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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
A Cali for More BlOOd-Letting.

Henry A. Hartt, M. D., read a paper
on "The Prevention and Durability of
Chronic Diseases" " at a meeting of the
New York Medical Library and Journal
Association, in the course of which he
reflected quite severelyupon the practice
of physicians of the present day. He
maintained that new-fangled theories
were not conducive to health, and said
that unfortunately some of the most
important and effective measures
measures which had stood the
test Of centuries-were almost, if not ell
tirely abandoned. Is it possible that
our fathers were altogether mistaken
with regard to the principle of aeple-
tion in cases of inflammation and con-
gestion3 2 They undoubtedly carried it
too far in many instances, but was it
not founded on rational theory, and
when employed in moderation was it
not attended with the happiest resultsl
1t was originally suggested, doubt
not, by the spontaneous hemorrhages
which so often occur in congestive dis
eases, and by the sudden and marvellous
relief which they afford. myself can
bear witness to the magical effect pro
duced both by general and local bleed
ing in numberless instances of acute
diseases. The abstraction of blood from
the arm diminishes the force of the cir
culation, reduces the temperature of
the body, and prepares the way for the
more effectual employment of internal
remedies. In pneumonia, in pleurisy,
in peritonitis, in apoplexy, in puerperal
convulsions, in Inflammation of the
brain, have seen it produce immediate
and striking alleviation of the most
alarming symptoms. Formerly, when
the lancet was almost universally en-
ployed in cases of apeplexy, the gen
eral rule was that the patient did not
die till the third attack. The man is
fortunate now who survives the first.
Before the doctrine was taught that
pneumonia has a natural tendency to q
cure, it was treated both by general and
local bleeding. followed by liberal doses
of tartar emetic. I doubt very much
whether Laennec or his followers ever
had to record the terrible mortality
from that disease which we have wit
messed in these later years; and can
affirm most solemnly that I have treat
ed it with almost uniform success.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
Choosing Husbands and Wives.

Many of our correspondents, says the
Ledger, solicit information as to the
best way to choose husbands and, on
the other hand, many of those whose des-
tiny it probably is to be chosen as hus-
bands, anxiously inquire how they shall
choose wives.
Of one thing the girls may be sure,
and that is, that the young men who
make the best sons and brothers will also
make the best husbands. And the young
men may be equally sure that those
girls who are the best daughters and
sisters will also, as rule, be the best
wives.
Ii q young man, before he is married,
is destitute of those affections and prin-
ciples which come out in filial obedience
and fraternal courtesy, and a controlling
sense of duty, he will be equally desti-
tute of them after he is married. The
mere fact of wedlock will not change the
fundamental principles of his nature.
He will be essentially the same human
being after marriage-or, at least,
after the honeymoon--that he was be.
fore it.
The same principles hold true with re-
gard to women. She who is selfish, and
vain, and idle, and deceitful, as q girl,
will be pretty apt to be the curse of the
man who marries her. While the girl
who is dutiful to her parents, and indus
trious, and unselfsh, and truthful, will
be almost certain to be a blessing to him
who gets her for wife.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
His Experience.

A man became entangled in a fast re-
volving water wheel in a mill at George
town, Kentucky, and was whirled around
at the rate of eighty revolutions min
ute. He was unconscious when rescued,
but was not badly hurt. He said that
his sensations while being carried in
circle at such a velocity were very pecu-
liar. At first he was terribly frightened,
expecting instant death, but his percep-
tion was perfectly clear. Then he grew
dizzy, and it seemed to him that he was
rising higher and higher in the air.
Next he felt as though in dream, with
a dim sense of imagining that he was be-
ing transported to the moon at q terrible
speed That was the last he remember
ed. A calculation showed that he had
been carried an aggregate distance of
thirteen miles in about eight minutes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
The Guards Story.

We were on picket sir, he and /,
Under the blue Of midnight sky
In the wilderness, where the night birds song
Gives back an echo all night long.
Where the silver stars rs they come and pass
Leave stars of dew on the tangled grass,
And the rivers sing in the silent hours,
Their sweetest songs to the listning flowers.
He'd slender form, and girlish face,
That seemed in the army out of place,
Though he smiled as told him so that day,
Aye, smiled and flushed in girlish way
That minded me of face knew,
In distant village, meath the blue;
When our army marched, at the meadow bars
She met and kissed me meath the stars.
Before us the river silent ran,
And we'd been placed to guard the ford
A dangerous place, and we'd jump and start
Every time that leaf by the wind was
stirred.
Behind us the army lay enGamped
Their camp-fres burned into the night,
Like bonfres built upon the hills,
And set by demon hands alight.
Somehow, whenever looked that way,
1seemed to see her face again,
Kind o hazy like, as you've seen star
peepin' out through a misty rain;
And once, believe, as 1 thought of her.
thought aloud, and called him Bess,
When he started quick, and smiling said,
You dream of some one at home, l guess. g."
Twas just in the flush of the morning light,
We stopped for chat at the end Of our beat,
When rifle flashed at the rivers bank,
And bathed in blood he sank at my feet
All of a sudden 1 knew her then,
And kneeling, kissed the girlish face;
Aud raised her head from the tangled grass,
To find on my breast its resting place.
When the corporal came to change the guard
At six in the morning, he found me there,
With Bessie's dead form clasped in my arms,
And hid in my heart her dying prayer.
They buried her under the moaning pines,
And never man in the army knew
That Willie Searles and my girl were one.
You're the first I've told-the story's new.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
A Dwarf Elephant.

A very interesting animal, dwarf ele-
phant, has just arrived in Paris from
India. Cawnpore, as he is called, is
nineteen years old, but for years he has
not grown any, and is now only thirty
nine inches in height. He is remark
ably intelligent and performs many
tricks. AS it takes but small blanket
and other trappings to cover this ele-
phant, of course his trunk is not so big
as that of the regular managorie sized
elephant.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03

A PoIsoNER.-- A young woman of
Alsatia has recently been sentenced to
death for poisoning three persons. Two
were husbands whom she had married in
succession, neither of whom outlived the
honeymoon, and the third was woman
whose husband she wanted to marry.
In the latter case the physician was sus-
picious, and post-naortem revealed the
truth, when the bodies of the two
husbands were examined with like re-
suit.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03
MY YAGRANT.

We were in pursuit of Laura's dress
maker, and had just rung the bell at
her door, when little boy presented
himself, and, standing on the lower
step, uplifted pathetic pair of blue
eyes, and small tin cup held in lit.
tie grimy hand. A large basket was on
one arm; and round his neck was one
of those great printed placards, such
as the blind men wear who sit at the
street corners. Laura's purse was al
ways fuller than mine; and she was ex-
tracting bit of scrip from it, while
bent my near-sighted eyes on the boys
label. Could it be that read Alright
looked again. No, was not mistaken.
read, in great, staring letters "I have
lost my husband in the war.
In the war And those blue eyes had
not opened, surely, till some time after
the war was ended His husband I
was bewildered. l bent my gaze on him
sternly, and asked him, as severely as
could:
Young man, can you read ?"
Laura was fumbling away at the I'M
answered door bell. The boy looked as
If he wanted to run; but I puG my
hand on his arm.
Can you read ~ repeated, gravely.
think he shook in his shabby boots,
for his voice was not quite steady as he
answered:
Not much"
=" Not much, I should think. Do YOU
know what this thing says that you've
got around your neck"
/" Does it say I'm blind 2" he asked,
with a little frightened quaver.
"No, it says-but do you know what
husband is?"
Yes, he comes home drunk, and
beats Mag and me awful"
Did you ever know a boy of youi
age to have husband 2"
The blue eyes grew so wide open that
L wondered if they could ever shut
themselves up again; and Laura, who
had turned round at my question, look.
ed as if she thought I had suddenly
gone mad. The little dressmaker hac
opened the door, and stood there wait
ing meekly, with the handle in hel
hand. But my spirit was up, and die
not care for either of them. 1 asked
again, very impressibly, as I thought
with pause after each word:
Did-you-ever - know-a-boy-
of-your - age to - have-a- hus
band?"
"No, marm," he gasped, "husband,
belongs to women"
"Then what do you wear this thins
forl 1t says that you have lost you
husband in the war;"
The imp actually turned pale, and
almost pitied him.
" viii they put me in prison?" h
asked, an abiect little whine coming int,
his voice. Will they3"
"Did You steal it2"
"I didn't steal it-I just took it. T,
seen the rest put them on when the,
went out begging, and this was oil,
Meg's. She wasn't going out to-day
and thought it no harm to borrow"
"Then you can't readl"
"Well, not to say read, marm
think i could make out q word now an
then"
"Do You want to :"
The face frightened a moment, an
with the curbing lips and eager eyes
was that of a pretty boy.
"Oh, il I could !" half sighed til
quivering lips; and then thesmile wen
out, and left blank despair behind il
" It's no use, marm she won't lt
me-
"Who won't1 Your mother2"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03

"When you see man partickler, y
says Mrs. Marrowfat, "as never to take
a glass of water without looking for in
seeks, don't trust him-he's on his way
to drunkard's grave"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03

The fairfor dumb animals in Boston
realized $4,000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-04-03

"He wooed and she wouldn't" is q
head line in San Francisco newspaper.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
SPARTAN DINNERS.
Paris Celebrities At the COnviviaI
Board.

Paris Celebrities At the COnvtviai
Board.
Arsene Houssaye. in the New York Tribune.
Have you ever heard Of Il e Acade-
nv of the Spartans, or rather Of the
Spartan Dinners? For this Is an Aead-
emy that dimes, which gives it a great
advantage over the French Academy.
1t has another advantage; 1t IS not en-
plOyed on a dictionary. 1t contents
itself with being witty-at table. 1t
pronounces no diseOurse5 nor funeral
orations. 1t has held its sessions at
the Trois Freres ProUeRcaur. at the
Petit Moulin Rouge, at the MalsOn
dor, and at Brebant's.
Who is Brebant? He is a man Of
genius whom circumstances have made
keeper Of a restaurant at the corner OF
the Boulevard Mont Martre He has
been called ''The RestOrer Of Letters, "
first because he bears some resem-
blance to Francis L, and then because
his place is always full Of literary men.
He is a very gentlemanly person, who
has become learned by hearing the
conversation Of journalists who are not.
His library is the public. He Is always
to be seen at First Nights in the thea
tire, where he makes a very stylish ap-
pearance with Madame Brebant, a
beauty in full flower, two genuine Pa
r1sian figures. The Spartans have
made their favOrite dOmicile at Bre-
bant's. This Academy was founded IN
1867 in the gay times Of the Empire.
Unfortunately it has already lost sew
eral members impossible to replace,
such as Theophile Gautier, the Duke
of Persigny, the Duke Of Aequaviva,
three original types. 1t now numbers
Paul de st. Victor, a brilliant pen;
Lord LyttOn, whom you know as the
poet Owen Meredith; Gen. Read, your
Minister in Greece; Xavier AuDryet,
a Rivsrol and de Maistrs IN one; Ca
banel, the painter Of duchesses; Henry
Houssavs. surnamed Alcibiades, prob
ABLY because he Is the living image of
Lucius Verus; CASTOR JOllivet, a witty
chronicler in verse and prose, a swords
man whose thrusts are like eplgrams,
and whose epigrams are ike stabs; Ar
mold Mortier, the Monsieur de POTches-
tire Of Figaro; Gen. Schmitt, a brave
and clever soldier, who could not pre-
vent Gen. Trochu from talking instead
of acting; Paul Baudry, one Of the
four great painters of the nineteenth
century: Zien, the Venetian who ri1ds
sunshine on his palette; a novelist, III.
du Boisgobey; a publicist and historian,
NJ. Valfrey; Paul Lacrolx, the celebra-
ted BibliOphile Jacob; Edmond de
Goncourt, the historian Of art; Dupray,
the painter Of battles. / must pass
over some of the best. They have
elected mel cannot imagine Why
President Of this Academy, which IS
BY no means a sinecure, because this Is
an Academy which dimes.
At the last sitting 1 proposed a toast
in very good ohampsgne-to Gen.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.

Iobu ". Williams, a cOlOred Senator in
the Arkansas Legislature, died yesterday.
Senator Carpenter delivered an address
in Milwaukee last night, in which he at
tributed his defeat largely to the opposition
Of the railroads.
William Cullen Bryant was honOred yes
terday with reception BY the New YORK
Legislature. ,-,
The Board Cf Supervisors, at Hieks0urg,
approved the bond Of Peter crosby as
Sheriff yesterday. o
nj Int.
The funeral Of Senator Buckingham TOOK
place in Norwich, Conn, yesterday ana
his remains were followed to the grave Oy
large numbers Of officials and citizens.
The first train passed through hoosSc
tunnel Yesterday. The passage was MADE
in S5 minutes.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10

Read, who was Just starting for Greece.
He had brought a book of blank pages,
and said 70 us, "This book vii be
mine. when each Of you has inscribed
a tbouobt in it." / don't know wheth-
er we were especially witty that day,
but 1 copy some things which fell from
our pen.
saThere Is no such thing IS Liberty,
for no man is free if he is the slave OF
his conscience.
"AU loyes-eYen maternal love
have their anguish and their gTlefs.
God has made a pain for every pleas
ure; the gate of Paradise opens into
he'll.
"A note from a woman, no matter
how tende-, is a sight draft on you;
you must always pay IN some com OF
other.
Marriage begins with one Of the
seven sacraments; it ends with one OF
the seven mortal sins.
ssThought is like JeannOt's knife
Common men are content to keep 1t
bright for use; men Of genius hrst
change the handle and end by changing
the blade.
Sooner OF later we pardon our
friends the injuries we have done them.
If a borrower comes, lend him your
ear.
Women always give more than they
promise; men less
Love Is ike liquor; men say 1t IS
killing them but always come back to
it.
IF you become famous, beware OF
the eools - for they always gather
around the people who are stared at.
Gen. Read would not write concert
like the rest. He had Just experienced
a profound grief in the loss OF his
father. This Is the thought he has IN
scribed in the book, which Is still at It's
first page:
Life is the road to death. The In
dians say: Death does not KILL 1t
makes us invisible. 1t is the sorrow
of survivors to see no more those
whom they loved; but the first friend
we lose gives a clearer vision to the
soul. Every step toward death opens
a little wider the gate Of eternity.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
CONGRESSIONAL.
A Rather Dull Day in Both
Houses.
The Arlington Estate Lease Re-
considered.

de,,. AShlN Il-.s-nsy, Feb. 8.=The Vice-Presi-
- announced as the conference commit
tee on the part of the Senate on the Iegis-
latise, judicial and executive appropriation
bill, Messrs. Morrill,, Of Maine, Sargent and
DAVIS.
On motion Of Mr.. Johnston, the vote BY
which the bill referring to the Court Of
Claims the claim Of @. w. Custis Lee, fss
the Arlington estate. was indefinitely post
pOned yesterday, was reoOnsidered and the
bill placed on the calendar with the adverse
report.
MIR. Johnston gave notice that he would
address the Senate on the subject at an
early day.
Mr.. Cameron, from the Committee on
Foreign Relations, reported favorably on
the joi1t resolution authorizing the Presi-
dent 10 appoint a commissioner to attend
De International Penitentiary Congress to
be held at Rome next year. Placed on the
calendar.
Mr.. Logan, from the Committee on MILF
tary Affairs, reported fayoFHbiy on the
House bill to reduce and 6x the Adiutant
Generals Department of the army. Passed.
Mr.. ingalls, presented the resolutions If
the Kansas Legislature asking an appropria-
tion by Congress of 800, 900 to aid the set
tiers on the western frontier to purchase
seed, and for their support during The
coming year. Referred.
Mr.. Morton presented a memorial of tue
plate glass manufacturers in Indiana, to
the effect that that important branch of
the manufacturing interest ought to be en-
couraged by such tariff duties as will en-
able American manufacturers TO success.
fully compete with foreign plate glass man
ufscturers..
Mr.. Bogy presented a memorial of the
st. Louis Chamber OF Commerce, in favor
of opening the Southwest Pass Of the
Mississippi, and remODstrating against the
opening Of the South Pass thereof Re-
feued.
Mr.. Clayton moved that the Senate take
up the message of the President on Ar
kansas affairs, sent in yesterday, and refer
1t to the Committee on Privileges and
Elections.
Mr.. Bayard hoped that the order would
not oe made now. The documents accom-
panying the message had not yet been pre-
sented, and the motion TO refer would Ger
tainly lead 10 debate. He understood It
was the intention Of the Senate 70 adjourn
at l O'Clock, as q mark Of respect to the
late Senator Buckingham, and the motion
to refer the message should 90 over for the
present.
Mr.. Thurman said this was an excep-
tional case, and if anything could be dem
onstrated, it was fair that the message
should 60 10 the Judiciary Committee. BE
had not time now to argue the matter, it
being o'clock. He moved that the un-
finished business, the steamboat bib, be
taken mp.
The Vice President announced that the
morning hour had expired, and the Senate
would resume the consideration Of the
steamboat bill.
Mr.. Ferry, Of Connecticut, moved that
the Senate adjourn as a mark Of respect to
his late colleague, Mr.. Buckingham, whose
funeral took place to-day. Agreed to, and
the Senate adjourned.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
HE4D's TWENTY-FIVE GENT REsO-
LT-TTONE
Nashville Correspondence Of the LOuisVi
COurier-JOurnal.


Nashville Correspondence Of the LOuisVi lie
COurier-JOurnal.
When / tell you that the taxes collected
under such resolutions as the above would
about pay the running expenses Of the
State Government, You viii readily
see how impraCticable q plan this
is 10 State with a bonded
indebtedness Of over so. 100000. OF
course, if no more than simple expenses
were paid, the interest on the bonds would
not be paid; the bOnd-hOlders would grow
ClamOrOus, and the credit Of the State
would be impaired In q measure which as
true a Ueople As those Of Tennessee cannot
and will not endure.
The tiuuucial embaTaSsments Of Ten
nessee have been greatly exaggerated by
certain interested and other ignorant par
ties. The State is really in no worse
condition, financially, than are nine
trnths Of The Northern States, where the
frst intimatiOu of a proposition TO re
pudiate would consigu its author
to political infamy and death. A tax
Of forty cents on the hundred dollars has,
according to the report Of the COmptrolle7,
been amply sufficient for the past two years
to meet an the current expenses Of the
State government, and the same report
saws that the same rate Of taxation viii be
arnplv sufficient for the ensuing
two wears without any increase Of assess
ment. But some fifty millions or more
of railroad property which has hitherto es
caped taxation, either through charter eX-
emptious or by the negligence Of the as
SCISSORS, viii hencefOrth be called upon TO
contribute TO the support Of the State to
whose lberality Ehey owe their existence
and it IS not at all improbable that even
lower rae of taxation NAV be adopted with
perfect security Of meeting all the obllSa-
lions Of the STATE.
Saah being the case 1t seems incredible
thai auy suggestions Of repudiation should
find hearing among so high-mlnded and
honorable people as those Of Tennessee
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
LOUISVILLE.
celebration of sIardI Gras.


LOUISVILLE, Feb. 9.-The first celeDra-
tiOn Of Mardi Gras in Louisville, TODAY,
was a grand success in all respects. Early
IN the morning cane bounding into the
streets queer looking creatures in quaint,
curious costumes, who danced in high en-
ioyment Of the fun ahead; men tTansmOgTi-
fed into the forms Of women, and women
vice versa, and men in the forms Of beasts.
the white color Of the black, gentlemen as
rowdies, and rOwdies in the garb of gentle
men, and other ridiculous sights too nu-
merous to enumerate, all joined in the pro-
cession of merriment and paraded the
streets. The procession was a mile in
length and occupied half an hour in passing
given point.
A prominent feature of the procession
was a Caricature of Ben Butler, supporting
on one arm a maiden, whose face was black,
and with ;he other holding across his
shoulder an immense silver spoon.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10
THE NATIONAL GRANGE.
Op,osition TO the Patent Law.

CHARLESTON, S. C., Feb. F.-Last night
the National Grange adopted resolutions
declaring the existing patent laws Oppress-
i've, and requesting Congress 70 grant no
more extension, and to amend the laws so
as to allow any person to use or manuiac-
ture any patented article on payment OF
reasonable royalty.
The invitation t. visit Florida was ac-
cepted. The choice Of the next place Of
meeting of the National Grange is left
with the Executive Committee. San Fran
cisco win be the place if the cost does not
exceed $4,000. The National Grange
agreed to loan 20 each State Grange a sum
Of money equal to S212 for each SubOCdi-
nate Grange in such States, which loan
shall not be distributed among Sub
Oranges.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-02-10

ALEADING ultra Republican, who
backed Butler all the way throdgh his
fight on the Civil q Rights bill, made
this frank confession to the eorrespon-
dent of the Chicago Times: He said
that none Of the r epublicans believed
that the bill would ever become per-
fected as a law, ane that it could do no
good If should. 1t was valuable only
as a declaration of principles and
disciplining of the. weaker-kneed mem
bers Of the party up to the front rank
Of extreme Radics .Iism. he neglected
to add what he virtually confessed,
that the whole ad vocaey Of the measure
was for the purpo rse Of making politi-
cal capital, and t lat 1t was also brought
forward by But er as an element Of
discord 70 disru pit the fast-growing
harmony betwee the North and the
South.