Sabbath Rest Items Jno. M. Roots was kicked by a horse last week and injured to such an extent that he was laid up for several days. A daughter of Mr. Mordecia McCaulley fell into a cattle guard on the railroad, near Salem park on Friday evening, and was badly bruised, and has been under the care of Drs. Clark and Christy. Rev. J. Kistler will deliver a lecture on Friday evening, May 29th, in the Antis church on his four years' life in Africa. The proceeds to be devoted to the Lutheran Sabbath School at Salem church. Thomas G. Trout has discovered a valuable vein of white clay on his farm, from which he had had some fine white ware made by Mr. E. Bennett, of Baltimore. Mr. Bennett has made a proposition to lease the mine if it holds out as well as the specimen clay used by him. --------- An Insane Man Committed to the Poor House- Yesterday morning two residents of the city, named William J. Allen and Thomas Sneath, discovered an unknown man to all intents and purposes endeavoring to twist off his head between the rails of a fence in the vicinity of the City Hotel. Upon approaching him they discovered that he was laboring under an attack of insanity and at once went to his assistance. Releasing the unfortunate man from his frightful position they escorted him to the office of Mayor Gilland where he was kept in charge until a commitment to the county almshouse had been made out. One of Myers's livery rigs was then brought into requisitions into which the insane man was lifted and conveyed to the poor house. Mr. O. J. Birzley, driver of the Vigilant team, acting as an escort. The cause assigned for the loss of his reason and the name of the man are unknown. He is apparently about sixty years of age. --------------------- Severe Accident- Mr. John W. Cherry, a much respected citizen of East Side, met with quite a severe accident on Saturday last. He was helping to raise some coffins from a wagon onto a board awning, in front of his furniture establishment, on East Twelfth street, preparatory to storing them away on the second floor of the building. He was just in the act of raising a coffin above his head, and was standing with one foot upon a wheel of the wagon and other upon a large box, when they horse attached to the wagon started, thus throwing Mr. Cherry with much violence to the ground. A severe contusion of the spine and back of the head was the amount of injury sustained. Mr. C. Will not attend to any business requiring much 'back-bone' for several days. ----------------- A Dirty Trick During Wednesday night some scoundrel with a heart on fire from the infernal regions, and who evidently entertains a grudge against Mr. Andy Gamble, an East Side merchant, visited a shed on the rear of a lot back of the First Lutheran Church erected for the purpose of protecting from the weather a light wagon belonging to the young gentleman in question, and his brother R. L. Gamble, Esq., an Eleventh avenue merchant, and deliberately sawed in twain all the spokes in the four wheels of the vehicle with one or two exceptions, sawed the shafts in two and also the single tree. Not being satisfied with their work of destruction at this stage, they next directed their attention to the leather dasher and proceeded to cut it into shreds. >From the fact that the name of Andy Gamble, which was painted on the one side of the wagon in bright letters, was somewhat defaced, it is supposed that the dirty act was committed by some unprincipled hound who entertains a bitter hatred for him. An expense of at least fifty or seventy-five dollars will have to be incurred to repair the damage done to the wagon. The man who will stoop to the performance of such an act of such contemptible meanness under cover of darkness, would not hesitate to perpetrate a more diabolical crime as often as the opportunity would present itself. It is earnestly hoped that the scoundrel will be detected and as severely dealt with as the law will direct. It was certainly one of the meanest and dirtiest tricks that has come to our notice for a long time past. --------------- Watch recovered- Mr. D. S. Wilson left his watch hanging in his room on Saturday morning, which was espied and coveted by a small juvenile. The temptation was too strong to be resisted and the youngster laid violent hands upon the same. Ex constable Hipsley having dropped into a place of business on Eleventh avenue, his attention was called to the fact of a boy having in his possession a watch he alleged he had purchased from two other boys for fifteen cents. This, with other replies received to questions asked the boy, led Mr. Hipsley to believe that all was not right, and he took possession of the watch and proceeded to search for the owner. He called at several jewelry establishments in the city, and at Mr. T. C. Nelson's Eleventh avenue, was rewarded by finding the register of the watch, with the name of the owner, D. S. Wilson, to whom he promptly restored the property, valued at $35 or $40. 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