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Year: 1873

A Philadelphia editor thus relieves
his mind on a subject familiar to all
newspaper ofhces-'he inevitable
Pub Doc; ave owe our thanks
TO Judge Kelley for the latest Patent
oRce report. We already have six
teen hundred Of these interesting
volumes in our little library, but
they have been read and re-read so
many times that we know every page
OF them by heart. This new volume
came opportunely aud gratefully on
Christmas morning, and that night
we gathered our little family around
the fire and read it through to them.
The tale entitled Improvement on
Monkey Wrencbes, seemed to touch
every heart and when We esne 10 the
climax of the little story about Re
versible Pie boards, there was not
dry eye between the front door aud
The stable. During the piteous mar
ratiVs entitled Gun washers for car
risge axles, tho whole family gave
expression to bois.crous emotion, and
the hired girl was so excited that she
lost her presence ofIuiad, and went
around TO her mothers inadvertently
with six pounds Of sugar and n but
ter kettle full OF -four and eamc home
ct midnight intoxicated. We can
never thank Judge Kelley 70, tho
innocent enjoyment thus furnished
US. The memory of,hat happy even
ing will linger in our minds very
much longer than that hired girl cv-
er fingers when she lights on q lot Of
substance which she thinks will suit
the tituIion Of her aged par
eutsD
Year: 1873

A wag vas requested by an old Ia
dy to read a newspaper for her. He
too it up and read as follows:


Last night Yesterday morning,
about two o'clock in the afternoon be-
for breakfast, hungry boy about forty
years old. bought a big custard for
levy, and threw it through q brick
wall nine feet thick, and jumping over
it broke his right ankle off above his
left knee and fell into dry mill pond
and was drowned. About thirty years
after that, on the same day, an old cat
had nine turkey gobblers, high wind
blew Yankee Doodle on frying pan,
and killed an old COW and two dead
pigs at Boston, where deaf and dumb
man was talking to bis Aunt Peter. >
Whereupon the old lady, taking long
breath, exclaimed, "Du tell"
Year: 1873

On Sabbath night about o'clock, the
alarm of fire again alarmed our citizens and
caused them to leave their homes and rush
to the scene. After some time being lost
by the firemen as to the whereabouts ofthe
fire, the number of the Ward not having
been tapped, it was discovered to be in the
county Jail. 1t seems that in one of the
cells of the Jail, the boiler iron, forming
the ceiling at one place liked about half an
inch of meeting, thus exposing part of
two joists. There were six prisoners in
the cell, among them Ed. Staples and Pry-
or Karnes, two rather noted characters,
who by some means obtained q box of
matches, with the intention of setting fire
to the Jail, hoping during the excite
ment that would ensue, to make their
escape. Pryor being the strongest, Ed.
made use of his shoulders as a step-ladder
by which to reach the ceiling, aud thus
applied match after match until the wood
ignited, when, as the prisoners in the adj
joining cell state, they had regular war
dance over their success, which combined
with the cries of fire by the other prison.
ers gave the alarm. The engines were all
promptly on the ground, but only two of
them got to work. Reliance No. threw
the first water, with the exception of
bucket full or two, and was soon followed
by the steamer, which worked admirably,
and soon the last vestige of fire disappear
ed.


None of the prisoners succeeded in max
ing their escape. AS soon as the fire was
discovered Sheriff Gossett removed them
out of the upper cells down into the hall,
where they were securely guarded. The
parties engaged in causing the fire have
been placed in the dungeon, where they
will doubtless repent of their misdeeds.


One of the hand engines considerably
damaged the property of Mr.. V. Burger,
breaking down his front fence and ruin
ing his garden.


MIR. Herman Schenk, one of the pipe
men of Fountain Fire Company, No. l,
severely cut two of his fingers. The tin
roof of the Jail being wet and slippery, he
was about to fall, and in his attempt to
hold fast met with the accident named.


Before closing this article we would
again refer to the matter of giving'a proper
signal of the number of the ward in which
the fire exists. We think it should be an
established rule, that the person ringing
an alarm should slowly tap the number of
the ward, in order to save the valuable
time lost in making inquiries, and perhaps
in running in an opposite direction.
Year: 1873

eastern and western borders, there is no
excess of heat in midsummer Again, the
southern latitude renders the winters mild,
andhence,we seldom see the mercury down
to zero. Snow never falls more than few
inches in depth, and remains upon the
ground but a short time.


We find here mean of temperature
through the year not elsewhere seen in
the country, except on the Pacific coast.
There are very many people through the
whole North who are desrous of finding
a locality free from extremes of heat and
cold, and at the same time healthy. Such
may with truth be said of East Tennessee.
We feel safe in saying that no region can
be found at the same distance from the At
lantic coast, which combines so many of
the requisites to comfort during the whole
year as this.


Although at midday the SUMS rays fall
much more vertically than at the North,
still the nights are cooler than in Ohio or
Illinois, while in New England the heat is
oppressive during the whole night time :;
here, one is seldom troubled with the heat
after ten o'clock.


Persons predisposed to lung diseases, and
who are annoyed every winter with a
cough, in the colder States, will very soon
appreciate the change on coming here.
There is much of the consumption in our
natiou which results from the rigor of long
and continuous cold winters. Exercise in
the open air, which is so necessary to all,
cannot be taken safely when the weather
is extremely cold. Here, however, it is
never so cold in the winter as to compel
close confinement indoors.


One very prominent and favorable result
of coming thitber is experienced by per
sons afflicted with asthma and chronic
bronchial affections. There are people
scattered over Evst Tennessee, who came
here suffering severely with asthma, who
are either entirely cured or very material
ly relieved
Year: 1873

A woman who was riding in Broad
way omnibus, not long since, became aware
that the gentleman ON her right was
feeling for her pocket under her cloak.
For a moment cold shiver passed through
her, but as it was broad daylight, and as
there were evidently many persons in the
omnibus to whom she might apply for pro
lection, she took courage, and recollecting
that in the dress she wore. her pocket had,
much to her previous annoyance, been
sewed on the wrong side of the skirt, con-
cluded to sit still and wait the course of
events. After having been sufficiently
entertained by the vain efforts of her neigh
Dor to find the pocket, she turned to him
add said quietly, My pocket is on the
other side, sir" The man Immediately
jumped up, pulled the strap, and disap-
peared with most amusing rapidity, the cool
ness of the lady having been too much for
his artistic nerves. .rs
Year: 1873

"That is the result you wanted to reach,
is it not p'' asked Denning, looking me in
the face.


eyes" / answered.


Then taking piece of paper | wrote for
moment, and then handed him what /
had written, with request that he would
sign it, which he did. 1t was an affidavit
certifying that, according to the best med
ical knowledge, the deceased must have
lived some time after the fatal blow was
received; and that, from minute particles
of stone which adhered to the blade, it
must have been used by some one, probably
the deceased, to cut stone with after the
blood stains were ON it.
Here, then, was the evidence needed to
prove the innocence of the prisoner.
could not resist the temptation to reveal it
to Denning, and a happier trio could hard
ly be found than were assembled in that
little downtown Office.
The trial was to commence in about a
week, and of course we were impatient for
the time. to pass.


At last the day came. The courtroom
was crowded, and many of the detective
force were present. After some other
business, our case was called up. The
judge asked


"Guilty or not guilty ?'
Lansing, in the behalf of the prisoner,
broke the silence with the words


Not guilty." and added, 81 would ac-
cuse Albert Firstone of the crime charged
upon my client"


The looks of the wretch as he made this
bold charge carried the conviction of it's
truth to every mind in the court room.


The attorney then went ON to say that he
knew the charge he made was serious
one, but if he also knew that he had suffi-
cient evidence to prove its truth. He
therefore asked the court to postpone the
trial of his client until the charges he had
made were investigated.


This request the court readily complied
with, and Albert Firstone, was ordere
into custody.


| II WdS 1T OuCt
had, and true bill was found against him,
and in few hours he was placed in Jail to
be tried for murder.


in the meantime, Lyon, was released on
bail, until such time as a final disposition OF
the case could be had.


The next morning Albert Firstone, was
found dead in his cell, and slip of paper
containing confession of the deed, was
found beside him.


He also implicated his friend Gilbert, as
an accomplice, but that individual had
taken care to save himself from further
trouble by fight.


All this was very fortunate for us, 70,
although we felt sure that we had caused
the arrest Of the guilty party, we might
have had some trouble to convince jury
of the fact.


AS it was, Mr.. Lyons case was the mex
day called up, and formal verdict O
"Not guilty" was entered on the records
of the court, and as the real culprit wa
beyond the reach of human punishment
that was the end of the Stuart Firston,
murder case.
Year: 1873

reached, and it convinced me that the
figures were to be changed, in some way, to
letters, before the cryptogram could be en-
tirely solved.


About week after this, Lansing was
called out of the city by the sickness of his
mother. AS parted with him at the
depot, told him to keep up his courage,
and to write out his defense, while would
attend to the remainder.


During all this time the opposing counsel
were striving in every possible manner to
make an adamantine chain of evidence
that should Immediately condemn the pris-
oner beyond any shadow of doubt


In this way nearly three weeks had
passed away since the murder, when re-
ceived telegram from Lansing informing
me of his return to the city. All this time
/ had been shut up in my Office, working,
it must be confessed, with little hopes OF
success.


The day that expected Lansing's re-
turn / went to the place where the body
had been found, and examined carefully
the marks on the wall, but could find no
other than the ones had seen before, SO
concluded that those were the only ones.
As stood looking at them, however,
saw what seemed to be piece of stone
lying ON the floor of the cellar. AS de-
tective sees a clue in everything, picked
it up, and found, to my surprise that it was
piece Of putty. AS soon as discovered
this l searched the whole wall to find
where the piece came from, and at last
discovered that some marks near the others
were filled with putty / scraped it away,
and the whole cryptogram appeared as fol.
lows:
Year: 1873

The bill for the removal OF the county scat OF
Justice from New Castle TO Wilmington was
called up in the Senate yesterday afternoon, and
after speech from Senator Riddle in its favor, a
motion TO indefinitely postpone the bill was made
and carried. This settles the question of the re-
moval of the Courts for some years TO come. VIC
are informed there but vote in favor of tic
passage of the bill in the Senate, although it had
previously passed the House by vote of l. TO 5.
The opponents Of the change Of the county seat
are greatly clated at their triumph, as well they
nay be. The decision only shows what energy
and perseverance can effect. The opponents OF
the bill have the same right TO oppose the meas
ure that its advocates had TO favor it, In advo-
eating its passage we were wholly influenced by
firm conviction that the removal Of the county
seat to Wilmington would be beneficial TO the
whole county, and the defeat OF the measure has
not served in any way 20 change or alter that
conviction.
Year: 1873

ny JOHN O. RAKE.
saw her last night at party,


(The elegant party at Mead's,)
And looking remarkable hearty


For widow who was in her weeds
Yet know she was suffering sorrow


Too deep for tongue to express,
Or why SHE had chosen to borrow


So mucn from the language of dress.
Her shawl was as sable as night,


And her gloves were as her shawl,
And her jewels that flashed in the light
Were as black as funeral pail.
Her robe had the hue of the rest,


(How nicely it fitted her shape)
Aud the grief that was heaving her breast,
Boiled over in pillows Of Grape.
What tears of vicarious woe,


That else might have sulied her face,
Were kindly permitted to flow


In ribbons Of ebony lace.
While even her fan in its play


Had quite lugubrous scope,
And seemed to be waving away


The ghost Of the Angel of Hope!
Yet as rich as the robe of queen,


Was the sombre apparel she wore,
Pm certain never had seen
= Such sumptous sorrow before;
And | couldn't help thinking the beauty,
In mourning the loved and the last
Was doing her conjugal duty


Although regardless OF cost
One surely should say such devotion


Performed at so vast an expense,
Betrayed ali excess of emotion
n That really was something immense;
And yet as viewed at my leisure,


Those tokens Of tender regard,
thought, 1t was scarce without measure:
The sorrow that goes by the yaid.
All, grief is a curious passion;


And yolws,-l ami sorely afraid,
The very next phase Of the fashion,


Will find it begin TO fade;
Though dark are the shadows of grief
The morning will follow the night,
Half tints will betoken relief,


Till joy shall be symbolad In white.
All well!-it was idle 10 quarrel


With fashion or aught il may do;
And so Ic0nclude with moral


And a metaphor--warranted new;
When measles come handsomely out,
The patient is safest they say,
And the sorrow is mildest, no doubt,


That works in similar way.
Year: 1873

A knee too proud to bend-A chimney.


A head that is easily-turned-A head of
water.
J.. The bone Of contention is said to be the
jaw bone.


The most steadfast followers of our for
tunes-Our creditors.


When is a ship like railroad track? When
the cargo g on it.


An unpopular "ism" with everybody-The
rheumatism.


To make tall N IN short-Try to borrow
five dollars ofhim.
or all the laws Of trade, none find greater
favor than the buy laws.


When does farmer work a miracle? When
he turns his horse 10 grass.


Sweetening ones coffee is generally tho
first stirring event of the day.
Year: 1873

SUCua thing as occurred the other day
III Leaveuworlh will be interesting to all
students OF chemistry. A lady went 10
her cellar and brought up what should
have been q Jug Of yeast. Mysterious
transformation When she poured out
The jugs contents, they proved TO be pure
whisky She Immediately applied to her
husband Tor scientific information, but
she found that be was as much amazed
Rs herself at the wonderful change In
TACT, he thought there must be something
more than natural about It, and discour.
aged investigation. lie iS probably think.
ing 1t over, Tor he has been very low sptr'
tied ever since,
Year: 1873

MICHIGAN, August 1G-The cell house
OF the Northern Indiana State Prison, the
best built in the State, took fire about 12
o'clock to-day on the root from sparks
from the stack Of the engine house. In
der the prisons discipline the prisoners
did well and had the fire under control
before the fire department arrived, the
prison beng located about mile from
the engine house.
Year: 1873

PORTLAND, August 1G.-The revenue
cutter McCulloch, with President Grant
and party bound for Mount Desert, put
into North Haven last night on account
OF the dense fog. She was expected to
resume her trip today.
Year: 1873

MIR. ED1ToR:-A few weeks since, twelve young men q think that was the number) obtained liquor from one of our "better sort" of dealers, and went to the saloon of one of the Glover sort" to drink it. I mean, the saloon of one who used to be called the 'slower sort" of dealer; but who, not having money to pay for~the privilege of selling, is honest enough to deal only in cider. By the way. want to remark here, that our beautiful license law has not prevented unlicensed men from selling; on the contrary, there are such places, rented to such men, alas by my otherwise respected townsmen :! But, to return to my pretty story: These young men, each going by turns to get the liquor, very naturally all got drunk; but will take you home with only one. He is a smart young man. ''the only son of his mother, and she widow" one of our most tidy and industrious women. The son who ,0as comfort and help to her, died in that voracious army of ours. The sad and weary mother had gone to bed. but not to rest; for she expected him Late at night, she knew he had come into the outer shed, and fearing he might freeze, came down stairs, She found him on the floor senseless, and bleeding; his face cut, apparently from falling. He had evidently been helped home, by the companion who was seen. to start with him from the scene of their drunken revel He was senseless, and could only be mov- ed from his position by the help of good neighbor. They got him into chair. and fearing if she built a fire, the son would fall upon the stove, that heart broken mother had no alternative but to leave him there, and go back to get what rest she could on her sleepless couch. Towards morning hearing stir, she goes down, and taking him by the arm, suc- ceeds at the risk of falling with him, in getting him to his bed upstairs. Do you say, why does not that mother ask those rum-sellers not to sell to her son? Per- haps she has, by this time; but will man who can sell to so notorious drunk ards as some of these young men were, all in the face of law, be any less likely to sell at the request of lone widow? One more question. Which was the most re- specto6le? To sell the drink to them, or allow them to enjoy the same in ones house?
Year: 1873

A party of drunken fellows in Wadena. Iowa, last Thursday night, put one of their number on horse and tied him there. The animal travelled about the town for gome time, and the man when found was frozen dead.
Year: 1873

A noble young man in Indianapolis recently
determined to abandon the use of tobacco He
was told that iced drinks would cure his
hankering for the weed. So on the first day
he drank three gallons of iced water, and still
feeling desire to smoke, he added two quarts
of cold buttermilk. He went to bed with the
cheerful conviction that he had conquered his
craving. and so he had. The next day he did
not desire to smoke at all, for the simple
reason that he was dead. The iced water, the
iced buttermilk, the abandonment of his cigar.
and two doctors who were called in consulta-
tion, proved to be too much for the noble
young man.
Year: 1873

:, The amount Of pine lumber annually cut on
the Susquehanna river and it's tributaries ex-
ceeds FIVE hundred million feet. A careful
estimate has been made of the area of the
timber lands, and the average yield of lumber
per acre, aud the alarming conclusion is reached
mat three years stocking at the present rate
OF i've hundred million feet per year would
entirely exhaust all the pine lumber now
standing.
Year: 1873

A correspondent informs the Clearfeld Rats
mans Journal that diAbolcal attempt at whole.
sale murder was made in Hutson township, that
county, on Saturday evening, September
while the Good Templar Lodge was in session
at Mill Run, an explosion Of powder occurred be-
meath the floor OF the school honse in which the
organization met, with sufficient force to tip
over the tables and lamps, while the fire burst
through the crevices in the floor and filled the
house with sitting smoke. A further exam
inaton by daylight revealed the fact that the
building had been lifted enough to ALLOW the
foundation to be pushed out of places A pow
der can, that would hold about 25 pounds. was
found under the house torn to pices. Bushes
had been cut and placed over the opening made
in the wall to Introduce the can. The floor
being double one. it was strong enough to
Withstand the shock-even to slightly lifting the
house and pushing out the wall-thus enabling
the powder to expend its force lateralIy, and
thwartlng the evident intention to blow up ff-
teen or twenty men and women" No punish
ment under our laws is too severe for such q
dastardly outrage, and we hope the fends who
made this attempt to iDjure and main, or de.
story the lives of 80 large number of innocent
persons, assembled in peaceful and social ca
pacity, may be discovered and punished to the
p.noIt extent Of the law.
Year: 1873

THE BOAT RACE ON THE oHRIsTIANA, TO MORROW


LIST OF THE CREW.


Tomorrow afternoon, at 6o'cl.ck, the second
contest in Craftsmanship between the Pioneer and
Undine clubs takes place on the Christiana
The course will be the same as the last one
from Third street bridge to the W. q W. r, r
bridge and return. A handsome silk flag will
be donated the successful club, and as both are
III good training the contest will be close and
exciting. The flag will he on exhibition at
konghman Thomas & Co, 8 tomorrow morning.
The following are the crews
Year: 1873




Special attention should be paid to
those sows that farrow in winter. A
warm, sheltered bed is necessary to save
the pigs; and if not already done, pen
should be constructed, and the SOW
placed in it, and supplied with album
dance of straw or leaves. In building
the pen, it is good plan to fasten six
OF eight inch board against the side of
the pen, and about six inches from the
floor, so that the SOW cannot overle the
pigs. This board serves to keep the sow
from the side of the pen, and enables the
young ones to get under it, if in danger
of being laid on.


If the SOW is fed with turnips or pota-
toes, either cooked or raw, for few days
before narrowing, it will increase the
flow of milk, and relieve constipation,
with which they are often troubled at
this season of the year.


The pen in which young pigs are con-
fined should by all means be covered, to
keep out both rain and snow; and they
should be early taught to drink milk and
slop. The pig is very easily stunted,
and if once set back in its growth, il
takes months to recover them.


While sucking, from the time of far
rowing forward, the SOW should be fre.
quently given charcoal and salt, as these
serve in great measure to remove the
morbid appetite that causes them to eat
| their MOS
Year: 1873

prosperous as it is at present, and is lit
orally spreading in all directions. Never
has building been so extensively carried
on as it is now. No less than G, ,295
building permits were granted last year,
and, in the course of time, the city bids
fair to entirely cover the 100 square
miles of land which are within its limits
in accordance with the act of the State
Legislature of 1854. Squares upon
squares of houses now stand where four
or five years ago young men used to play
baseball and go cunning. Perhaps the
great exposition of 1876 will find the
place as big as New York.