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The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-03-14

Mr.. John II. Adams mas established 3 reSSat,-
rant AMI boarding house at Barnes & Bfown's
late stand, No. 20 Santa 70 svenue/ lie has
mctsmoephosel things wonderfully and pre-
seuts clean rooms and good eating. Evidently
he means n there is business he yill have hi.
share. sr5
with the exception Of the break Of about two
hundred fest made b. the fire, santa Fc ave
me b not sidewaiked on each side from Iron
avenue p Elm street. distance Of two large
blocks:S A good work has been done. Marshal
Stearns does not lack in energy and he rarely
fAils In judgment.
Rev. II. n. Powers. late Of Bingham. Lii.
mis-. a brother-in-law Of Capt G. G. Lowe. Of
thks city, 10 to Be stationed At this place As pas
~ a. de u. L Church. He will arrive At Saiin.
.bout the 3sth Of this month. He comes well
recommended. Rev. Lawrence is presiding
cdr of dis District.
In last weeks statement OF the annual elec
lion Of tAe salina Building. Saving and Trus
Association we uniutenfiOnally neglected to no
t3os tie election of Judge A. n. Beebc to tn.
vosition of Vice President. In any absence o.
Prss3dent Seitz he will becomingly ill tn,
chair.
The Salina Cornet Band formally Isofsed Il
Dissolve, on last Monday EVENING" Thus soes
for nougAt IN our pevtty words aad our proph
ecy of its playing an important part. At the
Sta6e Cir this fan. We sincerely hope the mem
hers I'll! hnd Il In their hearts to re-organi1<
.e,in. Salina Vas proud of her band. A want
Ifhfefest snoog tie members end hard worn
snas ~ lssasasy ere ths caases thas slayed
no01gonges
The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1872-03-14

Notice is also given that will Keep watches or
jewrlry thai lei with Tor rcpsir- longer than
n1ats from srr OF deposit; Otherwise the. will
lie sold 10 recover charges. GMAs. 4. GLE'S.
Ssiina. Kansas, March 18th, iss:.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

The price of iron castings is to be in
creased by the trade.
Prince Arthur is promoted to be Major,
and will go to India for two years.
The Vicar Of st. Eloi is imprisoned two
months by the Versailles Council of War.
Gen. Porter of Grants staff, is putting
the Long Branch cottage in order for the
season.
Thomas Fitch is elected United States
Senator from Utah, bis associate being Dele
gate Hooper.
The German reformers of New York
have agreed to work in harmony with the
Committee of Seventy.
Chicago parties have taken the contract
to build the Quebec and Montreal railway,
north side of the st. Lawrence.
The Congressional House Committee on
Claims is investigating the deficiency of
$4,000 in the accounts Of Mr.. Douglass,
formerly Collector at Erie, Pa.
The Senate Committee on Military At
fairs has agreed to report a bill incorpO-
rating Gen. Burnside's "National Union
Soldiers and Sailors Orphans Industrial
Training School Association" for obvious
purposes.
Edwin Forrest remains in quite i'll health,
but with favorable symptoms OF recovery.
Considerable time must elapse, however,
before he can resume the stage.
Gen. Merrill Barlow, prominent lawyer
and politician, died at his residence in
Cleveland, o., Saturday morning from the
effects of a paralytic stroke.
A tug succeeded in getting through Lake
st. Clair Saturday, passing through six
miles of ice. The heavy rain prevailing
will undoubtedly rot the ice so that naviga-
ton may now be considered open from
Port Huron to Cleveland. The Buffalo
river opened Sunday morning.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
FOURTEEN AMERICAN GIRLS.

1t win be remembered that about one
year ago fourteen American girls, from all
parts of the Union, started out from New
York, with lady named Mrs Stone at
their head, and a courier named Gilbert,
who completed the party. Their object was
to see things as they really existed, and not
to take everybody's word for it. They first
visited Ireland, not going in the convention
al way, but mingling with the people, from
whom they received every hospitality, as it
might be expected such bevy travelling in
such unique fashion would. They then
extended their patronage to Scotland, Eng
land, France, Switzerland, Germany, and
Italy, in the same way, romped over the
Alps, and enjoyed everything without the
tranmels of society upon them. Now they
are travelling in the East, and meeting with
all sorts of pleasant adventures. In Egypt
they met the Emperor of Brazil, and desir-
ing his autograph, be kindly gave them each
a photograph of himself fully endorsed.
When they visited the pyramids, a photo
grapher was employed in taking a negative
of Don Pedro, with the mammoth mauso-
leums in the back ground. The lovely
group was consequently taken at the same
time, and the Emperor declared that he
could wish nothing to remain immortal ex-
cept picture which had fixed him in the
company Of such a charming circle-not
even the pyramids themselves. WhereupOn
the acquaintance was renewed, and each
young lady was declared a natural princess.
A week ago the party, accOmpanie by a
dragOman, sailed from the port for Beirut,
where they will go overland to visit the
Saviour's tomb. While at Cairo they receiv-
ed distinguished cOurtesies from Consul
General Butler. Now they are bound for
COnstantinople, intending to come home
when they get ready.-The Presbyterian.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
EQTINOCTIAL STORMS.

Prof. LOOMS, of Yale College, twenty
years ago reported, after a thorough ex.
animation of the meteorological records Of
London and the United States, against the
common belief in the occurrence Of a storm
a. the time of the autumnal equinox. The
London series extended from 1774 &c
1913. His conclusion was as follows
"From all these observations, infer that
the popular notion Of an unusual fall of rain,
either in Old England or in New England
about the time of the autumnal equinox, is
wholly unfounded, and is akin to those SUI
perstitions which make some particular day
observation day for the entire month, OF
make the fall of rain dependent on the an
nual meeting of the Quakers." Mr.. w. G..
Redfeld, the distinguished meteorologist
also records that there is nothing in the
traditional notion of a special connection
between the equinox and the storms of that
period.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
WASHINGTON.
The state Constitution of Utah.

WASHINGTON, April S.-The Utah State
Constitution, recently referred TO the Com
mittee on Territories, has been printed. 1t
declares that such terms (if any as may be
prescribed by the Congress as the condi-
ton for the admission of Deseret into the
Union, shall be subject to ratification by a
majority Of the people.
This constitution guarantees the free eX-
ercise and enjoyment of religious profession
and worship; but the liberty of conscience
secured is not TO be so construed as to ex-
cuse acts of RIGHTEOUSNESS or other crimes,
or to Justify practices inconsistent with the
peace or safety of the State.
1t also contains a clause defining treason
against the State.
Tariff
The Committee on Ways and Means held
a long meeting Saturday on the tariff bill.
They want to present it to the House early
this week.
Jockey Club.
A jockey club has been formed in Wash
ington, with Charles Alfred Bristed Presi-
dent, and Admiral Porter Vice President.
The International.
Several branch societies Of the Interna-
tional have just been organized in this city.
The Arkansas SpIit-CIaytOn's YER
sion.
A telegram gives a different version of
the split in the Radical State Committee,
stating that ON account of the chairman re-
fusing to recognize four members of the
committee, the committee by vote of six
against three adjourned to another place,
not wishing to have any difficulty at the
house Of the chairman where the meeting
was held. The probability is that there
will be two State conventions.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09

We copy the following from the Kansas
City Journal:
ave witnessed, few days since, won
derful performance with BOynton's Light
ming Saw, at the office of that gentleman,
No. so Beekman street, New York. Who
has not heard of the Lightning Saw p
Those who have not, and who are at all in
terested in the subject, should have seen
what we saw the other day. What was it?
Well tell you, reader. We saw two men,
armed with one of BoyntOn's Cross-cut
Saws, cut Off an oak log inches in dame
ter, with the bark all on, by four rapid
strokes, or in less than four seconds of tjmei
We then saw them remove the handles
from the saw, and grasping the greasy,
naked blade between their thumbs and fin
gers, they cut off the same log in SeceR
seconds by the lCdtch!. 1t was truly won
derful Such dispatch in saving was never
attained by any but the Lightning Saw.
They are so constructed that they cut both
ways by direct action, or rather pLOlC
their way through the log, their
teeth being like ploughshares, point
ing front and rear. There can be no ques-
ton but that the Lightning Saw cuts twice
as rapidly as the ola style OF saws ana IL
runs so easily that boys can work it. Mr..
Boynton has applied the same blade to the
common buck and hand saws, and offers
the Lightning Saw in blades from thirty
inches to ten feet in length. In its present
form, the Lightning Saw is so greatly inn
proved as to be practically new invention.
All its teeth are cutting eth, of even
length, cutting and clearing by projecting
faces, and are as simple as hand-saw teeth
to sharpen. A man of ordinary muscle
can cut cord of wood in two hours with
Boynton's Lightning Buck Saw"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09

A sick-rOom should have a pleasant as
pect. Light is essential. Blinds and cur
tains may be provided to screen the eyes too
weak to bear full day, but what substitute
makes up for the absence of that blessed
sunshine without which life languishes?
The walls should be of cheerful tint; if
possible, some sort of outdoor glimpse
should be visible from the bed or chair
where the invalid lies, if it is but the top of
tree and bit of sky. Eyes. which have
been travelling for long, dull days over the
pattern of the paper hangings, till each bud
and leaf and quirl is familiar-and hateful
brighten with pleasure as the blind is
raised. The mind, wearied of the grinding
battle with pain and self, finds unconscious
refreshment in the new interest. All, there
is birds shadow fitting across the pane.
The tree-top sways and trembles with soft
rustlmgs-a white cloud floats dreamily
over the blue-and now, oh delight and
wonder, the bird himself comes in sight and
perches visibly on the bOugh, dressing his
feathers and quivering forth few notes of
song. All the world, then, is not lying in
bed because we are, is not tired of its sur
roundiHgs-has not the back-ache! What
refreshing thought And though this glimpse
of another life, the fresh natural life from
which we are shut Out-that life which has
nothing TO do with pills and potions, tip-t0e
movements, whispers, and doctors boots
creaking in the entry-may cause the hot
tears to rush suddenly into our eyes, it does
US good, and we begin to say with GER
tain tremulous thrill of hope: ''When l 60
out again, shall do'-so and so.
Alb, if nurses, if friends knew how irk-
some, how positively harmful, is the same
ness of a sick-room, surely love and skill
would devise remedies. If it were only
bringing in blue flower to-day and pink
one tomorrow; hanging a fresh picture to
vary the mOnotony of the wall, or even an
old one in new place-something any
thing-it is such infinite relief. Small
things and single things suffice. TO see
many of his surroundings changed at once
eonfuses ali invalid; to have one little nov
city at time to vary the point of observa-
ton, stimulates and cheers. Give him that,
and you do more and better than if you
filled the apartment with fresh objects.
1t is supposed by many that flowers
should be carefully kept away from sick
people-that they exhaust the air or COM
municate to it some harmful quality. This
may, in degree, be true of such strong,
fragrant blossoms as lilacs or garden lilies,
but of the more delieately-scented ones no
such effect need be apprehended. A we'll
aired room will never be made close or IN
wholesome by a nosegay of roses, mignon-
cites, or Violets, and the subtitle cheer which
they bring with them is infinitely reviving
to weary eyes and depressed spirits.-FTOm
"HOnle and. Society,"" Scribner's for april.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
..n. CHANGEFUL APRILE,

After very much hard weather during the
latter part Of winter, 'the spring comes
slowly up this way" Sunday was one OF
the warmest, brightest, balmiest of the YER
nal days; but Monday was ushered in with
mmk, and cloud, and rain. Scarcely any,
thing in nature so affects and controls our
feelings and our pursuits as these atmos-
pheric changes. These phenomena are
neither the offspring of chance, nor acct
dental in their occurrence. Noryet, in any
special sense, are they providential. Science
has successfully grappled with the problems
Of meteorology, and has compelled nature
TO reveal her secret laws.
Every morning the Weather Bureau at
Washington flashes forth on the magnetic
lines to the utmost bounds Of the Cont
nent: 'IStorms aheadI'-'Fair weather
and bright sun for you," and thus with the
certainty Of a law of nature, fore
tells what a day shall bring forth.
How the signal Office is thus "wise above
what is written" remains with the great
mass of readers, a mystery. But the whole
matter is susceptible of easy explanation,
and in the hands of an educated man who
keeps fully up with scientific readings, it is
as plain as the way to the city market. No
science, ancient or modern, has so illus
trated nature and so illumined our intellec-
tual sky as the science Of meteorology. And
vet, as pretty well informed people, we
plod on our old ways and consent to re-
main as laughably ignorant as in the days,
thirty years agone, when we abused the
almanae-maker for bad guessing.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
STATISTICS OF EUROPE.

Europe had fifty six States before The
Italian war,while now it has only eighteen,
with total superficial area of 10, 1862
square miles, and population of 300,900,-
900. One of these, the German. Empire
comprises 9,SS6 squire miles, and population
Of 40, LOG, 900 according to the census of
1867.
The principal states in Europe, with a
population of more than 25,000,000, are !:
Russia, 100000; Germany, 100000;
France 46,500O00; Austro-Hungary, &c.
100000; Great Britain, 80, 700, 900, and Italy
25,500,000: their total population is there
fore four-fifths of that of the whole of Eu-
rope. A century ago, before the partition
of Poland, the Great Powers only possessed
one-half of the then population of Europe,
thus: Russia, 18,O00,000; Austria, 17,000,-
600; Prussia, 100000; England, 12,000,-
600, and France, $4,000, 000-total S0,0OO,-
600.
The number of Roman Catholics in Eu-
rope, generally, is now 148,O00,0 OO-35,-
100000 in France, 2S,O00,O00 in Austr
26,00O.OO0 in Italy, 100000 in Spain, and
l4,5OO,OOO in Germany; Greek Catholics,
10000, O00-54, 100000 in Russia, 100000
in Turkey, 100000 in Roumania, and 81
100000 in Austria; Protestants, 100000
-25,00O,00O in Germany, 24,0O0,0OO in
England, 100000 in Sweden and Nor
way, 100000 in Russia, and 100000 in
Austria; Jews, 100000, 100000 in
Russia, $4,000 in Austria, 100000 in
Hungary, and 100000 in Germany.
Dividing Europe into nationalities, there
are S2,20O,OO0 Of the SlavOniC race, 97,JO0,-
600 of the Latin races, and 90, 100000 Of the
GermaniC race.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
HAMILTON & CUNNINGHAM,
JAM eOd1stp ly Nashville, Tenn.
THE OLD KENTUCKY HOME.
How the Dark and Bloody Ground IL
Painted In New Zealand.
JAM eOd1stp ~


The Auckland New Zealand) Herald
amuses and insLructs its readers in that dis
tant region with the following story of social
life in kentucky-founGed, evidently, upon
the literature Of Ku-Klux committees:
Mr.. Brown, according to this foreign pho
tograph Of home scenery, lived in the ''towI.s
ship of Weepawha, Kentucky state.". He
had amassed wealth in the mines and had
gone to Kentucky ''to lead a new life"
which he certainly succeeded in doing. He
wanted to marry the daughter of judge,
but was repealed. The insult brought 'all
the ire in his nature to the surface" and he
determined to avenge it by putting to death
the whole population OF the town. From a
neighbOring city he procured a bag of arsenic
of, as one might say, 10000 corpse power.
He deposited his "deadly burden" in the
lake which supplied the inhabitants of
WeepSwha with water; though a town of
such a name ought to have supplied them
with it's own perpetual gushing-to be sure
the water would have been briny, and so a
lake was necessary. A waiter belonging to
the ''Stuyvesant hotel' discovered Brown in
the act, and was stuck with huge knife for
his impertinent pains. A few DAYS sfter-
wards "a postman from Vermont went to
Weepawha with letters for Maj. Ephraim
Biggs, the hotel keeper, whose dead body
he found stretched across the threshold of
the front door. At this sight, we are told,
he became alarmed; and cried murder at
the top of his voice. However, after wait
ing several minutes without hearing a re-
spouse, he rushed from house TO house, and
soon discovered that the people were all
dead! While gallOping away from the town
the postman discovered the unfortunate
waiter lying in pool of blood on the border
of the lake. By the application of cold
water he restored him to consciousness
sufficiently to enable him to relate what he
had seen Brown do with the poison. 'Im-
mediately afterward be fell back and died.
The farmers from the surrounding country
were then collected together, and in a
twinkling Brown was traced to a hiding
place close by, where they prevailed upon
him" to make full and complete confess
sion of his terrible crime. BY way of alb
solution they then strung him up to a tree
as warning to all would-be PRISONERS in
the future. This work done, the farmers
collected the bodies of the Inflated twelve
hundred, and buried them in one grave, so
they might be able to perpetuate the mem
ory of the dreadful deed by erecting a
mausoleum upon the spot.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
MEMORIALS OF LUTHER.

We regret to find, according to the Pail
Mall Gazette, that an interesting historical
relic, or rather a whole collection of relics,
which it is impossible to replace, three weeks
ago became a prey to the flames in the
ancient city of Erfurt. There stands the
Augustine monastery in which Martin
Luther lived and conceived his first idea of
a Reformation, converted at present into an
orphan asylum. a fire suddenly broke out
ana totally destroyed the most interesting
part of the building, in which was Luther's
cell, and also the room where he first gave
shape to his great scheme. In these rooms,
which have been up to the latest time shown
to strangers as curiosities, Luther's Bible
was kept with marginal notes in the re-
formers own handwriting, together with
the painting, deaths Dance" by Beck,and
other valuable relics. All of these have
been burnt. The pecuniary damage is es-
timated at about 10000 thalers; the histori-
cal loss is incaIculable,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
Summoned Wife-Mnrder.

ERIE, PA, April IA woman named
Grace Plucker, about forty years of age,
was found dead in bed in a little shanty
near the land lighthouse to-day. Her face
was black from apparent strangulation, and
there are marks like finger prints on her
throat. The only other occupants Of the
house were her husband and little son. Her
husband has been taken into custody tC
await the coroner's inquest.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
COrrupting che Press.

Munich has been astonished by a series
of most abnormal political events. The
Government asked for a vote of 10000
forms with which to substitute the minis
terial press. Iritated perhaps by the OPP
position, the head of the ministry threat
ened without much circumlOcution to help
himself to the money and trust to obtain
ing bill of indemnity from more COM
placent Chamber than the present. The
menace was answered in the ldndest spirit,
and an overwhelming majority rejected the
vote,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09

THE prevalence of smallpox in several of
our principal cities during the present season
gives importance to theory recently ADJ
yanced by German physician. He argues
that the cause of the disease is the presence
of an excess of albuminous matter in the
blood. Such excess he attributes to over
indulgence in sugar and other sweets, and
suggests common salt as the simplest cor
receive. Lemon juice is also recommended
as efficacious, and to the free use of these
remedies he attributes the fact that for the
past twelve years he has Tequented the
most pestilential small pox hospitals in
Europe and South America without once
incuring the disease.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
SPAIN.
Latest ELECTION Returns.

MADRID, April THE latest returns
show the following result of the elections
for the Cortes: Ministerialists elected 229:
Coalitionists, 1871; doubtful, Is. The re-
turns from Porto Rico and the Canaries are
considered favorable to the government
The YQuaLidad claims that twenty seven
Republican deputies have been returned,
including CASTELAR,, Orense, Margalle and
Figueras.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
EARTHQUAKE Az ANTIOCH.

The telegraph reports the destruction OF
a large portion of the city Of Antioch, in
Syria, by an earthquake. This city has
suffered several tfnes from earthquakes.
AID. 1l5 it was almost utterly ruined by an
earthquake, but was rebuilt in its ancient
splendor by the contributions and influence
ythe Emperor Trajan. In the years ass, 526,
and 587, Antioch was visited by earthquakes,
and on each occasion almost utterly ruined.
1t has never recovered from the effect ofthe
earthquake of 1922, and does not now con-
tain over 10000 inhabitants. Its ancient
walls, varying from 20 to 20 feet in height
enclose an area of uneven ground several
miles in circumference, much Of which is
now taken up by gardens. The houses are
mostly mean and Of slight material. 1t has
about dozen mosques; but in this town,
where the designation of Christians was
first given to the followers of Jesus Christ,
there is not at present a single Christian
church,
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
HEIGHT OF WAVES.

In the first volume of the United States
Exploring Expedition, from 1888 to 1912,
Commodore Wilkes had an excellent Oppor-
tunity, with two vessels, of testing both the
height and velocity of waves in strong
wind and high sea off Cape Horn, in Feb
ruary, 1889. On page 135 he gives the
height of the waves at 81 feet, and their
velocity at 26s miles an hour.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-04-09
FOREIGN.
Antioch Half Destroyed by Earthquake
Fifteen Hundred Lives Lost.
Great distress among Survivors.

LONDON, April 6.-A telegram from Con-
stantinople brings intelligence that the city
Of Antioch, in Syria, has been visited by an
earthquake causing terrible loss of life.
The dispatch states that one half of the
city was totally destroyed and 1900 per
sons lost their lives. Great distress prevails
in that portion of the city not demolished.
The remaining inhabitants are sadly in need
of assistance,