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POLBMB M ; JAMAICA, If. Y , JULY 6,1371* {NUMBER IS ^BAYING MACHINES. VFHE3ELER & W I L S O N ’S gUW'ING- M A C H I N l i S , ORAIG-E & C O M P A N Y ’S LONq- IS L A N D . A G E N C Y , 240 F n lton Street, Brooklyn, Opposite b i t y Hall, up stairs. Tbe superior merits .ot this Machine are too veil tn'uwn to need recounting. We know, and Warrant, It to ho Till B ust S a w s i a M achine that b i ^ hteb b *« k tllUB. We guarantee them to suit the purchaser. We give ea s y terms of payment. We instruct purchaser* without charge. We deliver them Freight prepaid* Our Traveling and Local Agents give the enrte terms that we do a t the Principal Office.: Orders may be Left, Payments mdyt be Made, Needles , Threads, etc., purchased At our LOCAL AGENCIES as follows: JAMAICA, at tlie POST OFFICE, T. IL RHODES & CO; Hempstead, at the Millinery Rooms of . MRS. DeNYSE; Grlen Cove, at the Millinery Rooms of MRS. BENNETT; Or, with our TRAVELING AGENTS for QUEENS COUNTY: IV. H. Merritt and Jos. M. Davy, P. 0. addrcis P. O* addreia, GLEN COVE. (mch!8) JAMAICA. ^ RUMRILL A CO., ’ Invito your attontlon to their ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OP | Diamonds, W atches, Jew elry AND SILVER WARE, 373 B roadw a y , .......... New Y o rk. Cor. Chambers Street. Watches and Jewelry Repaired By Competent Workmen. . I { geo . d , stivers . [meh23yl] oio. b » jaqubs . JJUISCOLL & PRITCHARD, Importers of O h i n a , AND GLASSWARE, P l a t e d W a r e , C u t l e r y , KEROSENE LAMPS, Etc , 121 Catherine St., co r n e r o f H e n ry, .no | (05 G rand S t., betW . C lin to n a n d Suffolk NEW YORK. fivo per cent off all bill, over $10. I JI. DURLAND * SON’S I Livery, Sale and. Exchange S T A B L E S , flushing a v e , Jam a ic a , Jb. I . ' ,. Couchs, for Portlet, Funerals and Wedding, conitant | Tin Kadlnees. i'tso. Horses kept hy the day,weok or month. Hones sold on commission. All on the moat reason* ,’*.terms. ■ _ ''M.DuRtiuD, [fcbSl Wu. D csdand , Ja. | pHOTOGRAPHS P-Of THBf- NEW TOWN HALL, And the Reformed Dutch. Church, For salo at W JAMAICA. | Q.ET YOUR P E R F U M E R Y —AT— Rhodes a C o .’* fa n c y goods s to r e , ' I' 0,1 Offlee Building,). ........................ ..■..Jamaica. A varied assortment constantly on hand t y . w. SHARPE A CO., P u b l i e h e r * ’ A f f e u t s , (.\•(tun a - m i . g i , .....Haw York, t0 aaftoriwd to CONTRACT tor ADVERTISING _ IN OUR PAPER, I \ FINE a ssortm e n t o f Xatv Brnaliee, Teeth Braaltee , A n * COMM, , POSTOFFIOE | \ KEW AND OHOIOK STOCK OF b o o k s For tort. ai«i» POST OFFICE, POBTOFPIO*. LONG i s l a n d n e w s . The survey' of Port Jefferson harbor by the U. S. engineers has beeh completed. Suffolk County has over one-fifth ofthe Indian population of the State. ' LOQAtf. Deealcomaineut tlie Post .OfHsa#, Moonlight exenreion to-night, At 8 o’clock. Rev. Jjewis Lampman orated At Freecport The Atlantic Yacht Ciub celebrated the 4th Jbly^th. . Stephen Ryder, of Union Kail atreet, has presented us with same very fineapscithens of currants. . by a regatta at Gleu Cove. Hon: L,1 B. Prince, Judge Reid, and H. Hamilton, addressed the citizens of Panning* dale.ou the 4th. ■ • ; • > The Post-Office Department has refused for two daily mails from New York to Greenport op 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 Stewards Garden City, on Hempstead Plains. The store of Otto Goritz, on Jackson. Ave nue, Deng Island City, was robbed of! money and goods to the amount of $150, on Friday. The Roman Catholics of 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 tbe premature explosion of some gunpowder. It is feared that Miss Tewksbury will lose the use of her eyes. The work of dredging Peconic 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. Tbe amount, appropriated by Congress is $5,005. During the past week the large pest hole betwfeen 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 Bide 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 oyer the Flushing Railroad, starling from each terminus every thirty minutes throughout the whole day. Twenty thousand passengers passed over the road, making the receipts of the Company 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 -vCdmmerce on Great South Bay has increased greatly the past few years. From Fite island, one day last week, 100 sailing vessels were counted on the bay. A. large number of these were engaged-in fishing and damming {the balancein 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 haf an area Of 3, 000' acres. According to the 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. F qx holds that position. Bradford island, con taining fourteen acres,'is owned by Wm. L. Brewer, add ia assessed at $2,000. J ustice S nkdbker ’ s C ourt . — Peter Lee, alias Peter Tilley, arrested on complaint of Theodore Vreland, 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, lor assaulting him with a hatchet, on the night of the 3d inst George March, John Malony and Patrick McDonald were arraigned yesterday morning, ^barged with being drunk and disorderly, on the 4tb, 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 Flachause, sued, by the Board of Excise to recover $50 penalty for selling liquor without license, demanded jury trial, and their cases Were set down for Friday. The trains on both the South Side and Long Island Railroads were filled to repletion with passengers, oq Monday afternoon and on the inornihg of the Fourth, on their Way to spend a day in the country, at the various watering-places and summer resorts along the line of these routes. 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 o f age, was accidentally killed, at Glendale, on the South Side Roilroad by the caving of an em bankment, which crushed him to death instant ly. Ho was in the employ of Whito &RMer, contractors. Cordner Allen held an inquest, the jury returned a verdict in accordance With, the above fact*. > • •1 The report published ia the Brooklyn Union tbat Capt- Daniel Rider, of Beilport, whoNva* so badiy bitten by dogs, at Barrett Blurt, wine two weeks since, had died from hb wounds, is ittborrect. TheCaptalti still, liTeS, And is about, able tb rewme hls b u s b i^ Mr. A. B. Pine late^forCmari in Ttie Jamai ca, Standard, retires toNorwichGonu., to a “daily office.” Printers will tramp^ , ■ . , The commissioners to assess thqjanddam-: ages on the Rockaway branch o|f *ihe. Lung' Bland Railroad, met arid'piooreddlalong the! line on Thursday last. ‘‘4 ' ‘ Last Saturday the Rockaway Egress train on the South.Side Railroad comjfifUoed run ning!’ It leaves n I w ‘York at nlhe o’clock, daily. We tried it. The Excise Boaid of the town tfflfamaica; Monday, granted licenses to John jBdley, oa tbe Rockaway Road, aud Frattckwmchend Sebastian Zimmerman and Edwrin^Jervinge of WoodhaVen. Ijparture. on Joe.\ her Joe, eretand- ia. Bar- Our Big Devil has taken hii Alas 1 and joined tbe corps of “Mil He’s a good boy, use him well, 1 and don’t tread on his “ sensitive! ings.” His wardrobe was Shipp tow route. „ Why do the potato bugs ragejBBecause yon let them. To one pound of A green add ten pounds of wheat-flour, mixed, and dust it on the vines in the tnt$^Eg, while the dew is on, and at night you wJ^ExOlaim, Where have all the bugs gone f Rev. Thomas Cook, late PastffiHf Grace Church of this village, moved to; jBerhead, on' Thursday last, where be wlflHake his home and head-quarters while r tS lin g to the duties of Arch Deacon of f^B n s and Suffolk counties, for which positld^BiiB emi nently fitted. Father Gray’s Old Folks will tbe people of Jamaica, by a grand ] the Town Hall, on Wednesday eroMg. next. Zeke and Huldy will he preseol,i9Ksed in the costumes of ye olden times. U flpd hear them.' (See advertisement elsewb The officers of the Jamaica ’^^ftion of Sops Of Temperance for the erisi^R&uarter are as follows: W. H. Hooplc,,^B?.; L. R.' Jaggar, W. A .; Theo. J, .JB troug, Rec. Secretary; Miss Emma Boyc^Hiistant, Samuel E. Aymar, Financial Scrj^j^Hbharles Welling, Treasurer; Edward T. P ^ B l, Con ductor; MissMary Bluett, A m ^ B Con ductor; -------- Courtney, Insid^^pUnol; John Bergen, Outside Sentinel “ A pond has been prepared fof^^Ktrpesc of breeding leeches at Winfield, j^^marties who are interested in the matter Vusi- pess, and are pushing, the preM^Hffi for ward as fastas possible.” Good^^H; Why not reconcile the doctors to F h r |^ B Pond by tlihs utilizing its vasty deeps. The Tribune calculates that elt^^Hlj Lon don bakers, Who sell loaves tnadtl^Hknieri. can flour at eleven to sixteen cef^Hp four pound loaf, or bakers uptown, in M^BtYork, Who charge thirty to thirty-six cqj^Hbr the same article, must he making exjH^Bit pro fits. Will Jamaica. bakers i^^Hotice? Bread is the staff of life. It doa^^^pell for high. “ Richmond Hill” ‘ 'OlarcneevliM^ either or which ? Long Island Is s q i i r a H most places, especially where there isttH|B^to for sale cling to a name that has J B ‘ to It. Row Clarenceville is a pretty pliMNroroougb. ‘ClarenceVille” is a pretty name ^ 0 . ' It had not much of a hill. It might a* #*it give up the name of “Richmond, Hill.’*■ ' It cannot keep it. It’s only a bother trovelers. Staten Island has a Richmond Hifiy thd one Post Office of that name or any ofihar Ia all ffie law allows in the same State. ; We cannot help a feeling « f ragrsi'as we day by day, when pasiting theplad^Ftirtt once used to be tlife abode Of tlie Rev. Wm. L. Johnson,' observe the vacancy.lafft by that grand old tree tbat lately bowed march of “improvement.” Nothing bttt k stump and a few chips left., Theyixwpiitt& 5 ap emo tions ~We are saddened, v We dotdd stand and quote “Ob, woodsman apart ihot trte.” We would have written that IdaAtkffid ptece of poetry a few days since if. it M rtS^ Ahroady been dona We felt it aUtlnour l to the sadness of the faliuf tirti sadness 'of the' falldf timstx««fj| who wen phlUng on tho^ptt, ' suddenly gave' way.: Ntaf the fall, veranda and ati, of a j SetttidaJfy WhO WeA jutf down convulse4jsith.laughttir| the fellow* who puUed the t to write something tffoohlng a That’s all. Nf. B.~TMg , in JastWeeiq itta littieoldits Next i4ste the iff. men 'rn r t t t ■We cemrnend the article, elsewhere, enti tled . “ Tflwns ,,and . Cities—Why. and how they are built,'.’ by .James JL Allen. It ia: brief, apd cleax, .We. Jiope.it may be sue-, ceeded by sey^ral of a like kind, Patrick Goflyison,of Mr. James. Gofivreab: ding in Grand street, this village, Waa terribly burned about the face, on Tuesday, by tiiefcx- plo.sion of a qunntity of gunpowder which lie was (jarlcBsly handling. It is. feared that be will loose the sight of.one, it not both of his twe?> ■ The South Side Observer says: “The Excise. Board; o f Jamaica has granted IT li censes, to sell liqvior to, 17 people of certified “good moral character,\ which at $30 each, add $510, to the villago, funds.; They then employ tyyo constables, each Sabbath, at u cost of $JO»to watch these men of .'good moral cburactpr,’ 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 the odd $1,0 come from ?” There is a very observable point, to this. But it is not as strong as i t might be. The $510 of li cense money goes to support the poor houses that rum fills, and so the village will be out, not $10, but $520. $520 i Why we shall thank God if the real loss of wealth be not ten times that I Mr. and Mrs. Col. A. A. Degrauw had a grand reception Fourth of July evening. Hundreds of people from Jamaica and abroad were 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 bis residence. The street, before tbe house, waa 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 of the dance. A sumptuous supper was provided for tbe guests. Before tbe dawn ail got home ready to say this was indeed a glorious coun try, aud that never a once did any body of free American citizens more loyaiy and royaly celebrate the euding o f our National day than did they who shared the hospitalities Of Mr. Degrauw and his accomplished lady. July ttli-How we Celebrated It. Not content to show our patriotism like tbat self complacent village of Flushing, which celebrated the National Anniversary by ringing bells 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 iu Uniou avenue. Our Jamaica Cornet Baud was at the bead 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 wee-k. 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. VanSlyke made a good speech showing the importance to be attached to ad dresses to the young, and setting forth that the “principle o f 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 ;would 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. Wo especially enjoyed the piece catted “Ring the Bell, Watchman,’* which was finely intro' duced by the recitation of “ Liberty and Inde pendence,” by Misa Lottie Clary. ' Doting the exercises, which lasted until haif- pOlst one, the children went out in sections to refreshments, each returning to let the others go. Thus they were kept from weariness. The whole audience seemed free from fatigue. The new lull was splendid for the purpose. .The whole community have reason to he very g^itoful to Prof. Hannas and .the others Of the committee for the zeal with which they ihrmounted obstacles and provided the people an entertaiotnbat both interesting and initrttc- tivo, Our people all feci proud of our Public School, aud July 4th was just the time for them to he paraded. 1871’* Anniversary will Union Hall Academy. The annual Exhibition o f Union Hall Acad*- emy drew a large audience of parents, patrons and others, last Friday, The exercises were excellent. The niusio, proviiied by the school, was very good. There was a quiet confidence, manifest by nil who participated im the exer cises which evidenced careful preparation and the hahit of succeeding. We deem Ihe dia logue “ Wilhelm Tell,\ rendered by a dozen’ of the hoys iu excellent German worthy of especial commendation. It was a scholarly- production. Also we commend the Greek ex ercises of Mr. Auerbach, Eis Grunaicas, and “The Valedictory,” The other exercises- were good, too, We speak of these because- tests of scholarship. At the close Mr. Has- brouck waa taken by surprise most complete ly, his pupils presenting “ The New Ameri- cau Encyclopedia” (complete). Miss Marga ret Jackins, whose scholarship and patience has (liven 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 qnd comprehensive knowledge of the things they studied under her, retires from her position as- a teacher in this school. She was remem bered substantially by 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 bouquct-holder, from Mrs.. Hasbrouck. _ Towns and Cities—Wtoy and How they are Built. JAM AICA— W IIAT A SOJOURNER THINKS OP IT. Mr. Editor: Manufacture and commero beget cities aud towns. They are properly and lawfully married aud' the world needs- their progeny. It is as much blessed in them as they are in 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 their roots in unotlier city. They ale legitimate grand children of manu facture aud commerce and are needed in the world. Iu 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 “ o n speculation”’ are generally 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 straignt furrows on tUe.'ground, straggling rows of shade trees aud uhfenced,. uofarmed, fields designate the “town sites” where hope revelled awUile and then died. Others have a feeble, sickly, fruitage, while others grow and spread with a healthy and beautiful luxuriance. Jamaica is certainly not of the first or third class, and I am loth to place it iu the second. But the point of int-rest iu the subject ip the cause or causes of the failure of some and the success of others so. that therein we nrny nophesy respecting Jamaica, to give it aa Impulse, “a new departure,” or induce it to give up gracefully aud die as any one should do who has outlived hope aud usefulness. The fact is our town is in its lust decade of probation. If it don’t put forth new shoots and take a new start in the next tea years, it never will. It will be laid aside as an im practicable invention is, and be passed by like an old grave yard. After ten years of gracious opportunity it is still a question whether iu lbSl we shall see here a neiit, quiet, orderly and wealthy- city o Iten, twenty, orthirty thousand people, or a feeble, old, decripit, uninteresting post town, o f two thousand inhabitants, existing od the products of the hay and finding their amusement and instruction in the thirty or forty liquor saloons licensed or unlicensed to steal away thch minds and souls. Whether the laud of one mile square shall be worth four thousand dollars per acre or two hundred doliars. To render a parasitic town successful seve ral things are essential as, 1st, a healthful at mosphere and plenty of good wuter; 2nd, accessibility and proximity to the parent town or city; and 3rd, good law and order. Hus our town all these I' I think so, and the two first in an eminent degree. Looking at the topogr..pby of the site and its surround ings, I judge tne atmosphere must be salubri ous and exhilirating. The presence of the salt water secures-to us au even temperature, never severely cold or hot, refreshing breeze*1 in summer, and no deep lasting suow in win ter. The elevation (sixty feet) is a good se curity for rapid drainage, while the range of Bills on qut northern side not only give us the dry warm southern slope, but are exhaustless reservoirs’ of purest water which percolate* freely through our gravelly subsoil at a depth of 20 to 80 feet; they arrest tbe floating vapor and give us frequent and abundant showers in- Summer, and they hold iu their recesses many little lakelets from which we may draw water upon our Very housetops. As to the second essential, not a word need, be arid. We are at the very gates of Brooklyn and New York, not a mountain nor morass1 gcparatea us, aqd there ia no insurmountable obstacle to a thirty minute conuection, All that is needed is good management of our three steattt railroads. As to the third essential, I can dearly say we have it in a degree that ia improvable and: improving. I think I should put iu a fourth essential dement df shccess, viz: an encrgetc ic intelligent ownership of the land or site o f the proposed town Whether Jamaica hSs this or not I cannot say. By their works ye may know them. I will preseut my thought* on thin and other points in another communi- action. Respectfully your Ob’t. serv’b J ames M. A lien . t
