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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
The Monitor.

The Monitor was first designed and
proposed by John Ericsson, of New
York, city paper says. He was born
in Sweden, in 1903, and from boyhood
manifested decided aptitude for me-
chanical invention. In 1923, he went to
England, where he acquired the highest
reputation as a constructive engineer
He came to America in 1889, assuming
at once and maintaining foremost
place in his profession. So confident
was he of the perfect success of his in
vention, that he proposed for it the
name of the Monitor" The price
contracted for was $275,O 900. The con-
struction of the vessel was undertaken
by Thos. F. Rowland, proprietor of the
Continental Works, at Greenpoint,
Brooklyn. So rapidly was the work
pressed forward, that the vessel was
launched, with her engines on board,
on the Both of January, just one hun
dred days after the keel was laid. The
hull of the Monitor was 40 feet long,
80 feet wide at the broadest part, and
IL feet deep. The hull was constructed
of double thickness of iron, three
eighths of an inch thick, strengthened
by iron ribs and knees The entire
length on deck was 166 feet, the breadth
AZ. Ericsson adopted the revolving tur-
ret invention of Theodore R. Timby, as
the offensive means of his Monitor.
She arrived at Hampton Roads, from
New York, on the evening of March s,
1862, and on the following day occurred
the memorable encounter with the Mer-
rimac, or Virginia. On the 18th of
May, the Monitor engaged in her Sec
ond and last action, when, with four
other vessels, under command of Com
mander John Rogers, she ascended the
James river, purposing an attack on
Richmond. The attack failed, and the
Monitor then remained at Hampton
Roads until the close of the year, when,
with the Passaic and Montauk, two
vessels of the same general construc-
tion, which had just been completed,
she was ordered to Beaufort, South
Carolina. The Monitor set out on the
Goth of December, in tow of the steam
er Rhode Island. The second day out
they approached the stormy point of
Cape Hatteras. A gale sprung up, the
sea began to rise in heavy swells, break
ing over the deck and pilot-house, and
dashing against the base of the turret.
The gale increased, and the water be-
gan to dash into the turret and down
the blow-pipes. A signal of distress
was made, and the Rhode Island was
requested to send boats to take off the
crew. The last that was seen of the
Monitor was at midnight, when she
drifted away, the red light cleaning
from the turret. She must have gone
down few minutes after, carrying with
her twelve of the sixty-hve men on
board. The Monitor was lost just elev-
en- months from the day she was launch
ed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
The Feast of Pnrim.

The great festival of Purim was cele-
brated this year by the Hebrew popula-
ton, with all the usual accompaniments
of visits, presents aid general festivities
such as are INDUCED in by Christians at
the Christmas and New Year times.
The day is commemorative of the down
fall of Haman, the story of which is SO
graphically and beautifully told in the
Book of Esther. The story of "Haman's
gallows" is known to almost every per-
son, old or young, at all acquainted
with the Bible. Haman, as chief favor
ite at the Court of Ahasuerus, having
determined to exterminate the Jews be-
cause of his hatred Of Mordecai, the
cousin of the Queen (Esther), and hav-
ing cast lots-or pur-for favorable
day, and the execution was to be carried
into effect on the 18th day of thetwelfth
month (Adar, which commenced this
year on February 2S). Haman had
erected special gallows in his own
garden, on which he intended to hang
Mordecai. Esther, who was Jewess
(although that fact was concealed from
the King), determined to save her peo-
pie, and invited the King and Haman
to banquet, after which the plot was
revealed and Haman ordered to be
hanged on his own gallows. The de-
cree against the Jews was annulled and
permission given them to slay their
enemies. Ssnce that time the 14th and
18th days of Adar have been kept with
feasting and rejoicing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
The Story OF a Lost VIII.

Two or three months ago, says the
Detroit Free Press, ]. Rowell, furni-
ture dealer, set about overhauling a
desk filed with old papers-papers
which had been accumulating on his
hands for several years, until he could
scarcely say where or how he got the
most of them. After throwing away
bushel or more of the documents, he
came upon a paper sealed and tied with
red tape. He could not remember hav-
ing seen it before, and was amazed
when he broke the seal and read, "Last
will and testament of Israel Whitworth. I"
Getting further down, he found that the
paper was nine years old, and that the
will gave to e" Margaret Davis, my sis
ter, or her children, the Gordon farm,
situate two and one-haf miles from st.
Joseph, Mo-, togeth 4 with all live
stock and farming utensils further,
the sum of S., 600 in bank in st. Joseph
(unless 1 shall have withdrawn it), my
gold watch, my household furniture,
and the one-half of what my house in
st. Joseph may bring at private SALE"
SO read the will as far as the sister
and her kin were concerned, and then
Whitworth made bequests to several
other relatives. The will was dated
Detroit, Aug. 10, 1863" 1t occurred
to Mr.. Rowell that the will might be of
some account to some one, and he wrote
to Mrs. Davis, directing the letter to
st. Joseph, Mo. In about two weeks he
received a reply from her, dated at
Weston, same State, his letter having
been forwarded to that point. She
stated that her brother had been dead
nearly eight years, and that she had
never known of will. The property
had been divided among four near rela-
tives of the deceased, or should have
been, but three of them had cheated
her out of most of what fell to her in
dividing up. She further stated that
her brother had cousin in Detroit
years ago, and that he was in this city
on a visit about the date of the will.
The cousins name was signed as one of
the witnesses, and Mr.. johnson, now
in Cincinnati, was the other witness.
Rowell sent on the will, and received
a grateful letter from the woman, who
said that the will had been admitted to
probate there, the witnesses called on,
and that she had been put in possession
of nearly $4,000 through his finding
the will. She cautioned him to look
out for an express package, and will
probably send something handsome.
The puzzling thing of the whole is that
Rowel can't tell where or when he got
the will, nor imagine how the deceased
come to leave it where it would fall into
the hands of stranger.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
The Coal Trade.

The census of 1870 shows that the
number of collieries in the United States
at that time was 1866, of which 58S
(227 anthracite and 361 bituminous)
were in Pennsylvania the number of
engines employed in them was 1, 173, of
which 1913 were in Pennsylvania the
number of men employed in them was
1,514, of whom 60, 50S were in Pennsyl-
vania the number of boys employed
was 10,940 of whom 1884 were in Penn
sylvania; the capital invested was $11O,-
O08,029, of which $67, ,911, 703 was in
Pennsylvania the amount of wages
paid per annum was $H, ,316, 491, of
which $31, 1878, ,308 was paid in Pennsyl-
vania the number of tons produced
was 1850, $50, of which 23, 448, 1893 was
produced in Pennsylvania {; the value
of the product was $73, 524, 992, of which
the Pennsylvania product was $40, 024, :
$50. 1t is thus seen that the single
State of Pennsylvania has coal inter-
est which is more than two-t thirds of the
entire coal interest of the country. Next
to Pennsylvania comes Illinois, Ohio,
Maryland, Missouri, West Virginia, In
diana, Iowa, Kentucky and Tennessee,
in the order in which they are named.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
Californian Eagles.

A. J. Shuman, of Linda township,
California, has large flock of ewes and
lambs. A few days since he noticed a
stampede of sheep in the distance, and
supposing some dog was running about
among them, hastened to the spot,
where he arrived just in time to see q
large eagle rise from the ground, bear
ing in his talons fair-sized lamb, and
fly away with it. His attention was soon
after attracted to other work of destruc-
ton by the eagle. One lamb was found
minus the top of his skull, and dead,
his skull having been broken in by an
effort to capture it. Another lamb was
found minus an eye, which the vora-
cious bird had struck with its beak in
one of his belligerent swoops. The
careful shepherd took the wounded
lamb to the "lamb hospital to be
nursed. Some time ago an entire litter
of small pigs disappeared in a mystic
rious manner, and it is believed they
were carried away by eagles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
John Thomas Arithmetic.

Not long ago, John Thomas was ar
rested in New York city and found
guilty of burglary. He was sentenced
to two years in the penitentiary, and
John seemed highly delighted at his
easy escape. Another Court consider
ing the sentence, changedit it to eighteen
months in the Sing Sing prison. One
would naturally suppose that cutting
Johns sentence down from two years
to eighteen months would delight the
fellow, but on the contrary John was
exceedingly put out about it, and
through his counsel sought every means
to have the original sentence carried
out. A reporter, who could not under
stand Johns arithmetic, sought an in
terview, and here was the result. Eigh-
teen months at Sing Sing meant eigh-
teen months confinement for John, but
two years in the penitentiary meant just
as long as John desired to stay there
say, from four weeks to six. When
John grew tired of the Island, boat
would, some pleasant evening, drop
along side the dock, and John Thomas
would step on board. When the boat
was two hundred yards away the guard
would suddenly awaken, and fire his
gun into the air,-the alarm bell would
ring, and general turn out take place.
Meanwhile John Thomas would quietly
step from his boat upon the New York
shore, and in three days be up to his old
tricks again. From $50 to 800 would do
all this, and John Thomas would be hap
py man again. We begin to understand
Johns arithmetic now, and no longer
wonder that in New York thieves have
found their true hunting ground.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
Sensible MOney-Getting.

I believe the time is to come, says
Beecher, when mencan have large prop
erty, and be sweet-minded and full of
heavenly contemplation when men can
have these luxuries and not be wasteful,
and not be self-indulgent. The time is
to come when manhood can be strong,
and take on those permissions which in
its weaker and lower state injure it, and
we are to be allowed to do these things
on the same principle that we do not al
low children to do what we allow men
to do. It seems to me if the world were
like fire just kindled. You must not
at first put on all the wood that you
mean to put on, but only the kindlings,
and shavings, and the dry material and
as the fame gathers strength you put
on little more-some hard wood, some
sticks, and as they begin. to glow, it
raises the flames, and by and by arm
fuls and armfuls may be thrown on, and
the fame now penetrates every part of
the vast mass, until at last that which in
the beginning would have smothered
and destroyed it now only makes it
burn fervently and more brightly. So
in the world of time small things and
feeble things demand gentle treatment,
and many exclusions but as human ma
ture grows strong, and religion is re-
fected upon men, not simply from the
record, but from the family, the law of
the State, and the usages of life, men
begin to be more and more stalwart, and
believe they can carry off pleasure, and
wealth, and honor, and influence, and
all those manly things which we sigh
for and aspire to, and do it without det-
riment to benevolence and those other
qualities of noble Christian manhood.
That time is not yet, but it is coming !;
and the pursuit Of wealth is one of the
things which lead in that direction.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
The Peach Crop.

1t is not very pleasant to hear thus
early that the peach crop is ruined in
Michigan, Illinois, and Indiana, but it
appears that there is no doubt about the
matter. A writer in the Chicago Tribune,
whose accuracy is vouched for by that
journal, says: "The present aspect is
that we are to have another season, as
to peaches, like that of 1856. have
just come from the peach region, and
know whereof l speak. Even apple
trees have been injured in some places
in Michigan, among young orchards,
and light crop of berries also may be
anticipated. The news from the States
further east is not very much more en-
couraging, and unless something of an
unusually favorable nature should oc-
cur, house-keepers will be likely to find
peaches too expensive luxury to be
INDUCED in this year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

more money than there was in the till to
have dared to tear that letter open on
the spot and read it, though knew the
hand was Will Massett's.
"This can't wait" says 1.
"No," says Job, sit can't with that
wedding coming off tomorrow"
Then 1 stopped and Thought. Let it
lie until it is called for, and she'll be
Mrs. Captain Kincaid, with her silks
and her velvet, and her fine house and
her carriage, all the same. This comes
from a shipwrecked sailor, poorer now
than when he went away.
perhaps I'd better wait until the
wedding is over, job" said /.
And my old man came across the
room and put his arm around my waist.
Nancy" says he, "you and 1 was
young folks once. 1 used to think
something was better than money and
fine doings then. And though we old
folks may get little hard-though to
be up in the world seems so much and
all that sweetness so silly, why, it will
come back sometimes. You remember
how he kissed her there under the syca-
more, and, Nancy, we couldn't wait until
after the wedding, either of US.
l put my arms around Jobs neck,
and kissed him; and then I got my sun
bonnet and ran over to Mrs. More's.
Captain Kincaid was there. / stood
at the door, with the letter behind my
back.
won't you walk IMP" says Mrs.
More.
"I-I haven't time," says I. "It's
only an errand. It's a little singular.
Milly, there's "A"
"My letter my letter!" cried Milly,
sit has come at last p
How she knew it, heaven knows. She
hadn't had glimpse at it.
1t was the old sailors story, q ship
wreck, a deserted island, wretched
months spent in hoping for succor and
sail at last. A vessel outward bound
had picked him up. He would be home
in three months.
"Three monthsp' said Milly. ooh,
can I waltz"
And then says -
"Milly, forgive poor old stupid
goose. This letter has been lying under
my best coffee crushed three months
and day. And there's vessel in the
ofing now"
So it was Will, after all, and Job and
I went to the wedding with happy
hearts. And no need to pity Captain
Kincaid, either, for he married Fanny
More before the year was out.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
A Baby Interviewed.
TO oALITTLE ONE, JUST A WEEK OLD.

TO LITTLE ONE, JUST WEEK OLD.
Only baby, 'thout any hair,
'Cept just little fuzz here and there.
Only baby, name you have none;
arefooted and dimpled, sweet little one.
Only baby, teeth none at all;
What are you good for, only to squall'
Only baby, just week old;
What are you here for, you little scold'
BABY's REPLY.
Only baby what should I be?
Lots O. big folks has been little like me.
'Aint dot any hair 'es have too;
'Sposen haven't, dess it TODD grow.
Not any teeth-wouldn't have one
Don't det my dinner by gnawing bone.
What am here for at pretty mean2
Who's dot better right, t ever you seen'
What am doot for did you say,
Eber so many good things, every day.
'Tourse squall sometimes, sometimes bawl
Zey dassant spant me, cause Use SO small
Only baby, es sir, ats so
N if you only could, you'd be one too."
Ats all have to say you're most too old,
Dess I det into bet, toes dettin' cold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
TARR1Na THE SPEAKER OF THE House

TARRINa THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE.
Immense excitement prevails in
Winnipeg owing to the fact that it was
sought to pass a bill through the Leg
islature which would have let the Hud-
son Bay Company and other landed
proprietors off with the payment of
one-third the usual taxation on their
lands. An indignation meeting was
held and a committee appointed to plead
at the bar of the House, whittier they
were followed by 400 people. The bill
was ultimately thrown out on techni-
cality. On account of the ruling of the
Speaker he was decoyed from his house
at midnight and administered coat of
tar. The Government has offered 81, 900
reward for the conviction of the per-
petrators. Fearing further breaches
of the peace a military guard has been
placed over the Parliament House,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

LEARN A TRADE.-One man with q
trade is worth thousand without one.
The hosts of young men in every large
city who apply for employment and fail
to get it, for the reason that they can
not truthfully affirm that they are edu-
Gated or especially fitted for any par
ticular business, constitute potent ar
gument in favor of reform. Under the
apprentice system, we should have fewer
ignorant mechanics and incompetent
business men, A trade is fortune in
itself.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

THE LAw.-The vagaries of the law
are shown in New York case. Chas.
Cordes was tried for the murder of John
Damn, pleaded guilty to the charge of
manslaughter in the third degree and
was sentenced to State prison for four
years. 1t is singular fact that if the
deceased had not died from the injuries
inflicted upon him by the prisoner, the
latter would have been tried for felonious
assault and would undoubtedly be con-
victed and sentenced to seven years
State prison. Thus for killing man
he received only four years while for
iniuring him he would have received
seven
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
In Silver City, New Mexico, Mexican

In Silver City, New Mexico, Mexican
labor commands $1.50 to SO per day {;
American, common, SO miners, SO to
81 /; some skilled hands get as high as
$5 carpenters and all skilled mechan-
les, Sc to SO. On the other hand, fou1
is 81 per sack sugar 35 cents per
pound coffee 40 to 80 cents; bacon 35
to 40 cents; teas 81 butter rs cents to
81 ; eggs 30 cents to rs 5cents per dozen
steel 30 cents; powder $14 per keg ;
clothing is almost as cheap as in the
States; boots from SIS to $12 per pair
wood So to So. .25 per cord.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

NEWSPAPER POSTAGE is positively
known, says the Washington CORE
spondent of the Boston Journal, that
the Post Office Appropriation bill, as
signed by the President, contains the
clause inserted by the Senate, exclud-
ing absolutely from the mails all free
matter after the Both of June, 1873.
This cuts off all free newspaper ex-
changes and all free mail delivery of
country newspapers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

Mr.. Thomas Gay, sailmaker at
Portsmouth, N. H., formerly acting
master of the picket boat commanded
by Lieutenant Gushing, gets $24, 900 as
his share of the prize money awarded
by Congress for the destruction of the
Confederate ram Albemarle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

At Gadsden, Ala, Mr.. G. M. Crouch,
hearing noise in his hen-coop, fired
and brought down his son, who had
also heard noise and was looking for a
thief. 1t is thought that young Crouch
cannot recover.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

A child was born few days since at
McKeansburg, Pa, which weighed only
eight ounces, and the local paper says
it is doing well.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29
MISS Mm1Y MORE,
Anchor Port. Maine.

United States of America"
Three months ago-poor stupid
had emptied my best coffee crushed in
upon it, and there it was.
Three months ago she had come down
to me and asked for letter, and I'd
thought her half crazy; and I'd given
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-03-29

OF the SO Senators voting Yea, %
were Republicans, 10 Democrats, and
Liberal Republicans of these, 5
Republicans, 2 Liberal Republicans,
and 2 Democrats were outgoing men,
bers. Twenty Republicans, 5 Demo-
Gratis, and Liberal Republicans vote
Nay, 2 of the Republicans being out
going members. OF the II Senators
not voting, were Republicans, 5 of
them being outgoing members, 2 were
Liberal Republicans, and 2 Democrats.
In the House, 102 members voted for the
increase, sc voted against it, and ~ did
not vote at all, some being absent, and
others having "paired off" OF the
affirmative vote, 81 were Republicans,
43 Democrats, and 2 Liberal Republi-
cans the outgoing members being 26
Democrats, % Republicans, and 2
Liberal Republicans. The negative
vote was composed of 81 Republicans,
80 Democrats, and 8 Liberal Repub-
licans of these, 81 Republicans, %
Democrats, and Liberal Republicans
were outgoing members. OF those not
voting, Is were Republicans and 27
Democrats, 10 Republicans and Is
Democrats being outgoing members.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1873-10-01
Al Notices of Marriages must be indorsot wih fal
name and GLJess
DIED.

DIED.
ALLgR-n Bf,Otyp On Tuts, Sept ~ AIR ,s,f 60
years months, and "a days
NOuoe Of iuleral hereafter
s. IT, son Of livingston X ana Frances Bartholomew
Friends attend the uneral Wednesda,,
Oc l. residence. 81 Taylor o.. DreokTu kp att
O'Clock m
CAnPBBL-Ou h,Onts, Sept % Rev Csnrtsb ID D. 'g"A
"a years
His friends and invited attend his f1s.rsi Thurs
day O'Clock hsn first Presbyterian chr0h or
FTdiaye sad TweInt-st
CrOty for member Of ne arm o. Ssdief
city, foYsrlya resident Of Stats Island T. aud
native VI C~she, Counsy rppersr' ireland
LAHY-on Mosdy % Chares Of james and iAoA ,~<
lxed months and ~ daYs.
Funeral on wednesday Os 10 NJ from The residence 81 hs
parents Brooklyn The fnends o TIE snaT s
respectfully invited 70 sNsnd
EHNON-In city sodealy sunday Sept D. John A L~-sss
aIei29 and i mouth
friends Of the fiany respectfully ns'el 70 hs s
funeral bis parents No. jos kvngtoora %
weisesiay, De. ], At l O'Clock p. m
MAgDErLE-Tuesiay Sept 90 Mari Margaret widow Of the late
of Hghts, 53th
o'clock y. the %
her soain4aw Hasnd No 3S4 West TtArtJ sec1nd
MTILWARD-At Fayetteville ~ Sunday Seps % Joseph MI
war eldest Of James nlEst deceased IN th7aSh year :"
Reiyes and friends fsriy respectfully invited " attend
O'clock
Of his brother, $40 Ienry-stp Union. Brooklyn
ROCKW sLJSadeHly, at hOsnsown j. on the Eh nI ssx
Rockwell
Paarrs ,y,ce, at the resen hr David Rockwell 10
South St on Thuray O'Clock Friends Of the Ism
iy aS attend the mineral without drhe, aDacs is
81 and T. H. r. from foot Of Barclay st. at " O'Clock ho'"~
SMITH, Canarae on Monday Sept 90. WIN. H. Smith -
Funeral place Thnnaly Oct IRON Nos-Ania ave- M Il
Churcbg Quincy St, Brcsslyn, at O'Clock u
WALTRRS-At Homestead Monday morning sept ~ hesfS
Walters. aged 10 years aud D r%'nuS-