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Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
MIR. Watkins Fireworks.

Mr.. Watkins is gentle old man living
on Ninth avenue. He believes in Fourth
OF July, in long-winded orations, and
especially in having fireworks in the
evening. He has no children, but the
nelghbors have them by the square acre,
and 1t was generally understood in that
neighborhood that Mr.. Watkins was
going to give the children treat Satur-
day night. He laid in "a pile" of rockets,
Roman candles, flre-wheels and SO on,
and rugged up post and had everything
ready against the coming of night. When
darkness fell and the glorious day of
liberty was skulking away into obscurity,
MIR. Watkins yard was filled with eX-
pectant neighbors and their children
They sat on the stoop, on the fence, and
were three deep on the grass. The hour
came, and Mr.. Watkins prepared to un-
loose the fire-tiend If he had ever seen
any fireworks touched off he had forgot
ten how they did it, but his ignorance
didn't weigh on his shoulders like a
grindstone. He took out sky-rocket, a
boy showed him how to set it up and
where to ignite it, and away she went,
striking plump against the house opposite.
The owner of the house, who had been
on steamboat excursion and had his
watch stolen, leaned over his gate and
said that he could, and had a good
mind to, knock Mr.. Watkins into
eighteen fragments, but the boys
Missed him into the house. The next
rocket was more of "a success. 1t went
straight up, and the stick came down on
the baby's head and produced a grand
jubilee chorus. They took the baby
home, and the next rocket was balanced
with care. 1t started to rise, fell to one
side, and went into house where red
headed young man sat squeezing the
hand of cross-eyed girl. 1t bobbed
around awhile, and then leaped out of
the window, and the red-headed young
man nearly twisted off letterboX in
trying to sound an alarm.
Then Mr.. Watkins selected a mild
eyed boy to go on with the remnant of
the display. The rest of the rockets
went knocking around the neighboring
roofs and chimneys, and the fiery SER
penis chased everybody over the fence.
Mr. Watkins ran out to say that they
must be careful, when a Roman candle
commenced shooting at him. His hat was
knocked off, his hair singed, and as he
cried and jumped through the gate fire
ball hit him in the back and took foot
of cloth out of his Sunday coat. More
boys offered their services, and despite
the protestations of the good old man,
they decided on having grand "whoop
de grease" as a wind-up. Two Of them
touched off the rockets while the rest
danced around the road with the Roman
candles, and Mr. Watkins cried again,
and said he'd give ten dollars to see a
policeman. He stuck his head out of the
bay window and a rocket grazed his nose.
Women ran, men shouted and children
whooped, and six punches of fire. crack.
ers on the stoop went off like the roar of
musketry at Gettysburg. The last rocket
hit the corner of the house and glanced
and struck fat man in the back, who
leaned against the fence and said he was
MORALLY wounded, but before he expired
he was going to drink enough human
gore to make a second Lake Erie.-De'
tr0tt Free Press.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

Genius is the gold in the mine; tai
ent is the miner who works and brings
it out.
reinstated Cortina as Mayor of Mata-
moras.
An inventive genius proposes to fur
nish horses with false teeth so as to con-
ceal their age.
"A woman too often reasons from her
heart; hence two-thirds of her mistakes
| and her troubles.
Our sorrows are like thunder-clouds,
which seem black in the distance, but
grow lighter as they approach.
Official and estimated returns of
the election in Arkansas show major
ity of 10000 for Constitutional Conven-
ton.
The Choctaws are willing to close up
that little real estate matter of ten
million acres and call it square for
$2,30O,000.
There are many who talk on from
ignorance rather lhan from knowledge,
ard who find the former an inexhaustible
fund of conversation. -Hazlitt.
A person that would secure to him
self great Difference will, perhaps, gain
his point by silence as effectually as by
anything he can speak.-!Shenstone.
The only saloon in Francisco, Ind,
was recently blown up with gunpowder,
this being the second experiment OF the
kind upon the establishment
Takers and futile persons are COM
monty vain and credulous withal for he
that talketh what he knoweth will also
talk what he knoweth not.-Bacon.
Love covers a multitude of sins.
When scar cannot be taken away, the
next kind office is to hide it, Love is
never so blind as when it is to spy faults.
The talkative listen to no one, for
they are ever speaking And the first
evil that attends those who know not
how to keep silent is that they hear
nothing.-Plutarch.
Brisk takers are usually slow think
ers. There is, indeed, no wild beast
more to be dreaded than communica-
tive man having nothing to communicate.
| -Sloitt.
If you devote your time to study you
will avoid all the irksomeness of this life,
nor will you long for the approach of
night, being tired of the day; nor will
you be burden to yourself, nor your So
| clety lnsupportable to others.
The man who talks everlastingly and
promiseuously, who seems to have an
eXhaustless magazine of sound, crowds
so many words into his thoughts that he
always obscures and frequently conceals
them Washington IrUing.
Witty sayings are as easily lost as
the pearls slipping off broken string:
| but a word of kindness is seldom spoken
in vain. 1t is seed which, even when
dropped by chance, springs up into a
| flower.
james Nick. Snodgrass has sued the
Pittsburgh (Pa.) Eoentng Leader for So
600, for publishing an article setting
| forth that he had failed to make proper
account of $554.64, tax collected, and
abiding to him as the alleged defaulting
| tax collector
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
A Burial at Sea.

Mr.. III X. ELLIOTT, now visiting in Eu-
rope, writes to the New Haven Pdttsds-
un,, giving the following incident, which
occurred on the California during the
passage over: We were in mid-ocean
when it was whispered about that one OF
our number-an unattended lady passen
ger-kad died. The news spread, as bad
news will, through cabin and forecastle,
and hush rested on the vessel, which
deepened as the hours wore on. The
case was peculiarly sad. The lady,
though Of temperament which united
her for sea travel, had ventured the pas
sage alone in order to crafty an aged
mother who wished to see her daughter
before she died. From the start the lady
had been very sick, and this, combined
with previous serious ill-health and i'm
prudent self-doctoring on the passage,
proved too much for delicate organiza-
lion. The burial, which took place on
the day following her decease, was
strange and impressive occasion. Rev
Mr. Collins, of Hartford, one OF our num-
Der, conducted the services. The en-
gines were stopped, the vast ship came
TO stand still, the ships bell was tolled,
and crew and passengers gathered aft
about the rude coffin heavily loaded with
iron bars which contained our unfortu-
nate passengers remains. After the sol
emn Episcopal service for burial at sea
had been read, a psalm chanted by a
male quartet, and few appropriate re-
marks by Mr.. Collins, the coffin was
slowly lowered TO the waters edge, ropes
were loosened, and their burden disap
peared beneath the dull waves"
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
The Stony Greek Disaster.

The moral of the latest accident"
seems to be the moral of nine railway ac-
cidents out of ten. An incompetent and
careless man is put in position where
the lives of several hundred people de-
pend every day upon competence and
care because he could be got cheaper
than competent and careful man. For
time all goes smoothly enough, but,
finally, as in this case, disaster occurs,
in the light of which il is seen that the
saving of money in such a place is the
waste of life. Possibly the switch-tender
in this case will be indicted, and there is
remote chance that he may be even
punished. The real blame is not his,
however, and the brunt of the punish
ment ought not to fall on him. The cor
poration which employed him has no
soul to be saved, and no body to be either
kicked or imprisoned. 1t has, however,
a corporate pocket to be amerced. If
every sufferer by the accident at Stony
Creek were promptly to sue the
company, the company would see
that 1t was cheaper to employ switch
tenders who would not replace a
switch while train was passing
over it, and the only available guarantee
for safe management would thus be en-
forced. Accidents" like this do not
happen on well-regulated railways, be-
cause the inquest which is made by a
Coroner's jury when disaster occurs is
on such railways made every day by Off
GERS of the company, and mistake, fatal
or not, is never forgiven. On the New
York Central a fiagman whose duty it
was to wave lamp as certain express
train passed his station every night omit
ted this duty once in service of many
months, being overcome by sleep. The
next day he found himself discharged BY
such discipline, and only by such disci-
pline, can the danger of railway travel
be reduced to minimum, and such dis
cipline can be enforced only by the YER
diets of juries awarding exemplary dam
ages in cases where discipline is shown
to have been relaxed.
Another moral this story carries. With
all these injured people it is notable that
only one man was killed outright, and he
was the only man, SO far as appears, who
had jumped from the train for safety. In
the majority of cases passengers will con
suit their own safety best by clinging to
their seats. They may then be injured,
but, whatever the nature of the acct
dent, they are then least likely to lose
either their lives or their limbs.-N Y.
World
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
Industrial.

The Ohio Falls iron works are in
full blast, working $50 men.
Steps have been taken toward estab-
fishing cotton factory in Mobile.
The Rutland (Vt) Industrial Exhibi-
ton closed recently; it was in every way
a success.
The Portland Me-, Industrial Exhi-
bition affords general satisfaction to all
concerned.
A tract of coal and timber land con-
tanning 400 acres in Clearfield County,
Pa, was recently sold for $500
"A company is forming in Missouri
for working the lead deposits in tract
of 4, 600 acres in the Joplin District.
Prizes for the best loaves of bread,
to be made by the students, is new and
hopeful feature in several female semi
naries this year.
There are only two fifty-ton steam
hammers in the world. One is at Krupps
works in Essen, Prussia; the other at the
Government steel works in ST. Peters
burg
Glassware has been ordered in Pitts
burgh by Hamburg firm for the South
American market This is owing to the
American pressed ware being very much
cheaper than the cut ware OF Europe,
while it is almost as good.
Ten thousand tons of the hay crop OF
1873 have been shipped from Belfast, Me.
About $4,000 tons surplus have been ex-
ported from Waldo County, for which
the farmers were paid an average of $l5
per ton. 1t went to Boston and Southern
ports.
The tobacco industry is making fair
progress in California. A company at
Gilroy have planted several hundred
acres of plants, and recently sent to mar
ket for the first time a consignment OF
$1,000 cigars and 5000 pounds OF to-
bacco.
The value of the imports from Great
Britain to the United States during the
1rst three months of this year was $685.
99,270, a falling off of $4,216, TAO COM
pared with the corresponding period in
1873, when the imports amounted to $751;
1900.
San Francisco purposes opening an
grand industrial exhibition in August,
for which large building is being erect
ed. Exhibitors will be supplied with
motive power free of charge, and are in
vited to apply for space before the 10th
of July.
Porous blocks of charcoal, for the
nltration of water, have proved much
superior to the loose charcoal system,
and they are now an article of extensive
manufacture. The purest animal char.
coal is first reduced to fine powder and
Is then mixed with tar and other COM
oustible materials also in state OF fine
powder. This mass is kneaded into a
plastic condition with liquid pitch. and
Is afterward nodded into blocks of any
required size or shape. These nodded
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
Cabbage as q Field Crop.

THE value of the cabbage as food for
stock is rarely considered. Yet as fod-
der crop to be consumed in summer when
the freshness of the pastures is past, or
as green winter fodder for young stock,
fattening stock, milk cows or sheep, we
know of none better. The value of the
cabbage as compared with other fodder,
known to be of the greatest excellence,
may be seen by the following statement
of the composition of the various sub
stances here mentioned; for instance,
there is in LOCO parts of
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
CURRENT PARAGRAPHS.
Religious and Educational.

Western Reserve College, noted as
conservative, has admitted three young
ladies to its freshman class.
plain attire is earnestly recommended
- tho nupils of the Pittsburgh Female
College by its authorities.
In Rome two Protestant churches,
both Episcopalian, are making rapid
nrogress toward completion.
Deep humility is strong bulwark,
and II is only as we enter into 1t that we
find safety and true exaltation.
Prof Douglass C. Griffin, A. NJ, a
rroduate of Dartmouth, has been elected
Professor at Alcorn University.
AT Wooster College, Ohio, the fem
mime students, it is said, equal the mas
cuIine ones in mathematics as well as In
languages.
The Catholic Bishop of Wisconsin
hos decided that all members of the
church belonging to the Changers must
withdraw from the order or leave the
church.
1T has been concluded to establish the
nroposed Southwestern University at
Jackson, Tenn. The building will be be-
gun in September.
Lawrence University, Wis, has just
bestowed an LII d. upon Mr.. Geo. Ripley,
New York, and ID. d. upon the Rev. j..
o. Peck, of Chicago.
The Boston School Committee recent
" elected Mr.. Edwin p. Seavers, a
graduate of Harvard, to the post of
Master of the Boys High School OF that
city.
with Commencement at the Lafayette
College were held. The Baccalaureate
address was delivered by Rev. +. L..
Robbins, of Philadelphia.
A movement has been begun in
Michigan TO collect $50, 900 to endow the
Michigan Female Seminary, that sum to
he called the "Fisher Fund" in honor
of the Principal of the institution.
Gods greatness flows around our in
completeness" and the preacher who
laws hold of it, bringing it within reach
of struggling and despairing men, shall
never lack hearers or rejoicing converts.
"A call has been made upon the young
Presbyterians of New York for the pur-
pose of discussing and recommending
ways and methods of making the work
of laymen in the church more effective.
A grand Sabbath school jubilee is to
be held in Cleveland soon. Preparations
are now making for it, and already the
committee have received reports from
schools representing over 5000 scholars.
The Free Church of Scotland has
done nobly in the sustentation scheme.
1t reports an increase over last years re-
ceipts of SO, 200. The entire receipts OF
the Free Church are reported at 3d.
$4,000
Thirty Chinese students are ex-
pected to arrive in this country shortly,
and those who have been studying in this
country for two years past will enter sci
entific schools and colleges as soon as
they are prepared to do so.
The Catltoltc World claims that there
are at least $50, 900 girls in schools pre-
sided over by nuns of the Roman Cath
Ole Church in the United States, and that
at least 10000 of these are poor children,
educated free of expense.
AT the meeting lately of the Western
Advisory Committee of the National Bap-
tist Educational Commission, it was
stated that the property of Baptist
seminaries is worth $1,50O,00O. The
amount they need is altogether $2,69O,-
600.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
Foreign Gossip.

Don Alfonso was wounded In the arm
in one of the recent engagements with the
Republicans.
The subject of the prize poem of the
French Academy for 1875 is Living
stone"
A son of De Groot, the Minister for
Belgium, accidentally shot and killed
himself at Yokohama, June 10.
In two engagements with Formosans
the Japanese were victorious, and nearly
all the southern tribes surrendered.
The small pox is very prevalent and
fatal at Kioto. Between October and
April 1000 people died of that malady
The Prince of Wales, in a late speech,
referred to his early inclination to adopt
profession, and his especial leaning to-
ward the Bar Which bar?
"A costly monument has just been
erected in the parish churchyard of
Hughenden to the memory of the late
Viscountess Beaconfeld, wife Of Mr..
Disraeli
English shipbuilders are beginning to
raise the cry of " foreign competition" in
the hitherto almost British monopoly of
iron ship manufacture. France is now
treading on her heels.
1t is said that Mr.. John Forster's next
work is likely to be biography OF
Swift, for which he has collected valu-
able mass of materials, including not a
few unpublished letters of the famous
Dean.
Investigation was being prosecuted
in the case of the japanese officials who
are accused of having illegally entered
the ground of the British Legation at
Tokei, to arrest member of the Lega-
ton. No decision had been reached.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23
Miscellaneous.

Without rich heart wealth is an
ugly beggar.
Women have more heart and more
Imagination than men.
Ignorance gives a sort of eternity to
prejudice and perpetuity to error.
To have ideas is to gather. TO
think is to weave them into garlands.
New York prohibitionists think that
they can muster $4,000 votes next fall
TIE most brilliant fortunes are often
not worth the littleness required to gain
them.
he spanking period is appropri-
ately called the palny days OF child
hood.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

FRENCH CREAM CAKE. Sugar, one tea
cupful; -four, two teacupfuls; milk, one.
half teacupful; eggs, three; baking pow.
der, one ne, ,easp9Snf,u gake like Jelly ie,ly
done, split open with a sharp knife and
place one above another, having the
crust down, with mock-cream between
each layer, made thus: One pint boiling
milk, beat well and stir in two eggs one
cup of sugar, two tablespoonful OF
corn-starch, and lastly add one-half
teacupful of butter. This cake is better
two or three days old. 1t makes very
nice dessert. -Rural Neao Yorker.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

POTATO CHoPs. Boil and mash some
nice mealy potatoes, then with one or
two wellbeaten eggs make them into a
paste, work it well, dust it over with
-four and roll out. Take some nice thin
neck of mutton or lamb chops, carefully
trim off the fat, pepper and salt them on
both sides, cut the paste into shape,
cover over like puff, pinch the edges
and fry of light brown they look bet
ter if about an inch Of the bone is left
visible.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

blocks are then exposed to great heat, by
which means all the combustible ingre-
dents are burnt out, leaving the pure
carbon in a solid form.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

A COUPLE recently married at Taunton,
Mass, has been counting thirty years,
having been affianced before the birth OF
the clergyman who united them.
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

80 What are you doings" said father
to q SON who was tinkering at an old watch.
Improving my time, SIR
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

Considering the excess of phosphoric acid,
which is the most valuable of all the con-
stituents of the ash, the cabbage is seen
to be quite equal to sugar-beets as fod-
der, while this excess gives to it special
value for young and growing and milk
ing animals,
Again, if we compare the amount of
valuable organic matter contained in
clover and cabbage, we find the follow
ing, viz, in 100 parts of
Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1874-07-23

Kindness 10 the golden chain by
which society Is bound together.
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-06-26

We don't see that a single new Presi-
Dental candidate has been developed in
Congress during the past session. We
don't SEE that the old hack aspirants have
done anything TO extend their prospects.
Jones?-his Welsh birth is his despair.
Butler ALIAS he does not now loom up
sublimely as he must desire at this season.
Carponter?-his star has gone glimmer-
ing. Blaine?-he does not behold such
brilliant sunshine as erst he did.
killing ?-he hadan hour when Nature
smiled, but now bis sky is overcast.
Cameron ?-he must BY this time be
octogenarian. Logan ?--he never had
any Presidential chance. Mortor?-he's
not killed by any means, but well wait
To see how he looks by-and-hy. We were
in hopes that some of the new members
of Congress, who have had their opportu-
nifty during the session, would tower up
like the heaven-piercing Matterhorn,
guided by the sunshine of thought, and
with the addition of blazing volcano of
eloquence at the top. We have watched
for them patiently and YEARLY but, alas!
not once have we been delighted with
any such spectacle. We were assured
by not less than hundred newspapers,
and at least huadred Congressional
Districts, that the e district, were sen ling
great men To Congress, from whom
the world would hear when they got the
chance to speak. "le gawds," las
Caesar said, where are they and whence
these briny tears that drip from the burn.
ing eyes of blasted hope Cincinnati
Commercial
The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1874-06-26
Fire mt Ricl,m, ond Kentucky.

A destructive fire occurred at Rich.
mond on Sunday night last. 1t com.
menced about nine o'clock at night in
the livery stable attached to the Webster
House, and provender and three horses
were consumed, also a stage coach and
several other vehicles. The fire spread
to the carriage factory of Mr.. Schmidt,
which. together with NUMBER Of new
'buggies, material, etc, were consumed.
The Webster House caught FIRE from
this and soon became a heap of ruins.
Mrs. Webster, the proprietress, LOST
nearly all her furniture. From this the
fire swept on to the row Of business
houses on First street, and destroyed
them all. Sparks were b.own from this
point to house on the corner of Main
street. The h fuses Oft. T Smith, c. ID.
Pottle and Shackelford IL Ham were
also burned A number Of law and
medical Offices were burned. The los
will foot up over $40, 900, with insurance
for over $4,000. The fire is thought
to have been the work of an incendiary,
but as it caught in the hay loft, we
should not fear to guess that a'pipe or a
cigar had something to do with it. The
losses, with four exceptions, falls upon
those who are abundantly able to bear
them. If there had been a single fire
engine, or FIRE extingueher in the town,
the only houses burned would have been
the stable where the fire commenced,
and perhaps it might have been saved.
We presume the citizens Of Richmond
will now make an effort to supply their
town with an engine.