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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05

them days, and he wanted his owners
to let him call his ship after his sweet
hearts name, but the old man wouldn't
let him. So says she to him one day
My dear love, in remembrance of me,
you'll have that basket Of. flowers put
on your ship, and just while your ship
floats I'll never forget you, nor must
you forget me- My wife, sir, as is at
Bridgeport, has got that part into
rhyme, something about your heart
smoats, and the ship she floats, but
] never was good on poetry, and Just as
likely havn't got the hang of it. The
ship was launched, and that there iden-
tical basket was carved and put on her.
1t amt stuck on, sir, but is out right
out of the timber, so as to be everlast-
ing.
"Oh, he come back, sir btt not at
the end of three years, nor in his own
ship. In Manila he took the fever, and
was left for dead, and she, the rich
mans cheild, was made to believe that
her sailor lover wes gone, or didn't care
for her, SO after awhile she married
another fellow. never heard she YVES
unhappy. My wifo says she was but,
then, women, you know, sir, has such
strange ideas on them subjects. Jack
took to his ship again, and the old
wooden basket. of flowers, carved and
painted On the stern of his vessel, was
all That remained of his true love, and
they do say, no matter how rusty his
old craft became, whether out at sea or
in port, he used to have them old
flowers kept in a regular blaze and
bloom of glory. He was mighty rest
less old fellow, and never staid day
ashore, always lived on ship board, and
a-going all the time. Whaling he took
up some time in 1910, and kept it up
for q long time, a-living in the ice,
maybe a-trying to freeze tie love out of
him. He died mighty rich, and
singtlarly crusty and cranky, a matter
of eight year ago in Maine, where he
was born. The yarn is true one. be-
cause heard tell how in his will he
left some of his money to the woman
he had loved once, because times had
changed, and she and her family had
got poor. Some do say that the rich
mans daughter and her family had
been supported by that old whaling
captain for years. So, you see, he
didn't bear no malice. This old craft
never was exactly unlucky, and that
old basket of flowers has hung to her
SO long that I amt going to have it
taken off while sail her. Guess them
flowers has been a good deal patched
up since they was first put on her, as
may be my story, though, saving the
soft parts, which I can't work in like
my wife can, it's pretty much as I have
been telling it to you. am going to
keep that old flower. basket fresh, mind
| tell you, no matter what yellow ochre
does cost pound. No, sir no ghosts !;
not even rat; petroleum is pison on
rats. We are for Trieste. Rates
mighty poor-4s. Sd. barrel. 1t may
be a matter of seventy-fve days before
I get there. She is steady, sir, though
she can't be said to be fast. No OBJ
iections to your writing it out.
might like you to send the story to nay
folks at Bridgeport, only my wife will
be sure to tell me have left ont all the
incest parts. Women are so queer,
you know, and spin things out 80"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05
How He Got 100000.

An item of much historical interest
is contained in the account OF the es-
tate of Robert Roberts, of Medfeld,
presented in the Probate Court of Ded-
ham, Mass. 1t seems that the father
of Robert Roberts, whose account has
just been filed, was captain of an
American vessel, and during the first
French revolution, when Robespierre
was in power, called at French port.
While there wealthy Frenchman, who
had gained the hostility of the govern
ment, secured a passage on Captain
Roberts vessel and placed the sum of
100000 in gold in the cabin. Pre-
vious to the sailing of the vessel the
government arrested the intended fugi-
tive and beheaded him. Captain Rob-
erts, fearing he would get into trouble
and perhaps lose his head, Immediately
set sail from the port, and, upon arriv-
ing at home, left the dangers of the
deep and invested the 100000 in the
Massachusetts Hospital Life Insurance
Company. A number of heirs laid
claim to the money at the decease of
the son, but the court has acknowl-
edged the present holder tho rigbtful
hair II
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05
Worked for 1t.

One of the wealthiest of British vel
vet manufacturers, Mr.. Lester, worked
his way to success by years of patient
labor in search of way to utilize silk
rags. He began by buying up all such
waste at less than cent pound and
up to the year 1864, he had expended
the immense sum of 1,312, 500 in fruit
less efforts to find process. Nothing
daunted. Mr.. Lester continued his ex-
periments and within the past ten
years be has discovered way of MAX
ing the refuse into fine velvet. He car
ries on his industry at Manningham,
England, in an establishment which
employs not merely 1000 workmen, but
283 travellers in all parts of the globe,
whose sole business is to buy the silk
waste. The factory is said to have cost
nearly G3, 100000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05
The Home Heart.


The babe that nestled in my arms COOS for me
but in dreams
~ The prattler crowned with golden curls lives
but IN memory's CLEANS
What piarvel, then, that loving fear blends
ii. with the pride and joy
That watches, on his manhood's verge, the
"a bold and bonny boy y. .'
The happy smile Of infancy still wreathes his
rosy lips,
The fearless light of ohildhood's eyes knows
nothing of eclipse
Nbu' ftrra1r tread aod stronger clasp attest the
..- rolling years, - a
While groEirg, daring thought and will awake
the woman fears.
My sSyi, wiser hand than naine will shape the
onward way r
ASreater Power soothe thy night and guide
Is thee through the day.
So, in a patient impotence, strive to stand
apart,
Only praying, for thy fathers sake, Oh keep
the frank home heartl
Keep the'p pure unstinted charity, the trust in
..s all things fair,
The hope that mid each earthly cloud still feels
the sunshine tthere
The faith in goodness, love, and truth that,
spite of fault and fall,
Looks on tie bright world God has made, and
Owls His touch on all. r
j
80 ssS ii the light fool spring unharmed along
the perilous path,
@@ shall the brave hand clasp and keep the one
immortal wreath. Ee
BY the yearning Of the lonely life, whose chief
;: est joy thou art
oh, darling of our severed lives, keep still the
fresh homo heart
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05
"The Pocket on the Hip."

Seeing an article in your paper this
morning, says a letter in a San Fran
cisco paper, upon the reason why there
are SO many murders in this commu-
nifty, and laying it upon the neglect of
juryman to do their duty, it occurred to
me to suggest whether certain fashion
of wearing a pocket on the side of the
pantaloons, which has prevailed for the
last ten or fifteen years, has not been
the fruitful cause of many homicide.
We all know that the motion of man
in putting his hand in this pocket is the
same as that made in drawing a pistol,
which is usually worn in the same po-
sition. The other day man shot an
other on board of vessel here. The
one who shot says the other made a
motion as if to draw pistol. This
may be so, and yet the latter be un-
unarmed, and he might only have been
going to take chew of tobacco. The
motion, however, will always cause ap-
prehension in the minds of those who
carry weapons, especially when persons
are angry. We recollect years ago
hearing the late Edward Marshall in
summing up murder case to jury,
when he took occasion to refer to this
same suggestion. He said that it might
not mean anything for man in Massa-
chusetts, when. he had an alteration,
to put his hand under his coat tail, but
that in South Carolina it might mean a
good deal. In this community, where
weapons have always been so generally
carried, this motion by an angry man is
full of danger. If there is no pocket
on the hip, this motion will not be made
by an unarmed man, and more than one
life thus saved. We go for abolishing
the pocket on the hip,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05

DISPOSED OF.-The editor of an ex-
change disposes of chrome adver-
tising enterprise thus Dear Slr-As
the " Portfolio of Gems will not an-
swer as an overcoat during the coming
winter, and we are not cannibalistic
enough to dine on " The Twins" your
munifcent offer is respectfully declined,
without thanks.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-12-05

ABOUT THE BUTTER. After buying
pound of butter of Detroit grocer,
woman Indignantly remarked that
thirty-seven cents per pound was sheer
robbery, and she couldn't see how but
ter was SO high. "I'll explain, madam, "
replied the bland grocer. lyon see
the exceeding parchedness of verdure
has resulted in dearth of lacteal
foundation for butter, and not until
the atmosphere is rendered more hui
mid by some astronomical procedure
will the supply of oleaginous matter
be increased" She pondered while
and went off feeling much better.
A corn-extractor that has never been
patented-The crow. 49,.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
TERMS $500 PER ANNUMIN ADVANCE

no woman fear to own capacity for such
worship, lest it shall be mistaken and mis-
judged by the Vulgar for weaklng sentiment.
Your god may not be god at all; neverthe-
less, mold fast to your ideal of hm-by so
much will yoa bring him nearer to it. III it
were possible for woman to cease to worship
the sovereign in nan or for man to cease to
revere the spiritual in woman, we might de-
plofe, indeed, the speedy downfall Of the
race, which false prophets now delight to
Prophesy Through all his public life Mr..
sumner was the recipient of far-off adoriDg
ietters I'm no sense TO be confounded with
love lettersl addressed to MIN by his county,
women. These letters, received from strang-
ers whom he never met, would have made
many volumes. He numbered among his
personal friends aad private correspondents
ladies cf The highest rank and culture abroad
and at home. Yet the woman who walled
aloud in the stormy street wEile she watched
the receding train which bore the liieless
form of her friend to his final home was a
woman-bent and old and poor-who keeps
a little stand of traffic In corridor Of the
Capitol. a.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Letter from Mrs. M. G. Ames to the New Yorl
independently
Charles Sumner Among Women.

Charles Sumner lived and died moral
hero to women. Such men alone appeal to
the element of worship which lives ever in
the unperverted woman. Few approached
sufficiently near to discover any human
bemish which might MAJ the grand proper
tions OF their god. To their eyes he fulfilled
in person the ideal of greatness, intellectual
and moral He was cast in the mold of the
Vatican Apollo. ''rhe shape and gesture
proudly eminent were his. His passion fol
truth, tor honor, tor justice; his devotion to
human freedom, sealed with his blood, COM
manded their moral faculties. His Greek love
for beauty in its purest forms, his exquisite
tastes, his wonderful culture, which hau
Cleaned in every field OF human knowleuse,
sufficed the aesthetic nature OF the nlsme'
ness of his smile ibe gentleness Of his courte-
sy his reverence for the finest womanhood
ny, a,I hm ever in their eyes, from first to last,
.sthe blamsless knight" of the ideal man. Let
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Two Story House for Sl25O!!
For Sale

N Yarmouth Village, two story House, finished
Il Throughout, with stable attached. Also good
garden lot. Inquire of L. f. WALKER. :
my7d1m* Yarmouth Mo
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

ENE offer or sale very easy terms some of the
w prettiest lots for Summer Cottages on the
coast oil Maine We have tract fronting on the sea
Tor of mile. land high and dry; magnificent view
of old ocean for 25 miles, facilities for Fishng Gun
ming Boating and Bathing unsurpassed. Lot well
surveyed, trayes sed by numerous streets, and nice
pond and grove reserved. Lots of all good size.
Many have already been sold to good parties, and no
+ Objectionable ones allowed to locate. One mile from
the "Pool,' famous resort, GOOD hard ~heach all
tses s6c rue from deIots at
Biddeford. Plans and view at Office. For full par
ticuars address call on
GEG. B. GOODWIN q CO..
mySeod6t City Building, Biddeford, Me-, Room 2.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
FOR SALE---IN FREEPORT.

A DESIRABLE Situation at Freeport Corner suit
"A able tor genteel Residence, Hotel or Boarding
House. Price low and Terms liberal.
There being Hotel or putc Boarding House at
Freeport Corner this is good opening for either.
For particulars inquire of CHARLES CUSHING on
the premises, or JOHN G. PROCTER,
ap27d3w SO Exchange ST.. Portland
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

New York has a female bi-poster; but
we have no doubt she has to have the help
of lad-that is to say, step-ladder. Let
MS, however, see the money she makes, and
we will Immediately tell her whether she Is
acting outside the paste-pail Of the proprie-
ties.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Tor Sale.
For Sale.

A TWO Story House in good repair. Containing
IA finished rooms. Convenient for two families
Enquire at 55 York st.
dt
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Beautiful Sea Side Lots for sale.

EEOUSE 107 Cumberland Street. Enquire at the
1E House from 8 to O'Clock p. M, or at 20 Com
lnercial Street during business hours Of
mh30eodtf J. r. DONNEJI
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

Mrs. Marrowfat has of late been feeding
her husband exclusively upon oatmeal and
cried apples. A terrible suspicion crosse:
Mr.. Marrowfat's mind that his dear Eurydice
may be an infationist.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 1s, IA
Gossip and Gleanings.

Gossip and GIeanings.
They grew in beauty side by side
They filed on home with laughter;
Their are scattered far and wide
On sideboard shelf and rafter.
The New York Express wisely asserts that
Mrs. O'Leary's COW was creamationist.
Profound Thinker."-We cannot tell you
why human beings have only five senses, un !
less it is that more would be puisances.
The Digger Indians burn their dead, and
it is pleasant reflection that we may be as
civilized as they are one OF these days.
There are going to be good many acci-
dents in Arizona, the young ladies of that To-
cality being permitted to carry revolyers.
Wilke Collins, it is said, will pay America
another and longer visit. He will hardly
make it pay. however, without union OF his
lectures and the chrome business.
Particularly sagacious people who observe
so many undertakers preparing to go into the
coal trade, begin to think that this cremation
furore must mean something.
In Milwaukee they are debating whether it
exhibits presence of mind to throw your
mother-in- law out of a three-story window
during a fire.
IT, as would appear from the Waltz autop.
sy, a tendency TO crime springs from the pos
session OF large brains, what yirtuous set O;
men our Congressional fnanciers ought to
be.
There is an unhappy suspicion, latter all
that Mr.. Bender, now in Jail at Topeka. Kan,
is not Mr.. Bender. There is full deck Of
this unhappy man, with the exception of the
right bower.
Detroit Free Press: James Briggs, of Kan
sas City, asked his wife to put some wood on
the stove on the 1st of March, and she
wouldn't and he wouldn't, aud the stove has
been cold ever sihce.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
REMOVALS.
Removal.

WILLIAM ROSS, Treasurer of the Portland.
~ Bangor and Machias Steamboat Co, has remov-
ed @ his Office from 17o Commercial Street to Railroad
- mar23 dtf
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

LADIES', NOW
Is the time to make and to
Save Money.
In these times everybody is trying to do this and
can tell yon
How
it 5as been nodG done by and how if win
To DO Ii.
You have got to buy
SPRING HAT
and have it trimmed and you want 1t to be
STYLISH HAT,
but you do not want to pay
FANCY PRICES
for the goods or work.
NOW
ifyou will go TO
COGIA HASSAN'S,
EVERY STYLE
Of hat that h manufactured bought by direct from
the makers and imported for our
WHOLESALE
trade, anc we will sell them at retail for less than
JOBBING PRICES.
We also buy
Ribbons 4 Flowers
by the carton, and can and will sell them lower than
they can be found at any other STORE in Maine Our
MILLINERS
have just returned from
New York and Boston,
where they have seen the
LATEST STYLES
and are prepared to make up
MOST STYLISH
hats and bonnets in styles that cannot be eqqa led by
This year. we have
EVERY ARTICLE
necessary to make up hat of any cost fror,
80 Cents to $4,000
Turquoise and GrOS Grain Silks
t in every shade.
* I Ii B o Ms
in every quality.
Flowers and Feathers i'm endless
variety.
BUY OF US!!!
Get the Best and Save Money.
COGIA HASSAN,
129 Middle & 6 Temple st.
my7 div
CARRIAGES (!
Save Your MOnev
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Situations Wanted.

SlfnafIOnS wanted.
EVOR two Swedes to take care of Horses or work
IL in Gardens. Good recommendations gwen.
Enquire of MAGNUS A. R. LINDBERG, Swedish
and Norway Consul, 30 Middle Street, ap7tf
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

Detroit Free Press: James Briggs, of Kan
sas City, asked his wife to put some wood on
the stove on the 1st of March, and she
wouldn't and he wouldn't, aud the stove has
been cold ever since.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
Tuesday Evening, June 9th, 1874
All 2 I-2 O'CLOCK,
And continue, Day and Evening, ten
Days Or More.

The object of this Exhibition is to gather
together specimen products from all our fac
tories and workshops, thereby der onstrating
the importance Of Portland as manufacture
iLg center
deep and widespread interest is manifest
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

They grew in beauty side by side,
They filed on home with laughter;
Their urns are scattered far and wide
On sideboard shelf and rafter.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

The New York Express wisely asserts that
Mrs. OLeary's COW was creamationist.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13
THF PORTLAND DAILY PRESS
TIL MAINE STATE PRESS
AT 1Os EXCHANGE sr. popr,..r

TERMS: Eight Dollars a Year in advance. Tt
mall subscribers Seven Dollars Year if paid in aa
vance.
The Portland daily press., 1874-05-13

Profound Thinker."-We cannot tell you
why human beings have only five senses, un
less it is that more would be puisances.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
ror.y Days without Food.

John Parvianes, a Fnlander, thirty
three years Of age, was convicted oil
as sault and battery in Newark last
autumn. and sentenced tow years, i'm
orisonment in the State Penltentlary
At Trenton. He entered that institu-
ton on the lIth of November and
was placed at labor in the shoe shop.
He was industrious and tractable IN
I'll the middle Of May, when he de-
manded his discharge, importuning all
the officials to whom he could obtain
access. On the goth he swore be
would eat no food for forty days, and
be has kept the oath. He became
violent and abusive, and a day or
two after the beginning Of his extra
ordinary fast he armed himself with
a sharp knife turned on the water IN
his cell, and threatened to kill any
one who attempted to turn 1t oil.
He was finally overpowered, with
out injury to any one, and removed to
a cell in the north wing. He asserted
his impotence repeatedly, and throw.
ing himself upon his cot he has lair
there most Of the time since. Every
inducement Imaginable has beer
made to lead him to break this re
solve. The most tempting food ha.
been placed in his cell repeatedly
only to be dashed across the room
and the dishes shivered to atom.
the instant he could lay hands upon
them. As be has not been out Of hi
cell since entering it, andno one has
succeeded in getting him to place
mouthful Of food to his lips, it is alb
solutely certain that be has tasted 70.
full forty days and nights. He haI
drank water and munched ice contin
ually, with the eagerness Of a starv
ing wolf; but nothing has been able t,
break down his indomitable will
His extraordinary fast ended Of
Wednesday, when, under the direc
ton of the physician, w. W. l.. Phil
lips. he resumed by taking q raw egi
and n glass of Jamaica rum.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
ALife on the ocean wave

The Daubury Nelcs man has gone
to England, and thus details the in
cidents of his temporary sojourn on
the briny wave: 1--WE shipped the
sea on the fourth day. An elderly
man with Eyeglasses had his star
board end to the intruder at the time,
busily engaged in peering at the bori-
zon from beneath one of the life
boats. 1t struck him on the beam.
and filed bis coat-tail pockets with
salt water. "Helen BlaZes" said he,
and stepped down stairs to see her.
The fearful and continuous rolling Of
the vessel was the cause Of painful
and ludicrous accidents, of course.
The intellectual man with long brown
overcoat that touched his heels, and
sharp, inquiring eyes that seemed to
reach into everything, was knock
ed off his feet by a wave, and be-
sides being drenched to the skin, was
driven out of sight by a life-boat. l
enjoyed that trip better than be did.
One of the Stewards bald-headed
gentleman-was 'teetering along the
deck with a plate highly seasoned
beef in one hand and a cup of hot tea
in the other, when q sudden lurch of
the vessel lifted him into the air, and
drove him with great violence against
the guards. The spiced beef and a
fork we're never heard Of again, but
the tea DE saved by catching it I'M
der his collar. One lady was cut in
thd head, and n gentleman broke a
number of his legs, but was out
in an hour, eating o Welsh rarebit."
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
Japanese Resort.

A Japan correspondent describing
q favoiile resort near Yeddo say:
The top of the bluff has been levelled
so that it forms a pretty little plateau.
This is lined all round with creatures
and little tea booths, the latter being
placed on the edge of tie bill SO as TO
Command a fine view. These tea
booths are mere sheds, open on all
sides. with mat covered floors. They
are each manned-ifI may be allowed
the expression-with q very ugly, ola
woman and two girls. The old LADY
makes the tea, counts the change, and
relieves her mind aud testlties her
good feelings by an occasional grim
through a couple or so of very black
teeth. The girls bake your vlands
and take your orders. The whole
force marshals itself in battle array
lust outside ofthe booth at the APP
.pearanee of a prospective customer,
and with much clapping ofhands in
yites him to come into the establish
ment and squat-or words to that ef-
feet. You approach the long line Of
booths, and the scene becomes very
animated. 'Erashai oka-kinasia'
(come in and take G seat) shouts one
old lady, and Epuku oanguasia'
take a cup of tea), bowls another
farther down; and then they all clap
their hands, while the 'Erafhias'
and .Epukus' resound along the line
like tie popping of fire crackers
Should one be able to rsist the temp
tation to -Erashar or 'Epuku,' the
visit to the grounds of Uyeno Will
repay for the trouble. They are lald
out most beautifully, and are inter
spersed here and there with groves
Of ancient trees, whose overhanglng
boughs shadow shrines and temples"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1874-07-15
italian Cities.

One remarkable feature In italian
cities is that you see no new build
ings in course of erection, growth in
that respect having apparently ceas-
ed. A new street is being opened,
broad and ~serviceable, from the
square of Carlo Felieie, in Genoa,
directly to the Qualifications of the
city, in its course destroying one OF
two private palaces of no mean pre-
tensions, and of centuries in age.
King Victor Emanuel has taken q
lesson in this respect from Napoleon
III, and this is the fourth or fifth
boulevard which he has opened lately
in Genoa, which has for centuries
been famous for its narrow and most
inaccessible streets. 1t is no exag-
geration to say that one-half the
streets of the city are so narrow as
to render the passage of a vehicle
through them simply impossible; ev-
rything of size and weight delivered
therein is broughton the back of don
keys, or more commonly on the heads
of women.