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About The Red Cloud chief. (Red Cloud, Webster Co., Neb.) 1873-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 4, 1875)
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At Helena, Ark., Oct 22(1, Turn Darby u carpenter, was stabbed and killed in a saloon by Torn Hcncy,ftlK is in jail to answer for the deed. The boikT in the mill .f Morrison, Bare fc Co.. at Heard ng Springs, Pa . exploded, Oct. 2.1th, destroying the mill and r eriottbly injuring ton men. Wm. Delaney, convicted of the mur der of Opt. Lawrence, on board a schooner near New York, has been sen tenced to le hanged December 10th. The Chicago Insurance Agency Asso ciation, which has formerly done an ex tensive husinci-s in the Northwest, has failed, and its eflects will le disposed of at fchcrifTs sale. Elisha Baker, tin old and respected citizen of Cedar Ihipids, died Oct. 2.'5d. During the early history of Iowa he was register of the State bank, and tub-e-quently National bank examiner. Ben. Boyd and wife, notorious coun terfeiters, were captured at Fulton, 111., a few days ago. With them were fouifd a large amount of counterfeiting appara tus, and $5003 of bogus money. A few nights ago, Mr. and Mrs. Mur ray, at Chei-hire, Connecticut, who had Ik en married but a few wcekc, were both binned to tle.it it dining a tire in the home uheietluy veie staging. The NorlhvkuMcin Gas and Water Ii pe Company ot Bay City, Michigan, hits failed. Liabilities, i:ft,000. Baily fc Orton, haidwuio merchant-, of the same place, have :dso c!oed. In the town of Mercer, Maine, Octo ber 22d, Mr. Wultoii, the divorced wile of yiram Walton, Mho was living with Grecnleaf Tracy, was thot dead by Tracy iu a fit of jealousy. Tracy then fled to the woods and killed himself. Geo. B. McUehee, a plasterer, fell from the fourth $toiy window of the Courier Journal building in Louisville, Ivy., n few days ago, and was instantly killed, his neck being broken. He was at the time suffering from epilepsy. Prof. Atchison, an aeronaut, while attempting a balloon ascension at the fair in Calhoun, Ivy., a few days ago, wa seriously injured hy the burning of ins balloon when several hundred lect high. He was precipitated to the earth, and so badly hurt that his recovery is considered doubttul. A fire at Verseilles, Woodford county, Ky., on the night of October 24th, burned Wilson's livery stable, with contents, in cluding eighteen horses; also Bailey & Co.' livery stable nnd a dwelling, the occupants of the latter baiely escaping with .their clothing. Losf, $1 5,000; in surance, $3,000. Hon. S. M. Fite, representative of the 4th congressional district of Tennessee in the -4-itli Congress, died at Hot Springs, Axkausas, Oct. Sod. John W Head was elected in August, 1S71, and died in a few weeks afterward. Fite was elected to fill the vacauc'. Neither one occupied the seat to which he was" elected. Tw i failures are reported in Lyons: J. K. P. Balch, wholesale dealer in boots and shoes, with liabilities over $.10,000. He sold off his stock and left the city. The other wss L. Klcinsteiu, furniture dealer, whose liabilities are $3000. His assets will probably pay twenty-five cents on the dollnr. The detective force engaged in the arrest of the counterfeiters at Ceutralia, IlL, took to SpringOeln as prisoners, Nelson Driggs and wife, Nicholas Stan tine and wife, and a brother of Mrs. Driggs. All except Driggs are Germans. The officers also secured the outGt of instruments used by the counterfeiters, and about $150,000 in countcrlclt money. B. S. Wilmot of Epwortb has com menced juit against the Illinois Central Railroad Company for $4,500 damages, under the act fixing rates of passenger fare- On the 20th of October he ten dered the agent fare at the rate provided by law, from Epworth to Earlvillc, sixty cents. The agent refused to sell him a ticket at that rate. He then entered the car without a ticket, and tendered the conductor the fare at the rate of three. cents per mile, which the conductor, he claimed, refused and forcibly ejected him from the car. Dispatches of Oct. 23d announce the following failures: Joacliin Davis, lum ber merchant, New York; Warren 4 Winan, dealers in books, New York; Hoffman & Co, dry goods, New York, with liabilities set down at $200,000; Cumberland G. White, Chas. H. Ward, R. F. Fuller, and Howaid Ivins Minor, nMrators in stocks. New York; the Towas Mill, at East Towas, Michigan, with liabilities placed at $93,00$, and assets $280,000; "Wicks Bros., foundry ttea, at East Saginaw, Michigan, with liabilities stated at $50,000, and assets $150,000; McDonaid & Co., Hianufactur ers of agricultural implements, Wooster, - Ohio, -with liabilities stated to be 9500, . 000; AesTlow Co., Boston, with liaUl tim it,aowBj4218,S47. and assets 54a Mrf2nhrf TiifnnM wwil maoufac- taier.'CferesidttiTemont,'wi liabilities. 9140,900 FOEKIGN NKWS. !t i .announced that the French Aa.eciiilf!y will convene n the 4th of November. " G. D. Ncnmlson Sz C.., merchants of Loudon and Manchester, have failed. TJnir liabilities are slated at 2:,0,000. The brig John ann lsawi, wns imnlly loit near Stone Hjvcii on the Scottish coast during the n-cent gale. The crew, numbering 12, perished. Two larc vessels in the eriiiu vicinity were lost with nil on board. A meeting of the principal manufac tuicrs and merchants was held in Paris ou the 22d of October in regard to Vxc Centennial Exhibition at I'hibidclnhii. The President ot the meeting stated that the exhibitors who intended to partici pate, numbered 800, and he hoped it would be swelled to 1,200. E. L. Hicks ol Wyoming, Pa., sur rendered himself to the police on the evening of October 21st, stating that on the previous evening he had shot Archi bald Anderson, for several years engineer of the Diamond Mine. The parties met at Trip's Bavine, and Hicks mistaking Anderson for a desperado, and without the exchange of a word, tired at him, inflicting a wound from which he died. .tl rni urn nil a. A new dciee for controlling the ten sion of the thread in sewing machines has been bn.ught out which has some features of interest. In place of the usual terfcion is a horizontal disk fixed to a standard placed at the end of the machine opposite the needle, snd at the operator's right. This disk has a slight up-and-douu motion, and is connected by a short aim that is geared to a small wheel on the shaft under the table. At each revolution of the wheel the arm raises and lowers the disk, alternately biting nnd holding the thread, and throwing it loose at every stroke. By this simple device the tension of the thread follows the motion ol the needles automatically, and adjusts it to what ever kind of work is passing through the machine. In the straw burning engines now in use, the it raw is fed to the fire iu a Iooec stream, and consumed as fu'tas it enters the fire box. The consumption is there fore rapid and continuous. A device for retarding the combustion of straw, and for the utilization of a vast supply of fuel in the form of dead leaves, grass, etc., has lieen brought out, nnd good re sults arc claimed for it. The grass or straw in the stove is compressed into a solid mass by a movable follower or weight that rests upon it. By thus ap1 plying pressure to the straw only the sides of the mass can burn, the top and bottom being protected by the follower and grate. By regulating the draft the fire may then be placed under control. In place of a needle in ships' com passes two concentric circles mounted upon a cross piece of aluminum arc recommended. Tlio maximum of mag netization is at the north and south sides of the rings, and decreases to the neutral points east and west. The advantages claimed lor this ring compass, nnd recommended by the naval experts who have examined it, are greater sensitive lies?, a less sluggish motion, aud more freedom from the motion of the ship. Komance is a Restaurant. In the year 1773 there died in the city f Copenhagen an eccentric merchant who had once beeu wealthy, but whose fortune had, l3 unsuccessful specula tion, been reduced to 3,000 rix dollars. Two thirds of this amount be invested 'for the benefit of his descendants," and provided by will that neither principal nor interest should be drawn for one hundred years. Long before the expi ration of that time the singular pro vision was forgotten, and Ins descend ants, even if they knew his name, thought no more of him than any other remote progenitor. About two years ago the will was discovered by a lawyer who had occasion to examine certain old documents on file in the Register's office in Copenhagen. The lawyer took the matter in hand, and diligent inquiry found the heirs scattered through all the countries of Western Europe, and thai one had found her way to America. The latter was a Mrs. Julia Knochendnp pul, a native of Hamburg, who came to New York about twelve years ago, where she was married in 1SCS. Knoch enduppul is a waiter employed in Mou quin's restaurant, on Fulton street or rather, he was employed there until a few days ago, when aa official note from the Register of Wills in Copenhagen informed his wife that sne was heir to $80,000, and directed her to present her claim m person as soon as possible. Knochenduppnl lived in indigent cir cumstances in Hoboken with his wile, two children and his wife's mother. He was in arrears for rent, and hai been threatened with ejectment from the .house he occupied; bat ob the strtagth ot his letter from Denmark ne was able to borrow eaoug h aaoaeT to traacoort ki-Bsell and laadly to Copezihags, aad Maintain taem then until the lahen taace tua be collected. JT. T. Herald. Iewa YvlBBtrer Heather Station. Htte HYatlit-r l!part.2U Iirraric. October, 1K7&. The weather during the second decade (11th to 20th) was, in the Stats of Iowa, decidedly cold, dry, aud rather cloudy. At our Central Iowa station the mean temperature was six and a half degrees below; the cloudiness was ten per rent, in excess of the corresponding values for the same jieriud during the past three years. The great cold is due to the fact that two high pressure areas traversed the State (11th and 18th); a secondary high barometer, with cold, occurred on the 10th. Brisk, southeasterly winds pre vailed on the 13th, when the barometer fell one half an inch; the equally extens ive and rapid rise of the barometer on tne 17th caused the brisk northwesterly winds of that day. On the 14th and 17th low pressure areas passed over 200 miles north of the northern limit or Iowa, to far away that but little rain fell in our State. But a few drops fell in most of the central and eastern counties; the rain on the 14th was heaviest in the belt extending from Jasper and Hardin to Dubuque and Clayton counties, amounting however to but little over one-tenth of an inch. Tiie closing days of the decade were lemaikably dry and clear, with haze, introducing the Indian Summer of the first days of the present decade. Though the piist decade was more cloudy than normal for this part of the year, it was nevertheless clear end fine In comparison to the pteceding decade. The cloudiness in the eastern parts of Iowa was again considerably greater than in the western portions A meteor ivas seen on the evening of the 17th from Jasper, Union and Craw ford counties; if it was one aud the same body, it fell west of the limit of Iowa. In this connection I would request the volunteer obseivers to lock out lor nhooting stars during the first half of the second decade of November, especially on the 13th and 14th of November. I shall also be obliged lor reports of ob servations of this phenomenon from others than the regular volunteer ob servers. Gostavus niNiticiis. Iowa Citt, Oct 23, 1875. A Fearful PictHre of Human Wretch edBess. The woman who, it is believed, jumped from the canal bridge at Waterford and was drowned recently, is named Mary Pendegraat. She went to W'atcrfoxd from Albany some months ago, was in temperate, had no friends, and boirded with a fimily named Priest, living some distance above Waterford. She has not been seen since the night when the woman on the canal bridge disappeared, and this leads to the suspicion that it was she who,, wandered on the bridge ana deliberately jumped into the water. The Albany Argus details a long cccount of u visit to the Priest "family and the wretchedness with which they arc sur rounded. The AryuM says: The house is a regmlar shanty built of coarse logs. Thore is no chimney in it, and the smoke was issuing through sev eral crevices in the roof. We entered, and such a sight! There, in that one single room, lay Mrs. Priest and fifteen children, some of them squatting, some lying down and some of them standing, but nil of thei smoking. There was but one room in the wretched hut, in one corner of which was spread an old rug and some old army blankets. The room was covered with filth and dirt, and all the inmates were dressed in nature's garb, with the exception of Mrs. Priest, who wore a man's coat, nothing else: one of the youngest of her daugh ters wore the remains of a plug hat, and one still younger wore a pair of old rubbcr'boots. This was all the clothing wonTby the family, though there were ten of them there, some of them young girls nineteen years old. They seemed to hait mo idea what modesty was. John Priest taw head of the family, is about Ecventj-cight years old, and is consid ered one ef the best, if sot the very best educated man in Waterford. When ever he works, which is very seldom, he spends what he can earn in rum, and and ncvor taiBks of contributing any thing .towards supporting his family. TroyTmm. A few days ago Dr. 3. F. Sherman and SaflaBel Barker, cirJzeaa of Macon, Mo., wast to Bevies, and while ther visited the drug store of Dr. Shanks. After ha-riag the store they had not procecdedlBB red when Parker fell ob the street in oaawahuoas. Ja five min utes Dr. Sber-aaBa was similarly affected, and in twentamimtM both were dead. It is supiKudTBBey were poiaoaed. The sew aiMM of Michigan shows an aggregate BBBBBUtiom of 1,344,031 aa in crease of 141111 state 1370. The cea-ms of Iowa jest aaaMJaBBBi shows a total ot 1,353,118. F ilj BBBM.jji T ! part of the tcmh&rfMkfcigiB Raw Bhehaa cau4!ftt iasM the Bwfhertate tad -w-pasasd ii 4R&?.. Simoa NBMglwB-lj a jaut aad wealBlaiVrtBr aT Mnwa-tkae. coam- ardate-1 a-fcMe, Octohar Mi, hy ahtiag ProfeaaariTfhiihiloBt ViBiMilfBBiBHh thehaa-L I October Jtth.' .JlaU or A Ureas." 12 Some three vcars agnjlpihilc engaged upon a magazine articleclatlvc to the I5fi nml tim nT rtrronjfwe nbsprvi-d m t an lnglish paper tt brief paragraph simply stating that Tlljrza Black was , , ., . ",. , . A1 . K'd-ndden, and in a state oi destitution . . . n . V . . in i:ie oiu ci:y oi -vimchs. iiiouk:i in constant reader of both foreign and. American paper we failed to notice anything further relative to frs. Black,- and the plausible conclusion at which we arrived was, that slicpiad passed to that ''bourne from which no traveler e'er returns." Quite recently, however, the subject recurred to uii and August 1, lSTL we wrote a letfetQo the United o a . . --Jgy"---!- --, questions nnu ioiormat;on icisuvc to Mrs. Black, and hist week we were in receipt of the appended communication from Anthony Martelaus. bearing the desired intelligence: Athens, September -5, IS75. Dear Sir: I rcceivccryour kind note of Au gust 1, by which you desire me to in form you about 3Irs. Black (to whom the great Lord Byron addressed that beautiful little poem usually distin guished by the "Maid ol Athens"), whether or no she is alive. After having read your note I asked information about her; asking lor her house be cause I knew she was alive. Indeed I found the li nise, which h in a quarter of the city of Athens not of the most central. I entered her apartment and found an ol i lady of about seventy five 3 cars of age, iu good health, and dressed iu the old Athenian crstume, as she is a native of Athens. Together with her I found a young lady ot about thirty her daughter, not yet married. She is lovely, and of exquisite manners. I addressed myself to Mrs. Biack, asking her about her health. She told me she .was very well; that she lost her husband some ycu.-s ago; that she had lost two of her sons, and that bhc lives now with her only daughter, who sat by me. Miss Black told me that lord Byron asked the hand of her mother; but her parents did not agree with her request, as her mother was'then very young, and had two sisters more aged jthan she was After that refusal Lord J3yron wrote the poem "Maid of Athens." I have been moreover infornitu&hy othcr persons that her late husbabafMr. Black who was in the scrvica of her Brimnic Ma jesty at Missolongi (Continental Greece) asked the hand of the Maid of Athens, after he had heard that she wa3 the sub ject of a poem by Lord Byron. Mrs. Black is a tall old lady with features inspiring reverence, and showing that at a time past she was a beautiful woman. She asked me different times what was the object of the American gentleman who wished to know about her. As I did not know the wky, I conld not give her a satisfactory answer. After nn hour's interview with Mrs. and Miss Black, I took leave and departed. I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient servant. ANTnONT Mautelaus, United States Consular Agent. Industrial. Iowa Patent Office, ) Des Moines, Oct. 23, 1875. S The West is represented in the list of U. S. Patents issued Oct 5, by the following: Lap-Ilobes. Fredk. L. Blakely, Clin ton, Iowa. Metallic Packing for Stufling-Boxes. Philip Sage, Dubuque, Iowa. Automatic Cistern Cut-Ofis. Harvey L. Wells, Burlington, Iowa. The chute is held in horizontal position by the leaf spring outside of the tank. As the water gradually weights the external tank it slides down the ways, and at the same time a projecting pin pulld out the spring, releasing the chute, which, by the weight of the water, resumes a vertical position, discharging into the cistern. Hinges. Lewis E. Bolton, Des Moines, Iowa. The hinge is made reversible by the use of slotted end projections, com bined with a detachable collar and a slotted sleeve, winch fits-upon a suitable web formed on one of the leaves, the construction giving ready reversibility as a right and left hinge. Drait-Equalizers. J. M. Backncr, Salem, Neb. The single horse lever is coupled to the two horse lever between the fulcrum and power. Harness Pad Presses. Wm. Dippcrt, Des Moines, Iowa. Two pad forms, two hinged crimping rims, anu a screw press, arc mounted and arranged relative to each other, upon a base plate, in such a manner that two pads can be simultane ously formed by one operation of the press. Corn-Planters. Aibt. Z dgson, Hum boldt, Kansas. The adjustable portions of the seed slide are made oval, with their ends next to the dropping holes concaved and Inclined. Over these fits a concave cut-off. Seedlingh-Pullers- John S- Swsney, Marengo, Iowa. A fixed wheel upon a revolving shaft forms a (fbmnterpart to a scries oi jaws, wmen are caueca xo open and close by cam wheels, to seise aad hold the seedlings, raise them from the earth, and deposit them is a receptacle. Steam-Hamsters. Stephen D.WUsott, Des Moines, Iowa, assignor of oae half Ids right to William Stela, Baste place. The throw of theTalve k adjastodbja wedge, which is coBaectad by rsaa throBgh the hollow truaaioa with the treadle. Carriage-Jacks. A. W- Richard, MascatiBe, Iowa. T.G.Okwk. Solicitor lut tat of iBelteitJ. H ralheit Kite at a Cli Ornvtery In San t'raacicu -Straus? and Outlandish Crrtwioulrn. I The Chinese .Autumnal Festival over the dead of their race, which commenced , , ' , . on Sunday week, reached it most in- . . . , . , , . teresting imjiui hut Thurdav. From , ,. . . ... davlh-ht until uoon the road to Lone Mountain wnj literally alive with pedes trians and express wagons, packed with the cllt.CJ. and rabble of Chinatown, roasted hogs and every description of Chinese provision. The old trick of the Hibernian exprcssmau of occasion ally capsizing a vehicle and mixing pig tails and pork in an uncomfortable mass, L",aii in two cases, successfully tried. loaded by Madam Lc Chong and eight rosy checked chattel, hilarious with expectation of a day of rest, in endeav oring to weather the corner of Dupont and Geary streets, alighted iu an un ceremonious manner, and the mulam sustained some severe bruises, to judge by the play of her tongue and the shake of her fist at the horse, cart and driver. They, howevcr.'climbcd in again, and, hanging on by tooth and toe nail, went oil" at a three minute gait, to the great amusement of the sjtccUton. By 11 o'clock iu the morning, the wooden niter, near the center of the cemetery, wa? turrounded by a" large heathen hiuui, and a liberal store of fish, llesh and fowl, not to mention stacks of rakes and candies. On one side of the alter, If so it might be called, was a large stove, over which a prominent functionary busied himself in making tea for the entire crowd. Jos sticks were burniug upon the alter, and on three sides candles burned, illuminating the figures of three deities the one on the west representing what answers in their tlieology to our devil, and whom thej eridently think it necessary to propitiate before proceeding with their worship over the individual graves. Towards the East, or rising sun, another less hideous figure, representing the mighty spirit of God ; and on the South an insignificant, good natured, porce lain image, representing some local spiritual functionary. Provisions wcr heaped before seven of these figures, and an incantation performed before them, severally, by these four -rata, of Ur wlaUlt, to the horrible music of a small celes tial baud, they repaired to the individu al graves, the relations of the deceased at each tomb taking a principal part. The oldest female relative (if there were any females present) danced about the grave several times, as though stung by a hornet, descanting on the virtues of the departed. Af.ter this she deposited on the grave narrow strips of yellow paper (yellow being the imperial color), and upon this the provisions brought by the relatives were placed, if relatives were present. If they were not, the spirit of the peison had to be contented with slices of the hogs which had Itcen brought out for that purpose. The male relative then poured some wine on the grave; the priest stuck up some lighted joss eticKs and muttcied and doubled himself up, and tticn the fantastic pro cession passed to another -grave. A few individuals, who indulged in the mean time in a quiet smoke, were stationed at different points in the cemetery to protect the alter and visited graves and engage the hoodlums, who seemed im bued with the idea that the ceremonies were instituted solely for their amuse ment. The policemen had been char tered for the occasion, but not being omnipresent, the playful denizens of Tar Flat had many a sly shot at poor John, aud in one instance struck the arch fiend at the alter with a big rock, upon which he bit the dusi amid the simple but plaintive wailings of the heathen and the triumphant crowing of the hoodlums, who seemed elated at the thought of cobble stoning the devil with success. After visiting as many graves as prac ticable, In accordance with the require ments of a Celestial day of labor, the assembly met at the alter and enjoyed a simple collation of gritted cat, chow chow and cold tea, during which time the ladies reposed under parasols, which protected them from the sun's rays and cobole stones. At the end of the frugal and recherche banquet they gathered up the provisions, that there might be no free lunch at the expense of the nation, scrambled into their express wagoar, aad returned to their firesides a little faster than was compatible with the solemnity of the occasion and the safety of their persons- San Fracico Bulletin. The Shields' woolen mills at Daren port, closed a few days ago. Mr. Shields became hesTily involved by the failure of a merchant of that city, aad wa aaable to carry the load. Liabilities, $73,000; assets, $33,000. TheHuU-Bre employnteat to front 50 to 7 A vesical aaaodatios has jaathsaB fanned is MjnhalltawB, coaipriBBBf a barship ef ahowt forty n btbbbm. The is to have weakly aksetnaBi for p-r-ctkedBrhagthewMrtar-nirwitlBijiBhw kd br the beat tahatt to be to hold a tinrfftla City Nrarlr lctrejrl hj Firr. A destructive conflagration visited Virginia City, Nevada, O ;tober 2Gtb. A dispatch from San FraccIco ays: Tt.e fire broke out aUmt daylight In a dwell ing on "A" t-tri-et, near Taylor, a jKiint at about the sauihwis'cin limit of the business and thickly r tiled jortion of the city. It sprend rapidly, extending eastward toward a ravine in which are situated the works and mills of several piomineut mines, reaching as far as F street northwest. Northward the flame crossed Union and Sutton streets, cover ing a space of about ten block, com prising, in the language of one dispatch, almost every decent building in town. At the fire worked up C" street, the offices i the Territorial nterpri and Chronicle were destroyed. Pijier's opera house was next in the fiamer, and it be came evident that the railroad depot and the hoisting works cf tie Consoli dated Yirgiuia were in danger. The rater supply was inadequate and the engines of little use. Recourse was hail to blowing up buildings. It wa too late, however, and in a lew minutes the depot oud hoisting woiks were on fire. The latter were recently completeJ at aa expense of several hundred thouatod dollars, and were the finest on the Coas stock lode. Continuing to theaorth and cast, the partially completed mill of the California mine and' the Consolidated Virginia mill were noon in flames, which spread htill further north to the Ophir hoihtlng workf, destroying them alo, which is about the limit of destruction IB that direction, the fire dying out for want of fuel. From Tyler street, near which the fire originated, it spread SHUthwurd against the wind, destroying the Branch Banic of California aud Wells & Fargo's express office, and ev erything in its line. At this point flic Gould & Curry works were in imminent danger, but were fortunately saved. In short, nearly the entire business portion of the town is in ashes. Hotels, church es, county buildings, newspaper, tele graph and express offices arc swept away. Over 10,000 persons are homeless. The wind is piercing, and much suflerlng is anticipitcd before temporary shelter can be prepared. It is impossible at present to conjecture the amount of the loss. Th dmriinn of the mills and hoisting works, aboe re'errca to, will prooaruy entail a loss of $1,C00,000 within a radius of a few hundred feet. Fortunately the shafts of both Ophir and Consolida ted Virginia were bulkhcadcd, and fire was kept out of the mines. Ophir men Bay that pocsibly their loss may be less than at first supiwsed, as the building was ot light frame, and might burn without destroying the machinery. The loss of buildings and merchan dise in the city must be very great, although covered to a great extent oy in surance. It is not known to what ex tent the mills and hoisting works were insured, except in the case of Ophir, where the loss is placed nt $150,000 to $20,000. Insured for $00,000. In this city the news created the greatest ex citement. Owing to the , contradictory nature cf the private dispatches received, California street was full of wild rumors, and the telegraph and newspaper offices were lcsicgcd with eople anxiously seeking intelligence. As might have been expected, stocks at once felt the effect of the disaster, and when the board opened by the call of Ophir there was a tremendous rush, the stock selling as low as 38. Cousolldated Virginia dropped to 2:10, and subsequently ral lied. Talk on tbc streets is very gloomy. At first it was supposed that the dis aster would entail the necessary stop page of all work on the Bonanza mines, and that the recently reported breaking of water would flood the mines, aad central panic and depression ensue. This, however, soon gave way to a better feeling. "It was soon ascertained that the Gould & Curry works were all right, as were also the Savage works. This was considered the key to the position, as far as the stock market was con cerned, as tbc Bonanza can atd will be worked through the Gould & Curry shaft while the works of tbc Consolidated Virginia arc being built, and the Savage and Gould & Carry pumps are available to free the miaes from water. It also transpired tnat the sew hoistiag works on tbe Consolidated Virginia aad Cali fornia mine, known as tbe "C. C.n works, were unharmed. Inquiry also gives out the fct that the iasttraace companies, though many of them ssfler heavily, will come up manfully, paying all demand. J- A large pottios of the Inavraace k with foreiga companies, well able to bear it, aad the local companies also claim that bob will go to the waJL It was given omt by those knows to be insiders that the Consolidated Virgila woeld pey a dividend, as Bsenl, thcMagh srebably at redaced SgBrea. All these dos had the elect to the task of toeliac. mi mem the -ia that while the acrnooa m.taBaBeMiossaMT a , its effects ea the inaacial Se el Calitoraia will fee bwl Mamttoi b the street, after stocks have rallied, and the frehnc; in btuinc-u circlet 1 greatly improved. Later dispatches pUtc the lo at otw $2.b0U,00O. Tttc tire (Kvrtmrat hut It headway, and a wlmt blowing br ly from the wct earned the flame through ihc town. Tbc water uppj gave out. aad the engine and hiwc Here burned in the trret. A pante M?Urd the citizen, and the tire on ep: cnimixnteU to the mill and houtlng work of the Consolidate! Virginia, California and Ophir Company, destroy ing everything In it courc By gxl fortune the wind thittrtl. and tbc Ku:h end of the Un was &vcd; but the lire still swept on northwardly. The tow a presented a ccae of thj wildest coeia- aioa aad paaic. The are lileehsH with goods and houtcbId furelture, The recent scourge ot tjphoin tcrer caused the pretence of many help invalids, who were being carried to place of safely by their friend. Tne extortionate demands ot the owner of vehicle, In one cam at le-ut, cou.cd a murder. A man oa 15 street, while on dravoriug to eBfage a teamter. and be mg unable te comply with hit demand, in desperation, drew a pbiiol ami shot the driver dead. Hewing Machine latent. It has lx.cn rcjwirtcd that tcveral Jrn ortant icwing machine patents arc almut to expire. To accrtaiu what effect nch an eveut would have upon the business, a Tribune rejKirter called ujion the prominent men in tevernl of the great rewmg machine companies. The number of patent relating to sewing machine intcretU is large. Some have expired, and others arc Hearing the end of the term for Hiich they have U-cn huued. Ncvcrthelesji, there l n suffi cient number ol ntw patents being granted from tirno to time to more than counterbalance thosa that lnpv. In ventors arc coutiuually discovering im provements, and those of any value are caught up by the great companies, be cause they can offord to pay the highct price for such pitents. The improve ments generally are rnnle by the work men in different factories. One of the mcmlcr3 of the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine Company said that even If nil the sewing machine patents were given up, and the right to antftrfir i tlonm ,n .. body, Jit could hardly pay any small company to start in the busincs. The large companies have made a tcputatlon by a long and extended effort- A large expenditure ot time 'and money would be necessary to reach aay degree of suc cess at all remuncrntivc. Tbe compa nies that might control large capita! can use their money to a letter advantage than in competing for a share of n trade that is now none too remunerative. The small companies would find thcmielvc-i ruined before they could sreure a trade. To make searing mtrhlncs so as to sell them nt the prc.ent prices, the manu facture mint Imj on a very large rcale, and the cxjcriencc necessary could hardly Imj bought. Many machines arc sold to person i who rxjsct to pay for them by their work. It te ncccssarjr that tbe installment! should be small, and therclorc the final ro-ilizition of a profit is longer delayed. Under the present competition, where some secant-; to anxious to will as large a immln-r of ma chines as they can, the interest on the capital expended nearly consumes the profits. Many of the companies arc b-ginniug to tcc this, and prefer to do a smaller bosineas at better rates. V. . Trihvn. Kesteratlea ef Lire alter Freezing. A friend residing in Baltimore bad in his possession a small alligator, which bad ltccn sent him from Florida. Its habitation was a tab partially filled with water, kept outdoor- Ilarlng one of tbc cold saaps or tbe pait winter, in tbe night the water became completely fro zen, imprisoning the reptile in the Ice, with brn a small portion of Ids body protruding thacfrom. To all appear ances the animal was at dead as oae of the stuffed specimens seen in a msseam collection. Tbc want of time precltsd iag an effort for its extrication ia the morning, it was allowed to remtia fro zes, aad was soon forgotten in the aaazc of the cares of the day. Tor forty -eight hoers tbe reptile thus remained frozen and lifelrss, at the cad of which time being thawed oat, vitality became visi ble, aad ia a short time it was as aai asotcd as ever, with no evidence of hav ing is the least sasered by ' rrrlBBgir! irigcrific caiaeatr-tt. Here in aa hantaace ia which the vital spark seeaas aet to hare bees extiagakhed by the fraaaiag, nor the animal's -rjpinlim toaaeebeea matilaied, bat that vitality aterelj re mained torpid or'doraaaat dariae; tike freeziag. aad ready to -raaaeeji te its faactiosH whaacTar the aaMxetaraed to its mArtim. At the race track the Slat of October, 1 aaeTer the weight ef Saw Mark's eeachta totally mjared aUfhtly hart4 aear iaesmaaia, - 3fe eaeaaeeahaaasa faSq M 4 J A. I 1-aMa-aBBBSfc - rn WVil i.-finYl .,. - daBBBrSBBmTH cananananBtBBnrn.'i zjzr wni Mtai awaaaoi BclSvx warn! I I 1 s IH r i V5 - i m I m m ,"- "VV-iW- 3WS