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Year: 1874

The following account Of the rescue
of little girl from death, at Cape Tor
mentine, is given by paper, published
in Hamilton, Ontario: "About four weeks
ago a little girl, some three years old,
daughter of Mr.. Allan. of Cape Tormen-
tine, wandered to her fathers saw-mill
After a short time her father missed her;
but thought she had returned home. 1t
occurred to him 10 look down into the
mill wheel, when he noticed what he
considered a piece of stick protruding
out of one of the vents. The wheel is
what is termed a Parker wheel, and had
at the time a strong head of water on.
The mill was stopped, and Mr. Allan
proceeded to the wheel. To his horror,
what he thought was a stick was his lit
tie daughters leg much discolored, black
and blue. The agony of the parent was
intense at the discovery. The sight, he
slva, will never be erased from his men,
orv; and this, with the fact that throneh h
the dreadful stiffness and gurgling OF
the black waters. and the excitement OF
hope, the child was heard to moan, add
ed to his emotion. Measures were taken
10 relieve what was certainly thought to
be lifeless child. An aperture waf
made by the removal of a stave from of
the wheel, when the little girl was taken
ont, terribly bruised about the body and
lower extremities. She was carefully
rubbed, and as soon as possible warm ap


pliances had; and the child, through this
mercy of Divine Providence. is now do


ing we'll, What makes the escape The
more extraordinary is the fact of hel
having first passed through and beer
sucked under what is termed the fume
distance of some thirty feet, ther
drawn into the wheel and whirled around
for a period of twenty minutes-fo


about that time previous she was pratt


ling in her fathers presence"
Year: 1874

The Virginia City (Nevada) Enter
prize says. ain the bottom Of the main
shaft of the Virginia City Coal Company,
FL Dorado Canon, Lyon county, has
been encountered the trunk of a tree
four feet in diameter, lone relic Of an
ancient and extinct forest. Where cut
through by the shaft this old tree j.
found to be perfectly carbonized-turned
into coal. Outside the old log is COM
pIetely erusted over with iron pyrites,
many of which are so bright that the
crystals shine like diamonds. These
pyrites also extend into the body Of the
log, filling what were apparently once
cracks Of windshoker, and even forming
clusters about what was once the heart
Of the tree. This relic Of an old-time for
est lies far below the two veins Of coal
the company are about to open. The
finding of this old trunk is evidence that
the country was at some time, ages and
ages ago, covered by forest OF large
trees; though the native timber growth,
when the country was first visited by the
whites, and az far back as the traditions
of the Indians extend, was but a shrubby
species of nut-pie. A few miles from the
shaft in which the carbonized trees was
found are TO be seen on the surface the
petrifed remains Of many large trees. In
the early days of Washoe, before the pro-
spectors had broken them up for speci-
mems, pieces of tree-trunks two or three
feet in diameter and twenty or thirty
feet in length, were to be seen lying up
on the surface of the ground. However,
these trees, and even the one found in
the bottom Of the shaft of the coal mine,
may have come from the foot hills Of
the Sierra Nevada Mountains-may
have drifted out when seas Of water ev-
erywhere covered our present valleys.
The water lines visible on the hills show
that the whole country was filled with
lakes. and the petrified trees lying herr
and there on the surface of the ground
probably foated out on the waters Of the
extenct lakes, and finally sunk to the
bottom in the places where they are now
found"
Year: 1874

Last Sunday night, says Max Adeler
in Danbury Nevs, during the sermon in
our church the gas suddenly vert out.
and there was complete darkness. Tie
minister requested the congregation to
remain perfectly quiet until the cause Of
the trouble could be ascertained and 9th
er lights procured. Old Mrs. Smiley,
il appears, was sound asleep when the
accident occurred. but just after Il e
clergyman had finished speaking TO the
congregation she awoke. At first she
thought she had become blind, but as
she sat by the window she Immediately
saw the light in the street, and then she
knew that the congregation had gone
home and that she had accidentally been
been locked in by the sexton. Dreadful
ly frightened at the Loneliness and the
horror of her situation, she picked up a
hymn book, and, dashing it through a
pane of glass in the window, she put her
head out and began to scream for help
Her shrek impressed passers-by with
the idea that the church was on FIRE, and
in an instant the alarm was given. 4
moment later the engines arrived, and
Just as the sexton began to light the gas
again one gang of fremen began playing
through the window on Mrs. Smiley
Spring bonnet, while another gang pour
ed three-inch stream up the middle
aisle with such force as to wash Rev
DR.. Hopkins, the minister, out Of tho
pulpit and down among the high hat
which were floating around by the new
doors. Eventually the matter was ex
planned, and the fire department shut Of
the water and went home. But the dea
cons want to know how, if Mr.. SMILEY
refuses to pay the bill for repairs to thu
church, he can ever look a fellow wor
shipper in the face again.
Year: 1874

From the Philadelphia Bulletin. August 2l:l


James Freeman, the diamond thief
who made his escape in such bold and
desperate manner on Saturday, from the
Court of Quarter Sessions, has not since
been seen or heard of by any of the Off
GERS of the Court or the Police Depart
ment. From the successful manner in
which the escape was accomplished, 1t
seems pretty certain that the whole thing
was planned by friends in the same
manner as the escape of Jim Haggerty
was carried out, and that a woman had
considerable to do with the matter. As
soon as Freeman was placed in the dock
n woman stepped up to him, and engag-
ed in conversation with him. She ap-
peared to be doing nearly all the talking
and this was kept up for some time. She
then walked away, and Freeman quietly
picked up his hat and stuck it in the
side pocket of his coat. The woman was
present at the trial, and then walked to
him in the same way as the did on Sat-
nrday Therefore, no suspicion was
created by her actions. Soon after she
had disappeared from the Courtroom,
Freeman asked for the water, jumped
from the window, &c. Outside of the
Courthouse matters appear to have been
arranged a Ia Haggerty. A crowd was
about the door of the American Hotel,
and as soon as Freeman darted in, this
crowd jumped about in such a way as to
impede pursuit, and at the same time
throw out the impression that it was on
ly anxiety to know what was the matter.
At the rear of the American Hotel a
man was standing. He had been there
since Z O'Clock, and as soon as Freeman
reached the Minor street sidewalk, this
man started on a run, and always kept
ahead of the fugitive, so as to open the
way for him, and throw any pursuers of
the track. After passing the Eastern
market, Freeman darted into the Fourth
street door of store at the northeast
corner of Fourth and Market streets, and
passing out quietly by a Market street
door, got into a passenger railway car


going west, and that was the last seen
of him
Year: 1874

Sam Wilcoxen, of the Eagle Brewery.
has a small menagerie of monkeys, bad
gers, foxes, coyotes and the like. He al
50 has a large Newfoundland dog, on
whose back he sometimes places one of
his pet monkeys when he is going for
walk about the town, the monkey fast
ened 10 the collar of the dog by string
As a general thing the monkey enjoys
his ride, but we saw him day or two
since when he would willingly have
traded himself of for some less privil-
eyed specimen of his species. His can
inc steed being allowed TO roam the
Streets at will, saw another dog that he
thought he could whip, and forthwith
went for him like hairy hurricane. In
a moment both dogs were on their hind
legs and going for each other like two
sausage machines. This made times We
ry lively for the monkey, as the strange
dog evidently considered him as part
and parcel of his antagonist. Such walls
of despair as that monkey uttered, and
such ,hideous faces as he made we never
heard or saw. He would climb down
the side of the dog he bestrode opposite
where the war was going on, and thence
peep over occasionally, his jaws CULVER
ing, visage distorted, and his eyes STRAIT
ing from their sockets with terror. As
the dogs were constantly changing sides,
it made times awfuliy lively for the
monkey. When he jumped to the ground
the string held him, and he found him
self trampled under the feet of both
friend and foe, and he was glad to get
again upon the back of his steed and
face the battle. The poor monkey was
in worse fix than the boy who stood on
the burning deck, and had not the dogs
been separated he must soon have been
rendered fit subject for the stockton
Insane Asylum. As it was he did not
get over examining the end of his tail
for wounds for four hours after the bat
tIe-perhaps he had fears of hydropho-
bia.
Year: 1874

A noted politician and divine, who
was an expert at horse trade is re-
ported to have sold horse to one OF his
deacons. A day or two afterward the
deacon called on him, when the follow
ing coIloquy took place:


Deacon N.-Elder K. that horse you
sold me is stove in the fore-shoulder.


Elder K-Eh! deacon? If that Is so
[ advise you TO say nothing about it,
You NAV want to sell the animal and II
would injure the sale of him.


The deacon withdrew, convinced that
he had still much to learn.
Year: 1874

A Columbia clergyman, who, while
preaching a sermon ON Sunday evening,
perceived a man and woman under the
gallery in the act Of kissing each other
behind hymn book, did not lose his
temper. mol he remained calm. He
beamed mildly at the offenders over his
spectacles, and when the young man
kissed her the fifteenth time, he merely
broke his sermon short off in the middle
of "thirdly," and offered fervent prayer
in the half Of "the young man in the
pink necktie and the maiden in the blue
bonnet and gray shawl, who were pro
flaming the sanctuary by kissing one an
other in pew 7S." And the congregation
said amen" Then the woman pulled
her veil down and the young man sat
there and swore softly to himself. He
does not go to church as much now rs
| he did.
Year: 1874

To taste and talk, of course. 1t does
neither An liberated tongue was lately
cut entirely out at the Royal Free Hos-
pital in London. Within week the
man was heard distinctly to say, Il
would like to have some beef tea" Blind
fold man, and tell him to open his
mouth wide and keep it open; put salt
on his tongue, or drop of wormwood
oil-he cannot tell the difference. Take
half a teacup of ice water, pour it into
the center of de- se of castor oil; open
the mouth, put the rim Of the cup far
back on the tongue, toss up the cup,
down goes the oil without taste Of it
as long az you keep your mouth open, OF
do not allow the oil to touch the lips
Is taste, then, in the lips? To produce
the sensation oftaste, the tongue, the lip
and the substance must all come in con
tact at the same time, az in the process
Of smacking the lips.
Year: 1874

No man should deprive his wife and
family of good local paper. They do
not go out from home to learn the news
as does the husband and father, and the
paper serves 10 relieve the otherwise
lonely hours of his absence. 1t Is the
worst possible economy TO deprive the
family Of n good local paper.
Year: 1874

Two young men ont riding were pass
ing a farm house where a farmer was
irving to harness an obstinate mule
"Won,t he draw" said one of the men,
"Of course" :" said the farmer, "he'll draw
the attention of every fool that passes
this way" The young men drove on.
Year: 1874

Ohio feeces are packed for market by
spreading them upon table, turning in
the head and tail. then the flanks, and
rolling them and tying the roll with two
strings around it and one across length
wise. These heeces thus put up bring
three cents a pound more than Michigan
fleeces of the same quality, for the rea-
son that in Michigan wool is not so care
fully packed for market.
Year: 1874

The Newport Herald says that man
died in that vicinity not a month ago
with cigar IN his mouth, the physician
according to his request that he might
smoke, and expressing his opinion that
Il soothed his suffering.
Year: 1874

THE LATEST TRIUMPH OF TEMPERANCE.
w e congratulate the Temperance world
on the success everywhere attending the
use of VINEGAR BITTERs. Certainly no
preparation containing alcohol has accom-
plished such cures of malarious fever, bill
iousness, dyspepsia, rheumatism. lung com
plants, constipation, and general debility,
we hear Of from all quarters, as the results
of this famous vegetable specific. No true
philanthropist will regret to see spirtuous
liquors expelled from medical use, if they
can be safely dispensed with: and that
they are not necessary in any case of sick
ness, whatever its character, appears at
last to have been demonstrated IF public
opinion is capable of making any impress
sion upon the minds of the Faculty, they
will ere long introduce the most popular
of modern medicines into the hospitals, and
prescribe it in their practice. The millions
have given the article fair trial; it has
more than answered their expectations, and
no theoretical opposition can shake their
faith in it.
Year: 1874

Mr J. Harris, OF Rocher, New York
-ays. in the American Agriculturist, that
we talk about raising wheat enough tor
The world, but our own population is in
creasing so rapidly that the time will soon
come when it will wax our ski! 10 raise
wheat enough for ourselves. We shall do
it, OF course, but we shall have to farm
better than many Of us do now. And he
is the wise man who is getting his land
cleaner and richer.
Year: 1874

meetings is an incapability to wind
up. After the brother has been
praying about long enough you SEQ
that he is trying to find "Amen."
He does not want to come too sud-
denly upon it, and so he gradually
makes that way; but he is like q
Brooklyn ferry-boat aiming for the


wharf when there is good deal Of
ice in the river, and he backs in
and out, at last reaching it with
blundering stroke. Many of tho
brethren in their prayers take one
third of the time to get started and
another third to stop. Why not
with your first sentence plunge into
what you most want, and stop when
you get through without any cir
cumgyrations9 Men keep on after
they ought to stop, because they do
not know how to set down brakes.
We have recommendation to
make. If any isolated "Amen"


would sound abrupt at the time You
want to close, do as the Psa'mist
did when the prayers of David the
son of Jesse were ended, exclaim-
ing "Amen and Amenw 10
Year: 1874

For Ten Days Only
FATHER EZEKIEL
Will, from the 10th to the Goth Of
this month, sell any article in his


Store at the Low Price of


ONE DOLLAR !
In fact, he will conduct the sales on
the Dollar Store System for


that space of time.
Year: 1874

The bronze statuary just now so
popular is manufactured by sim
pie enough process. Over the clay
model is poured coating of Paris,
which having been allowed to set,
is taken off in sections, thus afford
ing n hollow mould Of the figure.
From such a mould is produced q
&ucco duplicate, either of the en-
tire statue or of such a portion
thereof as is intended to be cast at
time, and on this again is formed
asecond mould of greater thicki ess
and solidity for the reception Of
molten metal. The material used
for the final monld is a composition
Of stucco and brick dust. This is
applied in q plastic state to the
stucco model, from which its inner
surface takes the form Of the figure.
Were statues cast solid, it would
now only be necessary to separate
mold from model, and run metal in
to the former till its interior was
filed. This, however, would in
volve absurd waste, and in order to
economist material a solid core Is
placed inside the mould leaving only
such space all around as will receive
the thickness Of metal deemed ne
cessary for the work in hand. The
mould with its core having been
thus completed and firmly hooped
round with bands of iron, is placed
in kiln to bake to perfect dryness.
This precaution is necessary from
the circumstance that even o trace
of moisture might on the applica-
tion of molted metal occasion dan
gerous explosion. In the case OF
the casting now in question the
drying of the me ID occupies somo
weeks. On the removal from the
kiln the mold is buried in dry earth
below the floor Of the foundry, only
the aperture for receiving the metal
and the vent-hole for the escape OF
air remaining visible. gitW0.ai
Year: 1874

ness is lever that moves the whole
world: if we look for a weapon of
gigantic strength we here have
found it. Toward the poor and un-
educated its power is mysterious,
since they have no means of analyz-
ing or proving its source. To the
refined and cultivated it marks a
broad platform upon which the
morest strangers may meet in pleas
ant COM a lionship. A broader feel
ing Of brotherhood among men, a
giving up of this innate selfshness,
which is so common among us
now-only this will give an impetus
to life and make success worth
striving for. When we struggle
for the mass of people, the victory
will be dearer than when only won
for ourselves alone. But despair
and doubt are things that should
not be thought of in conjunction
with life. We are here to labor ;
let us do our work with happy
minds and free hearts. Let US
struggle against unbelief, skepti-
cism, loss of faith in human nature.
If deceived a dozen times, let us
still keep glad freshness of heart
rather than succumb to the torpor,
the inanity which suspicion creates.


Let us believe there is some good
in everything to the very last.
Year: 1874

One Of the least agreeable re-
minders of the advent of the New
Years is an unpaid bill, and to
many persons the number and
length of such missives received at
this season quite destroy all idea
of festivity as connected with it,
and send them to work or to play
with faces almost yard long, and
as blue as if the slow and gradual
accumulation of responsibility had
been entirely unexpected.


And in fact with the class of per-
sons, householders and occupiers
of apartments, who run long bills
this is so. They are wanting in
imagination, destitute of perspect-
i've, and do not realize what they
are doing. The temptations to ex-
penditure arc great when money
is not required, and the sum is sim
ply and smilingly put down to the
"little' account and it is surprising
how such accounts swell into the
incredible and astounding sum to-
tai. Then what paterfamilias does
ut the tailor's and the butchers
and the grocer's and the bakers
mamma is obliged to do at the mil
liners and the dressmaker's and the
dry goods stores, and the servant
maids and daughters and sons soon
learn to go everywhere where Gre
dit will be given. No wonder the
1st of January, instead Of being a
time of rejoicing, brings tears, re-
proaches, anxieties, and debt.
Cash payments relieve housekeep-
ing from all these difficulties. It is
the simple and only solution of what
is to many the gravest of problems.
Buy nothing but what you can pay
for and you will not only buy less
but at much cheaper rate, the
cash purchaser having always a
great advantage over the individu-
al who is obliged to purchase where
his bill is running, at a price which
win pay the merchant for waiting
and cover the risk Of loss. A uni
versal system of cash payments
would be better for storekeepers
and customers it would enable the
former also to buy for cash and sell
at lower prices. A weight would
be lifted from the air, and an infin-
ite aid lent to the digestion of our
New Years dainties, If we could sit
down to them with digestion un'
trammelled by unpaid bills.
----s-e-e-- .r. -.
i Wo ara confident that one reason
Year: 1874

.. HOW A STRIKE WAS AVOIDED.


The Columbian Bank Note Company, of this
city, located in the Shepherd building, on
Pennsylvania avenue, yesterday gave class of
their employees q surprise, Unexpectedly &C
companied by their discharge. The company
claim that they have been paying their printers
greater rates for the press work than is paid
for the same labor by the New York bank note
companies, and notified their printers about
two weeks ago that on and after the 1st Of July
the Columbian Bank Note Company would
reduce the price for press work five cents per
one hundred impressions. This information
reaching the printers, they held a meeting of
their union on Monday night last and decided
to make strike when the company attempted
to put the proposed reduction of wages into
operation. The trustees Of the company, learn
ing this decision Of their printers, yesterday
morning refused 20 let the men go to work,
aud discharged them from further service for
the company.


Later in the day, in answer to a telegram
transmitted to New York, word was sent that
they could furnish all the printers the company
might desire, and that they would willingly
work for the prices fixed by the company in
this city. Learning of this fact the discharged
men endeaYored to obtain compromise with
the trustees and return to work, but their ap-
pIicAtion and proposition were both refused.
The work now IN progress by the company Will
receive only Temporary delay from this cause,
and by Tomorrow their machinery wlif -be. in
full operation agaip. r..
Year: 1874

The subJeC Of corporation is one that
should demand the constant attention Of
every workingman. To keep it alive in the
minds Of our readers is our excuse for SO
often referring to it.


1t seems to us that Trade Unions are
making a very great mistake by paying 50
little attention to this great question. They
are, and for long time past have been
wasting their time and large amounts of
money in fruitless efforts to fine a remedy
for the wrongs continually imposed upon
them.


If every Trades Union " in the land
would at once begin to discuss the question
of corporation, and make themselves
familiar with the system, and the various
ways by which it can be applied to every
branch Of industry, and begin to save their
money, and organize upon the cooperative
principle, in ten years the condition of the
working people Of our country would be
fifty per cent better than now.


There is no single question connected

with the Trade Union movement Of SO
great Importance as corporation, and yet
there is no question 50 little understood OF
talked about. Go into any Trade Union
meeting in the land and introduce the SUBJ
ject Of corporation, and you will find but
few who understand anything about it.
They will listen to what is said, and ap-
plaud loudly when the great results already
achieved in few localities are detailed.


Ask them to start some cooperative en-
terprise for themselves, or take stock in
some one already started, or to be started
in some other place, and down goes their
enthusiasm to zero, their hands will invOl-
unfairly find their way TO their pocket
\books, as though they looked upon you as
y thief, trying to steal their money.


They will tell you it's very good thing
il it could be carried out, and they would
Ike TO see it succeed, and they hope those
Who have gone into it may not lose their
money but you might as we'll try 20 collect
mc1SS 20 build railroad 70 the moon as
to try teset them = subscribe TO cooper
alive enterprise. But just take up some
real or imaginary grievance, and make q
spread-eaele speech IN faser of strike,
and they win throw up thsr hatg and shout
Year: 1874

he said That the report from the Spring
field Arnory showed that the men did more
work under the new system than under the
old. In fact the voice Of the whole country
appeared 70 be in favor Of short hours. IL
had been made cry by the conservatives
that if the people had short hours they would
have more time to get drunk. He knsw Peo-
pie who had got drunk ON long hOurs, too.
Year: 1874

Resolved, That we cordially indOrse the
foregoing. and pledge the faith Of the work
ingmen Of Chicago 70 assist with every means
within their power, TO carry them 70 success-
full recognition


Resolved, That We recommend that steps
be Immediately taken by the workingmen Of