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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
NO. 16.
Items OF Interest.

Horses are never bowed down by
"wait O. whoa !"
A shoemaker out West, with q liter
airy turn of mind, has the following
poetical gem attached to his shingle
Here lives a man who never refuses
To mend all sorts of boots and shoeses."
There is nothing like persistency.
John Couch was married in Philadel-
phia the other day to a girl who had
refused him eighteen times. She
wanted to see if he really loved her.
A man gives the following reason why
the colored race is superior to the
white: "All men are made of clay, and
like the meerschaum pipe, they are
more valuable when highly colored."
A boy of sixteen and his horse were
killed by lightning at Athens, Tenn.
When found, he had one foot in the
stirrup, and his clothes were torn off
from the waist up, and scattered around
the road.
A small boy arose at q Sunday school
concert and began quite glibly "a
certain man went down from Jerusalem,
and fell-and fell" there his memory
began to fail him, and-and-fell by
the road side, and the thorns sprang up
and choked him."
A business firm to which bill had
been owing for some time, finally sent
a sharp dunning note to the debtor, and
received in reply postal card contain
ing the following: " Matthew 18; 26."
To this they responded " Romans l3;
8; st. Luke 12; 5S." The result was
the prompt return of a check in pay
ment of the amount.
A little girl, playing in field near
Westminster, Mass, was attacked by
savage bull. Her brother, aged 10,
climbed over the fence, and bravely
fought the bull with a stick. "Run,
sissy run quickly !" shouted the boy,
and she saved herself by obeying. The
boy, however, was gored so terribly
that very likely he will die of the hurt.
If the last census is coed authority,
farmers don't make much money.
There are exceptions, however, IN the
great West. 4 lawyer bough ght 1000
acres of land near Webster, Iowa, for
1924, 900, and sowed !, 700 acres in wheat.
In two years he has nettea $50, 900 from
his crops. What chance for hundreds
of half-starved attorneys in New York
who are trying to reap a livelihood by
sowing discord between families.
The queerest object in nature is
Spanish beggar, for these beggars beg
on horseback, and it is an odd thing to
see a man riding up to poor foot-pas-
senger and asking aims. A gentleman
in Valparaiso, being accosted by one OF
these mounted beggars, replied, "Why,
sir, you come to beg of me, who have to
go on foot, while you ride on horse
back /" every true, sir" said the
beggar, "and 1 have the more need to
beg, as 1 have to support my horse as
well as myself.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25

Considerable excitement was created
IN New YORK sJ blrc report OF ii member
of the Board of Aldermen, that VIM.
M. Tweed was treated too well on the
Island, being furnished with an apart
ment in the dwelling house, etc. A re-
porter who visited Tweed, says that he
complains of great physical prostration,
and believes himself to be q fit subject
for the hospital. He AYERS that he per-
forms every duty incumbent upon him
as hospital attendant, and does as
much work as anybody who has pre-
ceded him in that position. AS to the
facilities which may be offered him to
escape, he asserts that he would make
no attempt to do so if he were allowed
to roam the whole island in perfect
freedom. He has great confidence in
the strength of his legal position, and
is very hopeful that his counsel will be
able to effect his release through legal
technicalities. His wife and family,
it is stated, now visit him about every
ten days, and his sons and Mr.. Dewey
once week. He receives them in the
room which he has been allowed to
occupy, and would feel wretchedly
miserable ii he was denied the priv
ilege. He keeps a record of the charac-
ter and the amount of work he performs
every day, and appears to be convinced
that he is doing as much useful labor as
any other prisoner. He is sensible that
he is more favored than his fellows pris-
oners, and expresses himself as very
grateful for the consideration shown
him. His friends argue that justice
has been satisfied by his sentence to the
Penitentiary, and say that if he was
subjected to the rigid discipline of the
prison, and confined in q cell, it would
kill him, as he has been under medical
treatment for q period of ten years.
His secretary asserts that he has not
been able to dress himself unaided
during that time, and that, being a man
of great bulk and weight, his confne-
ment in one of the small cells of the
Penitentiaryis almost physical impos-
sibility.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
A SOciabIe Governor,

Governor Powell, of Kentucky, was
never an orator, but his conversational,
storytelling and social qualities were
remarkable. His great forte lay in es-
tablishing a personal intimacy with
every one he met, and in this way he
was powerful in electioneering. He
chewed immense quantities of tobacco,
but never carried the weed himself, and
was always begging it of every one he
met. His residence was in Henderson,
and in coming up to Ohio past that
place gentleman overheard the follow
ing characteristic anecdCte Of him.
A citizen of Henderson, coming on
board, fell into conversation with q
passenger, who made inquiries about
Powell.
He lives in your place, believe,
don't he ?"
Yes, one Of our oldest citizens"
Very sociable man, amt hep"
Remarkably So"
Well thought so ] think he is
one of the most sociable men l ever
met in my life-wonderfully sociable.
[ was introduced to him over at Gray
son Springs last summer, and he hadn't
been with me ten minutes when he beg
ged all the tobacco l had, got his feet
up in my lap, and spit all over mere
markably sociable."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25

and fallin' over each other. 7 could
hear them routin' among the shavings
and in minute they had them all
spred over the barn floor. Then they
began to muzzle in the earth and
scratch up the mould with their paws.
" AT last one of 'em scented me, and
told the others with yelp. Then, of
all the yells / ever heard esquire, l
most swooned away and if 1 hadn't
lashed myself to the rafter, I'd ha' fell
right down among 'em. Oh, such
yell | never heerd afore, and hope I'll
never hear aginl Though l knowed they
couldn't get at me, it was dreedful to
be there alone in the dead of the night,
with pack of hungry wolves lickin'
their slaverin' jaws, and thirstin' for
my blood. They ran round and round
the barR, and leaped on to each others
backs, and sprang into the air but it
was no use; and at last I began to get
kinder easy, and 1 looked down on the
howlin' varmints, and bantered them.
Squire, you'd ha' thought they under
stood feller. Every time 1 hollered
and shook my fist at them, they yelled
and jumped louder than ever. For all
this, warn't sorry when it begun to
grow little lighter and about half an
hour before dawn they begin to see it
was no use ; so they give me one long,
loud farewell howl afore they went.
But, squire, the most curious part of
the story has got to come. Some time
afore they vent, it had growed so light
I could see 'em quite plain and an
ugly set of beasts they was, and no mis-
take. Well, I noticed one wolf separate
himself from the pack, and trying to
stink away. He had his tail between
his legs, jest like q dog when he's
beaten, and had a cowed look, as if he
were ashamed and afeared like. All at
oncet, he made a spring out of the barn,
but the rest of the pack was after him
like lightnin'.
Squire" concluded the Yankee,
laying his hand impressively on my
sleeve, "you may believe it or not, jest
as you please but beyond some hide
and hairs, they didn't leave a piece of
that ere wolf as big as my hand. He
was the scout as give the signal to the
others, and they devoured him out of
hunger and revenge, cause they
couldn't get me-"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
Mount Sinai.

I have stood upon the Alps in the
middle of June, and looked abroad upon
their snowy empire I have stood upon
the Alpines, and looked abroad upon
the plains of beautiful, eventful Italy ;
I have stood upon the Albanian mount,
and beheld the scene of the Hiniad from
the Circean promontory, over the Cam
pagno to the Eternal City, and the
mountains of Tivoli; I have sat upon
the pyramids of Egypt, and cast my
eyes over the sacred city of Heliopolis,
the land of Goshen, the fields of Jewish
bondage, and the ancient Memphis,
where Moses and Aaron, on the part of
God and his people, contended with
Pharaoh and his servants, the death of
whose 1" tirst-born of man and beast in
one night filled the land with wailing.
But L have never set my foot on any
spot, from whence was seen so much
stern, gloomy grandeur, heightened by
the silence and solitude that reigns
around, but infinitely more heightened
by the awful and sacred associations of
the first great revelation in form from
God to man. feel oppressed with the
spirit that breathes around and seems
to inhabit this holy place. Ishall never
sit down on the summit of Sinai again
and look upon the silent and empty
plains at its feet but / shall go down
better man, and aim so to live as to
escape the thunders which once rever-
berated through these mountains, but
have long since given way to the gospel
of Peace. president Durbin.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
Ancestors of Washington and Franklin,

We take the following extract from
the "Life of Washington" by Edward
Everett: 1t may be mentioned as q
somewhat striking fact, and one, be-
lieve, not hitherto adverted to-that the
families of Washington and Franklin
the former the great leader of the Amer
ican Revolution, the latter not second
to any of his patriotic ssociates-were
established in the same central county
of Northampton, and within few miles
of each other the Washingtons, at
Brington and Sulgrave, belonging to
the landed gentry of the country, and
in the great civil war supporting the
royal side ; the Franklins at the village
of Ecton, living on the produce of o
farm of thirty acres, and the earnings of
their trade as blacksmiths, and espous-
ing-some of them, at least, and the
father and uncle of Benjamin Franklin
among the number-the principles of
non conformists. Their respective emf.
grations, germs of great events in his
tory, took kplace-that of John Washing
ton, the great-grandfather of George
in 1867, to loyal Virginia; that of Josiah
Franklin, the father of Benjamin, about
the year 1886, to the metropolis of pun-
tan New England"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
Their Idea of 1t.

The crowd outside the court room
was greatly disappointed when it heard
the result of the Tichborne trial. A
reporter for the Daily NeaOS ran to a
cab and said, "Drive me to the Daily
NeaOs office" What's the sentence ?"
asked the cab driver. Fourteen years
hard labor" Then I'll see your neck
broke before I'll drive you anywhere. I"
This little dialogue is characteristic of
the crowd. It was a crowd of people
who had gradually come to consider the
Tichborne case fghtbetween q butcher
and the aristocracy and nothing else,
with their sympathies in favor of the
butcher.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
Brave Boy.

One day recently in Sacramento, a
man appeared in the street with a pistol
in his hand. He pointed the muzzle at
everybody he met, and pulled the trig-
ger, but the caps seemed to be bad, and
would not explode. Occasionally he
put on fresh cap, poked the end of the
barrel into his mouth, and tried to
make the thing go off. He caught a
little girl, and made several efforts to
explode the charge close to her head.
The people ran into their houses and
locked the doors, until shrewd boy re-
lieved them of the eccentric chap and
his pistol. "Tell me how far it is to
Sacramento, or I'll kill You? ?" said the
maniac. "Eight miles right straight
down the railroad track" replied the
boy. The lie was efiectual, and the
maniac logged out of town, putting
fresh caps on his pistol, and aiming at
his crazy head.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25

WORSHIP OF DEPARTED SPIRITS. The
Augil@, people of Africa, had no gods
besides the ghosts of men deceased.
This error, though gross, was linked in
double chain of truth; the one, that
souls of men diseased did not altogether
cease to be the other, that the things
which are seen were ordered and gov
erned by unseen powers yet loath they
were to believe anything which in some
sort they had not seen, or perceived by
some sense. Hence did their general
notion miscary in the descent unto
particulars, prostrating itself before
sepulchres filed with dead bones, and
consulting souls departed. Jackson.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25

BLOODY WoRK.-The 9th Of March
was the anniversary of the bloodiest
tragedy in American history. On that
day, thirty eight years ago, Col. James
w. Fannin and four hundred and forty
five men we're shot to death by the
Mexicans under Urea in the port at
Goliad, Texas. A week before, Fannin
and his force, being surrounded by the
enemy and at the mercy of their artil-
Jerry, surrendered and were taken to
Goliad. Major Ward, whom Fannin
had sent with one hundred men to escort
some Irish families, was also captured,
and the Americans were massacred to-
gether on a Sunday morning.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25
VOL. IL.
COurtship.

Dean swift's recipe for courtship was as fol-
lows:
Two or three dears, and two or three sweets,
Two or three balls or two or three treats,
Two or three serenades, given as lure,
Two or three oaths how much they endure,
Two or three messages sent in one day,
Two or three times led out from the play,
Two or three tickets for two or three times,
Two or three love letters writ all in rhymes,
Two or three months keeping strict to these rules
Can never fail making couple of fools.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-04-25

A PRETTY FANoY.-When day begins
to go up to heaven at night, it does not
spread pair of wings and fly aloft like
bird. 1t just climbs softly up ON a
ladder. 1t sets its red sandal on the
shrub you have watered these three
days, lest it should perish with thirst
then it steps on the tree we sit under,
and thence to the ridge of the roof
from the roof to the chimney and
from the chimney to the tall elm and
from. the elm to the tall church spire
and then to the threshold of heaven
and thus you can see it go up as though
it walked up red roses. s.-Jeremy Tag
Tor.
, 1874-06-17
NOTICE.

Ell S the Presidency will require about
MA 300 Puncheons of fresh Brandywine
Cornmeal in the months of August-Octo.
Der, parties DESTROYS of contracting for the
delivery of said quantity of Meal, or any
portion thereof, are requested to send in to
the Presidency on or before Thursday the
25th inst. 10 O'Clock a M, sealed Tenders,
marked " Tenders for Cornmeal," stating
1, the number of puncheons offered,
?, the lowest cash price demanded pr.
puncheOn.
The Meal is to be delivered according
as required by the Presidency, part in
Christiansted and part in F~rederiksted, in
the course of August, September and
October. The payment to be assigned
from the Colonial Treasury at the end of
the month tor the quantity delivered.
The party whose tender is accepted will
receive information latest Saturday 27th
June.
Presidency's Secretary's Office 18th
June 1874.
S. ". VAN BRAKLE.
, 1874-06-17

The barque civilian Cargil' of Liverpool,
loaded with Guano and bound for st. Vincent, got
on shore, and in a shor TT time became a total wreck.
The spars, hull, riggings, &c. were sold for 1904.
There was a welcome change IN the weather on
the 9th there had been a good fall Of rain which
was favorable to the growth of the young crop, and
a continuation of the promising weather would
prevent any check in its present growth. The
reaping of the old crop was not yet closed, and
would not be before the middle of July. The ship
ments to June 9th amount 10 27,456 hhds. Sugar,
l5,400 puns. Molasses, and Sc puns. and 100
hhds. Rum.
DomIN1cA.-The Circuit Court at its opening
discharged the jury, as the Attorney.General was
absent, and no person authorized to prosecute the
criminal cases. The civil cases were proceeded
with. A local newspaper says, Federation was
running the Colony"
NEvIs.-Cooie immigration was going on here
300 immigrants had arrived in the island and been
distributed over the estates of the leading planters.
The native population have for some time shown
great dissemination to work regularly. The coolies
cost Ell each when landed. There were,3 deaths
during the voyage and some of the men were in
hospital suffering from dysenterv.
DEMERARA.-George Town has often suffered
from fire, and another very disastrous one occurred
on the 23rd May in Water Street, destroying a large
amount of valuable property; about half a million,
pounds. The English Insurance Companies were in
for about Els 900, and the Hand-in-Hand for E26,
600.
At a meeting of the Combined Court which was
opened on the 28th uIt. notices were given of re-
solutions in reference to the Railway to Berbice,
and the drainage and supply of water to the East
Coast and Canje (~Berbice) estates.
There had been one meeting Of the Court of
Policy on the 4th inst.
The Colonial Civil Engineer, forwarded three
specimens Of cable, the first Of which cost ST. ,032,
the second SG62, and third $576 per mile, and it
was ordered that the wire insulators for the erect
ing of the inland telegraph should be ordered, but
the order for the cable was allowed to stand over.
The question as to the cultivation of other pro-
ducts, besides the sugar-cane, was occupying
public attention.
During the fortnight business had been quiet and
without any change worthy of note. The prices
were, Sugar, V. P, S. 50, Muscovado, $3.50 a
1915; Molasses, 24c. a 34c. Rum, 58c. "a &c,
The first meeting of the Diocesan Synod Of
Guiana, since its legal incorporation by Ordinance,
was held on the Goth May, when the Clergy of the
Diocese and a number of the Laity took advantage
of the opportunit} to testify their love and reverence
for the Bishop, by presenting him with a beautiful
pastoral Staff. This badge Of the Episcopal Order
Is described as a superb specimen Of artistic
achievement, and is supposed 10 be one of the finest
in any Of The Diocese, English or Colonial. 1t is
made of ebony, inlad with silver, ornamented with
gold, and set with precious stones. 1t bears a
medallion with the Bishops Court Of Arms, and the
Arms of the See.
, 1874-06-17

UUNDER en- constituent Toldforvalter og
I'D Postmaster Frederiksted P. Weders6
meddeelt Reisetilladelse for l Aar fra Ode
DENIES at regne er constituent Toldoon-
t~rolIeur P. @. Birch D NJ. at Gouverne-
mentet for de dansk vestindiske Ger, con-
stitueret som Toldforvalter og Postmaster
/ Frederiksted.
, 1874-06-17

allie og Enhver, som have No
III get at fordre paa fhy. Kj0b-
mand og BRITISH Postagent her paa
Stedet, Benjamin Cohen d. Azeye-
dos Fallitbo, indkaldes heryed med
3 Maaneders Varsel til for under
tegnede Skifteret at anmelde og
bevisIiggj0re deres krav.
, 1874-06-17
M 0 II 1 G 6

mURING my absence from this ISL
IJ and for a couple weeks, MIR.
GEORGE STEPHENS is charged with
the management of the Avis Office,
and is authorized to collect amounts
becoming due, and to give receipts
therefor.
Christiansted, 10Th June 1874.
CHR. DAHL.
, 1874-06-17
PROCLAMA.

lille og Enhver som MATTE have
III Noget at fordre paa Skiftet eff
ter abode Enke Ann Elizabeth Won
Lindeman og tidligere abode Egte-
falle Kj0bmand Ferdinand Levin
von Lindemans F@llesbo, begge her
at Stedet, indkaldes herved med Ire
Maaneders Varsel til at anmelde og
beviisliggj6re deres Krav for un-
dertegnede Executores-testamenti.
st. Thomas den Ode Juni 1874.
G.. VI. HJARDEMAAL.
OTTO WANTZELIUS.
, 1874-06-17

St. Thome Skifteret, den Ode
Juni 1874.
p. M. ANDERSEN.
, 1874-06-17
BERENTZEN B. S|EMON.

9GWTW@RApGIF8MSa
beg 10 notify to the public that they in
tend to leave for St. Thomas latest on the
25th instant. They respectfully beg to
draw attention to their short stay, and
will receive orders up to the 23rd.
Christiansted, St. Croix, June 18th 1874.
The Grange advance., 1874-09-30
Letter from a Leading Scandinavia
OF the 18th Senatorial District.

Corruption IN Politics-How men are "con-
trdcted for. .'-A acord for purity, and Honest
Capable Men.
Editor Of The Grange Advance:
I will in few lines give you an idea Of
the politics in the 18th Senatorial District.
Politics seem to be more and more corrupt.
They are run by a few political leaders of
the ring. We shall have Norwegian, A.
K. Finseth, for candidate for Senator. He
is thorough going and honest man, and
does not belong to any ring. But doubt
less some Of the ring masters will rule him
out him in the convention. For represen-
tatives in the Sd division Of this District
there will be two Swedes as candidates.
One we believe is Frank J. Johnson and is
contracted for by the ring, and calculation
made for the future; if he gets into any po-
sition Of influence. that help
them and secure themselves for
Office. He is man without education,
and without experience, but that makes no
difference if he only belongs to the ring.
The other candidate is, as we understand,
Hon. John Miller. He was a member Of
the Legislature in 1870 and has some prac.
tice which the journal Of the House shows.
On page 4l8 is recorded a resolution
Of thanks that he received of the
House for the energetic and able manner Of
his Immigrants Protection Bill. He is an
honest and thorough man, never belonged
to any ring, and we hope never will. He
has shown himself o1 the farmers side,
and we have seen that his name stands
against the big and enormous appropria-
tions and we Recommend him to repre-
sent the farmers Of this District
Yours Truly,
A. H.
We print the above as we do all out
spoken correspondence, believing that ev-
cry man has a right to hearing, and be-
cause our columns are always open to the
free and independent expressions of all
who wish to use them; and not because we
propose to take sides in any political con-
test. We know nothing of the comparative
qualifications of the persons named, yet we
think it healthy sign when the people
commence the looking into the character of
candidates before their nomination. To
wait until the nominations are made, is
too much like locking the stable after the
horse is stolen.-ED. ADVANCE
A Fresh lot of Oiled Shades. Window
The Grange advance., 1874-09-30

their spirit and terms. They denounced
the Third Term Policy, but the Convention
had nominated for the eighth term. Here
was a grave inconsistency. The resolu-
tions favored retrenchment in salaries and
reform in politics, but the Convention had
nominated the same men that had never
been known to object to the amount of their
salaries on account Of their being too large,
but always took all they could get, and
who had always controlled our politics
which are now declared to be corrupt. He
could not support the resolutions in the
face of the action of the Convention, and
hoped they would not be adopted.
Mr.. Hodgson, from the committee on res
olutions, explained that the language of the
resolution was ."What is known as the
Third Term Policy" Everybody understood
that this applied to the Presidential Office
only. Nobody supposed it referred to a
county Office. He was deeply grieved by
the remarks Of the last speaker. He had
no doubt the Convention had made errors,
because they were not perfect, but upon
the whole they had presented a good tick
ct and strong ticket. They had nomi-
mated fifteen officers, and it would have
been miracle if among so many they had
not made mistakes. but he did not believe
that a Convention ever before made so
many nominations without making graver
errors. He saw no reason for rejecting
the resolutions except that they were more
perfect than the action Of the Convention,
and there was no objection to having a
high standard even if we did not live up to
it,
After vote Of thanks to the good people
Of Featherstone for their kind entertain
ment, the Convention adjourned.