American News

Bruce Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 714, 2 July 1875, Page 7

American News

.r THE SEA SEEPENT. A Boston telegram dated May 11th, sayrthat the sea serpent has turned up again. Captain Oliver, of the schooner Winslow Morse, of Bath, who arrived at Portland : last evening, reports that on Thursday, at midnight, when off Cape Elizabeth, about fifteen miles in a southeast; direction, he<was at the wheel, while another man was on deck; All at once a great snake rose up from thewater, about four feet above the rail. The body above *the water jvas ,about as large round as a hogshead!. The man on deck picked up a long pole,' with, a pike head on the endj lying near by, and thrust it into the monster's body. The serpent immediately dived and came up on the other side of .the vessel a little distance off, and. glided away, making but a slight ripple on; the water. It appeared about 120 feet long. The captain^ exhibits the > pike, covered, with the blood and sinewß ,rif the monster,, and appears to be in earnest in his statement. The question arises, is this a veritable sea serpent ? -r ; GREAT PEDESTEIAK" FEAT. At Philadelphia, on the night of April 24th, Daniel O'Leary, of Chicago, begun at the Kink a walk of 115 miles, to be accomplished within twenty-four hours. Great interest was manifested in the result, and on the night of the 25th the fiink was. crowded. Twenty gentlemen of -the city were selected? as judges, and ;every precaution taken to obtain a fair test.-. At eight minutes^ after eleven on the night of the 25th~ he completed a distance of 116 miles, thus beating his distance, with a mile to spare, in fifty -two minutes less than the time set down. This is the best time on record. SHOOTING AX" EDITOE. In Leavenburg, in Kentucky, on May 4th, at about 10 o'clock, last evening, Colonel. D. I?. Anthony, editor of the ' Times | and postmaster here, and William Embry, editor of the 'Appeal,' met on the stairway of the Opera House, when the Colonel asked Embry if he wished to see him, to which Embry replied, " Just as you say, Colonel Anthony ; if you wish to see me we will go down stairs." The Colonel then stepped up one step, when Embry said, "No, you don't shoot me in the back," and stepped up by his side.' Colonel Anthony then struck Embry a severe blow on the upper lip, when three shots were fired by Embry, two of which took effect in Colonel Anthony's breast, and it is supposed will prove fatal. Colonel Anthony was still lying in the Opera House, and was steadily sinking. JUSTICE IST TENNESSEE. A Nashville negro shot a policeman dead. The negro was arrested and imprisoned. The people assembled and in their anger broke open the jail and took the negro to the bridge to hang him. A rope was put round bia neck, and the poor wretch suspended from the bridge. But the rope broke, the negro fell over 90 feet upon the rocks beneath and rolled into the waters. Two shots were fired at him, and his jbody sank. We do not re member to have read for a long time of an act more cowardly and brutal than this killing. The negro was- in custody. There was no chance, no pretext that be would escape. The laws of Tennessee are clear and supreme, and in a city like Nashville — a Southern city controlled by the whites — there was no fear that an indulgent public opinion would arrest the [ operation of the law. But the man was a negro (says the 'New York Herald'), land the old brutal feeling of the whites towards the negro was allowed to bring dishonor upon justice iv Tennessee and upon the American name. THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION. A telegram, dated Kingston, Jamaica, May 6th, says that later advices from Port au Prince are to the effect that the attempted revolution was discovered during a natioual feslival, on Saturday last, whiie the President was at church. Government troops proceeded at once to arrest Bryce, Monplassir, Pierre and Canal, aspirants for the Presidency. Each of them resisted arrest and foughb furi ously. Bryce was wounded and died at the English Consulate. Pierre committed suicide, and Canal sought the shelter of the American Consulate. Order was restored on Monday. Arrests of implicated parties still continue. Only two foreigners were killed during the outbreak, and they accidentally.