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Year: 1879




MEssRs. EDIToRs-I would like to ask
through your columns by what author
ity officers Richards and McIlhenny
did attempt to prohibit the fremen from
extinguishing the fire in question. The
ordinance regulating the police depart
ment does not give them that authority.
The only clause bearing on the case is
found in the ordinance recognizing
the fire department. That says, the
Chief Engineer may call on the police
force to protect property in time OF fire.
In this case think the Chief Director
of each company has full charge of ap-
paratus and men, and further that the
police should be under their (the di.
rectors) jurisdiction, in time of fire, in
case the Chief and Assistant Engineer
of the department should be present.
Now the police say that had some Of
the older members of the department
been present, they would not have
gone to extremes. | would like to say
for the benefit of the "would-be rulers
OF the fire department, that the tiremen
who had charge of that fire, and arose
from their beds to extinguish it, had
done likewise long before this gallant
preserver of the peace and property"
had even been resident of this city.
The police also claim that there was no
fire at all scarcely, that it could have
been extinguished by applying few
buckets of water. Now if that was the
case, how is it that Mr.. Montgomery
estimates his loss at $500, damaged by
fire, and not by water. The question
now arises where were the police when
the alarm was first given; they vera
not surely down in the "Shanty!' The
person that had command of that stream
lives in that neiglborhood, and was
awakened from his sleep by the cry of
fire. He went to his engine house, took
the apparatus to the fire, attached to
the plug on the corner of Seventh and
Buttonwood, burst open the door OF the
burning building and extinguished the
flames with a plug stream. When he
thought that sufficient water had been
thrown on the fire he directed it TO be-





thrown inte the street, which was I'M
mediately done. 1t was then the police
made their appearance. By this time
another company was in readiness to
throw stream into the building (tbe
fire was still smouldering) when the
man who held the pipe was clutched
by the ''would-be fire chief" and
thrown on the pavement, the officer at
the same time placing his hand on his
hip pocket as if to draw his revolver.
Have not the police force enough duty
to perform, without interfering with
the fire department Have not they
enough dogs, wheelbarrows, wagons,
sleds, &C., to attend 20 besides patrol
ling their beats. If they want more
work, why are they not given the street
lamps to fill BY publishing the above
you will confer favor on the younger
iremen." D. +. J.
Year: 1879




The corn that was shipped to Springfield On a
practical appeal from the State inspection here
has been decided to be too damp to grade as
No. 2. The opinion of the Inspectors and OF
majority Of thc.Committee on Appeals is there
fore sustained. The corn is probably In first
class condition for seeding purposes, but the ln-
spectors were afraid it would gcrminate in the
bin IT placed in store to stay.


The sale OF 1900 brls alcohol in this market
last Friday was made to gentleman from Ma
pies who is in the trade. This is stated to be
the first instance Of European visit here for
the purpose of buying spirits.


The decline in wheat was arrested Saturday
bY lending operators who stepped into the mar
ket and took all the offerings till the tide
turned, Whether they bought because they
could not afford to let the market decline fur
ther, or simply because they expected an up
ward turn Us natural reaction from recent
weakness, was difficult to ascertain. Opinions
were Divided on the subject according as the
parties we're on the long or the short side of the
deal. Tie last named supposition was probably
the correct one. The market could scarcely be
called strong, however, as buyers were not anx-
ous at the top prices Of the session, but sellers
were more cautious in view OF the greater will
ingness to buy ut bottom figures.


The other produce markets were steadier and
hrmer, in sympathy with wheat, though the
weather was supposed to be favorable to farm-
ing operations, and large arrivals Of grain were
expected after the coming week to fill May
sales. Provisions were wcak early, but the later
feeling !yas one Of firmness, though with less
doing.


The demand for staple and fancy dry goods
continues active Nearly all departments OF
the market we're nuEncronslY~ attended and the
volume Of sales was large. Prices were as firm
as before, the tendency In cottous still being up
ward. There was liberal demand for grocer
les, the movement being on more generous
scale than for several seasons past at a like pc
Rod. No changes in prices we're developed.
There was q firm and steady market
for most lines. Dealers in but
ter report continued absence of
anything more tnan hand-to-mouth demand.
The tendency Of prices being downward, buyers
are not disposed to invest beyond such amounts
as are required for Immediate use Creamery
is specially weak. Cheese remains dull and
heavy, with new arriving freely, and freely Of
fered at 607c. Prices OF dried fruits and canned
goods remain as last quoted. Fish we're steady.
The demand for oils mas fairly active, and prices
Year: 1879

He was a Swede, who had Anglicized
his Swedish name into S. P. Lewis. lie
had worked for some years for the
Central Branch, buG latteriy had been
well digging. The we'll had. caved in
from the rains and was being walled up
again. He had gone down to remove
tile old curbing and the fatal mass of
sand had fallen in and crushed him.
There was no doubt that he was dead,
and. poor fellow, he had a wife and two
little children. There was som" discus
sion as to whether It were better to send
word to his wife that he was dead or to
leave her to hope for while. So the
people talked and occasionally some one
would look down the well and shudder
to think of the livid corpse crushed un-
der the heaped-up sand. All this time
the man in the well was alive. He could
hear every stroke of the hammers OF the
men who were making the curb, but he
thought it was the carpenters across the
street. He could even feel the ear h Vi
brate little. A board had fallen over
against his back and crowded him over
against the side of the well. There was
water about him; he could hear it drip,
and mixed up with the sand were rocks
and pieces of boards. He was as cold
as death, and the mass above him
reached he knew not how far. He
thought, however, he would work his
way up the side. and so he did, inch by
inch, wearing his finger-nails almost to
the quick. Life is dear to man with a
wife and children. and so poor Lewis
worked and pressed the sand back and
kept getting on and up. Then there was
another fail of sand. and lie was almost
in despair. He mounted in this way
for six or eight feet. In the meantime
the people had got reused and began to
hope it was live and not dead man in
the we'll. Fifty men relieved each other
in digging, and a crowd of sympathizers
stood about. At last they could hear
the buried mans voice. Then he was
almost uncovered, but the board which
he had at his back all the way up
reached over his head. He called for a
saw and cut it off, and at two o'clock in
the afternoon, over five hours from the
time the sand fell. he was taken out
alive, without broken bone or bruise
or scratch, only stiffened with cold and
worn out with digging like mole for
his life.-Atchison (Ransas) Champion.
Year: 1879

A railroad accident occurred on Meta
mountain, Friday. says recent issue of
the Denver (Col) Tribune, by which
Pat McCool lost his life, and which re-
suited in the demolition of several freight
ears and caboose. The train was cut
ut the little station at Sangre de Cristo
creek, on the west side of the Sangre de
Cristo range, being too heavy for the
engine to take up the grade. The first
half was switched on the summit and
the engine started to return for the pm-
pose of bringing up the rear cars. As
The engine started back, the forward
gear eccentric broke, totally disabling
the left side, while the strain on the
machinery threw the litter on the right
side out OF shape, thus putting the loco.
motive entirely beyond the control OF
the engineer. There was nothing to
control it by. Realizing at once the i'm
pending danger, the engineer told the
fireman and brakemen to Jump off, and
began to whistle off brakes to the con-
ductor and brakeman on the train down
the mountain. The engine was then
about three-quarters of a mile from the
rear part of the train, its rate OF speed IN
descending increasing every moment.


The men below did not understand
the signal. and it was not till the engine
was within one-quarter Of mile from
the cars that the danger was observed.
The conductor hurried the passengers
out of the caboose and let off the brakes
All the persons on the train got of
except Il drunken laborer named Pat
McCool. He refused to move. and there
was no time to move him by force, so
the caboose and cars, the brakes being
let loose, darted down the mountain,
pursued by the flying engine. Behind
the caboose. and of course in front of the
train as # shot down the mountain, were
two hand-cars. Going round the curve
ut Sangre de Cristo tank, the grade being
pit feet to the mile and the momentum
very rapid, the hand-cars left the track
and ditched the caboose, the freight cars
pushing hard behind. swinging the ca
boose around and passing by, going into
the ditch beyond and on the other side.
This left the caboose half on the track
and only partly on its side. The engine
came tearing along at terrible speed,
and, when about forty yards from the
caboose. the engineer jumped of, fol-
lowed by the fireman and brakeman,
who until then refused to leave him
Just at this moment the drunken laboreI
came staggering out on the rear plat.
form of the caboose, and was crushed
between the engine and the caboose nito
IN almost unrecognizable mass.
Year: 1879

We know n girl who will wrestle
with croquet mallct in the hot sun for
hours and not complain. But Just ask
her to hold on to the wooden end of Il
broom tor few minutes and she'll have
a fit.-S;N,cater Latnbe7nann
Year: 1879

A dlstlngulshed physician WHO IEls
spent much time ut Quarantine. re-
marks the Memphis Appeal, "said that
q person whose head was thoroughly
washed every day rarely took contagious
diseases. but where the hair was allowed
to become dirty and matted it was hardly
possible to escape infection. Many per-
sons find speedy relief for nervous head
ache by washing the hair thoroughly
in weak soda water. have known Sc
we're cases almost wholly cured in ten
minutes by this simple remedy. A friend
finds the greatest relief in cases of rare
cold, the cold symptoms entirely leav-
ing the eye and nose after one thorough
washing of the hair. The head should
be thoroughly dried afterward, and
avoid drafts of air for a little while
Year: 1879

1.-THE yellow fever is a curious dis
ease" says the Memphis avalanche, land
the more it is studied the less we seem to
know about it. One of the greatest
curiosities in connection with this
plague of mankind is the case Of the
island of Jamaica, where the disease
prevailed for years, but where during
the last half century it has not been
known. Yellow fever is round it on
every side. in Cuba and in San Domingo,
but in Jamaica it is unknown. Jamaica
has no State Board nor National Board,
and consequently does not quarantine.
Year: 1879

rattSAa


O,1r Home Journal says that melons
NAV be fattened in the following mali
ner. namely: Before the melon has at
tanned It's full size and while in 4 grow
ing condition, insert the end of strip
of fine cotton cloth, about half an inch
wide and three or four inches long, into
the stem of the watermelon, by splitting
the steam with sharp penknife anG
place the other end of the st.,ip in the
neck of wine bottle filled with water,
inclining the bottle so that the water
may be absorbed by the string, which
acts rs n syphon. and making the end on
the outside of the bottle a little lower
than hat which is within the bottle.
Within twenty-four hours the bottle
should be retilled. rs the water will all
have been imbibed by the melon; and
in week or ten days it will have at
tanned its full size. Then withhold the
water to give it chance to ripen, other
wise it will be quite insipid and unfit 20
eat. If any one has patch that is in
tested with thieves, he can give them 4
dose of tartar emetic by putting eight
or ten grains of it into the water and dis
solving it by heating it before putting it
into the bottle. but let the water cool
down untilit is milk warm before insert
inn tho CLOTH
Year: 1879

AsFrench astronomer has found out
what is the trouble with the weather
in Europe, which has been unusually
wet and cold for months. It is because
there haven't been any sun-spots to speak
of. Sun-spots are now generally agreed
by astronomers to be boiling eruptions
of white-hot hydrogen, large enough
sometimes for the earth to be tossed
bodily into one of them, and when they
are in operation the heat given out by
the luminary is greatly increased. These
spots have q certain periodicity, and the
French astronomer already predicts a
very hot summer in 1881, so that every.
body will have plenty of time to get
ready.
Year: 1879

JUDGE j. E. R. RAY OF the criminal
court, who died of yellow fever In
Memphis, and his son may have given
curious facts showing how it happened
that they were stacked by the plague.
Did they occupy apartments that had
not been affected by frost during the
past winter? Why should one of Judge
Rays temperate, simple habits be smit-
ten9 Did he enter a house infected
with the poison of the plsgue2 Why
have none of these facts beer printed2 ?
He had been Secretary of State two or
three terms, was 3 prominent lawyer
snd many years on the bench. Why
was such man stricken down? Was
his home in district peculiarly msls-
rial
Year: 1879

They were entitled to go free or the
sentence Of the court should hsve been
carried out. II does not strike me that
this is good reasoning. They seem to
regard the Governor as acting in the
character of jurymsn. wheu, in fact,
he occupied very different position.
The accused parties had been regularly
tried and found guilty. They had then
appealed their cases, and the Court OF
Appeals had affi med their sentences.
On a mere doubt like that which
was presented, he could not turn them
loose. 1t would have been an outrage
to have done so. Would it not have
been equally wrong and uDjustifiable
to have permitted them TO have been
executed A man who has been on
the Supreme bench for twenty-five
years certainly knows how to analyze
facts and to properly review a case like
this, and intelligent men would be
likely to accept his judgment in pref
erence to any mere civilians. 1t is
stated that they were not even able TO
employ counsel, and lawyers were ap-
pointed to defend them. This fact ex-
hlbits the conscientious character of
the Governor and conveys the highest
encomium upon his character. He
performed an act from which many ex-
ecutives would have shrunk, even If
the condemned had been backed by
wealth and IT fiuences.
Year: 1879

A PRIVATE letter from ex-President
Grant says he is not coming home till
after the presidential nominations are
made. He does not intend to be bad
gered or caressed by super-serviceable
asses who pretend to friendship and
intimacy which no facts can justify.
Grants practical hard sense and plain
ness ofspeech and simple honest nature
break out very often at the proper time
and place.
Year: 1879

IT is said the opening of the mail
route from Fort Worth to Fort Sum-
ner Is most expensive, and that the
government must, in the end, abandon
the present line which runs from Fort
Worth via Williamb's Rancho in Brown
county, to Paint Rock, Concho and Ell
Paso. A line from Austin is regarded
as a better one, but then the narrow
gauge railway is needed to bring it
into notice.
Year: 1879

Mr.. JEFFERSON DAVIS insists that he
will not be 9 candidate for the United
States Senate. Like Bob Toombs, be
is one of the few men who can afford
to decline such an h3nor, and for the
simple reason that these two are of the
very few who could do honor to the
place rather than derive it from the
Office
Year: 1879

THE New York Nail says that Hayes
is now the confessed leader of his
party as be was simply its president ua-
til the policy of Tilden's adherents in
Congress consolidated the two wings
of the Republican party. OF this the
President is now the conspicuous
leader.
Year: 1879

THE second son OF the oldest brother
of the great Napoleon is said to be
preferred by the Empress as the head
of the House of B)naparte. He is
forty years old, and has true Bona
parte face. He is very popular In Cor
sica, where he is President of the local
Council General.
Year: 1879

IT SEEMS that the spiritualsts have
discovered that there is q mint in the
other world and thst it coins gold and
silver and that there is no paper money
in those parts. Would il not be well
for the Greenbackers 70 keep still"
and silently migrate thitheIs Such 3
big and aching void to hli would give
them exquisite delight.
Year: 1879

YELLOW FEVER will hardly be sue
cessfully treated by Washington red
tape, and we are much Inclined to be-
lieve that congressional legislation in
reference to the whole subject and
quarantine was a dangefous stretching
of Federal authority.
Year: 1879

One day gentleman in India went
into his library and took down book
from the helYes. As he did 50, he
felt a slight pain in the finger, like the
prick of apin. He thought that a pin
bad been stuck by some careless per
son in the cover of the book. But
soon his finger began to swell then his
arm, and then his whole body, and in
a few days he died. 1t was not a pin
among the books, but a small and
deadly serpent.
There are so many SerpentS among
the books nowadays; they nestle in


the foliage of some of our most fasci-


mating literature; they coil around


the flowers whose perfume intOXicates
the senses. People read, and are


charmed by the plot of the story, by


the skill with which the characters
are Sculptured or grouped. by the
gorgeousness of the word-painting


and hardly feel the pin-prick of the
evil that is inSinuated. But it stings
and pOisOns. When the record OF
ruined souls is made up, on what
multitudes will be inscribed, POISONED


by serpents among the books"


Every Christian sh0uld diScOunte-
nance the circulation of Improbable


books, and promote the dissemination


Of healthy, Instructive Christian liter


ature
Year: 1879

We do not hear of all the children


who are injured or killed by vicious
cattle. Its terrible thing TO see a


Young half-brOken COW chase a child


out of pasture, if the escape be mar
row one; but how infinitely worse is il
to have her oYertake the little one and
! toss or gore it. The child's fright
often causes il 10 faint, which is a
| great relief and often 4 matter of safe
! ", for the animal quickly sees that
there IS no danger to her from such a
one. Cows and Young stock in this
country are usually familiar with men
folks. while they SEE little OF women


and children-hence they fear and de-
fend themselves from them lust as
they would from dogs. In the same
way many 4 horse has been fatally


gOred by a COW or heifer, simply be
cause the latter had never been made
familiar with horses. My horses are
graZed, more or less, in the calf pasture
and so the calves know the horses, old
and young, and as cows. are perfectly
quiet with them.


If this is important. and | think il is.
il is ten times more important that the
heiferS should grow up in familiarity


with women and children-be driven


and fed by them, more or less, and at
calving time see that children NAV


play with their calves without any
harm coming 10 them. IL heifers pass


their first calying without getting
frightened and diStrustful of men and
Of children. they win thereafter be
quiet and tractabie. The practice Of


turning heifers and young stock out in


the mountain pastures for the sum-
mer. interferes with this training, but


il should be followed all the more dill


gently in the winter. We can sell our
trained heifers. and deliver them on
hoard cars. steamboat, or anywhere
else. with whole skins. good horns, and
unrunled tempers, with I very little


attention To their education II the


proper time.
Year: 1879

In no other business does filthiness
and negligence work 50 much mischief
as in the handling Of milk. Wooden
pals are unfit for use in the dairy. BE-
cause It Is next to impossible 10 keep
them clean, while tin pans are easily
cleanSed- Sugar of milk. when dried
into gum. Is very difficult TO dissolve
and can only be removed after careful
washing and scalding. The fumes OF
stagnant slOps, when conveyed TO the
milk, carry with them the seeds OF de-
strOction, which readily multiply and
destroy il.
Year: 1879

y certain man got mad az the editor
and stopped his paper. The next week
he sold all his corn at four cents be
low the marked price; then his prop
erty was sold for taxes because he on
IL heard of the convention three days
after it had adjourned; he lost so
after Ten Broeck had won the race
he was arrested and fined Ss for going
hunting on Sunday; and he paid $500
for a lot of forged notes that had been
advertised two weeks, and the public
cautioned not to negotiate them.


He then paid big 1rishman, with a
leg like derrick, to kick him all the
way to the newspaper once, when ne
paid four wears subscription in adj
vance. and made the editor Sign and
swear to an agreement to knock him
down and rob him if he ever ordered
his paper stopped again.
Year: 1879

The Prince Of Wales and DR.. Lyon
Playfair were standing near caldrOn
containing lead which was boiling at
white heat. Has your ROYAL High
ness any faith in science:" said the
Doctor. Certainly" replied the
Prince. viii YOU, then. place your
hand in the boiling metal, and ladIe
out a portion Of it," do yOu tell me
to do This?" asked the Prince Il do
replied the Doctor. The Prince then
ladled out some Of the boiling lead
with his hand. without suffering any
injury.


II is a well known scientific fact that
the human hand NAV be placed IN
injured III lead boiling al white heat,
being protected from any harm By the
moisture OF the skin. Should the lead
be at a perceptibly lower temperature
the effect need not be described. Let
no one undeTate the courage Of the
Prince Of WaleS.-LOHdOH World
Year: 1879

The best whitewash for poultry
houses: Into the whiteWaSh pail drop
a teacup Of sOft-hOiled rice, and mix
thoroughly. Then pour in quart OF
cold water, say ten or twelve drops Of
crude carbolic acid. Mix this into the
rest and swab the interior Of your hen
house with 1t. For outside, use rock
salt dissolved, instead of boiled rice,
and dispense with carboliC acid. No
other preparation of whitewash equals
this for poultry houses.
Year: 1879

Lard and kerosene are good 10 keep
lice from calves; sulphur mixed with
salt is good 10 drive ticks from sheep.
Calves like all animals, should be kept
growing from birth to maturity. Here
is one place where the profit comes in.
There is always loss of time and feed,
and more. too, by allowing young ami
mails 10 stand still" for six months or
more of the year. Sheep are well
clothed. aud need shelter from snow
and rain, and perhaps from the very
strongest winds. but cold agrees with
them Feed them well; give them
plenty of water, in small hOcks; keep
them dry, and they may stay out in
the cold and thrive. y close, dark pen
is poor place for sheep.
Year: 1879

There's a great difference between
housekeeping and boarding out said
Mr.. Younghusband; for when l
boarded out had 10 wait sometimes
half an hour for my dinner, but now
l have it Just when l can Get IL