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Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
The Westneld Explosion.

The members Of the Board Of Inquiry
in the Westfield case have not made any
statement as to their conclusions; but
the general drift Of their report may be
summarized as follows:
i. There was a suficieney OF water in
the boiler; fires were good" and fur
mace doors closed.
2. The pressure Of steam was inereas-
ing during the ten minutes previous TO
explosion, and was at least two pounds
above legal limit
g. There was an old rupture under
the side Of the boiler, caused by unequal
expansion.
4. At the joint in the middle section
of the shell, opposite the centre of the
lower range of fues on the port " side
there was fissure in the iron, created,
or at least increased, by the bellows-ike
action of the shell in alternately round.
ing and hattening under the varying
pressure.
8. The boiler had received its last
supply of water at Quarantine, an hour
previous to the explosion, and, while al
the slip, the water had become quies.
cent, the air had been entirely expelled,
and a great amount of heat had beer
absorbed, which, however, did not evolve
the usual amount of steam.
6. The explosion occurred the moment
the engineer sounded the whistle, be
cause that produced an agitation of tbC
water sufficient to cause extraordinary
masses of steam to be devolved; th,
water, when the air was "boiled out
of it, became reservoir of heat, which
absorbed the rapid accumulation from
the furnace, without being converted in
to steam, until stirred up; the pressur,
then instantly increased to point be
yond the capacity of the safety-valves t.
counteract it, caused the shell to yielt
at the point already weakened by thu
rupture, flaw, or fissure, and the peTsra
tions made in riveting.
7. Engineers should be better educat
ed. Inspectors should search more care
fully for ruptures and flaws, and engi
neers and firemen must be especial,
careful as to the condition of their boil
ers Just before starting
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Duped by GypsieS.

An old gentleman III Polk county,
Missouri, of considerable wealth, was
some time since made the dupe of mis-
placed confidence in the following man
ner as related by the Bolivar Free Press /:
GA band of Gypsies appeared in the
neighborbood, remaining several weeks.
A woman belonging to the party made
the acquaintance of the old gentleman,
and communicated to him the startling
intelligence that a large amount of treas
ure was concealed on his place, and that
by obeying her instructions he could
secure it. This he agreed to do. She
then informed him that he must deposit
all his money ina certain place. After
the lapse of few days the whereabouts
of the treasure would be revealed to him.
He accordingly deposited the sum of
three thousand two hundred dollars i'll a
hiding-place known only to himself and
the Gypsy. When several days had
passed, she again appeared unto him,
stating that her incantations would not
work, and assigning as reason that he
failed to deposit all of his money in the
hiding-place, as stipulated. He then
added seventy. seven dollars more to the
amount, but still the spell which was to
lay bare the hidden wealth proved un-
successful. He then agreed to let the
Gypsy take the package of money into
her keeping in order to facilitate hel
coniurations. She kept it several days,
then returned with the entire amount
and they counted it over together. The
Gypsy then informed him he must, tc
complete the charm, secrete the package
once more, for aperiod of ten days tha
he must not, in the meantime, look at o.
go near it. This was assented to, ano
the package once more carefully sealed
up and committed to his care. Whel
ten days had expired he proceeded to g
to the place of deposit, found the pack
age as he had placed it, but upon open
ing it was amazed to discover that i
contained nothing but scraps of OLE
newspapers. He sought the Gypsy wo
man at her usual haunts, but the entir
party had folded their tents, like tn
Arabs, and silently stolen away"
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
A Mess Of Fish.

A select squad of us went from an IN
land village to the Ohio river on fish
ing excursion. No sooner had we pitched
cur tent and rugged our tackle than we
were honored with visit from Jake
Henthorn. Jake is man OF too inde-
pendent a spirit to be tyrannized over by
despotic fashion or arbitrary convention
alities. Accordingly he goes barefoot
twelve months in the year; and in conse-
quence of the expanded valley which his
" footsy -tootsies" make in the mud
Frequently in the vicinity of hen-roosts)
he is best known as Barefooted Jake. !"
However, it is not with Jake's bug
mashers" that we have to do, but with
the "elastic receptiyity " of his NAV.
One morning Bill Lynch and were run
ming the fishing business, while Bill
Read prepared breakfast. Jake's in
stincts prompted him to shassay"
around the fire, and feast his nostrils on
the odor of a ten pound perch which
was then baking. In due time Lynch
and | returned to camp for breakfast,
and found Read coming III with an arm
full of wood.
"Well, how about grub ?' was our
greeting.
ooh, all right; I'll set it out for you
in minute, boys But just come this
way and see the incest baked perch you
ever laid eyes on.
We went and we looked; but saw only
a rick of bones, from which every fibre
of meat had been picked ! Jake had
been there before us. don't distinctly
remember whether we swore or not. Ii
don't seem to me as if we did. Anyhow,
we ate breakfast without fish.
During the afternoon, while we were
all lounging on the bank, Jake yawned
and drawled out:
"Pd like to have as many fish as
could eat iist onst. | hain't had mess
since Tom Whitten ketched the big
fish,"
"Jake," said I, in tone meant to be
scornfully sarcastic, 81 thought you had
q pretty fair mess this morning. You
ate at least fifteen pounds.
"Oh yes," replied Jake, " l ate that
but what I mean is reel regtar mess. "
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Something about Cheese.

1t is comparatively but a few years
since farmers in New York state, seeing
the waste OF labor necessarily consequent
on each small farmer being his own
manufacturer of cheese and butter, COM
menced to form labor-saving cooperative
factories, where one set of workers
would do the work Of many, and where,
by affording superior facilities and giving
special attention, the quality of the pro-
duct might be improved. The move
ment was completely successful, and at
this day, the number Of these cooper
ative factories in the state is more than
nine hundred, with a supply Of milk
from a quarter Of a million of cows
every three thousand cows afforded a
million of pounds of cheese, valued at
$40, 600, or more than three hundred
pounds of cheese and three hundred
gallons of milk for each COW. OF this
large number of factories,
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Are sunday MeddIngs Void ]

There is, We heard an eminent lawyer
allege a few days since, no marriage le-
gal which is celebrated on the Sabbath
day. There are, no doubt, twenty thous-
and couples in this State alone for whom
the marriage ceremony was performed
ON the Sabbath-many Of them in the
evening Of that day. A note drawn and
signed on the Sabbath is illegal, or any
other legal agreement between parties.
Marriage is a legal contract, which, il
performed out of the legal time, neces-
sarily must be void and claiming this,
the sons and daughters of a recently de-
ceased millionaire mean 10 contest his will
because in that a large portion of his
estate was willed 10 the children of their
stepmother, who was welded 10 their
father ON the Sabbath, in n church in
the city of Rochester in this State. III
the question is TO be decided that stIch
marriages are illegal, another long cata-
logue OF vexatious suits will be brought
into our courts by parties similarly re-
lated to the one above mentioned. The
decision lately rendered by a learned
Judge of our courts, that marriages of
minors are illegal, and divorce for such
not necessary in order that they can
separate and remaITy legally, since ii
was carried into immediate practice by
the parties for whom the decision was
rendered, is proving baneful to society.
The harm that this decision does TO our
social system is temporary only, and il
the entire marrying population but
learn of this decision, the future will
witness less elopements of young couples,
and a less number Of cases where guile.
full and designing men entice young
ladies' from home in order TO wed them.
That the ceremony of marriage perform
ed for minors on any and all days of the
week, or for a couple where one is q
minor and the other an admit, should be
pronounced illegal and non-efiective, is
strange. But in the face of long-practis
ed customs, that Sabbath day weddings
are illegal will strike thousands with feel
ings akin to CONSERVATION. With al
our laws and codes it is, indeed, strange
that those legal enactments which mos
concern our personal welfare and happi
ness are least known and least under
stood by the general public, including
our most intelligent people.-Ne'c Yori
Society
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Rats In Confinement.

Bats dislike captivity so much that
they die under it. Five were turned
into roughly y-made cage, in which they
were fed with flies, for which their ap-
petite was something wonderful-in their
eagerness, they would snap and bite at
one another like SO many ravenous ours.
Cooked meat they could not appreciate,
but raw beef was more to their taste a
circumstance affording their proprietor
great relief, since, by attaching piece
of beef to the inside of their box, he
was saved the trouble of catching flies
for them, and was able to watch them
cater for themselves. The meat proved
source of attraction to divers blue
bottle flies, to the intense qualification
of the captives, who displayed great
quickness in disposing of these visitors.
No sooner did an unwitting blue-bottle
come within range than he was struck
down by pair Of bats wings, the for
tunate bat falling instantaneously with
all its membranes expanded, covering
over its victim, and securing him by
thrusting its head under. When the
head came forth again, the membranes
Immediately closed, and the poor fly
was Immediately swallowed, wings and
allan operation affording several min
utes' enjoyment to the performer. They
seemed pretty comfortable in theil
prison, getting quite lively of an eve
ming, and regaling the ears of their own
er with harsh music of their own
more curious than pleasing. But il
nineteen days every one of them wa
dead-nor did second party Prov
longer-lived.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
A Kentucky Romance.

An old lady of Kentucky has ro-
nance connected with her second mar
riage. It is as follows When her
mother was young lady, Colonel Boone,
the nephew of Daniel, was very much in
love with her, and asked her, on one oc-
casion, to marry him. She told him she
was engaged to Morgan Bryan, and that
they were to be married in few days.
Col. Boone went away and married an
other young woman. Afterward he, with
his wife, visited the other young married
couple, when their first child (now in
her fifth score of years. was but very
few days old, and seeing the baby, he
laughed, and said to her mother ''Now
Miily, as you wouldn't have me yourself,
you'll give me the girl for my second
wife, won't you ?" Whether any iestine
promise was made am not informed
but the baby grew up, and at twenty
seven she was married, had several chill
dren, became widow after nine years
and remained one fora long time, wheI
Colonel Boone's first wife having dice
previously, she really became, in hel
own middle life, the wife of her mother
early lover, who had claimed her in hel
cradle. Thegood old lady is accustomed
in relating this to her sons and neices
to speak of it as zone of the most re
markable things that ever happened.
1 think so too, and it is true story.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Chinese LabOrers.

The Louisiana Sugar Bo,Dl of recent
date contains q communication from a
planter at Irish Bend, Parish of ST. Mary,
who during the last eight months has
had twenty-six Cinnamon at work for
him on his sugar plantation he infinite
ly and for every reason prefers them to
negroes. In November and December
last they planted forty arpents OF cane
for him, and although at first they were
awkward workmen yet in wonderfully
short time they improved so greatly as
to be better even than his old hands,
who, with three exceptions, became dis
gusted and ran away at the end OF the
year. As ploughme1 the Chinese are
admirable, and take good care of their
beasts, never beating or abusing them.
They are intelligent and honest every
one of them can read and write In his
own language, and so, when payday
comes, if any of them becomes indebted
more than his wages amount to he mere
ly sends up his book to have it posted,
and all is right. This planter pays them
S13 for twenty-six days work, retaining
SO until the end of the contract their
rations, fifteen pounds of pork and fifty
pounds of rice for thirty days. The La.
borers are orderly, cheerful, and cleanly
all of the twenty-five in two houses
twenty feet wide by forty long, and al
their cooking and eating is done in al
adjoining house. If the experience o
other planters shall be similar to that o
this correspondent the negro's occupa
ton in the South will soon be gone.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30

Crewel-Worsted work.
A cmck eorps-The burglars
On the rise-A bakers stock.
Capital sport-Money-hunting.
Flat falsehood-Lying on your back.
Advice to doctors-Liye and let live.
A "dip in the briny"-Pickled Pork.
The height of the season-FahrOnheit.
Something IN chalk down-The price
Of milk
The King Of Burmah has proclaimed
internal free trade.
There is a county in Iowa which does
not contain a sin gle tree.
Dresden takes the lead of German
cities as a resort of Americans.
A Southern lady has been poisoned
by chewing green sewing silk.
Cleanliness Is next TO godliness, and
il is soap that is next to charity.
Cod-liver oil loses its disageeable
flavor by maceration with coffee.
OF the 80 Scotch countries, IL have a
smaller population in 1871 than they had
in 1861.
An Ohio girl committed suicide by
taking strychnine because her mother
boxed her ears.
Why are rocks the most revolutionary
birds Because they are always chat
tering high trees-on.
Some youAg ladies now wear small
mirrors set in gold hung on their neck
laces instead of lockets.
High judicial authority has decided
that the coolly trade is virtually the slave
trade, and the vessels engaged in 1t are
pirates in the eye of the law.
1t is estimated that within the past
hundred days not less than one million
dollars in gold has been expended in
Texas, west of the Colorado, for beeves,
stock cattle and horses.
The best way to get help in this world
is to help yourself. Show that you need
aid, and all turn q cold shoulder; but
prove that you can do without folks, and
they will beg to give you lift.
"I say, Jones, that's shocking bad
hat of yours. Why do you wear such a
hideous thing ?" "Because my dear
fellah, Mrs. Jones declares she will not
go out of the house with me till get a
better one"
The bank of Montreal is about to in
crease its capital to $4,000, 900, which
will make it the third largest in the
world, the bank of England and France
being ahead. No other bank in America
has a capital of over $10,00O,0OO.
A California genius has invented what
he calls the Eureka boet-puller, which
consists of leather belt, having two
hooks attached to it, He places the belt
over his right shoulder, adjusts the
hooks in his boot-straps, and then leans
backward, and the tightest boot is con
quered.
Eli Davis, of Louisville, Ind, who
had been paralytic for two years, was
divorced from his second wife while on
! his death-bed, dying, in fact, six hours
after the divorce was ordered. The
suit was brought by parties in the inter
est of the sons of his first wife, to obtain
some of the money which would naturally
fall to the second wife, and the deceased
) was wholly ignorant of the proceeding.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
KILLED IN A QUARREL. quarrel be-

KILLED IN A QUARREL. quarrel be-
tween John Husmann, house-painter,
twenty-one years old, and Maggie Nal
oney, young girl of sixteen, in Cincin-
natl, had fatal termination on Monday
night. They were tenants of the same
house, and it is said she had rejected his
offer of marriage. On Sunday night she
came home with some friends and found
Husmann and his mother sitting on the
doorstep. The quarrel was renewed,
and she at length became SO enraged
that she seized piece of brick and
hurled it at him. 1t fell short of its mark,
and his mother drew him into the house
and shut the door. Scarcely had it closed
behind him, however, when he turned,
opened the door, and drawing revolver,
fred at Maggie, who was standing at the
gate. The ball entered her left breast,
and she fell into the arms OF a young
man crying, "Catch. me, Tom I'm
shot," and instantly expired. Husmann
was afterward arrested, being found by
the officers concealed under some straw
in tie cellar.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
A Very Uncomfortable Place.

According to letter dated at the
Camp of the Sixth United States Cav
airy, near Fort Hays, the Kansas town
called Hays City is an unattractive spot
The writer says:
Hays City is a place inhabited by
thieves, murdereh, adventurers and adj
venturesses. Why they named the
place Hays City 1 cannot imagine, unless
It was on account Of it being so near
Fort Hays (only half a mile), evidently
for the purpose of giving it character
abroad, for at home they seemed to be
living in the Scriptural injunction,
Eat, drink, and be merry, for to-mor-
row ye die" for they do eat, and they
do drink, and if it can be called being
merry mot marry, for they don't do that
for a man to crawl out of bed very late
in the morning with flushed face and
eyes bleod-shot and protruding from
their sockets, L say that il that can be
called being merry, they are very merry.
A casual observer passing through the
town, seeing sign over nearly every
door, would think there was variety OF
business carried ON at the place, but il
he should stop and read few of the
signs he would find that they were near
ly all engaged in the same line of bust
ness, or " entertainment, that's it, en-
tertainment that's what they call it.
There's popularity about the signs that
leads person to think that ladies and
gentlemen do not live together, for it is
written on some, '"This is Jake's house,
"Joe's house," &C., while ON Others art
Ladies' Parlors," Ladies' Depart
ment," &c. And to take glimpse in
side of one of these you would thinl
that you had at last found the real place
where it is every fellow for himself, ant
the devil take the hindmost, for th'
walls glitter with guns, pistols and knives
where frequently poor devil dies to
day instead of tomorrow.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30

PENSIONS. The Commissioner OF PEN
sions estimates that there are at least
forty thousand people, soldiers and
widows of the war of 1872, who will be
entitled to pensions under the act Of
February IA, 1871. This number Will
require the sum of "a, 100000 annually.
When the bill was under discussion last
winter the maximum number of these
pensioners living was supposed to be
only 1900, but the estimate Of the Com
missioner is not likely to be correct.
This will require an appropriation for
pensions next year of fully $35, ,ooo, ,Ooo.
The total number of applications for
1872 pensions to date is 30, $40
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
As td the other states
Factories. Cows
ZACH


So that on this continent we have now
after comparatively few years of work,
nearly 1900 cheese and butter factories,
supplied with the milk of more than 30O,-
900 cows, and producing about 00,00O,-
600 pounds of cheese annually. Our ex-
port of the product of this new industry,
or old industry in new form, was last
year the large amount of 100000 OF
pounds, valued at So, 900, while the
whole export from Britain of her cheese
is little over 5000, 600 of pounds. Even
the Dutch, who have made speciality of
cheese for centuries, and who in their
varieties adapt their article to many tastes
and markets, exported last year only half
the quantity we did. When this expert
ment was commenced the European
cheeses had all their special markets and
special customers, who took them regular
ly, and would not be induced readily to
make a change, while the previous
character of American cheese was not in
its favor, but rather the contrary. We
had, therefore, nothing to look to for
success but the superiority of the article
at the price, and in less than twenty
years, with everything rather against
than for us, we have surpassed England
in the worlds markets, and are at this
day selling nineteen times as much
cheese as she is able to do, with all her
prestige and previous fame as a cheese
producer In all the history of progress
there is no parallel to this triumph of
the American adaptation of fitting means
to needed facilities. Switzerland,
from kind of necessity imposed on it
by the peculiarities of Alpine pastures,
had kind of cooperative cheese-mak-
ing before we commenced it but it was
and is of small account. Our cooper
ative arrangements enabled many single
workers with but Indifferent success, by
that union which is strength, to become
great power for supplying the world
with two prime articles of family con-
sumption, and for doing it well. Ou
triumph, however, is not yet quite com
plete. Before it is so we have got to dc
one or two things, or both that is, tC
produce cheese which will surpass il
its attractive qualities the favorite pro
ducts of all other countries, or to pro
duce cheeses so nearly approaching
these favorites in qualities as to compete
with them successfully.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
A Shepherd.

A maid is sitting by a brook,
The sweetest Of sweet creatures;
pass that way with my good book,
Yet can not read nor cease 10 look
Upon her winsOme features.
Amid the bushes on her cheek
Her small, white hand roposes:
am shepherd, for seek
That wilful lamb, with fleece 30 sleek,
Feeding among the rosesi
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30
Flowers.

beautiful foWcrs,
In feathory bowers,
TII.nr the arr With silent perfume;
Sweet garden q rusrs,
Your beauty discluscs,
A charm 10 subiuc the souls sadness and
gloom.
Prom uch parsrre,
or Ehorc City air,
Though dArk and noisome, hath len you living,
We come together
In the summer weather,
To praise His name who is ever giving.
Othejoy and grace
That enrich the place,
Whore yuur manifold tints aud odors are spreadi
Bewitching the rare,
Ie make the land fair,
A. the Garden Of Eden long mourned as dead.
Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-08-30

PREJuDIoED. A farmer who went to
Texas to buy farm was greatly preju-
diced against the country he. thought to
settle in, from the fact that a doctor
whom he had called in to attend HIM
when he was seized with fever, began
trying his clothes ON Immediately after
writing the prescription. The fact that
while the doctor was trying on his coat,
the chambermaid was examing his hand
kerchiefs, and the porter was struggling
with his boots, lent wings to his imagi-
nation, and doubtless had an influence
in regard to his speedy exit from the
State.