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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
MILK as Medicine.

The London lfilk Jotmal says, on the
of DR.. Benjamin Clarke, that
in the East Indies warm milk is used to
a great extent as a specific for diarrhea,
incipient cholera, and
The milk should never be
boiled, but only heated sufficiently to
be agreeably warm, not too hot to
drink. Milk which has been boiled is
unfit for use. This writer gives several
instances to show the value of this sub
stance in arresting this disease, among
which is the following at has never
failed in curing in six or twelve hours,
and l have tried it, l should think, fifty
times. 1 have also given it to a dying
man who had been subject to dysentery
eight months, latterly accompanied by
one continual diarrhea, and it acted on
him like a charm. In two days his di-
arrhea was gone, in three weeks he be-
came hale, fat man, and now nothing
that may hereafter occur will ever shake
his faith in hot milk" A writer also
communicates to the Medical Times
and Gazette a statement of the value
of milk in twenty-six cases of typhoid
fever, in every one of which its great
value was apparent. 1t checks diarrhea,
and nourishes and cools the body.
People suffering from disease require
food quite as much as those in health,
and much mere so in certain diseases
where there is rapid waste of the sys-
TEN. Frequently all ordinary food in
certain diseases is rejected by the
stomach, and even loathed by the pa
tient, but nature, ever benefcent, has
furnished food that in all diseases is
benefcial-in some directly curative.
Such food is milk. The writer in the
journal last quoted, DR.. Alexander
Yale, after giving particular obserya-
tions upon the points above mentioned,
viz: its action in checking diarrhea,
its nourishing properties, and its action
in cooling the body, says: :" We believe
that milk nourishes in fever, promotes
sleep, wards off delirium, soothes the
intestines, and, in fine, is the sine qua
non in typhoid fever" We have also
lately tested the value of milk in scar.
let fever, and learn that it is now rec.
commended by the medical faculty in al
cases of this often very distressing
children's disease, Give all the mill
the patient will take, even during the
period of greatest fever lit keeps ur
the strength of the patient, acts vel
upon the stomach, and is in every way
blessed thing in this sickness. A 49,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
How They Make a Cannon.

The Springfield Union says I" The
preparations for making the new Hitch
cock gun at the water shops are going
on as rapidly as could be expected. The
big shaft, which is being sunk in the
northeast corner of the old drop-ham-
mer room, has reached thirty-seven feet
in depth, and will be completed next
week. For while the drilling and
blasting went along rapidly, owing to
the softness of the rock and the absence
of the water but when about twenty
feet below the surface the water began
to pour in, and little further down
the rock changed to a hard, grayish-red,
conglomerate sandstone, exceedingly
difficult to work. Two small pumps
were put in to remove water, and
although they are run seven hours each
night, they prove incapable of carrying
off the water as fast as necessary, and
their place will be supplied with ro-
tary pump, with capacity of two hun
bred and fifty gallons per minute. AS
the shaft has to be blasted fifteen feet
in diameter in the clear, the progress is
necessarily quite slow, and eight men
have been employed at the work for
nearly three months. The drilling is
all done by hand, the holes being about
two feet deep. The drilling is kept up
from bell-time in the morning till noon,
when five blasts of one and hall
pounds of powder each are let off, one
after the other, and another series OF
blasts are fired at four in the afternoon.
Although the firing is in hole nearly
forty feet deep, there would be consid'
cradle danger to passers-by and the
workmen from flying stones, were il
not guarded against by heavy cover
ing of brush, which is placed overevery
drill-hole before firing. This shaft is
to contain the big hydraulic press
which forms the anvil on which the gu1
will be forged. e., the steel rings o.
which it is composed will be welded
together by the blows from the tento1
steam hammer overhead As eacl
eight-inch ring is added to the gun
eight inches of water will be let out o
the press, and the gun will, of course
4 drop just that distance into the shaft
Then, when the forging is completed
and the so, 000-pound monster is read.
for trimming and boring, it will b.
tipped over little to one side, to avoit
hitting the furnace and machinery a
the top of the shaft, and the water vii
be let into the press, bringing the gul
to the surface.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
Gold in New Hampshire.

The Boston Transcript remarks that
it is some seven or eight years since the
discovery of gold-bearing quartz in
Lisbon, which, at the time and for
year or two subsequent, caused consid-
cradle excitement among the inhabit-
ants of the section of country near by,
and brought TO the town many persons
of speculative tendencies and others
who really meant business. The rock
from the different quartz veins was
thoroughly tested by fire assay, and
found to be gold, bearing from so to
$3.50 to the ton of ore /; company was
formed, shafts sunk in two places, two
quartz-mills erected and furnished with
the most approved machinery, and the
business of gold-mining was begun in
earnest. But owing to the existence of
the baser metals in the ore, the gold
salvage was less than the expense of
mining. For year or two new corners,
with new ideas, made trials of the rock,
all being satisfied from the tests that
sufficient gold existed to pay hand
some profit to the successful operator.
The matter finally became so discour-
aging, from failures in every instance,
that the operations were abandoned and
the works have lain idle till this sum-
mer, when the work has been started
anew by party from Philadelphia, who
has for a certainty discovered the
method of working necessary for this
particular rock. The recent operations
have been most successful, the ore
yielding $85 per ton, and profit OF
more than $50 per ton to the oper-
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
The Local Editor.

The following is borrowed, and it is
the best we ever had local editor lend
us;-"If man buys new buggy, or if
his COW can bawl three times without
winking, the local is expected to pro-
claim it with grand flourish. If he
starts two-penny business, his first
thought is to bride the local with a five
cent cigar to write five dollar puff.
Indeed, he thinks it is a mission of the
local to make his fortune for him by
free blowing He will take the local
to one side and point out the superior
qualities of rat terrier dog, and coolly
ask him to give him hoist. He don't
care anything about it, only Spriggins
has dog which he thinks is buster,
and some of EN- wanted his put in Just
to take the conceit out of Spriggins.
Everybody wants to be put in, but no
one says, Here, local, put yourself in
side of this new suit of clothes, or throw
yourself outside this oyster stew, OF
stuff this watch into your pocket Oh,
no, of course not that would cost some
thing. The shoe is on the other foot,
you see. "srEfA. s..+. |1+
The local is supposed to know every.
thing about other peoples business, and
is expected to show up all the actors in
every family broil in town. If the vile
tongue of scandal finds victim, people
wonder why he don't run about with
his note book and gather up the vitu.
perative bits of SANDER for his paper. Il
he steps into billiard haA he is re-
quested to make note of the astonish.
ing fact that Bill Tompkins has made {
run of eleven points. When the min
strel troupe arrives in town the agen
Immediately rushes into the printing
office, and calling for the local he slips
three or four tickets in his hand, ant
whispers, "Draw us big house! Pu
1 it in strongl" and patting him patroniz
ingly on the shoulder the agent admit
the inferiority Of the troupe, but we ar
not to 'let on. 1t is no sin for the loca
to lie. To please the lecturer the loca
is forced to sit. two mortal hours to hea
him through an insipid discourse, S
that he can write him up And so j
goes. All are anxious to appear favor
ably in print, but few are willing to pa
for it! The locals time is worth notl
ing, but to bother his head writing puff
for ambitious persons. 1t doesn't cos
him anything to live. He never eats
drinks or travels, and money is of n
use to him. Put it in! Put it inp'
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
Look Out for HOrse-Thieves.

6 Our rural friends are advised to keep
a sharp watch on all stragglers and
strangers offering horses for sale. Chi
cago and her suburbs are infested with
these villainous pests, who make nightly
raids on the stables in and around the
city. Many valuable equines have
turned up missing lately. It isthe prac-
tice of the thieves to run them. into the
agricultural districts and dispose of them
to unsuspecting farmers, who are only
too willing to buy because an apparent
ly cheap bargain is offered, which in too
many instances proves to be no bargain
at all, for very frequently the stolen
animal is traced and recovered, and the
purchaser has to whistle for the money
he has paid to the thief. Farmers in
the country cannot be too careful.
"Forewarned is forearmed." H
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
walwOrth's Departure for Sing Sing.

Early in the morning Sheriff Bren-
nan proceeded to the Tombs and in
formed young Walworth, convicted of
murder in the second degree and SEN
fenced to Imprisonment for life, that he
must prepare for his removal to Sing
Sing. The convict's mother and grand
mother with his younger brother had
visited the Tombs previous to the ar
rival of the Sheriff and had already bid
den him farewell. There was no
special emotion manifested by either
Walworth or his relatives, his mother
and himself maintaining the same I'M
moved demeanor that they have pre-
served since the committal of the crime.
There is probably latent hope on the
part of both that the term of imprison-
Ilent may be shortened by the interpo-
sition of the Executive, butat all events
the parting was not what would have
been expected of such near relations
bidding each other a lifelong adieu.
A carriage had been provided by Wal
worth's relations that he might go to
the station like gentleman and not
ride in the prison van as a common
criminal, but the Sheriff refused to
permit any such distinction to be made
between Walworth and the other Grim
inals, andhad the boy murderer chained
to the wife-murderer Gillen, who also
goes to Sing Sing for life. Allen the
! burglar, and Greenfield, convicted of
grand larceny, were brought out from
their cells, chained together, and seated
in the van with Walworth and Gillen.
The load of sin was made up by the adj
dition of four others of lesser note, SEN
fenced to various terms of imprison-
ment, and then the doors were barred
and bolted andTthe van driven off to
the Forty street depot. A large
basket of flowers had been brought to
the prison by some lady friends of the
convict: but he was not permitted to
receive them, and they we've taken in
charge by his mother, who, with his
other relatives, entered the carriage
they had designed for him and followed
the prison van to the depot. A large
crowd had collected in and around the
depot, drawn thither from curiosity tc
see the departure of the parricide fol
his lifelong country residence, and the
officers had great difficulty in forcing
their way through to the car, and ever
after the party was seated in the cal
the crowd pressed eagerly round it tc
catch a last glance at the party within
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
Summer Beverages.

If ice water is used, it should be be-
tween meals, with an interval of few
seconds after the first swallow or two.
This is always safe, and too much can
not be drank without forcing. Half q
glass drank thus, will satisfy more than
pint if drank continuously, and with
out the unpleasant sensation of fullness
accompanying large rotations. 1t is
more healthful, and far better, to take
cup of hot drink at meals than glass
of ice water the latter has often given
dangerous, and even fatal chills. No
one is injured by cup of hot tea. II
person sits down to q meal on hot
day-weak and tired, and hungry and
thirsty, glass of ice water will have
a delicious taste; but it endangers an
ugly chill while cup of tea is abso.
lutely reviving and invigorating, raising
the spirits and preparing the stomach
for the reception of a hearty meal. =
DR.. w. w. Hall. it##.H
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
The Canada Pacific Railway.

The Board of Directors at Montreal
have accepted the terms of Sir Hugh
Allen for the construction of the Canada
Pacific Railway. Assuming that this
contract means business, we shall have
within few years four trans-continen-
tai railroads north of our Mexican boun-
dary-the Canadian, and our Northern,
Union Central, and Southern Pacific
roads. And there will be scope and
verge enough for them all, for each of
these lines is so far separated from the
next that each will have great section
of the country to itself between the Ion
gitudinal line of the Mississippi River
and the. Pacific Ocean, and each will
have its own settlements and trade to
build up en- route and some advantages
of its own on the Pacific Coast
The Union Central Pacific, the pio-
neer line, is doing business which
ought to pay handsomely; the Northern
Pacific, on the eastern division, is in
operation to Bismarck, far up the Mis-
souri, River, and on the western side it
is making good Roadway. The South
ern Pacific, upon which they are at
work actively, will probably be finished
before the Northern Pac: foJ or within
the next three years. The Canadian
road-well, we must wait till they &C.
tually break ground upon it before we
can enter into any conjectures as to the
probable time Of its completion. We
have no doubt, however, that Sir Hugh
Allen is in earnest and means to build
the road. .s.E .I.. la igiss 1n' 1as
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
A PHYSICIAN WHO HEALED HIMSELF

A PHYSICIAN WHO HEALED HIMSELF
If railroad director were dashed to
every locomotive, there would believer
railroad accidents. and if doctors had
to take their own physic before admin
istering it to their patients, fewer peo-
pie would be poisoned. DR.. Joseph
Walker, of California, took this course
when he first compounded the famous
Vinegar Bitters, which now ranks as an
estimable household remedy in all parts
of the United States. He healed him
self with this specific before he offered
it to the world. He introduced it with
simple statement of the manner in
which he had discovered it's vegetable
ingredients and been cured, while wan
dering, sick and poor, among the Cali
fornia tribes. He stated what the
preparation had done for himself and a
few others from dyspepsia, biliousness,
rheumatism, lung diseases, and many
other prevalent disorders, believed him,
tried the new restorative, and were
more than satisfied with the results.
In this way the sale of Vinegar Bitters
began, and we mention the fact as an
evidence that in this age of intelligence
and inquiry, nothing that is really val
liable to mankind can prove pecuniary
failure-even though it may lack the
help of capital, and have to fight its
way against powerful opposing inter-
ests. Within two or three months after
it's introduction, the article became self
supporting, and it now yields mag
nifcent annual revenue.-COn1. Il
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
What Manufacturing Does.

There is many city and town that
will appreciate the following One
mandatory employing hundred men
will support an additional 500 people.
Three hundred families will disburse
annually on an average, $500, or$75, 900
in the aggregate. This money will be
drawn into the town from the outside,
where the manufactured goods are con
sumed, and the interest of this $75, 900
at 10 pr cent. would be $500. These
hundred families, too, would require a
hundred houses, thousands of pounds
of agricultural produce, and thousands
of yards of cotton and wooden goods,
thus giving health and impetus to every
branch of industry.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
The Beggars' Bridge.

Several centuries ago, certain Grand
Duke of Florence built bridge with
out expense to the State. He issued
proclamation that every beggar who
would appear at the grand plaza at a
certain designated time, should be pro-
vided with a new suit of clothes free of
cost. At the appointed hour the beg
gars of the city assembled, whereupon
the officers caused each avenue of the
public square to be closed, and then
compelled the beggars to strip off their
old clothes, and gave to each one, ac-
cording to promise, q new suit. In the
old clothes enough money was found
concealed to build beautiful bridge
over the Arno, which is still known by
the name of the Beggars Bridge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

The departure from England of the
Brazilian cable expedition is anticipated
in the most recent London newspapers.
Double interest is attached to the
event, following as it does so soon after
the start of the fourth Atlantic cable
squadron. The cable in question will
belaid along the coast of South America,
from Para to Pernambuco, and will
form part of an extensive line of COM
munication with the Brazils. Other
sections will be laid in due course from
Pernambuco to Rio Grande, with a
station at Bahia, and from Para to st.
Thomas in the West Indies.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
The Vital Drain.

1t is necessary to the health of the body that its
exhausted and refused particles should be carried
off by the excretory organs and it is equally
sary that the waste matter thus expelled should be
replaced by new elements derived from digested
and assmiated food. 1t is evident, therefore that
good digestion and perfect assimilation essen
tial to bodily vigor and it is because Hostetters
Stomach Bitters powerfully assist these processes,
that is regarded by the intelligent classes whose
opinions founded on observation, as the only
absolute specific for dyspepsia and its attendant
ills, at present known. When the system, either
from constitutional csusest overwork, excess,
anxiety actual disease, is in unnaturally re-
Taxed condition, something more than its exhaust
cd particles passes through the pores. Vitality
leaks through these yentages. Elements which
should remain in the blood and enrich it are
evolved, and that fluid becomes then watery and
incapable of removing the solids of the body
as they decay. The consequences are emaciation
debility, nervousness loss CT spirits and general
or perhaps rapid, decline Of all powers of life. Il
is in cases like this that the restorative properties
of Hostetters Bitters are most conspicuous. q The
| first two or three doses sometimes produce
change in the feelings and aspect of the invalid
that is perfectly astonishing, and by perseverinG
use of this superlative vegetable tonic and atera
tive the. vital drain is sure to be arrested, tn,
strength reinsta the flesh restored the cons ii
| tuition reinforced, and the brain relieved of thu
| cloud that obscured it, 100. aA .'f.s''..
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

Are ladies aware that the waterfall
and chignon are borrowed from the
lowest order, of women in Japan, who
always have q weakness for them? In
the widest portions of Africa, as the
drawings made by travellers invariably
show, chignons are worn, and the more
dangerously wild the women, the great
er the chignon. In Japan, also, it has
been observed, the lessa woman has in
side her her head, the more she man
ages to arrange outside Of it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

A certain New Hampshire weekly an
nounces the startling fact that There
is rich editor in New Hampshire He
has gained his wealth by the strictest
economy. He always writes his edi-
torials on q slate"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

A Western traveller suggests a new
sleeping-car regulation, which shall pro-
hibit porters from extracting a passen-
gers well-pOlished boots from under his
pillow, and charging twenty-five cents
for setting them on the floor in front of
his bunk. ..-.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
PERUVIAN sYRUP-AN IRox Tonic.

The relaxing power of Johnson's Ano-
dyne Imminent is truly wonderful. Cases are
already numerous where bent and stiffened
limbs have been limbered and Strengthened by
hniment cold, and rub it in with the hand Com.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

The champion lobster has been cap
tured about twenty miles from Port
land, Me. It measured three feet ten
inches from tip to tip of the extended
claws, and would require about twelve
heads of lettuce alone to dress it into a
oaIad
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

CHAPPED HANDS, face, rough skin,
pinples, ring-worm, salt-rheum, and other
cutaneous affections cured, and the skin made
soft and smooth, by using the JUNIPER TAR
SOAP, made by CAswLL, HAZARD q 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
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

A Danbury mans order for his wife's
hat is a novelty in its way. She was
sick, and couldn't go for the hat, so he
drove in himself. He told the milliner
to put on a dollars worth of parsley,
fifty cents worth of string beans, ten
cents worth of cherries, few green
currants, beet or two, little cabbage,
and about three slices of turnips, or, if
it was too early for turnips, make..it two
ew potatoes instead. So y IS ,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

A Richmond (Va.) court has decided
that clean shave on Sunday before
church is of the nature of religious
rite, being necessary a" for a due OBJ
servance of the Sabbath';" and there
fore that BARRIERS cannot be restrained
from officiating on that day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26
DR.. j. Walkers California Vim

DR.. j. walkers California VIM
egar Bitters are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges of
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted therefrom without the use
of Alcohol. The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERSp Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and life giving principle,
perfect Renovation and Invigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERS in healing the
sick Of every disease man is heir to-. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion or Inflammation of
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases. M. ....te.. 20 ..-.
The properties of DIR. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carminative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,.
'Sedative, Counter-Irritant, Sudorifc, Altera-
tive and Anti-Bilious. ,ils.ra sea ys
r.. II. MCDONALD & CO., a.
Druggists and Gen Az ts San Francisco California,
and cor of Washington and Charlton Sts., N. Y. ~
Sold by all Druggists and Dealers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-07-26

A crowd of "Horse Men" and others,
daily throng the stores in country and town for
Slef.iddns Cdudlry Condition POWDERS. They
understand that horses cannot be kept in good
condition without them, and with them can be
on much less quantity of grain.-Com.