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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
The English Navy.

The British navy estimates for the
year 187677, just published, amount to
Ell ,288,872 or about fifty million dol
lars. The number of officers, men and
boys asked for the current financial year
is 40,400, against 10000 last year. The
number of men of-war in commission
Except Indian troop ships) was 24l at
the close of last year; the effective ships
for general service consist of four
armor-plated line of battle ships, eleven
armor-plated frigates and corvettes,
thirty-one other vessels of the same
class, and seventy seven war, sloops and
smaller ships, eleven of which are sail
ing. The other vessels are classified as
follows: First reserve ships, armor
plated, seven; others, two; gunuery and
training ships, eight; stationary, re.
ceiving and depot ships. including royal
yachts, ten; swinging vessels, four;
troop ships. three; store ships, three;
drill ships, eight; tenders, sixty-fve.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
To Make Common Soap.

Slack in tub, just enough to cause it
to crumble perfectly, six pounds of fresh
quicklime, and add to this solution of
six pounds of common washing soda
dissolved in four gallons of warm water,
and while stirring these two thoroughly
together, pour in four gallons of boiling
water. Let this settle, anu then pour
off the clear lye into clean iron kettle,
and add twelve pounds of clarified
grease, dusting in, a little at the time,
four ounces of finely powered borax.
Let this boil gently for ten or fifteen
minutes, until it thickens and becomes
ropy; then have in readiness tight
box, lined with piece of muslin large
enough to hang well over the sides
to allow of the contents being afterward
conveniently lifted out; pour the mix
ture from the kettle into the box, and
let it stand for few days to harden.
When sufficiently firm, turn it out on a
table and cut into bars with thin wire.
Soap thus made and left to harden in o
dry room, will be fit to use in about q
month and half.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
The American Girl's Beau.

The American girl is left wholly tv
her own guardianship. She has half a
dozen intimates among the young fell
lows of her set; she corresponds with
them, accompanies them to concerts and
the opera unchaperoned, and sometimes
winds up the evening by supper at a
restaurant which ends in the small
hours. They are not ostensibly lovers
they are friends, bonS can1arades.
She finds the half-friendly, half-pas-
sionate intercourse more Intoxicating
than love-making. She opens the
depths of her innocent heart to the vul-
gar prying eyes; the favored intimate
becomes an habitate of the house. In a
few months, perhaps weeks, he knows
more of the secret feelings, desires,
aims of the girl, than her sister or broth
er, or the mother who bore her. He
treats her personally with a liberty
which is graduated by her individual
character. But it is inevitably liberty.
The girl as inevitably ends by loving
him; the more unworldly, the more pure
she is, the more likely is she to mistake
his course as honorable. In the mean
while, the man has not the slightestidea
of marrying her; very small minority
of young men are in marrying mood in
these hard times; he has Just as little
idea of dishonoring or even iniuring her
in public esteem, but he accepts the in-
timacy or friendship of a young girl as
one of the good things which society
offers him; he would be dull fool if
when lovely That's is left to sit beside
him he did not take the goods the gods
provide him. Meanwhile American So
ciety rules that the father and mother of
the girl shall remain perfectly passive.
The man may be the most desirable or
unsuitable husband for their daughter,
but they have no right to interfere until
he formally proposes. If they should
"ask bis intentions" according to the
rational custom of our forefathers, the
girl herself would be the first to rebel
on the ground that she was made ri lieu
lous, and that her "friend" was mis-
taken for her lover. When the friend
betakes himself to fresh fields, the woman
controls ber disappointment as she can,
and marries somebody for an establish
ment or home; or finds her pain too
sharp to bear, and there is murder or
a suicide, and the usual chatter of in
sanity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
"Big Benz Westminster.

A visit to the great clock at Westmin-
otor, with its famous hour bell, called
"Big Ben," must interest any visitor
not already familiar with the wonders of
London. To reach this marvellous clock
it is necessary to ascend nearly four
hundred steps; but the trouble is amply
repaid by the sight of some of the finest
views that can be had of the city and
suburbs. The face of the great time
piece is twenty-five feet and six inches
in diameter, and about seventy-two feet
in circumference. The minute hand, a
little over eleven feet in length,
weighs only twenty-eight pounds, being
hollow, and is made of copper. The
figures measure two feet from end to
end, and the minute dots are exactly one
foot apart. The working portion of the
clock occupies little space compared to
that required by the striking power.
The former can be wound up in ten
minutes, while the latter takes five hours
twice week. The weights of the first
are one and half hundredweight, while
those of the striking power equal one
and d half tons. Were they allowed to
run down, they would have reach of
one hundred and seventy-fve feet. The
pendulum itself weighs seven hundred
pounds, and is fifteen feet in length.
Reporting twice day to Greenwich, the
clock is kept SO correct that it has only
varied the fraction of a second in eighty
consecutive days. The weight of the
bells varies, but that of Big Ben is thir-
teen and half tons.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
Ruled Out.

In an assault and battery case tried
before a Detroit justice of the peace, o
witness for the prosecution swore that
he saw the assault. He was standing
two blocks off, he admitted, when he
saw the defendant throw crowbar clear
across the street and hit plaintiff.
"Wasn't that a big throw9" asked the
lawyer. Wasn't it gigantic feat for
q small man to throw q bar of iron weigh
ing twenty pounds across the street and
hit another man 2"
"But he was mad"
"Well."
"But he was mighty mad"
swell"
"And I believe" continued the wit
ness, "that if he had been q little mad.
der that crowbar would have missed the
plaintiff and gone over the house and
killed horse |"
The jury didn't take that mans evil
dencs into consideration when rakiSg
up their verdict
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
A Lucid Explanation.

The wife of st. Louis merchant, who
had been reading in the morning papers
about the whisky frauds, turned to her
husband with q puzzled expression Of
countenance and inquired:
"My dear, what do the papers mean
by saying that man has 'squealed 2"
"Why," replied the man, loftily,
"they mean that some member of the
ring has 'peached' on the rest"
Peached on the restl !" exclaimed the
wife snow, what does that mean9"
"Why, it means that he's-he's blow
ed on 'em!"
"Blowed ON them9"
eyes; you see, he's given 'em
away +"
"Given them awayS"
"Why, of course Can't you under
stand anything9 Do you think I'm an
unabridged dictionaryY" continued the
husband, impatiently. cit means he's
he's lie! out on 'em '-'gone back on
his pals '-'squealed you know !"
The woman did not seem quite salts
fed with the mans lucid explanation ;
but not wishing TO appear ignorant in
her husbands eyes, she remarked; "Ah,
yes ! I ses !" and fosehers further quss'
tienina,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
Earth's SentineIs.

[e are sentinels all, on the hills of time,
h every station and every CLINE
; fiuttering youth and in manhood's prime
Even old age,
With its scribbled page
latching for something without its cage!
|atching the sun with it's golden glow;
|atching the shadows that come and go;
|atching the tide in its ebb and flow;
Wand'ring the while
Over many amile
mystic waste, with frown or smile.
stching the birds as they fit away;
atching the curtains of closing day, . f.
|olden and crimson, around us play;
Wond'ring how much ...
or the bright and gay
I life will fade at the lightest touch, -aL
|atching the clouds as they steal along
atching the singers, whose plaintive song
urmurs the arches of life among;
Wond'ring, perchance,
II III JtOt VI udlCey
lese singers exulted when they were young.
Iatching the ladder that swings to fame,
|stching with torment an humble name,
danced by foes with a dart of shame!
Wishing the night,
With its somber light,
|rifted away from the aching sight!
fstching the crucible melt the gold:
fatching the silver within the mold,
elling us sadly we're growing old;
Counting the years,
With their crowding fears,
lied with their phantoms Of graves and biers.
|atching for something-we know not what !!
|0oted and fixed to narrow spot
resent and future mocking blot
Watching each day,
On life's crowded way,
bmothiug, when found, will refuse to stay
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
How Parisian Toys are Made.

Any one who has ever walked through
one of the great toy importing houses at
holiday time, ard perhaps wondered at
the taste and ingenuity displayed by the
French worknen in devising many of
the most beautiful playthings, would
hardly imagine that waste and refuse
materials, -ery odd ones, toe, sometimes,
are largeg used in the Partisan toy in
dustry. Elegantly dressed dolls, tricked
out in 81 the .refnements of the latest
fashioi, and which fetch incredible
prizes on this side of the Atlantic, are
frequently costumed from the cast-off
stge clothes of actresses in the theaters,
Purchased for mere song, or from the
Useless garments remaining in theatrical
wardrobes after play has had long
run. The coverings of old purses and
pocketbooks, fished out of the cutters by
sharp-eyed ragpickers, furnish the ma
terial for the doll bootmaker. Old sar-
dine boxes and cans yield their plate to
the manufacturer of barrels for toy guns.
The little wooden or metal wheels which
support movable toys are obtained from
the refuse of any industry in which arti-
cles having circular openings are made.
French cruet stands, usually of wood
and having holes for bottles, provide
thousands of such disks, removed in
making the apertures. All the solder
and pewter that can be extracted from
old roofing and water spouts, or work
shop scraps, is pressed into service for
the manufacture of dolls knives and
forks, tea sets, etc.; and even the
ancient lead coffins dug out of the old
cemeteries of Nuremberg the French
toy maker utilizes in the manufacture of
lead soldiers. No other nation equals
the French in converting the ordinary
refuse of the streets and workshop into
useful and ornamental products. 1t is
this characteristic for saving which
makes the French nation so prosperous.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01

CHANGED HIS BUSINESS. "A business
man of Detroit who had some excreseu-
ces removed from bis feet by local
corn doctor, about year ago, called at
his office again few days ago to have a
bunion treated. You are not the per-
son who was here year ago9" said the
patient. "No," responded the chiro-
podist, +" that was my brother" els
he still in the business2" inquired the
caller. "Not exactly; he's not in this
branch of the profession; he's now on
the lung |"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01
A Good Trick.

The latest amusement is termed the
"Printer's Delight" and is performed
in the following manner: Take sheet
of note paper, fold it up carefully and
inclose a bank note sufficiently large to
pay up all arrears and year in advance.
And what adds immensely to the feat
is to send along the name of q new sub
scriber, with cash to balance, Keep
your eye on the printer, and If you de-
tect enils ths trick ia success, Try
u.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01

The explosiveness of air in coal mines,
which is simply laden with fine coal dust,
and contains no gas at all, has been de-
monstrated by some experiments recently
made in France, which show that in col
leries, where such air is present, an ex-
plosion may be occasioned not only by
the Use of gunpowder blasts, but by the
mere ssposiirs Of an uncovered light,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1876-04-01

OF the 436 missionaries in China, $40
are women. OF tho 100 in Japaa, fiftyA
tive are womeni
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
FLORIDA.
The Situation,

Tallahassee, Dec. 2S.-The return OF
a majority of the ~canvassing board, in
answer to the writ of the Supreme
court, was filed at 2 p. m to-day. 1t
gives the same figures that were tele-
grapled last night. and arrives at this
result by throwing out Clay county and
the judges return in Baker county.
The Supreme court did not meet to-
day, two of the justice, being in Jack
~sonville, and ex-Attorney General Will
liams and General Wallace went to see
Justice Westcott this afternoon, to get
him to request the attendance OF the
absent justices. The count will be held
in a day or two.
Attorney General Cooke filed a pro-
test to-day against the action Of the
majority of the board in regard to Clay
and Baker counties.
Everything indicates a speedy solu-
ton of the difficulties here. The court
will either accept the present return or
require the two counties to be re-can-
vassed, which will only require a few
moments.
The Congressional Investigators.
Jacksonville, Dec. 28.-The Senate
committee to day continued the inquiry
into the conduct of the election. Mem
bers of the committee say that the evil
dence already taken far more than sus-
tains all that has been alleged by the
Republicans concerning frauds commit
ted by Democrats, and that instead of
Hayes majority being 1U00 or there
abouts, the Republican national and
state tickets have been elected on a fair
vote $500 to 5000 majority in the state.
The committee say they have never
been witnesses of such-an outrage per-
petrated on any people as that which
has just been committed by declaring
Drew elected governor with the evil
dence overwhelmingly that he has been
beaten $500 votes.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
NOTICE.

Whereas Julius c. Strong did by his
deed made the 18th day of August, 1875
sell and convey unto PoseyS. Wilson, bis
heirs and assigns all tils following de-
scrited real estateto wit: tLot No. l0fn
block number416in thetownof Cheyenne
as said lot is laid down and described on
the plat of said town, recorded in the
Office of the County Clerk of said coun-
ty;'' with the building, improvements,
rights and Entertainments thereon and
thereto belonging, as they are described
in said deed, which deed is duly record
ed in the office of the Clerk of Laramie
County; and whereas the said deed was
made to secure the payment of a GER
tain promissory note given by the a
J. G. Strong, August 18th, 1875 for the
sum of one thousand dollars, payable
ninety days after date, with interest
payable monthly, at the rate of two per
cent. per month from date until paid;and
whereas no part of said note or interest
has been paid, o therefore, /, George
Wilson, Jr., assignee of said note and
mortgage, by virtue ofthe power there
in given towit: ssAnd if default shall be
made in the payment of the principal
or interest above mentioned, then the
said party of the second part or his exc
~cutors, administrators or assigns, are
hereby authorized to sell the premises
above granted, or so much thereof as
will be necessary to satisfy the amount
then due, with all necessary costs and
expenses, the said sale to be made by
public auction, on giving ten 10y days
notice thereof by publication in some
daily newspaper published in said Lar
annie County Wyoming Territory do
hereby give notice that I will sell the
said real estate together with all the
rights and Entertainments thereto be-
longing o. in anywise appertaining, at
the court house in Cheyenne Wyo. Ter.
on the 9Th day of January 1877 between
the hours of Il o'clocksm. and l O'Clock
p. IN. at public auction to the highest
bidder. GEORGE WILSON ,JR.
[~d2S-d10tl Assignee.
Cheyenne Wyo. Ter, Dec. 2Sth 1876.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
FOREIGN.
Russia Not Ready.


Vienna, Dec. 28.-The news from
Bessarabia is that the Russian army is
so little fit for q long campaign that
Grand Duke Nicholas has telegraphed
that unless he receives considerable re-
Inducements of picked troops he can
not commence serious operations beyond
crossing the Pruth and taking up quart
ers in Roumania.
Russia is sending money to enable
Servia to recommence hostilities.
The Sultan Speaks.
London, Dec. 2S.-A special from
Pera says:
The Sultan, in answer to Lord Sails
bury's representations, said his per-
sonal safety would be compromised if
he conceded all that the Powers de-
manded.
A Serbian Var Whoop.
Vienna, Dec. 28.-Gen. Nankin, at
the review held in taking command of
the Servian army, said:
SIN a weeks time you will have an
opportunity to prove your courage be-
fore the enemy"
Looks Like War.
Vienna, Dec. 2S.-On Tuesday five
thousand Russians crossed the Danube
from Thurnseverin.
A cabinet meeting on the Eastern
question will be held at Vienna to-day.
Constantinople, Dec. 2S.-The preva-
lent opinion is that the Porte will not
accept Lord Salisbury's proposals.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
NEW PORK
Strike Of Ice Laborers.

Strike Of Ice Laborers.
Catskill, Dec. 28.-The ice laborers
in this neighborhood to the number of
several hundred, went on a strike to-
day for higher wages. One dollar and
a quarter is offered by the bosses.
The strike is for n dollar and seventy
five cents and two dollars, the wages of
the past season. The strikers are de-
termined and are parading behind a
drum corps with a banner, calling for
''two dollars or n~othing.n Threats are
made of covering the ice with kerosene
if the wages asked are not conceded.
The local and mirror companys are will
ling to pay the wages demanded, but
are governed by the action of the
Knickerbocker company.
Destructive Fire.
New York, Dec. 2S.-F rederick's
photograph establishment, near Tony
Pastors theatre, burned this morning.
Loss, $50, 600. 1t was first supposed
that the theatre was on fire, but after
wards ascertained that the theatre was
only slightly damaged by water. A
great many valuable pictures were de-
strOyed.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29

LOUISIANA.
Cor. KeN0lq's Nsrrr.

.#E. <NN>JJ
New Orleans, Dec. 28.-The Demo-
cratic state senators holding over, and
Clerk Trezeyant, of the house, called
on Coy. Kellogg to-day and protested
against the barrieading OF the state
house. They demanded the removal OF
the b~arrieades, which the governor
declined 20 do, and when asked if con-
testants and citizens would be admit
ted, replied that he would not ans
wer, hut that if guards were placed at
the door they would have a list of mem
bers declared elected by the returning
board, and thev would be admitted.
In answer to Trezevant, the governor
said that as executive he assumed the
right to control all approaches to the
house of representatives.
1t is positively asserted that the
Democrats haven't agreed upon any
programme. 1t is currently reported
that the White League has been ordered
out next Tuesday.
The Congressional Investigators.
Before the Senate committee, George
Brook, of the Thirteenth United States
Infantry, commanding in eight parishes
in Louisiana, stated that in East Baton
Rouge and East Feliciana there seemed
to be last spring a combination among
the Democrats to terrorize the colored
people, and he gave several instances
of negroes having been wounded and
beaten, and gave a fearful statement of
the condition of affairs there, and
the threats used to induce colored men
to join the Democrats and vote their
Barnes arrested.
New Orleans, Dec. 28.-E. w.
Barnes, manager of the w. II. tele-
graph Office, was arrested yesterday, and
left for Washington TO appear before
the bar of the House for contempt.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
NEW MEXICO.
Rich Siluer Discorerv.

Silver City, Dec. 2s.-A large body
of first-class ore was uncovered in the
''Seventy-six" mine on the 23d ipst.
Specimen pieces, weighing ten to fifteen
pounds, are on exhibition, composed
almost entirely of chloride of silver.
The first ten ions of ore were broken
from the mass in a few hours, by one
drill, and are estimated to be worth
from $500 to $1,000 per ton. There are
now upwards of five hundred tons of
this ore in sight, and the owner, NJ. w.
Brewer, has been making a merry
Christmas. The miners and all the
c%ltizensof this place are greatly excited.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
N
LerdO's Friends.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The friends
here of Lerdo, the banished Mexican
president, hope that after the two fac
tions headed by Diaz and Iglesias have
crippled each other he will be able to
return to power.
Williams Errand to Florida.
Ex-Attorney-General Williams has
gone to Florida to attend the suit of
Nm. E. Chandler against the editor of
the Live Oak Expositor, who published
a most indecent article against the vir-
tue and character Of Mrs. Chandler re-
Gently. The provocation is claimed to
be that Mrs. Chandler had ssid it
would have been better if all rebels had
been hung at the close of the a
Unfair.
Under the rules in force petitions of
great Importance Impending grave ques-
tions are struggled away into commit
tee-room pigeon-holes, and never read.
The complaint now against Randall is
that he took advantage of his position
to present a political document not in
the form of u petition, when a member
on the floor could not V have secured
the printing of its title, as there was
no quorum and no attempt to transact
any business.
The Oregon Investigation.
The Senate committee on privileges
and elections will commence the investi-
cation in the Oregon electoral case to-
morrow. All the witnesses ~subpGnaed
in the case arrived to-day
Will Make IL Warm for Orion.
Speaker Randall, Judge Knott and
Gen. Hunton held a consultation to-day
in regard to the obstacles interposed by
the Western Union Telegraph Co. to
prevent a production of the kilograms
called for by the Louisiana committee.
1t is understood they are unanimously
in favor of exerting the full power o.
the House to compel a compliance witt
its subpoena. The issue will not prob
ably be presented till Manager Barne:
arrives from New Orleans, AMI il
brought before the bar to- show CAUSE
why he should not be punished for con
tempt.
Silrer Disbursements.
The amount of silver disbursement
from the Treasury to date aggregate
S25, 511, 500, of which S15, 395, 512 wa
for the redemption of fractional cur
rency, and $40, lis, 1896 was for silve'
paid in lieu of notes and checks. Tn
amount paid by the assistant treasure
in New York was 81, 596, GOT; in Boston
So, 1887, 053; in Philadelphia, 50, 1854, 43o
in st. Louis, S1,475, 002; IN Cincinnati
81, 28O, 257; in Chicago, S2,63S,977, an
In Baltimore, 1901 ,0l2.
The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1876-12-29
TICKS.

Judge Duell, commissioner of patents,
has resigned.
The steamer Goethe has been wrecked
on Labas island, off Macdonald's, IRA
quay. All the passengers and crew
were saved.
A heavy shipment was made Thurs
day, at New Haven, of munitions of
war for the Turkish government. The
cargo is valued at 81, SOC, 900.
In a glove fight at Boston. Thurs.
day evening, between P. S. McDermott
and D. Davidson, the latter received
injuries from which he died in the hall,
Several arrests we're made.