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New-York tribune., 1874-06-12

We want q new Henriade. The herOine-Or. "a
Charles Lamb would have mildly corrected us, the
sberoine-is hen who made herself famous III the
Mill River Flood She has put out of jOint-tO en-
pIoy the slang of the nursery-the of two per-
sons hitherto famous, Archimedes and the Hen VINO
insisted on laying her daily egg on the best bed III
Mr. Beecher's farmhouse. Everybody has heard
how Archmedes sat on brood on his mathematical
cOnundrums in the very midst OF the hury-burly OF
Syracuse siege, and how the hatch aud disclose OF
his abstraction did prove some danger to him 10 the
shape of cracked crown. We would repeat
the story of Mr. Beechers hen, if the pOetpreacher
had not already told it in his inimitably delight
full way We believe it originally came in as an cpl
sode in sermon of his On the Perseverance OF the
Saints But our Mill River hen set larger example
than did this tempestuOus creature, and IN noDier
way We know few details of her history. Bddy,
we suppose was her name, and America her nation !;
Williamsburg was her dwelng-place, and as the Sc
ouel will show presence of mind was her salvation.
She had laid seventeen eggs in barrel, and having
done her level best in that ine she was setting on
them when the ildam burst In spite OF her teeth,
the flood bore her along with the awful wreck-with
houses and barns trees and fences and the bodies OF
men and beasts-but this steadfast creature never
stirred. She knew that Massachusetts, expected
every hen to do her duty She was clear grit. 80
long as her barrel kept out water she would be
hanged if she would drown. No one OF her sex ever
had such confidence in hoops. " Sink or SWIM she
cried, survive or perish don't give up the ship"
What outsiders were doing was none Of her
business She was too busy keeping the beams
ont of her own eye to look after the notes in the
eyes of other people. What thoughts may have
passed through her mind! Perhaps she whistled as
she went for want of thought. Who knOwsf How
her mothers heart must have trembled! What"
she cried must lose all my pretty chickens by
that dam 7" If she could have sung, no doubt she
would have clucked to herself some ancient lay
Until the barrel was stove she would not deny her
self the comfort of staye. "Give me but what
that bar-hoop bound, Take all the rest the sun goes
round.' Or something else, appropriate. Our hen
was carried five miles, and at length the Fates,
snubbed and disappointed, bumped the barrel ashore
and left it high and dry. What did the ben do 7
Did she Jump out and crow and cacke over her ride
like man , Did she scratch off letter to Barnum
Offering to make a show of herself 7 No, she just
went on minding her own business, and In due time
hatched out every one of her seventeen eggs. Oh,
fowl most far! How meekly did'st thou bear thy
woke! Many hens have done excellently, but thou
excellest them all.
New-York tribune., 1874-06-12

man the other Of "guardisn OF the publio
"peace" who 50 brutaily cIaooSd M q
ou;et citizen that he is on his death
hed II would be hasty conclusion
to add that these crimes are character'S'io Vi
the police force, which has in 1t many ad-
mirabe officers. Nevertheless, such occur
rences have lately become so common as W
attract universal attention to the Iohco
Department They are highly d'scred''ao'0 W
the force and to the city.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14

was cold and wet, but he knew that it was
a living man One after another of the
men gathered about, and ere long all knew
that young Walter Addison still lived =
The captain had him conveyed to the cab
in, where everything that could be thought
was not long ere he sufficiently revived to
give an account Of his strange escape from
the cold deep grave to which he had been
consigned.
1t seemed that young Addison had fallen
into that death-like lethargy which not un-
frequently results from sudden cholera,
and which, as all who are acquainted with
the disease must be aware, so nearly re-
sembles death, that even the best physi-
clans have been deceived by it. The sud-
den immersion in the cold water had re-
vived his dormant senses, and as the ship
had but slight motion at the time, he
came to a partial realization of his situa-
ton ere she had passed him, and by con-
siderable exertion he managed to get hold
of the rudder-chains. He tried to call for
assistance, but his tongue was so swollen
that he found it impossible, and after re-
naming upon the chains long enough to
gain more strength, he worked his way up
till he got hold of the lanyards of the cabin
headlights. From thence he reached the
lashings of the steamboat, but here weak
ness again overpowered him, and after
working his way into the boat he remained
some time insensible, but at length he re-
vived and came on board. He had tried to
speak, but he could not. When the helms
man fled from the wheel, he had sense
enough to see the ships danger, and from
the impulse of sort of instinct, he seized
the wheel and brought her up to the
wind.
The morning dawned, and the next day
passed-then another, and another, but
the death-fend came not again He had
lost his first intended victim, and he left
the ship in peace.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14
For the Bloomfield Times
AN ADVENTURE AT SEA.

I'm the summer of 1889 the "Vulcan,"
under the command of Capt. Isaac
Johnson, was on her homeward-bound
passage from the Indies, with half a cargo
of tea, and she stopped at Cape Negro, on
the coast of Benguela, after lot of ivory,
to make up her load Having gone on
shore, at the Cape, the captain learned
from the native contractor that he would
have to go some fifteen miles up the Can
nibal's river, as the elephant hunters had
all the boats further up in the country, so
that consequently they had not been ena-
bled to bring the ivory down.
Capt. johnson was somewhat disappoint-
ed at this cause of delay, but without wait
ing to find useless fanlt he determined to
man his own boats, and proceed at once
up the river. 1t required four trips to
bring all the ivory down, but as they had
opportunity to take advantage of the slight
tides, the task was accomplished in four
days. On the last trip the captain went
himself, leaving the first mate in charge of
the ship, and on arriving at the small vii
lage where the ivory was stored, he was
not little surprised to find that nearly all
the miserable huts were deserted. Sever
al times Capt johnson inquired the mean
ing of this, but the natives were either un-
able, or unwilling to give any plain answer,
and it was not until the last lot of tusks
had been conveyed to the boats, and the
natives had been remunerated for their
labor, that the least clue could be obtained
to the cause of this strange desertion, and
then, for the first time, the captain receiv-
ed the startling intelligence that the cholera
aoas s,oeeping doOn tho ricer
AS soon as this fact became known to
the seamen, they wildly huddled into their
boats, as though the fearful death-angel
was at their heels, and silently, yet with
powerful strokes, they pulled down the
fatal stream, AT length they reached their
ship, and though they breathed somewhat
more freely as they trod their own deck,
yet each countenance bore the stamp OF
deep fear. The ivory was soon got on
board, and with all haste the old Vulcan
was got under way. 1t was nearly night
when the ship got OF, and with a good
breeze from the northward and eastward,
sac stood we'll ON her course. On the next
morning, shortly after breakfast, and
while the crew had begun to think thai
they had no occasion for further fear, a
young man, named Walter Addison, wai
taken suddenly sick.
Young Addison was the favorite, both oI
the officers and the crew, and as it was re
ported that he was thus III, general con
sternation seized upon all hands. The
young man felt at first giddiness and I
sickly chill, and in the course Of two hour
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14
A Town with a Strange History.

N the heart of a forest of stunted trees
Il in Burlington county, New Jersey,
eighteen smoke-blackened chimneys stand
ing as head stones over the ashes of as
many once happy homes, tell the sad story
of the utter desolation Of prosperous viii
lage of hundred years ago. Batsto stood
at the head of Little Egg Harbor, on ..Mul-
Inns River. 1t clustered about romantic
crystal lake that takes an oval shape in the
fringing foliage, and mirrors a sky of blue
in frame of green. The Quakers settled
round it, and one of their number built an
iron furnace on the brink of it's outlet, at
which were made the cannon used in the
Revolutionary war.
Working for Quaker Ball, the owner of
the foundry, was a young Welshman,
William Richards. At the Quaker's death
he succeeded him, and added to the little
village wealth. He paid the passage of
emigrants and made them his retainers. On
the knoll above the lake stands the stone
mansion he built. 1t is 40x50 feet, with
two story wings. .e
Young Richards had inherited his faith
er's love of power, and he ruled Batsto as
a principality. From the old mansion,
which was then known as it is to-day as
the Big House, he could look down over
the town and watch the inhabitants at
their work or in their sport. He extended
his power, and bought up $4,000 acres Of
land, including what is now Atlantic
county, and embracing what are now the
villages of Hammondton, Ellwood, and
Egg Harbor city. He built dwellings along
the four streets of Batsto, imported work
men, built two sawmills, two glass factories
one pottery, a three-stOry stone grist mill,
dug canal two miles long to Little Egg
Harbor, built several scows, and put two
schooners in the coasting trade. The woods
were cleared by choppers, and the wood
corded around the glass factories. Ten
large buildings were filled with busy men
melting, baking and cutting window glass.
Between five hundred and thousand men
found employment, and there was not an
idle hand in Batsto.
With the magnificent water power, made
by the fall of the water from the lake, with
the forests of pine, oak and cedar, with
the rich vineyards that were growing about
the village, all who passed that way pre-
dicted dourishiug city. Jesse Richards
turned his own mill with the water power
and dealt the flour 10 his workmen from
his own store. He sawed the timber and
built the houses for his tenants, and gave
them their rent He pressed the juice from
the rich grapes and stored them in his own
wine cellar. No other store was allowed
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14

GB- Jack Pendergast was fined ten dol
lars by Chicago justice for an assault, the
alternative being ten days in Jail. To get
the money to pay the fine he picked the
pocket of a lawyer in court but when he
fumbled in the pOcket-bOok for the right
sized bill, the lawyer recognized his own,
and Jack will go to the State prison for
many years.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14
OLD RYE's SPEECH.

Twas made to be eaten
And not to be drank
To be thrashed in q barn,
Not soaked in a tank.
come as blessing,
When put through the mill
AS a blight and a curse
When run through a still.
Make me up into loaves,
And your children are fed;
But if into drink,
1 will starve them instead.
In bread Pm q servant
The cater shall rule
In drink, l am master,
The drinker a fool.
Then remember warning:
My strength I'll employ,
If eaten to strengthen;
If drank, to destroy.
The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-04-14

Gsg A sermonizer made these remarks
on the following soul-saving question -
My brethren, a man cannot afford to lose
'his soul. He's got but one, and he can't
get another. If a man loses his horse he
can get another; if he loses his wife he
can get another if he loses his child he
can get another; but if he loses his soul
good by, John"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-26
GLOBE THURSDAY MORNING MARCH 2e 1874

The history of the world affords no para
llel to the progress made by the states of
Indiana, Illinois and Iowa in all the great
essentials that constitute the prosperity of
states. The construction of railroads has
contributed more than everything else to
this end. There are now 1888 miles of
railway in Indiana, Cab in Illinois and
1874 in Iowa These roads were con-
structed because of the inducements held
out by the people of these states to capt.
talists for the profitable employment of
their money. In most instances these
hopes have not been realized Only a
small number of railroad companies pay
dividends to the stockholders. The great
majority can scarcely pay the interest on
their construction bonds. While this is
the fact as to the companies the country
through which the roads extend has been
made hundred times richer than it other
wise would have been. And yet. the very
people most benefited are pursuing a
course of policy tending not only to injure
those now in existence, but prevent the
construction of others.
The excuse for this is, it is said too
much is charged for transporting produce
to market, although the cost is not one
tenth that paid before railroads were made
- 'i''h w Nuio 10 hitNt UP lOl ttlldlu
point, but afterward the owner of the
goods on one of them determines to have it
left at a point short of its first destination,
and he Is charged more for it than if 1t
had been taken the whole distance And
now comes Mr.. Charles Francis Adams,
jr.. (the grcat-grandson of the great John
Adams, and says it is great outrage that
the railroad company should charge for
not hauling the car to its first destination
As the learned Mr.. Adams conned that
over in his study, he no doubt regarded it
as monopoly eXtinguisher but any
switcl-tender, who knows nothing about
metaphysics. and who has never read
Sartor Resartus, would inform the learned
gentleman that the reason for the extra
charge is that it costs the company more to
stop Il train. cut out a car, and place 1t on
a side track than to haul it the whole
distance.
1t is necessary TO examine the whole
matter, if one would judge fairly between
them. Whether railroad or shipper
asl; for justice. it should be granted. If
either ask for what is unjust, it should be
denied. Let legislatures get as near to this
rule rs possible and nobody will be much
injured.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-26
THURSDAY, MARCH &c, 1874.
TERMS IN ADVANCE.
HIS FINGER.

He was not there, but his finger could be
seen. 1t was not, perhaps, that he loved
Dawes less, or hated Hoar the more, but
that he might politically kill both with one
fell blow that he so acted. lie must be a
very dolt indeed, who could, for moment
believe that Benjamin F. Butler desires to
see Henry L. Dawes, or Ebcnezer Il. iIoar
United States Senator from Massachusetts
His object is to defeat them both, and, at
the present writing, it very much looks as
if he would succeed in his undertaking.
We write after the joint ballot has been
taken, and upon Tuesdays and Wcdnes-
days vote. the result Of one OF which was
only announced in THE GLoBE The day
Of Charles Summers death, it looked as If
there would I've no great opposition 10 The
election of Mr. Dawes. that he would, to
Use horscmans language, ''walk over the
course" But here was Buffers emporium
ty. He could kill two birds with one
stone. He. moreover. received aid from
unexpected sources. He knew that his
active support would defeat Dawes. lie,
therefore, "c'Nc'y supports NM nc Nhc"
That the friends of Judge lIoar would argue
from his support that there was IN alliance.
offensive ana defensive between Inc TWO
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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-26
The Enermit-A sketch of Els Life


In order to crafty the wide. spread Gu.
riosity in reference to the Hermit, we give
the following brief sketch of his life: The
Hermit is Il native of the Mohawk valley,
but portion of his youth was passed in
Sandlakc, where he was noted as an ardent
reader His ambition led to desire for
college training, but poverty prevented, and
his best opportunity for education was at a
manual labor school-the Oneida institute.
Among his fellow students were III. II. Gar
net of New York and gentleman of this
city @. S. Knowlson). He afterward
worked Tor the Delaware and Hudson can
al company, where he made the acquaint-
ancc of Thomas Dickson. who, like him
self, was an ambitious boy. Being utterly
hopeless of acquiring collegiate educa-
ton, he then tried his fortunes in New
York, where at the age of seventeen he
arrived with S3 in his pocket This was
in 1889. He found the city crowded with
applicants for work, just as it is ut present.
Hence he was glad to take place in an
Office at ~ per week, and being permitted
to sleep there, he contrived to live on sixty
cents week. In the spring of 1870 he OBJ
tanned Il situation rs boy OF all worr with
l. D. Morgan, our ex-senator, where his
labors were excessive, but were borne GDr
the purpose of learning the wholesale gro
Gerry business. lie had his board and wash
ing for the first year, and earned his clothes
by extra work. The latter became n source
of capital, and in 1913, with $500 thus OBJ
tanned, he opened Il retail grocery. At the
end Of year he sold out with handsome
profit and attempted another branch of
trade, in which he lost all he had. At this
time lie met q bright young man from the
all,
Though much discouraged they borrowed
4 800 and made new effort, which met
better success. For six years the firm was
in operation. All this time the Hermit
was subject to Il craving for knowledge, and
now he sold out in order to become a stu
dent thus to make up for early educational
deficiency. lie subsequently passed two
years in theological studies, and in his thir-
ty-second year was licensed to preach.
Since then his love of study has been par
TALLY gratified though only in the mids. of
pressing duties. When he left trade he vas
offered the presidency of newly organized
bank, but he preferred his present course,
which indeed he has never regretted. While
a business man his brief leisure was devot-
ed to books, and he was then said to lead
ga hermit life" After selling his store he
continued his connection with the metropo-
lis, where he has been taxpayer for more
than a quarter of n century lie had been
studying New York life during this time.
and has spent days and sometimes nights
rowing the streets looking up points of in
terest. He has written more on that city
than any other man living, but does not
claim to have mastered the subject New
York is a world and hence cannot be ex-
hausted. He has volunteer connection
4 Al. l,,l 4.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-26

We have good authority for saying that
the st. Adams Messengers statement, in re-
gard 10 this road and its ''family of roads, 8
viz that their expenses had exceeded
the income from them by S301 900, is
not correct.
Aside from the direct income, the Yer
mont Central line has derived incidental
benefits from the Rutland lease winch are
Obvious and important in the conccntra
ton of through business on itself, i'm the
control Of prices from competing points
and in the use Of the Rutland when by loss
of bridge or other accidents, its own line
was for the time interrupted and we think
the receivers would not willingly abandon
it, if for no other reason because il Is Il
necessary link in the great through line TO
New York, which it has been their plan to
establish
As to the petition by the Vermont and
Canada directors, for an order prohibiting
any more payments of rent to the Rutland
we have no doubt it either has been or will
be made. The Vermont and Canada drec-
tors have done far more foolish things than
that.
But how the court can grant such pc
tiiion is not quite easy to sec.
The Rutland lease was made with these
payments Of rent therein specified and valid
security therefor given, in pursuance of an
oytler IF this rery cowrt, and upon petition
Of this very Vermont and Canada road
Possibly the court may now take this all
back-Wc live in an age where something
now is constantly turning up. If the court
1ouH stop the payments of rent they can
h2e n2dfai nff 1he nGafe q 1ft is H oWn
directors
Some of the friends of the Rutland we
are told, now desire this result. The road
as we are informed, is in an unembarrass-
ed condition, with no floating debt to trout
bic 1t, with good rolling stock, road-bed
in fine condition, large and growing local
business, and is in a good position to bid
for its share of through traffic. One san
guine gentleman tells us that with careful
management, lie believes this road can be
made to pay from the start its expenses,
interest charges, and dividend on the pre-
ferred stock; that with Burlington steadily
growing, as it is, to twenty. thirty and as
some expect, fifty thousand population,
and the Caughnawaga Canal built. as IL is
sure 10 be, the common stock will pay good
dividends
However all this may turn out, one point
seems clear: The separation of these roads
will work no injury to Burlington, for it
will always give healthy railroad compe-
tition for all our traffic with the Eastern
markets.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-26
From the Troy Press.
Justice Between the People and the
Railroads.

1t is fashionable we well know TO growl
at railroads and their 'eXtortions," but
while we would have railroad corporations
held ia just and proper bounds, we
are far from being willing to join in the
general cry of denunciation. We ask our
selves, of all the Improvements which the
past thirty years have introduced, what one
has contributed most to the prosperity of
this country, and we are forced to answer
railroads. And SO must every intelligent
man answer, If he intend to be honest and
just Are these then the objects upon
which vlals-aye hogsheads-of ignorant
and selfish wrath shall be constantly
poured? For ourselves we decline to tilt
the vial, except in cases where (and they
are frequent enough railroad corporations
show desire and determination to go be-
You'd reasonable bounds. These corpora
lions are creatures to the state, and rs such
the state has the right to subject them to
proper restraints, but il has no right to
harrass them and cripple them by unjust
legislation. Why, the rule is plain in this
case as in all others, for it is precisely the
same lido justice! One cannot fail Gun
less blinded by prejudice) to see the good
sense and the candor of the letter to the
N. Y. Tribune, from which we make the
following extract;