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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIII, Issue 24, 9 October 1885, Page 23

Oh, how refreshing, palatable and reviving is a draught of cool water with American Hop Bitters iv. it to a fever patient. See.

New York, Aug. 5.— A dispatch to the Tribune from Baltimore says : A few miles south of Marlboro is a chasm spanned by an open trestle bridge about sixty feet high. Yesterday afternoon as a passenger train sped round the curve nearing the bridge the engineer was horrified to see a woman crossing it on the railroad track, carrying m her arms an infant and leading by the hauda child of perhaps three years. The engineer at ouce applied the air-brakes and blew the danger signals. She heard the train approaching, turued and looked at it, and saw the horror of her situation, in one quick glance To jump from the bridge would be to find death in the water. To' remain where she was a tew seconds longer would be to meet instant death. Several persons near the track at the time, who saw the situation, made signs to the engineer t > stop, but he was powerless although he struggled until the sweat stood out m great drops from every por '. Then he rushed forward towards the front of the locomotive with the intention of essaying the daring feat of seizing the woman and dragging her to the cowcatcher. At this moment the woman caught both children in one arm. With the other she firmly seized oue of the ties on which the track is laid and swung herself between the ties below the bridge, and the train passed over her. As soon as the train could be stopped tbe conductor and brakesman rushed back to the spot where the woman was seen to disappear. They found her clinging to the ties witn one arm and holding her two little ones with the other. From this perilous position they were soon rescued A correspondent writes to the Madras Mail : — In addition to several letters, recently published in your paper, concerning cruelty to animals, I may say that another very cruel and inhuman act or ceremony is, I believe, carried on in the interior of Mysore, and m othei par sof India where Bnnjarees (Indian gipsies) exist. The account which I am about to relate would not have been known had it not been for a near relative of mmc (well versed in the Uauarese language) who entered into conversation with a Bnnjaree woman and questioned her as to her religion. She said that her race were w-irdhippers of Mari or Kali, and that once a year, according to their belief, they had to sacrifice a human being whom they clandestinely captured duing their peregrinations. Ou the da> of the sacrifice they all assemoled and buried the individual ahve up to bis or her neck, in a standing position, placed a temporary burning lamp made of cowdung on *he victim's head. After performing some ceremonies and hideous feats around the victim, and after invoking their deity their priest or guru, with a sharp knife (broad-bladed), severed the' head from the trunk. I should like to know from any of your readers if such an act of human sacjifice is carried on now.