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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
The Crops.

The U. s. Department of Agriculture
has received very full information con-
cerning the appearance of wheat
throughout the country. The returns
cover large proportion of the winter
wheat area in each State. The winter
has been extremely favorable in all
sections. No previous season has been
more generally so since the inaugura-
tion of crop reports. In the South very
few exceptions to the general vigor and
even luxuriance of the growth have ap-
peared. In the Gulf coast region the
winter pasturing of wheat fields has
been practiced to the advantage of the
crop. In New York and Pennsylvania
the weather since the middle of March
has been unfavorable on account of the
sudden changes of temperature and
cold winds, to the injury of wheat on
clay and undrained lands. In Ontario,
Niagara. Livingston, and Genesee, four
counties which produce one-third of
the winter wheat of New York, the
average expectations are entertained,
though some injury from freezing and
thawing on low ground is reported.
The promise is remarkable in Pennsyl-
vania, nine-tenths of the counties
making favorable returns, many of them
very fattering. Fully three-fourths of
the counties of the Ohio Valley report
either average or superior condition.
Beyond the Mississippi, Missouri and
Kansas have still fewer unpromising
reports. There are reports from the
Northwest which are more favorable
than usual, but are of little eonse-
quence, as the winter wheat of Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, and Iowa constitutes
less than two per cent. of the wheat of
that region. The prospect in California
is very promising, though complaints
of injury from an unusual cause-wet
come from several coun-
ties. The Secretary of the State Board
of Agriculture reports o promise OF
40, 100000 of bushels in the State.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
ACTORS IN CHINA.
How One of them Suffered for Daring to
Wed n Lady.

HOW One OF tnem suHereu Dar1nR TO
Wed n Lady.
The stage is the lowest of professions
in China, and play actors and BARRIERS
are the only persons excluded from
competition at literary examinations.
There has recently been acting in
Shanghai celebrated tragedian named
Yang Yeh-lin. Young, handsome and
clever, this man is reputed to have
worked havoc in the hearts of his fe-
male auditors. At length he created
passion which has resulted in his ruin.
A young Cantonese lady, the daughter
of a well-to-do Chinaman living in
Shanghai, saw and admired him, pined,
grew sick, and refused to be comforted.
The father washed his hands of the
affair and went south, with the knowl-
edge, it is alleged by the damsel, of
what would follow. However this may
be, the girls mother at once opened ne
gotiations for matrimony, went through
all formalities prescribed by Chinese
custom, and eventually handed over her
daughter to the actor as his wife. One
would have thought this ended the
affair, and that social ostracism was the
worst the lady and her husband had to
encounter. But that would be to calcu-
late without China and Chinese Manda-
rims. 1t chances that the Che -Hsien, or
Magistrate, of Shanghai, is a Cantonese,
and, therefore, of course sympathizes
with that class of the Shanghai popula-
tion.
No sooner was the news abroad than
Cantonese society here flew, metaphor
cally, to arms, accused Yang Yeh-lin of
ture, and the punishment and imprison-
ment of his wife, who persisted that
there was no abduction at all, that the
marriage was formal and proper, and
that she liked and meant to stick to her
husband. Scandal says that Canton
Guild went so far as to offer $1,000 taels
to the Magistrate to decapitate a man
who had brought disgrace upon family
with which many of them were connect
ed. So far, however, the Che-Hsien
dared not go but what he might-and
the might for evil of Chinese Manda-
rim is great-he did. He ordered the.
wretched Yang 100 blows with the heavy
bamboo on the ankle bone-the torture
of which may be conceived by tapping
ones own ankle lightly with ones own
cane-had him strung up for twelve
hours by the thumbs, with the arms re-
versed and drawn up behind the back,
the effect being, of course, to strain and
partly dislocate the shoulders, and he
allowed to be fixed round his neck an
ingenious collar which presses on the
apple of the throat and produces con-
stant sense of choking and irritation,
aggravated continually by the inevitable
cough. Scandal further says that Yang
was able to bribe his jailers with 9200
to free him from the last incumbrance
but your readers will admit that the
first two punishments were enough for
marrying handsome girl on her own
proposal. The girl herself got 100 blows
on the face with q leather strap, the
effect of which reduced the features
temporarily to pulp.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
NO. Is.
Items of Interest.

The man who is venial himself be-
ieves that everybody has his price.
Large quantities of grape slips are
now shipping from Missouri to France.
Bergh says that a dog never goes mad
until his master does. It's all sympa-
thy, in his view of it.
The world uses $50, 900, 0C0 pounds of
tea and 71S,OO0,000 ponnds of coffee
every year. China furnishes nearly all
the tea, and Brazil more than half the
coffee.
The surgeon in charge of Fort Blair,
penal settlement of British India,
says that the oil of a tree called gurium
has cured every case of leprosy under
his care.
Temperance societies are being form
ed in France, the members of which
pledge themselves not to drink alcohol
ic liquors at any time, and wine and
malt liquors only at meals.
A farmer living near Glasgow, Del,
has mad horse. The horse is penned
in stall by himself, and keeps up a
continual kicking and knocking his
bitten by a mad dog last summer.
The Chicago Tribune says that first
class carpenters in that city, who were
employed year ago at So per day, are
now glad to get 81. 30 per day, and that
this decline in the cost of labor runs
through the whole scale of employ
ments.
The toothless may derive hope from
the fact that at KILN, in Perthshire, an
old man died at the age of ninety-one
years but five years before his death
he cut six new teeth, which he said were
quite serviceable, and Gas sharp as
lancets.
A rich mar sent to call a physician
for slight disorder. The physician
felt his pulse and said: DO you eat
well?" "Yes," said the patient. "Do
you sleep we'll ?" "I do" "Then,"
said the physician, 81 will give you
something to take away all that p
On Bainbridge Island, Washington
Territory, recently a logger accidentally
discovered the outcroppings of a coal
mine. He mentioned the fact in con-
versation, and some of his hearers at
once proceeded to the locality, and find
ing that there was a coal vein there they
chartered steamer to Olympia and
pre-empted the land, thus snatching
fortune from the logger.
A cuttle-fsh has been caught at Olym-
pia, Washington Territory, measuring
eight feet from tip to tip of its eight
long arms. The arms were of gristle,
lined OF the under side, their entire
length with saucer-shaped suckers,
varying from the size of pea to two
inches in diameter. This is the largest
cuttle-fsh caught in North America of
which there is authentic record.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
days 10 urney since, but never again
with such a very quiet fellow-traveler."
Just a Question or Two.

An exchange thus descants upon print
ing Office bores, hitting the mark so
fairly on the head, we cannot fail to ap-
preciate, indorse and copy. Here are
a few of the innumerable questions
which printers are called upon to an
swer:
Do you print both sides of the paper
at once?
How 1Oug does it tske to make news
paper?
Suppose you write everything you
print, don't you?
Why are those boxes of different
sizes, and how do you know where to
find certain letter?
Can't you print picture of anything
you want to should think you could.
Why can't you? (After printing some
horse-bills for a man not long ago, he
found fault with them because the
"cut was not just like his horse. On
another occasion gentleman came to
us with the information that he had left
his horse in front of the office and want
ed picture Of it taken and some bills
printed.)
If you print one hundred bills for SO,
I suppose you will let me have four for
twelve cents
should think it would be fun to be
an editor,-you don't do anything but
sit down and read newspapers and
stories all day
Do you throw your type away after
you have printed upon it once Z?
You don't care if I take a handful of
this type, do you?
1t can't be very hard to set type all
day-is it now?
Can't I help you print something?
1 wish you would print my name for
me it wouldn't be much trouble to
print off just one name.
What is this for? what do you do
with that? what makes that look so
funny what are you going to do now?
what for? why =? what makes you keep
so still you don't care if fellow just
talks, do you?
By the time man goes through with
this list of questions, his company be-
comes SO monotonous that he cannot
fail to perceive its effects upon the lis
teners, and he walks off with the i'm
preston that we have treated him un-
kindly and impolitely.
AL the above is to the point, and
when the questioner takes the hint and
lnavos of his own accord. we feel serene.
But then, when, as occurred with us
the other day, a man comes in with a
32-page pamphlet with the backs torn
off, and insists on us printing him q
copy of that same, backs and title-page
included, for ten cents, because that is
all the original copy cost him, we feel
disposed to explain to him the quickest
method of getting down stairs, free of
charge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
The Worlds End.

During the last two or three centu-
ries, upward of thirteen fixed stars have
disappeared. One of them, situated in
the northern hemisphere, presented
peculiar brilliancy, and was SO bright
as to be seen by the naked eye at mid
day. It seemed to be on fire, appear
ing at first of dazzling white, then of
a reddish yellow, and lastly of an ashy
pale color. La Place supposed that it
was burned up, as lit has never been
seen since. The confagration was Wis
ible about sixteen months. How dread
full ! A whole system on fire the great
central luminary with its planets, with
their plains, mountains, forests, vii
lagos, cities, and inhabitants, all in
flames, consumed and gone forever.
Here we have presumptive view of
the truth and the solemn illustration of
singular passage in very old book !:
1.-THE heavens shall pass away with a
great noise, the elements shall melt
with fervent heat, the world also, and
the works that are therein, shall be
burned up" What has been will be
again. Our sun and moon and stars and
earth will be destroyed by fire. "It is
inscribed in the heavens" says DR..
John Mason Good, "foretold in the
Scriptures and felt in the EARTH" Such
is the text. The comment may be found
in Peters Cd epistle. Sd chapter, and
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
Expulsion from Parliament.

In the discussion which preceded the
expulsion of Riel from the Canadian
Parliament interesting precedents were
brought to the public attention. In the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
members were expelled from the Eng
lish House of Commons for publishing
conferences of the House for making
violent speeches affirming certain
bill favored treason and was full of
blood, danger, despair, and terror to
British subjects ;" for "falling into a
bitter and scandalous invective against
the Scots and Scottishmen for "being
a monopolist and protector of a pa
tent for monopoly and for usury.
In 1926 member was sent to the Tower
for speaking out of season." and an
other for bringing in candles against
the desire of the House." Thomas
Louge, Sir John Bennett, Ashburrham,
and Sir John Trevor, Speaker of the
House, were expelled for bribery, and
Lord Cochrane and A. @. JOhnstone
for fraud in stock jobbing. O'Donovan
Rosa and Smith O'Brien were expelled
for treason. The precedents more di-
rectly bearing on RiePs case were those
of members who had been expelled for
contempt in not attending in their
places according to orders of the House
to answer matters charged against them.
Three such precedents were quoted-in
1865, in 1872, and in 1857. In by far
the greater number of cases in the
British Parliament there had been no
legal conviction of the members expell-
ed, though in 1880 the House adjudged
that member ought to remain still of
the House unless he were convicted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
The Editor.

One definition of an editor: An editor
iz a male being whose bizness iz to
navigate nuze paper. He writes edi.
torials, grinds out poetry, inserts deths
and weddings, sorts out maneskrips,
keeps waste basket, blows the "dev-
H." steals matter, ftes other peoples
battles, sells hiz paper for dollar and
fifty cents a year, takes white beans
and apple saas for pay, when he can get
it, raizes large family, works 10 hours
out NV every "a, knows no Sunday, gets
damned by everybody, and once in a
while whipt by sumboddy, lives poor,
dies middle-aged and often broken
hearted, leaves no money, IL rewarded
for o life NV toll with short but free
obituary puff in the nuze papers. Bill
Eu0s.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09

GOLD FIsH.-Referring to the state
ment now going the rounds, that Seth
Green proposes to stock Irondequoit
Bay, Lake Erie, with gold fish, which
he says are good eating, the German
tom Telegraph observes "We should
say that the gold fish will not be re-
garded as edible by anybody who can
get any other fish. They have an un-
natural sweetish taste, not unlike the
smelt, but lacking the flavor of the
smelt, and rendering them quite in
sipid. We have not tasted one for
thirty years, but that taste was sufi-
cient NOT To desire another since that
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09
VOL. H..
The Beautiful Gate Of the Temple.


l.
Little familiar gate
Gate of the home by the way;
Hour for which daily to wait,
Hour at the close of the day.
Hand in hand close pressed,
Arm never trusted in vainl
Hearts in each other at rest,
Home, all home again!
Gate through which all must pass,
Gate at the end of the way;
Men call it Gate of Brass;
A prison-gate, they say
They think it can only divide,
Pitiless, heavy, and strong;
But we who have looked inside
Know they have named it wrong,
Know it not strong, but weak,
Its bars all shattered and slight;
Mere bars of shadow, that streak
And prove the inner light;
Gate where all bonds shall break,
All severed hearts unite.
III.
Terrible, Beautiful Gate
Gate Of the Temple Of God
Well through the day we may wait
Till it open for us our abode.
Hands in hands close prest,
Hearts past all parting and pain.
In God and each other at rest
Home, all Home again!
Beautiful Gate of Life!
Gate at the end of the Way
Well worth Days toll and strife,
For that hour at the close of the day!
By the author Of "The Schonberg- Cot
Family"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1874-05-09

There is said to be single arsenic
mine in Cornwall, the monthly product
of which is sufficient to destroy the lives
of five hundred millions of human be-
ings; while, if the amount of white
arsenic contained in the adjacent store
houses we're judicially administered,
this globe of ours would be completely
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-17

| tho Changers never. never--unless they
should happen to establish oranges in the
| northern part Of New Jersey. Laugh
ter
Does not this bill read like Monday,
after tho morning hour
WHEREAS, Tho earth 10 round, and
whereas the sun IL warm, and whereas II
you are virtuous you will be happy; and
whereas we wish the world TO be round,
and We wish tho Gun 20 DO warm, and we
wish ourselves 20 DO happy therefore,
Resolved, That il is tho sense of this
House that we should issue an unlimited
quantity Of convertible bonds bearing
3,65 interest.
With such exquisite grace has General
Garfield painted the picture Of the editor
who sits In his country Office that yield
in despair. That editor lie never hurried;
he forms no hasty opinion; hes waits till
he has consulted the country, and then
Al the end of tho week passes his opinion
upon the doing of Mondsy-and rests.
Laughter just as the Granger keeps
my friend from Illinois Mr. Cannon in
awe, Just so do i tremblo before the
editors of the country. As the gran
gers received from him love mingled
with awe, so do these editors receive
from me peculiar tokens of respectful
consideration. And do they not deserve
them? Thoy have hard, hard time,snd
through it ali are faithful and true TO tho
humblcst of their representatives. When
you arc in your chair, Mr.. Speaker, and
am at my desk in the sleepy hollow at
your left, your eve / never catch, but l
catch the eye of my country editor every
time. [Great laughter If 60 down
stairs to make myself clean at my coun-
try's expense, or 60 down to strengthen
myself by eating a few oys-
tors at my own expense, and
q malevolent member on the other
eide of the House calls for the yeas and
nays during my absence, he sees me, and
records the fact that ] lodged. Great
laughter If it should happen through
some mistake, that do catch the Speak
| er's eye, or some gentleman yields me
thirty minutes of his time, you, Mr.
Speaker, do not listen to me; few Of my
fellow members in this House listen to
me, but l am strengthened by the though,
that l am talking away beyond you and
beyond them for the constituency which
| have the honor so imperfectly TO repre-.
sent, and that, as tho watchdog of hi:
constituency, the country editor listens ia
me- that no hears every word, and that AZ
it pleases or displeasos him IL will either
mar or make mo. Laughter
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-17
THE CAIRO DAILY BULLETIN, TUESDAY, MARCH II, 1874

manifest any an xiety about his lifo, which
was soon to DO taken from him.
THE MURDER.
IL was just three o'clock in the morning
when the throe men rode away from the
ferryboat, and disappeared in the dark
gloom of the timber. They rode slowly
and silently in tho direction Of Indepen-
dence. IL is not difficult to understand,
from tho nature of tho wounds of the
murdered man, how he was killed. lie
was shot from tho sido, ono bullet passing
through his head and one through his
mock; a third lodged in his shoulder.
Whether he was ordered TO prepare for
fate and given some notice of their inten.
ton to kill him or whether ho was shot
suddenly while riding along, bound help
lossly to his horse, lie question that only
the three mysterious men know thcm-
selves. They killed their victim in tho
road.about four miles above Independence,
cut the ropes from his legs, and loft him
whore they killed him, and where he was
found soon after daylight that morning.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1874-03-17

| - Dp0ti'Nl .'iS. 11'i' -. -. ~
PIrTsBURG, March le River abou,
on a stand, feet inches.
LITTLE Rock, March 1s.-Raining
during the past 30 hours, but is now clear
river falling with Ii feet water Depart
| ed-Clarksville, Memphis.
MEMPHIS, March lG.-Weather cloudy.
River still stationary. eparted-John
Kyle, st. Louis; Church, Cincinnati Du-
gan, Arkansas river; Ste Genevieve, Vicks.
burg.
NASHVILLE March lG.-River falling,
feet 10 inches on shoals. Weather
cloudy and damp. Arrived-Eddyville
Upper Cumberland; Gilmore, Pittsbug
Heilmcn, PaducGh. Departed Heilmsn,
Paducah.
EVANSVILLE, March 10. - Weather
cloudy with drizzling rain. Mercury
43 to SO. River fallen Is inches Port
.ist-Up-Indisns, Silverthorn, Fayette,
Roperts, Morning Star, Arkansas Belle.
Bermuda and Bowling Green. Down
Arlington, Thos Sherlock, Idlewidl, Ira
Miller, Florence Lee and Mary Ament.
Business active.
LoUryIL1 March lG.-River falling
slowly with Q feet incLes in tho canal,
drilling rain all day. Arrived-Kana-
wha, fomeroy; Stella and Katie, Pitts
burg. Departcd-Kanawbs, st. Louis;
Stella and Bette with empty barges, Fits
burg Andy Baum, Memphis.
ST. LOUIS, March l6.-Arrived-
OILS, Peoria Colossal, Keokuk LaBarge,
Missouri river; Maggie, Illinois river; S
Roberts, Ohio river. Departed-City of
Chester, Memphis; Lady Lee, Rcd river;
Lake Superior, Keokuk; Maggie Illinois
river. The river is falling slowly. The
weather YVES damp and cloudy all day, and
it is raining tonight.
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MARKET REPORT.

MEMrnIs, March lG.-Flour dull and
nominal. Corn meal duh, 3 90 Corn
7j@7Gc. Oats lower 57@59c. Hay dull
and unchanged. Bran in good demand.
Pork IL Is in store. Lard 0lMlOlc. Ba-
con firm; shoulders 7G97,c; sides 9a9ic
CINcINNATI, March lG--Riyer 20 foe,
6 inches and falling. Arrived George
Spangler, Kentucky river; Il. T. Hudson,
Wheeling; Minnoola, Memphis. Depart
ed-George Spangler, Kentucky river.
Capt. John Barrett bought the steamer
Argosy for $4,000 to-day.
CHICAGO, March lG.--Flour steady.
Wheat quiet, weak and lower, No 2
spring ls32l 1919 fresh spot; - in
April. Corn dull and lower, No 2 mixed
clio; RyeGlS; Oats dull and dropping
No . 45s@d5}c. Rye stcrdy No fresh
s64c. Bsrly quiet and unchanged, No 2
! GO. Pork dull and shace lower II 25
Lard dull and shade lower, 7gc. Bulk
meats quiet Shoulders quoted at 81 loose
Whiskey dull and holders not willing to
mako concessions, 90 asked.
NEw ORLEANS, March IG-FIour dull;
XXX 6 50@7 so family sac 90. Corn
quiet white 77@7S, yellow 7S679. Oats
quiet At 81. Bran, more on landing. Hay
dull but firm at 40 90. Pork dull at 10 20.
Dry salt meats dull at Gi@sI@ss. Bacon
dull at 74@sl@9;. Hams / i(9l2A. Lard
dull; tieree 9(99s, key OS9l0, Sugar fair
demands inferior bat, common 6Ag7, good
fair "a, prime sl@s9, choice o. Molasses
good demand; common 5Oprime TO choice
1000. Whiskey duh u, %, Coffee quiet
at 22@27A. Corn meal quic, at 8 80.
ST.. LOUIS, March l6.-Hemp dull and
unchanged. Flour dull, nominal and un-
changed. Wheat dull No 2 spring ! 81
al ga No 3 red fall 4O@I4S; No 2
/ 53@l 90. Corn inactive, lower and
unsettled; mixed Gl@G2. Oats slow and
irregular No 2 mixed d9@5O. Barley
quiet and unchanged. Rye inactive; No
2 mixed 90. Pork firm md in good de-
mand at 10 25@lS so, Dry salt meats
quiet q Il buyers March, Quincy and
Keokuk, sold at 60 jobbing lots; shout
ders l29@6 ooi G s s 90; clear 8 25,
Bacon quiet and unchanged. Lard quiet
prime steam 8 rs, Whisky quiet at 90.