The Steamboat "Riverdale" Blown Up in the Hudson.
Fair college students engage in a rough-and-tumble chase after the pigskin.
A Manheim, N.Y., Maiden insert an advertisement in a matrimonial paper and is astonished at the result.
A man's head blown to atoms by the explosion of a beer barrel on Long Island.
Vacationers leaving Lake George, New York, 1879.
The next thing in order - The Hudson River Palisades Art Galery.
How two Dizzy Girls Advertised Their Charms and Political Faith.
Great baseball match between the Atlantic and Boxford Clubs of Brooklyn.
Startling accident at the draw bridge of the Rensselaer and Saratoga Railroad, Federal Street, Troy, N. Y., Saturday, Sept 23.
Society’s male darlings “making up” their faces for the purpose of “looking pretty” to their addlepated female counterparts; Saratoga, N. Y.
Alleged bout between Annie Russell and Elizabeth Sullivan, two pretty clerks in a Buffalo, N. Y.
Lendall Pratt, and aged Long Islander, kills himself while in a political frenzy.
A special from Canajoharie, Sept 26, says: Duncan Clark, manager of Clark’s Female Minstrels, will probably not visit the Mohawk valley again very soon.
Minnie Hull, a dashing young lady from the watering place, is unjustly or otherwise accused of crookedness.
The Bravery of charming Miss Jaffray, the daughter of a New York millionaire, saves many lives at Irvington, N. Y.
Some of Uncle Sam’s land and water police have a genial shindy among themselves at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.
Westchester County is all agog over the case of the Rev. Mr. White, accused of violently assaulting the sister-in-law of a brother clergyman. We illustrate the scene.
Mrs. Cary cures her husband of flirting by ascending in a balloon at Buffalo, N. Y.
We give in our present number a correct sketch of one of the largest specimens of the Porpoise that has ever been seen.
Alleged cancan dance indulged in by young male and female swells at Jamestown, New York.
A female thief who carries a baby in her arms and made its flowing skirts a cover for stolen goods
Water witches who frolic with Neptune, no matter how cold his embrace.
How a loving bridal couple were suddenly transformed into a brace of absconding counterfeiters.
After-dinner pistol practice at the trains that rush by windows
Pawn tickets make bad collateral.
A simple schoolgirl prank spawned a new belief with millions of followers.
Waifs and strays of a great city - A group of homeless New York Newsboys.
Anthony Comstock was on a personal mission to protect America from vice.
Two Little Gem Theatre, Buffalo, N. Y., Soubrettes have a scrap on account of a man.
Cupid in Tompkins Square
The term “bunco” has come to mean to any type of swindle, but in the 19th century it usually referred to a confidence game involving crooked gambling.
How the battering-ram process is applied by the bulls and bears to while away the idle hours of the dull season.
Cardiff, New York, October 16, 1869.
The Audacity of a Professional Thief.
An unruly horse causes great excitement in the Metropolitan Opera House, this city.

Downed by Kindness.
After defying a host of armed keepers, James Driscoll, in the Trenton, N. J. State prison succumbs to a gentle word.
One convict causes a great commotion in the Trenton (N. J.) State Prison, Tuesday week last. On the afternoon of that day the prison alarm signal was rung for the first time in many years, and deputy keepers and guards came. They found all the prisoners at work except James Driscoll, a powerful convict, who had been sent from Passaic for two years for burglary. He stood in one corner near the elevator, armed with a heavy chisel and a long needle. In from of him stood tow deputy keepers covering him with their heavy revolvers.
The other prisoner were removed from the shop and then the head keeper stepped up to Driscoll, around whom a dozen keepers were clustered with drawn revolvers. “Driscoll,” he said, “if you don’t lay those things down in five minutes we will shoot.”
“Shoot and be d—d. I will have one life anyway.” Replied Driscoll, doggedly. The keeper held his watch in his hand and told off the minutes as they passed.
“One—two—three—four—“ “Don’t shoot!” interposed Prison Inspector Cartwright, who was an eye-witness of the scene, and whose word is law in the prison. “Give him time to consider.”
Arguments were used in vain. Driscoll refusing to lay aside his weapons. Inspector Cartwright finally realized the extreme measures would have to be resorted to and started to leave the room, but as he closed the door he changed his mind and returned with the determination to prevent bloodshed.
“Hold on! Wait a moment,” he said, as he advanced toward Driscoll, despite the efforts of the keepers to restrain him. “Now, look here, young man,” said the inspector, he stood within five feet of the prisoner, “you are throwing your life away. Do you know me?”
“No, I don’t know you, and I don’t want to know you,” answered Driscoll, as he brandished his weapons.
“I am one of the inspectors and it is my duty to protect you. That is what I am here for. My name is Cartwright. “
If your name is Cartwright you have got a good name in this prison. If you will send these hounds away from here I will go anywhere with you.” Said Driscoll, taking both weapons in his left hand, and allowing the Inspector to take him by the right. After nearly every official had left the room, Driscoll laid down the weapons and waited quietly with the Inspector to the rotunda. Driscoll was then handcuffed and placed in the dungeon on bread and water. The immediate cause of Driscoll’s revolt was an order of Deputy Keeper Ashley for him to stop singing, which he refused to obey.
Driscoll has the reputation of being very unruly. He has served a term on Blackwell’s Island for burglary, and also ten years in Sing Sing for the same crime and shooting a policeman in New York.
Reprinted from The National Police Gazette, October 9, 1886.


