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Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15
Nevada Mines on Fire-Many
Lives Said to be LOst-COnster-

lies.
SAN FRANc1sco, April IA fire
broke out this morning at Yellow
Jacket mine, at Gold Hill, Nevada,
and was soon communicated to the
<entuck and Crown Point mines.
Thus far, l P. NJ, eleven bodies
have been taken from the shafts of
he three mines. Other bodies can
be seen at the bottom of the Ken
tuck shaft, but it is impossible to
rescue them ON account of the
heat.
1t is uncertain as to how many
persons were in the mines. The
excitement and confusion is so
great that they were unable to call
the roll of those at work. Sixty
men were at work in the two levels
at Crown Point. 1t is unknown
how many escaped.
The distress is fearful. The
wives and children Of the miners
are congregated at the enhances to
the mines calling for their missing
husbands and fathers.
8P. M.-The latest report from
Gold Hill states that the number
known to be dead is thirty-six five
in Yellow Jacket, eight in Kentuck,
twenty three in Crown Point. The
fire originated in Kentuck, and is
reported spreading toward Jacket
shaft. Firemen succeeded in get
ting hose down Jacket shaft to the
level Of the fire.
Hopes are entertained that the
flames will be subdued; if not,
when all expectation of saving
more lives is abandoned, the mouth
of the shaft will be closed and ven
tilation stopped, and the fire there
by smothered. Yellow Jacket
Grown Point and Kentuck, are
unconnected with other mines under
ground, and there is no probability
of the fire extending beyond them.
Virginia City is almost deserted
by the people going to render as
sistance at the scene of disaster
The San Francisco Stock and Ex-
change Board subscribed thou
sand dollars and sent the money by
telegraph to Gold Hill for the relie
of the ia rilies suffering by the
confagration. The catastrophe is
the most terrible that has eve
occurred in the mining country OF
this coast. General sympathy is
expressed for the distressed.
SAN Francisco, April S.-Tht
confiagration at Gold Hill mines i:
still raging. 1t appears to be con
fined principally to the yellow
Jacket mine. Owing to a cave thu
firemen are unable to reach thu
flames. Every effort is making tt
clear the drift, but perhaps all da,
will be expended before reaching
the fire.
Eighteen bodies have been takel
out of the burning mines, nine o
them from one drift
The Yellow Jacket Company ha.
rescinded it's dividend for March
The fire has the effect of reducing
values of stocks of Yellow Jacket
Grown Point and Kentuck. They
are panicky. @
Latest advices from Gold Hill ar
) that the fire is nearly subdued.' TIL
bodies of victims are removed from
the different shafts. II men are ye
missing and are supposed to hav
, perished The total number of live
) destroyed is thirty-six. 1t is i'm
: possible to estimate damages t.
property. The Superintendent Q
Crown Point and Kentuck mine
reports them uninjured.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

FACTS AND INFERENCE.-'iAt the
Cape of Good Hope" writes a
''peaple die very fast; but
the sheep have remarkably long
tailsn' ar q,..-fe.r 5fIt rr e.i.7-.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

A DOVER, n H, cat, while in
pursuit of dove, was pounced
upon by hen hawk, and carried
up in the air about fifty feet. Both
came down plump and the unique
fight resulting in a victory for the
feline.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

Mr.. Alexander III. Stephens is
reported to have. received an offer
of twenty-five thousand dollars for
the first volume of his ''War Among
the States
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

1t WAS not Mrs. Darlington who
thought Ed must be great
newspaper boy, because his name
was attached to so many paragraphs
in the naners.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

A CINCINNATI paper announces
that Alexander H. Stephens has
been invited to accept the profes-
sorship of letters in South
ern college. -eHt ia -f H
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15

PAPERS in Idaho not only publish
lists of births, but add to the an
nouneements the weight of the sew
eral additions to the territorial
population.
Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1869-04-15
FRED. ELLSWORTH'S

TIyERY & FEED STABLE. Horses and We.
IL hicles to be had at any hour of the day
Stable in rear of Van Marter House. m16-6ms
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-27
Petroleum Centre Daily Record.
Pet. Centre, wednesday, san. 81.
A EdOdcrn InScrnal Machine.

An instrument Of warfare has recPnty
which, it is asserted will prove more de-
s:ructive than any weapon heretofore
known. Tie apparatus consists of row of
twelve guns Of 0. 70 bore and about forty in.
long. mounted on a carriage six ieet wide,
to be hauled by Que horse. The barrels are
divergent, so that st three hundred yards
distant he twe've bullets sweep line Of
a.out thirty feet, and are fixed at equal dis
tanoes from each other, except in the mid
die. where tneie is space Of ten inches.
into which is placed telescope. and an al
rangen,ent for adjusting The guns in taking
aim. This contrivance, it is asserted. ena-
Ties The operator to send bullet through a
balls eye. at sixteen hundred yards, nine
time. opt Of tea. The tubes. or barrels are
loaded at tho hrceeh and are consected h.
a rol attached to crank. one turn of which
opens anil shuts all the breech pieces and
loads the gun. They are made ready FOR
firing by another turn Of the crank. The
bullet It IL stated, can be Tired distance
Of two thousand yards with accuracy. At
u recent trial, fnrty-soven out of sixty shots
fired, are reported to have struck target
iour Zee: high at a distance of fifteen hui :
ired yards. The invention weighs five hu .
drcd pounds, and is.intended to ie hauled
by oLe horse and worked by two men, me
to drive and the other TO operate. The
loading Of the apparatus ia SO arranged thst
it can be detached in . moment. wheh the
OF her part of the mach.,,, ',,cSmes perit e'ly
useless. The cost Of tn. entire machine.
with the horse, is reported o be $1,000
The mitrGiileUsc, or grape shot shcweIe'
The deadly weapon which has attracted 81
mnch attention in France from Louis NJ
psieon. appears to resemble the above Amer.
! lean invention.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-27
ESTABLISHED, A. D., 1880.

GREAT COMBINED
TALFN De. Il, y. RLY.
NOlNS. proprietor. w.
c. LISpENARD. NJ. D..
Con Mlting Pm sicIan and
Surgeon Rochester. Y. Y
This is the only oiiice In
the ri v where II permanent
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he had without the use of
mercury or charge Of dict
We guarantee TO cure Con.
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The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-27
I,yrrAGo, GERRY & ru'rrssUxG
RAILROAD TINE TABL .,
,e. effect Noullv. Nuy,m r,r 9. {. 1861


Takes effect Mondav. Noycn er 2.e, 1861.
gORTHwhRD
Accommodation leaves Cory 3'P. NJ; Ciymo'
l. 4 panaua Aib: Sherman 425; Summit o. o
Pa Mavvillc $50 arriving Mt Brocton 100 p. ~
Express train lcaycs Cory $50 \. NJ: Clymar 55
Pas, u 10 sherman 1885; SUM ri, 10, 80 May
VILE Tito. aud arrives at Brocton -, . n
Mail leaves Cory lib ?. u, stopping AT all sta
lions arriving at Brorton i5)P.
Mail train leaves BroC'on at 900 VI, stopping at
al stations, arrives Mt Cory nj l2,25 P NJ.
FNDieas leaves Bro at 2,S5 p. M.; MNyville
a25; Nlmmt 3,i5; 81 crmHu 400; Panama 4,25 !
Accommodation leaves Brocton 100 r. VI, May
Vile 10. summit Sio. sherman S.55, Panama $50
Clymer 9,i5, arriving at Cory at 10, 10 p N.
CONNECTIONS
Pnssc' cers leave Buffalo on the Toledo Express
or Iav FXp.o-., conn cling at Brncton with trains
for Nav llr sherman. Panama, Clyner and Cory;
competing at CORY with trains on the Oil Creek r
II. ror litu-yile. Miller, pioLoer and Pct Centre.
on City and Pittshng gh
Also connecting at ,Orrv with trains on the Phil
nlelphia ElI TOAD, for Thiladelohin AMI Harris
burr; and on the Atlantic and Greit Western hai
way for I mon, Mtadylle Greenville Pa, and
Warren OHIO aud iaina-to vr and Rand, lph.N.T
Trains leaving Oil 'iiy NJ is n. m, Cory o
o 90 a ui.. conroctiLg Al Broc,"n with tram on 3 =
+. Y r. arriving in Buffalo az 2,lo p m
Trains leaving Oil City at y, % m will sonnea
ucctirp with Express East or r. " + Il t., arrv
ing In Iiuialo al GG0 p. m. Leaving Buffalo at 400
n m arriving at Cory At 10, p Va.
Also connect at Mayvile with Steamboats, OIL
ciauicuaua Lake during season OF naisauon] for
jamestown -ni kaIdo!pn
J,ul s'yville, y =
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-27

Il is repnrted that q Treaty fr an offensive
aud offensive alliance has been privately
signed between the Gar aud the King Of
Prussia.
The Petroleum Centre daily record. [volume] (Petroleum Center, Pa.) 1868-1873, 1869-01-27


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No letter. will no answered unless they contain
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Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30

Twas greatly surprised, when I got on
the platform, at being asked for my card
by very ofncious person still more so,
on receiving magistrates summons in
the morning. The of1cious person de-
posed that he was the Secretary of the
Anti-tobacco Alliance, and applied for q
conviction against the undersigned, under
one of the bylaws of the company, for
smoking in railway carriage, the prop
erty Of the D. e. +. G.. Company, contrary
to their regulations. He declared to have
seen me (only think !)-me leaning out of
the carriage as it came into the Chelches-
ter Station, smoking meerschaum pipe |
The guard gave evidence that the carriage
certainly smelled very strongly of tobacco
on arriving at Chichester, and that was
the only first class passenger. A meer-
schaum pipe, answering the ofacious per-
sons description, was found on my per-
son. Case was clear. Fined forty shil-
lings and costs. Nay, more: the case of
smoking in q railway carriage has been
gibbeted at all the stations on the line
where I am hung up as caution and
warning to the British public, in solemn
black frame, with my name and address,
and the amount of the penalty enforced,
at full length!
1t would have been useless to attempt
to dispute the case before the magistrates.
1t is something to have set ones self right
with the public. Chambers Journal.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
Grants Felicity Of Language.

He exhibits at times rare felicity of
language. His words generally come
slowly, but they are always to the point,
and when analysed his speech often proves
eloquent. His dispatches abound in terse,
significant expressions, like the response
to Buckner: "No terms other than an
unconditional and immediate surrender
can be accepted. l propose to move i'm.
mediately upon your works." propose
to fight it out on this line, if it takes all
summer" is historical "Let us have
peace;" uttered by the head of the army,
became the watchword of q party. His
famous letter to Andrew johnson on the
removal of Sheridan is alive with earnest
ness: and his remarks to President Lin
coin, upon receiving command of the
armies, are model of chaste and manly
eloquence. "Mr President, accept the
commission with gratitude for the high
honor conferred. With the aid of the
noble armies that have fought on 80 many
fields for our common country, it will be
my earnest endeavor not to disappoint
your expectations. feel the full weight
of the responsibilities now devolving on
me and | know if they are met, it will
be due to those armies, and above all, to the
AovOA Va Shoe L AOfIOCnC Wu1Cu lcduS uOtu
nations and men,"
Take, again, the short speech he made
when he received the nomination for the
Presidency: II shall have no policy ol
my own to enforce against the will of the
people "a sentiment full of wisdom and
patriotism, and at the same time the Sc.
verest rebuke Of the President who strove
so hard to force his policy upon an un.
willing people. At Galena, when his
election was announced, he proclaimed
p" The responsibilities the position feel
but accept them without tear;" while in
his inaugural are opinions worthy to be.
come maxims of public and international
law. The truth is, that few men who
call themselves orators have made better
or more effective speeches than he who
has made so few, who never speaks till
ne has something to say, but upon due
occasions always has something to say
that is pertinent and orcible-AAantit
Monthly for May.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30

They were accompanied in their march
by music from fife and drum, tin pans, &C.
TIN Vienna Medical Times tells the fol-
lowing: "Last week, at the clinic, in. the
presence of class of students, an opera
ton of the stomach was performed by
Professor Billroth. The operation was
gone through with and the stomach was
properly sewed up. On the next day the
patient died. A post m0rtem examination
showed in the re-opened stomach large
sponge, which had been used in the opera
tien, and which the operators had forgot
ten to remove"
IT may be important for some people to
know that where q widow re-marries be-
fore the issue of q pension certificate, the
children, if any are living, are alone en-
titled to the back pension. If widow
re-marries during the pendencv of her
claim for pension, she is entitled to the
pension to the date of her re-marriage,
unless the soldier left minor children sur
viving him.
HEMLoCK, to which Socrates and Pho
cion were said to owe their death, is now
pronounced by eminent toxicologists, to
be no poison at ALL Sixty grains of tine
ture of hemlock were recently admins
tered to a young woman without any ap-
parent effect, and a person, after dose of
"a grains of the pure juice of the leaves
OF hemlOck, only experienced slight
muscular numbness, which passed off afte
an hour.
A..swARM of bees and bountiful store
Of wild honey were recently found in
tree by woodchoppers on the west side of
the Sierra Nevada mountains. The Incl
dent is recorded as the first discovery of
the kind on the Pacific slope. There were
no wild bees beyond the Sierras when that
portion of the country was first occupied
by emigrants from the Atlantic seaboard;
but it was soon discovered that bees i'm.
ported from the States thrived well, and
several persons who engaged early in this
business acquired large fortunes from the
production of honey for the markets.
NODDED bread, meat, cheese, or any
other eatable, is an actual poison, whether
inhaled or eaten. One kind of mold
causes the fatal ship-fever. The mold in
damp cellars causes various grades of ty-
phoid fever, diarrhea, dysentery, etc. Re-
cent chemical researches and microscopic
observation seem to show that miasm is
nothing more or less than a mold, and
that this mold is, in reality, cloud of iv-
ing things, each too small to be seen by
the naked eye, and are drawn into the
lungs, swallowed with the saliva, incorpo-
rated with the food eaten, and by being
absorbed into the blood, are sufficient to
cause all grades of deadly fevers; elevated
or dry localities are wholly exempt.-Es-
change.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30

hind wheel from running faster than
the front wheel, and putting the machine
out.
A painful accident happened recently
at Chicago through neglect Of the
brake.
A man was running race on time, and
was going at the rate of three miles a
minute.
The hind wheel kept gaining on the
front wheel and in the attempt to pass it
made the velocipede turn somerset.
The rider was thrown ahead, the veloci-
pede went over him.
/ would advise you not to buy veloci-
pede till you have learned to ride.
You can get lessons with the use of .
velocipede for twenty dollars quarter.
A robust and daring rider can knock
twenty dollars worth Of damage out of
q velocipede in week.
To say nothing of personal damage to
his own anatomy, which is at his own
risk. 5
But don't be discouraged by such
trities as bruised ankle or dislocated
shoulder. E-o @
If at first you don't succeed, try, try,
try again.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
Cory O'Lanus on the velocipede.

MANAGING the velocipede is Just as
easy as skating, when you know how to
do it.
1t takes you little time to learn how.
All you have got to do is to keep the
velocipede up and keep it going.
You can't do either of these separately,
and have to do them both at once.
Which makes it difficult.
Because if the velocipede stops it falls
down.
At the same time if it falls down it will
stop.
The first law of velocipedestrianism is
motion.
On the beautiful philosophical principle
that necessitates the perpetual motion of
the planetary bodies, comets, eclipses, me.
teors, aurora borealises, and things which
are continually going on.
Or like mans credit, the moment it
stops running he goes up.
Only in the case of the velocipede he
goes down.
First, you must start the velocipede be-
fore you mount, then jump on while it is
running.
If you have had any practice as circus
rider this comes easy enough.
All you have to do then is to catch the
pedals with your feet, and keep the wheel
revolving.
Steering is very easy, when you get ac-
customsd to it all you have to do ID to
turn the wheel the way you want to 20,
and you'll go it.
You must not, however, go upon the
principle that one good turn deserves an
other, because too many turns may wind
up with an overturn.
Any speed may be attained by increas.
| ing the velocity Of the velocipede, which
is done by lively agitation Of the driving
wheel.
The more revolutions you make the
faster you will go.
The next thing after driving and steer
| ing 10 to learn to manage the brake.
The brake Is very useful, and must be
looked after.
1t is necessary in order to keep the
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Gross behaviour-Gettingf fat
THE best substitute for silver-Gold.
TIE Oldest woman's club-The broom.
stick.
THE Boston Post calls pillow a sooth-
ing nap-sack.
FRENsH Democrats call the Prince I'm
perial Velocipede w."
IT 10 thought the wheat crop of Cali
mia will be unusually large this year.
WHY is room full of married people
emptyf Because there is not a single per-
son in it.
a CINCINNATI lady Endorsed on her tax
return, taxation without representation
is tyranny"
A YOUNG lady in California broke her
neck while resisting the attempt of q
young man to kiss her.
THE strongest kind of hint-A young
lady asking gentleman to see if one of
her rings would 60 on his little finger.
A oLERaYMAN who had been accused
of preaching long sermons, excused him
self on the ground that the church was q
large one.
A WRITER, describing one Of the en-
gagements in the late war, gives the fol-
lowing interesting item. "In this battle
we lost the brave Captain Smith. A can
non-ball took off his head. His last words
were, Bury me on the spot where fell.
MEYERBEER left several compositions
sealed, which, by his will, are never to be
opened unless his family has need of fur
ther resources. In spite of his great
wealth, he was always haunted by the
fear that his family would some day come
to want.
In one of Cooper's novels occurs the
following passage: "He dismounted in
front of the house and tied his horse to q
large locust" A French author, in trans
lating this passage, renders it thus: He
desc ended from his horse in front of the
chateau and tied him to large grasshop-
per.
A MAN in Brooklyn was thrown from
his wagon recently, and seemingly died.
He was laid in his coffin, and when his
friends were about to bury him, he awoke
with Q shudder, and walked about the
room. He said he was conscious Of all
that was passing but was unable to make
sign of life.
MEN often lose opportunities by want of
self. confidence. Doubts and fears in the
minds Of some rise up over every event,
and they fear to attempt what most prob
ably will be successful, through mere tim
orousness. while brave, active man will,
with perhaps half the ability, carry the
enterprise to prosperous termination.
THE afternoon New York service
usual at Christ Church was on q recent
Sunday the scene ofa novel feature. The
organ suddenly stopped in the midst OF q
hvnn and not another note was heard
from it during the entire exercises. Upon
inquiry it was ascertained that the organ
ist had taken offense at something done
by one of the officiating clergymen during
the service, and abruptly left the church.
In Greenfield, N. H., q few days ago, a
man and his SON, aged respectively about
70 and IS, were called upon by about
thirty men and boys, and treated to ride
upon rail, distance of about one and
one-half mile, for the offence of abufing
| the wife and mother. They were made
| to take turns; while one rcde the other
| carried one end Of the rail, and Vise gersa.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30
1Doetrp.
THE SONG OF THE ANVIL.
By N. G. SHEPHERD.


WITHIN the village smithy
Right merrily / ring,
And under the stroke of the hammer
A tuneful song Sing.
Red glows the wide-mouthsd furnace.
The heaying billows roar
You can hear their huge lungs painting
Outside the open door.
The smith is stalwart and mighty
He lifts his sledge on high,
Then let's it fall on the iron,
And the sparks all round him fly.
With ready voice / answer,
And cheer him with my song;
sing to him while he labors-
sing to him all day long.
His arm is brawny and powerful,
Its strength full we'll know;
He strikes with an earnest purpose,
And heavily falls his blow.
The children stand In the doorway,
For they love to see him swing
His sledge across his shoulder,
r While chserily sing.
Ny voice goes out to the village;
You can hear 1t far away,
As cheer the smith in his labor
Through all the hye-long day.
With every blow from his hammer
An answering note l sound,
That over again is repeated
Whenever an echo Is found.
Oh, ye who are sorely smitten
By the iron hand of fate,
Abide your time in patience,
Ye have not long to wait.
oh, young man, eager and hopeful,
Oh, young man, valiant and strong,
When the blows fall fast and thickest
- Make answer with seng
--PacEdrd's Monthly. for May.
Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1869-04-30

substantial results, not to vindicate per-
sonal vanity or dignity. The tone of his
administration has been progressive yet
conciliatory. All men respect his mo-
tives, and the country generally is will
ling to await, in confidence and hope, the
full results of his action. We believe his
civil administration, like his military Ca
reer, may meet with Belmont or Shiloh
at the first, but it will come to Vicks-
burg, Chattanooga and Appomattox in
the end.-ChtcGgo Tribune, 18Th.