Show ED J rv 0 abi AXI aias alas A MR attel als el Is in shenew the new york of of jh successful att attempt eart made ma de at 14 baeton mass ss to harness haj baj ness neis up 1 6 a umair pair bf to ta make them draw a piea plea pleasure gure sure boat the elpe experimentalists ri mental lats were mr samuel phillippi phillipp and col co J B R and feat feal wab was on anthe the lehigh canal where the gentlemen have a e y the me alliod oT harnessing ing lug and daiv inythe sturgeons geons is thus described y gia afa A broad andla banu encircling each nish fieh just behind the pectoral fi nin fin has a brags bras s ring attached on top afis a 4 stout altien pole ab ht fk inserted and to pa in ohp the pole the tho traces are fastened there is alpo aleo sh 0 o a narrow gum elastic band around each sturgeon juet just behind behina the dareal tin fin wl with nna fla a loop in th thel e eida eide haldin holding the opposite ends of a much slighter blighter pole to compel them to swim at t a regular distance from flom each ot other herr mr phillippi I 1 who acts as driver has hig bia seat in the bow and directs their course with a goad which is a iong long ions pole as thick as ones wrist with ii a sharp spike sticking out at right angles from the end and it is surprising in with what alacrity they obey wien when they bre are breto areto to be bd turned to the right or of left a sudden prick on the opposite side of each sturgeon causes the tho pair to take the thie desired course when a greater geater speed ia Js desired they are pierced near the tail tall when vohen they are required to halt the goad doda la Is reached forward and they are pricked in front of the head it Is baid eaid that sturgeons geons are commonly used thus in egypt and to prevent going to the bottom for which the they a showed ewed a continued inclination when first harnessed harn eased the following device an egyptian one was adopted two large hollow swan shaped noa floats t 8 were made and painted white to resemble those birds to each of these floats a cord of three feet was attached and fastened into the rings on the pole polo to which the traces are made fast these wooden swans are attached to the boat bont thus serving an ornamental as well as a useful purpose the boat is shell shaped and to strengthen the delusion that it 19 is drawn by the swans and not shellah th the elish ellah fish a pair of gay reins reach from the bird shaped floats to the bow of the boat IF no other good deflect follows the franco prussian war the abandonment of the the chignon by the ladies ladles of berlin berlia is of itself worth worthy M of note this is a french fashion and one of the most moab odious of the many odious ca prices in dress imported from paris the young ladies indies of berlin ure j just now in a very patriot patriotic ld mood their zeal being if anything more ardent than that of the men wen and they have res reb resolved alved to reflect more of the german nationality in their dress and abandon henceforth french fashions the se rk turning army was to have a reception u upon nits aits its arrival at berlin sixty young ceaf la ladies daughters of the wealthiest thies t citizens were selected amon among gothers others 1 to meet them the question of attire came up anait was decided that they should ignore chignone chignons chig and they pledged themselves mutually and to the municipal authorities on no account to use false hair this is one of the most sensible movements iii in discarding a prevailing fashion that we have halve heard about for a it long time and we hope to see eee it widely extended the va vagaries gariea lesof of fashion are frequently most ridiculous hup hut the e of dressing hair which has pre pro of late and which has even been introduced and made popular in this remote country is most moat hurtful and absurd let it continue a few years and be adopted by the ladies and no great length of time will elapse until there will scarcely be a woman in the country who will possess that most beautiful ornament of woman a fine luxuriant head of hair it is bad enough to have so much baldness among men but for women to take a course to deprive themselves of that which has been described as thur thun Mr crowning owning glory ig Is to sayf sayi say the least foolish oliah fo one of the penalties of wickedness and folly which we ww to be visited upon a certain class of women for their haughtiness and pride as described by the prophet isaiah was that instead of well set hair there was to be baldness WM reff guw y THE tue clarksburg Clarks burg W va conservative tells of a fatal and somewhat melancholy affair which took place at a UN place called leading creek A cap tsin tain rFord ford ha hla hie possession a panther saint skin ekin happ happened ned to 6 be ne bearth arth pirce place ikee lice of a nett 1 ald aid seeing seelig a gon ion of the latter iatter twelve bi or fourte fourteen ei years of age in s shirt of tbt the house houge to havela hsie i joke at his ex he therefore donned the skin and went towards the boy thinking to frighten him but he failed falte dand and his attempt cost coat him his life for the little fellow F seeing what be suppo supposed to be a gd i the house bous giat and ment went an fn purl buit fluit he soon came of the tho panther and resting his hia piece on a fence fired inflicting a wound which caused Ford two days after afew A FEW days ago the telegraph leie lele graph W wire ire lre brought news of the murder of general alias pel peul pete Hals hais halstad halff ad fad at newark sew new jersey and since then the eastern papers have contal contained tied ried full fuli details of thib this J horrible affair boils and erupt eruptions long iong on the human body indicate a corrupt state of the blood and just as surely do the murder of this man halsted and the causes which led to il it indicate the rottenness tenn ess and corruption which permeate fester in and are undermining social life in this christian land of ours the victim in the case was a man of education and moving in the highest society in the thae land a pet of the late president lincoln and a noted man in the highes highest political circles in washington a soldier a finauga financier ler len a smart politician and a thorough gentleman in the popular acceptation of the term but he was an adulterer for while the husband of a lady of standing and the father of bis els children childred he heas was wab murdered while associating with one of ahe fhe most notoriously lewd women of 0 the section where she lived her name is wilson also a married woman and the mother of several children but separated from her husband because of her hen abominable licentiousness the murderer is also a married man separated from his wife so that throughout this RE affair air reveals II 11 and immorality of the moat most flagrant character it appears that the murderer named bolts who is a native of leicester england and a charcoal dealer has been on terms of the closest intimacy with the woman welson for the last five or br six years in fact she has been regarded i aa as his keul keun kei kel mistress during that time for something over a year general halsted had been her legal adviser a and nd the criminality of their intimacy for some time has been a matte matter of no disguise and aroused the jealousy Jes lousy ef the mam man bolts who at about 2 on the morning of the 2nd and dinst went to the rooms occupied by the woman wilson and disturbed the people of the house by demanding admission to his bis wife 11 he was told she was not at home andaas and was finally induced to leave but returned two or three times more before breakfast time and nin fin finally ily lly forced his bis way in anti and up to her bedroom the door of which deburst he burst open and found her and halsted and partly dressed inflamed with drink and jealousy he pounced pounce dupon upon his rival when a scuffle ensued during which bolts fired a revolver the ball entering the breast dividing the pulmonary artery just above above the heart the victim died ediin edlin di abbot forty i minutes bib bis only words being 1 I R am m shot 11 bolts was arrested afew minutes after the occur occurs renee irenee and has been committed to take his trial at ht the September term of the court on ona a charge of murder in the first degree ONE ortha ottha besa best magazines which we have on our exchange list is the amerl ameri can ailder builder and journal of art of chicago there is scarcely a number in which there theres Is not enough instructive matter to pay for th the eyears years subscription sub aub in an article on 4 GF farmers and famine in that paper the editor states that he hei does not hesitate to affirm that farmers live but little better aa as a class than soldiers or sailors he expresses this opinion after years of travel through rural communities where he has haa had ample amble opportunities of ot judging an IA irish ih laborer working on ou t the tha h railroad and occupying a cabin ten feet square would not he says bays think of subsisting on the homely meal of 0 the farmers table in traveling through the rural districts he seldom meets a hale hearty looking man bian the old men and the young men are of slender build aften with haggard faces and that peculiar look but out of the eyes eyed which indicates hard fare this arises from shiftlessness there is not a farmers family in the land W which aich might not have meat on hand at all times he says bays if they had an icehouse ice house and though there is plenty of time the winter to construct an ice houeland and lay lna ina supply of ice buff focient fo for the searf 4 where beef abd and mutton could be bek 7 kept ept sweet not cope e fanner inave inive hundred hydred has his ice though he ilfe iffe rb a lake ar riven river he hv closes the article by saying with everything every thin gat at his big hand in the way of cereals fruits mund and poultry the thel american amerlean rican farmer lives ay ww w w w A LA LADY dy by the name of paulina pauling W davis has written whittena writ tena arletter av letter ietter to the tho shenew anew york tribune in explanation and defense of the words free love if women she says were free from helplessness free from timidity from compromise they would bs be good enough and strong enough to love one and all aik bu human buman man beings from cherich ness the fullness and not from the poverty of their natures thus free their love would go out to the wretched wretched drunkard to the outcast of every type to the pariah of their own sex by IV the power of such a love so large and free is the world to be ie redeemed deemed this is free love she bhe illustrates Ilu liu strates stratos one of the points which she wishes to makeley relating an incident sot ottlo got two months since a woman thirty years a wife wrapped in an india shawl robed in velvet and lace of almost fabulous value came to me for adylee advice holding out her little jeweled hands and lifting her tearful eyes to mine she bhe asked how can I 1 be freed from hib this his bondage worse than death to a 3 man who knows no law save eave his own base passions only one of the tha many the written statute does not indeed require any woman to marry in id the he absence of love but when man by hib his bestiality has turned her jove love to loathing it does require that she shall live mee on ou with him and endure only such taitu tortures res as a poor woman a mother can know when she finda finds her children with an inheritance of evil passions intensified fied by the very abhorrence of her soul for which in the innocence and rind purity 0 of her nature she never dreamed existed until revealed to her in marriage from her ex expressions sessions res reb we should infer that she attributes attributes the indulgence in the crime of infanticide to the conduct of men described above lor for fory jory she says saye I 1 the horrible crime of infanticide has a meaning in it when practiced by wives CaRthe can the editors of the tribune see it only in the evidence of a homans womans frivolity if you cannot then gawith go with me and listen to histories which will curdle the blood in your veins and wring from you a little pity for the gay butterflies you are so in the habit of sneering at THE peoria ills preview beliew of the ath instant publishes the details of a tragedy traced 7 that occurred near onarga iroquois co in that state which for fiendish atrocity and cruelty probably surpasses anything in print the principals in this horrible affair were wele mele a father and son the latter about eleven years of age suffering a most agonizing death at the thel hands of his brutal monster of a father the name of this wretch was martin mera a farmer in pretty good circumstances an au irishman a maii mali man of considerable sid bid id culture but with an tina una ungovernable governable and brutal temper his family consisted of a wife said to be an intelligent lady and six children the eldest a girl of fourte enand the poor mur pur murdered dered boy mera had the reputation in his neighborhood of being honest and industrious but when under the influence of his unbridled temper he has been known to whip his hia horses unmercifully cut out the eyes of his hogs arild and do other acts of a similar character on the uit mera went to a town called gilman oilman and posted two notices stating that his boy had left home but he was unable to tell teli why as he had always behaved jwell meil to him A few days after as no Ji tidings dings were heard of the missing boy the pe people opi odthe of the neighborhood began to sus bus suspect hect foul play and finally a number of them swore out a warrant for arrest arrests and started for his residence on tha tho their way they called at a school which mg his eldest daughter was attending and questioned her she told them het hei father had beaten her ver brother and ther then put him on the stove and she had not seen him since the party patty a arrested arrea ted mera mers but he insisted that the boy had runaway and he was released eight menbere men were left to watch hIs hib movement movements si j under the impression that if the bo boy y t bad been hilled the murderer might y 1 sit the after watching a considerable time no clue of thi kind klod aas was gained andee was again arrested add lodged in eafe safe keeping kaipi 11 on a charge of murder i A large patty commenced a search bearch for the body of the boy and towards the close of the afternoon they found it not far from the house buried four feet eight inches deep it was very much decompose dand daud the teet feet gave evidence of having deeg been burned burnid at the investigation bf the tha case the mother and two sisters orthe deceased were ahe the principal witnesses aars mera appeared in court with her youngest child between two and three weeks old is in hr her armah arms she testified that on the day her hei child was born she heard her hubband husband severely beverely beating the tho boyi the next morning the poor boy naked went into her bed room room loom followed by his father who commenced beating benting him unmercifully with a horsewhip which he continued for fifteen minutes he ordered the child to fo puh put ut on his shirt which he atter attempted apted but was un able to do so through weakness he shortly afterwards fell to the ground dying he rubbed the body of pt he the child with spirits for half an hour and tried to get him to drink bome some during which he raised his hablas once and murmured 1 I cant see se I 1 cant see ll 11 and all was over mera shoved the corpse under the bed of his bis wife where it lay until night when he buried burled it A sister of the dece decd deceased ased seven years old said her fathe father made hen her brother brothen take all his clothes off whipped eim elm Him badly on the back and head hendy heady and 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