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Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30
Locomotive Explosion.

At halfpast 7 o'clock this morning
the eastern and central portion of our
city were thrown into state of great
excitement by a terrible rumbling
crash. Interest at once centered in the
locality of the depot of the Utica and
Black River railroad. Here the cause
was plainly to be seen. All that re
NAMED of the engine Charles Miller"
stood upon the track, directly in front
of the depot. Such portions of the To-
connective as were not visible had been
distributed all around the neighborhood
for quarter of mile. The scores Of
fues lay exposed to view, and there was
scarcely a square foot of the boiler re-
naming in position. The smoke-stack,
after trip of 200 feet into mid air,
came down about 80 feet from where it
started, between a couple of freight
cars. One of the heavy driving-wheels
was thrown 10 feet, and the steel con-
necting-rod which held the two driving
wheels was twisted like Irvine.
Tho windows of the houses near by
show the force of the conclusion. The
block on the corner of Mill street and
the square bore marks in the shape of
demolished glass, one store losing every
front light. On the north side of the
Baptist church not a pane of glass re-
mains, and the sash in many cases is
stripped entirely out. The depot build
ings were badly shattered, fragments of
iron penetrated the roofs of several
houses, and the inmates rushed to the
street in a panic. A piece of the boiler,
weighing fully half ton, landed in the
door yard of residence 40 yards from
the scene of the explosion; the bell of
the engine came down in yard some
rods further off. The engine is a total
wreck. Those who witnessed the ex-
plosion describe the sensation as most
peculiar and bewildering. The air
seemed filed with fragments, large and
small, which traversed the atmosphere
with the rapidity of Gghtning-and the
wonder that no person was injured in
creases, as we learn where the different
pieces struck, and. in some instances, of
their vast weight Watertoaon ~. ~
Times, May 9.
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30
Severe.

Fanny Fern says that when she sees
n pretty man, with an apple head and
raspberry mustache with six hairs in it,
paint on his cheek, and little dot of a
goatee on his chin, with pretty little
blinking studs in his shirt-bosom, and q
little necktie that looks as if it would
faint if it were rumpled, she always
feels desire to nip him with pair of
ar-tongs, dropping him gently into
pot of cream, and strew rose leaves
over the little remains"
FANNY FERNS new book, entitled
"Caper Sauce" will be issued in few
days by g. w. Carlton & Co., together
with another spicy English reprint, An
gelina Gushington's " Thoughts on Men
and Things"
Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1872-05-30

A SCHOONER arrived at Copenhagen, Don
mark, May IA, from Iceland. She reports
series of violent earthquake shocks at Has
wick on the 10th, 18th, and 18th of April.
Twenty houses were destroyed, and several
persons injured, but no lives lost. Fifteen
thousand Spanish troops are now concentra-
ted in the Department of Biseay Opposed
to them are 1000 Carlists, who adopt a
Fabian policy. Ugarte, Elio, and Rada, and
several. other Carlist leaders, who escaped
into France, have been arrested and returned
by the French authorities...... subscriptions
to the amount of 100000 francs have been
raised in Paris for the sufferers by the
eruption of Vesuyius.
A FORCE of Carlists, which entered Spain
from Portugal on Wednesday, were met
near the frontier by body of Govern
ment troops and driven back into Portugal
territory An official decree was promul-
gated on Wednesday, announcing the fol-
lowing appointments of French Ministers /:
The Duke de Noailles to Washington Jules
Ferry to Athens; Gabriac to The Hague,
and Goldman to Stockholm.
The railroad to Yeddo, Japan, is at last
nearly completed, and will commence run
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

A MONEY MATCH-DEATH- "A recent
letter from Boston tells this sad story:
"a funeral procession passed by yes
terday. i young nlau told me- story
that think had u peculiar sadness about
IL. AT Saratoga, last season. at one OF
tae largest balls, was young lady with
the most charming aud insinuating man.
ners and graoes. Her toilet was equally
as pleasing. Her attendant during the
evening WAS young man dressed almost
gaudily, and bearing himself with all the
dlstastefnl sel'-oonceit of brainless mil
llonaire. He was the son Of Boston
leather dealer. He met the lady for the
hrst time at Saratoga last season, and
she, ny direction OF her parents, who
were also wealthy, and who insisted upon
the arrangement, became his affianoed.
PREVIOUS to this she had met gentle
man, also Of Boston, Of the utmost re-.
spectabi!lty. OF thorough honor and in
tegrity, but without fortune. 70 him
sne had been something moro than q
frienc-in fact. almost a betrothed. He
was young, had risen by his own stern
efforts, and was, it is said, possessed of
sterling aud promising abilities, which
In time must have won him wealth, and,
perhaps. distinction. Ga the return of
the lady tr2m Saratoga last season, her
engagemek prevented her from further
intercourse with her first suitor, and he
was dismissed. His grief was pitiful
He strove not to reverse it by word or
action; but the very efforts he so labori-
ously made exposed the poignancy of
his wounds. The lady lived with her
husband i'll the suburbs Of the city, at O
large and costly residence for one month
utter their marriage BY this time the
abuse OF the husband compelled on i'm
mediate separation. He was inconti-
nently shipped to Europe. where he still
remains, aud the young wife was left
gradually to decline in kealth and death
ensued; but not before she had re-
preached her parents for driving her to
the alliance which wrought such early
ruin and blasted hopes and expectations.
AS the funeral procession passed up o
public street, tho first lover, while
watching with blanchcd cheeks and moist
eyes the sad cortege, fell to the ground
while suffering au attack OF hemorrhage
OF the lungs. He was carried into q
physicians Office near. where he died
before the body of one he so tenderly
and truly loved was laid in lis last rest
Ing place"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF Lone
L1FE.-The death of an old man at
Wappinser's Falls, Duchess County, N.
T.. few days ago, ended a novel bar
gain, In which more was paid than was
intended to be paid. About twenty-five
years ago, when the old man was about
eighty years old, he was partner in q
manufacturing establishment, which he
started and built up. afterward taking in
two other partners. These, after they
had learned the business, wanted to
shove the old man out, but didn't sue.
ceed until they promised to pay him
VI, 600 year until he died. So the old
man RETIRED but lived on. In course of
time, the younger partners died. Their
sons succeeded them, and they, too,
died before the old man, but he CONT
nued in the enjoyment of his 81, 900 in
come for years after they were buried.
and at last died, at the age, it is said, OF
1O4 years. -Rondout Freeman.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

Henrietta" said a landlady to her
new girl, when theIe's bad news, par
tlcularly private Affections, always let
the boarders know it before dinhaf: >, 1t
may seem strange to You, Henrietta, but
such things make great deal of, diff.
ference in the eating in the course of
year."
"Humph!" said an Engishman to a
Scotchman, as they were walking over
the fields, "oats are very well. in their
way, but in England we feed them to our
horses, while here they are food for
men," "And just see what fine horses
there are IN England, and what fine men
we have in Scotland"
The editor Of the Chattanooea Herald,
who was pronounced.A liar by cotem,
porary, thus responds: "A newepaner
man once called US liar, but we hadn't
sufficient confidence in his word TO he
lleve him, or enough respect for him IN
knock him down." Philosophical, Very.
A man named Wells having stepped
npon quicksand in the rive, near
brownsvlile, Texas, he instantly sank
out OF sight, whereupen one OF his com.
panions remarked, s'That's new wav IT
sinking wells"
III must Bet married, said @ bachelor
to married friend, 'for I never can find
a button on clean shirt" "Take care"
said the Benedict. With a sigh. "or Won
may chance upon a wife who will not
find you clean shirt to button
A San Francisco girl who is given TO
playing bluff has made the cool sum of
$500, 1000 from the game. Her acouaint-
ance with the "tiger" extends over seve.
raj years.
The New York Maiz thinks the mean.
est man yet discovered is the one at Ger.
maniown, who cuts off oows' tails in flv
time 70 pay off grudges against their
owners. osiI.9
An Illinois man lately started steam
chicken mandatory with several thou-
sand eggs. The forcing process was car
ried on so vigorously that only four were
hatched. the others being reaated.
An epicurean resident of Wheeling.
W. Va, committed suicide last week be.
cause his dinner was delayed beyond the
usual hour. He hung rather than hun.
ger,
@Pope Plus TX sleeps thirteen hours
daily. and eats four hearty meals.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02
American Matters.

CHARLESTON, August l.-Arriyed-
steamship Manhattan, New York.
ROCHESTER,. N. Y, August IA man.
recently divorced, finding his wife with
paramour, shot. the paramour and then
himself; both dead
DUBUQUE, August 1.-Eight persons
have died from the steamboat EXPLOSION
near McGregor. The coroner's iury ind
a defective fue, and censure the Govern
ment Inspector.
BALTIMORE. August 1.-Drost, Jordan
u Co., on Baltimore street. were burned
out last night; loss heavy.
New YORK, August IA Herald de-.
spatch from Boston says Banks, in an .
swering Republican committees inyi-
tation to address them, declared that he
had concluded to support Greeley.
BOSTON, August 1.-The Dean Aca-
denny In Franklin, Mass., was totally
destroyed by fre last night. A small
portion of,the furniture was saved. The
loss will probably amount to SI2O. 600:
insurance $4,000.
-, WASHINGTON, August 1-Evening.
Ihree per cent. certificates to the amount
OF St, 3OO, 600 have been called in.
DEBT Statement-Decrease for the
month, $3, 500, 900; coin in the Treasury.
SoS, ,o5o' 00O; currency, $l6,00O.OOO.
den. Banks declaration for Greeley
has been formally published over his ali !.
nature. 70
Probahilities-The low barometer in
the lower lakes will move Eastward. with
threatening weather and rain areas over
the Middle States North of virginia.
and over New England, by Friday. with
1resh Scutherly and Easterly winds.
Ciearing weather in the Gulf and South
Atlantic States tonight, with Southerly
ana westerly winds. Continued Norti-
cry ana Easterly winds, veering on fri
day TO Northerly and North-easterly, on
the upper lakes and in the North west.
and thence Southward through the Up.
per Mississippi and Lower Ohio Valleys.
with clear weather and moderate tempe.
rasafes. Clearing and cooler weather on
the lower lakes on Friday morning, ra.
pldly extending South eastward.
RICHMOND, Va, August 1.-The
Southern Dental Association, which has
been in session here for three days, ad-
]o9rned to meet next July, in Baltimore.
New York, August 1-Evening.-
shipments Of specie to-day $500, 600,
gold coin. There is great activity at the
Unstom House, owing to the new tariff.
thousands of cases of goods were with
drawn from the warehouse.
The strike of the Long Shoremen is
practically over.
Inc Central, Erie and Pennsylvania
Isaiiroads. too day, reduced freight rates
20 tne West from IS to 38 per cent. It
ls reported TO be change for one month
oniy' IN order to break down. old con.
''"o''' "nlch are detrimental to the roads.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

A " oNDEEFUL lNvENTIoN.-The Lou
lsville COurierJOurn0l, of the 25th ult.,
says:
One of the most wonderful pieces of
mechanism ever seen in this city will be
on exhibition ut the Grand Industrial
Exposition in this city. It is called
Bergmnnn's Automatic Wonder, or the
Germun's DreDm. The structure, which
stands nearly nine feet high and weighs
over tOO pounds, Is u mass of automatic
machinery, representing q beautiful villa
on the hillside, surrounded by four diff
ferent kinds Of mills, with an elevator
ana blacksmith shop attached. The
villa represents all the common indus
tries OF rural life, and contains forty au-
tomato figures doing work about the
mills and various other places as natural
as life. Men are seen busily engaged in
the mills, performing the various duties
OF the respective Embellishments; farmers
traversing the roads, some going to mill,
"nd Others upon their wagons, on their
way to market. A woman carving q
pitcher in hand goes to the spring for
water; ferryman is engaged ia rowing
passengers ncross the stream in boat.
men at work IN the blacksmith shop.
and, In fact, everything to mike up a
life-like villa scene. The surrounding
scenery Is made picturesque by play
inG fountain, running stream, q living
spring. and miniature lake, with boots
pnssing and repassing, and many other
features too numerous to mention. The
invention is the result of seventeen years
hard labor and s'ndy by Joseph Berg
mann. CT Troy, New York, and will be
on exhibition free of charge at the Ex-
position.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

BOYS RIdHTS HY A Box Talk about
the women and THE darkies. and thu
the-all the'rests OF ieni; none of. 'em all
are half 30 badly used as BOYS are. Ask
any boy. L know a lot, and can give
you all their names. Ask 'em all. They'II
tell you, to be o boy is to Nbe somebody
without right in the world. You are
to take all the sass that's given to Won
aqd give none back, cause you're boy.
1op are to pay full fare in the cars and
omnibuses. cause you're boy, and not
q. a.c4Ho and not man. Fat lady gets in
after it's all full, aud looks about her:
everybody looks at you. Old gentleman
says, my son." reprovingly. Coudno.
tor says, "Come, now, you boy" You've
PAID your sixpence No matter-that is
nothing. You've been on your legs,
with bundles, oil day. Who cares?-
you're boy. Now, horse has snch a
load givon him as be Gun carry, and q
man won't take any more than he con
walk under. Ask boys what grown folks
think they Can curry. There's no limit
to 1t. Who doesn't know a boy who
does mans work, and does it we'll. for
tenth of what man would get for it?
who hasn't read an advertisement for q
boy who writes good haud, under
stands accounts. is willing to make him
self useful, boards with his parents, is
trustworthy, no objection to sitting up
oil night, not anxious for meals ut regu.
lar hours, no impudence about him; the
best recommendation required, and two
dollars week wages? You look back
and wonder if you ever were that pretty
little fellow in petticoats that everybody
stuffed with candy; and you wonder if
you'll ever be man, and be liked by
the girls, and treated politely by the
other fellows, and paid for your work,
and allowed to do as you choose.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

The New York Herald says: "Admiral
Semmes now offers to- the Government
all the documents in his possession re-
gardlng the Alabama and other cruisers.
1t Is said by those who have examined
them' that they do not compromise the
British Government in the slightest par.
tlcnlar. Louis Napoleon, it appears, in
correspondence with Sildell, not only in
vited the Confederacy to build war yes
sells Id France, but offered Sildell nnmer-
GUS facilities for arming and equipping
the rebel cruisers in French ports"
DEATH OF ST. JOHN B. l.. SKINNER
We regret very much to hear of the re-.
cent death of this eminent citizen. gal.
liant soldier, and genial, kind hearted
gentleman. He died in the seventy.fifth
year of his age, in tho city of Washing.
ton, where he has resided for muny
years. and where he has held the honor
able position of First Assistant Postmas-
ter-General, through several successive
administrations. GreenpiHe Mouatniuee,
The convicts in the Michigan State
frison are to bo subjected to course of
lectures, unless some competent tribunal
shall protect them by deciding the pro-
posed scheme to he ''cruel and un-
usual punishmeu4."
The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) folks com.
plain that there is no sidewalk leading
TO the cemetery, and their editor out
there oonsolingly assures them that, if
they will only have patience, they can
all ride some day.
A man at sleep caught mouse in his
mouth, at Lawrence, Kansas, the other
night. The mouse was killed, and the
man woke up in terrible fright. The
mouse was caught nipping, while the
man was caught mapping.
Mile Christine Nilsson was married at
Westminster Abbey on Saturday, to M.
Rouzeand, of Paris. The nuptials were
witnessed by an immense assemblage of
people, including many of the aristocra.
cy and well-known artists.
ALIvE.-It is known in Hayana of.
fcially, TINT Gen. Julia Peralta. whose
corpse was officially reported to have
been identified, has reached Cuban
headquarters safe and sound.
A lady on being asked what che
thought was the meaning of the words
"the pestilence that walketh in dark
ness. answered that, in her opinion. it
was bed.bugs.
There are fourteen Republican pnpers
in this State which advocate the election
OF Greeley and Brown, and one Demo.
cratic paper which has gone over to
Hrant.-MeO York World.
Many people have made offers of mr..
chives to the Government since Pickett
sold his lot.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

The, journal which specially represents
President Grant in this city coupled a
certain circular to the loyal Governors,
signed by Horace Greeley in 1864, with
the Jacob Thompson letter about rebel
efforts to burn New York, as proofs of
the same plot in which both were en-
gagged. We thereupon invited the only
Journal in this city sustaining President
Grant, whose intellectual ability entities
it to any consideration, to give the pub.
lie its opinion of that circular. Pro.
found silence has been the significant
answer. Whence this sudden and un.
wonted bashfulness? We renew the call.
and invite the press of the country to
observe the response, Or failure to re-
spond. We can promise them that it
Will be worth their while. Gentlemen
OF the EOening POST your ally declai es
that circular infamous, and insinuates
that it was reasonable. What do you
say about it?-Ne,o York Tribune.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

a preparation 30 widely and favorably
known as Halls Vegetable Sicilian Hair
henewer needs few words of praise from
us. This compound has won its way to
the highest favor in the public mind;
ana muitltudes, who have vainly used
other remedies for the restoration of
Inelr hair. have, on trying the Sicilian
henewer, been made glad by the speedy
restoration OF their gray hair to its natu-
raj color, and the thin looks thiekened
up, as In the days OF early youth. It
also prevents the hair falling out, makes
IL sou ana glossy, and is altogether the
pest pest preparation n for ita intended pur-
PiAsb,rg Chronicle.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

THE LOTTERY QUESTION. ipiunc-
ton granted the Charleston Joint Stock
company, on Tuesday last, restraining
Irlai Justice A. NJ. Mackey. and ali
others, from arresting any of the officers
or agents OF the said corporation, or
otherwise Interfering with their business,
was dissolved yesterday, on hearing the
return to the order of the court, made by
the Trial Justice ad Attorney c. W.
buttz. We understand that it is the
purpose OF the parties who have been
making these arrests to resume them
now that the Injunction is resumed, aud
TO contlnne them from day to day, re-
curing bonds in each arrest.
Charleston Courier.
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

DR. D1o LEWIS SAYS SOME STARTLING
iHINas.-"What q painful spectacle this
is! 100000 Yankee girls wasting and
dying in crowded shops, occupied with
sewing and kindred tasks, and ], ,OO0, 600
homes dyspeptic and unhappy for want
OF the help Of those girls! The homes
are waiting and longing for the girls, the
girls are dying for the homes. The
homes offer comfort, health and inde.
pendenoe to the girls. the girls are vast.
ing IN bra1niess, mechanical routine the
oright faculties which would change the
homees from discomfort to comfort and
nealth. Aud. strange to say, these two,
wnloh are perishing for want of each
otner' 90 not live on separate continents.
out IN tue same street, and often under
the same roof"
what mistaken pride it is which
Keeps girls In poverty or plunges them
into vice when they might be comfortably
earning their living and fitting them.
selves to become good wives OF good
men. The miserable tenement home.
the confined work.room, the eating
house, are preferred, it seems, to sweet.
wholesome homes in respectable fami.
lies, where the 'help" arc recognized as
more than mere machines to make m oney
for their employers. The Doctors 8
structures on the abominable contrivance
to make deformed women, the fashion
able corset, are we'll deserved.
'Do you see that slight, pale LADY
with the little girl? She is the wife OF
Mr.. H., our wealthy broker. She is in
wretched health. Lock at her waistl
What do you think of the chances uf
the vernnicnlar motion of her stomach?
1t wouldn't take very long hands to
clasp round that waist And within that
space. not only must the stomach work.
but the liver. spleen, pancras, transverse
colon, several feet of the small intes-
tines, and many large arteries, veins and
other organs must all find room to work, "
SO much for 'delicate" lady. Now
let US learn what the doctor thinks OF q
woman who is not so ''delicate:"
THAT lady weighs over 200 pounds,
whlle her waist is smaller than her hus-
bands, ond he weighs notmore than $50
pounds. Her stomach after dinner is, or
should be, pretty large; her liver is an
immense organ; then all the other
organs which / have mentioned must
ind place in there somewhere. Aud
now, how do you suppose they manage
it? Well, they get doubled up and
twisted about IN very remarkable way,
and very large part of the mass is
ammed down into the lower parts OF the
abdomen. When she rises. if you will
look at her person, you will observe that
the lower part OF the abdomen is i'm
mensely protuberant. Half of all which
belongs in that part of the upper abdo.
men, where the corset has compelled
that deep. acoop-shovel hollow, has
been pressed down into the lower abdo-
men,"
The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1872-08-02

A WINDFALL.-A few years ago, and
since the close of the war, q family by
the name Of Sybil. consisting of two bro
theirs and sister, Mr.. Seaton, re-.
moved from Florida to Maryland. Mrs.
Seaton, wife Of Mr. George W. Scaton,
bought farm nnd settled in the lower
part OF this County. The two brothers
located i'll Dorchester. Mr.. Seaton,
when too late, found that the land he
had purchased was covered up with mort
cages, and it was sold from him. He
was left in destitute circumstances, and
reduced SO low that it WAS with difficulty
he could procure tho commonest neces-
saries Of life. The brothers residing in
Dorchester shared similar fate. But
two weeks ago, one of them applied to a
colored family for few potatoes, saying
he "wonld endeavor to make out with
them until he could do better" Their
condition became known to their neigh
bors, who kindly contributed Of their
means to relieve their wants. But how
great the changel It is now reported.
upon seemingly good authority, that the
government ut Washington has recent.
ly paid to the two brothers and Mrs.
Seaton, as the legal heirs OF their ances-
tors. tho sum of $l2OO0O, derived from
the Government of Spain rs indemnity
Tor spoiintions during the war of 1919.
and that the entire claim amounts to
nbont 81 100000. How strange ara the
freaks OF fortune!-American Union.