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VOLUME X.
EPITOME OF THE WEEK.
Condensed from Telegrams of Accompanying Dates.
Monday, March SO. The annual race
between the boat crews ol Oxford and Cam
bridge Universities came off in London on the
2Sth. The Cambridge boat came In four
lengths ahead The steamer Maliva, with
the remains of Dr. Livingstone, arrived off
Suez, Egypt, on the night of the 2)ith....The
Frencin Assembly adjourned on the 29th
untii May 12 A Madrid dispatch says
Marshal Serrano had finally won & victory,
ind the Carlists have been driven beyond Stanta
Gulinna. The losses in the battle on the 28th
were enormous. Rivera was mortally wounded.
. . . .The Secretary of the Treasury has directed
the Asslstaut Treasurer at New York to sell
11,000,000 in gold each Thursday during the
month of April $5,000,000 in all The
fifth ballot for United States Senator
was taken in the Massachusetts Legislature
on the 28th. It resulted as follows: Dawes,
S; Hoar, 75; Curtis, 68; Adams, 13; Banks,
7; Whittier, Washburn and Pierce, 1 each.
The whole number of votes was 254; neces
sary to a choice, 128 The employes in the
Eric Railroad machine shops at Sus
quehanna Depot, Pa., recently struck
for their back pay, two months' or
more wages being due them. Much excite
ment existed on the 28th, the strikers to the
number of 900 having forcibly taken posses
sion of trains on the road and refused to al
low them to proceed. Ninety or more engines
bad been disabled, and freight valued at $2,
000,000 was detained on side-tracks. Mall
trains were allowed to pass on without inter
ruption. A requisition was mads upon Gov.
Ilartranft for State militia to quell the dis
turbance. Over 500 troops reached Susque
hanna Depot on the 29th, and took possession
of the railroad shops. Passenger trains were
allowed to move, but the strikers detained the
freight trains. A telegram signed by a
majority of the leading citizens of the
place was sent to the Governor of the
State protesting against the introdu
of armed troops into the borough to "oft Uscrj
in supporting the interests of a corporation
against the citizens of the pl&CC) who
nothing but their hard-e,TOed WJlge8 dufl to
them from said co:poraUoa The ete
did not belie-,o there was any such
emergency AS called for military in
terference, Gov. Uartranft responded
that, however much he might as an
luuiviuiuu sympathize with the strikers in
their misfortune in not receiving their back
dues, he would not, fcs Chief Executive of the
State, neglect his duties to preserve peace and
order and see to the enforcement of the laws.
Cvttuin propositions were submitted by the
railroad company to the strikers, and were
taken under advisement until the 30th.
Tuesday, Marcn 31. .Extensive strikes
are reported in the coal and iron districts of
England. There is almost a panic In domestic
stocks in consequence. . . .Henri Rochefort and
some of his comrades have escaped from New
Caledonia. They put to sea in an open
boat, and, after having been three days
out, were picked up by a British sail
ing vessel and carried to an Aus
tralian port .... Dispatches are received
from Carlist sources claiming a victory In
the recent battle before Bilboa. The Repub
lican loss, according to this authority, was
4.000 killed and wounded; Carlist loss 1,000.
Latest Madrid dispatches insist that the vic
tory was with the Republicans and very
neatly reverse the figures. . . .In the future all
grain received at New York will be
graded by inspectors appointed by tke
grain-receivers of the Produce Ex
change.... The trial of John D. Sanborn, Lu
cien Hanley and Alfred Vanderwerken, under
an indictment charging them with conspiring
to defraud the Revenue Department of the
Government, has been commenced in the
United States District Court in Brooklyn. . . .
The latest news from Susquehanna Depot is
to the effect that the men are being paid off and
discharged. The military has entire possession
of all the property of the company, and all is
apparently quiet.... The ballot in the
Massachusetts Legislature for United States
Senator on the 30th resulted as fol
lows: Whole number of votes cast, 25G;
necessary to a choice, 1C9; Dawes re
ceived 85; Hoar, 73; Curtis 72; Adams, 15;
Banks, 7; Amasa Walker. Pierce, Washburn
and Whittier, 1 each The Congregational
Council called to considv r the relation proper
to be sustained by Congregationalista to
ward Plymouth Omrch concluded its
labors on t lie 2s h. The report adopted
censured the church for its action in
dropping Tilton, but at the same time advised
other churches to fellowship with the organi
zation as formerly. It also contained a word
of caution and forbade the recurrence of the
offense under penalty of withdrawing from
fellowship. The report was adopted by a vote
of 87 to 8. Twenty-three refused to vote. The
council then adjourned sine die.
"Wednesday, April 1. The Roman
Catholic Archbishop of Cologne has been ar
rested for violation of the German Ecclesiasti
cal laws A Madrid telegram says a heavy
fire was kept up by the artillery upon the Car
list position on the 31st. Troops to the
number of 15,000 had been forwarded to rein
force Serrano. The Carlist General Olio had
been killed A recent Calcutta telegram says
that reports from the districts affected by the
ramine show a great improvement in the con
dition of affairs.... Secretary of the Treasury
Richardson and Commissioner of Internal Rev
enue Douglass testified before the Ways and
Means Committee in the Sanborn investigation
on the Slst ult The former gave it as his
positive opinion that the law under which the
Sanborn contracts were given should be
absolutely and unconditionally repealed.
He had never spoken with Sanborn
aooui nis contracts. and had never
been approached by any other person In San
born's behalf. He knew absolutely nothing
of the details of the matter. Any papers
or documents which he had signed
were signed in the ordinary routine of busi
ness without giving them special attention.
Mr. Douglas stated that he had never been
consulted by the Secretary or Solicitor
of the Treasury in regart to the law or
contract given under it, and knew nothing
of the latter unless as they came incidentally
to his knowledge in the course of proceedings.
He stated that delinquent income taxes, and
legacy and succession taxes, and taxes
on ranway aiviaenas, etc, which are
embraced in the Sanborn contracts, were
all being collected through the regular
omcers or the Internal Revenue Bureau
He was very positive in the belief that
there was no difficulty in having all these
derelict taxes collected in the regular course
of business, and as to ascertaining unpaid
legacies and successions of taxes, he exhib
ited to the committee a book in which As
sessors were required to keep records of all
the estates of deceased persons that were
liable to taxation. He did not believe
in the policy of the law under which the San
born contracts were given out. It gave a
monopoly to three persons, and thus intensi
fied the meanness of the informer and spysys
tem. He had never leen consulted about or
asked to recommend the passage of such law,
although he was under the impression that he
had been called upon by Sanbom and that
Gen. Butler had recommended him. Still,
6ince having seen Sanborn lately, he did not
appear to be the same person whom he had in
his mind .... Sanborn, on trial at Brooklyn for
ccnspiracy to defraud the revenue, has been
acquitted by order of Judge Benedict Coun-
eel held, first, that there was no allegation
PLATTSMOUTH, NEBRASKA, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1874.
in the indictment that Sanborn, Hawley
and Vanderwerken conspired with any other
persons to defraud the United States;
secondly, that no offense is charged un
der any law that exists upon the statute
book; thirdly, that the contract is not
Bet out in the indictment. The Judge held
that the contract which Sanborn had obtained
did not support the averment in.the indict
ment, and, with such conceded, he was of the
opinion that the prosecution must fail .... The
vote for United States Senator in the Massa
chusetts Legislature on the 31st ult. resulted
as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 274;
necessary to a choice, 138; Dawes, 95; Hoar,
78; Curtis, 70; Adams, 15; Banks, 6; Wash
burn, 2; Whittier and Pierce received one vote
each.... A reunion of Abolitionists is to be
held In Chicago on the th of June. All
persons who were active Abolitionists at any
time when the cause of the slave needed
friends are especially invited to be present."
Thursday, April 2. The death of Peter
Andrew Hansen, an eminent German astrono
mer, is announced.... A Bayonne dispatch
asserts that the movement of Marshal Serrano
against the Carlists before Bilboa was an in
glorious failure. ..The Diario, of Havana,
has recently published articles advocat
ing the restoration of peace with the
insurgents. It was said that these arti
cles were inspired by the 8panish party
and that their object was to prepare the -people
of the island for a manifesto of the prom
inent Cubans demanding an accommodation
between the so-called loyalists and the In
surgents, to be inaugurated by a tem
porary cessation of hostilities, and
followed bv a formal treaty of peac-
The striking workmen at Susqu-'
Depot have been paid off by the r" .
. j, . , . , .-'road com
pany and discharged. A lltTlW n.
them have since soug admUtance to tbo
shops and were re by the company
....Proceeding m 1q bankruptcy have teen
commen by tfae New Tork Banfc Qf Com
ferT against the Rhode Island Spragues. , . .
uestructive conflagration recently occurred
at Millerstown, Pa., consuming sixty-nine
buildings and resulting in the death of Beveral
persons. The value of property destroyed
will reach nearly $300,000.... The Rhode Isl
and election for State officers occurred on
the 1st. There was no Democratic ticket.
Henry Howard was re-elected Governor by
a vote of 12,209 to about 1,000 for other
candidates. Charles C. Van Zandt was
elected Lieutenant-Governor ; Joshua M.
Addcrman, Secretary of State ; Willard Sayles,
Attorney-General, and Samuel Clark, Treas
urer. . . .The United States Supreme Court in
a recent case has decided that the directors of
a corporation cannot increase the capital
stock beyond the amount limited in its charter
in other words, cannot " water the stock' '
without the express consent of stockholders.
.... A ballot for United States Senator from
Massachusetts was taken on the 1st with the
following result: Whole number of votes
cast, 270; necessary for a choice, 136; Dawes
had 95 votes; Hoar, 74; Curtis, 75; Adams,
15; Banks, 6; scattering, 5.
Friday, April 3. A London telegram
says authentic information has been received
that the Republican troops before Bilboa have
taken no position held by the Carlists since
March 25. A three days' armistice, in which
Bilboa is not included, has been agreed upon
for the burial of the dead. In the meantime
the bombardment of Bilboa continues.... In
accordance with the order of the Presi
dent requiring the appointment of a Board, to
be composed of seven persons, one person to
be named by each of the Executive Depart
ments which may have articles and materials
to be exhibited at the Centennial Exhibition,
and also one person to be named in behalf
of the Smithsonian Institute, and one
In behalf of the Department of Agricul
ture, which may have charge and decide upon
the articles to be embraced in the collection,
the following have been named by the "heads
of departments: Treasury, Hon. F. M. Saw
yer; War, Col. S. C. Lyford, U. S. A.; Navy,
Admiral T. A. Jenkins, U. S. N.; Interior,
John Eaton, Esq.; PostofHce, Dr. Chas. F.
McDonald; Agriculture, Wm. Saunders, Esq.;
Smithsonian Institute, Prof. S. F. Baird. The
President has designated Col. S. C. Lyford, U.
S. A., Chairman of the Board.... The City
Council of Philadelphia has passed by ac
clamation the $1,000,000 Centennial Ap
propriation bill.... The Michigan State
Treasurer's statement for March is as
follows: Balance Feb. 28, f 1,163,513.81;
receipts for March, $131,502.04; to
tal, $1,295,015.85. Payments for March,
$32,456.95. Balance, March 31, $1,212,558.90.
.While a band of women were recently en
gaged in prayer at the back door of Lathrop's
saloon, in Warsaw, Ind., a man stepped out
of the saloon and struck Mrs. Thomas
Woods a fearful blow in the breast, knocking
her prostrate upon the ground. She was car
ried home unconscious. He was subsequently
arrested.
FORTY-THIRD CONGRESS.
Monday, March 30. Senate. The me
morial of the Governors of Indiana, Ohio and
Illinois in relation to the 2 per cent, fund which
thev claim is dne those States from the Gen
eral Government was reported back from the
Committee on Public Landa, with a Dill to set
tle the acconnt between them and the United
States, which bill was placed on the calen
dar The House bill in relation to mineral
land, excluding the States of Missouri and
Kansas from the operations of the Mining act of
May 10, 1872, was reported from committee, with
amendment Snndrv resolutions of the Wiscon
sin Legislature in regard to the improvement of
tne AUstnxsippi Kiverand its triDutanes, ana ror
iacreaaed mail facilities in that State and for the
improvement of the Wisconsin River, were pre
sented and referred.... The bill to provide for the
redemption and reissue of United States notes and
ror rree Daniting waa iauen np, ana a motion was
adopted 2S to 23 to strike out the second section
of the bill reported by the committee, which pro
vides that on the 1st of January. 1376, United States
notes shall be redeemable in coin or interest-bearing
bonds. Several proposed amendments were
rejected. ..Adjourned.
House. Among the bills introduced
and referred were appropriating $10,000 to buy
Carpenter's painting of the M Shining of the Proc
lamation of Emancipation for the construction
of the Portland, Dallas & Salt Lake Railway, and
for the performance of all Government services
free of charge.... The Senate bill providing for the
payment of the bonds of the Louinville & Portland
Canal Company was reported from the committee.
with amendments, and considerable discussion en
sued on the bill. ...Adjourned.
Tuesday, March 31. Senate. Memo
rials were presented and referred, signed bv 7,575
citizens of California, setting forth the evils of the
use of intoxicating liquors, and asking for legisla
tion to prevent intemnerance and the manufacture
of such liquors.... The bill to provide for the re
demption and reissue of United States notes and
for free banking was taken np and a motion to
strike out the fourth section of the bill was agreed
to -J9 to 27. Several amendments to the bill were
offered and rejected.... Ad jonrned.
Hone. The bill providing for the pay
ment of bonds of the Louisville Jfc Portland Canal
Company was passed after being amended so aa to
provide that no money shall be paid under this act
until the State of Kentncky shall have ceded the
jurisdiction over canal property to the United
States A petition of tax-payers of South
Carolina, signed by a large number of
prominent and influential citizens of that
State, waa presented and referred to
the Judiciary Committee, reciting the excessive
taxation to which the people of that Slate are sub
jected, and that the proceeds of such taxation are
systematically squandered or stolen instead or be
tag devoted to the legitimate Dnmoees of the Gov
eminent, and asking Congress to consider their
condition and devise some means of relief.... A
bill was introduced and referred for the relief of
the Commissioners to the ienna Exhibition...
Adjourned.
"Wednesday, April 1. Senate. The
House bill to secure to the Episcopal Board of Mis
sions land in the White Earth Indian reservation in
Minnesota, for the erection of churches and other
buildiags. was passed The joint resolution of
he Legislature of Missouri for the improvement of
the mouth of the Missouri River was presented....
The bill to tmvide for the redemption and reissue
of United Sta'es notes and for free banking waa
runner considered, ana several proposed amend
menu wert rejected.. . , .Adjourned.
House. A counter statement and reply
of the Republican Central Committee of South
Carolina to the memorial of the tax-payers of the
State, presented the day before, was presented and
referred. The statement declares that the tax
pa era have only themselves to blame in not aid
ing in the work of reconstruction, and that the alle
gations as to the Increased expenditures of
the State Government are incorrect, the items
given being wholly inaccurate, untrue, and skill
fully selected to deceive. ...A noUy discussion
occurred on the Senate bill supplemental to the
Mining law of the 10th of May, 1872.... The Cur
rency bill watt taken np and debated.... At the
evening session the bill for the revision of the
laws waa completed and passed . . . . Adjourned.
Thursday, April Senate. The Sen
ate bill to amend the act to promote the develop
ment of the mining reserves of the United States,
with House amendments thereto, was referred....
A bill was reported from the Committee on Post
offices and Post-roads, to provide for the trans
mission of correspondence by telegraph, which bill
is the Hubbard Postal Pelegraph minor bill un
changed, except In matter of detail The bill to
provide for the redemption and reissue of United
States notes and for free banking came
up, and several amendments were ottered
and rejected. A substitute for the third sec
tion of the bill as reported by the com
mittee was adopted 33 to 19 and provides
" That $46,000,000 in notes for circulation, in ad
dition to such circu 1st ion now allowed by law, shall
be issued to the National Ranking associations
now organized and which may be organised here
after, and such increased circulation shall be dis
tributed among the several States as provided in
Section 1 of the act of July 12, 1670.". ...Executive
session and adjournment.
House. But little businesa was trans
acted, the Currency bill being under considera
tion, and a lengthy debate ensued thereon, which
extended into the evening session. Notice was
given of a substitute for the pending bill, which
was In part substantially the same, free banking
-mre common 10 Doin.....o.ajournea.
Fnbllc Debt Statement.
The following is the public debt state
ment, April 1 1
Six per cent, bonds $i,14.663,lf 0
Five per cent, bends... 509,243,450
Total coin bonds...
$1,723,9C6,600
Lawful money debt $l4.67.0OO
Matured debt 6.852,tO0
Legal-tender notes 4 . 384,076,837
Certificates of deposit Bl.TiO.OoO
Fractional currency 49,1(52,660
Coin certificates , 39,045,000
Interest.... 23,676,661
Total debt ,
... ja,295,058,558
Cash in Treasury
Coin $36,121,370
Currency 4,&,451
Special deposits held for redemption
of certificates of deposit as provid
ed by law M, 720.000
Total in Treasury $142,367,830
Debt, less cash in Treasury
$2,153,690,728
Decrease during the month $2,189,838
Bonds Issued to Pacific Railway Com
panies, Interest payaoie in lawrui
monev. nrincinat outstanding. ...... $54,633,512
Interest aCcruedand not yet paid..... 9b9,35S
Interest paid by United States 2386,691
Interest repaid by transportation of
mails, etc o,aui,ao7
Balance of interest paid by United
States 17,335,323
THE MARKETS.
NEW YORK.
April 4, 1874.
Cotton. Middling upland, 16X17c
Lnra Stock. Beef Cattle $10.5O12.50. Hogs
Dressed, $7.2537.50. Sheep Live, $7.0039.25.
BaaaDSTurrs. Flour Good to choice, $6.55(2
6.75; white wheal extra, $8.75a7.10. Wheat No.
2 Chicago, $1.531.55; Iowa spring, $1.531.56;
No. 2 Milwaukee spring. $1.541.58. Rye West
ern and State, 98c&$1.03. Barley $1.651.67.
Corn Mixed Western afloat, 8&90c. Oats
New Western, 6164c.
Pbovisioks. Pork New Mess, $16.6016.75.
Lard 910c.
Wool. Common to extra, 4065c
CHICAGO.
Lrva Stock. Beeves--Choice, $5.65&6.00; good.
$5.255.60; medium, $5.005.25; butchers'
stock. $4.005.00; stock cattle, $3.504.75.
Hogs Live, $5.3536.00. Sheep Good to choice.
$6.0037.00.
Provisions. Butter Choice, 3436c. Eggs-
Fresh, lH13c. Pork New Mess, $15.65
15.70. Lard $9.3239.33.
Bbbadstttits. Flour White Winter extra.
$7.009.25; spring extra, $5.256.75. Wheat
Spring, No. 3, $1.20X31.23. Corn No. 2, 62
62!ic. Oats No. 2, 423313c Rye No. 2,90
93c. Barley No. 2, $1.5231.53.
Wool. Tub-washed, 48353c; fleece, washed.
36348c.; fleece, unwashed, 25332c; palled,
35340c
CINCINNATI.
BBiAnsTurrs. Flour $6.7037.00. Wheat -
$1.40. Corn 64268c Rye $1.04. Oats-50357c.
Barley $1.5531.60.
Provisions. Pork $16.00316.25. Lard 9J4
394c
01. iMia.
Lrv Stock. Beeves Fair to choice, $1,503
6.25. Hogs Live, $4.7535.50.
Bradstuvts. Flour XX Fall, $8.0036.25.
Wheat No. 2 Red Fall, $1.4531.50. Corn No. 2
69362HC Oats No. 2, 49350c. Rye No. 2, 973
98c. Barley $1.5531.60.
Provisions. Pork Mess, $16.00316.25. Lard
939ic
ALLL.W AUIUIJI.
Brkadstufts. Flour Spring XX, $5.7036.25.
Wheat Spring No.l, $1.2931.20; No. 2, $1,233
1.23?i. Corn No. 2, 64385c Oats No. 2, 433
44c Rye No. 1, 8S338KC Barley No. 2, $1.55
31.58.
UlllltUll.
Brsabstutts. Wheat Extra, $1.623t.62V4.
Corn 370c. Oats 50351c
TOLEDO.
BBiAssTcrrs. Wheat Amber Mich., $1,453
1.45 J. No. 2 Red, $1.4231.43. Corn Mixed, 65
66c Oats No. 1, 52353c
CLEVELAND.
Brbadstutts. Wheat No. 1 Bed, $1.5531.56;
No. 2 Red, $1.4531.46. Corn 70372c Oata 493
51c
BUFFALO.
Lrva Stock. Beeves $5.2536.00. Hogs
Live, $5.2535.90. Sheep Live, $7.0038.00.
EAST LIBERTY.
Live Stock. Beeves Best, $.807.00; me
dium, $6.0036.50. Hogs Yorkers, $5.255.40;
Philadelphia, $6.258.50. Sheep Best, $7.00
8.00; medium, $V506.50.
A Fifteen-Hours' Walt for Lire.
On Sunday afternoon a young man
named George Falk swallowed, as he
stated, three ounces of laudanum and five
grains of morphia, in order to end his
life. There was but one way of saving
him, and that was to keep him in motion.
After relieving him as far as possible,
his physician ordered that he be walked
until he was out of danger. At half-past
two o'clock Sunday afternoon he was put
upon his tramp for life, and was forced to
walk in the open air as rapidly as he
could. His father kept by him for a long
time, and a friend or a policeman as
sisted. After some hours the father gave
out, and finally officers and friends grew
tired. At last officers had to be taken
from their beats and made to do duty in
saving the life of the would-be suicide.
When the walk commenced it was with
great difficulty that he could be kept
going, and so great was his Etupor that at
times he would almost fall like a stick.
Frequently it was necessary to catch him
and move him on. He reeled at times
like a drunken man, and then again he
would revive considerably. The dreary,
monotonous walk was kept up without
intermission until half-past six o'clock
yesterday morning, when the physician
consented that he should be allowed to
take rest. The life of the young man was
saved, but the struggle for freedom from
the effects of the drugs was a severe one.
To have Btopped three minutes would
have been fatal. Baltimore Gazette.
THE MILLERSTOWN TRAGEDY.
Over 10O Families Rendered Ilomrlrss
Seven Persona Burned Loss S'iSO,
OOO. A fire occurred In Millerstown, Pa., recent
ly, which, besides the destruction of property,
was the cause of the death of several persons.
The fire broke out in the Central Hotel. The
bar-keeper of the hotel, who was sitting np
with a nick friend, was the first to discover the
fire; He immediately rushed through the halls
to arovue the guests. There were, Including
servants, a hundred souls in the house, and
directly the corridors became the scene of the
wildest dismay. Fortunately there were no
lady guests registered, or the story of horror
and death might have been Immeasurably
more painful to detail. The flames drifted up
the wooden walls, and quicker than it takes to
tell it spread over the entire s6uthern side
and were curling in a thousand tongues from
cornice and gable. Men rushed a' most naked
into the hall, some not even taking their
clothing in their arms, and, anxious only t
escape with their lives, tore up and down the
corridors, madly seeking some outlet from
the pursuing flames.
The wildest horror prevailed. Shriek rose
upon shriek, in heart-rending accents, all the
more impressive because they came from
strong men grappling with death, with the
odds so terribly against all mere human power.
Many on the lower hall had found their way
out of the building, and the proprietor of the
house, who was sick, had been borne out.
For an instant it was hoped that all would
escape, but again that hope was dashed by the
beseeching cries for help from those who had
lingered to dress or, In the excitement of the
dreadful moment, were unable to undo the
fastenings of their doors.
To add to the horror of the situation it was
discovered that the flames had crept through
the southern sleeping-rooms, and following
the draft along the corridor, had cut off the
servants' escape from the attic
Between prayers and shrieks and groans the
scene was now too much for human hearts.
Knowing their utter Inability to render aid,
many turned away from the sickening 6Cene
tiiey found it aa difficult to endure as to re
lieve. Some of the girls had courage and presence
of mind to turn their drapery over their heads
for protection and rush through the sheet of
flame, and thus some escaped. Others rushed
back to the north side and cast themselves
from the wimdows upon the roof of the
adjoining building, whence they were
rescued. Others sank bewildered in the
suffocating smoke, and, like some of the
guests on the floor below, yielded without
a struggle to the terrible death before them.
The climax of horror had not been reached
till Nelly McCarty, one of the dining-room
girls, appeared at the southern attic window,
and proposed to cast herself to the groundj
forty feet below. A warning cry arose from
the crowd, hut the poor girl would not
retreat. Death was behind her, and with a
wild cry of despair she cast herself forward
and fell, a pitiful mass of broken bones, on the
pavement.
The fire extended to the adjoining buildings,
and before it was extinguished a large portion
of the village was laid in ruins. It is esti
mated that the loss by the fire exceeded
$250,000, and that 100 families were rendered
homeless. The estimated loss f life was
seven.
Raid Mountain.
The deposits in the Massachusetts
savings bank 9 increased from $184,797,
313.92 in 1872 to $203,062,150.53 in 1873,
or more than $18,000,000. The increase
In the number of depositor s was about 6
percent
The telegraph has incidentally told us
that something is the matter with a
mountain in North Carolina. Thunder
ing sounds nre heard within it . 1 1 d sus
picious smoke issues from it, an North
Carolina begins to think that she has been
entertaining a volcano unawares. The
State don't exactly know whether to be
proud of it or frightened at it. The pa
pers give some particulars of the new
wonder that has terrified the bold moun
taineers. The mountain drags its rugged
front along the southern borders
of McDowell County, and is known
as Bald Mountain. It has been
quiet and peaceful, and exhibited
no signs of any Internal struggle
from the time when the memory of man
goeth not back to the contrary. Some of
the pastoral dwellers on its rugged sides
never heard of a volcano or dreamed of
an earthquake. They heard subterranean
artillery, the ground began to shake be
neath them and their knees trembled.
They reported their experience to others,
who went to hear and feel for themselves.
These explorers said there was something
the matter with the mountain, and ex
plained to the simple mountaineers
the nature of earth convulsions and
volcanic eruptions. Then a wide alarm
spread, and the people in the afflicted
region say " they are going to leave if it
is not stopped." There seems to be no
doubt of the fact that the mountain is in
terrible throes; there is a rumbling noise
and an occasional quaking of the earth.
There are also positive indications that
the mountain is on fire. One paper states
that the subterranean thunder has been
distinctly heard at Marion and Old Fort,
twenty miles distant, and the general im
pression seems to be that Bald Mountain
is going to develop into a live, flaming
volcano. These disturbances have been
going on for two months, and occur every
day, and the people in the cottages, ham
lets and villages of the vicinity are in a
very unsettled state. They boldly talk of
emigrating if the authorities do not inter
fere in their behalf. Their homes are not
pleasant and the distempered mountain is
voted worse than any Ku-Klux they have
ever had among them. But some good
has been accomplished by these convul
sions of nature. They have started
prayer meetings and are leading a revival;
which has been going on for several days
at the foot of Bald Mountain. Preachers
had always failed to make much impres
sion upon those hardy mountain men.
They have now been converted without
any such spiritual medium. They have
gone into solemn worship of their own
tree will and accord, and Bald Mountain
talks to them in undertones. The moun
tain is also moving in the temperance
cause. An old blockade whisky distiller
has come down from his fastness of
Chimney Rock, where he has been mak
ing whisky in defiance of the revenue
officers for several years. He acknowl
edges the " corn," and asks the good peo
ple to pray for him. He has abandoned
his illicit trade and traffic until he can
find some safer place. Bald Mountain
has things all its own way now, and if it
comes out a first-class volcano, with
earthquake accompaniment, it may do a
deal of good in its section of the country.
St. Louit fiepubliean, March 35.
Dead, But ot Barfed.
When a friend dies and is buried, there's
an end of him. We miss him for a space
out of our daily existence ; we mourn for
him by degrees that become mercifully
less; we cling to the blessed hope that
we shall be reunited in some more per
fect sphere; but so far as this earth is
concerned, there's an end of him. How
ever near and dear he was, the time ar
rives when he does not form a part of our
daily thought; he ceases to be even an
abstraction. We go no more with flowers
and tears into the quiet cemetery; only
the rain and the snow-flakes fall there;
we leave it for the fingers of spring to
deck the neglected mound.
But when our friend vanishes unac
countably in the midst of a crowded city,
or goes off on a sea-voyage and is never
heard of again, his memory has a singu
lar tenacity. He may be to all intents
and purposes dead to us, but we have not
lost him. The ring of the door-bell at
night may be his ring; the approaching
footsteps may be his footsteps; the un
expected letter with foreign postmarks
may be from his hands. He haunts us as
the dead never can.
The woman whose husband died last
night may marry again within a luster of
months. Do you suppose a week passes
by when the woman whose husband dis
appeared mysteriously ten years ago does
not think of him? There are moments
when the opening of a door must startle
her.
There is no real absence but death.
T. B. Aldrich, in Atlantic Monthly.
Need One Hurry?
Although the sun rises and sets daily
with some show of regularity, and the
seasons succeed each other in the same
order with which they began, each show
ing some anticipation of the one that is
to come, as well as reminiscence of the
one that has just departed, there is never
theless a feeling that lurks very generally
in the human mind that the world is
coming to an end. It has lurked there,
certainly in all historic time, and the
fables which prehistoric times have told
had this moral; it has blazed out now
and then into a fire of burning expecta-.
tion and dread ; and in every generation
there are men and whole classes of socie
ty to whom the coming end is the stim
ulus of action or the paralyzer of hon
est work;
Now there is no great, comprehensive,
or penetrating impulse moving men and
generations, which has not its miniature
presentment in the petty ways of life;
and the strong hope which made the
horizon luminous to the Apostle, and
caught up his daily life into the sweep of
heroic action, is parodied in the flicker
of some phantom future which makes
ordinary mortals discontented wilh the
present, and turns their daily work into
an unseemly push and incontinent hurry.
Something is coming be It Saturday, or
pay-day, or the annual alance-sheet, or
the visit of a relation, or a journey, a
marriage, a birthday, an anniversary the
end of the world in which we are dwell
ing for the time is at hand ; then is to
begin something new ; some changed cir
cumstances, a fresh day, a new week, a
new account, different society, a new
start in life, a settlement, a beginning
after the end.
It is impossible for one to sit down to
think at all of what enters into the motive
of his life without seeing how very large
a share new beginnings have in it; how
constantly he looks to the end with refer
ence to the beginning that is to come
after. The point at issue is not how to
eradicate hope, small or great, from one's
life, but how to get rid of this perpetual
hurry and drive, his galloping to the end
of a journey, only to mount a fresh steed
and gallop on the next stage; the clatter
of the horses' hoofs becoming an accom
paniment to all one's thoughts. There is
certainly something ignominious in the
confession which people are constantly
making that they have no time to do this
or that needful thing, and that they shall
breathe more freely if they can once clear
their desk, or finish this job, or wipe out
this obligation. One comes to feel that
Time has been borrowed from, and that
one's notes are perpetually maturing,
while one makes a vain effort to cancel
them by giving fresh notes. We turn
round in a heipless sort of fashion, and
berate the age we live in, with its whiz
zing locomotives and its clicking tele
graphs, as if the punctuality of railroad
trains and the instantaneousness of dis
patches were not the very friends and ser
vants of honest leisure.
It would be idle to lay down a set of
rules by which one might hope to exor
cise this evil demon of haste and unrest,
but one would take much pains if
he could hope to persuade the unhappy
man of hurry that the fault was all his
own, and lay in the very spirit with
which he set about his work ; that, in
short, hurry was an evil spirit, to be exor
cised by whatever power is mighty
enough to con'rol it It is among men of
business that it shows itself most clearly,
while it is most oflensive when displayed
in the life of men of thought Business
and hurry, so far from being necessary
partners, are opposed to each other by the
most violent contrast It may safely be
said that the most successful men of busi
ness are the least hurried, for hurry is an
open transgression of the law of order, and
order is tne foundation-stone of a business
house. And there we touch the secret of
a leisurely life, one which has free play,
without this incessant push from behind.
He who orders his life, and refuses
to be carried along by the nearest
current; who holds his purposes
as sacred and does not lightly allow
himself to be turned trom them;
who has the will to refuse work, in spite
of thnt most intolerable complaint, the
suspicion of being a shirk it is he who
can hope bravely to live a life of leisure.
Is it not pitiable to see one who, through
his very anxiety to do everything which
circumstance seems to lay on his broad
back, comes to be the very thrall of cir
cumstance, and starts at every shadow
which seems to whisper that he is not
faithful? He wears his life away to a
fretful existence in the vain attempt to
leave nothing undone, when it would
have been nobler to leave much undone
which has been done ill. He disappoints
his masters by the excess of his endeavor,
yet none is so disappointed as himself, for
the solace of having tried to do what one
has not done is a mockery. It is doing
which brings comfort
Along with the spirit of order which
leads one to arrange his work so that it
shnll not be always at his heels, and the
courage which makes him refuse to do
what he cannot do well, though he be sus
pected of shirking that most hatefatl
thing to his soul there is also the ele
ment, which indeed i3 but the
spirit of order and of courage
combined, of resolute reserve of leisure.
Forster, in bi3 account of Dickens, has
touched upon the fundamental weakness
of that sad life, the absence of any " city
of the mind " to which he could flee for
refuge from the incessant pressure of the
actual and real npon him. It is, we hold,
a necessity for every man of business to
have and gurd jealously some period of
each day which shall be consecrated to
leisure the leisure of books, or of gentle
society, or of nature, or of worship. The
last is essential; the others are gratelul
aids. In this shelter he has a chance to
set his watch by the heavenly bodies, and
when he issues forth, into whatever thicket
of men or affairs he may plunge, he will
at any rate be himself and not the slave
of necessity. There is no need of hurry,
for hurry is at variance with freedom ;
and the need that men have is of freedom.
So it comes to pass that in a hurrying
age the man of leisure is the man of hope,
and the end of the world to him is the
opening ot fairer prospect for that which
even now lies in his grasp. Eztry Sat
urday. TnERE is nothing so tends to shorten
the lives of old people and to injure their
health as the practice of sitting up late,
especially winter evenings. This is espe
cially the case when there is a grown-up
daughter in the family.
We haven't any balmy breezes to speak
of in this section so far; but their sure
precursors, their gentle messengers, are
with us. We refer of course to qualmy
sneeaes. Jlochetter Chronide.
A factory for the manufacture of
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cuemicais, grape sugar am tiexiriue is w
be built in Milwaukee.
NUMBER 2.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
On the contrary Riding a mule.
A BTORM-BCENTER Old Probabilities.
It is an ill wind that blows snow good.
For spring costumes, round waists with
tight sleeves are the rule.
The shape of tbe new bonnet looks as
though had been repeatedly kicked.
Next to finance the back-hair question
most occupies the public mind. Boston
rost.
A Baltimore man advertises $5 reward
if anyone will return him the $2,100 he
lost
A hopeful spinster finds consolation
in the proverb " It's never too late to
men(d)."
Most of the shadows that cross our
path through life are caused by our stand
ing in our own light.
An Indiana baby ha9 six toes on each
foot and can toe the mark with prompt
nets and dispatch.
When Jones heard that there was a
touch of malice in a certain great author's
smile he said he took sugar in his.
One lead pencil lasts a Dubuque editor
three months, but he has to have a new
rivet in his Ehears every three weeks.
TnE Btage driver who was arrested the
other day for bigamy might have pleaded
that he only wanted to collect the fairs.
An Alabama man has invented a plate
which prevents boots from running over
at the heels, but can't find a shoemaker
who will use them.
Air Indianapolis father shot six times
at a supposed burglar, and was astonished
to hear the fellow ask ; " Whazzer mazzer,
fazzer, whazzer doing?"
If the various wives of John Irwin, of
Virginia, should gather around him there
would be a group of six, all married
within the last two years.
A Cincinnati professor has demon
st rated that a man feels just as satisfied
after lunching on a raw turnip alone as if
he had feasted at a King's table.
In a recent trial in Baltimore it was
shown that patent medicine men can get
almanac certificates of the wonderful vir
lues of their medicines for fifty cents per
head.
Sixteen years ago Tom Kenyon went
to Kansas City without a cent, and the
other day he signed a check for $16,000.
He signed it with another man's name,
though.
The Green Bat girls, having heard that
certain young men would not marry a
woman who could not do housework, can
now be seen every morning sweeping off
the doorsteps.
Texas has two new legal holidays, the
2d of March and the 21st of April. The
first is the anniversary of Texan inde
pendence, and the second that of the bat
tle of San Jacinto.
Moore's Rural Jieto Yorker speaks of
the " Metropolis of the Eden of America,"
and then explains in a parenthesis that it
means Rochester. It is always safest to
label pictures.
A Cincinnati man who was charged
with being a dead-beat and a swindler has
obtained seven cents damage. Let this
be a warning to men of impulsive natures
who want damages.
In the Yuba County Hospital, California,
interesting experiments have been made
with a magnet for the cure of rheumatism
and paralysis. A large horseshoe magnet
is used, and one case of paralysis has been
almost cured and several cases of chronic
rheumatism relieved.
Those who dread the approach of sum
mer, because of its thunder-showers and
death-dealing bolts, will take courage, no
doubt when they learn that the statistics
of death by lightning and by suicide
show that a man is six times as likely to
kill himself as to be killed by lightning.
TnE Portland (Me.) Pmi says that
five years ago a gentleman in that city
scratched his name on a nickel cent and
sent it on its travels. Eighteen months
after this cent came into the possession
of a Lowell acquaintance, who marked
his name upon it Two years later it
turned up in Pennsylvania, and came
into the hands of a former chum of the
Portlander. Recognizing the name, he
inscribed his also on the coin. One day
this week the man who started tho cent
on its travels was making a purchase in
a Lowell store, when the identical nickel
which left his pocket five years ago was
handed to him in change.
The flight of riches and the folly of those
who lavish money wastefully were never
better illustrated than in the case of the
late Legrand Lockwood'g splendid mar
ble palace at Norwalk, Conn. There
are forty acres of fine ornamented
grounds, in the center of which is a state
ly structure costing $2,000,000. On the
premises are three other handsome build
ings, porter's lodge, conservatories, sta
bles, and so on. The house is replendent
with polished marbles, frescoes, inlaid
woodwork of the most costly kind; doors
which cost $2,000 each; a billiard-room
on which $10,000 were expended ; and
there are forty-nine rooms thus gorgeous
ly decorated, no two of which are alike.
It is estimated that between $2,000,000
and $3,000,000 of cash were sunk in
this monument of extravagance, and yet
the entire establishment is now on the
market for less than $350,000.
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Dr. Livingstone's Last Days.
London (March 29) Dispatch to New York nerald.
TnE followine account is given of Dr.
Livingstone's fatal illness and death: He
had been ill of chronic dysentery for sev
eral months. He was well supplied with
stores and medicines, but he had a pre
sentiment that the attack would prove
fatal. At first he was able to ride on a
donkey, but soon had to be carried. Ar
riving at Muilala, beyond Lake Bemba, in
the Bisa country, he said : " Build me a
hut to die in." A hut was built by his
followers. On the 1st of May he was con
fined to his bed. ana afterward suuert a
erreatlv. eroaning night and dav. The
third day he said he was very cold, and
requested that more grass be put over the
hut. Kitumbo. the chief of Bisa. sut
flour and beans, and behaved well toward
the partv. The fourth day Dr. Living
stone was insensible, and died about mid-
nitrht. Makauhoua, a servant, was pres
ent Dr. Livingstone made his last entry
in his diary April 27. He spoke much
and sadly of his home and family. When
he was hrst seized by the fatal attack he
told his followers he intended to exchange
everything for ivory to give them, and
then push on to Ujiji and Zanzibar and to
reach England.
The same dav on which he died his fol
lowers consulted what to do. TheNassick
boys determined to preserve the remains.
They were afraid to inform the chief of
the death of the Doctor. The Secretary
had the body removed to another hut and
built a high fence around it to insure
privacy. He then removed the internal
organs. Dlaced them in a tin box, and
buried it inside the fence under a large
tree. Jacob Wainwright ;ut an mscrip.
tion on the tree there thus :
"DOCTOR LIVINGSTONE,
Died May 4, 187S."
and superscribed it with the name of the
head man, Dusa. The body waa preserved
in salt, and dried in the sun twelve days.
Chief Kitumbo, on being informed of Dr.
Livingstone's death, had drums beat and
guns fired as a token of respect ftnd
allowed the followers to remove the tody,
which they placed in a coffin of bark and
commenced the journey to Unyamjembe,
whieh consumed about six months, send
ing in advance a party with information
of all that had occurred, addressed to Ljr
$3ET" All Advertising bills due quarterly.
fST" Transient advertisements mutt be paid for
In advance
Extra copies of the nxaALn for sale by U. J.
Streight, at the Poototflcc, and O. F. Johnson, coi
ner ot Main and Fifth streets.
ingstone's son. The advance party were
met by Mr. Cameron, who sent back bales
of cloth and powder. The body arrived
at Unyamjembe ten days after the advance
Sarty, and rested there for two weeks.
Ir. Cameron, Mr. Murphy, and Mr. Dillon
also arrived together there, the latter very
ill, his sight gone and mind affected. He
afterwartl committed suicide at Karekara,
and was buried there. At Unyamjembe
Dr. Livingstone's remains were placed in
another bark case, a smaller one, and done
up to represent a bale of goods, so as to
deceive the natives, who objected to tho
passage of a corpse, and thus carried to
Zanzibar. Dr. Livingstone's clothing,
papers and instruments accompanied the
body. When sick in In d Dr. Livingstone
firayed much, and said, "I am going
lome." Chumah remains at Zanzibar.
Webb, the American Consul at Zanzibar,
received letters through Murphy, from
Livingstone, for Stanley, and will deliver
them personally.
The only geographical news is aa fol
lows: After Stanley's departure the Doc
tor left Unyamjembe, rounded the south
end of Tadganyik a, traveled south of Lake
Bemba or Bangueoleo, crossed it from the
south to the north, and then proceeded
along the east side, returning north
through the marshes of Muilalala. All
his papers are sealed and addressed to the
Secretary of State. They are in charge of
Arthur Laing, a British merchant at Zan
zibar. Murphy and Cameron remain be
hind. Onr First Lore.
We have some very vivid recollections
of the first time we lost our heart We
were about seventeen years of age at that
time and bad the disease in iU most vio
lent form. We used throe quires or fcilt
edged note paper, a whole bottle of red
ink, and exhausted the English language
in our endeavors to indite a satisfactory
billet-doux to the fair object of our affec
tions, but without success, however.
Then we called in person for the purpose
of urging our suit but was seized by a fit
of bashlulncss immediately after we got
there. The first symptom of the disease
that we noticed was a very high fever in
our face, accompanied by a choking sen
sation in our throat, loss of speech, weak
ness in the knees and general debility.
Then the disease attacked our mental
faculties, and we arrived at the conclu
sion, after a thorough examination, that
our legs closely resembled a couple of
crooked sticks stuck in a pair of raw
potatoes; and we didn't know what to do
with our hands, as we could find noplaco
in our immediate vicinity where wo
thought they looked right. We could
have employed them profitably in assort
ing and twisting our mustache, only we
didn't wear one at that time, owing to our
extreme youth. After we had recovered
from the first shock of the meeting and
succeeded in convincing Miss Julia that
we were having very nice weather, thai
being the only topic we could call
to mind just at that time, we in
formed her that we had an en
gagement with a friend that evening
and must be going. We had adjusted
our fine beaver hat on our head and as
sumed control of our cane, and was Just
backing up to the door with a winning
smile playing over our features, when we
came in contact with a chair that was
going that same road, and lost our equi
librium. When we became cognizant of
a change in our position, wo were laying
on our back, partially supported by tho
chair, and our feet describing circles in
the air in the immediate neighborhood
of the ceiling. We judge our position at
Ihis time was very affecting, as we heard
Julia smothering her sobs in her hand
kerchief very distinctly. After some
minutes of severe exertion on our part
we succeeded in regaining our perpen
dicular, but was surprised to find that the
concussion had driven our head down
into our beaver and knocked the bottom,
or rather the top, of it entirely out. We
attempted to remove it by gently lifting
it upward, but the operation was attended
by so much pain to our nasal projection
that we were constrained to desist Then
we gave it a few tender Jerks downward,
and by elongating our neck to its fullest
extent succeededin getting ur organs
of vision far enough above the hat to get
the bearings of the door. We went out
immediately, without waiting to make
the bow we had intended to make, but we
presume it was unnecessary, aa we heard
the back door close violently a few in
stants before we left John Outer, tn
D anbury Newt.
Reliability.
Tt la tlii nnnlitv Kflvn n. writpr in ihft
Queen, that we need in our man of busi-
rtoc. An iinrclinhlf 1wvfr stockbroker.
agent bailiff whatsoever the functions
he minus now can we get on wiui iiimr
lln in nnr ruin incarnate, as well as his
own; and the very fact tJiat he cannot be
trusted in his work i condemnation
IV,. oil tlio foot IIa TTIAV ItA t Af.
oughly honest and yet unreliable. Here-
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in is seen tne vaiue 01 iub wuru. uc may
be forgetful, indolent, impulsive, impres
sionable, unpunctual. Any of these faults,
.. . '. i! at- v. I
wnicn are not morai sius, unuta mm ui
his work as tne carc-iaaer 01 ouriortunes,
and disqualifies him for the office because
of his unreliability when in it An un
reliable physician, too, digs the grave for
his own success. To trust ourselves and
the lives of our dearest to a man whose
punctuality of visits is a fond belief never
translated into an actuality, whose sharp
ness of perception is a thing that comes
and goes with the weather and the state
rst tiia Hver. and who lets himself be
drawn away from the arduous duties of
his profession by any passing iantasy or
l to trust ourselves, perhaps.
to the best-natured fellow in the world,
i
but to a man so entirely unre
liable as to be almost useless for
this work. Of what use to a sick
man the lightning quickness of diagnosis
at one time, when the dull brain lacks
even the ordinary power of a second-rate
intellect at another? What we want in
our physician is emphatically reliability
reliability all through, not in fragments,
nor by fits and starts, but a steady-going
quality of trustworthiness from end to
end, and to the extent to which his natural
powers may reach.
In fact there is not a function or posi
tion in life in which reliability is not the
most valuable characteristic. Genius
which sends scrimped work as often as
noble effort, and the mainstay of an under
taking not to be trusted for time or
punctuality, energies which are heroic on
one occasion, then sink below the meas
ure of a child's strength on another, love
that burns like the sun to-day, and is dead
and cold as a mere heap of ashes to-morrow
who cares for such gifts as these?
Beautiful as they are when they come,
they are intrinsically worthless, because
so entirely unreliable; and qualities which
have not nail the show and shine of these
have twice their value because always to
band when wanted, always to be trusted
in and relied on when they have work to
do and responsibilities to fulfill. Yes, it
is a grand quality ; we know none grander.
It is the very crown, the gathering in of
so many notable virtues which without it
are of no account that we might part
with many a good gift bestowed by nature
upon man rather than with this whicl
gives vitality to all this supreme ex
cellence of reliability. With it a boor
has worth; without it a demigod his
dangers and his valuelessness. It meana
everything that is solid, everything that
is trustworthy, and no one Is so great that
he can do without it, no one so humble
that he is not ennobled and made of value
with It.
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