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Year: 1870

Three Persons Burned-One Dead and the


Others in n Critical Condition.


Another sickening tenement-house disaster
took place in New York last night, resulting in
the loss of life of one person and the probable
death of another.


bells sounded the alarm for "corner of Worth
and West Broadway" The fire department of
the district quickly turned out and hurried to
the scene of the fire. On arriving there il was
found that the fire was In the two-story and
attic frame house No. 8 Worth street, occupied
on the first floor by George Meyers, on the
second floor by David Harris, shoemaker and a
ris' apartments, II is supposed from Kerosene
lamp. The building and contents were of such
a combustible nature that the fire spread with
surprising rapidity.


Notwithstanding the presence of the police
who established fire lines and assisted in pre-
serving order and removing the effects of the
occupants, the latter became panlc-stricken and
rushed out into the stairs with their goods and
chattels. The police endeavored to calm them,
but to no avail, and for some time the poor
occupants continued to make their way up and
down past the firemen, who were gallantly bat
Ting the flames.


Notwithstanding the efforts of the Croton and
its manipulators, and after inhicting about $500
damage to the property on the second hoor, 1t
reached the attic.


The attic was occupied by John j. Casey, wife,
and child. They had been actively engaged in
removing their effects when the fire crept up to
their home Notwithstanding the remonstrances
of the remen, II is said they persisted in getting
out their property and fell victims 90 their RASH
ness. Casey was horribly burned as was also
his wife Johanna and his son James. Some of
the firemen of No. % Engine Company eventu-
ally determined to rescue them, and dragged
them out by main force.
Year: 1870




The Washington Star of last evening says:-


About 81 o'clock last night eolored man
namnd Alexander Mouton was killed by a
colored woman named Nary Harris. She used
an ordinary shoemaker's knife as a weapon,
with which his heart was pierced, and death
resulted Immediately. Officers were apprized
of the occurrence, and on going to the house
found that DR.. Poulton had been summoned.
The deceased was lying dead upon the floor.
The officers took the woman to the station
house She had blood upon her person, and
when asked how it came there she assumed an
air OF Indifference, and said, II did not kill
HIM." From the statements made last evening
it was clear that the woman had dealt the fatal
blow, but there was some discrepancy between
the statements of the witnesses as 10 what took
place previously.


The deceased was about thirty years of age.
He had been married for several years. and his
wife has for some time resided in Clark's alley,
on q street, between Third and Four-and-a-half
streets. where he has also spent the greater por-
tion of his time, except when in the company
of his mistress, Mary Harris. He was employed
as a driver at Heimers brickyard. His reputa-
tion was that of very quiet and orderly man,
criminal only in his attachment for Miss Harris
and the consequent neglect of his lawful wife
1t is stated that he had been living with Mary
for nearly two years on terms of the closest in
timacy, and that until last night she was una
ware of the fact that he was married and the
father of family. He came here from Vir-
ginia about the beginning of the war, and had a
wife and child living here, the child being about
twelve years old.


Mary Harris is about twenty-nine years OF
age, and has the appearance of dangerous
woman. She gave dogged and contradictory
answers as to the manner In which blood came
TO be on her person. volunteering the statement
however, that she became smeared with blood
in raising the shirt of the murdered man to dis
cover the locality of the wound. Three wit
nesses assert that they were eye-witnesses OF
the deed, and that she was the perpetrator ol
the murder. Mrs. Westerheld, who has en-
pOyed her for the last seven years as general
house servant, asserts that up 10 the time of the
Year: 1870

VyANTED-A PROTESTANT WOMAN TO COOK,
w wash and iron for very small family. One who
thoroughly understands her business apply couple
OF days between the hours OF and at No. 2S West i7h
Year: 1870

GrEaT LIGHT. T.-The Carson Appeal
says: The great fire at Dayton, which
place is at least ten miles from here on
an air line, made light which was very
distinctly visible from our streets. So
plain was it, in fact. that it seemed as if
objects hereabout were rendered consid-
erably more distinct than if the fire had
not made its sign in the sky
Year: 1870

A Goldfish, caught of Portsmouth har-
Dor the other day, was found to contain
pint champagne bottle, in an entire
state. The old fishermen of Piscataqua
declared the fish must have taken the
bottle from the bar at the mouth of the
Merrimae.
Year: 1870

PRussING's vrNEeAB.-As the picking
season is now at hand, and many house
keepers are concerned about getting Vine
our duty to inform our readers that Prus-
sings Vinegar is admitted by all who have
tried it to have no superior in the market
for this purpose. Mr.. Prassing warrants
his Vinegar to be free from all poisonous
are the largest of the kind in the United
States, and owing to the extra quality OF
his Vinegar, it is rapidly superseding all
ask for it when repienishing their stock =
Springfield GA. Journal
Year: 1870

Nh. SPUReFoN made remarks at the lay
ing OF a corner stone of Baptist chapel
week or two since, in which he said:


ct makes me sick at heart to find out
the great seers who have been telling us
we are getting near the millennium. 1t
seems to me they are something like the
Irishman who could foresee backwards. I
wish these kings of the earth would some
times do their own fighting, instead of get
ting their soldiers to fight for them. 1t
would not be bad idea if Napoleon and
the King of Prussia would come over to
England and fight II out. ! am quite sure
for my own part would be quite willing
to hold their coats, and / would cheer each
one on, and say, Hit him hard; think
he deserves il r.
Year: 1870

THE fresco-painter lays the colors on
the damp wall, and they seem to fade
away. Nothing is there. Again he applies
the brush, and the colors are gone. But
he patiently applies them again. They do
not fade away; they strike in, and remain
to shine brilliantly, and the peculiar genius
of the artist is left there for centuries. So
With your work. Repetition fixes your in
fuence and lays upon the soul of those
Yen teach, the colcrs of your own. cha
racters, there to remain more enduring
than the fadeless frescoes of Michael An
gelo.
Year: 1870

soft SPOKEN and velvet handed steam en-
oine at the Mint? The smooth piston
Slides backward, and forward as q lady
might slip her delicate fhger in and out of
a ring. The engine lays one ofits fineus
calmly. but firmly, upon bit of metal; 1T
is q CON now, and will remember the
touch. ano tell q new race about it, when
the date upon it is crusted over with tweri-
ty centuries. So it is that q great silent
moving misery puts new stamp on us In
an hour or q moment-as sharp an impress
sion as if it had taken half q life time to en-
Grave it"-H0tmes.
Year: 1870

ENJOY YouR WoRK. mo man is ever
successful, in its ,completest sense who
does not enjoy what he Is doing. Ii your
business is dull and embarrassing. and
Won are always wishing 10 leave, the old
Homestead and get a place elsewhere,
-yoarlife will be miserable failure; bat il
YOU love your work, give to your business
geur best thoughts, enter dpon the acby-
tiles OF the opening year withsnergy, born
of contentment ana hope, you will be both
a asuccessiul and happy man. and no change
in the currency or mutation of the mar
ksts, that so perplex and trouble other
men. can possibly hinder lt-PsopIe.
Year: 1870

1t should be the aim Of every young
person to find an entrance into good So
ciety, BY good, l do not mean fashion
able society. That often merits least of
all this honorable title. A good social
circle is one where sound principles, re-
fined manners, and intelligent ideas are
the characteristics Of its members.


Many young man ha, guue to ruin by
choosing the society of the low and vul-
gar, instead Of those whose influence
would be elevating. 1t is always SO
easy to fall into evil, but often it requires
hard work to gain sure footing in a
refined circle. But the end is worth the
effort. fla young man desires to sharp


Ell his intellect lie will find that judic-
ious mingling with society will do this
better than digging for ever over his
books. There is a wonderful amount OF
electricity in the social atmosphere, and
the galvanic battery of the social circle
will not fail to elicit many brilliant
sparkles. If one desires to improve in
manners, he can never do 50 except by
mingling with the refined and good.
Ditfidence often keeps back those who
have had in early life but few social ad-
vantages. the only way to overcome
this painful difficulty is to plunge in.
1t is one Of the most durable of all mala-
dies. A bath in the bracing ocean OF
social life even enables person to keep
his footing bravely. One of the most
finished gentlemen, and accomplished
speakers of the day, one who is harrass-
ed by invitations OH all sides to address
the highest literary circles of the land


and who is the flattercd guest of every
gathering he chooses to honor with his
presence, used to be, in the language OF
lady friend who knew him well in
college, "really afraid Of his own shad'
ow." You remember compliment paid
George Washington when he seized his
hat in confusion to rush from where his


praises were being publicly spoken,


"Sit down, sit down, Mr.. Washington,
entreated the speaker, "Your modcsty is
only equaled by your merit" Sogener


ally able men have been very unassum


and often diflident in their manners


When Sheriden was asked the secret o.


his booming such a fluent speaker, be


replied it was "from never neglscting AL
Year: 1870

opportunity to speak" So ifyou would


improve socially, embrace the oppoi-


tunity. Your chances of success in life


will be ten fold greater If you have secur-
ed wide circle ofgood friends by your
obliging gentlemanly manners. No one
cares about trusting or recommending
person Of whom they know little or moth
ing except that he exists in the same
community. You will often advance
your interests more by spending social
evening in a respectable family, than by
sitting in your room and poring over
your many matters, or writing whole
package Of business letters. Our School
day Visitor.
Year: 1870

CHAPTER l59.


AN ACT to Provide for the Draining Of


Land.


Sec. l. BE Henacted by the General
assembly Of the State Of Iowa, that
any person owning or possessing any
swamp, marsh, or wet land, who shall
desire to drain the same, and when he
shall deem 1t necessary in order thereto,
that ditch or bitches should be opened
through lands belonging to other pei
sons, IN case the owners Of any such
land shall refuse to permit the opening
OF such ditch, or bitches through the
same, or IL the parties cannot agree upon
the terms thereof, he may make appll-
cation in writing, to the township trus-
tees OF the township where such swamp
or marsh ishall be situated, to inquire
and determine whether such marsh or
swamp lands are source OF disease TO
the inhabitants, and whether the public
health would bepromoted by draining
the same, and to inquire and determine
whether such ditch or drain is necessa-
ry for the proper cultivation of the same
and whether the permanent assessed
value of said lands will be increased by
such drain. Said application shall be
filed with the township clerk.


See. 2. Such application shall state
through whose premises. if known, it is
necessary for said ditch or bitches to
pass, and shall also describe said land.
Ten days notice shall be served upon
the ownersof said lands, in like manner
as notices are required to be served in
commencement of actions before justic-
ca Of the Peace, and said notices shall
state at what time said application will
be filed, aud in case the owner Of any
said land shall be unknown to the ap-
plicant or a non resident of the State or
county, then three written notices shall
be posted for ten days, in three public
places in the neighborhood of the said
land, and in the township in which it is
situated.


Sec. 3. Upon the filing of such appi-
cation the trustees shall agree upon q
time when they will hear and deter
mine upon said application, and also
shall agree upon the place of their meet
ing. They shall give five days notice
of such time and place of meeting to al
persons interested, by posting up three
written notices thereof in three public
places in the said township. And upon
the day set for the hearing Of said appli
cation, said trustees shall. (or if any 0
the said township trustees should not be
present, the trustees present, shalD have
power to hear aud determine the mat
ters contained in said application, o
such trustee or trustees may adjourn th'
hearing thereof, not more than ten days
And upon the final hearing, said thus
tees, shall determine whether it is nee
essary to pass through any said land
and if they find it necessary, they shall
also determine the direction in whicl
said drain shall run, and the depth an,
width thereofas near as may be. Ant
said trustees may employ the count.
surveyor to assist them, if necessary
The fee Of the county surveyor bein,
paid in the same manner as the othe
costs Of this proceeding.


Sec. 4. The person or persons max
ing the application for the drain, ma.
under the order Of the trustees, ente
upon the premises through which SAT-
drain is located, and construct the sam
Year: 1870

MARRIAGES MADE IN HEAVEN. Every
true match is made in heaven; and all
| true men and women who believe this
and act on it find something of heaven
IN their match, SO that John Brown of
! Haddington was not so far wrong when
h, felt the time had come for him to en-
ter the holy estate, and that he had seen
the woman the Lord had made to be his
wife, and went to tell her so; and the
good soul knew what he had come about,
and was just as sure as he was that she
was meant foc him and he for her. Yet
he said, my dear madam, you know
what am going to say; but II you please,
before | say it we will ask blessing'
And that was what they did. 1t is the
experience of all times, and no doubt Of
all peoples. that men and women are
made for each other, to be hust and and
wife, and very often brought togethcrby
a providence they cannot account for,
and can never be separated in their souls
any more. A young man goes into
room with heart as free as an minated
swallow, and comes out of it, sixty min
utes after, a captive for life; and the
maiden knows what the youth knows,
and in her her heart says amen to the
revelation, though it may take her some
time to say it with her lips. I.have a
friend in Philadelphia, q man Of great
intelligence, who told me that when he
was in the middle of the Pacific, on
voyage, he saw face in dream, and
it was borne in upon him that this was
the face of his wife. He went through
many adventures after that, was away
about seven years, came back. went to a
quarterly meeting in Burks county, and
then saw in Quaker bonnet, for the
first time with his human eyes, the face
he had seen in his dream. The maiden
became his wife; and never saw
happier pair on the earth, or a swseter
home or chiidron. And have no doubt
of the perfect truth Of the story; all true
marriages are made in heaven, so


"All true love is blent with reverence.


AS heavenly light is blent with heavenly


blue"
Robert C0llyer.
Year: 1870

When we are suffering we want a
remedy that will cure at once and with
ont making us sicker than before we
took it. We don't want to lose time,
suffer on a sick bed, and get up with
all our faculties impaired Avoid all
this; use Rosenheims Stomach Bitters
the Great Western Remedy.
Year: 1870

The unpleasant odor produced by
perspiration is the source of vexation
to persons who are subject TO it. Pro-
cure some compound spirits of ammo
MIA, and place about two tablespoon
fuls in a basin of water. Washing
the face, hands, and arms with this,
leaves the skim as clean, neat and
fresh as one could wish. The wash
is perfectly harmless, and very cheap.
1t is recommended on the authority
of an experienced physician, and it
ought to be tried, at least, by all those
whose persons are so offensive in this
respect. -'
Year: 1870

AN argument in favor of railroads
has bee given by the Geauga Demo-
crat. 1t is that they decrease the bur-
den of taxation. Railway property
is large and valuable addition to the
duplicate of a county, while the ex-
penses of county government are not
sensibly increased. "A clear gain of
revenue is thus made to any county
through which a railroad is built.
Year: 1870

r j &


B Senator Thurman, of Ohio, who is
steadily rising in that general esteem.
throughout the country winch he has
long enjoyed in his own State, op-
posed in the Senate the other day
new Oregon railroad job in language
which deserves to be put on record
He said;


g The land of this government ought
nowsto be- saved for actual settlers,
and not granted to railroad compa-
nies. IF you are to grant subsidies to
railroad companies, I would greatly
prefer that you should sell the lands
and give them the money /; but to give
them immense tracts of land, as this
bill proposes to give them, twenty sec
tions per mile for eighty or ahundred
miles, is what Il cannot vote for. 1
am perfectly willing that they shall
have. the right of way through the
public lands, but / am totally opposed
to these grants. ** = Here are
half dozen projects now-I do not
know but dozen-for railroads rum
ming through the public lands of the
United States, and all containing just
such subsidies as this; and for every
one of thesesbills precisely the same
arguments can be made that can be
made in favor of this grant. If we
are to accept these argumedts as salts
factory. it amounts to giving away
the whole public domain and to moth
ing else than that, and it is of no use
to say, as in this bill it is said, that the
lands granted to the railroad compa-
ny shall only be sold to actual settlers.
When is the company to sell them p
How is it to sell them Where is the
guarantee that they will only be sold
to actual settlers? How do you en-
force that provision? If that were
sufficient, how do you enforce it?-
But, after all, if you could enforce it,
it is still giving away SO much of the
public domain. Let me call the at
tention of the Senator to the fact that
in thirty years from this date there
will be, if we have the good sense to
hold together and our population in
creases as it has done, one hundred
million people in the republic, in less
than sixty years two hundred million
people in the United States; and
where is the land they are to get?-
Every year it becomes more and more
difficult for man to become the own
era of land. Why, sir, so far from
there. being too much land in the
country, SO far from its being easy to
get a farm, so far from its being easy
to become the owner of real estats,
the time. is almost at our doors when
it will be almost as impossible for a
man to get real estate in this country
as it is in Europe" @
These observations are perfectly
just Because the so-called bound
less " continents ours, we have been
squandering these possessions as if
our posterity were not to outnumber
us, nor soon to press against all the
limits of the. republic. Wars, indeed,
may decimate US; but the wars of the
future, like the pestilences and fam
ines, will besfewer and shorter, and
less deadly OH the whole, than the
wars of the past. Cheap lands for ac-
tual settlers.-N. =. World.
Year: 1870

The principal representative of the
Republican party in the reconstruction
of Georgia, is one A. Alpeora Brad
ley, negro State Senator, who served
out his time as a convict in the peni-
tentiary of New York at Sing Sing,
Year: 1870

RUNAWAY FRoM.-Just as the mail
train north, yesterday afternoon, had left
the depot and was passing out of sight, a
stranger with travelling bag in one hand,
an umbrella in the other, and an overcoat
over his arm, seemed to makeup his mind
that when the conductor cried "All
aboard" abe meant what he said," for be
Immediately started on run to catch the
cars, at the same Slime shouting to the
engineer to stop the train. After running
some hundred yards or more, much to the
amusement of the lockers on, he con-
cluded that it was an unequal race and
gave up the contest, and walked quietly
back TO await the next train.
Year: 1870

THE BARR MURDER CAsE.-The Ma
lone Palladium says the Coroner's inquest
in the Barr murder case has closed its in.
vestigations, leaving everything in quite
as profound a mystery as when the body
was taken from the river, on the seth OF
September. The jury found that the man
came to his death by violence at the hand
of some person or persons to them un-
known; and there we fear the matter IS
destined to rest No efforts have been
spared to unveil the mystery. but no clue
has been discovered.
Year: 1870

and September they made distance of
404 ,331 miles. One hundred and thirty
four thousand one hundred and seventy
two miles of this distance was made on
passenger account, and 269,159 miles on
freight, wood and gravel account; this is
equal to sixteen times the distance round
the earth, and is nearly the distance from
the globe to the moon and back.-S. AZ
bans Messenger.
Year: 1870

Teach your children to love the beautiful. Give
them a corner in the garden for flowers, encour-
age them to put in shape the hanging baskets,
allow them to have their f4vcrite trees, lead
them to wander in the prettiest woodlots, show
them where they can best view the sunset,
rouse them in the morning, not with the stern
" time to work. but with the enthusiastic
% see the beautiful sun rise - buy for them
pretty pictures and encourage them TO decorate
their rooms, each in his or her childish way.
The instinct is in them. Give them an inch and
they will 60 mile Allow them the privilege
and they will make your homes beautiful.
Year: 1870

A large stock of Groceries-BUTTER HONEY, CHEESE and DRIED FRUIT which we offer for sale; wholesale and retail We adhere to a cash system and sell our good remarkably low for cash nl2
Year: 1870

Is tall, has light hair, blue eyes, and fair
complexion, but very sharp nose. When
all goes well she is pleasant; but they say
at times this slender woman fires up and
goes for Brother Brigham in a way that
makes his hair stand on end. When angry
she will doounce the Prophet to his face. and
curse the whole Mormon tribe. Brigham
beats retreat when he sees storm coming,
and all the other women get out of her way.
She has one child by Brigham, a son, who is
said to be the worst boy in Utah.
Year: 1870

The Southern people are watch
ing with intense interest the cot.
ton tax case pending before the
Supreme Court of the United
States. Tlrey argue that IL cot
ton can be thus taxed, while the
products OF other states are not
subject to taxation, tie cotton
states are out of the pale of con.
stitutional equality, and their pro.
ducts in peru of conllscation.