The News and Herald, 1877-08-18

A Vj%Acky Mayor. During the recent riot at Scran Scranton, - ton, Scranton, Pa., Mayor McKuno acted with distinguished bravery, and at the hazard of his life dispersed the mob after several had been killed. The coroner's jury found a verdict of wilful murder against the personfs who fired, but the mayor called out troops and prevented their arrest. A reporter of the Pbiladelphia Tinmes says : In view of the vordict of the coro coroner's - ner's coroner's jury in the matter of the kill killing - ing killing of the rioters of this city, the statements of the mayor hiiself as to the responsibility for the "order to shoot" and the circumstances out of which that order arose will be interesting. The mayor gal) me the following statement the morning after the occurrence. It will be beon that he boldly assumes the re sponsibility of giving the order to fire. He said : "Up to yesterday morning .(Thursday, August 2) I was under the impression that matters would be settled without the inter-: vention of the military. The D., L. and W. cars were moving, the pumps wore going and from all indications I could gather I expect-, ed to have had to say that the miners were going to work to-day. About 10 o'clock I was in my oflice holding court when information came that the mob were driving the men away from the company's shop and furnaces. In company with Lieutenant Browne, of my police force, I started toward the stores, and in passing Washington avenue I saw a large and excited crowd around t'he shops. Here also a young employe met me with a re request - quest request from Mr. McKinney, saying That his daughtor, who was the telegraph operator at the company's shop, was inside the building and should be rescued. I walked hasti - ly down through the crowd somo 800 feet, and found the door fast, ened. The young man then said that it was all right. As I was going through the crowd I ordered tiei to disperse, and when I found the door fastened I attempted to return. I had proceeded about fifteon steps when a lot of half halfgrown - grown halfgrown boys began to jostle me, and one of them struck me in the face. Immediately, however, upon this several of tile working men whom I knew as personal acquaintances, formed a cordon, as it were, about mc, but they, too, were about be becomig -- comig becomig overpowered by tile pressure of the yelling mob when Father Dunn Cano up. Immediately he throw the authority of the priest priesthood - hood priesthood about me, and ordered the mfn to stand back and do me no harm In this way we made about a hundred foot toward the avenue, tile crowd yelling and hooting all the tiio. The leaders of the mob, then, seeing the (determined spirit of the priest, made a rush at him, caught him and took him boldly away from my sido. T was then about three hundred feet from the avenue, every ap)proach to whichl was jalmmedI with a mob of excited people. Ini the meanwhile I had been pressed by the crowvd so much that I gave the signal to one of my men to ring the alarm bell, which was tihe sigual to the armed men under my orders to turn out. Before reaching tile avenue the cordon of friendly working men which had protcted me thus far' from bodily harm became disintegra disintegrated1 - ted1 disintegrated1 and I was at the mercy of the mob. But at thlis muomenlt also I saw my posse, armed with forty rifles, mlarching down the street, headed by Lieutenant Browne, an old Confederate soldier. Tile crowd thlen surged up against me with even more violence, anid I wvas struck several times. When, hlowever, the pO0ss0 was immediately opp)osite me in thle street, and within twenty-five feet of me, I got the wvorst blowv of all on the bac kof my head. Shots were thlen being lired at my men, and one of them dropped out of the ranks as though he was shot. Then I gave the order to fire as well as I coumld. I am perfectly willing to assume the responsibility of giv givthe - the givthe order to fire." Tihe mayor's face looked as though lie had been at Donnybrook fair and had gotten pretty badly beaten with a shiellala. Tile San Franeisco Chsronicle comments on the strange faci, that, although in the last thr'ee years the Belcher,. Crown Point, Justico, Chollar Potosi and Ophir mines have produced 18.000,000 worth of ore, th% sde t6~~oldea~ have netted not a Nuit, 'but have 1had to contrib. sMe 42;84000 in>l.naaeai*entg. and still. have a debt of $1.000000.

GYPSY BANDS. Hungarian Music at Homo--Musiclans at Budapoet. Correspomdence New ork lIredd. Perhaps the most deglitful fea-. ture of Budapest next to its variety of suinnuer resorts is the gypsy imusic. Already at the first Hunga. ran railway station on the way from Viennia to Pest, at Noubenserl, the wild. sad, plaintive and ineffably touching strains of a gypsy band greet the ear of the wayfarer. The American reader has probably re, ceived a faint idea of tho striking characteristics of the Hungarian gypsy music from Loiszt'a "Rapqodie Hongroise," Erkel's "Hunyadi Laz Lazzio" - zio" Lazzio" and the "Rakoczy March," played so exquisitoly by Thomas' band in Now York two suimer ago. But to appreciate t4e wild, racy, altogether iudescribable flavor and sublime, rugged beauty of Hun. garian music you should como to Budapest and listen to one of the gypsy bands like that of Uncz Pal. It is a music which seems to seize hold of every nerve and pulse, of every heart string, to vibrato it at will, to stretch it to its utmost ten - sion of ecstacy with its joy, and in the next monot to almost rend it with the unutterable despairing sid sidness - ness sidness of its tones. It laughs and weeps in the samo note almost. A very true saying was that "Woinend unterhalt sich der Uuger" (the Hungarian onjoys himself weoping). But the Hungarian gypsy bands here are not hoard at their best at the hotels and gardens. You must attune these gypsy fiddles to their most fiery magic by a good roun.1 heap of forins. Go to some enter entertainment - tainment entertainment of Hungarian nobles or swells, where they collect one hun hundred - dred hundred or .two hundred Aorins for the band, and then, oh ! how they play, with the glistoning gold or the equally pleasant paper rags before them. When a Hungarian swell gives a dinuer or supper ho always has some gypsy band to play the favorite melodies of every guest, The dusky musicians-those Ole Bulls who never learned a noto-are told to step up close to the guests, and there standing right beforo them they fiddle away till two or three in the morning, Now this one, now that one of the guests will shout out the name of his favorite tune and interrupt the piece they are just then performing. It is no matter, however ; the gypsies are used to these interruptions, and on they go making their loved instru instruments -- ments instruments not only speak, but scream for the very joy and sorrow which these wild sons of the Proszta feel as they are fiddling away into the night. The sight of the flying champagne corks, of the jolly, ani animated - mated animated faces round them, the shouts of interruption, the approving glances, the delightful glimpse of a new twenty florin bill which some Magyr cavalier ilings at him, all this inspires the gypsy fiddler till ls whole body seems to sway in the rapt, wild delirium of his own music. Who can ever forget the gypsy bands of Hungary who has heard them on some such favored night ? TUE COLOSSAL BRONZE STATUE OF VICTOnY which stand in the Park, at Lowell, before the tomb of the' first soldiers that fell in the x'evolution, is a lasting and beautifhl tribuito of art. It is one of the first objects sought by strangers visiting qur sister city, which indeed many visit pi~iosely to sco this elegant object 6f hih -art. It was obtained from .the .King. of Bavaria by Dr. J. C. Ayor,, o ,whom is Majesty was especially gracious in acknowledgment''of what his remedies are reputed to have done for the suffering sick. It was dona donated - ted donated by the Doctor to the City of Lowell as a permanent'and spealdng emblem of the victories both of ficience andl arms. -aUcreowh (.Ad.) Press. The F'enco Law in Other Counties. Ninety-Six township, in Abbeville, voted for the change. The other townships voted against it.. Laurons county voted aigainst the change. Chester connty voto.d for the change in all the townships. A number of townships in Ander Anderson - son Anderson will adopt the change. In York county, seven townships voted--four in favor of, and three against, the change. Other countie have tnot fet been beard from. ' . - SMore than f ve nmillioii csns of coin are now pAiked " ia Maine Cof the worlfI,jgir~~ epLoy,ent to i pJo.1 tQ p neyrn

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