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Smyrna times., 1877-09-26

He was a singularly grave man, even for
a sexton. For nearly half century he
had been public functionary-ha per-
formed the conspicuous duties of a sexton !;
yet no one had ever seen him smile. Occa-
sionally he joked, but he did it in such
funereal manner that no one could accuse
him of levity. One day he was standing
on tho church steps wiping his melancholy
features with red bandanna. A hearse
stood near and three or four carriages were
drawn up behind it. The notes of the
organ floated out of the windows with
solemn effect. 4 stranger came along and
said Funeral?' And the old sexton
gravely bowed his head-it was "Whos
dead2' The old man again wiped his brow
and gave the name of the deceased. "What
complaintY asked the inquisitive stranger.
Solemnly placing his bandanna in his hat
and covering his bald head, the old sexton
made answer; "There is no complaint;
everybody is entirely satisfied. - Worcester
Press
Smyrna times., 1877-09-26
SHE TO HIN

The following brief epistle lately passed
between Boston and Mount Desert:
SHE TO HIM.
MOUNT DESERT, July -, 1877.
DEAR JoHX: Lots Of pretty girls here
d. como down. S,1Iv
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20
s. Is This Seat Occupied

An old but vigorous-looking gentle
man, seemingly from the rural districts,
got into car and walked its full length
without receiving an invitation to sit
down. Approaching one gentleman
who had a whole bench to himself, he
asked "Is this seat occupied?" eyes,
sir, it is, impertinently replied the
other. ''Well," replied the broad
shouldered agriculturist, ct will keep
this seat until the gentleman comes. !"
The original proprietor withdrew him
self haughtily to one end, and looked
insulted. After while the train got
in motion, and still nobody came to
claim the seat, whereupon the deep
chested agriculturist turned and said !;
"Sir, when you told me that this seat
was occupied you told me ie"-such
was his plain language-"I never sit
near liar if I can avoid it; I would
rather stand up" Then, appealing to
another party, he said Sir, may I sit
next to you. You don't look like a
LIAR. We need hardly say that he got
his seat, and that the original proprietor
thought that there was something wrong
about our social system. Baltimore
Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20
THE Suicide of DIR. Stein.

M. D. Tooker, travelling agent of the
Great Western railroad, a resident of
Niagara Falls, says there is a curious
fact connected with the suicide of DR..
Stein, of New York, the old gentleman
who sprung from the Suspension foot
bridge, below the falls, into the bub-
bling flood below, a distance of 1856 feet.
DIR. Stein, whose health appeared to be
feeble, and who was no doubt suffering
under an alteration of mind, arose quite
early in the morning, and engaged a
bootblack to show him around and point
out objects of interest. He agreed to
give the boy dollar and half to con-
tinue with him during the day, and,
pulling out a very large roll of bills,
paid him in advance. When the old
gentleman and the boy had reached the
middle of the Suspension bridge, near
the falls, they halted, and, after a mo-
mentary survey of the great cataracts,
DR. Stein asked if there was any carriage
to be seen upon the bridge in either di-
rection. The boy looked and answered
no. els there any one In sight at any
part of the bridge?" inquired the old
gentleman. ''There is no one at all,
said the boy after sharp look. At the
same instant DR.. Stein seized the boy
and endeavored to throw him over the
railing of the bridge. The lad scre med
and struggled with all the energy he
possessed, and by clinging to the I'm
bers defeated the object of his insane
companion. MIR. Tooker considers it
wonderful that any sound could beheard
above the roar of the falls. Perhaps
the struggle of the man to throw and of
the boy to save himself caused the
bridge to oscillate to marked degree;
at any rate, the attendants of the bridge
at each of the shore ends rushed out and
made for the rescue. This DIR. Stein
perceived, let go Of his well-nigh ex-
hausted victim, climbed to the top Of the
railing, and, without a word, sprung into
the misty air and the unfathonaI le pool
down below. In falling, he struck one
of the bridge guys, which, springing
from the conclusion, threw the dis
tracted mortal more up stream and
changed his attitude from nearly up
right to prone position. With arms
and legs extended as IN swimming, he
| fell fiat on the turbulent, green-nued
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20
Famine i'm the Far East.

A more terrible visitation than war is
now ravaging the province of Orissa, in
HindOostan. The visitor is Famine.
Once in about every ten years that af-
ficted region is sighted by the rains of
heaven to such degree as to destroy
the crops and produce the most direful
results among the millions there de-
pendent almost entirely upon Mother
Nature for daily food. Every reader
will remember the chronicling of a sea-
son of famine in that same country Of
Orissa in 1865. At that time over ], $780,
900 starved to death in less than six
months. Again q similar fate threat
ems the inhabitants, and again actual
death by starvation is being faced by
the poor human creatures so unfortu-
nate as to be unable to fee from the
spot.
The horrible scenes through which
the population of parts of India have
recently passed and are now passing
cannot be understood by the people of
lands which have never suffered by the
Withholding of the fruits of the earth.
Thousands at time have persisted, and
have been left in their huts unburied,
and the sight of man-neglected dead at
such time has been as nothing to the
sight of the seemingly God-neglected
living who are crying out for bodily
nourishment
It is relief to learn that there is a
movement in England to assist the suf-
ferers in India-a movement headed by
the philanthropic Florence Nightingale.
About $500, 900 has been subscribed,
which is very little in view of the great
need, and this is to be Immediately dis
bursed for the shipment of food to the
victims of the famine.
There is another famine prevailing in
the Far East, in what is known as the
Shan Tung districts of China. There,
is reported, the inhabitants manage to
keep soul and body together only by
selling all their possessions, even wives
and children, and subsisting upon the
bark OF trees, MOSES and domestic
beasts of all kinds. Tt would not be
practicable to attempt to send relief to
these poor people, who are too far away
and under the charge of the Chinese
Government, whose duty it is to feed Its
| subjects In the famine-ridden districts,
| just as the work of relieving the poor
creatures in India devolyes upon the
more civilized Government OF Greai
/ Britain. - CHICAGO Journal.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20

waters of the Niagara, and that was the
last of him; for, although 81 900 reward
has been offered for the recovery Of his
body, and hundreds have looked for Il
night and day since, not vestige of If
has come to the surface. Detroit Free
Press.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20

The money presented to the Pope by
pilgrims during the jubilee amounted to
So, 100000. OF this sum 81, $40, 900 was
in gold; the remainder in paper.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20

CONFEDERATE currency is still plenti-
full in Alabama. The Secretary Of a
Yale College society wrote recently to
an Alabama State officer for a $50 Con-
federate bill, and the officer wrote that
If the young man had asked for barrel
full Of them he could have had them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07


The nineteenth century il the age oil
novels, remarks a literary historian-he might
have added with equal truth, "and novel i'm.
positions. Studied politeness has been passed
on on us for native refinement the forms OF
devotion for its essence, and speculation fol-
science, until we look askance at every new
person or thing, and to an assertion Of merit
invariably exclaim: "Prove itT In brief
Satan has made himself so omnipresent, that
we look for his coven foot everywhere-even
In bottle of medicine. Imagine a lady, having
q complexion 80 sallow that you would deny
her claims to the Caucasian type il her features
did not conform to it, purchasing her first
bottle of the Golden Medical Discovery. The
one dollar is paid in the very identical manner
in which Mr.. Taylor might be expected to
purchase lottery ticket after his experience
with "NO. 104, 163," with this difference, his
doubt would be the result of personal expert
ence while hers would be founded Oh what a
certain practitioner (who has been whole year
trying to correct her refractory liver) has said
concerning it. At home, she examines the
bottle half suspiciously, tastes of its contents
carefully, takes the prescribed dose more care
fully, and then proceeds to watch the result
with as much anxiety as a practitioner would
count the pulse-beats Of dying man. She
takes another dose and another, and shows the
bottle to her friends, telling them she d" feels
better" Her skin loses its bilious tint, her
eyes regain their luster her accustomed energy
returns, and the fact that she purchases
another bottle is sure witness that she has
found the Golden Medical Discovery to be n
reliable remedy for the disease indicated.
The lady wisely resolves that in future her
estimate of any medicine will be based upon a
personal knowledge Of its effects, and not upon
what some practitioner (who always makes long
bills rhyme with pills. may say of it. DR.. Pierce
is in receipt of letters from hundreds of the
largest wholesale and retail druggists in the
United States stating that at the present time
there is a greater demand for the Golden
Medical Discovery and Purgative Pellets than
ever before. In affections of the liver and blood
they are unsurpassed
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
Fashion Notes.
Holbein work is as fashionable as eve

Holbein work is as fashionable as ever.
Robin's-egg blue is the fashionable
shade for tissue wells.
Colored flowers are used in the COM
position of funeral decorations.
The Corisande and the Sidonie are
the leading overskirts this summer.
Red peonies, as natural and large as
life, are among the fashionable artificial
flowers.
Silk purses are fashionable again,
and ladies are crocheting them for sum-
mer pastime.
Many rows of machine stitching are
seen on some of the handsomest summer
costumes.
Pansies are used in immense quantities
for funeral wreaths and naenaentO mort
designs.
A novelty for umbrella and sunshade
handles is to have small spy glass at
the end of the handle.
The newest styles of parasols have
pagoda tops, and measure from eighteen
to twenty-four inches from the top to
the end of the ribs
Little girls under twelve wear princess
robes of white cashmere trimmed with
Clovis lace, and bows and ladders of
white or colored ribbon.
The Venitian women of the fourteenth
century wore dresses almost precisely
like the scarlet skirts and "pull backs
of the present moment.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
About the Fly.

When a Detroit woman answered the
door-bell the other day she found a
stranger on the step. He had bundle
in his hand, smile on his face, and he
said:
Madam, can I sell you some fly
paper?"
"Does the paper fly" she asked.
Ono, ma'am, but it makes the flies
fly"
What do I want the flies to fly for p
she continued.
"Every fly, madam - he was ex-
planning, when she called out:
81 want you to fly I can get along
with flies better than with agenUs /"
"But am not on the fly" he softly
protested.
"Our dog is" she grimly replied, and
SO he wds. He flew around the corner,
the agent flew for the gate, the roll of
fy-paper flew over the curb, and news
boy climbed tree-box to be out of the
muss and shouted.
"She flew, thou fyest, he flied, and I
believe the dog got piece of meat with
that coat tail p
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
Black Hills Waits.

The following items are compiled from
the Black Hills newspapers. They are
Characteristic of the new land Of gold:
Rumored advent of English capitalists
to make Deadwood alive.
Am Sick, for SALE" was the notice on
an immigrant wagon recently driven into
Deaowood.
Deadwood Sunday services are held
over the post-office.
Deadwood emigration equals Dead
wood immigration.
Miners wages are four dollars per
day.
Real bears prowl about the mining
camps.
The prominent Deadwood hotels adj
vertise "All languages spoken" Have
they conquered Russian ?
Potato Greek pays 800 men we'll.
Rich specimens of copper ore are
found on Box Elder Greek.
The Deadwood sheriff wants an owner
for span of mules.
Bear Gulch is yielding large quantities
of gold.
Thirteen hundred advertised letters in
the Black Hills Pioneer. The capitals il
the font gave out and the Pioneer is
spelling the Jones with little els"
The beautiful panorama of nature be.
tween Spearfsh and Deadwood is marred
by the suspicion that an Indian and rife
Turk under the dense foliage. There
every prospect pleases and only man is
vile.
The poll tax is due and secondhand
sewing machines are already for sale al
Deadwood. So advances civilization.
The Black Hills Times will sell an
account of $1.25 against one Smith very
cheap.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
An Indian Prophet.

The North American Indians are pc
culiarly sensitive TO the influence of pro-
phets, and one of the most notable of
these is seXagenarian named Smuh-
halle, belonging to the Wallawalla tribe
ON Middle Columbia river, who has
been disturbing the untutored Indian
mind for several years past, and of whom
an interesting account is given by the
Nation. Smuhhalle was originally a
medicine man of his own Oregonian
tribe. In the pursuit of his calling he
met thorough biblical scholar, and i'm
proved so much by his teachings that he
started on his own account as an Indian
prophet, and went about disseminating
his doctrine by speeches, discussions,
and demonstrations. The gist of this
doctrine was the love of our fellow-men
and the complete return of the sold hap
ply state" of the Indians before the adj
vent of the white race. His followers
constituted themselves a propogandist
society about the year 1862, and he soon
gained a reputation among the tribes on
the Columbia as reformer, public be-
nefactor, and a presumptive redeefher
from the foreign yoke. Although his
disciples are generally considered as
''smart imposters" by the white settlers,
Smuhhalle himself does not deserve this
epithet. Like Mohammed, he promises
multiple coniugal felicity to his follow
ers, and is himself blessed with five
wives. His secretaries pledge them
selves to maintain and spread the doc
trines even after his death, and they dis
tinguish themselves from other Indians
by decorating themselves with two black
dashes on each cheek, with one white
dash or streak intervening. The belief
in Smuhhalle will, in their opinion, event.
ually bring the country into their own
possession. They unite three
times every day for worship, This
it is stated, is rapidly spread
ing, and many tribes of the Columbia
Basin, from the klamath Lakes to the
Upper Columbia, have joined the sect
wholly or partially. Smuhhalle does
not leave his own camp, which is at Ra-
pids du Pre- on the Columbia river, but
breaches there his doctrine with the en-
phasis, imagery. and volubility so well
known to Indian discourses. The re-
cent dissatisfaction among the Nez Per-
ces Indians, numerous tribe residing
on tie Oregon and Idaho reservations,
is mainly attributed to this ''reforma-
tory" movement of Smuhhalle and his
followers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
Minister'S Salaries,

A New York correspondent writes as
follows concerning church troubles:
"There is much unrest and disquiet
with churches and ministers. Every
vacant church is overrun with applicants.
Twenty, and even forty ministers have
applied to be heard as candidates before
o small and weak church. AS q conse-
quence, congregations become distracted.
They suppose they can have their choice
out of all the ministers Of the land.
After hearing several, and becoming
thoroughly disunited, they decide to
drop all those whom they have heard,
and take the next man that comes.
frequently the "next man " is just the
one that is unadapted to the field. Many
of the churches are DESTROYS of having
their ministers to leave them. The
present salaries were fixed on wal
basis. Congregations want to diminish
their salaries, and if the present fhcum-
bent would take another field, they
would call minister at lower rates, and
ministers would prefer a lower salary
with another church to cutting down in
their present charge"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
An English Centenarian.

Mr.. Morgan, an Englishman of 107
years of age, celebrated his last birth
day at the Star and Garter, Richmond,
surrounded by sixty-seven of his poster
ity, which numbers 102 in all. Mr.. Nor
gan was five years old when Burke de-
livered his speech on Cancellation with
America. He was seventeen when Glib
bon was penning the last page of "The
Decline and Fall'' at Lausanne. -Four
generations of statesmen have during
his life successfully come and disap-
peared. He was eight years old when
Chatham fell fainting at his post. He
was boy when "The Rivals" was hiss
ed off the stage, and he was eighteen
when Sheridan dashed off from tavern
to deliver his speech on the Dude Charge.
He can remember the time when Napo-
leon was serving under Dugommier, and
he was twenty-four when the bloody
head of Danton rolled on the sawdust.
During mere episode in his long life
Byron blazed out his brief career-Shel.
ley, Keats, Coleridge, Southey, Words.
worth, Canning, Pitt, Fox and others,
whose names will "ire mems ears like
music till the round worlds race be run,
passed away.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
One Mans Failure,

The following story of a wealthy mans
colossal fortune and the manner of his
ruin is from the pen of a New York cor
respondent:
One of the heaviest real estate men
has been under the harrow for some
months. To-day he has abandoned the
fight, and given up everything to his
creditors. He was very successful
cotton broker. All the money he made
he put into real estate. His revenues
were very large. His income was eight
hundred thousand dollars year. One
building, near Trinity church, yielded
him rental of ninety thousand dollars
per annum. Everything he touched
turned to gold. He was loaded down
with cotton. One day q merchant
handed him a check of three hundred
thousand dollars to cancel contract.
He took it. Within ten days cotton
surged up and he made fortune. He
owned an elegant house on Fifth avenue.
He crowded it with paintings and works
of art. Not contented with this he was
induced by a Spectator to take hold of
a railroad. He bought bonds at sixty.
Soon after they went down to forty, and
the gentleman bought all he could lay
hands on. He took the road. He pro-
posed to run it. He found it unfinished
He equipped it; spent three hundred
thousand dollars in locomotives and roll
ing stock. Ruin came to him as it comes
to every one who dabbles in outside
matters. The panic completed his
decentralization. His fine New York
property was mortgaged for more than
it was worth. To-day he has ceased to
struggle. Few men will be warned and
few men will be wiser for all this. Here
is man who few months ago had a
royal income of eight hundred thousand
dollars a year. He wanted to make it a
million. To-day he is hopelessly bank
rI1Dt
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
Women Farmers in the West.

Numbers of strong, healthy, and able
bodied women are earning good liveli-
hood, and laying by competency for the
future by farm life on the plains of Ne
braska. Many of these female farmers
have taken up their farms under the
''land laws" which are applicable to
both men and women, and, notwithstand-
ing the grasshopper scourge which has
afflicted the State, many a widow with a
dependent family is to-day cultivating
her farm, raising her herds, tending her
dairy, and thus providing for her family
and securing for herself competency
that cannot be gained in the factories or
salesrooms of the East, not even in tIhe
school-rooms or "behind the foot-lights."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07
A Medicine of Many Uses,

A medicine which remedies dyspepsia liver
complaint, constipation, debility, intermittent
and remittent fevers, urinary and uterine
troubles depurates the blood, counteracts a
tendency to rheumatism and govt, and relieves
nervousness, may be truly said to have many
uses. Such an article is Hostetter's Bitters,
one of the NEST reliable alternatives of dis
orderly to well ordered state of the system
ever prepared Or sold. 1t has been over a
quarter of century before the public, is in
dorsed by many eminent professors of the
healing art, and its merits have received re-
peated recognitions in the columns of leading
American and foreign journals. 1t is highly
esteemed in every part of this country, and is
extensively used in South America, Mexico, the
British possessions and the West Indies. If
its increase in public favor in the past is to be
regarded as q reliable criterion of its gain in
popularity in coming years, it has indeed a
splendid future
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

kill them is to take a coarse towel, and
wiring it out of c'can water. Spread it
smoothly on the carpet, then iron it dry
with a good hot iron, repeating the
operation on all suspected places, and
those least used. 1t does not iniure the
carpet in the least. 1t is not necessary
to press hard, heat and steam being the
agents, and they 10 the work effectually
on worms and eggs.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

Looking glasses reflect more charming COM
plexions nowadays than they used to before
the introduction of Glenns Sulphur Soap.
This standard and popular purifier removes
every blemish of the skin arising from impuri-
ties in the superficial circulation, renders the
cuticle becomingly fair and imparts to it the
softness of velvet. Diseases and injuries of
the skin are both promptly remedied by it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

Among the passengers of the Cunard
steamer Ethiopia was Miss Clara E.
Stutsman, the gifted contralto of New
York, who is to become the pupil of an
eminent foreign master. She has hosts
of friends who predict for her rare genius
a career brilliant as it will be useful.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

A man had blue glass put in his wife's sit
ting-room-to match her ewes, he said. She
returned the compliment by having red glass
put IN her husbands library-to match his
nose, she said. lie didn't seem TO appreciate
the commitment
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

information worth thousands to those out OF
health. Self-help for weak and nervous suf-
ferers. Facts for those who have been dosed,
drugged and quacked. The new Health Jour
nal teaches all. Copies free. Address, Elec-
trio Quarterly, New York.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-07-07

Physicians of high standing unhestatingly
give their Endorsement to the use of the Graef
enberg- Marshalls Catholicon for all female
complaints. The weak and debilitated find Won
derful relief from constant use of this valu-
able remedy. Sold by all druggists. $3.50 per
bottle. Send for almanacs, Graefenberg Co.,
New York