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Year: 1872

Ftro Marshal.


At two O'Clock yesterday morning fire broke out
In the tailor shop of Louis Mendelson, 115 West
Forty-Sixth street. The loss on the stuf is est
mated at $1,000; insured for ST. 500 in the Green.
wich Company. The building was the property Of
Mrs. Schwab, and was damaged to the extent Of
$780, Mendelson was arrested by order Of the Fire
Marshal ON supposttion OF having set fire to his
place, and the following Is the testimony taken in
the case yesterday


Police Sergeant Coombs, OF the Twenty-second
precinct was first called and testified to the con-
dition Of the place when he got there, and OF ar
resting Mr.. MendelsOn on suspicion OF having set
fire to the place.


Peter O'Rourke, q private watchman, was next
called, and made the following ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
at 59S Ninth avenue, and am employed at Nos. ia,
118 and lis West Forty-sixth street. am on duty
there every night. little after one O'Clock this
morning saw policeman pass on the opposite
side Of the street, trying the doors, and about
fifteen minutes after saw MendelsOn come
out Of his hall door and walk in the
same direction the officer had gone for about
seventy-fve feet He then stopped and looked
around, and then turned back looking into each
hallway as he passed, and going into his house. l
was standing against the stable door, nearly Opp0-
site, at the time, and did not make any noise. In
less than ten minutes after he went In the hall I
saw light in his shop. Went across the street and
got on the store door and looked through the fan
light, which was open. l saw Mendelson in the
store with lighted lamp In his hand. / saw some-
thing on the foor burning and something up higher
on fire. did not notice what was on fire. Mende-
son was looking at the fire and walking backward
with lamp In one hand and matches in the other,
and making no effort to put out the fire. then
commenced to rap on the door, and Mendelson
threw the lamp out OF his hand and threw himself
down; do not know whether he threw the lamp
into the bedroom or not. This was the same man
that saw come out OF the hall door previously, and
who Is now here prisoner. The witness here
went on to state what kind Of clothing Mendelson
had on, and very positively identified the prisoner
as the man whom he saw In the store looking at the
fre.) AS looked through the fanlight also saw q
woman standing by the bedroom door leading from
the store but could not tell fit was MendelsOn's
wife. After commenced rapping did not see
what became OF the woman. l raped with my
club and gave an alarm. did not again see the
prisoner until this morning, when saw him at the
station house. l was standing ut the stable door
for an hour before the fire and did not see any fire.
works set or About an hour previous some boys
sitting in the doorway singing but did not set
of any freworks have never had any angry word
or any diniculty with the prisoner.


The prisoner refused to make any statement; but
In conversation with the Fire Marshal sara 'tnat
the fire was caused by hoys throwing lighted fire.
cracFers in through the fanlight. The prisoner was
remanded back to the station house, and the case
tc sf N
Year: 1872

Henry Stebens, aged sixty-fve, the occupant OF a
top floor room at SO Suolk street. has been missing
for some days past. An unhealthy odor proceeding
from his room led the neighbors to break open the
floor. The body was sent 70 the Aorgue and the
Coroner notified,
Year: 1872

It will be seen from the records given below that
The death-roll still is continued, and that though
the number Of cases of sunstroke is diminishing,
yet there were too many sufferers yesterday to
allow the belief that all danger is over.


On Thursday afternoon Charles Smith, who re-
sided in Roosevelt street. was prostrated and died
soon. He was buried in Calvary yesterday, not
even single carriage or solitary mourner follow
ing the hearse that carried the remains. The ferry
men at Hunters Point never saw an instance Of
the kind before. The wife and children Of the de-
ceased were unable to attend the funeral, all OF
them being prostrated from the heat and suffering
severely.


Thirty-four new cases Of sunstroke were reported
yesterday. The number of deaths was thirty three.
Year: 1872

The Department Of Public Parks announce that II
the weather be fine there will be music by the Gen.
tra Park band on the mall at the Central Park to-
day at half-past three O'Clock.
Year: 1872

The steamer Bristol, passing down the East
River yesterday morning, ran into the tug Relief.
As soon as the tug righted she steamed In to Fulton
ferry dock. The damage was very light.
Year: 1872

The persons who were in the sailbeat which was
upset In the bay on the 4th inst, and which was
picked up by the revenue steamer Uno, were res
cued by small steam yacht and safely landed In
this city.
Year: 1872

A young man was drowned on Thursday after
noon while bathing of the Sea View House, Coney
Island. Neither ifebOat nor life preserver could
be obtained from tho bathing house proprietor in
time to be OF any service.
Year: 1872

4 little dredging would give rs the finest
commercial harbor on Lake Superior. 1t
is great virtue in other harbors to keep
the dredge going all the time, and 1t cannot
he GREAT commercial wrong to dredge
occasionally in the splendid harbor of Su-
perior. Independent Of the fact that 4
mere trife of dredge- work would tear out
the only appearance Of a foundation for the
cunning argument of falsehood and bosh
which rival interests have used against US,
it will be necessary to the interests of our
merchants, our railroad, and of the place in
general to have-as it is understood OF
course will be the Casa certain amount
ofdredging done here the coming season.


We do not advert to the matter as IN any
doubt on the subject, but put in a reminder
thus early With purpose. 1t is matter
for some reasonsto be Kept IN mind noao.
We hope and expect before spring to give
the readers of the TINES detailed account
of the arrangements made for the slight
work required to render our magnificent
natural harbor, a commercial haven that
shall be absolutely perfect.
Year: 1872

1t may be stated for the information of
the curious and the doubtful, that the dyke
business is to be pushed through in earnest.
A sclid, substantial wall will keep the wa
tiers Of the ST. Louis river where they be-
long, and restore the natural conditions
that ensure superior's supremacy as the
port at the head of the Lake. After the
1st of October, 1872, (when our railroad is
completely, it will matter very little what
happens on the north side of the dyke.
Year: 1872

A CONSIDERABLE PARENT.-Ihe memphis
appeal, of the Goth ult., says:


A person who farms for a living, some dis
tance from the city, rode in a spring wagon
into town yesterday, bringing with him lit
tie son. After figuring around for an hour or
two doing worldly business, he pulled up in
front of grocery in the suburbs, and went in
to refresh and comfort himself, leaving the
boy to take care of the horses. The man met
some companions in doors, with whom he
set about becoming conviyial, as is the Gus
tom of those who congregate in suburban
groceries. Time sped on, and the boy in the
wagon became numbed with the cold, and
fell into sort of stupor, The ''lines" drop
ped from his fingers, and the horse walked
off. When it was time to disperse from the
grocery the excellent farmer and feeling par
ent could find neither wagon nor boy. He
spent the whole evening looking for them in
the city, and was going home in half-crazed
state, when he met his trusty colored man
riding in for doctor, saying the boy ''Tommy
was troze to DEATH" The horses had walked
home, and the stiff child was found still sit
ting in his seat.
Year: 1872

FTNHE above is an engraving Of q Steam Boiler con-
Il tanning 1900 feet Of heating surface built upon
new principle namely, that of stopping the vertical
csrcHt 1tion, accomplished by means of two horizon
tai didphrdgms running through the boiler, and
forming three water compartments. BY this ar
rangement there is maintained three temperatures of
water.


.che smeke and heated gases pass first through the
tubes in the upper compartment, then descend and
return through the tubes in the second compartment
thence again descending they pass through the tubes
smoke, and heated gases from the furnace on their
way to the smoke stack, or chimney come In con-
tact with gradually decreasing temperatures of
water. -


While doing average work, coupled with n good
engine, 1t will supply steam for 150 indicated horse
power.


We will guarantee that this boiler will sbew 5o
per cent. more power with the same weight of coal
than any boiler of the same heating surface in the
market, and will continue to do So as long as IL Is
used, and we will hack our guarantees with Gov
ERNMENT BONDS.


The durability of this boiler is greater than anv
other for the reason is that cold water is allowed
to come in contact with the intensely heated surfaces
the feed water being gradually heated it ascends
from the lower to the upper oillp par.ment


We would especially call the attention of Railroad
men to the following facts, that while running this
boilerwth coal or wood the sparks are neutralized
and none haye eyer left the smoke.staok or chimney
which In Itself Is most valuable advantage never
before realized.


Confning ourselves to practice and not theoru we
invite all parties in want of Steam Boilers to give us
call.


w. T. BROWN s. CO., General Agents.


dc1S Cor. Middle and Exchange SITS
Year: 1872

Of all medicines that give strength and robustness to
body and mind, DODD'S NERVINE bears the palm.
It's sale is large and its popularity long established
Probably more families Keep it hand for every ay
use as stimulant and corrective than all other med
lcnes now before the public 1t Is pleasant to take
as any wine. lan23t4w
Year: 1872

Every intelligent and thinking person must know
that remedies handed for general use should have
their efficacy established by tested experience in
the hands of regularly -edqpated physician whose
preparatory studies fit him for all the duties he must
fulfill yet the country is flooded with poor nostrums
and cure-als, purporng to be the best in the world


which are not only useless, but always injurious


Inc unfortunate should be PARTICULAR in selecting
his physicanSas 1t is lamentabe yet ncontroverti-
BILE fact, that many syphtic patients are made mis-
erahe with ruined constitutions by maltreatment


from inexperienced physicians in general practice
for 1t is point generally conceded by the best syphi


ographers that the study and management of these
plants should engross the whole time of those who
would be competent and successful in their treatment
and ours. The inexperienced general practitioner


havng neither opportunity nor time to make him
sell acquainted with their pathology, commonly pur-
sues one system of treatment, in most making
an ndiscrmmate use of that antiquated and danger
GUS weapon. the Mercnry .
Year: 1872

JOHN H, YATES.
Well wife, we've had rneetin' at the schooI-house on


the hill,
And was chosen chairman to keep the old men still
But I found 1 couldn't do it; each man down his


cane would plant,
And shout with all the voice he had, 'iIm goin' in


for Grant J"
We talked about the past four years, what great


things had been done;
How the nations debt has melted like the SHOWS be-


fore the sun:
We said to keep it neltin do better thing we can't
Than to stick and hang together and all go in for


Grant.
we all looked through our spectaces upon the


naked facts,
Then drew the veil of charity DER giant Summers
We said: eve like you, Sumner, but go your way


We can't, y
Then made the school-house echo with a rousing


shout for Grant. e.'+.'s
We didn't have much charity for Trunbun OF for


Schurz
They stand around the party gate pair of snarIing


ours
Their speeches cannot harm US, nor make Grant toe


their mark;
He's an old Galena tanner, and knows how to handle
bark.
We talked about Grants smokin'-we thought it no
To vote that out of office we might vote one
And, SEEM we were smokers 'twouldn't do for us


to rant,
So we lit our pipes together and smoked the health


OF Grant.
In the days of the rebellion none of us would go to


fight,
But we read from morn till evening how he battled


for the right
He has been the ation servant in the days of peace


and war,
And treason neIts before him like the smoke of his


cigar ....-.f
After I'd adjourned the neetin' gave each friendly


grip;
We every one, determined to stand by the war-tried


ship;
We will not topple over, we will not even slant,
But put Our canes down firm and strong, and stand


up straight for Grant.
Year: 1872

A correspondent of the Springfield
Republican, describing a journey
through South Carolina, writes from
Beaufort as follows


Some have said the freedmen will
vote for Gleeley he has been their
firm friend and strong champion, and
they will be grateful. The freedmen
will vote just as their leaders tell them
to, and as for Greeley, nor one in twen-
ty hereabout ever heard of him, and I
do not believe the proportion of those
living in and about cities would greatly
exceed that. l interviewed one on the
Presidential question. He was of more
intelligence the average here, and said
when Grceley's name was mentioned
that Mr.. Black was "tellin' me de oder
day bout Mr. Greeley where does he
live - He thought the representatives
sent to Washington woul0 report how
matters were there, and that he should
vote accordingly. Another one knew
he voted the Republican ticket last
Presidential election, but who the man
was that he voted for he could not say.
It is not to be expected that people who
are SO thoroughly ignorant and whose
political guides have been those who
were bent simply on promoting their
own interests without regard to any
principles whatever, should vote with
any degree of intelligence.
Year: 1872

On last Monday Mr.. James Hanson,
who is engaged in mining in Eldorado
gulch, went from the claim to shut off
the water, and in a steep gulch or "a
vine started to prospect the ground,
when all at once, without warning, the
whole side-hill, capped with huge
bank of snow, caved off and slid down
the ravine, distance of seven hundred
feet, burying Hanson up and carrying
him along with the sliding mass the
entire distance. Hanson's dog shortly
afterward appeared on. the claim where
Nh Kelly (Mr. Hanson's partner) was
working, and was covered with mud,
and made some curious demonstrations
to attract Kelly's attention, but, think
ing that the dog had only been chasing
some gophers, Kelly did not follow
him, and the dog returned to the scene
Of the catastrophe About two or
three hours after that one of
the ditch tenders on Willis ditch
had his attention attracted by
the dog, and heard somebody's voice
crying for help, and, on repairing to
the place, he found Hanson covered up,
with the exception of his head, which
he managed TO get out above the SAND
and debris. Assistance being called,
four men worked for three-quarters of
an hour before they could extricate him
from his perilous position, and when
they succeeded in releasing him, was
found to be almost fayed alive. The
sliding Of the sand and snow over him,
down the steep ravine, had torn off
every stitch of his clothes and TaSDnd
the skin off Of him as though he had
been rubbed with sand-paper. His long
gum boots were rolled down straight
around his ankles, SO that they could
only be removed by cutting them off.
The unfortunate man was carried to his
cabin, and a messenger dispatched to
the town to DR.. Healey, from whom we
learn that though badly injured, no
bones were broken, and that Hanson is
IN fair way for recovery. It was GER
tainly a miraculous escape, and he may
well congratulate himself that his in
iI1rinc ara no yvorca
Year: 1872

commended Greeley to his own party
but how could the Democrats support
him. He said sometimes man is sup
ported for small Office on personal
grounds, simply because he is an amia-
bic and worthy man-good qualifca-
tions for the position Such motives
alone, however, never govern the choice
of a President, who, to a vast extent,
shapes the whole policy of the govern
ment for veal or woe.


There is nothing in Mr.. Greeley's
personal traits and pecuharities to com
mend him for the high position to
which he aspires. On the contrary, a
man personally more unfit to fill the
office of Chief Magistrate of this mighty
government was never mentioned in
connection with it


But when distinguished gent emen
are mentioned in connection with that
lofty station, their principles determine
the suffrages of an enlightened people
more than anything else Tried by this
standard, Horace Greeley repels every
Democrat in the United States.


Mr.. Vorhees then dwelt at length
on Mr.. Greeley's position in respect
to the tariff question. Also upon the
distribution of power between the Fed
eral Government and the states, Greeley
had advocated the worst phases of
military reconstruction. All were known
by their fruits. He saw nothing in the
public life and conduct of Greeley to
gain the favor of any class of American
people, except manufacturers, bond
holders and nOnopOliStS.


He did not think it was necessary to
define his position in relation to Grant.


Those who had charged that he was
about to support him, only judged him
by themselves, and supposed he could
abandon his principles as easily as they
had theirs.


He thought he knew the hearts of
the laboring people who compose the
majority of the democratic party, and he
hazarded nothing III saying that even if
Greeley should be nominated at Balti-
more, and every democrat of distinc-
tion, whether in public or private life,
from one ocean to the other, should
support him, he would not receive an
average of more than 50 per cent. of
the democratic votes of the United
States.


In conclusion he said that he might
be asked what they should do to be
saved and to save the country. He
said in reply. The voters in the United
States are still without a candidate.
They could be enumerated in four
classes. $3.50.


1st. Genuine and sincere revenue re-
formers heretofore acting with the Re
publican party.


I'd. The German voters.


Sd. The Labor Reformers.


4th. The masses Of the Democratic
party. .... ....


He spoke in the interest of no man
as candidate. He has high hopes of
the wisdom and integrity of the con-
vention to assemble on the 9th of July.
He did not believe that such disaster
could befall them as the nomination of
Greeley
Year: 1872

A well known New York physician
has invented a species of electric spec
tacles which contain regular galvanic
pile in little shell cases, connected
with the side pieces Of the specatacle8,
and in putting them on this is applied
behind the ears to the bare skin. One
Of these on each side of the head keeps
up a constant electric current through
the brain, the nerves OF the face and
head, and their muscles. The current
is said to be so slight that it is not felt,
yet so constant that it cures every un-
natural condition of these parts.
Year: 1872

Cuisines men cannot afford to support Mr.
Greeley" That is common cry with peO-
pie who take the judgements of persons like
the Georgia Bond Man in preference to that
of men like A, T. Stewart. But can they
afford to support President Grant >


This Administration might have restored
the South. Instead, 1t has stood by while the
Gubernatorial and legislative thieves it sus-
tained and encouraged have plnndered her,
have left her to-day well-nigh bankrupt, from
Fortress Monroe to Galveston.


If she had been restored by the beneticent
aid of impartial Suffrage and Universal Anu.
nesty to the honest government OF her own
people, who can calculate what would have
been the increased valve of our Commerce ,
VINO tan reckon how much she might have
relieved the burdens of unequal taxation at
the North by bearing her proportionate share
Who con count the additional wealth that
wonld have poured into the lap of New York.


The North had first to bear the expenses of
the war then the loss of southern debts,
which broke down nearly half our best mer
chants -neNt, and now, well nigh the entire
dept created by the war. Meanwhile the
South lies waste A prescribed and plundered
people cannot resume the habits of business
and enterprise, because the motive is absent
Must they be kept SO four years more fo'
political purposes Can the business Of the
country afford four years more of Grant" "
Year: 1872

A BIT OF ANCIENT LEGIsLATIoN.-From
the acts Of assembly in the colony Of Virginia,
more than hundred years ago, the Piedmont
Eirginian takes the following Where's, it
has been represented to this present General
Assembly by the inhabitants Of the counties of
Culpeper and Orange that they used formerly
to catch large quantities of fish in the river,
Rarpidan, to the great relief and satisfaction
of themselves and families, and they are de-
prived of that providential suecour by several
grist mills that have lately been erected on the
said river. whereby the passage of fish up the
same is quite obstructed Be it therefore en-
acted, that the owner or proprietor of all and
any mill erected on the said river Rappidan,
shall in the space of six months Gom and after
the passage of this act, make an opening or
slope in their respective mill dams at least ten
feet wide, sufficient to let fish pass over such
mill dams, and If any owner or proprietor of
any such mill shall neglect or refuse to make
such opening or slope in his or their mill dams
within the time aforsaid. any such owner or
proprietor shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten
pounds for every ten days he or they shall 80
neglect, or refuse, one moiety to our Lord the
King, his heirs and successors, for the use Of
the poor of the said counties Of Culpeper and
Orange and the other moiety to the informer,
to be recovered with cost by action of debt or
information, in any court of record within this
Colony and Dominion.


FRANCIS FAUoUIER ESQ.,, Governor.


JOHN ROBINSON, Speaker.
Year: 1872

Member of the Royal College of Surgery OF
London, Graduate Of one of the most eminent
Colleges in the United States and the greater
part Of whose life has been spent in the hospl-
where, has effected some of the most astonishing
cures that were ever known; many troubled with
ringing in the head and ears when asleep, great
nervousness being alarmed at sudden sounds,
bashfulness, with frequent blushing. attended
sometimes with arrangement of mind were
cured Immediately.
Year: 1872

IRISH ENTERPRISE. society headed by
the Mayor of Cork has been formed in that
city for the purpose of procuring more comfort,
able homes for the mechanics and laborers oi
that locality The psrticipators in this scheme
have all subscribed certain sum, which Is to
be used for purchasing land and building houses
to be let to poor families at the same rent they
now pay for inferior apartments After allow,
ing to the subscribers five per ct. on the amount
of their subscriptions, the balance is to go into
permanent fund, to be drawn at certain inter
walls for the purpose of increasing the number
of buildings. 1t will be always proper, as a
matter of course, for charitably disposed per-
sons to add to this fund by bequest, although
the managers have not yet thought it necessary
10 provide for such contingency.