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TERRIBLE FIRE IN GHICAGO,
i
LOSS OVER $200,000,000.
Fire-Proof Buildings like Tinder,
SHIPPING BURNED OR SCATTERED IN
LAKE MICHIGAN.
EVEN THE PAVEMENTS DESTROYED
A Merciful Rain Ends the Conflagration
Chicago has been visited with a series
of fires which proved the most destruc-
tive of any ever known upon this conti-
nent. The first broke out at 11 o’clock
last Saturday night. l
The fire started in a large planing mill
between Clinton, Canal, Van Buren and
Jackson streets. The wind was blowing
very fresh, the flames spread with in-|
credible rapidity, and in a few minutes
the entire structure was a mass of fire.
The immediate vicinity is built up main-
ly with wooden tenement houses and
two-story frame buildings, occupied as
groceries, saloons, etc. The inmates of
many of these houses, started from
slumber, had hardly time to rush out in
their scanty night attire, leaving their
nousehold goods to destruction. In
several instances children were hastily
wrapped in blankets and quilis to break
their fall and thrown from second-story
windows to the ground. When the!
alarm was sounded for this fire, another
of considerable magnitude was burning
on Wall street, near Adams. Several
engines were necessarily kept at work
upon this fire. The rest of the engines 1
in the city were soon on the ground, but
before they arrived the fire had spread
over so large an area and was so rapidly
spreading that their efforts seemed of|
little avail. Between Canal street andi
the river were several lumber yards,
which were entirely destroyed. At this
hour the fire has made a clean sweep
from Van Buren street north two blocks
to Adams, and west to Clinton street.
Margaret Hadley, living on the northi
side of Jackson street, was burned to a
cinder.
Scarcely had this fire been subdued,
when another broke out at 6 o’clock
Sunday morning, of which a despatch
said:
A fire is now raging in the Western
Division, which appears to be as large
as that of last night. It it about two
and a half miles distant from the Court
House. It commenced near Taylor
street, between Delavan and Jefferson,
spreading in every direction, and covers
at least four blocks. At thishour it still
seems beyond control. The blocks are
built up solidly, and almost exclusively
of two-story frame houses, occupied as
residences, boarding-houses, saloons,
groceries, ctc.
About 9 o’clock, Sunday night, a third
fire broke out, which raged with fury
until 10 o’clock, Monday night, and of
which later dispatches say
The fire started in a row of two-story
wooden tenements on Dekoven street,
between Jefferson and Clinton, and
spread with terrible rapidity. Before
a single engine could get on the road,
half the block was in flames, and burn-
in% furiously.
he fire is still raging with increased
fary, and has spread almost with the
velocity of the wind. The district al
ready burned embraces an immense
number of lumber-yards, and freight
depots of the Chicago St. Louis, and
Pittsburg, Fort Wayne Chicago rail-
roads. The property already destroyed
counts up many millions of dollars. f
Large numbers of lives have been lost,
but how many can not be known until
the fire has been arrested.
The vessels in the river are catching
fire in every direction, and all on the
south river will probably be destroyed.
The bridge across Van Buren street is
burned. The cars on the track of the
Chicago and Alton and Fort Wayne rail
roads, with the freight houses are swept
away. Thousands of people fill the
streets, rushing out of their dwellings,
in many instances, barely in time to save
their lives. The block immediately
across the streetfromthe telegraph office,
one of the finest in the city, is now in
flames. The entire business portion
of the city is destroyed. All the banks,
express and telegraph offices, all the
newspaper offices, except the Tribune,
six elevators, and the water-works have
been burned. There is no water in the
city, and no less than ten thousand
buildings have already been destroyed.
The fire has burned a distance of five
miles and is still raging. The wind is
blowing a gale. It will be almost impos-
sible to get any reliable detailed particu
lars for some time. Only one telegraph
wireis working, and that to the suburbs.
It is impossible now to give, even ap-
proximately, a correct statement of the
loss, but some idea may be formed when
it is stated that every bank in the city, 5
except two small savings institutions,
one on 224 street, in the south division, g
and one on Randolph street, in the west
division, are destroyed all the wholesale
stores, all the leading retail establish-
ments, the Post Office, Court House,
Chamber of Commerce: every hotel in
the south division, except the Michigan
Avenue Hotel, which, standing on the
extreme southern limit, escaped, though
it is badly scorched; every newspaper
office, (the Tribune building, which was
supposed to be fire-proof, finally suc
cumbed) every theatre, the six largest
elevators, the immense depots of the
Michigan Southern and Illinois Central
railroads—both the passenger and freight
depots of the latter more than a score of
churches, and much shipping in the river
—all are destroyed.
Men who were millionaires yesterday
morning are nearly penniless to-day but 1
more terrible than this is the awful cer
minti that many human beings have
perished in the flames—how many, none
can tell, and Eerhaps no one will ever be
able to tell, but it is known that some
perished, and it is fesred that the vic
tims of the fiery monster may be counted
by scores.
Huudreds of horses and cows have
been burned in the stables, and on the
north side hundreds of animals, though
released from confinement, were so be
wildered and confused by the sea of fire
which surrounded them that they rushed
wildly to and fro, uttering cries of
flgght. and pain, until scorchefi and kill
ed.
Any attempt at a description of the
n.ppmllinél scenes would be idle. The
simple facts that the once great city of
Chicago i 3 destroyed, that hundreds of
milfions of active capital here have van
ished, and that nearly two thirds of
Chicago’s inhabitants are houseless de
pendents, are enough.,
Arrangements are being made by all
the great lines of transportation leading
toward Chicago, to carry free of expense
whatever 1s given for the relief of the
sufferers.
The fire-proof buildings burned like
tinder, especially the banks, not one of
which remains. Few business persons
saved even their papers. The whole
population was busy all night, and the
streets are now like a bivouac, filled
with sleeping men. The loss of life it
is impossible to estimate.
The shipping ordered into the north
branch of the river was sent adrift into
Lake Michigan. Many vessels were
burned.
All business is suspended, and must
remain so for the present. Tremendous
efforts were made to save the Tribune
and Post buildings, as well as the City
Hall and government buildings; but
nothing remains except blackeucfi stones
and crackling timbers. No papers can
be published until type comes from else
where, as the type foundries are also
burned. The origin of the fire was in a
stable, where a woman took a kerosene
lamp at milking-time. A large number
of firemen were killed. All the churches
in the South division, the Convent of
Mercy, all the railroad buildings, and
the front mansions of Michigan and Wa
bash avenues are gone. For miles, the
burning bridges along the river were
swinging a graceful arch of fire, from
shore to shore. The very pavements are
burned.
The population will probably be re
duced fifty thousand in one month.
Business men can not resume unless sub
stantial help is sent from the East and
the West. A huundred thousand persons
engaged in mercantile business are out
of employment. The streets leading to
the unburned portion of the south part
of the city, and all leading to the one
unbroken bridge west, are completely
blocked by all kinds of vehicles carry
ing sick and injured people and blacken
ed farniture. The county records are
safe: but the city records are lost.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany furnishes the following: St.
Louis has just had communication with
Chicago, and reports that there was a
heavy rain Monday night, and the fire
is all out. Relief is pouring in from all
directions.”
Fifteen hundred citizens were sworn
in Tuesday night as an extra police force,
and the Secretary of War authorized
Gen. Sheridan to employ all available
troops for a guard, and issued an order
for ten thousand rations. Five hundred
soldiers are on duly. This precaution
was necessary, for as remarkable as it
may seem, there were fiends who still
sought to extend the disaster.
Two fiends caught in the act of firing
a house on the west side were arrested
and immediately hung to lamp-posts—
one on 15th street, near the river, and
the other, three miles away on Claiborne
avenue, north side. This summary ac
tion has checked the thieves and mur
derers. The arrival of firemen and en
gines from Milwaukee, St. Louis, and
other cities has apparently restored con
fidence.
The newspapers will be started again
in a few days or weeks. Joseph Medill,
of the Tribune, who is one of the heav
iest sufferers, succeeded on Tuesday in
leasing a back building on Washington
street, at the tunnel. fie also purchased
two single-cylinder presses used in a job
office on the west side, and has tele
graphed east for paper and type, there
being wothing left here.
Late on Sunday evening a boy went
into a stable on Dekoven street, near the
river, on the west side, to milk a cow,
carrying with him a kerosene lamp.
This was kicked over by the cow, and
the burning fluid scattered among the
straw.
In the rush to escape from the flames, i
hundreds of people were trampled under
foot. Men and women -loaded with
bundles and household goods, to whose
skirts were clinging tender infants half
dressed and bare-footed, all were seek-
ing a place of safety. Hours afterward
these might have been seen in vacant
lots or on the streets far in the suburbs,
stretched in the dust. It is fearful to
think of the loss of life. It is conjee-
tured with good camse that nearly 500
have been burned to death. We saw
four men enter a burning building, and 1‘
in a moment they were overwhelmed by
a falling wall. There was a crowd ofl
men around the corner building trying
to save property, when, the wall yield-
ing, some were buried beneath it.
Twelve or fiftcen men, women, and chil-
dred rushed into%the building of the i
Historical Society, a fire-proof building,
for safety. In afew minutes the flames 1
burst up and they were burned to death.
All the books and papers of the His-
torical Society, including the original
copy of the famous emancipation pro-
clamation of President Lincoln, for
which the Society paid $25,000, were de-
stroyed. f
Itis feared that a large number of chil- l
dren, inmates of the Catholic Orphan
Asylum on State street, were also burn-
ed, as many of them are missing. Oni
Chicago avenue a father rushed up stairs
to carry three children away, when he
was overtaken by the flames and perished
with them. The mother was aigerwardl
seen on the street, a raving maniac. In
the same neighborhood a family of five 1
persons perished. The lists of such fat-
alities are very long, and can only be‘
fully verified after the smoke is cleared.
A careful survey of insurance to-day 1
shows that there were written on pro
perty destroyed over $200,000,000. Add
another $100,000,000, and a fair estimate
can be reached ot the loss.
All the leading merchants who have
been seen express a determination to re
suame business at once.
The following reliable and graphic de
scription of the fire is furnished by a
gentleman who participated in the work
1’ of subduing the flames:
~_None but an eye-witness can form any
idea_of the fury and power of the fire
fiend, as he reveled in palatial buildings
‘and ware-houses on the south side, with
lthe air blowing a hurricane at times.
It seemed but the work of a moment for
‘the fire to enter the south ends of the
‘buildings fronting on Randolph, Lake,
‘and Water streets, and re-appear at
'the north doors and windows, belchin
forth in fierce flar_ncg, which often licke(gl
Lthe opposite buildings, and then the
flames issuing forth from the buildings
‘on both sides of the street would unite
Land {)resent a solid mass of fire, com
pletely filling the street from side to side,
‘and shooting upward a hundred feet in
to the air above the house-tops in mad
ccareer. Thus was street after street fiil
‘ed with flame; huge walls would fall,
without apparently giving any sound in
the roar of the fierce elements,
Many of the buildings situated flong
South Water street buried their red-hot
irear walls in the river, into which they
fell with a hiss. The heat was so intense
INDEPENDENT STATESMAN
at times from some of the burning build
ings that they could not be approached
within one hundred and fifty feet.
Among the sad scenes, was the ap
peatance of a hundred men and boys,
beastly intoxicated, around the streets
in the North Division, where saloon
keepers’ stocks of liquors were turned
into the streets, and furnished a conven
ient opportunity for the gratification of
their slavish propensities. There is hard
ly a doubt that many of these poor
wretches found death in the flames.
One poor man had crowded for refuge
into the water-main, lying in the street
near the Water-Works, but the fire found
him even there before he could get his
body wholly in safety, and robbed him
of his life.
Twenty-three bodies were taken to a
station-house on the north side. At the
present time it is impossible to know
who they are.
A Chicago dispatch of last evening
contains the following particulars: No
tongue can describe the suffering and
terrorendured by the whole population
of the North division during Monday
and Tuesday. The flames on Monday
drove them wildly to the lake shore, des
titute of everything. Then they only
escaped being consumed, by wetting
their blankets and wrapping themselves
in them. All day Monday, thousands
were without food, and at night were
exposed to rain and cold. Many per
ished from cold and exhaustion.
The charred remains of over one hun
dred persons have been taken from the
ruins. None of them have as yet been
identified. The remains of sixty victims
were found in the ruins of one barn.
The loss of life will exceed one thou
sand persons,
Five hundred people escaped on a
barge, which floated out of the river in
to the lake, where it remained until yes
terday.
The total loss of grain is now definite-
Iy ascertained to be 1,600,000 bushels.
Four vessels loaded with grain left for
the East to-day, and the eastern move
ment will continue, as full 5,000,000
bushels are now in store.
Terrible Fires in Michigan.
The news from St. Clair and Huron
counties, of Wednesday, is of most dis
tressing character. All of that portion
of the State east of Saginaw Bay, and
north of a point forty miles abovc Port
Huron, has been completely swept by a
fire. A number of persons have perish
ed, and it is fesretf that we have not
heard the worst.
The villages of Forestville, Elm Creek,
White Rock, Sandbeach, and Huron
City, are entirely destroyed. Rock Falls
and Port Hope are partially desiroyved.
Nothing has yet been heard from Port
Chesteror Port Crescent, but it is hardly
possible that they have escaped.
At all these towns there were large
stores, many filled with winter stocks,
extensive saw-mills, shingle-mills, and
docks covered with lamber, all of which
were swept away. It is said but one
block is left on the shore about Forest
ville.
A steamer which left Port Huron last
night, for the relief of the W‘;re
turned this evening with about forty
men, women, and children, five being
severely burned.
The light rains of yesterday seem to
have greatly abated the fires throughout
the State, and it is believed that the
worst has passed. Scarcely a county
in the State but suffered from fire, and
the loss will amount to hundreds of thou
sands of dollars. The damage to pine
land is incalculable.
Non-Explosive Herosene Lamps.
The disastrous fire at Chicago brings
to mind most forcibly the danger con
stantly attending the use of ordinary
kerosene lamps, and common prudence,
at least, would seem to require that if
there is a safer lamp. it should be used,
instead of those kinds which experience
has proved will explode. That Perkins‘
House’s Metallic Kerosene Lamps are
non-explosive, has been demonstrated
beyond all doubt. They are so construct
ed that it is absolutely impossible to ex
plode them by any fall, and the fire can
not come in contact with the oil. It is
claimed for them that they give more
light, and at less expense, than any other
lamp now in use. There is none of the
disagreeable oder of common kerosene
lamps and the flame is steady. These
lamps, are adapted to kitchens, parlors,
halls, churches, and factories, and em
brace a great. variety of styles, from a
hand-lamp to chandeliers of from two to
eighteen lights, which are finished as
elaborately as the nicest gas-fixtures.
Indeed, the lamps are so constructed
that they can be put upon any common
gas-fixture without trouble, should any
one desire to do so. The factory lamp
is meeting with great success, because
of its safety and convenience, and is
coming rapidly into use. The pendent
lamps, for dining and sitting-rooms, slid
ing up and down with brass tape and
steel spring, will be found very conven
ient, answering every purpose of a drop
light. These lamps are manufactured
by the Cleveland Non-Explosive Lamp
Company, which turns out more than
five hundred lamps a day. They also
manufacture a filling-can, constructed
upon the principle of Davy’s miners
safety-lamp, by means of which a light
ed lamp can be filled without danger of
explosion.
The Manufacturer’s Agent for the sale
of these lamps is Allan Folger, who
“has recently removed from White’s Block,
Capitol street, to Durgin’s Block, School
street, first door west of the post-office,
'where he keeps constantly on hand a
large assortment of the non-explosive
lamps, and cordially invites the public
\to call and examine them. He has sold
I‘thousands of them in the State during
the past two years, and they have given
}the greatest satisfaction. His monthly
sales this year are much larger than in
previous years. Call and see his lamps.

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Watertown Union Market.
BOSTON, Oct. 10, 1871.
At market, 1312 Cattle, 11,572 Sheep and Lambs,
244 Swine. 2
Market Beef-Choice $1000; Extra, 000 $950;
first quality, SBOO 8 50; second quality, §7 00
87 50; third quality, $550 &6 50.
Store Cattle—Working Oxen—-% to 200,
Milch Cows and Calves, 30 b
Yearlings, 8 $18; two years old 12 25;
three years old $25 $45.
Sheep and Lambs—Prices in lots, S3OO €525
each; orfrom4 7%6
Hides, Bic ¥b. Tallow, 6 @6ic¥ b.
Poultry—Extra, 15¢; prime, 144 143c¢; good, 14
14}c; medium, 13§c.
Warriages.
In this city, Oct. 11, b{{ Rev. H. G. Safford, Mr,
C':mrles H. Sanders and Miss Mary A. Dow, both of
this city.
In thnys city, Oct. 10, by Rev. D. W. Faunce, Hen
ry (:l Mercer and Emma A. Tuppan'th of Con
cord.
In Hampton, Oct. 2, Louis P. Hervey, of Exeter,
and Sarah A, Marston, of North Hampton.
In Dover, Oct. 4, Alonzo T. Pinkham and M. Liz
zie Frye.
In Northwood, Oct. 1, Daniel W. Gale, of Bel
mont, and Susie B. Garland, of Strafford.
In Manchester, Oct. 8, John A. Gilbraith and
Wanny A. Fogg, both of M. Oct. 5, Sewell L. Fogg,
of Manchester, and Maria A. Gove, of Weare.
In Hooksett, Oct. 10, Hiram N. Ash, of Lisbon,
and Nancy H. Otterson, of H,
In Keene. Oct. 4, Wilton H. Spalter and Emma A.
Marsh; Oct. 5, Dana L. Fuller and Addie Cumings.
In Claremont, Oct. 3, Watren O. Towle and Em
ma F. Clough.
Beaths.
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In Epping, Oct. 6, very suddenly, of heartfdis
ease, Mrs. Joseph French, aged 69, i
In Portsmouth, Oct. 3, Mary M., widow of Capt.
Wm. Stocker, aged 85; Oct. 4, W. Irving Laighton,
aged 32; Oct. 7, Mrs. Ann M. Hopkins, aged 23.
In Great Falls, Oct. 3, Hanora, wife of Robert
Barrett, aged 38; Oct. 4, Olive H., wife of Benj.
Furber, aged 72; Oct. 4, Lydia, widow of James
Johnson, aged 68.
In Union, Oct. 3, Rosa A. Jenness, aged 21.
In Londonderry, Oct. 8, David Smith, aged 76.
In Littleton, Oct. 2, Ezra Hale, ageul 69.
lndl;gaerborongh, Oct. 4, Mrs. Esther Johnson,
aged 68.
In Hopkinton, Oct. 6, John Bacon, aged 72 years
and 6 months.
CONCORDPD RAILROAD,
3 s e S
Ei sy s
ON and after MONDAY, JULY 17, 1871, Passen
ger trains will run as follows:
DOWN TRAINS LEAVE CONCORD
For Manchester, Nashua, Lowell and Boston, via
Lowell, at 5.30, 7.30 and 10.15, A. M., and 3.40 (Bx.)
4.15 and 7.45 (Express) P. M. Sundays, 6.15 A.
For Lawrence, &c. at 5.30 and 10.15 A. M., and 3.40
P. M.
For Portsmouth, at 7.30 A. M., and 3.40 P, M,
For Suncoek, at 7.30 A. M. and 4.15 P. M.
For Suncook Valley Railroad at 3.40 and 4.15 P. M.
UP TRAINS LEAVE BOSTON, B. AND L. DEPOT,
At 7.00 and 8.00 (Express) A. M., 12.00 M., and 2.30
5.00 and 6.00 (Ex.) P, M. Sundays 5.00 P. M,
ARRIVE AT CONCORD
At 10.20 and 10.30 A. 3., and 3.00, 5.30, 8.13 and 8.9
P. M. Sundays 8.20 P, M.
H. E. CHAMBERLIN, Supt.
Concord, N, H., July 14, 1871. ts
NORTHERN RAILROAD.
b B G
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
N and after MONDAY, June 26,1871, Passenger
Trains will run as follows:
TRAINS NORTH,
Leave Concord for White River Junction at 10.35
A. M. (Express), and 10.40 A. M., 3.27 and 8.40 P. M.,
connecting with trains over Vt. Central and Pas
sumpsic Roads, and for Bristol, at 3.27 P. M,
N. B.—The Express Train will stop only atFrank
lin, Potter Place, Enfield and Lebanon, except when
flagged to take on Enssenzers who purchase tickets
tor stations beyond St. Albans,
TRAINS SOUTH.
Leave White River Junction for Coneord at *1.50
A. M. (Mondays excepted,) 6.45 A, M. 12.20, 5.10 and
5.10 P. M. (Express.)
*This train is run through to Boston on Slmda_ly.
Leave Bristol for Franklin and Concord at 7.50
A M,
These trains connect with trains for Boston, Low
ell, Worcester, &c.
N.B. The Express Train will stop only at Leba
non, Enfield, Canaan, Potter Place, Franklin and
Fisherville.
GEORGE E, TODD, Sup’t.
Concord, June 26, 1871. ts
CONCORD AND CLAREMONT,
AND
CONTOOCOOK RIVER RAILROAD,
l.:'::::;:_:::_:‘:_:v-
BemEssE ey
ARS over these roads run in connection with
cars over the Concord, Nashua, Worcester and
Lowell Railroads as follows
Leave Bradford and Hillsborough Bridge for Con
cord, &c., at 8.45 A. M.; Mixed train from Hillsboro’
Bridge, at 2.10 P. M.
Leave Concord for Bradford and Hillsborough
Bridge, at 3.30 P. M.; Mixed train for Hillshorough
Bridge, at 11.00 A, M.
STAGE CONNECTIONS.
Bradford for Newbury, Sunapee, Newport, Clare
mont, Sutton, New London, &c., daily.
Hillsborough Bridge for Antrim, Bennington and
East Washington, dm:{ for Keene, via Antrim
North Branch, Stoddard, Munsonville and Sullivan
Tuesdays, Thuesdays and Samrda)(']s; for Claremont
via Washington, Lempster, and_ Unity, Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridags, returning opposite da!s.
EORGE E. TODD, Supt.
Coneord, May 29, 1871. 17
Kearsarge National Bank.
REPORT of the condition of The KearsarFe
National Bank of Warner,” at Warner, in the
State of New Hampshire, at the close of business
on the second day of October, 1871,
RKSOURCES. DR.
Loans and discounts, $£36,439.79
U. 8. Bonds to secure Circulation, 50,000.00
Duefrom Redeeming and Reserve Agents, 10,036.57
Current Expenses, 454.74
Checks and other Cash Items, 945.60
Bills of other National Banks, 2,017.00
Fractional Currency, 11.40
Specie, 50.00
Legal Tender Notes, 3,700.00
£103,655.10
LIABILITIES, CR.
Capital Stock paid in $50,000.00
Surplus Fund, 2,273.86
Exchange, $£1,503.28
Profit and Loss 1,008.72
—_— 2,512.00
Circulating Notes received from
Comptroller, $44,500.60
Amount on hand, 961.00
Amount outstanding, —_— 43,539.00
Dlvidends unpaid, '783.00
Individual Depogits, 4,547.24
$103,6565.10
I, G. C. GEORGE, Cashier of The Kearsarge Na
tional Bank of Warner,” Jdo solemnly swear that
the above statement is true, to the best of my
knowledge and belief.
GILMAN C. GEORGE, Cashier.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—County of Merrimack.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this sixth
day of October, 1871.
HENRY H. HARRIMAN, Justice of the Peace.
Correct—Attest
LRGARIE
N.T.GREEN
HENRY H. HARRIMAN, (Directors.
GEORGE SAVORY,
i Oct. 13, 1871, It 2
FARM FOR SALE.
THE undersigned offer for sale their farm situa
ted in Pittsfield, Uv)er Village, and about two
miles from the Factory illage. Saidfarm contains
seventy-four acres of land, suitabl‘v divided into
mowing, tillage, Pnsturing and woodland, enclosed
mostly with good stone wall, and has one hundred
twenty-five fruit trees thereon, The flelds are situ
ated in full view from the buildings, are smooth,
easy to cultivate, and productive for corn, wheat,
potatoes and §rass. '}‘hc wood lot affords an abun
dant supply of wood, of athrifty growth, One pair
of six-foot oxen, will easily draw three cords of
wood to the bulldings in a Xny, or will draw half a
cord of manure toany part of the tinalgc land, or
one ton of hay to the'barn. The build nfa are ar
ranged to accommodate two families if desired,
every part of them has recently been repaired and
}mintcd. The location is one of the most desirable
or a farmer in town, moderately elevated 8o as to
command a good view, on a good road, within
fortg rods of the best district school, and extensive
ly known as a model neighborhood. A small
amount of purchase to be paid down, the balance
¢an remain on mortgage several years if desired.
Possession given at any time. "Pleage %lve us a
call, as we ghould like to sell before the winter £éa
#on,
Information may be had of John L. French, Egq.
ABIGAIL ROLLINS. z
ELVIRA ROLLINS,
Pittsfield, Oct. 12, 1871. wiw2
Real Estate at Auction.
'rul farm lately owned and occupied ?i’ William
Abbott, late of Loudon, will be sold at public
auction on Thursday the 19th of October instxnt at
1 o’clock in the af‘;ernoon. This farm contains
about one hundred and fifty acres of land, suitably
divided into mowing, tillage, pasturage and wood
-1 land. There is about twenty acres of wood and
timber of excellent quality. Timber eonsists of
Oak, Pine, and _Chestnut. ‘Orcharding eapable of
making, in the bearing Vyear, forty barrels of cider,
and from twenty to thirty barrels of grafted fruit.
One young orchard is wholly grafted. The Build
ings are a one-story house with wood-shed and
hog-house adjoining. House has five rooms on the
ground, all in good repair. Two barns and sheds
and con-barn. The farm is well supplied with
water at the house, barn, and pasture. Said farm is
situated 3 miles from Loudon village, 4 miles from
Fisherville, and 7 miles from Concord street.
There will be sold at the same time about five
l tons of English hay, four or five tons of meadow
hay, between thirty and forty bushels of oats, a
quantity of Yotatoes, from five to seven barrels of
t cider, and lot of cider-barrels. Sale on the prem
ises. Conditions of sale made known at time and
place, NANCY E. ABBOTT.
f J. L. PICKERING, Auctioneer,
i _Leudon, Oct. 4, 1871. 2wl
20 the Honorable Daniel Clark, Judge of the Dis
trictof New-Hamsphire
RESPECTFULLY represents SARAH APPLE
TON, late of Laconia, now of Andover, in said
District, in good faith supposing that she had good
title to certain real estate named and described in
the award of your Honor as arbitrator, dated the
twelfth day of August 1869, subject to certain mort
gages therein named, did on ‘the twelfth day of
October 1867, and before the said award and while
she supposed her title to be good, pay by the hand
of her son, Robert M. Appleton, the sum of five
hundred and thirty dollars to one John Engel, of the
same Laconia, who then held a mortgage on a part
of the said real estate, and which was outstanding
thereon at the time the same was conveyed to your
petitioner; that thereafter, her husband, Thomas
Appleton, was decreed to be bankrupt by your
Honor’s Court, and the said real estate was claimed
by his assignee, Daniel Barnard, Ksquire, as the
estate of the said Thomas Appleton, on the ground
that the same had been paid for by the money of
the said Thomae, and your Honor's aforesaid
award, on file in this court, determines the afore
said claim to be well founded, subject to the mort
gages named in said award, to wit: one to the Mer
edith Bridge Savings Bank, dated Feb. 25, 1887,
and one to the Winnepiseogee Lake Cotton and
Woolen Manufacturing Company, dated about Sept.
2, 1867, but not subject to the aforesaid mort%nge
to John Engel which had previously been paid by
your petitioner, as above stated that the said as
signee has sold the said Appleton’s interest in said
real estate for the sum of sixteen hundred ninety
dollars ($1,690), to one Charles P. Sanborn, Egquire,
of Concord, who has quitclaimed the same to your
petitioner for that sum, upon the agreement that
she pay that gum to said ussifnee: or that sum less
the gaid four hundred thirty dollars, as your Honor
may order.
Therefore fiour petitioner respectfully requests
that inasmuch as the value of the said Bankrupt’s
interest in said real estate was enhanced by her
ruyment of the said four hundred and thirty dol
ars and interest thereon to date, amounting to five
hundred and thirt{-one dollars, the said assignee
be directed to deduct from the aforesaid sum of
sixteen hundred and nivety dollars, the aforesaid
sum of five hundied and thirty-one dollars and be
required to account as assignee for only the balance
of eleven hundred and fifty-nine dollars, and that
your Honor decree accordir gly.
Dated, Sept. 18, 1871. SARAH APPLETON.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—MERRIMACK, SS.
September 18, 1871.
Personally npgeared the above named Sarah Ap
pleton and made oath that the above statement
made in the above petition is true.
Before me,
AUSTIN F. PIKE, Jus. Peace.
PIKE BLODGETT, Solicitors,
District Court of the United States.
DISTRICT OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—IN BANKRUPTCY.
In the matter of THOMAS APPLETON, Bankrupt.
At Manchester, in said Disatrict, on the fitth day of
October, A. D., 1871.
DISTRICT OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE SS.
IT 18 ORDEKED: That a hearing be had on the
foregoing application, before said Court, at Man
chester in said District, on the fourteenth day of
November next, atten o’clock A. M., and that the
petitioner cause notice thercof tobe given to all per
sons interested therein, by causing a certified copy
of said application, and the order of the Court
thereon, to be published two weeks successively in
the INDEPENDENT STATESMAN, a newspaper Yub
lished at Concordlin gaid District, the last publica
tion thereof to be at least ten days before said day
of hearing.
Witness the Honorable Daniel Clark, Judge of
the said Court, and the seal thereof, at Maunchester,
insaid District, on the sth day of October, A. D.
1871,
C. H. BARTLETT,
Clerk of the District Court for said District.
A true copy of the original Petition and order of
Court thereon,
Attest C. H. BARTLETT, Clerk.
Oct. 13, 1871. w2w2
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—MERRIMACK, SB,
The Judge of Probate for said County, to the heirs
atlaw of the Estate of ALANSON STEWART,
late of Allenstown, in said County, deceased, and
toall others interested therein
YOU are hereby notified that MOSES MARTIN,
Administrator of the estate of said deceased,
will exhibit his account of the administration of
said estate, at a Court of Probate to be holden at
Concord, in said County, on the fourth Tuesday of
November next; when and where you may appear,
and show cause, if any you have, against the al
lowance of said account.
Given at Concord, in said County, this 26th day
of September, A. D., 1871.
By order, ISAACA, HILL, Register.
Concord, Oct. 6th, 1871. 3wl
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—MERRIMACK, SB,
The Judge of Probate for said County, to the heirs
at law of the Estate of RUTH CHASE, late of
Loudon, in said County, deceased, and to all others
interested therein S
YOU are hereby notified that EDWARD OS
GOOD, Executor of the last will and testa
ment of said deceased, will exhibit his account of
the administration of said Estate, at a Court of
Probate to be holden at Concord, in said county,
onthe fourth Tuesday of Novembernext; when and
where you ma{ appear, and show cause, if any you
have, against the allowance of said account.
Given at Concord, in said County, this 26th day
of Seggember, A.D.1871.
y order, ISAAC A.HILL, Register.
Concord, Oct. 6, 1871. 3wl
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—~MERRIMACK &8.
The Judge of Probate for said County, to the heirs
at law of the Estate of NAOMI B. MERRIAM,
late of Pembroke, in said County, deceased, and to
all others interested therein
YOU are hereby notified that MOSES MARTIN.
Executor of the last will and testament of said
deceased, will exhibit his account of the adminis
tration of said estate, at a Court of Probate to be
holden at Concord, in said county, on the fourth
Tuesday of November, next; when and where you
may appear, and show_cause, if any you have,
againet the allowance of said account.
Given at Concord. in said county, this 26th day
of September, A, 1871.
By order, ISAAC A. HILL, Register,
Concord, Oct. 6th, 1871. 3wl
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE—MERRIMACK, §S.
The Judge of Probate for said Ccmntg, to the heirs
at law %f the Estate of GEORGE SAWYER,
late of Concord, in said County, deceased, and to
all others interested therein
YOU are hereby notified that NELLIE M.
SAWYER, Adminigtratrix of the Estate of said
deceased, will exhibit her account of the adminis
tration of said Estate, at a Court of Probate to be
holden at Concord, in said County, on the fourth
Tuesday of November, next; when and where you
may apgear, and show cause, if' any you have,
against the allowance of =aid account.
Given at Concord, in said County, this 26th day of
September, A. D. 1871,
By order, ISAAC A, HILL, Register.
Concord, Oct. 4th, 1871. 3wl
Foreclosure of Mortgage.
BE IT KNOWN, That on the nineteenth day of
April, 1871, I peaceably entered upon and
took possersion of a tract of land, situated in An
dover, in the County of Merrimack, bounded and
described as follows, to wit: A certain tract of
land with the buildings thereon, situated in East
Andover in said Counr?' and known as the Cilley
Place, conveyed to me in mor%nlge b{ Isaac White
John 8. White, and Hannah White, by their deed
dated August 27th, 1868, recorded in Merrimack
County Records Lib. 191, Fol. 276, for condition
broken, and for the purpose of forecloelag the
right in equitx of said Tsaac White, John S. White,
and Hannah White to redeem the same; and at the
same time publiely declared the purpose and object
of gaid entry und possession,
RICHARD PEVARE.
Andover, Oct, 4, 1871, 3wl
Administratrix’ Notice.
TIIE subscriber has been duly nppointed Ad
ministratrix of the eastate of GKORGE W,
FROS L, late of Franklin, deceased, intestate, All
persons having claims ntgmlst said estate ave pre
quested to exhibit them for adjustment, and all in
(lebtedvto make payment.
MARY M. FROST, Administratrix.
Franklin, Sept. 27, 1871. Jwl*
Administrator's Notice.
The subgcriber hereby gives notice that he has
been duly upfiolnted administrator of the estate of
HENRY I’ RANDALL, late of Hopkinton, deceas
ed, intestate, All persons indebte(P to said estate
are requested to inake immediate payment, and
all t-ving claims to present them to the sub
scriber for adjustment.
o ;o STEPHEN K. HOYT, Administrator.
HopKinton, Sept. 28, 1871, 63
Collector’s Notice.
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE GRAFTON, SS.
NUTI(‘I-I is hereby given that 0 much of the fol
lowing real estate in the town of FRANCONIA,
in =aid county, belonging to persons not resident
in said town, as will pay the following taxes as
sessed upon each tract respectively for the year
1871, with incidental charges, will be sold at public
auction at Parker’s Store, in said Franconia. on
Wednesday, the 20th day of December next, at ten
of the clock in the forenoon, unless prevented by
previous payment:
SYPEF oY YRER
SEET 22 wam
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Grantees Names, o SEE eaE
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Thomas Allen, s 215 4 80 26 13 .65 11
George Gordon, s side 22110 80 26 13 451112
John Temple, s wside 221 6 40 14 7T 35 6
Richard Draper, s 22011 80 26 13 .651112
Thomas Atkinson, n 22011 80 2613 651112
William Alexander,s 22111 80 26 13 .63 11 12
Moses Graves, n 222 9 80 2613 651112
Thomas Meekins, n 21011 80 2613 6511 12
Jere Webb, s 222 8 80 2613 .651112
Daniel Hopkins, n 22110 80 26 13 651112
Thomas Atkinson, n 22111 80 2613 651112
Joseph Russell, s 214 4 80 2613 6511
Thomas Hubbard, Esqs22o 6 80 26 13 .63 11
Daniel Castle, n 214 6 80 2513 6511
William Mather, n 213 8 80 2613 .651112
Samuel Mather, s 22210 80 2613 .651112
Samuel Hunt, n 222 8 80 2613 651112
Samuel D. Searle, n 22211 80 2613 .651112
Thomas Meekin s 21011 80 2613 .651112
Zepheniah Platte, n 22210 80 26 13 .65 1112
Fitch Poole, n 217 3 80 26 13 651112
Samuel Blod(.,;ctr, 8 21911 80 26 13 651112
William Mitchell, s 214 5 80 2613 6511
Wiseman Claggett,
Voted, n 216 480 2613 651118
Daniel Jones, Boston, n 221 6 80 26 i 3 .43 11
Mark H. Wentworth,n 21911 &26 13 .65 1112
Isaac Searle, n, 21310 80 26 13 651112
Sanderson West, n 221 9 80 2613 651112
John Graves, s 221 9 80 213 651112
Joseph Russell, 31910160 26 13 651112
George Gardner, 317 9160 26 13 .65 1112
Giles Alexander, 31211160 26 13 651112
William Alexander, 51311160 26 13 .65 1112
Daniel Hopkins, 315 7160 26 13 6511
Samuel D. Searle, 31510160 26 13 .65 1112
Elezar Burt 31811160 26 13 .6511 12
Oliver Wendell, 31710160 26 13 651112
William Taylor, 321 1160 2613 .65 11
Danicl Jones, 318 9160 26 13 651112
John Temple, 316 8160 26 13 .65 1112
Elisha Graves, 321 3160 26 13 651112
Thomas Atkinson, 320 4160 26 13 .65 11
John Moflit, 316 5160 26 13 .6511
Daniel Jones, Boston, 31810166 26 13 .651112
Moses Graves, 314 7160 26 13 .651118
Jeremiah Webb, 319 8160 26 13 651112
Thomas Atkinson, 316 7160 26 13 .6511
Harrison Gray, 322 6160 26 13 .65 11
Caleb Blodgett, 318 6160 26 13 .6511
William Brattle, 322 4160 26 13 .65 11
Samuel Hunt, 318 7160 26 13 .65 11
Isaac Searle, 315 8160 26 13 651112
Mark H. Wentworth, 320 7160 26 13 .65 11
Samuel Mather, 31710160 26 13 651112
Caleb Strong, 319 6160 26 13 .65 11
David West, 322 1160 2613 .6511
Zepheniah Platte, 318 4160 26 13 6511
Jogeph Pincheon, 322 3160 2613 6511 2
Thomas Stare, 320 8160 26 13 .651112
Willis Hall, 315 5160 26 13 .6511
Isaac Willard, 8 323 7 80 2010 .50 R
William Blodgett, 320 9160 26 13 651112
Joseph Richardson, 315 9160 26 18 .651112
william Mather, 321 4160 26 13 .65 11
Land belonging to Joseph Blodgett,
William Taylor, 321 2160 26 13 651112
John Telilip]c. jeside 221 6.40 14 7 .35 6
Thomas Meekins, 32010160 26 13 .631112
Jacob Wendell, 317 6160 26 13 6511
John Graves 319 3160 26 13 6511 2
Oxenbridge Thatcher, 317 5160 26 13 .63 11
Isaac Willard, n 322 7 80 2010 .50 8
Joseph Hutchins, nside 41i 8 39 40 20 1.001713
Wiseman Claggett, s 216 480 2613 .65 11
George Wilson, s 221 7 80 2613 6511
John Graves, s side 416 350 4020 1.0017 3
Elisha Graves 2d n side 416 3 50 40 20 1.0017 3
Isanc Searle, 3d, n 411 8 39 4020 1.001718
Samuel Hopkins, 8 222 980 2613 651112
Harrison Gray, 113 5160 240120 6.00 1.02
Joseph Hutchins, s 21310 80 26 13 651112
Oliver Wendeil, s 21010 80 30 15 751214
Joseph Pincheon, n 217 4 8) 2613 .6311
Willis Hall, s 214 6 80 2613 .6511
Harrison Gray, n 214 5 80 40 20 1.0017
Francis Barnard, 320 2160 26 13 6511 2
Lewis Gray, Boston, 322 2160 26 13 .6511 2
Fitch Poole, 322 5160 26 13 6511
William Mitchell, 31610160 26 13 .65 1112
Thos. Meekins, 316 9160 26 13 .651112
Samuel Hopkins, 31611160 26 13 651112
Thos. Hubbard, Esq. 321 5160 2613 6511
Jos. Russell, 3d, nside 416 3 50 4020 10017 3
Oxenhridfie Thatcher 412 74040 20 1.00 17
William Mather, 416 3 10 10 5 .25 4
William Mitchell, 41217 40 4020 1.0017
Formerly taxed to J, C.
Coll}){ heirs, 5 220 40 20 10 1.0017
Daniel Hopkins, 317 2160 80 40 2.0034 7
Elisha Graves, n 110 8 80 500100 5.00 &5 94
Formerly taxed to
Wm. O. Carleton 13 2 100 250 125 6.25 166
MOSES N. HOWLAND, Collector.
Franconia, Sept. 20, 1871, wW3wW
NOTICE.
STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE—CoOOs 88,
PUBL!C notice is hereby given to the owners of
lands in the following grants, that o much of
said grants will be sold at }vublic auction, viz.:
Lowe and Burbank’s, at the Lancaster House, in
Lancaster, in said county, on Tuesday the 26th day
of December next, at ten of the clock, in the fore
noon, and Second Colleg‘[g Grant, at the Partons
House, in Colebrook, on hursda{the 28th day of
December next, al two ofthe clock in the afternoon,
as will satisty the several warrants issued b( the
County ‘I reasurer, April 20th, 1871, and incidental
charges, unless prevented by previous payment.
Tazx, Warrant. Total,
Lowe and Burbank, §12.¢99 SI.OO $13.99
Second College, 20.78 1.00 21.78
B. H. CORNING, Sherifl.
Lancaster, N. H., Oct. 5,1871, w3w3
ASSIGNEE'S NOTICE.
THERE will be a second general meeting of the
creditors of A. W. H. WILLIAMS, of Hristol,
N. H., Bankrupts, at Nashua, in said District, on
the 28th day of October, 1871, at 2 o’clock, P. M., at.,
the office of Hon. Aaron Sawyer.
HENRY 8. BECKFORD, Assignee.
Oct. 13, 1871, 3w2
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