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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
A TabIeau Group i'm Flames,

A very narrow escape from painful
death occurred at a tableau exhibition
in public hall in Grand Rapids, Mich.
A correspondent of the Detroit Post
says: can entertainment given by the
Ladies' Literary Society closed with o
tableau having twenty-five young ladies
and eight little girls on the stage.
During bright light produced by
magnesium wire, blazing substance
dropped upon Miss Mckee, one of the
tableau group, standing near the stage
wing. She darted into the centre to
separate from the others, her clothes
afame, but accidentally touched little
daughter of Leonard Remington, whose
clothes instantly blazed. The large au-
dience was in great CONSERVATION, when
Col. J. %. Messmore, in the audience,
quickly bounded upon the stage and
hugged the blazing child between him
self and the overcoat which he wore,
extinguishing the flames, but burning
his hand severely. The clothes drop
ped from her in blackened shreds when
released. Her life was saved by his
presence of mind, but one side of her
face and body is badly but not danger
ously burned. Miss Mckee had, in the
meantime, been pulled off the stage by
men behind the scenes, who stripped
off her clothing. She was but little
burned. The result was announced,
the panic of the audience subsided,
and the hall was soon cleared.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
YeSpers.

To the traveller in Spanish America,
the striking of the vesper bells exer-
cises a potent charm. AS the usage re-
quires every one to halt, no matter
where he may be, at the first stroke of
the bell, to interrupt his conversation,
however important, and listen, without
stirring, until the conclusion of the
chime, the singularity of whole pop
ulation surprised in moment as it
comes and goes, held in state of petri-
fcation, and paralyzed as if by an en-
chanter, may be imagined. On every
side you see gestures interrupted,
mouths half opened for the arrested
remark, smiles oddly lingering or pass
ing into an expression of prayer. You
would fancy them nation of statues.
A town in South America, at the tinkle
of the Angelus, resembles the city in
the "Arabian Nights" whose inhabi-
tants were turned into stone. The ma
gician here is the bell-ringer. But
hardly has the vibration ceased when q
universal murmur arises from these
thousands of oppressed lungs. Hand
meets hand, question seeks answer,
conversations resume their course /;
horses feel the loosened bride, and paw
the ground dogs bark, babies cry, the
fathers sing, the mothers chatter. The
accidental turns thus given to CONVEX
sation are many, and sometimes strik-
ino
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Sickness and Medicine.

Among the dispatches read at the ex-
animation of Phelps, the defaulter, at
Albany, was one as follows:
Charley was very sick all night, but
doctors now say he is out OF danger"
This, the District-Attorney said, he
understood to mean that the examina-
tion of the Treasurer's book was called
for and there was great danger of an
exposure. The District-Attorney also
read one signed Harriet Snyder, to Mr..
Phelps, calling upon him for settle
ment also one signed Edwards, to
Sherwin, saying Charley had had re-
lapse, could live but few days, and
calling on Sherwin to get medicine and
come up to Albany at once. This, the
District-Attorney said, he read as mean
ing that his rascality had been dis
covered, and it was necessary for Sher-
win to come to his relief with the
money, which he called medicine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
sensation Reports.

The daily papers are just beginning
to find out what business men knew
about the panic, namely, its influence
on manufacturing enterprise, and now
that the worst part of it is over, they
are filling their columns with details of
the ste Jpage of manufacturing, etc.
Those who are at all acquainted with
the boct aud shoe manufacture know
that we have now arrived at the usual
season for stopping between the fall
and spring trade, and if the panic has
cut us off from three or four weeks
trade, the full influence of that was dis
counted three or four weeks ago, and
only i'll effects can result from an at
tempt now to revive the general dis
trust and want of confidence which pre-
vailed toward the latter part of Sep
tember. We have now, we trust, got
beyond the influence of any such efforts,
and we are sure that, in the boot and
shoe trade, the prospects of alarge and
profitable business in the near future
were never better. Collections are rea-
sonably good, because manufacturers
have made up goods only on orders and
have not over-suppied the market,
SO that they have no surplus on
hand. The country is, also, notoriously
short of goods, which they must and
will have as soon as money becomes
easier throughout the country, as it is
now fast becoming in New York city.
Manufacturers and leather dealers
are showing their confidence in this
prospect by their preparations for the
future, and by the firmness with which
both the raw goods and manufactured
articles are held, and those who base
their action on the newspaper reports
so far as to presume that we are going
to have dull, hard winter in the shoe
and leather business will, we are con.
fident, find themselves mistaken. We
have had no failures of any consequence
in the trade, and with the money market
daily working easier, the distribution
of goods must be accelerated in the
future to make up for the deficiencies
thus Inexperienced. --Shoe and Leothe,
Chronicle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Piano Playing by Machinery.

Human ingenuity has perfected a
machine that makes it possible for any
one with capacity enough to turn a
grindstone to perform the most difficult
written music for the piano. The ma
chine in not a myth, says the Cincin-
natl Commercial. We saw it only yes
terday. 1t has just been imported from
Paris, and was attached to the piano
only the day before. 1t played selec-
tions from 'Barberof Seville, ""Faust," +"
g Taunhauser," and other operas. In
deed, its capacity is unlimited. 1t can
play on sight any piece of music, and
its playing cannot be distinguished
from that of living player. 1t is ca
pable also of playing on the organ, or
any instrument having keys similar to
those on the piano. Another instru-
ment of the same kind, the only one in
the city, has already taken the place of
an organist at one of our churches.
The machine is q marvel of complica-
ton. 1t occupies position in front of
the keyboard of the piano, and extends
from above the keyboard to the floor.
Directly over the keys of the piano are
keys corresponding to the piano keys.
These are the fingers of the machine.
They are as many as the keys, and thus
the machine has an advantage over the
human player. How these fingers are
made to work is the problem, which we
can only family indicate in this descrip-
tion.
The top of the machine is about one
foot in width. It has in the centre two
rollers, which are moved by crank.
These carry the music through, and as
it passes the piano playsit. The music
is on paper, but it is not written. The
notes are made by cutting square holes
through the paper. AS these holes pass
certain point they allow hammer to
pass through, and the stroke of that
hammer is communicated to its own
key in the piano. Each key has its
hammer. 1t only requires that these
holes be cut at proper intervals to strike
any number of keysssin any given series.
The machine has a pedal arrangement
which connects with the piano and en-
ables the player to have the effects pro-
duced by an ordinary player. 1t also
has an arrangement to change the force
of the touch.
It is French instrument, and has
been known but short time. The
manufacturer has orders beyond his
capacity to fill. The two machines in
this city will doubtless attract much
attention.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Items Of Interest.

1t is said that John B. Cough has
lectured in Boston 369 times.
The Mississippi Legislative Assem-
bly, has issued bill postponing the
general election until next year.
Burgess and his wife, who were on
trial for inhuman treatment of Caroline
Louise Dunning, aged six years, at New
Orleans, were found guilty, the penalty
for their crime being imprisonment for
life.
Brigham Young, the Mormon chief,
is reported in very feeble health, caus-
ing serious uneasiness to the great
bulk of his people, whose interests are
dependent upon the prolongation OF his
life.
"My DEAR" said the sentimental
Mrs. Waddler, ''home, you know, is the
dearest place on earth. well, yes,
said the practical Mr.. Waddler, sit
costs me about twice as much as any
other spot"
Worcester, Mass, raised subscrip-
ton two years ago, which was intended
for Chicago, but not needed by that
city, and again rejected by Boston last
year, and the committee now proposeto
offer it to Memphis.
OF the five or six hundred deposltors
in the clearinghouse of Jay Cooke Il
Co. all excepting about thirty have
signed the plan of agreement, namely,
to place the settlement in the hands OF
ex- Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Rollins.
Don't visit Boston to get work. The
Superintendento the Employment De-
partment of the Young Mems Christian
Association there says that there are
now "1, 500 mechanics-nearly all we'll
skilled in their trades-who are wander
ing about Boston streets in the vain
search for something to do"
A gentle Quaker had two horses,
very good and very poor one. When
seen riding the latter, it turned out
that his better half had taken the good
one. What r' said sneering bach
elor, show comes it that you let your
wife ride the better horse :" The only
reply was Friend, when thee be
married, thee II know"
The most careful estimates for the
present year do not place the grape
Weld of California much above 5000, ,OOO
gallons. Two reasons are assigned for
this shrinkage First-The frosts, which
were the most severe that had occurred
in the State for many years, and which
came late in the spring, just at the tran
sition from blossom to fruit. Second
The excessively hot weather of the sum-
mer months, which thickened the pulp
of most of the wine grapes, making
them fieshy," so that while the quality
has really been improved the prices
have been diminished.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
A Suffering Actor.

At an English theatre, the other eve-
ming, an actor playing King Henry V.
struggled bravely half through the play
with evidently severe indisposition. AT
last the poor fellow gave up the battle,
and, white as death and almost breath
less, came to the front of the stage, and
in a nearly inaudible whisper said that
he "felt as if his last hour had come.
He chad struggled for three weeks,
and suffered God only knew what, in
his endeavor to keep that engagement.
He had come on the stage that night,
knowing that it was at the risk of his
life. He was no craven, but he was
now entirely defeated, and could not
proceed. He asked for their sympathy
as Christian men," And he had it, for,
as he was carried fainting from the
stage, his audience gave him the hearty
evidence of their sincere alarm and in
terest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Going West.

All who go West do not find tie
happy home expected. One man who
was doing we'll in the East relates his
experience as follows:
I thought could do better, so sold
out, pocketed my money and started
for the West. When I arrived there
things we're not as 1 expected to find
'em. But [ wish to say to all your
readers who have had similar expe-
rience, and are homesick, don't come
back after the manner of one poor fool
/ know of. tell you the railroad COM
panies got over 5000 for carting me and
mine out and back. Now don't be a
lunatic, as was, but "stick. came
back to please wife's relations, but
when / had been back three weeks they
wanted to know what l came back for;
now then I can go here and there to get
days work and get my pay-well,
some time.
People who go West with no definite
idea Of where they are going and what
they expect to do when they get there,
will in nine cases out of ten be badly
disappointed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Dress Plainly

Some one has given the following
reasons why people should dress plain
ly on Sunday. These reasons are as
valid any other day in the week =
1t would lessen the burden of many
who now find it hard to maintain their
place in society.
1t would lessen the force OF tempta-
tions which often lead men to barter
honesty and honor for display.
If there was less strife in dress OF
church, people in moderate ciroum-
stances would be more inclined to
attend.
Universal moderation in dress at
church would improve the worship by
the remittal Of many wandering
thoughts.
It would enable all classes of people
to attend church in unfavorable wea-
ther.
It would lessen, on the part of the
rich, the temptation to vanity.
1t would lesson, on the part Of the
poor, the temptation to be envious and
malicious.
1t would save valuable time on the
Sabbath.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15

CARLIsT DECORATIONS Carlos,
of Spain, is described by writer who
saw him recently as wearing white flat
hat, like a Scotch cap, called a boina,
and on his breast three orders, or rather
two, for the third is the SGcre cBur and
is worn by all his soldiers. The others
Others were the Golden Fleece and
Carlos III. His soldiers wear over
their hearts an oval piece of flannel
with an embroidered heart, with chain
around it and the words "Do not harm
me, for the heart of Jesus is with me. "
This they consider charm against the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
A Farmers Complaint.

Col. Cochrane, a Grange officer, says
to reporter that the cost OF farming
has been greatly increased by the
building of railroads, or at least since
their introduction. Before the war he
could hire men who were capable OF
conducting his farm, without his super
vision. for less money than he now has
to pay for hands who hardly know
enough to hitch up team and go into
the field to work unless somebody tells
them how to do it. The only hands he
can now hire are Germans, and they 90
only about half as much work as the
Americans he used to get. The same
is true of work in the houses; no matter
how able and willing the farmer may
be to hire servants, his wife must pc
drudge.
said, girl who knows enough to COOK
a meal. and who will hire out to do
housework. The servants are the most
inferior kind, and even they can't be
depended on to stay at the very Time
they are most wanted. If you make
contract with them in the spring for
the season, and agree to pay them $2 a
week and board, when the hot weather
comes they begin to grumble, and Whe9
the harvest begins they "can't stand
the work any longer" and the next
thing you hear they are binding IN the
harvest field for dollar day, while
the farmers wife is left alone with from
a dozen to 25 harvesters to provide Tor;
These hardships the Colonel attributed
largely to the railroads-they paid un-
skilled laborers better wages than the
farmers could afford to, and they opened
up new country for homesteads for the
better class of men who formerly worked
out by the month.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
No Letters,

I say at morn " I shall have one to-day =
1 Isayat night, / shall have one tomorrow y
But day and night GO creeping slow away,
And leave me with my sorrow.
And is he sick ? or is he dead, or changed7
Or, haply, has he learned to love another2
II could know him careless or estranged.
Ny pride my love might smother.
Last night, indeed. 1 dreamed a letter came,
All welcomer than any first May blossom!
And then l heard my mother call my name.
And hid it in my bosom. .....
And cheated, woke, and heard the night wind
rave, fH.fI
And hid my wet eyes in my lonely pillow;
And dreamed again, and saw nameless grave,
Half hidden by willow
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15
Death in the Ring,

One of the most amusing perform
ances in a circus ring is entitled the
one horse velocipede." An attache
of the show staggers into the ring, clad
as stimulating drunken boor. In vain
the ringmaster tries to whip him out.
He wants his wife. Another performer,
in female toggery, responds to his calls
for " Hannah Jane," rushes upon the
sawdust and embraces him. The crowd,
equally divided between the deceived
and those who "know thing or two,
all laugh. They laugh as crowds have
laughed ever since spangles under and
misery beyond the glares of the lurid
lights over the sawdust were known.
In this dilemma the zone horse veloci-
pede" is summoned by the manager.
1t is wheel going upon its hub and
dragged by one horse. Upon it the
Doors (?) are induced to take a seat.
The horse is then speeded around the
ring, the wheel whirling on it's centre
SO rapidly only experts could keep their
places upon it. 1t is a funny but very
dangerous "trick." So George Reibold,
a performer, found it in Cincinnati. He
was thrown violently from his place,
picked up and carried out. The con-
sternation of the audience was allayed
and the performance went on, while
Nine. Dockrill, fresh from her great
bareback act, leaned over and nursed
the poor fellow with womanly care until
surgeons came and pronounced the case
critical. And while Reibold, with
concussion of the brain, lay at the
Gait House watched over by his
lifelong "partner as by brother, and
wavering between life and death, the
crowd roared over &C. the one-horse ve-
locipede act " in the distant tent, as il
"circus acting" were but child's play.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15

FROZEN TO DEATH. 1t is early in the
season to find items like the following
in the papers: Adyices from Kidder,
forty miles east of st. Louis, on the
Hannibal & st. Joseph Railroad, state
that two strange men were found frozen
to death on the prairie near that town,
few nights ago. They had been in
Kidder during the day, and appeared
IN ha intoxieatad
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-11-15

A shool-examiner lately gave bright
looking boy this sentence to correct
" Between you and l this is good but
ter" The boy shortly returned the
slip thus marked: incorrect the
larnn-nost is onittad. y
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08
CHAPPED HANDS.

In healthy condition the skin is kept
supple by an oily secretion, which answers
the same purpose as oiling leather. Dur
ing warm weather this secretion, in com
mon with all the other secretions Of the
skin. is more abundant thanin cold When
if is insufficient the skin becomes dry and
harsh and on those parts of the body
where the skin is thick and subject to
motion as on the hands, it readily cracks
or assures. The amount of this secretion
is so much reduced in cold weather that
the frequent washing of the hands with
soap causes them to chap readily, and this
the more certainly if the soap is not wash
ed off. The alkali in soap is usually in ex-
cess, and this combines with the oily Sc
cretion. and so depriyes the skin of its nat
ural lubricator. To prevent the hands
from chapping, then, be careful to wash
all soap from them thoroughly in clean
water This viii ordinarily suffice but, II
not, it will be necessary to make good the
removed oil by using KENNEDY'S S SALT
RHEUM OINTMENT, a sure cure for al
skin diseases of whatever name or nature
/ PRICE 30 CENTS. Sold by druggists
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08

Quilted of the charges but was not re
leased, however, as there is another charge
pending against him.
James NJ. johnson, of Wilhamsburg.N n
Y, arrested on Sunday for alleged altering
of Buffalo, New York, and Erie Railroad
bonds, has been indicted by the grand jury.
A London letter says Mr.. Motley conva-
lescence continues TO show none but favor
able symptoms.
| The dead body of Chas Lamon FRAZIER,
| 80 New street. was found in the the area
in front of his residence on Fifth Avenue,
this morning 1t is supposed he fell from
window in the fourth story
New YORK. Sept "a fire in Broad
street liquor warehouse, this morning, oc-
cupied by Charles j. Murphy and Reed &
Co. damaging it to the amount Of $4,000.
Insured.
ALRANY, Sept 6.-Palmer Newton 4
Go. S fire brick works in the north part OF
the city, were totally destroyed by fire to.
night. Loss, about $4,000.
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08

PEsTTLENcE. "A cure and sure preven-
tive. DIR. McCabe's Renowned Medicated
Blackberry Brandy has acquired such a
high reputation for the speedy cure of all
bowel affections, that unsrincipled scamps
have resorted to almost every reprehensible
device to stealits reputation and thus perpe
trate fraud on the public by using similar
Bottles with similar labels to the wei
known genuine, filled with trash, deleter
ions TO life and health.
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08

It's gratifying to US to inform the public that Dr.
O. C. wishart's Pine Tree Tar Cordial, for Throat
and Lung Diseases has gsieed an enviable reputa-
ton from the Atlantic ID the Pacific coast, and
rom thence to some of the frs: families Europe.
not through the press alOne,h by persons through
out the States actually Seneftted and cared nj this
office While he Publishes less, 80 say our report
ere, he lie unable to supply the demand 1t gains
and holds its reputation
Eirst. Not by stopping cough, hut by ioosenins
and assisting nature % throw off the unhealthy
matter collected about the throat and bronchial
tubes which causes irritation.
second. It removes the causes Of irritation
which produces coughl Of the mucous membrane
and bronchial tubes, assists the lungs to act AND
throw of the unhealthy secretions, and purifes the
blood.
Third 1. is free from squills, lobelia, ipicae and
opium Of which most throat and lung remedie;
re composed, which allaY cough only, and disor
ganize the stomach II has a soothing effect on tbs
liver and kidneys and every part of the SYSTEM ant
in its inyigorating and purifying effects it hal
gained reputation which 1t must hold above al
Others in the market.
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08

f. T. kUNKEL S BITTER WINE OF IRON.
This truly valuable tonic has been SO
thoroughly tested by all classes OF the com
munity that it is now deemed indispensable
as Tonic medicine. 1t costs but little,
purihes the blood and gives tone to the
stomach, renovates the system and pro-
longs life Everybody should have it;
For the cure of Weak Stomaehs, Gene
raj Debility. Indigestion, Diseases of the
Stomach, and for all cases requiring a
tonic
This wine includes the most agreeable
and efficient Salt of Iron we possess
Citrate of Magnetic Oxide, combined with
the most agreeable OF vegetable tOnlcs--
Yellow Peruvian Bark.
Do you want something to strengthen
you? -
Do You want good APPETITE?
Do you want to get rid of nervousness.
Do ycu want energyp
Do YOU want to sleep well?
do you want to build up your constitu-
ton.
! Do you want to feel well?
| Do YOU want brisk and vigorous feeling !
| If YOU do try kunkels Bitter Wine Of
| Iron.
only ask a trial of this valuable tonic
Beware of counterteits, as kunkels Bit
ter Wine of Iron is the only sure and ct
fectual remedy in the known world tor tn
permanent cure Of Dyspepsia and Debility
and as there are a number OF limitations 9i
fered to the public, / would caution th
community to purchase none but the gen
uine article, manufactured by Il, f. Kun
IL al
The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-09-08

We see by the Chicago papers that
PRocToR & GAMBLE have reduced the
price of their long established and popular
braud NOTIFIED GERMAN SOAP, its pres
ent price and superior quality makes it the
cheapest as well as the best soap for con-
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