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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
A Slave Marriage Decision,

The Supreme Court of Tennessee has
recently made decision upon the legal
ity of marriages contracted between par
ties while in state of slavery. Two
colored men claimed to be legal heirs of
one Philip Garner, and their claim was
resisted on the ground that at their
birth their mother was a slave, and that
there could be no legal marriage be-
tween slaves, as they were incapable of
making a contract. In delivering the
opinion of the court Judge Head said
that the Court of Appeals in Kentucky
ad held in two cases that slaves could
not, under the law of that State, con-
ract legitimate marriages, nor could
their living together as husband and
wife constitute their union marriage de
factO; and no legal rights could be ac-
quired under such connections by the
parties thereto, nor by their offspring.
This doctrine Judge Head declined to
accept, as it is in conflict with the die
tates of humanity, violates the prlnci-
pies OF natural justice, andls subyerslve
Of good morals. 1t is true that the va
rious statutes of Tennessee regulating
marriages were construed to embrace
white people alone; but the common
aw was left in force so far as it applied
to the marriage of slaves. The marri-
age of slaves according to the rules of
common law was valid, and their off
spring legitimate for all legal purposes
during their servitude and since their
emancipation.
This decision Judge Head fortified by
citing an opinion of Judge Nelson, that
marriage between slaves with the as
sent of their owners, whether contract
ed in common law form or celelrrted
under the statutes, always was a valid
marriage, and that the issues of such
marriages were not illegitimate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
The Australian Bottle Tree

Australia produces so much in the
way of vegetation that is wonderful,
that we are prepared for almostany gro
tesque shape that the trees of that coun-
try may assume. A correspondent of
the Illustrated London NeaOS sends to
that paper o drawing of a group Of Bot
te-trees. These trees grow from 80 to
GJ feet high, and are remarkable for
their bulged trunks, which in some
specimens take on shape that renders
the name Bottle-tree quite appropriate.
The branches, which are small in COM
parison with the trunk, are clothed with
leaves two to four inches long ; the
flowers are very inconspicuous, and are
borne upon short panicles. The tree
belongs to family, StercuIiaceR, of
which we have no examples this side of
California, but which is largely repre-
sented in tropical countries. The genus
was dedicated to the eminent geologist,
Sir H. 7. de la Beche, and the tree is
botanically known as Detabechtd RUPEES
iris. The wood of the Bottle-tree is
very soft and brittle, owing to the unusu-
al coarseness of its tissues ; it is pre-
vaded throughout with kind of gum
resembling tragacauth in its nature.
This is so abundant that when boiling
water is poured upon shavings of the
wood, clear, viscid jelly is formed.
The tree is useful as a source of food to
the aborigines, and the trunks, when
ding out. form excellent canoes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
KardOO'S Baby Brother.

Kardoo, whose life is given by a lady,
missionary in India, had a baby
brother called "Luckie," whom she
loved dearly. His mother loved him
too, but often wept when kissing him,
and was always sad, while his father
turned away from the boy, grave and
stern. When Luckie was about nine
months old, Kardoo found that her
father and mother, with the baby and
his nurse, were going on plaeig, grima
but could not take her with them, and
she feared that they we're going to fulfill
q foolish VOW. 49,.
In about ten days her parents returned
without the baby. Poor Kardoo re-
ceived no answer to her many questions
about Luckie her mother never smiled;
it seemed as if her heart had been
turned into stone. 1t was only when
the nurse came, who had remained be-
hind few days, that Kardoo heard her
darling brother had been offered a sac
rifce-thrown into the Ganges by his
own mother The mother saw him rise
upon the water; then he sank, as a
great crocodile opened his mouth to seize
him, and the water was colored with his
blood. The wretched mother uttered a
wild cry, and threw herself upon the
ground. What a dreadful story for
poor Kardoo to hear and she could
not speak of it to her parents; their
religion taught them it was right.
Thank God that you were born in a
land of gospel light. And will you not
help to send the blessed Word of God
and the living teacher, that the heather
may put away their heathen gods, and
turn to Jesus?
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
Action Of COd-LiVer Oil,

DIR. Decaisne, who has been investi-
eating the therapeutic action of cod-iver
oil, reports as the result of nearly one
hundred observations that it is in
rickety patients, as previously shown
by various writers, that cod-liver oil has
its most positive and curative action,
but that it cures neither scrofula
nor consumption. In these three affec-
tions, as in all others in which it has
been tried, it acts as a restorative and
reconstituent, and may be applied to
the treatment of all such conditions OF
the system as exhibata general cachexia,
without being addressed to any particu-
lar malady.
Wishing to verify as much as possible
the conclusions of DIR. Pollock in refer
ence to the fattening of calves, pigs,
and sheep with cod-liver oil, DR..
Decaisne weighed number of children
slightly affected with scrofula and rick
cts, before, during, and after treatment,
and ascertained that whenever the dose
exceed a certain limit, variable with
the individual, the growth ceases, and
that the cessation of growth is attended
with loss of appetite and reduction
of nutriment. He has been enabled
to verify the experience of Greenhow,
who maintains that the increase of
weight always ceases in individuals at
tackled with consumption whenever by
the use of the cod-liver oil they have
attained their normal weight.
He further maintains, contrary to the
views of other writers, that the oil
treatment is only useful in the first
stages of consumption, and when there
is little or no fever. On the principle,
now perfectly admitted, that the diges-
ton and minute subdivision of fatty
matter is one of the functions of the
pancreas, the functional activity of that
organ is always connected with that of
gastric digestion, and he therefore al
ways administers the oil with the food,
and not in the intervals between meals.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
Into Molten Iron.

The thing has been done over and
over again, observed DR.. Carpenter in a
recent lecture-that man has goneand
held his naked hand in such stream of
molten iron, and has done it withoutth the
least injury all that is required being
to have his hand moist, and if his hand
is dry, he has merely to dip it in water,
and he may hold his hand for certain
time in that stream of molten iron with
out receiving any injury whatever. This
was exhibited publicly at meeting of
the British Association at Ipswich, many
years ago. 1t is one of the miracles of
science, so to speak they are perfectly
credible to scientific men, because they
know the principle upon which it hap
pens, and that principle is familiar to
you all that if you throw drop of water
upon hot iron, the water retains its
spherical form, and does not spread
upon it and wet it. Vapor is brought
to that condition by intense heat, that
it forms sort of film, or atmosphere
between the hand and the hot iron, and
for time that atmosphere is not too
hot to be perfectly bearable,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
Relies of the Knights of st. John.

A correspondent, writing from Malta,
says: The remains of the Knights of
st. John are before you on every hand.
As you pass about the city of Valetta
(anciently the Miletus mentioned in the
New TestamenD, the corners of the
streets have full-sized statues in stone
of saints, some of them CAREFUL y pro-
tected with glass coats, and invariably
a gas light for each one. The gas lights
hang off from the buildings as in Bos-
ton. At the governors palace (the an
cient residence of the Chief Sir Knight,
commander of his order the world over
we see the famous Gobelin tapestry,
said to be the finest ever produced, and
presented to the order several hundred
years ago. This covers the four walls
of the Knights ancient council chamber,
and the figures are all heroic. The
coloring is as brilliant as when first
made, and one can hardly believe the
needle could paint so wildly. The
armory is most interesting, for here are
PLCoCl NCNA UllC Wal JIODlllGS ~
breech-loading arquebuse three hun
dred years old, also rifed guns of the
same age. The armory is some three
hundred feet long, and is completely
filed with curiosities of the remains of
the Knights. Full suits of veritable
armor, each suit having it's history, and
many dinted and battered in conflicts,
ages ago, with the Saracen and Turks,
for the upholding of the Christian SYM
bol. The walls are crowded with weap-
ons of all sorts, shapes, and for all pur-
poses, in ancient warfare. There can
be seen the original trumpet which
sounded the retreat when the knights
left Rhodes for Malta also the gun
which fired the salute, and this latter
weapon is indeed a curiosity, being
composed of a thin tube of copper,
wound with fine cords dipped in as
phaltum, and then covered with thick
canvass. filled with some kind of pig
ment 4; and yet they tell us this gun was
in constant use against the Turks in
their frequent naval engagements. 1t
throws stone balls of about twelve
pounds weight. They must have been
stout warriors to wear the immense
weight of armor, and use the weapons
of those days, the helmets alone weigh
ing thirty to fifty pounds, and one be-
longing to Spanish Knight weighed
seventy-fve pounds, and had no visor
even at that, being a simple minor or
cap. On the palace are three bells
brought from Jerusalem during the
crusades, and three bronze blackamoors
strike the time of day thereon.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
The FOrtune.TeIler,s ALMANAC.

To dream of a milestone about your
neck is sign of what you may expect
if you marry an extravagant woman.
1t is very lucky to dream that you
pay for thing twice over, since ever
afterward you will probably take care
to have your bills receipted.
For person in embarrassed circum-
stances to dream that he is arrested is
very fortunate, for it is a warning to
him on no account to keep bill.
To dream of a fire is sign that, if
you are wise, you will see that all the
lights in your house are out before you
go to bed.
To dream that your nose is red to
the tip is an intimation that you had
better leave brandy for water.
To dream of having great number
of servants is-madness.
To dream of bear betokens mischief,
which your vision shows you is bruin.
When fashionable young lady
dreams of filbert, it is sign that her
thoughts are running on the colonel.
If you dream of clothes, it is warn
ing not to go to law for, by the rule of
contraries, you will be sure of a anonsuit
When a young lady dreams of cof-
fin, it betokens that she should instant
ly discontinue tight stays, and always
go warmly clad In wet weather.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
Draining Quicksands.

The subject of draining quicksands
has recently been discussed. The di-
rections generally given by correspon-
dent have related to the manner of ma.
king sound, artificial bottom on which
tolay the draining tiles. Ourown expert
ence in the matter has been consider
able, and we have never found this
necessary. These sands are quick only
because they are a0et, and if the water
can be withdrawn from them they will
form the best floor that it is possible to
secure in such land. For laying tiles,
the only thing necessary is to deepen
the drain very slowly. AS soon as the
depth of the water is reached, let the
drain be opened for that depth its
whole length /; then, commencing at the
lower end, deepen by single scoopful
at time, in this way drawing off the
water slowly, and without at any point
going so deep as to have a pressure of
water from the soil at the side. Open
ed in this way, little by little, there will
be no difficulty in securing good
foundation, and in laying drain in the
most slippery quicksands.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24

READY REPORTERS. Mr.. Grant, author
of "The Newspaper Press of Great
Britain" says it has come within his
personal knowledge as editor, that a
"penny-a-liner" would-aided by a few
friends-get up so-called public meet
ing, in order to earn little money by
reporting the speeches perhaps only
eight or ten persons would be present,
but they all spoke, and the speaking
supplied him with material for a report
of respectable length. One elmer
has been known for his dexterity in
getting up deputations to the prime
minister, or some other member of the
government, on some real or fancied
grievance as the other "liners" knew
moth ng about it beforehand, he had
the field all to himself, and his report
of the interview had chance of in.
sertion in three or four different papers
on the following morning,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
A Sad Warning.

Coroner West short time ago held
an inquest at Turtle Creek, Pa, on the
body of John A. Fulmer, coal miner,
aged seventeen years, who was found
dead near his home. It appears that
the deceased left his home with a younger
brother to go to store to buy some
apples. He bought the fruit and sent
the boy back to the house, while he
went on to thevillage to join some boon
companions. They visited several
drinking saloons, and it is said that the
deceased got very intoxicated. About
eleven o'clock he started to go home,
but he was found the next morning,
lying with his head down hill, dead. 1t
is stated that the deceased had been
drinking for some time back in the
grog-shops, of which there are o great
many in the village, where boys of his
age, and younger, congregate every
evening and drink. An examination
was made, but no marks of external
violence were found upon his body. A
physician who was present gave it as his
opinion that the deceased died of con-
gestion of the brain, superinduced by
strong drink. A verdict in accordance
with the facts was rendered. Poor boy
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
VOL. [.
The Test of Friendship.


once had an intimate friend,
So dear!
His calling 1 cannot defend,
fear;
For he sang but one song
The weary day long
Twas
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES mend
Anyumberellerstonendr ~
But though his profession is such,
/ know
I'd not his acquaintance for much
Forego;
Meath his ragged old vest
Beats heart in his breast,
Which
Human misfortune can touch.
Human misfortune can touch.
For once when by showers I was caught,
My friend
Was prompt an umbrella, unsought,
To lend;
And from that very loan
Shrank the best friend I've known,
Save
berelerstomend-to mend!
Anyumberellerstomend!"
Tom Hood.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
The Portuguese Man of War.

The Portuguese man of war, as the
sailors call it, is dangerous little Great
ure. It's color is purple, shading off
into blue. The pendent threads are of
the richest hues. By initiating the up
per portion of the body with air the
little creature forms sail, by which it
is blown over the waters. It's beauty is
deceptive. Be careful how you venture
to touch it; its venom sometimes pro-
duces commissions. Father Duterte,
when he was in the antilles, was one day
sailing in small boat, when he saw one
of these curious little vessels. DESTROYS
to study it's form, he undertook to take
it up in his hand. "But had scarcely
seized it, )" he writes, "when all its tibres
seemed to clasp my hand, covering it as
with bird lime; and had hardly felt it
in all it's freshness-for it is very cold
to the touch-when it seemed as though
1 had plunged my arm up to the shoul-
der in boiling oil, and this was accom-
panied with pains so strange that l
could scarcely prevent myself from
shrieking." Meyer gives similar ac-
count of the venomous power of the
sea-nettle. A magnificent physalia was
seen on one occasion very near his ship.
A young sailor leaped into the sea,
naked, to secure the animal. Swim
ming toward it, he seized it; the creature
wrapped its assailant with its thread
like filaments, which were nearly yard
in length. The young fellow, over
whelmed by feeling of burning pain,
cried out for help. He had scarcely
strength to reach the ship and climb
on board again. The inflammation and
pain were so great that brain-fever set
in, and great fears were entertained OF
his safety.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24

A GOVERNOR SHOT AT.-An attempt
was made lately to assassinate Governor
Kellogg, of Louisiana He was fred
at by man named Rainey, tax-collec-
tor holding commission from Nc
Emery. The ball grazed the back of
the Governors neck, without inficting
anything of serious wound.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24
Oatmeal, Bone, and Muscle.

Liebig has shown that oatmeal is
almost as nutritious as the very best
English beef, and that it is richer than
wheaton bread in the elements that go
to form bone and muscle. Professor
Forbes, of Edinburgh, during some
twenty years, measured the breadth and
height, and also tested the strength of
both the arms and loins of the students
in the University-a very numerous
class, and of various nationalities,
drawn to Edinburgh by the fame of his
teaching. He found that, in height,
breadth of chest and shoulders, and
strength of arms and loins, the Belgians
were at the bottom of the list a little
above them the French very much
higher, the English and higher of all,
the Scotch and Scotch Irish, from
Ulster, who, like the natives of Scotland,
are fed, in their early years, with at
least one meal a day of good milk and
good oatmeal porridge. Speaking of
oatmeal, an exchange remarks that a
very good drink is made by putting
about two spoonfuls of meal into a
tumbler of water, The Western hun
ters and trappers consider it the best of
drinks, as it is at once nourishing, un-
stimulating and satisfying.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24

The Cleveland Leader, in alluding to
the recent vote of the Indiana editors
acquiescing in the law stopping free
exchanges, thinks that "the general
sentiment of both publishers and sub
scribers approves the abolishing of all
deadheadism in the mails"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24

The Khan of Khiva has surrendered
to Russia unconditionally.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-05-24

There are growing fears of Indian
outbreaks in Southern Oregon.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06
DI n ID


BAkER: On the 5th instant, at II o'clOchs N
BAKER, aged g gears
Relatives and friends u the family are respectful
Hnqnested 10 attend HE funeral from residence
elc 4lth street southwest, sunday, at O'Clock ..
CHAMPION. on Saturday uornina. Al m
O'Clock. JOSEPHINE CHAMPION, wife a q
The funeral viii take place from the residence Of
Thomas Psdgett, corner Of 10th and streets south
east, at y. m, Monday, the 81 n inst Relatives
anu friends are re- pectfuy invited 10 attend Bal
tInore papers plesse oopy.l
poBsEf. On the sth inst, ISAAC DORSEY,
The friends Of the family are most respectfully i'm
Tftte 20 attend the funeral, which win take plac.
SUNDAY afternoon. the 7th inst 81 a. O'Clock frsm
AfbuTy NJ. X. Church.
HESS. On the 9Th instant, LUCINDA HESS.
IN the asth year Of her age.
Her funeral will take place ondsy. the sth inst
ION the residence OF her sister, 6O4 south A
KAISER. On the 6h inst =, at lO.sOs m, JOHN
HENRY, second son Of Henry and Christine al
SER after short and painful Illness which he Dor.
with Christian fortitude.
The funeral wiz take place on Monday, at 2
clock, from the residence OF his father No 4 10Y
family are respectfully invited % sttend.
RANDOLPH. On the sth instant HARRY A
oldest child OF Michael 7. aud George a Rsndolph
aged year and months.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
WALSH. In Georgetown, on the 81 instant IN
the 9Th year Of bis age, MkTTaEw Walsh, a
native Of The county poblin. Irslana-
funeral on sunday eyeping at - m, from his late
reesidtnce, No: Il Potomac street.
hequlescat IN Pece.
% IN. Y. Irish Americas piease ooprJ
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06

~The saloon proprietors in New York want
greater liberties on Sunday.
1Gov. Campbell, of Wyoming, thinks the
women in that territory an unqualified success.
~The Courier journal thinks this is weed's
"off year" in politics.
|Five oranges were organized in Vermont
last week. The state now has fifty.
~By vote of 2O9 to "a the printers of Chi
cago have reduced the price of composition ten
ira compensation for holiday work.
6-A Wabash editor returns thanks for a
centipede received by mail from Texas, and
says 1t is the first cent Of any kind he had seen
in a month.
1The obituary notice In a western aper
contained the touching intelligence that the
deceased "Had accumulated little money and
ten children"
~Among the steady habits of Connecticut
is steady habit of drinking. Fifteen out OF
every Ill who have died in that state during the
past years were drunkards.
~Eastern farmers may be astonished to
learn that stacked between Greeley and Green
City. Col, are three million tons Of hay, almost
worthless on account Of no means Of getting ii
10 market.
ga California Snowman is wandering
around the country illustrating the execution of
the Modoc captives by means of puppets. The
agony of the hanging Is worked up in . most
skillful manner.
s6Mrs Deacon Smith of CollinsviIle, Conn,
is slowly starving to death from an infiamma-
ton of the throat produced by a fish bone
which lodged there some time ago, and which
prevents her taking nourishment.
~Gov. Fenner, absznting himself from
church on fast day, WAS told by DIR. wayland
that he did not obey his own proclaim atom.
eyes, do" he replied; al tell the people to
ut home"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06

SUICIDE IN FREDERICK COUNTY, ND.-Mr
Israel Willard, a farmer about siNty-tive wears
of age, residing near Sabillasville, in Hauyer's
district committed suicide on Tuesday last, by
hanging himself to the bed post in his room,
where his dead body was found at about one
O'Clock on that day. His mind had been in a
deranged condition for some time past, and last
once by cutting his throat with a razor, again
by smOthering himse under some rye straw in
his barn. and again by throwing himself on the
track OF the Western Maryland railroad for the
purpose Of letting the cars run over him, but
each time he was rescued. He has a wife and
family of grown childreD.-Ri5Hef5lsR Valley
Rryiyter,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-12-06

The WRECK OF THE ATLANTIC Dead aides
seen by The DirerS.-Another quantity of goods
has been recovered from the Atlantic wreck
and taken to Halifax, n. ). Previous to the
late gale one of the divers operating on the
wreck saw under the gahgway the bodies of a
man, "evidently an officer of the SHIP" a
woman and a little girl. The diver intended
sending them up, but, when be went down the
next time, after the storm, several tons of iron
had failed on them, preventing their removal.
The operations on the wreck will be suspended
during the winter. A large amount of the cargo
is still believed TO be in and about the wreck.
The owners of the hull are using dualin in blast
ing the machiner