senate adjourned.
In the U. 8, Senate, on the 1st, Mr.
Coke presented a memorial from mer-
chiants of El Paso, Texas, asking that
8 reciprocity treaty be made with
Mexico, to do away with the extensive
smuggling on the Rio Grande. Mr.
Morgan sald that if Congress would
pass a law to carry into effect the pro-
visions of the treaty with Mexico rati-
fied two or three years ago, the purpose
of the memorial would be substantially
accomplished, Mr, Coke concurred in
this opinion, and sald nothing could
help the commerce of this country more
than the execution and enforcement eof
that treaty. The memorial was re-
ferred. Bills were reported and placed
on the calendar for the prevention of
food adulteration, for an inspection of |
meats for exportation, and increasing |
the pensions of soldiers and saflors who |
have lost both hands, Bills were in-
troduced by Mr, Cameron to place on
the pension roll all officers and enlisted
men who have served in the army or
navy between 4th March, 1861, and 1st
February, 1860, at the rate of one cent
per month for each day's service—this
to be a ‘service pension bill” and *‘an
addition to invalid pensions for dis.
ability.” The Blair Edueational li
was considered, and Mr. Pugh spoke In
support of it. Adjourned. .
In the United States Senate on the
2d, the House bill to facilitate the pros-
ecution of works projected for the im-
provement of rivers and harbors was
reported and placed on the calendar.
Mr. Mecl’berson introduced a bill to
amend the Arthur Kill Bride bill, It
provides that the channel face of the
east pier of the bridge shall be on the
Staten Island bulkhead or shore line,
The channel span shall give a clear
opening of 450 feet, and thera shall
also be adraw span giving 125 feet
clear opening. Mr. FPlumb’s resolu
tion, relating to the alleged ineflicl-
enoy of the postal service in the West
and South, was taken up, and Mr,
Plumb occupied the time until the ex-
piration of the morning hour in dis.
cussing it. Tue bill to increase the
pensions of utterly helpless soldiers
and sailors was passed, The presiding
officer announced as the select com-
mittee to which had been referred the
President's message on the Pacific
Railroads Mess, Frye, Dawes, Hiscock,
Davia, Morgan, Butler and Hearst,
Messrs, Kenna and Sherman then
spoke on the subject of the surplus
revenue and the tariff, The Blair bill
was dwscussed, pending which the en.
ate well into executllve session, and
afterwards adjourned,
In the United States House of Rep-
resentatives on the 3d, Mr. Randall
presented a resolution of the Angler's
Association of Eastern Pennsylvania
asking Congress (0 pass a law limiting
the fishing for menhaden to the out-
side of a line three miles from the At-
lantic coast. The Committes on the
Judiciary reported adversely bills to
create a Court of Customs and prepar-
ing a constitutional amendment em-
powering Congress to grant ald to the
common schools of the different
States. Mr. Nutting, of New York,
offered a resolution, which was re.
ferred, calling on the § of the
Treasury for information in regard to
the refusal of the Cansdion author
ities to allow American wrecking ves-
sels and machinery to assist American
vessels while in distress in Canadian
waters, and as to whether Canadian
wrecking vessels and machinery are
permitted to operate in American wats
ers, The House then adjourned.
HOUSE
In the House on the 30th ult,, a num
ber of bills and resolutions were intro
duced under the eal of States, Among
them were measures by Messrs, Sto
of Kentucky, and Rayner, of Mary-
land, to prevent combinations and
" and a bill by Mr. Lawler, of
Illinois, to repeal the tax on oleomar-
gare, Mr, Lawler moved to refer
bill to the Ways and Means Com-
defeated —yens, 62
100. The bill was then referred to the
Committee on Agriculture.
amendment to the Agricultural
: Stations 1 was cone
curred in, and the bill
Mr, Brecken
1n the House on, the ist Wik. Mn
Dingley reported a authorizing
Treasury to invest the 1awiul souep
trust by the
retirement of their eir~
Placed on ils sawn
Eo and pas
In the House on the 1st, the Urgent
Deficiency bill was reported and re. |
ferred to the Committee of the Whole, |
A bill was also reported “to promote
agriculture’’ and similarly referred. |
Mr. Dockery introduced a bill for the |
reorganization of the inspection force |
of the Post-office Department, The |
report of the Committee on Commerce
in relation to the proposed investiga
tion of the Heading Railroad troubles
was taken up. After debate a resolu
tion was adopted, without a division,
providing for a special committee of
five to investigate the cause, extent
and effect of the Reading strike, and
also to inquire into the difficulties ex-
isting in the Lehigh and Schuylkill coal
region between the mining corpor-
ations and the miners The commit.
tee may report by bill or otherwise,
Adjourned,
In the House, on the Ist, Mr,
Blount called the bill to prevent the
transmission through the malls as
second class matter of cheap litera-
ture, and requiring it to be trans-
mitted as third class matter. After
debate the bill was passed—145 to
116, Mr, Crain, from the Committes
on I'residential Elections, reported a
joint resolution, which was placed on
the calendar, proposing a constitutional
amendment providing that Congress
shall hold its annual meetings on the |
first Monday in January, Mr, Ford, |
of Michigan, introduced a bill for the |
organization of the Territory of |
Alaska, Adjourued.
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Transportation in Mexico,
When I say I think the system of
tramways, or street railroads, in the |
City of Mexico is the most perfect sys- |
tem of transportation 1 have seen in
the republic—1 probably owe the
jackass, or burro, system an apology.
This meek, long-suffering over-burd-
ened, unfed, and much-abused animal |
is utilized on all occasions and for all |
purposes, t any time of day and on |
all roads leading from the country to
Lhe city may be seen in countless num- |
bers this jack 1abbit family, with every |
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milk, poultry in coops, lumber, char |
coal, tied in bundles of weeds or long |
grass, building stone, brick, burned |
and unburned, and, in fact, everything |
that is movable is piled on these for- |
lorn, friendiess animals and carried to |
and from the country. 1t is sald before
the introductions of railroads that as
many as 50000 were in use in and
around the City of Mexico alone, and
the same system of transportation pre-
vails throughout the republie,
The most amusing thing I have seen
in the natives Is the ingenuity they
display in packing these burros with
anything they want to transport.
Lumber that is too long to balance |
they attach to each side of the donkey
and let one end drag on the ground,
and In that way haul it Ofty miles or
more from the mountains to the eity,
or the mines, as the case may be, !
There is another class of transporta- |
tion in Mexico, which should not be |
overlooked, as it enters largely into |
competition with all others, viz,, that
by which the heads and backs of men
and women are used, It 1s surprising
to see what heavy burdens are carried
on both sexes, to and from the coun- |
try, the women, generally with a pa- |
poose on the back, and frequently with |
ope or two more children a shade |
larger following close behind her, and
she behind a man, who is driving a
herd of burros, all alike loaded to their |
fullest capacity, and making slow rail- |
road time, There Is another class
known as eargadoers, licensed by the
government and usually emploved in
cities, They are lntrusted with hand.
ling all valuable packages, moving
household goods, carrying messages,
transferring people on their backs
across the streets that are often over-
flowed in the rainy season, ete... ele.
They are, in short, a kind of confiden-
tial transportation company, and the
only one I have ever heard of in Mexico.
As there are few navigable lakes or
rivers of importance in the interior of
Mexico, transportation by water cuts
but a little figure, of course, Still the
native Indian continues to utilize what
there is. The famous Lake Tezcuco,
upon which Cortez launched his little
fleet in his attack upon the Cily of
Hexico in 1420, and into which the
drainage of the city is emptied, still
affords navigation for small craft not
drawing more than two feet of water
and is accessible to the city through
canals which are utilized by the In.
dians for transporting passengers and
every variety of marketing, of which
they raise large quantities along the
canals and on the borders of the lake.
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Penalties for Cheating at Cards.
Two children of Sig. Carmona’s sec-
ond wife died, poisoned. Their death
There he
ner, taking unbounded pleasure in
showing them unique pieces of I
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TRAVELING IN SIBERIA.
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Miserable Horses of the Yakoots.
The Gentle Reindeer and His
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Reindeer are much swifler and more
reliable than or the miserable
horses of the Yakoots, And yet these *
horses are not to be despised, for they
supply a need that it would be 4iffi.
cult to reach with other snimals,
They are very hardy and require
scarcely more attention than the
wilder animals in that country, It is
not necessary to provide food or sheiter
for them. They thrive and do much
bard work upon dead grass, twigs and
dried leaves that in winter they find
by pawing off the snow from the
ground, In summer it would be im.
possible to keep up ecommunicstion
with the Russian outgst in Siberia
without these horses ¥f the Yakoots,
Upon them is packed the merchandise
for trade with the outlying tribes, and
they bring back the furs that have
been gathered during the winter ses
son. Upon the obscure trail through
those wild Siberian wastes the summer
traveler often meets long lines of these
animals trudging patiently along,
sometimes twenty-five or thirty in
number, each one tied to the tzil of
his file leader.
During the winter, however, the
gentle reindeer move gaily along at a
swifl and easy trot, two atiached to
the antlers of one to the sled ir
of him. There may be but one driver for
half a dozen or more sleds and hie ~i1s
guiding his team with a line au
to a balter around the antle;
under the throat of the off lea
A steady pull directs the team
right, and a ser.es of jerks i
gestion {o go to the left. If, how
the leader neglects the sianal,
BBO rans
of the obstinale
alongside
driver
keeping
attentive
incessantly in
tive and
himself
for that
purpose wields a long, ti Lick 1
Hii Drixis
the poor reindeer in the rear.
ually he gels a little sore place there by
continued prodding, and plies his re-
lentless rod upon that tender spot with
the best results. The conscience that
exists even ina Yakoot or Tunguse
yemshik has inspired him to put a
wooden or bone button upon the end of
his goad to keep it from penetrating
Loo far.
When a reindeer is tired, it lies
down, and no amount of punishment
will get it on its feel aga until an-
other is brought to replace it from «
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Leni
ways tied behind the rear sled for that
purpose, No matter bow much ex-
hausted the weary animal seems when
removed from harness, iL recuperates
very rapidly while running bebind the
sleds, and is soon ready to take its turn
at pulling. The usual gail of a rein
deer team is a long, swinging trot;
but when in a great hurry, which is
seldom the case with those lazy peo
ple, the driver urges his team into a
gallop, and under such circumstances it
is not unusual for them to make over
twenty versts (about fourteen or fifteen
miles an hour,
msiesi—— i ——
They Both Felt Injured, Somehow,
A CUrious ang smus.ay incwaent oc
curred recently on Clay street Lill,
belween Stockton and Powell streets,
St. Jouls., An elderly gentieman
whose aldernsanic girth and forid
countenance bespoke a love for the
good things of this life, was toiling
slowly up the ascent. The day was
rather warm and the exertion caused
the old gentieman to perspite freely.
He had got at least a quarter of a
block up the hill when a Chinese ap
peared at the corner of Prospect place
wheeling one of Fairbanks patent
scales before him. As ill-luck would
have it, he bad just rounded the cor-
per, when he placed his foot on a ba-
nana peel, slipped and fell to the earth,
letting the machine go as he fell, The
scales started down hill. The eiderly
gentleman, startled by the rumbling
noise, looked up and for a moment was
paralyzed with terror. The machine
was coming straight for him. Then
be toned to dodge it. He jumped to the
edge of the sidewalk, The machine
jumped too, He skipped to the wall,
and so did the scales, Back he waut,
but hie foe still beaded him off. He
jumped and skipped and panted and
perspired, but never once thought of
ng off the sidewalk into the mid-
le of the street. The machine was
almost upon him, His bat fell off,
The few straggling hairs which orna-
mented the old gentleman s sealp stood
straight up and every pore proved &
fountain of perspiration, Nearer and
pearer came the machine, Ha! he
would run for it. He turned, but
alas! too late.
The deadly machine caught him
about the ankles, Up went bis feet,
and the old gentleman made the ac
quainiance a of the rapidiy-
scale, Down the hill they
went together, the old gentieman’s
arms whirling like a wind-mill and the
wheels of the machine creaking out
unearthly
wounds. Tobogganving was
nothing to it, On Stockton street
crossing they came to a full The
old gentleman jumped to his un.
hurt and glared around Seroely. He
Jnosived the: milling countenance of
lids Land With 4 smile of ehild-lika ste-
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