Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-04-26

Iexas is supplying Jne northern mar
kets with mutton.
A Utica girl Of fourteen years is the
mother of two children. ."t
There are 139 vessels now crossing
the Atlantic ocean between Europe and
America.
The French Committee on Capitula-
tions has decided to proceed with the
trial of Marshal BAzaine by conrt-mar-
tial
A New Orleans paper made horrible
April fool Joke on the distorted and
terribly beaten body of B. Russ Elscar-
petite. ....
The farmers organization Of Iowa has
nominated ticket of its own for State
officers, and the farmers promise to
elect it.
A recent lumberman's circu' ar esti-
mates the number of railroad ties in
present use in the United States at 160,-
100000.
A building in Middletown, Connecti-
cut, fell, burying large number of per-
sons in the ruins, and killing or iniuring
most of them. ....
Six or eight letters mailed in 1869
and 1870 were recently found on car
on the st. Paul and Pacific Railroad
that was being repaired.
Arkansas newspaper correspondents
in the Legislature make assertions and
back 'em up by saying: "Tve got six
bullets which says it's So"
The celebrated Mike Walsh had once
said that he would rather be President
of the United States at dollar and,
half day than carry a hod for that.
The worst instance of heartless tri-
fling is getting up duns on enameled pa
per- with an embossed monogram, the
superscription being in a delicate fe-
male hand.
An eastern clergyman suggested, Sun
day, to some young "ladies" In his
congregation that they should vacate
their seats rather than interrupt the
services by talking.
A Dubuque testator formally gave,
devised, and bequeathed his wearing
apparel to his wife, for the reason that
she had been accustomed to wear 'em
during her married life.
A woman in Spain lately gave birth
to consolidated twin with two heads
and four legs proceeding from single
trunk. One Of the heads was stillborn,
but the other lived two hours. .
A girl of thirteen recently brought to
market at Americus, Ga, a 500 pound
bale of cotton, the result of her own un-
aided labor, from the ploughing of the
soil to the picking and ginning.
The proprietor of a haunted house in
Atlanta. Ga, offers it rent-free for one
month to any one who wishes to try it,
having hitherto failed to find a tenant
who would stay in it longer than five
days.
A Danbury man who has been visit
ing in place where the cemetery was
provided with many private vaults, is
very much pleased with the idea, as it
enables man to visit his own grave
and weep. ....
The following notice was recently
posted on the premises of very rich
kentucky farmer: eff any mans or
woman cows or oxens gifts in these here
oats, his or her tail will be cut off as the
case may be"
The question of opening the Japanese
ports to all foreigners hinges on the
condition that they will submit to the
native laws. One system, based upon
the Code Napoleon, has been rejected
by the Mikado.
A Michigan editor has learned how to
avoid the pangs of hunger. He bought
an elastic rope of health-lift man and
tied it around his waist, giving 1t an e.
ira twist now and then, when the attack
was a severe one.
A young lady, in some "Adv.'e to
Young Men," tells them that when they
call upon young lady in the evening
they should not stay later than ten
o'clock-irom which we infer that the
right young man has never called upon
her.
A Parisian philosopher has just de-
livered the following testament 1t
is my will that any one of my relatives
who shall presume to shed tears at my
funeral shall be disinherIted. He who
laughs most heartily shall be the sole
heir. iva.
The Montgomery Advertiser, speak
ing of the cotton crop for this season,
says: "The money paid for it in its raw
state will not fall far short of 1880, ,00O,-
900. OF this sum about $35, 900, 900
will have gone to spectators and first
purchasers, leaving 1926, 900, 900 to the
producers.
A citizen of Boston last November
placed 81 900 in the hands of the Chief
of Police, to be loaned to working girls
having persons dependent upon them
for support The sums loaned are to
be kept twenty years without interest,
and no security but the word of the
borrower is required. About fifty girls
have thus far been aided in this way
from the fund.
Here is how an auctioneer's dialect is
given in "Scrope, or the Lost Library,
in Old and NeW: "Half-a-d dollar, half
observation-disclosures
bid now, give more f ye want it Half
a-dollar five-eights three-quarters-
Three-quarters I'm bid-will you say
dollar for this standard work octarvo
best edition harf morocker extry ?
Three-quarters I'm bid, three-quarters
will we give any more? Three-quarters,
three-quart thee-quartthee-quart- thee
quawt-thee-quawt one dollar shall I
have ?"
Ex-Governor Berry, of New Hamp-
shire, built tannery at Bristol, N. H.,
in 1896 1t took twelve barrels of cider
and one barrel of rum to build it and
three extra gallons to put the ridge-pole
on. The result was there was so much
spirit infused into the undertaking that