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Year: 1875

The Nashville Tenn Banner gives an
account of the burning by unknown in
cendiaries of Charles Singers large -four
ing mill, near Sebree CITY, KY, a few
nights ago, and adds the following ac-
count of horrible crime which was after
wards committed:


An hour later the Nashville bound train,
on the st Louis and Southern Railroad,
came sweeping along at its accustomed
speed. All at once the locomotive trem-
bled as Ii rolled over something under
meath, and went on, the engineer bellev-
ing the object to be an animal. When be
arrived at the tank, two miles below, how
ever, and commenced to oil his engine, he
was horritied at the sight of human hair
upon the pilot ard blood upon the wheels
of his engine. at this unexpected discOv-
cry, he got upon the locomotive and back
ed the train TO point within one hundred
yards of the burned mill. Here was found
all that had been left of Samuel Scott. His
body was terribly mangled, but the
strangest thing of all was that it was per-
fectly cold, and had the appearance of
havin been so for some little time previ-
Gus. Two physicians examined the re-
mains, and gave it as their opinion that
Scott had first be- killed and his body
laid across the track, TO prevent the eX-
posure ofthe crime. This presumption
was substantiated by the fact that, when
run over, the body of Scott was lying
across the track, his neck across one rail
and his feet hanging over and beyond the
other. AS he was man of temperate
habits, it is not supposed he laid down
upon the track in state of stupefacIion
caused by imbi5ing whisky, and even
then it is thought hardly possible that he
would have taken so much pains to lay
himself down in the peculiar position his
body laid. Is is believed that he witness
ed the incendiaries set fire to the mill, and
that while proceeding to his home, which
was two hundred yards from the mill, he
was overtaken by them half way, and
murdered and placed on the track that
the train might run over his body and so
mangle it as to prevent the exposure oi
the double crime.
Year: 1875

AN old lady bade her daughter good-by
In the Rochester depot, saying: :" IL isn't
likely will ever see you az Iin-Tm get
ting so DID," She was starting for her
home in Chicago, and as the train started
She put her head out of the car window to
catch final glimpse of her relative. The
daughter was standing on an adjacent
track waving her handkerchief. A loco
motive dashed in and overrun her, and
the last that the mother saw, as the train
moved out Of the depot, was the mangled
corpse of her daughter. The grief OF the
poor woman was frantically expressed.
At the first station she got out and re-
turned to Rochester.
Year: 1875

Many of our readers are interested in the California election of September 1, and will be glad to see the following official statement of the vote cast for each candidate on the State ticket, and the majorities of the yictors. It is taken from The Sacramento Record:
Year: 1875

OUR MILL NOW BEING IN FULL V operation, we are prepared To furnish the market with a quality of Flour, which we guarantee far superior to any mRnu- factured in the Territory, aud fully equal to the very best imported rom California. We will keep constantly on hand at the Mill, and at our several agencies

 Three Qualities of Flour,
Year: 1875

The st. Louis Republican, says: F" It
was reserved for a boy out on Olive street
to produce new act to the old and Oft.
repeated drama of " A Dog with Some
thing Tied to His Tail II wasn't an
old oyster-can or split stick affair, but
something entirely new. The dog,
which was little black-and- tan terrier,
with an aristocratic air, was following
lady, and the boy was idling along the
street with o red toy-halloon which he
was holding by a string. It was very
large balloon, as large as those toy-bai-
looms ever grow. The lady passed the
boy and turned the corner. The dog
came along and was about to pass,
the boy also, when the urchin, i'm
PEELED by spirit OF evil, grabbed him.
Then, still further instigated by the
devil and curiosity, the boy tied the end
of the string in his hand firmly about
the dogs tail, about two inches from,
the end, and let go. The animal started
off with yelp to rejoin its mistress,
but it didn't regain her all at once. The
balloon Strengthened out the tailiin an
instant so that it pointed toward the
zenith with kind of excelsior ex-
preston, and the dogs motions carried
out the idea perfectly The wind fresh
ened up q little, and the dog's hind feet
were lifted off the ground, and then be-
gan series of remarkable but ineffec-t
tive movements on the part of the ami
NAL. 1t didn't seem to be q trained
dog but it turned somersaults and stood
on its fore feet and sung little snatches
of song as never any circus dog in The
world did. 1t would make the most
tremendous leaps and land exactly in
the spot it jumped FROM and then it
would settle down to work with its fore
legs and ply them at the rate of 2,000,-
600 revolutions minute, and get over
the ground in o manner that couldn'-i
have been supposed under the circum-
stances. The circumstances were pc
culiar, though, and the dog didn't, dpr-
ing the entire play, get beyond the
block. The red balloon soa, ed with all
the persistency of Columbia orators
hyperbole, and the terriers tail refused
to break. Then the dog got desperate
and bounded and struggled and vaulted
while the big balloon 10 the air bobbed
up and down like the cork on the line
of giant fishing for whales. And all
the while the animal sang. Finallyrhe
string broke, and the balloon shot up
toward the clouds. The dog disap-
peared at the same time, though the
boy noticed something like black and
tan streak reaching for seventeen blocks,
which lasted for moment only. The
performance as whole, had been a
success, but it left a bad impression on
the boys mind. He concluded his
schoolmaster must be fool. He had
been taught that body impelled by
two forces operating at right angles to
each other would take an intermediate
course. He had just seen that such a
body didn't get along ut all. sisF
Year: 1875

A ToUeH STORY. "A Colorado Yankee
has organized company to tame buffalo
for domestic purposes. Water is scarce
on the plains, and in many places the
pools are almost dry. Jack Thompson, +,
the manager. found that six barrels Of
cheap forty-rod whisky, poured in a
small pond would make the animals too
drunk to walk, and when once in this
condition they can be subjugated with
laughing gas and tanned in week SO
as to be yoked and worked like oxen.
When buffalo has once slipped at the
Intoxicating fount, he loses all control
OF himself and becomes slave TO bis
appetite, The Denver papers speak OF
the, enterprise in the highest terms.
Max CLARK, the secretary of the COM
pany, writes that they have seven thou.
sand animals in perfect training, and
nearly every ranchman in the Territory
has ordered from three to seven yoke


They are of great service for ploughing
and hauiing heavy freight wagons
through the mountains. A large boil


er for the new quartz mill at Fairplay,
ninety miles from Golden City, was TAX
en- over the road in three days. Oxen
would have required more than week
for the same trip. The bnffaloes be-
oame 80 attached to their drivers in a
few days that they follow them where
ever they 60; and when they can get a
taste Of whisky they rear up on their
hind legs and manifest every sign Of
Joy. A herd broke into warehouse
at Kit Carson and destroyed seventy
barrels of liquor, and the next morning
they lay in heaps all over the town.
Year: 1875




"The last cry heard was that Of a little
child in the cabin" So runs the cold and
formal dispatch which announces the break
ing up of the Schiller, and the loss Of moro
than three hundred lives. a little child ia
the cabin, and its poor infantile appeal for
help Not all the tragedy of that affair, tho
death of thenoble captain at his post. we hope.
as became man and a seaman the ending
of the struggle with death upon the sharp
rocks Of Scilly, when the gallant sailors doubt.
less fought, or the drowning of the womei
who were on board, pitifdi creatures whose
hair is already turned TO seaweed mono OF
these fates equals that Of the child whose cry
was the last sound heard as the noble ship
struck the crnel rock. It seems almost likh
violation of the sanCtity of grief, like an iti-
vasion Of the heart that means and refuses %
be healed, of tho sorrow that will not be com.
forted, to mention this thing, but the cry Of
that child will be heard around the globe;
piercing the ear ard rending tho heart Of
every man who reads tho story. A little child
What magic thero are in those words What
chords do thsy touch What memories res
ViveI A little child, pure and fresh, tho
handiwork of tho Maker, before the debasing
breath of earth had struck it. Sweet and in-
nocent, the image of his Maker and the res
Election of angels. We do not wish to bo ac.
cused of sentimentalism, nor do wo desire 20
be pathetic, but tho involuntary touch Of tho
telegraph operator upon the key no struck in
tho brief sentence we have quoted will vibrate
through million hearts. One touch Of
nature makes the whole world kin,


philadelphia Press.
Year: 1875




W. M.-Brother Senior Warden, Jefferson
Lodge, No. 81, being now assembled for the
purpose of laying the Corner Stone of this
Church here to be erected, it is my order that
this Lodge now proceed to the performance of
that most important ceremony. This you will
communicate to the Junior Warden, aud he
TO tho brethren present, that ell having due
notice may govern themselves accordingly.
8. W.-Brotber Junior Warden, it is the
order of tho Worshipful Master that this Cor
ner Stone be now laid with Masonic Honors
This you will report to all present that the oc-
casion may be observed with duo order and
solemnity.


J. W.-Brethren All who are present
take notice that the ". NJ. will now deposite
this foundation stone in Masonic form. You
observe the order and decorum becoming the
important and solemn ceremonies in which We
are about to engage.


AN ODE.
To Heavens high Architect all praise,
All gratitude be given,
Who dcigned the human soul to raise
By secrets sprung from Heaven.


CHORUS.
Then sound the great Jehovah's praise,
To Him the glorious structure raise.
Now swells the Choir in solemn tone,
And lowering Angels join;
Religion looks delighted down


When Votaries press tho shrine.


CHORUS.
Blcst be the place thither repair


The true and pious train:
Devotion wakes her anthem there,


And Heaven accepts the strain


CHORUS


PRAYER BY THE CHAPLAIN.
W. M.-Brother Treasurer you will read
the Inscription on the Corner Stone and list
of the contents of the box.
The Stone is now raised.
W. M.-Tbere being NO objection now
order you, Brother Treasurer, to deposite the
box with the contents in the place prepared
for its reception.


AN ODE.
BIest is the tic that binds


Our hearts in social love:
The fellowship of kindred minds


Is like to that above.
We share our mutual woes,


Our mutual burdens bear;
And often for each other flows


The sympathizipg tear.
No SORROW, toll, nor pain,


In the great lodge above,
There perfect joy and friendship reign,
And all that lodgeis love.
The principal Architect then presents the
working tools to the ". NJ, who hands the
Square to Passed Master, the LeyeIto to the
Senior Warden, and the Plumb to the Junior
Warden.


The wOrshipful Master and officiating OFF.
GERS will then descend from. the platform and
arrange themselves as follows:
The Master standing at the East of the
Stone, Senior Warden at the West, and Junior
Warden at the South.
+ The W. NJ. will then spread the cement,
after which he directs the Chief Marshal to
order the Craftsmen to lower the Stone, which
must be done slowly. Solemn. music will be
introduced:


Let Masonry from pole to pole


Her sacred laws expand,
Far as the mighty waters roll,


Te wash remotest land
That virtue has not left mankind,


Her social maxims prove,
For stsmp'd upon the Mason's mind,
Is UNITY an1 LOVE.
Year: 1875

PFNNYRoYAL AND PoTAsH.-If mos,
guitoes or other blood suckers inieSt
our sleeping rooms At night, we un-
cork a bottle of the oil Of pennyroyal,
and these animals leave in great
haste, nor viii they return so long as
the air in the room is loaded with the
fumes of that aromatic herb. If rats
enter the cellar, little powdered pot
ash, thrown in their holes or mixed
with meal and scattered in their run
ways, never fails to drive them away.
CAYENNE pepper will keep the buttery
and store room from ants and cock.
reaches. If a mouse makes an en-.
trance INTO any part of your dwell
ingS, saturate rag with CAYENNE, in
solution, and stuff it into the hole.
which can then be repaired with
either wood or mortar. No rat or
mouse Will eat that rag for the pur.
pose Of opening communication with
depot Of supplies.
Year: 1875

\ FAMOUS ARNoRER.-Andre de
Ferrara was the most famous armorer
OF modern times. He first came into
note in the Highlands Of Scotland. 1t
is said he was the only person who
could forge armor that would resist
the Sheffield arrow heads, or make
swords that would vie with the best
weapons of Toledo and Milan. He is
supposed 10 have learned his art in the
Italian city whence he was called, TO
have practiced it in secrecy among the
Highland hills, as his genuine blades
were all marked with crown. Before
his time no man in Great Britain
could temper sword in such a wav
that the point should touch the hi!t
and spring back uninjured. He is
said TO have worked in a dark cellar.
the better 10 enable him TO perceive
the effect of the heat upon the metal.
and to watch the nicely of the temper
ing, as well as possibly to serve as a
screen TO his secret method of work.
ing. Many Of his blades, with new


basket hits, are 10 be foud in the
Scottish regiments of the present dav.
Year: 1875

FRAUns N TIE Pension BUREAU.-
a Washington special says One of
the special agents of the Pension Office
has Just returned from the west, and
his report made to the commissioner
discloses the fact that q remarkable
series Of wholesale deceptions have
been practiced on the government.
lie found parties in the receipt of pen
slons who were not disabled from
earning their liyelihooi,and who could
show no trace of wounds. or of i'm
paired health. Numerous cases were
also discovered of parties personsting
dead men and of women falsely repre-.
senting themselves as the widows of
deceased soldiers and drawing pen
sions as such. The commissioner
now states that he is convinced that
the government is annually paving
from S3,000000 to S,4000,000 to these
fraudulent claimants.
Year: 1875

PIERRE GgEGoRE ToUsAIHT BEAURE-
GARD Is now a resident Of New Orleans
and daily wauders through the haunts
of men one of the most quiet and un-
obtruSive Of gentlemen. lie is now
fifty-eight years of age, but such is his
careful and rigid system of living that
he looks to be only fifty and promises
to live to a ripe old four-score or
more. Since he dofied the gray and
yielded to the fate of war, Beanregard
has philosophically accepted the situa-
ton and has made it a ruling princi-
pie of his later life to shun as a plague
political discussions, and sternly frown
upon the slightest incident dealing in
even the remotest degree with the
awakening of the dead issues Of the
war. | have said that he is a quiet
gentleman. | may add that he is in
tensely so. To look at him he gives
YOU the impression that he loves not
the society of mankind and prefers to
keep himself 10 himself. Although
exceedingly wealthy at the outbreak
of the war, he suffered the reverses of
fortune incident 10 so many thousand
SOuthrons during the epoch, and now
enjoys but moderate competence
derived from his services as president
OF a street railway company, and the
rpUf1l Of' tho rap,paDt nf hiS nnaa vac,
property. His daily life is a quiet
one, and leads him but little within
the scope of public observation be is
simple and transformations in man.
ner, and appears rather to avoid than
TO court popular notice, moving along
in the even tenor of his way, content
ed to pursue his peaceful and modest
mission in life uHdisturbed by useless
regrets for the past, or longing ambi-
tions for the future.
Year: 1875

A HAPPY marriage has in it all the
pleasures Of friendship, all the ENJOY
ments of sense ard. reason, and, IN
deed, all the comforts and sweets Of
this life Good nature and evenness
of temper will give you an easy com
panion for life virtue and good sense
an agreeable friend ; love and con
stancy q good wife or husband.
Year: 1875

THERE is nothing new about these
pull back skirts after all. In the
reign of Edward II, Q3O7 ~ a monk
ish chronicle records that the ladies
wore such straight clothes, they were
to have long foxes brush
oS God within to Eold them forth
Year: 1875

WORK Is VICToRY--l look on that
man as happy who, when there Is a
question of success. looks intO his
work for a reply, not into the market,
not into opinion, not into patronage.
In every variety Of human employ
ment there are numbers who do their
task perfunctorlIy, as we say, or just
to pass, and as badly as they dare
there are the workingmen on whom
the burden ofthe business falls-those
who love work and love 10 see 1t
rightly done who finish their task
for its own sake and the world Is
happy that has the most Of such IN
ishers. The world will always do
Justice at last to such finiShers-il CALI
not otherwise. lie who has acquired
the ability, may wait securely The
occasion Of making it felt and appre
ciated and known that it Will not
loiter-mcn who talk as if victory
were something fortunate. Work Is
victory. Wherever work is done
victory is obtained.
Year: 1875

The announcement Of the death Of
General Blair VIII be received through
out the Union with profound regret.
Though full Of honors-militsry and
civic-his friends hoped he had still
years OF usefulness before him, and that
the great party he had served so faith
fully during the later years of his career
would be able to profit by his bold and
manly stGtesmanship. Bat fate wills it
otherwise, and We can but regret the loss
OF one whose future was full Of promise
Tor himself AID the Union he loved as
life itself.
Year: 1875

THE National Protestant is the title
of new monthly, the initial number Of
which has come to hand. tis elegant
~ printed, and comprises sixteen pages
ofnratter that bespeaEs high grade of
editorial ability. The Protestant is q
distinctively aggressive paper, one that
we regret any one should suppose there
vvss occasion for in this country, where
we are blessed with free schools and o
free ba llot. We do not see any necessi-
ty for ii, and predict for it short life.
Year: 1875

THE Kansas City Times predicts that
the south and the west will be a unit in
the national Democratic convention On
tue question Of contraction. we say so,
too. They will 20 for expansion.
Year: 1875

ESPECIALLY ASSORTED FOR SCRAP
BOOK ILLUSTRATIONS AND DRAW


ING CLASS COPIES.


A large collection of pictures of different
lies and on almost every conceivable sub
ject have been put up in an attractive envel-
ope and are now offered at o price intended to
make them popular in every sense.


Envelope No. containing so beautiful en-
gravings) is now ready, and will be sent, post
age paid, to any address for ONE DOLLAR.
A liberal discount to agents and teachers.
Year: 1875

WILLIAM BLAIKRs GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF


THE CONTEST FROM THE START 10 TIE


FINISH.


Eleven O'Clock was the hour SCI for the race,
but The referees boat dld not appear at the start
ing line until nearly quarter of an hour later.
BoWdoin was ~ her post. Yale had come
up In o carriage stripped, with nothing
but coat thrown over each man, ready
for the race and b9d launched from
Cornelps quarters aud was on rand Dartmouth
followed quickly In her green cspl, DONG the
same tang CorAsh pulled promptly out to her
station. Boat alter boat came out and yet the
reGl ee's boat haG not come into position: nor
Year: 1875

Oae Of our friends has q stove With
glass oven doors Why could not a
thermometer also be attached to
them? hope to see the time when
cooking shall become an exact sci
ence when we shall not only meas
ure the heat Of our ovens With tber-
mometers and know the precise tenn
perature at which they should be for
each variety baked therein, but shall
also know the temperature at which
our yeast and bread-spOnge should be
kept; when we shall prepare all srti-
eles Of food by correct recipes, and
measure all ingredients in exact and
standard measures, which shall be
alike all over the country, 80 that
can only occur when We fail
TO follow the rules.-PrQlrie Farmer.
Year: 1875

One of the most respectable Eng
lish statesmen of our century, the
late Earl of Clarendon, said that his
country "drifted" into the Russian
war; aud it is the fact that nearly all
the wars that have been known in
the last thirty years-and they are
of the most fierce and bloody con-
Year: 1875

THE following peroration from the address of G. W. Curtis at the Con- cord and Lexington Centennial celebra- tion is worthy of re-reading and remem bering:

 "The Union is the lofty task which this hallowed day and this sacred spot impose upon us. And what cloud of doubt so dark hangs over us as that which lowered above the colonies when the troops ot the King marched into this town, and the men of MiddleseX resolved to pass the bridge? With their faith and their will, We shall win their victory. No royal Governor, indeed, sits in your stately capital, no hostile fleet for many year has vexed the water of our coasts, nor Is. any army but our own ever likely to tread our soil. Not such are our enemies to-day. They do not come proud ly stepping to the beat, with bay onets flashing in the morning sun. But W h erever party spirit shall strain the ancient guarantees of freedom, or bigotry and ignorance shall lay their fatal hands upon education, or ths arrogance of caste shall strike at equal rights, or corruption shall poison the very springs of national life there, ninute-men of liberty, are your Lexington Green and Concord Bridge, and as you love your country and your kind, and would have your children rise up and call you blessed, spare not the enemy! Over the hills, out of the earth, down from the clouds, pour in resiStless might. Fire from every rock and tree, from door and window, from noon to sunset, and so-through land blazing with holy indignation--hurl the hordes of ignorance and corruption and injustice back, back, in utter defest and ruin "
Year: 1875

so also along portions of the New Jersey
coast. But in Long Island, where there is
good deal of gravel, the water would soak
through and rup off, even in the absence of
good drainage. But the advent of mosquitoes
there, caused by the heavy rain fall, produced
irritation and nervousness to such an extent
that large number of people had returned to
the city, abandoning their plans of spending
the summer on Long Island. The same was
the case on Staten Island and the adjacent
places, where the mosquitoes had become SO
thick that suce Thursday last hundreds of peo-
Pile had been driven homeward. Another in-
furious effect Of the rain was the state of the
peach market. Peaches ripen quicker in rainy
than in dry weather, but they also decay sooner;
and as this is the hight of the season, great
care should be taken by those who eat them
~ y Iribane.
Year: 1875

testimony


cheerruy give this testimony to the public that
Mrs. Fosters Blood Purifier and letter Ointment
cured me:


was afflicted for many years with disordered
blood, a troublesome and Obstinate tetter OF the
was the occasion OF prolonged suffering and OK
pence.


l consulted eight of tho most prominent physl-
clans In the city and used their medicine long time
without receiving any permanent relief on the
contrary getting worse till finally almost despair
Ing OF hope, was induced to try Mrs. Fosters
being certain cure for my disease. It was the
turning point in my case after using two bottles
OF tile Blood Purifier in connection with the Tetter
Ointment, the swelling ceased the eruptons disap-
peared apd now am entirely and efeotually cured
II further Information IS desired concerning my
ceso cal at my residence


THOS. SCOTT,


1880 Glaylnont Street, over INN Street Bridge