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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
Impending War.

The New York Graphic in an article
on the gravity Of the European situation
remarks that the conclusion cannot
be avoided that Europe is on the verge
of one of the greatest wars of modern
times. Russia and England have ap-
parently succeeded i'll postponing the
calamity for little while. 1t would be
some satisfaction if this crime of starting
another war could be laid at the door Of
the rulers of France and Germany, but
really the besotted peoples of both coun
tries seem eager for the fray. The
insane vanity and love of glory of the
French, famed to fever heat by the First
Napoleon and rekindled to save his
crown by the Third, demand that the
stain of defeat shall be wiped from their
shield; and the whole male population
of the German nation seems to have
gone mad with Bismarckism-tha cold
blooded, cast-iron doctrine which he has
taken from Frederick the Great, that
nation is of no account except i'll SO far
as it can be nodded into an effective
army. So France arms to regain its
"gtoire" and Germany arms to maintain
its prestige, and no means of preventing
the renewal of bloody hostilities is ap-
parent. Lord Derby, in reply to ques-
tion from Earl Russell lately with regard
to what England was doing to prevent
the wal, answered evasively that Britain
had done her duty without sacrifices,
past, present, Or prospective" " and that
in unison with Russia she had endeavor
ed to act as a mediator. Then he told
the old story about the fear felt in
Berlin that France meant war. But the
French government disclaimed the IN
tention, and he believed them honest,
though they naturally desired to have II
strong army, and thought that Germany
was very anxious for pretext for open
hostilites. The only possible conclusion
from all the facts is that war that will
involve many European nations must
soon occur.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
LeprOSy in Canada.

In the Arcadian village of Tracadie,
near the mouth of the Miramichi river,
there have been lepers for the last eighty
Or ninety years. A hospital for their
benefit is supported by the local govern
ment. The leprosy which they suffer is
eIephantiaSiS grocoru'1, so called from
its tendency to make the limbs swell to
elephantine proportions. This disease
is understood to have been brought there
by q French vessel, which, on its return
voyage from Smyrna, touched at the
Island of Mitylene, and took in guam
tity of clothing and some other stores,
and on her way to BNlbaris Islands, q
French military port, she was wrecked
near the mouth of the Miramichi. The
people in the neighborhood played the
part Of wreckers, and helped themselves
to the clothes cast ashore, which were
supposed to be tainted with leprosy, the
consequence of which was that the dis
ease soon broke out among them. An
other account is that the vessel brought
two lepers from st. Maloes, and that
every leper known in Tracadie descend
ed from one or the other of these men.
The opinion there is that the disease
is not contagious, but simply hereditary.
The people have no dread of it, and
persons engaged about the lepers for
years never contract it. Not only do
the lepers marry among themselves, but
such is the feeling among the poor
French in Tracadie that there is no re-
pugnance in many cases among perfectly
healthy people to taking lepers for hus-
bands and wives. The taint generally
manifests itself in every alternate. gen.
Grafton. In this way the disease has be-
come permanently seated in the locality,
while the general poverty and not very
cleanly habits of the French population
tend to excite and intensity it. 1t first
shows itself in the form of small white
spots on the breast, then the face as
sumes puffy appearance, and there is
much pain, languor and drowsiness.
The fingers become crooked, and the
neck swells, the limbs show all the
symptoms of dropsy, the nails fall off,
and at last the throat and lungs are at
tackled, and the sufferer dies, a mere
mass of loathsome disease. It's duration
varies from five to twenty-five years, ac-
cording to the strength of the constitu-
tion.
Leprosy is not nearly so rare dis
ease as is generally supposed. 1t is or
the increase in many of the British de
tendencies. IL some parts of India one
person in every hundred is a leper, ant
in some parts of the West Indies, as
well as in the Sandwich Islands, it is
also very prevalent. - Toronto Globe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
NO. 25.
The Tramps.

A very large proportion of the idle
and thriftless portion Of the population
which betakes itself TO the towns in the
winter, attracted thither by misdifected
charity, spreads itself over the country
as soon as the weather grows little
genial, and there becomes a curse to the
farmer and terror to his wife and
family. The profession of the tramp is
Incidence. His great principle is to do
no work, and, come what may, he adj
heres to it very strictly. No induce,
ments that can be offered to him will
cause him to earn an honest living, al
though it be but for a single day. He
is not altogether averse to stealing when
a good opportunity offers itself, but
even that must not cost him much.
trouble. He lives by begging, and if
we can judge from his manner and ap-
pearance, he is not quite devoid of some
degree of pride in his calling He is at
war in lazy kind of way with society,
and reioices at being able to prey upon
it. Where he cannot have all he wants
by solicitation, he uses threats where
he fails to excite commiseration, he
tries the effect of fear. Isolated road
side houses are his delight. He can
take these on his way without the
trouble of special walk to reach them,
and If he can avoid the dinner hour,
when men are apt to be about, he knows
that he can generally gain his end by
working on the feelings of the women.
At night he betakes himself to the
farmers barn; and if he does not set it
on fire before morning, the farmer owes
him no thanks. We have no facts be-
fore us, says the New York Times, to
prove the amount of mischief he does in
this way, but from what we do know it
is very reasonable conjecture--indeed
it is very safe assertion to say-that if
tramps had no existence, fires would be
very much less frequent throughout
the country.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
An Insurance Case.

The Cincinnati superior court has just
finished wrestling with the suit of Mary
Smith VS.. the Manhattan Life Insurance
Company. This was an action brought
on policy of insurance. A premium
note was given by the assured, and by q
condition in the policy, the interest was
required to be paid annually in advance.
That payment was not made, and it was
claimed that the policy had lapsed on
the ground that an advance payment Of
interest on account of premHlm for
which credit was given, was, in itself,
premium, and therefore fell within the
provision of the policy which terminates
it on the nonpayment of the premium.
The question therefore to be determined
was whether this accruing interest itself
was premium.
The court found that the question had
been decided in the court of appeals of
Kentucky in the case of Griggs VS.. the
st. Louis Insurance Company. A dis
tinction was taken between premium and
interest. The premium note was re-
garded as loan, and the payment of in
terest upon it as the payment of interest
upon loan, and the action maintained.
In this state of the law, he could not but
follow the lead of that court. Judgment
for the plaintiff.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
Calling in Fiye.TMenty Bonds.

The following is the twentieth call
from the Secretary of the Treasury for
the redemption of the five-twenty bonds
of 1872:
By virtue of the authority given by
the act of Congress approved July IA,
1870, entitled "An act to authorize the
refunding of the national debt, hereby
give notice that the principal and accrued
interest of the bonds herein below des
ignated, known as fve-twenty bonds,
will be paid at the Treasury of the Uni
ted States, in the city of Washington, on
and after the first day of September,
1875, and that the interest on said bonds
will cease on that day-that is to say,
coupon bonds known as the fourth Sc
ries, act of February 25, 1862, dated
May /, 1862, hs follows: $50, No. 90
301 to No. q, 900, both inclusive; 800,
No. 81, ,601 to No. 59,1OO, both inclusive;
$500, No. 27,501 to No. 1890, both
inclusive; $1,000, No, S0651 to No,
Of, 800, beth inclusive. Total, 100000
900.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
A TeIegraphic Error.

OF all the freaks of the telegraph, says
a Chicago paper, the following is the
most lallghable which has come under
our personal knowledge. Not long since
a graduate from one of our Eastern theo-
logical schools was called to the pastoral
charge of church in the extreme South
west. When about to start for his new
parish he was unexpectedly detained by
the incapability of his presbytery to or
dain him. In order to explain bis non
arrival at the appointed time, he sent
the following telegram to the deacons of
the church: Prosbytery lacked
quorum to ordain." In the course of
it's journey the message got strangely
metamorphosed, and reached the aston
ished deacons in this shape: "Prcsby-
terry tackled worm on to Adam !" The
sober church officers were greatly dis
composed and mystifed, but after grave
consultation concluded it was the minis
ter's facetious way of announcing that
he had got married, apd accordingly pro-
ceeded to provide lodgings for two In
stead of one.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
YiVisectiOn.

Mr.. Lyon Playfair has laid before the
English House of Commons bill pro-
viding that person shall be guilty of
misdemeanor, or shall be liable on sum-
mary conviction to penalty not exceed
ing ESQ, or imprisonment not exceeding
three months, if he shall make an expert
ment causing pain, or of a nature to
cause pain, on any live animal, save as
follows: 1. Any person, for the purpose
of new scientific discovery, but for no
other purpose, shall be permitted to
make an experiment on live animal of
a nature to cause pain, notwithstanding
this act and the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals act, provided that the animal
be made and keptinsensible by anmsthet-
les or otherwise. 2. A person licensed
for the purpose by the Secretary of State
may subject live animal to an expert
ment without the use of an@sthetics,
provided that the experiment is made for
the purpose of new scientific discovery
only, that insensibility cannot be pro-
duced without necessarily frustrating the
object of the experiment, that the ami
NAL benot subjected to any pain which
is not necessary for the purpose of ex-
pertinent, and that the experiment be
brought to an end as soon as practicable.
A further condition in both the above
cases is that if the nature of the expert
ment be such as to seriously iniure the
animal, so as to cause it after-suffer-
ing, the animal shall be killed imme-
diately on the termination of the expert
ment
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
Carbon from the Earth.

M. Gautier, in his recent work on
chemistry, estimates that there are an
nually extracted from the bowels of the
earth and consumed 130,000,000 tons of
coal, containing on an average seventy
five per cent. of carbon; $4,000, 900 tons
of carbon being, therefore, annually
transformed into 356,000,000 tons of
carbonic acid, and assuming, as mod
crate calculation, that the remaining
cases of combustion n-wood, oils, etc.
represent the fifth of the preceding
quantity, it follows that manufactures,
navigation, and domestic economy pour
into the atmosphere the prodigious
quantity of 1000, 900 tons of carbonic
acid year. In the volcanic regions of
the globe carbonic acid escapes from
craters and fssures in actual torrents,
producing a mass of gas ten times
greater than the preceding.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19

would have been pleasing. But, instead
of that, the place was crowded with
people, and l found that all my hopes
were bighted, and that was not want
ed. caught hold of her to embrace
her, and was only as bold as the occasion
justified.
Magistrate. "Why do you not leave
her alone9"
Prisoner. "Because 1 thought she
wanted me to come, and that 1 was en-
couraged. told her that my hat COW
cred my family. L don't, however,
know, after all, that am acting right in
taking such an awful responsibility on
me, as 1 am in Indifferent health, and
she is a woman with two strong sons. /"
He was bound over to keep the
peace.
An amusing case having reference to
dog occurred not long ago at Worship
street. One Stubbs, a green-grocer,
was charged with cruelty to one of these
faithful animals, when the following
colloquy took place
Magistrate. "What is the act of
cruelty2"
Counsel. "Throwing a bunch of car
rots at the dog"
Magistrate (sternly). "Do you mean
that that was Intentional cruelty2"
Counsel. 81 shall be able to satisfy
you that there was great cruelty. The
heavy bunch of carrots struck the dog on
the back, and. even at this lapse of time
five weeks-it is still in pain"
Magistrate. "Have you any witness 2"
Counsel. "I have the dog, sir"
The dog was here brought into court
and put down, whereon he straightway
began to jump and frisk about, showing
no signs of any injury.
Magistrate. "How do you say it is
injured9"
Counsel. "Its coat is all off its back. /"
Magistrate. "But you can't say that
was done by the carrots. Do you say
the defendant had any aoinous toward
the owner of the dog9"
Counsel. "No, sir"
Magistrate. 1T is really too absurd
to take up the time of the court with
such case. I dismiss the summons. 3"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
Artists, Life.

Taine says of artists: A hard life
that of an artist. There are men of fifty
whose names are famous, who do not
earn ten thousand francs year. About
thirty, after ten years study, he begins
to produce something; then sales must
be made, and to make sales the artist
must have the tact of salesman. Some
go fasting, and put in here and there
three-franc lesson; but even that is a
chance. Some paint backgrounds for
photographers, or large sign boards. At
forty, with real merit, or friends in the
newspapers, he may get into notice by
constant exhibition and putting. About
fifty he earns a little money and has
caught the rheumatism. Each year the
number of real artists grows less and
less. Taste has declined since the di-
vision of patrimonies has broken for
tunes into crumbs, and the great profits
of the Bourse soil society with new and
vulgar wealth. Amateurs sell their gal
leries, bargain with picture dealers,
speculate upon their stores. To succeed
three things are needful: The first that
at the exhibition some rich bourgeois
shall say. "There is gay hunting
scene, which will do very well for the
left-hand panel of my dining-room !"
the second that he feel in the humor to
spend his money, that he has faith in
his own taste, that his wife does not say
no; in short, that he buys; the third,
that his friends, having breakfasted be-
fore the picture, order copies. But the
five thousand pictures of the exposition
distract the attention, destroy all beauty.
A woman is pretty alone by her fireside
in her easy chair; put her among eighty
ball dresses and she is lost. How do the
two or three miles of pictures which are
gotten up each year in Paris find sale
Reply is impossible. On this route the
crowd is greater than on any of the 9th
ers. For thirty years back the chief
characters of novels whose heroes were
formerly young gentlemen, have been
artists, especially painters. Thereupon
craze in this direction; numbers of
young fellows who would have made ex-
cellent clerks, have bought CATERS and
let their boards grow. What are they to
do for their dinners? Many one is
worn out. This one takes a whole sum-
mer to finish o study. He rubs out,
paints over, rubs out again, ends in
losing all true feeling, becomes cross:
irritable, talks feyerishly, and by fits
and starts, like aman who has had ner-
vous attack. Many have utterly thwarted
their natures, and, after fifteen years Of
struggle, find themselves powerless.
Instead of an imagination full to over
flow, and an impulse to pour out on the
canvas the very superfuity of their
brains, they resemble the dried-up
spring which at long intervals leaks out
in miserable drops. A friend comes in.
He is stopped by gesture. Stand
just as you are; stretch out your arm.
Perhaps have found the attitude have
been looking for" At last, by mere
chance, and after hundred cropping
hesitations, they hang up something,
and the creature, thus brought into the
world by miracle, is a pretentious
abortion.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
The Garden of China.

The Chinamen-who walk over
bridges built two thousand years ago,
who cultivated tho cotton plant centu-
ries before this country was heard of,
and who fed sillworms before King
Solomon built his throne-have fifty
thousand square miles around Shanghai
which is called the Garden of China,
and which have been titled by countless
generations. This area is as large as
New York and Pennsylvania combiAed,
and is all meadow, and raised but few
feet above the rivor-lakes, rivers, canals
"a complete netv ork of water commu-
nication; the land under the highest
tilth; three crops n year harvested
population so dense that whenever you
look you see meu and women in blue
pants and blouse, so numerous that you
fancy some fair or muster is coming off,
aud MI hands have turned etlt for O holi'
day,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19
Beautiful Gold.

Stronger than iron, when iron is kissing,
Stronger than beauty, when beauty is kiss ing,
Stronger than wine, when its bubbles are
flashing,
Stronger than lightning when oaA trees are
crashing,
Is gold, gold gold
Beautiful gold
What is all virtue, all wisdom, all glory,
Exploit of valor, or marvel OF story
What is the wrath OF martyr on IRE,
Fierce with the love of angelic desire,
To gold, gold, gold
Beautiful gold2
Still praising the noble, adoring the strong,
Round the good golden sun rolls the planet
along;
If the world were but honest, tho truth would
be told,
How it kneels to the gods, but it worships the
gold.
Gold, gold, gold, gold
Beautiful gold
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19

The papaw, or forbidden fruit,
grows to the weight of three pounds or
more in Florida. 1t is of light yellow
when ripe, and has flavor similar to
muskmelon. The juices of this tree
tend to separate tho fbers i'll meats
when immersed therein, and the vapor
of the tree answers the same purpose.
The toughest joints of meat, poultry,
etc, are rendered tender by being
hung among the branches.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19

dren constituted the camp. The men
said "We eat wien we have it, take a
drink when one can buy it, and try to
lead pleasant, happy, social life as long
as we can. "-Redding Eagle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-06-19

It is amazing how little bad iewel.S
it sometimes takes to spoil good girl,
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-09
PAID NEARLY
y; 4 . o d q :

JANUARY md, IN1D.
II. K. STEVENS, Esq: Dear Su-Whrn
about six months Old ! was NacinHt,d.
The parties VINO were vaCcluated from the
same virus died from the humor. The
humOr spread over me 10 such an extent
that | was rolled in bran 10 prevent me
from scratching my person. The disease
finally settled in my head. ! remained IN
this condition about twenty years, trout.
led all the time with sores breaking In my
head and diSChargiug corruption from my
ear. At this time Il small kernel appear
ed on my neck. gradually increasing IN
size until q tumOr formed Oi>uch immense
size | could see IL by turning my eyes
downward. All this time | was taking
various rrmldirs for my blood, without
any substantial benert.
Itncn went To u prominent physician in
Boston, who, during his treatment OF six
months, lauccd the tumor eight times.
which cost me nearly no. TINS !"il m"
with Il rough, aggravated sore, without %,
all diminishing the size OF The tuluur, ana
in 4 SiCkly, feeble condition. consulted
another physician in Natlck. VINO, alter
considerable time, succeeded IN HrIIlh2
the sore without reducing the >lL.. ~ TINS
pOint | commenced 10 uSr Nt-DllNc,
at the earnest persuasion Of 4 friend. Alter
had taken this medicine about one week
IrNprricnccd wonderful sensations. Ny
whole body seemed To be undergoing "a
radical change, until, finally, iEc iumU!
broke and discharged lrIEhtiul quantities.
From this time in decreased in sine unili
the bunch disappeared, but my neck >tI.l
bears Ih" ugly sears oi tn" Nur" ana lance.
lam now healthy and strcng and ah." To
work every day.
viii also mention that have been am
acute sufferer from inilammatury rhruua-
ti>m ever since ! can remember. until
commencing the use of Ncgctinc. when AL
most Immediately all rheumatic pains
ceased This statement | volunteer for
the purpose OF Dcnefitting other suffering
humanity, and You Will confer a favor by
giving II aS much publicity a. thought
proper. Very GrHirIuiIN.
o. ". E,ANEl.S, AsMlnnd. Mas.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-09
Lewis Baker & Co.,

THIS standard article is com
pounded with the greatest care.
Its effects are as wonderful and
as satisfactory as ever.
1t restores gray or faded hair to
it, youthful color.
1t removes all eruptions, itching
and dandruh. 1t gives the head a
cooling. soothing sensation Of great
comfort, and the scalp by its use
becomes white and clean.
By its tonic properties it restores
the capillary glands TO their normal
yigor, preventing badness, and
making the hair grow thick and
strong.
A. dressing, nothing has been
found 50 cncctual or desirable.
A. \. Hayes, NJ. d., State As
saver Of Massachusetts, says, - The
constituents are pure, and carefully
selected for excellent quality; and
consider it the BEST PREPARATION
for its intended purposes"
Price, One Dollar.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-09

RoBnrNd THE MAIL.-The mail car
ricr ON the route between Warrington
and Hc,>yillc, named Arthur Cunning
ham, was arrested Saturday aud brought
to this city, charged with opening Il rig
is,cred letter ser. by Raymond Martin
to l.. 5. Delaplain X Son, OF this city.
The amount alleged to have
been taken by the dishonest car
ricr, was twelve dollars. Cunningham
was taken before United States Commits
sioner j. p Rodgers, Yesterday morning,
and through his counsel waived an cX-
animation, ana in default of giving bail
in the sum OF $500, he was remandcd to
igil.
The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1875-11-09
THE MEDICINE THAT CURES
Is
" EG Z I!

Taking into consideration the character
OF its vouchers, the history ufit> cures and
the immense increasing demand, Ncgciinc
may be fairly entitled the leading medi-
cine OF the age.
For Scrofula in the blood, Ncgctinc is an
iuiallibc remedy, and no person need sui
fer from tumOrs, ulcers, and all diseases
arising from impure blood, II Ncgctimc is
used according to dir, CiIOnS. Their" - not Il
case of SCrOtula in existence that NrgciIur
will not cure, provided, however, tn" vital
functions have not lost their power Of
action, all that may be said to the contrary
Notwithstanding.
Negeune is pleasant 10 the taste, mild IN
It's influence, and absolute in its action on
disease, as the following unquc>tiOnablc
evidence will show.