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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Off at Last,

The Brazilian iron-clad Independent
cia has been successfully launched on
the Thames. The vessel has sustained
no injury and will probably be In the
possession of the Brazilian Government
by the end of the year. She is one of
of the most powerful iron.clads in the
world is of 5, 200 tons burden will be
fitted with Penn's expanding trunk
engines of 1900 indicated horsepower,
working up to about 5000 horsepower;
has prominent gun-metal stem form
ing ram will draw "a feet 6 inches
forward and 25 feet aft, when fully
armed and in sea.going trim is 300
feet in length between prependiculars,
and has 63 feet of extreme breadth.
Her armament, which is to be partly in
two turrets and partly in bow and
stern batteries, viii consist of 35 ton
Whitworth guns, and she will be bark
rugged. She is expected to make fif-
teen or sixteen knots an hour with a
single screw, and on the whole is ves-
sci to which an enemy will do very well
to give as wide berth as possible.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Farming on O Large Scale.

Many of the farmers in California
have grown wheat enough this year to
load thousandton ship, while a few
have enough to load half dozen ships
of this size. It is not an uncommon
thing to hear one of these ranchers in q
quiet way estimating his wheat crop as
ranging from 10000 to $1,000 bushels.
The Napa Register notes recent
transaction of one of the farmers of
that county, as follows : ga farming
enterprise on scale that lays in the
shade most operations in that line has
just been entered into by our friend
John Finnell, of Yountville, long resi-
dent and ex-Supervisor of the county.
He has leased for period # five years
the celebrated walsh Ranch in Co
lusa county, forty miles north of the
town of Cslusa, and eight miles west
of Chico, consisting of 10000 acres, at
yearly rental of $4,000. In addition
to this, he has purchased 1900 head of
SOOCh ChuOic, Ioo uedu VI uoISc5, W
mules, $4,000 sacks of wheat, 1900
hogs, and quantity of hay, barley,
etc. His purchase, aside from the
rental, amounts to $74, $50, or tho trans
action for the first year alone, $l14, $50.
1t will take good farmer to manage
all this, and we doubt not Mr.. f. is
just the man for it, as his we'll kept
grounds at Yountville bear ample testi-
mony."
This farm is probably all arabic land,
and is within easy reach Of navigable
river. Two dollars an acre seems an
average price; but the aggregate
makes it the largest rental probably of
any farm in California. We have
sheep ranges covering 1000 acres,
and one or more firms OF wool-growers
estimate their sheep at 10000, while
several have focks ranging from 40,
600 to 10000. We have heard of one
farmer in that State who estimates his
wheat crop this year at 100, 900 bushels.
There may be others who will have
larger amounts.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
A Fatal Duel.

The New York EUeHing Post, in re-
ferring to one of the last duels that
took place in that city, says The Park
Theatre duel WAS very peculiar affair,
and seems more like fiction than fact.
Stephen Price, native of an adjacent
county, was a theatrical manager in
this city for many years. After he had
been here few years his brother Benia-
min came to town, and was frequent
visitor to the Park Theatre, then under
Stephens control. One night Benjamin
Price was in private box accompanied
by young lady. In the next box sat a
British officer, who stared at the lady
in a rude manner. Price entered the
officers box and pulled the latter's
nose. In few moments the officer
sent in his card (the first step to chal-
lenge), accompanied by a statement
that he had intended no offence to the
lady, and was not aware that he had
been guilty of any rudeness. Mr.. Price
Immediately regretted his haste and
apologized for his violence, and thus
the matter rested.
Subsequently the officer went to
Canada, whittier gossip soon conveyed
report of the scene at the theatre.
His associates, being strict construc-
tionists of the law of honor, determined
to cut his acquaintance, and he was
forced to return to this city and chal-
lenge Price or lose caste. A duel at
Hoboken was the result. Price was
killed at the first fire, and the officer
returned to his regiment with vindica-
ted honor. One of the active promoters
of this bloody affair was a Captain Will
son, who afterwards came to this city
and stopped at the Washington hotel.
While here he referred to the affair,
and his words were soon brought to
Stephen Price. The latter repaired to
the hotel and offered an insult which
led to meeting" and the Captain
was killed. It is said that the affair
was so private that the friends of Cap
tain Wilson were for long time under
the supposition that he had gone sud-
denly to England.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
A Hard Winter Approaching.

Men neglect what concerns them
nearly if they fail to note the approach
of harder winter than we have had for
years. Not severe by reason of more
frequent storms or keener blasts, but
hard in the lack of enterprise in COM
mercial circles, stagnation in trade,
dullness in most branches of business,
amounting to paralysis in some, and no
work for those who cannot live without
employment. A recent examination
through three of the Eastern States re-
veals that machine firms have but half
their usual force of men occupied, and
that no contracts are in hand or ex-
pected in the immediate future. While
the skies are yet serene the workshop
doors are haunted by care-worn faces
seeking vainly for work. We are told
that much suffering exists. If it be so
now before the leaves have fallen, how
are working people to go through the
winter? During the stringency which
prevailed after the panic of last year
many were discharged but the previous
years having been reasonably prosper
Gus their small savings afforded sup
port until spring, when better times
were hoped for. But the spring came
and went the summer has passed !;
already the hillsides are blazing with
the fires of autumn, and the ranks of
the unemployed are fuller than ever.
Their little fund is expended and their
services are not in demand. How are
they to liver
Those still at the wise and loom may
learn lesson from the woes of others,
and if prudent before, curtail still more
in their expenditures, for they have no
assurance that a sudden turn of the
wheel may not unseat them also. Let
them hold on to every cent which is
their own, cut off all superhuities, and
if they were faithful to their trusts be-
fore, increase their efforts, so that they
may be indispensable. The stocks of
machinery in this city at the present
time are larger than they should be,
with little or no demand. Railways are
decreasing their pay rolls, purchasing
little or nothing except absolute neces-
saries, and on every side we hear of
curtailment and cessation of production
in manufactures. Up TO New Years
day the cotton spinners Of Fall River,
Mass, have decided to run on half
time, and this will inevitably cause
much distress.
It is to be hoped that all these pres
ent evils will work their own cure in the
season approaching, thai natural wear
and tear will demand new supplies, and
that the spring of 1875 will see the
whole country better fol- the enforced
economy now plainly demanded. d.-NeaO
York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Artificial Butter on Exhibition.

After the morning "call at the But
ter and Cheese Exchange in New York
recently, one hundred samples of an
artificial butter, manufactured by the
Canada Suet Butter Company, of On
tario, were offered for inspection pre-
paratory to being introduced in the
market. The process is the discovery
of Frenchman named Mege, who ex-
perimented on behalf of the French
government to find o substitute for
butter. The suet of the COW is placed
in water heated to temperature of 103
degrees. The heat expels the extra
geneous and fbrous matters, causing it
to settle at the bottom of the vessel,
leaving an amber-colored oil on the
water surface. This oil is collected and
placed in sacks and subjected to pres
sure which expels the oil and retains
whatever impurities that may have re-
mained after the water treatment. The
oil is again collected and mixed with
about 12} per cent. of curds of milk
and then churned. When thoroughly
churned it is colored with extract of
carrots and is ready for the market.
The butter merchants do not seem to
view the production with much favor,
and there is strong feeling of oppo-
sition to its introduction in the market,
butter merchants contending that it
will prove detrimental to trade.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
NO. AZ.
Items OF Interest.

A Home for Chinese Women has
been established by ladies in San Fran
cisco.
An exchange notices marriages un-
der the heading of "Doings OF the
week."
"Horse jeweling done here" is what
one reads on an Oregon blacksmith's
shingle.
In Todd County, Kentucky, 26 per-
sons have been murdered during the
last 25 years. ..
One hundred and twenty-five trees,
ON about an acre of ground in Calhoun
county, Florida, yielded last year co.
900 oranges.
At the election trial in London,
Canada, a DR.. Haggerty testified that
he had paid about S125 to wives, IN
sums ranging from $5 to $25 to inau-
ence the votes of their husbands.
Last year he was worth $500, 600.
Then he began drinking whisky and
seltzer, and now he's q pauper. Where
these ravages of seltzer are going to
cease, the most prescient of us cannot
tell.
Switzerland is net gallant country.
Most of the Cantons allow the testl-
mony of one man to counterbalance
that of seven women. Many of them
reouire unmarried women over twenty
one to choose guardians to manage
their property.
A child apparently died at Bahama
California. short time since, but while
il was being buried, the mother uttered
q cry and threw herself upon the coffin,
exclaiming that the child had spoken.
The coffin was opened and the child
ound to be alive. '..
"Whab are you going to do about
it ?" asked Davie of friend who had
been smashed up in railroad disaster
and terribly injured. Well, gaspeSdi
the hopeful sufferer, " firstly, L shall
90 in for repairs; secondly, I shall go
in for damages"
At the junction of the Delaware river
with the Neversink at Port Jervis, in a
laurel grove, is fiat stone which is
marked with boundary lines, so that
man can put his foot on three States at
the same time, New York, New Jersey,
and Pennsylvania.
We pass every day through all the
changes of human experience. We are
children in the morning, with their
fresh young bodies and feelings we
are middle-aged at noon, having seen
an end of all perfection we are old and
weary and worn out at night.
Mrs Helen Dunbar of Buffalo has
been sentenced to imprisonment at hard
labor in the Erie county penitentlary
for kidnapping her own child. The
woman had become dissolute, and the
custody of the child had been given to
it's grandmother, from whom 1t was
stolen.
"The Mississippi" says Mr.. Emer-
son, "swallows the Missouri, the Lii
nois, the Ohio and other rivers, and
does not widen its channel; so the
Anglo American race absorbs thous-
ands of Germans, French, Irish and
English, and remains unchanged IN us
characteristics"
Bunyan, the author of Pilgrims
Progress" on being cast into prison,
made flute of one of the rails OF the
stool belonging to his cell. The keeper
often heard sweet music, but could not
trace it, as Bunyan on his approach al
ways replaced the rail in the stool. Inc
officers searched in vain for the mys-
terious sounds, but Bunyan kept his
secret, and the baf1ed men we1e torced
to believe them supernatural.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Breach of Confidence.

They were two very impecunious
characters, but they loved each other.
Occasionally one of them would have
some money. When this was the case
it never escaped the other. But Brown
had theatrical ways about him that
cast a glamour round such amounts as
chance put in his way, and made them
to uninitiated hearers assume the mag
nitude of dollars when they were only
cents. He would run his thumb and
fore finger ostentatiously into the
pocket of dilapidated vest, and speak
of piece of fractional currency there
as "ten-er" to his friend Sanders,
and Sanders mouth would water. The
last was more especially in seasons when
the temperature stood high. On one
such occasion, Sanders was asked If he
would partici pate in a smile. He did
not refuse. That, with q man like
Brown, was not his habit. But Browns
foresight induced him to tell Sanders
that it was to be a five.cent smile, and
to that effect the understanding was
had outside of the Sample ROOM"
They entered. "What will you have,
Sanders, my boyp' blithely chirruped
Brown.
ga leetle good Bourbon"
"What Is yours, Mr.. Brown?" polite
ly asked the waiter.
Oh, me-yes-well, I'll take a gill
of water"
Gulping down his water with a look
of infinite disgust, Brown threw down
his "tener."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
What one Man has Seen and Done.

Judge Basil Hamilton. the Kalama-
zoo centenarian, died at the advanced
age of 103 years, preserving his facul-
ties clear to the last. He was one of o
family of twenty-three children. Six
Of his elder brothers fought the Brit
ish under the leadership of Washing
ton. The old gentleman had known
the Father of his Country, had voted
for his second term, and had voted for
every President ever since.
He was married at 10, in the year
1870, eloping with girl of sixteen, with
whom he lived until the year 1857.
The twain were man and wife for sixty
seven years. During those years of
uninterrupted happiness they had sew
enteen children, of whom eight are still
living. There are also eighty-o one
grand children, and a number of great
grandchildren. AS nearly as can be
estimated, the fruit of the clandestine
union of BAIL Hamilton and Martha
Stillwell was 220 souls. Born March II,
177f, he was older than the Republic.
Washington was farming at Mount Ver-
non Jefferson was % years of age ;
George III. was on the English throne ;
Nelson was midshipman the future
Duke of Wellington was baby in
arms Robert Burns was school-boy;
Walter Scott and Murat were not born ;
Marie Antoinette, at 16, was barely
foreshadowing that exquisite beauty
which was one of the agents preparing
for the overthrow of the old regime ;
Napoleon was an infant, and Lafayette
was studying in Paris.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Visiting at Dinner Time.

A story is told of couple of farmers
who lived not great distance apart,
one of whom was noted for being very
penurious. One day his neighbor
called upon him while he was eating his
dinner, but instead of asking him to
sit down to the table with him, he kept
on eating and talking just as though
the visitor hadn't mouth IN his head.
"Well, what is the news, neighbor
Brown ?" "Nothing much" "No
news up your way?" he asked, still
helping himself to his good dinner,
while his neighbor looked on with anx,
iety and appetite. "Well, yes, now
that think on t, there is just grain
of news. Mr.. Jones's COW has
got five calves" replied the visitor.
" Five calvesl I never heard Of such o
thing. Why, what the dickens does
the fifth one do when the other four are
sucking?" "Why he stands and looks
on like dumb fool, as L am doing
now." "Oh, ah Hannah, put down
another plate"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
Tails of Comets,

Astronomers are not agreed in ex-
planning the curious phenomena of
comets tails. Some of them think the
tails consist of matter repelled from the
nucleus of the comet by electric or
magnetic forces in the sun. Others
think there is no repulsion, but the
nebulous mist becomes luminous where
it was previously visible. Prof. Yeo-
mans, in the Popular Science Monthly,
suggests a new theory, that the train
doesn't belong to the comet at all, but
consists of star. dust, which is diffused
through all space, and is made -lumin-
GUS by the polarizing power of the
comet. This would explain very satis-
factorily the extreme thinness of the
tail, which does not obscure in the
slightest star of even the tenth magni-
tude.
Prof. Tyndall makes startling state
ment to relieve the fears of any who
dread possible collision. He says, if
all the matter in comets train, one
hundred million miles long, could be
swept together, it would not make o
load for single dray-horse.
Those who believe that the tails are
shot out from the body of the comet,
are beginning to doubt if the matter in
hem is ever recovered by the comet.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
DAMS PHOTOGRAPH.
PELEd ARKwRIGHT.

The queerest fellow, without excep-
lion, in all Wexford, was Daniel Bat
ties.
He was sixteen years of age, yet he
had the reputation of possessing as
much knowledge about odd and out-of
the-ways things as any ten average lads.
He was believed to have an intimate
acquaintance with every trout in the
streams, and every bird in the woods,
and every rabbit in the burrows. He
had the largest collection of birds eggs
to be found in the county; and it was
reported, and solemnly believed by all
the small boys in the neighborhood,
that he had a secret understanding with
the kingfshers and orioles, by which
they agreed to surrender one egg of
each litter to him, in consideration Of
his promise to let all the others alone.
He was always taking up some new
idea to work out, and if he did not
know all about many things, he really
seemed to know little about every
thing. He knew how to print, how to
bleed horse, how to run the telegraph
instrument, how to cultivate silk
worms, how to make the most out
rageous noises with his hands, how to
graft pears, how to write backwards,
how to play checkers with his eyes shut,
and, in short, he knew how to do near
ly every thing that came in his way to
learn.
One day the neighboors opened their
eyes and prioked up their ears at the
news that Dan had taken up photog-
raphy; not that they were astonished,
for they had long ceased to be aston
ished at anything that Dan did, but
they were interested in his enterprise,
hough rega riding it simply as anoth er
freak of curious genius.
"Well, well" said they, struggling
their shoulders, "Dan is an odd stick.
It's about time he went into something
useful. Photography, eh ?"
The report was true. Dan had OBJ
tanned camera of good size, and was
experimenting with it up in his /" den,
in one end of his mothers garret.
1t would be hard to imagine q more
untidy, chao5ic-looking place thar
Dams eden" It was full of bottles
old cloths, jars, bits of machinery, must
cal instruments, carpenters tools, ole
maps, torn pictures, pots of lpaint and
chemicals, fragments of old machines
stuffed birds, etc. and it smelled sc
fearfully that no one but Dan coult
ever stay in it long enough to make al
inven ory of the contents.
Dan was as odd-looking a characte
as one would be likely to see in year
travel. He was thin and lank in th,
body and legs. His head was large
and he had light blue eyes, and long
whitisb hair, which he rarely combed
and which struggled about all over hi
head, as il the rats had made nests il
it the last time he slept.
He was not much of a talker. I'll
generally kept silent and stared. No
body knew what an amount Of thinkin
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17

SERMON BY A CHILD. was four
years old. He had been my favorite
playfellow all summer. But one day
he sat by my side for long time, un-
usually thoughtful. At last he turned,
and said: : "a, do you love me ?"
"Why Mile" said I, "of course 1 love
you. What made you think did not?"
He answered: "Well, L didn't know /;
I never heard you say much about it. F"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17
JOhnnY's Death.

Sit down close beside me, Billy
Tn so glad you've coined at last;
1 was feared they wouldn't find you,
And my time is slippin' fast.
Stoop down, Billy-talkin' hurts me,
I'm bad of for breath, you see;
One of them fire engines done it,
Guess them horses finished me.
They runned over mo in Broadway.
Well, it's done-no use to cryl
When them chaps is in hurry,
Nothin' else don't signify. F.
Wait ninute-how that hurtedl
Bill, it's ruther hard to bear;
Iwa'n't harmin' anybody
Only sellin' papers there.
Bill, it won't be long-rm goin';
Yes, that's wot the doctors said;
But wish knowed more certain
Wot it's like when folks is dead.
Wish I'd been better feller,
Stuck right to the Golden Rule;
Minded all them other lessons
Wot 1 learned at mission school
There is Mamie ;-Bill, 1 would ave
Liked to said goodbye to her;
No! no use to try and fetch her.
It's too late-she lives too fur.
l believe she would ave kissed me
Ef she'd seen me come to this
I'd ave stood it almost cheerful
Sos to have one lovin' kiss.
Bill, you tell her how liked her
Loved her hard-tain't nothin' new;
She has always knowed it, Billy,
And b'lieve she likes me too.
And used to think that maybe
Wen we both growed up, y know,
1t might come I'd marry Of her
Bill, it is hard lines to go.
But it's comforting to member
Wot our teacher said one day,
How the BLESSED lovin' Jesus,
Full Of pity, used to say;
Little folks was always Welcome
Free to como to him up there;
Guess I'm posted up sufficient
Sos to venture ON prayer,
Jesus, I'm little feller
Got ruined over on the street.
I'm a-dyin', you kin help me
Please to guide my stumblin' feet.
amt always knowed my duty,
But I've tried to do wot's right;
Jesus Tender Shepherd, take me-
Make place for me tonight!
There is two hates to part from
Mamie dear and Bill likewise;
Jesus, please to try and fetch US
All together wen they dies.
There! guess-Tm goin'-Billy!
Never mind, old chap-don't cry!
Oh! there's Mamie Kiss me, Mamie!
Why, just see that mornin' sky
PELEa ARKwRIGHI
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17

A STRANGE SU1oIDE.-A man who
could net live with his wife tried to
live peaceably with another woman.
Failing in this, he declared that "a
man who can't live with women with
out quarreling amt fit to live," and
hung himself to a clothes peg. This
occurred in Newark, and the unhappy
man set very bad example to the mar
ried community.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17

They shall come forth, by and by, re-
iuvenated, on a better foundation, with
a better policy, with better industries,
with surer wealth, with hearts that
love and are worthy to be loved. Ap-
rlause.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-10-17

Middle Tennessee had rain on the
2Sth of August-for the first time since
the 10Th of May.
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