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Year: 1874


Cloud & Wykes Tub Factory De-


stroyed-Attempt to Fire the Shics


and Cooper Shop ofD. L. June & Son.


On Saturday morning last at a quarter past
two O'Clock, fire was discovered issuing from
the Tub Factory and Handle Works Of Cloud
& Wykes, near the depot, in this city. The
engineer Of a passing locomotive discovered
the fire and blew his whistle and rang the bell
to give the alarm, and immediately altar the
fire alarm sounded, and the fire department.
hurried to the scens- When they reached the
grounds, the factory was all in flames and 50
far gone that nothing could be saved, and the
dry house and engine room were on fire. As
soon as water could be obtained an attempt
was made to save the ngine.and wsaro pleased
to say a successful one, though at oas time it
looked doubtful. A large belt and few other
articles were saved from the factory, but ev-
erything else was destroyed in the factory and
dry house.


This Is the second time this factory has been
destroyed by fire within the year, the other
fire being on the night Of the first Of October,
and both fires were evidently the result Of in-
eendiarism. The FIRE on Saturday morning
was certainly 50, as no work had been done
about the factory tho day previous, and the
fact that an attempt was made 70 fire the
works Of D. L. June & Son, at the same time
is positive proof. We regret very much the
destruction of the factory, as it Is doubtful
whether the parties will rebuild. The loss
on building, machinery stock &C., viii reach
about Sc 600, on which there was an insur-
ance Of $500.


ATTEMPT TO FIRE THE oFFICE OF D. I. JUNE


SON.


About seven O'Clock on Saturday morning
after the destruction Of Cloud s Wykes' fac
tory, Mr.. D. L. June drove up to his ofiee,
and drove his horse under the shed adjoining.
In doing so he noticed a bunch Of shaYings
stuck in between two studding in the corner
next the Office, and getting out 70 ezamine,he
found it to be a regular incendiary device Il
consisted Of some hickory hoop shaVings, in
the center Of which was a six ounce vial Of
coal oil, the whole being bound together with
a niece Of narrow hoop iron. A piece Of pa
per was inserted among the shavings as
hind of fuse, and number Of matches lay
alongside, some Of which had evidently been
tried and would not ignite; and possibly that
was the only reason the place was not set on
fire. At the southeast corner Ct the ofies
another bunch Of shaVings was found. It
was fortunate that the ineendiaries were foil
ed at that point, as it is scarcely possible any
of the buildings in that vicinity could have
been saved, had the fire got into the cooper
shop.


Our city anthorties should At once offer
reward fol shs arre1t and conviction Of the
incendiasiss. and 1-hiis caas1asing this nat-
ssr Il uosis slso be ivan Is ean7azs the sub
iect Of falafsbing astelmez i0r use on the
hfll. AN TIE hxas which have occurred with
in several yesfs, if We except two, have been
spon the hin, and the delay ia getting the en-
ginss on The ground Tor ssrSiee. has given the
IRE king pEstty effective sway.
Year: 1874

The Democratic Candidate for Mem


Der OF the Board of Public Works.


Martin was put upon the ticket
merely as a sop for the Germans.
He is a good, healthy specimen. a
grain dealer with an inordinate itch
ing for office. Several times has he
! been elected to the city council from
the Second ward by colored votes
and he claims to carry that vote in
his pistol pocket. Last Spring he
was elected one of the Trustees of
oeloto township, an Office the salary
OF which is regulated by the law of
the state at 81 per day of actual
service Martin was a good Demo
crat, the aVoWed enemy of all cor
ruption, and especially bitter in his
denunciation Of all salary orabbers
but he had been in office onlv siv'
teen days when he and his com.
panions, Messrs. Seward and West
voted themselves fifty dollars each.
His two companions at once pre-
sented their orders and received
their illegal pay. Martin forgot his.
and when he went to draw It from
the township treasury, he found that
William Fl. Reed, then one of the
County Commissioners, had been
before the Judge of the Court of
Common Pleas, and had enioined
the payment, on the ground of its
illegality. This angered the honest
Martin and he tore up the order:
but the action against him will be
tried at the next term Of court. On
the 18th of August the trustees
went through the same form, but
the township treasurer refused TO
pay the orders, and the honest
trustees threatened to sue him in
order to obtain it. This, then. is
the man presented by the Democ-
raey of the State as a specimen of
honesty and as one opposed to cor
ruption.
Year: 1874

DR.. Livingstone is said to have
expressed the utmost contempt fol
lions. ''You talk about the majesty
of the lion," said he, chatting one
day at a party, in London, with Sir
Edmund Landseer, "but do you
know the beast? There is no more
majesty about him in the forest than
there is about that poodle. 1t is all
poetry. Lions are arrant cowards-
eowardly and sneaklng beasts. You
can hardly tell a lion from q donkey
when you come upon him in the for
est; and if you come upon a lion
suddenly, his first impulse is to tuck
his tail between his legs and bolt.
He will spring upon you unawares,
and can have time to crouch, but if
a man has the courage to look the
lion in the face, you need not even
cock your rifle.
Year: 1874

The great dread of the Chinese,
and indeed of many others, is the
"hoodlums." A "hoodlum" is an
animal known only in California,and
it is to be hoped that all other places
may know it only by reputation.
"Hoodlum" are adolescents from
fifteen to twenty or more years age
They seem to have no visible means
of obtaining a livelihood; perhaps
many of them have the living al
ready made by too indulgent parents
who permit them to spend all thei1
time on the streets, in company with
like minded-youths, and there they
engage in all sorts of mischief, from
that which is merely playful, to tina
which is desperately criminal. Only
a day or two since q number of then
tried to get into a circus by another
than the proper entrance, and be
ing successfully resisted by a couple
of watchman, they retired and arm
ed themselves with stones, brick
bats, clubs, returned to the charge
and so employed their ammunition
as to kill one of the Watchmen,. who
was buried to-day. They pull the
pigtails of the Chinese, set dogs on
them, jostle them on the streat, as
sault new corners, and obstruct theil
locomotion, and do other acts ol
Wickedness which only the genius o1
a hoodlum could invent. They are
becoming a nuisance, and need Sc
we're handling by the authorities
A charge of manslaughter has beer
brought against five or six of them
for the circus business, and per
haps their incarceration for a few
years will afford slight check tc
their companions. Those Of them
who attend school leave at half past
three,a and then they have all the day
for mischief.
Year: 1874

A method of broiling equal in
every respect to the gridiron, except
ing that it lacks the smoky taste, is
this: Set your spider on the stove,
and let it get smoking hot. Put in
no butter or any kind of grease.
Have your meat previously pre-
pared by trimming off all pieces of
bone, gland, superfuous suet and
tissues that will bind the edge and
make it turn up. Lay it very care
fully and smoothly in the spider. It
will stick fast at first, but as soon as
it is Drowned can be loosened with a
knife. Sprinkle little salt on the
under surface, and turn it over.
Let the other side brown the same as
the first. Have a platter warmed,
lay the meat carefully upon it, with
out besmearing the edges, dress with
butter and pepper, and send to the
table hot. By this process you have
q crisp and brown surface, with The
juice retained as well as by broiling,
and the additional advantage that the
inevitable drippings are saved, and
can be converted in to gravy.
Year: 1874

We understand that at our County Fair
there will be quite q number OF oil erayon and
water color works Of art that took premiums
at Chicago exposition They are by McKsck-
ME and Thompson, who took the leading
prizes last week at the fair in Toledo. The
sight Of them alone win repay for a visit to
our county meeting.
Year: 1874

The time of the year has now
come when fires are to be re-kindled
Old cracked stoves will be brought
out suddenly and put up the first
cold snap: Unsafe and soot-fllcd
chimneys are crowded with two OF
three stove pipes. The consequen.
ces to some body will be disastrous
The house, store or shop will take
fire some day and burn up before
you are aware of it. And ther
some one will find when too late
they had no Insurance. Be wise be
fore the fire. Look to your stoves
know they are whole. Examine
your stove pipes, clean your chin
ney. See that all cracks and holes
therein are securely plastered up
Put up your stoves well, and ther
come to


I. III. KELLER,


and get an Insurance Policy OF
your building and all its contents
1 have splendid line of Companies
There are none better. Many rep
resented in this city will not stanC
the test. Look at the following:
Year: 1874

First he made love to one girl,
then to the other. Innocent little
Grace had her share of flattery and
smiles, and all Newport declared
that the diamond man" would sure
ly marry one of them.


At lasta climax came. One eY-
lening Maud stole to her room with
Year: 1874

For the qualification as we'll az the edit.
cation Of the Picayune We will state that it
is now certain that the military and naval
forces that have been sent hither to aid in
the suppression Of violence and restoration
of peace and order will remain here for
some time to come. We give the infocma.
ton in order that the Pic may cultivate the
acquaintance Of some of the gallant men
who delight in being known as Americans.
in any other State of the American Union.
Year: 1874




What a strange thing what we call
the human heart iS,-the SENSE of
feeling linked with the power Of
thought? Why is it that the sight
of a certain face moves us, when 4 Vt
of others does not? Why does the
sound of a voice or football make the
heart beat, when other. even similar
Isounds, affect it not? Why is it that
the. Of some is dcarcr and
more necessary to us than that OF
others? In fine, why do we some
times love those, who, up to few
months, or weeks, or even days, We're
utter strangers to Us, while those we
have known and been accustomed to
for years, though we may like, we do
not love?


We measure the mountains, and
sound the depth Of the sea. We dig
up science from the bowels of the
earth, an hunt for it among the stars,
and vet we know nothing of the Sc
cret springs that work within TIE Gu
rious piece of mechanism of which we
are composed. We NAV think we are
wise, we may fancy We are learned,
but we must admit that there is some
secret power either within or above
us, which, while it leaves or will
and our ion free, exercises inilu-
ence over G results of theli .nera-
tion, which .,, can neither explain nor
comprehend In fact. we are a mys-
terry to ourselves. Thought unbidden
comes to Us, and after scenes long
past, and almost Forgotten start ur
before US we know not how, or why.
The field of human knowledge is after
all very limited one, the most learn
ed amonc rs is but an ignorant Great
urc, fot he does not know him.
! self


It is enough for us, however, to
know that that delicacy of organiza.
ton which enables US to sympathise
with the happiness or misery of 9TH
ers, which prompts us to love, or
makes US yearn for the love of others,
which makes a sound, look, or name
a source of pleasure, has been given
to US, in mercy, as means of happi
ness here, for certainly whatever Of
happiness we do enjoy originates
ron that. And perhaps the Snowl
edge of its mysterious operation may
have been concealed from us with the
same view.
Year: 1874

BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT.-Tbe same
God who moulded the sun and kim
died the stars watches the flight of an
insect. He who balances the clouds
and hung the world on nothing, noti-
ces the fall Of a sparrow He who
gave Satan his rings and placed the
moon, like bail of silver. into the
broad arch Of heaven, gives the rose
leaf its delicate tint, and made the dis
tant sun to nourish the violet. And
the same Being notices the praises Of
the cherubim and the prayers of a
little child.
Year: 1874

IT is worth local place to tell that
a shrcwd preacher, after an eloquent
charity sermon, said to his hearers
I'm afraid from the sympathy dis
played in your countenances that
some of you may give too much l
caution you. therefore, that you be
just before you are generous; and
wish YOU TO understand that | desire
no one who cannot pay bis debts to
put anything in the plate The col
lection was rare orc.
Year: 1874

SOME slandercr has said the old
folks go to church TO close their eyes,
and the young to eye tier close. We
do not believe this is true, of the
young ladies, at least. They go for
religious worship and to see the Sans
and Him,
Year: 1874

SLEEPLEss people-and there are
many in America-Should court the
sun. The very worst soporific is
laudanum, and the very best is sun.
shine. Therefore it is very plain
that poor sleepers should pass as
many hours of the day in sunshine,
and as few as possible in the shade.
Many women are martyrs, and yet
do not know it. They shut the sun.
shine out of their houses and hearts,
they wear wells, they carry parasols,
they do all that is possible to keep
off the subtlest, and yet most po-
tent, influence which is intended to
give them strength, beauty and
cheerfulness. Is it not time to
change all this, and SO get roses and
color in our pale cheeks, strength
in our weak backs, and courage in
yur timid souls. The women of
America are pale and delicate; they
may be blooming and strong, and
the sunlight will be potent intlu-
ence in this transformation. Will
they not try it a year or two, and
Oblige thousands of admirers 7
Year: 1874

A REFLECTED LOVERS DIRE RE.
VENICE. Taking a seat just behind
the happy pair in church, he racked
his brain for means of revenge, and
looking like seventeen Othellos con-
centrated in one. Finally a ghastly
smile crept over his face, he raised
half up in his seat, and nabbed a
large black bug that was crawling
on a pillar hard by, and gently
dropped him down between his un-
conscious rivals shirt collar and
neck, and then calmly leaned back
with virtuous and Christian air
of satisfaction. The bug soon made
his presence felt, and that other
fellow began to twist and scratch
himself against the back of his sea t
and look uneasy, and cast unhappy
glances at the minister and affect
ing ones at the fair being at his
side. The bug evidently began to
grow impatient at his imprisonment,
and turned himself loose, graphing
around with a recklessness suggest
i've of black spiders or scorpions,
and that other fellow could stand it
no longer, but, boiling upright,
casting one wild, startled look at
the congregation, cleared the space
between him and the door at two
bounds.
Year: 1874

My sketch was finished, and turned to 90
Yet fingered for minute to compare
The painted cottage in my folio
With that which stood within the land


scape tn here.
How feeble was my picture, despite all III.


care!
The cotter's wife was standing at her doo
And saw her husband coming down the


lane,
And, catching up her baby from the floor,
She hurried ont to meet him once again
Lavish of treasured smiles that were moi


in vain.
Their meeting all his weariness relieved;
His drudgery to merrment gave place
Exchanging burdens, she his tools received
And he the baby nesting to his face.
So went they back contented to their dwell


ing place.
Weak was my sketch, and weak the match


less hue


Which nature shed around on land and
Beside the beau ty of affection true
That simple meeting there revealed to me
Nothing on earth with human love compared


can be!
Year: 1874

squarely for his liquor, and if sue
cessful, can pat his conscience on
the back, feeling a sort of melan.
choly satisfaction, no doubt, that
in his case the evil Of intemperance
doesn't go hand in hand with the
meanness of vile deceit and unmiti-
gated lying.


AN INCIDENT.


There seem to be plenty of people
in the world to whom the risk of q
neck or limb amounts to nothing
when pitted against the loss of q
minute or so.


A few days since, a man with
arms and pockets crowded with pro-
truding bundles, cane in one
hand, an umbrella and fish pole in
the other, came tearing down the
Jersey city ferry slip, and leaping
the space of three or four feet be-
tween the drop and the moving
boat. landed in the crowd of pas
sengers lining the edge. Unable
to stop OF once, he plunged through
three or four thicknesses of human
ity, spearing one man in the eye
with his umbrella, and taking an.
other just under the second button
of his waistcoat with the cane;
while the toos that were crushed
allowing two corns to an oath
made the affair of painful interest
to about nineteen millions Of mourn
ers. Breathless and pale, at length
our hero brings up against q six
foot Jerseyman; but there was a
soft, beautiful light in his eye, and
the smile of sweet contentment on
his face as he gasped out, "Got it,
any way "Got it, you fool"
shriekcd the man, "This boat s COM
ing in !" SNOW.
Year: 1874

III tell YOU" said Wisconsin man
to neighbor the next day after
burying his wife, "when l came to
get into bed, and lay thar, and not
hearing Lucinda jawing around for
an hour and half, it just made me
feel as if I'd moved into a strange
country"
Year: 1874

| DAMAGED MEN. YOu can see


them any day in the streets of any


town, men who look damaged. Men


too, of good original material, who
started out in life with generous
sentiments and some generous aspi
rations. Once it was said they were
bright, promising lads; once they
looked happily into the faces of
mothers whose daily breath was
prayer for their purity and peace.
All, God what if some of them
have vowed their soul away to con-
fiding wives, who silently wonder
what can be the meaning of this
change-the cold, slow. creeping
shadow that is coming over home
and heart what if some of them
shrink from the touch of their own
babes, as if innocence had nothing
for them but rebuke!


Going to the bad! The spell of
evil companionship; the willingness
to hold and use money not honest
ly gained the stealthy, seductive,
plausible advance of the appetite
for strong drink ; the treacherOus
facinations of the gaming table
the gradual loss of interest in busi-
ness and in things which help u
man up; the rapid weakening of
all noble purposes; the decay of
manliness; the recklessness and
blasphemy against fate; the sullen
despair of ever breaking the chains
of evil habits; what victories of
shame and contempt, what harvests
of hell, have grown from such seeds
as these!


Sheer, if you will, like a fool, at
the suggestions of reform, morals,
religion !; every man knows in his
better moods.-and every man has
better mOOds-that all there is of
true life is personal virtue and rec
titude of character.


Going to the bad But there is
hope. Earth and Heaven are full
of hands ever reaching to help the
lost man back to the better way
All the good there is in the uni
verse, is in full sympathy with that
little goodness which inwardly re.
proves and protests.
Year: 1874




MT those men OF your own race into the position
they are entitled to. could NOT, for my emotion
would not permit me. refer to the condition of
that unhappy State. You all know it. Ii is
these questions OF a broken country, of a broken
Constitution, of an impoverished people, OF a
disordered finance, and Of system of Govern
ment faulty in every respect, that We have ~
meet. What can be worse that the legalized rob
berries which exist to-day In the city of New
York; Have you not here a set Of legalized rob
bers plundering your merchants and driving
honest commerce from your port Applause.


When man is set upon by highway robbers
he may lose his watch or his purse; but what is
to be said when, under color of law, under the
pretense OF law, rich and respectable merchant
has S27O,OO0 taken out Of his pockets by one
single act of robbery? [Applause. This has
been done here, and you cannot point your fin
ger to the rogue whose robbery was punished
On the contrary the robbers are rewarded. I'm
der the present Administration these robbers
have Increased in numbers and in enormity
These are facts known 10 every man who hears
me- and You tell me these things can be done
| under free Government. Why, gentlemen,
| there ID not a despotism in the world where they
would not all be condemned and where, hon
estly believe, they would be impossible. This
is.a part of our task in 1876: First, that we
shall secure honest, upright, high-minded men,
who shall lead our party in the great contest 30
that nothing shall be emblazoned upon one ban
ner but those high principles that every honest
American can and ought TO uphold. 1t will not
be question o. narrow party triumph il will
be question Of the triumph Of honesty rel sus
dishonesty, OF law over lawlessness, of the Con-
stitulion and Government over the principles
| of revolution and destruction which the Radical
party has brought upon u.s. You cannot belittle
| these issues. Let no man suppose that his per
sonal interests can or ought to have any effect.
They must take higher and a wider and a
purer range than all that. We must look at the
condition Of our whole country. We must invite
our friends and neghbors who have heretofore
| differed with us to join in the great work of es-
| iablishing limited constitutional republican
Government in this country. Having that, and
having the high minded men as our leaders,
then we may expect first, an hooest adminstra-
ton OF our Government, and secondly, ability
IN its administration but place that second io
the simple question OF absolute and personal in
| tegrlly. Afer that has come we must meet AZ ain
to consider what the war has really broueh ht up
on us; and if any portion of our country suffers
| for want OF an amendment to to the Cons tuition
that will secure good Government for free
people. then Tree people will demand that they
shall have these guarantees, no matter whose pets
political may go under.
Year: 1874

CIRCULAR AGAINST ALARMING REPORTS TO AZ


FEET TIE PRICE or GOID-NOTEs OF SHORT


DATE RECEIVED IN PAYMENT FOR TIE TAX ON


CAPITAL


HAVANA, Dec. 4-Captain- Concha
has issued crc1lar, which is published In The ODtcidt
Gazette II addressed to Governors and Lieutenant
Governors on the island, and eDjOIDs on them the
utmost vigilance In seeing that the agents Of the Gov
ernment promptly arrest all persons who individually
or collectively originate disseminate false news cal
cuated to produce dstrust and alarm, and thereby
affect the price OF gold.


Tue Government has expressed its Willingness to
receive notes Of short date In payment OF the per cent
tax capital now due for the last quarter and the
spanish Bank ia dscOuntng the The directors OF
the bank yesterday loaned the Government s25CoOOo
the bank to be reimbursed the proceeds Of the
on account of the s per cent tax.