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Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06
CITY OF woR0ESTER

MARsuAL's OFFICE. Dec. %, 1870
In order that all citizen may fully understand what is
required by law In regard to the removal OF AMI ice
from Sidewalks and Buildings, herewith publish Sec
lions A. A. A. AMI 4S OF Chpte q Of the Revised Ordi-
nnces of the city, and Section Il In relation to Coast
ing;
Sect. Al. The tenant, occupant and in case there
the ofany building or lot Of land bO any
highway street lane court, square, public place with
established. shall cause all the and ice to be
moved nom such foot way or Sidewalk
SECT. AZ. lfhe fall in the day tne 1t shall be
removed from the sidewalk within six hours from the
time it shah have ceased falng if in the night
Tine, shall he removed before two O'Clock in the
afternoon next sucCeedng and all ice shall be removed
within twcntyour hours after the same shall form upon
the sidewalk. And this section shall apply to snow
ice which may have fallen rom any building. and the
ice formed from water running or accommodating upon
any sidewalk.
SECT. 43. The tenant, occupant, and in case there
shall ne no tenant, the owner agent or person having
the care OF any building adjoining any highway, street.
lane, court. square or pubic place within said city,
where the roof OF id bniding towards said high
all the and ice to be removed from such roof
little shall fall or the ice form in the day night
time, II shall be removed from such roof within twenty
Jour hours after the same shall have ceased falling
forming
SECT A.. The sidewalks, within the meaning Of this
ordnance, shall be such parts of the highway whether
public private as W thin the curhs ones thereof,
in all places where aurbstones are set and also such
parts Of such highways have been established as foc
sidewalks IN conformity to the then existing by laws
OF the town Of Worcester, by ordinance order of
the city OF Worcester and also such parts of any
or highway shall he established and determined as
sidewalks by the city council and such laying
and de eminatiOn shall be recorded in the book Of
city 'ecords.
SECT l2 No person shall course coast or slide down.
across in along any the highways of SAID
city upon any handsed board or otherwise except in
such places and under such restrictions the Mayor and
Aldermen shall designate and require.
Twenty Dollars and costs Is the tine for non-comp-
good citizen who has sidewalk to take care Of viii az
tend TO it, and all interference from police officers
and much trouble FOR themselves.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06
NORWICH AND WORCESTER RAIL
~ ROAD co.
TREASURER'S OFFICE, /
NORWICH, IT., Dec. 20, 1870. !


The board fdrectors of this Company have this day
declared dividend Of Five Per Cent, payable the
3st instant at the Farmers Loan and Trust Company's
Office, 26 Exchange Place. New York, to the StookhOd
whose on the stock ledger the 23d inst
Transfer books Will be closed from the 23d inst the
l2fh of January next.
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06

CAFE AND PROFITABLEI
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06
d52 DIV C. L PERKINS, Treasurer.
OF MASSACHUSETTS. In

~ Bankruptcy. Notice is hereby given that the
inG qnd ma hna geneG meeting OF the creditors Of Ed
Amherst in said District on the l7th day OF January
A. d. 1871, at ten O'Clock A. NJ. at the Office of and
before l. Conkey, Register, at which meeting the
s.nee will file his account
]. b. SHELLEY, Assignee.
Al Ian. { 1871. AZ
Worcester daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1850-1888, 1871-01-06
PROVIDENCE & WORCESTER RAIL
L ROAD COMPANY.-DINIDEND

Dividend of five per cent has been declared payable
at the Office of the Treasurer and after Saturday the
3lst day of December 1870 Stockholders Of record at
the close of business the 2lst instant. Transfer
Books closed from DIST instant to January 2. 1871.
Per order.
JOHN r. BALCH, Treasurer
Providence, R. T., December 20, 1870. dtja7
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

A GR1EvoUs WRoNG-Therc is the soundest
common sense in the following paragraph from
the Manufacturer and Builder:
Why is it that there is such repugnance on
the part of parents to putting their sons to a
trade? A skilled mechanic is an independent
man. Go where he will his craft will bring
him a support. He need ask favors of none.
He has literally his fortune in his own hands.
Yet foolish parents-ambitious that their SONS
should "rise in the world" as they say-arc
more willing that they should study for pro-
fession, with the chances of even moderate sue
cess heavily against them, or run the risk OF
spending their days in the ignoble task of re-
failing drygoods, or of toiling at the account
ants desk, than learn trade Which gives them
manly strength, health and independence. In
point of fact, the method they choose is the one
least likely to achieve the advancement aimed
at, for the supply of candidates for "errand
boys" drygoods clerks and kindred occupations
is VIGOROUSLY over-stocked while on the other
hand, the demand for really skilled mechanics
of every description is as VIGOROUSLY beyond
supply. The crying need of the country To-day
is for skilled labor and that father who neg,
lects to provide his son with useful trade, and
to see that he thoroughly masters it, docs him
a.grieyous wrong and runs the risk OF helping
dependent, if not vicious members Of society.
It IS stated in the report of the Prison Associa-
ton lately issued, that Of fourteen thousand
five hundred and ninety prisoners confined in
the thirty States in 1867, seventy-seven per
cent, or over ten thousand of the number nev-
er learned a trade The fact conveys lesson
of profound interest to those who have in
charge the training of boys, and girls, too, for
the active duties of life.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

How MOSQUITOES B1TE-The museuito has
a proboscis like an elephant, only not so large.
1t will, however, look nearly as large Under
good microscope He cannot Go as many han
DIV things with it as the elephant can with his,
but he can cause good deal of annoyance in
small way with it. 1t is hardly the thing to
say the nusquito bites us, for he has no teeth.
The microscope reveals the fact that he carries
pair Of scissors inside of his proboscis (; the
neatest and sllarpest little cutting tools you ev
er saw. He gets his living by these. They are
two delicate blades, and are placed alongside of
each other. When he gets ready to make
beautiful wings, and sings pleasant little song.
a place on our skin which is just to his liking.
He is very delicate about it. When he gets
ready, he puts his proboscis down, and pushes
the little scissors out, and makes a neat cut, SO
that he can suck the blood out.
Then he drinks as much blood as he wants
and is done his dinner. But he does not leave
vet. He is going to pay his bill. He has Ia
ken our blood, and he will leave us something
in exchange for it. With all his faults he is
an honest little fellow-after his fashion. He
has the pay in his pocket, ready to squeeze out
before he goes. 1t is poison, but that makes
no difference to him. 1t is the best he has to
give us. His poison pocket Is at inc nead OF
his proboscis, and at the lower end of his pro-
boscis he has another little pocket into which
he puts poison enough for one dose. This poi
place where the musquito puts it very sore.
After he has sucked our blood, he puts the drop
of poison into the place he took the blood from.
1t is not the "bite' or cut that the musquito
makes that hurts, but the dropping of this pow
erful poison into our flesh. If this musquito
were large enough to give a powerful does of
this poison, it would be bad for us. If he we're
as big as kitten, and his poison as strong in
proportion, q "bite' from him would kill us.
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MRS. PEr1GRU KING BowEN.-A Washing.

Mrs. PErIGRU KING BowEN.-A Washing
ton correspondent writes:
As for Mrs. Bowen, her case excites the deep
est interest and sympathy here She is devo-
tedly attached to her numerous husband, and
declares that she will stick to him. She be-
lieves that her marriage was legal and that it
was formed in good faith by both her husband
and herself. 1t is said they are now living to-
gether, occupying house here owned by her.
self. Bowen's friends assert that he will at
once take steps to procure legal divorce, TO
which he is entitled, while persons who are not
particularly friendly say he will do nothing of
the kind-that he is not entitled to divorce
that no court would dare to grant it now and
that he dare not apply for it, but that he and
Mrs. Pctigru King will continue TO live togeth-
er, leaving the world to say and think as it
please, thus leaving it in the hands of the 9TH
er two Mstresses Bowen to obtain divorces OH
the ground of adultery, if they see fit. The
gentleman who lives in Charleston, above al
ludcd to, says that Mrs. Bowen was celebrated
for her wit and sarcasm i'll Charleston, and he
related many instances Of her brilliancy in con-
versation and in society. She was at one time
regarded rs the most brilliant and fascinating
woman in the State, and owing to her fathers
position, her society was greatly sought by dis
tinguished strangers. She was, in fact, in her
prime (perhaps after she was married to her
first husband,) the sort of woman that was al
ways popular among gentlemen, but looked up
on with suspicion (born of envy you may be
sure) by the ladies. She reigned supreme in
every assembly, party or rout, and the prim,
ladies called her fast.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

BoREs.-What constitutes bore? What
combination of qualities goes to make VI. that
scourge of civilization? A total lack of hui
NOR, we should say, and of that sympathetic
power which enables person to see, as if by
instinct, whether he or his conversation be
agreeable to the listener, joined sometimes to
intense egotism, though this last is not nee
cssary ingredient in the bores character, except
in SO far as it is connected with want of SYM
pathy. The essence of the bore is the absence
of the sympathetic power. This by no means
implies the absence of sympathetic power
The two are quite distinct. A person may bore
one to death with sympathy, by offering it at
the wrong time. 4 bore has no tact; This is
why the masculine bore so largely predomnates
over the feminine. Women, as a rule, have
more tact than men. They are moro sympa-
thctic, too, their finer sensbilities enabling
them to feel the pulse, as it were, of the indi-
vidual with whom they are conversing, or the
society in which they are mixing. But, though
the feminine typcis rarcr than the masculine.
it is infinitely the worse of the two. The rari-
ty is more than compensated for by the inten-
sty.
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Extinguishing Burning Clothes.

There are few accidents more terrible than
the setting fire to the loose vestments worn by
women. Instantly the lower part of the dress
is ignited the flames rush upward with great
velocity, and the whole of the garments are in
volved in the confagration. Even if almost
Immediately extinguished, so large portion of
the skin is scorched that death often ensues
from the shock to the system, though perhaps
tie actual injury does not appear to be Sc.
vere
The first impulse of the victim is to rush
about shrieking for help; the second to open
the door, if possible, and run along the pas
sages out into the open air, thus tanning the
fame to the utmost No line of action could
be more fatal in its consequences. 1t cannot
be too constantly borne in mind that the only
safety is to fall down quickly on the floor; if q
small portion of the dress only is ignited, it
and by rolling upon it. By rolling over and
over the person on fire is comparatively safe, as
the flames ascend away from the body, and
thus do comparatively little damage.
The course of action for by-standers is evi-
dent it is to seize any woolen covering near
at hand, as blanket, shawl, hearth-rug, coat,
or curtain, throw it Instantly around the suf-
ferer, and roll her on the floor in its folds.-
Scores of lives have been saved by by-standers
taking off their coats, and instantly eXtinguish-
ing the flames in this manner. As soon as the
victim is on the ground the greatest danger is
over; the flames no longer rise to the face, and
the breathing of the overheated air, which is
always fatal, is prevented.
1t may be asked, what is the best treatment
to be adopted for the sufferer before the arrival
of medical ad If the burn is severe, the pa
tient should be laid in bed and the clothes
removed with as little disturbance as possible;
they should, if requisite, be cut off, so as to
avoid the slightest injury to the burned surface.
Then to exclude the air, some application is
requisite; cotton wool does very we'll, but the
simplest, the nearest to hand, the most easily
applied, and certainly one of the most efica-
citous, is flour, profusely dredged on out of
common hour-dredger.
1t cannot be too strongly borne in mind that
cold water or other cold applications to an ex-
tensive burn are fatal. Persons suffering from
burns rarely die from the immediate injury;
the cause of death is either the shock TO the
system or congestion of the lungs, both of
which would be greatly intensified by cold ap-
piled to the outer surface of the body. The
danger of burn or scald is not in proportion
to its intensity or severity so much as to extent
of surface injured thus severe burn confined
to small portion of the body is seldom fstal.
A comparatively slight scald extending over
large surface is rarely recovered from. Thus,
lamentable accidents often occur from children
pulling a cup of hot tea from the edge of a ta-
Bile; the liquid runs down inside the clothes,
spreads over the chest, and, from the extent
rather than the severity of the injury, it is of
ten fatal.-Harper's Bazar.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03
THE Ku KLux CoMM1rrEE.-!The Yorkville

The KU KLUX COMMITTEE.--The Yorkvllle
ENQUIRER, of the 9th ult., says:
'arbe ub-Outrage Committee, consisting of
Messrs. Scott, Stevenson and Van Trump,
reached this place on Saturday last, accompa-
MED by A. S. Wallace, M. c. from this District.
AS much effort had previously been made to
prepare suitable cases for them, the committee
were ready to go vigorously to work early on
Monday morning; and the early part of the
dav was occupied in the examination of sever
al Young men of this town. In the afternoon,
Hon. w. D. Simpson and Col. 3. w. Ball, OF
Laurens, after having obeyed summons to meet
the committee at various points, obtained an
examination, and left early on Tuesday morn
ING for home. The second day was opened by
continuing the examination of persons from
this town and the surrounding country. The
street reports are to the effect that the persis-
tence of the majority of the comnittee-aided
by the military and other influences equally po-
tent-had been rewarded by the discovery of a
witness who had made out capital case for
the next Republican campaign document
This witness, it is sreported, stated in substance
to the committee that he knew 8! number of
persons who had been engaged in the Ku Klux
outrages and gave the names ofeighteen gen.
tlemcn from this neutrality-suspicious. of high re-
SOeCtaDlllCy. 4ucSC CiSAVSSA uou PCiiVlLiCo d
Wonderful amount of deviltry had most of
them been present at the murder Of the negro,
Anderson Brown, which occurred last winter,
four miles from this place; and many of them
were also the murderers of the militia captain,
Jim Rainey, occurring shortly afterward, in
the Bethesda neighborhood, ten miles below
here. They had also raided on Roses hotel
the Probate Office, and done other crimes equal
ly heinous. Tie witness also admitted, on a
oss-cxamination, that he had stolen a horse,
quantity of bacon and tobacco from his en-
ployer, and was generally "a bad man." His
name is William X. Owens, and he has been
EMPLOYED for some time in the coach factory Of
Messrs. Kerr ~ Roach. The statements of this
witness were so palpably false in every partic-
ular as to cause little concern to those whose
names he has used in his history; but ut the
same time, it is sufficiently credible, perhaps
for all the purposes for which the testimony is
wanted at Washington.
at is announced that the committee will
close their work here, to day, "wednesday and
dissolve until September, when many of the
unexamincd witnesses will be called to Wash
ington, and their testimony taken in time to
finish up the investigation before tho meeting
of Congress. Thus far, no arrests of suspected
persons have been made at this place."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

ROMANCE OF RAuRoADING.-A writer in a
late number Of P1tnam's Magazine gives us this
enticing description Of trip across the CONT
nent per rail:
"Thc perfection of American railway travel
ing is found on that greatest of roads known to
the world, the Pacific Railroad. The lucky
holder of through ticket in one of the So
called Pullman cars, who finds, within the same
coach, his seat by day and his couch by night,
and restaurant where he may either pay q
sum of money for all his meals during the
Journey, or order each time what he chooses,
has rare opportunity of enjoying the luxury
of travelling in his fullest extent. AS the train
carries him swiftly along he sees every phase
of civilization unrollcd as in vast panorama
before his eve here in the East, the large city,
with all the evidences of highest culture and
greatest wealth then the borderland, where
the new settler and the squatter bring their
cheerful sacrifice of hard lite's work for the
benefit of the coming generation; next the
primeval forest and the boundless prairie, with
an abundance of animal life, while the emi-
grants slow oxen and the Indians shaggy po-
ny eye each other suspiciously, and their mas
tiers represent, in striking contrast, the dying
race of the owner of the soil and the undaunt-
ed energy of the unsurpcr. Then he catches q
glimpse at the strange Prophets home, who
rules like Mohammcd over host of deluded
beings, which he has drawn to him across the
vast ocean and the great prairies of the New
World, from the very centres of civilization
and tic remotcst corners of Europe he rises
from his comfortable dinner aud smokes his
cigar as he climbs the Rocky Mountains with
their weird canons and their snow-covered
heights, and when he awakes again, he finds
himself on the Pacific slope, soon to see the
Golden Gate, opening before him upon the still
waters ofanothcr ocean"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

EQUAL TO THE EMERGENcY.-On Tuesday
last, policeman McNulty, Of Philadelphia, was
torn sadly by conflict betyeen modesty and
duty, but duty dragged him at last from her
rival, and placed him in an embarrassing yet
honorable position. At the South street bath
house there are "male" and female" days,
and Wednesday was of the latter sort. The
bath-house was filled with such naiads as Phil
adelphia, that city of beauties, alone can pro-
duce, Not one of them wss dressed-even in
a lace collar. Now the floor of the natatorium
is an inclined plane, and little girl tumbled
into place too deep for her, and was in I'M
minent danger of drowning. Of course, when
such crisis came, the ladies could only wiring
their hands and scream for help. Policeman
McNulty heard that scream. For an instant
he hcsitated. Modesty caught him by the coat
tail and shricked: "Ba! shame!" and had she
been classical would have spoken of the fate of
Acteon. Duty caught him by the collar; said
little, but gave him raise up to the bath house
window, and then, with a coup de pied, sent him
head first in among the pink beauties who
shrunk, yet feared to fly. They pointed to the
spot where little Mary Wilson had sunk "for
the third tine," and in he plunged boldly re-
gardless Of all save virtue and his duty. The
child was saved, and when Mr.. McNulty looked
up he saw but rctrcating forms and dripping
hcads-the latter protruding from, the former
Just entering the bathing-rooms.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

If young lady wishes young man to
kiss her, what papers whould she mention
No Spectators" no observers" but as many
''Timcs" as you like.
: Franklin said: "a newspaper and Bible
in every house, and good school in every dis
trict, are the principal supporters of virtue,
morality and civil liberty"
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

A New VEns1oN.-A boy in school was
reading a lesson from the Bible in that dclib,,
crate fashion so usual. with chaps of six, and
when he came to the passage, "Kecp thy tongue
from evil and thy lips from guile, drawed out,
from evil; and thy lips from-from-girls1
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

WHAT GENERAL TooMns SAID TO TIE TRI-
BUNE MAN.-Thc Albany Nc,cs says when Gen
cral Toombs was in Atlanta recently, in con-
versation with several friends, lady asked:
"Gcn. Toombs did you say halfthe terrible
things Mr. Smalley reported to the New York
1TiJuncs"
"Madam," replied Mr.. Toombs, "the scoun-
drel did not say half did tell him to say
told him to be particular to say to his people
that they had stolen the graves of their hire
ings stolen that from an t Nd
treason-the granddaughter Of Martha wash
ington."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

An exchange, wanting 10 compliment a
live stock Journal y says it is edited by man
whose head is full Of live stock.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

- Beauty is worse than wine, it intoxicatcs
both the holder aud beloldcr.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-08-03

: The great "scnscs" takcr-Braudy and
The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1871-04-10

ECCENTRIC WILLs.-The New York
Times, in commenting upon the recent
mania for singular wills, says:
Eccentric wills appear to be the fashion
of the day. One of the odd turns which
the fancy of testators has lately taken is
to bequeath their bodies to various whim-
sical purposes. One medical gentleman
thought it would be graceful mark of his
esteem to leave his skeleton. nicely wired
and jointed, to his professional friend. His
wife, however, has disputed the bequest,
and it may become question for the
courts how far man may be said to have
a property in his own corpse.
An ingenious Frenchman paid his mis-
t els the rare and touching compliment of
mourning ring, to be manufactured from
the iron in his blood, which his chemical
researches assured him would be just suffi-
Gent for the purpose. The freak of that
Massachusetts halter, who desired to have
his skin converted into drum head, and
his other remains into compost, has been
duly recorded in these columns. Perhaps
if this infection spreads, we may improve
on these oddities, and it will become the
correct. thing to distribute ones bones,
nicely mounted, let us say, and inclosed in
suitable Baskets, to ones friends, after
death, as we now leave trinkets or locks of
hair.