Jilt iiptott JUwrtisc*.
)'i Ul.ISHKli K.VB*TT«f KSKAV BT
MULPOBD 4 LOHOLBY,
Oiflci' over H. I~ Dean's Hhoe Store, north of
lit Court House square.
TBKMHt
ONB COPY,
OSK
YEAH $1.50
Six MONTHS 75
THKBE MONTHS 40
INVARL ABLY IN ADVANCK.
Lodges.
iCANirOU I,OlCJK No. S, I. O. O. F. meet
every Friday evening at their Hall over
CASAII Gilmore's ClothLN« Htore.
JOHN WIHENER, N. O.
WM. ELLIOTT, Rec.
miPTOX KNCAMPMKNT No. I. O. F.
1 Meetings 2il and 4th Monday evening of
eaeli month. JKSSK JAMKS, t'. P.
WM. KLI.IOTT, Hcribe.
/IRYSTAI. FOUNT LOIMIK No. 280 I. O. of G.
T.. Tipton, Iowa. Metts every Tuesday
•"vrntnar in fiooil Templars' Hall, over A.
Barley's Store.
VisirlnK Hrothers and Sinters cordially greet
ed. H. M. MURRAY, W.C.T.
A. ADLER, W. Sec'y.
HOliAU LOriUK No. II, A. F. A A. M.,Tipton,
V liolils regular communications on
W elite's.lay evenings, on or before full moon,
visiting itretliren welcomed.
n.siiEAULK. sec. .i. w. KYNP TT, W. M.
SII.OAM
1
'II.VI'TEH. NO. 19, meets every
Wednesday night nfter full moon.
W. H. ALDEN, H. P.
S. L. KMITII, H«e.
Exchange Office
8N*NR
MIAFRSON NKW YORK AXDCHI
CAUU. for ny required amount can be
proeurod of the subscriber. Also, Hills of Fx
chiinse sterling, on England or
Ireland.
Certificates of Deposit anil Hank Drafts on
Now York. 1'hiladelphla, Boston or rhlcaico
cashed, and tovernmcnt Securities tmrchased.
Passage Tiekets from Liverpool, London
derry or Glasgow to New York,or Clarence,
furnished on moderate terms.
Tipton, Iowa. Sept. 1st. 1x70.
Attorneys.
TTORNEY AND COl'XHELLOR AT LAW,
and Notary Public. Abstracts furnished.
Meneva lo.mud and invested, and Collections
promptly inride. in the Court House
liasement, Tipton, Iowa. .'CI
rtLLMM r. WOI.F, SANFoRO V. LAHDT.
WOLF A L.iXDT,
ATTORXKY* AT LAW, TIPTOX, IOWA.
Offloe over Me liank. 4-.
JOSEPH W. Bl'LI
TTORXEY AT LAW, TIPTOX, IOWA.
Office in the Hank lluildlng, up italr*.
C. W.ROLLIXS,
A
TTORXKY AT LAW.
Office In basement of Court House. 28
JOHN M. I!
A Y. S L. SMITH.
GRAY A **11X11.
Attorneys i,t Law, Tipton, Iowa. Office ore
11*11 A Maynard's Irutt store. is-"'
TTOKXKY AT LAW and General Colic
lion Agent. Will give prompt uttentlo.
to nil business entrusted to liirn. Olnronct
Iowa. N:I
JAJII:* AHHO\,
TTOItXF.Y i
COI NSF.I.LOK AT LAW,
41 Mcchanli'Vill*, Iowa.
RALPH II. KIRK,
ATTORNFY
A. R. STARRF.TT
HASfitted
tip an office in the 'ity OrugStOf
buildiiiK where (io will i-mlinup to bm
Negotiable Xote.s oeeasp nally.
Justices.
I, L, SWEET,
Tl'STICK «)F THE PF.A K. Notary Public
tJ Attorney at I,awan I Irivirunce Agent.
i ifflea at the old stand In basement of Court
House. Tipton, Iowa.
All business promptly attended to.
JOSI\ S. Tl THILL,
1 C8TH K Till: I'HACK, NOTARY Prm.K
Insurance Agent, and on vevuii.-er. Office
with the County Cirrk in the court house.
I'i pton, Iowa..Lin. 1«'. I
nl vl*.
O. W. PORTER
I'MT 'K 'K THE PEACE. Collections, and
otliBr business, promptly attended to
Offlee in west and of Culbertson's corner
rjuilding.
Conveyancer.
ABE ABLER,
C)
IOXVEY XCKR. will exumine r.and Titles
pay Taxes, draw Plat*,,i-e. (iflict- wit li In
County Recorder, Tn'r.N, Ion-V. Genual
Spoksn.
Rf frrm-rr.
\V Hull. Attorney: Jes­
se.
Isnies, Ri-cjI-'!'!- II Pound, Trens. rnfin'
Physicians.
Dr. II. II. niYWRD.
1
)H Visit 'I A AN1 SlliGEoX. I. S. Exam
iner of Pensioners, TIPTOX. IOWA. Offici
and Residence opposit t'i« Huekeye Hons#.
(EO. OdiT, H. D.,
J)IIY*HTAX
ami siiriit^n. Examiner of
IMnsioners. 'i ipton. wn.
»1T Residence on the seend lUck east of
he Pennsylvania House. Office over City
I'rug Store.
E. II. 1%'ORAHAHI, n. D..
HuMfEOPATIIIcPHYsltTAN
1
A SPUGEoN
illlce over Piatt Jt ("arr'« Law ifflce,
TII'TON. IOWA.
•^•Diseases of Women and Children receive
special attention. if 47
Dentist.
E. T. Rl« iil
DEMIST
i O
!f. IOWA. Office over f'ulbertson's store.
Residence south of Court House Sonare.
Rrftmirm
—i'. L. Chambers, M. I)., H. II.
Mavnard, M. D.. Tipton: P. T. Smith, l. D. H..
iowaCitv Tliomiis Coates and E. 1 Yule, M.
11 'Inr-iic-. n I'tlw
Photographer.
C. P. ARTLE,
IjHoTOGRAPHER.
Pictures taken in any
stvle, copied and enl» ged. Rooms over
a«e A Lewis', went side
Court Square, TIITON.
Iowa. I*
Jeweler.
A. II. .ILI.i rrE,
IJRACTH'AL
WMVMMAKEH ANO |*7'i
JEWELER, ipton, l,,wa.
All wui k promptiy utteiuli 1 io and wuriiiiit'-i
hop in Morrow A Landt's Rook Store.
ITn-ViV
Painter.
E». n. i\un.iv
II
rsE, SIGN AMnillNAMEN' \L PAIN
ter, 1'ipton, Iowa.
fttf
Auctioneer.
WW. N. KXOTT,
I i-rruNr.EK Will attend promptly to
selling all kinds of property at Auction,
In sn v part of da.r county. A list of his
sales
will always be found at the TIPTON ADVKKTT
WKK where thus* desirinf his services
«»i\ flx the dsv for their sale without seeing
hm.
4t
A. I». Y()1A(
pOXTRAl T'lU AN1 KI'II.DEK. Cl.AMKN'i'E,
\i IOWA. Will pay particular attention to all
kind* of Iniilding tliat may ho entrusted to
fci« ear* espaciall.v churches
and school houses,
and will gunranleM all work to he done ill tlm
ksst insnter. Also makes out plans and spccl
fl sat Ions, 3«yl
sw?
Hotels.
PAI,ni HOI KE,
\f RR. MARY PALM EH, Proprietress, Board
.'I er« and the Traveling Puhllc will find
evsryttiinu ^r their comfort at this House,
'•nod meals, comfortable rooms and !eds.
Vdm St reel
.Tipton, Iowa. tf't
Good Stabling
attached.
i
B^ef. Pork
Liny ing
Bank.
CHAft. HAMMoM),
K. II. 1 OUND.
HAMMOND POUND,
BANKERS,
Tipton, Iowa,
Will do a General Banking and
Exchango iiusiness.
Special attention given to
collections. 4fltf
Hotels.
U N I O N O U S E
North of the Court Siiuarc,
TIPTON, IOWA..
IJHIS POPULAR HOTEL,
enlarged and tiioioui hl.V l'ulitted and
re-furnished, ofl'ers the best of accommoda
tion* to hoarders and the traveling puhllc
Money or pains will not tie spared to make
the entertainment at this house first class.
Good Stabling on tho Premises
All persons desiring conveyance to Daven
nort, Wilton or statiwood, can procure seats
in the Hacks ly leaving their names at the
Unton House.
MRS. c. FLEMING, Proprietress.
A.P. KI.KMI.NO,Clerk. 2Um6
POST IIOl'KE.
BYHotel}'
WM. 11. TUTII ILL.
K. E. 1ST, CLARENi K, It WA. A new
tliroutihout, convenient to the de
»ot, nnd kept with the utmost regard to the
'.omfort, convenience and satisfaction of cus
'omers. v!7nl2
niLLER HOI ME,
Siiunvoiul, Iowa.
THE
PROPIM l- roi of tin- House will spare
tin pains tw make his quests comfortahle
and in (loin* so hopes to merit the custom ot
the public generally. II*ek« leave this house
daiiy iSnnd«\s excepteil for Tipton, and re
turn. Also, in connection will be found n
**od Livery. Home custom ami farmers will
be furnished meals at reduced rates.
42tf H. H. MILLER. Proprietor.
Reed House
opp. ISITE T!i:: RAILROAD DEPOT,
THISHor^K
vii ro\, IOWA.
has been refitted and refur­
nished by JOSEPH orus, in Hrst-clas*
•tvle, and is kept second to none in the State.
The travelling public are res|)ectful!y invit
d. All whostop once will conic atrain.
Gooil Multlinx and First €l»**
livery Itfitt'iit'd.
Mv
JOSEPH OURS, Proprietor.
MeatM
NEW MEAT f/lARKET.
HAVING
AT LAW. The assistance of
Fairall. Boat k Jackson,
of lows 'ity, secured
for the
trii fit euox-s in I '..arts of Ttecord. 'ol
lections promptly made. ifflce in Conr
House Husi-ment, Tipton, Iowa. 33vl8
opened a Meal .MaiUt! my
building, north of the Court Si|tiai*, the
ail.li.-is informed that no pains will be spar
ed to keep coustantiv on hand the ehoieest
is es
T§ G: R,
.fall kinds. Mytii'u
VCCOM Mt )|)ATIo.
ATNESSar
H. LANU
PHESH MEATS
A..WAY.V i.... AT
Owest
W. PORTER'S MEAT MARKET, J'.im
of Culbcrtson .lack's store. II.
ceeps the very best ouriliru-s of
Beef, Pork, Mutton, Veal, &c.,
Having had many years'experience in buyim
ittK'U. be knows jiist wi.at is needed to sup
ply til* wants of his customers and will hav
it ou the block.
His prices arc a« low as i:
1
cvest,and will
guarantee satisfaction lii e- -rticular.
The lughest matketprU. for iftvirl fa'
cattle, hogs
ami sheep. tlvlHtf
Tailor.
A N E W
TAILOR SHOP!
?5. i'. SkklKtSY, T: tlor.
1l.il'! II! V! mad. b-r. Cutting done ir
•J th-l.ites!
styl- i variant) to tit.
s'nop South of Court House Square.
Tipton, Iowa. 14'f
Musical.
OHN HOYT,
\0 W!, -I.---:iT. ..-1.1 I'. 11 rin
T1S.K4 1I T.!)!*!:
MHnuuy, Mock sun! i iii» r»oii
I'ianoN.
ieneral
Agent for orgi- Wood and other
Organs. Shwet Mu«ie and Singing llftoks con
-tant Iv on hail.I. n-d.rs promj.t Iv attended to
HI LTIadv St DAVENPORT. IOWA.
Miss Julia A. Brown, aa.-o'• f.-r Ma'|ii..k.'tu
»nd vlettilty.
s. E. DEAP.l!' ii N. A J. H: f..r c. .lar ounty,
ny
J. ZIMMERMAN
PIANO
MANUFACTURING GO.
Also, General Agents for
F. 1. liighle, liiiabt*, €irovenMcin
and
I'ullrr**Tirol(
Piano*.
lawt
Also, Tajloraml ai lfj Organs.
PIANOS FOB 3
O O.
[Warranted for Ave years.,
NO. 10 Main SI.. DAVKNS'OUf, IOWA.
Livery.
LIVERY SALE AND FEED
stahm
In thf r- nr llmutf:.
PB.ITC1IAED BRO.
Proprietors.
Horses, "arrlaires and Busies to let on rcn
«onab1*» t^ririw. I)riv*rrw fiirtiiKhod if sirea.
t'K»ui»ht :i i
\ny
I s\ t»* I hoar-U-'l by th
or wf'-K, islart IMM uuarant-ci|. 41y
A '.IVKRV STABLE
GEO. S. FLEMING.
At the burn Of Smith I! os.. near the Palmer
House, may he found a stock of line horses,
bucni'-s and caniaut s to with or without a
driver, on the most rca^otia t.lc tennis, nltitf
Miscellaneous.
iti K I-:A' ic
Sharhtf/ A- Hair cutting
SALOON.
CJ.
N
CONWAY wishes to inform the citizens
of Tipton and vicinity that he hits :,iened
i shop in the City I (ma store huildinx, where
i he will he found always on hand, and will try
to please all who will (five hitn a call. Ladles
i tialrcuf or shampooed at shop or reshl«nce.—
u
LOUR hair purchased and made up toorder in
i o switches, urls or waterfalls. nZ)
Mutton, Veal, &c.,
X|«
1
no liiitn v
NDEIiTAKIXO,
BT
rien-e
H. II. RltOW.W
Hpeclnl attention given. A full lineof I'laik
Walnut and Itosewood painted I'oftlns on
hand. Prices reasonable. Prompt attention
given with Hearse when required. Come and
see my stock. 6iy
in lny-
litn.v ycat's ex|«*rit'ii-«
jLiHwsju*l what l» iiee.l lU
aittsuwk. k
Railroads.
rjllME TABLE
OF THE
CHICAGO AXD \0RTHWiSTE8S
RAILWAY,
IOWA DIVISIONS.
On and after May 2.rth 1871, passenger
trains will run as follows:
GOIXG WEST.
Stations, Pacific Exprew. Mail.
'Ii icano, 10:45 a. m. 9:4.) p. to,
Clinton, 4:2dp. m. 4:20a. in.
Ciareno®, 6:23 p. m. 6:37 a. in.
st an wood, 6:37 p.m. 0:52 a. in.
('cdar Rapids, 8:15 p.
m. 4:40 a. in.
Roone, 1:40 a. m. 2:55 p. m.
Couneil Hinds, 8:50a.m. 10:35p.m.
GOING EAST.
PMISC
Stations, Mall.
The Pacific Express train will stop at the
following stations: Clinton, IteWitt, Loudon,
Clarence, Stanwood, Mechanlcsvllle, Mt. Ver
non, Cedar Rapids, lllairstown, Helle Plalne,
Tama. Marshall, Roone, Mongoina, Grand
Tnnction. Cairoll, Denison, Dnnlap, Mo. Val
ley Junction and ouncil Hluft's.
Freight trains will not stop to take or leave
passengers, and ticket offices will not he
open
to sell tickets for freight trains. Nopassenger
will he taken on a freight train without aticket
to the Station at which the 'rain stops.
J. R. W
ATKINS, Supt.
TI. P. STANWOOD. Gen, Pass'r Agent.
Clinton. May.
25th, iKTO
F. M. STERLING,
DEALER IN
BOOKS STATIONERY,
JKWhLKY and VARIETIES.
Keeps Constantly on Hand all Goods
Usually Found in a
ALSO MAKES
PAPER HANGINGS
AND
WINDOW SHADES
A SSI»I:( IALITY.
Particular Attention is Called to
Our
STOCK of OIL SHADES
I n all colors.
White aud Gold,
Green and Gold—Different Puterns.
Stone
Lavender
Excelsior Holland—Something new.
Judd's Fixtures,
only 20cts.
Patent Perfected Fixtures,
spring Rollers—No Cord, n.. Tape.
L'ords, Tape, etc., etc.
soMETIIIXG FOR THE
A I E S
UaniU and
I.oop«
Timlin,
for l.are,
antl
Damaak
CurtaiiiH.
Cull Helbre l*nr« ln»»in|» K)»wlirre.
F. M. STERLING.
rrENITUHE
M. BEACH,
MilllMCTD&El HID HEFAIM
UI ALL K L»I OF
('articular Attention paid to
corn**! m:\itHi: Furnuiied
If Wanlcil.
A11 Oi rh rti will Receive Prompt Atten
tion,
Stoie South fide of Court House Square,
rripton. Iowa.
nl7 ly
BOOTS! SHOES!
Labor is the sweetest Joy.
Folded hands are ever weary,
Selfish hearts are never gay
Life for thee has many duties—
Epress.
('hicago, 6:.% a. m. 3 15 p. m.
Clinton, 11:50 p.m. 0:55a.m.
'larence, »:3fi p. in. not
stun wood, 9:22 p. in. stop.
Cedar Rapids, 8:00 p.m. 6:"i0a-iii.
Uoone, 1:40 P.m. 12:4l)a.m.
council RlufTs, 6:00a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Active be then while you may.
Scatter blessings In thy pathway!
Gentle words
and loving smllM
Better are, than gold or silver,
With their grief-dispelling wiles
As their pleasant sunshine falleth,
Ever on the
grateful earth,
Ho let sympathy and kindness
Gladden well the darkened hearth.
Hearts the-c are oppressed and weary
Drop the tear of sympathy,
Whlsptr words of hope and comfort-
Give, and tliy reward shall be
Joy unto thy soul returning.
From the pet feet fountain-head,
Freely, as thou freely givest,
Sliall the grateful light be shed.
STATISTICS OP FIRES.
The Pirs-t Extended Tabulation of
Fires and Their Bearings on
Insuranco Ever Attempted.
In September. 1808, the Weekly Mon
itor commenced a record of fires in the
United States, which a year later was
exchanged for the tabulated record now
published in this work. Thi.s latter hus
been kept up for two years, and will be
continued, until it can tie replaced by
something of the same kind more valu
able, among the permanent features of
the A/on if or. A mass of material has
thus been accumulated which we now
for the first time, condense and present
in form exhibiting results cnpnhle of
being understood and appreciated, as a
contribution to the insutance informa
tion of the day, never before even
try
PUEHITTJRE,
Has ou hand al all timei a
Liiirite and "Well SSflccted HtocU ol
FI HMTI.'HK,
INCI.LDIN'J
Parlor,
JicfI Room,
1
hambcr, and
Kitchen Sets,
COFFINS.
BOOT*! SHOES!
BOOTS SHOES
LD AND NKW crsTOMEKS and til* pttb
lie generally are Informed that
SAM. WIRICK
Isstlil doltiji all kinds of
Custom "\A7"orl^,
and also keeping a carefully selected stock of
EiiStern Made Goods at hi*
Boot Shoe Shop,
on Cedar Ht., opposite Virgin Illock.
Ity kwciilng the best of stock, employ!nit th*
most sk IIIfui workmen, and charit'iii tlie low
est prices, he hopes to receive not only a con
tinuance but an Increase of the fair patronage
heretofore bestowed.
Good Boots and Shoes
MAY HE BOUGHT
II K A
AT
SAM. WIRICK'*.
aro governed by laws Hint are uni
form in their operation, that may be
easily determined by a combined effort
on the part of the companies, nnd if we
can succeed in arousing a general inter
est on this subject, we shall feel that our
time and labor have not been wasted.
We present tluse firey gleanings of the
past two years with some measure of
pride, and with the hope that from
them, muv lie derived many hints of
value to the fire underwriters of the
United States.
THE MATKKIAL O* WHICH Ot'H IXKOK
MA HI ON 18 I5A8KI).
So large and complicated is the array
of statistics that has thus been leathered
up, tlmt our present analysis is confined
to the first twenty-one months, begin
ning September, Ihfiy, and ending with
May. 1871. The total number of fires
thus observed upon is3,lPl involving a
loss of $7t!,10'i,(KH), and a recorded in
HUranee ot ?37,•'!(.'!,noil, being an average
of lol2 fires per month. These tires are
buta small proportion of those which
have occurred during the samo period
throughout the country at lar^e, but
they have been gathered from every
state in the union, our own immediate
neighborhood, and those states where
our agency companies are most inter
ested strongly predominating. New
York, IVnnwyIvania, New Jersey, Mas
sachusetts, Connecticut, Ohio and Illi
nois have together contributed nearly
three-foiiths ol the whole, and lh« first
nearly or quite one-third. Except in
this city ami its immediate vicinity, the
slight losses are almost entirely left out
of viaw, as must be evident froiu an in
spection of the tallies, so that with ex
ceptions which will be noticed hereaf
ter, our survey may be regarded as con»
fined to the more important fires which
involve miterial losses to the under
writers, and the motions indicated in
our tables are those which belong to
heavy hisses in their several classes.
The magnitude of the results here set
forth will lie best understood when we
-ay the aggregate is probably equal to
the important louses of all the cotnpa
ni«f doing hu-iness in New York State,
for the past five yearn combined. Such
is the material from which we have ob
tained tho following results.
THE MONTHLY AVERAGES AMD FLUC-
Tl'ATloNB.
Although, as we have observed, this
record embraces chiefly the largo losses,
aud not all of those, the same sources ot
information have au far as possible been
preserved throughout, thusmuintaining
a uniform basis. Comparing the nuui
ber of fires that have occurred one
month with another, the fluctuations
are not very great, nor does there ap
pear to be any excess in one season of
the year with another, hot weather and
cold aro equally prolific of fires, whose
frequency is regulated more by the so
cial aud political condition of the peo
ple than by the climate. The average
number per month is 152, the least
number recorded is 103, and the highest
is 193, while one half are embraced
within twenty on either side of the av
erage. The amount of loss involved
per t..onth fluctuates much more wide
ly, ranting from about $2,000,000 to as
ie Tipt on Advertiser.
VOL. 18: TIPTOIST, IOWA, NOVEMBER 30, 1871. NO. 48
GOLDEN STANZAS.
Live for something, be not idlt
Look about thee for employ!
Sit not down to useless dreaming,
at
tempted.
It i- not assumed thot precision has
been reached In this record, hut the ut
most care 1ms been used to make the
work os accurate as circumstances
would admit, and the result we have
obtained, we consider valuable not
merely us n digested compilation of
facta, which have heretofore never been
sought for outside of the privato offices
of the companies, but as the entering
wedge in the development of n subject
which the underwriting interest iniper
atively demand to put it on a scien
tific and sound basis. Contrary to all
the recognized principles of sound un
derwriting in it* nthr departments, the
business of fire insurance, vast as it is
has been founded on gue*a work. No
underwriter has ever known or at
tempted to find out, except in a very
limited way. the value of each c?ass of
risks, or the laws which regulate it. If
we shall succeeil, even in partially
showing that the disasters which are ev
ery day occurring throughout the coun
high as $6,000,000, so that we are met
by the important fact that while acci
dent and design are nearly regular in
their operations, and breed from month
to month the same number of casual
ties, the amount of property thus de
stroyed varies within wide limits. The
fires of one month compared with
another are tolerably regular in their
occurrence, but the losses resulting from
them arc mueh heavier in some months
than in others. This same feature on
a smaller scale may be noticed in the
local reports of the various city Are
marshals.
The percentage of insurance on these
losses from mouth to month is tolerably
uniform, showing that the proportion
of insured property destroyed bears a
nearly uniform ratio to the whole.
The following table will exhibit the
aggregate results of these atatistics for
for twenty-one months.
Total fires recorded 3,191
Totul loss recorded $76,150,000
Total insurance recorded 37,863,000
Average losses per month 152
Least losses per month 103
(ireatest losses per mouth 193
A veratre loss per month 3.626.000
Least hiss per month 2,075.000
(Jreatest loss per monfli 6.101.000
Average insurance per month 1,803 000
Least insurance per month.... 1,200.000
Greatest insurance per moth.. 3,150,000
It mu«t be born in mind that the pro
portion of the above property that is in
sured is much larger than in here indi
cated, the amount of insurance not be
ing in all crses recorded.
THE ORIGIN OF THE FIRR8.
Ill 752 cases, the origin of Jltase fires
was known or suspected, and here the
most marked difference is observable
between the large cities, where the
buildings are for the most part substan
tial brick or stone structures and more
or less guarded by constant passers and
by police, aud the less thiclJv popula
ted localities, where wooden structures
offer a premium to incendiarism. Care
lessness or accident predoo inates in
the former and malicious mischief in
the latter.
Incendiarism the country over is by
far the most frequent cause of con
flagrations. Nearly one-half of those
whose origin is reported, were either
known or suspected to lie designedly
fired, and if we make a liberal allow
ance for the natural assumption of
crime when other ranges appear to he
absent, we are still left with from one
fourth to one third due to this agency.
It is interesting also to observe the class
of buildings selected by the scoundrels.
From one-half to three fourths of the
barns and stables are thus destroyed.
Carjienter and carriage shops, wood
tnakinu establishments whose contents
and character offer peculiar attractions
to the iru-endiary, suffer heavily,
llridgea and hotels, especially where
these are unoccupied, country stores,
whether for the sake of plunder or re
covery of insurance, stand out among
tne rest.
Kerosene oil comes next on the list.
Nearly all the kerosene refineries are
destroyed by theirown oil taking fire.
Dwelling*, stores and saloons, especi
ally the former suffer more from this
source than from any other except ar
son.
Defective chimneys stand third, and
as might he supposed, dwellings are
among the principal sufferers from this
cause. The great majority of bakeries
are fired either from their chimneys
ovens. Breweries, schools an I semi
uaries learning are prominent, and
stores to
some extent, though less than
the others.
From stoves and stove pipes we find
losses prevailing in stores to a greater
extent than from the chimnays, and in
dwellings not so much. Chinches,
where they are heated by this means,
are shown to lie particularly liable to be
burned, so also appear to be tobacco and
cigar manufactories. Furnaces also are
ftequeutly brra lers of fire in churches,
aud to a considerable extent, though
not en great, in dwellings.
Spontaneous combustion carries off
many of the cotton aud woolen mills,
notwithstanding the presence of that
well-known incendiary, tiie Picker
atnl frequently the barns. Lightning
is especially fatal to barns, aud steam
engines to planing mills.
Other prominent causes of fires are
found in dwellings, from children play
ing with matches, and from sparks fall
ing on the roof from the chimneys in
the gas jet of city stores coining iti con
tact with the frabrics in the malt kilns
ot breweries in explosions of gas in
the h.-iseinent of city stores and dwel
lings in the drying rooms and kilns of
I he various wo.»d working establish
ments, and in the picker rooms of wool
en mills. These facts, many of them
familiar, others not so generally known,
deduced fiom our tabulated record may
serve to direct the underwriter in many
cases to the specie! sources of danger.
The following tubulation will show the
bearings of Kome of the principal sourc
es of danger on the whole. Of a total
of 752 fires throughout the United
StH tes,
Incendiarism caused over 200
Kerosene ami other oils caused 85
Defective chimneys caused 44
Stove and stove pipes caused 30
Spontaneous combustion caused 27
Furnaces caused 17
Steam engines caused 16
—Juturance Monitor.
Th* Chinese merchants of Han Fran
cisco have given $1,296 in aid of Chica
go sufferers. In one case a merchant
addressed one of the collectors as fol
lows: Me leadee in Alta, Melican
man town all same half gone—burnee
up. Melican man wan tee dollar.
Sometime poor Melican strike Chit.a
man with bilk, Chinaman no oare.
How much dollar you wantea? Hun
dred dollar? Allee light. You not
find enough inonay. comee again give
another hundred." There is a whole
aermon preached in thoae few aantancm
of pigeon EugMtfe,
Who are Entitled to Bounty Lands.
The Commissioner of Pensions will
soon issue instructions and new regula
tions for procuring bounty land war
rants through that office. The follow
ing instructions will be of interest to
many
The acts of Congress now in force
granting bounty lands, entitle each of
the following classes to a certificate or
warrant for such quantity of land, as
shall make, in the whole with what he
may have heretofore received, one hun
dred and sixty acres, prorided he shall
have served a period of not less than
fourteen days, to-wit
1. Commissioned and non commis
sioned officers, musicians and privates,
whether of the rangers or militia, who
were regularly mustered Into the service
of the United States in any of the wars
in which this country has been engaged
since 1790, and prior to March 3d, 1865,
to-wit:
2- Commissioned and non-commis
sioned officers, seamen, ordinary sea
men, flotillamen, marines, clerks and
landsmen in the navy in any of said
wars.
3. Militia, volunteers and state troops
of any state or territory called into mil
itary service, and regularly mustered
there'n, and whose services have been
paid bv the United States.
4. Wagon masters and teamsters who
have been employed under the direction
of competent authority, in time of war,
in the transportation of military stores
and supplies.
5. Officers and soldiers of the Revolu
tionary war. and marines, seamen and
other persons in the naval service of
the United States during that war.
6. Chaplains who served with the
army in the .several wars of this eoun
try.
7. Volunteers who served with the
armed forces of the United States in
any of the wars mentioned, subjcct to
military orders, v hether regularly mus
tered into the service of the United
Stales or not.
i
Each of the surviving persons In the
following classes are entitled to a like
certificate for a like quantity of land,
without regard to the length of service
—provided be was regularly mustered
into service—to-wit:
1. Officers and soldierswho have been
actually engaged in any battle in any
of the wars in which this country has i
been engag« prior to the wars of the
rebellion.
2. Those volunteers who served at the
invasion of Plattsburg, in September,
1814.
3. The volunteers who served at the
battle of King's Mountain, in the revo
lutionary war.
4. The volunteers who served at the
battle of Nickoj.ick against the Confed
erate savages of the South.
5. The volunteers who served at the
attack on Lewiwtown, in Delaware, by
the British fleet in the war of 1S12.
In addition to theseclasses, these acts
also extend t•• all Indians who served
the United States in any of their wars
prior to the war of the rebellion, the
provision of this and all the bounty
lan-l laws heretofore passed in the same
manner ami to the same extent as if the
Indians had been white men.
Where the service ha- been rendered
by a substitute, he is the person entitled
to the henrfit of these acts, and not his
employer.
In the event of the death of any per
son who, if living, would be entitled to
a certificate or warrant as aforesaid,
leaving a widow, or, if no widow, such
minor chi or children are entitled to a
certificate or warrant for the same
quantity of land as such deceased per*
son would be entitled to receive under
the provisions of said act if now living,
A subsequent marriage will not im
pair the riuht of such widow to mch
warrant if she tie a widow at the time
ot her application. Persons within the
age of twenty one years on the third
day of March 1855, are deemed minors
within the intent and meaning of said
acts.'
THE
SoiTHWi:sTKitN.—Grading has
ceased on our Southwestern railroad for
the stories and IUUIOISHS to the cause,
many of which as usual are extremely
absurd. C. T. Hansom returned from
Chicago recently. He had a full con
ference with Mr. Hinckley, Chief
Engineer Blunt and the chief officers of
the C. B. I. road, and learned just
how matters stood. The parties build
ing this road were extremely anxious to
complete it at the earliest possible day.
They contracted to run the cars to this
city by the first of July, but intended to
do it by the first of January. They
were progressing finely, with every
prospect of success by thai, time, when
the Chicago fire burst upon them. This
fire lias deranged money matters to a
very great extent, aud has prevented
the obtaining the heavy sums required
to complete this line on their proposed
time on such terms as they feel justified
in accepting, it would cost them a
sacrifice far beyou-l what they can hope
to gain from anticipating their contract
time. They have already expended
$200,000on this work. They have push
ed it so fast as not always to have work
ed to the best advantage in locating,
securlug the right of way, etc. They
have now adopted this lineof policy:
They have suspended grading for the
winter, but will go on with the im
portant bridges. They will keep right
along will) the road east of Clinton and
finish that up. They will station Chief
Engineer ltlunt at this place, as his
head quarters, from which he will go
on with the engineering during the
winter, and have all ready for early aud
vigorous work in the spring, and will
complete the road on contract time,
'i bis will be a disappointment to our
people. It is eqaaiiy such to those
building the road, but under tbecircum
stances it is all we can ask of them.—
ittprnktioefi*'
National Growth.
The New York Tribune publishes an
estimate of the probable population of
the United States in 1880, and maks the
total 49,6000,000, an increase of about
30 per cent. In this list the population
of the larger states is estimated New
York, 5,000,000 Pennsylvania, 4,200,
000 Illinois, 3,200,000 Ohio, 3,100,000
Missouri, 2,500,000 Indiana, 2,200,000
or, in the aggregate, 20,200,000.
The Philadelphia JNrortA American,
in s)eculating as to the passible causes
that may retard this growth, strangely
refers to the danger" that the steam
ship lines entering the St. Lawrence
river will transfer the European emi
gration direct to the West, and, also es
tablish direct trade between the West
ern states and Europe. If this diver
sion of trade bo successful the North
American insists that our national
growth will be slower." There is no
explanation of thu process of reasoning
by whieh such conclusion is readied.
Seventy five years ago it was claimed
that the transfer of ocean commerce
from Philadelphia to New \*ork, would
arrest natural progress, and now the
transfer to Chicago of a portion of the
commerce of the country has become a
necessity, and instead of retarding will
greatly promote the growth of the coun
try. The transfer of that commerce to
our ow n port will reduce the cost of
handling not only the export but the
import we shall dispense with an army
of intermediates, reduce tlie cost of
ocean and inland transportation, and
every dollar thus saved will be added to
the profit of our producers. They will
get more money for what they sell, and
get more goods in exchange for the
same amount of money. When to this
advantage is added a repeal of all duties
not levied for revenue, the great West
will not only become more productive,
but will be the very place to which Eu
ropean emmigranls ought to come by
the most direct mute.
A New Thing in Physiology—White
Man Turning Black.
The San Francisco Examiner says a
gentleman of that city, about twenty
five yea
is of asje, ruddy complexion and
curly red hair, who had an intractable
ami painful ulcer ou tne left arm, resist
ing all previous modes of treatment,
yielding to the request of trying theef
feet of transplanting a piece of skin to
the ulcer from another person. The
ulcer was prepared in tlie usual manner
by It is physician, and a bit of skin about
an inch square was taken from the arm
of a fine healthy negro man aud im
mediately spread over the ugly ulcer,
and then carefully dressed and band
aged. The skin transplantation had
the desired effect. Healthy granulation
sprang up, ami the unsightly ulcer soon
healed. A few months afterward he
went to his physician and told him
that ever since the sore healed the black
skin commenced to spread, and it was
increasing. About one third of his arm
was completely negroed. The doctor
himself is that the whole skin of this
wliitn man will become negro. This is
a new thing under the sun. It would
be rather difficult to explain the physio
logical process which takes place to
bring about such a skin change as this.
The problem is, how can the coloring
matter of the skin be so radically chang
ed? And how is this pigment change
propagated? It is certain that the law
of capillary attraction plays no insignifi
cant part in the spreading process,
(irafting pears on an apples tree has
communicated to the apples a pear
teste.
"What I Know about Farming."
Brick Pomeroy, whose early years
were bucolic says:
"I have lead Greeley's'What I Know
about Farming' through nine times,
twice backwards, and once .standing on
my head! Have mastered it at las.,
aud condensed it in milder shape.
"Never think of plowing less than
nine feet if your mule will pull it. If
you have no team, wait till winter,
then drill aud blast. This will pul
verize the earth, elevate yout land,
warm it aud you will be able to report
before you slow neigbors.
Ordinary shoes will do for oxen
when at farm work. Use slippers on
them only when going to church.
"For succotash the young corn and
potatoes should be sliced and planted in
the same hills the year before, Then
t.«ke not to injure the poda
VERY
Poou
when the!
fruits is ready to tassel out.
"Pumpkins should be hung on trees'
till frost comes then should be picked,
not shook off, and packed in sweet oil.
"When turninggrindstones to educate
scythes, never turn the handle back-1
ward, of the early grass will wilt before
the color comes to it,
"In breaking colu, use a elub—it is
better than
a
LAND.—AS
Dr. Dwight
once passed through a region of very
poor land, he said to a farmer
"Sir, I perceive you land here is not
productive."
"No, sir," said the honest farmer
"our land is like swlf-rlghteousness."
"Ah! how is that?"
"Why, the more a man has of it, the
poorer bt to,"
Anti-Woman Suffrage Deoiatoa.
The
teat
case of the woman suSra*
gist*, which has been for some time
on
trial before the Supreme Court of
the
District of Columbia, was decided
on
Saturday last, by a unanimous bench,
adversely to the claimants. The deci
sion reudered by Chief Justice Cartter
ia a clear exposition of
the
law in
the
caae, and sumtnarlally dispose*
of
the
absurd pretension first put forth by Vic
toria Woodhull as a discovery or
reve­
lation" of ber own, and since exten
sively adopted by the fraternity, that
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amend
ments already confer on woman the
right to vote. The plaintiff in the
Washington suffrage suit claimed the
ballot as a natural
right
inherent in cit­
izenship, aud recognized by the constl
tion, of which woman could not be de
prived by legislation. Judge Cartter's
reply denies that the right to vote is a
natural right, and shows ou the contra
ry that it is purely a right of prescrip
tion, which civil societies have alwaya,
and of necessity must reserve for those
adjudged to be qualified for the safe and
beneficsal use of it. The suffrage has
always been regulated by statute, and
not confirmed by common law. The
regulations have been varied in the diff
erent states, but the right has uniformly
rested upon the express authority of the
political power, and made to revolve
within the limitation of express laws,
and Judge Cartter further maintains
that such power of limitation is uecee
sary to the preservation of civil society
and government. The present exten
sion of the suffrage is all, und it is
douhful if it may not prove more thau
the present stage of popular intelligence
and morality warrants. It is not saM,
nor held, that the addition of women to
tlie voting population would still fui tit
er demoralize politics. The argument
is simply that the corruptions of politics
incident to universal tmale) suffrage,
demonstrate that the right to vo?a ought
not to be, and is nut, au absolute nat
ural right." "The fact," says the
Chief Justice, that the practi.-al work
ing of the assume.
1 iivjlit would be de
structive of civilization is decisiv that
the right does not exist."
But the argument of the court on the
Constitutional aspects of the case
is a singularly clear and con
clusive relutation of the baseless
claim of the Woodhull suffragists un
der the Fourteenth amendment. The
first section of that amendment pro
vides that all persons born or natural
ized in the United States, and subject to
the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
tliu United States, and ot the State
wherein they reside. No State shall
make or enforce any law which shall
abridge the privileges or immunities of
citizens of the United States.'' The
Washington court holds that this pro
vision of the constitution defines the
status of womun as citizens, but does
not confer on them the privilege of vo
ting. For to make a person a citizen is
not to make him or her a voter. All
that the Fourteenth amendment does
in
this regard is to distinguish womeii as
citizens from aliens, ami to make
them capable of becoming voters. And
it now rests with the lawmaking pow
er, if it shall see fit, to confer the right
of suffrage on woinon, which the con
stitution authorizes aud allows, but
does not itself grant. As this is a stand
ard decision which will oft?n tie referred
to pro ami cou in the woman suffrage
agitation, we add the closing sentences
of Judge Cartter's decision, in wliicn
these conclusions are distinctly stated.
He says
"In givingexpression to my own judg
ment this clause does advance them to
full citizenship, and clothes them with
the capacity to become voters. The
proviso!) end with the declaration
of their citizenship. It is a constitu
tional provision that does not execute
itself. It is the creation of a constitu
tinial condition that requires the
supervention of legislative power in the
exercise of legislative discretion to give
it effect. The constitutional capability
of becoming a voter created by this
amendment, lies dormant, as in the case
of au iufaut, until made effective by
legislative action. Congress, the legis
lative power of this jurisdiction, as yet
has not seen fit to carry the inchoate
right iuto effect, as is apparent in the
law regulating the franchise or this
district. When that shall have beeu
done it will the pleasure
of this court to
administer the law as they find it.
L'ntil this shall lie done, the considera
tions of fitness and unfitness, nieiit and
demerit, arc considerations for the law
making power."
A most just decision, which the
revelatious of the "Spirit of Demos
thenes," through Victoria C. Woodhull,
will not succeed in reversing until all
reason shall have fled from the iieads of
our Superine Judges. The woman
suffragist? must fight out their cause
before tho people and the Legislatures,
and not attempt to steal a march on the
ballot-box by sleight of spiritualistic
uonsenee, or the cramming constitu
tlonal amendments with a meaning
which their framers never intended.
Oevvfn nd (Ohio) a
'It r.
Whenever you see young men «peud
Ing their leisure hours at some resort of
gaming or other amusement, it is a sure
sign that they will never become great
mrn
crowbar. A sled stake
will answer.
None but ice eream oows should
wear skates—the heel eerks scratch the
calves so.
"Hydraulic rams should be butcher
ed during sunshine, and the pelts saved
for company.
'In planting striug beans never use
yam—when once in the throat it is so
hard to come up. The same with arti
chokes and pips in chickeus.
"Strawberries shou.M be threshed in
May, and the straw saved for the bees."
Whenever you see a man
spending his time lounging about the
streets talking politics, your need not
expect he has any money to lend
Whenever you see a young lady tightly
laced, it is a sure sign she wishes to
impose upon herself and the public by
showing what she has not got by natare,
a small waist When you hear a
youngster engross the whole conversa
tion, it is a sure sign lie has not sense
enough to listen —OW Almanai
Two wealthy gentlemen were lately
conversing iu regard to the period when
they had best enjoyed themselves. "I
will tell you," says one, "when 1 most
enjoyed life. Soon after I was twenty
one I worked for Mr. laying stone
wall at twenty-five cents per day."
"Well," replied the other, that doe*
not differ much from my experience.
When I was twenty I hired myself out
at seven dollars per month. I never
enjoyed myself better since." The ex
perience of these two individuals
teaches, first, one's happiness does uot
depend on the amount of his gains or
the station he occupies second, that
•ery small beginnings, with industry
and! prudence, may secure wealth.