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Show SUM-SOWS YARSf, An Telegraphed lo the Now Yurkllcruld. New York, 1. The Herald's Salt Late correspondent telegraphs that he was fired upon last Saturday evening even-ing by a miscreant fifty feet sway, but the speed of his horse doubtless saved his life. A bolder attempt at ' assassination was made to day. He ' says: While sitting alone in my room a knock came at the door. It was opened by a man strongly re- sembling the person who fired the pistol. He belli bis hat and a paper , in his left hand, and while bowing, rested his right hand in tho bosom of his coat, which was closely buttoned. He asked my name and being answered an-swered he then extended the paper, saying, "Here is an affidavit which interests you." He Btood a distance of Bome four feet. Reaching out with my right hand to receive the paper which he offered with hia left, he suddenly withdrew it. At the eame time he advanced and, pulling a short knife from bis hossm, struck me a heavy blow on the left breast, saying, "Take that, you son of a b h." The point ol the knife passed through two photographs on pasteboard, aud glanced oil" from a suspender buckle, against which it struck, and which is badly bent by the blow. Happily, the only injury is a sore rib. The correspondent corres-pondent in queetion is Jerome B. Stillson. |