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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20

entered the garden gate-the birds in
the old pear tree near by began chirping
gaily to welcome the returning sun,
and a glorious rainbow spanned the
heavens.
To the porch of the tiny cottage came
a small, slender woman, in a gown of
silver-gray stuff, with a spotless white
handkerchief about her neck and crossed
upon her bosom, and half-knitted stock
ing in one thin, white hand.
With the other hand she pushed back
the pretty rings of brown hair that
would break loose from the dainty white
cap she wore and looked out with beau
tiful brown eyes at the glowing bow of
peace set in the bright blue skies.
And then, becoming suddenly con-
scious of the dripping figure approach
ing, she exclaimed, " Maurice! and how
wet thee is, and have no dry garments
to offer thee
Maurice smiled sweet, grave smile.
didn't expect you would have,
Ruth, " he said, as he assembled the steps
and stood beside her; "but 1 shall stay
only moment, and then walk brjskly
home, and don't think therell be any
harm done"
"Thee'll go in and see mother,
surely ?',
:. Not to-day, Ruth. L came to see
you alone-I have a question to ask
you" She looked wonderingly at him.
Ruth, " clasping the hand that held the
knitting, and thereby unraveling ever
SO many stitches, I" is it true that you
love me?"
The sweet eyes dropped, and hot
flush rose to the fair face.
Forgive me, if L asked thee toe
hastily" he added, falling into her own
mode of speech, "but if thee dost, ]
want thee for wife"
I" 1 have loved thee all my life," was
the clear, low reply.
Miss Lucille Westerns marriage tc
her correspondent, Charles Dessler
took place much sooner than she haC
expected it would, at the residence
| Through the intercession of her new
aunt, sweet Mistress Ruth Weston) o.
her Uncle Maurice.
And as soon as the wedding ceremony
was concluded the young couple started
for the home of the bridegroom's mother
in Germany.
And it was there, while in the midst O.
the festivities consequent on the celebra
ton of her twenty-second birthday, tha
Mrs. Charles Dessler's pleasure at re
reiving liberal check and forgiveness
from her old home was slightly dashed
by the accompanying news-Uncl'
Maurice had another, and much neare.
heir.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20
A Wonderful Echo,

Our last visit in Milan, writes a cor
respondent, was to the Villa Simonetti,
a huge old palace in plantation about
two miles beyond the city gates, now let
out as tenement house, and swarming
with washerwomen and their broods.
You climb toilsomely into the fourth
story, and are ushered into small room
facing an angle of the lofty fiat walls
which surrounded the court yard on three
sides, the fourth side being open to the
level plain beyond. A woman takes up
great trumpet, shaped like fog-horn,
and proceeded to yell, shrek and grumble
through it number of sharp and flat
notes, and q marvellous echo comes back
from the opposite angle, and plays along
the sides of the walls, repeating and
thrilling the sounds | cannot tell how
many times, now in plaintive musical
strains, now in singular cadences, now in
rollicking, guffawing, exuberant iocu-
ularity.
Then the damsel-who lives by the
fees that the echo brings her in, like
Eliphaz, the Temanite, "filling her
stomach with the east wind took down
an old musket, and loading it with great
formality, tremendously handed it to
your correspondent to fire, but not
knowing whether it would kick OF burst,
the offer was politely declined, and, like
another Moll Pitcher or Maid of Sara
gossa, she fred it out of the window
herself against the opposing angle with
the most astonishing effect, the discharge
echoing and re-echoing, first like the
file firing of company of infantry, then
like the applause in theatre, and fainter,
until it died away like the ticking of a
clock, and expired in sound like the
faint humming of insects. She says il
repeated ninety times. She might just
as we'll have made it the even hundred,
for tried to verify her statement by
actual count, but had to give it up in
despair. One might appropriately cal
this talking wall "sermon in stones.
1t is said to be the most remarkable echo
in the world, and [ can well believe it,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20
Changes of a Century.

The nineteenth century has witnessed
many and great discoveries and changes.
In 1909, Fulton took out the first
patent for the invention of a steamboat.
The first steamboats, which made reg
ular trips across the Atlantic Ocean
were the SIRIUS and Great Western, in
1880.
The first public application to practi-
cal use of gas for illumination was made
in 1892.
In 1918 the streets of London were
for the first time lighted with gas.
In 1918, there was built in Waltham,
Mass, mill, believed to have been the
first in the world, which combined all
the requirements of making finished cloth
from the raw cotton.
In 1890 there were only twenty-five
post-offices in the whole country, and up
to 1887 the rate of postage was twenty
five cents for letter sent over four hum
dred miles.
In 1907 wooden clocks began to be
made by machinery. This ushered in the
era of cheap clocks.
About the year 1888 the first railroad
of any considerable length i'll the United
States was constructed.
In 1910 the first experiments in photo
graphy were made by Daguerre.
About 1910 the first express business
was established.
The anthracite coal business may be
said to have begun in 1920.
In 1886 the patent for the invention OF
matches was granted.
In 1s45 the first telegram was sent.
Steel pens were introduced for use in
1903.
The first successful trial of reaper
took place in 1888.
In l846 Elias Howe obtained a patent
for his first sewing machine.
The first successful method of making
vulcanized India rubber was patented in
| 1889,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20
LUCILLE'S LETTER

midsummer day-the air heavy and
sultry-the leaves of the trees, which
have hung heavy and motionless for
hours, beginning to rustic and tremble
the birds flying with shrill notes of
of warning to their nests-cattle wend-
ing their way homeward in search Of
shelter-the tall corn bending lightly
and gracefully toward the earth--a low
storm-murmur telling the bee and but
terfy to leave the honey feast and hide
the skies growing dark with threaten
ing clouds-tangled skeins of lightning
in the east-distant sounds of thunder
young woman, with pretty, fair hair,
small, feline mouth, and bright, shrewd,
green-blue eyes, writing at desk beside
the open window of handsome country
house, one sheet of paper closely covered
lies before her-she finishes a second
and third, glances over them, places
them in an envelope, reaches out her
hand for the one upon the desk !; pauses
moment to lean from the window and
watch the awful glory of the heavens
when, all its forces gathered, comes
the wind like a young hurricane
snatches the envelope from her grasp,
and bears it, with shrek of triumph,
far away.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20
An Eccentric Wife. Murderer,

A letter from GAINESVILLE, Ohio, gives
the account of wife-murderer near that
town named James 4: "Further develop,
ments in the undertaker's tragedy, nine
miles from here, indicate that the wife was
first fired upon from the back, the ball
entering the spine. The husband then,
supposing her to be dead, shot himself
through the heart, but her wound not
being fatal she crept to him, took pos
session of the revolver, and sent ball
through her temple. This is evident, as
she is shot in the back, which she could
not have done, and the firearm was found
clinched in her death grasp near the
head wound. Mrs. Lacock, mother of
Mrs. James, would not allow the man s
body to enter the house; consequently
he was laid out in the barn. They left
home by the Muskingum Valley road,
LEFT the train at Del Cerbo, and started,
walking together. On the way they met
persons whom James told she had deser-
ted him, to which she repliedshe neither
would nor could live with HIM. James
was exceedingly eccentric, and, it is be-
| lieved, insane. About a year since, at
the burial of his first wife, a sister of the
murdered one, he selected female pail
bearers, and walked into the church with
feather duster under his arm, with
which he busted the coffin, and, besides,
generally superintended the funeral. He
was master workman, and had prepared
an elegant coffin for himself, which ha6
set in his shop for many months, he tel
ling the story that it was for himself
In his memorandum book were founC
numerous newspaper cuttings of wife
whippings, etc., he appearing to have {
mania for collecting them. tbs highly
probable his eccentric ways were unbear
able, leading to the wife's leaving, ant
consequent terrible double death
James was about 6fty.Ave and his wifi
twenty-five
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20
Fifty Cents Dearly Earned.

At the upper lock, in Carrollton canal,
a few days ago, a young man by the
name of Charron was passing, when two
or three men were trying to turn the
windlass to lift the sluice gate, which is
very hard to do. The young man said in
boast, eff you will give me fifty cents,
/ will lift it alone" The offer was ac-
cepted, the money paid, when he took
hold of the crank, and by his strength
did the work and got the money. A
short time after he said to friend, 81
have killed myself for fifty cents" He
died in about ten days. .-Lachute &C. e.
Waterman.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20

The joker's land--All-ieers. --Neae
York Republic. The joker's seattle
Bay of Fun-dy. Boston Traveller. The
ioker's point---Point No Point. IN. Y.
Commercial AdverNser. The ioker't
State Meyry.lsnd,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20

mot introduce you toeUncle MaluYe
until six months are 'pdst. I want lim
to believe that I have been thoroughly
devoted to him for the last two years,
ever since he took me from the convent
school where 1 became pupil-teacher
when my father died.
At the end of the six months, on my
twenty-frst birthday, he has half
promised to make over to me this house
and grounds aud all they contain, and
the probability of the half promise be-
coming whole one and being fulfilled
is very much stronger if he be kept in
happy ignorance of our love affair than
it would be if he even suspected my
years engagement to you. So you see,
my dear boy, it is all nonsense-romantic
nonsense your urging me to confess to
my uncle in hopes of Fastening our mar
riage.
1t would be consummate folly to run
such risk, for there's no telling what
these very good people will do when all
their lifelong preiudices receive sudden
shock.
Uncle Maurice finding that / had de.
ceived him might Danish me to the
obscurity from which he took me
Then we could never marry, for you
have but small income, scarcely suf
ficient to procure the comforts an(
luxuries absolutely necessary to mar
of society, and ] have nothing but love
for comfort and luxury commensurate,
with your own.
Be patient, trust to me and you
patience shall soon be rewarded. Ant
really, when one comes to consider, yol
have much less to complain of than
You have no disagreeable old uncle tC
find fault with you. For, as 1 have tolt
you before, Uncle Maurice, though
great favorite with most people, is ex
tremely disagreeable to me. We haven
taste, affecting in common, and were i
not for the benefit accruing, ] would no
remain beneath the same roof with hin
another week,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20

A gentleman at least quarter of
mile distant from the handsome house
toward which he is fastening tall,
broad-shouldered, with a scholarly stoop
mild, gray, truthful eyes-gentle, re-
fined mouth, honest, serious face-hair
and beard slightly silvered, and hands
filled with treasures gathered in the
woods.
The fierce wind meets him-battles
with him a moment-then suddenly dies
away, and dying, drops an unaddressed
envelope at his feet. He bends and
picks it up-regards it a moment alb
stractedly-opens it-takes out frag-
ment of letter-in another moment
lets the forest treasures slip from his
grasp-steps backward pace or two
leans against the sturdy trunk of an old
chestnut tree and with puzzled look and
knitted brow reads what the wind has
brought him slowly and carefully
through from beginning to end, and this
is what he reads :
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-10-20

The gentleman had Just finished read
ing these lines when down came the
rain in torrents, but he deliberately
folded the paper and placed it in his
pocket, buttoned his coat across his
breast, crushed his soft, broad -brimmed
hat over his eyes and turned about in q
different direction from that which led
to his home.
Through the rain, along the muddy
road, under the wet trees he plodded
until the tiniest of tiny white cottages
loomed in sight. A pretty little cottage
in q pleasant tree-shaded lane running
off from the highway until steep green
hill said "Thou shalt go no farther. -
In front, small neat garden where tall
sunfower and hollyhocks guarded the
pathway; Virginia creepers and honey
suckles climbed the front porch and ran
wildly over the gabled roof, and just
before the door row of many-eolored
four-o'clocks were opening their leaves
and hinging a delicate fragrance upon
the air.
The shower. which had been growing
! lighter and lighter, ceased entirely % be
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
lFrom Tuesdays Daily. ]
Tie CornrIe0rIn Nyinrs.


Through n private letter received
from friend long n resident OF Cornu.
copia We obtain the gratifying intclli-
gencc that the prospects OF that camp
owing to tho greatly improved condi.
ton Of the mines, are moro iiattering
than at any time during year past.
Tho writer asserts upon undoubted
authority that i'll the upper levels OF the
Leopard, sufficient orc Of excellent
quality mas been recently developed 10
afford Tic means 10 iiluidatc the entire
Indebtedness Of the company, and leave
surplus Oh hand.
The IusSey mine is also reported as
looking remarkably well; good quail
~ OF orc being regularly taken out and
hauled 10 the leopard company's mill
where it is reduced and yields hand
Somcly.
At Tho Panther mine everything is
working satisfactorily; work upon the
new shaft to tap the vein, is being
pushed rapidly forward and all the
evidences are that so soon rs the ledge
is struck, tho Panther will take lead
ing position among the prominent
mines of tho great East.
The arrival of Mr.. Coffin, Friday,
WA hailed with pleasure, both Oh
account OF his personal popularity and
also from the understanding that pay
day was following close upon his heels,
and il there is u diurnnl division OF
time into which more multitudonous
array Of unalloycd pleasures und deep
seated sntisfnctions can be crowded;
without cliciting q growl or grumblr-
particularly after three lunar months
have been uncheered by its presence
it ia not down Oh tho calendar. There
iH cvory reason to believe however,
that for the ensuing year, pRy day will
put in its smiling appearance with the
regularity 0f former times. and the out
look for tho second advent Of lively
times mt tho. "IioIn" is very encourage
ing.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
LOCAL AND STATE NEWS.
[From Saturdays Daily.[



Ex-Governor Stafford OF Arizoun,
passed cast by tho train last evening.
lilo wan direct from Tucson, und will
remain on tho eastern seaboarI several
months TO conclude some unfinished
business that requires his attention.
John Booth OF the Rcrtiiit, came in
from the West by tho snmo train, and
otter passing the night in impenctrablc
seclusion, skipped out again by this
mornings train,
Fred Fisk was also passenger for
this place, from Eureka. aud remains
over for day or two.
DIR. W. w. Wixom, who for tho past
ten days had been confined to tho house
by very severe aitack Of nilammatory
rheumatism, has happily improved won.
derfully during the past Two days. md
being anxious to Get home ngain, vcn-
turcd to SET out this morning. Az he
Inns his own conveyance from Battle
Mountain he will probably survive the
trip, while coach would assurcdly be
the death OF him.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
I From Mondays Daily. /



Wn Rro requested to giro notice
through our columns. that committee
of ladies will on Friday next call upon
the citizens. soliciting subscriptions
for tho purpose Of obtaining sufficient
money to put tho church building in
good repair, Of which il il in very great
need.
Tho church belongs to the people OF
Elko, aud nS II largo number Of chill
drcn comprise the school taught within
its walla each Sunday, as well as being
tho only place at which divine services
may 10 grntuitously held within the
town. II should not certainly 10 suffer-
cd to lnck the fow repairs necessary 10
its preservation. Nothing has boon
dono toward this end for n long
limo past, and it IL now csti.
matcd that in order 10 place tho build
Ing in secure md comfortable condition
not lcgs thnn 500, will 10 required
Tho building, requires to DO painted
inside aud out, and II IL proposed
TO line and paper tho interior walls.
Tho necessity for tho mnintounncc Of
some sWc', cdifico, IL for 10 other pur-
pose than TINT through such action, IL
proper respect may DO observed in tho
ceremonies attending tho burial OF tho
dcnd, will DO recognized 10y all. and IL
10 earnestly hoped that tho citizens will
IN this instance respond to the Boliciln.
tiona for help to prescivo n building In
which all arc TO grcHtcr or lcss extent
intorehtcd, according 90 their means,
feeling that their donation will DO ju.
dicio"sly applied for tho purposes
above mentioned.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02

The Thanksgiving Ball Mt Pctorson's
Hall, last night, was tho nirnir Of tn
season. Tho floor il now III primo
condition for salt"tory cyolutions, and
tho music was all that could havc been
desired. Some thirty odd couples took
Inrs IN tho judgments Of tho evening
which wcrc actively pursued into tho
very teeth of , o'clock. Charley Stoliz,
"f CNrlin, wns ono Of tho fcstivcs, but
We noticed that his eXcriions had not
incnrucitntcd him for business at n
reasonable hour today.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
BuAineas Change.

BY notice published elsewhere in
this paper. 1t will be found that our
wrll-known townsman. Gabriel Cohn,
las established himself in business in
Elko. Tho large dry goods and cloth.
ing business formerly owned by Sol.
Lowcnberg. kas passed into the hands
OF Mr.. Coin. and will hereafter
DO conducted by HIM. Mr.. Cohn had
for years been one OF our most active
leading business men, and his return
to the old position will Le welcome
news to our citizens generally.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
YEtrra

NJ. j. Haynes, Statc agent for i. II.
Mallory " Co.'s celebrated Arrow
Brand fresh baltimore Oysters, is in
daily receipt by Express, Of these luc.
ious bivnlvcs direct from Tho Atlantic.
Secured In leo at baltimore, they aro
rop"okod IN omoha and ngoin In on.
den, arriving hero fresh rs when takcn
from their nNtivo element. These oys.
tors aro superior TO any in tho market,
md they will DO promptly forwarded
to parties ordering from tho agent, re-.
packed In leo from tho Depot horo.
Address N. I. Haynes, Elko. Nov.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02

robert Chalmers, OF Cclomn arrived
hero from Utah, yesterday aud after n
day In town look the train for Caliior-
nia.
A. N. Stoddard also nrrived from
Snlt Lake yesterday, aud has dotermin.
cd upon becoming n resident OF Elko.
Dick Dryer and +. W. Cnntan mr..
rived horo by tho train from San Fran.
cisco, yesterday.
Low Willard Is loading his teams
with tho ongino for tho Independence
inino nj Tu8carOra.
q. ii. Shepherd cnmo In from tho
Fork this evening.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
[From Wednesdays Daily. /
New Advertisements.

Tho new md peculiarly attractive
Holiday advertisement for the jewelry
establishment of James Brain & Co.
appears in this Issue, and persons pro-
posing TO make Christmas and New
Year presents to their friends, relatives
or swcet-hcnrts. will. by looking over
the long AMI choice list OF handsome
articles enumerated, find something
that will just meet the requirements of
the OCCASION, and that too at prices
which defy competition.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
Wants to PurclInae.

Richard Hyde, gentleman veil
known in this county, is now here from
Idaho, and is DESTROYS of purchasing
five .hundred head OF cattle which lie
will. il successful in accomplishing: his
object, take cast to the State of Iowa,
where ho proposes to winter them and
lit them for market in tho Spring. This
mus be regarded as M entirely new
phase Of the cattle business. and Ct.
fortls our rnnchcrs additional facility
for disposing Of their surplus stock.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
CruckCry tynrr.

Mossrs. Peterson & McPhctors have
to-day added TO thoTr stock OF furnituro
paints. oils, etc., full assortment of
erockcry and quccnswnro, md will
hereafter deal largely in this limo Of
wares. Their supply received direct
from San Frnncisco is tho largos, md
Of tho most complete variety yet brought
to this market, embracing us IL docs
everything that might DO REQUIRED 10
supply the demand Of lhis section.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
ELctglIt, kiIIpnrtI.

BY teams for Tuscarora to-day, by
Smith & Wilscy; a. Yeates and J. II.
Parker, timbcrs for Dc Frecs Co.; Il.
Cahiil, j. q. Blacker, l.. Van Camp,
Pat. McDcrmott. w. S. LOWS. David
Allen md Geo. Overman, loaded with
lumber. aud Banning, McBurnoy, Chas.
Stewart, Henry Irving and Tom Atwell
with general mcrch grtlise.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
Photographic TrHnxfrr.

Following the arrival and departure
Of tho Telcgrnphic Magnates from Salt
Lake City, comes tho announcement
that tho consolidation of the Western
Union md Atlantic Pacific lines is to
be verified by the transfer of the lalter'e
Office in TINT city to that of the former,
tomorrow. Tho snmc courso will be
pursued here at the Same time, wo un.
dcrstaDd.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02

l'y rail, today. wcrc as follows: Two
cars Of grain for Reinhnrt e. o.; ono
ear OF powder and ono OF OF! for John
Ainlcy; ono ear Of lumber and ono Of
wood for Smith & Wilsoy; ono car Of
wood for J. q. Grant; ono car of wood
for JHko Garrccht; ono ear OF wool for
j. Talbot md two cara Of general NOR.
chgudiso, ....
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02

An unusual number Of freight icnms,
oven for thcso busy times, were loading
mud dtacllarging at tho dcpois and
warehouses today. Some hnlf.doacn
or moro pulled ont for 1'uscarorn md
sovcrnl moro arc ready to follow. Grain
from tho valleys is also arriving in great
prolusion. Roinhart & Co.'s second
brick warehouse Ia again nearly filed,
and still il comes.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02

James Gninbl" General Surcrintcm.
dent Of tho Pacific Division Western
Union Telegraph Company, passed
cast on last evenings train. IIo will
meet President Orlon and wife and
General Anson Stngcr, General Super.
ihdcnt "f tho Western Division aud
other Western Union officials Mt Salt
Lake to-day, and return With them in
their special car TOMORROW morning,
bound for tho Hay.
The weekly Elko independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 1872-1887, 1877-12-02
DeIltIStry,

T. Gardiner, d. d. S., senior men,
Der Of tho firm OF Gnrdinier Bros. the
we'll known practical dentists. has taken
rooms for fow days Mt the Depot Ho.
tel. where he mny be consulted at Ill
hours in the limo Of his profession.
Tho established reputation Of the Gard-
inier Bros. in tho profession OF Dentis-
try is n sufficient guarantee OF their
thoroughness and requires no comment
from us.