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Year: 1871

THE INSURANCE COMPANIES AND
THE CHICAGO FIRE.-The underwriters
of New York and Boston have usually
taken large risks in the unfortunate city,
and of course will be likely to suffer Sc
rious losses, but if the insurance affected
by the fire is as largely scattered as sup
posed, the result may not prove disastrous
to any individual Office.


The Springfield Republican says;


The Springfield Fire and Marine Insur-
snoe company comes out of the trial with
its capital stock unimpaired. 1t Is OF
coarse impossible to say at present now
heavy their loss is. but if it is every dol
lar they bad ut risk in the doomed city,
their surplus of nearly half million Will
be ample to meet it. The Hartford COM
panies have not yet attempted to make
definite estimate of their losses, but doubt
less the aggregate will be several MIL
lions. The directors and other officers
of all the leading companies assert their
determination to pay every dollar as rap
idly as possible. and have already COM
menced arrangements to carry this pur-
nose into effect. Confidence in the sta
bility of the old Htna was SO great that
holders of the stock at Hartford refused
on Monday to sell at any discount from
the market price. The Hartford Life In
snrance companies have many millions
upon real estate security in Chicago, but
as their rule is to require that the lano
alone shall more than secure the deot,
they apprehend no loss.
Year: 1871

Strength for the day At early dawn stand,
Helpless and weak, and with unrested eyes,
Watching for day. Before its portal lies
low black cloud-a heavy iron band
Slowly the mist is lifted from the land,
And pearl and amber CLEAN across the skies,
Gladdenipg my upward gaze with sweet sur


prise
own the sign: know that He whose hand
Hath fringed those sombre clouds with ruby


ray,
And changed that iron bar to molten gold,
Will to my wandering steps be guide and stay
Breat DER my wavering heart His rest for aye,
And give my waiting folded palms to hold
His blessed morning boon-strength for the


day!


-Scri5ner8 Monthly for october.
Year: 1871

PERsoNAL-In the nomination OF Hon.
Matthew Hale by the Republicans of the
Second Assembly District of Albany
county, the honest people of that district
have chance to secure safe and able
representative. Mr.. Hale is good law
yer, an ex-State Senator and thoroughly
competent man. The district was repre-
sented last year by man elected as a
Republican, and ought to send MIR. Hale
without doubt, as it will with anything
like honest effort.
Year: 1871

"Whoso giveth to the poor lendeth to
the Lord, and that which he givetb, will
he pay him again" WHO will hesitate
to make loan, in behalf of the Chicago
sufferers, on this security P


eff brother or sister be naked and
destitute of daily food, and one of you say
unto him, Depart in peace, be ye warmed
and be ye filled, Notwithstanding ye give
not those things which are needful to the
body, what doth it profit? Even so
faith, if it have not works is dead being
alone"
Year: 1871

A dispatch has been received from
Green Bay, Wis, stating that steamer
had arrived bringing a report that three
hundred bodies had been burned at
Pischtz. last night, and as many more
are still missing S5venty-five persons
pare bur.eel u death at Little Sturgeon
Bay, and the suffering throughout the
north is terrible. With the exception of
the loss of property by the fire, it is al
most as appalling as the fire of Chicago.
Year: 1871

BRIGHAM YoUNe.-Brigham Young
anneared in court in Salt Lake on Mon
day, and was held to bail in five thousand
dollars. 1t is thought that there will be
trouble if he is convicted. The Mormons,
however, have so uniformly threatened
trouble as last resort, with no intent OF
carrying out the threat, that we may
safely conclude they know too much to
resort to the hopeless arbitrament OF war
or riot.
Year: 1871

The New York Work. has an extensive
review of the San Domingo report, recently
laid before Congress by the State Department,
in the course Of which it produces the follow
Ing extract in respect to the condition of the
people, from report made by Gen. George B.
Mcclellan, who visited that country in 1854,
by direction Of the Secretary of War:


"There is certainly little reason judging
from what saw, to call Dominica white
republic" The great mass of the people are
negroes and muattoeS. A general Incidence
and apathy appear to reign. There are noin-
dications Of either cot:lmercial or agricultural
prosperity: Money and the comforts of life
very scarce. Wages are low, except when
foreigners are employers. The mass Of the
people seem perfectly contented to exc out
their existence 10 cave huts, trusting for sup
port to their bananas and cocoauuts"


These are the people who are going to help
govern us by-and-by, if we will only give them
the opportunity, provided our enterprising ad-
,venturers do not annihilate them from the face
of the earth in order to make room for them
selves baltimore Sun.
Year: 1871

We have been interested in reading the fol-
lowing statement made to US by an intelligent
mother. We give our readers the benefit Of
1t, or at least give them the opportunity TO
test whether it is Of any benefit.


A remedy for Group was given me by sis
ter who heard it from Prof. Bronson, pbysio-
logical lecturer, since deceased.


Let healthy person fill his lungs with
pure air, then slowly breathe upon the pa
tents throat and chest, commencing at the
point Of the chin, aud moving slowly down to
the bottom Of the windpipe. Repeat for
few minutes and j. will give relief in cases
where all other means fail"


BY boy was always subject TO Group; came
near dying with the rattling, noisy kind at
about II months old. saved him with wa
ter and ever after prevented serious attack
by watchfulness and water. But when threo
years old, let him play in the brook one
warm rainy day, and he took a severe cold
and had the still kind Of Group the first and
last time he ever had it. In spite of all
could do, he grew constantly worse until ho
could only gasp and breathe with his lead
thrown back. We thought bis last moments
had come, when thought Of, aud applied
Bronson's remedy for q minute. When
stopped he looked up and said, DO so again,
mother, do" though be could DO. speak when
| began. You may be assured that did 81
again, and believe it saved his life.-Lars
gLje.
Year: 1871

Be content with small place entirely paid
for, if you have not the money to buy large
farm. Do not allow that eager an avaricious
spirit to own all the land that joins yours
to ruin you. One Of the curses Of our agri-
cultural districts is the size Of our farms
Forty acres paid for, and TILED, is better, and
far more remunerative than four hundred IN
der heavy mortgage, and only half cultivated.
Where one man may succeed by rsshness in
assuming large responsibilities, hundreds fail ;
and experience and observation will show that
the successful owners of large tracts of lands,
have usually begun by small purchases for
cash. and by gradual additions as they acquired
wealth by industry and economy.
Year: 1871

Those who sneer at Virginia as an unproduc-
tive and poverty stricken State should reflect
upon the fact that during twenty-five months
just past she paid into the federal treasury in
taxes upon only one Of her productions thirteen
millions of dollars. And the Virginia of the
present remember, is a very much smaller
State than "Old Virginia" from which the
new State of West Virginia was cut off.


The sum of over $1,000, 900 year on one
article is pretty liberal tax to be paid by a
State so lately overrun by armies and devasta-
ted by war Under the new order of things
Virginia is destined to become one of the fore
most States IN the Union.-Philadelphi Day.
Year: 1871

Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow,
Filling the sky and the earth below
Over the house-tops, over the street.
Over the heads OF the people yot meet


Flirting,


Skimming along;
Beautiful snow it can do no wrong
FLYING to kiss fair lady's cheek,
Clinging to her lips in frolicksome freak
Beautiful snow from the heaven above,
Pure as an angel, gentle as love!
Oh! the snow, the beautiful snow
How the fakes gather and laugh as they 60
Whirling about in the maddening fun,
Il plays in its glee with every one


Chasing.


Laughing,


Hurrying by!
1t lights on the face and sparkles the eve,
And the dogs. with bark and bound,
Snap at the CRYSTALS that eddy around
The town is alive, and its heart in glow,
To welcome the coming of the beautiful snow.
How wild the crowd goes swaying along,
Haing each other with humor and song
How gay the sedges like ineteors flash by,
Bright for moment, then lost TO the eyei


Ringing,
, Dancing they 60,
Over the crust of the beautiful snow;
Snow so pure when it falls from the sky
To be trampled in mud by the crowd passing by
TO be trampled and tracked by the thousands of
feet,
Till IL blends with the filth in the horrible street
Once was as pure as the snOw-but fell
Fell like the snow-fakes from heaven to hell;
Fell 70 be trampled as filth in the street,
Fell TO be scoffed, to be spit on and beati


Pleading,


Cursing,


Dreading to die,
Selling my soul to whoever would buy;
Dealing in shame for morsel of bread,
Hating the living and fearing the dead,
Merciful God have fallen so low?
And yet was once like the beautiful snow
Once was fair as the beautiful snow,
With an eve like its crystal, heart like its glow
Flattered and sought for the charms of my face,


Father,


Mother,


Sisters, all
God and myself pve lost by my fall T.,
The veriest wretch that goes shivering by
Will make wide swoOp lest wander too nigh
For all that is on or about me, know
There is nothing so pure as the beautiful snow.
How strange it should be that the beautiful snow
Should fall on sinner with nowhere to gO
How strange il would be, when the night comes
again
If the snow and the ice strike my desperate brain,


Painting.


Dying-aione;
Too wicked for prayer, too weak for my moan
To be heard in the streets of the crazy town.
Gone mad in the Joy of the snow coming down,
To lie and to die in my terrible woe,
With a bed and shroud of the beautiful snow.
Year: 1871

Some music teacher once wrote that the
art Of playing violin requires the incest per-
ception and the most sense OF any art in the
known world" Upon which an editor CON-
ments in the following manner "The art of
publishing newspaper, aud making it pay,
and, at the same time making it please every
body. beats fddIing higher than a kite.
Year: 1871

SAILING or THE ISAAC BEIL.-Owing
to the prospect of heavy fog and the low
tide, the steamer Isaac Bell, bound for
New York, will not sail TOMORROW after
noon, as usual, but will leave her wharf at
6 O'Clock in the morning. Passengers can
go aboard tonight, thus saving the annoy
ance Of early rising. m.a w


When slow tide" is given as reason
for the detention of the Isaac Bell to us,
it looks as if the channel of the river
needed deepening.
Year: 1871

moon-if there are any there-have upon
theirs.


"The sun, you know is bright with it's
own light, as fire is, but the moon, lust
like our earth, is bright only while tho
sun shines upon it. Therefore, when We
are between it and the sun, or, what 10
saying the same thing in other words,
when it comes into our shadow, it is in
the dark, and cannot be seen. That is
what VIC mean when we say that the moon
shines by reflected light


Thc moon Is the earth's little daughter,
and, like her mother, receives daylight
from the sun, and has q conical shadow,
or night of her own. Her day lasts for
whole fortnight, and so does her night.
That is very long day and night for such
little world, is it nots


"6ometimes all the bright daylight side
Is turned toward us, and then we say the
moon is full !; sometimes all the dark night
s1de, and then we say there is no moon.
When tiny narrow strip of the bright
side begins to peep round again, we call it
the new moon.


"What dne, great moon. fourteen
times as large as ours, this earth must
he for the good folks there! Only, AZ it
happens that the same half of the moon
is always turned this way, the people on
the other half if they want to have q look
at us, must take a long journey in order
to enjoy that pleasure.


"Sometimes we appear full moon to
them, and sometimes new, as our moon
does to us; but instead of rising in the
cast and setting in the west, we always
seem to stand still, just in the same pat
of the sky. The people who live in the
center of that half of the moon which is
turned toward us see directly over their
heads all the time.


~ would tell you great deal more
about the sun, and the moon, and the
stars, and the earth, and will soon, If you
like to hear, but not now, for, see! while
we have been talking, the great earth
shadow has crept silently over us, and is
pressing down your sleepy eyeids.-
CNiIdre7a' q H0mr
Year: 1871

The bill to protect the rights of mar
ried men, which has passed the New
Hampshire House of Representatives., pro-
vides that marriage shall not hereafter
contracted by her before such ma1riage.
She aud all property which she may have
in her own right are to be held liable for
the payment of debts contracted before
marriage, in the same manner as if she
continued sole and unmarried
Year: 1871

Census figures show the population of
Vermont to have gained in IS towns and
cities during the last ten years, and to have
lost in TAG towns. The gain Of population
in the villages during the last decade has
been about 80 900, probably little less.
The loss Of The agricultural population is
about ID COO This loss is not because
farming does not pay, but because the
dairy and stock farms grow in size.
Year: 1871

The Cincinnati Gazette of Wednesday
says: An accident occurred on the
Marietta and Cincinnati railroad, yes
terday, which strikingly illustrates how


narrow is the line that often separates
life from death. Three young people
-Mollie, aged eighteen; Larz, aged
sixteen, and Laura, aged fourteen, son
and daughter OF j. Dan. Jones, Esq
attempted to cross the Marietta and
Cincinnati track at Medary, near Love
land, in buggy. Upon their right a
construction train stoodupon aside track.
Their view of the railroad upon the left
was cut off by house standing
near the track. AS they approached
the crossing the attention OF the boy,
who was driving, was absorbed by the
construction train, which he feared
might back out and cut them off. Just
as the horse planted his forefeet upon
the track one of the girls glanced to
the left, and discovered the Baltimore
express close at hand, and coming
down upon them at fearful rate OF
speed. She drew the attention of her
brother to the e'peril, and he, with rare
presence of mind, threw his whole
weight backward upon the reins, and
succeeded in dragging him off the track,
but not far enough to avert the impend-
ing collision.


The locomotive struck the horses
nose, and the ends Of the shafts, throw
ing the end ofthe wagon parallel with
the track with such violence that the
rest OF the wagon was Slowed around
almost against the track. The boy was
thrown several feet by the violence OF
the conclusion and lodged almost
against the rail, so close. that one Of his
feet lay partly upon it, and his boot
heel was cut off by the wheels OF the
locomotive. His sister Mollie also fell
beside the track with her skirts resting
upon the rail. They were torn into
sh reds by the wheels, but fortunately
did not become entangled in the cars.
The other sister also fell almost against
the rails, but received no injury from the
train.


The train was stopped Immediately,
and Mr.. Edward Hill, one Of the en-
ployes, was left with directions to care
for the sufferers. Upon examination,
however, it was discovered that none OF
them had received any injuries from
the train. All were more or less
bruised by the fall, but none danger
ously
Year: 1871

A bill has recently been introduced
in Congress to incorporate q company,
the objects OF which are to develop and
utilize the principles and powers of
natural electricity, so as to apply that
fluid to telegraphing and generating
light and heat and motion. From
certain theories which have recently
been advanced, and from experiments
that have been tried. the possibility is
asserted Of telegraphing without the
use OF cables, conducting wires OF any
description, or even batteries. This
theory is exceedingly visionary, but the
protector is sanguine as to the success
full working Of his plan.
Year: 1871

ment commander, General Crook, were
sufficient to deter the large majority OF
the Indians from engaging in war,
while the efforts of the Indian Peace
Commissioner and officers of the army
to convince the Indians of the good faith
and humane purpose OF the Government
seem to have been successful. 1t Is
reported that nearly all Of the Arizona
Apaches have gone upon the reserva-
ton designated, and hopes are enter


tanned of q treaty of peace.
Year: 1871

the majority had always improved
them. Like other cl sses of mankind
they had, at least, majority OF them
lendenclets toward the good, the true
ana The right which preponderated
over all contrary proclivities.


The testimony of Mr.. Gray was com.
mented on as demonstrating that the
amount of production does not depend
alone on the time run, but largely on
the condition of the work people, and
That the Atlantic Cotton Mills, with
similar help, with the same machinery,
and with only five per cent. increase of
speed are now under the ten hour rule
producing daily more of the same class
OF goods than they produced when
they ran twelve hours day.


With regard to wages, seWade's
W orkingmen and their Wages showed
that every reduction of the hours OF
labor heretofore experienced by the
working classes had been attended by
an Increase Of wages. Those who pre-
dlcted reduction of wages as the nee
essary concommittant of q reduction in
the working hours, were ignorant of
the great economical laws which govern
wages. But some OF the remonstrants
mad caught some faint glimpse OF these
laws, and had limited their predictions
to the immediate future-conceding
that the ultimate result Of the reduco
ton prayed for would be an increase
OF wages.
Year: 1871

The following is the closing argu-
ment Of Juge Cowlcy before che Massa-
chusetts Labor Committee


1t was not to be forgotten, he said
that the remOnstTants themselves admit
the desirableness Of a reduction Of work
ing hours in the mills. All the evidence
offered shows that this result can only
be attained by legislation.


The great corporations OF the State
adopted it in 1853. There were good
reasons for the belief that this reduction
from twelve hours to eleven was made
under conviction of the necessity of
the movement as a weapon with which 10
kill off the coalition and the new Con
stitution-which was It's offspring-ul-
on which the popular vote was to be
e. ken only few weeks after the great
factories were put under the eleven
dour rule.


1t was eight full years before even
this eleven hour system, moderate ms
1t was, won acceptance among the PRIV
ate mill owners of the Commonwealth.
1t was only under the pressure Of that
great famine IN the rebellion, that the
majority Of these small manufacturers.
''the low and slow" were finally brought
into it. Mr.. Gray, the treasurer Of the
Atlantic Mills, made most earnest ef-
fort to get the other Treasurcrs to Join
with him when he, in 1867, with a
praiseworthy generosity put bis mill
under the ten hour rule. But all OF
them refused and lie says, "more In
sorrow than in anger" that he sees no
prospect of the adoption Of this system
save by the aid Of a penal statute. If
the system is good in itself, how could
it become injurious through its being
aided into fashion by legislation Mass
achusetts was the first, and is still the
foremost of manufacturing States her
example could not fail to be followed
by the other manufacturing States, and
as She led her sister States into the
eleven hour system, he trusted she
would have the glory of leading them
to the still higher plane of ten hour
law.


Such law was needed to save the
youth i'll manufacturing communities
from physical deterioration and decline,
and to save for woman her native ca
pacity for the sacred functions of ma
ternity.


The plea that American manufactur.
ers must work an extra hour or fail in
their competition with the manufactur.
ers OF Europe, was al empty plea, and
one which every true American would
scorn to make. Considering that the
European manufacturer had two ocean
frelghts to pay, one on his raw cotton
and another on his fabrics, besides a
commission to the Liverpool broker
and considering that the American man.
ufacturer had his market at his mill
door, and his raw cotton equally near
aud tariff, the duties Of whic were
protective to the point of practical pro
hibltion, to say that, with these advan-
tages, an American could not compete
with a European, was to slaudrr the
American with charge Of gross inca
pacity.


The testimony Of Walter Paine wa.
commented on with severity; and the
counsel showed that in all former cases
where an increase of leisure had leeI
acquired by working men, though mi
nority had missed their opportunities
Year: 1871

THE PITrsBURe Paper thinks the attempt to
'Quakerize" the red men of the West does
not seem to have had potential effect; ut
least it has not prevented the aborigiues from
indulging in the exhilarating pastime of slay-
ing every white man fate casts in their way.
The broadbrim policy should not be spread
broadcast.
Year: 1871

The picture is true to life. Aud while there
are some honorable exceptions to the class of
preachers against whom we have been writing,
it is too sadly trde that the people run to and
not find ii. Why?
Year: 1871

In Che case of the Erie Railway Company
against the Delaware, Lackawanna, and Western Rail
road Company opinion yesterday filed by Chiof-
Justice Beasley, acting Chancellor 1t Is held: First:
That tho Erie Company by the acquescing In the build
ing Of tho Boonton branch lost tho right to complain


second Upon tho ground that tho Bergen tunnel Is
public highway without regard to other considerations
the Morris and Essex Company has right to make
connection between their broad track and tho ETe
Railway, to pass their tralns through the tunnel


Whether such trains can pass without the payment Of
toll is not now decided Third: That the Erie Company
has precedence for all their trains and that
the Morris and Essex must submit to their regulations
Fourh Tho application Of the Morris and Essex for the
appointment OF Receiver for the tunnel s denied no
legal ground being shown which to base such order