Show A A deplorable circumstance took place afew a few nights since at hamburg iowa some time in the night au alarm was given which was found to proceed from the city calabo ose oae which was in inflames flames the efforts to extinguish the tirla fire were unavailing and the building was burned to the ground the fire dying out when there waa nothing more to burn when the conflagration commenced all the efforts of the marshal were directed to saving the furniture and pa ful pers ers ere in which he hews bews als tolerably successful but ut it afterwards transpired that in his great anxiety to save them he forgot something of far more importance for in one of the cells was a poor fellow generally known for being harmless and inoffensive who had been ar restad the evening previous for being drunk after the fire his remains were found in the ruins both his legs burned off one of hn hia arms burned to a cinder and his head and body burned black the poor fellow was a german a man and an employee of the n and missouri railroad CACHE VALLEY bishop simon smith writing from clarkston ou on the rth instant says 1 I am happy to state that we have at I 1 last ast got a post office established in this town with a semiweekly semi weekly mail mall this la is a aa groad groat eat oat blessing and one which we as a people eople have long desired aluch much credit is due t to our delegate hon W H hofpar for or helping us through with this thia matter you 0 can judge in part the disadvantages we kave have had to labor under since we settled here in 1864 in relation to our mail matter by only getting it as it came by chance on theist the insl we called a meeting to take into consideration the propriety of levying a school tax and by a vote ol 01 two thirds of the people of this settlement a tax of two per cent on all taxable property was agreed to be levied and thus we have a free school I 1 think this system will be much better than the one we nave have had bad heretofore to forein in encouraging education dewish we wish the rising generation to be better prepared to bear off the kingdom and to do this our children must be educated that they may be prepared for the great work of the future we have had several good rain storms this spring the crops look well our prospects for a bountiful harvest have never been better there are a few grasshoppers and crickets on the outskirts of our farms but not enough I 1 think to cause any alarm BAD ead CONDUCT we are sorry to learn that in some of the wards of this city there is a number of boys bop who delight in a kind of mischief which is exceedingly annoying and exasperating to the residents where such depredations are committed the last instance of the kind which has been brought to our notice occurred at the beginning of last week when several people eople residing in the ninth and third warl wards had their fences tom torn down and other property destroyed by somme borne of those senseless young rowdies some of those these boys are known knowd and awid we would advise them to stop this disreputable conduct and turn their attention to nobler pursuits for if they indulge in such unmanly practices it may lead them to actions that are still worse making them a discredit to their parents and all au connected with them the education and training of the majority of the boys and young men of this community is of such a nature as to render such instances of flagrant misconduct entirely inexcusable on their part it is true that boys in the very nature of things require some outlet for the manifestation of an exuberance of animal spirits but when they so far demean themselves as to indulge in the wanton destruction of property and the tho anno annoyance of neighbors they should be seve beve severed severely ref punished there are man mau many harmless and legitimate at ways for boys to amuse themselves without encroaching on the rights and privileges of anybody we understand that isome some of the individuals vi whose property has been damaged in the above manner purpose offering a reward for evidence that will W convict an any y of the guilty par parties tiei probably if an example were made in one abne or two instances it might have the effect of i utting a stop to athe the practice 1431 q t tv s a i a i 3 lo 10 |