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Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

a terrible accident occurred last evening at
the Chicago rolling mills. About dozen
workmen were engaged in removing an lmrer-
feet blast from one of the furnaces when sud
denly large mass of cliGkcrs was dctachcd'
making an opening in the furnace, and there
rushed out all Immense volume OF gas, when,
coming i'll contact with the outer air, exp oded,
filling the place with hot flame, which en-
velopcd eight workuen. Five of them were 81
horribly burned that not one is expected to re-
cover. The three others were seriously, but,
it is thought, not fatally burned.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

The LEGAL-TENDER SCANDAL. We lately
remarked upon the anxiety so general among
those who kown how to value the integrity and
honor Of the Judiciary as to the choice the
Federal Administration may make for the
Chief.J usticeship of the Supreme Court. In
connection with that anxiety, aud as serving 10
large measure to explain and justify it, We re-
called the facts that the majority in Congress
had within few years past, to suit it's own
purposes, reduced the number of judges of that
court and then increased it again that the
Administration Of General Grant made use of
this opportunity 10 connection with the retire
ment of Mr.. Justice Grier, to appoint two gen.
tlemen whose appearance on the bench coincid-
ed with the appearance there of compact
greenback party OF which they were members !;
and that this party, under the leadership of
Attorney General Hoar, and despite the remon-
strances of the other members of the court,
proceeded forthwith to reverse decision lust
pronounced after thorough argument and pro-
longed deliberation no judge who participant
ed in the former decision having in any way
changed his mind no new light whatever
having been thrown upon the question the
solitary new consideration being that the new
ly-manifested party were numerous enough to
do this,-the creation of the additional judge
ship having put the achievement just within
their reach.-M T. Journal Of Commerce.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

The Treasury officials have made final set
Element with the Syndicate for the SGT, 900, 900
10 Five-twenties called on March /, 1873.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31
Destructive Fire in New York.

New YORK, July 30-Fire was discovered
10 the large Government bonded warehouse,
ll9 Greenwich street, about ii o'clock. Ii
commenced in the fourth story and spread rap
idly along the upper stories,
The flames continued to Increase, and at II
o'clock the entire Mansard root on the Green.
wich side of the building, and TWO upper stories
were burned. A bakery adjoining, aud several
tenement houses were 10 imminent danger,
but the 6rcmen got the fire uuder control. The
storehouse was filled with valuable goods, and
those not destroyed were injured by water.
The damage will probably reach over a half a
million Of dollars.
The heavy brick walls only prevented the fire
working through to Thames street, which is
filled with tenement houses crammed with poor
Irish families, amOug whom the utmost con-
steruation prevailed. The wind was light from
the West, aud sparks were mainly carried
across Church street into the rear of Trinity
church yard doing no damage. The large
Z The warehouses are in charge of W. Ii.
Darling, Government appraiser No fires
have been used in the building since last win
ter, and the fire tonight was caused by spon-
taneous combustion among some of the dry
goods or hempi in cases, superiuduced by the
heated atmosphere prevailing to-day.
The Government buildings in which the fire
broke out are known as the United States ap-
praiscr' stores, and consist OF from Nos. llj
to lbs Greenwich street. They extended back to
New Church street, in the rear of Trinity
church, and were five stories high. The fire
was checked after the two upper stories on
Greenwich street were destroyed
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

Certain parts of California are infested with
squirrels. 4 bounty has been offered for the
heads of these little pests and it is no unusual
thing for countrymen to come into Stockton
and other towns with strings of squirrel heads
around them. Where water is plentiful, it is
diverted to the holes Of these animals and they
are forced to come out and are killed 10 this
way many thousands are destroyed in a few
days
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

convicted OF the murder OF Abraham Lynn, at
special term of the Circuit Court for Wash
ington county, Md, held last September, was
yesterday sentenced to be hanged. The MUIR
der was committed 10 Carroll county 10 April
1872 Lynn was miller, and Davis was in
his employ. One evening Lynn was found ly-
ing in large wheat bin, with wounds upon bis
person which indicated that he had been muir.
dered. lie was known to have seven hundred
dollars in his pocket, which had been taken.
All the circumstances pointed to Davis as the
murderer He was tried at Westminster and
the jury failed TO agree. The case was then
removed to Washington county, and there he
was convicted of murder in the first degree.
The Court declined to permit Hamilton Shue,
who had been indicted as an accessory, to testi
! fy On this point the counsel for Davis took a
bill of exceptions to the Court Of Appeals AT
ter full argument that tribunal affirmed the
ruling of the Court below. One Of the Judges
asked for rehtariug, and the point was again
argued and decided against Davis, although two
of the Judges. ais-ented. In the meantime
Shue was tried and acquitted A motion was
made for new trial for Davis in order to give
him the benefit of Shue's testimony, but this
was denied. Davis has been in the Hagers.
town Jail about one year, and his life there
has been rather pleasant and jovial. He is quite
handsome young fellow, and is quite favor
lite with such girls as have 20 prejudice against
man who has been convicted of great crime.
His friends furnished him with money quite
literally, and be expended most of it on
luxuries for himself and presents for the fair
ones to whom he was most attached. He devot-
ed most of his time to flirting through the bars
of his Cell with the girls who happened to be
prisoners, and in playing cards. OF late his
passion for cards has been such that he has
worn out pack every week. He was OCCASION
ally visited by preachers, but they never found
much in his demeanor or conversation that To-
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

DISHONEST CLAIM AGENTS. 1t would ar-
pear that certain claim agents and attorneys
have forgotten the penalty Of Il five hundred
dollar line and six mouths Imprisonment I'M
posed by the act Of Congress of May II, 1872,
Tor improperly retaining the discharge papers
and land warrants OF honoraby discharged sol
diers and sailors. These agents in many cases
have violated the provisions of this act with
view to avail themselves Of any future cgIsa-
ton by Congress attaching an additional peel
mary value to the papers so retained. ne
chances are that certain of these gentlemen
will shortly be brought to account therefor
WuSh Mlnnicle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

IMAGINATION AND RocHEFoRr, The two
kilograms received yesterday relative to the
Propagation of the French Assembly, and the
visit to Rochefort by the doctors will not sur
prise readers of those two events The Yer.
sailles Assembly will be prorogued until the
9Th of November, and France will remain for a
while under the government Of Marshal Mac
Mahon.
As to Rochefort, We have explained how he
had been kept n France by the persona pro;
lection of NJ. Theirs, while the poor deluded
soldiers of the Commune had been transported
to New Caledonia Every time that convoy
of condemned men was to leave their French
prisons to embark for the antipodes they had
to pass sanitary inspection. At each of these
visits an officially uuknown hand had scratched
out Rochcforts name from the list of those
who we're to undergo the inspection: 1t APP
pears that this time the physician Will nave TO
examine him, and Rnchetort will have to be IN
very poor health, indeed, to gerexcused by the
doctor from the trip to New Caledonia. =
Wash. Chronicle.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

A FISH SToRY.-The Rutland (Nt.) Herald
is responsible for these assertions, AN od
resident of Castleton, who lives in the vicinity
of Bomoscen lake, was recently fishing in the
lake, being anchored but few rods from shore;
when he had most extraordinary bite and
take at the end OF his line and hook. With
an unlimited amount of exertion he pulled up
"a four gallon jug, with something inside tug
cling at the line. Upon breaking the jug a
three pound pickercl was found. The proha,
bitics are that the fish, in his early ,6shhood,
being of philosophical turn of mind, or being
out on little time, in search of something to
make his heart happy had entered his jug, and
being unable to get out had remained there
ever since, till he had attained his present
weght and age
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1873-07-31

CUNSEKV ALIVE TOWNSHIP MEETING
Pursuant to call, the Conservative voters o.
Arlington township met at Carlin's Springs on
the afternoon of the 24th instant.
The object of the call being stated by Mr.
Adams, on his motion Mr.. John Febrey wa:
called to the chair and Mr.. Edward Ball elected
Secretary.
Mr.. Adams offered the following resolutions,
which were unanimously adopted:
Resolved That the interests Of this township
require q representative in the Conservative
Cow ention to be held in Rchmo: on the 9Th
day of August next
Resolved, That Mr.. Edgar Snowden, ir., be
requested to &C: as proxy for Arlington town
ship, with all the rights Of delegate in convsn-
ton.
Resolved, That as proxy, he look after and
protect the interests OF this township in said con-
ventlon. JOHN FEBREY, Chairman.
Attest: EDWARD BALL, Secretary.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
Japanese Bed.

Dinner over, a siesta on the soft mats
is next in order. These mats seem made
for sleep and Incidence. No booted
foot ever defiles them. Every one leaves
his clogs on the ground outside, and
glides about in his mitten-like socks,
which have each a special compartment
for the great toe. Ny waiting damsel
having gone out, and there being no such
things as bells, I do as the natives, and
clap my hands. A far-of answer of
he-i-i is returned, and soon the shut
fling of feet is heard again. The house
wife eppears with the usual low bow,
and, smiling so as to again display what
resembles a mouthful of coal, she lis
tens to the request for a pillow. Open
ing the little closet before spoken of,
she produces the desired article. It is
not ticking bag of baked feathers in
closed in a dainty, spotless case of white
linen, but little upright piece of wood,
SIX inches high and long, and one wide,
rounded at the bottom like the rockers
of cradle. On the top, lying III a
groove, is a tiny rounded bag o calico
filed with rice chaff about the size of a
sausage. The pillow-case is a piece of
white paper wrapped around the top,
and renewed in good hotels daily for
each guest. One can rest about four or
six inches of the side of his O8 OcciDjti8
on a japanese pillow, and if he wishes
may rock himself to sleep, though the
words suggest more than the facts war
rant. By sleeping on civilized feathers,
one gets out of training, and the Japa-
nese pillows feel very hard and very
much in one place. The dreams which
one has on the these pillows are charac-
teristic In my first some imps were
boring gimlet-hOles in the side Of my
skull, until they had honey-combed it
and removed so much brain that I felt
too Iight-headed to preserve my cqui-
librium. On the present occasion, after
falling asleep, thought that the pillow
on which lay pressed its shape into my
head, and the skull, to be repaired, was
being trepanned. Ny head actually
tumbIing off the pillow was the cause Of
the fancied operation being suddenly
arrested
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12

The grangers' movement is spreading
very rapidly throughout the south, and new
oranges are organized every day. In Virginia
there are so far only three oranges. This
does not result from any objections on the
part of the people of that state to the order
but from the want Of influence by the persons
selected to start the movement. It is under
stood that the matter will soon be taken up by
influential Virginians who served in the Con-
federate army and it is probable that the
| order viii soon be q potent influence in the
Old Dominion. The farmers there are as un-
prosperous as their brethren in the west.
Cattle thieying on the Texas border has
been resumed with unusual vigOr. About 200
fine Deeves were crossed into Mexico near
GuerrO few days ago, and boldly driven on
the highway to Monterey, by thieves, without
the slightest interference on the part of the
Mexican officials. These depredations are of
daily occurrence. The robbing in this section
of Texas of cattle is at the rate of a thousand
each month.
The receipts of cotton at Memphis up to
August 80, this year, are nearly &c, 900 bales in
excess of last year.
Page McCarty, who killed one Mordecai in
duel in Virginia, not be tried at present,
owing to the severity of his own wounds. He
had to give bail in the sum of 51O, ,OsO
Great anxiety is felt regarding the yellow
fever in Galveston and Shreveport. Private tell
egrams state that Houston has quarantined
Galveston, thereby stopping all through
Gravel.
The French citizens of Louisville, Ky,
celebrated the anniversity of the establish
ment Of the French republic under Theirs. 4
resolution indorsing Theirs administration
will be forwarded to Theirs.
The yellow fever is raging at Key West
and the Dry TOrtugas.
D. Kings, first chief justice of Arkansas
and for u years United States judge of the
eastern district of Arkansas, died at Little
Rock, aged IS,
Reports of the cotton crop III the southern
states are very unfavorable. Although very
large area was planted there are Indications of
a very small yield.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
Wooden PaVements.
charleston News and courier.I


Charleston may congratulate herself
that the embarrassed condition Of her
city finances has thus far prevented her
from venturing on any extended scale,
upon the costly experiment Of wooden
pavements. We may take a profitable
lesson in this matter from the experi-
ence of the rich cities Cf the north and
west. OF the even, pleasant noiseless
surface presented by the wooden pave
ments when new there can be no ques-
tion. Bot they lack the first requisite
of a good pavement they will not last
st. Louis Is the latest city that has
voted them a failure, if not a nuisance
The mayor, III a message to the common
council, embOdies the results of twelve
years trial of this kind of pavement.
He says the fact is clearly shown that
wooden pavements are not suited to
streets used by heavy traffic, and 1T is
expensive under any circumstances. He
says that tine average wear of such a
pavement Is six years, and the cost of
repairing is one dollar and a half per
Iineal foot. In Philadeldhia the wooden
pavement averages only three or four
years, and Is voted to be comparatively
worthless. In Pittsburgh inve5tiga-
tions are IN progress that are likely to
result in a similar verdict. New York
has long since found out that it Is the
most costly and worthless of all kinds
of pavement.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
OUTSIDE THE FOLD.
BY BEULAH NJ. F. SMITH.


anu waiting waiting, for the days that never
come;
sitting, worn and weary, midst Life's shadows
drear and dun;
Memory DER the Past is mourning, and the Future:
all untold
Earth has grown so strangely gloomy. Take me
Lord within the fold.
Evening-shadows gather round me, darker shadows
shrOud my soul;
There is but one rift of sunlight streaming from
that far-Oh goal;
Shall ever reach that portal? walk within those
streets of gold?
For I'm -watching-Waiting. Take me, Lord
within the fold.
Through the night I d1eam of Heaven, and my
loved ones waiting there;
But, alas it is but dreaming for wake to anxious
care.
There know there comes no sighing,-onIy peace
and bliss untold.
Lead me in those sun-lit pastures. Take me- Lord,
within the fold.
Is there room for one poor wanderer, who has wan
ton, Etrayed away?
And forgiveness for a lost one, wandering farther
Tender Shepherd, wilt thou hear me am lonely
I am cold.
With those sheltering arms support me. Take me,
Lord, within the fold.
Hark! hear the kindly welcome. Can dare to
enter in ?
who am so prone to evil who blindIy grope in
sin?
Now the peans of the blessed vibrate on the harps
Of gold;
I can hear the angels singing. Take me, Lord,
within the fold.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
A Natural Curiosity

r. Z. G. Stearns of the California
academy of science, gives a description
of a newly discovered zoophyte, found
in Buzzard's Inlet, Washington terrific
ry, known as PaUonarjH Blanket. A
form much resembling the specimen
described by Mr. Sbearns Is found at
Oban, on the coast Of Scotland, and the
genus was so named from the fancied
resemblance to a PeacOck's feather. 1t
is about six feet in length, the central
stalk being about as thick as common
lead pencil, with the feathers on one
side stripped entirely off, and the feath-
ers on the other side removed for about
one-fourth of the length of the quill,
from It's lowest part. Suppose the
whole to be covered with thick coat of
transparent pink wax, and the surface
Of each side of the remaining feathered
portion divided into two hundred and
fifty slightly elevated rows of ridges,
which run obliqueIy and upward from
the outward edge Of the feathered part
this, reckoning the two sides, makes five
hundred rows, and each row IS com
posed of from ten to fourteen small
flowers with petals resembling fern
leaves; thus we have total of about
five thousand tiny flowers on a single
stalk or plant, or feather. Each one of
these small flowers IS an animal, fixed
stationary in its place IN the row, All
the whole combined form a compound
I animal with ducts and circulatOrY ar
rangenents running through its entire
length. The food secured by either
one of the tiny flowers or PolyPes helps
/ tn nourish the whole. The stalk or axis
Is the only hard portion, and resembles
hone In texture. 1t sustains the entire
colony and structure in an erect or per
pendicular position at the bottom of the
sea, the lower part being planted in the
mud or sand. This wonderful curiosity,
as beautiful as it Is wonderful, belongs
to the zoophytes, an is related to the
sea anemOnes and coral animals. Each
one of the Ave thousand flowers IL
miniature sea-anemone.-SGH FFa5scfscO
Bulletin.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
NUMBER s..
Browns Wooden Wedding.

/ Brown, who lives in Cambridge, had
the fifth anniversary of his wedding oc-
cur about a week ago, and his friends
! determined to celebrate mis- wooden
wedding by a surprise party. They
commenced by sending servant with a
team to take Brown and his wife out to
ride about 7. Then they began to come
in with presents and materials for SUD-
per. There was a little party of five
came first, all laden, hands full. They
all got nicely inside the garden gate,
which shuts with spring, when
Browns big mastiff, who is always left
unclaimed in his masters absence, came
round the corner and surprised them
One woman stepped ON her dress, and
in her fall so demoraIized a fragile
black walnut bookcase she carried that
it was afterward done up in a bundle
and presented as kindling wo-d. An
other fellow got safely out of the yard,
all but part of his pants, while old
Smithers, who weighs two hundred and
twenty pounds, plunged wildly, with
the eight-gallon pail of ice cream he
carried, through Browns glass hot
house in the corner of the yard, and
surprised some thirty dollars worth of
exotics. Finally they fixed things up
and got into the house, and as it was
about time for Browns return they
commenced laying the supper table
They got down a tea set of rare china
that a friend of Browns in the trade
had loaned him a week before, and
broke two pieces, so that Brown has
since been obliged to mortgage his hen
house and buy the set and the COM
ments of Mrs. Brown, when she saw the
condition of the carpet, We're sarcastic
in the extreme. Finally, as a crowning
touch, they tried to hang ont Chinese
lanterns, with the word Welcome"
on them, on the porch over the front
door. They succeeded in hanging two
lanterns, and when they had saved the
house from the fiery fiend, there wasn't
enough porch left to pay for the trouble
of trying to hang out any more. Then
they sat down and waited for Brown
and his wife to come home. We draw
the veil over the scene that followed
their return. Some scenes are too Joy
GUS to be described in cold, cold words.
Boston Traveller.
The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-09-12
News Of the Week,
HEST

C. w. Ingalls,, Indian agent, telegraphs
that he has held a successful council with the
chiefs of seven different tribes, at st. George,
south Utah. They have agreed to go on
Muddy valley reservation. Bhesc Indians re-
present all the Piutes in south Utah and
northern Arizona. Mr.. Ingalls, starts for
Muddy valley this week The council is re-
garded eminently successful. Kanash, chief
of another band of TO Indians, agreed to 90
to Muddy valley; the balance, fifty or more,
go to Uintah reservation. Tobianas' band
goes to Uintah, and all southern Indians will
gather at Muddy valley. Supplies to the
Piutes, Nevadas and west Shoshones will be
distributed by n. W. ingalls,, assistant agent
next week, in Nevada. The Lakes will pro-
probably be induced to go on Fort Hall reser-
yation. The Indian problem is now regarded
as solved for the future in Utah and Nevava
George Grant, the wealthy Englishman.
who took a liking to our western plains. and
has bought whole county on the line of the
Kansas Pacific railroad in Kansas, is now at
work getting English families to come over
and occupy II. The location is many miles be-
yond all other present settlements, and seems
lonesome and barren enough, superficialIv
and we doubt if the ordinary EngIishman
'''ACH ~ IiiC country very kindly. Mr.. Grant
is, however, enthusiastic in his scheme, and
offers easy terms of sale, while he is also i'm
porting fine breeds of English stock.
The Encouragement contradicts, fatty,
the report that the Credit Mobilier suits are to
be abandoned. The government counsel are
busy in preparing the cases, and the suits are
to be pressed for trial at the earliest practical
day.
1t is an interesting fact that the imports
of dry goods at New York during the month
of August have been million and half less
in value than in 1872 and four and a quarter
less than in 1871 Our total imports since the
beginning of the year are nineteen millions
less than last year, and eleven millions less
that the year before last
The Chicago Times prints crop reports
from ffty-One towns in Illinois, ferty-six in
Iowa, and nineteen in Kansas. The report
may DO briefly summarized thus: Corn much
below the average, the yield ranging from half
crop to a two-third crop, and an average one
Potatoes are generally poor the late crop
especially being small.