The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1869-06-10

IA w g DauS0O upon ttle olu TallllEnCe auu
said to ourselves, Great God, Wilt Thou
not heal this broken heart"'
Mr.. Cough and His Mother.
j In one OF his touching addresses, in
Exeter Hall, Mr. Cough said: after
"A speech in Boston, a short time ago, Il
lady came to me, the daughter of the
| Rev. DIR. Choules, and said: MY father
is dead, but he was always collecting
curiosities, and he happened to light
upon your mothers Bible, in Bristol
: l had resided there twenty-five years
axo. and pleased was / to hear the Bible
/ was found. | had 1t sent to me by ex-
press. There were the names: Jane
! Gilbert, that was my mothers name
before marriage, born August l., l776:
! John Cough, a present from his mother,
on bis leaving England for America.
John Cough born August -, lSl7.'7 l
held my Bible in my hand l remena-
bered how | had seen my mother with
her lips white with hunger, and | rec
ollect how she took her iron-rimmed
spectacles from her eyes to wipe away
the tears as she turned page after pago.
| saw the malks-'When the poor and
, needy seek water and there is none, and
their tongue hileth for thirst, then
the Lord will help them, the God Of
Israel will not forsake them;' with hum
dreds of passages more like that, all
blessed promises. marked in that book.
| That mothers Bible brought her histo-
| ry before me. There remains no token
to mark her last resting place, no hcarse
and mourners followed her to the grave;
she was followed by myself and my Sis
ter alone. And without a prayer she
was consigned to the dust. But she
left her children the e'legacy of moth
er's prayers, and the Lord God Al
mighty as the executor Of her last will
aud testament; and though that poor
little body of a schoolmistress has gone
before, and her spirit has taken its
flight to it's eternal home, | stand before
yol, M Mpiglit to- declare that if have
! ever done aught of good, what | am,
and what have done, By the grace OF
God, has been through the influence OF
that mother"
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Fire Put Out With Brickbats.
From the New York Tribuac May nth.
! The, great fire at the Devoe works,
Hunters Point, l.. l.. ,continuedto TO burn
all through Tuesday right, theaii tank
continuing to blaze with unabated fury
some 80 ,OUO gallons of oil being consum'
ed. One incident connected with the
burning Of the Oil In these tanks is well
worthy of note. It appears that at the
lower end of the dock, fronting The East
river, a tank containing several thou
sand gallons of ben4ne was enveloped
in flame all night, yet, strange to say, Il
| tank filled with Kerosene oil, which i'm
mediately joined it, remained untouch-
ed.
+. At about 8 O'Clock yesterday morning
the brig Advance, which had been burn
ing all night, capsized, precipita,ing
hundreds of gallons of burning OIL into
Newton creek. The flames spread rap.
idly over the surface Of the water, and
another alarm of fire was Immediately
sounded, bringing all the engines OF the
Eastern District back to the scene o
disaster. The tide was flowing strong
/ ly nto the creek from the East river al
the time, and the .scething mass o
burning oflspread lopdly up the creek
and in the direction of the new Hun
ter's Point bridge. The scene at thin
4 paint WAS terribly grand. lhe entire
creek from shore to shore, aud from the
! point of its influx into the East river
nearly up to the bridge, was one living
lurid sheet of flame which would at in
tervals shoot up to All amazing height
the whole covered with dense masses o
q black smoke. The banks were lined by
thousands OF excited spectators, al
dreadnlg the calamitous results of this
most extraordinary disaster, but al
poweriess to check the progress OF The
devouring element. The tiremen were
in despair; their apparatus were al
constructed to draw from hydrants ant
there being no plugs in the vicinity th'
only available water was that Of th'
creek, which had now been rendered
inaccessible. The greatest danger ap
pretended was that the flames, whici
I were rapidly approaching the new
bridge, would be communicated 10 tina
structure, in which case it would in al
probability have been totally destroyed
fhe means finally employed to arres
:. he progress. Of the flames were ohl.
discovered by fortunate accident. Al
individual standing upon the bridg
watching the flames almost at his feet
picked up a large stone and hurled
quite thoughtlessly into the stream
Instantly it was noticed that the c
fire was broken by the splashinS OF Wa
ter caused by the falling stone, and a
the circle of waves gradually increase
in size, the flames receued, until c!ca
space of two or three yards in diametc
! had been made. The idea thus suggest
ed was sraMdly acted upon, the crowd
|, Of bystand,rs rushed to the brickyard c
j. G. Provost, and returned loaded wit
bricks, which they commenced hurlin
. into the stream. Lines were speelii!
formedzfor rapidly passing the missile
Z from the brickyard to those on tn
; docks; the men worked with will
: and in an incredibly short time upwar
of two thousand bricks had been llure
: into the stream. The violent agitatio
+, Of the water thus caused had the effct
: Of checking the progress of the flames
. and with the very material aid render
ed by the tug boat Fuller the confis
!, grafton was soon entirely stayed.
:. = WR1PPISGs CIILDREN.-Simply bt
~ caasstyou Are excited you -puh,sh~yo
!, child-the child feels the effect of you
T passion--not yourself. When you b'
| come yourself you will repent it. An
: thus the little one has to suffer from
: brutal passion. This is the way ofpul
9 ishpeilb in general. Anl the Chill
{ cannetl,elp ik9 t; it n1,,st suffes-it ca
but cry out. And is the child bettereo
Q No one will say it is. 1t will do tn
same thing over again, while the pareI
9 has lost its affection. Good treatmet
would have drawn it toward the parsi
!, and restrained it from further otfenc