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Year: 1872

from the east IL passed to the north


west, and the stream Of FIRE changin.
its direction Immediately. went Il
spread its rayages where the hand o
ineeadiarics had not been able 10 car
~ it,


This immense column Of FIRE. beateI
down hy the wind on the roofs o
buildings, surrounding them a. soo1
as it touched them, increased every
instant the cenquests it made, spread
the flames with frightful roaring. in.
terrupted by terrible explosions, and
hurled burning beams into the dis
tanee, which spread the scourge where
/ it was not, or fell like bombs into the
middle of the street. After having
blown for some hours from the south
east, the wind, changing its direction
again, and blowing from the south
west, carried the fire into new quart
ers, as if nature took a cruel pleasure
in shaking ont by turns ruin and
death Of every kind over this unhap-
py city, or rather, on our army which
was only guilty, alasl of heroism, at
least if Providence did not intend 10
visit on it the lawless designs of which
it had been the unwilling instrument
Undor this new impulse, given from
the southwest, the Kremlin, till then
spared, was suddenly endangered.
Fiery sparks fell into the midst OF the
ammunition of the artillery spread on
the ground ald threatened TO set it
on fire. aiUre than four hundred wa
gons Of ammunition were in the court
of ihe kremlin, and the arsenal con-
tanned some hundred thousand pounds
Of powder. 4 disaster was imminent,
and Napoleon, with his guards might
be blown into the air. The officers
who were with him. the soldiers of
the artillery, knowing that his death
would be theirs, surrounded him, and
pressed him with earnest enreaties to
come away from the burning crater
The danger was most threatening /;
the old artillerymen of the guard, al
though used TO cannOHade like those
of BorOdino, almost lost their pres
enee Of mind. General Laboiseire
approaching Napoleon, pointed out to
him the anxiety Of which be was the
cause, and, with the authority Of his
age and devotion, told him that It was
duty to let them save themselves
alone, without increasing their per
plexity by the uneasiness that his
presence excited. Besides, several
officers sent to the neighboring quar-
tsrs reported that the fire, rapidly in
creasing, hardly allowed one TO cross
the streets or breathe, and that they
must leave at once if they did not
wish 10 be buried under the roof Of
this i'll fated town.


Napoleon, followed BY some of his
lieutenants, went ont Of that krem-
lin which the Russian army had not
been able TO prevent him from enter
ing, but from which the fire expelled
him after four-and-twenty hours Of
possession, deeended to the quay Of
the Moskowa, found his horses ready
there, and had much difficulty in
crossing the town, which toward the
northwest, whittier he directed his
course, was already in flames. The
wind, which constantly increased in
violence, sometimes caused columns
Of fire to bend TO the gronnd, and
drove before it torrents Of sparks,
smoke and sitting cinders The hOr-
rible appearance of the sky answered
to the no less horrible spectacle Of
the earth The terrified army went
out Of Moscow.
Year: 1872

A lady correspondent Of a cOtem-
porary, thus defends little men, Il
think it is not the opinion of every
one that people should be held in con-
tempt or indifference because they
may be low of stature, not having
chaneed to arrive at the average
hight, that the generality Of mortals
attain to. How many of our great
heroes must be acknowledged to be-
long to this class. Its the mind that
Year: 1872

II it be true that "evil communications cor
rupt good Manners" the test is likely to be
severely applied in Chicago during the preva-
lence Of the horae-malady. It is q severe *rial
of the temper of our citizens whose homes and
places of business arc SO widely scattered, that
our ordinary lines Of street-traYel are to be
almost totally interrupted. Saturday morning
found the streets full of pedestrians pushing
cityward with admirable cheerfulness indeed,
but at a sad sacrifice OF time and labor. We
refer elsewhere to the street-railway question.
Within the past few years the homes Of Chicago
have spread widely upon the prairies and along
the lake shore. It is ten miles from Fullerton
avenue on the north, to Si1ty-third street,
the line Of Englewood and the great shore park
on the south and the western limit is Elk
miles from the lake shore. Throughout all this
territory are the homes Of our business men,
our mechanics, our employees, and economical
householders OF oil grades. The most pressing
question OF the hour is whether the street.
embargo can be relieved.


Fortunately, it can be, to large extent. Chi
caco has been liberal in her policy to her rail
roads, and they are coming to the rescue. The
CITY map shows how wonderfully complete is
the railroad system, which can and wiu bring a
Year: 1872

Presidential campaigns. It must also seriously
affect the election. Wherever the disease pre-
walls in the rural districts it will be Impossible
for the farmers to get to the polls. In the cities
the vote will probably be reduced, for that con-
siderable number of voters who always depend
nnon wagons, and won't or can't vote on foot,
will be wanting.


In Chicago, politics which have taken one
wide divergence, owing to the Sunday question,
now take another, owing to the epizootic. As
long as the horses are sick, people will care very
little whether beer flows today or not. The
temperance question goes out of sight, and the
horse steps in. All the little petty questions,
and the big State and National issues, fade into
insgni6cance before the eyes OF that man whose
horse is in the barn, coughing and sniyellng,
he himself putting along on foot, uncertain
whether he can get to any place in any given
time, equally uncertain, as be leaves home in
the morning, when he will again get
to the bosom Of his horseless family. It is Of
no use to talk politics to him now, temperance,
or Sunday-beer, or anything else, for his horse
is sick. All this goes to show upon what slight
himself with uncertain gait into the political
field, and, presto the eagle stops his screaming,
the calcium lights are dimmed, the colored
troops fight badly, the orators voices grow
feebler, the bummers house themselves in the


saloons, and the grasshopper becomes burden
Year: 1872

for Assembly, and voting here, as he most I'M
theory. By reference to page jas OF the Wis
consin Legislative Manual for 1872. you will zee
he was candidate for member as T state, and
also the vote he received. The date of bis con
version to Grantism am unable to give. Very
truly YOURS, LIBERAL.
Year: 1872

ALL CAUSED BY GETTING DRUNK.-On


Thursday last, couple OF young men of this
city, determined to render thanks for the manv
merces and blessings vouchsafed to them during
the past year, BY going on a glorious spree
Accordingly, they started out, and before long
they had carried their intentions into effect, and
one OF them, becoming drowsy from the effects
OF frequent I'otat;Ons, fell asleep in an uptown
beer saloon. and could not be sufficiently aroused
to move elsewhere. His companion, who was
not 80 drunk, wished to continue his reyelries,
with some boon comrades, hut before leaving the
saloon, at the suggestion Of several of the others
he relieved his friend Of his watch, for the pur-
pose Of preventing it from falling into dishonest
hands. lie then went out, became gloriously
drunk himself and lost his friends watch
When the owner recovered from his drunk, and
was informed of the facts in relation to the
watch, he appeared before Esqnire Frazer, and
charged his friend with larceny, and had q
warrant issued for his arrest. The trial came
OIL, but the charge Of larceny was not sustained
from the fact that the watch was taken openly


in the presence Of many persons, and with the
expressed purpose Of safe keeping. and 90 the
case Was dismissed, the defendant paying the
costs. The watch was valued at about $50


which is quite serious loss, we'll calculated to
have beneficial effect on the loser, and enable
him to see that 1t never pays to get drunk.
Year: 1872

ACCIDENT ON THE W. Il w. r. Ron Tues.
day morning. an accident occurred on the Will
mington Il Western Railroad, which was caused
by some rocks falling down upon and obstructing
the track. at Red Clay Cut near Cuba Hill
Before this fact was discovered, the lO4O mail
tram from this city came around the sharp curve at
this place, and went humping into the scattered
rocks Fortunately the train was moving around
the curve at slow rate of speed, else the accident
might have been more serious in its results. The
engine passed entirely over the distractions but
was damaged, to a considerable extent. The front
truck of the mail and baggage car was forced
away from its position, and showed back to the
other end OF the car, but the train was stopped
without being thrown from the track. The nature
Of the accident to the baggage car, however.
rendered it impossible to move it immediately
from its position, and 80 the passengers were
placed on the engine and tender. and taken to
Landenberg. An extra force was then sent to the
scene of accident, and the cars placed upon a
siding. where the baggage car still remains. This
Is the only accident OF importance that has yet
happened on this road. and was entirely unavoida'
BILE. and beyond the power of the care and vig
lence which is always exercised by the employees
OF the Company.
Year: 1872

The Country seems to be
Filled with Specifc-For the
cure Of Lung Diseases, that
one scarcely knows which to
use, for want of confidence in
their medical properties; but
from the remarkable cures and
the high order and extraordi-
nary efficacy Of Aliens Lung
Balsam, that we are compelled
to regard the evidences Of our
senses, and confidently state
for Cough and that Hydra.
headed Monster Consumption,
we think that preparation a
safe and certain cure that is
now befor the public.


For sale by all Medicine
Dealers. 51-4t
Year: 1872

It is said that in the village
of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, on the
Sabbath only q few hours be,
fore the fire which swept them
from existence, some thirty or
forty young men got together,
up to the neat little
Methodist Church with two or
three Kegs Of lager beer, and
held q mock service, going
through with all the ceremon.
les, administering the Lords
supper and other rites Of the
sanctuary.
Year: 1872

A young lady from the rural
districts called upon o New
Lisbon lawyer, n few days ago
to consult him about the faith
lessness of'a gay young gentle
man who had trifled with her
affections. The attorney in.
formed her that it would be
necessary to file a bill of par.
ticulars for damages with the
complaint. The following is
a copy:
Year: 1872

1t is stated that ear trumpets VIII
be on exhibition in Eienne of such
wonderful construction that sounds
can be heard at the distance of one
mile. The husbands that now leave
home to attend clubs. because they
don't want to hear the voice of their
wives, will be under the disagree
a. Waco. ~itv of increasing the dis
tance between their homes and their
places of retreat. We can conceive
nothing more annoying than man
wife listening to remarks of her hus-
band at a little CRANE of draw
poker, when he knows that he
SIS a mile from where she Is.
This is too much of a good thing.
We are opposed to it; and hope that
fellow will keep his ear trumpets IN
Europe. This is a free country; we
don't want them. We can hear we'll
enough. and see too much.
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, Oct. l. 1872.
To THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


find in your issue Of September 80 an obituary
notice OF the late DR.. D. c. De Leon which casts an
unmerited aspersion on his name. The article |
allude to charges him, as the head OF the medical
staff of the Confederate Army, of "being in great
degree responsible for the cruelty to the sick and
wounded federal prisoners beg as a simple act
OF Justice to the memory OF gallant soldier and
high toned gentleman, that you will correct this
error. DR.. DE Leon organized the medical staH
but two months after vacated In favor OF Dr. Moore
He then filed the position OF Medical Director to
the army Of General Lee for q few weeks, when he
resigned and went as aid to General Magruder, In
Texas where he remained until the war ended
Even then he did not return to the United States
but commenced the practice OF his profession in
Mexico. ARMY.
Year: 1872

Alas, even sardines are dangerous. A
man in Newbury, N. c., cut his hand in
opening box OF these oleaginous deicacies
the other day, and the result was that his
hand and arm began to swell, and he finally
died. Ar all the luxuries of life conspiring to-
gether to destroy us for the iniquities OF this
degenerate age?


Lent, mourns the Ecening Post, is Lent
no more in New York. Strakoseh throws
open the doors of the Academy of Music,
with Nilsson as the attraction, during this
solemn season, and the spacious building is
promptly filled by as fashionable and brilliant
an audience as ever assembled within its mel
Cdy-haunted walls.


Some of the chief beauties of the law are
illustrated in case in Indiana. A high
spirited gentleman had a quarrel with a
neighbor and shot him, occasioning his death
some days after. He was tried for murder in
the second degree and acquitted on the
ground that death actually ensued from dis
ease, that being put forward as the defense.
He was then indicted for assault with intent
to kill, and in defense admitted the shooting
and that death was the result of the wound,
which made the offense murder of the second
degree, and then pleaded his former acquittal
ON that charge. rhe final trial is yet to
come.
Year: 1872

Can $1,000 be Raised to Pay the Teachers.


A movement was inaugutated in the Board of
Public Education at it's meeting, last evening,
towards reconsideration OF the resolution by
which the salaries of the primary school teach
ers were recently increased. 1t seems that the
Board is pretty evenly divided upon the ques-
tonof increase, of salaries and there is likely to
be lively contest over the matter at its next
meeting. Those opposing the increase main
tain that provision is not, and cannot be, made
for funds to pay the additional sum required
thereby, while those who wish the teachers bet
ter paid hold that the $1,000. necessary, to meet
the extra outlay can be obtained by asking the
City Council for an additional appropriation.
There can be no doubt that our teachers are
poorly paid, and it is to be hoped, that no ques-
tion Of finance will stand in the way OF the Board
in maintaining the slight increase Of wages de-
cided upon at recent meeting. To have sue
cessful schools we must have capable teachers,
aud to maintain supply of these, they must be
adequately paid. At present, they are not.
Year: 1872

THE negro legislators Of South Carolina
are endeavoring to pass bill to prohibit
State officials from leaving the State, except
with consent of the Legislature" From
developments, it is evident the peuitentiary
would prove more Just detention.
Year: 1872

The loungers about the city market of San
Francisco were astonished the other day, by
the sudden apparition of little boy, wrap
ped in flames and SC roaming dismaly. No
sooner was he put out than second boy,
likewise burning fiercely, rushed on the scene
and demanded to be extinguished. He, in
turn, was followed after a few minutes, by
third flaming boy, and the whole spectators
abandoned themselves to the belief that a
general coniagration of the small boys of
San Francisco was in progress. They waited,
however, in vain for any further burning
boys, and finally ascertained that the three
boys who had so astonished them bad picked
up three separate sticks of phosphorus and
placed them in their respective pockets, in
which warm receptacle the phosphorus had
burst into flames. These particular burnt boys
will doubtless hereafter dread phosphorus,
but it need not be supposed that their fate
will deter other boys from confiscating and
hiding in their pockets every bit of phos-
phorus which many fall within their reach.
Year: 1872

To the Editor of the Press


wish to make suggestion through the
columns Of your paper. The State owns
some hundred acres of the best land in the
county of Cumberland, in which is built the
State Reform buildings. This land is cultivat-
ed and stocked as well as the limited appro-
priatons will admit. The affairs of the in
stitution aud farm are well managed, so we
are led to believe. This farm can be made a
school for others, than phom the po,cers that
Be, intended Let the State make a, liberal
appropriation to be devoted exclusively to the
improvement of the farm; if not underdrain-
ed according to the best system, let that be
done; if there is a lack of manure, procure
the necessary implements, and means of
transportation for sea dressing. The farm is
accessible by the way of the sea- where plef-
ty of muscles and sea weed can be had with
out money or price ;by procuring scow and
skipper;twenty-five cords of rock weed can
be procured in one tide. The boys of the in
sHtution would jump at the chance for a
sail down the harbor and pull the weed from
the rocks by that means the farm could be
made to produce large quantities of hay. On
the light land, muscles could be very easily
procured by the farm hands by the means of
the scow and some shoveers to load. As for
cattle let the best breed of milk cows
be procured, the latest improvements
in their management be introduced.
But so far as horse breeding to any extent,
we are Of the opinion that the number of
f,&l toI


vantage; but if it should be judged expedi-
ent that that department should be kept up
equal to the best conducted breeding establish
ment, other acres could be added for pastur-
age. There is land well adapted to raising
apples and pears; other land is suitable for
gardening purposes. If we had such, hardly
farmer who visited Portland, but would
visit the grounds and see where he could i'm
prove on his own. Many of the thousand
visitors who come to Portland in the summer
for pleasure, would ride out and see what
can be done at farming in Maine, and when
they returned to their fireside would relate
the pleasant impressions they received on
their visit to the surroundings of the State
Reform School.


Last summer while trampiBg through the
Annapolis valley, which is the garden of
Nova Scotia, we were frequently inquired of
where they could see the best stock in Maine
and the many Improvements of the age in
farming and find some of the best stock for
sale. We had to refer then to Gen. W. S.
Tilton Of Togus, government institution,
who by the way is nearer the age, than any
one that l have seen in the New England
States. "Was there any place near Port
land?' We could not say truthfully there was


S. p. AAYBERRY.


Cape Elizabeth, Dec. 2, 1872.
Year: 1872

small Peoria mandatory recently
"closed for REPAIRS" and the report went
abroad that the establishment had busted.
This wouldn't do. So they pnt tanning
mill in the front part of the shop, and they
got man to turn that tanning mill from
morning till night, and the noise of that fan
ming mill sounded so much like business as to
keep the dreaded creditors from the door,
Year: 1872

The St. Louis Globe says: Remember
the poor, and, when you have your coal
thrown into the cellar, leave few nubbins
Oh the sidewalk for the gatherers. Conscience
will re yard you for the act, and the gatherer
will drink to your health when he trades off
his load for glass of beer"
Year: 1872

For good, steady, safe business, re-
quiring scarcely any capital and making
abundant cash return for the time spent
commend us to the profession of Good
Samaritan in Wisconsin. The new liquor
law in that State makes intoxication a
crime. aud compels the intoxicated to
pay 81 day to any one who takes care
Of them during their lapse from grace
The Good Samaritan of the nineteenth
century has only to hire room for about
so cents day aud scour the streets for
the poor victims of folly. In any city
he can safely calculate on finding halt
a dozen suffering beings whom his gem
erous soul will yearn to succor. When
he has once conveyed them to his head
quarters his task is done. The cost Of
maintaining a man just recovering from
q drunken debauch will be merely nomi
nal. and the benefactor of his race will
be 10 receipt Of a steady stream of g
bilIs.-Chicogo Tribune
Year: 1872

In America the jury system is falling
into disgrace on account of the ignorance
of the majority of jurors A very large
proportion of the men who are called up
on to render verdicts are of exceedingly
limited brain power, and the law and the
testimony go in at one ear and out at the
other without leaving even a sediment
of sense behind Rights of property are
settled by impecunious individuals, who
never had ability enough to earn the
price of jack knife; the question of
the sanity or insanity of a homicide is
determined by dozen blockheads whose
knowledge of the mental apparatus is in
fnitesimal; and not unfrequently the
most important cases turn on the eondi-
tion of the jurors siomachs. aud lively
appetite upsets the arguments Of counsel
and the charge of the judge


=, Bat in Austria, the minister of justice
y, ssy.-l,s-lraught forward bill to abol-
Year: 1872

The Omaha Bee tells long story Of
the recent arrival in that city of young
man from the East. of thirty i've sum


iners. He appeared lorn aud lost, in
search Of some Lenore, nameless now for
evermore, aud it was only after getting
completely into his confidence that the
following romantic tale was elected !.
Seven years ago Richard Storms, a far


mer in small way, living near Manches


ter, England, fell in love with daugh


ter of his neighbor, named Mary Th0mp
son, and the two were engaged TO be marri
ed. Storms was the main support OF an aged
father who had degenerated into second
childhood, and was almost entirely help
less. Though he was anxious to be mar
ried at once, the parents of the girl 90
jected on the ground that her health was
too delicate to allow her 10 take charge
of house in which she was obliged to
have the care Of her husband : father.
and as Storms would not desert his
parental relation the engagement was
broken off. and few months alterward
the girl sailed for America Her lover
did not know of her absence until she
had been gone nearly a week. and then
he became almost crazy on learning
61Akras& a. Still he ciung TO the father