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The union. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1877-18??, 1877-07-19
FAIR.

It's very much desired that
all our people prepare sssomeN
thing for the Fair on Sept, 26th,
9th and 28th, next. The prem
iums are very liberal and all
cash, and not only for the per-
sons sake but for the good name
of our country. All should take
an interest IN this matter.
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ASK YOURSELF THESE CUES
TIONS.

Are you a respondent sufferer from
Sick headache, Habitnal CoStiveness,
Palpitation of the Hearth Have you
Dizziness of the HeadS Is your Ner-
Gus System dcpressed9 Does your Blood
circulate badly' Have you Cough :
Low Spiri,s9 Coming up of the food
after eating9 &C, &c. All of these
and much more are the direct results Of
Dyspepsia, Liver Complain and lugdi
gestion. GREENS AUGUST FLOWER is
now acknowledged by all Druggists to
be positive cure. 100000 bottles
were given away in the U. S. through
Drugg SITS TO the people as trial. Two
doseswil satisfy anyperson of its wond.
erful quality in curing all forms OF In
digesttol. Sample bottles 10 cts. Re
guIar size rs cts. Sold positive by all
first class Druggists in U. 5.
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THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY
q EN- IN Il
''YibratOr"
ThreShing Mac hines,
CONSISTING OF

CONSISTING OF
Complete Horse Power Establish
ment with 24.incb, 2S.inch and 80 inch
Cylinders, and 9, &, 10 or 10 Horse.
Power to match.
Two stylos Of Mounted Horse Pow.
ers: Our improved Triple Gear" and
imp owed "spur Speed" (Woopbury
Style, both kinds mounted on four
wheels and fpecial sizes made for 9, 8,
10 or 10 horses.
Complete Steam Power Outfits; our
unrivaled vibrator" Separators made
expressly for Steam Powers with go
inch Cylinder and 4S'mch Separating
cleaning parts, proportionately capac>
ious and full of business" also our
matches Steam Thresher Engines, of
our own make, beyond rivalry in Pow
er, Durability, Easy Firing, Beauty Of
Desi o, Perfect Workmanship, Elegant
Finish complete 10 every detail and In
all respects fit companion for our cell
elbrated Steam Separator.
Our vibrator" Separator "alone
make expressly for Steam Power, and
10 match to any and all other make Of
Engines also perfectly adapted to 20
with any and all other make OF Horse
Powers, four sizes ranging from 80 to
4S inches width OF Separating parts.
The Worldwide Reputation of our
matchless vibrator" Threshers for
rapid thresbing perfect saving, admir-.
able cleaning on wastage, cleanliness
economy in repairs, durability, ease of
Management and general superiority
In various other respects. is now fully
established recognized,
The Acknowledged Head and Front
Of Grain Threshers, abe especially sup.
erior if gain be damp or wet, while for
Flax, Timothy and like Seeds, on other
machines can truthful claim any CON-
pariSOn.
The Genuine VIBRATOR Threshers
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DIED.-Hiram P. Daily, died
to. day at about ten o'clock. He
has been ailing for some time His
disease was caused probably by
the allowing bowl" He was a
generous, kind obliging, neighbour
a good citizen and a firm friend
Peace to his ashes.
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NEEDLES, Alta 0HMENTS, Oh

NEEDLES, Alta 0HNENTS, OIL,
The Wheeler & Wilson Office
is the place to get first-clas$
Needles tor ALL Machines, Pure
Sperm Oil, Attachments and
Parts, all of which will be sold
at the lowest prices possible
These goods Except oil) can be
sent by mali, which we make a
speciality. We sell all kinds of
needles at so cents a dozen in
dozen lots, 5 cents each FIR q
less quantity Except Wilcox u
Gibbs, which are rs cents a
dozen Write plainly your ad-
dress and the kind Of goods you
want. Always state what ma
chine you have, and in ordering
needles give the sizes wanted
and inclose with the order the
price and you will get them
without delay. II you have an
old Wheeler & Wilson machine
you can get it repaired to sew as
well as when new for SO. I'm
screw the head from the table
and send bobins and hemmers.
Call at, Or address all orders
WHEELER b WILSON OFFICE,
Greenevilie, Te n.
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r. n M % a, ne 8

/ will mall Free) the recipe for pre-
pairing a simple Vegetable IBALM that
will remove TAN FRECKLES PM
PILES and Blotehes, leaving the skin
soft, clear and beautiful; also instruc
tons for producing luxuriant growth
of hair on bald head or smooth face
Address Ben. Yandelf & Co., Box 5191
No. 5. WOoste- st., N. Y.
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80 H m S @ M s
Commercial Collage ,
80 & 212 N. Third Street,
1st Builuing South of the Post Office
ST. LOUIS.
Open Day and Night all the year.

81. LOUlo.
Open Day and Night all the year.
All Of the branches Of o Business
Education taught.
Independent Department for the
English Branches. t'' f
Higher Mathematics, German, and
Elocutlon.
Photography taught personally or
per mail. @
For a Full Cou Sc of
Double Entry Booking
keeping in all its formswlth
CommercialC orespondenceS2..o
For a Full Commercial
Course, embracing all the
Branches of a Practical
Business, Education, Life,
Scholarship. $500. 5000
Reference made to thousands OF
students who have completed under
our instruction.
For Circulars giving NIL information
concerning time TO complete board
course Of instruction, etc. Address.
j. W. JOHNSON, Prest.
OUT THIS ADVERTISEMENT OUT
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TEA AGENTS. WANTED

We wish an gent, male or female in
each town of this county, to get up
Clubs ar ong families, hotels factories
NC, FOR the sale of our Teas and offer
very lioeral over 90 years. and afford
to send a better article for the money
than any ether house in New York.
Our Teas are put up in one pound
packages with the name and price
printed on each. Address with refer
ences for terms and blank for Clubs, or
send us an order for a sample lot which
we will forward at lowest Club price,
G, O.. D.
LONDON, New York & CHINA TEA Co.,
~ Church St., or, P. D. Box STA N. Y.
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L0OAL ITEMS

j. G. Lane has purchased the
old West corner, store and dwell
ing house.
The wall of the house at the
rear of Lanes Bros store is fnish-
and they are covering it.
-Messrs. Fry and Nugent .re
doing a lively busine IS in the manu-
facture of shingles. They sell
them very reasonable.
North Carolina has paid for
fertilizers within the last twelve
months So, 900, 200; Georgia ST.
100000; Virginia probably more.
Mr.. W. II. H. Lane, agent
for Mr.. G. G. Green, for the
Southern States, was in town Tues.
day. He is looking none the
worse for wear. His wife accom-
panied him on the present trip.
They staid over one day and visits
ed the grave OF ex-P President john
son and other sights of Greeneville.
Old Wheeler & Wilson's
made to sew as we'll as when new
for 20, or liberal exchanges made.
T. R. BURaIE, Ag't.
The Health Reformer for
June is on our table. As usual,
its pages are replete with choice
inform alton on many important
topics pertaining to health. The
liberal and practical character of
Its contents makes this the most
popular of all the health jour,
nails. Published at Battle
Greek, Mich.
Ladies and Gentlemen, are
invited to call al the Wheeler &
Wilson Office, corner WiIlhoit's
block, and examine the New Sys-
tenn Sewing Machines with
Strait 81 Curved Needles, before
buying any others. Prices and
terms reasonable. All the latest
attachments furnished without
extra charge, Machines deliver.
ed and full instructions given in
thei. use.
T. r. BUReIE, Ag't.
We have received the bien
nial report of State Comptroller
j. II. Gaines. 1t includes sever
al items not heretofore within
the purview of that office, chief
of which is the matter ofrailroad
taxation. The railroad compan-
les accepting the provision of
the law of 1875, to commute all
tax by paying a fixed sum,
have paid into the State Treas
ury, as taxes for 1875, $40, 536. 10,
Those companies that have not
accepted this provision have
been assessed, just as other
property is; aud they having APP
pealed to the Courts, decision
has just been reached in the Su
preme Court favorable to the
State. So these recusant roads
will have to "pay up The
Comptroller estimates the neces
sary disbursements for 1877, ex
elusive ofinterest on the public
debt, at $707, 200.
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NOTICE.

I To all Persons who have claims
against the United States for
Mail SevicerendeIeG before the
Late war.
If such persons will communi
cate with undersigned they can
hear of something that will be
TO the interest,
w. A. HARMON.
Greeneville, Tenn.
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-Geraniums and tabe roses
love to bloom in Greeneville.
UNION CAMP MEETING.

The Commit.ee:-Brot. w. l.
Dodd, D R. Britton, s. X. Brooks
e. M. Rambo, d. M. Dobson, ].
A. Galbraitb, A. J. Alexander,
G. NJ. Smith, Thos. Lane, ST.,
VIM. N. Bell, W. B. Harrington
and L. W. Upton will meet Thurs
day 18th, 1877, at Alexander's
Mill east of Grecneville some four
miles for the purpose of making
arrangements about the grounds
ard setting the time for meeting.
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Y0sff YE.ps BnFURE TIRE PUBLIC.
DR.. G. MPTANE'S
Celebrated American
WORM SPECIFIC
OR
VERMIFUGE.
SYMPTOMS OF WORMS.


THE countenanceis palean leaden-
colored, with occasional fiushes, or
a eircumscribed spot on one or both
cheeks the eyes becomedull thepu-
pills dilste an azure semicircle runs
along the lower eyelid ; the nose is ir-
ritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds;
aswelling ofthe upper lip occasional
headache, with humming or thr0b-
bing of the ears an unusual secretion
of saliva; Shiny or furred tonguei
breath very foul, particularly in the
morning; appetite variable, some
times voracious, with gnawing sem
sation ofthe stomach, at others, entire
lygone fieeting painsin the stomach;
occasional nausea and vomiting vio-
lent pains throughout the abdomen;
bowels irregular, at times costive;
stools Shiny not unfrequently tinged
with blood belly swollen and hard;
urine turbid respiration occasionally
difficult, and accompanied by hie-
cough cough sometimes dry and con-
vulsive uneasy and disturbed sleep,
with grinding of the teeth; temper
variable, but generally irritable, &c.
Whenever the above symptoms
are found to exist,
DIR. c. MCLANE'S VERMIFUGE
will certainly effect cure.
1T DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY
in any form tits an innocentpr prepare
ten, not capable Of doing tie slight
est injury to the most tender infant.
The genuine DR.. McLANE's VER.
MFUoE bears the signatures of c.
MCLANE and FLEMING Bros. on the
Wranoer -:O.-.
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TOGeMayGagTIlEs

The advertiser having been porman-
emily cured of that dread disease. Con
sumption, by a simple remedy, is anxiS
Gus o make know to bis fellow suffer
era the means OF cure. To all who de-
sire it, a copy OF the prescription used,
Gree of CHARGE, with the directions for
preparing and using the same, which
they will find a SURE CURE for Con-
SUMPTION, Asthma Bronchitis &c.
Parties wishing the prescript'o on will
please address Rev. o. A. WILSON,
1914 Penn St., Williamsburg N. Y.
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ERRGaa Oh YOU ER.

A GENTLEMAN who suffered for yea
II form Nervous Debility, Premature
Decay aad all in discretion will, for
the sake of suffering humanity send
free to oil who need it, the recipe and
directions for makIngthe simple remedy
by which hewas cured. Sufferers wish
ing to profit by the advertisers exper~
fence can do 80 By addressing In per
feet confidence.
JOHN B. GORDON, AZ Cedar st.. N. Y
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ESTABLISHED 1865.
GILMORE & CO.,
AT TORNgYS AT LAW

AU JOURNEYS AJ LAW
SUCCESSORS TO CHAPMAN, HosMER CO.,
500 f Street, Washington, DC.
AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS.
Patents procured in all countries. No
FEES IN ADVANCE. No charge unless
the patent is granted. No fees for max
ing preliminary examinations. No adj
ditional fees Eof obtaining and conduct.
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gwen to Interference Gases before the
Patent Office, Extensions befOre Con.
gress Infringement Suits in different
States and all litigation appeItaining TO
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MENTs.
Claims prosecuted in the Supreme
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mission and all classes of war claims
before the Executive Departments.
PENSIONS.
All officers soldiers andsaiors wound
ed. or injured in the late war, however
slightly can obtain pension.
UNITED STATES GENERAL LAND OF.
FICE.
Contested land cases, private land
claims, mining pre- emption and home.
stead cases prosecuted before the Gems
eral Land Office and Department a
the Interior.
OLD BOUNTY LAM WARRANTS.
The last Report OF the Commissioner
Of the General Land Office show 1884,
500 Of Bounty Land Warrants outstand.
inc These were issued under act Of
1853 and prior acts. We pay cash for
them. Send by registered letter. Where
assignments are imperfect we give in
structions 10 perfect
Each department of our business is
conducted in q separate bureau, under
tie charge of the same experienced
parties employed by the cid firm.-
PROMPT attention to all business entrust'
ed to us is thus secured.
Addr ess, GILMORE & CO.,
p. o Box. Washington, d. 44.C
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prophecy regarding the coming
weather
JULY.
1 to 3-Clear and pleasant.
8 to Rains.
7 to 9--Fair.
10 to 13- Heavy rians.
10 to IS Generally fair.
Is to 18-Heavy rains, severe
storms.
18 to 21-Generally clear.
81 to Is Heavy rains.
25 to 26-Clear.
26 to 90 Threatening rain and
wind. storms.
20 to 31-Clear.
AUGUST.
to g. Heavy rains and
storms.
a to Fair.
7 to 10-Severe storms.
10 to 13--Clear.
Is to 16-Threatening storms,
IL to 1S-Clear.
18 to 24--Cloudy and liable to
frosts north of 40th parallel.
25 to 2S-ThreateDing weather
and rains.
20 to 31-Cloudy and rains
storms.
The warmest days will be tbeI
Cd, 9th, 18th, Goth, 26th and 8Oth;l
the coolest, the 4th, 18th, 10th |
and 22d.--Chicaqo Inter. Ocean. !
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teSOOA Month certainty to sny
eDOUUperson selling our LETTER
Book. No press brush or water used,
Sample Book worth $500 sent free
Send stamp for circular. Excelsior o
II Tribune Building, hicag o.
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n Great Offer d WE We will y i

- &reat UHerld u Mi n N q
these Hard Times dispose Of 100 pianos
and organs, new and second. hand Of
first class maker including WATERS
at lower prices for cash or Installment
or to let until paid for than ever before
offered WATERS GRAND SQUARE
and UPRIGHT PIANOS g ORGANS
1ncluding their New Souvenir and
Boudoir) are the Best Made. 2 Octave
Pianos $3.50. u do SLIGO not used a
wear. "2" Stop Organs $50. 36tops S5s
I Stops 6S, 8 Stops $75. 10 Stops. 10
Stops $50. IL Stops 500 cash, not used
a year, in perfect order and warrant.
Local and Travelling Agent Wanted.
Illustrated Catalogues Mailed. A lib
e.al discount to Teachers, Minste'v and
Church. Sheet music at half price.
HORACE WATETS & SONS, Manu-
facturs and Dealer 40 East 14th st.,
Union sqaure, N Y
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KEEP AN EYE ON TICE.

Let the public keep an eye on
Tice now AID see if his prognostic-
atoms come true. This it his
prophecy regarding the coming
weather {:
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DIR. q. MCLANE'S
LIVERPILLS.

These Pills are not recommended
remedy for all the ills that flesh
is heir to- but in affections of the
liver, and in all Bilious Complaints,
Dyspepsia, and Sick Headache, or
diseases of that character, they stand
without rival.
AGUE AND FEVER.
No better cathartic can be used pre-
paratory to, or after taking Quinine
AS simple purgative they are un>
equaled.
BEWARE OF INVITATIONS.
Thegenuine are neversugarcoated.
Each box has rcd wax seal on the
lid, with the impression DR.. Mp
LANES LIVER PILLS.
Each wrapper bears thesignatures
OF G. MCLANR and FILMING Bros.
Seld by all respectable druggists
aad eon ntry storekcspsrs generally.
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REvol Eg aeAHTRID3Es fer So,
A fine nickle plated, seven shot peck
ct revolver; iirstcclass article. Sen:
G. o. D., or on receipt OF price. q. W
WILLIS, P. o. Box 2,718, N. 7.
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GLENNs sULPHURsoAP thorough
" cures Disease of the skin. 25c. per
cake; Box q cakes) zoe. Sent by mail
Pre- paid on receipt OF price. O. N.
CnrrLESToN, Prop'r, 2 Sixth Avenue.
New YORK.
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THE BEST OFFERl
We will sell during these hard times
$500 PA 10 for $3.50

And all other styles in the same pros
portion including Grand Square Up
rignt--all first class-sold direct to the
p ,ople at factory prices. No agents; no
commissions; no discounts. These
= Amos made one of the finest displays
at the Centennial Exhibition and were
unanimous Y recommended for the
HIGHEST HoNoRs Regularly incorpor~
atea Manufacturing Co.-New Manu-
facturory -one of the largest and lin
est IN the world. The Square Grands
contain Mathushek's new patent Du>
plex Overstrung Scale, the greatest i'm
provement in the history OF Piano
max ing. The Uprights are the finest
in america. Pianos sent on trail.
Don't fail to write for Illustrated and
Descriptive Catalogoe, mail free.
MENDELSSOHN PIANO CO.,
No. SO Broadway, N. Y.
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One atnion.
RAIL ROAD TINE TABLE.

RAIL ROAD TIME TABLE.
MAIL TRAM, No. /, WEST.
Arrives. .......... .7:57, A. NJ
'Departs... .......... 1908, n. NJ
MAIL TRAIN, No. 2 EAST.
Arrives. ..........,........ 7:87, p. n.
Depafts. ......s...... 1885, r. NJ.
PASSENGER TRAIN, No. 8, WEST.
Arrives. ........,~...... 1907, A. NJ
Departs. .....,...........1 1908, A. NJ.
PASSENGER TRAIN, No. 4, EAST.
Arrives. .3:25, p. NJ.
Departs. ................. 1925. p. NJ.
The union. [volume] (Greeneville, Tenn.) 1877-18??, 1877-07-19

j. G. Lane has purchased the
old West corner, store and dwell
ing house.
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

o6 FANCY CARDS all styles with
Honame lOcts., post paid. j B. Hust,
ed, Nassau. Rens, N. Y,
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hundred thousand dollar bills to count
and watch me closely, and you would
only find seventy-five thousand when
returned them"
''Signor," exclaimed Mr.. Webster,
with lively animation, ''there are bet
ter magicians here than you, for there
would not be $4,000 left when they
had finished counting
Once, certainlv,th famous magician
was non'plussed. A bright boy of ten
years was assisting him upon the plat.
form, when the professor proposed to
pass every piece of silver into his
pockets. The boy shook his head, de.
claring that the ''signor could not do
that.''
"Why not :" asked Signor Blitz.
!'Because I've only one pocket, -
chirruped the child, land that's got a
big hole in it,
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against a fat black woman carrying q
pitcher of milk. lie looked up and
exclaimed:
"Why, Charlotte!''
''Why Master Charles!" said Char.
lotte, who had slipped out of the back
door just when our boy left the front
steps. and had never lost sight of him
for single moment.
80, Charlotte" repeated Charlie,
bursting into tears and Selling her
hands, regardless of the milk pitcher,
which, fortunately, was empty, ''do
you think mamma will ever take me
back again!''
"Just try, honey; I'd go and ask
her right away" said good Charlotte,
her own eyes rather misty. - No.
Charles mother was sitting by her
work table, when she felt two arms
around her neck, a face wet with tears
against her own, and voice, choked
with sobs, said: ,4- g..
20 mother, If you'll only forgive
me. and take me back, I'll never want
to run away again-never!''
She held her boy close to her happy,
thankful heart, and kissed him many
times. Her experiment had succeeded
and that was the last that was ever
heard of Charlie running away.
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- : : y ~ -77-7-777 y : y :
THE MESSENGER.

Napoleon viewed the field
With thoughtful brow.
spray God no arm may yield
Or fail me nOw.'
Forth from the bullet-storm
There flew steed
At lightning speed
Bearing a boys Slight form.
They gained the Emperor's side
mid shot and shell;
The boy, with eager pride
Good news to tell,
Slipt down, but trembling pressed.
In deathly pain
The flowing name
Before his wounded breast.
20 Emperor, Gods grace
This day prevails,
In yonder market-place
Your banner sails!
Forever, from this hour,
We hold the townw
His face dropped down
As droeps dying flower.
The Emperor's eyes flashed wild,
Then sank again.
"What's this You're wounded, child,
You're faint with pain"
"Nay, SIRE" he smiling said,
''Not wounded, killed ~
And white and chilled
The sOldier-child fell dead.
A kingly hand closed down
The sweet young eyes.
''Be his hero's crown,
Who nobly dies"
Thus spake the Emperor.
All, long will poets tell
How rode and tell
This brave young messenger.
Mary Ainge De We're, jim Youths Companion
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Appropriations by the Minnesota Legislature.

The standing appropriations and those
made by the late Legislature cover the
following items, the aggregate being
1884, 1928. .:sF :,
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Recently gentleman at a town in
Provence had occasion to send tele-
gram to his wife, announcing his
speedy return. He phrases it as curt
ly as possible. The, telegraph clerk
counts the words, and then fixing ur~
on the customer his spectacles, spark
ling with good humor, says:
THE dispatch is to your wife %
cit isl
''There are only seven words. Come,
now; tack on something pleasant.
You can give her something nice and.
loving some little pet name If it
isn't moro than three words it will not
cost you any more"
The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-07-26
The st. John Fire.
rom the st. John On. b. Telegraph.

From the st. John On. b. Telegraph. to,fs
Almost every individual in st. John
has his own experience to relate, and
some Of them. are Of O. thrilling and.
painful character. One man who has
lost all that he possessed in the world
by the fire, is happy in the fact that he
succeeded In saving his daughter, who
stood in such great danger of being
burned to death that the hair was fair
ly burned off her head. Another man,
who had toiled like Nero to save the
furniture and household effects Of 9TH
ers, and dismissed the team which he
had been using, went down to his office
to find 1t on fire and all his books and
papers destroyed. One medical man
left his house with team with strict
injunctions to his wife not to leave It
until he returned. When, after hard
battling with the flames, he again
came in sight of his dwelling, 1t was to
see 1t envelOped In q circle of fire and
to listen to the laundering crash Of Its
falling walls. He did not discover his
wife's whereabouts for several hours,
and In the meantime he. suffered all
sorts of mental tortures. Fortunately
she was n0tso obedient as Cassabianca,
and escaped 1pi iL9i shi hyFtit d
~ A thousand, stories are told of the
singular freaks which entered into peo-
ple's minds as to the articles they
should save. "A stout sea-captain was
hailed bya lady and frantically asked to
save her goods, but when he asked her
what he would save first she pointed
to motto on the wall with ''God bless
,our,homen on IL. In some instances
valuable books and manuscripts were
left to be burnt where there were safes
and vaults accessible In which they
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