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Year: 1872

In the South of New jersey some
years ago, there travelled over some
Of the hardest counties, good,
faithful. hard-working brother,
named James Moore, or Jimmy
Moore, az he was familiarly called.
He was devoted to the itincrabcy
A true loyal Methodist, plain,
pointed and sharp in all his preach,
ing md celebrations.


He had been laboring year on
one Of his circuits, and before
leaving for his new field he gave
his people, who dearly loved him,
his farewell sermon.


At It's close he said: My dear
brethren. this is my last address to
you. ! am going from you and
you may never hear the voice Of
James Moore again
sAmenr came loudly from the
seat before him


He looked at the man with a lit
tic surprise, but. thinking it was a
mistake, went on:
/ My days on earth will soon &c
numbered. / am an old man, and
l u
you may not only never hear the
voice of James Moore, but never
see his face again


sAmenn was shouted from the
same seat more vigorously than
before.


There was no mistaking the de>
sign now. The preacher looked al
the mamie knew him to he 8
hard grinding man-ssingy and
merciless to the poor.


He continued his address-sMay
the Lord bless all those of you who
haye honored Him with your sub
stance, who have been kind to the
poor, anil Pausing and looking
the intruder straight in tho eye
and pointing to him with his fin
ger.


May his curse rest on thos
who have cheated the Lord an,
ground the poor under their heels
Say amen to that brother


The shot told He was not in
terrupted again.
Year: 1872

The following sensational narrative ap-
pears in French newspaper of the fifth in
Btant: IN. GuilIaume was, two days ago,
married to young and pretty woman, with


whom he was deeply in love. In the eve
ming, after q modest wedding repast, the
newly-married couple retired to their domi-
cile in the Rue MoDge, when, happy to find
themselves alone, they talked together, un-
til late hour, of the past, and OF the future
which seemed to smile upon them While
conYersing their lamp went out, and the
Young couple went to sleep without relight-
ing it. They were suddenly awakened by


a noise at the door just as daylight was
commencing, and they saw an unknown in
dividual advancing in a threatening atti-
tude toward their bed i knew it, he cried,
in a terrible voice, and, drawing dagger
from his pocket, the stranger commenced
a terrible onslaught on the pair. A despe-
rate struggle ensued, the consequence OF
which might have been fatal but for the in
reference of other dodgers in the house,
who were alarmed by the disturbance. NJ


Guillaume was discovered lying on the
floor, pierced with seven wounds, two of
which were serious; while his wife lay by
his side, also IN state of insensibiHty
though fortunately unhurt. The bride and
bridegroom, it was discovered subsequently,
had been the victims of a most unfortunate
mistake. M. c., lodger in the house,
who occupied an apartment similar to that
of M. Guillaume, but situated in the story
above, had made a mistake in coming home,
and thought that he had surprised his wife
in the act OF infdelity. The man had been,
it was said, indulging in cOpious ibations
during the evening, and to this his unfOr-
tunate error is to be attributed. N. c.
was arrested, at once, and hopes are enter
tanned that NJ. Guillaume's life may lie
saved
Year: 1872

The Massachusetts, Superior Court has
decided in effect that if railroad companies
run their cars on Sunday, people may ride G13
Colony road who had neglected to buy
ticket refused to pay the extra ten cents
charged on the payment of fare on the
cars, and was prosecuted. 1t was decided
by the tribunal aforesaid that the company
had no right to collect fares at all on Sun
day, because it was violation Of law to
run their trains.
Year: 1872

Henry NJ Smith, one of the best of Office
editors, has rejoined the staff of the Chicago
Tribune. He used to do such power Of
work that we marveled how he sustained
himself under it. The mystery was at last
cleared by our discovering him in his office
one midnight bending his intellectual brow
over lunch of broiled quail. 1t is found
TO agree with night editor better than a
lark.-Gotdcm Age.
Year: 1872

Almost everybody in East Tennessee knows
the aged cosmopolitan, Uncle Tommy Mar
grave" but perhaps there are some who do not
know that in his youthful days he volunteered
in the American army and was taken prisoner
and retained until peace was made, having been
confined at Montreal and st. George, in the
Dominion. He neglected to report to the
proper officials, however, when he was released,
and hence by the regulations on account of the
omission is not on the pension rolls of the vet
erans of that war.


Our informant learned these facts from old
citizens of Kingston, Roane county, who point
ed cut the house in that village then used as a
recruiting Office, where Mr.. Margrave enlist
ed. We do not know whether any application
has ever been made for pension for this vet
eran or not, but certainly liberal construction
should be given the law, and if otherwise de-
serving an unintentionaI omission should not
debar any soldier from receiving the reward OF
his heroism.
Year: 1872

Our attention has been called to the great
need of good turnpike road from SevierVllle
to Qualla Town, Webster, Waynesboro' and
other points in Western North Carolina. Dur
ing the war, when Gen. Thomas was in COM
mand of this department, he placed large
number of Indians at work and constructed a
splendid road from themountain regions, which
had hitherto been almost impossible, to point
within few miles of Sevierville.


Knoxville is the nearest wholesale market
but without turnpike roads it is impossible for
the North Carolina merchants to reach US The
trade from the merchants of that section IS Ger
tainly worth securing, and they are equally
anxious to come if they can get here Their
side of the mountains has the magnificent road
before alluded to, and if the people on this side
will do their part the merchants of that county
will aid them. It would certainly pay the
wholesale dealers of Knoxville to look into this
matter and assist in opening up hitherto IN
developed region. A country road Is now open
the entire distance, so that the only cost would
be in macadsmiZing it. and either with toll
gates or free it would pay for itself in short
time,
Year: 1872

The following communication from an old
gentleman of a kind heart and willing hands,
and who feels deeply the Importance OF finding
something to do for our many Idle, Dad boyS'
speaks for itself:


i found in your paper of the 18th instant an
article, Our Street Loafers." Your idea on
the matter looks clear and very useful to all the
people. of this place. With the great power
you WELD in the exercise of your profession,
with your good heart and firm viii you can
render practicable such suggestion. Make q
call to your kind hearted and progressive sub
scribers and appoint day for a meeting to sec
what are the best means to carry out the work.
For my part am ready to employ the best OF
my little capacities in such good undertaking.
have no doubt if we are willing we will have
su ccess, more or less. CITIZEN.n
Year: 1872

Mechanics fire engine was out for practice
last night.


John Scherf is improving his saloon under
the Lamar House.


Itwould be good idea the auction business
could be carried on without obstructing the
sidewalks, as is frequently the case.
Year: 1872

Our different investigating committees
" drag their slow length along" VI all
these, that of the Judiciary is the most lm-
portant, and it is not unlikely that oar
Senate will be convened in extra session
to try some impeachment cases.


In stocks the principal feature IS the
locking up" of money by the Bears,
who thus seek to force the market down.
So far the only result has been ruinous
rate of interest, ranging from one-eighth
to one-half per cent. per day. Stocks nave
Kept pretty steady, however, despite fears
of panic.


There is nothing new in the theatrical
or musical world since / last wrote to you.
Booth will, however, soon reappear at his
own theater in Richard III. H. w. r.
Year: 1872

brought under at three p. M. yesterday, and
laid waste the Oldest and wealthiest part Of
the city Of Boston, will be read with thrill
Of painful concern over the entire civilized
world. To the city Of New YORK the
awful fate that has overtaken the
capital Of New England has an especial and
momentous interest. United closely by ties of
o social and commercial character, whatever
affects our sister city Of Boston has more
or less Of import for us. Over two
hundred acres of the substantial class Of
buildings have been utterly destroyed.
Neither iron nor granite could withstand the
fierce sweep Of the fire. 1t smote down
walls such as might have defed the
ravages Of time for ages. Iron melted
like wax before the all-devouring fame, and
the efforts Of the fremen were as fruitless
and impotent as an attempt to balk the flowing
Of the tides. In the general wreck the Boston
people have one consoling thought-that their
most sacred and venerable landmark, the Old
South Church, is saved--saved by the super
human exertions of the fremen, amid cries
from the anxious multitude Of "God bless the
fremen!'


The granite front Of the new Post Office
crumbled down like gingerbread in the face Of
the confagration. Finally, after twenty
hours Of weary toll and suffering, the fire was
subdued, chiefly through the summary process
Of blowing up the buildings that lay within its
all-destroying sweep.
Year: 1872

u
Der of alleys and places.


EXTENT AND LOSS.


Its extent is upwards OF two hundred acres and
the loss by the devastation OF the buildings upon it
can fall little short OF $25ooOO,Ooo. When first dis
covered, about fifteen minutes past seven O'Clock
Saturday evening, and before fifty people had
reached the deserted streets, the great business
centre OF the connagration, large volumes
Of smoke and cracking flames were
bursting out OF the rear end OF the
large five story granite building Nos. 81, 50 and OF
Summer street, directly on the corner Of Kingston
street This building was surmounted with high
Mansard overtopping all the other buildings in
that immediate vicinity. Directly as the flames
began to spread through the story beneath the
roof and before an engine or hose carriage was
the ground, great volumes Of flame suddenly burst
out from the rear lower stories OF the building and
in less than twenty minutes the whole broad
facade, extending fully one hundred feet along
Kingston street, was one sheet Of livid flame, as
was also, at the same time, the Summer street
front,


THE HEAT BEING SO INTENSE
as to force the hremen away from that immediate
vicinity BY this time strong wind had been
created the flames began to sweep over Summer
and Kingston streets, and despite oil the des
perate, unremittent and fearless exertions Of the
fremen in every branch Of the department. the
fire was communicated to the buildings on the op-
poste corner Of Kingston and Summer streets, as
well as to the great block on the corner OF Summer
and Otis streets, and in less than half an hour
thereafter the flames were bursting out of the
roofs aud all up and down the broad sides Of these
immense structures. BY this time the wind had
increased to nearly gale, and the flames, having
the entire mastery Of everything swept from story
to story from roof to roof from block to block and
from corner to corner,


DRIVING THE FIREMES


from every vantage ground they could secure, and
apparently rendering all their exertions useless
and futile. Wherever the flames reached they rap
idly consumed everything OF combustible charac-
ter, even melting granite walls, crispng and
cracking iron doors and shutters as though they
were so much molten lead. The frcmen seemed
unequal to the emergency, though they worked
like heroes, reinforced as will be stated hereafter,
by assistance from abroad. They were unable to
procure O stream of water higher than would
reach the second stories Of the buildings in flames.
1t would have been useless and foolhardy to at
tempt to enter any Of the stores in the burning
district, and the heat prevented a near approach.
1t was, therefore, necessary to let


THE FIRE FfESD WORK HIS WILL,
for all were poweress to stay his course. Leaving
Summer street, after burning both sides as far as
washington street the danes soon epyelODed Win.
Year: 1872

At meeting of the Board Of Directors held on
the tenth day of June 1872, it resolved to pay
A CASH DIVIDEND OF THIRTY PER CENT on
the net earned participating premiums for the year
ending May 3D. 1879, payable on the third Monday
Of July next. Also to pay demand ten per cent
interest to the scrip holders upon conversion of
their scrip into capital stock per amended char.
ter of the COmpanY.
Year: 1872

An election was held in Batter county, Kansas,
on the 10Th inst, to determine the location of
the county seat, and resulted in the choice of
Augusta by two hundred majority. The people
OF Eldorado, the present county seat, opposed
the transfer, on the ground OF illegality Of the
election. Last Saturday, one hundred and fifty
armed men from Augusta went to Eldorado,
with teams to take away the county effects, but
being met by strong armed force, they did not
attempt to carry off anything. 1t is feared that
they may return, and bloodshed ensue. The
Rldoradians had applied to the Courts to restrain
the counting of the ballots, but their application
WAS refused
Year: 1872

QUIN1NE.-This article of drug now COM
mands three dollars per ounce, and is one of
the most useful in the entire list of manufac-
tured drugs


Recently there has been an effort on the
part of prominent medical and scientific men to
induce Congress to set apart suitable por-
ton of the public domain for the purpose Of
cultivatng and growing the chinchona tree,
from which the useful and almost indispen-
sable article Of quinine is produced. This
tree is a native Of South America, and found
to grow only on the Andes, above what is
termed the cloud line of those high and ma
jestic peaks. and usually in greater quaint 'y
north of the equatorial line; hence for lis
cultivation in the United States the Sierra
Nevada range of mountains in California
have been selected by the parties who urge
the tr al of its cultivation in this country as
being the mountains most closely resembling
in soil and climate the Andes. There can be
no doubt of SUCCESS if the cultivation Of TIE
chinchona tree is properly undertaken and
attended to, as the results Of similar expert
ments by the English Government in the
Himalayas of India fully tests.
Year: 1872

A FIGHT1NG WIDOW -Telfair county,
Georgia, boasts of a ady-widow of a Con
federate soldier who is very social in a
small row. A pedagogue living on her land
threatened to walop her recently and pretty
soon thereafter attempted to carry out his
threat. He was the worst fooled man in the
Union. The widow knocked him down and
walked all over him; then she set him up on
his feet and .erked him out of his socks then
she snatched him baldheaded, and finally
wound up the ceremony by padding him
with board until he had the Mysteries.
Year: 1872

A friend says: Going to Cape May the
other day saw a young man leaning over
the railing of the upper deck, with consider
able violence giving to the winds and the sea
the contents Of his stomach. Just at this
juncture one of the boat officials, walking
briskly by, asked in patronzing manner.
Sick, sir? You don't suppose | am doing
this for fun, do yon! said the poor fellow,
Indignantly, as soon as he could recover his
breath"
Year: 1872

The ssBlack Sheep Among the Police.


We should not allow the fact that one police
man has been found unworthy to prejudice
the good name Of the force. It is next to i'm
possible that the Commissioners should know
afirmatively the honesty Of all their ap-
pointees. No doubt great care is exercised
in this matter. Judge Bosworth tells us that
certificate Of good character is required in
oil cases. Rogues may possibly assume virtue
long enough to earn the good opinion of some
citizen whose endorsement will pass with the
Board, yet, though thief should seek the
screen of the blue coat to cover schemes of
plunder, it would be most unjust to the nine
hundred and ninety-nine honest officers
should we reflect upon them for the crime of
the one 'black sheep in the thousand. Small
pay, excessive service and great temptations
are the characteristics of policeman's life.
He walks our streets under the driving snow
of Winter and in the sweltering heat Of Sum-
mer. Others can in some degree choose
their hours and seasons of duty--not he.
He must guard our property while we sleep;
guard it while we carelessly leave it unlocked
TO the risk of theft; guard 1t when the flames
attack it; guard it from gangs Of lawless row.
dies; guard it from threatening elements and
conspiring men. If he does his duty faithfully
Year: 1872

CUBAN FNANcIERNo IN ENeLAND.-The
London journals yesterday evening an
nounced the prevalence of rumor, which was
then circulating in financial centres, to the
effect that Cuban insurrectionary agent had
arrived in the English metropolis duly CON-
missioned by the provisional government Of
the island to negotiate loan of twenty mil
lions of pounds sterling for its use. and that
if he is successful the amount will be rendered
by the patriot Cubans to Spain for the pur-
chase of the independence of the Gem of the
Antilles" The English writer's say that the
colonists have little hope that the ruling power
in Madrid will accept the money for such pur-
pose, but that they calculate the Cuban cause
will be made stronger among the foreign peo-
Piles by the tender of the cash. This is O very
equitable view of the case nothing like
doing, or even attempting to do. the fair
thing.
Year: 1872

{ The GRAIN TRADE AND New YoRK.-We
call attention to an able article in another
part of the paper on the grain trade with New
York and other ports. The argument, sus-
tanned by official figures, showing the neces-
sity of increased and cheaper facilities for
transporting grain and other produce to the
commercial metropolis and for maintaining its
commercial supremacy, should not be lost
upon our merchants and capitalists. There is
no lack of capital and enterprise in New York
to make the needed improvements for this pur-
pose, and it is to be hoped prompt action will
be taken.
Year: 1872

The EBD TIDE is setting in from the SEQ
shore, the springs, lakes and mountains, and
with the return of September we shall have
the ending of our Summer carnival in the
country and general return to business by
our wanderers in both hemispheres.
Year: 1872

the late West Virginia election, in Ohio county,
of which the city of Wheeling is the county
seat the proposition to insert the word
white in the State constitution as qualif-
cation for Office received but 1sO votes, and
that it is unquestionably defeated. This.
then, is the last kick against the equal poll
tical rights of black men with white men in
the United States, and the concession stands
as the law, ''from the centre oil round to the
con - s|
Year: 1872

Vne Ffes10ent OF COSTA kG1ca ana t00


Nicaragua Ship Canal.


A report comes from Washington that
President Guardia, of Costa Rica, who is ON
his way to Europe, goes there for the purpose
of raising capital to make the Nicaragua Intsr-
oceanic Canal While we would rather see
this great work accomplished by American
capital and enterprise, we must wish him
success in his mission. Wherever the means
come from the project is grand one. and for
the benefit of the whole commercial world.
To no country would this interoceanic canal
be of as much benefit as to the United States.
It ought to be under the protection and guar
antee of oil the great commercial nations, and
the business, after securing fair return for
the capital invested, should be regulated by
treaty signed by these nations. Nature seems
to have made the waters of Nicaragua for this
grand work. The San Juan River and the
easily excavated alluvial soil along that river,
with Lake Nicaragua and the short distance
from this fine body of water to the Pacific,
form the best route, probably, for ship
canal that can be found in Central America.
If President Guardia is going on the mission
reported we hope he may be successful.
Year: 1872

GENERAL BANKS ON THE MAIN Question:
In his late speech for Greeley and Brown at
Lynn, Mass, General Banks expressed the
opinion that ''the administration party, with
its leaders and its organization, will be de-
stroyed by this canvass, and that new party
of wiser and better men will be installed in
their places: that this will happen even
though General Grant may be reelected; that
he can never re-establish the power of that
party of which he is the head, because the
people of all parties and all sections are wise
enough to recognize the errors of the past,
and come together to remove them and the
consequences to themselves and the country.
In other words, General Banks holds the
opinion that, whether General Grant is de-
feated or elected, the corruptions of the party
in power will be checked by the pressure of


public opinion upon Congress and the ad.
ministration, and that the administration
party, as now organized, will be broken up
and dispersed. Nor do we think that he is
very wide Of the mark in this opinion, mas
much as the disintegration of the republican
party has already commenced.
Year: 1872

The Department Of Public Parks announce that
II the weather is fine there will be music by the
Central Park Band at Tompkins square to-day,
from five to seven p M. The following is the pro-
pramme:.a
Year: 1872




schoolmaster, the rays which make
the little day we call life, radiat,
from the God-swept circle of tht
hearth-stone.


Then she sings an old lullaby she
sang to mother-her mother sang il
to her-but she does not sing il
through, and falters ere it is done.
She rests her head upon her hand,
and it is silent in the old kitchen.
Something glitters down between her
finger in the freight, and it looked
like rain in the soft sunshine. The
old grandmother is thinking when
she first heard the song, and of the
voice that sang it; when a light
haired and light-hearted girl, she
hung aronnd the mothers chair, non
saw the shadows of the years to
come. OH the days that are no
more! What words unsay, what
deeds undo, to set back the ancient
clock Of time.


So our little hands were forever
clinging to her garments, and stay
ing her as if from dying, for long
ago she had done living for herself,
and lived alone in us. But the old
kitchen wants a presence to-day and
the rush bottomed chair is tenant
less.


How she used to welcome us
when we were grown and came once
more to the homestead.


We thought we were men and wo-
men, but we were children there; the
old-fashioned grandmother was
blind in the eyes, but she saw her
heart as she always did. We threw
our long shadows through the open
door, and she felt them as they fell
over her form, and she looked dim
ly up and said:


Edward l know, and Lucy's voice
can hear, but whose is that otheri
1t must be James, for she had al
most forgotten the folded hands.
Oh, no! not James for she-let me
see-she is waiting for me, isn't she?
And the old grandmother wondered
and wept.


It's another daughter, grandmoth-
er, that Edward has brought fol
your blessing.


Has she blue eyes, my son? Put
her hand in mine, for she is nv late
born, the child of my old age. Shall
I sing you a song, children? And
she is idly fumbling for toy, vel
come gift for the children that have
come again.


One of US, men as we thought we
were, is weeping; she hears the hall
suppressed sobs, and she says, as she
extends her feeble hand, 'Here my
child, rest upon your grandmother s
sh) h)ulder; she will protect you from
all harm"


Come, children, sit around the fire
again. Shall 1 sing you a song or
tell you a story? Stir the fire, it is
cold; the nights are growing colder.


The clock in the corner struck
nine, the bed time of those old days.
The song Of life was indeed sung, the
story told. 1t was bed time at last.
Good night to the grandmother.
The old-fashioned grandmother was
no more, and we miss her forever.
But we will set up tablet in the
midst of the heart, and write on ii
only this: "Sacred to the memory
Of the Old-fashioned grandfather;
God bless her forever"