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Year: 1872

SALT LAKE, April 13.-The snow avalanche
Thursday and yesterday at Little Cottonwood
was the most fearful ever known in that re-
gion. The slide.at wellington mine from a
height of 1000 feet, carrying away everything
IN Its course and burying the entire force of day
the exception of foreman HI H. Murray, whose
body was brought here to-day. Seven men
were caught in another slide, but two men at
Davenport mine were buried in cabin but es-
capped Other slides aoe anticipated. In the
storm Of. the last few days snow sell six feet
Year: 1872

Another monster Washingtonan Temperance
meeting was held last evening at City Hall. =
AT least 1000 persons were present. and nearly
every foot of room was occupied. Mayor Kings
bury presided, and the exercises were opened by
Rev. +. p Thwing, followed by hymn from
the Ancient Harmony Society. Mayor Kings
bury then addressed the meeting at some
length, drawing a comparison between the
present audience and the congregations that
were wont to assemble in the days of the war
then to devise measures to put down rebellion,
now to create a rebellion and overthrow mon
arch whose power makes widows and orphans
and fill jails and warehouses, to break his pow
er and make temperate and industrious peo-
pla. He had been asked how long this move
ment would continue. He could not answer,
but if it had the favor of power from on high
and the men engaged in it are imbued with a
spirit from on high it would last until all men
are indoctrinated with the principles of total
abstinence. These men who have signed the
pledge mean to ''stick?' until they have con-
quered. Some of them are here tonight to tell
you what they have suffered and what their de-
termination is. He then introduced Mr.. Chas.
j. Smith, who had served three and half years
in the army. sa l ....--r


Mr.. Smith went on to give a brief summary
of his life-how he,had taken to the intoxicat-
ing cup at an early age, and Fifteen years was
a constant visitor to and gained his living at
gambling dens and race-courses. Rum had
brought him to jail for a deadly assault upon a
companion, and while serving out his sentence,
good old lady-Sister Travers-visited him
and talked with him, gave him tract, and
gained his promise that he would read his
Bible and become sober man. All during his
subsequent period of temptation she was true
friend to him; and said he, came back, step
by step, and now am not ashamed to stand up
and declare that am, by the grace of God
temperance man in everything.


Lieut.. Forest Howe late of the 9th Maine
gave an affecting outline of his own history
Rum had been the cause of breaking up his
early home, and he and his brother at tine early
age of ten years, were driven out into the world
without friend He had been as debased as
man could be; but, thank God, there is a class
of men who practice their religion and are not
ashamed 10 go down and take the drunkard by
the hand. He found faithful friend in Good
Templar, and by his kindness he had been saw
ed. . ..7


Mr. Francis Murphy spoke at some length,
rehearsing the story of his life, and depicting
the sufferings of himself and his family while
under the ban of the law for heinous crime
and he besought his hearers to begin the tenn
perance work in their families and with their
children. u e


During the evening large number of names
were added to the pledge, and the exercises
were made additionally attractive by the music
of the Ancient Harmony Society.
Year: 1872

WHAT NExT?-We don't know; but the last
Yankee invention that we have seen is the
Electric Gas Lightning Burner by which one
is enabled to light the gas without the use of a
match, thus saving the marring of walls, paint
and paper. 1t works to perfection and will
come into quite general wse. The burner can
be seen at Kinsman's and Senter' on Exchange
street and at Plummers ON Union street.
Year: 1872

The VETERAN.-The company which gave
the first representation of ck's great mil.
itary drama at Music Hall on Saturday evening
was not over-praised by our contemporaries. In
point of ability 1t is all that was claimed for it,
and in the history of the drama in this city the
past winter no company has appeared that has
given so little occasion for unfayorable criti-
cism. The play is not only respectable as 3
literary production and entertaining as dra-
matte effort, but its power over the audience is
heightened by the splendid scenic effects which
appear ct almost every step in its progress.
Each act closes with fine tableau, the closing
one being of an unusually startling nature and
magnifcence, and is enjoyed by those who seek
for the sensational in the drama. At the earn
est request of the public the managers have SO
changed the order of engagements as to allow
them to remain in Portland two nights more,
and the play will be sure to call out large and
fashionable audiences, as it did on Saturday
evening.
Year: 1872

MORE PowDER.-There was quite an excite
ment on Commercial street Saturday owing to
car loaded with gun powder passing through
the street and being shifted on to a side track.
Deputy Decelle on being informed OF the mat
ter sought the Mayor for orders to the Superln-
tendent of the Oriental Powder Company, who
resides in South Windham, to remove It, ana
also notified the President of the Ogdensburg
Railroad
Year: 1872

The increase in the sale of btters the past
week has been quite noticeable. This we have
no doubt should be attributed to the fact that
large class of our community require some
thing bracng during the Spring months, and
not to the ''little something put in to keep
Year: 1872

JohnB. Cough, in q recent lee
ture, said:


& can not drink moderately. It
is physically and morally impossi-
ble- If any man should give ne
whiskey by any means unknown to
myself, it would be at the risk Of
sinking me back to what l was
twenty-five years ago. You may
call it weakness or what you will,
but it is the truth"


We do not doubt it, for we once
Knew q gentleman, a man of the
highest literary character aud fame,
occasionally addicted to extrem
drinking, who once said, when re
mOnstrated with concerning his in
trinity:


81 love my wife and children
dearly and devOtedly love them
but when l have tasted liquor, were
they standing on the brink of the
bottomIess pit, and the condition
offered me that l should see them
90 to eternal destruction if L should
drink another glass of brandy, /
would take fhe liquor-I could NOT
help the act. ."-EE,
Year: 1872

SPECIAL HoNoB.-Eycry person
should cultivate nice sense of hon
or. In Il hundred different ways
this most fitting adjunct to the true
lady or gentleman is often tried.
For instance, one is the guest Of a
family, where, perhaps, the dOmes-
tic machinery does not run smooth
". There is sorrow in the house,
unsupported by the outer world.
Sometimes 1t is q dissipatcd son
whose conduct is q shame and grief
TO his parents; sometimes a relative,
whose eXcentricities and peculiari-
ties are a cloud on the home. Or,
worst Of all, husband and willie may
not be IN accord, and there may be
often bitter words spoken and harsh
rccriminatiOns. In any of these ca
ses, the guest is in honor bound to
be blind and deaf, as far as people
without are concerned. II gentle
word within can do any good, it
may well be said but 10 90 forth
and reveal the shadow of an unhap-
py secret TO any one, even your
nearest friend, is an act Of indelicacy
and meaness almost unpGTalicllcd.-
Once in the sacred precincts of amy
house, admitted into its privacy,
sharing its life, all that you can see
and hear is sacred trust. 1t Is real
ly as contemplate TO gossip of such
things AS il would be 10 steal the
silver or borrow the books and for
get to return them.
Year: 1872

The art OF conversing well stands
next to genius. Society rarely dis
eliminates between the brilliancy
which shines with a borrowed lus-
ter and the sunlight Of genuine or
iginality. We are all apt to be cap
tivated with tribes. We don't 90
down deep into the hidden nature
of things. But so the word goes;
and it is but a piece of folly for us
TO rail at the world for il. Instead
of growing vexed because most
people are prone 10 see the crystal
rather than the diamond, an earnest
effort should be made TO be truly good
and worthy ofappreciation. And this
is not a hardship. Montague tells
US that "the most fruitful and natu-
raj exercise of the mind is couver-
sation.-I find the use of it more
sweet than any other action OF life"
1t is as susceptible Of growth and
cultivation as any other gift. It's
growth, too, bears an exact ratio 10
the degree Of care bestowed upon il.
Year: 1872

INDIANAPOLIS, November 14.-Gov-
.ernor Baker delivered his message to
the Legislature in joint convention this
afternoon. He recommends that pro-
vision be made at this session Of the
Legislature for the calling Of a eonven-
tion TO revise the constitution of the
State. He also recommends the build
ing Of two additional hospitals for The
insane, and enlarging the present in
stitute for the education Of the blind, and
also &c provide for the completion Of the
House Of Refuge and other public
buildings Of the State.
Year: 1872

The Tichborne claimant has made an appeal to the English public to supply funds to aid him in his case. He says |:

 That I am Roger Charles Doughty Tichborne I solemnly declare, and which fact I have already proved by eighty six witnesses, and will prove again by more than two hundred, if necessary and that am not Arthur Orton will prove beyond the shadow of doubt by wit nesses who knew both Orton and myself. As to the tattoo marks, at least twenty four disinterested witnesses will prove that I, Roger Tichborne, was never tat tooed, but that Arthur Orton was, there will be conclusive evidence forthcoming.

 But, be all Shis as it may, true lovers of justice will, I feel satisfied, never allow me to be convicted without fair trial, which it is impossible for me to have without counsel, solicitor and wit nesses on my behalf and I, therefore, appeal to the public for subscriptions for my defense.

 Gagged as I am, it is impossible for me to get single witness without the as- sistance of my solicitor.
Year: 1872

At scientific lecture delivered in San Jose, California, the lecturer, Prof. Stewart, said that for many years he had closely observed and studiously reflected upon earthquakes and their cause. The result of his reading, study and observa- tions is an opinion that they are caused by the meeting of electrical currents which move, one upon the earth's sur face, the other in the region of clouds, and that they are brought together by those natural conductors, vapor and rain clouds-the meeting of the two cur rents upon the surface of the earth caus- ing an earthquake. Prof. Stewart also maintains that these terrible phenomena are comfortable by the same means that we control the lightning and prevent it, through iron conductors, from destroy ing our houses. He says the iron rails of railways are as logically conductors of the electricity that causes earthquakes as lightning rods are of that electricity that comes from the clouds during thunder storm. He maintained in h1s lecture that by means of these and other conductors 1t is in the power of man to so distribute the force of the electric currents which cause earthquakes that they will be as harmless as the lightning conducted down lghtning-rod into the earth. He says that the trans-continental iron track and wires are already doing this valuable service for California, in sending part of the earthquake forces far and wide into the heart of the continent, by which distribution the danger and intensity of the shocks are lessened there.

 The late earthquake furnished the most opportune and assuring proof of the soundness of Stewards theory. Exactly the atmospheric condition which his theory requires to bring the two electric currents together then existed; and what transpired upon their meeting was pre- cisely that which his theory called for

 The shock was felt all along the lines of the railways from Oakland to Winne- mucca, being most severe at points near est to that point where the cloud con- ductors were most dense, and where the opposing electrical currents may be as- sumed to have been first brought to- gether. Off the line of the railway any considerable distance there was no per oeptible. shock, or at least only very slight one. At San Francisco, hitherto supposed to be standing on the most quaky ground, there was not shock enough to cause alarm, though at Oakland il lasted over 0 minute, and was startling. In San Jose it lasted not less than @ minute and half, part of the time severe enough to shake the plaster from walls, and everywhere to drive people in alarm from their beds and a number out oi their houses. At Cult, directly on the line of the railway, twenty-five miles west 1 of San Jose, the shock was strong enough to throw one person out of bed and it was also heavy on, the line of the road eastward, since the railway track has been laid down, there have been foul other earthquakes, all following the same course this one followed, none of then reaching San Francisco at all, and all O. them being most severe in the towns directly upon the line of the railway.
Year: 1872

PARTED AT THE ALTAR.-Some time ago, after an acquaintance of several years, young lady named lshor was married in Detroit to ayoung man named Taylor, of Indianapolis. The ceremony was hardly over when Taylor receeived Q telegram from Lynn, Mass, that his aged mother was dying, and in an hour he left Detroit. calculating to return within ten days at the furthest. He wrote one letter back, and shortly after his bride received news that mother and son were both dead. He was exposed to the smallpox somewhere on the route, took a severe cold, and died the day be. fore his mother died. The wife fainted on reading the sad news, and the attend ing physician believes that she will be rendered maniac by the blow.
Year: 1872

FOOLED BY 1r.-The organ was big thing among the Indians after they had man to sit in front of his hut and grind it every night. It was set to play "Yan- kee Doodle" and Yankee Doodle" it played every night, week in and week out, without variation. One night in fooling with the machine the Indian grinder shifted the stop, and when he resumed. the crank out came "Pop Goes the Weasel" The old chief listened moment and supposing the machine was spoiled, seized his tomahawk, leaped from the door of his hut, and with 8 fierce yell brained the discoverer of the new tune upon the spot.
Year: 1872

SAD INDEED.-The incidents of little romance are thus given in despatch from Boston "In boarding house in this city, the wife of Thomas Williams, 8 mechanic, whom she had labored to support and nurse during @ long and incurable illness, died in his presence from an overdose of laudanum taken to quiet her nerves and procure rest. The husband was unable to render aid or call for assistance and died himself. Mrs. Williams is said to have married against the consent of her parents, who are people of wealth living in Newport, and who cast her off but while both were dying letter was on the way offer ing the assistance too long withheld. The bodies were taken to Newport fo1 burial.'
Year: 1872

A Western editor thus winds up de finition of eternity "Why, my friends, after millions and millions of years had rolled away into eternity it would be hundred thousand years to breakfast time"
Year: 1872

If by any device or knowledge

 The rosebud it's beauty could know, It would stay rosebud forever,

 Nor into it's fullness grow. And if thou couldst know thy own sweetness O little one, perfect and sweet Thou wouldst be child forever,

 Completer whilst incomplete.
Year: 1872

How much longer do the Police authorities
intend to allow the Elias gang to swindle the
public with impunity 7 Superintendent Kelso
ought to break up the establishment at No.
763 Broadway without delay, but>if he doubts
his right to seize the swindlers, let him mt
least protect the public 10y placing police
man ut the door to warn the unsuspecting.
Thousands of dollars have already been saved
to poor rd-wOrking men and women by THE
TRIEUNE's exposure of this fraud, and the
Police can have no valid excuse for failing to
aid Ms
Year: 1872

TO sell themselves TO the highest matrInomai
bidder is n fashion old and new among young women
in most of the social ranks Poets declare 1t, cynics
growl at IT, literary Peneopes do reams Of bread ana
butter about it. Ethel NewcOme is always seeking
young FarintOsb; sly EltZabetii Constantly plays
bashfu love and sweetness for Lovel5 benefit. But
it is all under tho however plainly the fact OF
the bargain Is understood, the fond pair have the
wit or the grace TO ignore it and to perform
respectable comedy Of truth and affection before the
world 1t is MT often that we hear Of such case as
has lately been airing itself in that dusty den the
English Court Of Cbancery. The heroine was
young widow, who, after becoming engaged TO one
adorer. felt hankering for the plumper purse OF
another who proposed huge settlements as an IN
ducernent to break that engagement. Sho kindly
mentioned the fact to No. /, who firmly but mourn
fully gayo her up-and she married NO. and ms
money. That she should be unhappy, that No.
should deceive and matreat her, and leave her
almost penniless were Of the results OF TINS
rnatterof fact bargain. A tedious suit az law ends
the story and points its moral.
Year: 1872

We are sorry to be obliged to take from
Collector Arthur the credit which he received
yesterday for appearing finally to dispose OF
Leet L. Stocking. His order relating to the
disposal of goods under General Order was
well calculated to deceive and careful i'll
,,estigation now disclOses the fact that the old
Ring ia not broken. scarcely disturbed The
Year: 1872

WHAT TO CALL IT.--In view of the fact that a
fatal disease has made its appearance among the
poultry in some parts Of the country, and that
1t may soon reach this locality, it will be well to
be prepared with appropriate and easy names to
may be relied upon Ornicephadzomasis is one
of them andis very Expressive Henfiewendwavs
is also appropriate while for something a little
high toned, Pullino-febro-sincinetala alanasarcha-
bulbosity will answer the purpose, very we'll.
Year: 1872

THE WEST CHURCH suPPER.-The ladies Of the
West Presbyterian church have made prepara-
tions to entertain all their friends who may favor
them with call this evening. They have made
provision to serve all who come with most ex-
cellent viands, at moderate Prices The rooms
will al be thrown open, so that visitors NAV en-
joy themselves socially, and we freely promise
pleasant evening to all who may avail them
selves Of the opportunity. e
Year: 1872

Reflect that sound mind and body are the
most necessary requisites to promote connublsl
hanniness Indeed, without these the journey
through life becomes q weary pilgrimage, the
PROSPECT hourly darkens to the view, the mind
becomes shadowed with despair, and filed with
the melancholy reflection that tue happiness OF
anoth or is hlighted with our own.
Year: 1872

A SlGHT-Did you ever happen to
think what sort of a sight would be pre-
sented if you could have comprehen-
slve stage view, instantaneously, into
the six hundred private rooms of a fash
ionable watering place while the occu-
pants were in the midst of the business
of dressing for dinner, or for hop? |
think that in its way it would be the
most sensational sight in the world.


Oh what plating of chignons
What crimping and frizzing of front
hair What coaxing OF long curls over
curling sticks What a straipsag of cor
set strings What masculine wrest-
ling with hair brushes and refractory
buttons and tight shoes Heaven for
bid that should go any further in my
researches and tell of the growing over
creased coats; the futile attempts to see
ones own back in the solitary looking
glass, the frantic search for hair pins.
and shirt studs, and sleeve buttons, and
boot hooks-for everything is Just where
it oughtn't to be, and you can't find any
thing where You put it down, in the
chaos of matter which is generated by
insufficient space, especially when there
are several people together in one room.
Year: 1872

FRIaHTENED.- lower classes in
japan are afraid of TIE telegraph. They
cannot altogether see how the old
thing works." and they are simple
enough to think that it is the device OF
the devil, and that the wires are coated
with the blood of young women, and
that the census now being taken is for
the sole purpose of finding out the num-
ber of available Japanese maidens whose
blood will do for telegraphic purposes.
The idea is curious one, and 1t is
strange that the japanese should not
understand the explanation.
Year: 1872

Nor Coop PLACE. If you belong to
a wealthy family in the City of Mexico
nova days, and drive into the country II
few miles from the capital, you will be
gobbled up by guerillas, who will send
the cheering intelligence to your friends
that they want $4,000 or $1,000, and, If
your ransom is not forthcoming in so
many hours, you will be shot. The flu
neral over you, few days later, when your
body is found by the roadside horribly
mutilated, will be very impressive. Mex
leo is a more healthy country for poor
people at this time.
Year: 1872

CAPERs OF LIGHTNING. The lightning
cuts up some queer capers sometimes,
and narrow escape from death is told
by one of the Connecticut papers. ''The
electric fluid entered at the window of
"A room in the second story where a boy
lay i'll bed, but not asleep. 1t leaped
across the room to the wall. crossing the
bed where the boy lay, and tore both
the sheets on the bed into fragments.
scorching one badly, but leaving the boy
unharmed. 1t ripped lath and plaster


ing from the wall, and scattered them
all over the room. Then it descended
to the lower floor. and into closet,
smashing large quantity of crockery.
1t hurled two lamps from mantlepiece
in the kitchen across the room, over
turned and smashed clock on the other
side of the chimney, and then separated
into three bolts, two of which went down
through brick hearth into the cellar,
while third went out at the side of the
house, ripping the boards IN pieces.
The boy, wild with fear, came running
down stairs, entirely naked, and don't
recollect whether he took off his night
shirt himself, or whether the lightning
took it off for him. He was unharmed,
not even stunned. He said that he lay
"cudaled" down into the bed IA large
feather bed, with the clothes drawn up
over his head so that he could not see
the lightning, and that there was noise
ss if some one had fred cannon in his
ears, that there was burning heat and
general tumbling up of everything, and
that he thought he had staid there about
long enough, and so went down stairs. "
Year: 1872

SUPERsTITIoN.-Superstition prevails
to a great extent in Hungary, signal
proof of which was recently given in the
little village of Gyongyos. A rumor
having somehow got abroad that a GER
tain tailor who died year ago, and
who was very popular among his people,
would rise again from the grave and
preach to them on certain day, the
report obtained universal belief. In
spite of the injunctions of the curate of
the village two hundred people betook
themselves to the grave of the departed
and there stayed two whole days anu
nights In the hope of witnessing the
resurrection. Finding at last that the
holy one did not make bis appearance,
the disappointed villagers returned home
with their banners and emblems, feeling
not little mortified at their silly exhi-
bition.