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Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-05
Elizabeth. September 5, 1878.

CHERRIES sALE.-In Chancery of New Jer.
y sey.-Between Augustus G. Kellogg. and al,
exrs.. &C., complainants. and Charles S. Cook and
ex. and ais defendants. Fieri facias.
The above sale stands adjourned togWedne day
the LIST day of October, A.. d. 1873, at the fame
hour md place.
SETH B. RYDER, Sheriff.
Elizabeth, September 5, 1873. 50 4wF
Elizabeth daily monitor. [volume] (Elizabeth, N.J.) 1868-1880, 1873-09-05

@ HERIFF'S SALE. In Chancery of New Jer-
y sey.-Betwt en- Stephen II. Condict, complain
ant, and William Il. Mason, defendant. Fl. ia
for sale of mortgaged premises.
The a. owe sale stands adjourned to Wednesday
the LIST day of October, A. ID. 1873 at the Same
hour and place.
SETH b. RYDER, Sheriff.
Elizabeth. September 8, 1873. rs 4wF
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Expanding the Chest.

Take strong rope, and fasten it to a
beam overhead to the lower end of the
rope attach a stick three feet long, con-
venient to grasp with the hands. The
rope should be fastened to the center of
the stick, which should hang six or
eight inches above the head. Let a
person grasp this stick with the hands
two or three feet apart, and swing very
moderately at first-perhaps only bear
the weight, if very weak-and gradually
increase, as the muscles gain strength
from the exercise, until it may be used
from three to five times daily. The
connection of the arms with the body.
with the exception of the clavicle with
the breast bone, being muscular at
tachment to the ribs, the effect of this
exercise is to elevate the ribs and en-
large the chest and as Nature allows
no vacuum, the lungs expand to fill the
cavity, increasing the volume of air,
the natural purifier of blood, and pre-
venting the CONGESTION or the deposit of
tuberculous matter. Wehave prescribed
the above for all cases of hemorrhage of
the lungs, and threatened consumption,
for thirty-fiv years, and have been able
to increase the measure of the chest
from two to four inches within O. few
months, and with good results. But
especially as preventive we would rec
ommend this exercise. Let those who
love to live cultivate well-formed, ca
pacieus chest. The student, the mer-
chant, the sedentary, the young of both
sexes-aye, all-should have swing on
which to stretch themselves daily. We
are certain that if this were to be prac-
ticed by the rising generation in a dress
allowing free and full development of
the body, many would be saved from
consumption. Independently of its
beneficial results, the exercise is an ex-
ceedingly pleasant one, and as the ap-
paratus costs very little, there need be
no difficulty about any one enjoying it
who wishes to.-Dio Lea0iS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Brave James Maxwell.

James Maxwell, of Glasgow, was q
pilot. He belonged to a family of stur-
dy and energetic men, and inherited
their qualities. In 1927 he was en-
ployed to pilot fine steamship--the
ClydeSdale-from the river Clyde to the
west coast of Ireland. Every one knows
the terrors of this rock girt coast. The
weather was rough, but no danger was
apprehended. A foe more dreadful even
than tempest was destined to attack the
vessel. They had just reached the most
difficult part of the Galway coast, when
the vessel was discovered to be on fire
The flames burst through the paddle
box. The pilot, of course, bad charge
of the vessel, and his place was on the
quarter gallery, where the heat was
most intense. He had to put back, and
the passengers were gathered to the
bow, the rapid rush of the vessel
through the water keeping that part
cool, while it carried the flames and
smoke backward to the quarter gallery.
There stood the pilot, like a martyr at
the stake-for the only chance of safety
to the passengers was his keeping to
his post. The master and crew did
their very best to keep the place on
which he stood as cool as possible, by
deluging it with water. But soon the
cabin under him was on fire; still he
never hinched. He certainly gave him
self up, for he breathed prayer,
ooh, God, provide for my wife, my
mother, and my child, and enable me
to do my duty"
His feet were actually roasted on the
deck but he contrived to run the ship
into creek, alongside ledge of rock,
and there every creature got safe on
shore-all uniniured except the gallant
man to whom they all, under God, owed
their lives. He was terrible spectacle
of suffering not only were his feet dis
abled, but bis sturdy frame was reduced
to the utmost emaciation. His hair
turned gray. He looked ten years older
in that one night. 1t is not on earth
that such deeds are rewarded.
Messrs. Chambers brought his case
before the public, but the brave pilot
did not live to realize the full benefit of
subscription that was raised for him.
His wife did not long survive him. His
children were aided in their education
by the funds raised. But their best in
heritance was their fathers example.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
The New Tactics.

A lecture was recently delivered be-
fore the United Service Institution, in
London, by Captain Brackenbury, of
the Royal Artillery, in reference to the
new tactics which the modern breech-
loader is forcing upon the various war
departments of Europe. He said that
those officers who had not had any ex-
perience in the field with these terrible
weapons would do well to give the
whole subject thorough and profound
study. To go to war armed with breech-
leaders, proposing to meet an enemy
armed with a weapon of the same or
similar capabilities, and at the same
time expect to man9uvre in the face of
such an enemy with the old system of
tactics, would be about as wise as to
send a feet of wooden ships to encoun-
ter fleet of iron-clads. The whole
system of tactics must be really in
verted, as it were. Skirmishers, instead
of being the dntenng, the mere feelers
of an army, will be the army itself
and any reserve held back to operate at
particular moment in line or column,
will merely come in on rush to reap
the fruits of success already won, and
will not be itself any longer the means
of winning the success. The notion
that line will advance over or through
its own skirmishers to attack the enemy
beyond, is, therefore, a theory which
must be entirely dismissed from the
minds of campaign drill-masters. All
recent experience shows that the way to
get skirmishing line forward is not to
keep it hanging under cover in hopes of
relief, but to keep on throwing in judi
elous reinforcements, so that its line
may be constantly advancing, and, if
possible, crushing back the opposing
party. Whether it will be actually
possible ever to strengthen the line of
skirmishers into such close order as will
make it approximate to the normal line
of the present drill-books, is doubtful,
though, of course, compression in O
very great degree will sometimes be
forced upon commander by the nature
of the country. This whole question
of the future of infantry opens up a
most interesting and useful line of
speculation which, it is to be hoped.
will finally crystalize in new tactical
system fully equal to the demands of
modern warfare.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
1t is Better.

Better to wear calico dress without
trimming, if it be paid for, than to owe
the shopkeeper for the most elegant
silk, cut and trimmed in the most be-
witching manner.
Better to live in log cabin all your
own, than brown stone mansion be-
longing to somebody else.
Better to walk forever than to run in
to debt for horse and carriage.
Better to sit by the plain pine table,
for which you paid three dollars ten
years ago, than send home new extern
sion black walnut top, and promise to
pay for it next week.
Better to use the old cane-seated
chairs, and faded two-ply carpet, than
tremble at the bills sent home from the
upholsterer's for the most elegant par
lor set ever made.
Better to meet your business acquain-
tances with free "don't owe you a
cent " smile, than to dodge around the
corner to escape dun.
Better to pay the street organ grinder
two cents for music, if you have it, than
owe for grand piano.
Better to gaze upon bare walls than
pictures unpaid for.
Better to eat thin soup from earthen-
ware, If you owe your butcher nothing.
than to dine off lamb and roast beef.
and know that it does not belong to you.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
NO. 20.
Watering-Place Notes.

The Mammoth Cave property is an
nounced for sale, and the price named
is 100000.
The wife and daughter of Gen. FIRE.
mont are at the Grand Union, Saratoga.
and will remain there until the close of
August.
Lake George, from present indica-
tions, will have larger patronage this
season than it has had for two or three
years.
James Parton and several other liter
ateurs of note will summer at New
buryport, Mass, and bathe and drive
on Salisbury beach.
Several new hotels and repaired ones
have been opened among the Berkshire
Hills, and the tide of summer travel is
setting steadily toward them.
All the hotels at the Summer resorts
are now open, and Cape May, Long
Branch, Saratoga, Newport, and the
other places wear the appearance of ac-
tivity.
New York has nearly 80 watering
places, Is or 20 of them being of wide
reputation and extensively patronized.
This is very remarkable for State with
SO little sea-coast.
The season at the Ocean House, New
port, Is now compressed, 80 far as re-
markable activity goes, into about four
weeks, from the middle of July to the
middle of August.
Longfellow is at his Nahant cottage,
where he will entertain several of his
friends from Boston and Cambridge,
and devote only half his usual number
of hours to study and composition.
A number of fashionable Bostonians
have already gone to Swampscott, where
long and delightful season is antici-
pated. Seaside teas are to be one of
the serene designations of the place.
An animated contest is now going on
as to the possession Of the best beach
by number of the sea side resorts.
Cape May, Atlantic City, Rye, Swamp
scott, aud Chelsea are the principal
contestants.
The Cliff Cottages, as they are known
at Newport, rent for 81 200 and upward
for the season, and the occupants pay
$3.50 day per head for their meals
(prepared in common kitchen), in
Guiding the table service, and one regu-
lar servant for each family. The ar
rangement is very much liked by the
cottagers.
The Hot Springs, Arkansas, are be-
lieved to have been flowing for $500
years, SO that they may lay claim to re-
spectability through antiquity. De Soto
was there, so was Ponce de Leon. Both
wrote glowing accounts of the waters to
the Old World, and for ages their pre-
vious virtues were handed down by alb
original traditions.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Precautions Against Cholera.

The Board of Health of New York
has issued the following circular to
prevent the outbreak and spread of
cholera"
L To disinfect diarrheal discharges
and to purify water-closets, privies.
drains, and cess-pools, dissolve ten
pounds of sulphate of ire n (copperas)
IN five gallons of water, and add half q
pint of common carbolic acid. Keep a
small quantity of this solution in the
vessel which is to receive the discharges.
Pour pint of the solution into the pan
OF the water-closet three or four times
a day, or add half the entire Quantity
to the contents Of an ordinary PRIV
vault. If this practice is made general
in all private dwellings, not only will
the house-drains of such dwellings, be
disinfected, but the benefit will extend
even to the public sewers.
2. The seats and floors of all water
closets in private houses, at ferry
houses, at hotels and lodging-houses,
on steamboats, and rail-cars, should be
frequently washed with solution of
one ounce of carbolic acid in each gal
Ion of water.
3. During the prevalence of cholera,
all diarrheal discharges should be re-
ceived in vessels containing some of the
disinfecting fluid, before being thrown
INTO the privy-vault or pan of the water
closet. Patients suffering with diarrhea,
however mild, should remain isolated,
observe the recumbent posture, and
avoid unripe fruits and stale vegetables.
Nothing is. of more importance in these
cases than absolute rest.
4. Clothing, sheets, towels, ETC., from
cholera patients, should be immediately
boiled; ; but, when this is impracticable,
they may be thrown into tub of water,
IN which have been dissolved eight
ounces of sulphate of zinc, with one or
two ounces of carbolic acid to every
three or four gallons of water, or in
watercontaining suficientpermanganateI
of potash to maintain light purple
color, until the articles can be boiled.
B. 10 absorb moisture from damp |
cellars, closets, courts, and sunken |
areas, use fresh stone lime, finely broken
and suitably distributed, or placed on |
plates in the places to be dried. White
washing should be done with pure fresh |
lime. Putrid and offensive gasses may
be destroyed by chloride of lime.
6. Open and thoroughly ventilate
cellars, garrets, closets, sleeping-rooms.
and all other apartments, and keep them
clean and dry. Observe the utmost
i'll easements, areas, and
grounds about the house.
Z. Personal health requires pure
trinking-water, fresh air, substantial
food. the needed rest, and bathing of
the body.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Fashions for the Summer Season.

Riding habits of light black cloth,
made with severe simplicity, are seen
on the forms of the most fashionable
equestriennes in the Park. With these
habits silk hat, with narrow, rolling
brlm and crown just five inches high.
is worn. The very high crowned hats
are going out of vogue. "The Moun-
talneer," a tall crowned, black straw
hat, is worn by equestriennes out of
town. A long black ostrich plume
sweeps around the crown. Oxidized
silver buckles and small ostrich tips are
also seen on country riding hats.
Riding gloves are of undressed kid,
long In the wrist, cut in one piece, and
without buttons.
A novelty just introduced in redin-
gotes is to have the fronts faced down
the whole way inside with silk or satin,
and leave the garment open, like gen
tleman's overcoat. The latest fabrics
offered forredingotes is East India bam-
boo cloth, a light washing material,
woven very loosely, making it cooler
than linen or any other summer fabric,
Smoked pearl buttons are more appro-
PIRATE for these redingotes than oxidized
silver.
Little boys are again we airing regular
roundabout jackets, with knee breeches;
sailor straw hats.
The latest fancy in parasols or ladies'
umbrellas is to ornament the handle
with round knob of plain sterling sill.
yer, sterling silver band and chate.
lame, steel ferrule at the end, twilled
SILK serge cover, steel paragon" frame
Inc summer croquet shoe is of black
lasting, foxed with kid, tied on the in
step, high at the back of the heel and
curved low around the ankle. Heels
broader and lower than last season
striped hosiery in various colors on
white or ecru is worn with this STYLE of
shoe. ...
Watering place polonaises for full
dress are being made of alternate stripes
of black velvet ribbon and insertinps of
silk guipure or yak lace. These polon-
alses are wore over colored silk skirts.
Point Russo and ecru linen fancy work
are taken by ladies going out of town
lor willing away rainy days and the
time spent indoors. Point Russo is
simply backstitching in colored en-
broidery silks on plain drab or leather
colored cloth.
Antique designs are thus wrought on
chair seats, sofa cushions, lambreouin
drapery and gentlemen's slippers. The
ecru linen fancy work is simply an APP
pIlque cut work on ecru linen, with
buttonhole stitch in bright colored, or
white or ecru silk. Lace work is also
becoming very fashionable. The Eliza
bethan samplerstitches are nsed to make
sacques of lace intended for tides, sofa
and toilet sets. Fayal mats fine as
cobwebs, made by nuns and their pupils |
In converts, are sold at the fancy stores
for toilet mats and other fancy pur-
poses. A set two mats-cost from
81. 70 to So, according to size and beauty
Of work.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Mr.. Spurgeon's Tabernacle.

OF Mr.. Spurgeon, our author has
much to tell that is really new to the
world at large. "The Tabernacle, 4" is,
it seems, by no means the mere
"preaehing-shop" it is generally sup
posed to be; it is a petfect hive of
busy workers from seven every morning
until night. The rooms behind and
under the vast edifce are appropriated
to the use of the pastors college, where
young men are trained for the ministry
without expense" In one room which
our daring commissioner explores, he
discovers twenty young ladies at Bible
class; and in another "thirty or forty
young men celebrating the Lords Sup
per. In the spacious rooms below
tables were being laid for 1000 for tea.
MIR. Spurgeon, as he himself confessed,
is asort of Pope over all these people,
and though without claiming infallibil-
lty, he has probably made fewer mis-
takes than the one who does. His sue
cess he attributes entirely to the power
OF prayer. Even "gifts" of material
sort drop in answer to his appeals, and
that in abundance. One lady-a men,
ber, too, of another religious body
gave him $4,000 to found his Orphan
age at Stockwell, where 220 boys are
boarded, clothed, and taught. On
more than one occasion $4,000 have been
dropped into his letter-box annony-
mously. When recently attacked byiil-
ness, he began to think the funds might
suffer through the absence of his min
lstrations, but that same evening lady
left $500 at his door, and G1, 900 came
in immediately afterward. With all
this, he is a modest man, and speaks of
himself, accurately enough, indeed, as
mo scholar" But his eloquence and
genuine humor are beyond question.
His mighty temple, which holds 5000
persons, is filled in every nook and
erevery Sunday to hear him preach.
He lends it once year to the Primitive
Methodists to hold therein their mis-
sionary meeting, and the Tabernacle
"on the Rant, as it is euphoniously
termed, it is a very curious spectacle
indeed. All the speakers were inter
rupted by the utterances, like pistol
shots, of Halleluiah" and "GIory to
God, which proved very disconcert-
ing to our reverend commissioner. A
proposal to swell the already large in
come OF the mission, by getting every
one in the Connection to abandon beer
and tobacco, was received with volleys
OF these CALCULATIONS, concerning which
DR.. Davis tells an excellent story: "a
lady sat at Primitive Methodist chapel
close by poor man who was remarkably |
i'll shod, and whose excamations were
universe proportion to his shoe-leather.
He kept crying out GLORY be to God ! |
until he quite annoyed her; and, on
leaving chapel, the lady told him such
was the case, promising him new pair
of boots if he would restrain himself |
within due bounds. He did so for
several days but afterward some par
ticular exciting cause occurred, and he
started up in chapel, shouting out
Boots or no boots, glory be to God ="
Some of the preachers had considerable
augmentation UaorthodoT London,
by ReV. G. Maurice Davies, D. ID.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
A ScaIy Battle at Far Rockaway.

A strange battle occurred at Far
Rockaway, Long Island, in front of the
Nelson House. A school of drumfsh
were chased into shallow water by
school of porpoises. The drumfsh
tried their best to get away, but the
porpoises pursued them so hotly that
number of the former were driven ashore.
The people of the hotel were awakened
by great splashing and o noise some
what similar to but less distinct than
the grunt of frightened hog. Look
ing out of the windows they saw the
porpoises striking the drumfsh with
their tails. Soon after, the porpoises
turned and left. The porters at the
hotel and some of the-fshermen secured
with boat-hooks about twenty-five dead
drnmtish, and large number are still
floating around Jamaica Bay. The
drumfsh secured weighed from thirty
to seventy pounds each. Some were
sent to Canarsie for exhibition, and
othersto Fulton Market for sale.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19

quite unaware OF the sting lingering
within her words.
"And what do you think Mr.. Living
ston tells me =? They are to be married
next month. My dear, you are not i'll ?"
mo-, said Eudocia huskily; "I-I
have only forgotten my pocket-hand
kerchief,h
And Miss Martin fed up stairs after
the bit of linen catnbric, that was safe
In hot own pocket, coming down no
more that night.
She burned "Black Alfonso" orange
blossoms, moonlight, musical fountains.
and all and she never wrote any more
lucubrations for the NeU York Guest
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
Wealth of q Silver Mine.

The "Silver Islet" silver mine dis
covered on the North shore of Lake
Superior, opposite Thunder Cape, few
years ago, is turning out to be the rich
est silver deposit on this continent.
The ore grows richer as they go down
upon it, and the vein shows signs of in
creasing strength as they approach the
shore from the Island. The average
assay is 81, 800 to the ton, gold value,
and 233 tons have been shipped to the
Wyandotte Silver Smelling Works since
the opening of navigation; 800, 900 of
fine silver has been sent to the Mint to
be coined since June 3; $500, 900 has
been spent in building Golfer dams,
piers, and miners houses, ana wi at
seemed an impossibiIity to the old
Montreal Mining Company, the work
ing of this mine has been accomplished.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19

The success of flying machines is
truly astonishing. A Mr.. Folger, up
in Michigan, recently constructed one,
went to the top of the barn, "lit out,
and went with such rapidity that he lost
his consciousness for half an hour.
when he found himself but few feet
from the barn. He thinks he could not
have been entirely unconscious, other
wise he would not have returned to the
barn, where he picked himself up.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19

1t used to be stated in the old-fash-
loned books of natural history that the
"horse was the gilt of the old world to
the new." But whole races of horses
lived and persisted in America ages be-
fore men went down to the sea in ships.
There are now in Yale Museum the fos.
sill remains of twenty-one different spe-
cies belonging to the horse family.
These animals varied from sizes that
are larger than any now existing, down
to delicate creatures no bigger than a
fox.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19
The Good Mans Monument.

Old Neighbor Wilson's means were few.
His acres were but small,
His house was plain, yet comfort threw
Its CHEEKY light DER ALL
He lived not for himself alone,
But did his very best
To help his struggling neighbor on,
And cheer the heart oppressed.
Not his the wish to garner grain,
And fill his storehouse high,
Merely the love of greed or gain.
Or pride to crafty.
He titled his scanty fields, and strove
To make the harvests fair;
He knew that His rewarding love
Would bless the farmers care
And Neighbor Wilson bhew that He a
An honest toll would crown
And bless win sure prosperity
The good seed rightly sown.
Such smiles as Neighbor Wilson won
From all, gold could not buy
Such gratitude foi kind acts done
In love and charity.
His board, though plain with humble fare
To Want was always free;
Love was the ministering angel there.
Who labored faithfully.
He built no temple high and grand,
He reared no monument
OF marble wrought by sculptor's hand,
To show his good intent.
But IN the hearts of men he raised
A monument of love,
Brighter than poet ever praised,
The power of art to prove, ~ .
Upon his grave the grass is green,
And has been psny year;
Yet there the mourner oft is seen
10 papIe and drop tear,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-19

After a pretty full discussion of the
cost, efficiency and durability of differ
ent kinds of fences, Michigan farmers
club concluded that good worm rail
fence is the best and cheapest fence
that farmers can build.