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I a o i t c t , VOLUME 50.! JAMAICA, N, Y„ THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1871, 1 NUMBER 18 -\]i . . ;■••• • i i ggfflN G MAC1IINKS. • V ^ E E L E R & W I L S O N ’S S E W l N a M A C H I N E S , C R A IG -E & C O M P A N Y ’S LONGr I S L A N D A G r E N C Y , 240 Fulton. Street, Brooklyn, Opposite City H all, np stairs. The superior moritu .of tbla Machine are too well bioivn to need recounting. We know, and warrant, It toticiua B kst S bwino U aoiiike that h i ^ kvebbibx judb. guarantee them to suit the purchaser. ■\Vo give easy term s of payment. \\Te instruct purchasers without charge. We deliver them Freight pro-paid. Our Traveling and Local Agents give the earte terms that we do at the Principal Office. . Orders may be Left, Payments may be Made, Needles , Threads , etc., purchased At our LOCAL AGENCIES as follows: JAMAICA, a t the POST O F F IC E , T. II. RHODES & CO j H em p stead, at the Millinery Rooms of . MRS. DeNYSE; Glen Cove, at the Millinery Rooms of MRS. BENNETT; Or, with our TBAVELING AGENTS for QUEENS COUNTY: w, H. Merritt and Jos. M. Davy, P, O. address P. O. address, GLEN COVE. CnichlO) JAMAICA. ptettU a tteflujs. ^ RUMRILL Jt CO., ’ Invite your attention to their ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OP | Diamonds, Watches, Jewelry AND SILVER WARE, 373 B r o a d w a y , ............. N e w Y o r k . Cor. Chambers Street. Watches and Jewelry Repaired By Competent Workmen. g°E0. n. stevene. [mch23yl] oxo. n. jaqucs. 0KISCOLL & PRITCHARD, Im p o r ters o f C h i n a , , AND GLASSWARE, P l a t e d W a r e , C u t l e r y , KEROSENE DAMPS, Etc. [ 21 C a therine S t., c o r n e r o f H e n r y , AND do5 G rand St.. b c t w . C linton a n d Suffolk NEW YORK. Five per cent off all hills over $10. yyil. DURLAND & SON’S | Livery, Sale and Exchange S T A B K f i S , flushing a v e . . J a m a i c a , I . . I . i , Caches for Parties, funerals and Weddings constant I O' in readiness. Ako, Hones kept b y the day, week or month. . Uor>c>s sold on commission. All on the most reason- I •“Jetermx. ns.Duntixn, [febO] W m . D urdaxd , J iu P hotographs —Of H i - NEW TOWN BALL, And tbe Reformed Dutch. Church, Por salo at & W JAMAICA. | Q.ET YOUR P E K F U H E B T . —AT— . SttODES A Oo.’x FANCY GOODS STORE, ‘ I ' “•tOffice Bollding,) ......‘..Ja m n le a . A varied assortment constantly on hand | t y , \ V . SHARPE & CO., t*ut»listfA er»’ A g e n t s , . ,Tflbune Bnlldimgs, Haw Y o rk, * wthorlaed to CONTRACT for ADVERTISING _ IN OUB PAPER. | \ fin e a s s o r t m e n t o f Wair ItrasUes, Tooth Brashes . And COMBS, . POST OFFICE | \ KEW AND CHOICE STOCK OF B O O K S For flala k* tho POST OFFICE. ■ jJi'ANCYSpApI, POBTOPFIOE. A«CY SOAPS. A«ntP»iS^, LONG ISLAND NEW S. The survey Of Port Jefferson harbor by' the. U. 8. engineers has beet) completed. Suffolk County has over one,-fifth of the Indian population of tlie State. The Adamic Yacht Club Celebrated the 4th by a regatta at Glen Cove. Hon: L. B. Prince, Judge Reid, and H. Hamilton, addressed the citizens of Farming- dale,- oa the 4th. The Post-Office Department has refused for two daily mails from New York to Greenport on account of increased expense. The new Episcopal Church, at West Islip was dedicated on Monday. Contracts of $3,000,000 were made last week for work at Stewart’s Garden City, on Hempstead Plains. The store of Otto Garitz, on Jackson Ave nue, Lang Island City, was robbed of money and goods to the amount of $150, on Friday. The Roman Catholics oi Maspeth, have purchased eight lots on Perry and Clinton av enues, and are building a church. On Tuesday the daughter of Coroner Tewksbury, of Long Island City, was severely burned by the premature exploslou of some gunpowder. It is feared that Miss Tewksbury will lose the use of her eyes. The work of dredging Pcconic River, be tween Great Peconic Bay aud Riverhead was commenced yesterday. The contracts for building tbe breakwater have been awarded at $2.83 per ton of stone, and 48 cents per foot of timber. The amount appropriated by Congress is $5,000. During the past week the large pest hole betwben the Flushing Depot and the street at Hunter's Point, has been nearly filled in by the railroad company, and a platform erected on the east side of the depot from which trains will start. Trains arriving will come in on the west side of the depot On Tuesday sixty-seven trains ran over the Flushiug Railroad, starting from each terminus every thirty minutes throughout the whole day. Twenty thousand passengers passed over the road, making the receipts of the Com'puny over $5.000 for tho day. Not a single train was be hind time, and not a person was injured. . On Saturday night, during a fit of delirium tremens, a Mrs. Harding, of Hunter’s Point, wife of a laborer, attempted to drown herself and child. The woman was discovered by a passer-by, and made a strong resistance against any Interference. She is cared for by tbe Police authorities. The local -.commerce on Great South Bay has increased greatly the past few years. From File Island, one day last week, 100 sailing vessels were counted on the bay. A large number of these were engaged in fishiug and clamming; the balance, ip freighting coal and wood, lumber and brick and general mer-' chandise. Twenty-five years ago there was less than twenty sail boats engaged in trade and fishing on the entire bay; now there are several hundred. Fisher Island, considerd a part of Suffolk County, is owned by Robert R. Fox and as sessed at $42, 000. It liaf an area of 3, 000' acres. According to tbe laws of the State, one of . the Justices of the Peace and one of the Coroners of Suffolk County must reside on Fisher Island. Consequently Mr. Fox holds that position. Bradford Island, con taining fourteen acres,- is owned by Wm. L. Brewer, add is assessed at $2,000. J ustice S nkdbkeb ’ s C ourt .—Peter Lee, alias Peter Tilley, arrested on complaint of Theodore Yreland, for threatening to shoot Theodore Peter, gave bonds to keep the peace. On complaint of John G. Knapp, a warrant was issued for the arrest of Joseph Flurry, tor assaulting him with a hatchet, on the night of ihe 8d inst George March, John Malony and Patrick McDonald were arraigned yesterday morning, charged with being drunk and disorderly, on the 4th. Marsh and Malony plead guilty. Sentence suspended. McDonald demanded a trial, was convicted and fined $3, and $3 costs. Killian Stumpf, Ann Connors and John Flachauee, sued. by the Board of Excise to recover $50 penalty for selling liquor without license, demanded jury trial, aud their cases Were set down for Friday. The trains on both the South Side and Long Island Railroads were filled to repletion with passengers, on Monday afternoon and on the morning of the Fourth, on their way to spend a day in the country, at the various watering-places and Bummer resorts along the line of these rontes. Everything in shape of a passenger car was brought into requisition, and it is but fair to presume that the receipts on this occasion, by both companies, were unusually large. F atal A ccident .—On Monday, Herman Leikman, a German, about 80 years of age, was accidentally killed, at Glendale, ou the South Side Roilroad by the caving of an em bankment, which crushed him to death instant ly. He was in the employ of White & Rider, contractors. Coroner Allen held an inquest, the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the above facts. - The report. published in the Brooklyn Union that Capt. Daniel Rider, ot Beliport, who was so-bodly bitten by dogs, At Barren Island, some two weeks since, bad died from his wounds, is inOorreet Tke Captafii still, live*, *hd i» about, able to resume his bnsInwMC ■ l o c a l s . Deealeomaine at tbe Post Office. '• Moonlight excursion to-night, I t 8 o’clock. ‘ Rev. Lewis Lampmat) orated at Frceeport July 4tji. , Stephen Ryder, of Union Hall street, has presented us with seme very fine specimens of currants. ' Mr. A. B. Pine late foreman in The Jamai ca Standard, retires to Norwich Copn., to a ‘•daily office.” Printers will tramty, , . The commissiouers to assess tlie land dam-i ages on the Rockaway branch oi |the. Long Island Railroad, met and'proceeded?along the; line on Thursday last. \.jl ■ ■ Last Saturday the Rockaway Efpress train on the South.Side Railroad comment ed run ning! It leaves Nlw York at nine o’clock, daily. We tried it. - The Excise Boaid of the town Ufwamaica; Monday, granted licenses to John jwoley, on the Rockaway Road, and FranCiBAnchend Sebastian Zimmerman and Edw&rf^Iervhige of Woodhaven. Our Big Devil has taken ki$J Alas! and joined the corps of “Mtjj He’s a good hoy, use him well,' and don’t tread on his “ sensitive)( ings.” His wardrobe was Shipp tow route. * Why do the potato bugs raget] you let them. To one pound of j add ten pounds of Wheat-Hour, and dust it on the vines in the me the dew is on, and at night you t Where have all the bugs gone f Rev. Thomas Cook, late Paste; Church of this village, moved to : on'Thursday last, where he will] home and head-quarters while a; the duties of Arch Deacon of Suffolk counties, for which positii nently fitted. Father Gray’s Old Folks will q| people of Jamaica, by a grand the Town Hall, on Wednesday e Zeke and Huldy will be present, the costumes of ye olden times, them.' ,See advertisement elsevpb pparture. on Joe.” her Joe, perstand- ia. Bar- iBecause |s green ; mixed, g, while |x61aim, Grace lerhead, |ake his ffing to |ns and He erni- In the ert, at ; next, aed in ad hear liton of Quarter L. strong, Blatant, Dhnrles , Con- Con- htinel; urposo ^parties busi- for- ; Why Pond The officers of the Jamaica Sops of Temperance for the enatj are as follows: W. H. Hoople,, R. Jaggor, W. A.; Theo. J. Rec. Secretary; Miss Emma Boyd Samuel E. Aymar, Financial Scri|j Wcljing, Treasurer; Edward T. ductor; Miss Mary Bennett, ductor; Courtney, Insid John Bergen, Outside Sentinel. “A pond has been prepared fof of breeding leeches at Winfield, who are interested in the matter ^ ness, and are pushing, the prep ward its fast as possible. ’’ Good t not reconcile the doctors to Phn by thus utilizing its vasty deeps. - The Tribune calculates that eUl^KeLon-' don bakers, who sell loaves maden^Bdmeri cau flour at eleven to sixteen four pound loaf, or bakers uptown in l^B-York, who charge thirty to thirty-six cm^Bbr the same article, must he making e x f t^K t pro fits. Will Jamaica bakers td^Bolice? Bread is the staff of life. It don^^Blell for high. “Richmond Hill” “ClarencevlS^H^ either or which ? Long Island is so most places, especially where there is rtwBiate for sale cling to a name that has a-: to it Now Ciarencevillo is a pretty pltic« 'linougb. “Clarenceville” is a pretty name tad, '- It has not much of a hill. It might a t ttell give up the name o f “Richmond HilL” j I t cannot keep it. It’s only a bother to travelers. Staten Island has a Richmond Hill, and one Post Office of that name Or any oiher is all the law allows in the same State. . We cannot help a feeling of regret aa we day by day, when pasting the plaoe that once used to be the abode Of the Rev. Wm. L. Johnson, observe the Vacancy left by that grand old tree that lately bowed td.them arch of ‘•improvement.’’ Nothing bttt A stamp and a few chips left. TUeyinsplre deep emo tions. We ore saddened. We pouid stand and quote “Oh, woodotaan spare thot tree.” We would have written that Identical piece of poetry a few days since if. it hadiffat already been done. We felt it all in. our MttfL:, Next to the sadness of the fall o f thhiM iras the sadnesa of the faliOf the atrem fa f l W men who were pulling on the repo, w^M IjlinoOta suddenly gave' way. Next lit g j B i Was the fall, veranda and all, of a ' t J ^ B d t of Semiuaiy girls who werh juaiKfl^M ahd down convulsed„with laughtor j ^ ^ ^ B i l bf the feUowa who pulled the tree^^^^B t out to write something touching it. That’s alL N. BJ—This ougfa^^R $ o u e in last week, its a little old We commend the article, elsewhere, enti tled ‘‘Towus and- .Cities—Why and how they are built,'.’ hy .James M. Allen. It is brief aud clear, We jhepe it may be suc ceeded by seyeral of a like kind, Patrick Goff. soti of Mr. James Goff, resi~. ding in Grand street, this village, was terribly burned about the face, on,Tuesday, by the ex plosion of a quantity of gunpowder which lie was earlessly handling, It is . feared that he will loose the sight of.one, it not both of his eye?. Tho South Side Observer says: “The Excise . Board of Jamaica has granted 17 li censes to 8Qll liquor to. 17 people of certified ‘good moral character,’! which at $30 each, add $510. to the village, funds. They then employ two constables, each Sabbath, at a cost of $10,, tq watch these men of ‘good moral character,’ for fear they will break the law. As there are 52 Sabbaths in a year, they thus pay $520 for constabulary to watch their licensed liquor-sellers. Question:— Where will tho odd $10 come from ?” There is a very observable point to this. But it is not os strong as it might be. The $510 of li cense money goes to support tho poor houses tliat rum fills, and so the village will be out, not $10, but $520- $520! Why we shall thank God if the real loss of wealth be not ten times that 1 Mr. and Mrs. Col. A. A. Dcgrauw had a grand reception Fourth of July evening. Hundreds of peoplo from Jamaica and abroad wero in attendance. The Colonel’s fine grounds were most beautifully illuminated with Chinese lanterns, etc. Until long after midnight fireworks of every conceivable kind were kept going in front of his residence. The street, before the house, was thronged with people gathered to see the display. A band, within, kept making melody, and at in tervals groups and bevies of young and old floated away leisurely in the mazes af the dance. A sumptuous supper was provided for tbe guests. Before the dawn all got home ready to sny this was indeed a glorious coun try, and that never a once did any body of free American citizens more loyaly and royaly celebrate tho ending of our National day than did they who shared the hospitalities of Mr. Degranw and his accomplished lady. July 4tli—How we Celebrated It.- Not content to show our patriotism like that self complacent village of Flushing, which celebrated the National Anniversary by ringing bolls for three hours, we Jamaica- ites set to work and had a down right good old-fashioned time with improvements. At an early hour the town was aroused by the firing of a salute, by unmerous small arms crackers, etc., together with the ringing of bells. At ten o’clock a procession of the children of the Public School was formed in Union avenue. Our Jamaica Cornet Band was at the head of it, and really did finely, notwithstanding the many recent drawbacks it has experienced by the withdrawal of mem bers, etc. After a short march the children gathered at the Grand Hall, where exercises were gone through with according to pro gramme published last week. Hqn. John J. Armstrong delivered a fin ished opening address from a manuscript. Prof. William Tillinghast read the Declara tion of Independence. Rev. J. G. YanSlyke made a good speech showing the importance to be attached to ad dresses to the young, and setting forth tbat the “principle of equality is the'■foundation of our government.” Rev. Dr. Farley paid a high tribute to “our fathers,” denounced Know Nothingism, and commended denominational schools as su perior to State schools. Rev. A. Stewart Walsh followed with a benediction on public schools—nominated Henry Ward Beecher and Bishop McCloskey for 1872’s campaign, promising, if they were up that he and Father Farley jwould go to the polls arm and arm, and vote for that “new departure” which put representative Christianity into our institutions. Hon. Richard Busteed read, during the ex ercises, Longfellow’s “Building ofthe Ship.” This was loudly cheered. The singing of the children was thrilling. We especially enjoyed the piece called “Ring the Bell, Watchman,” which was finely intro duced by the recitation of “Liberty and Inde pendence,” by Mis* Lottie Clary. During the exercises, which lasted until half past one, the children went out in sections to refreshments, each returning to let the others go. Thus they were kept from weariness. Thd whole audience seemed free from fatigue. The new hall was splendid for the purpose. The whole community bave reason to be very grateful to Prof. Hannas and the others of the committee for the zeal with which they surmounted obstacles aud provided the people au entertainment both intereating and instruc tive. Our people ail feel proud of our Public School, and July 4th was just the time for them to be paraded. 1871’s Annlveraaiy will long be remembered. Union H a ll Academy. The annual Exhibition of Union Hall Acad emy drew n large audience of parents, patrons and others, last Friday. The exercises were excellent. The music, provided by theschool, was very good. There was a qniet confidence, manifest by all ivlio participated in- the exer cises wliich evidenced careful preparation and the habit of succeeding. Wc deem the dia logue “ Wilhelm Tell,” rendered by a dozffir' of the hoys in exccileut German worthy of especial commendation, lt was a scholarly ■ production. Also we commend tlie Greek ex ercises of Mr. Auerbach, Eis Qunaicas, and “The Valedictory.” The other exercises- were good, too, We speak of these because- tests of scholarship. At the close Mr. Has- brouck waa token by surprise most complete ly, his pupils presenting “The New Ameri can Encyclopedia” (complete). Miss Marga ret Jackins, whose scholarship and patience has given her an enviable reputation every where she has been, at the same time, winning the deepest regard of scores of pupils, who have greatly profited by her masterly- way of communicating a clear accurate and comprehensive knowledge of tlie things they studied under her, retires from her position as. a teacher in this school. She was remem bered substantially hy her pupils, and re ceived, as a parting gift, a most beautiful rich ly inlaid rosewood writiug desk, supplied: with elegant appendages. She received, also, a rich gold- inlaid bouquet-bolder, from Mrs. Hasbrouck. _ Towns and Cities—WUy aud How t h e y a r e Built. JAMAICA— WHAT A SOJOURXBR THINKS OF IT. Mr. Editor : Manufacture and commere beget cities and towns. They are properly and lawfully married and' the world needs- their progeny, lt is as much blessed in them as they are iti each other. No town can have an independent existence without them. Yet there are towns and cities which have them-, not. Jamaica is one, Brooklyn is another, and Elizabeth is another. Wliat gave them, life aud how do they exist? They are para sites ; they have tlieir roots in another city. They are legitimate grand children of manu facture and commerce and are needed in the world. In time they may acquire indepen dent roots. Our country is now in its town- making age. This is its second or third par oxism. I recollect well its last proceeding one. From'1884 to 1838. Towns gotten up “on speculation” are geueraUy parasitic, but not therefore illegitimate of useless. Some of them however have a bloom only. Such may be seen on Long Island as well as else where. Long straight furrows on the.'ground, struggling rows of sliqde trees and unfunced,. unfuriued, fields designate tbe “town sites” where hope revelled awhile and then died. Others have a feeble, Vtckly, fruitage, while others grow aud spread with a healthy and beautiful luxuriance. Jamaica is certainly not of the first or third class, end I am loth to place it iu the second. But the point of int-rest in the subject is- the cause or causes of the failure of some and the success of others so that therein we may prophesy respecting Jamaica, to give it aa impulse, “a new departure,’' or iuduce it to give up gracefully aud die ns any one should do who has outlived hope aud usefulness. The fact is our town is iu its last decade of probation. If it don’t put forth new shoots and take a new start in the next ten years, it never will. It will bts laid, aside as an im practicable invention is, and be passed hy like an old grave yard. After ten years of gracious opportunity it is still a question whether in 1881 wo shall see here a neat, quiet, orderly and wealthy city o 1ten, twenty, or thirty thousand peoplo, or a feeble, old, decripit, uninteresting post town, o f two thousand inhabitants, existing on the products of the bay aud finding their amusement and instruction iu the thirty or forty liquor saloons licensed or unlicensed to' steal away their minds and souls. Whether the land of one mile square shall he worth four thousand dollars per acre or two hundred, dollars. To render a parasitic town successful seve ral things are essential as, 1st, a healthful at mosphere and plenty of good water; 2nd, accessibility and proximity to the parent town or city; and 3rd, good law and order. Has our town all these ? I think so, and the two first in an eminent degree. Looking at the topography of the site and its surround ings, I judge the atmosphere must be salubri ous and exhilirating. The presence of the salt witter secures to us an even temperature, never severely cold or hot, refreshing breezes, in summer, aud no deep lasting snow in win ter. The elevation (sixty feet) is a good se curity for rapid drainage, while the range of hills on our northern side not only give us the dry warm southern slope, but are exhaustlcss reservoirs' of purest water which percolates, freely through our gravelly subsoil at a depth of 20 to 80 feet; they arrest the floating vapor and give us frequent and abundant shotvers in- Summer, and they hold in their rocesses many little lakelets from which we may draw water upon our very housetops. As to the second essential, not a word need, be said. We aro at the very gates of Brooklyn and New York, not a mountain nor morasS separates us, agd there ia no insurmountable obstacle to a thirty minute connection. All that is needed is good management of our three steafn railroads. As to the third essential, I can clearly say we have it in a degree that is improvable and. improving, I think I should put in a fourth essential element of success, viz: an euergetc ic intelligent ownership of the land or site of' the proposed town. Whether Jamaica has this or not I cannot say. By their works ye may know them. I will present my thoughts- on thin and other points in another communi- action. Respectfully your Ob’t. serv’t. J ames M. A llen .
