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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
The Shield of Health.

Debility opens the door to disease. Nor is this
ALL When the door has been opened and the terri
BILE intruder has entered, physical prostration
renders its progress to the citadel OF life compare
lively easy. Therefore bar the door, and if possible
keep it barred or ifthe enemy has already secured
foothold, rally the strength of the system and
assist nature to drive out the foe of health and life
The means Of doing this is within every ones
reach. Brace up the physique with Hostetter's
Stomach Bitters when there elements in the air
you breathe the water you drink that are morbid
and unwholesome. This is barring the door. Epi-
denies and endemics Will assail in vain the living
fortress that is thus protected. 1t may "laugh a
siege to scorn." But if this precautionary measure
has been neglected, the seeds Of disease can be
elected by the same potent vegetable agent that
would If taken earlier, have prevented their OBJ
tanning an entrance into the system The stimulat-
ing, invigoratng regulating and purifying proper
ties OF this vital elixir render it most formidable
antagonist of all facilitating disorders The rapid
ity and certainty with which it vanquishes fever
and ague, rheumatism bilious collie, indigestion,
and nervous complaints, is due in no small degree
to the strength it imparts to the muscular fibre,
the nerves and the membranes which line tho
stomach and the bowels. 1t may be safely said that
a course Of the Bitters commenced now will be q
sure protection against most of the complaints
incident to the season.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
The Changes OF a City.

The good old days of Lowell, when
trim and bright-eyed Yankee girls tend
ed the looms by day and edited the
LOtCeU Offering by night, and put
money into the savings banks, and after
wards married happily and went down
serenely into a green old age, are gone
forever. In their place is a huge array
of the foreign born-English, Irish,
Scotch, Canadians-and but one-half of
the whole population of the city is now
American. 1t also appears from the re-
port of the Massachusetts Labor
Bureau, in which these statements are
given, that whereas Lowell was former
ly the principal seat of the cotton man.
ufacture of this country, Fall River now
largely excels in the number of spindles
and looms. So Lowell passes into his
tory. 1t was once our Manchester-a
Characteristic specimen of American en-
terprise, industry, and progress, visited
by tourists from Europe as one of the
"sights of the country, and much
talked of in books of travel and essays
on social economy-but its character is
changed and its glory has departed.
The statistics of the year tell us that
the cooperative stores and Labor asso-
Citations which once fourished in Lowell
have also gone the way of all the earth,
except the Ten-Hour League, which
was organized in 1866, and has had a
checkered existence. Nevertheless, the
city employs more than thirteen thou
sand operatives, runs half a million
spindles, and has a population of 5000,
which is an increase of 1000 since 1870
and so continues relatively prosperous
and contented. But it is not the Low.
ell of the old happy days.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
Girdling the Earth with Wire.

With the exception of direct lines
from the western coast of America to
Asia, the girdle which good-humored
Puck was to put about the earth seems
to have been completed-t forty min
utes the little sprite claimed to accom-
plish his work has been quite verified
by the events and the labor of the pres
ent age. The wires of the telegraph
are annihilating distance, aiding the
laws, and bringing the nations of the
earth into companionship which COM
pels better understanding. When we
can read in the morning papers the Aus
tralian news of yesterday, coming by
way of London, leaving there at 3 a. m.
of to-day, the triumph of science and
the testimony of success to energy and
perseverance is complete. North, East,
South, and West-al are within few
hours reach with the touch of the in
struments, and the steady tapping of
the Geographic signal breathes the
wishes of the world and the news of
national or financial import with uner-
ring promptness. The slender girdle
which the wires spread makes all man.
kind close neighbors, and the bond of
union which civilization is each day
riveting should make us truer friends,
and nobler toward each other.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
American Field Sports.

The wanton destruction of game in
this country has led to the passage of
stringent acts for its protection in sew
eral States, and a large number of
sportsmen's clubs have been organized
to insure their enforcement. The Sc
verify of the present winter renders the
stringent observance of these laws more
than ever necessity. Great numbers
of birds have persisted of cold and hun
ger, and thousands have been driven to
the vicinity of barns and houses, where,
instead of being fed and protected, they
have been trapped by the hundred and
sent to market. The same wanton
spirit of destruction bids fair to ex-
terminate the larger game on the West
ern prairies. During the last season
more than quarter of millien of buff
faloes were killed on the plains for their
hides alone, and their carcasses left to
decay. Unless our Legislatures take
this matter in hand without delay, and
pass such measures as will prevent this
wanton war upon game, we shall soon
have none left to protect.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
A Sad Story of DefalcatiOn.

A letter from Penn Yam, N. Y; gives
the sad results of q defalcation and
elopement there. Burns, one of the
party was for four successive terms
elected County Treasurer, with family
consisting of a wife and three children.
A short time ago he left, and shortly
after young lady, his ward, also left.
1t was soon after found that Burns was
a defaulter to the amount of $42, 00G,
and efforts were made to find him.
A dispatch received from San Francisco
announced that he was there and that
he was'insane. On the 18th of Febru-
airy the Sheriff and one of Burns bonds
men, started for San Francisco, and,
arriving there on the Goth, took Burns
in custody. The meeting between the
defaulter and former friend is said to
have been most affecting. He grasped
the hand of Sheriff Dinturff and wept
like child. AS soon as he could articu-
late word he exclaimed, "I'm 80 glad
you have come I'm so glad you have
come p He was then seized with con-
vulsions, and it was some time before
he was restored to reason. When he
left Penn Yam he wore a heavy black
beard, reaching almost to his waist, and
his hair was very black. When arrested
he had shaved off his beard and his hair
was very gray. He is a man forty years
of age, but disappearance nowis that of
man of sixty.
When the San Francisco officers went
to arrest Burns at his hotel, the latter
said to his ward, who was with him, 81
told you 80, Cynthia; [ knew they
would find us p and burst into violent
fit of weeping.
In response to inquiries made of him
at San Francisco by Sheriff Dinturff, as
to where he had been since he left,
Burns stated that he and his ward left
New York for Central America, where
heengaged in mercantile pursuits. The
knowledge of his crimes, however, dis
abled him for business, and he deter
mined to travel, thinking his mind
might be quoted of his guilt. He went
to England, Ireland, Wales and other
European countries, but could enjoy
nothing. From Europe he went on q
voyage to the Sandwich and Barbados
Islands, and finally, on the 10th OF
January last, landed in San Francisco,
heart-broken, cheerless man. In all
his wanderings he was accompanied by
his ward, and was haunted continually
by the thought that he was pursued.
He had perpetual longing to return
to Penn Yam and give himself up, but
was restrained by the woman. He said
that he never ceased to believe that he
would, sooner or later, be apprehended
and arrived at that stage that he was
impatient of the delay in justice over
taking him. The happiest moment he
experienced since he left Penn Yam was
that when he saw Sheriff Dinturff enter
his cell, and knew that at last the dread
full suspense was over He told thu
Sheriff that he could scarcely wait tt
reach home, SO that he might confess
his crimes, receive his punishment, ant
again commence new life.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
Smoking.

The Quarterly ReUieoU observes that
the Russian cadets have a great weak
ness for smoking, and smoking was held
in such adherence by Nicholas that-as
English traveller in Russia will still re-
member-any person, whatever his age
and rank, was arrested by the police if
found smoking in the streets. Alex
ander, who was exceedingly fond of
cigarettes, hid himself from his father.
all his life long, when he wanted to
have a smoke. Disregarding all the
penalties, however, the cadets managed
to smoke in their schools, and in one of
them Alexander arrived one day at a
moment when the rooms were full of
tobacco smoke. He did not seem to
notice, however, what couple of years
before would have been regarded as a
crime very nearly approaching high
treason, and went quietly on with his
inspection, when an alarm was sudden
ly raised, that the Emperor had arrived
in the schools courtyard. Alexander
suddenly turned to the boys who fol-
lowed him and said, cit smells of to-
bacco here very strong; open quickly
the windows; l will go down stairs and
detain the Emperor for while" And
so he did the Emperor noticed moth
ing, and the Grand Duke Alexander be-
came more than ever the idol of the
of the young men, who are old officers
now, but from whose memory the story
seems not to have departed at oil
events, the writer has had it repeated
to him several times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
Statistics Of Popular Education.

The table of nliteracy in the ninth
census, appropriately colored black to
denote the Ignorance of each locality, re-
veals some startling and unexpected.
statistics concerning States generally
considered the best educated Perhaps
a preliminary question might arise as
to what is the true test of illiteracy; for
in some cases, the marshals returned,
as illiterate, Chinese students, well
versed in their own classics, but who
had not yet acquired an English educa-
ton; but such returns were quickly re-
vised by thu superintendent. Should
attendance at school be recognized as
the best test, we find that Massachu-
sets receives a darker average shade
than New York, while Rhode Island
and Connecticut cannot compare with
Michigan and Iowa. During the last
decade, some States have actually re-
trograded in the percentage of school
attendance. Thus Massachusetts, had
twenty per cent of her population at
school in 1860, and only nineteen per
cent. in 1870; Rhode Island had eigh-
teen per cent. in school ten years ago,
and now only sixteen per cent. Not
that Massachusetts, and Rhode Island
do not offer a free common school to
every child within their limits, but that
within these ten years, a foreign popu-
lation has crowded into these States
that better appreciates child who can
win its bread and butter at an early age
than one who can read and write.
Wherever manufactures spread, and
foreign populations crystalize around
them school attendance always dimin-
ishes and illiteracy grows. Rhode Island
is the most ignorant of the Northern
States and no one can have passed
the numbeIless factories that line both
banks of the Blackstone from Worcester
to Providence without recognizing the
cause. 1t is very significant fact that,
in the census, the two maps of Wealth
and Illiteracy open facing each other ;
and the yellow tinge of the former
covers all parts of the country not tint
ed by the black of the latter. Wherever
illiteracy fourishes, wealth ceases to
grow. On the north side of line
drawn through the middle of Virginia
and Southern Illinois, property has &C.
cumulated at the rate of nearly thou
sand dollars per capita, and nine-tenths
of the children attend school, On the
south side Of that line, more than TWEEN.
ty-fve per cent. of the population car
neither read nor write, while wealth
does not amount to over three hundred
and fifty dollars head. The two great
facts of education and property on the
one side, of ignorance and poverty or
the other, are conterminous throughout
the whole country, and in all the stats
teal maps of the census. Iowa has
less than four percent. of her population
over ten years of age who cannot write
Michigan just four per cent, and New
York five; and neither of these States
has any pauper element outside of it,
cities, while Louisiana has irtyeigh
per cent of her population unable t.
write, and South Carolina has forty
one and both hold a percentage o
poverty, in country as in city, that sad
ly corresponds to that of ignorance.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
The Dress of Women.

Why women dress in styles that men
do not admire, while struggling to win
the admiration of men, is problem
that we often find people puzzling over.
Women dress for each other, says one
writer; men never notice the details of
their dress, the pattern of their silks,
the color of their ribbons they merely
take in the general effect, and quite as
often detest as admire it. What the
woman thinks of when she purchases
an article of apparel, so we are told, is
the admiration or envy it will create in
the minds of her rivals. These are
sometimes the motives but it is always
a misplaced expectation, for if men dis
like women's fashions, women are mer-
CHESS in their criticisms of each others
taste. The truth we apprehend, is this
women dress to crafty their natural
instincts; they have love of color, OF
display, of ornamentation, and they
experience delight in decorating them.
selves in styles that tickle their own
fancy, and no doubt they are preplexed
to find their efforts so little appreciated
by the other sex.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

EARTH AS A DIsINFEoTANT.- The value
of earth as a disinfectant and deodorizer
is well known; and the treatment of
liberated sores and gangrenous wounds
with it is becoming very general. A
new application of this system has late
ly been described, namely, the use of
clay as a dressing for the face in two
cases of continent small-pox-dusting
it, in fine powder, over the faces of the
patients as the pustules become fairly
developed. This, it is stated, formed a
clear, dry, wholesome scalp, absorbing
the infectious material, scaling off dur
ing convalescene, and leaving the un-
DERIVING skin in its natural and nor.
NAL state. The painful and persistent
itching which is well known as one of
the worst characteristics of the disease
was by this simple means entirely
abated. The earth used was fine pipe
clay.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
An Immense Fortune.

The ship that was to bear fortune to
the "Chase heirs" has at last come
home, bringing with it the snug sum of
$3.50, 100000 to be divided among the
American heirs of three brothers,
Englishmen, who emigrated to this
country about the year 1889. Of these
brothers Aguilla settled in Newburyport,
Mass. Thomas in Rhode Island, and
William in Yarmouth, Mass. A fourth,
brother named Richard remained in
England. The vast property comes by
descent from Sir Townley, living
about the year 1900 at Townley Hall, in
Lancashire, England. He was the pro-
genitor of certain Miss Mary Town
ley who married a man named Chase,
who was the father of the four sons
mentioned. This Mary Townley was
the heir of all her ancestors immense
riches. A late decision in the English
courts has given them threefourths of
the sum of 1886, 900, 900, the full amount
of the inheritance in our times, to the
American heirs, the remainder, about
$125, 100000, having already been dis
tributed among the heirs of Richard,
who had remained in England.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

FIsH.-As an instance of the different
modes by which the markets of Great
Britain and those of the United States
are supplied with fish, and the differ
ence in the prevailing tastes of the two
nations, we may remark that among the
most esteemed species in Great Britain
are the various kinds of fiat fish, in
Guiding the turbot, sole, plaice, etc. A
recent writer estimates that not more
than one per cent. of these fish are
taken with the hook and line, the rest
being captured with the trawl, an i'm
plement unknown in this country in
connection with our market supply.
In the United States, with variety of
fiat fish equal to that of the British
seas, they are very little esteemed /;
indeed, being generally rejected as
worthless.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
THE WEEKLY SUN,
Only 81 a year. 8 Pages.

THE BEST FAMILY PAPER.-The Weekly N. Y.
Sun. SPACES. 81 year. Send your Dollar
The BEST AGRICULTURAL PAPER.-The Week
ly N. Y. Sun. Independent and faithful
Against Public Plumber. SPACES. $1ayear
Send your Dollar.
The BEST NEwsPAPER.-Th Weekly N. Y.
Sun. SPACES. 81 ayear. Send your Dollar.
HAS ALL THE NEws.-The Weekly New York
Sun. SPACES. 81 ayear Send your Dollar
The BEST STORY PAPER.-The Weekly N. Y.
Sun. SPACES. 81 ayear. Sendyour Dollar.
The BEST FASHION REPORTS in the Weekly N.
Y. Sun. pages. 81 a year. Send your
Dollar.
THE BEST MARKET REPORTS in the Weekly N.
Y. Sun. pages. 81, year. Send your
Dollar.
The BEST CATTLE REPORTS in the Weekly N. Y.
Sun. 8 pages. $1ayear. Send your Dollar.
The BEST PAPER in Every Respect Weekly
N. Y. Sun. SPACES ST. a year. Send your
Dollar.
Address, THE SUN, New York City.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

A Vallejo California; young lady,
about to go off in the cars, stepped into
the dark sitting-room of the depot to
kiss her friend Sarah good-by. Owing
to the darkness she didn't hit Sarah,
but caromed on a Chinaman, and didn't
find out the mistake until John began
yelling, "Whatee for you so chokeeme ?
Hi yah! No squeeze so muchee !"
One yell, Hopping of feminine gar
ments, slammed door, and that girl
was gone.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
A CURE FOR
CONSUMPTTON.

For the cure Of this distressing disease there has
been no medicine yet discovered that can show
more evidence Of real merit than ALIENS LUNG
BALSAM. This unequaled expectorant for curing
Consumption, and all diseases leading to it, such
affections of the throat lungs, and all diseases of
the pulmonary organs, is introduced to the suffer
ing public after it's merits for the of such dis
have boon fully tested by the medical faculty
The Balsam Is consequently, recommended by ply
sicians who have become acquainted with its great
success.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

We have seen it stated in various
the sale of SheridGn's CaUal'y Condition Po,c-
derS were authorized to refund the money to
any person who should use them and not be
satisfied with the result. We doubted this at
first, but the proprietors authorize us to say
that it is true-C0m.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

, GIVE MINUTES FOR REFRESHMENTS.
who has travelled by railroad has
heard the above announcement, and has prob
ably suffered from eating too hastily thereby
sowing the seed of Dyspepsia. 1t is comfort
to know that the Peruvian Syrup will cure the
worst cases of Dyspepsia, as thousands are
ready to testify Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin, PIN
affections cured, and the skin made soft and
smooth, by using the JUMPER TAR SOAP, made
by CAswELL, HAZARD & Co., New York. Be
certain to get the Juniper Tar Soap, made by
us, as there are many limitations made with
common tar which are worthless.-Com
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

JohnSon'S AnOdyne Imminent is, with
out doubt, the safest, surest and best remedy
that has ever been invented for internal and
external use. 1t is applicable to a great variety
of complaints, and is equally beneficial for man
or beast.-COm
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

CRIsTADoRo's EXCELSIOR HAIR DYE
stands unriyaled and alone. Its merits have
been so universally acknowledged that it would
be supererogation to descant on them any
can beat it.-Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

For BRONCHIAL, AsTHMATIo AND Pull
monary Complaints, " Brot0n's Bronchial
Troches" manifest remarkable curative prop
erties-Corn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

Faces INSTANT RELIEF has stood
twenty years test. Is warranted to give inlne-
didte relief to all Rheumatic, Neuralgia, Head.
Ear, and Back aches, or money refunded Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22
WHAT THE DOCTORS SAY;

ASANS
Drs, Wilson Ward, physicians and druggists,
write from Centreville, Tenn: "We purchased
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM, and it sells rapidly. We
are practicing physicians, as well as druggists
dy, such as we know this to be-"
DR.. Lloyd, of Ohio surgeon in the army during
the war, from exposure, contracted consumption.
He says: have no hesitancy in stating that it
was by the use of your LUNG BALsAM that am now
alive and enjoying good health"
Nathaniel Harris, of Middleberry, Vt, says: "I
have no doubt it will soon become classical RENE
dial agent for the cure of all diseases ofthe Throat,
Bronchial Tubes and Lungs"
Amos Woolly, NJ. D., of Kosciusca Co., Ind. says:
For three years past have used ALIENS LUNG
BALsAM extensively in my practice, and am salts
fed there is no better medicine for lung diseases
in use.n
Physicians do not recommend medicine which
has no merit. What they say about
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM
can be taken as fact Let all afflicted test it at
once, and be convinced of its real merits.
As an expectorant it has no equal
II is harmless to the most delicate child.
1t contains no opium in any form.
Directions accompany each bottle.
CAUTIoN.-Can for
ALIENS LUNG BALSAM.
]. N. HARRIS & CO., Cincinnati, o.
PRoPRIEToRs.
PERRY DAVIS SON, General Agents.
Providence, RI.
Sold by all Medicine dealers.
FOR SALE BY
JOHN F. HENRY, New York.
GEO. c. GOODWIN & CO., Boston.
JOHNSON, HOLLOWAY CO., Philadelphia
DIR. JAYNE's ExPECToRANT is both a palliative
n,ndn I'M oil
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

Drs. Wilson Ward physicians and druggists,
write from Centreville,' Tenn: eve purchased
ALIENS LUNG BALsAM and it sells rapidly. We
are prncticing physicians, as well as druggists,
and take aleasuFe in recommending great RENE
dy, such as we know this to ben
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

Dr. Lloyd, of Ohio, surgeon in the army during
the war; from exposure, contracted consumption.
He says: have no hesitancy in stating that it
was by the of your LUNG BALsAM that am n ow
alive and enjoying good health.n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

CowHIDINa A JUDGE.-Judge Straub,
of the Cincinnati Police Court, SEN
fenced boy named Joe, alias kid "
Lytle, to the workhouse for thiaty days
as common thief. The boy is no.
torious character, and has been SEN
fenced several times. The same even
ing, when the Judge went to his room,
Mrs. Lytle, the mother of Kid" met
him at the door and cowhided him Sc
verely. The alleged reason was that
the Judge, in giving the sentence, re-
ferred to the bond robbery in Utica,
N. Y, with which the boy was recently
charged and tried for, butnot convicted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

Michigan University has eighty-three
female students, of whom thirty-seven
are in the medical department and four
in the law school,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-22

DR.. JAYNE's ExPECToRANT is both palliative
and curative in all Lung Complaints, Bronchitis,
&c. tits standard remedy for Coughs and Colds,
and needs only trial to prove its worth