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Year: 1872

There are many incidents connected
with the early settlement of Kentucky
that have not as yet been touched upon
by the sketch. writer or the novelist, t,much
as has been written Of those days; and
the following adventure, which we now
give ito the reader, is one Of those that
has for so long a time lain buried, and
now for the first time brought before the
gaze of the great republic.


Among those thatregarded themselves
as living within the confines Of Boones-
borough, though SO far from the station
that bore the name of its founder as to
be almost entirely unprotected by it, was
a settler known by the name of Dick
Turner. He had built his cabin on the
very outskirts of the settlements, and,
with his wife and three children, had for
two years lived in peace and quietness,
unmolested by the savages that were al
all times in greater or less numbers
abroad on the war-path.


Their nearest neighbor was half a mile
away down the river, out of sight and
hearing: and, had it not been for the
smoke that every morning curled above
the tree-tops, ,one would not have known
standing in the doorway of Dick Tur.
ner's cabin, but that this was the only
settlement for miles around,f for on every
side was the forest unbroken and solemn
as in the days before Daniel Boone led
the first party of hardy adventures ovel
the Cumberland Mountains.


One afternoon, the last Of August, a:
Dick was at work in his "clearing" (and
az it CHANGED at q point as far from thu
cabin as was possible for him to be with
out being in the forest, he was startled
by the sudden appearance of half dozer
Indians, hideous with war paint, who
surrounded him almost before he coulC
spring and grasp his rife that he always
carried intb the field when at work.
Startled by theif sudden appearance
lie Made motion toward 1t ;but lieav,
hand was laid upon his shoulder, and it,
owner said in broken English, "White
man, go with u.s."


NO." said Dick, looking him full il
the face. "Can't do that much work tt
do"


And he pointed at what he had beer
Year: 1872

IBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNBl


WASHINGTON, Wednesday Aug. II, 1872


The Get OF Congress OF June 1870 providing that the
use of the onehird barrel and the stampof that
denomination should after Aug l. does not seem
70 work as yet tremendously In accordance with this
act ON the last OF July the Commissioner Of Internal
Revenue issued orders requiring collectors to return the
onethird denomination stamps and to cause all hae-
tonal barrels thereafter to be stamped with the one
half barrel stamp These orders have met with con-
siderable opposition fromhe beer manufacturers until
finally delegation the various States waited few
days since upon the Attorney General to get his opinion
of the law The beer claim that this law will be
serious interference with their business IN s present
state and that i will unjusty tax Them Jhe Attorney
General will make his opinion public IN rev days III
s believed In the Internal Revenue Department mat ,he
brewers have bought up a large amount OF the one
third barrel stamps with the intention OF forcing post
ponement OF the operations or the act untl atef te
next session Of Congress.


Postmaster-Genera Creswell returned last evening,
and was at Department day to look after the large
ou,ount of business which has accumulated in his
absence. The sample postalcards which the National
Bank Note Company Of New-York have designed, were
exneoted TO be received the Department to-day, but
mn 10 the closing hour had not arrived. Gen Terrell
tbe Third Assistant PostmasterGenera who has all OF
that business In charge approves or the model s made
by that Company it's sze thickness and lenacity being
suitable.


The Commission appointed by the Secretary OF the
Treasury TO revise the Internal Revenue laws that
they will conform with all the laws in force after the
massage OF the act OF June 1872 are now busy engaged
AZ that work They will have completed the nrst part
by the end OF this week.
Year: 1872

ANOTHER SPEECH BY SENATOR SCHURZ.
ENTHUSIASTIC AND IMPOSING GATHERING OF
GERMANS AT INDIANAPOLIS-ABLE ADDRESS
BY THE sENATOR-FAILURE OF THE GRANT
PARTY-DUTY OF ALL TO UNITE ON GREELEY
Year: 1872

WASHINGTON, November 24.-The
following official report of the Signal
Service Observer stationed at Boston,
relative to the anemOmetrical and other
observations taken by himself during
the fire, will be found Of great interest
and highly instructive. They clearly
show that the fire was attended with
phenomena distinctly cyelonic:


Boston, November b, 1872.
To the Chief Signal Officer OF the army,


Washington, d. c.:


GENERAL-I reply to your telegraphic
dispatch received this morning, direct
ing me to make full report of the me-
teOric phenomena attending the recent
great fire. l would respectfully say that
the wind at this station, during the pro-
gress of the fire, varied from the north
and northwest to north, with a velocity
OF from five to nine miles per hour, the
weather being clear, cool and pleasant
On approaching the fire ON the north or
windward side as close as the heat
would allow, the indraught of air
through the burning streets assumed the
character Of a brisk wind, probably six
teen or eighteen miles per hour, while
the heat was so intense as to cause
smoke, steam, etc, to be carried up in
spirals to a great elevation. On the
south or lee side the induced currents of
air were very strong, probably thirty or
tlirty-tive miles per hour, carrying the
fire bodily to the windward.
This state of affairs appears
10 be the reverse Of the Chicago fire,
where the strength Of the wind was suf-
ficient 10 overcome induced currents,
and the fire burned to leeward. Il ap-
peared as If the high wind permitted an
in-draught TO rise at considerable angle
after reaching the fire, leaving a large
space of rarified air in its front inducing
stronger currents to blow, which meet
ing the in-draught gave a spiral orwhirl-
wind form TO the ascending current.
During the fire a flock of ducks passed
at a great hight overhead, and the light
reflected from their plumRge made them
appear as fire-balls passing rapidly
through the air. Many who saw called
them meteors, and took them to be balls
of fire. They were said to have been
seen in the northwest during the great
fires In that region.


As an example Of the great heat diff
fused, | would state that during the
night l exposed thermometer in the
Observatory to the full glare Of the fire,
when it rose nearly five degrees,
although placed upward of two thousand
feet from the burning district, and dead
TO the windward Of It. No other phe-
nomena occurred. The barometer was
rising slightly, aud the weather re-
manned unchanged.


! have the honor to be, General, very
respectfully your Obedient servant,


,slgnedl H. Z. COLL,


Observer Signal Service, Z. s. A.
Year: 1872

BOSTON, November 24.-This after.
noon another body was taken from the
ruins Of the fire, but has not been iden-
titled. A body Of firemen from Cam
bridge have been searching Throughout
the day for the body Of one Of their OWL
number who is missing. A military
guard is still kept at the ruins.


The contributions for the relief Of the
sufferers BY the Boston fire, received by
the Treasurer Of the Fund up TO tonight,
amount to forty thousand dollars.


Father Burke delivered lecture al
"The Future Of the Irish race IN Amer
lea, - for the benefit Of the sufferers by
fire, before an overwhelming audience.
Year: 1872

Having disposed of our Port Townsend Mar
ket. We shall in future give our entire attention
to the interests of cattle and the wants of her
citizens in our line of business, trusting that by
SO doing shall merit their continued patron
age and good will
Year: 1872

marriage appeared to be bona 6de to all
the witnesses, they do say that this
young lady is legally and irrovocably the
young mans wife, and the best of it is
that the parents on both sides are willing
to the match. The young man belongs
to not only good, but wealthy fami'
ly, and the young lady's people, though
not so well off in pecuniary point Of
view, are comfortably so however, and
are of the highest respectability. How
the affair will pan out remains to be
spen
Year: 1872

Have you seen her? Oh so fair,
With her wealth of golden hair,
Through which played the morning rays,
Till entangled in the maze,
There they nesting bide the while,
With their joyous, beaming smile
lighting up each sunny curl
Have you seen my little girl?
Should you meet hor, you may trace
Where the gleeful bushes chase
One another o'er her cheek.
In and out at hide and seek;
Or, If started, in a group
Huddling there-the timid troop
They my little girl may show
With her features all aglow.
Should you hear her, you would know
From the happy, sparkling few
OF her soft. sweet words, that start
From the pure springs of her heart
And like rills of music seem
In q limoid. parting stream
Ripping over teeth of pearl,
That 1t was my little girl.



BURNETT's KALLIsToN Is the best cos
Year: 1872

Nothing more forcibly strikes the foreign
sojourner in Berlin than the universal intelli-
gence of the lower classes that city. Your
cabman speaks to you--if you can but COM
prehend him-in perfectly correct and gram
matical German; your washerwoman's bill is
model of handsome pen1naiship and cor
rect spelling; your wife's seamstress is able
to discuss the latest publications., the views
in the political and fashionable world, and
examines the books on the table with criti-
cal experienced eye. To be sure this uni
versal intelligence has tendency to make
the ''hewers of wood and drawers of water"
somewhat arrogant; and, by the law of COM
pensation, the cabman and washerwoman
make up for the absence of ignorance by an
arrogance and independence of manner which
are to be met with, to an equal degree, in NO
other European capital. Yet the fact that
they can all read, write, and cipher brings
the results of the Prussian educational sys-
tenn more yividly to the mind than any other
fact could-unless it were the effect of it
seen in the army. The Prussian State has
long made equality of intelligence, as far as
schooling can effect it, compulsory matter.
All children, as soon as they get out of their
frocks, must go to school, and the State pre-
scribes when that shall be.-LOndOa Stand
ard rt
Year: 1872

Mr.. Jacob Bright, one of the Liberal men,
bers Of Parliament from Manchester, has
been making speech to his constituents in
favor of the disestablishment and disendow-
ment of the English Church, in which he
brought forward q new and original argu-
ment. He said that Parliament, being omni-
potent with regard to the Church, could do
with it what it liked; and then he proceeded
to ask, what was this Parliament which had
such extraordinary power over religious in
stitutien? Answering his own question, he
said it consisted of two chambers for the
most part composed of the richest men in
the kingdom. The New Testament told us
that rich man should hardly enter the king
dom of heaven; yet these men, laboring un-
der special spiritual disabilities, assumed to
be the fittest persons to arrange and control
the machinery by which other people were to
get to heaven! They could determine what
the church should teach, could alter its Oh
seryances, arrange and rearrange the whole
ecclesiastical machinery. Mr.. Bright thought
the State or Parliamentary Church the most
singular institution now existing in England,
and undertook to say that it was no longer
question of whether, but only of when, it
should be disestahlished and disendowed -,
Year: 1872

BLASTING Lavae, of Greene's Mine.
near here, has invented and had patented by the
United States device for charging drill holes
for blasting rock. The Mining and Scientific
Press, through whose agency the patent was OBJ
lowed gives the following description of the ma
chine.


This invention relates to novel instrument
or charging the holes which are made by drill
for blasting purposes, with Giant or other pow
der forthe purpose of competing it, preparatory
to exploding the blast A metal tube or charg-
er Is employed, which contains the requerd
amount OF powder to charge the hole. A piston
moves in this cylinder, and has q ru4l extending
through the upper end of the cylinder, and
though tube which is screwed upon its upper
end 50 as to extend to the required distance from
the charge TO permit it to be inserted in the drill
hole while the operator retains his hold upon the
tube. To use this charger the desired amount
OF powdee is placed in the cylinder and packed
by com mpression if desired, then the piston being
withdrawn by means of the handle as far as pis-
sible. Tne cylinder is then inserted in the drill
hole and pushed down to the bottom; the piston
stheu forced down SO rs to force the powder out
of the cylinder, Ii desired, the powder can be
compacted in the bottom of the hole before rc-
moving it from the cylinder This greatly
facilitates the operation of blasting as the pow
der can be placed in the hole without trouble,
whereas as at present used it as often necessary
to compact it IN water, which fills the bottom OF
the hole, and the powder is consequently stirred
into pasty mass so that it viii not do full eX-
ecuuon.'


Frank is a natural genius in mechanics. and We
hope his invention may prove as rich a strike as
the Greene Mine
Year: 1872

FIRE ALMOST. On Saturday forenoon last, an
alarm Of fire was raised and sounded by the BELLS
caused by large volume of smoke raising from
the residence of General Hamilton. on East street
\ crowd of men rushed to the place. but on ar
irving there found it all proceeded from the SCOT
burning out of brick chimney. No damage
was done
Year: 1872

LAND PATENTS Agricultural land patents have
been received at the Sacramento Land Office for
the following persons in this county. On apply
ing for these patents the certificate of purchase
more and Cornelius Quinn.
Year: 1872

Locals IN BRIEF.-At Rocllhn, on Saturday
last, man named Calvin Had his ankle run over
by the cars. He was taken to Sacramento and
will probably have TO have his leg amputated.
The ice is from to l. inches thick in the noun
tlins, and the ice companies are having grand
ice harvest. Some necessary element to the
health of human lungs left the atmosphere in
these parts some two weeks ago. and the Grant
gripe is annoying the whole community. Gold
RIM Brass Band give bah at Union Hall ON
Friday evening next. Tickets three dollars
Some other effects Of the late cold weather may
be inferred by reading the record Of marriages in
this county, to be found in tie HERALD of to-day
.... They have struck soft soap mine next door
to the HERALD office. 1t is an inferior article
but in great abundance .. Grain, grass and
stool! ate suffering severely from the cold, dry
weather.
Year: 1872

eastern interior as the trade works Its way
inward. .


Intense as his desire is to ind the fountains Of
OF the slave trade is hardly less. The sanguinary
despotisms OF the region towards the sea, he finds.
have grown up, perhaps IN selldeience, perhaps
traders, and that they have taken the place OF .
condition OF things OF quite another character The
further he has penetrated into the interior the fur
ther behind him does he leave these Kingdoms, like
Abyssinia and Ashantee, and In their place he finds
a simple and pastoral people, divided into small
tribes under almost patriarcha rule, little disposed
peace with each other 1t is the slave-trnders
that bring dscord among these qnet and
innocent and happy savages, break up
stone, compel them for some sort OF selfdefence to
reorganize society by combining and submitting to
centralizing rule. In the lapse OF time greae
changes have thus been brought about In national
and individual character and as an English journal
says, "Dr. Livingstone would seem nearly to have
persuaded himself that the 1at-nosed and progna-
tnous negro VINO Is almost exclusively known to
europeans is degeneration from higher physt-
cal type which has been produced by the slave
trade" Even such Q conclusion will not, perhaps,
seem strange to those who were familiar with
slavery In the West Indies before the slave trade
was prohibited, where II was remarked that among
fresh importations individuals were often found
who were said to come from the interior OF Africa,
and whose noses were not broad and nat nor their
lips thick nor their jaws projecting.


To make an end OF traflc, horrible in ITSELF and
having such disastrous results upon the character


is the desire that lies next the heart OF the great
traveller. The chief seat OF this trade is at Zanzi
bar ana 10 Is cherished by the Sultan because OF n
profitable export duty on each slave and for other
trade that 1t brings to that port There are treaty
stipulations that prevent the immediate interfer-
ence Of the British government; but as the subcct
has been brought mp In Parliament and was alluded
to In the Queens speech last month"; these stipula-
tions probably will not be permitted 10 stand long.
10 tho ~ay.
Year: 1872

TO THE EDITOR OF THE HERALD


Hearing so much about the Stanley Livingstone
handwriting, and being a daily manipulation Of
manuscript, took up the HERALD THIS morning
and compared every letter for over an hour and u
half and have come to the conclusion that any
person who says that the letters las they appear In
this mornings HERALD) have been written by the
same hand is no Judge OF manuscript. II is most
certainly possible that mans style Of writing may
undergo remarkable change In four or Ave years.
Year: 1872

the proceedings, stepped forward and de-
clared that the beautiful ring should not
be sacrificed to the Jew in that way
The broker at once endeavored to hasten
matters, and declaring the bargain to
have been completed, would have sue
ceeded in thrusting the jewel into the
drawer but for the resolution Of the gen
tleman, who seized and saved it. The
wretch muttered something about peoples
interfering in business that was exclu-
sively his own concern, but to nc pur-
pose. The widow rescued from his fangs
and received fair amount for her ring.


This poor lady. whose history I after
ward learned, was an orphan. daughter
of Virginia planter. who had been re-
duced to poverty berfore our civil war,
80 that his children were left portionless.
and had been married when quite young
The husband of this daughter was killed
in the late war. and she had learned the
miseries and the uncertainties of life


Doubtless these examples which came
under my notice are but few OF many,
the mere relation of which is sufficient
to make one blush for his fellow men.


''Oh cursed pelf!





Thou deadly blight Of rams best hopes!
The wretch who loves thee loves a wasting


eanker,


Which ever gnaws his vitals and retains its


hold


Till life's last sand is run"
Year: 1872

A FEW days ago young man EN-
ployed by one of the Railroad Compan-
les of this State at their terminus on the
Hudson. visited pleasant little village
among the hills, not thirty miles from
Newark, the home of the family Of bis
wife, and taking with him the seeds of
the smallpox, was stricken down with
the disease. A. once the father, mother,
and family fed the house, and but for
the devotion of his wife he would have
been left alone, as not a Eoul could be
persuaded to 60 near him save the will
age doctor. He speedily died. and the
doctor was obliged to lay out the corpse
himself. No inducements could prevail
on people to bury him, however. till at
length two men were found, who. in the
night, removed the bcdy to the grave
yard and placed it in the grave. Before
completely filling it up they divested
themselves of their clothes, and sbiver.
ingly threw them in the grave and lit
tie dirt over them. Then retiring to
another part of the churchyard they don
ned other clothes and returned and
finished their task-LamJertciNe NJ,
Beacon.
Year: 1872

one being two story stone house. and the
other q frame house also, q BANK BARN.
Spring House, and other necessary Outbuild-
ings-a small stream of water running by
near the house, and a never failing Spring of
water in the Spring House. There is good
Orchard bearing plenty of fruit.


Fifteen acres OF the above farm is meadow
land Eighty acres are in good state of
cultivation, and the balance IN COED timber.
Will be sold at low price on application
to the undersigned. living thereon, situated
about three miles west of Mifflintown.


CHRISTOPHER FAGELY.


Des g. lS7I-Sw
Year: 1872

BOSTON, Dec. 90, 1872.


An initiatory movement on the part OF the col
ored people in aid OF the prosecution OF the anti
slavery movement in Cuba was inaugurated in this
city this evening. The meeting although not large
In numbers was one Of marked enthusiasm, and
the proceedings all through we're characterized by
q spirit Of nrm determination. william @. Nell
called the meeting to order, and Charles c. Pindell
was made Chairman. In opening the proceedings
Mr.. Pindel gave an account of the late meeting in
New York, and folowe with an able and eloquent
appeal for immediate and effective action In behalf
OF the enslaved and oppressed OF his race In the
Cuban Isle.


Among the speeches OF the evening was one by
Mr. williams, OF the Newton Theological Society,
who advanced the idea OF general mass meeting
OF the colored citizens OF the State and the adop.
tion OF memorial to President Grant asking him
to use his influence to blot out slavery in Cuba and
rescue American colored citizens now held In
slavery In Cuba. This sentiment met with the
popular approval OF the meeting, and mass con-
vention for this purpose will De held at an early
day. The meeting all through was very harmoni-
GUS and enthusiastic and, as an inttiatory move
ment, was emnenty successful


RESOLUTIONS ADOPTED by THE MEETING.


The following resolutions were adopted


wheresst has been long claimed as the right Of the
Sss s the
q q Ss M M Is s I Island s% d y

only to the great detriment Of humanity but is
States America, slave labor being anagonistic and
detrimental to the interests OF free aborin word while
exists Cuba the lands OF Louisiana and
the tropical fruits Of Florida and all their adace nts must
suffer the danning influences of Cuban slavery,
maintained by the Spanish Crown in spite OF the exer
tons the Cuban patriots in the field struggling to
relieve themselves from that oppression and thereby
place themselves and their institutions in harmony with
free America; therefore


Resolved that we call upon the American people to
urge the authorities at Washington to extend such lawful
aid in their power to the patriots OF Cuba in their
struggle TO advance the interests Of man as will
yoke OF Spanish tyranny for the righul owners
of that island are the subjects thereof and the people q
these States who for their protection should
possess themselves Of that fair domain.


Resolved, That citizens Of Boston, we here pledge
ourselves all lawful means In power to further
the Of the struggling Cubans TO its full and COM
plete triumph -


through Its proe ssona policy, we'll as Its desire
10 benefit all mankind shown its sincere desire to aid the
cause Of freedom In Cuba therefore,


Resolved That the thanks this meeting be extended
the proprietor Of that paper and also TO Its correspond
who has furnished recent and reliable IN formation OF
the Cuban struggle In behalf of reejom and humanity
Year: 1872

We are authorized to state that in the list of the
Associated Insurance Companies represented by
the Executive Committee the name of the Mutual
Benent Life Insurance Company OF Newark, N. j.,
enormously appears.


While that company dsapproved Of the reduction
OF premium rates by the Mutual Life Company,
they believed that the remedy was In different
dlrectiOn
Year: 1872

A.-Dr. Thomas u. Rice has Perfecue ID
his new Improvement In Atmospheric Pressure Plates
Tor Artificial Teeth They are the smallest and most com
pact plates worn; unsurpassed for strength light
ness elasticity and durability, and almost mmova
BILE In the mouth. Filling Teeth speciality AZ East
Twentieth street between Broadway and Fourth avenue