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Year: 1874

MEssRs. HOWARD and GILCHRIsT
have speut two or three days in making,
for public information, accurate
measurements as 10 the difference Of
level between tie bed Of the creek
where it s,rikes the eastern side OF the
hill, and the bed OF the river at the
point directly west. They report
that the creek at the point spoken OF IS
l3 feet and 9 inches higher than the
river. The distance between the creek
and the river in a straight line is
1850 feet, aud the height OF the hill
where it is crossed bv the National
road is 22O feet aud s inches, measur-
ing from the bottom o. the river.


These data will furnish a foundation
for estimate. as to the cost OF construct
ing . tunnel or cut through which the
waters of the creek may be conveyed 70
the river in north Wheeling, thus re-
claiming for building purposes the val
usble ground which forms the bed ol
the creek in its present course.


The friends Of the enterprise owe
thanks TO the gentlemen who have
made these measurements, and
We trust that others will
80 interest themselves in the
project as 70 bring to it ultimate fulfil
ment and success. We believe as Mr.
WHoRroN did twenty years ago tha
there 10 a fortune in it for any iudivid.
usl or company who will undertake tb'
work, the lapse OF years and TIT
growth OF the city since the matter va
first proposed having only served Il
increase the compensation without ma
terially increasing the cost OF the work
Year: 1874

The ordinary saloon railway cars in
use in this country may not possess all
the advantages over the English COM
partment cars which are usually claimed
for them; but there is no question of the
vast superiority of the Pullman palace
and sleeping cars over any railway car
riages that have hitherto been known in
Europe. Recently the Pullman cars
have been introduced into England.
The representatives of the London press
were invited to make an excursion on a
train provided with the American cars,
and the result has been the printing of
columns of enthusiastic eulogy of the
comfort and luxury afforded by the
adoption of this American invention.


The wonder is, not that the English
men have finally discovered the advanta-
ges of palace and sleeping cars, but that
they have SO long clung to the same
model of railway carriage which was in
troduced at the very beginning Of rail-
way travel. There is no more reason
why railway travellers should be de-
prived of the opportunity to sleep and
wash and to enjoy the com fort of moving
about while on board car than there is
why steamboat travellers should be de-
prived of the same luxuries. The Pull
man cars, long delayed as has been their
introduction abroad, are destined to be
universally adopted on foreign railways;
and when the hotel car; with its we'll
supplied and well-served restaurant, is
brought to the knowledge of English
men, they will be compelled to admit,
that so far as railway travelling is con-
cerned, they were in the gall of bitter
ness and the bonds of iniquity before
American inventors took pity on them
and rescued them from the necessity Of
sitting balt-upright in night train, and
the danger of being locked up in a com
partment car with a raving lunatic or /;
designing female.
Year: 1874

The perils of the men whose profess
sion it is to hunt down and make captive
the denounced of the law are manifold
in any part of the world; but in the
lives Of the police Of our wild Western
prairies, as they may be called; the Sc
cret officers who undertake to track out,
bring to bay, and make prisoners the
outlaws of the savage border; there is a
wonderfully dramatic element of life-in-
hand fatality. Some weeks ago 4 band
of desperadoes boldly stopped and rihed
a passenger train at Gad's Hill in Kan
sas, and amongst the officers put upon
their trail of retreat was Chicago de-
tective, who imprudently went upon his
dangerous mission alone. Gaining some
clew of the outlaws in Kansas City, he
struck out from thence on the perilous
prairie trail, and was seen but once more
alive. \ vagrant wanderer on the banks
of the Missouri saw him fettered cap
tive in the custody Of three sinister
looking horsemen, and thus describes the
tragic scene; "All of the horses were
blanketed, three men had their faces
covered up to the eyes with wooden com
forters, and their hats were drawn down
as if for the purpose of concealing their
identify. Only one of the men spoke,
and he gave all the directions, and led
the bound prisoner upon the fat-boat,
and the party crossed over in strict si-
lence. The prisoner did not appear to
be at all restless, nor did he manifest any
anxiety about his life, which was soon to
be taken from him. 1t was just three
O'Clock in the morning when three men
rode away from the ferry-boat and dis
appeared in the dark gloom of the tim
Der. They rode slowly and silently away
in the direction of Independence. 1t is
not difficult to understand from the ma
ture of wounds on the murdered man
how he was killed. He was shot from
the side, one bullet passing through his
head and one through his neck; third
lodged IN his shoulder. Whether he was
ordered to prepare for his fate, and given
some notice of their intention to kill
him, or whether he was shot suddenly
while riding along, bound helplessly tc
his horse, is a question that only the
three mysterious men know themselves
They killed their victim in the road
about four miles east of Independence
cut the ropes from his legs, and left him
where they killed him, and where he
was found soon after daylight"
Year: 1874




Water THROWN into a red-hot metallic
vessel does not boil, as we should ex-
pect, but quietly gathers itself together,
forming more or less perfect sphere,
and in that condition floats about grace
fully on the hot surface as it slowly
evaporates away. IF at the same time a
very vaporizable substance as liquid
sulphurous acid is thrown in, the water
may actually be nozen in the red-hot
vessel.


Water boiled in glass flask until the
upper part Of the vessel is entirely fill
ed with steam, and then dexterously
corked before air can gain admission and
placed in cold water, recommences to
boil. The boiling is produced by cold
instead Of heat, and the experiment is
known as the ordinary paradox.


If steam from water boiling at 212 de-
grees is passed into a solution Of salt in
water the temperature of the solution
steadily rises, passing 212 degrees, reach
q tiS oOiiiiS Poii' Va tue NoAHtipll, MI
ally the latter also boils at a temperature
as high and even higher than 250 de-
grees. according to its nature. There we
have the extraordinary result of obtain
ing higher temperature, say 220 de-
grees, from lower one, viz: 2l2 degrees.


If there is anything in nature that
possesses a positive character, is it light.
Yet the physicist may so reflect the
light from a given source as to cause il
to destroy itself and produce darkness.
In like manner two sounds may be made
to interfere with each other, and either
produce silence or increased intensity OF
sound, at the will of the operator
Year: 1874

A Paladilhe relates that foxes are tor
mented by fleas, and when the infliction
becomes unbearable they gather
mouthful of moss, and slowly walk
backward into the nearest stream until
only the mouth is left above the surface
Of the water. The heas meanwhile take
refuge on the little island Of moss, and
when the fox is satisfied that they have
all embarked, he opens his mouth, and
the moss drifting away with its freight,
the willy animal regains the bank, evi-
IDENTIFY satisfied at his freedom from his
tormentors.
Year: 1874

TREE BLOWN DowN-Dnring the
large tree on the north side of Tenth
street, between Market and King, was
blown down by the high wind which
prevailed, In the fall the roots of the
tree were torn from the ground,
Year: 1874

Correspondents must use few words
for the next three months. We have
been liberal with them for some time.
We must cut and slash ROw.-Rich.
Dispdtch.


We echo the above request
Newspaper men are expected to
furnish digested accounts of the
proceedings of the Legislature and
of Congress, and that involves
trouble and requires space. The
other news of the day must also be
given. Here in Bristol We have TO
observe the "dOings" of two Leg
islctures and report at least alb
stracts of two gubernatorial and
one presidential message. Our
correspondents must talk TO the
point.
Year: 1874

Among the reports of the department.
commanders made to the Inspector General
of the army appears that of the commander
OF this department, detailing at length the
position and condition Of troops here. In
commenting on the circumstances under
which portion Of his troops have been
employed in maintaining civil authority,
General Emory calls attention to the diff
culties surrounding military commander
in the Southern States, and particularly to
the delicate and underlined nature of the
duties imposed on troops. He suggests
that general rule of action be defined ac-
cording with the law. He also says that
at present troops are expected to keep the
peace without having any power to
correct abuses, however tlagr ant. or power
to arrest parties for most criminal offenses,
and yet their presence, in case OF riot or
disturbance, renders them liable to civil
suits, if casualties should occur even by
accident The General gives it as undeniar
BILE that the presence of troops is necessary
to conservation OF peace in the Southern
country, and expresses the individual
opinion that troops here are necessary to
the existence Of the government itself.
From synopsis of the report, as received
by telegraph, it is judged to be manly
and tair document, which will have due
weight with the President, and in coming
legislation.
Year: 1874

The greatest efforts have been made in of,cial
circles in Hoboken to screen the member OF the
City Council who attempted In collnsion with a
policeman to perpetrate an outrage on strange
young girl who had just arrived from Baltimore in
quest OF her two brothers. Public Indignation is
now at fever heat. The Police Commis-
sioners, who at first took no notice OF
the case, have accordingly determined TO sift the
matter to the bottom. They have obtained the
name or the offender, but they keep 1T secret. He
not only assaulted the girl by dragging her into
vacant lot, till frightened from his villanous pur-
pose by the approach OF a milk man, but he carried
OF her hat and shawl, and tore away the pocket OF
her dress, containing a few dollars, all she pos
sessed. And yet police sergeant committed her to
q cell, where sne WAS Kept during the pleasure Of
the police administration, while not one OF those
who transgressed against her has been made
amenable TO justice. The investigation by the
Police Commissioners next Monday evening may
clear up the mystery surrounding the case. Sew
eral prominent citizens declared TO a HERALD re-
porter yesterday that the course OF the Police
Commissioners in cases OF this kind has made the
name OF H0boken a byword and a repfoach.
Year: 1874

That Democratic victory in Whining
ton, Delaware, on Tuesday last, points
to a still more glorious one for the
whole state in November next. The
Delaware Gazette says: 1T is only
another straw showing the direction
Of the minds of tho whole people of
the country are averse to the longer
continuance ia power of party that
has proved itself mass of corruption
in every State where it has had an
overpowering ho!d on power"
Year: 1874

We are informed by gentleman
who returned to the city last evening,
and who has just travelled through a
large portion of the counties of Du-
pin, Sampson, Wayne, Wilson, Edge
combe, Lenoir, Greene and Johnston
that the crops are failing very fast in
all these cornties. The dry weather
and cold nights have had the effect 10
stop the growth of the plant, and cot
ton which boiled late in August, and
is now forming bells will scarcely
turn out well except in the most IA
vored localities. The rust is also do
ing considerable damage, and grave
fears are entertained by the planters
of the final result of the cotton crop.
Corn and cats have turned out well,
and the yield will be about as large as
Year: 1874

ability ana o citizen universally respected. In
the DAYS Of the late Judge Rockwell. he was a
member or the Court o. oyer ana Terminer and
Sessions by virtue his once as a Justice OF the
Peace. where he was much esteemed. lie leaves
surviving . widow and several children.
Year: 1874

Senator Maclay furnishes us an an
ecdote which illustrates more fully
the wonderful productiveness of this
valley than anything else which has
come under our notice. Last Fall, the
Senator in company with John Quincy
Adams, of Massachusetts, while visit
ing this country, made flying trip
to Los Nietos. In q field there they
noticed some pumpkins which ap-
peared to them of extraordinary size,
and they remarked this fact to the
owner of the ranch. "Them," said
the simple-minded agriculturist, "big?
Nothing but dwarfs-blasted on the
vines before they matured. Last year
was better for pumpkins than this'n,
and grew some on 'em as was eau
ton. One was so big that we couldn't
load it into a wagon, even if we had a
wagon large enough and strong enough
to hold it. 1t was quite a considerable
sized fruit. We concluded that it
would be too expensive to build a
truck especially to haul it,. and put up
the hosting machinery necessary to





force together and just rolled it over
into the next field. Then the "a 8 Of
the town made d sort Of picnic and
came and dug into one side of it and
worked up, think, nigh on to two
thousand pumpkin pies from the
small part which they took away.
They supplied the whole town, and
all the country around, with pies and
some was sent to Los Angeles and
some to San Francisco. The pies were
quite a curiosity, you see, coming
from so large vegetable. Well, that
only made small hole in one side of
the pumpkin, and afterwards we
turned drove of hogs inside of it--a
hundred or so-an' shut them up. In
about q month they ate their way
through and came out about the fat
test lot Of hogs l ever set eyes on. So
in one way and another we got shed
of the pumpkin, and what wasn't
used otherwise, we used for fertiliZing
my ranch and others in the neighbOr-
hood. All that is left now is the
seeds. Them the ladies as made the
pies took out, and we used them to
shingle the church with" We are
informed that the church is still stand
ing at Los Nietos as an evidence of
the truthfuiness of this story.
Year: 1874

The third term of the San Diego
Academy opened yesterday, under the
most favorable auspices, the number
of pupils in attendance being larger
than at the opening of any previous
term.


Col. Henry Finnegass, Chief of the
L. S. Detective Service on the Pacific
Coast, arrived in San Diego yesterday
to investigate the recent Custom House
robbery. Col. Finnegass is one of the
most efficient officers in the service of
the Government.


A walk around town yesterday
showed us more activity in every
branch of business and industry than
has been noted for some time. With
the opening of the harvest season there
is decided revival in trade, and the
outlook presents very encouraging
prospect.
Year: 1874

We were in error yesterday morning
in stating that the non-arrival of the
San Francisco mail on Tuesday was
caused by a failure in connection at
Bakersfield. The clerks in the San
Francisco Postoffice celebrated the
Fourth to a certain extent and failed
to dispatch the mail matter at the
usual time. That was the reason for
the delinquency, as we are informed
by one of the proprietors of the Tele-
graph stage line,
Year: 1874

Young man ahoy! Fitzpatrick is
the man you are looking for. He will give
you the incest fitting garments to be had In
the city; cloth of the best material; work
done upon honor, and the best satisfaction
made at once. jy2tf-3
Year: 1874

Much dissatisfaction is expressed by
many of our merchants with the GUS
tom in vogue among some of keep
ing their places of business open on
Sunday. The laws regulating such
matters should be enforced, and we
understand that active measures will
soon be taken TO secure such great
ly to be desired state Of affairs.
Year: 1874

Ba. The tide ofinmigratioIi is steadily set
ting in and the first thing eastern people do
Is to throw away their New York Hats and buy
a new one of DESMOND. They say there is no
comparison between the two. 2ho
Year: 1874

We have copy of the bill now before Congress, for the gradual reduction of the army of the United States. It provides that on or before the first day of January, 1875, the number of enlisted men in the ser vice shall be reduced to a, 5,0OO, and shali not be increased except by law. Also, that no new commission or promotion shall be grant ed until such time as the officers have been reduced to relative number.
Year: 1874

How TO MAKE THE CITY PROSPER.


Tomorrow there will appear in the
APPEAL an excellent map, a copy Of
that prepared under the auspices of the
chamber of commerce, showing the ac-
cessibility and commercial facilities of
Memphis. Every road perfected and
contemplated will be clearly defined, and
the river itself will be shown in all its
proper proportions as gateway to the
sea. Two thousand extra copies Of the
APPEAL have already been ordered by
most intelligent merchants, and We
hope that before nightfall this number
will be increased to ten thousand. Each
tradesman should send q copy OF this
paper OF tomorrow to each of his cor
respondents ia the south and down east
and infinite service viii be done the
eftv and country. Each merchant hav-
ing an advertisement or editorial para
graph referring to himself in this paper
Of tomorrow, will be most widely
made-knOwn.
Year: 1874

Several days ago the APPEAL pub
lished the fact that Mayor LOage had
ordered the chief Of the fire department
to turn over the Chelsea hose-carriage
to Mike Doyle, and notified him of the
appointment of three negroes to take
charge of that safety vehicle. The fire.
chief thinking it the duty of the fire.
committee, aud not Of the mayor, to APP
point the men on the department, re-
fused to recognize the action of
the mayor in this matter. The
negroes, however, went on duty,
and as they proceeded along
the street were followed by a motley
crowd Of enthusiastic admirers. The
situation was an awkward one, and in
order to make a graceful solution of the
situation Councilman Jack Walsh, who
had withdrawn from the previous meet
ing of the committee Of which he is
member, yesterday offered a resolution
before the council to declare the Dan
bury engine mot the Chelsea hOse-car-
riage), out of service. As the meeting
had been called for public purpose, as
elsewhere stated, and not for political
aims, Mr.. Walsh was "declared out of
order.n Yesterday afternoon the fire
committee had a meeting and passed
the following resolution, Jack Walsh
(white), and Councilman Thomas me
gro), dissenting:


Resolued, By the fire committee of the
general council that the fire committee
and the chief-engineer Of the fire de-
partment only have the right to employ
the men that are employed on the fire.
department, subject only to the approval
of the general council, and that the may
or has no authority 10 employ men on
said department without the consent OF
the fire committee and chief-engineer.
Be il further


Resolved, That the chief-engineer is
hereby instructed not to put any men
on duty in his department unless they
are employed by the fire committee and
himself.


Adopted by the fire committee.


JOHN A. ROACH,


Chairman Committee.


The above resolution was sent 10 Chief
McFadden, who feels himself in duty
bOund to obey, the negro members of the
Ntaatfa
Year: 1874

A little boy, aged four years, by the name of Isaiah Roy, whose parents are living down in the Clyburn neighbor- hood, near the south line of Scott Township, and some five or six miles southeast of the city, was burned to death, under the most distressing cir cumstances. The little boy, in com pany with his elder brother, was stand ing by prairie fire, which had been set out by MT. Bryant to back-fire around some fencing, when suddenly the wind veered around with 0 perfect whirl, and drove the flames into his face, setting almost his entire clothing, which was of cotton, on fire. At the same time the flames and smoke so strangled him that he reeled and fell directly into the blazing grass. The older boy, with great coolness and pres ence of mind, dragged him out of the fire as soon as he possibly could, and took him to 8 ravine only a few yards off, and endeavored to extinguish the fire in his clothing by rolling him in the water. The clothing was of cotton, and so thoroughly and completely ablaze by the time he got him there, that he did not succeed in doing so un- til his entire apparel was consumed and his skin burned to one complete blister. The poor little fellow suffered the most intense pain for some two or three hours before death relieved him of his agony. Fort Scott Monitor.
Year: 1874

A San Diego editor says, that at the risk of being pronounced falsifier by Eastern people, he will state few facts illustrating the fertility of Southern California. He had seen mass of wheat, the product of a single grain, on which he counted one hundred and nineteen stalks. It was taken from the ground before being allowed to mature, otherwise each stalk would have borne at least sixty grains, being Q yield of over seven thousand grains from one. Two years ago MT. Kimball planted some olive cuttings, which have become thrifty trees, the height of a man. Bees filled an empty hogshead in q back yard with honey, and the alfalfa-fed cows yield milk enough to fulfill the scriptural requirements of a promised land,
Year: 1874

They reckon pretty close in Phila- delphia when they wish to get some- thing for nothing, if one may judge from statement in the Record. But ter under weight is forfeited, and the Record says that at late meeting the almshouse store keeper reported that during the month he had received sev- enty-one Jumps of forfeited butter, the weight of which was sixty-nine pounds. This would make two pounds, or thirty-two ounces, short weight for the seventy-one Jumps, or an average of less than half an ounce per lump-a close calculation for forfeiting, but on that account furnishing all the more significant warming to dairymen that il is safer to make the pound lump g quarter of an ounce over weight than 6 quarter of an ounce short.
Year: 1874

This is purely slght-of-hand trick, but it does not require much practice to be able to do it we'll and cleverly. Take a shilling between the forefnger and thumb of the right hand; then by @ rapid twist of the finger, twirl the coin by the same motion that you'd spin a teetotum. At the same time rap idly close your hand, and the coin will disappear up your coat sleeve. You may now open your hand, and, much to the astonishment of your audience, the coin will not be there. This especial trick may be varied in hundred ways. One plan is to take three shillings, and concealing one in the palm of your left hand, place one of the others between the thumb and forefnger of the right hand, and the third between the thumb and forefnger of the left hand. Then give the coin the twist already de- scribed, and closing both hands quick ly, it will disapper up your sleeve, and the left hand being unclosed, it will be found to contain two shillings. Thus you will make the surprised spectators believe that you copjured the coin from your right hand to your left.