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Year: 1872

About o'clock last night he attention of
Policeman Scheerer was attracted by the rap
ping at one Of the upper windows Of the ware
house, No. 2C5 West Baltimore street. He bad
but short time previously tried the door aud
found it sccuse, but when he again pressed
heavily asainsti it few open. The proprietor
Of the foor when the noise was heard, was
then sent for, and before he reached the place
a crowd Of several hundred persons had assem-
bled. Their appeared no doubt that burglar
was in the building, and to capture him was
the great object, and certainly there wcro
enough persons present to capture battalion
Of them had they been in the house. As soon
the upper floor was reached by the police q
search begun, butnoman could bofound. Finally
Policeman Scheerer discovered perched on the
window sash a woodpeeker, which had getinto
the room through a broken window, and was
trying to peck bis way out again. The bird
was captured ard taken to the Office Of the
Marshal whittier burglars are usually taken,
aud thus ended the cause Of the gathering Of
thing so great as to almost entirely obstruct
the passage Of the street cars.-BcH Gazette.
Year: 1872

barley, and such like-produce their eff
fects only in masses. Individual stalks
are quite insignificant. 1t is the community
and not the individual that is beautiful


But field of corn does not swallow
up in itself the stems which form its mass
Every plant yet retains its nobility II
corn is sown so thickly that it cannot find
room for development, the whole degener-
ates into mere grass and loses its proper
force and beauty. But the husbandman
has found out what rulers yet but slowly
learn, and reluctantly, that the force and
beauty of the whole is to be sought in the
development and strength of each single
plant Individuality and community are
not compatible, but each is the indispen-
sable factor of the other.


Or turn the subject in another light.
Each stalk of corn is father and mother.
1t does not live for itself. When it hastens
on in the hot days of July, it is not its
own beauty that it seeks. 1t takes that on
the way to a higher end. In the cool
juices of that polished stem glows the
sacred fire of parentage. The arched and
rustling leaves borrow of the sun and air
food for the coming brood. No sooner
does the tassel break forth at the top, than
peer out the infant ears nesting at the side
of the noble stem. Nor does the parent
blossom into its final beauty until the
exquisite silk hangs from the nascent ears
of corn to feed upon the parents life and
in it finds its own.


No sooner do the new born kernels
swell, than the parent bequeaths itself and
all its inward stores to its offspring. The
long leaves sing idly in the air. as things
that have nothing more % do. Every day
the winds evoke a shriller sound from
their motions. When the cob has covered
itself with golden kernels, rich and ripe,
the parent dies-dies, shall we think,
mourning sadly , What TO it is it, that it
shall live hundred fold IN its children?
All memory or consciousness will be gone.
1t has spent its life and beauty for others,
But how strong, how fresh, how full, how
beautiful its life while doing its appointed
work. How little does it really care to live
when the end of living was accomplished
1t did the work at hand, aud drew all its
beauty from that doing then took its
place in the great economy of nature, fall
ing back to nothing.


With such thoughts thousands of years
ago, men looked upon the fields, and sigh
ed, As fo7 man, his days are as grass
as flower Of the field so he fourisheth.
For the wind passeth over it, and it IS
gone and the place thereof shall know
it no more" Psalm ciii. Is, 16.


1t was thousands of years afterwara
that one said. As we have borne the
image Of the earthly, we shall also bear
the image Of the heavenly. Death
IS swallowed up in victory"


The grass Of the field may image forth
the secular side of human life. but it can
70 no farther than the grave Beyond
hat it cannot point. Only one garden
here ever was that set forth the sure hope
IF immortality. In the place where he
vas crucifed, there was a garden.
There they laid Jesus. Henry Ward
BeecIer.
Year: 1872

ten The war closed and Uncle Jake was
brought North His wife died at Boston,
and his children scattered. Two years ago
he came to Albany, and with a small boy,
went around gathering ashes from day to
day. Uncle Jake was a Christian if ever
there was one in this werld. Three times
day he was seen to kneel down in the
camp among the soldiers and pray fervent-
ly for the blessings of heaven on " Massa
Linkum and his boys" 4 little testament
worn and black with age, was his constant
companion. This he could read with
little difficulty. A rich foundryman OF
Troy said that the prayers of Uncle Jake
made more impression on his mind than all
the sermons together he ever heard. He
was an officer at that time at Newbern.


We cannot write an obituary of Uncle
fake, because we do not know his last
name or history We only know that he
was true friend of the Union, willing
at any time to lay down his life for the
cause, and that, through his exertions,
many poor soldiers were saved from death
and southern prisons. One man in this
city owes his life to him. and others, when
they see this brief mention, will remember
similar deeds His life was not in vain Al
though his acts as spy scout may pass
unnoticed in history, yet his humble efforts
helped to promote the revolution which
liberated and enfranchised his rade.
Year: 1872

A DEER ATTACKED BY ALLIGAToRs.-We
have Just heard of an incident that oc
CURED in the campaign of party of sports
men who were recently out on a hunt for
deer. They scared up three deer in the
vicinity of one of the bayous of the Ogee-
chez and succeeded in killing two, the third
made for the bayou as the only means of
escape. He had gone in the water but a
short distance before he was set upon by
two large alligators. The water was not
over three and a half feet deep at the
place, and the attack was in full view of
the sportsmen The two hounds had follow
ed the deer, and were consequently drawn
into the combat, which we are informed
was most terrific and bloody. The stag
made gallant defense with his antlers and
fore hoofs, but the fight was unequal, and
the water was soon crimson with the blood
of the noble animal as he sank down in
his death throes. The dogs battled brave
ly with the alligators, but they too. had to
yield to the terrific onslaught of these
enemy.


The party tried to get in some shots on
the alligators, but they counted not, and az
ter finishing their bloody work the monsters
glided off The affair was extremely ex-
citing. The sportsmen returned to the city
with the other deer, but the loss of their
valuable hounds marred all satisfaction in
contemplating the booty of their hunt
SlUannah NeJrS-
Year: 1872

The announcement that the city of Chica-
90 is about to commence the construction
of another lake water tunnel, reminds the
public that the recent disaster by fire
did not destroy the pluck and enterprise
of the Queen City of the West. The
Chicago Journal says that all the necessary
preliminary details for this mammoth un-
dertaking are at present in course of com :
pletion, and actual work on the lake shaft
will be commenced very soon. The con-
tract price of this work is fixed at about
1885,, 700, but there is every probability
that the cost will be about 100000.
When this new tunnel is finished it is the
intention of the authorities to pump the
present tunnel dry and then 90 into it and
clean it out, as it is deemed highly pro-
bable that there are incrustations and
formations in it which should be removed.
The completion of the new tunnel will
afford this city the largest supply of water
Of any city on the continent, and provide
for any emergency that may arise with re-
gard to water facilities
Year: 1872

600 for the whole, including the fund


which pays the librarian, etc. In one OF


the rooms is a selection Of the English


and American reviews, magazines and


newspapers, which for its extent is one of


the best | have seen, and certainly better


than know in Massachusetts, outside OF
Boston, only defect l noticed being
the absence of the Daily RepuJliean,-
but perhaps 1t was so much in demand |
did not see it. And all this wealth Of
books and papers and engravings is at the
service of the people of the town, without
cost to them, and of any student or literary
man who may wish to avail himself of it.
1t | had a book to write or lecture to
get up, L should be strongly tempted to
come up here to do the reading and refer
ence necessary, all the books would be
at ones hand, easy of access, and in rooms
which are better for work than the libra


ries of any college or city in America
that l have visited. Probably the mum
Der of volumes will not be very fast in
creased, but for a town of 5000 people
they are very numerous.-SprinQfcld Re
publican.
Year: 1872

the fifth has been commenced, thus. leav-
ing the rock above, which is about ten feet
thick, resting on solid columns. Some of
these columns have already been pierced
for the reception of nitro-glycerine. On
completion of the work of excavation and
the nitro-glycerine ready, the cofer-dam
will be cut, and, as it is easier to raise
weight under water than above it, the
shaft and mine will be flooded, and with
the electric spark the dangers of He'll
Gate will no longer exist. But should
the explosion by any accident not prove
successful, or, indeed, if it should never
take place, there will still be sufficient
room for the largest ocean steamers to
pass through the shaft after the Golfer
dam shall have been cut.
Year: 1872

DEATH or A FORMER SLAvE-The Al
bany ArQrS tells the following story of
colored man who died in that city few
days since and was buried by the hand Of
charity.


&" Old Uncle Jake died in a back room
over a stable in Que Of the alleys on the
hill. Some friends brought him plain
coffin, and had him buried quietly. No
paper announced his death, and the unfeel-
ing neighbors said they "were glad the
old nigger was gone. " Beneath the dark
exterior and repulsivc form Of that old
man was a heart as true in its sympathy
and a conscience as pure in its motives as
ever graced the human form. A diamond
of the purest water, passing Unnoticed
through earth to flash resplendent in the
Masters crown hereafter. One dreary
night in September, 1868, a company of
the Fourteenth Vermont infantry was on
picket duty in a pine swamp near New
bern, North Carolina, when Udcle Jake
came into the lines at the risk of his life to
tell that large force of rebels would COB
BILE them up that night. On this informa-
tion the company we're deployed as
skirmishers, and about midnight came in
contact with the enemy and drove them
back in great astonishment to find the
Yankees ready to meet them A few weeks
later the captain and two sergeants of the
Vermont company were taken prisoners
and put in boat to cross the bay. Uncle
Jake, who was rowing, cut the cords that
bound them, and they, with desperate
struggle, succeeded in overpowering their
captors and making them prisoners. Lat
er still. Uncle Jake went out to get his
wife and children and bring them within
the lines, when he was seized by the rebels
and tortured to get some information of
the Union forces. News was carried to
the Union pickets, and squad OF cavalry
went out just in time to find the rebels in
the act of stringing old Jake up to tree,
having failed to get any satisfaction from
him. A short fght, and Jake was free
again. These are only some of the incl
dents, which would form a volume if writ
Year: 1872

This Saturday night the wind howled
as it whirled by, lifting dirt, dust, rags, and
the like from the street to dash them in the
faces of those who hurried along. And it
was cold, shivering, garment-searching as
if in anger at one who would be comfort
able. The heavy omnibuses rumbled by
over the frozen pavement The horses
seemed all in shiver-the driver sat
pounding his gloved hands on his knee, his
face well muffied as the bus turned from
Broadway into Fourteenth street Every
one was hurrying to reach home or some
where.


Hir


Too late. We sprang to catch the hors-
es to a carriage. The driver turned out
to meet the old omnibus. A little ragged
girl ran to cross the street-did not notice
the team-two gentlemen sprang at the
same time with US to save her, but too
late


The carriage with its driver in livery,
buried on, as if it were not worth while
to pick up a ragged little girl,


We helped to bear her into a store.
Her little face and hands were blue with
cold. The little calico frock and thin pet
ticoat did not keep the cold from her body.
The ragged shoes kept her feet from the
cold pavement, but there were no stockings
or little panties to keep her little ankles
or legs warm. The poor little thing moaned
and shrank away as we placed her on the
counter, while the great, agony-filled tears
came to warm her frozen cheeks. Gently
as mans hand could were the few hooks
to her dress unhooked-the blood from a
cut on the left side of the forehead wiped
away and her little feet warmed by our
hands. Then we found three ribs broken
by the foot Of one of the horses, as he
struck her down.


What is your name, little one ?"


''Sarah Ryan, sir"
Year: 1872

The excavation at Hell-Gate is Justly
considered one of the greatest works of
engineering. The work is now consider
ed more than half accomplished. These
distractions it should be understood are a
huge mass of rock. To remove this, the
engineers have made vast excavations In
tunnel shape under it, with a view of
blasting If all out at one grand explosion.
OF course the excavations are under the
sea, and down under the beating waves
under the oceans roar, men are at work
drilling, shoveling, &c. Only ten tunnels
are visible from the outside, but there are
sixteen all told, six commencing in the in
rerior of the work. Four galleries of in
tersecting tunnels are now completed, and
Year: 1872

or a Count Monte Christie, at least. Aud
how does he manage to do it2 By what
subtle alchemy does be coin gold to meet
his lavish current expenses? ? What Is
his heavenly receipt for living sumptuously
on nothing a year.


Most people who have not inherited
money or made it by lucky stroke, have to
work very hard and very economically, if
they have wife and children, in order to
face their butcher boldly and meet their
tax collector without a blush. But here
is our friend Dore who tolls not neither
does he spin, and yet Solomon in all his
glory was never less affected by the fuc-
tuations of the money market or the price 5
of provisions. He Is q social mystery
We look upon him with kind of awe
Enveloped in that faultlessly cut coat, and
buried under that snowy shirt bosom, lies
the secret which half the world longs for,
the secret of living on nothing. the art
of economy. for this we take to be economy
elevated to a fine art.


We have all met in our large cities with
such people as the Dore family, aud have
received from them a vague impression
that there is royal road to soft living en-
tirely disconnected with hard work, frugal
ity, and the petty annoyances which enter
into a successful struggle for competency.
We have beheld these people, and v wondered,
and sometimes while we were wondering,
they and their gorgeousness have disap-
peared, like the enchanted things in a
fairy tale,-Ieaving naught behind except
some unpaid bills But this has only
heightened the mystery and splendor of the
phenomenon.-Erery Saturday.
Year: 1872

SES1ENcED.-Mathew Hardy, convict
ed of robbery at this term of the Court,
was sentenced on Wednesday by Judge
Jacobs. to one year in the penitentiary.
The Judge, in sentencing the prisoner,
remarked that the shortness of the term
was owing to the prayer of the jury for
Year: 1872

CITY IMPROVEMENTS are prob
ably more building improvements now
in progress in Seattle than ever before
ut any one time, and certainly more
than in any other town in Washington
Territory. Wharves are being extended.
several new ware houses in the course
of erection, three large new store build
ings on Commercial street, four on
Washington street of less dimensions
lately completed, two three story brick
buildings with iron fronts to be COM
menced as soon as the weather settles
sufficient to lay brick, and private
residences going up in every part of the
town. This, too, in mid winter.
Year: 1872

SIxKNa OF THE Aida The papers
generally. in noticing the sinking of the
steamer Aida, at her wharf in this city
on Thursday morning last, attribute the
accident to gale which threw the boat
against the wharf with such force as to
knock hole in her bottom. That ac-
count is not true. The accident occurred
from valve being carelessly left open.


She was raised next day and found to
have sustained no injury from any
violent conclusion or contact with the
wharf. There were four or five other
steamers lying around the wharves at
the time none of which were injured in
consequence of the high wind. Our
harbor is SO completely land-locked
that no wind has ever prevented steam
ers from landing safely, or causing any
damage to vessels lying at the wharves.
Year: 1872

PRICE RAID SCRIP.-The State Treasurer il pay
ing ont the money on Price Raid Scrip, dollar for
dollar, for the three classes Of scrip allowed by
the Government commission-for service, trans
portation, and supplies. There will bo sufficient
money to pay all these classes. Government al
lowed no interest; but the Treasurer gives a GER
tficate, showing the amount of interest on all the
scrip redeemed. If an appropriation is made to
pay interest, it will be drawn these certificates
But it is hardly probable that interest will ever
be paid, unless the State does it.
Year: 1872

PHOTOGRAPHS AS CHRISTMAS PRESENTS. -
Among the many articles that appear in our col
umns, bewildering the mind as to what they will
secure as present, there is none more worthy our
notice than the above All Others are pershabe
beside it. 1t is lasting remembrance of the donor,
and when good, nothing more appreciated. In this
connection, and without speaking disparagingly Of
other institutions, we wish to recommend to our
readers REEs u CO.'S old established gallery.
With no ordinary amount Of confidence in their
artistic skill, we make mention Of theirs being
the best gallery u the CITY, They have just received
the largest and most complete assortment OF frames
and velvet cases ever brought to this olty. which
they intend TO dispose OF at I small profit.
Year: 1872

Ice IN THE R1vER.-The cold Northwestern
ly winds of the last few days go chilled the
water in the river that yesterday morning
ice was formed entirely across. This IS
the first time this season that such has been
the case. At sunrise yesterday the ther-
mometer stood at II degrees.
Year: 1872

CHRISTMAS CoslFoRT.-What would be more
comforting or pleasing to your poor friends in this
Indictment weather. and what mort appropriate as
Christmas present than one of those heavy over
coats, or pair of heavy undershirtS, or any one oil
those useful articles, to be found ut Z. b. SPENCE e
Year: 1872

In THE GOLDEN AGE OF GIRLHooD preserve the
beauty of the teeth with sozoDoNT, and then, when
the hair is svered and the eyes dimmed with tears
the mouth will still reveal two gllltering rows OF
uusui1ipd ivory
Year: 1872

which was granted. The cause was then
taken to the Supreme Court, aud the judg.
ment OF the court was affirmed, and to-day
the sentence was carried into effect. While
the cause was in the Supreme Court and the
prisoner in Jail at this place he came very
near efecting an escape By cutting through
the walls with cold.chisel,s rf
Year: 1872

This old and ably conducted Democratic
journal comes to us in an entirely new
dress OF type, which indicates prosperity
and public favor. no less deserved than
generously bestowed. The .JOujnm is a
leading paper in the cause of reform and
true Democratic principles, hence its popu-
Engelhard is digniGed and graceful
writer, and his positions are always ably
sustained.
Year: 1872

The hennett Leader thus pathetcally mourns
the death Of . horse in that borough: The death
OF the mare belonging to c, II. Jackson. Of this
borough, il = loss in which he seems to have the
sympathy OF the community, as she was gener-
Auy known for the high spirit in connection with
gentleness. The loss is not felt so much in a
Pecumary sense, but more as some one missing
from the family circle I'he pbysieians we're m
mistaken in the disease, which proved upon eX-
summation to be enlargement Of the heart and
1t ls now supposed was inherited from her sire
VINO trotted his last mile in two minutes and
few moments afterward
Year: 1872

We HAVE AN ACCOUNT TO SETTLE WITH
OURSELVES approaches. The
suns increased power of evaporation diffuses
malarious principles. Suffering and bodily
iu6rmity increases. Even robust health is
insecure without remedy to ward off sick.
ness. Have then the antidote ready Save
your health and money, and guarantee a Wig
orous old age by the use of DR.. WALKFR's
CALIFORNIA VINEGAR BIrTERs.


Let any one whose health is not perfect,
use the celebrated vegetable remedy. You
can never err in taking ii, and you thus
avoid premature decay, and the misery Of
an in6rm and unenjoyAble existence.
Year: 1872

sleepless nights and nervous prostration
are generally the result of some disease or
disarrangement Of the urinary organs, COM
mon to either sex. Why not be frank with
yourself and give the matter attention at
once. A few doses of DR.. Wintersmith's
Buchu and Pareira Brava will put you all
right, and you will soon regain your aecus-
toned elasticity and cheerfuluess. Sold
everywhere.
Year: 1872

On March Is our Delegate intro duced a bill in Congress to create all that part of Arizona south of the first standard survey line north (say thirty miles south of Wickenberg), into a separate land district to be known as the Gila District, and authorizing the President to locate the office at such place in said district as he may deem best, and to appoint, by and with the consent of the Senate, Register and Receiver of Public Moneys for said district.

 MT. Mccormick writes that he in troduced this bill to meet the wishes of numerous persons living on the Gila and Salt rivers, and throughout Southern Arizona, but he doubts its becoming law on account of the limited amount of business hitherto done at the present Land Office in the Territory.
Year: 1872

Whenever military order IS pro-

 mulgated looking to the safety and advantage of the citizens and no in jury to the Indians, Lieutenant Whit

 man and his contemptible counsel, as

 we'll as his strikers and affidavit men generally, send up chorus of voices that the order is irhpracticable; but orders which can be used to specially advantage the savages, no matter how badly they may indirectly injure the citizens, the same miserable things find them practicable. Instance how the order requiring descriptive lists of adult Indians, the issue of rations every day, and other just requirements, was disobeyed by Whitman, and for which he is sent to Crittenden in arrest and scorned by all honest men. Now, he and his less respectable de- lenders declare the order was i'm practicable. The same order was found entirely practicable at Date Creek and easily enforced with satis- faction to the savages there receiving the nations bounty. Whitman and counsel can quite likely make good their boast that men will readily swear to the impracticability of the order at Grant, while the army records show it to be practicable at Date Creek. Even in the good old pious eastern States, the fact is daily de- that men there take readily to perjury, and even make a business of it. Constructive if not actual perjury eased Whitman over a rough place once before and may again.