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Wilmington daily commercial., 1873-11-04

ASSIyERsA HY,-Ine Anniversary of the Chris
tisl Association. u the Central Presbyterian
CLusch, VIII be held, in the Church this even
ing. at = Je.rek. Addresses Will be delivered
b, lev. q. HAM er AID Mr. Ellngsworth
Tie Presidents annual report viii be read. and
appropriate music aud other suitable exercises
gwen, Tie public are cordially invited.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
To Correspondents.

Fastidious James.-It is not strictly
etiquette, when a gentleman declise
to dine with you on the ground of be-
ing engaged, to write in reply that you
believe that's all humbug and that he
hopes for pleasanter invitation; but
your answer would otter be truthful.
Impatient Hester. - When Hamlet
said: "Those that are married already,
all but one shall live," it is certain that
he meant, when king of Denmark, to
provide means of living for such couples
Ms had welded on insufficient incomes.
But don't you and "dear Tom" marry
on the idea that anything of the sort
will be done for you. Wait and hope
to get tired of one another.
A Rightful Heir. With pleasure.
Send us all your papers, AMI we will
read them carefully, and, if necessary,
obtain our solicitors opinion for you.
elise, wherefore breath we in Chris
tian world ?" or, rather, what else is
the duty of an editor?
Scrupulous. There is no objection
to shooting street organist, but do
not fire out of your window when any
body else is about, lest you injure a
fellow-creature.
l.. j. M.-You did not send the
stamps, which was bore, because at
the moment we happened to want some,
but your poem would equally have gone
into the waste-paper basket. Where is
your right to give us the slightest trou-
BILE =?
A Detected Wife. We can give no
advice about marking-ink. Besides,
respectable washerwomen now decline
to work for persons who are mean
enough to mark their linen, and thus
not only show a want of confidence, but
give the trouble of sorting the things.
Maria. You ask who "Glossary the
Poet" was. You have seen his works
indicated on the back of the volume
containing Chaucer, Cover and Skel-
ton. Quite right to ask. He is q very
nice poet, and has this advantage, that
he explains every word he uses, which
several moderns do not do.-Punch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
The isle Of Shoals Murder.
The Testimony Of the Only Living Wit
ness of the Double Tragedy.

ness OF the Double Tragedy.
Among the witnesses examined at
Alfred, Me-, at the trial of Wagner for
the murder of Annethe M. and Karen
Christensen was Mrs. Mary s. Houtvet,
the only witness of the tragedy and who
fortunately escaped being one of the
victims. She is a very intelligent look
ing woman. She testified:
am the wife of John G. Houtvet and
sister of Karen Christensen. L have
lived five years at Smutty Nose Island.
Before the murder was at home. That
day my husband and Matthew Houtvet
and Ivan Christensen left early in the
morning. The next saw of them was
the following morning, March 5, at 10
o'clock. Karen Christensen, Annette,
and I were there. We went to bed at
10 o'clock. slept in the western part
of the house in the bedroom. Annette
and ] slept together, and Karen slept
on a lounge in the kitchen. The cur
tains were up; as the night was pleas
ant I did not haul them down. The
outside door was not fastened. Karen
was undressed. The first thing that
awoke me was Karen crying: John
scared me! John scared mel" The
clock fell down on the lounge, and was
stopped at seven minutes past one.
She then cried again: "John is killing
me! John is killing meI He COLI
menced at her with the chairs. l jump
ed up and tried to open the bedroom
door, but could not. He kept on strik-
ing her until she fell under the table,
and the door was then opened saw a
great, tall man. He grabbed chair.
L tried to pick Karen up, and took her
to the bedroom. While doing so he
struck me twice. I told Karen to lift
the window, but she said she could not.
She was on her knees with her arms on
my bed. / told Annette to take some
clothes and run and hide away. Annette
opened the window and jumped out.
When [ stood at the bedroom door he
thumped three times and tried to get
in. Finding he could not get in that
way, ne ran out of the door. Annethe
saw him and cried three times, "Louis!
Louis! LoHis!" until he struck her with
a big axe. I saw then that the man was
Louis Wagner. He hit her on the
head. He struck her once, and after
she fell he struck her twice. He went
back to the corner, jumped out, and
told Karen to come. She said, 81 am
so tired, [ cannot" ran to the hen
house and opened the door, but I saw a
little dog coming and l was afraid to
hide there because 1 thought the dog
would bark. 1 ran to the beach, mean
ing to get the dory and go off with it.
[ heard my sister crying. I hid in the
rocks from the time the moon was near
y set until half all hour after sunrise.
When he came the axe was outside of
the door. I had known Louis Wagner
year and q half. He had boarded
with me seven months.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
Opium Destroying Yeracity.

It is a by-word, says lecturer, among
the Chinese, that an opium-smoker is
never to be trusted. The testimony
given by men of all classes, merchar is,
missionaries, Europeans, opium dealers
themselves being the judges, shows that
the baleful effects of this drug upon
the human system are the general de-
terioration of all the mental faculties,
debility, sallow complexion, lividness of
lips and eye-lids, languor, lack of lustre
in the eye, and hollowness of the voice.
When the periodical thirst comes on,
mucus flows from the nostrils, and tears
from the eyes the burning sensation
in the throat cannot be allayed until the
potion is administered. If the pipe is
withheld altogether, coldness and aching
pains penetrate the body, accompanied
with diarrhoa, and death finally ensues.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
FOllies of Fashion.

Who is it that sets the fashions ?
Whom have we to thank for all the hid
eous excrescences by which beauty is
distorted and comfort is disturbed ?
Passing periwigs and pigtails, as things
happily extinct, we wonder who invent
ed chignons, corsets, stick-up collars,
chimney-pothats and high-heeled boots.
AS regards these last named instruments
of torture, see here what is said of them
by somebody who knows: cit was i'm
possible to imagine a more depraved
form of foot-covering, or one more in
furious, than the high boots now
worn by many women. The five toes
were crumpled up together, and great
er weight than it was ever intended 1T
should bear was thrown upon the ball
of the great toe, rendering long-con-
tinued muscular exertion thing i'm
possible" Fine ladies may declare that
fine ladies have no need of undergoing
q continuance of muscular exertion, and
that they therefore have no need 10 give
up wearing high heeled boots. Of
course, fine ladies keep their carriages,
and, except perhaps in dancing, never
have occasion for stretching their ten
toes. So they let these be deformed
and crumpled up by high-heeled boots,
and grow misshapen and distorted like
the feet of the Chinese. Deformity
becomes a proof of fashionable breed
ing, and it is better to be hideous than
not dress q la mode. Punch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
Editorial Matter.

In his address to q convention of
Ohio editors assembled at Columbus,
Mr.. Oscar 7. Martin, formerly of the
Springfield CO., Advertiser, was very
personal. Said he: "There is not an
editor here or elsewhere who is not
writhing in chains, who does not daily
choke back sentiments of an honest
heart from fear or favor. This is bit
ter truth, but none the less truth. The
offal that is thrown to you in the shape
of county printing, buys your silence,
just as the midnight burglar buys the
silence of the faithful Watchdog with
meat that is thrown to it. Neither can
bark their mouths are full. You ride
free to this convention over the railroad
of corporation notorious for its bad
management. A rlimentary to the
theatre is the paltry price paid for an
unfaithful and untrue critique of the
performance, and you sell yourself,
body and soul, for an infnitesimally
less sum than Judas received for the
betrayal of his Master The public
COHUIdCUS, lOE WHICH, Uu6 GXOrDlUHQU DlQ
of favorite on slim security is pre-
ferred to the conscientious bid of q
master workman, is not exposed by the
journal that advertises the bids. The
rival over the way begins the howl
The fraud and corruption of your NUM-
cipal bodies is not unmasked because
you are q member of the ring. You
quake with holy horror at the only
symptom of virtue manifested by our
Legislators, in reforming our postal re-
lations, whereby your privileges may
be abridged, and break out in bad
eruptions of double-leaded indignation,
with frowning black headlines, over
the salary steal of your poverty-stricken
Congressman. On the tittle-page of
your paper you fly such Haunting lies
as THE freedom of the press is the
safeguard of the nationr Truth crush
ed to earth,' &C., and you prostitute
the patriotic motto: 'Give me liberty
or give me death You are bound hand
| and foot"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28

M. Papillon recounts in the following
paragraph the celebrated "dog" ex-
pertinent of Brown. Sequard The
most remarkable instance of momen-
tary temperance of vital properties,
not in the whole organism but in the
head alone, is the famous experiment
suggested by Legallois and carried out
for the first time in 1858 by M. Brown
Sequard. This skilfull psychologist be-
heads a dog, taking pains to make the
section below the point at which the
vertebral arteries enter the bony sheath.
Ten minutes afterwards he sends the
galvanic current into the different parts
of the head thus severed from its body
without producing any result of move
ment. He then fits to the four arteries,
the extremities of which appear in the
cutting of the neck, little pipes connect
ed by tubes with q reservoir full of
fresh oxygenated blood, and guides the
injection of this blood into the vessels
of the brain. Immediately irregular
motions of the eyes and the facial mus
cles occur, succeeded by the appearance
OF regular harmonious contractions,
seeming to be prompted by the will.
The head has regained life. The mo-
tions continue to be performed during
a quarter of an hour, while the iniec-
tion of blood into the cerebral arteries
lasts. On stopping the injection the
motions cease, and give place to the
spasms of agony and then to death.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
A SOmnambuliSt.

Belshazzar Smith had a very bad and
very dangerous habit of walking in his
sleep. His family feared that during
some one of his somnambulistic saunter-
ings he would charge out of the window
and kill himself; so they persuaded
him to sleep with his little brother Will
liam, and to tie one end of a rope round
his body and the other end round the
waist of little William. The first night
after this arrangement was made, Bel
shazzar dreamed that burglar was
pursuing him with q dagger. SO he
crest over to Williams side of the bed
stepped over Williams slumbering
form, jumped out on the floor and slid
under the bed. He stayed there awhile
fast asleep; and then, his nightmare
having changed, he emerged upon the
other side of the bed, and got under
the cover in his old place. The rope, it
will be observed, was beneath the bed,
and it was pulled taut, too. Early in
the morning, Belshazzar, about half
awake, scrouged over against William.
To his surprise the movement jerked
William clear out of bed. Belshazzar
leaped out to ascertain the cause of the
phenomenon, and at the same time his
brother disappeared under the bed,
Belshazzar, hardly yetawake, was scared.
and he dived beneath the bedstead as
he did so he heard William skirmishing
across the blankets over his head. Once
more he rushed out just in time to per-
ceive William glide over the other side.
Belshazzar then became sufficiently con-
scious to feel the rope pulling him. He
comprehended the situation at once, and
disengaged himself. And perhaps little
William was not mad He was in the
hospital undergoing repairs for about
three weeks, and when he came out he
had strange desire to sleep alone
Belshazzar anchors himself now to an
anvil. .-li0r -AdeLer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
The Stokes Murder Case.
A New Trial Granted.

On the 9th of January, 1872, James
Fisk was shot by Edward s. Stokes in
the city of New York. The following
morning Fisk died. Since that time
Stokes has had two trials, and at the
last was sentenced to be executed. The
decision of the Court of Appeals was
promulgated at Albany. the case on a
bill of errors having been referred to
that court. The Court were unanimous
in their opinion that the appellant is
entitled to new trial. The decision is
based on several grounds, the broadest
and most sufficient of which is that
Judge Boardman's charge on the second
trial was erroneous on most important
point. The Judge, it seems, charged,
according to common law, that the law
presumes murder from the fact of kill
ing and calls on the prisoner to mitigate
or Justify. Under the statute law they
decided that, the killing admitted, the
OnuS prObondi rested with the prosecu-
tlon so far as concerned the degree of
guilt, or, in fact, legal responsibility at
all. There are other minor points in
the opinions delivered. One is against
the decision of Judge Boardman to ex-
clude evidence as to alleged threats by
Fisk to kill Stokes and on the points of
evidence elected from Jennie Turner,
the servant of Mrs. Morse.
The steps by which the case of Stokes
has reached its present level are as fol-
lows: After the Coroner's inquest an
Indictment was drawn against Stokes.
Motions to quash the Indictment were
discussed for some time, and at length
the curious spectacle was offered of a
petit jury trying the Grand Jury for
passing upon the indictment. The in
dictment was sustained and Stokes was
called upon to plead towards the latter
end of June, 1872. The trial lasted
from the 10Th of June to the 18th of
July and resulted in disagreement of
the jury. This was, of course, tenn
.porary victory for the prisoner. Then
began the second trial December 10Th.
On the 9th of January 1873, one year
exactly from the murder, Stokes was
condemned to death in accordance with
the unanimous verdict of the jury.
The Court of Appeals at Albany has
decided that a new trial shall take place,
and the result of this trial will be look :.
ed forward to with no little interest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
An English Millionaire.

When people talk about millionaires
they usually mention Rothschild first,
but there is man in England by the
name of Ward, in comparison with
whom any Rothschild is pauper. This
man Ward inherits q vast property,
with accumulated investments and es-
tates, which give him an enormous in
come he has the most magnificent
house in London, the finest collection
of art, and the finest country seats in
the Kingdom his wife is celebrated
for her beauty, and her display of dia-
monds at a recent festival given by the
Emperor of Austria, in Vienna, made
all the other ladies', the Expresses,
Queens and Princesses, look poor.
What the income of this British ICronsus
is we have never seen any statement
of, but Manchester paper gives an
account of his annual profits derived
from his coal mines, which amount to
the enormous sum of G4,900,000. SO
the income from one source alone of
this inordinately wealthy person is not
much short of twenty-five millions of
dollars O. wear.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
Only a Sad Mistake.

Only blunder, sad mistake;
All my own fault, and mine alone;
The saddest error heart can make
was so Young, or I would have known.
Only his rare. sweet, winning smile;
Only lingering touch Of his hand:
think was dreaming all the while
The reason did not understand.
Yet somewhere I've read men WOO this way !;
That eyes speak sometimes before the
tongue:
And I was sure he would speak some day
Pardon the folly, was so young.
Was, say, for now am old;
So old, it seems like hundred years
Since felt my heart growing hard and cold,
With pain too bitter and deep for tears.
saw him beam over the strangers chair
With a warm new light in his beautiful eyes,
And Iwoke from my dreaming then and there,
And went out of my self-made Paradise.
He never loved me, know, l see
Such sad, sad blunders as young hearts
makel
She did not win him away from me,
For he WAS not mine. 1t was my mistake.
A woman should wait for man to speak
Before she dreams of his love, own:
But was girl; girls hearts are weak
And the pain, like the fault, is mine alone.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28
The Havana Lottery.
A Caution to those who will buy Lot
terry Tickets.

A Caution to those who will buy Lot
terry Tickets.
1t would appear that certain class
of Americans are doing the two-sided
work of making fools of themselves and
contributing literally to help Spain
conquer Cuba. A well-informed cor
respondent writing from Havana, says
that American people annually invest
$3, 240, 900 in the delusive tickets of the
Havana Lottery, of which sum 1910,
900 goes directly and undiscounted into
the hands of the Spanish government.
According to the correspondentreferred
to, only six persons, out of thirty thou
sand ticket-holders, can, by any posi-
bility, draw large prize, and for every
capital prize drawn, 29,299 separate
castles of sanguine hopes must be ruth
lessly demolished. Moreover, the ticket
sellers profits are enormous, being
equal to two-fifths of the entire price of
each ticket sold. For example, ticket
whose selling price is $28, costs the
vender only $l6.67 the actuaul per
centage of profit being within fraction
of 70 per cent. on the money invested.
Looked at from a common-sense stand
point, this comes within only 30 pei
cent. of highway robbery, and certain
ly, considering the small chance of any
return whatever to the ticket-buyer,
the transaction savors of u confidence
operation of the first water. When it is
considered in addition to the above,
that eight out out of every ten tickets
in the Havana Lottery, sold in the
United States, are out and out coun-
terfeits, and of no value whatever, il
seems more than ever strange that
people should invest their money in
these tickets.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28

AUToPIAN RETREAT. People in search
of felicity are focking to Danville, N.
H., this summer. There is not q law
yer, doctor, lightning-rod man, sewing
machine agent nor hotel clerk in the
place, while more than 400 beautiful,
long-haired, rosy-cheeked bright-eyed
maidens, with natural teeth and white
dresses, meander through the streets at
even tide, chewing gum and smiling on
the young men about. So, at least, says
o Western paper.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28

We are delighted to learn that some
use has been discovered for mosquitoes
It has been found worth while to strain
them out of the water before they get
their elegant plumage. their tuneful
voice and their blood-thirsty appetite,
and feed them to young trout We are
in favor of raising trout on large scale.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-28

A placard in the Chinese language
offering $500 reward for the assassina.
ton of an informer on the Chinese i'm
migration projects was lately posted in
San Francisco.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-18
Mountains OF Silver.

\ Colorado City letter says: [ have
Just examined specimens of ore from
thirteen new leads OF silver mines re
Gently discovered within eighty miles
of this place, the assay of which has
proved them to lie of wonderful rich
ness, varying from $40 to 1900 ounces
of silver per ton OF ore. The Little
Emma Mine III Utah, SO celebrated,
yields On average of only about 40
ounces in silver per ton, and that at a
great depth from the surface.
These marvellous argentine deposits
are fou d at an elevation of about Il,
900 feet above the level of the sea
They will not be opened nor their
wealth displayed until the melting of
the SHOWS. The miners III this Terri
tory were unusually successful last
summer and are focking down to the
valleys to spend the winter and their
money. Miners, as a rule, are as i'm
provident as sailors. Every spring
they go upon a cruise empty handed,
and neither hardship nor misfortune
teaches them thrift or frugality. Some
few III the winter months hunt game,
and thus save their summers earnings.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-18
You VIII Forget Ne.


[The following beautiful poem is supposed
TO be an orphan. Ii It's author IL living he had
better claim this child of his brain, for there
are doubtless plenty of others who VIII be
glad enough to adopt it j
You will forget me, the years ale so tender
They bind up the wounds which we think
are so deep;
This dream of our youth will fade out as the
solendor
Fades from the sky, as the sun sinks TO
sleep:
The clouds of forgetfulness, over and over,
VIII Danish the last rosy colors away;
Aud tn fingers of Time viii weave garlands to
The scar which you think is ile-mark to-
day.
You will forget me-will thank me for saying
The words which you think are so pointed
with pain;
Time loves a new lay, and the dirge he il
PLAYING
VIII ch tnge for you, soon, to liveiler strain
shall pass from your life, shall pass out for
ever,
And the hours We have spent will be sum
in the past;
You will forget me-grief kills seldom orneyer
And forgetfulness covers all SORROW at last,
You will forget me- aud the one thing you cove
Now, above all things, viii soon seem n
prize:
And the heart which is not IN your keeping, t
prove it
True or untrue, will lose worth III your eyer
The one drop to-day, which you deem onl
wanting
| To make lif5 a joy, will lie lost in Time
! stream;
You will forget me, and the ghost that
haunting
The aisles of your heart viii pass out with
dream.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-18
HYMN of Peace.

We sing to thee, o glorious river
Descending all the hills OF time;
To earth 8 bright field a gladstone 6ivers
We bring the songs from every cline.
Sing. ha7pv hearts sing low and tender!
Sing soft, @ sea sing sweet, y shore!
Sing. bending lue thy scroll of splendor
Bear notes OF peace forever more!
Songs ever blending and ascending,
Sweet peace, we give thee Ger and Ger
BIes; stream, born mid the mountains lonely
Those far off years whose peaks rise h'Gh
Child of loves ocean, God, the only,
Gave thee to earth from out the SKY.
Uetrace ibv course through times commotlon;
We shudder at the dread survey
What fearful storms have checked thy motion
What frightfuI rocks have ba red the way!
Yet all triumphant to the ocean,
Sweet peace, thy waters flow to-day.
O silent river, smoothly flowing!
How bright the blue that blends DER thee
BIillenlal sunlight now is glowing
Across the nearlrg western sea.
Blest prince of peace thy SOUS and daughters,
Rejoicing 10 thy gift to them,
Send lar adown the widening waters
The echong song of Bethlehem
The song all-glorious and Victorious
The angel.song Of Bethlehem.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1873-01-18
Sparks from H0ston Rims.

Making the grand rounds of the
burned district, the whole area was
found to be undergoing constant
change. The derricks, with their heavy
and swaying radias Of coTdage, were
planted AL over the grounds, making
the district much resemble a busy
shipyard Hundreds of carts were
constantly leaving with loads of de
bris, and as many more coming IN to
be reloaded.
Total amount of subscriptions to the
relief fund, to date, &163,3I2. Total
amount to the Harvard Fund, $10l,
$50. James Anthony Froude, the Eng
iIsh historian and lecturer, has contrib
uted $3.50 to the relief fund.
Many merchants in distant cities are
paying what they owe to Boston. and
the deposits Ill the banks Of the city
are rarily increasing. VIII newspaper
man please take notice and do likewise.