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NEBRASKA-ADVERTISER.
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GEO'. Y7.-HILL & CO,,
.jTertlier BlocVjMftin S't Between 1st k 2d'
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nna half column, one year.
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50 69
51 09
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Oua fourth column, one jear,
one eigh?h coluiun, odo year.
One column six tuoDtba
One naif eolomnsn months .
One fourth cot o inn sixiDotafes
One eijL t icoolumaiix moasin
One column three months
One half coinmn three bjoI hs.
One forti colniua three moaihe
One eighth column ibrct months
Annonncice esnolOalesft-r 3c
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A. Ay Ay Ay
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TERM:
Stray sales charge! as trancient adrert islm"
ti .'.nr-.&nt vfirtiiemsnta mitt be Vaiil la a4
vance. Tearly adYertisaments quarter ly ia adraso
"LIBERTY AND UNION, ONE AND .INSEPARABLE NOW AND .F OREVER.'
All kinds of Jjb, Boot and Card pristine, dae la
'ii best itjte oa short notice and reasonable terms.
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA, THUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1,1866;
VOL. XI.
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AyA Ay ivyy
;a
fil' I X E S S CARDS.
aTsholladay, m. d.
raduatcil In
Located in Ilrownvlllc in lS5r.
riTUEUB man
AND
OBSTETKIC T A1ST
" i.r. 11. t.n e .u.;lcte icti tf Atuputtt-
tr ."TiM.bii.insar.iObstttri"al inrtruments.
ohec. Hullatlar A' Co's Drur: Store
7Vo Doors Lad of rod OJJlce.
a- u.-iftlst:er,ti'.n eirea to Obstttricand
ac fl wjtuen ard rinictren. x.-i-ijr
CIIAVa.ES HELLMER,
W!A ..aa JJ
Main Ln. 2 doora below Erownvillo House,
'. CTIOWNVJLLE N. T-
J!,.. Ui J a niprri-jr stc k i.f Boots and Sbres
l! '1 e I" at luttmal and ability for doinj
CUSTOM-WORK
: 1 1 fii f dun? vilth nraint&s and dispatch
,.-y Torxia CtxruTx. " un
I FRANZ HELMER,
(ri 'MTi:r)Et'si;u's tin shop,
u::burn.M:, xcniiAsui.
n'f;oNs, nuoc'ira. tlowp cuiti-
VITo its. a.c , KrHt el ua tlioi t nti e, a- iow tiea,
ti.r !.:"lt'i'iUiU'"U. x-U-iu nn
AT.iERICAN USEr
AGood Iced and Livery Stable
luc .r.nci-tlon eitb tbe lluase.
L D. RDB1HS0M. PKOl'KlETOK.
f i;.t Street, telween Main and Water,
.'IHIOWXVILLE, XI!RASKA.
'"May.30;h ISM. 103Gly
EDWARD "W."THOMAS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
AKt)
SOLICITOR IN CHANCERY,
, 'ri4r of slain and Firt Streets.
liROWN VILLE. NEBRASKA.
mVSeiUellleijCmCU,
Millinery & Fancy Goods
OTOIIE.
S-.rt et cue door west ol the Post Office
11 11 0 K WILLI', . K 1 1 R 4 S K A .
A nj-n.r t k of fall aim Wiater tionds
;u-!;r-f.vrt. Evrjtbinj in the Millinery lice
''"-!i:.t!j on bund- Drefg-Making, linnet
":f anl TriinmiDj; dt ne to order.
.".. Ur,:i IMS. Ti"-n--2Sly
MARSH & CO.,
iCl i EOBS TO MAE?U & I00K,
Cra-Ll Xevrs A;:cii!s and Staiioners,
Vost Onico lliilltllnsr,
1 ; K ) 'N VHA. I :. N 113 IIASKA-
l''ti'o:i ban! anl are ronstanllj receiving
,rr' U in .t It ..ks. IVriodi.-aN, Statiunsrjr,
'U '. U A 1 l-.i to-, Sbil liooki ;also Cunfec
II '""J. if iri", TtLi-., and a cboi.ve clccii n f
i.t. r tir-ri. i gt tiraliy.to a bich tbey in vitc tbe
t-t.'i u ,f tfc . citinn of Nemaha coaty, and
j t b, -ip?r.i-t tttt-r.tijn t business, and fair
i-iiif tv, n,. nt a sbare if tbe i-ublif atr't,aje.
i :.l'.MaK-H. nlJ ly J.W.UL1SS.
A. H0B1NS0N,
711
- Bct-fn lt k ll Street
Tkr th;, tt.. ,h, d .1 ii.n.rn.inif tbe fullictbat
- U j., t.kai a ,,.Und,.l !..rtnnt of Uccfs aud
- M - jr ,t CbUdrrns'j
JOO'lS. WM c:it-m.
K !' U lth eallit'SS fctid (litCi
10-au tDun
CAT-J& BOUSriELD,
BRICK L YE US
P L A ST E R E R S .
Hrouniiiir, clirahka.
IJ Uk.t r"-,r-" IiikUyii.f, I'U.tcrins,
" ' 't-rn, and do arjtbir-n thir line
Al -ti.f.ctorj aiid i.rko,aiilike iiwuttr.
-Vr 'll 47-1,
.. JAMES MEDFOUD,
AND
CABINET - MAKER
A V t
Com-r LVj ar.,1 Mni, H.rw.7
on
iBROVniVILLE HOUSE,
COR. MAIN AND-XDSJS.,
Ilrou nvlllc. Xcbrasjta.
n..W. PCDICORD, Propjietor,
Ttitlljuselai been ftfurnhhed and newly fitted
P a.d rarLibd under ilsj roeoct enterrris'mc
. rjj,u, wbti gnrratt-ei latiifsctfon to si! who
x-51y
giutf ittttl.iboe
4 ' V-:v
a, a
K 11 am
am
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n t niTTfi ttt a t nmnn 11
111,
ilousc-SIsfl & Ornamental
Glizicr, Gilder, Grainer,
PApBRHANGER etc.
All work done in a workman
like manner, and on stricklj
O l 3E3I
TE EMS.
OSI DOOR WEST Or BB0WSTILL1 HOBt
JACOB MAROIIN,
MERCHANT
f A
MUNT STREET, BRO VNVILLE, NEBRASKA
353 "W i IT C3r
Auj. 23a G6
KfCIIAUD F. BARRET,
AIID ppAJ.BH I3T
LAND WARRANTS & LAND SCRIPT,
rer$onal attention given to muling Location.
Qfflce in J. Li. Carson's Ranking: House.
BROWNVILLE, NKBRASKA.
Xfli ly fr-nn
t t
JOSEPH S II U T 2
Ha just received and will constantly keep on
Land a large and well selected stock of genuine ar
ticles it) is line.
One Door west of Grant's Sore, Brown
ville, Jfebraska.
Of Clocks; Vatchesand Jewelry done on the short
est Notice.
WORK WARRANTED.
Brownville, Neb.. March 15th. 1866. 10-26 ly
Q. F. STEWRT. TvJ- 5T
South East corner of Main and First Street?
BROIVXULLE, NEBRASKA.
OrricK HorK? 7 to 9 a. m. and 1 to 2 and 6 to
BrownTil!e, Nebraska, May $th, lg65 No 34, ly.
CHARLES G. DORSE Y
ATTORNEY AT LAW
jftxt Door to Carson's Ban:,
MAIN STREET
TIPTON & HEWETT,
ttontcti0 at CalU,
BROWNVILLE, NEBRASKA.
March 1st, '6. ly.
RESTAURANT
OYSTER SALOON.
WILLIAM ROSSELL
takes this method of Informing the public that he
has just oponcd,on Main street, between 1st and 2nd,
imOH.WILLE, NEBRASKA.
a Restaurant and Oyster Saloon.
Also, Confectionaries, Canned Froit, Dried
Fruit, Spices of-xll kinds. Tea, Coffee, bugar
Tobacco, Potatoes, ijreet Potatoes and eTerytbing
usnally kept in a retain giocery store.
TMEALS SERVED AT ALL BOUBS.Jl
FRKSII OYSTERg-x-15-ly
-
Evan Worthing,
Wholesale & Retail Dealer in Choice
Liquor Win.es, Ale, Bcear,
PITTS IlIIFrALOTXIRASHIXC
II ACIIIXE, XEv YORK SELF RA
KIXCJ REAPER. .QIAKKK 3IOT
ER and IllCIt EYE CULTIVA
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HUM LSI AfflT.
TOR.
TTIIITXEY'S 3EOC1X,
Main Street, Brownrille
Kar, I7hl lallyfr."a
THE SI0B OF A HlillO.
fcY O MASVILLE TE5N.
And I don't think Lever shall get to
take it as a matter of course, sir taking
it coollv's out cf the question. Here e
are living about as excitecj a life as a man
can lead always on duty, and ready at
a moment to nave a set-to wim me worst
. i i
fire that ever, broke out. No; I shall
never get to take it as a matter of course ;
for it's all dark, rush and excitement;
and I love it, sir. Flash comes the news
to us bv telegraph, most likely ; out
comes the horses; there's a light put to
the ready trimmed fire; fiqd then, wjih
a train of sparks flying out behind us, as
the fire roars, rind the steams getting up
away gallop ihe horses. Ay, it's "Hi
ho ! hallo !'' and they clear the pad for
us, and away we go full gallop down the
streets, with the horse's hoofs striking
fire, the crowd shouting, and the running
mob increasinz at every step. There's
something in it as warm3 . one's blood ;
and as to the dangrer well, of coarse,
its dangerous ; but when we feel that
W 14 1 "
weer doing our duty, and know what's
before us, why, somehow we don't re
member the danger, but go at it ia earn
est. . , '-
Now, there was only last week,' sitting
as I was waiting for a callthere it was
at last, late on in the night, when the
streets jyerg clear ; and away we tore at
something like a pace. . Oxford street,
Holborn, down the Hill, up Skinner street
and Newgaie street whoop ! and away
full gallop, with the horses enjoying it,
bless you, and lashing out till it's hard to
. W I ' 1 .
say . wnemer tney aian t mak-e more
sparks than the fire under the boiler.
We wanted no more instructions, for
there was the red glow on ahead ; and
as we got nearer we could almost see
the sparks; and at last we did see them
co.e pouring and rolling along, with the
smoke, and being a heavy, hot night,
hanging like a thick starspanled cloud
just over our heads.
engines were there, and as it
happened so late there was not so many
people as might have been expected ; but ,
as soon as I gpi tjiere I siw as something
particular was the matter, and this is
what jt was. The fire was in quite a
narrow court, where they couldn't get the
escapes, and there was people burning to
death; while above the shouting of the
mob and clanking of the engine hard at
work you could hear, their awful cries for
help. j
Now, don't you suppose that I'm proud
of all this I'm going to tell you because!
I'm nol. Now, if you were to dash in '
and gave any one's life, why; no doubt it'
would be braye and gallant, because you
would haye done it out of true compas
sion for a suffering fellow creature ; but j
then with me its quite different. I'm;
paid 'so-much a week to satre life and
property from fire ; consequently, I only
do what's my duty to do.
I runs up to the court axe in hand, and
soon see? the state of affairs. One house
was in a blaze from top to bottom, and
the flames had worked through into the
next, and were attacking the one oppo
site, while, with their escape regularly
cut off", there was abo,ut a half a dozeu
people at the upper windows of the sec
ond house, and no way of getting to them.
There .ws no bck door to the place,
being in one of those crowded city pla-
ces
while the door in ...front and stair
case were now fast getting into state of
a glow, off which the water squirted and
steamed without making any impression.
There was no time for ladder or any-
thing else but the sheets, and them we
got stretched for the people to jump into.
but, poor things, they, dared not, and
what to do I could not tell. There was
the fire blazing up higher and higher.
and lighting up two of their old city
churches that you see lost down those old
courts, and looking as if they'd been put
there out of the way because people
didn't have any use for them now. There
hey were lit up and glowing, and the
pigeons .that lived up'thero scared od
flying round and round the fire; there
was the' rush and roar of the wind along
the court as it set towards the fire ; and
there were the flames leaping up..ihe
clouds of srarks rising, the clouds of
I i u
smoke rollin? awav. and the crackling
spatter of the slates as they flw with the
heat, and then slid rattling of into the
court beneath, smash upon the pavement.
Every now and then came a louder roar
- - . - i rit
and a crasu as a rarter cr .ueam .icu u,
and sent Ihe sparks up Jn a whirlwind,
And there all that lime were those poor
creatures, uttering the wildest piercing
shrieks for hIp you ever . heard. Now.
I've heard so much of that sort of thing
that you'd expect I shouldn't mind it ; but
I do though; and as I said abou fires, I
don't think I ever shall get to take it as
a matter of course; for there s some
thing very awful in seeing a fellow crea
ture strong and beany, and yet dying
before your eyes, and you not "able to
save them.
" But I wasn't idle ?11 this time-not a
bit of it, for every minute's worth some
thing, at a fire, and if you give it much
time it will beat you. Under the circum
stances the first ihing was to save life,
and whilst them as had the branches did
their best to keep tbe fire back from them
at the 'jhi'rd floor window, I .got hoi J of a
rope, and in at the 1 house opposite, and
made my way up stairs to the third floor,
which, like the rest of the place, yyas
used as a sort of a warehouse and cramed
full of packages. . t ..
.Being a strange House it wasn't easy
to find your way, but I got up at last, and
opposite to tne rooniiwnere tne poor
things were all now huddled together at
one window, for the fire was gaining on
them so that unless they were eoon
helped they wouldn't want it.
.. "Crash ! crash !" Didn't I let my lit
tle axe play rqund the sashes of that
window, ad soon have a clearance, for
it was nailed up, and then when the poor
things heard me, and saw the light fhin
ing on my helrnet. how they did shriek
or help. . . '; : '
Just then I looked down at the depth;
and I caught sight ct a fellow standing
below with a si ort ladder in his hand,
which might have been of use if the
poor things had been in . the first floor ;
and then I made ready to throw my rope
across, when just as I was going to let
go, and then going to try and catch it, a
thought struck me, and I let the coil of
the rope fall down into the court, all but
one end as I kept hold of, and then when
the poor thing saw it let down tbey
shrieked again, and one of them fell back
from the window.
"Tie cn that ladder," I shouted, ."and
some of ycu come up;' and one of my
mates soon tied the rope to one of the
rounds, and then with two or three more
run into the house, while I hauled away
until I got hold of the bottom of the lad
der, for they sent the heaviest end up
first, and then dragged it in at the. win
dow, and balancing the other end up con
tinued to push it across and into the win
dow of the other house across tne court,
and so make a sort of bridge, only jt was
all askew for.the houses were not quite
opposite to one another..
Just as I'd done this in cornes my mate
with two more men, and I sets them to
work to hold the ladder while I took hold
of he rope, and then made ready to
crawl across on the thin bridge I'd rig
ged up. It was for life and death, or I
wouldn't have ventured on the slight,
bending wood ; for ihojgh a ladder set
nearly upright. may be strong enough, it
makes it a deal weaker to lay it down
evel and then go and crawl along it. I
know how it would be, though, so I tied
the rope around my body, and made a
mate hitch the other end . round a big
hook in the wall, used for a puliy, so that
in the event cf- a fall, if the rope held
f ood, I shouldn't have gone' all the way.
They tied one end of the ladder, tpo, for
too keep it steady, and then there I was
scrambling across with the ladder bend
ing and quivering and the crowd under
neat hurrying and clapping their hands
just as if I was doing a bit of Blondin to
please them. . . : . ......
' How that ladder did'jbendj so that I
. . . , .-
thought it must give way, and me go crash
into the court: but it didn't! and the next
moment I was iq the window of the burn
ing house with the trembling iwjmen
clinging to me. ' !j - -
"Now then," I says to one man, -"you
can creep across," and I pqjnted to the
ladder. . -
"I can't leave my wife,", he says
holding a half fainting .woman against
the window, where the smoke wasn't
quite so dense.
"You're a trump, , you are," I thinks;
and then 1 hauled more of tbe rope over,
and makes it fast -round the poor wom
an's waist; and then we laid her cn the
ladder, end the three on the other side
hauled, and we held on to the rqpe this
end, and so we got hsr Jialf across, when
she slipped off the ladder, and hung right
over the court, while there arrose a reg
ular shriek of horror. Bat there was
people.you see atteach end of the rope
peuyie.uu s .vm i w
and we JPpP as we oll3er3 kaule(,
tna so they. soon had her in at' the other
window, though the rope was so-, tight
thitt it must haye hurt the poor thing ter
rible;- .
, Then: they loosened the rope again.
and we sent another woman .oyer, and
she was insensible with fear, and we got
her over all right, though she, too, slip
ped off the ladder. , Then there were
two little girls, one after the other; and
it was sad to see how they trembled and
shook too much frightened ' to cry, as
well they might be,' for the Heft was
awful ; and I knew that another quarter
of an hour would find the room we were
in red hot.. ' '"' ' ' ' ' "
Ve "got another oveN a young man -and
he wa3 dragged over too, for he dare
not try to crawl acrjss, and I suppose to
a man as ain't used to such things to creep
over a place like that, all those feet over
the pavement, and when you've been
frightened to death nearly by waking out
of your sleep to find the next place on
fire, is rather trying; and now there was
only that-chap whose wife was sent over
first, and who had worked all he could to
help me end another cowardly 1 chap,
whom I had quite a set to with to keep
back ; so as to save the women and chil
dren first.
And now thfs ch?.p as I've just spoke
about made a rush to get to the ladder.
and he was in such a horrid fright that
I don't believe he'd got over safe," and
besides I knew there was time for us all
to get away if things were done quietly ;
so, considering as it wasn't his turn,
held him back for the married man to go
first to his wife, when' the other one al
most shrieked out with rage and fear.
'Let him go first," says the married
man. - "I'll watt." 1
'Tain't his turn," I says, rather obsti
nate like. "Over you go !" and at such
a time one cin't be interfered with, and
having made my- plans so far I didn't
want them altered so, "Over you go !"
I saysr-'- i- - :' ':
I think I can crawl," he says, and he
got out on the ladder ; but instead of
crawling he sat astride of it and worked
himself along, with the crowd hurraying
and cheering him tremendous.
And up came the flame and smoke-,
and the roar and crackle and falling in
of timber was getting terrible. ''Every
place' was jight as day. while-as to the
heat, I declare it seemed to scorch fear
fully. : - ' ' '
"The sooner you're across and me with
you the better I shall like it," I -says.
and then I took a look round to see how
matters were, when there' eame a crash
and a puff, and in a moment the flames
came wreathing and twirling up from
underneath where I stood, and just as the
last chap had his leg on the window sill
and I was going to tie th,e rope around
him, gave a yell and fell back or rather
I pulled him back into the smoky room,
and -he fainted dead away.
He must have gone down crash mt o
the court if I hadn't dragged at him ;
but there was no time to loose. I made
the rope fa3t and got hire on to the lad
der with the flames darting by through
the rounds and burning his hair; and
then I shouted to them to haul, and haul
they did, with me trying to steady him
with my end of the rope, but before he
was quite across something went snap.
and I staggered back into the room, hold-
inf on by the piece of burnt through
rope, and with my heart sinking as I felt
my own salvation was partly gone.
Just then the flames was wafted on
one side, and I saw that tbey were drag
ging in the last of the seven, and I felt
now as if I'd done a good night's work,
and it was now time to save myself. I'm
not ashamed to own it, I did feel fright
ened as 1 threw down that piece of rope,
and it must haye been something like a
cry of horror I gave when I got hold of
the ladder and felt it burn my hands, and
then as I tried to bear upon it, felt it
crumble away, and that' I was without a
way to escape.
Par above the noise of the -fire and
water came the shriek of the crowd as
the burnt ladder fell away and hung blaz
ing by one end against the opposite house,
while there came up such a rush of flame
past the window that I could not look out
but directly after I heard the fierce rush
of the water and could see that four
branches were deluging the window, and
all beneath , for my mates knew what a
danger I was in. ;
I ran to th window, and was beaten
back by the water, while the smoke tha,t
come up was quite .blinding. Then I
tried through the hot vapor in the room
to see if I could get out of the door and
Teach the roof, but "just at that moment
there came a dull flash through the
smoke, 'and' I could see that the back of
ihe house was all on fire, while from the
way the flames rushed up again in front
and filled the court, Lknsw that there
was no help to be had from opposite, for
they must be beaten from the window.
I'd been in some danger in my lime ;
but till now there has always seemed a
road out, and as 1 tpre furious around the
place with the sweat dripping off me nd
th'6 hofribla feaj of death so. close at
hand, I seemed to be regularly unnerved
and fell to shrieking und crying out that
my mates had deserted me ; w-hen they
were cn the pof and had let down a rope
to tne, but I could not see it; and then at
last one of them was let down and tried
to get in at the window, hut the flames
beat him back; and a groan came from
the people as they saw all that had been
djjpg. ;
As I told you, I seemed quite to lose
my nerve, and ran about shrieking for a
few minutes, and then I fell down on
my face upon the- floor ; but directly af
ter my mind seemed to come to again,
and I felt that if I must die I should have
done my duty, and I had saved seven
poor creatures; and as I thought that, I
rose to my knees, and some words came
to my lips words that came to my heart
as I ; thought of those : who were once
saved from the heat of the burning, fiery
furnace; and I sprayed that I too might
be saved, . : .
And ah 1 it was hard to pray there
to keep your thoughts jn the midst of that
fierce, suffocating heat of smoke and steam
from the water pouring into the rojra.
And how everything else but. the words
of prayer care into one's mino) ; and it
was as if devils desparing, blaspheming
devils were hissing in my ears to curse
and shreak oaths.. The), too came he
thought of those at home, and the little
golden culls that I should play with no
mere ; and how I could cow understand
the dread my wife always, had of what
she called my frightful buisness. Yes, I
had saved seven that night; but it was
hard to die hard to give up life at eight
and twenty, and su,er the death from
which I had saved so many
I coulden't help it just then, for a grim
smile came- over my face as I thought it
was my old enemy the fire being reven--
w 1 t a
gna upon me; nut directly alter i tried
to pray once more, and then in tbe midft
of the smoke I gave a wild cry, dashed
off my helmet, dragged my belt undone,
and kicked off my "heavy boots, half suf
focated, and had off my thick coat, too;
and then, with my heart beating, with
hope, I thanked God for the thought, and
the next moment I was ever th gate b'ars
and jn the big chimney cf the old house.
It was full of smoke and I could hard
ly breath ; but it was a sure way of , es
cape to the roof ; and though I coul d feel
that I was tearing the skin from my el
bows and knees, , 1 managed to' climi
higher and higher, slowly and painfully,
but soon I could feel a current of sweet,
refreshing air setting down to me, and
every breath gave me fresh strength till
I reached the top, when my heart sank,
as I found it would be impossible to get
any farther on account f the chimney
pot. ' ' '!
To shout was usless, and for a while I
was in despair, but. at last I got my
hands well above me, and tried to move
the pot. I tried again, and then to fnrce
myself through,' till I was so wedged in
that I had loosened the pot, and at latt
completely forced it off, and raised my
self to a sitting position on the chimney-
stack but afraid to move, for my head was
wedged in the pot, which was fixed down
upon my shoulders. . . , ,,
I knew that I could ".not stay where I
was for long, and tried once more' to jret
rid of my awkward helmet j and now,
having both hands at liberty, I. loosened
it. and it fell with a crash' into a ouri
beneath. '; - ' ,f ;
Just then there rose a cheer, for some
one had made me out. torn below; and
sick and faint as L was I managed -to
wave myhaud. and try to cheer'; but it
stuck in my -throat and I could not get
down- wivhouthelp. ; And I suppose En-,
glish people must be fond of cheering,
for how they did cheer; for how thejdid
shout when I got down through another
hoase and were amongst them ; and after
all it was only one's day. rLor.dcn
Jlorning Star. Li;-.'-
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A great shower cf.itfetecf J is predict
ed occur on tbs night of the 12ih of No
vember. There periodic-recurrence at
intervals tof 33 years is the basis of this
prediction. Lookout! .. , ..
A Jlbdest Man. in a Predicament.
Mr. Tom Loughrin is noted all over
the city for his modesty. . He stands six
feet two in his stockings, and at J??st Sj5
feet of him is made up of mode's'. At
an early hour yesterday morning ..Sir. L.
was making his toilet at ht3 residence on
Pratt Avenue and Walnut streeV; he was
standing in front uf his mirrur with only
one garment on and that a rathep short
cne--an'd had lathered his face prepara
tory to removing hia.bcar&.Ivy.Hen i he was
stariled by a shrill scream from BidJy,
his servent girl, and his wife called to
him that Bridget was , en fire. Mr. L.
with an admirable presence of mini,
seized a quilt from the bed, an reached
the bottom of the, stairs at two jumjj,
soon enveloped the flaming damserin tha
folds of the quilt before she-was jerious
ly injured.' While Mr. L. was thai 'en
gaged,' some dozen ladies from adjoining"
houseshearing the screains'qf xi girl,
rushed into see what waa" the malter.
They arrived in time to see the till form
of Mr. L. bending over the girl and in
stead cf retreating tyhen they noticed his
Georgia cosioftle.'they stood 'looking at
him with admiting eyes. aTorn iooked
aroqttd and satv the ladies 'and "remem
bering that he bad not finished his toilet,
went up stairs ri little faster than he had
come down." The IidieS tittered; 'and at
every titter he increased his " speed and
when he reached his room he was cov
ered -vith a profuse perspiration. He
says it was the most embarrassing posi
tion he was ever placed' in, and' hopes
never to be caught in such a reditamant
again. St Louis Democrat. :
In a letter fron Smith's Fork ofJSreen
River, dated 24th ult., to the Videite, wo
learn that a terrible explosion occured in
the train of Mr. Joseph Faiyre .rof thij
city, nine miles fron the junction , of the
Bridget and Ham's Fork road oa Rock
Creek, between the two summits;.) Tha
train was loaded with powder,, and one
wagon containing 5,000.. pounds hnv up
at 1:15 o'clock, on the 12th cf S?f i?mler.
a hub was the larr?ci r 3 cf wood
p . . ... '
ffn n A ort1 A., A... r- . ' r P ! . Art r t
cf iron.
in
fact every part of the
on was broketj
into fragments rid ijwa hundreds of
is.
TL? wagon ,wa3 drawn, .by. five
cxen, three of which were ihrowri
into f.'.s:, als) one yoke ot u:5
aisM one voxe ot team in
a A m . W
ibVrear, and two other: ydke were, badly
burned. All that could be found of .tha
driver 'was a piece of one of . his feet,
joint of a finger and a email piece ;of his
skuIjY Tha estimated loss of property is
$9,000. Leavenworth, Times . , , .
Death or John Van Burerf, -
"New York, October 1,5.
The steamer Scotia brings 3 Cfueens-
town dates to the l?th. ' Hon.: John Var
- -. '
Buren died on board on the I4th instant,
two' days before the steamer arrived at
this"pbrt: ' ' -; ' ' ' " 1
' The Commercial. says of the death of
Mr. Van Buren ; He had returned from
a tour in Scotland, -tvhither he had rcno
. - i K'
for the benefit cf his health which1' for
some time past had been visibly declin
ing; During his tour he caught a sever
cold, which caused ipamatic of the kid
neys, and when- he cajie" On board' ths
Scotia he was very ill. -He at once- re
tired to his state room, where he remain
ed until iho morning. ' when fie' got up
and walkeLabout the : deck 'contrary to
the advice of his medical adviser?. ' Re
turning to his stateroom", Mr. Van Barea
was seized with a cute infiamation-of tha
kidneys, and his1 suffering- was- intense.
During this time he talked incessantly
but incoherently, chiefly on.politis- aff
airs.' ' - " -'
Ou Sunday morning he commenced to
sink visibly, and his daughter and nieCJ
with Capt; Wilkins of the ' ScolU were
summoned to his stateroom they "with
Drr. Price and Crane Temairid'wT.Ithini
nearly the whole day, and 'about 11
o'clock p m, when the vessel was off Cape.
Race Mr, ran Buren expire.' : A ccfno
tvas at once made for the ' bod-y, ;arld it
was placed in one cf the ship's boats,
where it now remain?, i'- J
- ; ' : , ; mm.i: ; 3 : i
' fhe proposition made ' to' scd- Yrom
California a section of-the' 'OifJ2in.il big
Tree1,, to the World's Fair al Paris, is
said by Dr. Macgowan to be impractica
ble, for want of a saw long nouoffo cut
.... p . O j
it.' The cutting will require a saw forty
feet long.'. ; : - 7.4 - Uz:l Wizi -
; "Does ihe.fazor ..take .hoJ; well ?" inr
quired a barber who waj t?,ving- gen
tleman from the country... vV.esr'' eblied
the customer with tears ,iA his eys, "i;
takes hold first rale, tut- jt'ciA jt go
worth a cent.";. ; ; , ' ;,
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