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LITERATURE, POLITICS, JlGRl VULTURE, AjVD THE INTERESTS OF HIGHLAND COU.XTW
DEVOTED TO JYEWS,
Hillsborough, Highland County, Ohio, Thursday, October 19, 1871
Whole No. 1847.
Vol. 85 No. 7.
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1 60
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ill olliniirtu euoecrlbere tbe above rates.
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atar-Advance pavment preferred ia all ceaee.Sob
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time by a roee en their papers, a t; bill eo
loeed. r
D. We do Bet dleceirtiooe papare aeat to
.Teere f :s riberi aeleas specially ornered to doao,
nati! a-: arrearages ere paid, as a guesl rote. A
faiiar to artier a discontinuance la considered ae
aairaleat to orderim the infer eon tinned.
nr.N::V 1. shepherd.
Attorney t Ijn,-w,
HILLSBOROUGH, O.
Office on High Street, beta-eea Short and Beech
gtroeto. T. 0. tr.er, eft. ST
B. F. BEES ON,
Attorney Coonseilor at Law,
hills bo no, onio.
OfBco over Morrow 'f rry Goode Store, corner of Mala
and Bigh Sts.
Bnelaeai In all tbe Coo rU and Collectiooa prompt
ly aiteaaed to. J"'?1
G. B. GARDNER,
ATTORNEY AT LAV.
HILIiSBOEO, OHIO.
(trriCS in Smitb'e Block, eecoad ioor, S. X.
W Ooraer Jtarnut High fitreete.
aT-Oollectlooe, Pertitioa nd Probate haftaeee,
tocetber with the other branchee of hie profeeaion,
will e promptly attended to.
InneS Utio. ll8yl
W. W. SHEPHERD,- M. D.r
Pliysician and Surgeon,
IIILLSBOBOL'UII, OHIO.
Offlce on Short Street, twodoori weet of Hih 8t
Orr'ICl HOl'RS From to 9 A. MM 1 to S P.
to P. M. and all day Uatnrday. dec2yl
DIC. A.
urcooii 33 ontist,
ce Corner Uain and Uigb Ptrren. np utalre. orer
Beeae rorrtea Baak.. ALL WOBX WAM
MASTED. rebraary fr"9?'
ENOS HOLMES, II. D.,
PHYSICIAN SURGEON,
illLLSBOUOCGH, OHIO.
(wHf anderaigned, continnea the practice of
Modi ofne, and will attend promptly to all
p-refeaeioaal llev
Office aa ilnln Street, ionth lido, a few floor
veet of o the Ellicott Hoaee.
pedal attention gin to night cll.
BtiOb 1I0LMKS.
n rti .i- n i 1 1 9 1
nilienoro, J one m",. t
R. C. RUSS, LI. D.,
Pcyaioian, Surgeon and Aoeouoheur.
tooth tide, one door east of Sllleott Home. Beei
d.n -tooth BlKb Bt.,eon:h of Sooth frt. Office
hears from T to A. M., aad 1 to 2 and 6 to T P. M
Special attention given to the treatment of die.
aaaee t the Lange and Sorgicai caeaa.
June24. 1C1U. JnI4
J). CAtLA-
1"
llDentiet.eHUHsboro, Oliio.l
I N. B. lr. Caliabaa keeue npl
I with all tue imuroremenu in
It Dauliatrv. bate 11D all kinda of
l! teeth nioe br tde Drofeeion.
1n tbe Snoet tti,"aDd on tbe
i moet reaeonable terme.
Office, orer U.TOtl A WMt e
CU'thinnhtera. aoeliy
JT00DR0W HOUSE,
lorcer Ulff& and Beech Sts,
klLLSBOROUGH OHIO:
iai J. CAiLPBELLi, Proprietor.
Halor jnt taken charge of the there well kaawa
Booee, I will endeavor to merit the patronage ol
the meeting fablir. Cwort acoommodatiotta. Terme
tMtotriMf Good btaoliiittaciiMi.
April .1871.
ap6yl
Ellicott House,
Maiu Street, IlllUboro, O.
nrLAHGED and "BEFITTED.
A.T. COOK, Proprietor.
HAVING wceetly releaeed tbkl oMaeUbllehed
Hotel, which hae beoa enlarged b; the addi
tion at awat SU aew an oommudiom rooma, aad
,t.rf nn the same with Di-w faroitnre and
all the atodern ooatenleacae, I am new pr pared to
aooommorfele the pnbllc with the beet of fare and
aeeaioreable haiginge, er-J will epare pain to
gtea eaeietaetijn to all-who favor ana 'with tbefr
patronaa-a.
Eiteneive Subline attached to tbe Hinee.
'buuerior accommodations lor weaumpiar-
tire
Billakoro,
April, WT1.
apTtf
r-ATUJIE'S
EMIl 'llIISTOilATITO
COBtilDS l LAC grLritrs-K KU
GISCF LEAD K LITHIRGE
He MTR.ITE OF SILVER, aa 1 is
entirely free ttoatlie Polseaous
isd CeaUb-iestrej-in; Drags used
fa Kilr Preparatioss.
Transparent and clear aa crystal. It will not soli
ik. net fertc oerfeotlT SAFE. CLEAN end
X r Fl''i EVT, desideratum. LONG SOUGHT FOB
ASD FOUND AT LAST I
It reetorea and prevents the Hair from becoming
Gray Imparts a soft, glossy appearance, removes
IiaaririnT, ie cool and. refreshing to tbe bead, checks
the Hair from tailing off, and reetorea It to a sreat
extant whan prematurely loet, prevent neanaruee,
ra all komors. eataneou ertiii'loua. and unnatu
ral beat. A A rKKela FOR THK HAIR IT
If THE BK?T ARTICLE IN THE MARKET
DR. U r-HITH, Paen!-e. Aer, Maes. Prewired
oaly by PROCTER BROTH r.BS.GIoooaeter. Weas
The nefliss ia put rtp ia a panel bottle, made ex
araaely Inr It, with the nama of the article blown
in the glaaa. Ask your Druxirl.t for MaTr.a'S
,n RsaroaaTiTa. and take no other
starSeud two three cent stamps te Procter Broth
tnr a '-Treatise on tbe tinman Hair." The in
format I. it aoataiua le worth foOO.Ou to a ay person
...Svl
NEW -SADDLER'S SHOP,
KaJa&.,pps!:e KcwTowi Gall.
XX. XJLcx XCLOZZ
rT-UPS oaortaatly on Itard large aaortm.nt
aewWle.. Bridlea, Haro, w"P';n,?n,,r,J
tu-fr l. Mrs Stalery line, k. will
v TJ
fcgU "f, v. sr. ..-fs
aa they oa. tie baa
stork kfnrs baj.
Jaaa Ua UTU
vbere.
Call aad aee
Ju2F
bta
G real Redaction
IK
IS?" H CZ2 1333
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II
A RD VTA R.
nAVIXG BOCGHT OtB
WS& STOCK OF HARDWARE
from &fkUtat(3Curr &od Importers, w re prttjrd
GEJJEI1AL HABDWA3i
oar itock U cuiuplet la vtrj department. A large
lock oi
PLOWS,
CUTTING BOSE3,
VinOS CPEN PLAHIEE3,
IRON EOUBLE SHOVEL PLOWS
i Acj Sc! i"
Ueving fitted np a room adjoining oar
HARDWARE ROOMS,
wberjyoa will always find a large stock of
AGRICCLTTItAL IKPLEHEMS,
DURBOX WOOD PUMP,
or tftle at WbolmV and Retail.
Qiv u a call oofcr purcbaaaing eUewhere.
nOQG AED, GLASCOCK BEO.
miUboro, March 23, 1871. martSyl
HAEDYARE,
IRON,
STOVES and TINWARE
-FOE-
Spring and Suiairjer
Prices Lower
AND
Stock Complete.
BLiCKSHimSlTPLIES,
Carpatsrs1 !Iecllanics,
SixxiPiDlioo,
CARRIAGES I WAGON TUBER.
Cook 1 toves,
OF ALli KINDS,
THE CELEBRATED WOOD COOK
"FASH
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the best in use over 500 sold
by us since April, 1868.
Call and eiamine prices before going else
where
srRememeber the place
Sign of the Circular Saw,
N. Rockliold Sod,
HILLSBORO,0.
1eb9yl
ST. LOUIS iCALIPOENIA
VIA
NORTH MISSOURI RAILROAD.
TBI GREAT
1HB O UGH B 0 UTE to KA NSA&
AND THE WEST.
L
Partlee moring to Kansas are reminded that this
route is from 12 to 60 miles shorter than any other
routs between Cincinnati, Louisville, Indianapolis,
and Kansas City.
Close and immediate connections are made at Kan
sas Cltv for Paola, Fort Bcett, Ottawa, Borlinganie,
KOria, Jnootios City, bueridan, Denver, rneow
.Dd New Mexico.
Tbe only direct all rail route from St. liOUis so
Omaha and California.
The Express trains leave St. Louis daily on arrival
of all trains from the Etat, making close and imme
diate connection at Kansas City for Leavenworth,
AtchlSon. St. Joseph. and Omahand with tne ureal
Pacific Bailways fur tan Franciwy) and all points in
tbe Territ:-riee, landing pnsaeagars west of Omaha
from 12 to 24 hourii in advance of al. other lines.
The Northern JCxteneion oi ine Aorta Missouri
Railroad is now ftuisbed to Bloomfield.lewa jnaking
tbe most direct and only liue from ct. Louie to
Southeastern loaa, ot of the alistisaippl Kiver.
Passengers deriring ease ana rouiion soouir avail
themselves of this popular raute, aa it I the only
line Wet out 01 St. Louis, running PULLMAS'S
CELEBRATED PALACE SLEKP1KQ CAUS oa all
nisht trains.
Tickets over xnis lavonie ana oewrveoiy popular
line can be obtained at all toe principal ticket utu-
oee throngrioot me tummj.
FARES ALW AYS A3 an di aai utfllB
SUU 1 IV.
JAMES CHARLTON,
General Ticket Ageot, St. Louis, ale.
J. M. DA VIES.
General Passenger Aeent, St. Louis, Mo.
1). K. BRrCK,
JrQtf Paaeenirer Aeeet, Cincinnati. Ohio'.
Kramer House,
WEST MAIX STREET,
llillsboro, Ohio.
PHILIP KRAMER, Proprietor.
JOSHUA W00DROW, Clerk.
THIS POPULAR AND CENTRALLY LOCATED
L- HOTEL I1A3 BH.t;B.n i-jua oaaa
THOROUGHLY REFITTED
Aad faraialittd Id tbe most elegant niAQDer. ud
in every respect
A FIRST-CLASS HOTEL,
Equal to the beat in Southern Ohio. 8)lcditJ 6m
pirn Rooma kttve 4fen fittel up, ami especial at ten
tiD paid to tbe cooifurt ol
COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS
Also Special Accommodations for
VCoddlnc PartioB,
The patronage uf the traveling pnblic is respect
fully solicited. All rooms are KIrat-Class. There
is a Restaurant In connection with the House, and
MEALS AT ALL HOURS.
GOOD LIVERY ATTAfOED TO TOE
HOUSE.
Hillsborough. Ohio, Juno 1, 1851. jylyt
SEED OATS,
far km at CliTTON silLlEB'i. maioO
Select Miscellany.
HANNAH JANE.
Ko negro ever worked eo bard: a servant's pay to
save.
She made hsreelf most willingly a honsehold drndge
and slave.
What wonder that aha Barer read a magazine or
book,
Combining as she did in one, nnrte, house-maid,
eeamstress, cook t
What wonder that tha beauty ft id that I once so
adored I
Her beautiful complexion my fierce kitcbSo flrede
Soared
Her plump, soft, rounded arm was ones too fair to
be concealed
Bard work for ms that softness in to sinewy strength
congealed.
t was her altar, and her lore the racrifklal flame
Ah I with what pure devotion she to that altar
came.
And, tearful, flung thereon alas! I did not know
it then
All that she was, and more than that, all that sbe
might have been I
At last I won success. ..Ah then our lives were
wider parted: I
I was far np tha rising road she, poor girl I where
t we started.
I had tried my speed and mettle, and gained strength
in every race;
I was tar np the heights of lile she drudging at the
base.
She male me take, each fall, the stump; sbe said
twas my career
Tbe wild spirts use ef llst'ning crowds was music to
my ear.
What stimulus had the to cheer her dreary solitude?
For me she lived on gladly in onaatnral widowhood
She couldn't read my epeecb, but when the papers
all agreed
'Twas the best one of the session, those eommenU
sbe could read
And with a gush 'of pride thereat, which I bad
never felt,
Sbe seat them to me in a note, with half tha words
misspelt.
I to the Legislature went, and said that she should
go
To see tbe world with me, and what the world was
doing know.
Tfith tearful smile she answered, "No! four dollars
is the pay
The Batee House rate for board roa osi is Just that
aunt per day."
At twenty-eight the State-house oil (lie bench at
thirty-three;
At forty every gate In life was opened wide to me.
I nursed my powers, and grew, and made my point
in life but she
Bearing each pack-horse weary loads, what could a
woman be
What could she be? Oh, shame! I blush to think
whst sbe has been
The moet unselfish of all wires to the selflsheet of
men.
Tea, plain and homely now she is; she's ignorant,
'tie true;
Foxine she rubbed herself quite out I represent
the two.
Well, I euppose I might do aa other men have dona
First reak bar heart with cold neglect, then ebove
her out alone.
Tbe world would say 'tis well, and more, would
"give great praise to me
For baviog borne with ."such a wife" so uncom
plainingly. AudaU I t- -TbVrontee- 'wrw Hratrah.
God, and me
Was not for one or twenty years, but for eternity.
No matter what tbe world may think I know down
in sny heart
That, if either, I'm delinquent: she has bravely
done ber part.
There's auother world beyond this and on tbe
final day
Will intellect and learning 'gainst such devotion
weigh
When the greet one made of us two is torn apart
again,
I II kick the beam, for God is just, and Ha knows
Hannah Jane.
ki tract from a Poem by Petroleum V. Nasby,
in Harper's Magazine for October.
Beecher on Tammany.
Beecher paid bis compliments to
Tammany on Sunday night, before an
immense congregation at Plymouth
Church. He attributed tho corruptions
not so much to tbe bad characters of the
men, as to the debased state of society.
Tbe sin of slavery first, the borrid war
Deit, and its extraordinary expense,
bad made these men profligate. Tbey
were not outcasts, but children of the
society we live in. The remedy for the
tbe evil was not to bang these men, but
to be better men ourselves and bring
about a better state of affairs all around
as cease to be cheats in business, stop
lying and be better men. He feared
not that tbe country would suffer by
this. England had passed through just
auch times and come out unscathed. He
was convinced that our children would
yet see an bonest government in tbe city
of New Tork.
A story has been extensively circulat
ed, says tbe New York World, that
Brigadier General Robert Anderson is
so poor that he can not afford to hire a
servant in bis sickness. General Ander
son is a retired Brigadier General, and
receives $4,125 per annum.
The latest report concerning the
result of the recent election in Ne
braska is to the effect that the pro
posed new constitution of that State
has been adopted by a majority of
over a thousand.
Slavery in Siam is to be abolished
in January, 1872, and masters are to
be paid for their bondsmen. So ir
resistibly the great idea of Human
Freedom is advancing to its ulti
mate victory over all the oppression
on the earth.
Watering Places on Public
Roads. There is a law in Ohio au
tboriziog the establishing of witter
ing places along the public high
ways by tho township trustees. Do
our trustees pay any attention to it
Youth's Department.
is
CteTOrij;tn-l Knigmas, Cb-rade. Problems, etc.
f reBiifcetfuUy suiioitrd. Tbe ansa numt al
wars accompany tUein, together with tbe real name
vf I lis writer.
9"We want a fresh supply of Enigmas,
our stock is jetting low.
Ac as
Variation Problem.
Suppose a Una run some years ago, bore N. 46'
B, distance 20 chains, and in running thii liue
by tbe bearing, tbe corner ia found 20 links to tbe
left hand. Required, tba bearing at the present
time.
Hillsdale, Ohio. 34 H 8
Conundroms.
Can a druggist be considered the chief pillar of
the State?
How may men become four banded By doub
ling their fists.
w bee is a clock' oa the stairs dangerous I Wbeo
it ruus down.
Why ia a sword like Uor 7 Decants i'ts bo dm
tiUKsdrawv.
'NORA AND JAMESY.
"To the memory of Patrick Con
nor, this simple stone was erected
by his Fellow Workmen."
These words you may read any
day upon a white slab in a cemetery
not many miles from New York
but you might read them a hundred
times without guessing at the little
tragedy they indicato.without know
ing the hujpble romance which end
ed with the placing of that stone
above tbe dust of one poor and bu ru
ble man.
In his shabby "friezo jacket and
mud-laden brogans, he was scarcely
an attractive object as ho walked
into Mr. Bawn's great tin and bard
ware shop, one day, and presented
himself at the counter with
"I've been tould ye advertised for
hands, yor honor."
'Fully supplied, my man," said
Mr. Bawn, not lifting his head from
bis account book.
"I'd work faithful, sir, and take
low wages till I could do better, and
I'd learn I would that."
It was an Irish brogue, and Mr.
Bawn always declared that he
would never employ an incompetent
hand. Yet the tones attracted him.
He turned briskly, and with his pen
behind his ear, addressed tho flan,
who was only one of the fifty who
had answered bis advertisement for
four workmen that morning.
'What makes you expect to learn
faster than other folks are you
any smarter?"
"I'll not say that-," said the man,
"but I'd be wishing to; that 'ud
make it aisier."
"Are you used to work?"
"I've done bit of it."
Much?"
"No, yer honor. I'll tell no lie.
Tim O'Toolo hadn't the like of this
place but I know a bit about tins."
You are too old for an appren
tice, and you'd be in the way, I cal
culate," said Mr. Bawn, looking at
the brawny arms and bright eyes
that promised strength and intelli
gence. "Besides I know your coun
trymen lazy, good-for nothing fel
Howp, who never do their best. No,
I've been taken in by Irish hands
bef 0rean"a 7 wo aid rr't-rjovc -oiroth- -er."
'The Virgin will have to bo after
bringing 'cm over in her two arms,
thin," said tho man, despairingly,
for I've tramped all day for the last
fortnight, and nivera job can I get,
and that's tho last penny 1 have,
yer honor, and its but half a one."
As he spoke be spread his palm
open with an English half penny
upon it.
"Bring whom over?'' asked Mr.
Bawn, arrested by the odd speech
as he turned upon his heel and turn
ed back again.
"Just Nora and Jamesy."
"Who are they?"
"The wan's mo wife, the other's
me cniia, saia ine man. -wn,
masthor, jist thri me. How'll I
bring 'em over to me if no one will
give me a job I want to be aim
ing, and the whole big city seems
against it, and me with arms like
thim."
He bared his arms to tbe shoul
ders as he spoke, and Mr. Bawn
looked at them, and then at his
face. v
"I'll hire you for a week," be said.
"and now it's noon, go down into
tho kitchen and tell tho girl to get
you your dinner a hungry man
can't work."
And with an Irish blessing the
new band obeyed, while Mr. Bawn,
untying his apron, went up stairs
to his own meal.
Suspicious as he was of the new
hand's integrity aud ability, he was
agreeably disappointed. Connor
worked hard, and actually learned
fast. At the end of the week he
was the best workman in the shop.
lie was a great talker, but not
fond of drink or wasting money.
As his wages grew ho hoarded every
penny and wore the same shabby
clothes in which he had first made
bis appearance. "Beer costs mon
ey," he said one day, and every
cint I spind puts off tbe bringing
Nora and Jamesy over; and as for
clothes, them I have must do me
better no coat to me back, than no
wife and boy by me fireside any
how, it's slow work saving."
It was slow work, but he kept at
work all the same. Other men,
thoughtless and full of fun, tried to
make him drink made a jest of his
saving habits, coaxed him to accom
pany thom to places of amusement
or share their Sunday frolics. All
in vain. Connor liked beer, liked
tun, liked companionship; but be
would not delay the long looked for
bringing of Nora over, and was not
not "mane enough" to accept fa
vors of others. He kept his way, a
martyr to his one great wish living
on little, working at night on any
extra job by which be could earn a
few shillings, by running errands
in his noontide hours of rest, and
talking to any one who would listen
of bis one great hope, and of Nora
and little Jumcey.
At first tbe moo, who prided
themselves on being Americans, and
on turning out the best work in tbe
city, made a sort of butt of Connor,
whose "wild Irish" ways .and vor
dancy were indeed often laughable.
But it won their hearts at last, and
when one day, mounting a work
bench, he shook his little bundle,
wrapped in a red 'kerchief, before
their eyes, and shouted, '-Look,
boys, Tve got tho whole at last
Whooray! I've got it!"' all felt a
sympathy in his joy, and each
grasped his great hand in cordial
congratulations.
Tbey parted in a merry mood,
most of the men going to comforta
ble homes.
But poor Connor's. resting place
was a poor lodging-house, where ho
shared a crazy garret with four olh
er men, and in the joy of bis heart
the poor fellow exhibited his hand
kerchief, with his hard earned sav
ings tied up in a hard wad in the
middle, boforo he put it under his
pillow and fell asleep. When he
awakened in the morning he found
his treasure gone. Some villain,
more contemptible than most bad
men are, bad robbod him.
At first Connor could not believe it
lost. He searched every corner of
tho room, shook his quilt and blank
ets, and begged those about bim to
quit joking and give it back."
But at last ho realizod the truth.
"Is any man that bad it's thaved
from me ho sked in a breathless
way. "Boys, is any man that
bad
And some one answered
"No doubt of it, Connor, it's stole."
Then Connor put bis head down
on his hands, and lifted up his voice
and wept. It was one of those great
sights which men- never forget. It
soemed more than he could bear, to
have Nora and his child "put," as
he expressed it, "months away from
him again." But when he went to
work that day it seemed to all who
saw him that be bad picked up a
new determination. His bands
wero never idle. His face seemed
to say, "I'll have Nora with me yet."
At noon he scratched out a letter,
blotted and very strangely scrawled,
telling Nora what had happened,
and thoee who observed him, noticed
that he had no meat for dinner. In
deed, from that moment, he lived
ou bread, potatoes and cold water,
and worked as few men ever worked
before. It grew to be the talk of
tho 6bop, and now that sympathy
was excited, every one wanted to
help Connor. Jobs were thrown into
his way; kind words and friendly
wishes helped bim migntily but no
power could make him share tho
food or drink of any other work
man. That seemed a sort of charity to
him. Still he was helped along. A
present from Mr. Bawn at pay-day
set Nora, as he said, "a week near
er," and this and that and the other
added to tho little hoard. It grew
faster than tho first, and Connor's
burden was not so heavy. At last,
before he hoped it, he was once
more able to say, "I am going to
bring them over," and to show his
handkerchief, in which as before,
he tied up his earnings; this time,
howovcr, only to his friends. Cau
tious among strangers, he hid the
treasure, and kept his vest buttoned
over it nighf and day until the
tickets were bought and sont. Then
every man, woman and child, capa
ble ot bearing or understanding,
kuew that Nora and her baby were
coming.
There was John Jones, who had
more of the brute in his composition
than usually falls to tha lot of man
evon he who had once hurled his
hammer at an offender's head, miss-'
ing him by a hair's breadth, would
spend his ten minutes in the noon
hour in reading the Irish news to
Connor. There was Tom Bake, the
meanest man among the number,
who had never been known to give
anything to anyone before, absolute
ly bartered an old jacket for a pair
ot gilt vases which a pedlar brought
in his basket to the shop, and pre
sented them to Connor for Nora's
mantelpiece, who actually worked
two hours on Connor's work when
illness kept the Irishman at home
one day. Connor felt his kindness,
and rtturced it whmcvtr it was in
his power, and the days flew by and
brought a letter at last from his
wife.
(Concluded next week.)
A Wife's Waenlng. Tbe Iron
ton Journal publishes the following
notice in its local columns
The public of this county is here
by notified not to sell or give to
Adam Dai ling, any spirituous or
malt liquors, under the penalty ot
tbe law. Hate Darlino.
A Hint to Hotel Keepers. A
shrewd observer has discovered that inr
civility and impertinenoe at hotels and
restaurants are in exupt proportion to
tbe meanness and repulsivoness of the
table set. Neatness and politeness,
good food and pleasant mannora, care
ful oookiug und fair speech generally go
togotbor.
[From the Chicago Evening Journal, Tuesday. Oct
10, 1871.]
THE GREAT FIRE
DESTRUCTION OF CHICAGO
1,800 Acres of Property Devastated
18,000 Buildings Destroyed
80,000 People Burned
80,000 People Burned Out-All the Hotels, Banks,
Public Buildings, Newspaper
Offices and Great Business
Offices and Great Business Blocks Swept Away-Over a
Hundred Dead Bodies Recovered
from the Debris-Tens of
Thousands of Citizens without
Home, Food, Fuel or Clothing
Organization of a Local Relief
Committee—Relief Arriving
from Other Cities Hourly
from Other Cities Hourly-A Lake City Without Fire Or
from Other Cities Hourly-A Lake City Without Fire Or Water-300,000 Citizens in
Search of Them—Scenes and
Incidents of the Great Conflagration.
The awful intelligence of the de
struction by fire of the noble, mag
nificent, wonderful city of Chicago,
will bo received all over the world
with dismay and feelings of the
deepest sorrow. Never before in the
annals of history can such a parallel
of destruction be found. The burn
ing of Rome, London, Moscow, New
York, Portland and Paris, were un
doubtedly appalling and disastrous
events; but pale into insignificance
before the awful work of devastation
which has resulted in the reduction
to ashes of Chicago, the city of the
world the spot on which the eyes
of all nations of the earth have been
fixed with mixed envy and admira-
tion ever since she started into exis-
tence. That the great works of de
struction alluded to were attended
wilh dire loss there ia no question,
but neither of them spread over such
a vast territory and destroyed so
muuu vamauic iviupcuj, auu m atj
awfully short a time, as has that
which has just laid waste the pride
not only of America but the world.
No one but those who witnessed the
fire can realize, the sad, appalling
character of the conflagration. Fancy
one vast ocean oi name, nva to seven
miles in fength and over an average
of a mile in width, those huge bil
lows swept onward, upward, for
ward, roaring, hissing, crackling and
dashing a spray of lurid, livid sparks
and flashes of fire in every direction,
aided by a terrific gale which had
enlisted itself under the flaming ban
ner of the merciless and cruel Fire
Fiend, to assist in the work of dem
olition. Steadily and resistlessly did
the fearful scourge sweep forward,
causing thousands of suddenly im
poverished, terror'-stricken human
Tjeings to flee before it for safety.
The four elements all combined in
the work of havoc in the leveling
to the ground, and reducing to hu
mility the proudest, wealthiest city
of the universe. The wind aided
and encouraged the fire, the latter
kept the water under control, while
the wind again, as if to add torture
to the thousands of fleeing, weeping
men, women and children and to
baffle the efforts of citizens, firemen
and policemen in the encounter,
hurled almost impenetrable clouds
of stinging, blinding sand and dust
in their eyes, ears and nostrils. The
spectacle was appallingly grand, yet
such as to make great strong men
weep like children not altogether
at the losses they had and were sus
taining, the dark prospects which
shrouded their future, but at the wit
nessing the ruin and demolishing of
the city which they bad regarded
with pride, and over whose progress
and welfare they had watched with
tho tender care, similar to that with
which anxious, loving parents regard
the career of their offspring. Hundreds-of
millions of dollars' worth of
property have been laid in ashes.
Thousands of magnificent buildings
Which reared their proud heads
above their more humble frame
neighbors, have been laid low all
suffering the same fate, in the crush
ing embrace of that great leveler
fire. Thousands of families have
lost some, part of their goods and
homes more, homes and every
thing they possessed in the world;
many, even their friends and rela
tives, who were crushed, burned or
suffocated during the awful visita
tion. It is feared that a great num
ber of lives have been lost. Thus,
even areaa ueatn lent a neipiug
hand in the work of havoc.
The glare on the sky occasioned by
the flumes could be seen at night a
distance of many miles, and the
heavens appeared in many directions
to bo in a state of calidity, and
seemed a3 if they would melt and
pour down on each in a great mass
of liquid fire. The dense, black
clouds of suffocating smoke, which,
under the influence of the gale were
swept lakeward, rendered naviga
tion on that "sheet" of water almost
impossible numbers of miles distant
from the shore, day and night;
while on shore, miles from the scene
of devastation, the night was so far
turned into day by tho brightness of
the flames, that the reading of the
smallest print was an easy matter of
accomplishment. All these attend-
ing circumstances of what in history
will be handed" down to future gen
erations as the "Great Fire of Chi
cago," will remain vividly In the
memory of all who were present in
Chicago on the 7th, 8th and 9th ;ctf
October, A. D. 1871. 1
Some idea of the fearful ravages
daring the great fire at Chicago may
be entertained by comparing it with
the other two greatest of fiery visi
tations irr the history of the world
those of London and Moscow. The
great fire of London covered 500
acres of ground, rendered homeless
200,000 inhabitants and burned 13,
000 bouses. That of Moscow burned
over a space of 400 acres, and de
stroyed 12,000 houses. The great
fire of Chicago laid waste over 1,800
acres, upward of 18,000 buildings,
and rendered about 85,000 per3dtis
homeless.
As to pecuniary loss, no fire which
ever occurred in the world has been
attended with that suffered by Chi
cago, as in no other city wa3 there
such an amount of valuable mer
chandise or so many expensive build
ings destroyed. Most of our mer
chants had received .their winter
stocks rf goods, none of which they
were able to save. The loss in mer
chandise alone at this last great con
flagration will be double that suf
fered by London and Moscow com
bined. The great calamity which has fall
en upon our city, as overwhelming
as it Is, has not broken the spirit of
our citizens.
With heroic courage the people at
present, not thinking of their own
losses, are everywhere setting to
yfQr to relieve the distresses of oth
ers. Milwaukee, St. Louis, Detroit,
Toledo in fact every village and
city within reach, have already come
to our relief with a generosity and
promptitude, the memory of which
wilt be treasured in
memories of us all.
the grateful
Buti we repeat, the great heart of
Chicago is not broken, nor her spirit
0f enterprise crushed. She will arise
from her ashes, with an energy
which will eclipse all her former ef-
fortg anr. SDeediiv retrain her former
position.
GENERAL APPEARANCE.
One thing particularly strikes the
passengers through all the streets
the absence of everything of a com
bustible nature. Brick, stone, and
iron abound, and make up whatever
is left of the most magnificent and
costly structures. Dirt, in the ord
inary sense of the term, has vanish
ed all i3 clean, but oh, how deso
late! Another thing is the uniform
ity of the. destruction. The marble
palaces and cheaper brick and mor
tar blocks lie in common disorder.
There is no distinction, except in the
presence of iron pillars and marble
door and window ornaments.
WHAT IS LEFT.
The only buildings left intact be
tween the river and the lake and the
river and Madison street are Hatha
way's coal office, one of the Buck
ingham elevators, on the lake shore,
and the Lind block, at the corner of
Randolph and Market. Not a ves
tige of any wooden structure is left
in sight, and the walls of the ma
jority of the buildings in the district
described aje leveled with the
ground. In some instances parti
tion walls have not altogether fallen,
but rear their pointed heads high
above the surrounding ruins.
THE STREETS.
The pavements are burnt, broken
and strewn with debris not impass
able, but dusty and smoky.
THE PEOPLE.
Crowds of people, men, women
and children, rich and poor, throng
ed the streets this forenoon, satisfy
ing the general curiosity, and won
dering at the fearful power which
has wrought so grearand" sudden a
calamity. Here and there parties
were examining an.d breaking up
portions of such articles as lay near
the surface, in search of valuables.
The general expression is one of sad
ness, but nowhere was despair visible.
MARKET STREET.
From Madison to Washington
street all buildings are leveled on
both sides of Market. Between
Washington and Randolph streets,
Hat ha way's coal pile is still burning
brightly.. All the business blocks
north to the river, on the east side
of Market, are destroyed.
THE COURT HOUSE.
Bleak, smoked, hollow and deso
late, upon the scene, rear the walls of
the Court House scene of many a
distressing and exciting trial, of local
legislation and public business. Not
ouly have the roofs "buckled," but
the entire structure looms up from
where we write, a ruined mouument
of departed greatness. The old fence
remains, with the tesselated pave-
ments, but the glory of the tribunals
and the Council chamber are things
of the past.
RANDOLPH STREET.
Across the streeta heap of bricks,
iron rods and shattered ornaments of
stone mark the grave of the Fidelity
Safe Company's laaguiUceat siruc-
ture and the stately Sherman House.
Words are weak to express the air of
desolation that hovers around this
corner, so recently brillitnt with bus
iness and pleasure. The skull on the
banquet table could scarcely be more
saddening to a reflective mind.
Last week, high in air, on the
southeast corner, atood Miller's jew
elry store. Wood's Museum, with its
half a million curiosities, and nights
of tragedy and comedy; graced the
vicinity with its fair front, beneath
the Colonel's benign portrait; cloth
ing for the million enticed the way
farer to stop and buy, and whisky
and stationery, printing and engrav
ing, made this section of Randolph
street a popular resort. This morn
ing it is a desert.
And so we could go on, down to
the lake, calling up a hundred rem
iniscences of the old and cherished
times and places. What memories
cluster around tho Matteson House,
the old Garrett block, the auction
house of the shrill voiced Butters,
etc. Now the heart sickens as it
sees the bitter end of all these things.
LAKE STREET.
From, the bridge to La Salle street,
Lake street was built up on both
sides with business blocks of brick
and stone, remarkable more for their
commodiousness and convenience
than beauty. All are gone.
THE TREMONT HOUSE.
No building in Chicago claims a
kinder remembrance than the old
Tremont House. Its broken walls j
and towering chimney-stacks
nothing of the elegance, sociability
and comfort- that always met the
traveler at the threshold and made
a friend of him for life.
LAKE STREET,AGAIN.
From the Tremont to the Great
Union Depot is not far, yet its
wealth of merchandise and stately
edifices were known far and near
throughout the West, but the eye
dims and the pulse groe3 slow when
the ruin of St his noble mart meets
the sight, jtfkmes of firms who did
business here might be given, but
they stand engraven in the hearts of
many a country merchant, who has
profited by the courtesies of Lake
street jobbers.
THE "JOURNAL" OFFICE.
The old Journal building had a
location and a name in the hearts of
thousands of warm friends. For a
quarter of a century from it the pub
lic received the daily news, and here
public opinion met with censure or
praise, as it deserved. The old of
fice has gone, with all its grateful la
bors, but the Journal still lives.
SOUTH SIDE.
The scene in this section of the
city is too appalling to be dwelt upon
with other words than those which
will in the mo3t adequate manner
convey an idea of the reality which
seems beyond the power of tongue
or pen to relate. The streets that
are burnt over are Madison, Monroe,
Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, Con
gress and Michigan avenue, where
it was checked, the Michigan Ave
nue'Hotel being saved. On Wabash
it burned through to Harrison street.
The last house burned on the east
side of Wabash avenue. On the
West side, Dr. McChesney's (the
Wabash Avenue Methodist) Church
was not burned, at the northeast
corner of Harrison and Wabash ave
nue. On State Street, 336 was the
last number, burned. This was the
south limit so far west as the track
of the Michigan Southern Railroad.
The long freight depot3 (in and out
freight) were burned, with all their
contents; cars and everything as'far
south of Taylor, and west of the east
track. Taylor street, the great lum
ber district, was not crossed, to the
south. Thus, in short, there is Quly
oue building within the limits above
described which is not burned to
ashes, and this seems to have escap
ed through a miracle it i3 num
bered 01 to 90 Harrison street, on
the corner of North avenue. The
streets which run north and south
are Michigan avenue, Waba3h;ave
nue, State, Dearborn, Clark, LaSalle,
Wells, Sherman, Griswold and Mar
ket streets. This section of the city
contained the glory of our architect
ure, and the palatial residences of
some of- our most wealthy citizens.
The names of individual owners can
not be given, but tho prominent
business structures were tho depot of
the Lake Shore, and Chicago, and
Rock Island and Pacific Railroad,
on Van Buren, from Sherman to
Griswold, aud south to Harrison
the Pacific Hotel, which was ready
for the roof, and occupied a block.
The Custom-house, which is gutted,
the heavy whitened walls alone
standing. Honore's blocks, finished
and unfinished, on Dearborn, from
Monroe to Adams, the Tribune build
ing, the Times office, the Post build
ing, the office of the Staats Zeitung,
and numerous publications. The
elegant structure known as the Lake
Side Press building, on Clark, the
Young Men's Christian Association
library ,the Republic insurance build
ing, Farwell Hall, McVicker's The
ater, the Clifton House, Tbe Acade
my or Dtoigo, Coau &sd Tea Ero-
9treet,and from there the burnt track
8peakjsweeps northeast, widening and wid
eck's Manufacturing Cotnpany'3
building on Adams street, tha Pal
mer House, St. Mary's, Sr, Paul's
Catholic Church, TJniversalist, Sec
ond Presbyterian, Trinity Episcopal
Church, First Presbyterian Church,
Michigan Avenue Terrace Row, the
Chicago Club, Potter Palmer's new
hotel, (unfinished), Robert Law's
coal yard, Rogers Co.'a coal yard,
the largest firms of the city, the
Jewish Synagogue, northeast corner
of Fourth avenue and Harrison
streets, the New Club oa Harrbon
and State, the Bigfclo7 Hou3e, on
Dearborn and Adams, which-would
have opened thia week. All the
bridges over the river from Madison
to Twelfth streets are burned. On
the West Side the ravages were dire,
sweeping away the great manufac
tories, and mills, and the elevators j
oi mat section lying Detween Jeffer
son street and tha river east and
west, and Van Buren and DeKovan,
the first street north oi Twelfth.noHli
and south, and from any point can
be seen a dozen or more tall chim
neys, marking the sites of aa many
enormous manufacturing buildings.
None of them can be named accu
rately. The Chicago Dock Com
pany's warehouse, on Taylor street,
and the Pittsburg arid Fort Wayne
Railroad were burned, together with
two large ice-hou3es, section "C" of
the ware-bouses alone being saved.
The apex of the field of desolation,
which is a horizontal cone, is at the
corner of DeKoven and Jefferson
ening for a distance of some five
miles.
The thoroughfares are crowded
with a constantly flowing stream of
people,' which seems to take its rue
at Madison street bridge and move
sluggishly along through the streets
and avenues, gazing at the burnt and
burning ruins.
With but one or two exceptions,
the walls of buildings on Lake street
have fallen in.
The ruins of the jewelry, grocery
and other stores on Lake and South
Water streets are Being ransacked
by hundreds of people.
The Eastern Illinois Elevator
stands uninjured.
The walls of the Marine Hospital -are
mostly standing.
All the bridges over the river
from the South to the North Divi
sion are gone.
A gentleman we saw this morn
ing, who had been in Paris during
the past year, says the devastation
there did not compare with Chicago
this morning.
Among the hundreds of buildings
on Lake street that in themselves
would have made an extensive con-,
flagration, not even the walls of one
is standing.
IN THE NORTH DIVISION.
The scene in the North Division,
from the time the flames showed
their terrible presence there, beggars
description approaching anything
like what really occurred. Those
who had time caused their furniture
and other effects to be placed oa the
sidewalks in front of the various
buildings in which they resided,
ready to be carried off. Before,
however, vehicles of any kind could
be procured, the flames had devour
ed the interposing structures, and in
less time than it takes to write it
had seized upon the' piles of furni
ture and driven the owners away to
seek security. This occurred in
thousands of instances. Many suc
ceeded in reaching what they consid
ered a safe distance from the fire,
but in half an hour were forced tr
flee again and again, many families
"moving" half a dozen times In
face of the fearful element, each,
time leaving behind a portion of the
goods they had saved, until finally
they found that they had lost alL
Toward the lake, northward, north
eastward, westward and toward the
northwest, flocked the thousands bf
pallid featured citizens, in all condi
tions of health and distress. It would
take tod much 'time and space to
day to describe tha heart-rending
spectacles which were presented and
witnessed. All means of communi
cation with the South Division wera
cut off, which fact tended to render
the general horror, dismay and con
fusion the more general as the flamea
steadily pressed onward, and no one
kuew where to go or where thd
dreadful conflagration would end.
Expressmen and others demanded
from twenty-five to one hundred dol j
lars a load, to even take sufferers
and their baggage out of reach of
the flames, and in many Instances 1
such sums were paid by persons
who soon found the flames close at
hand, and then being unable to ob
tain more aid had to leave all tbeii
goods to tho fury of the greedy ele-
ment.
NORTH SIDE.
All of that portion of tbe city ly 1
ing between the river, east of Clark
street and west of the lake, and as
far north as Fulton avenue, Is en-
tirely destroyed, except the residence
of W. B. Ogden, corner of dark and,
Oak streets, and near tie ccz-
aavatcry, azi ai tirea u Ife'c: