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The New York herald., 1873-01-22
EUROPEAN STEAMSHIPS.
(NUNARD LINE.
" The British and North American
Royal Mail Steamships,
between New York and Liverpool, calling ct Cork Har

" The British and North american
Royal Mail Steamships,
between New York and Liverpool, calling ct Cork Har.
Dor.
From New York.
AGsERfA. Wed, % Jan . java: We'd. We'd Feb is
Steamers marked thus do carry passcn-
o'And every following Wednesday and Saturday Gom
Rates OF Passago-Cabln, $40 800 and $780, gold,
cording to accommodation. Tickets to Paris Sh god
additional Return tickets on favorable terms steer
steersge tickets from Liverpool and 9ueenstown and
adng given Ielfast Glasgow, Havrc, Antwerp and
other ports on the Continent and for ports
office No. Bowling Green; steerRge passage &C No.
Ill Broadway, Trinity Building
pAssENGERs PER STEAMSHIP CALABRIA EN-
4 bark from tho Cunard wharf, foot OF Grand street.
Jersey City, at nh A. M on "Wednesday, Jan ~ 1873
No Bowling Green, New York.
ONLY DIRECT LINE TO FRANCE.
THE oENERAL TRANSATLANTIC CoMpANYs MAIL
sTEAMMsHIrSS M S n RETWEEN NEW YORK AND HAvRE.
The splendid vessels on ais ayorite route for the Con-
tncnt will sail from pier No. % North River foows:
WILLIE DE PARIS sur,n0nt. Saturday, Jan 25 1873
81: LAURENT, Iamarie Saturday, Feb 2S 1873
PEkEIKE, Dahre .....Satufday' March D 673
PRICE OF PASSAGE IN GOLD Qnclu:ling wine9
TO BREsr OR HAvRE,
First cabin $685. second cabin, $73
These steamers 10 not Garry STORAGE passengers
American travellers going 60 or returning fron the Con-
tnent Sf Eurcps by taking this line svoSS both s,.1sit
GEORGE MACRENzfE Agent, IS Broadway.
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

1s,z HrS 4. SLATE MANTELs.-RICH AND HLE.
-. ri .sms; Slsfe Work OF every descripton; Mar
Sse Ssse W. W., vyoa nantels b. STEWART CO. Ysj aaI
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

AN ELEGANT GLASS FRONT COACH-NFARLY
"A new and in superb condition.; built by Brewster &
Co, Of Broome street, also one "C" Spring Clarence,
built by Wood Brothers in like condition Will be sold at
q bargain by
A. g. FLANDRAU,
Nos. and IS East Eighteenth street,
between Broadway and Fifth avenue.
The New York herald., 1873-01-22
MARBLE MANTET.s-

"A KLABER. STEAM MARBLE Ann n n T,,,:, M r1S1,:s
~ w25ss iYi anu iso East Eigteen nth strccfNMarho
81 ~ s n Mantsls filling, Marble Counters Monu
for Me trade. 'P''eo"' "arpie turning
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L,ALL RIVER LINE FOR BOSTON, VIA NEwPQRL-
N The steamers EMPIRE STATE and OLD C0L0NI
rom pier IS North River foot OF Murray street dsS
(Sundays excepted. at4 Tickets sold to principal
nccs A. +. BACON. Superinten lent
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

& OOA OOn WANTED, BY GENTLEMAN OF
%LVU.VUO. large exI srience and extensive com
crcsl abroad TO invest In respectable safe
shipping commission horss Of means and good connee-
siderable capital with some reasonable guarantee or
prospec deriving therefrom annual income with
ont ltnpairipg the principal Such house willing to
cept mutual considers lions with liberal division Of
dence such Information deemed requisite conducive
to rtcr correspondence on the subject to K, box 1888
Herald 0filce.
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

~ bers OF the J. O.. p. B-The annual general meet
Of the BnHi Birth Benevolent Society takes place
Tuesday, the 2sth inst Mt O'Clock y NJ, at Masonic
Hall, ia East Thirteenth street. to elect officers and
ensuing year receive the finance report
and other IMPORTANT business BY order the
President. s. HAMBURGER, Secretary.
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

r OSr-ON THE 10Th JANUARY, NEAR CUSTOM
IL House, pair of Gold Spectacles Being OF special
value liberal ward will be paid return
ing them to 81 Madison avenue.
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

TINTED STATES PASSPORT BUREAU.-OFFICIAL
PASSPORTS OF the Department of State issued by A. G.
WILLMARTH, United states Court House, Al Chambers
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

(yosD, SILvER AND NICKEL ELECTRO PLATING
noiuuons made In large small quantities. and n.
stucuoh5 gwen On OIL kinds OF plating, easy terms,
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

TTNIrEr STATES Aspp ROYAL MAILS FOR
MsyaS "a, Steamship COMPANY calling every fort
night on fhursda, ats O'Clock e :" p'c''s's' ''"p'cr
Ne,d North Kiyer T. II. Morton. Thursday. Jan. /,
nOKRo CASTLE gap ~arls Thursday. yan y
bpm TaRt rsn Norton Thursday Feb
sSr q freIght s,ls 2, pasS;sss Sss sPpis '''
The New York herald., 1873-01-22

NCHoR IINE.-ExPREsS STEAMERe
"A sail from per 70 North Eiver. New York.
INDIA .Sa;., Jan 70 AUSTRALIA. ;sat, Feb. 3 =
Passengers booked and forwarded te and from any any
way, Sweden, Denmark America as safely, speedily
comfortably and cheaply as any other route or line
Tickets Drafts Certificates he bought at lowest
currency by applying at the oices No.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
How She Takes The Train.

SHE down to the depot in an ex-
press wagon three hours before train time.
She insists on sitting on her trunk, out on
the platform, to keep it from being stolen.
She picks up her r~eticule, fan, parasol,
lunch basket, small pot with a house
plant in it, shawl, paper bag of candy,
bouquet (she never travels without one,
small tumbler and extra veil, and chases
Historically after every switch engine
that goes by, under the impression that it
is her train. Her voice trembles as she
presents herself at the restaurant and tries
to buy a ticket, and she knocks with the
handle of her parasol on the door of the
old disused Toulouse IN vain hopes that
the baggage man will come out and check
her trunk. She asks everybody in the
depot and on the platform when her train
will start, and where it will stand, and,
looking straight at the great clock, asks:
"What time is it now?" She sees, with
terror, the baggage man shy her trunk in
to a car where two men are smoking, in
stead of locking it up by itself in a large
strong, brown car with bad order,
shops" chalkcd On the side, which she
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
A Chinese Burial.

\ CHINA woman died, a few weeks ago,
at Sacramento, Cal, and her husband, be-
ing we'll provided with money, gave her
what he considered a first-class funeral.
The Sacramento Union describes the
ceremonies: about five o'clock in the
afternoon the body, inclOsed in a fine cot
fin. was placed on the sidewalk in front
of her late residence, and by its side were
arranged tables loaded with roast chicken,
roast pig, boiled rice, candy, nuts, brandy,
whisky, etc. sufficient in quantity to keep
the shirt of the deceased from being
hungry for a month. These articles and
the coffin remained on the sidewalk until
late the next forenoon, surrounded by
paid m~ourners who seemed to be carrying
on a lively competition in the matte: If
giving full value for the money received.
At the cemetery, after the coffin had been
lowered, hired mourners and the two
children of the deceased walked round
the grave once, while the husband 70
NAMED standing silently by. Then yes
sells containing food were put in the grave
at the head and foot of the coffin, followed
by a small quantity of earth. Next to be
put in were live chickens and ducks, and
these were promptly covered with earth.
The grave having been filled up, brandy
and whisky were sprinkled upon it in a
liberal manner, while a pigs head, roast
chicken, boiled rice, oranges, apples, nuts,
candy, &c, were laid upon the mound.
The ceremony being concluded, the
Chinese returned home in their carriages,
while some Christian boys, who had been
closely watching the proceedings, gath
cred up the fruit, candy, ETC., and like
wise left for home"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
The Vast Interests of the Spragues.

HE vast interests involved in the en-
barrassments of A. s. w. Sprague and
Hoyt, Sprague & Co. appear, from the list
OF their mills, works, and manifold enter
prises. They run 2S0,0O0 spindles and
t~wenty-eight printing machines in mills
and print works, and employ over 10, 900
operatives. Their great print works at
Cranston employ 10000 persons. and can
urn out 10000 pieces a week. At Natick,
r.. l., they run 10000 spindles, and have
60O hands; at Arctic, r. l., they run 49,
0oO splndles, and have 5000 hands; at
Quldnlck, K. l., they have $4,000 spindles
and 800 hands; at Baltic, Conn, 8 5000
splndles, and 100 hands; at Central Falls,
Il. L, $4,000 spindles, and near 500 hands;
at Augusta, Me-, "a, 900 spindles, and 700
hands. The cotton mills supply their
print works with most of the pri& cloths
used by them, making about 50, 900 pieces
a week then running on full time. All
are now on half time. Besides their mills
and print works they run other great en-
terprises, both within and without the
State. In Maine they have vast timber
mills, saw mills, and like property, in
which are employed grea. numbers of
men, during the numbering season. In
New Hampshire is more similar property
OF theirs. At Columbia, S. c.,
they own valuable water-power, and
have a great stock forward. They
also own much land in Kansas and
Texas. In this city and Cranston, their
real estate, improved and unimproved, is
great in extent and value. They control
in this city the Union Railroad, owning
all street railways, employing 800 men,
900 horses, and 100 cars, with a capital
stock of 100000, and valuation of $780,
900. William Sprague is President of the
Providence & New York Steamship Com
pany, which has eight steamers, EMPLOYS
500 hands, and owns property valued at
81, 100000. A. & w. Sprague control, in
Providence, the Perkins Sheet Iron Com
pany, and the Rhode Island Horse Shoe
Company, having 300 hands when full,
now running with One-half their usual
force on half time; the Phoenix Iron Foun-
dry, Elm Street Machine Shop, Sprague
Moving Machine Company, Comstock
Steve Foundry, and the American Horse
Nail Company. They also own one-third
of the stock of the well-known Rhode
Island Locomotive Works, which employ
over 1000 men, and of the Nicholson File
Company. Their mill property, at a low
valuation, is estimated at $4,000, 600, and
their print works at $1,000, 0s0. Their
payroll at times has approached $4,000
a day. Besides all this property of A. &
W. Sprague & Co, Hoyt, Sprague s. Co.
own nos of the stock of the Atlantic
Delaine Company, whose mills in Olney-
vile employ over 1000 hands. On this
property is an Indebtedness of nearly
81 OOO, 00O.-Prortdence Correspondence N.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04
An Alpine Adventure.

IT was on the 10Th of September of the
present year. John Jessup, of Cincinnati,
and his daughter, Ellen Jessup, only
nineteen years old, and four Englishmen,
found themselves sweltering with heat at
the base of Mount Gross-Glockner, in the
IyrOl; and, wishing to cool themselves
N the snow at TIE top of the mountain,
commenced its ascent. When they at
tanned a height of 5000 feet from the sea
level there was a violent change of wealth
or. 1t began to snow furiOusly. The
guides advised against a further ascent,
Mr.. Gush-a dashing young Londoncr of
the party-pushed on. When a height Of
10000 feet had been reached the guides
refused to go any farther. The air was
rare and bitter, and all were shivering
with cold and blinded with snow. Still
Gush pressed onward and upward and
Miss Ellen Jessup followed. The re-
mainder ofthe party had gothigh enough.
The guides were shamed into following
the two adventurous young people, but
finally they came to another dead halt, and
said they had positively taken their last
step toward certain destruction. Miss Jes-
sup appealed to them, saying, eve can
not leave him alone!" She made a still
stronger appeal by paying one OF the
guides an extra sum of money, and he
agreed to accompany her up the heights.
Appalling dangers surrounded them, but
they never lost sight of Gush. He madly
plunged on through the snOw-stOrm and
Overth icy Drinks OF yawningcbasms. The
girl and the guide followed. AT length
Gush fell and was lost in an eddying
whirlpool ofsnOw. The brave American
girl uttered a cry, but she was yet careful
not to faint. In a minute she and the
guide reached the spot where the young
man had disappeared. He had fallen into
a gorge filled with snow, and was seen
struggling sixty feet below. That was the
end of Gush's ascent of the mountain.
Miss Jessup ordered his guide to tie the
cord around her waist, and thus she was
lowered into the abyss. She reached the
struggling Englishman just as he was
about to give up from exhaustion, and,
Selling him in her arms, the two made
their way safely to the summit of the
precipice. Gush had gone far enough,
but not as far as Miss Jessup, who imper-
lied her life to save his. If Gush has any
feelings of a man, and if Miss Jessup's
heart is in her work-well, it is the plain
est case ever presented. In Alpine adj
ventures such u rescue as this has never
taken place. The Federal Council OF
Switzerland awarded Miss Jessup a gold
medal for saving a human life. Cincln-
natl ought to feel proud of such a repre-
sentative abroad. Gush's banner, with its
strange device, was left in that Alpine
ditch, and the real hero was a woman
~ Tn,jo Po7l1hIiru1
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

has long age determined to be the bag
gage car as the only safe one in sight.
Although the first at the depot, she is the
last to get her ticket, and once on the cars,
she sits, to the end of her journey, in an
agony of apprehension that she has got
on the wrong train and will be landed at
some strange station, put in a close car
riage. drugged, and murdered, and to ev-
cry last male passenger who walks down
the aisle she stands up and presents her
ticket, which she invariably carries in
her hand. She finally recognizes her
waiting friends on the platform, leaves
the car in & bust of gratitude, and the
train is ten miles away before she remem-
bers hat her r~eticule, fan, parasol, lunch
basket, %verbena, shawl, candy, tumbler,
veil and boquet, are on the car seat where
she left them, or at the depot in Peoria,
for the life OF her she can't tell which
Peoria Rerie1c.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

account of what happened to me as a sort
OF outlet for my feelings, for l don'tthink
1 shall talk much about st. Paul's when [
get home.-Belgracia.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

Hens never wear anything on their
feet, except when the farmers wife drives
them OF of the garden. Then they are
always sh0o'd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

q tn ns Q; ';,D,:
5os ss[ !.5 .sha''Av'
o." e.
r. s5s, eessf no more o5i
%. .insing,
s.ors.
,n,-ve,ed
.,.d H 90 bright,
shadow,
INIT t,,o,o FoGs.
~91 i0''''
~ g
4 n 81. D
49,,
~ whole, | thlnR,
Iaoions sights. More
lbeev, even. FOR
.,1,v to understand
-r,ing %chapels; and
nj Of stock-drlVlng
s.ngs and queens,
,r,ralia for a SIX
and. one of the flrst
-g,s.t on landing was
ret its a singular
N end Of my soJourn
inside your (or may
,{ral.
IA 70 back and face
ID. if couldn't say
nd | made half a
shines of paying it
thing interviewed
NJ last day in En-
Nd ~1iIgrimage upper
H. however, | kept
On purpose to see
[-vls out Of bed in the
IAN Of Importance,
haste to the east
vas eight o'clock IN
,reached S%horedltch
quincy. Now, |
rneIt morning to
Ne for the Italian
nsi s if it were my
nance Of entering
vs. is'ermined not to
i might be that
open and Ipicked
IN from a row OF
the driver put me
,,I5Ie time at the
1-clrard.
-4e CAD and stood
gynent looking up
=4i set; but high
It'll and cross stood
I'LL furnished by
the lower part OF
.-7 shadow, rem
l1.ck coating Of
U the upper pOr-
geetened by the
I,lt a CLEAN of
mis- above, and
into the even
had s%lackened;
-s, and only an
y The big ware
e''AIu " S4eep.
listened up, 1t
saou!d see Of it
ia anu gazing IN
saw that about
and ball was a
i-l men like flies
hose slender fila
,s and thick ca
.2'; but from the
Ill: .'e.lcate fabric
'a2l the church,
fEay open, some
The iron gates
were fast. Paul's
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

MUCILAGE.-To make t%ragacanth mucil-
age, take of powdered ~tragacanth one
dram, glycerine six drains, water enough
to make in all ten ounces; rub the traga-
canth in a mortar with the glycerine, and
then add the water. This will produce a
mucilage of excellent quality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

n s11O0".
r.. AGED t.
,,iiance:,
trlI, and wild;
Sc Nth dewdrops'
and smiled.
lie sunshine
j vas gay
he music
he day
,o0ping'
81 soue'
.qL5esm
1 :5td'"n.
J,-iiup-
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

The almost incredible statement is
made by a correspondent of the London
Lancet, that in some of the manufacturing
districts of England where women are
largely employed, the death rate among
infants under one year old is from 80 to
80 per cent. The cause of this fearful
mortality the writer ascribes to the fact
that the infants are left at home under the
care of ignorant elderly women, who feed
them with starch food, as boiled bread,
cruel, ground rice, ETC.; substances which
the infantile stomach annot digest, and
which prove their certain destruction if
given in sufficient quantity.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-04

pered.
Il don't think so, sir; I don't think
you're hurt a bit. Bless you! you didn't
fall more han three feet"
| stretched out my arms-they were
whole: my legs-they were sound and
unhurt. What a happiness to be alive,
after seeing death inevitable! ,
"How is this l cried, sitting up, and
looking about me. II thought [ was
carried up into the dome"
And so you were. You'd have been a
dead man by this, but just in the alex OF
time | came back. | don't suppose L
should have noticed YOU, for the light was
pretty nearly done; but | caught sight OF
you against the gliding, and then you
gave a sort of moan, and says |: There's
death here, if | can't think OF sometime
in a minute. And then | recollected ina
I'd heard the workmen chaps whistle
three times, and | piped away, ana then
the rope stopped, and began TO CONF
down. | shouted to you to hold on anu
keep your heart up but Idon't think you
heard me, for when your face came IN
sight it was white like death, and your
eyes c~losed-but you still holding on
till, as | saw, YOU came within three lee'
Of the floor, and then you gave a qul'ei
ana fell, and caught you N my arms,
for you were in a dead faint. but VIA
were you about to let them draw ysu ny
like that?"
Then | told him of my gymnastic Ieats.
"Oh, then, l suppose you SnooA tn 5
rope. That's the signal to pun up, an
up they pulled, and they never kne" VIVA
sort of a load they were hauling up. dn5
men are working double shifts now "nN
IN a hurry to get finished o,d
When l left St. Paul's | felt weak ano
nervous, as if had just passed through a
long illness. i couldn't start neAt ~ az
ingI was so upset, and l have written 'hiS
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-08

Commission, which will sit here in q
few weeks. This subject is being largely
agitated by engineers and parties inter-
ested in the promotion OF the mechanl-
cal science. The experiment will
commence Immediately after the ad-
journment of the meeting OF the Com
mission here this month.
To be Investi gated.
The publication a few days since by
a New York paper Of the coin owned
by the Treasury and where deposited,
will probably lead to an investigation
by the Secretary, as to where the in-
formation was obtained. 1t is said
there are only four men in the Treasu-
ry Department who have access to the
specie accounts, and should the guilt be
fastened on any Of them, his tenure Of
office will be at an end.
Break I'm the Chesapeake and Ohio
Canal.
A serious break in the
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal,
near Harper's Ferry, occurred yesteer-
day, which will suspend navigation
nine or ten days.
Postmaster General Creswell has
gone to his home in Maryland for few
days, and Secretary Delano OF the In.
terror has gone to Ohio.
A Valuable Table.
The Bureau OF Steamboat Inspection
of the Treasury Department las pre-
pared a table of the pressure allowable
on boilers made since 1867. This table
will be valuable to manufacturers OF
boiler iron. Under the new regula-
tioIs, every piece OF boiler iron must be
inspected and bear stamp showing the
amount OF pressure that it will sustain
to the square inch.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1873-08-08
"PIayinE with Fire,

There Is at present performing in
one OF our city concert halls, says the
Chicsgo IHter-Ocsan, a gentleman who
travels under the name OF Dibolo, or
Disvolo, or the Devil, or something
equally significant snd euphonious.
There are mauy wsys Of making a
living in this age Of the almighty dol
lar. Some make their bread by the
freak OF nature which has msde the
dwarts, Others thrive by the cultivation
of TOO. too solid flesh" q party on
Madison stree: cuts off his own
head, carries il few yards, and
then feeds it. as the old lady described
by Poe threw down snuff box TO her
nose after il had left the parent stem,
through the dial plate OF an Edinburgh
clock-but Mr., Dlbolo's mission upon
earth appears 10 be 10 devour RED not
Goals and snbject his tongue to pro-
cess OF snge by drawing across il Tcd
hot poker. To the uninitisted his per-
formance tranceuds the laws OF nature.
He appears upon the platform I'VE can
not altogether call il STACEY clad in
the fiery gsrb OF MephistopheIes. Al
ter little preliminary speech, in
which he blows his own horn with
remarkable ability, his satanic
majesty takes lump OF burning char
coal, puts into his mouth, aud eats It
like 8 chocolate caramel. He next
takes a stick OF sealing-wax, which he
heats 10 q flame, and then chews it
ike stick OF candy. He then calls
two intelligent imbibers of lager beer
from the audience and bids them watch
him hest piece OF lead, after heating
which he SuVs the contents with a red
hot spoon, and shortly thereafter
drops the aol,difed lead out Of
his mouth. His performance closes by
drawing y red hot poker across his
tongue. 1t is not by any means a
pleasing exhibition, still it illustrates a
principle long known to scientific men,
that the skin can lie trained by the use
OF certain chemicals, 10 stand the sc.
vcrcst test OF heat. The mans mouth
looks like q bIackcned pit, his eyes
have = wild glare. and his appearance
that OF one "sicklici DER with the pale
cast OF fire.