anaheim-gazette 1874-08-15

VOL. 4. Southern Californian. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. RICHARD MELROSE & CO., PUBLISHERS AND PROPRIETORS. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION. One copy, one year (in advance).....84 00 One copy, six months.....2 50 Business Cards. L. GUNTHER, PIONEER BOOT AND SHOE MAKER Cor. Third and Los Angeles Sts., Anaheim. DR. J. S. GARDINER, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office in Clark & Austin’s Building, ANAHEIM. MRS. A. HIGGINS, Ladies’ Physician and Midwife. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and residence, corner Lemon and Center Streets, Anaheim. PIONEER DRUG STORE, Center Street, corner of Lemon, Anaheim, Cal. W. M. HIGGINS. Miscellaneous. R. LUEDKE, WATCH MAKER AND... JEWELER, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. EVERY DESCRIPTION OF WATCHES, CLOCKS, AND JEWELRY Carefully repaired and WARRANTY. A first assortment of JEWELRY on hand. CLARK & AUSTIN, DEALERS IN Books, Stationery, and Fancy Goods, Toys, Viellas, Accordeons, ALBUMS, GOLD PENS, CANDIES, ETC. ANAHEIM. Agents for Averill’s Chemical Paint. Also, for the San Francisco Dallics and Weeklies, Eastern Periodicals, and Hall’s Patent Fire and Burglar Proof Safes. Give us a call. J. H. GOOCH, PRACTICAL HOUSE, SIGN, AND CARRIAGE PAINTER. The Story of Say, what is life? The toA happeless habe to greet With a sharp wall, as if the Forttold a cloudy moon a To weep, to sleep, and weeWith sunny smiles between And then space the infant To be a laughing, spring Happy despite his little woe Were he but conscious o To be in short, from two t A merry, moody child, an And then in coat and trowTo learn to say the Deco And break it, an unthinkiWith mirth and mischieA trump off by field hand f And capture butterflies, a And then, increased in stuTo be anon a youth fall A hero in his mother’s eye A young Apollo in his s To imitate the ways of maIn fashionable sim, and th And then at last, to be a n To fall in love, to woo m With seething brain to scr To gather gold or toll fo To sue for fame, with tong And gain or lose the prize And then in gray and writ To mourn the speed of f To praise the senses of yea And dwell in memory o To dream awhile with a d Then drop into his grave, The Chicago MRS. A. HIGGINS, Ladies' Physician and Midwife. Particular attention given to diseases peculiar to women and children. Office and residence, corner Lemon and Center Streets, Anaheim. PIONEER DRUG STORE, Center Street, corner of Lemon, Anaheim, Cal. W. M. HIGGINS. Proprietor, and Dealer in Drugs, Perfumery, and Garden Seeds. A. G. BEEBE, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. Plans and Specifications drawn up with neatness and accuracy. Orders left at CLARK'S BOOK STORE will receive prompt attention. P. C. McKINNIE, CONTRACTOR AND BUILDER. SHOP...ON CENTER STREET Adjoining Pioneer Livery Stable. GEO. C. KNOX, CIVIL ENGINEER and SURVEYOR. Office, at the CALIFORNIAN OFFICE, Los Angeles Street...Anaheim. A. BAILEY, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE. OFFICE, ENTERPRISE HALL BUILDING. J. W. CLARK, Notary Public and Justice of the Peace. Land Agent and Conveyancer. Acknowledgments taken. Loans negotiated on Real Estate security. Office at Clark's Building, opposite Planter's Hotel, Center Street. SAMUEL HAMILTON, Attorney and Counselor at Law. OFFICE...WITH WM. R. OLDEN, Center Street, Anaheim. JOSEPH BENNERSCHEIDT, Tin and Copper Smith, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. STOVES, ETC., ALWAYS ON HAND. SAMUEL MEYER, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, OILS Gas Fixtures and Kitchen Utensils. Commercial Street, Los Angeles. MRS. FLORA ELDREDGE, MILLINER, ANAHEIM. Agents for Averill's Chemical Paint. Also, for the San Francisco Dallies and Weeklies, Eastern Periodicals, and Hall's Patent Fire and Burglar Proof Safes. Give us a call. J. H. GOOCH, PRACTICAL HOUSE, SIGN, AND CARRIAGE PAINTER, Opposite Poplar Row, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM. All kinds of Carriage Painting done in the VERY BEST STYLE Prices according to style and quality, from $15 upward. NOTICE TO SHIPPERS. GREAT REDUCTION IN FREIGHT. ANAHEIM LIGHTER COMPANY. This Company is now prepared to receive and deliver freight at the Lowest Rates. Shippers will please send Bills of Lading by Steamer, and mark freight care"Anaheim Lighter Company." No charge for Storage on Grains. BOSTE N. WHITE. Agent Anaheim Lighter Company. B. DREYFUS, Anaheim. E. L. GOLDSTRIKE, San Francisco. J. FROWENFIELD, J. J. WEOLIN, New York. B. DREYFUS & CO., GROWERS AND DEALERS IN CALIFORNIA WINES AND CRAPE BRANDIES 117 and 119 Broadway, and 62 and 64 Cedar St. NEW YORK. F. A. KORN & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in WINES. FINE WINES AND LIQUORS Of the Best Selected Varieties. Call and see Sample Rooms, corner Los Angeles and First North Streets, Anaheim, Cal. ANAHEIM DRUG STORE, Center Street Anaheim The Chicago The careful student of will call readily to mince contained therein that God destroy the world by when the time comes for this base ball of our daze He will choose the element its destruction. When the moment shall come "the be rolled together as a heavens melt with fervence." A history of the doomment within the last three indicate that our world is ing that condition where possible for the prediction most a literal fulfillment history of the world have ber of vast fires taken place length of time, and near have eaten their way in totally incomprehensible defiance all the laws we posed to govern the checking of fires. Stone instead of being obstacle became food to feed them melted between their hues in the burning sun." which would seem to have elements of combustibility alike to fuse and turn water, the natural and my of the gnawing flame against it, instead of vice for life and prop forces with those of the being transmuted into stu upon its elastic should brands, and dropped faces of trade far in advance host. The first was C. 1871, when thousands went down, and $200,000 then, right upon the heath fires of Michigan, was destruction of timber and loss of life; then the gnawing away her trade; the vast conflagration China; the recent $1,000 York, besides an unmothers, great and small second visitation upon doomed city of Chicagoc acres of densely popular swept clear of habitation thousands of God's poorest street, to wander without er their heads or a plaful of victuals. In w things, and when the fire down some of the elephant the rebuilt portion of fair prospect of its traverse, the remark of Teuton: "'Es ist das Er..." It is the end of the no surprise, but rather thought running through many... The scene during a was a strange one t CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. STOVES, ETC., ALWAYS ON HAND. SAMUEL MEYER, CROCKERY, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, OILS Gas Fixtures and Kitchen Utensils. Commercial Street, Los Angeles. MRS. FLORA ELDREDGE, MILLINER, CENTRE STREET...ANAHEIM. Ladies will find Butterick's celebrated Patterns for sale. HATS AND BONNETS MADE TO ORDER. BATH HOUSE and BARBER SHOP CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. PROF. DEAN, PROPRIETOR. CITY BAKERY, CENTER STREET, ANAHEIM. CHARLES HILLE, PROPRIETOR. Fresh bread constantly on hand. GEORGE BAUER. BOOTS AND SHOES Made and repaired at the lowest cash price. All orders promptly attended to, and work guaranteed. GEORGE BAUER, Los Angeles St., opposite Enterprise Hall. S. C. FOY, PIONEER SADDLE & HARNESS MAKER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in Baddlery, Leather & Findings No. 17 Los Angeles St., Los Angeles. CARPET WAREHOUSE. AARON SMITH, Importer and Dealer in Carpets, Oilcloths, Paint Hangings, and Upholstery Wools. Carpets sawn and put down neatly. No. 76 Downey Block, Los Angeles. FINE WINES AND LIQUORS Of the Best Selected Varieties. Call and see Sample Rooms, corner Los Angeles and First North Streets, Anaheim, Cal. ANAHEIM DRUG STORE, Center Street, Anaheim, H. BLANKEN, Proprietor and Dealer in Drugs and Medicines, Patent Medicines, TRUSSES, TOILET ARTICLES, PERFUMERY, etc. Wines and Liquors for Medical Use. PRESCRIPTIONS CAREFULLY DISPENSED. P. LANGENBERGER. L. HALBERSTADT. HALBERSTADT & CO. ANAHEIM LANDING. DEALERS IN LUMBER OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Keep constantly on hand a large and complete assortment of REDWOOD and OREGON PINE LUMBER Rough, Surfaced, Tongued and Grooved. Also, Posts, Shingles, Shakes, Laths, Doors, Blinds, Plain and Fancy Pickets, Windows, Meandings, Lime, Plaster, Hair, Nails, and Hardware. All of our Lumber is of the best quality and we are determined to sell at the LOWEST RATES. All kinds of GRAIN AND COUNTRY PRODUCE The scene during a was a strange one to mind if philosophy such circumstances it is, for it was common once. Notwithstanding of property, the vast lies burned out, and children turned hot street, such is the self command instilled in our republican form of the natural nil desperation that not even an hyacinth child was to be seen complaint was heard going about with no world which they could except the clothes on even calmer than spice the scene out of my course nearly all the city were out at some night, and it seemed that anything could sufficient to bring multiudes and yet cring beyond that of any business anxiety. A portions in any of the rope would have turned a myriad of howling at the air with their shadespair. Here the had been enabled to and remove them among their fugacious also to prevent the so enriching himself while those who made by, thanking fortune lied from the annex and when it became was under control, not be disturbed, doorwape in which the night. About two o'clock noon was a curious The Story of Life. Say, what is life? The to be born, A hopeless habe to greet the light With a sharp wall, as if the morn Forttold a cloudy moon and night; To weep, to sleep, and weep again, With sunny smiles between, and then? And then space the infant grows To be a laughing, sprightly boy, Happy despite his little woes, Were he but conscious of his joy! To be in short, from two to ten, A merry, moody child, and then? And then in east and trowers clad, To learn to say the Decalogue, And break it, an unthinking lad, With mirth and mischief all agog— A trunt oft by field land fenn, And capture butterflies, and then? And then, increased in strength and size, To be anon a youth full grown: A hero in his mother's eyes, A young Apollo in his own: To imitate the ways of men In fashionable sim, and then? And then at last, to be a man, To fall in love, to woo and wed! With seething brain to scheme and plan To gather gold or toil for bread; To sue for fame, with tongue and pen, And gain or lose the price, and then? And then in gray and wrinkled eld To mourn the speed of life's decline, To praise the scenes of youth behold, And dwell in memory of Lang Syne, To dream awhile with a darkened ken, Then drop into his grave, and then? —John G. Saze. The Chicago Fire. The careful student of the Scriptures will call readily to mind the statement contained therein that God will no more destroy the world by water, but that when the time comes for blotting out this hole hall of one daily trafficking portion of those turned out upon the world were negroes and cyprians. These herded together indiscriminately, dropping down wherever a stone step offered a Jacob's pillow for their heads, and doubtless many of them dreamed of ladders ascending heavenward, those articles having appeared to them many times during the night, borne upon long wagons, but it is doubtful about the appearance of any angels, except with firebrands in their hands, ascending and descending upon the shining rounds. There was scarcely a niche or a doorway in the business district that was not occupied by one or more of the homeless. The colored wenches lopped about with their usual abandon, while most of the nymphs du pass had a breast more or less manly on which to rest their blanched locks and painted checks. To-day the scene is equally unusual. The haggard faces of the children of sin, not used to the morning light, appear simply and in groups; their naturally repulsive features and mim rendered doubly so by a night's watching, and the removal of those artifacts by which they are accustomed to veil to some extent the ravages which pollution has wrought upon them. Homeless and objectless they wander from street to street, objects to gaze after, even under the present extraordinary circumstances. God help them, for their lot is a hard one, even in view of their transgression, and God help all honest poor, who by this scourge are rendered doubly poor. THE FIRE BEGAN In a one-story frame shanty, that stood fronting on the alley in the rear of 527 South Clark Street, near Twelfth. The place was occupied by a Polish Jew named ——, and was used as a rag being filled with these greases and were received with rousing cheer. An engine arrived from Bloomington at 11:30; Detroit offered aid, but it was not accepted; 50 men were sent from Dixon; two engines came from Indianapolis, with hoose and a full complement of men; Michigan City also sent an engine and men. After getting under such irresistible headway, the fire spread southward and westward, destroying all the buildings in the block between Fourth Avenue and Clark, south nearly to Twelfth and east to Clark. On the latter it burned north a block and a half, nearly to the corner of Polk. Thence it sent diagonally across to Fourth Avenue; north along Fourth Avenue to Harrison; east on both sides of Harrison to State; north on the east side of State to three doors north of Van Buren; along the south side of Van Buren to Wabash Avenue; down the west side of Wabash Avenue to the corner of the alley between Van Buren and Jackson; along the south side of Van Buren to Michigan Avenue, with the exception of the Academy of Design, on the southwest corner, and taking in a frame building on the northeast corner. On the east and south sides along Michigan Avenue from Van Buren to above Congress; west to the alley running north and south between Michigan and Wabash Avenues; south to Eldridge Court; thence southwest to the place of beginning, near the corner of Clark and Twelfth. When the telegram asking for aid was received in Milwaukee, the Marshall promptly dispatched two engines, and they did good service on Wabash Avenue. Joliet, Michigan City, Racine, and Bloomington also sent an engine apiece. HARDY talk about summer strains among infants skin, growing weaker brain, comfortation of motion of dance with our folklore hardening good care proved garment being best Health. BEXFORD equal in exceptions is this: and let butter butter milk off finishes in the edge very easily soon as with a up Let first. The Chicago Fire. The careful student of the Scriptures will call readily to mind the statement contained therein that God will no more destroy the world by water, but that when the time comes for blotting out this base ball of our daily traffickings He will choose the element of fire for its destruction. When that day of judgment shall come "the firmament shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the heavens melt with fervent heat." A history of the doings of this element within the last three years would indicate that our world is fast approaching that condition wherein it would be possible for the prediction to have almost a literal fulfillment. Never in the history of the world have the same number of vast fires taken place in the same length of time, and nearly all of them have eaten their way in a manner almost totally incomprehensible, and setting at defiance all the laws which were supposed to govern the movements and checking of fires. Stone, brick and iron, instead of being obstacles in their way, became food to feed their progress, and melted between their hot jaws like wax in the burning sun. The very earth, which would seem to have none of the elements of combustibility in it, seemed alike to fuse and turn to ash; while water, the natural and implacable enemy of the gnawing flame, when hurled against it, instead of doing good service for life and property, allied its forces with those of the invader, and being transmuted into steam hove away upon its elastic shoulders the burning brands, and dropped them upon palaces of trade far in advance of the main host. The first was Chicago, Oct. 9, 1871, when thousands of trade palaces went down, and $200,000,000 were lost; then, right upon the heels of it, the forest fires of Michigan, with their vast destruction of timber and villages, and loss of life; then the great Boston fire sweeping away her granite marts of trade; the vast conflagration in Pekin, China; the recent $1,000,000 fire in New York, besides an unusual number of others, great and small, and last, the second visitation upon the apparently doomed city of Chicago, when sixty acres of densely populated territory was swept clear of habitations, turning thousands of God's poor out upon the street, to wander without a roof to cover their heads or a place to get a mouthful of victuals. In view of all these things, and when the fire began to melt down some of the elegant buildings in the rebuilt portion of the city, with a fair prospect of its traversing its former course, the remark of a half-inebriated Teuton: "Es ist das Ende von die Welt!" —It is the end of the world"—created no surprise, but rather echoed the thought running through the minds of many. The scene during and after the fire was a strange one to the philosophic THE FIRE BEGAN In a one-story frame shanty, that stood fronting on the alley in the rear of 527 South Clark Street, near Twelfth. The place was occupied by a Polish Jew named ——, and was used as a rag shop, being filled with those greasy and inflammable materials. The same place caught fire about two weeks ago, and was reported at the time as the work of an incendiary; though whether the present conflagration is due to the same agency or spontaneous combustion, is not known. The peddler was away upon his rounds at the time, and the fire was first discovered by a prostitute occupying a room just west of the place, in a building fronting on Clark Street. She at once gave the alarm, and box 37 was turned in at 4:29 o'clock P.M. This section was almost entirely built up with frame shanties, one and two stories high, and was reckoned by the police to be the most degraded and dangerous part of the city. Most of the buildings were old and dry, having escaped the great fire 1871. Along Clark and Fourth Avenue, and the intervening alleys, especially from Harrison to Twelfth, nearly the entire section was occupied negroes, Polish Jews, and houses of prostitution, ranging from the gilded palaces of sin on Fourth Avenue, near Harrison, to the lowest, most disreputable, and vilest dens of infamy along Clark Street, from Polk to Twelfth. In any other portion of the city one might walk at any time of the day or night without being accosted by the sirens of Satan, but here they plied their damnable vocation on the first floors of every building, in the broad light of day. This section, in police parlance, was known as "Cheyenne," with subdivisions of "Hackelburnia," "Fiddler's Green," and "Hell's Half Acre." If this section only had been destroyed, the respectable people of the city would have rejoiced, and values would have taken a sudden jump upward in that neighborhood. Scarcely a minute after the first alarm was turned in the entire shanty was a mass of flames, a smart breeze blowing from the southwest—the exact quarter in which it was on that other memorable night. Eastward of this was the brick oil refinery of Fitch Brothers, filled with tanks of oil, and before the arrival of the several engines it was all ablaze and scattering brands upon the wooden roofs all around it. The first stream had been playing on it but a few moments when the walls went down, and the houses for rods all around seemed all to burst into flames at once. About eight or ten engines had arrived by this time, most of them taking position on Clark Street, to stay the progress of the fire westward and northward. At 4:40 Assistant Marshal Sweeney turned in a second alarm, bringing in additional engines. These were stationed on Fourth Avenue, behind them. On the east and south sides along Michigan Avenue from Van Buren to above Congress; west to the alley running north and south between Michigan and Wabash Avenues; south to Eldridge Court; thence southwest to the place of beginning, near the corner of Clark and Twelfth. When the telegram asking for aid was received in Milwaukee,the Marshall promptly dispatched two engines,and they did good service on Wabash Avenue. Jolist,Michigan City,Racine,and Bloomington also sent an engine apiece. THE PORT WAYNE DELEGATION. About one o'clock this morning the Fort Wayne delegation arrived with two engines and forty men. They worked about an hour when their services were no longer needed. Their engines were sent back this morning,but a number of the men remained to view the ruins;they return at three o'clock this afternoon. THE EXPOSITION BUILDING. At one time the Exposition Building way considered in great danger. Flying brands filled the air and were constantly falling upon the roof.The most uneasy set of men in the city perhaps were the photographers who clustered around the building,nervously watching the progress of the work of destruction.The iron mailed roof,having saved the building from being fired,and at midnight all danger was passed,and that noble piece of architecture still stands to ornament the city. PROMINENT BUILDINGS Destroyed. Fortunately,the were few buildings among those destroyed whose loss is more than a financial one.As compared to the corresponding district north it contained few houses of extraordinary note,and of those perhaps the Post-office stands at the head of the list.Thiswhichwas oncea fashionable Methodist Church,markedthenorthernlineofthe71firewhenitwasonlytoasted.Costingoriginally$75,000itsvaluehadverymuchfallen,andwaslaterworthperhapsathirdofthat.它washiredbythegovernmentforfiveyears.at$15,000ayear;anenormouspricetobeginwith,andnowawastedone!ItwasawisemoveonthepartofthePostmasterthatthemailswereallcartedoffbeforethefirestruck. The Adelphi,the next square,a theatre built by Frank E.Aiken.of brick,a costof$70,000was another noted destruction.Ilt hadnotbeenaffectedlearningleatherdoorwithouteducationalprovision. The St.JamesHotel,cornerofStateandVanBurenStreets,a five-storybuilding,halfa blockinsize,costingabout$90,000withfixtures.wascompletelydestroyed. The Continental Hotel,cornerofStateStreetandEldridgeCourt,andtheWood'sHotel,cornerofStateStreetandHubbardCourt.wereplain.substantialbuildings,eachvaluedatabout thousands of God's poor out upon the street, to wander without a roof to cover their heads or a place to get a mouthful of victuals. In view of all these things, and when the fire began to melt down some of the elegant buildings in the rebuilt portion of the city, with a fair prospect of its traversing its former course, the remark of a half-inebriated Teuton: "Es ist das Ende von die Welt!" — "It is the end of the world"—created no surprise, but rather echoed the thought running through the minds of many. The scene during and after the fire was a strange one to the philosophic mind, if philosophy is possible under such circumstances, and it seems that it is, for it was commented on more than once. Notwithstanding the great loss of property, the vast number of families burned out, and the women and children turned homeless into the street, such is the self-reliance and self-command instilled into our people by our republican form of government, and the natural nil desperandum of Chicago, that not even an hysterical woman or child was to be seen anywhere. Not a comphaint was heard, and those who were going about with nothing in the wide world which they could call their own except the clothes on their backs were even calmer than spectators drawn to the scene out of more curiosity. Of course nearly all the inhabitants of the city were out at some time during the night, and it seemed a perfect marvel that anything could possess attractions sufficient to bring out such countless multiudes and yet create so little feeling beyond that of surface curiosity or business anxiety. A fire of such proportions in any of the capitals of Europe would have tarned upon the streets a myriad of howling dervishes, rending the air with their shrieks and yells of despair. Here the "burnt out," who had been enabled to save a few things and remove them beyond danger, sat among their fugacious Larces and Penales to prevent the soft-footed thief from enriching himself at their expense; while those who used nothing passed by, thanking fortune that they were relieved from the anxiety of watching, and when it became certain that the fire was under control, and that they would not be disturbed, sought convenient doorways in which to pass the rest of the night. About two o'clock this morning the scene was a curious one. A large proers, filled with tanks of oil, and before the arrival of the several engines it was all ablaze and scattering brands upon the wooden roofs all around it. The first stream had been playing on it but a few moments when the walls went down, and the houses for rods all around seemed all to burst into flames at once. About eight or ten engines had arrived by this time, most of them taking position on Clark Street, to stay the progress of the fire westward and northward. At 4:40 Assistant Marshal Sweeney turned in a second alarm, bringing in additional engines. These were stationed on Fourth Avenue, between Taylor and Twelfth, to check the progress southward and eastward. By this time there was over half an acre of seething flame, and at 4:51, a space of eleven minutes after the second alarm, a general alarm was turned in by Assistant Marshal Petrie, bringing in all the engines of the city, except seven engines which were delayed half an hour by a fire on Ashland Avenue and Twenty-second Streets. On Fourth Avenue the flames resisted all efforts to stay them, and a retreat was ordered. Most of the boys hooked up with alacryk, but the colored company of No. 21 were fighting for their homes and kindred, and delaying a little too long, were unable to hook on their horses and were compelled to abandon their machine to the flames, which soon twisted and warped it into utter uselessness. No. 5 was destroyed also on Harrison and State Streets. Driven from one position the boys moved to another, and stubbornly fought the advancing tide of flame until compelled, by unendurable heat and the impossibility of staying its progress, to move on again. The streams of water, of which there was no agreed supply, considering the number of streams playing away to the vast increase in pumping capacity furnished by the new engines of the water-works, seemed to have no effect upon the fire, and at 10 o'clock it bid fair to be a repetition of the night of October 9. About 9 o'clock offers of help begin to come in from surrounding cities. The Mayors of Elgin and Racine telegraphed that a portion of their fire departments would be sent if needed; an engine from Joliet came at 11 o'clock and did good service; the Fire Marshal of Milwaukee telegraphed that he had an engine and 300 feet of home at 8:45 o'clock, and at 11 o'clock, in time to do some good work, they came and will be rebuilt. The Harrison Street School, formerly the Jones School, built at a cost of about $50,000, was a handsome building, its destruction leaving the neighborhood without educational provision. The St. James Hotel, corner of State and Van Buren Streets, a five-story building, half a block in size, costing about $80,000, with fixtures, was completely destroyed. The Conkininal Hotel, corner of State Street and Eldridge Court, and the Wood's Hotel, corner of State Street and Hubbard Court, were plain, substantial buildings, each valued at about $50,000. The Michigan Avenue Hotel, a relic of old Chicago, which was called the Tremont House for a year after the '71 fire, marked the Lake limit of the fire. There being nothing else between this point and the water but a barren lot, nothing was burnt. This hotel will be remembered as a tall, old-fashioned, but elegant looking building, in regard to which there had been fears for the security of the walls, but until they fell by the same means that crumbled the most massive, they gave no signs of being insecure. Among other prominent buildings were the booth and shoe factory of C.M. Henderson & Co., the furniture factory of Sampson & Gilbert, the Inter-Oceanic buildings, and the residence of Mr.J.Y.Scammon. In addition to these there were three churches destroyed, all belonging to colored congregations. First the Queen's Chapel on Fourth Avenue, between Taylor and Twelfth Streets, valued at $12,000. Second, the Olivet Baptist Church on Fourth Avenue, in the same square, valued at $30,000; and the Bethel Church on Third Avenue, between Taylor and Twelfth Streets. Thus three of five places of African worship are destroyed, leaving but two to supply the spiritual wants of that race in this city; the Providence Baptist Church on Peroh Street; and the African Methodist Episcopal Mission on Herbert Street. It is more than probable that some of these congregations will soon take measures toward rebuilding—Chicago Post and Mail. A wedding in Agawam Mass., was prevented a few nights ago by the unexpected appearance of a lady who had a prior claim upon the groom's affections. Some women are to intrusive. HOUSEHOLD. HARDENING THE CONSTITUTION—Men talk about "hardening the constitution," and with that view expose themselves to summer's sun and winter's wind, to strains and efforts, and many unnecessary hardships. To the same end ill-informed mothers some their little infants in cold water day by day; their skin, and flesh, and bodies, steadily growing rougher, and thinner, and weaker, until slow fever or water on the brain, or consumption of the bowels, carries them to the grave; and then they administer to themselves the semi-comfort and rather questionable consolation of its being a mysterious dispensation of Providence, when in fact, Providence works no miracle to counteract our follies. The best way I know of hardening the constitution is to take good care of it, for it is no more improved by harsh treatment than a fine garment or new hat is made better by being hanged about.—Hall's Journal of Health. BREWSTAK. A method of broiling equal in every respect to the gridiron, excepting that it lacks the smoky taste, is this: Set your spider on the stove, and let it get smoking hot. Put in no butter nor any kind of grease. Have your meat previously prepared by trimming off all pieces of bone, gland, superfluous suet and tissues that will bind the edge and make it curl up. Lay it very carefully and smoothly in the spider. It will stick fast at first, but as soon as it is browned, can be loosened with a knife. Sprinkle a little salt on the upper surface, and turn it over. Let the other side brown the same as the first. Have a platter warmed, lay the Small Savings. The president of a great company, whose work required the emplment of sixteen hundred horses, said that the saving in a particular way of shoring their horses made the whole profits of the concern. A young firm started in the goldsmith's business. The partners were skillful in their business, economical in their conduct, and had a good run of custom; yet, at the end of the year, they had made nothing. It was a puzzle where the profits had gone. A skilled workman employed by them had long hair. In chasing, and otherwise outting gold, he wiped his tool upon his well-oiled hair, and at night, when at home, he washed out the gold dust, and thus was carrying off all the profits of the concern. In the Government mint, and in the assay office, the floor is covered by open lattice frames, through the interiors of which the dust and gold waste falls, and the sweepings afterward yield gold like a gold mine. In California, the Chinese used to follow after the original miners, and worked over their tailings or refuse soil and sand, and grew rich out of their savings. These small wastes or savings must always determine the condition of the great mass of men. By close economy; by frugal living; by patient and well-ordered industry, and by the application not only of intelligence (skill), but of the moral elements (good work and honest dealing), men can rise slowly to competence, and even to influence. Haste to be rich is an immorality of the most dangerous kind. It is an attempt to get property without having given a fair equivalent for it. But earning property is a divine economic school. On the east Michigan Ave. above Congress; sitting north and east and Wabash Valley Court; place of beginnings of Clark and Telegram asking Milwaukee, theatched two en-good service on behalf, Michigan Washington also sent This morning the arrived with two men. They worked their services were their engines were but a number to view the ruins; clock this after building. Position Building at danger. Flyer and were con- roof. The most city, perhaps, who clustered nervously watch-work of destruc- roof, however, being fired, and was passed, and architecture still in city. Has destroyed. There few buildings and whose loss is none. As compar-ing district north of extraordina-herhaps the Post-head of the list. Be a fashionable marked the north-when it was only usually $75,000, its fallen, and was third of that. It government for five years; an enormous and now a wasted love on the part of the mails were all are struck. The next square, a bank E. Aiken, of 1000, was another that had not as yet investment, Grover, less, having made been yielded byikelihood that it School, formerly built as a cost of landsome building, lay the neighbor-nal provision. All corner of State streets, a five-story brick in size, costing textures, was com- Hotel, corner of Bridge Court, and corner of State Street were plain, sub-uch valued at about equal in every respect to the gridiron, excepting that it lacks the smoky taste, is this: Set your spider on the stove, and let it get smoking hot. Put in no butter nor any kind of grease. Have your meat previously prepared by trimming off all pieces of bone, gland, super-fluous suet and tissues that will bind the edge and make it curl up. Lay it very carefully and smoothly in the spider. It will stick fast at first, but as soon as it is browned, can be loosened with a knife. Sprinkle a little salt on the upper surface, and turn it over. Let the other side brown the same as the first. Have a platter warmed, lay the meat carefully upon it, without besamearing the edges, dress with butter and pepper, and send it to the table hot. By this process you have as crisp and brown a surface, with the juice retained as well as by broiling, and the additional advantage that the inevitable drippings are saved, and can be converted into gravy. Cream Cake.—Break one egg into a teacup, and fill with cream, one-half teacupful of sugar, one and one-half teacupfuls of flour, one teaspoonful of cream of tartar, and one teaspoonful of soda. For the Cream.—Take one teacupful of sweet milk, two tablespoonfuls of sugar, one teaspoonful of extract of lemon, and one egg. Boil the milk, beat the egg, sugar, and lemon together, and stir into the milk while boiling. Bake in two round tins. Let the cakes get nearly cold before spreading the cream between them. Railroad Cake.—Three cups of flour, two cups of sugar, one cup of milk, three eggs and the yolk of one more, saving the white for frosting, two tablespoonfuls of butter, two teaspoonfuls of cream of tartar, one teaspoonful of soda, and one teaspoonful of vanilla. Bake on white paper, and let it cool before frosting. Feather Cake.—This cake is quite nice and cheap. One teacupful of sugar (we always use granulated sugar), one tablespoonful of butter, one egg, scant half teacupful of sweet milk, in which is dissolved a heaping teaspoonful of baking powder. It makes one large loaf. Ginger Snaps.—One-half cup of melted lard, one cup of molasses, one teaspoonful of saleratus, with just enough water to dissolve it, one teaspoonful of ginger, and just enough flour to roll out. A Timely Rescue.—A young lady arrived in Omaha, Neb., on Saturday, May 23d, and registered her name at the Wyoming Hotel as Edith Hayland of New York City. She came here for the purpose of being married to Mr. Bruce Adams, of Wyoming Territory, they having struck up an acquaintance by means of a notice in an eastern weekly newspaper, which was followed by a correspondence and a promise of marriage. They had never met each other face to face, and all they knew of each other was from the correspondence that had taken place between them. Rather dangerous that! She found it so. When she met Mr. Adams she stated frankly to him that she was disapoint- Hotel, corner of State Street, a five-story building, in size, costing moisture, was committed to the factory of C. M. a furniture factory. Bilbert, the Interland and the residence on there were three all belonging to us. First the Fourth Avenue, beliefth Streets, valand, the Olivet Baporth Avenue, in the last $30,000; and the Third Avenue, beliefth Streets. Thus many of African workleaving but two to wants of that race Providence Baptist street, and the Africocpal Mission, on more than probableness congregations measures toward refort and Mail. The son of an Emir had red hair, of which he was ashamed, and wished to dye it. But his father said, "Nay, my son, rather behave in such a manner that all fathers should wish their sons had red hair." The Driver Ants.—Rev. J. G. Wood, in his fascinating book, Strange Dwellings, describes the habits of the terrible driver ants of Western Africa, so named because no animal can withstand them. Even the agile monkey they have been known to destroy. When they enter a pig-sty, they soon kill the inmates, who have no chance to escape, and those tough hides are no protection against the enormous jaws and dreadful teeth of the driver ant. As for fowls, they make short work of killing them, murdering a whole hen-roostful in a single night, and afterward digging out the feathers and devouring the birds. All reptiles, and even snakes, are their victims. They commence upon a snake by biting its eyes, so that it writhes helplessly one spot, instead of gliding away. They march in armies, curiously arrayed preferring nights or cloudy days or, if the sun shines hotly, constructing moses over their path, of dirt agglutinated with a fluid exuded from their mouths. This dread of the sun's rays reported by Dr. Savage seems strangely inconsistent with the statement of Dr. Livingstone, that heat has very little effect upon them. He says that he put the bulb of a thermometer three inches under the soil, in the sun at mid-day, and found the temperature to be 132 deg. to 134 deg. Baseless placed on the surface ran about a few inches, and expired; but this boiling heat only augmented the activity of the ants. (Perhaps Livingstone here refers to another species, though Mr. Wood quotes the passage in his description of the driver ants.) They have no vestige of external eyes, nor does the microscope differ in them any visual organs whatever! The horny head covering in, however, translucent, and they may recognize through that at least the difference between light and darkness. Fire, which will frighten almost any creature, has no terrors for the driver ant, which will darken glowing coal, fix its jaws in the burning mane, and straightway shrivel up in the heat. They do not willingly enter water; but when they are compelled to cross a river on a march, they bridge is with footholds of their own bodies. Sunshine is a powerful treatment for diseases. If you aspire to health and happiness, you must allow the sunlight to come into your homes.