Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-10-04
NO. 80.
Items Of Interest.

A convict in the New Jersey State
Prison cut his thumb off to avoid work.
ing.
Barnum proposes to. get up fifty
thousand dollar balloon experiment
across the Atlantic.
The working population of the United
States is estimated at 1900, ,000-one-
third of the population.
A mass of copper was recently taken
from the Cliff mines, Lake Superior
which weighed thirty tons.
The Chicago Journal estimates that
there are $4,000 people in that city
who are living beyond their incomes.
1t is said that the Louisville author
tiles find it a more speedy cure to send
married drunkards home instead of to
the lookup.
The whole number of horses in the
United States is estimated at nearly
$500, 600, 600 or $500, 100000.
A wag, in what he knows about farm
ing, gives a plan to remove widows
weeds. He says a good-looking man
has only to say, " Wilt thou ?" and they
wilt.
Sweden has hitherto mainly depended
on England for coal, but henceforth
she is likely to derive sufficient for her
needs from her own mines, which are
in process of development.
The charges of bribery against the
Wardens of Newgate, in connection
with the plot for the escape of the Bank
of England forgers, have been proven
unfounded.
The walls of building in the town
of Stonehouse, Devonshire, England,
which had been recently burned, fell
down, killing eight persons and injur-
ing several others.
It is a somewhat singular fact that
most of the papers called Democrat
hold Republican principles, and those
called Republican hold Democratic or
Conservative principles.
The value of the iron exported from
England during the last seven months,
was % per cent. greater than that sent
abroad in the same period last year,
but the quantity was about 10 per cent.
less.
Some London milk-dealers have been
recently summoned before magistrate
for adding water to milk. Each was
fined G5 and costs. Several New York
dealers have also been fined $50 for the
same thing.
Bavaria, according to the VaterIGrad
of Munich, lost more heavily by far
than any of the German States in the
late war. Where Prussia, called the
"Sword of Germany" lost fourteen,
Bavaria suffered the loss of nineteen.
A number of italian emigrants are
working on the Ware River Railroad in
Massachusetts. 1t is impossible to
write their names so as to distinguish
one from another, SO they go about
with leather numbered checks on their
necks.
The true Sir Roger Tichborne is now
reported by sea captain, in letter to
the Valparaiso Mail, to be chief among
the natives of Byron's Island, in the
South Pacific. He is tattooed from
head to heel and hardly to be known
from a native.
There is a schoelmaster in Waterloo,
Iowa, who has been carrying bullet in
his brain, put there by schoolgirl,
ever since last winter. A recent fall
from wagon forced the ball near the
wound, which had never healed, and
the physicians extracted it,
Two Indians of the Peavine tribe of
root diggers recently murdered girl.
About week ago they were seized by
the tribe and one was lashed to a syca-
more tree and cut in twain at the waist
with dull hand saw. The other was
tied to scrub oak and stabbed to
death.
The toll for carrying wheat from diff
ferent points in Minnesota to Milwau-
kee or Chicago has been raised from
twenty one to twenty-four cents q BUSH
ell, and the farmers are grumbling, as
if three cents was. an object to them.
The total exaction from the farmers of
Minnesota by this increase will amount
to $750,000. ."i1 i2.'i