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Fire! Fire! Fire F!

DELAY MAKES TIE
DANGER. Fires have
hitherto been met by
means too diiatory, too
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The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-23

after taking unsccmly liberties with her. car.
ried her off INTO . ravine and there outraged
her person. Hearing a wagon coming, the
negro left the girl and hid behind B tree, tell
ing Tie girl that II she made noise be would
kill her. But when the Wagon approached
within short distance the girl ran towards
It. screaming violently, and wss soon rescued
from her perilous situation. The negro dis
appeared in the woods. Alarm was raised
however, and in a short time dozen persons
were in pursuit of the negro. The hunt was
kept up all night, when the villain was finally
caught and lodged in the county Jail.
The excitement was great among the citi-
zens of Mantorville, and the indignation was
SO intense that there were at one time syinp-
toms of a disposition TO iufict summary pun
ishment on the scoundrel. - But calmer coun-
sells prevailed, and he awaits the penalty which
the law prescribes for his infamous crime.
The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-23
Composition.

| Teachers should be watchful on all occa
sions, and especially during Rotations, t
secure habits Of readiness and precision II
the use of language. Every question SHOULD
receive complete and grammatical answer
Teachers should be clear and accurate in thei
own expressions, and impress upon their pu
pills the Importance of selecting, at all times
the best words and phrases, and forming the
habit of using good language In early life. As
fast as new words are learned in the various
oral exercises, the children should be required
to embody them in spoken or written sen.
fences, and thus fasten their meaning and
uses securely in the memory.
Exercises in composition may be introduced
in such manner, that pupils will never re.
gard them as irksofne tasks. With proper
care and skill on the part Of the teacher, they
may be made as interesting and attractive as
any OF the exercises of the school. The fol.
lowing are some of the first steps 10 be taken
to secure this object.
l. Let the pupil take his slate TO a window
during recess, and write down anything he
hears from the children in the playground.
At the close of the recess, let him read before
his class what he has written, and he will be
interested to learn that the sentences from
the different scholars are so many little com.
positions. He will then understand, that
every time he speaks q sentence, he makes a
composition, and II he will only write II on
his slate or on paper, II will be q written
composition.
g. Select common subject, as horse, and
ask the pupil various questions respecting it.
As he gives his answers, let him write them
down on his slate. He will soon find that he
has written an original composition, almost
without effort ... ....
3. At the close of an object lesson on any
familiar subject, let the pupils write or print
on their states everything they can remember
Of the description that has been given, and
read their exercises in turn before the class.
These different exercises should be exam
med carefully by the teacher, and the errors
that occur in language, photography, punctu.
alton, etc, should be kindly pointed out and
corrected before the class The pupils should
then be required TO re.write their exercises
correctly.
The establishment of school paper, sus-
tanned by the pupils. under the general direc-
ton Of the teacher, Is one Of the best means
OF cultivating this important art.-W,Its on
Graded Schools.
The Cairo evening bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1868-1870, 1869-01-23
A Horrible Outr.x..
IRON the ~ Pau, Press, 18Th inst,

Hon. Samuel Lord, of Dodos coun,, .;u.
us the particulars OF horribis sLsss
was perpetrated al Mantorylle on %eanea'
day evening last by negro named Crawso,S
on the person OF little swede girl about
twelve years Of age. The girl whose f,her,s
residence is about tiIeo-qssrters Of a miIa on,
Of the town, was on her way In tLe al ~ ~
evening, % Mantoryille, in order 10 scro ,no
psny her father home. While passing tLrougb
8 strip OF woods skirtng the village she wss
Oyert9ken by She negro above named, Who
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14
t- From the state Journal. Oct. 7th..
" Gentlemen, Give Us a Fair
.ta4I5 :. Chance" asas.z aiss

The above title is fixed toga paragraph
in yesterdays issue of the Democrat,
wherein it is promised that if the Demo-
cratic ticket is elected q large amount Of
money will be ,"driven" into the. Treas
ury s'during the next six months - That
is "more" than fair for. the Democrats,
but it is not fairsso the people. To drive
money in during only six months, and
steal it during the eighteen remaining
months thereafter, is not the thing. There
is another feature about this business
he peepleewould like to have, avsettle-
ment with the Democrats. before they
elect their ticket, The people have given
the Democratic fair chance to drive in
the $4,000 in gold that was stolen under
the Democrats administration fourteen
years ago. Suppose they drive that
money in before they ask the people for
votes. Counting the interest and prem
ium on gold there is more than 100000
/ due from the Democratic party to day.
Here is fair chance for the Democrats
to come down with their gold, and balance
up the books of : Edward Ii. Jansen,
Democratic State Treasurer. The people
want to use, that money. The payment of
1t before election VIII De some evidence
of good faith. 'io -. 30 i
If the younger members of the Demo-
cratic party do not remember that the
people were despoiied of $50, 900 of ths
public fund.- while Denaocratsc Treas
urer was in power. let them ask Colonel
Charles d Robinson, of Green Bay, about
it, Tie was Secretary Of State two years
Fof the time that Jansen was Treasurer,
and Hon George B. Smith was Attorney
General Here are two Democratic wit
nesses, beside Hon Henry L. Palmer, who
was Speaker Of the Assembly, and Hon
Fred. w. Horn, who succeeded him.
These men know that we are not dealing
in fiction, but that what we charge above
IS part of the political history of the
State. % III ~ 2 otfs
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14
Public Debt.

The Public Debt Statement for
September is published. Although
there were current rumors that it
would show slight increase in the
debt. yet ii gives us the gratifying
information, that during September
the debt was decreased 81, 1912
and that since the first of Maroh
last the amount of $56,968. 1877 80
has been paid toward wiping out our
indebtedness. This is at the rate of
over eight million per month, OF
about one hundred million per year.
AT this rate. in less than twenty-five
years, this monster debt will have
been entirely paid.
e lThis.state of affairs must be De-
euliariy consoling othose Democrats,
who predicted an increase oil he debt
under Il Grants iadn1ihisif, ION, es,
.pecially to the prince of mathme-
ticians, Delmar, who cauld figure
out such immense deficiencies in the
appropriations made by Congress
The opponents to Grants admin
|istration may eroak as much is they
please ihte above figures tell more
thar words can, that the financial
policy of the administration. has
been a success, that can but be en-
tirely satisfactory to the people.
During the administration, Of John
son the debt steadily ihcreased...z-
The people can see which is Z In
favo-a of ''rigidi economy and a
faithful and honest use of the peoples
money 80 '2oalq ifh1 n oleost 9'i9
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Andy on Reputation.

When Andy johnson was sick, some
months ago, and doubts were entertained
of his recover y. we heard prominent
Democrats in this state express the earn
est wish that he might live to get back
to the Senate, and there is now nothing
that would please them more As evidence
of this, take the following from his speech
at Knoxville on the 18th of August, and
published in the Democratic papers:
There is debtfowing by the United
STATES amounting to $2,600,00O The men
who are engaged in, the conspiracy to
change this Government into an empire
say that this debt was created to pre-
serve the Republic Now, what is as
sumed? Simply that we must destroy
this Republic for the purpose of paying
the debt by converting the Republic into
an, empire. My countrymen, before God
and this people tonight, I would rather
that the Republic was preserved and the
debt let go Loud cheers.l This debt
was created to save the Republic Now
the Republic must be destroyed to pay
the debit Rather let the Government be
preserved and let the debt 60" ;7
+ Mr. johnson here assumes that the ma.
tional debt cannot be paid without chang
ing the republic into an Umpire, andthere
fore he is for repudiating the debt to save
the republic! It is difficult to see how
paying the debt can change the republic
to an empire, unless he and his like pro-
pose to get up an empire to avoid paying
the debt. He fears that. would be too
much trouble, and so would rather the
republic should repddiateaits own debt
Besides, according to his figures when
President, the debt is already paid, and
the bondholders are in debt to the Gov
lernmentatwo or three times the amount
of the bonds they hold5; for he said they
|obtained them at three or four hundred
per cent less than their face. Of course,
the Government paid them two or three
times their face to induce them to take
them, and if Andy is to rule, they made
a bad bargain at that,d for they viii be
worth two or three hundred per cent
less than nothing If Tennessee sends
such braying ass, to the Senate, she will
have the credit of it.-Kil Sentinel.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14


BURNING THE CUBAN CROPS A let
ter from Cuba gives the following as the
purpose of.the Cubans in regard to the
destruction of the crops by fire:
1.-THE revolutionary leaders have pla'i
in employing incendiarism against their
enemies, They have not destroyed the
sugar mills or the Islands, as alIedged,
bur have disabled the machinery OF
the majority of them. They allow the
sugar cane togrow, but it will never be
ground by either Spaniards or Cubans,
except in districts where Cuban authori-
ty predominates, and they can house the
crop after it is made into sugar. When
the tobacco crop of Vuelta Abaja ripens
it is to be burned just so far as it is ne
cessary to prevent its being made source
of revenue for the Spanish Government.
This is q blow dreadful to contemplate,
for though it bring ruin to Spanish cot
fers, it brings Individual ruin also. Let
this war continue, and Spain will not OBJ
tain ten per cent. of her usual revenu
from Cuba Millions and millions of dol.
lars worth of green sugar cane overs vast
glons OF Cate producing lands, hut IN
less the war soon. ends il will ali go t.
waste, except such parts of it as Cuban
authority can hold.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14
a Visit to the City of Contu.
- bs59 glba'g cius. HN9y OH dill

J. & = Z II
Mr.. Markham, an English Con-
sui in China, has written an account
Iof a visit to Kiu-foo, the city of Con-
fucius, which has been printed with
other reports of British Consuls in
China and Japan sh Mr.. Markham
says Kiu-foo is city Of mo, :opor-
lance. but it may }aos called the his
toricalacitv- sd China. ) There Cor
fucius was educated, lived, taught
and was finally buried. His birth.
place, cave, in the Ne-shan Hillr.
some twenty Ii to the northeast
His representative, a KnpgYth, or
Duke u the Empire, dHells in The
city, this whole of the north and west
of which is taken up with the
grounds of the Ducal Palace, and
Temple. to lConfucius, splendidly
wooded. The temple is building
on far more magnificent scale than
any Mr.. Markham saw in China.
Here are numerous relics Of the sage,
some Of the bronze censers, etc,
bearing date. B.C.23OO.L-44 '''ii s..''.
10 The city has a population of abont
f25, 1000, which is composed chiefly of
defendants of confucius, eight out
Of ten families bearing his surname.
The Office of Che-shien, or magistrate,
is hereditary in the family, as also
ere the oficirl appointments. When
the rebels occupied the surrounding
country they spared the city of man
darins, declaring that they only
wished to destroy the unjust and
corrupt rulers, but that Confucius'
descendants could not be so. Ex~
cept the fact Of SO many families
bearing the sage's surname, which
requires some little explanation,
nothing could be more satisfactory;
and it would be. well for some of
the rising generation If. instead of
making books on the turf, they were
to take a leaf out Of the book of
CONTIGUOUS, who, we may be sure,
never saw the face of bailiff IN
kiu-too, and whose bronze censers,
etc, were never profaned by the
auctioneer's hammer, like some peo-
ple's family plate. and racing cups
in these degenerate days
Tsin-hsien, the city of Mencius,
is similarly dedicated to the memory
Of the sage; he has a fine temple,
and bis defendants are pensioned by
the State. HtsD faa rgb iv1F
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14
Who Freed the Slaves?

A.. - &
+ Judge Dent, in. q recent Speech pu-
b!ished in the New Orleans Times, got
off the following bit of logic for the edit
fcation of the freedmen: 3 "a .s"EJd
Many Of those who had come down
from the North, seeking places and power,
were constantly in the habit of contend
ing that it was through their efforts that
the colored man had procured his freedom.
Such, however, was not the fact, as Gen.
Grant and many other distinguished sold
lers and statesmen hadf declared that 1t
was only circumstance of the war, and
that it was never intended to give the
colored man his freedom until it became
a war necessity; and neither was it in
tended to givethe vote until it became
political necessity in the work OF re-
construction. y He eontended, therefore,
that they had not to thank the people
of the North. for the rights and privileges
they enjoyed. -. ..,ga assz .~.v 7sg-
\ Who then should they thank? ?, What
ever may have, been the necessity for
abolishing slavery, the people of the
North fought and conquered the rebelli
Gus South. If in order to conquer the
South it was necessary to abolish Slavery,
1T became part of the war-one of the
war measures as much as the siege of
Vicksburg or Redmond. If the war had
not been fought and the South conquered,
there is not an African skull in Dixie SO
thick as not to understand that slavery
would not have been abolished, and ifthe
fleedRan owe theNNrsh,po thanks fercon-
quering the rebels, then ltney may eoweiit
none for abolishing slavery. But If they
do then they owe lit thanks for abolish
ing slavery, which, by Judge Dents con
lfession, WAS one of the means used to ac-
eomplsh it. His assertion is, that they
owe the North no thanks for conquering
their rebel masters and saving them from
hopeless slavery. The Abolition of slavery
was proclaimed by p Northern President,
its constitutional prohibition was framed
by Northern Congress and adopted by
Northern States, and yet the freedmen owe
the. North. no thanks for it! Their rebel
masters made the war, and the war madr
the abolition Of slavery a necessity to the
loyal North, and therefore the freedmen
owe everlasting thanks a to their rebel
masters for abolishlng slavery The
North did not intend it, but the South
did!
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Two Takers.
From the Oakland (cal.) Daily Ne,

Occasionally, in California, one will
meet with an inveterste talkef, a conf
I dental cgabber that will tell all he knows
himself and ask questions from the rising
Of the Sun to the going down thereof,
without let up or interval. He is spe.
eies "a generic Paul Pry, and is most
difficult to get rid Of Two such charac-
ters were lately III Oakland at the same
time. They put up at the Cosmopolitan
| House, and were for long time unknown
or acquainted with each other. Separate
ly they bored Mr.. Hanifn, distressfully
and between them he had little else to do
but to be taken by the arm, ana become
alternately victim to each. - utBidee
they annoyed merchants, lawyers, news
papermen, and altogether, did much to-
ward retarding the, interests of -tses city
by taking up the arjeation of business
men. On Tuesday last, their vigor, after
several days, had not decreased, and the
host of the House was visibly declining
in health under the infiction,a At last an
| idea of relief suggested itselfto him.. He
would make them acquainted with each
Fotber, and tilenlike cats tied otter clothes
lime, they would soon worry each other to
death. This he soon brought about and
with the greatest success. They talked
standing, seated, out of doors; in doors,
ByeryMhere and continually, during eight
weary hours. Finally one thought the
other slightly stupid and retired for a
while, thinking no doubt, that he had
met an unusual customer; but he soon re-
,rurred,agaln,x and they talked together
nearlyIall night, to the great amusement
of those present, that were, in the secrct.
They went to i, San Frapois6o together
yesterday, and tits likeiy hat the death
record there for week, will show an in
crease Of mortality and a new cause Of
decease entered" died from an overdose
Of CAB" = = '-.'''' - ~ r,
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-10-14

A STORY Is told of a temperance man
being at h wedding, who was as ked to
drink the brides health in aglass OF wine
which was offered HIM. He, refused to
partake OF, tie. intoxicating liquid and
sad when he drank her health It would
be, in that which resemb3ied her most IN
purity, and he knew nothing better than
water -pure" water He then drank rank to
hersheaith IN aofgIass of Gods beverage
sparkling water The ladies assembled
on the occasion Immediately stepped for
ward, and, making respectful courtesy,
thanked him for the besutifulc olnpliment
he had just paid the fair bride, when IT.
was resolved that all Intoxicating drink
be bandished from the room. $50 i-G
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From the jackson Mich Citizen. Oct. 8

From the jackson (Mlch) Citizen. yet. o.
On Sunday afternoon the Fort Wayne
Railroad Company sent q construction
train up the road preparatory to The com
mencement of work ON Monday morning
as is the usual custom. The engineer,
anxious of course to make his Sunday
work as short as possible, rushed the train
out of the depot and around the curve al
the top of her sphed.la Upon arriving al
the bridge, however, he saw that which
caused him TO reverse the engine and ap
ply the brakes with all his force. A man
with his wife and two children were on
the narrow portion of the bridge, were it
is only just wide enough for tram to
pass, about midway of it's length, of six
hundred feet. Neither end could be
reached by. the imperiled family before
the train would rush upon them; but the
father and husband was equal to the
emergency. Catching up the children il,
his arms, he told his wife that he would
see to them, and babe her run toward the
end Of the bridge, until the train should
reach her, and then jump into the water.
She must run for her life, as her safety de-
pended upon her getting near enough to
the shore to find shallow water before be
mo oyertaken by the train. She did as
he directed, and when she felt the hot
breath of the. iron monster, she jumped
from the bridge, fortunately allghting in
not more than two feet of water and weeds,
and the train passed her in safety. But
what of the. father and little ones. He
could not run with them and when al
most distracted with fears for his wife's
safety, he was bound to find some escape
for them. Taking the little ones in. his
arms, he coolly and steadily, in the face
of the approaching train, lowered himself
with them to a brace beneath the bed
timbers, and there held them fast within
fe w feet of the water while the train
came laundering over them. About the
time the engine reached the center OF the
bridge, the exertions Of the engineer and
the brakemen effected the stoppage of
the train. and their assistance was render
ed to extricate the frightened family from
their yet peri1ads position, and they went
on their way thank ful for their deliver
ance. 6e--asa /.