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Year: 1872

The many visitors to witness the erup- tions of Mount Vesuvius have paid dear ly for their temerity. A correspondent says that one pleasant morning the num- Der of eXcursionists was unusually large. They had begun to disperse with the first indication of sunrise, but hundreds still fingered on the spot. Without single movement to warn them, the earth opened under foot, and the dead lava which they had been treading upon as a curiosity turned again to molten fire. Those who were not engulfed in the chasm as it burst forth attempted to flee for their lives. Happily, the fleet and sure of foot were many. They reached safety but woe to whoever fell by the way ! The earth they fell on was already at furnace heat, and fresh waves of lava overlook them ere they could rise again. A few were miraculously delivered by noble efforts on the part of the strong-nerved men in the company. Dragging them in haste toward the observatory, their de- iverers placed them in the carriages which were waiting there, and accommo dation was provided for them at Resina l have been told by Q friend, who was at the very edge of the chasm when it burst ~Pcu, uIdG tuo euoCG Ou Lu0 1IudSluaIlOu was as though the whole mountain had begun to move from it's basis. As he fed, he felt as if the whole mountain was following him, and not until he had re- covered his senses at Resina could he con- vince himself that what he had seen was only partial eruption of the crust which overlies the hidden fires of Vesuvius. An account in Neapolitan journal afirms that there were two simultaneous open ings, and that flames, bursting out from both, enveloped in circle of fire all who were within reach. A carriage which happened to be inside this circle was burnt up in an instant, as if it had been spirited away. Shortly before the erup- tion 8 lady was seen in 1t, but of her noth- ing whatever has been heard since. The burns inflicted were of peculiarly pain full character, even when they looked slight. The patients, on reaching the hospital. were immediately enveloped in wool. Notwithstanding the care with which they have been dressed, and the skill with which they are nursed, they cannot move without enduring agony which compels them to scream.
Year: 1872

Citizens who desire good municipal govern
meut should watch the nominations tor Council
The Mayoralty is an important and honorable
position but the members of Council lay taxes,
appropriate the reyenues,and pay out the money.
A large numberof subordinate officers are chosen
Dy their vote and the patronage Of the CITY,
which has now become large aul influential, i
all under their ccutrol


watch APPROXIMATIONS for Council, Select
none but good men
Year: 1872

EXCITING RUNAwAY.-About half-past two
o'clock yesterday afternoon a team of four
powerful horses belonging to the Messrs. War
rem of Saccarappa, we're feeding at the corner
of Middle and Market streets, when one of
them started to run and frightened his mates.
Up Market street they went at headlong speed
dragging the immense wagon after them, and
making hideous clatter Fortunately they
kept clear of one or two carriages in Market
street, but on Congress street the leaders just
barely escaped collision with horse-car that
was passing The leaders slipped on the rails
and fell. The pole horses leaped over and
dragged them some distance, and everything
was in muddle and it looked as if somebody
had lost at least couple of horses. But the
runaways were easily stopped here, and the un-
der horses were got on their feet, unhurt, ex
cept a few scratches and the loss of couple of
shoes. 1t was very exciting affair, and by
good fortune no. one was hurt
Year: 1872

INoUEsT.-Coroner Hall held an inquest on
the body of the man drowned in Central wharf
dock Sunday night The man was Patrick
Foley, well-known around town as man of
incorporate habits and quarrelsome character.
He was intoxicated and walked off the wharf
into the water Had he been sober, even if he
had met with an accident of the kind, he could
have saved his life, as there was very little
water in the dock The jury returned verdict
of accidental drowning. Foley leaves wife.
Year: 1872

on semi-offcial announcement that the Company
had not been selling stock of late. North Western
sold down to 72R Union Pacific to 43s and Erie to 463
Ihe market rallied at the second call and during the
alternoob advanced on the offering prices from to
per cent.


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Year: 1872

SAVING WooD WITHOUT Saw
DR.. Geo. Robinson, of New York, has in
vented process of cutting wood by
passing galvanic current over platin-
um wire in sufficient quantity to raise its
temperature to red heat. He has found
that by gently pushing piece of wood
against red-hot platinum wire, espe-
eially when aided by slight saving
movement, the wood was divided in any
required direction as by handsaw, and,
of course, without any effort of skill or
appreciable expenditure of muscular
power. The Scientific american says
that "by arranging the wire with handles
or other means to guide it readily, the
lumber, whether in trees, logs or plank,
may be easily cut as desired. There is
here, therefore, simple and easily ap-
piled force, that in a child IS hands, may
be employed to fell trees, divide them
into logs, and in short, perform all the
operations of the saw and AK. The sur
face of the wood where thus divided is
of course slightly charred, but the black
layer is very thin, and for many purposes
not disadvantageous, as it is known to
preserve timber. The battery employed
need only be of the simplest character,
as quantity and not intensity of current
is required"
Year: 1872

SEATED by the corpse of his departed
spouse walked strong man, as if his
heart would break. His disheveled hair
was moist with the sweat of agony, and
his clenched hands and swollen eyes told
how deep and engrossing was his grief
There was a strong odor of stale gin in
the department. To him came man
clad in broadcloth and bearing bundle
of tracts, upon the odd page of each one
of which was printed the advertisement
of a Life Insurance Company, who en-
deavored to console the bereaved and
weeping relic. Then uprose the weeping
" dover in wrah b, and rebuked the Tract
Insurance Agent. "You talk of sympa-
thy" he exclaimed "you, who were
nursed in the lap of Industry, and weaned
on the pap of business ! Oh, man you
can never know how great is my loss !!


She was pattern wife. Nine years had
we dwelt together, during which time /
never had to do stroke of work. Why,
you poor wretch, she sometimes made
four dollars and half with her washing.
Never will l find the woman who can
fill her place. And whisky is so derned
expensive, now, too !" The strong man
again bowed himself over the remains
and sobbed like child, and the insur-
ance agent turned away with sigh, nor
did he waste single tract on the broken
hearted and distracted widower.
Year: 1872

A MAN LOST IN HIS Own CELLAR
A Newport letter in the Providence Press
says: "a prominent merchant of this
city had occasion one evening lately, to
descend for some purpose into his own
store, and being, as ne thought, we'll ac-
quainted, took no light with him. Touch
ing bottom, he struck bee line as near
as he could calculate for door he desired
to enter, and missed. Here his troubles
began. He took new departure, with
no better success. The darkness was in
tense. He could not "see his hand be-
fore him." At length he essayed to find
his way out, but with no better success,
each successive attempt only adding to
his bewilderlnent and confusion. 1t was
getting late, and the prospect Of spending
the night in that dark and lonely cellar,
companion for rats, with anxious friends
securing the town in an unsuccessful
search for him, loomed up in his excited
imagination and he shouted for help,
shouted twice, thrice, and good many
times. Some friendly Odd Fellows pass
ing, on their way home from the lodge,
heard the cry of distress and responded
quickly, as they do to every cry of dis
tress. They beat about the premises for
some considerable time, unable to de-
termine whence the sound proceeded. In
the absence of lanterns they used lucifer
matches, whose feeble lights were dane
ing here and there about the premises,
the smothered cry for help continuing to
ascend from the depths. AT length, after
the neighborhood had been aroused, the
lost man was found and restored once
mole to society and his friends"
Year: 1872

A YOUNG lady suggestively remarks:
"If it was not good for Adam to live
single when there wasn't woman on
earth, what shall be said of old bachelors
with the world full of pretty girls ?n
Year: 1872

CHICAGO, June 29.-In the Circuit Court
this forenoon in she Cheney case, Judge
Williams overruled the demurrer fled By
the defendants, but refused to grant the
temporary injunction to restrain the vestry-
men from diverting funds of the parish to
the support Of the Episcopal Rector.


LATER.-The decision was rendered
upon bill fled by certain members Of
Christ Episcopal Church against Chas. E.
Cheney, Rector, and the vestrymen and
wardens Of said church, praying for prim-
sry injunction restraining Cheney from Off
ciating as minister, and the wardens and
vestrymen from permitting his ministra-
tions and from using the revenues of the
parish for his support. The Rector and
Treasurer in their demurrer alleged that
the bill is defective for want of equity and
for want of proper parties.


The opinion of the court is very lengthy
and exhaustive review of the entire case,
together with the arguments Of the eoun-
sci, and while it over rules the demurrer
of defendants, denies the application for a
temporary injunction. The effect OF this in-
termediate decision is to continue Mr..
Cheney in his ministration in the parish Of
Christ church for the present, and pending
the decision upon application for perrna-
nent injunction, which case will come up
in its regular turn in the court docket.


The main point in the decision denying
the temporary injunction appears TO be that
there " ill be no pressing necessity for an
immediate severing of the bond between
Cheney and his parish, when all but small
minority of that parish are opposed to such
action. The court argues that under such
circumstances such action could result only
in pecuniary loss to the parish, and that as
the pecuniary rights of the defendsnts, and
the church majority they represent, are far
larger than those reprented by the complain
ants, the property interests of the complain
ants can be but slightly prejudiced by refus-
log to grant the motion for preliminary in
junction, while those of defendants might
be most injuriously, and perhaps perma-
nently affected by its allowance. The final
decision in the matter will not be reached
until the case comes up in regular order on
motion for permanent injunction.
Year: 1872

Even if the mind were not dependent
in this world ON the body, it would seem
as if the continuous strain Of any one OBJ
ject indlsposed it for gaining its Jul end
-the discovery of truth. 1t must learn
at times to look away from things as
well as at them, if it is to see clearly and
soundly. 1t must close the thought with
a kind of Inaction, and must rest like the
eye in darkness, If it is to preserve health
and have a true, undistorted view OF
Gods world. There are some who
reckon every pause in an active thought
so much of lost time; but when the mind
is lying fallow it may be laying up capacity
of stronger growth. There is an aOsorp-
tion of sunnght and air, an imbibing Of
common healtbful influences, q cofnpara-
tive doing nothing which is as necessary to
mans intellect as 10 his physical nature.
When any one who Knows that 1t is not In
doience ia him feels sheught to be heavy
burden, and that OEj cts Of thought once
interesting have lost all cCl0r and freshness,
II Is time 10 give the mind repose,
Year: 1872

If we had keen vision and feeling of
all ordinary human life, it would be like
hearing the grass grow and the squirrels
heart beat, and we should die of that roar
which lies on the other side of silence. As
it is, the quickest of US walk about well
wadded with stupidity.-George Eliot.
Year: 1872

4 YOUNG theological student at Harvard
invited young lady in Boston to attend
a concert, TO which he received the follow
ing reply: If You come as temporary
supply, must decline the invitation, as |
am only hearing regular candilates.'
Year: 1872

THosEwhoAava supposed that the Sand
wich Islanders are devoid Of modesty are
wholly wrong. In winter the natives arc
neatly dressed in jacket and pants Of
blue paint, fastened in front with buttons
Of black ink
Year: 1872

A party of wits once stopped at a
tavern. When the feast was over ono
OF them called on the hostess. cans
gelique," he said, 81 am going to give
you lesson in astronomy. Have YOU
not heard Of the great Platonic year,
when everything shall return to its
former condition? Know, then, that
IN sixteen thousand years we will bo
here again, on the same day and at the
same hour. VIII you give us credit
until them The hostess, however.
had her reply. She said: "It has
been just sixteen thousand years since
you were here before, and you left
without paying; settle the old score,
ana then will trust you ON the new."
Year: 1872

With the ancient Romans it was a
custom TO enter the house or temple
always with the right foot foremost.
1t was considered a bad omen to put
the left foot first So it would be well
to enter the new year with right
thoughts and acts, to put "the best
foot foremost" The Romans regula-
ted the number of the steps leading
up into their temples, so as to bring
the right foot foremost at the entrance,
and right step taken at the beginning
OF the year will bring us out right at
the end.
Year: 1872

SYMBOLIC CoLoR.-Dr. Cannon
was once appealed to by a certain church
where there was a great commotion in
regard to the point whether in new
painting their church edifce the color
should be white or yellow. When the
committee had stated the case, and
with an emphasis, not to say aerimony,
which gave sad proof of the existence
of a fearful fued upon the unimportant
question, the doctor quietly said, II
should advise you, on the whole, to
paint the house black. 1t is cheap.
and n good color to wear, and emf,
nently appropriate for a body that
ought to 80 into mourning over such a
foolish quarrel among its members"
Year: 1872

HUMILIATIoN.-Ihe shameful scenes
now transpiring in New Oreans-the
setting up of two legislative govern.
ments for the State, the surrounding
ofthe state house with police and armed
soIdiery the killing Of two or three
members of the lower house. and the
riotous proceedings attendant upon
such revolutionary conduct-are an
exhibition TO the whole world that can
not be without good effect. The scenes
witnessed in our own State capital last
winter, when Mr.. Brooks was sworn in
as a senator over the protests of a
majority Of TIE senators; the filling of
the lobby with police by the governor;
the attempted impeachment of the lieu,
tenant governor the impeachment of
the governor and chief justice; the de-
feat Of quorum in the senate by the
hiding Of the Clayton senators, and
the surrounding Of the executive cham
Der with armed men, hardly equal the
scenes which have convuIsed New Or,
leans during the past ten days. But
there is tide in the affairs Of men
which we should have known had
Shakespeare never written. The food,
tide Of corruption must have well-nigh
reached "slack-water." Now the rad
icals have their hands at each others
throats, and are armed with pistol and
slungshot and bludgeon, We trust their
wrath will become the salvation of the
people-in other words, that Garter
will destroy Warmoth, and Warmoth
destroy Carter.


1t is the quality Of scum to rise to the
top. In the eommDtons of civil wal
that abomnible element of society which
Sinks beneath the plummet's sounding
In still water comes to the top of the
wave. The men who, during the war
rose from the dregs of society and tn,
purlieus of infamy to places of honor
and trust are now quarreling and
lighting among themselves. Each
hates the other with hatred more
vindictive and an anim9sity NOR,
deadly than they entertain for US A.
among themselves, the war is of exter.
mination--perhaps not in many case.
physically, but who is 50 blind as not tc
see that, as public men, Carter and
Warmoth and their clans are slayinc
each other. The scenes now passing
Year: 1872

FRAUDS Can we be sure that anv
thing in the market is what it purnort.
to be? Alligator>hide boots for in,
stance Is much believed in, and cost,
more money than can be cheerfully
palG by any person unless he has cash
IN plenty and a passion for keeping
his feet dry; yet we are told that ordi.
nary leather is now stamped to resem,
bic alligatorskin. SO an INDIGNANT
gentleman writes to a newspaper that
genuine mattress curled hair is now
made from whalesbone finely shaved
What a shoddy world is this which we
live in! Ifit were not Just as easy to
laugh as cry, and a deal wholesomer,
what temptation for the honest
minority Of the human race TO burst
INTO tears, and so mournfuliy drown
themselves in their own moisturel
Why, in the single and simple article
OF meerschaum pipes warranted gen,
uine there is n boundless fund of in,
dignant misanthropy; ard as for two
legged frauds, going about and impru-
IDENTIFY claiming to be human beings,
is not their name Legion?
Year: 1872

ExERcrsE.-The amount of daily
exercise necessary for health depends
upon the kind OF exercise, and varies
considerably with different persons and
with the same person at different times.
\ safe rule to go by is to exercise un-
til slightly faligued. 1t should not be
continued so long that half an hour of
perfect rest will not entirely remove
all feeling of fatigue. Special exercise
for retaining or regaining the health
should not, as a general rule, be taken
less than two or three hours after a
meal, except it may be some slight
exercise as moderate walking, riding,
etc. A person should always be thor
oughly rested after exercise before eat
ing. Perhaps the very best time of
day for taking exercise is from 10 to
Il O'Clock in the forenoon, although
the time Of day may be varied to suit
the persons convenience-always OBJ
the above rules.-Herald of
Health.
Year: 1872

AT social party, where humorous
definitions was once of the games of
the evening, the question was put:
"What is religion?' Religion res
piled one of the party, more famous as
a man than a wit, is an insurance
against fire in the next world, for
which honesty is the best policy
Year: 1872

The Democracy Of Missouri and Hi
nois, through their central committees
have pronounced in favor of the passive
policy--indeed, that policy seems to
have been decided on by the great ma.
jority Of the democratic leaders through
out the country.
Year: 1872

A letter containing $1,000 check,
sent from Hartford to Norwich, and
not received by its owner, after caus,
ing the postal authorities some anxiety,
turns out to have been properly taken
from the Norwich Office by a young
man living. with the person to whom it
was addre@d, who put it in his over.
coat pocket, and then exchanged his
coat at a clothing store for better
fitting garment The letter was dis
covered the other day by man who
purchased the aforesaid overcoat, and
honestly sent it to its owner.
Year: 1872

Deacon ID. was very much interested i'm
revival that was taking place in the neighbor-
hood, and as consequence, was continually
urging his neighbors to "come over on the
Lords side" as he expressed it. He had
frequently importuned an old neighbor of his
who was not particularly noted for his pro-
fession of religion, but was nevertheless high


ly respected by all who knew him-to attend
one of their evening meetings Now the piety
and honesty of the deacon was matter Of
doubt among his fellow townsmen, and par
ticularly go with the old man above mention
ed, who, for convenience, we may call Uncle
Josh. After repeated calls, Uncle Josh con-
sented to accompany the deacon to one of the
meetings, and accordingly accompanied him
to the school house" one evening much to
the surprise of all present. In the course of
the evening the deacon arose with peneten-
tial conntenance to tell his experience. He
was the prince of sinners, he said. If he
got his deserts he would be banished forever
from Divine favor. After making himself
out to be all that is vile in man according to
his Interpretation of ''he that humbleth him
self shall be exalted, he sat down with the
sublime sense of having done his duty, and
asked Uncle Josh IL he wouldn't tell his ex-
perience. With some reluctance he meelly
arose amid the breathless attention of. the as
sembly. 1t was an unknown occurrence for
Uncle Josh to speak in meeting He said he
had listened with great attention to the re-
marks of the deacon, and he could assure,th
brethren that, from his long acquaintance
with him, he could fully endorse ali that the
deacon had said concerning his meanness and
vileness, for he certainly was the lnearest
man he ever new. The wrath of the deacon
was terrific, He shook his fist under Uncle
Josh's nose and exclaimed, ''You are con-
founded liar, and I'll whip you as soon asyou
Year: 1872

Until yesterday we never knew that thunder
orlightning had the slightest effect on fish, dead
or alive. Standing in front of market there
were two or three sharp peals of thunder,
when the proprietor of the place came out,
and shifting a lump of ice from one end to
the other of a champagne basket filled with
herring or some such small fry. he said: II
am glad have no more fish on hand to- day. I"


'Why so?" querried we. Because should
come out loser on them should there be half a
dozen more peals of thunder" We then in
quired us to how the fish were effected and
were Informed that after a few heavy thun-
der claps they began to swell up and in
short time began to putrify. Said he, 81 ami
glad that l have but small lot on hand to-
day. Had the storm come last Thursday it
would have caught me with 1000 pounds ON
my hands," All this about the effects of
electricity was new to us and we expressed
Our surprise, when the market man informed
us that not snly fish but all kinds of meat
were effected by thunder storm, but the
meats not so much as the fish. Here is nut
for the savans to crack.-7errStorSog Enter
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Year: 1872

FoRr Pillows BLUE BANKS BURsING.-
One of the strangest phenomena Of the times,
says the Memphis Ac0IoRcAe of September
22 is reported to US from the site of old Fort
Pillow, sixty miles above this city. 1t is no
more nor less than that the bluff bank of the
river. which rises fifty or sixty feet above
the water level, is one fire, and for the past
several weeks has been steadily burning like
volcano for distance of several hundred
yards along the cast side of the river, OH n
line ten or twelve feet above the water level
At night lurid flame or blaze of fire rise
from the side of the:bluff toa height of two or
three feet, which then spreads into smoke
and passes on over the hill, distributing itself
with the atmosphere and iIoiting away sky
ward. The steamer Celeste, on her last trip.
passed by the place in broad daylight and at
II time when light wind wind blew from the
shore, carrying the smoke toward the Arkan-
sas shore and covering the river with IL thick
haze almost like u fog What strange COM
tustible formation cOmposes the river bluff of
the old fort, or what first set it on fire, to
burn after the manner described, is one of
the most marvellous events of the times, and
puzzles the people of the vicinity not n little.
We shall seek to lie further informed upon
this wonderful phenomenon with no little
curiosity.