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THE provisions of the new postal
law appear to be lily understood
throughout the country, and much
annoyance is caused publishers.
Sections 5, 6 and I are the import
ant ones to the publishers and sub
scribers Of weekly papers and are as
follows:
SEC. 5. That on and after the lst
day of January, 1875, all newspapers
and periodical publications from a
known Office of publication or news
agency, and addressed-to regular sub
scribers or news agents, postage shall
be charged at the following rates
On newspapers and periodical publ
cations, issued weekly and oftener, 2
cents a pound and fraction thereof;
less frequently 3 cents a pound and
fraction thereof.
SEC. 6. That on and after the LIST
day of January, 1875, upon the re-
ceipt of such newspapers or periodi-
cal publications at the Office of mail
ing, they shall be weighed in bulk,
and postage paid thereon by a spe-
cial adhesive stamp, to be devised
and furnished by the Postmaster Gen.
eral, which shall be affixed to such
matter, or to the sack containing the
same, or upon a memorandum of such
mailing, or otherwise, as the Post
master General may, from time to
time, provide by regulation.
SEC. Z. That newspapers, one copy
to each actual subscriber residing
within The county aUhere The same are
printed, an SoboLe or IN part, and pub
lished, shall go free through the mails;
but the same shall not be delivered
at letter carrier Offices or distributed
by carries unless postage is paid there
an as by law provided.
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Our streets within a mile of the
conaagration r crowded with teams
Of everv description, loaded 10 their
utmost capacity with household goods
Although store-keepers who are 50
fortunate as to secure teams are en-
deayoring to save their most valua.
able sto ok, wherever vacant space
north Of the fire can be found it is at
once filed with goods of all descrip-
tions and varieties. Men, women
and children are doing all they can
to save their little all and bring 1t
to some place of safety. The fire
from this on will burn up as much in
five minutes as it has previously
done in fifteen, considering the value
in dollars and cents. The heat is
very great, and no doubt in addition
70 pecuniary losses we will have to
mourn the loss of lives, rs it is next
to impossible for a fire of this magni-
tude and fury to burn through as
closely a settled district without hu-
man sacrifice.
10 O'Clock p. Mas was expected
in the previous despatch, the fire
swept into and over the elegant
First Baptist Church, on Wabash ave-
nue.. and what was this evening be-
fore shutdown one of the most elegant
and most costly church ediices in our
city is now q smoulGering heap OF
ruins. As it was very evident from
about $50 P. NJ. that u Postofiice
building was doomed, General Me-
Arthur, the Postmaster, made ar
engagements at once to remove the
mails to a place of safety, and
all needed teams were at once pressed
into service by him, and by 8 O'Clock
the last loaded wagon left the bull
ding. At ten minutes past 8 O'Clock
the building took fire, and by half
past 8 o'clock it was a mass offames
The wind by s o'clock had almost
died away, which assisted the fire de
partment greatly in becoming mas
ters of the situation. At the corner
where the Postofice was situated, at
Wabash venue and Harrison street
the very point where the previous
great FIRE was stopped, our iremen
seemed to be inspired with superhu-
man efforts to prevent the fire from
spreading into the rebuilt district,
and here it was that'all their encr-
gies were concentrated to bar its
further progress.
The building on the southeast cor
ner was a large brick dwelling house,
and by making a bulwork of this
against the ever oncoming sheets OF
flames, the prospect of holding this
building and saving it thereby pre-
venting the progress of the fire
through to Michigan avenue, was
quite promising at $50 o'clock, where
at the northeast corner of these
streets, occupied by our ~postotfice
was then a mass of flames.
As a very heavy and high brick
building adjoined the p~ostofiice on
the north, there is no doubt that the
spread ofthe ere north of Wabash
avenue from this point has been
checked.
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ANEW and startling crime has made
its appearance in Philadelphia lit
tie bov-a son Of Mr.. Christian X.
Ross, one of Philadelpbias most es-
teemed merchants-has been stolen
for the purpose of extorting money
from the father for his recovery. The
Mayor and the entire police force of
the city have been straining every
nerve for the last three weeks TO re-
cover the child and capture the kid
napper, but so far without success.
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THREE telegraph cables are now
in working order across the Atlantic
and a fourth and 9th are soon to be
laid. The competition in this busi-
ness will before long, make commu-
nieation with the old world nearly as
cheap as it is throughout this country.
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At WestfeId, the next town below
Huntington, the island and some low
lands were flooded, but no. great
harm was done.
The total amount Of damage to in.
dividuals and to the town Of Chester.
is estimated at twenty-five thousand
dallars. The latest figures indicate
that the total loss viii reach three
hundred and City thousand dollars
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1t should be remembered that the
ten days assessment business is abol-
ished by the new Constitution, and
all voters must be registered sixty
DAYS before the election. As the
election is to take place on the Sd day
Of November, it will be well for ev-
cry voter to see that he is registered
bv the first day Of September.
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By the breaking away of another
reservoir in Hampshire county, a
large tract of country in Massachu-
sets has again been flooded, and prop
erty Of the value Of hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars has been destroyed.
Fortunately, however, no lives were
this time destroyed.
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THE Democratic ~conferees of the
Twenty-frst Congressional district
Westmoreland, Fayette and Greene
counties-met at the st. Charles,
Pittsburg, on Tuesday last, and nomi-
mated Hon. Jacob Turney, Of Greens
burg, for Congress, on the twenty
sixth ballot. His competitors were
Hon. c. Boyle, Of Fayette, and Hon.
A. Patton, of Greene. If everything
Is harmonious in the ranks Mr.. Tur.
ney will be elected, as the district is
strongly Democratic. Nj. I. is a
gentleman of considerable ability,
and has had experience as a legisla'
tor, having been a member of the
House of Representatives and State
Senate.
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\ FULL and interesting account OF
the great fire in Chicago will be
found in another part Of this paper.
Ii is not nearly so great a calamity
as was the fire three years since, but
its extent and consequences are ap-
palling. The area burned over does
not much exceed fifty acres, and a
majority of the buildings destroyed
were not Of great value, but fully
eight thousand people, principally of
the lowest and worst class, are left
without shelter.
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AT Dubuque last week during a
storm a ball of fire the size of a mans
head descended from the sky into the
centre of the street, directly on the
head of Paul Hennis, and there ex-
ploded with a terrific report. The
hair was burned from his scalp, the
blood oozed from his ears, a cash an
inch and a half long was found I'M
der his chin where tie electric current
had apparently made its exit; the
shock had broken his neck, and his
body was literally Skinned. All down
his back and chest and limbs to the
soles of his feet, the cutiele was peel
cd from the flesh and rolled and curl
ed upon itself, leaving the corpse a
shocking spectacle which those who
saw could never forget.
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A WASHINGTON special says: The
only loss sustained by the govern
ment by the Chicago fire is that oc-
casioned by the burning of the tenn
porary postofice. This loss is esti-
mated by Mr.. Mullet at about 49,
600.
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TIE insurance upon the property
destroyed by the FIRE il Chicago
amounts to 50, 727 ,2sO, and is distrib-
uted among nearly two hundred com
panies. The foreign companies are
the heaviest losers.
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Attempt 70 A-..a.slnate Bisrna c

KIssEN6EN, July l3.-As Prince
Bismarck was driving in the country
towards the Saline Springs, at noon,
to-day, be was fired at by a young
man. The ball grazed his wrist.
The wound is Insignificant. The
would-be assassin was promptly ar
rested. he has not been identified.
At Lao p. NJ. Prince Bismarck drove
through Kissengen and showed him
self to the people. The populace
were with great difficulty prevented
from lynehing the man after his ar
rest.
BERLIN, July l3.-The idemnity
of the would-be assassin of Prince
Bismarck has been established. His
name is Kullman. He belongs TO
Magdeburg, and is a cooper by trade.
He is a member of a Catholic jour
neymeE's society of that city, and has
been observed of late frequently in
the company ola Catholic priest.
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
NEW YORK Lnlv 90. 1874.

NEW YORK, July 20, 1874.
The Fourth of July passed off with
more than the usual number Of acct
dents from those relics of barbarism,
fireworks. The boys of this great
crowded city commenced exploding
fre-crackers, and setting off all sorts
of fireworks, the day before the
Fourth, and they continued it, Ges-
pite the Police, with the most iendish
persistency, till late in the night Of
the great day. Consequently the
papers are full of casualties. The
summary of the accidents" and dis
asters of last Saturday shows some
forty-ive fires in New York and
Brooklyn; more than two score OF
children injured and MANNED in vari-
Gus degrees of hurt-from eyes de-
stroyed to fingers blown away; q riot,
half a dozen ARRAYS, a child burned to
death, and three persons killed. Be
yond these were the thousand minor
disasters unreported to the police,
but which leave their marks in suffer,
ing mutilation of greater or less ex.
tent. One rocket went through q
window in DeKalp avenue, Brooklyn,
and killed a child outright. 1t seems
to me as though this childish habit
of playing with fire on the glorious
Fourth ought to be prohibited by
law. 1t is altogether too dangerous
an amusement. The roofs are al.
ways dry at this season of the year,
and everything combustible is in the
best possible condition to burn. In
such a season, to fill the air with ex-
ploding gun-powder enveloped with
paper, would seem to be a folly very
nearly akin to madness. But SC
strongis habit, that 1 suppose the
dangerous game will go onto the end
of time.
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continues to be a prominent topic Of
discussion. There are thousands up
on thousands Of ours of all degrees,
roaming the city, and any number of
people have been bitten by them.
There have been several well defined
cases of hydrophobia, and several
bitten men have died from sheer
fear, as was evident from the fact that
the dogs that bit them were all shown
not to have been mad at all. In one
case, that OF Mr.. Mccormick, the
symptoms were those Of rabies, the
patient refusing to eat or drink, and
going into commissions, in one of
which be died. The dog who bit
him was kept in a secure place and
never showed the FIRST symptoms of
madness. 1t had probably been
worried till it bit everything that
presented itself. Mccormick DelieV-
ed it to be mad, and it so worked up
on his imagination that be died.
OF course, there are thousands of
cures for the disease promulgated.
One young woman Of Hoboken, who
having been bitten by a mad dog.
was taken with the very worst symp-
toms Of the rabies. A physician was
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NJ

The Mayor, has fallen from his
high position. Elected as q Reform
er, he has filled all the offices in his
gift with men of whom Tweed would
have been proud. And when two of
these men were convicted of NAL
Observation-Disclosures and Gard
ner-and removed Havemeyer with
a blind stupidity not easy to account
for, Immediately re-appoints them.
1t is curious how thoroughly corrup-
ton permeates everything in New
York. When Havemeyer took the
reins, the city breathed with more
freedom. Here was an old merchant,
a man who was supposed to be hon
est, if such a thing was possible, an
honest administration was looked for.
But the thieves got him as they got
his predecessors, and reform is post.
poned till after another election. An
epidemic something like the yellow.
fever that devastated Memphis. is all
that can possibly purify New York.
So long as votes can be bought by
the thousand, and the great city ha;
millions of revenue to be stolen moth.
ing short of an epidemic viii do any
good.
1t is probable that the Mayor vii
be removed. Governor Dix has beer
urged so strongly to do it, and 81
clear a cast "a be made against him
that it seem that nothing can save
him.
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Republican, OuntyTicket.

Republican CO~untyTicket
CONGRESS.
Subject to decision Of District Conference.
w. II. KO0NTZ.
STATE SENATE.
Subject to decision Of District Conference.
E. D. YUTZY.
ASSEMBLY.
WIN. ENDSLEY.
JOSEPH D. MILLER.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY.
JAMES L. PUGH.
COMMISSIONER
OLIVER w. BOYER.
POOR HOUSE DIRECTOR.
SAMUEL TRENT.
AUDITOR
DANIEL S. MILLER.
FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR,
JONATHAN II. FRITZ.
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ORDINANCE.

the following ordinance was by resolution revived:
oRDrSAScE NO. s.
Be It ordained by the Burgess and Town Coun.
ell Of the borough Of Berlin that an annual tax
of one dollar.be imposed on the Owner Of each and
every dog kept within said borough, which shall
be collected by warrant from the owner 10 tho
asual way With other taxes, for the use Of said
b0rOsEh, pro ided, however, that II the owner O
any dog shah on or before the lst day Of January.
in any subsequent year pay to the Treasurer 10.
dog tax, shall be entitled TO a deduction q lel
prompt payment, and such tax shall beOmitted
In the making out Of the annual list to the col
lector.
JAG. J. ZORN,
iulys Burgess.
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on CHRONIC DISEASES
a Large Pamphle. Of IS Pages.

TABLE OF CONTENTS.
On the Nature Of Catarrh.
Nasal Catarrh.
Chronic Sore Throat Laryngiiis.)
Bronchial Affections.
Treatment of Catarrhs.
Durability of Catarrh.
Tubercular Consumption.
Nature of Consumption.
Durability of Consumption.
Treatment of Consumption.
Asthma, or Phthisic.
Durability of Asthma.
Heart Diseases.
Dyspeptic Disorders.
Diseases of the Liver.
Diseases of the Bowels.
Urinary Disorders.
Female Complaints.
ScrofuIa and Skin Diseases.
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ESUL rs
OF
Dr.. Sykes Mode Of Treatment.
Case Of $. II. sitter, Esq.,
OF L~eetOuia, Ohio, sick Fifteen Years,
Disease OF lungs and Heart, Ere
queut HemcrrhaScs. &c.


LEEToSiA, Ohio, December -, $50.
DR.. ]. W. SYKEs-Dear Sir: I feel It my duty
to make a Just acknowledgment 10 you Of the ben
eft l received Of your treatment from April to
September, 1859. When 1 resOrtcd to you 1 had
but little hope Of q recovery, as / had hemOrrhage
of the lungs almost daily during twenty-five
months previous, together with an affection OF the
heart, so that l could not lie on my left side dur
ing q period Of fifteen years. The cough, pain,
and constant oppression of the breast made life d
burden. After taking your treatment for three
months, felt a decided improvement; the henor-
rhagc Of the lungs hadceased altogether; the 0p-
preston Of the breast, cough, &c, were much bet
ter, with a decided improvement Of my general
health: so that l commenced the second course OF
three months treatment With more hope. After
continuing the treatment altogether hFe m0nthsl
l felt myself entirely wen, could lie on either side
and breathe freely. Yet l could hardly believe
the cure a permanent one. But now. Is months
have passed, and no recurrence Of hemOrrhages,
or cough, and 1 have regatned my former weight
50 that l now feel thankful to God and to you for
your invaluable treatment in my case, and shall
not cease TO recommend others similarly afflicted
TO your treatment.
Yours respectfully.
). II. SITLER.
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called in, who iOuDd her IN con-
~vulsions. He at nee inserted the
lancet, taking from her no less
than IS ounces OF blood. This was
the only treatment, and it is asserted
that in FIVE days thereafter the pa
tent was eonTalescent. The various
"msd-stones" in the country have
been sent for; but none of them effect
ed cures. any more than the regulars
have. with this n exception.
Whenever q person has been bitten
by a mad dog that person has died.
ICE.
The ice question is next in impor-
lance to hydrophobia. The whole
business is in the hands Of two or
three companies, and they are as
merciless as monopolists always are.
Taking advantage of the mild winter,
they u up the price of ice from
81, 90 to ST. 80 per hundred, and the
people, as a rule, were compelled to
submit to the extortion. But an
association in Brooklyn decided not
to. They sent an agent to Name,
and he secured ice enough for the
summer, which will be delivered at
the Wallabout Dock at 40 cents per
hundred, and at the door of the buy
err. from wagon, at so cents-and
honest weight, which the monopolies
never thought of doing. As these as
sociations are forming all over the
city, and as Maine is full of ice it is
probable that the companies will have
ice to sell this winter. So mote II.
be.
THE BEECHER-TILToN SCANDAL.
The Beecher Tilton matter remains
as it was. Beecber is as cunning as
a fox. He knews that his church
will sustain him under any circum-
stances, or, rather, that his flock will
not believe the statement made by
Tilton, and he goes on gaily paying
no attention whatever to it. He has
never opened his lips, and does not
intend to. And Tilton is weak in
not using the ammunition be has. He
asserts that the unpublished portion
of the famous confession, is enough
to satisfy the world of Beecher's guilt;
but be does not publish it. Why, no
one can understand, for if he does not
make his case, be stands before the
world a slanderer. He cannot wait
for Nh. Beecher to act-he has gone
so far that to stop now sruin.
People who are in position to know
say that Tilton a convict the great
preacher Of the grossest immoralities,
if be chooses to do it. They say that
he has in his possession documentary
evidence that Beecher did attempt to
debauch not only Mrs. Tilton but
other women in Brooklyn. Ifthis be
so, why does not Tilton give it to the
world? He has made charges in a
vague sort of a way, specifying moth
ing and making nothing direct. He
does not state what it is that Nh.
Beecher has been guilty of-he only
asserts that be has done him a wrong.
Now what the public want is the
particulars. They want to know
what this wrong was. They want to
know, in short, whether Henry Ward
Beecher is or is not, a proper
man to occupy a pulpit in Brooklyn,
and as Mr.. Tilton has said he is not,
they demand that he make good his
statement. And until be does this
he is in a bad position. For the
public believe that there is some
thing in the matter that holds him
back and prevents him from saying
all that he could. Itis not q pretty
quarrel ash stands.
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Home Estimation Of d sykes

A~mongothers received hy US, we take pleasure
in transferring to cur c0iums the following testi-
mopials from the editors Of the Pittsburgh Chris
HGa Advocate and United Prss6yteriGA-
-PITTsBURGH. May15, 1861.
Publisher Religious Telescope:
DrAR BROTHER: take pleasure in stating. for
vour Information, that Or. J. W. sykes, o. this
city. Is a reliable and skillfal medical practitioner
and Justly distinguished in his speeialty-the
treatment Of the lungs. He viii not dishonor any
words Of commentator you may make In his in
terest In the Religious Telescope.
Respectfully,
:. II. NESBIT,
Editor Pittsburgh Cirisfiaa Adr0eafe.
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Inyalids desiring truthful information concern
ing the above, and other Chronic Affections,
should send for this book, and
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is the fruit Of over twenty years Of exclusive at
tentiOn 70 Chronic affections, and an experience
embracing many thousands Ofcases, and has been
deemed past hope. 1t consists in selecting for
each ease the remedial means best adapted 70 its
cure. His patients have the benefit Of every new
discovery and theory of value. His remedial re-
sources include medical inhalati0ns both Of va
pOr and Of at0mized fluids, together with tonic,
cleansing and regulating medicines Of unsurpass-
ed efficacy, and hygienic and mechanical rene
dies Of great value.
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THIRD DISPATCH.

SPRINeFIELD, July 13.-At Mid
dlefeld switch two %unoccupied HOUSES,
one of them new, owned by West,
Bulkley & Co., paper manufacturers,
were swept away, and also an old
red house used as a pay Office when
the railroad was building. Several
barns and out buildings were also
carried off at the switch, and farms
and gardens were badly damaged.
The wooden mill midway between
Middlefeld and Chester, owned by
John West, Jr., of Pittsfield was not
injured, but both ends of his wooden
dam and the head of his race
way were destroyed. A tenement
house, occupied by the family of Leon
Jauzaux, was swept away. He was
absent, and bis wife and mother-in-
law and four children were, with con-
siderable difficulty, persuaded to
leave the house just before it went
of.
The Village of Chester owes its
escape from an almost entire destruc-
iton, to the fact of there being so
many stone-arch bridges above that
place, by which the flood was stayed
for a time, accommodating in little
ponds to be let down in instalments
on the village below. A second cause
was the width OF. the valley a mile
above the village, where the waters
spread out somewhat, as they did in
the Mill river foods on the Florence
meadows
At Huntington there was but lit
tie damage done. TIE food having
mostly spent its force before it reach
ed there. Some Of the farms were
flooded, and the water broke over
the bulkhead of the Highland Manu-
featuring Companies mills, swept
through the lower story and did
some damage to the finished goods
stored there.
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TIE

1t is hotter than has been known
here for years.
PTETRo.
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Waste No More Time

on Patent Medicines, OF Inhalation, OF Water
Doctors, or many partial or ineticien treatment