Terre Haute Weekly Gazette, Volume 8, Number 47, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 21 June 1877 — Page 2

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Since! lay in the nest,

"Just hatched from egg, it must be full Fifty long years or more: Well skilled am I In worldly ways,

And full of conning lore!" He screwed his solemn head a*kew, Glanced sagely down the glen— Whcn.lo! from 'neatn abramble-busn,

So ho sat on, and croakcd and croaked, T1U at the hat noonday ft chanced the watchful gamekeeper

Strolled with his gun that way.

•'Aha!" said he. "So, Master Thief, I'velound you out at last Ofphaesants'eggs no mote forjou

I think your day is past."

He to his shoulder raised his gun, And forth tha bullet flew Down went the raven from his perch.

Too late he dying knew

That he who sits and idly dreams, Then calls himself a sage, Knows not that prating is not wit

Nor doth a hoary age

Always bring wisdom wiser far Are those who dare the strifo, And like the wren, talk little—but

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THURSDAY, JUNE 21, 1877.

THE RAVEN AND THE "WREN.

F.ew forth a small brown wien. "Stay!" cried the sage, "gay flirting thing, Be wise and learn ol me, Since I have trodden wisdom's way

Full half a century!"

Dame Jenny smiled: Kind sir," she chirped, "I have my babies small Waiting breakfast in their bed—

I can not stop at all. "And ray gosd kusband, who arose

At earlioat bre.ik of day, To seel supply of juicy grubs. Will breakfast for me ctay!"

Go, wren!" irately snarled the sage "Such trivial minds as thine •Tis worse than mckss I should try

To mend with words of mine."

Their duty do In life! —[Christian at Work.

CIGAR BOXES.

AN ESTABLISHMENT IN THIS CITY WHERE THEY ARE MADE. Ye Gay'GAZETTEER the other day had us® for some thin boards of the kind seen in cigar boxes. For them he went to the cigar box factory of Peter Best on south Third street. The establishment is a coriosity and worthy of a description. Cigar boxes are generally made from Spanish cedar, though sometimes poplar is used The cedaj logs are obtained on the Island of Cuba, and Mr Best gets tfee boards sawed up to the proper thickness or rather thinness

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He has two young ladies, Miss Ann ie Foster and Miss Marjr Peterman assisting him, whose duty is the nailing together of the strips into boxes and pasting them plentifully over with borders and pictures and lining paper aa the taste of the public requires. For nailing, a hammer is used the metal end of which is magnetized. Holding the pieces together with the lett hand, the hammei is touched to the head of a nail to which it at once adheres, hanging down therefrom in the very position required. It holds tight encugh to enable a sharp blow to be delivered, driving it into the place required. Another blow drives it home. The pasting process is a marvel of dextereus manipulation.

Mr. Best fuinishes all the boxes for the cigar factories here and for several establishments in the neighboring country towns. His factory has a capacity of fifthen hundred boxes per week. They sell from eight to fifteen cents pei box.

THERE are a few—it is a credit to the city that they are not numerous—who loudly assert that the present reward offered by the city for Whitehouse, viz: "$200.00 for his apprehension OR an equal s» amount for his body" is a disgrace to the corporation ftnd should be at once repealed.

A man who takes Whitehouse must •is* expend time and money. He must risk life and limb, and should he catch Whitehouse he is fairly entitled to the reward, i-. But suppose that in taking him he found it necessary to shoot him shonld he fbr- .• ,i feit the reward on that account. The position is wholly untenable and cannot be maintained consistently for any length of time.

A BIG ROACH.

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FABLE FOB LITT1.E FOLKS.

Upon an old eak, gray and grim, With scarfs of many ft year, Moss-grown, and gnxried, and buckled er,

Bare-bougoed, and black, and sere.

A raven sat and sagely croaked, And amoetbed his sable veet QaotU he, "Whatbird BO wise aa I?

Philadelphia. The novelty

about his place is his appartus lor sawing up these long and wide boards into the diminutive pieces required tor the hundred and half hundred boxes. He uses a circular saw. The motive however is generated in a large wheel of about eight feet in diameter, and the moter is a large New Foundland dog who sports the appelation of C&rlo. When the GAZETTER visited the place Carlo was lying in the yard, resting and resting too not as a dog ordinarily does, who lies down after an idle day's doing, but like one weary after hard wefrk and needing rest. Need ing his services Mr. Best called to him and in he marched to the wheel and began his last walk on the incline which stretched before his feet. He is a large dog, weighing perhaps fifty pounds, and this shaggy jet black wool is kept clofiely shaved

TERRIFIC LIE.

From the St. Louis Journal.

The biggest and cheekiest roach in 'America infests this office. He measures from a distant point of view, two feet and a half from tip to tip and two and a half feet back again, making five feet in all— and yet we have seen him slide backward into a sixteenth of-an-inch crack. His favorite amusement is to appear under the vague uncertain light of the kerosene lamp and dal'y with the contents of the paste-pot. Sometimes, though, he is in 6uch a luirry to get back to his family that he leaves a leg orone of his emaciated probosciset sticking in the paste. We don't object to that howevej, as a tooth pick of any-kind is better than none at all. What we do object to, is to have that unappreciative insect mount our parian marble statuette, the gift of the eminent Sylvestro, and scoff and jear at us while we are trying to lobby our jokes through the managing editor's hanr.S' St. Louis Journal.

LOUISVILLE.

A Letter From Judge John W. Jones, Formerly of This City.

Trouble About the Public Library—Evidence of a Gigantic Fraud in its Management.

Other Mattel of Interest.

Louisville, Ind. June 15th

000,

says. The

1877.

Correspondent Tcrre Haute GAZETTECommercially no city in the West is more favorably situated then Louisville and vet none has been so backward in availing herself of her advantage. Located, as it were at the head of navigation oh the Ohio river and the proceeds of the key of the trade of the Sauth, instead of boasting of a population of

outlay

$150,

she should rather be ashamed that she does not contain double that number of inhabitants. Had her citizens posese«l one halt of the public spirit of Cincinnati, Chicago or St. Louis instead of lagging behind them in wealth and population she would have far unstripped them in both. But Louisville has always been noted for her Rip Van Winkles, and though since the war she has partially awakened from her long slumber of former years, eyen to day she by no means posseses that liberal public spirit which should characterize a great, and growing city. No place of her size in the

West perhaps none in the United States, is more barren of attractive fea tures to the eye of the strangers. When you have seen her private resiacnces-and and her really beautiful and admirately bridge over the Falls, you have seen every thing that she has that is worth seeing. Although for years past she has been agitating the subject of a Park, she has vet nothing worthy of the name. As to her once boasted public library, it scarcely ever attracts attention from any one, either from strangers or citizens.

You doubtless remember something of the early history of this institution, especially its corruption in that stupendous fraud, the great lottery which occured several years ago whereby sundry of your own citizens as well as thousands of others scattered all over the country were victimized. It now turns

But the child is but a poor improvement upon the parent. At any rate, one is .compelled to think so from the i.ffidayits of Dr. C. C. Graham, state trustee of this institution, recently filed in court in a 6uit now pending against it in favor of M. M. Duckworth and others. Dr. Graham is one of the oldest and best citizens of Kentucky, and has devoted years of labor to collecting a museum which some time ago he donated to the librarv. In his affidavit the Dr. does not mince matters by any means. He 6pe"aks right out and on, and tells the whole story, which he thoroughly understands "from his long and intimate association with the concern. A story that by no means reflects any credit upon Col. R. T. Durrett, president of the institution. The affidavit is quite lengthy, filling four columns of the "Argus" a weekly paper published in this city, which some time since furnishedit to its patrons for a Sunday break-

Many of its statements are dreadfully rich, and I am eorry that the limits of an ordinary letter forbid my giving your reader more copious extracts than the following which I send as a sample:

After alluding to the purchase of a building designed as a market house and is not suited for the purposes of the association, at an expense of

$310,000

this Dr

the public fund w£fc

the purchase of an old library from Col. R. T. Durrett, HIMSELF A TRU6TEE AND PRESIDENT

OF THE BOARD.

For this purchase five thousand dollars were paid. A number of the books so bought were afterward very properly torn up by Prof. Towne, Librarian, in theabseuceof Col. Durrett, who was then in Europe, and sent to the papermill his reason for disposing of said books was that they were worthless, as every lawver in the city ha8 hi8 own library. The books so purchased from President Durrett, have proved utterly useless. I don't think that one of those books has ever been consulted bv any visitor of the Library.

The next outlay of the corporate funds was seven thousand four hundred dollars

for the

purpose of getting up manu

script catalogue of the Library. Eleven writers were employed at ten dollars per week each for nearly twelve montos, which, with. Professor Towne's salary of two thousand four hundred dollars per annum as Librarian, amounted to seven thousand four hundred dollars and yet the Library has no catalogue" None has been published or ever will be. Prof. Towne. the Librarian, in his recent circular cslling on citizens to contribute the Public Library on the ground that the same is not self-sustain-ing, states that more than five thousand dollars were paid to the above named writers. Prof. Towne, in that circelar, •tates that the trust funds are all expended, and calls for contiibutions to defray the expense of publishing the above named catalogue but the fact is, we have no wish to have it published' as that WOULD EXPOSE THE CHARACTER OF THE

BOOKS.

in the Library. The character of the

books

would jiot bear inspection. The manuscriot catalogue fell short of

volumes,

30,000

whereas it had been previously

published that there were

50,000

in the Library—an error of

volumes

20.000

umes. The next outlay was

vol

$2,400,

which was retained out of the corporate funds by President Durrett and paid over to his partner, the late Chas. M. Eriggs, as an attorney's fee or retainer, during a number of months, in which there was not a single law case on hand, nor any legal service called tor. On this occasion H.M. McCarty, one of the trustees, said in the board^that this item was too great an imposition on the public to be allowed to pass. Being insulted by some of the leaders for this remark he drew offhis coat, and said he was there to protect the public interests, and that, if necessary, he would fight to do so. But the money was paid. McCarty has spoken of this occurrence to a number of persons. Other members of the board were opposed to the appropriation, and have since publicly denounced it.

Leaving out various unnecessary and illegal expendentures to which the Dor-

THE TERRE HAUTE WEEKLY GAZETTE.

tor refers, I again quote the language of his affidavits as follows: „The next waste was ten thousand dollars for a band of music from New York, when no one bought a ticket to hear music, but to draw monej,

The next waste was ten thousand dollars for a lump of marble in the shaps ot a heathen goddess called Hebe, when A STUFFED COON WOULD BF *"ORTH

MORE TO THE MUSEUM

the purpose for which it was bought. No one notices it any more than thev do the plaster casts in the windows on the streets. I have noticed this fact closely.

In another part of the appelant the-fol-lowing language occur? As to the general management of the trust fund, and whether it has been mangged properly and judiciously, affiant says that it has not been 60 managed. If it had been no managed the corporation would now be out ®f debt, with a half million of dollars at interest, instead ot being hopelessly in debt and not self-sustaining. Affiant says that THERE IS IN EXISTENCE NO LEGAL

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

for the corporation, unless bogus and real stock are the same in law, and falsehood, sham and truth are equal in the eyes of the courts, in honest dealing. Not one of us has ever paid in a dime on our stock, when the charter presumes that we would do so. Affiant, in good faith, so far as he was concerned, subscribed for a larger amount of stock than any other one person. He tendered to Col. Durrett, then president of the board, his check on the Kentucky National Bank in payment for affiant's stock in full. Col. Durrett replied that nobody else had paid in anything for stock, and that it was not intended to do so that if the Legislature would let us alone the tickets would furnish plenty of money. What right have we to consider ourselves a board of trustees The charter, presuming that we would pay in our money in good faith, and really own the concern, gave us the right to re-elect one another from time to time but if we do not adhere to the prescription I don't know what right we have to re-elect one another. It consequently must appear that a ticket holder for fifty dollars has a better right, in moral justice, if his money was paid in and left in, and a better claim as a stockbolker, than those who have psid nothing."

And again the following with which I conclude my extracts: „Further proof of the mismanagement of the trust fund,

IF NOTHING WORSE.

has been the want of frequent meetings and of a balance-sheet from the President who handled all the funds. In order to have such meetings and settlements, I introduced a resolution, which was seconded by Judge Hoke and carried, to meet the first Saturday in every month, so that no one would be excused for mistaking the time. The President was then absent for he traveled much in those flush days when he returned he did as I told Judge Hoke he would that is, he forbade the meetings, I suppose, for he appeared very surly for some time, wonld hardly 6peak us, and told a person, who told me, that he considered it an effort to take authority out of his hands, and though Judge Uoke and myself attended faithfully every Saturday for three months, we could get no meeting, nor has there ever been a meeting under that order. By the President's own command, which suited his purpose best, meetings have been held. In-short, and in tiuth, we have never had a settlement, or a satisfactory statement of what became of all the funds from the close of the drawings to'the present time, and though it may be affirmed by the President's committee, and though the committee has reported that the little* business we are now doing is done satisfactorily, this is no proof of what became of the millions that came into the treasury. True, the President, at the last drawing, published in the Courier Journal what he called a settlement with the public but it was not a settlement, which any investigating committee, composed of men of men of business, could receive, it being simply this:

So many millions in and so many millions out. A balance-sheet in a sentence. NOT A VOUCHER NOR A RECEIPT, showing to whom money was paid, when paid, how much paid, or for what paid, was exhibited."

From all of which you may well imagine that President Durrett is not at present resting upon a bed of roses. It is true that it has been stated through the public press that he intended to prepare and file a counter affidavit, but as yet none has been forthcoming, although Dr. Graham's has been on file more than a month. Whether ke will venture to take a swear aeainst tho Dr. remains to be seen.

any

To hear some of these brave stay-at-homes talk one would imagine that none but the cowards and fools of Terre Haute had tried to hont Whitehouse. Why don't some of the bold talkers go over and tramp after, him walk right up to him, and swallow him like a man and bring him back. It is all very nice talking against the boys while safe' in the shade here but just go there and see or hush up a little about the police who aie doing nobly all that men can do.

MRS. YATES

She is Drawn out hy ye Wily terviewer.

me,

She Tells «?here Ernest got the Revolver.

An interview was haJ with Mrs "V ates the mother of Whiteh use, on yesterday afternoon, in *"hich some items of interest to the public, were learned that will give a more complete understanding of the case. The GAZETTEER procecded to her home, a smai! one story cottage ot three or four rooms, standing ii a rather pretty \.n\l. ilic second door south of the corner of Eighth and Oak streets, on the east side of Eighth street. On rapping at the door, the vwitor was received by Mrs Yates, and ushered into a room about

feat square. Tlic room was

nicely furnished and fitted up both as a sitting room and bedroom, containing good furniture, some picture* etc. A door opened off at the south and into another fair sized room which led to rooms beyond.

MRS YATES

who by reason of her newspaper "cards" has made hcrselt quite conspicuous before our citizens, was found to be a rather communicative sort of a woman, and her looks and talk readily sho\vs the visitor where Whitehouse obtains his pluck and disposition, for she is very plainly, a woman of strong determination and fierce dispo^it'on both in actions, words and appearance.

Being seated, the following statements were learned from her, given in a partially hesitating, partly defiant manner, but beyond doubt in truth:

First, as to herself. She-rs of English birth is about

years old is of medi

um build, dark complexioned, sharp eyes, plainly dresged and talks with a decided accent when excited. She has been married twice had two children, a boy and a girl, by her first husband (Whitehouse) and two by her sccond husband, (Yates) a boy and a girl, the younger boy being about

pears to be a

years old. He ap

steady,

industrious id, now

employed in the nail works. Her last husband died about seven years ago. She has resided here several years. Ernest Whitehouse, her oldest child, was

years old last spring, and he is, according to her ideas, a model of goodness and honesty, alwaj's misusep by others and never doing any wrong.

In answer to questions put to her about the events ot LAST FRIDAY NIGHT the

8th

her.statement is as follows: Ernest had been at home considerable during the day, but went down town in the afttrnoon. About six o'clock Mr. Cleary came there and inquired for Ernest. She asked what he wanted. He said he wanted to get Ernest to help him on a job and represented himself as a commercial man from Indianapolis. She told all of the conversations between herself and Cleary. He went away and Er nest soon came.! She told him about Cleary and then Ernest went down town. Sometime after, shortly after seven o'clock, as she was sitting in the front room, she heard Ernest come in the next room and heard men talking with- him. He came in where she was and

SEEMED EXCITED.

She asked what wa6 the matter. He replied nothing much only they wanted to arrest him for nothing. Then he went 40 his valise, and here he

GOT HIS REVOLVER.

It was a large medium sized weapon and quickly placed it in his cout pocket, unseen by the parties with him. He continued talking away, and shortly all of them .left the house: She maintains his innocence ol the crime for which he was arrested, and seems to think he was mist'sed, Now, about an hour or a little less al ter, as she was still sitting there, the door opened and Ernest rushed in bare headed and quite excited, and in terrible haste, said, "Where is a hat mother?" She asked, "What is the matter? What have you been doing now?'' He said: •'Them fellows lied to me and deceived

and were going to lot me up, but thev can't do it. I have fixed one of them and they arc after me." He seized a hat, rushed to a drawer, and she thinks here he may have g-t a

DOX OF

CARTRIDGES

also

some loose ones, another pistol (or revolver) and something of small wearing apparel and with rto other explanation rushed away.

A jout

other remedy knpwn to the

American public. They are compouned of vegetable ingredients, and contain nothing which can be injurious to the human constitution. Other remedies advertized as cures for the Consumtion, probably contain opium, which is a somewhat dengerous drug in all cases, and if taken freely by consumptive patients, it must do great injury, for its tendency is to confine the morbid matter in the system which of course, must make a cure impos sible. Schenck's Pulmonic Syrup is warranted not to-contain a particle of opiuin it is composed of powerful herbs, which act on the on the lungs, liver stom ach, and blood, aud thus corfect all morbid secretions, and expel all the diseased matter fi om the body. These are the only means by which Cnosumtion can be cured, and as Schenck's Pulmonic syrup. Sea Weed Tonic, rnd mandrake Pills are the ouly medicines which operate in this way, it is obvious they are the only genuine Cure for Poltr.onic Consumption. Each bottle of this invaluble medicine is aflcmpanied by full directions. Dr. Schenck's is professionally at his princial office, corner Sixth and Arch Streets Philadelphia, every Monday, where al,l petters for advice must be addressed.

J.W.J.

DR. SCHENK'S PULMONIC SYRL P. SEA WEED TONIC, AND MANDRAKE PILLS.—These medicines have undoubt edly performed many cures of Consum tion than

minutes later a loud knock

ing was heard at the front door, instantly followed by the entrance of three policemen, and she says they just searched all over the house but they couldn't scare her. and one of them, whose name she dont remember she warned to be careful or she would make him trouble. In fact she doesn't seem to like the police boys much.

Of Ernest she says: He was always a good honest hard working boy, doing no harm. He never joined Hammond's converts or any such stuff. He only went there two or three times to see Hammond that was all. He was out of the city when Mattox was killed. So was she, over in Brazil on business. She exhibits a letter written on a letter head of the Planters hotel corner of Sixteenth and Wazee streets Denver, Colorado, and .it is inclosed in an envelope also headed from that hotel. The letter is dated April

25th,

ver April

here April

and was mailed, Den

26th.

and stamped as received,

30th.

The letter is without doubt genuine and -indicates that he was in that city at that ne, and speaks of the sights seen on the trip across the plains, his efforts to obtain work in that city, a.«d adds that he should go on to Sacramento, Cal.

Of the letter from St. Louis, she says, that is all false. She had no such letter at 21II

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I I THE BOX shb Says she just wants them to show what was in it if they dare. She ain afraid, and if they ain't caieful she will make them trouble, especially that Mr. Downey and Mr. Stack, and if they don mind themselves th«y will find she is a woman as can help herself and will, too.'

She thinks the Express had no business to publish her name to those cards and says she told them She didn't want her name put in the papers, but she only signed the cards on being asked to. She was asked it she wrote the cards, but said 110, but she signed them. This shows that some one has been trying to get her into a controversey so as to get up a sympathy for Whitehouse.

It was not her doings at all. Sha says it was not any one with the Express, but some body else wliose name she would not give to the writer. She says that they wrote the cards, got her to sign them and then published them. She evidently didn't really know about it, but it was the work of. some other party, against the police, Cleary, and the GAZETTE.

She said the Gazette had better look out and mind what it said of her^or she make Ihtm trouble, if they did but know it, ajnd would too. For them to go and call Earnest all sortb of hard names and tell such lies about him she would make them trouble, and she wanted them to know she was a decent woman anc they must look out what they said. In fact »he dosen't love the Gazette. She said she hadn't heard anything straight from Ernest since he left that night. But this was given in a reserved manner, that made the writer inclined to think that she has had vord from him.

She spoke of her having a brother who would see to such things." He works in this city.

She says Ernett has got BOLD BLOOD. in him and they cant get him alive and she knows^ it, for nothing can turn him if he once gets mad and makes up his mind, and he is just awful stubborn and has much pluck. This statement certainly seems true by his actions. The writer then told her that Ernest was caught last night (Thursday.) She sprang up and said. "Where? He must "be dead then for he would never be taken alive sure." The writer then added that he managed to escape again fram

men.

This pleased her and she said she knew they could never hold him for he would kill any one who tried too.'"

On beiug asked if she did not know of the many crimes he had been committing and the bad life he had led for years past, she said '-I tell you sir, he never did anything anything wrong, but was always a good boy until he got acquainted with some bad fellows on the railroads, but he never did no wrong.

All such stories an a pack of lies, and the GAZETTE would g£t into trouble for printing 6uch 6tories abput Ernes."

She said it is all a great lie about him having ever been to any reform school. He never was.".

The writer here ended the interview. She concluded by a hope that the writer would show what liesthatGAZETTE had told about her and poor Ernest, and that it had better keep stil that she was sorry 6he signed her nrcrne to those cards and she wonld not have done it only they urged her to, and that she was ure they never would catch Ernest, "for he was to smart for them," and that police Downey I think had better mind himself about that box."

The interview shows that he did go to the house after he shot Cleary and procured, money, a hat, some socks, or such goods, a second revolver, ammunition, and told what he had done. This accounts for the reports of his being as well armed, and having money &c., Her statements that he will not be taken alive ahd is armed and desperate are proving to be true, and shows that the pursuers do well to be cautious. Her statements that he was always &c. are known to be very incorrect to very many citizens. He was tor years a bad character, constantly, stealing. He was sent to the reform school.' The evidence is positive that he was sent.

The box spoken of was found in the search for clues against Whitehouse, and she told the police to let it be, that it was her private pi operty, and made quite a fuss over it. The contents were certainly strong evidence against her respectability.

The letter from St, Louis which she denies is also an evidence against her statement. In fact, the writers impressions are strongly against her being entirely reliable, but showed that she would tell anything for Whitehouse and that she has a way peculiar to herself.

THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. Much activity is noticeable in the various Hose houses in making alterations and generally renovating and cleaning up under the direction of the efficient new ehief Joe Schell. He is effecting several very good improvements that are excellent particularly in th« arrangements of No and the & house which is the headquarters of the chief. The entire building is newly painted neat and and tasty. The old plaster ceiling removed and a nice wood ceiling liid on. The brick-walls and stables have been carefully whitewashed and the doors, windows and the iron work neatly painted.

The arrangement of the stalls have been completely changed. The horses now stand 'facing the reel with a door in the front end ot the stall. This door opens electricity, the hatters drop from the horse by electricity, and as the bell strikes the well trained norses came rushing from their stalls to their places at the reel and truck with almost human correctness.

The stalls are fitted up with a new and very handy style of manger and feedbox, and a window fitted with wire grating in the summer time and with glass in winter, is fitted in the door at their heads so to give light and cool air to their heads.

Uostairs the change is greater. All the old partitions have been removed, the hoze tower and platform have been torn out, a new partition (of the old ones) has been built across near the front' giving a fine large office and battery room. The .rear room is now very large, well lighted, and cool, making a fine, airy sleeping room for »he force. The office is very necessary, contains a beautiful new desk for the chief, and many shelves arranged on tne north side holding the great number of cups of the powerful battery.

This room is to be neatly painted, papered, calcimined, carpeted and furnished so the fire committee can meet here when wished. The tower is getting an overhauling and every part being fixed up. The Fire committee should have enough paint furnished to paint up the entire brick front, (a small amount is^all that is needed.) All this work is being done by the fire boys and chief all working busy as bees, at no expense to the city except for a little paint, and its use fulness and real benefi: is beyond doubt and their care and hard work in addition to their regular duties is highly commendable.

THE MIDLAND.

THE

SHOPS AT PARIS BURNED.

Yesterday morning the machine shops of the 111. Midland Ry. at Paris bnrned to the ground. In addition to the shops two large locomotives were destroyed.

THE river is rapidly falling it is now 4)2 feet deep in the channel.

A NEW AND IMPORTANT INDUSTRY.

THE MANUFACTURE OF COMPRESSED MEATS GREAT INCREASE IN THE BUSINESS DURING THE

PAST TWO YEARS.

One of the problems of the day is the preservation of meat. Large cities are far from the sources of supply. In South America, Australia and Texas are thousands of cattle, but their commer—• cial value exists only in their horns, hides and tallow, while their flesh Is lost through ignqracce of the way to preserve it. Scientific men have long wrestled

700,

with the protramlc Jof dbnsporting meat

for lonjj istances in good cond ition. Prof. Liebig invented an "Extract of Beef," which was followed by numerous imitations. A company in Texas cans and preserves the principal elements of beef under an American patent. Their^ sales have been quite large. But the chief objection to this as wetl as Liebig'a '•Extract of Beef and its imitations is. that it c»n be used only in liquid form: It is"only recently that the preservation of solid meats has been possible. A

The manufacture of compressed cooked' meats is a new industry in this country. It began two years ago and has now assumed almost'gigantic proportions. England has received cooked meats from Austria for twenty years, but the process there differs greatly from the American method. The Ame-iican meats, howeuer, bring better prices in England today and bid fair to outstrip all foreign articles. About

750,000

s:|

New York company has for this purpose a unique process. 'The beef, or rather meat, is first dried by a patent blowing®! and steam evaporating process, after the removal of all bone and fatty gristly sub-v,' stances. It is then packed in extremely thin slices and will preserve its good qualities for an unlimited period in any-^ climate. In fast nothing remains in the&'i meats that can decay. A quarter of a'" 1 pound ot it is equal to a pound of solid meat.'

cans per month,

are produced by the two American houses and from

3,000

4,000

cattle per

week are slaughtered inC hicago for this purpose. For the canning of corn beet and beef tongues only the best materials are selected, tough and stringy parts be- 'y ing discarded. The Western States na*. turally lead the way in this industry, a? they are nearer the main sources of supply and the fertile grazing lands of tne Northwest. The live animals are orought to Chicago, and, after inspection, are sloughtered in the abattoirs of the company. The carcasses are cut into the required weight, and the bone, sinew aVid gristle eliminated. Alter another inspection the meats are ready for the curing process. The best portions of the meat are exposed to tha action of steam in immense wooden vats.

Metal vats would be very undesirable, on account of the liability to mineral poisoning. The beef is then packed in strong tin cans of various sizes, containing two, four, six and fourteen pounds each. They are hermetically ssaled, and the contents will keep pure and fresh in any climate for many years. They have none of that musty flavor which wa» formally inseparable from canned meats, and

etain

their flavor along time alter being removed from their metallic envelope*. The Australian method of canning differs from the American in this, that the termer cooks the meat whole in cans, while the latter cooks it in small pieces in wooden vats, as already described. Tho Australian cane often present a peculiar appearance after the cooking process, as the sides are sometimes contracted, and look as if they had been subjected to pressure. The extent of the American industry is also shown in the number tf employees, the salaries, etc., of a Chicago firm. In one establishment

men and

150

are employed, and the pay-roll is

boilers, with a capacity of

girls

$30,000

a month. The floor of the packing house covers four acres. The refrigerater will accommodate

3,330,000

pounds. Five

80,000

pounds,

are used for rendering tallow from marrow and five for furnishing steam for cooking and the elevators.

Cooked meats have been known in America, for twenty years, but it has been the Australian method that has been in vogue« Owing to its inferiority the sales ot these meats have bean poor. The demand for compressed cooked- meats, on the contrary, has been so great that there is a prospective business with governments in supplying them with this article. It is to be hoped that something may be accomplished in the way of supplying the European belligerents. Large invoices-, are now sent to London, Liverpool, Glasgow, Belfast, etc. Germady and France do not buy them as readily yet as Great Britain, but the promise is good of a large trade eventually in those countries. The London Grocer stated recently that during one week

11,270

meat,

each

cases of packed

equal in weight to one sheep,

were received at Liverpool from America. Each case contained twelve canf, making a total of

135,240

cans, This, however,

is an average estimate, as one house in this country has frequently sent out-2o,-000 cases per week.

STEAM CART ON THE STREET. New York Sun. Satiuel. L. Phillips, president of the Third avenue railroad, appeared before the aldermanic committee on streets yesterday and asked permission to try the experiment of using steam dummies on his road. He said that his desire was to put a steam car on the streeet in orde* that the public and the press might judge for themselves to the expediency of using steam on street railroads. The car, he said, are twice as large as the horse cars, and make no noise and show no smoke. They can be run at the rate of

hour, or as slow as the

Their use would save

miles an

walk

of an infant.

minutes between

Fifty-ninth street and Harlem, and, in addition to this, the cars would be well heated in winter.

FINE FABRIC.

Messrs. Jeffers & Sheeley are now running on a quality of cassimere at their factory which is superior to any make in this portion of the west.

From Mr. Shore the superintendent of the factory it is learned that it requires a single thread, ten thousand eight hundred yards in length or nearly six miles to weigh a pound. In a yard of the

fabric

there are three and one half miles of thread. The cloth is dyed blue and is very handsame

YESTERDAY ,1 had such a bad cold that I could nbt speak. I sued Dr. Bull's C'uugn Syfup, and to-day 1 am as well as ever.) It only c*st me

cents.