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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
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Facts and Fancies.

Brahminism is professed by 11O,OO0,-
900 of human souls. ..n
Hens won't work in Nevada without
sufficient inducement, and hence trav-
elers have to pay dollar and half for
two eggs out there.
Mrs. Lucy Tenney was murdered in
her bed, in Grafton, Maine, by her hus-
band, Moses Tenney, a blind pauper.
eighty years of age, who is now under
arrest.
There is a young man in Saginaw,
Mich, who was stolen and taken among
the Indians when an infant, and lately
escaped after twenty-six years of saw
age life.
The Howard Association of Memphis
has struck a balance sheet, and finds
itself the possessor of $50, 900, which it
has decided to hold in reserve for future
emergencies.
If you want to make good boy bad
or bad boy worse, nag, snub, and
rough him. Don't speak gently to the
erring child if you would have him
keep on erring. ... ...,...
A British railway company has de-
cided to give its signal men $5 each for
every three months that they work
without having any charge of negh-
gence proved against them.
A correspondent from Shelburne,
N. S., writes that Captain Clarence
Kelly, of that place, recently shot
large gray eagle that had steel traps at
tached to each foot, one of which had
three feet of chain attached.
California has about 10000 head
of sheep. The wool crop in two shear
ings, at an average of ten pounds per
head, would amount to 90,000,0 900
pounds, or $4,000, 900 more than the
total product of the United States in
1871.
81 would rather" said a prominent
New York merchant in our hearing,
"give a fve-fgure credit to a young
house having fifty thousand dollars
worth of cash and fifty thousand dol
lars worth of brains, than to an old
established concern with hundred
thousand cash and no brains for busi-
ness"
A lad in Worcester Mass, has been
fined $5 and costs, amounting to $1450,
for stealing copy of daily newspaper
from the door of a subscriber. In
passing sentence, the Judge said it was
not the mere market value of the goods
stolen that called for severe punish
ment, but the great annoyance attend
ing such petty pilfering.
Carbonite is a new article of fuel
found only in the James River, Va. 1t
is substitute for camel coal, and costs
two-thirds as much, burns freely, but
without smoke, sulphur or bituminous
odor, and so nearly consumes itself that
but q per cent. of ashes is left. 1t
burns longer than anthracite or camel,
and affords a beautiful and pure fame.
81 found it very inconvenient, and
great loss of time," says Chateaubriand,
"to dine before seven o'clock. My
wife wanted to dine at five o'clock, and
insisted upon that hour. After many
arguments and many heated discus
sions, we finally compromised upon six
o'clock-an hour very inconvenient to
us both. This is what they call do
mestic concessions.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
The Desperation of Despair.

Many of our readers, says the New
York Evening Post, may remember the
little piece of verse in which . company
of British officers in the Indian service
are represented as getting together, du-
ring an unusually violent epidemic of
cholera, and singing song, the chorus
of which, as we remember it, ran thus: ::
Here's health to the dead already,
And health to the next to de-"
An incident is reported to have oc-
Cured in Memphis, which indicates the
existence in that city of similar dis
position to make a jest of death. A
man, some days i'll with the yellow
fever, perceived one day that the disease
had taken fatal turn. Remarking that
he was going to die, and that he was
determined to die happy, he thereupon
drank large quantity of brandy, and
died in the middle of the fit of drunk
enness which was thus produced.
However horrible such a scene may
be, it must be confessed that it is not
unnatural. Few men are able to main
tain an Indifferent bearing when they
are forced to keep still and watch the
constant and irresistible approach of
death. One may face the danger of a
desperate charge on battlefield with
comparative calmness, because there is
something to do. But to lie still and
wait for death to make an end of one
requires philosophical courage such
as few men possess. The poor man who
got drunk in order "to die happy" was
probably too frightened to be fully re-
sponsible for what he did; but his con-
duct shows under what tremendous
strain human life is maintained in those
districts of country where the yellow
fever has been raging for the last few
weeks.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
Death from HYdrOphObia.

A famous Western trotting. horse,
Ripon Boy, lately died from hydro
phobia.~ The first suspicion that any
thing was the matter with the horse was
when the groom took him to water.
He drank sparingly, and at each attempt
to drink thereafter would tremble in
every limb. The horse allowed his
keeper to approach, but exhibited great
vice when he attempted to touch him.
He supposed that the horse might have
been poisoned by eating sumac with
the hay. After watching the symptoms
of the animal for few moments, his
owner pronounced them those of hy-
drophobia. Water was several times
offered the horse, but when he under
took to drink he was seized with spasms,
followed by extreme viciousness. The
doctor says the actions of the horse
were terrible to behold. He would rub
his head against the stall so forcibly as
to knock out his upper teeth, and finally
fracture his jaw. Finding that the life
of the horse could not be saved, Mr..
Van Brunt ordered the stall to be
boarded up so as to prevent him from
doing any mischief, when death ended
his misery,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
InnOcently Executed.

One of the most notable executions
that ever occurred in Kentucky, says
the Louisville Journal, was the hang
ing of Captain William P. King and
Abraham Owens, at Franklin, in June,
1867. King was the leader of gang of
thieves who stopped several trains on
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
and robbed the passengers, and Owens
was member of Kings gang. The two
were convicted of numbering Harvey
King, half-witted brother of Captain
King, and it was asserted that the MUIR
der was committed through fear that
the half-witted brother would expose
the robbers.
The day on which the hanging took
place was intensely hot, and the crowd
in front of the gallows, suffering under
the blazing sun, grew impatient at the
seemingly interminable speeches of the
doomed men, who again and again re-
iterated their innocence, and called
upon God to witness the truth of what
they said. The Sheriff was at length
forced to admonish them, and they
stopped and made ready to die. The
body of King twitched horribly after
being swung off, and he appeared to
die hard. Owens struggled some, but
did not suffer so much as his compan-
ion. Everybody familiar with the trial
seemed to feel almost certain that the
men were guilty, but their almost fran.
tic assertions of innocence did not fail
to make an impression.
Some time ago a man by the name of
Evans was lynched in Kansas, and re-
port of the lynching in one of the Kan
sas papers alleged that before his death
he made confession, in which he said
he had once committed a murder IN
kentucky, for which two men had been
hanged. It is now..said that the Evans
who was lynched in Kansas was one of
the principal witnesses against King
and Owens, and that they are the per-
sons referred to by him in his confess
sion. Should these statements turn
out to be true, they will be likely to
cause unpleasant feelings in Simpson
county. 1t is to be hoped that this
publication may lead to an investiga-
tion that will give us trustworthy infor
nation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
The Famine in Bengal.

The latest reports from Bengal are
anything but encouraging. The famine
seems inevitable. The recent failure
of crops involves the subsistence of
some thirty millions of people. "In
some villages of Dinagepore," says q
correspondent of the London Times,
"the people are eating jungle produce
and the pith of the plantain tree, while
they give sort of tamarind stew to
their children"
The Bishop of Calcutta has prepared
a form of prayer to be used in the
Christian churches, and the "Santana
Dharma Rakshani Sabha," or Society
for the Defence of Eternal Religion
that is, orthodox idolatry-has issued
the following formula
st. o Almighty Supreme Vishnu !
Thou art the Preserver in this world /;
save, therefore, Bengal and other places
from the impending dearth.
"II. o God we, thy devoted people,
humbly pray that thou wouldst rescue
us always from future grain scarcity.
CHI. o Asylum of Mercy pour
down thy bounteous showers of kind
ness, and cause the world to be sup
piled with a plentiful harvest.
CIV. In this kaJi-yuga (age of vice.,
we human beings live upon grain so
save our lives by that food, and spread
abroad thy Divine glory over the uni
verse.
"V. o Lord Governor Thou art
the sole protector of the helpless !;
kindly pardon our sins, and, hearing
our solicitations, bestow upon us thy
universal benediction. -
"VI. And also prolong the life of the
sovereign, who is our ruler, for the
prosperity of the subjects entirely de-
pends upon the monarch's veal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
A d" Bear-BOy."

An Indian bear boy has been on ex-
hibition in San Francisco, and the
papers have discovered that the mon
strosity is case of cruelty. The bear
boy is a born idiot, and that is about
all there is unnatural about him. His
points of resemblance to a bear have
been stimulated by barbarous cruelty.
His keepers story is that his mother
was frightened by a bear before his
birth. This could scarcely have broken
his ankles and cut the tendons behind,
so that the feet bend beneath the legs,
their upper portion touching the shins
and rendering it impossible for their
owner to stand upright. The inference
is that the Indian boy has been cut and
slashed and hewed into rude imitation
of an animal going on all-fours. His
idiocy aided the transformation and
renders him valuable as show. The
matter was brought before the courts
through the efforts of humanitarian,
and the boy was sent to the alms-house.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
Shoe Your Horses.

At this season of the year every horse
should be shod. A great many horses
are ruined every winter by the careless
ness of owners. Slipping around on
the ice will soon render horse totally
worthless. It is the meanest kind of
cruelty as well as q criminal extrava-
gance to work smooth horse in win
ter. There is no excuse for this neglect,
and man who will not see that his
horse is properly shod ought to be
compelled to go with bare feet in mid
winter. The horse, of all animals, de-
serves the kindest treatment at the
hands of man, and there is something
radically wrong about the head or heart
of man who neglects or abuses his
horse. The practice of letting a horse
stand in q snow-storm, without O
blanket, is cruel in the extreme,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
Beyond.

Autumn is dying, winter is come.
Dead leaves are flying, the rivers are dumb;
The winds like knife ones fingers grow
numb
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the
pond.
Winter is with us, but spring is beyond.
The old year is dying, its glory is dead;
The days are all flying, their brightness has
fled;
The bushes grow bare as the berries grow red !;
There is snow on the mountains, ice in the
pond.
The old year is dying, the new is beyond.
We are all growing old, and life slips away;
There is bare time for work, and still less for
play,
Though we think we grow wiser the longer we
stay;
But there's life in us yet no need to de-
spond.
This world wakes old, but there's heaven
beyond
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-01-17
The Difference.

George Eliot, the lady novelist, one
of the keenest observers of men and
things, makes note of one essential diff
ference between men who take pride
in their trade and those who are indif-
ferent, and expresses her thoughts
through one of the characters in Adam
Bede 81 can't abide to see men throw
away their tools i that way the minute
the clock begins to strike, as if they
took no pleasure i their work, and was
afraid o. doin q stroke too much. /
hate to see mans arms drop down as
if he was shot before the clock s fairly
struck, as if he'd never bit O. pride
and delight in s work. The very grind
stone II go on turning bit after you
loose it."
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27

"a lady drowned. they all cried in
confused chorus and while Rob began
tearing off his outer garments he heard
a word or two Of explanation.
''She went in after her dog" sobbed
the women; she WAS being dragged
away by the undertow.'
Il sent my boy after boat. sir,
quayered the old man. "You see [
bent of no use.
my God!' groaned George, at may
Hold your tongue roared Rob,
half mad with apprehension and re-
morse, and fixing his eyes on the pur-
pie dress that rose and fell with the
cool wash Of the waves. he dived from
the nearest rock and struck out for the
poor drowned girl.
To hin the seconds seemed hours,
and the waves as mountains as he strEg
gaed through them; yearning, striving,
lighting to reach that CLEAN of purple
rising and falling with the heaving of
the sea. As he drew nearer, one white
arm became visible; then the loosened
chestnut locks, with the sea foam creep
ing and curling through them, and
finally Spot pathetic eyes looked up,
motionless and dead, from where she
held hi1n. still pressed against her bo-
som.
Rob dared not look in her face lest he
should never bring her back to shore;
but he turned, grasping her dress with
his left hand. and finally stood erect in
shallow water, holding the girl who so
loved him that she rished her life to
save his dog.
They al ran to his assistance, but he
waved them away. and, with face pale
and distorted with anguish, and eyes
from which all gladness had fed, stag
gered up the beach and laid his burden
on the grass, still clasping poor little
Spot in her arms.
The people gathered round them in
awe stricken silence, but George burst
forth in Mortified whisper: ''Oh.
Rob! she would not have been SO reck-
less had she not thought you did not Gaze
for herr
Rob smoothed the chestnut hair
away from her face-thin and SORROW
full for love of him-and looked for the
last time into her tender brown eyes.
Then the agony Of her eternal loss
burst upon him: at last he knew
whether she was the ''sort of girl he
fancied;;" knew he should love and
mourn her to the day Of his death.
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27

Look at him as he slopes along with
the easy sauntering air of man of
fashion, who has nothing to do but
lounge about, holding his ivory-headed
cane in his apparently nerveless grasp
yet what work has that hand accom-
plished!-two Of the best acting plays
that hold their place on the stage, to
say nothing of the novels, tales and
sketches so full of the bright creations
of his genius. The loss of
this great man, orator, poet,
statesman, novelist Is still, l
think, too recent to enable US to real
ize the full extent of our national ca
lamity. Although I know only too
we'll he sleeps IN that place where kings
and poets lie, yet 1 can hardly bring
myself to believe l shall not meet him
again in some of his accustomed haunts !;
l have so often known him to be absent
for longer period. and turn up again
as bright, cordial and kindly as ever.
He had taken his seat, of
course; but it is a curious thing that
he never once spoke in the House of
LORDS. mat goloen ch2moer never
once heard the sound Of the new peer S
voice. any more than it did that Of his
illustrious rival, Macauley, the picked
litterateur of the Wings. They we're
anxious to get Lord Lytton t'up' on
the question of the disestablishment of
the Irish church; but he contrived to
evade the scent of the ''whip," who
sought him in vain, both at Knebworth
and in Grosvenor square.
The OF polloi were not very familiar
with Lord Lytton's presence. He was
not often seen in the parks or other
places Of public resort; but in that
part Of Oxford street bounded At one
end by Marble arch and the other by
the Regent circus, he was well known,
and many q hat went ct in silent
greeting Is he passed on his way,
The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1874-08-27

shall be over, if we are both alive and
you are able, give me as good = one in
return. Don't send any note or due
bill. 1t might complicate matters if
either should die
A few months later, paid my debt
by returning the very horse / had
bought. l give this incident merely to
show how utterly without financial
compass or rudder we were.
Nobody formed any plans or laid by
any money for tomorrow or next week
or next year, and indeed, to most Of us
there really seemed to be no future. 1
remember the start it gave me when a
clergyman, visiting camp, asked num-
Der OF us whether our long stay in de-
fensive works did not afford us an ex-
ceilcnt opportunity to study with a
view to our professional life after the
war. We were not used to think Of our
selves as possible survivors of strug-
gle which was every day perceptibly
thinning cur ranks. The coming of ul-
.timate failure we, saw clearly enough,
but the future beyond was a blank.
The subject was naturally not pleas
ant one, and by common consent it was
always avoided in conversation, until at
last we learned to avoid it in thought
as well. We waited gloomily for the end,
but did not care particularly to specu-
late upon the question when and how
the end was to come. There was a
vague longing for rest, which found
vent now and then in wild newspaper
stories Of signs and omens portending
the close of the war, but beyond this
the matter was hardly ever discussed.
There were compensations, however.
When gold was at twelve thousand per
cent. premium with US, we had the con-
ISOLATION of knowing that it was in the
neighborhood Of one hundred above par
IN New York, and Richmond paper Of
September %, 1864, now before me,
fairly chuckles over the high prices
prevailing at the north, in a two line
paragraph which says, ''Tar is selling
IN New York at two dollars a pound.
It used to cost eighty cents a barrel"
That paragraph made many q five dol
Ear beafsteak palatable.
New-York tribune., 1874-07-18

CLOSE or BUSl-


The market was strong as to fancy stocks to-day
II spite Of al the reasons which have been adduced
why II should be the reverse. Even the Erie Rail
way shows q gam OF per cent compared with last
nights closing vet one Of our State courts has lust
decided hat Erie must be- held 10 It's guarantee 10
paw interest on S5O0OOO of the'bonds of the Boston
Hartford and Erie Railroad Co. Since 1868
no interest Las been paid upon these
Donos' the subject ha"ing been IN litigation
untu the accrued interest which Erie is
HJudsad 20 pay amounts 10 nearly S2.OO000O.
We learn OF numerous suits 10 be commenced az
once Tor the recovery OF tins heretofore disputed IN
Fiest ana of the determination Of the compliments
10 enforce their claims 10 the taking possession
oi everything belonging % Erie that is attachable
Inc fact Is better known to the press than to the
public that railroad corporations have been here
toiore m the habit Of furnishing the newspapers
VIII weekly reports of earnings. The failure during
Vhe past two months Of many If the principal cor
poratlons 70 continue this practice very justly gives
Hae to tie suspicion that the earnings are ~ much
below the average that 1t u deemed best TO sup
NeSs the facts; that, IN short the companies
He losing instead of making money. This neglect
cvmpels those who reason upon these matters 10
uepend upon estimates which may seriously affect
Tie standing not only of those roads that have never
PioISs' Dut Oh many ol bnorH Ihht were sup
posed TO be able 70 pay fair dividends upon their
snare capital. The friends Of Pacific Mail admit
tnat nothing can DE done with regard to the pro-
pOSea combination with the Panama Railroad Com
pAAy uI'I the return Of Wn. Pat& some SIX weeks
'eHce' "hle the bears insist that the pro-
'''ou combination cannot be legally cOnsum-
mated aud that they intend to defeat IT,
Inc market for railway and miscellaneous shares
Dene steady but before the regular opening of the
DoAiu had advanced Z 10 per cent; and on small
pshess ruled strong til afternoon. when there WAS
adownward reaction Of TO Der cent sb,eb was
New-York tribune., 1874-07-18
THE STATE OF TRADE.
EUROPEAN MARKBP..

L1yJov july I7-l2:}O n m-Eris RAILWAY shares 30.
IIy.KPl.L july l--l23O m.CottOu quiet an lnchang-i
Nlllug Upanls ssG~lsl AiiAng Or cans >s sales lOuO
ZU1u for and export Tie sales o me
900 baes Of which 5000 aiken 'r export
AM 1000 speculation The port lOO4oO bales n
cl4 TIE Of TIE WeeE nave been lOOO
bales, me Idug Actual export 10000 bales The
tue three have been $1,000 quarters
uc u4iug 10000 American.
LalNDJN. July l7-lJO p m.-Eue Railway shares, 3Oll
IrEGPooL. Jli l13O n The Cotton oek anoat IS ~ OoO
1000 D American; ales On the basis o Md
ding Cpla-. Io1ls below Good Ordinary. deliverable july At
of the on he basis ~ hdilrg
Oe.. no mug uool Ordinary sas. Lad 81 3, cTt
PORK y Nw Mess bcou,i7 e ior Long Clear Md
Ie.. ~uoTt Nj 4le,. = =
LoSDoS, jay IIJ Pans dispatches quote Reuies at GIL
65c .
LvERpooL JULY l7-3 uOfth Cotton sales TODAY 6jO0
bales Bl,alsIufs dali Wheat II sail 10 =
california Nhae y II for Club do 10 u
western spnugi and 10 JGIl for hed Winter
tpra 3i 3 = quarter
L.SD0s 49, mThe amount of huion INTO The
of En-4nd balance to-day 600. Ere Railway
sns.-s .QjuL Paris krus a 6lt ~ l
Juv lIJ mAe market iOr Yarns and Fabrics at
Manclsster + quiet ana uscIluged
Ayry sRr l7P~o 20 ~ for Fine Pale American.
FRASkFor l7.Uatel states twenty bolls - = 'Or The
So
LoSDoy July l7Rvening.Sperm OIL sl7 e9S Com
mon R1-a 3 - L'tssr- Oh, -. IS per ton.
oplrts Ia yeaAHe - = cwt
New-York tribune., 1874-07-18

wb.. ApI y.- Red ei s54< 40; Amber 81 IS. Rye srn n
al Corn .eAdy Yellow s2c; Western ret 7OfSc Oats
Whit 2. aT7c Mrsi 53c Grooenes-Blsne.s sSA Rseaet
Petroleum auiet At ~ i2is. whisky steady a. 9-ot
Jnly I7.-FOar qBe and nhehangd -ueG e.tie,
.,mpe of fl % Corn Juiei No hfef
62d65o soeodpg ous price TO- f;s reeeo o'.
and higher 2 62e the trzct; 0&c jay I've hgh-f
No. 2 slds1 O5 BsreySo spring ~ lO s.pt.mber
s2l. Drv satec Nests se1
sales Bacon onv snail or1f ushe L@ri
Refined anehsns- Cattle qus' .sf
Rsce Db Flour OOO bush Wbesf I10Vp
bssh. Corn. 1000 bush. Oats. ahd 900 Cattle
TosDO, July lFlO1 quet and ancoAnged. Wbesf N fa e
m,Bd and oser White Wabash Al 80 spots VI 81 yaIi
81 "a No. DO. Al 30 81 20 JBlv No "bS
81 80 Saiy sl August.
81 49, New Amber Michigan ~ l9 No Red 81 3s. spot;
81 81 n 81 ~ VI 2oi No. Ret
Juy 81 - september 81 IL No Ses Red 81 II he-
III %; No White KeuturkT, Al 45 No Amber
illinois New 81 20 No DO 81 2O. spot 81 9a JBT Corn
active CHER Hgh Mixed July and August 6s No Grsds,
Gg Damaged J5c steady; No. 81 3oc.
Aunst 81 .c serember kiGar 5se Pre- bt. Gull ne
ir Recep32 bush Wheat % 900 bust Com 0 bush.
oats Shymsnl 900 bbs FlOg 49, 900 bush Wheat $4,000
bust. Corn 900 bush Oats