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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28

gust seized him, unprer ared, and wh.Tl-
ed him away from the inlet be was making
for, to the rock ledge jCtting into it,
that caught and battered him-poor Joe.
he was conscious when they took him
up, but there was a look in his face that
foretold the end, even before the doc
tors did. As for Groom, he had been
shielded by Joe's body, and, tough and
wiry as he was, was scarcely the worse
for the whole adventure. When he
heard what they were saying about Joe,
he burst out with an oath, and hurried
to where he lay.
"Well, Gorton, and how is it with
you2" he said, affecting to speak cheer
fully, though struck at once by that look
of death in the face.
"About as bad as it can be, Mr..
Groom" answered Joe, feebly. "The
old boat and Ill go down together, /
reckon"
"Now, never you talk that stuff, my
man," said Groom, in almost buster
ing way, perhaps to conceal a certain
unsteadiness of voice; "I owe you q
life, and 1 amt one to rest till I've paid
it, if it takes all the doctors from here
to Jericho. I've got means, tell ye. /"
"No use, Mr.. Groom" said Joe,
"there amt no doctor could patch up
what's smashed inside of me. But look
here" and he instinctively lowered his
voice, with a glance at the attendant,
though there was little fear of that
broken whisper reaching any ears but
those close to it, "it's what l wanted to
speak to you about-you owe me life,
you say; mine amt yours to give-but
old Sawyer's is"-
Groom's face darkened. "I swear I'd
almost rather you asked for my own, "
he muttered.
"But you'll promise, Mr.. Groom ?"
said Joe, in his eagerness managing to
half raise himself, "you'll promise 2"
"Well-I s'pose in'tgot no choice, "
answered Groom, still reluctantly; "yes,
I do promise, there's my hand on ii"
A CLEAN of intense delight for mo-
ment almost drove the death look from
Joes face. "It's all right, Marcy" he
whispered, softly, to himself, and laid
his head back again.
When John Sawyer had been dis
charged for want of evidence, when the
Lake Village gossips, wondering over
the strangers disappearance, concluded
that his boasts had been mere idle talk
to make sensation, Marcy could have
told them better. She knew how it was
Joe died, she knew that life had been
paid for her fathers; and in a heart
softened by pain she acknowledged that
her prayer had been answered in Gods
own Way,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Just Like Her.

The Pail Mall Gazette reads modern
wives lecture on the duty of finding
sureties for their husbands. A woman
who was an inmate of the workhouse of
st. George's-i1-the- East applied for per-
mission to leave that establishment fora
day or two. Her husband, who was in
receipt of pension of G33 per annum,
had been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment, and to find sureties for a
further period of two months for saw
age assault upon herself. During his
Imprisonment she and her child had be-
come chargeable to the parish, and the
guardians had attached the pension, SO
as to pay for the maintenance of the
wife and child during their stay in the
workhouse. The term of the erring
husbands imprisonment having nearly
expired, he had written amost affection
ate letter begging his wife to find the
necessary sureties for him. Her appli-
cation was granted by the guardians. and
the woman was given permission to start
on her singular errand of endeavoring
to persuade some confiding person OF
persons to guarantee that for two whole
months her husband would refrain from
any further attempt to fracture her skull
or smash her ribs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
1t Didn't Suit.

A Detroit boy, after finishing the last
chapter of book called "The Pleas
ures of the Deep" pleaded with his
father to let him ship aboard lake
schooner. The old man smiled a grim
smile, took the case under considera.
tion, and in few days the boy was on
the rolling deep, having shipped as a
greenhorn on vessel in the lumber
trade. He sailed to Saginaw, came
down and crossed to Toledo, and next
day he appeared in Detroit, lame and
stiff, his throat sore, one eye nearly shut
and feeling of humbleness running all
through him.
"What back again 2" cried the old
man, as the boy entered the house.
"Yes, father, I want to saw all the
wood for winter, bring in all the coal,
clean out the cellar and paint the barn
and you needn't give me but two mealsa
day."
"Don't you like sailipg9"
Father, you don't begin to realize
anything about it. The captain sailed
right along on Sunday, the same as any
other day, and I believe he swore even
harder. He wouldn't give me an um-
brella when it rained, he made me sit
up most all night, and two or three times
he called me up at midnight and made
me haul on ropes and drag old sails
around. There wasn't single night
when all of us got off to bed at nine
o'clock, and there wasn't day that he
didn't boss us around and break in on
us every time we got to reading any
thing good like land, father, and
wish you owned farm ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Love and Devotion.

Sandy Melville endeavored to swindle
an old man in Omaha by selling him
spurious gold coins in exchange for
greenbacks. After his arrest he at
tempted to escape from the officers and
was dangerously wounded. A lovely
maid haunted the corridors of the Jail
until the sheriff took pity on her and
permitted her to enter the prisoners g
cell and dress his wounds. She nursed
him and gave him brandy and water and
piloted him out of the valley of the
shadow. When she had restored him
to health the courts took him in hand
and sentenced him to five years i'm
prisonment in the Iowa penitentiary
Affecting spectacle justice of the peace
called in; marriage ceremony in the jail
witnessed by all the prisoners /; bride
groom carried off to chew tobacco in the
penitentiary bride returns to her hum
BILE home to take in washing and to wait;
beautiful essay in local paper on
woman's devotion, with appropriate
references to Diana and Mother Eve.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Sitting on q POrcupine.

The Sacramento (Cal. Union has the
following incident: A traveller by one
of the railroad trains brought to the
city porcupine of large size, Gagged in
a roomy box, with pieces of board
placed across the top at intervals of
about an inch and half, in order that
the animal might have as much air as
possible. His owner sat the box down
near the ticket office while attending
some other matter, and it attracted little
attention. By-and.bye young man,
who had got tired of standing up, seeing
what appeared to be an empty fruit box
handy, deposited himself upon it with a
sigh of relief. A bystander who under
stood the situation, stepped up quiet
ly and with his cane begun punching
the porcupine. Tt was but few sec
onds before the animal became "fret-
full, as it were, and he got his "back
up" The reader may at some time
have admired the alacrity with which an
individual has arisen from chair out of
Difference to bent pin which had some
how got there before him, but on this
occasion the man shot up rs though he
had sat down upon full paper of bent
pins, all hot at that.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
A Grand P0tlatch.

There was mighty gathering of In
dians at Saanich, says a letter from
British Columbia. Upward OF 5000
redskins, in 273 canoes, were present.
The occasion of the assemblage was a
grand potlatch of over $15, 900 worth Of
goods being given away. English
blankets to the value of $4,000 were
thrown from the top of the lodges to be
scrambled for by the natives below, who
stood armed with long poles, stuck full
OF nails at one end, to secure the prize
as soon as it fell. In addition to these,
some curious percecees," made by the
natives themselves from the wool of the
mountain sheep, were also thrown.
Three hundred guns, amongst which
were some very fine doubled barreled
pieces with percussion locks, were then
thrown down, and caused series of
tremendous struggles, which lasted in
some cases for nearly an hour. Pieces
of board representing sums ranging from
800 to $500 were then scrambled for
after the same fashion. Three brothers
gave $500 blankets as their contribu-
tion, which had all been paid for by the
products of the chase. The stock OF
gifts being exhausted the natives all got
into their canoes and left, thus ending
one OF the largest meetings of the kind
which has taken place for many years,
and probably the last of any magnitude
which will occur, as the rising genera
tion of Indians seem to care little about
perpetuating the customs of their fore
fathers, and this, as we'll as many other
ancient practices, will soon be numbered
among the things of the past. All was
conducted soberly, and the Indian
superintendent, Colonel Powell, and
Police Superintendent Todd, who were
present, were both struck with the alb
sence of any sign of intoxication.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
A War Incident.

At the battle of Gettysburg, while
commanding a company i'll the Eighty
second Ohio regiment, July l, an officer,
Capt. Lee, was wounded and left for
dead upon the field at night by his re-
treating comrades. One of Jubal
Early's aids carried him off the field,
with other wounded, and deposited them
in an obscure farmhouse, whence he had
no means of communication with his
regiment or friends. The news of his
death reached his home in Ohio. His
obituary was published, and Prof. Nc
Cabe had prepared all eulogy upon him,
to be delivered July IL, the Sunday of
commencement week, in connection with
other exercises appointed for the day.
An immense crowd were gathered in the
church. After the opening of the ex-
ercises, Capt. Lee, pale as a ghost, hob
bled in on crutches and took quiet
seat among the worshipers. He had
been left behind by his captors, and,
not knowing himself reported dead, he
had come quietly home to Delaware to
recover, reaching there unannounced
late on Saturday night. Those were
days of intense dramatic experience,
days of death in life, and life in the
midst of death, and though every heart
of those who knew him leaped for JOY
at seeing him, the decorum of Gods
house was preserved. The meeting
was turned into o missionary anniver-
sary. Rev. DIR. Harris, the then mis-,
sioDary secretary, but now bishop of
his church, presided. When donations
to the missionary fund were in order,
this young soldier, poor man, pale and
falteringly, rose on his crutches, and
said, briefly: "In token of gratitude to
God for having spared my life upon the
field at Gettysburg, put me down for
S1O0"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
A Glassmaker's Fate.

There was an artifcer in Rome who
made vessels of glass of so tenacious a
temper that they were as little liable to
be broken as those that are made of gold
and silver. When, therefore, he had
made vial of the purer sort, and such
as he thought present worthy OF Caesar
alone, he was admitted into the presence
of the then Emperor Tberius. The gift
was praised, the skillful hand of the ar
tist applauded, and the donation of the
giver accepted. The artist, that he might
enhance the wonder of the spectators and
promote himself yet further in the favor
of the emperor, desired the vial out of
C@sar's hand and threw it with such
force against the floor that the most
solid metal would have received some
damage or bruise thereby. Caesar was
mot only amazed, but affrighted with the
act; but the artist, taking up vial from
the ground (Which was not broken, but
only bruised together, as if the substance
of the glass had put on the temper of
brass), drew out an instrument from his
bosom and beat it out to it's former fig.
ure. This done, he imagined that he
had conquered the world, as believing
that he had merited an acquaintance
with Caesar, and raised the admiration
of all the beholders, but it fell cut other
wise, for the emperor inquired if any
other person besides himself was privy to
the like tempering of glass. When he
told him "No" he commanded his at
tendants to strike off his head, saying
"That should this artifce come once to
be known, gold and silver would be as
of little value as the dirt in the street. u
Long after this, in 1910, we read that,
among other rare presents then sent
from the Sophy of Persia to the king Of
Spain, were six mirrors of malleable
glass, SO exquisitely tempered that they
could not be broken.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
His Eplcurean Taste.

"Speaking of epicures," lately re-
marked young Chicago society swell,
"I've got brother who is the greatest
epicure / ever saw"
Indeed" chorused the circle about
him.
eyes," continued the swell, "why,
he eats everything in the line of victuals
he can lay his hands on-he doesn't care
what |"
Then when everybody got up and
rolled around and laughed, that young
swell got mad, and wanted to know if
auy one supposed that he "didn't know
what an 'epicure was4" n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
A Clerical Hit.

Ministers will have their little jokes
like other people.
"Come over and preach for me to-
night" said a Chicago divine to a
clerical friend whom he met on the
street, not many days since.
st can't tonight" was the reply,
"I'm almost down sick with head
ACHE"
"Well," drolly observed the other,
"I guess you can do it, for if you preach
as you usually do, you won't have to use
your head anyi"
They they both laughed, and pinched
each other in the ribs, and said it was q
good one, just as heartily as though
they had been the worst kind of sinpers
Ssll their lives a bL<sNA
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
VOL. ~.
Cleopatra Dying.

Sinks the sun below the desert,
Golden glows.the sluggish Nile;
Purple flame crowns spring and temple,
Lights up every ancient pile
Where the Old godssnow are sleeping;
lsis, and Osiris great,
Guard me, help me, give me courage
Like queen to meet my fatel
al am dying, Egypt, dying!"
Let the Cesai's army come
/ will cheat him Of his glory,
Though beyond the Styx roam,
Shall he drag this beauty with him
While the crowd his triumph sings7
No, 10, never will show him
What lies in the blood of kings.
Though be hold the golden ecepter,
Rule the Pharaoh's sunny land,
Where old Nilus rolls resistless,
Through the sweeps of silvery sand
He shall never say met him
Fawning, abject, like slave-
/ will foil him, though to do it
must cross the Stygisn wave.
Oh, my hero, sleeping, sleeping
Shall meet you on the shore
OF Plufonian shadows? Shall we
In death meet and love once more
See, follow in your footsteps
Soorn the Cesar and his might
For your love will leap boldly
Into realms of death and night.
Down below the desert sinking
Fades Apollo's brilliant car,
Aud from out the distant azure,
Breaks the bright glsam of a star
Venus, queen Of love and beauty,
Welcomes me to deaths embrace,
Dying-free, proud, and triumphant,
The last sovereign OF my race.
Dying dying am coming,
Oh, my hero, to your arms:
You will welcome me, know it
Guard me from all rude alarms.
Hark l hear the legions coming,
Hear their cries of triumph swell,
But, proud Cesar, dead scorn you,
--Antony-farewell
Thomas s. Collier
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Total

In accordance with custom at hotels,
a servant isreckoned as half aquest-two
servants count for one. Now at Schwal-
bach each guest had to pay less than two
dollars day, while Saratoga mulcted
them in the snm of ten dollars apiece
and over. What is the reason, asks the
New York Times, for this difference be-
tween the cost of living at the American
and German watering placess
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Call one dollar five francs $40

Were you ever in Saratoga I This is
the bill which party of four-viz. two
gentlemen, one lady, and two servants
had to pay at hotel there in August
last:
To board-$40 per day, five days. $500
(Three bedrooms and one small sitting
room; servants rooms.)
To meals in room. 10
To baths s............. ...,......... 2
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
IN ADVANCE.
Night Song.
Over the hill

Night Song.
Over the hill
All is still,
You can scarcely hear bresth,
Mid the tree tops, calm as death,
The little bird is silent in his nest
Only wait;
Soon or late
You, too, my soul, shall one day find your rest.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-10-28
Hotel Bills.

Were you ever in Schwalbach This
is the bill with which party of four and
one-half-viz. three ladies, one gentle
man, and o servant-had to pay at the
Deutschen Kaiser Hotel in that place in
July last
To apartments--
Four bedrooms and a sitting-room, five
days, ten francs. s..................... 80
To breakfast
Four persons, 1,25 francs each, five days. %
To dinner
Four persons, three francs each, five days. 60
To wine five bottles Hochheimer. ... 10
To tea four persons, 125 each, five days. 25
To servant board and room, five days. 80. 25
Total. ........................ POO
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au,tiun Sales of Real estate.

JFRE. JOHNSON, jr., AuctioneeT, viii sell
without reserve, the premises kuinsns Ne'S DC
t0ep Sabrigit and OceaaiC ana between lands 81 L. g.
Hamilton and +. hT1ny, crs on ~ SI5A :. aug 4
AZ N cock n ~ by order OF AftssFs BORDEN BROS lh3
elegant VIIIA Plots. Elegant Vows OF Long Branch &c
COLLATION. eth Reg Eand Harrison. Balloon Asc1ion fsheI'
F0r maps and particulars, apply q 30 .. ~ =,
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BrookIpn l]roperfn 90 Eri.

FURNISHED HOUSE to LET.-Ihe first
class story aud basement brownsone house with extra
lo, known as 81 Frstpace near Crtops The house Is
tuy and handsoisey furnished and viii be rented low TO
desirable teusnt Apply on pccanacs -
VO LRT-3-story brick SCH00L-HOUSE, No.
l5s Rernsen ST.; S-stOry brick DwEILING, l7S vii
lougiby.st GOKDON +. FORD, o. Clars.st, BrooHiyu.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-28

NEw-YoRK, Saturday, Aug. 20, 1875.
The two following legal sales took place to-
asv AZ the Exchange Saesroom:
BvA j. Blocker d Son. o.,
story building and lot on the OF fsst ato
md n r on 3daye lot 33x9Sg Jas Cassln .sil4iV
81 SScott e Meyers
6story bck building and lot on the OF tst "a 100
A. i7b Il w lstave, lot 2SxlOO0 NlhaS F0'AV0
OFFICIAL RECORD OF REAL ESTATE IkANofE ho
NETWORK CITY.
vUest Farms Road lO012O0 (24t ward) Aaron ron ooo
atS i93 II II 5thave 2ZxSS9; N Bates on ooo
and husband u = Siragie 0V'O''
90 81 same proper Deed, 1900 Z Il SiOi"eit
VIII r. BOOi lcr. -
pestou Eoad n " cor ienman also Gouyeneut-st -
ia Il OF Cor,ian tave (2;id Ward VIM w hunt
instou l. J NOcSsins-
West Farms Road DAD, lG ~ = Iess 10000
hacso.s 1911 II Oh 10000
l9thst 100 Il S6 " o. lst'o oOAo1 = $4,000
SHAVE 4 Sc . 70 y OF 17th-s, ZOxiOO; Nichol: ,
scn referee A r. Nicholson >onin"
~ Isl IS OF 2davt, li.6XlO22 a fhlps q ooo
20 Philips ''0O
si,st s. i35 n c of ad-aye, 25xl004 also 43dst,
% Oh Zuave' 1880
Prince 81 : Irregular cath War) scanlOn and no
westoiesier Sssts U To- ompapy 90 600
(OflciaLJ - l. SA'N"A' O'P''' No
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Doaro and Rooms.
BROOKLYN Board.

DOARD-572 Paciic-st., BroolSlyn.-A large
ID story back room house with all modern improve
ments; table frstclass; terms moderate References ex
,ha
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neGl estate Go Gfthnnge.

VVANTED-ELIHABET BETH RESIDENCE III
w exchanea for q Brooklyn hTOvBstone house.
occupied by oGner: to icrrs 0caton unst
rxsssd J.. q. HOYT & son, III broadway
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BOARD IN THE CATSKlLLS-Farm house
I'D miles from Catskll l from mountains first class
board, and large rooms terms, go. ,..,,, =, =,
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BOARD on the HIGHTS.-A large, nicely fur
njshed FRONT ROOM second floor spacious closets
soutern exposures also good third story rooms 93 Pine
apple-st.; convenient TO ferries.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-28

BOARD among mountains, pine groves, trout
ID quiet retired good table large airy rooms
and home comforts; prices low. L. +. DUDLEY CORNWALL
Gam
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BELLEVUE, Langh0me Qate Attleboro(,
- Bucks Co, Penn. on the new tBo1nd BrooE) line,
without change cars delightful country place Address
W. Il. SEAL.
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nut THIS OUT.-MOuutaln scenery, lovely
~ drvrs good rpas boating fishing, large rOoms hieh
clpr broad pisszas shPdy groun's Food age to ., ma
IN q, aiy location minutes Fishkl village terms,
~ horses aud crrsle accUinmOdatcdi references eN-
changed. Adlrcs- FISHKILL VILLAGE, Box IA, Now
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DOARD For THE FALL MONTHS-At q

ID house. high and pleasant 10 minutes from
depot; daily mail shade irrI vegetabea cro4uet, NC
J. b. Buckley Broadway, Mrs A. A. Jennings, 29
GrUvest Jersey City. Address GREGORY, Liberty, SUN
o.. y. Y.
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COUNTRY, inland, with an elderly couple,
- BOARD - ger wees after NSyen6'r or Two tut.
nishod hight hOuseFeepig by the year, = pt
references exchanged Address Box 49, south NOR
walls, Conn.
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! ONG RRANCH.-Elcgant ROOMS on OCEAN
ave. will r-f citfg board; rt, reduced rates; IN
mgr 1ar battling hofe,s tl- beach, stabhug. birs
HHCs -. kiua'F Cottages.
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CENTENNIAL visitors get hrst-cElsS
~ ACCOMMODATIONS at private residence 1920 Melon
ST., Philadelphia 81 30 to ~ rer day.
CENTENNIAL VISITORS can obtain BOARD
~ private family convenient to Exposition Address,
DREBY, $40 North ISpthst, Philadelphia.
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Country Board.

a FEW CcntpnnInI VIsITOTS CiH VUttiru
~ BOARD in private family with breakfast and %
elegant convenient 10 Exposition by MORSE
and steam terms reasonable. Apply at Zolo foprs'
PHILADELPHIA.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-08-28

CENTENNIAL VISITORS Will find board
" diuncr direct 10 grounds - 20 day me
location. LILO North 2Oths., Philadelphia
nj out
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GOOD country EOARD for Fall ard Winter

farm ~ reduced prices; plenty ~ peaches m" other
fait- and N.s table, uA, t2s, a. &C. location hi -
l,thy ard ..afy. ciis mile from y T., tut sta
ton at Aorsiogr. parI"s met e station Adtr ss Mr b.
MIf.ftlS IIuuA4dt, tP.4 j
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REAL ESTATE.

NEw-YoRK, Saturday, Aug. 20. 1875
The two following legal sales took place to-
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GOOD BOARD, BOATING, and FISHING
VI Oscawaua thc Hudson four lrge rooms vacated
Set. vacant now Ter terms, 80, apply to ;l,,s
ELIZA CRfGEN o.COhel iustOfCc, Hudson fi'cr KAN
rn-M Il.IL IL 4 1 iIl-i
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G!iN accommodate a few families with good
~ BOARD large pleasant ROOMS the sound pleasant
drives s8 Address j. L. Y, Box Is H7crbead IL l.