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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
The Wire ClOthes-Line Agent.

A wire clothes-line agent called on o
well-to-do farmer at Meridian, N. Y,
and tried to sell him wire clothes-line.
The farmer declined, and the stranger
made him an offer to give him line if
he (the farmer) would give his name as
o reference to use in the vicinity. He
gave his name on slip of paper pre-
sented by the stranger, and which was
apparently carelessly folded, and about
two weeks from that time received an in
voice for wire amounting to $100 as per
order. The carelessly folded paper
proved to be an order made to third
party, and the best he could do in set
tlement was to pay $50 to be released
from the order, or take the wire and pay
the bill.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
A Powerful Wind,

The United States signal officer re-
ports as follows in reference to the recent
cyclone at Indianola, Texas: The lowest
barometer occurred on the afternoon of
September 16, when it stood at 28. SO
inches, with the maximum velocity OF
wind at the same time eighty-six miles
per hour. Thousands of drowned cattle
are strewn over the prairies south of In
dianola, where they we're carried by the
current, and several light coastine
steamers are lying in the same direction
from six to ten miles inland, having
been left high and dry by the receding
waters.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
Among Wild Beasts.

Old traditions of the conduct of wild
animals toward a traveller at night in the
forest, says a Western correspondent
who has been out in the mountains, tend
to fill him with nervous apprehensions
The books advise q fire to awe them into
keeping respectful distance while you
slumber. Pile on the well-drie pine
fagots which are strewn over the ground.
They will burn till a few hours of
dawn, and although the restless tread of
an army of wolves, catamounts, cougars
and panthers may disturb the slumberer
he will be safe from their enmity. 1t is
very romantic to spread ones blankets on
the soft turf under friendly pine and
lie down to pleasant dreams," though
after long days jaunt the dreams very
fortunately are apt to prove truant. But
fiery eyes cleaning out of the darkness
on all sides at the victim whom the red
shining flames alone protect from being
torn to pieces do not fill the brain with
the most soothing images. /, however,
soon fell asleep. after rolling myself up
in two blankets and buffalo robe, and
did not awake until just before the gray
dawn. Then the last Pickering ember
of the fire had expired, and although the
darkness was not yet dispersed the vora-
cious lobos and kiotes were no longer
watching me. I saddled my horse and
packed the pony by the starlight. Be-
fore the sun peeped over the pine
fringed hills on the east side of Gold
creek I had ridden fifteen miles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
The Girl at Home.

Suppose he does not como. The old
father dies, and the shop or the potatoes
fail, and the brother takes to drink, or
marries, or does not marry because he
must support his mother and sister
The girl finds that she is as pretty and
pleasant an object as ever, CHEEKY as the
rose, but somehow the world does not
give her place, as it does the rose,
gratis. When it comes to daily meals
and clothes she is by no means her own
excuse for being. She knows she was
born to be a wife and mother, but no.
body wants to marry her. She takes
stock of herself her capital is fright
fully small to carry into the market.
Her brother was educated to earn his
bread and butter; beside the education,
he had physical strength, the habit of
friction with the crowd, something which
he himself calls "cheek." Her cake
making, Turkish embroidery, pressed
ferns, all go fornothing, when she comes
to put a money value on her acqui1e E.
ments the chances are that her knowl,
edge of literature or music is too general
to fit her to teach. If she should teach,
sher salary, exclusive of board, would
not, nine cases in ten, amount to a sum
more than sufficient to clothe her cheaply
and shabbily. If she goes into store
as saleswoman she is paid less than was
the cook in her fathers kitchen; and in
both these occupations there is no
chance of advance, no career such as is
ready for her brother in every trade or
profession, unless she have great energy
or skill in trade, and the probability is
that she has not particle of either.
She is sure to try authorship sends
poems and tales to magazines with a
request to know how much she can
make per annum, If she perseveres.
They come back with thanks in big yel-
low envelopes. She goes out as book
agent-sells chromos, silver polish,
Heaven knows what not. In any case
she has to "push her way, sick at heart,
at first shrinking from every look or
touch or word. Perhaps after while
she learns the business tact which comes
to her brother by nature, and gains even
the desirable "cheek, most pitiable
and woeful of all successes. There are
many trades, the lighter handicrafts, and
above all etching, wood engraving, and
lithography, with which, if she had been
taught, she could have earned her iv-
ing and remained within the shelter of
home.
AS your own Nelly sets out to school
this bright morning, it is well to re-
member these things and to make some
provision for her future as for her broth
er's. There are many chances that she
must earn her own living let us begin
now to put into her hand the tools
by which she can do it, and above all
protect her in home while using them
keep alive in her the modesty, the ten
derness, the beauty of the future wife
and mother. In business point of view
the dewy fragrance of the rose is worth
nothing but the poor girl selling her
wares from door to door with sick
heart and face of brass, knows what it
is worth, and feels that she lost with ii
the birthright of her womanhood.-
-NetU York Tribune.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
" Gilt-Edged" Butter.

There are at least two dairymen and
buttermakers in the neighborhood of
Philadelphia who always sell their butter
at one dollar pound, and cannot sup.
ply all who desire to be their customers.
One Of these attributes his success to
three points, good food for the COWS,
uniform temperature of fifty-eight de-
Prees in the milk-room, and neatness,
cleanliness and dainty nicety at every
step from the moment the milk is OBJ
tanned until the dollar is paid for the
pound of butter. He feeds his COWS
often, and not much at time, on clover
and early-mown meadow hay, which he
cuts fine, moistens and mixes with corn
meal and wheaton shorts. Pastures and
meadows are kept quite free from weeds.
The milk-room is kept at temperature
of fifty eight degrees by flowing spring
water. GAS good butter can be made
without water as with, but the milk and
cream must be kept at all times little
below sixty degrees" The other i'm
portant point-cleanliness he secures
by keeping the rlilk-house free from all
unpleasant surroundings, allowing no
milk to sour upon the floor of the room
or to decompose in the crevices of the
milk-pans, churns or other utensils. The
above is descriptive of the care with
which the costliest Philadelphia butter
is made, but the ordinary article sold in
our markets at half the price is not much
inferior in quality, thanks to the tidy
housewives in Chester, Delaware and
Montgomery counties. - Philadelphia
To<1oo9.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16

J. B. Smith, Boston's well-known col
ored caterer, presented check at the
bank the other day, and the teller asked
him if he had any one to identify him.
Mr.. Smith, astonished, said: "Young
man, don't you know me9" The teller
confessed he did not. "Then," said
MIR. Smith, cit is evident that you have
not moved in the first circles of society. Z"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16

THE SUN.-It is now said that the sun
is a partial luminary. In recent dis
cussion, DR.. Balfour Stewart said that it
was not only lopsided, but one region
affected the magnetism and meteorology
of the earth differently from the other.
He also denied that it had q solid
nucleus. Even the dark portions at the
bottom of the spots, he said, might be
compo ed of matter carried down from
above.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16
Rain.

IaiIs
Tuick and fast the raindrops fall
Fast the clouds are flying;
Ger the earth a misty pail
Hides the day that's dying.
Counting moments as they fly,
Tolling hours that perish,
Beats the clock-as mournfully
Fades the hopes we cherish.
remember, l remember;
As a spell comes DER me,
Such night one sad September
Fancy brings before me.
In twilight hour like this
One 1 loved was dying:
Angels from the land of bliss,
To her bed were flying,
And the clock the moments beating,
Aud the rsindrops falling,
Mingled with low sounds Of greeting
To our lost one calling.
Those who gathered round her bed
Heard the earnest voices,
Yet they knew not what they said,
Mourning for their losses.
One, whose tears feil fast like rain,
From the window gazing,
Through the drops apon the pane,
At the candles. blazing,
Lighting many peaceful home
Ger the distant river;
Must he lay her in the tomb
In the darkness leave her2
Since, on such night as this,
When tits dark and stormy,
Sad and fearful memories
Come like dreams before me.
s. B. RedC
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16

Our MAID SERVANTS. Mistress (open-
ing postbag): Fourteen letters for
you again to-day, Mary I can't under
stand it," Mary: "Well, ma'am, l
ought to have give you notice, but /
hadvertised. You see how good SER
wants is sought after. Punch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16

INSANE. mother of little Mabel
Young, who was killed in the belfry of
the Warren avenue Baptist church, in
Boston, has lost her reason, and is the
inmate of private insane asylum.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1875-10-16

An advertisement ran thus: Two
ters want washing.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

~ The Republic magazine for
August, is valuable number, one Of
the strongest yet issued. The open
ing article, on Growth of the Nation
under Republicanism," is complete
answer to the charge raised by De-
mocracy, that Repubicanism has i'm
poverished the country. Our growth
in population, true wealth, valuation
OF real estate and prducts of Manufac-
lures, indicate marvellous increase
for the past fourteen years. The fl
nancial responsibilities of the Govern
ment are put forth in strong light
and show the magnitude of the work
accomplished. As a Campaign docu-
ment, this review Of fourteen years,
would have marked effect on public
opinion. Every loyal man should
read it. "The French Republics"
"Fall electious;" "Taxes, Who Pays
Them;" democratic Reconstruction;'
''Life-Saving Service y Industry in
the South :" and other articles of equal
merit, commend this magazine to all
who value sound reading. Published
at Washington, D. c., by Republic
Publishing Company. Only 80 a
year.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05
NEBRASKA LETTER.
Clay County-Town of Edgar Coun~
y-Inhabitants-Ri Rich Soil-Heavy
Crops of Grain-Cheap Farms
Wants of the Countrywide Grant
County Herald IN the Far West.
EDGAR, Nebraska, July 81. 1875.

EDGAR, Nebraska, July 81, 1873.
EDITOR HERALD Perhaps a few
lines from this part of the West would
not be uninteresting to some of the
many readers of your valuable paper.
Edgar is located on the st. Joe q
Denver City railroad, 200 miles north
west from St. Joe, Missouri, in Clay
county, Nebraska, 1t is beautifully
located on a high eminence, COM
handing a view of the surrounding
country for fifteen miles. 1t is q town
of about 200 inhabitants; is supported
by large area of country, extending
into Kansas some fifty or seyenty.fve
miles, and having stage connection
with ali the principal towns in the
valleys of the Solomon and Republi-
can rivers. The land is of a rich,
black loan, and cannot be surpassed
for productiveness, which is proven
by the vast crops of grain now being
harvested by our farmers, and the
dark green fields Of corn which pro-
mise to be abundant. All other
crops are good, and the people are
happy.
l would say for the benefit Of those
who contemplate moving West to
procure cheap and good farms, that
they cannot do better than to come to
this county. Good land can be h ]
for from So so to S. per acre, on
good terms to suit all classes, with or
without money; but | would not adj
wise any one to come without enough
to live on for one year.
A good hotel is badly needed in
this place, and good harnessmaker,
wagonmaker and shoemaker could
find ample employment here. In fact,
good, energetic men can do well here
in almost any kind of employment.
All over the "Far West" the old
GRANT COUNTY HERALD is to be seen,
as there are many throughout this
section who came from Grant county,
and the HERALD is appreciated by all
such. Please find 81 inclosed, for
which send your paper to an old resi-
dent of Grant county, whose name |
send you. A. BADGER.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05
DEATH OF ANDREW JOHNSON.
lie Dies from the Effects Of a
Paralytic Stroke.
Particulars of His Life and
Death.
HIS DEATH.

HIS DEATH.
NASHVILLE, July 31.-The follow.
ing dispatch, addressed to tho agent
of tho Associated Press, has just been
received:
"KNoxv1LLE, July Ex-senator
johnson died at 2:30 o'clock ths
morning. DUNCAN"
CHATTANOOGA, July 31-The death
Andrew Johnson al 2:30 this morn
ing ia now confirmed. He desired
that his winding sheet be the flag of
his country.
HIS LAST SICKNESS.
A special to Nashville paper from
Greenvilla at IL O'Clock to night says
ex-President Johnson died of psraly-
sis and heart disease, at the residence
Of his daughter, Mrs. Browne, in Car
ter county, some 40 miles east Of here,
this morning, ~ half-past 2 O'Clock.
He had been complaining somewhat
of i'll health during the past month,
but felt no apprehensions. Last
Wednesday he took the morning
train to visit his daughter, with
whom Mrs Johnson had been sojourn-
ing for the past six weeks, He rode
in hack from Carriers depot to her
residence, some six miles distant, and
seemed in good spirits on arrival, and
ate a hearty dinner, aud after i few
minutes OF general conversation re-
tired up stairs, and was talking alone
with his granddaughter. Miss Lille
Slower. While thus engaged, his
tongue refused to utter tone, and
to her great CONSERVATION he fell
from his seat to tho floor Help was
instantly moned, and almost as
soon as raised he expressed indis-
tinotly shat his right side was par
alyzed. After being taken to bed,
whom the family spoke of sending for
3 physician ho forbade it, saying that
he would soon recover. IN this way
the summoning of medical aid was
deferred for "a hours. When Mr.. Job
was called from Elizabethtown, some
two miles distant, be instantly began
heroic treatment. aided by DR..
| Cameron, ana seemed at one time
the next day to be succeeding. The
patient oonvorsed mperfectly in res
gard to domestic matters, and did
not seem conscious Of approaching
dissolution, but his case was beyond
the skill of physician, and at Z
O'Clock last night he became uncon-
scious. Mrs. Patterson and Andrew
Johnson, Jr., arrived sn hour later
with two physicians from Groenviile,
Drs. Brey and Taylor, but he did not
recognize either of them, and after
sevon hours and . half of uncon-
seriousness peacefully breathed his
last, surrounded by his wife, children,
and all his grandchildren. except the
son and daughter Of ex-senator Pat
| tersOn.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05
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% The Chicarn Trihnne trnf b

sA.The Chicago Tribune truthfully
says that the failure of Duncan,
Sherman & Co., the New York bank
ers, is another instance of the inevi>
table law that no bank can depart
from its legitimate business to engage
in speculation without paying the
penalty of loss, ruin and bankruptcy.
In the long list of failures in all
branches of business there are count
less examples of the workings of this
inexorable law. In the one case it is
cotton, in another wheat, in another
stocks and railroad bonds, others in
wild lands, and in almost every de-
parture of large houses from legitl,
mate trade for the purpose of specu.
lation the result is failure.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

Constitution, and contrary to the act
entitled, An act regulating the tenure
of certain civil offices, passed March
2, 1867. Article IL, for having son
Aug. IS, 1866, at the city of Wash
ington. by public speech, declared
and affirmed, in substance, that the
39th Congress of the United States
was not a Congress of the United
States authorized by the Constitution
to exercise legislative power under
the same, but, en- the contrary, was
a orgress of only part of the States,
thereby denying, and intending to
deny, that the legislation of said
Congress was valid or obligatory up
on him, except in SO far as he saw fit
TO approve the same, and also there
by denying, and intended to deny,
the power of said Congress to propose
amendments to the Constitution of
the United States ;" and for, on Feb.
81, 1868, "unlawfully, and in disre-
gard of the requirements Of the Con-
stitut;on, that be should take care
that the laws be faithfully executed,
attempting to prevent the execution
of al act entitled San act regulating
the tenure of certain civil officers,
by unlawfuIly devising and contriv-
ing, aud attempting to devise and
contrive means, by which he
should prevent Ed win NJ. Stanton from
forthwith resuming the functions Of
the office of Secretary for the De-
partment of War, notwithstanding
the refusal of the Senate to concur in
the suspension heretofore made by
said Andrew Johnson of said Edwin
NJ. Stanton from said Office of
Secretary of War, and also by
further nnlawfully devising and
contriving, and attempting to
devise and contrive, means, then and
there, to prevent the execution of an
act entitled 'an act making appro-
priations for the support of the army
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1868, and for other purposes APPROX
ed March 2, 1867 and also to pro-
vent the execution of an act entitled
ian act to provide for the more eff
cient government of the rebel states
"passed March 2, 1867" The SEN
ate having constituted itself in high
court of justice under the presidonce
Of Chief Justice Chase, it was agreed
May 16, to take up the 18th article
first. The vote stood guilty 80, not
guilty 10. The President being
therefore acquitted on this article,
the court adjourned till the Goth,
when the President was acquitted on
the End and Sd articles By the same
vote as that on the 11th, and the
court adjourned zine die by vote Of
SO to 16
After his acquittal Mr.. Johnson,
whose power had been successfully
limited by tho Senate, persisted in
vetoing the measures adopted
by the Republican majority of Con-
gress for the reconstruction of the
Southern States, till the end Of his
term March 4, 1869. On leaving the
White House, Mr.. Johnson returned
TO Tennessee, and, the same year
was then defeated as a candidate for
the United States Senate.
Subsequently ho became candi-
date for Representative from the
Stete-at.large, and made an active
canvass, but was again defeated
Last winter he was chosen to the
United States Senate to succeed
Hon. w. G. Brownlow. He took
his seat on the 4th of March and
soon after made q speech condemn
ing the action Of the President in
Louisiana.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05
Ballooning.

The fate Of Donaldson and
Greenwood can be no longer q mat
ter of doubt Their tragic end and
the casualties, which have heretofore
attended, and must ever attend, all
ventures in baIIooning leads 70 the
inquiry whether all tho benefits de-
rived from aerial navigation compen-
safe in any degree for the dangers
and losses attendant upon the expert.
ments. The use of the balloon when
confined to a given altitude, is often
serviceable for taking observations,
and is without apygreat hazard TO the
operator, but the venturous flights Of
aeronauts now so often taken merely
| for the sake of sensational amuse-
ment are often fatal to the operatives,
a cause Of mourning to friends, and
horror to the community ct large
IF the aerial voyage IS succcssful-no
benefits which are substantial are OBJ
tanned, and the voyagers have in
reality done nothing to immortalize
themselves as phianthropists, patriots
or benefactors, and If lost they are
only regarded by the world as fool
hardy adventurists only mourued by
and soon forgotten as martyrs, dying
without leaving any result from their
martyrdom. Money is tho motive, and
where schemers and showmea tempt
men to take hazards for nero idle
and sensational attraction the temps
ter is more blameworthy than the
unfortunate who is the victim of the
temptation The latter may be in
great need of the money, his family
may be suffering, and the despcra-
ton produced by want may excuse
the hazard on his part, but is no ex-
cuse to the scheming Snowman. He
pockets a thousand per cent. on the
the price he has paid for his danger
Gus advertisement, and, if q lite is
lost, is chargeablo with holding the
price of the blood Of his victim.
There is nopalliation for it, The pub
lie taste, depraved as it is, does not
require and should not be fed with
dangerous exhibitions to attract
crowds merely for the qualification
Of idle curiosity and sensational
amusem ent. Where citizens offer
large reward for dangerous exploits
in saving lives from drowning, bsrn-
ing or other porils. tho object is
meritorious and the action is noble,
but where showmon expecting to
receive large per centago for the
Investment, tempt men for price
to hazard their lives for mere gain,
the performance is worse than hum
bug. discreditable to the movers, and
disgraceful to the moral and enlight
ened characters of the American
people. The exhibitions of rope
walking, acrobat evolutions and
trapezo flying are sufficiently excit-
ing and dangerous, without adding
thereto daily balloon ascensions with
their constant danger and very fire.
| quent fatal results.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

s@Senator H. l.. Eaton, of Rich
land county-the Republican can
didate for 1t. Governor-will de-
liver the agricultural address before
the coming county fair in Fond du
Lac county. The Commonwealth
says: Secretary Lamb is actively
engaged in making such arrange>
ments as will result in rendering the
coming county fair great success.
The Hon. Henry l.. Eaton, of Lone
Rock, Richland county, one of the
most extensive farmers and dairy
men in the State, has consented to
deliver the annual address. Mr..
Eaton is practical and fluent spe ak
err, and as he Is farmer, can the
better interest the people. Govern
or Taylor, Lieutenant Governor
Parker and others have been invited
to be present"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

EEThe Germania, a German Lib
eral paper published at Milwaukee,
comes out strong in favor of the Re-
publican State ticket, and says the
platform is one that any true Reformcr
can subscribe to. Ludington is Landed
as a man of honor and ability, and is
the man to elect Governor this Fall.
There is mono Of the Known othing
yell about that. Two years ago, when
Washburn was defeated, there was
not single German paper in Milwau-
kee that gave him its support, and
now the stand taken by the Germania
is creating CONSERVATION in the ranks
of the Reformers over in the east part
of the State.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

t@- Nearly all the leading Repub-
licans of Iowa who went over to tie
Democracy in 1872 have gone back
into the old political family and are
at work for Kirkwood and the whole
Republican ticket.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1875-08-05

sa>The Detroit Post, after a calm
outlook through the West, remarks
that unless there is decided change
in the situation within q short time.
the Republicans will be sure to carry
Ohio. Wisconsin and Minnesota.