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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-20

unfounded runaors hsva prevailed to the
effect that the failure OF Jay Cooke &
Co. viii seriously involve the National
life insurance company, Of which be is
one of the directors. We are assured
upon the best authority that the solVen-
ey Of the company cannot be impaired
by the present financial troubles.
Its assets are ample, well in
vested, and cannot be withdrawn
by disafected pollcyholders. To-day
nineteen failures have been reported.
The street, ct the close of the meeting OF
the board, presented en excited appear
ance- When the closing gong sounded
the members of the board gave three
rousing cheers. Another exciting day
is predicted for tomorrow.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-20
COOKE.


New YoRK, September l9.-The Pres
iden, of the SOuthside railway company
denies the truth Of the rumors eircuia-
ted lately, tending to weaken public
confidence in the company. The
financial condition OF the company is
good. Coupon interest is all paid to
date, and the amount required TO pay
that due November first is already III
bank.
The members of the eleventh regi-
ment imprisoned for insubordination,
have been released on an order from
General Fink.
Judge BIatchford to-day granted an
order, returnable October Sd, for the
New York and 0swego Midland
railroad to show cause why
the company should not he adjudged
bankrupt.
THE PRESIDENT ARRIVED ON THE
sCENR.
WASHINGTON, September ls.-Ger-
eral Grant arrived this evening, and has
had conference with Secretary Richard
son, and has determined that the
treasury should come to the rescue OF
the New York market by purchasing
largely Of bonds, and depositing a pOr-
ton Of the treasury balance in the ns-
tiOnal bank repositories. In order to
stop the panic the President is fully de-
termined TO meet the emergency al
once.
A FLOW OF CASH.
LONDON, September 1s.--The firm Of
Jay Cooke, McCuiloch & Co., OF this
city has paid cash over their counters
all day, notwithstanding the run OR the
house.
GENERAL IMPRESSIONS
NEW YORK, September l9 The bank
ing houses which have been identified
with negotiation OF new railroad loans,
have all been submitted to renewed
pressure, and to-day TO the astonish-
ment OF all the suspension Of the house
/ of Fisk & Hatch was announced. This
l firm have made heavy advances to the
Central Pacific, which, however is not
the cause of their suspension. Theil
advances to the Chesapeake ano
Ohio having brought them 1own. WheI
the suspension Of Fisk & Hatch became
generally known, many friends Of botf
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-20

out drawing On the forty-four million
dollars reserve. His order 70 Assistant
Treasurer Hillhouse, yesterday, was not
70 revoke the sale OF gold, but simply
not to accept any below the market
price, as the proposals were for such
small amounts, and the price below
The market. The assistant-treasurer de-
clined to accent any.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-20

NEW YORK, September 19.-Day &
Morse and Hay & Warner have sus-
pended.
Every body now on the streets seems
to have their own story, and the un-
scrupnlous have no hesitation in pro-
claiming firms I'm trouble that are now
standing up nobly. Vernlilie d Co
were thus alluded to, but w. r. Yer
mylie pronounced the story baseless.
he adds, however, that If the move
ment now making to get the secretary
OF The treasury to come to the relief Of
the market with about ten million dol
lars should fail, it would not surprise
him If there would be general suspen-
sion OF banks and all.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
Mexican Peasantry.

One days life off this land of the cac-
tus, says correspondent writing from
Mexico, was painfully similar to anoth-
er, save that exception may be made in
favor of gallop of sixty miles inland to
the city of Colima, place of some 5O,-
600 inhabitants, that toasts itself at the
foot of the smoke-capped volcano of the
same name. Whether a better type of
persons are sometimes found on this
route of travel, know not, but in a
course cf wanderings that has unavoid-
ably brought me in contact with the
lower grades of many races, | have new
er met in three secutive days so
many cut-throat looking countenances
as those who seemed to regard us with
an eye to business, on the stony high
way that crooks over the mountains to
their town. Shaded from the ardent
rays of the sun by heavy felt hats, that
often are not less than three feet in di-
ameter, their jackets and slashed trou-
sers jingling with the numberless metal
lie buttons with which they delight to
adorn themselves, a gaudy blanket
thrown over the shoulder, the insepara-
BILE machete, or long knife, belted to
their side, and revolver (when it can
be affordedD stuck in the crimson sash
that is twisted round the waist, their
general appearance is picturesque in the
extreme and agreeable to look upon,
could you cease to remember the little
weaknesses to which they are subject
when finding themselves numerically
superior in the vicinity of a well-flled
purse. The hot winds of the coast had
Drowned our compilations to hue
almost as swarthy as their own Sol had
robbed our habiliments of all definite
color; and the dust had removed every
trace of cleanliness from our persons.
We bestrode mules, so wretched that
they seemed ashamed of their own ap-
pearance, and our tout ensemble must
have been so disreputable that, COM
bined with our numbers, the swarthy
toll gatherers evidently judged us
birds of too poor q feather to pay for
picking, though in a land where it is
customary to permit journeyer to re-
turn home clothed in no more fashion
able garment than that provided by
nature, their consideration was doubly
commendable.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
What They are Paid.

One of the best captains afoat said
the other day in the hearing of re-
porter: GA good man must either be
hard up, or have little moneyinvested,
to afford to be captain in the Anglo
American steamship service" The re-
mark has moved us to make inquiry
into the matter, and we find that the
pay of captain in this service is, on
some lines, from G300 to G400 year,
with bonus of G150 if no accidents
occur, and on others from 9300 to 9500,
without bonus. In our money the
salary of a captain is, therefore, from
81 800 to 80, 500 a year. His board upon
the ship is, of course, free. How do
these wages appear to those who are
compelled to trust their lives and their
possessions to such men as can be hired
by them? 1t ought to be stated, too,
in this connection, that in the English
Australian Steamship service, the cap
tains receive a thousand pounds year
small wages enough, to be sure-but
why is this difference made? Does
anyone doubt that the Australian line
absolutely commands by its iberality
the best steamship in the market Why
should the lines that convey such null
titudes of Americans in their cabins and
such crowds in their steerage be sub
jected to this disadvantage?
The first officer in the Anglo-Ameri-
can service gets about ELS, or $75 a
month, or 5000 year-what we pay to
an ordinary clerk. The second officer
gets $50 a month, or six hundred dol
lars a year the third officer $50 a
month, and the fourth 1875. To men
receiving these latter sums the Atlantic
was committed when she plunged upon
the rocks, with her priceless freight of
human life. These sums correspond
closely to what we pay our walters
and men of all work about the house,
while they would not hire, in New York,
frst-class waiter or butler. The idea
is horrible, but the facts are as we state
them, or we have been misinformed by
one who has the best opportunity of
knowing them. What must generally
be the class of men who can be hired
at these wages? When this question is
nationally answered, we can form some
conception of the riskswe are compelled
to run by the parsimony of companies
whose cabins we crowd with passengers,
and who can hardly find room for the
enormous freights which we commit to
! them
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
The Plague.

1t is reported that the recent out
break of the plague, which has for the
last two years ragged in Persian Kurdis-
tan, owed it's origin to the opening of
some old caves, which forty years ago
served as burial places for the victims
of former epidemic. There could be
no supicions contagion brought from
elsewhere, as plague was not known to
exist either in Asia Minor or in Persia
in the summer of 1870. One of the per-
sons earliest attacked was seized few
hours after he had been engaged in the
work of sxcavating cavern for harbor-
ing sheep among the hills near the vii
lage. While thus engaged he had dis
inferred quantity of human bones.
The other person had also been attack
ed soon after removing some human
bones which he had found in neigh
boring cavern in which focks were
sheltered. 1t was ascertained that the
places in which the bones had been
found were the spots where the dead
who had died from an attack of plague
which had depopulated some of the vii
lagos of the district forty years before,
had been buried. During 9829-32 it is
we'll known that plague was widely dis
seminated in northwestern Persia, Asia
Minor, and Arabia. The recent out
break in Persian Kurdistan, in short,
followed almost Immediately upon the
opening of the two old plague pits, and
to this opening the outbreak probably
owed its origin,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
Present Status of the Steam PlOw.

BY and by, says the Tribune, it will
most assuredly come to pass that agri-
culture will not be the only employment
in which the human muscle, aided by
the horse, will be required to do all the
heavy labor at the most costly rate.
English farmers are now engaged in as
certaining for us how our lands may be
cultivated 20 inches deep, and thereby
made twice or thrice as productive as at
present, and at actuall-r less expense
then is now required to atch the sur
face. But does it pay? That is the
question. Unfortunately there are
many difficulties to be met, not the least
of which is the vis inertia Of the farmer !;
the dead weight, so to speak, of old no.
tions, with which we cucumber our
minds. This leads us, having formed
an idea that thing is impossible, to
strive chow not to do it," rather than
to vanquish obstacles. Nevertheless
there are some enterprising individuals
who have put their hand to the steam
plow and have succeeded to marvel
Here is sturdy Englishman, J. X.
Fowler, of Aylesbury, giving his e1-
perience. He bought 10-horse engine
and set of tackle and plows eight years
ago, with which he has done his plow-
ing since then at cost of $1.973 per
acre the first time, and the second time
ST. .12i per acre. His crops during that
period have vastly improved, and the
judges of the Royal Agricultural So
ciety declared his bean harvest last
year to be the finest they had ever seen.
Many other English farmers give SINH
lar experience. Mr.. Greig thinks that
the worst machine is better than any
horses whatever. Mr.. Nield cannot see
how farmers are going to avoid the in
evitable steam-plow. Another farmer
on 1000 acres cannot now possibly do
without it; another on 1000 acres
plainly perceives that steam plowing
must soon become general, and just as
horses superseded the spade so must
horses be superseded in their turn.
Mr.. Carey began in 1866 with one set of
tackle and plows as an experiment
now he has 10 sets. His plcwing is 16
inches deep. Just how many plows are
at present in use does not appear in the
report we epitomize, but it is stated
that at one mandatory no less than
100 are now made each year for use in
England, and 60 for expectation to for
eign countries. In the neighborhood
of Magdeburg, Germany, so steam
plows are now engaged in the cultiva-
ton of beets. These roots, grown on
steam -plowed land, in consequence of
the depths and finer tilth of the soil,
contain two per cent. more sugar than
others, and there is gain of 20 per
cent. in the weight of the crop. All the
sugar producers, therefore, use steam.
In addition it is stated that one large
farmer in England cultivated 200 acres
per week five months after harvest last
season with double engine set, with
only three men and one horse and water
cart. Such, then, is the present aspect
of this important innovation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
"HOsea BigelOW1 Abroad.

A Boston correspondent of the st.
Louis Globe is responsible for this
anecdote of the author of "The Bige-
low Papers," James Russell Lowell
went to Europe, and arriving in Lon
don, deposited certain evidences Of
credit with Barring Brothers. Now,
Hosea" is O poor hand at figures,
and does not like the worries incidental
to a strict debit and credit account, so
leaving England he instructed Messrs.
B. Bros. to notify him when he should
have drawn down the funds in their
hands to a certain sum mentioned. In
the course of time "Hosea" received a
polite epistle, stating that his deposit
was depleted to the amount mentioned
as his limit, and he very dutifully re-
turned to England, and soon after to
this country, taking the complicated ac-
count rendered as quite satisfactory as
regarding his money transactions with
his bankers while in Europe. Now,
sometime after reaching home, he one
day received a solid-looking letter from
IluRlduu, WulCu pIONCO w W l1OAAA oAiS
great bankers, Barring Bros, which
notified him of mistake in his account
with the house, and explained it some
thing as follows Certain of their
clerks, being foreigners, pronounced q
with the long sound, very like =, and one
of these, in calling off the amounts to be
debited to the customers of the house
at the close of banking hours one day,
called "James A. Lowell, $780," and
gave his pronunciation of the A. which
caused the entry clerk to charge that
amount to James R. Lowell, or Hosea.
This mistake they wished to rectify by
some means, and after informing him
that the amount and interest thereon
was subject to his draft, intimated that
should it be his desire they would in
vest the balance in way that would be
advantageous to himself. Now, "Hosea"
thought he had spent the money, and
looked upon his credit at Messrs. Bar.
ings' in the light of an extra not count
ed upon, so he signifed his willingness
to accede to theproposal of the bankers.
A few months later he received notice
that the snug little sum of thirty-seven
hundred and some odd dollars awaited
his order in the hands of his bankers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
NO. %.
Facts and Fancies.

Albany is to have Temperance State
Convention on the Oath of June.
Chicago has clergyman named Sulh-
van who objects to have his sermons re-
ported. -.r
Pennsylvania lawyers are petitioning
for the abolition of the grand jury
system.
Weisser, of Pittsburgh, is astonished
that, in America, man nay not thrash
his wife.
It costs the Illinois farmers twobush-
els of ripe corn to buy can of the
preserved article. .... ....ae.
They call them "boiler ascensions" IN
Cincinnati. In the last one a horse and
two men were killed.
The Chicago gamblers have subscribed
$500 for O monument to q deceased
member of their craft.
The women of Philadelphia are to
take SO, 900, 900 worth of stock IN the
Centennial Exposition. .......|
The young lady who turns up her
nose at a shoemaker is apt to marry
man who takes q cobbler down.
The Vienna Exposition will cost near
ly $8,500,0O0. It will require the con
tributions of nearly twenty millions OF
lockers on in Vienna to make it pay.
A chap given to statistics estimated
that over two thousand toes were frozen
during the last winter by young ladies
keeping their beaux lingering at the
gate, instead of asking them into the
parlor.
The best doctrine to teach child is,
that he must labor for what he wants.
Is it riches? Let him stop envying
those who made money, and go to work
and make it himself Is it the position
which character gives? Let him build
up good reputation for himself.
A Paris correspondent says " Every
one knows with what cautious grada-
tions French women pass from the
| black dresses of widowhood to the
brighter toilettes for balls and parties.
lat first they introduce little white,
| then little violet, gray, mauve, after
which they pass boldly to blue, green,
or pink.
The st. Albans Messenger gives these
reasons for not fearing an outbreak IN
the Green Mountain State: "In the
ninth and last census, Vermont is cred
tied with an aggregate Indian population
of fourteen, but they are so scattered
that we need entertain no fears of
general Indian war. Essex county has
three, Grand Isle six, and Lamoille
fve."
"Do you like chickens ?" asked a re-
markably modest Nashville youth OF
his sweetness, as he was walking about
two feet from her on his way to church,
Sunday night. Certainly I do" she
replied "wAy do you ask such ques-
ton as that % "Because I thought if
you liked chickens, you wouldn't OBJ
ject to taking a wing" and he crooked
| his arm in an irresistible manner.
Sweetness took wing. ..
An Ohio postmaster has received a
letter wherein the writer profers curl
GUS request, as follows "If you can
& will ascertain the names of some rich
old maid or widow worth from 5 thou
sand to $4,000 or more let me know by
return mail and [ will pitch in and if |
make it tie the Knot, it is | hundred
dollars in your pocket Keep this pro-
found secret between us two if it gets
out all is spoiled I am pour but want
to marry rich.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
A Joke ON a Bishop.

A good story is told of well-known
Episcopal Bishop of neighboring dio-
cese. We refrain from givingt the name,
from appreciable motives of delicacy.
The Bishop is very staid, glum sort of
a good man, and the last one in the
world to enjoy joke, especially one on
himself. A waggish friend, meeting him
the other day in a car, astonished him
by exclaiming, after a reference to his
high-church principles:
"Why, Bishop, 1 hear that on Easter
you appeared inyourpulpit with crown
and palm p
"What p exclaimed the Bishop, in
astonishment. Nonsense You know
better"
eyes," repeated the other, "with a
crown on your head and palm in your
hand"
cit is libel Who could have start
ed such story?" responded the dis
tinguished prelate, warmly. But,
pshaw ! it is idle to talk about it it is
SO absurd" "
The conversation was changed, but
the Bishop did not forget his friends
words they preyed on his mind and
worried him ); he was afraid the libelious,
atrocious report should get into the pa
pers, and then it would become popu-
larly accepted fact which there would
be no denying.
He sought his friend the next day at
his Office, for the purpose of learning
the origin of the outrageous story; but
the other, who is considerable of wag,
sorely vexed the spirit of the accom-
plished prelate before he would make
any satisfactory explanation, and then,
with laugh and twinkle of the eyes,
he exclaimed:
"Why, Bishop, haven't you a crown
on your head, and palm inyour hand ?
See ?"
The Bishop was SO much pleased with
the explanation that he succeeded in
raising a laugh; though the expression
of fierce solemnity that settled on his
features as he left shortly after leads
his friend to believe that he did not
thoroughly enjoy the joke.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07

The old law allowed soldiers who had
been in service ninety days, a homestead
of 160 acres aOithin railroad limits,
where other persons could get only 80
acres.
The ne,O law of April, 1872, gives
homesteads to soldiers and their un-
married widows, or minor orphans,
sooner than others can get them.
It deducts from the five years resi-
dence required for perfect title of other
homesteaders, all the time, up to four
years, that soldier, or sailor, has been
in the United States service.
If soldier was discharged by reason
of wounds or disability, or died in the
service-his whole term of enlistment
is deducted.
In the case of soldiers now enlisted,
service is constructive residence. Ac-
tual residence must follow within six
months after the date of entry.
If a soldiers homestead, already
taken, is less than 100 acres, he may
enter enough more to make up that
quantity, if any public land remains
contiguous to the tract embraced by his
first entry.
A claim may be filed by an agent in
vested with power of attorney, as well
as in person, and then improved by the
soldier at any time within six months.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
Sad Fate of a Missing Boy.

Tamaroa, ILL.,, has been shocked. The
incident which has 50 disturbed Tamaroa
is singular one. About five weeks
since William Farmer, lad of fifteen
years, had a slight misunderstanding
with his mother, who is widow. He
wanted a new pair of shoes, and his
mother did not get them, either through
forgetfulness or lack of means.
The boy said pettishly that he would
match her for not getting the shoes.
He disappeared that day. His mother
supposed he had run away for the pur-
pose of carrying out his purpose of
matching her, and gave herself little
concern about him, thinking he would
return when he got over his pet. In
fact, she had information which led her
to suppose that her son was engaged at
work on the st. Louis and Cairo Narrow
Gauge Railroad.
She was, therefore, in good spirits
over the absence of her boy, until the
unexpected shock which she received a
day or two since. Mr.. r. II. Nicholson
and one of his hired men commenced
moving some lumber which had been
piled near the town, but had fallen
down, and were almost driven from their
work by stencil that proceeded from
it. Displacing q heavy mass of oak
lumber, containing about six hundred
feet measurement, they found under it
q crushed human body, which proved
to be that of the missing boy.
Az tba ooronar'c avopoin otiOp Iub oh
followed, little girl, Mollie Neviles,
stated that she saw William Farmer on
the evening of his disappearance about
sunset, standing on the lumber pile be-
meath which he was found dead. The
girl testified that after her first sight of
him she turned around to go into the
house, heard the lumber fall with a
crash, and afterward heard meanings in
that direction.
She then went into the house and in
formed her aunt, Mrs. Gamble. Mrs.
Gamble soon after started out to make
an examination, when some of the other
children called her attention away, and
she forgot all about the incident, until
her memory was refreshed by the dis
covery of the body. The body was so
much crushed, it is said, that the boy
could not have lived if he had been re-
leased from the dead-fall Immediately.
The verdict of the jury was that the
deceased came to his death by accident.
All the circumstances, however, give
rise to the suspicion that the boy might
have intended to hurt if not kill him
self, to be match for his mother.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-07
The Henpecked Man.

The henpecked man IL most generally
married but there are instances on the
record of single men being harassed by
the pullets.
You can alwus tell one ov these kind
ov men, espeshily if they are in the
company of their wives. They look as
RESIGNED tew THAR fate az hen turkey
in wet day.
There amt nothing that will take the
starch out ov q man like being pecked
by woman. 1t is wus than a seven
months of the fever and agy.
The wives of henpecked husbands
most alwus outliv THAR victims, and L
hav known them to get married again !;
and git hold ov man that time (thank
the Lord y who understands all the
henpeck lodges.
The henpecked man, when he gitsout
amungst men, puts on an air ov bravery
and defiance, and once in a while git o
leetle drunk, and then go home with a
firm resolve that he will be captain ov
his household; but the old woman soon
takes the glory out of him, and handles
him just as she would haff grown
chicken, who had fell into q swill bar
rel, and had to be jerked out awful
quick, Josh Billings.