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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
A News Agency.

Some years before the electric tele-
graph was introduced in Europe, q
German of the name of Julius Reuter-
was busy transmitting commercial news
between Berlin, Paris, Brussels, and
Frankfort. When the first telegraph
line between the capital of Prussia and
Aix-la- -Chapelle was opened, in. 1849, he
removed to the latter city, and begun to
extend his operations. On England be-
ing brought irto telegraphic commani-
cation with the continent of Europe, in
1851, he established his headquarters in
London, and tried for several years TO
get access to the newspaper offices. His
offers were, however, invariably rejected,
until at last he proposed, in 1858, by
way of trial, to supply for half a year
political news from the continent free of
charge to several of the London papers.
This being the time when French poll
tics attracted great interest, Reuter-
succeeded in fulfilling the requirements
of the papers and in concluding con-
tracts with them. The italian war gave
him another good chance to bring his
kilograms into prominence, while the
seizure of the Trent, of which he re-
ceived information before the English
government had it, made of his agency
a kind of branch institution of the Eng
lish press. Every one of the papers,
most of which formerly rejected his
offers, gradually agreed to pay him
one pound sterling day for the supply
of all he news he received. At the
same time, his agency becoming better
known, large number of stock and
trade exchanges, as well as bankers and
merchants, became his subscribers for
commercial news. All this enabled him
to extend his communications beyond
the boundaries of Europe and at the
present moment there is not on the
whole face of the globe place of any
commercial or political Importance in
which Reuter- has not an agent.
With the increase of his importance
the shrewd Reuter- made his subscribers
stand higher prices, and the London
papers pay him now yearly over 1000
apiece for what some ten years ago he
had difficulty in obtaining $4,000. The
English colonial papers, the American
Associated Press, the London Press AS
sociation Supplying foreign news to
provincial English papers), and most of
the leading continental papers were
naturally led to employ Reuters agency,
and the man, Julius Reuter-, who was as
poor as Job quarter of q century ago,
is now baron, and the possessor of an
income of something like $150,000 a
year. Having become a naturalized
English subject, he gave his agency the
prestige of an English institution, and
brought himself in close business rela-
tions with the various similar agencies
which have since established themselves
in the other capitals, such as Havas-
Butler in Paris, Wolf in Berlin, Stefano
in Florence, and the Exchange Gazette
at st. Petersburg. All the telegraph lines
are at his service at reduced rates, and
some of his agents being telegraph
clerks, valuable private news intrusted
to the wire is frequently placed at
Reuters disposal free of charge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
The Minister'S Wife.

The minister's wife, says the Baptist
Magazine, ought to be selected by a
committee of the church. She should
be warranted never to have headache or
neuralgia; she should have nerves of wire
and sinews of iron; she should never be
tired nor sleepy, and should be every
body's cheerful drudge; she should be
cheerful, intellectual, pious, and domes-
ticated; she should be able to keep her
husbands house, darn his stockings,
make his shirts, cook his dinner, light
his fire, and copy his sermons; she
should keep up the style of lady on
the wages of day laborer, and always
be at leisure for "good works." and
ready to receive morning calls she
should be secretary to the Band of Hope,
the Dorcas Society, and the Home Mis-.
sion; she should conduct Bible classes
and mothers meeting; should make
clothing for the poor and cruel for the
sick; and finally, she should be pleased
with everybody and everything, and
never desire any reward beyond the sat
isfaction of having done her own duty
and other peoples too.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
Premature Last Words.

A writer to the Louisville Courier
Journal tells the following amusing
story A single shot, followed by q
loud shrek, told us that one of my best
men, Bradley, was hurt. He proclaimed
his agony with loud voice, turned
over on his back and commenced kick
ing SO vigorously that the surgeon had
difficulty in getting near him.
"Poor fellow l' said the doctor,
" shot in the bladder. I am afraid it is
FATAL"
"Oh, my God |" said Bradley, "am I
a dead man r.
"Keep up your spirits, my boy.
Never say die," said Captain Johnson,
kneeling kindly over him.
Doctor" asked the wounded SOL
dier, feebly, "will you write to my
mother that 1 died bravely, doing my
duty, with my face to the foe and that I
thought of her when I was dying %
eyes," said the doctor, with dim eyes
and husky voice, 81 will write to her
and tell her, too p
But suddenly springing to bis feet,
with an indignant voice he said I:
Why, confound it, man, you're not
hurt bit. 1t is only your canteen that
is shot. Get up, will you2"
Bradley raised up slowly, felt himself
all over, and with an exceedingly foolish
countenance crawled back to disposition,
amid the uproarious laughter of the
whole regiment.
For months after that, on the march,
in the camp, and sometimesin the night,
you might hear voice in one direction
demanding:
What shall I tell your mother ~
and perhaps half dozen responses
would be heard, "Tell her / died with
my face to the foe, and then Bradley
would come out and search for the man
who said it.
He seldom found him, but when he
did there was certain to be fight.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
A Singular Accident.

A singular and inexplicable accident
happened at the plate-glass works at
Jacksonville, Ind. The watchman was
startled by hearing loud noise in the
setting-up room resembling the break
ing of glass. He feared that all the
glass in the room had been broken, and
on going there found about one thou
sand boxes of glass shivered. In the
room had been stored about thousand
boxes of glass. The boxes containing
the glass were standing on their ends,
about six inches apart, and by some
means they started falling like row of
bricks, increasing with force as each
box fell and going as fast as a railroad
train until the end box was reached.
Nearly all the glass was broken.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
What Is Worn.

Striped cambria for the skirt with
checked for the polonaise, make very eff
fective suits.
Ties made of silk thread in large,
square meshes, with fringed ends, are
fashionable.
Gray and blue and light and dark
brown are the favorite combinations for
children's suits.
The fashionable skirt trimming is not
deeper than ten inches above the bottom
of the dress. .....
The apron overskirt, with long bows
and ends in the back, is stillseen at some
of the openings.
Hamburg and hand embroidered
ruffles are both used for trimming ladies'
white underskirts.
Sashes made of alternate rows of lace
and ribbon, with deep lace ends; bid
fair to be popular.
White pique and Hamburg embroid-
cry are used in making kit-plaited suits
both for girls and boys.
A pretty gabrielle for achild is made
of Valenciennes lace and insertion, and
is to be worn over silk dress.
Cream colored evening dresses are
trimmed with grasses, gra! and gone to
seed, mingled with red ro,es.
Partisan dressmakers ere discarding
the cuirass; their latest suits are made
either with basques or pdonaises.
White batiste handker,hiefs, with ties
to match, have scolloIed edges, en-
broidered in navy blue O. cardinal red.
Partisan modistes ar making all
dresses intended for Midsummer wear
with the corsage cut t, show chemi-
settes.
Dresses made in Paris to be worn in
America, are elaborately trimmed, but if
intended for European wear they are not.
Waterproofs, with sleeves, are made
with a slit at the waist under the left
arm, thus enabling one to hold up the
dress.
The new French kits for boys have o
large pocket stitched on directly in
front, Just below the belt, on the deep
box plait.
The new thistle heading for fringe is
made of crimped silk thread, tied into
round punches, fastened on narrow silk
tape.
Some of the new ruchings for necks
and sleeves are made Of an outer row OF
cashmere lace, and tn inner one Of
crepe-lisse.
Sleeveless batiste lace polonaises,
either entirely of lace, or lace and silk,
buttoned up the back are worn over
silk skirts and waists.
A new trimming fG linen suits is o
heading of linen lace about half an inch
deep, rounded on the edge, and brown
silk fringe attached.
Dolmans or sacl1 made of strong
black silk net, with applique work OF
cashmere or silk, edged with heavy
fringe, are among the latest styles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
The Copper Product Of 1875.

Copper mining in Lake Superior has
proved to be profitable business. The
Northwestern Mining Journal pub
fishes list of assessments and dividends
from which it appears that SO, $40, 900
have been assessed, $18, 8,070,0 900 have
been divided, and there is in the treasu-
ries of nine mines 81, $685. 900. The total
profit, therefore, since 1874 has been
$12, ,868,000, if these figures are COM
plete. Mining in that region is however
in peculiar condition, for one mine, the
Calumet and Hecla, produced 86.6 per
cent. of the copper mined in the district
in 1875. The total yield was 12,500
tons, and the principal mines contributed
as follows Calumet and Hecla, 86.6
per cent; Osceola, 4.8 per cent. Allou-
ez, 3.6 per cent; Franklin, 80 per
cent; Pewabic, 1.3 per cent. and At
lantic little less than one per cent. The
importance of the Calumet and Hecla
mine may be seen from the following
figures of the English copper production
in 1874. Great Britain in that year
smelted from home ores 5,240 tons, and
from foreign ores 20, 956 tons of copper.
The Calumet and Hecla therefore pro-
duced twice as much as all the mines in
Great Britain together.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
A Puzzled BOarder.

It was late in the fall when our good
Mrs. Middlecrust went down to the mar
ket and selected tub of butter. She
always bought good butter. In fact, she
was determined that none of her board
ers should ever have just cause of COM
plant against the quality of her provi-
sions.
Madam" said the market man, &C I
would advise you to secure two tubs of
that butter. L shall have none better,
and butter will be sure to rise in price
through the winter"
Mrs. Middlecrust bought two tubs,
and on her way home she bethought
herself how she could contrive to make
that butter last through to spring. All
happy thought; she would toast the
bread for supper, and butter it herself.
Buttered toast was the thing.
Accordingly the good woman set out
upon her plan of saving. For tea the
loaves were nicely and evenly sliced,
gently Drowned before the fire, and very
gently and carefully buttered. AS her
boarders took their seats, she fancied
that one or two of them were looking
lOI bu6 DuGlcI, 81 SL0 SlullluS1J cdlus
CT have buttered the bread myself,
gentlemen. AS it was toasted, I thought
it would be nicer so"
Mr.. Nipkins, a bald-headed bank
clerk, wearing spectacles, took slice of
the toasted bread, and examined it long
and critically.
"Mr. Nipkins, is anything the mat
ter with your breadS" asked the land
lady.
"No, no-nething is the matter with
the bread" And he turned it over and
submitted it to further examination.
"Mr. Nipkins," persisted the good
woman, growing red in the face, "if
nothing is the matter, why do you be-
have in that manner9 like my board
ers to be frank with me-"
"My dear Mrs. Middlecrust, replied
Mr. Nipkins, looking up serenely, "I
will be frank. When ! was boy, if we
wished to express a state of extreme
mental obtuseness, we were wont to say
of the obtuse one, that 6 he didn't know
which side his bread was buttered on.
think must be losing some of my
perceptive faculties. / find no fault
with your provisions, dear madam; the
fault must be in me. have lived and
eaten two o-and-ffty years, and for the
first time in my life I find myself un-
able to decide on which side my Dread
is buttered."
Mrs. Middlecrust left her boarders to
butter their own bread after that.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
Centennial Notes.

Machinery hall is 1,402 feet long and
360 feet wide. Cost, 1892, 900.
The United States building covers
two acres of ground, and cost $62, 1000.
Memorial hall is 365 feet long and 2l0
feet wide. Cost, 81, 100000.
horticultural hall is 3S3 feet long and
1893 feet wide. Cost, $251, 937.
Agricultural hall is 1926 feet long and
$40 feet wide. Cost, $500, 900.
The main building is 1880 feet long
and AGA feet wide. Cost, $1,000, 600.
The annex to Memorial hall, covering
as much ground as the whole of the
original structure. has been completed,
and transferred to the board of finance
by the contractors.
There are thirteen places of entrance
to the exhibition grounds, representing
the old thirteen States. At each will be
number of gates, set apart for exhibi-
tors, pressmen, high political officials,
women and children, respectively.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
RELICS OF A DEAD RACE.
Wonderful Discoveries by an Artist In the
Caves of the Ozark Mountains.

Caves of the Ozark Mountains.
The Missouri Republican Gays
Mr.. A. J. Oonant, the artist, returned
recently from Ozark mountains, where
he passed a week in exploring some re-
markable caves on the Gasconade and
tributary streams, lying principally in
Phelps and Pulaski counties. Mr.. Con-
ant about two years ago made some in
teresting discoveries in the regions men-
toned of human skulls and skeletons,
supposed to belong to people who ex-
listed before the historic period, and as
it is understood that he has been en-
gagged since 1862 in collecting the ma
terials of a work on archaeology, it may
be well supposed that he is enthusiastic
in following up his discoveries.
He and his party first visited Bruce's
cave, so named after one Of the early
settlers, who made saltpeter from the
cave deposits. The cavern is in the
limestone formation, with an entrance
about one hundred and thirty feet in
the bluffs above the Gasconade river.
They first entered spacious chamber,
but as the passage narrowed, the party
were forced to get down on their knees
and crawl some distance. They next
made nearly perpendicular ascent of
fifty feet, when they entered large
chamber sparkling with stalactites of a
snowy whiteness like alabaster, with
hundreds of bats hanging in festoons
from the roof. Having explored the
caverns, the work of excavating begun
at the mouth of the cave, where bones
and implements were found. They
made vertical section of six feet, and
studied the stratifcation of the soft
deposits. The layers changed from a
black, rich roll, to ashes, alternating
with strata composed of soil and ashes
intermixed. 1t was in these strata that
human bones and fragments were found.
The skulls exhibits low facial angle,
and the teeth, some of which dropped
out, are well preserved. There is the
skull of on old man, known from the
knitting together of the sutures, and
also one of an infant of almost wafer
like thinness, and the several parts sepa-
rated at the sutures. Beside the skulls
were also found arrow and spear heads,
flint implements, knives and avis for
sewing skins, made OF bone, very hard
and polished also the bones of the
turtle, deer and wild turkey, inter-
mingled with various fragments OF car
nivorous and browsing animals not yet
identified. Great care was required In
exhuming these remains, as the skulls
were liable to be broken by the pick.
The second cave explored was about a
mile distant from the former, and is
locally known as Ash cave, from the fact
that there is deposit of ashes from the
saltpeter manufactured there about
thirty years ago. These saltpeter opera
tions have so far disturbed the original
deposits that nothing satisfactory could
be obtained, except one corpse, which
was found in sitting posture, with the
knees drawn up ON the face. With this
corpse was also found the nearly entire
skeleton, very much decayed, of an elk
or large sized deer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
A Mistaken Notion.

It is mistaken kindness In mothers to
excuse their daughters from all partici-
patton in the work of the house, since it
deprives them of exercise that would
benefit their health, and of habit of
usefulness, highly valuable to girls of
all classes. If this has been the expert.
ence of our readers, we would advise
them, whilst they honor the disinterest-
ed affection that has spared them all
domestic labor, to change their habits
on leaving school, and to make point
of taking care of. their own chambers at
least, il the arrangements of the family
do not render further exertion in that
way desirable.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06
Parting.

$50 far-so fsr~ Nay, sweet nor distant
lands,
Nor breadth Of waters can avail to bar
My love from thee. Alas 'tis ever far,
To yearning hearts, the smallest place that
stands
Beyond the compass Of outstretching hands ;
And never near-how close so e'er to each
True lovers be-if kisses may not reach
Across the distance. Since harsh fate COM
mands,
Darling, farewell! With fearful eyes go,
Unknowing when the glad return shall be ;
But will think-to mitigate my woe
How loving souls Of time and tide are free ;
And oft, to greet thee, dearest, mine 1 know,
Exultant, will oerleap the sundering sea!
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06

HANGING A MANY the physicians
watch the weight fell, at the execution
of John Dolan in New York, at 9:333
o'clock. The memoranda we're as fol
lows: First minute, pulse 70; second,
80; third, 108; fourth, rs; fifth, "a I;
sixth, 70; seventh, 66 eighth, 48.
After this the pulse ceased to act at the
wrist In thirteen and one-half minutes
the heart storp"d beating, and Dolan
was pronounced dead. The coroner's
jury found that death was caused by
asphyxia from judicial hanging.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-05-06

JERSEY CATTnE.-The Jersey cattle
club has resolved to award a special
agricultural prize of $1,000 for the best
specimen of Jersey cattle exhibited at
the Centennial,
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-03

EDUCATING HORSES.

Horses can be educated to the extent
Of their understandings as well as chill
dren. and can be as easily damaged or
ruined BY bad management We be-
lieve that the great difference found in
horses as to vicious habits or reliability
comes more from the different manage
ment Of men than from variance Of nat
ural disposition in the animals. Horses
with high mettle are more easily educa-
ted than those Of less dull spirits, and
are more susceptible to i'll training. and
consequently may be as good or bad. ac-
eOrding to the education they receive.
Horses with duh spirits are not BY
any means proof against bad manage
ment. for in them may often be found
the most provoking Obstinacy; vicious
habits Of different characters that rem
der them almost entirely worthless.
Could the coming generations Of horses
in this country be kept from their days
of cOlthoOd to the age Of five years in
the hands of good. careful managers,
there would be seen vast difference in
the general character Of the noble ami
mails.
If a colt is never allowed to get an
advantage, it will never know that it
possesses a power that man cannot con-
troll and if made familiar with strange
/ objects, IL will not be skittish and nerv-
Gus. If a horse is made accustomed
from his early days to have objects hit
him on the head. back, and hips, he will
pay no attention to the giving out Of a
harness or of wagon running against
him at an unexpected moment
We once saw an aged lady drive a
high-spirited horse, attached to carri-
age. down a steep hill, with no holdback
straps upon the harness. and she assured
Us that there was no danger, for her son
accustomed his horses to al kinds Of
usages and sights that commonly drive
the animal into frenzy of fear and ex,
element
A gur can be fired from the back o.
horse, an umbrella held over his head
buffalo robe thrown over his neck, /;
railroad engine pass close by, his heel
bumped with sticks, and the animal tax,
it all as natural condition Of things
if only taught by careful management
that he will not be injured thereby
There is great need of Improvement il
the management Of this noble animal
less beating wanted and more Of educa
tiOn--h Door and Out
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-03


EVERYTHING IN ITS PLAcE.-0ne Of
the great troubles Of the neat house.
wife in the country results from the
muddy boots Of those members of the
family who have to work in the fields,
the stables, and the barnyard. The wet
boots, must be dried, and are generally
left under the kitchen stove, where
their presence is very disagreeabIe.-
Now, to have a neat kitchen, there
should be bOot-rack placed behind the
stove, in which the damp boots may be
placed to dry. Such contrlvance as
the following. which has long been in
use In some families, is found to be a
great contriyance. 1t mas three shelves
about four feet long. ten inches wide,
and placed foot apart. At one end a
bOOt7jack is Fixed by hinges SO that,
when not in use, it may be folded against
one end Of the rack and secured by a
button There is also stand for clean
ing boots at the front, which also folds
up when not in use, and the backing
brushes are placed in the shelves be.
hind the stand. and are out of sight
Such rack should be made Of dressed
pine boards and stained with some dark
durable color.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-03

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ksr s1ts - Eaytsa - a p DUTT0v
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MAnsasestes. .. H., PsspEaesos..
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-03
PRICES ATTHE VERMONT DAIRY
MANS ASSOCIATION.

The following prices are offered for
competition at the daIrymen's meeting
at Rutland, Jan. 1921.
Best tub SO lbs June butter. three
barrels OnOndaga Factory filed dairy
salt. Second best, two barrels
Best tub fall butter. two barrels
Second best, one barrel.
Best tub winter butter, two barrels.
Second best, one barrel.
M0st neritorious display of butter.
quality, statement, ETC., to be consider
ed, oscilating churn.
Best July cheese. not less than 25
lbs, two barrels salt. Second best,
one barrel.
Most meritoriOus display of cheese,
Cornish & Curtis rectangular ehurn.
Every competitor must become a
member Of the association and must
furnish an instructive statement Of al
the material facts regarding the prOduc.
ton Of the article.
Best essay on the management of q
butter dairy, by lady, accompanied BY
samples Of butter, one of the Brandon
double beam scales.
Like essay on cheese dairy, viii
samples, a similar prize.
The essay to become the property o
the association.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1876-01-03


The rhInOceros connected with Fore
Paugh's menagerie, which deceased q
week ago in New York State, has been
skinned. and with the skeleton is to he
set up for the State museum at Albany.
The skin was found to be from three
quarters Of an inch to an inch thick
and some idea Of its weight may be OBJ
tanned from the fact that it required y
strong men to Inf the box containing If
The skin will have to be reduced one
half IN bulk, and will be put over a
manikin by the improved French meth
Cd The remains of the giraffe.
which died few days after the mi.
nOeerOs. were also purchased for the
museum, but when the museum author.
tiles went for it. they found some van.
DIAL had been there before them and dus
up and carried of the remains.