Show news items MB MR HERBERTS CASE some veggo since mr ilir herbert a member of congress from california entered a washington washing ton breakfast room late in the morning ard demanded breakfast it being contrary to the rules roles of the establishment that breakfast sheild sho bho ild be served so late hite mr herberts request mas was as refused whereupon he assailed the waiter walter with violent language and threatening pes having attacked the waiter hirst first herbert when the waiter and his friends gathered toge her around him for the purpose of meeting the fire eater drew a revolver and shot a waiter dead dad for this mr herbert was arrested and tried the first jury could not agree and were discharged the second found him bin not rot t guilt guilty when the verdict was brought in in the whole whale audience applauded loudly the tone of the press of the district has also been rather favorable to herbert than otherwise now a question arises what whit could prompt this singular apparent app trent general approval of af an act which if it was not murder was wag surely manslaughter it is is shown that liebert heibert provoked tile the affray and it is not shown that be stood in danger of his life or in any reasonable fear of such danger when he shot keating dead how then can he be not g alty ex emine tut gut the subject as we may ve we can come corns to tut but one co conclusion causion cl and that is that society at washington wash atonia is so utterly debased and degraded that people think nothing of a murder if the murderer is 13 a man of c condition and his victim a rio llo nobody body in olden time a noble nolle could kill his vassal vassil and benuit be quit for throwing four sols sots oil on the grave though if lie he killed a ma man n of his owa station he was liable to find himself in serious tron trouble troubie ble bie the question in in those das days turned turne 1 on the sort bort of the parties it seems that these old times are bei bel being revived at washington and that men of t the e better sort SOW may bat beit be it fight challenge and slay as they pease an without fear of the consequences the ile only inference we w e will draw at present is thil tha we strongly advise every one having aneck a neck to be broken or a skin to be perforated to keep far away from washington washl ion lon 11 for lie he may be beaten ar killed there it any time w i ith impunity N Y herald 11 ily 29 talk about G S L city and utah etah L tah tab ED NEWS newsy 1 thi the of the loth lith and ind insor which visited the vicinity of new orleans was of the most moat terrible character the most disastrous effects our despatch informs us i s were felt at a summer resort called list dast island a short distance above new Or loaris which iq 13 represented to have had every house swept from it and to have been comple compie completely completed tel tei 7 inundated two hundred prans it is 13 estimated lost their lives on this island grand caillou caillau island anothy r watering place had alo aio suffered severely severe the extent of the loss of life was not kno known wn but it was reported thit hit thirty bodies had been found on one end of the island the dam dagg gi to the sagar cotton and corn ropa are said tobe tabe to be almost incalculable the banks of the river at ba bayou ou sava had caved in in carrying away three hundred hundred residences the dead deed bod bodies lesat at last island were plundered of money and ables by a set of pirates who inhabit it further accounts of the great storm at the south state the number of lives lost at near three hundred the ile steamship nautilus went v ent down in the gale and it is 13 feared that all on board have perished the cotton crop in in louisiana has not materially suffered but gloomy accounts were anticipated from the mississippi CN N Y herald aug 23 STORMS ORnis in the straits of belle isle on the dinst inot during a violent hurricane thirty t two 0 vessels were wrecked and nearly all on perished indeed the entire coast of 0 labra jabra j dor was visited by i a storm of unexampled fury and the fishing vessels of new england have doubtless been severe sufferers A terrific storm of rain thunder and lightning passed passer over the city last about 12 we hear by telegraph of similar storms in various parts of the tile country in several instances considerable damage has been experienced N Y herald july 31 A CONF cone conflagration LAG R AT ION lon at belize honduras occurred on the day of july nearly the whole north side of the town was lard laid in ashes the bridge was partially burnt and the large building on the i south side called the usher house destroyed destroy ed over half a million dollars worth of property was consumed ANOTHER conflagration the town of pomeroy ohio was destroyed by fire on the ath of aug sixty houses were destroyed including all the business portion of the town court house and the public offices two persons were killed by the falling failing walls loss STORM AT CARLISLE carlisley 2 PA A very heavy rain and thunder storm occurred in carlisle pa july 30 five barns and one dwelling were destroyed by lightning the barns were filled with the entire crops n the losse losses sare are heavy other losses are reported in the county CIVILITY is A afortuna civility i 3 a fortune in in itself for a courteous man alvi ah vals eals tys succeeds in in life and that even when pi persons of ability sometimes fail the famous duke of marlborough is a case yol in point it was said of him by one por that his agreeable manners often converted arl ari averted an enemy into a friend and I 1 by another that it was more pleasing to be oe denied a favor by his grace than to receive one from other men the grac gracious ious ions manners of charles james fox preserved him for personal dislike alike df even at a time when he was politically the most moat unpopular man in in the kingdom the history of our own country is full of examples of success obtained by b civility the ile experience of every man furnishes if ho will but recall the ohp past frequent instances where conciliatory manners have made the fo foi tunes times of physicians lawyers divines poli poll bivians tie tte t ians fians merchants and indeed individuals of all pursuits I 1 11 i being introduced to a stranger his affability or the reverse creates instantaneously a pr possession in his behalf or awakens unconsciously ly a pre prejudice iudice judice against him to man civility I 1 is in in fact what beauty beauly Js is to woman it is a general passport to favor a letter of or recommendation written in a language thit that every stranger understands the best of men have often injured themselves by irritability and consequent rudeness as the greatest scoundrels have frequently succeeded by their pau plausible sible manners of two men met equal in all other respects the courteous one has twice the chance for fortune phil ledger STARTING CHILDREN IT IN THE WORLD many an unwise parent labors hard and lives sparingly all ail his life forthe purpose of having enough to give his children a start in the birla world as it is called setting a young man afloat with money ift loft him by bis his relatives is like tying bladders tinder under the arms of one who cannot swim ten chances to one ono he be will lose his bladders and go to the bottom teach him hila to swim and he will never need the bladders give your child a sound education and you yon have hwe done enough for hi hm m see to it that his bla morals are pure and la his s mind cultivated antl and his whole nature subservient to the laws shieh govern man and you have given him what will be of more value ihan than the wealth of the indies you have bave given him a start which DO no tune can df deprive dp him of the earlier you you yoa teach him to depend d upon his own resources the better E ex DEPTHS ac from flom the top of Chim boraz horaz to the b bottom atom of the atlantic at the deepest pi pl ice yet 0 reath edby the plummet in the northern atlantic the distance in a vertical line is nine miles the deepest part of the north atlantic is is probably somewhere be between tween tile the bermudas and the grand banks the waters of the gulf guf of mexico are held iii in a basin about a mile deep in in the deepest part there Is at the bottom of the sea between Cape rate nate Racin in newfoundland and cape clear in ireland a remar remarkable kabie kable steppe which is al already realy knew know as the telegraph re td plateau the great circle circie distance between n these two shore lines is 1600 miles and the sea alone alonz this route is in probably nowhere more than feet cx ex astronomical the volume volane of th tb largest lar tar gesh gest planet jupiter is more than 1400 times greater greiter than that of our glob globe the surface of the earth is to that of all asi the other P planets lanes exclusive of the asteroids satellites a and nd 1 rings I gs as I 1 to 25 the area of the solar surface 4 i forty eight t amps greater than that of all the known plan pian planetary atay bodies in the system and more than twelve thousand times greater than that of the earh earth alone the planet most remote member of the planetary system known ii distant the almost incredible space of thirty times hat of the earth from the sun ex gj D soma men are like cats cuts you may stroke the fur ho ahe bigit way for years and hear nothing but purring but tread on their tail aud sil ull ill memory 0 of former kindness is obliterated GOOD LAW S of inebriates in wisconsin I areal are lowid allowed by law liw to do business hi 1 own n name bind out their children and dispose of earn earu eli eti ruins inis as they please ex |