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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-08
" Ayers e.
Hair Vigor,
For restoring to Gray Hair its
natural Vitality and Color.

gloss and freshness Of youth. Thin
hair is thiekened, falling hair checked,
and badness often, though not always,
cured by ats use. Nothing can restore
the hair where the follicles are de-
stroyed, or the glands atrophied and
decayed; but such as remain can be
saved by this application, and stimu-
lated into activity, SO that a now
growth of hair is produced. Instead
of fouling the hair with a pasty sedi-
ment, it will keep it clean and vigorous.
Its occasional use will prevent the hair
from turning gray or falling off, and
consequently prevent badness. The
restoration of vitality it gives to the
scalp arrests and prevents the forma-
ton of dandruff, which is often so I'M
clearly and offensive. Free from those
deleterious substances which make
some preparations dangerous and inju-
rious to the hair, the Viger can only
benefit but not harm it. If wanted
merely for HAIR DRESSING,
nothing else can be found so desirable.
Containing neither oil nor dye, it does
not soil white cambria, and yet lasts
long on the hair, giving it rich, glossy
lustre, and grateful perfume.
Prepared by Dr.J. c. Aver & Co.,
Practical and Analytical Chemists.
LOWELL. MASS.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-08
The Universal Pile Pills.

strikes at the root Of these causes Of
functional disease of the liver:
FIRSTLY relieving the acidity
of the stomach, and rendering the di-
gestive functions perfect.
SECOND.--By supplying the blood
with proper food material to perfect
the sccrctions of the bile.
THIRDLY gently stimulating
the restored orgaus to q vigorous eflic-
iency,.
In this harmless yet certain remedy
is found the only physiological and
philosophical solution of this great
Problem in Medical Science.
The absence of all poisons in the
remedy makes it equally safe in the
hands of the non-professonal, us it is
in the hands of the scientific practit-
ioner.
Price soc and $1.00. For sale by
all druggists and dealers in medicine.
Sent post paid on receipt of price by
f. Il. SMITH & Co., Sole Proprietors
Middleburyrvt. 23-ly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-09-08

For the RELIEF and
cure Of all derange-
ments In the stOm-
Hch, liver, and bow
els. They are a mild
aperienH and an
excellent pgrgntiye,
Being purely yege
table, they cohtalh
no mercury or piine-
raj whatever. Much
serious sickness and
suffering Is prevent
Ell nv thrir timely
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
How Some Independent British Girls
Marry.

The richest heiress now on the engaged
list is Miss Crawshay, the daughter of the
Vulcan of the Hills in South Wales. Her
dowry is said to be 100000, and she is
about to bestow this with her hand and
heart upon brief1ess barrser on the South
Wales circuit. should be very happy to
take her sister upon the same terms, if
felt inclined to marry-for money. These
ironmasters' daughters have very
considerate way of selecting poor men for
their husbands, for Sir George EIiott's
daughter married one of the special cor
respondents of the Daily Ne,os, and a few
DAYS ago the heiress of a Durham colliery
proprietor bolted with the editor of u
north country newspaper. 1t is said of
one of these ladies-perhaps it would be
cruel to say which--for the manGuvre
after all was innocent enough-that meet
ing with gentleman on board a steamer
which was engaged in laying deep-sea
cable in the Atlantic, they very naturally
took to flirting on the quarter deck. The
lady was all alone except with papa. The
gentleman made himself agreeable, and,
being tall and handsome, Of course soon
ingratiated himself with the iron kings
daughter. One day, finding himself alone,
he proposed there and then. "Hush "
SAID the lady; papa is asleep on the sofa
and might hear you. Let us take stroll
on deck" ~ am very sorry" said the
lady, resuming the conversation on deck,
''but of course you did not know when
you were talking to me below that was
engaged. But have sister at home
who Is exactly like me, you would not
know us apart, and when we return home
| will introduce you to her" The in
PRODUCTION followed in due course, and
the marriage within six months. The
eourtship took place by proxy.-London
Letter..
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

The Caledonia (Wis.) Courier says:
1.-THE largest woman in the world, Mrs.
Ruth Benton, alias Fanny Wallace, died
at her residence in Vernon county, Wis,
on Friday last. She was tifty-four years
old, seven feet four inches in height, and
wei ghed 5S5 pounds. Her coffin was
made in this village, and was seven feet
eight inches in length, three feet six
inches in depth, four feet wide at the cen
ter, twenty four inches at the head and
twenty three inches at the foot. 1t re-
quired eight men with block and tackle
to lower the remains into the grave. She
was kind, good neighbor, loving
mother, and was beloved by all who
knew her. Knowing that she inevitably
must shuttle off the mortal coil all the
necessary preparations were made, and she
died surrounded by her family and many
friends, happy, contented, with an I'M
shaken belief in her adopted religion,
which was that of an Adventist
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
Educational Notes.

In the educational classification of the
States North Carolina stands next to the
foot.
The University of South Carolina
which was recently closed by the trustees
will probably be re-opened sometime
next year.
THE question of introducing algebra,
Latin and Greek, into the grammar grades
of the Cleveland schools, is under consid-
Grafton by the Board of Education. a :.
In the schools of Rochester, N. Y, a
work on civil government is to be substi-
tuted for the study Of physics in the first
grades of the Grammar schools, and al
zebra is to take the place of history.
1T is said that at Oberlin not a few of
the students get through the year with
out spending over $3.50, all told. Twenty
seven dollars year covers the entire cost
of tuition, incidentals and library fees in
even the highest departments. Board
and rooms in the town are very cheap
Scarcely one of the professors, it is re-
ported, gets a salary on which he can sup
port his family. SO they preach on Sun
days, teach during the vacations, write,
etc.
NJ. LEGOUvE, the clever Frenchman,
says that in America reading aloud is
counted as one of the elements of public
instruction; it is one of the bases of early
education; while in France it does not
even rank with the lighter arts; it is re-
garded at best as curiosity. After many
years Of study and experience, M. Le-
gouve has become convinced that reading
is an art, and he is DESTROYS of introducing
it among the various branches of educa-
ton in his country.
THERE are now in Paris about 427
schools for elementary instruction. The
number of pupils received is about 3d.
ATT. Notwithstanding the heavy burden
of debt upon the city, and the enormous
taxation rendered necessary by that debt
and by the necessities of the State, the
municipal government is making strenu-
Gus efforts to provide every Partisan with
the rudiments of an education. Above
the elementary schools, the city has also
founded several superior schools, and a
few technical schools, and it is improving
them.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
A Scotch Rain.

Loeb and adjacent mountains were
stepped in rain and mist; darkness
brOoded over the moor; the green slope
of Ben dig was changed to yellowish
brown, and streaked with brawling tor
rents; and the one rambling street of the
little town sloppy and deserted, and over
cast with that appalling dreariness which
is to be found in its very acme only in a
seward town during rain-and-mist
storm. Not an honest, clustering, an
CRY storm. am patriotic! Not only so,
but can gaze hopefully at a whirlwind
of temper, while loathe sullenness, or,
as the Scotch used to call it, 'strunts, v
in their own very incisive but now almost
discarded language. Therefore give me
a merciless Vermont tempest, that de-
scends at once in all its might and fury
and exultant ferocity only to be forth
with rent and hurled back into Erebus at
the peremptory, resistless beck of his
solar majesty; give me that, trebly en-
ragged, before the mean, oozing, pervad-
ing, silent, disheartening clamminess of
embrace of a Highland rain mist. Was
there ever Scottish poet who left his
own county to look on other skies, and ,hav-
ing returned to it, sang its soaking glories
in the tender but nothing better
strains of his youth! 1t is not the
heavens that seem to rain in Western
Scotland; it is the earth itself that APP
pears to be throwing up this sombre. pale
exhalation of miasmatic vapor. When,
oh when, did the Princess of Thule live,
that she should have been so highly ia
ored beyond other mortals of the damp
and-eerie hating order!-Appletons' Jour
nal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

ORIGIN OF brother JoNATHAN.'-
In our Revolutionary days when "loes
were strong and friends few" the "ship
of State" seemed upon her beams end
In these trial days of peril and perplexity
Gen. Washington was wont to say, Let
us counsel with Brother Jonathan To
Washington, the advice of Gov. Jonathan
Trumbull seemed like the words of a
prophet and Bother Jonathan became a
by -phrase-America personified.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

THE USE OF BALLOONS IN WARFARE
1t appears, from the report of the result
of series of experiments to determine
the utility of balloons for accommodating
purposes, recently carried on in Germany,
and extending over considerable length
of time, that after repeated trials a bal
loon was constructed that could be packed
in q comparatively small space, and
carried about without being damaged or
rendered in any way unfit for immediate
use. A second difficulty arose in provid-
ing portable apparatus capable of sup
plying sufficient quantity of gas for
the imitation of the balloon whenever and
wherever it might be required to use this
latter. But this impeachment was likewise
overcome, and an apparatus was designed
which could generate, in from two to
two and half hours enough hydrogen to
raise balloon carrying three persons.
Unfortunately, however, there has been
found to be yet another obstacle In the
way of using balloons for accommodating
purposes for which no remedy can as yet
be devised. From the height to which
the balloons must ascend useful observa-
tons can only be made by the aid OF
telescopes. The balloons must, however,
necessarily be captive, that is, they
must be confined by rope and prevented
from drifting away, perhaps only to fall
into the hands of the enemy; and it is
found that when there is the slightest
current of air such captive balloon be-
gins to rotate about its vertical axis, and
this so rapidly rs to prevent observations
being made with the necessary accuracy
and detail. Consequently the conclusion
has been arrived at that captive balloons
can not at present be used for recennoit-
ring purposes, and that, therefore, en-
ploymcnt of balloons In war must 1e
limited to carrying dispatches and infor-
mation.-PA Nal Gazette.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

Why PERSONS ARE DROwNED.-Per-
sons are drowned by raising their arms
above water, the unbuoyed weight OF
which depresses the head. When a
man falls into deep water he will rise to
the surface, and will continue there if he
does not elevate his hands. II
moves his hands under the water any
way he pleases his head will rise so high
as to allow him full liberty to breathe and
if he will use his legs as in the act of
walking upstairs his shoulders will rise
above the water SO that he may use less
exertion with his hands, or apply them
to any other purpose. These plain di-
rections are recommended to the recol-
lection Of those who have not learned to
swim in their youth, as they may be
found highly advantageous in preserving
valuable Wo6urn Adrerfiser.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

A LITTLE Buffalo girl decorated her
pet terrier with her gold chain and
locket the other day. The pet went OF
very proud of his ornaments, and returned
shorn Of them. The little girls conf
dence in pet dogs has received sad
blow.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

ABOUT aces strawberry festivals have
been held in Iowa since the season opened,
with an aggregate consumption Of a,ee7
Strawberries, and q gross income of ~
26s.--Haokeye.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

AN INCIDENT.-Gen Santa Anna was
in command of the Mexicans at Cerrt
Gordo. He was utterly defeated anC
compelled to retreat, with heavy losses
In prisoners, material, and killed anC
wounded. Gen. Shields was dangerously
wounded in the fight, and of course was
left behind at Jalapa. When he became
convalescent he was informed that lady
living opposite the house where he lay
had been very kind, attentive, and had
been of much help to his attendants
AS soon as he was allowed to walk out he
went to thank her, when he learned to his
surprise that she was the daughter OF
Santa Anna. In the course of CONVERSE
ton that followed he remarked:
But did you know who it was that you
were ministerng to all the time''
Not at first, she replied. Il discov-
cred after time that you wee
Gen. Shields, who had heared was
killed."
perhaps, had you known at the first
that was one who had large share in
the defeat of your father, you would nO
have received me-
She drew herself up with an air of an
old Castilian. Sir she said, had you
with your own hand killed my father in
fair fight | would have done for you in
your extremity just as much as l now
have
And she looked it as we'll as spoke it
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04
How the British Soldier Suffers on
Parade.

Perhaps, all things considered, it is as
well the British soldier was not sent to
Constantinople the other day. The march
from Aldershott to Windsor and the hard
ships he underwent while being received
by the Queen were too much for him.
Too much if it be true, as stated, that the
casualties of the day amounted to near
one thousand out of the fourteen thousand
men engaged. The corps might have
gone through tolerably brisk action
without losing greater percentage. Heat
and fatigue were the cause of the gaps in
the ranks, and there are the usual ex-
planation that the men were overmarched
and kept needlessly long under arms.
Probably that is true, but there is no rea-
son to suppose it would be less true if the
troops had been in actual service. 1t is
affirmed also that the Queen had been ex-
pected to go to Aldershott and review
the troops there. Disliking to expose
herself to the heat and dust, she ordered
her little army to Windsor. 1t may ap-
pear to the impartial outsider that the
heat and dust were not likely to be less
for IA 900 men marching from Aldershott
to Windsor, than for one elderly lady
driving from Windsor to Aldershott in a
carriage. But there can beno doubt that
the army ought to have been able to do
what was asked of it; and if it were not,
the sooner the fact was ascertained the
better. 1t will not do for staff officers
to complain of "short notice." 1t might
happen that the Russians would some
day be so forgetful of good manners as
to give them no notice at all.-L0ndon
Cor. Of the Nelo York Tribune.
REQUISITES FOR A NEWSPAPER MAN
Curtis Guild, in a lecture before the
Boston newspaper men, said: "What
then, some one may inquire, are the re-
quisites for the newspaper business? An
answer to this suggests itself to my mind
in a reply, in somewhat powerful terms,
I will admit, that made to a pale, hol-
low-chested young man of twenty-five or
three, who once waited upon me with an
inquiry of a similar nature. He had a
few thousand dollars, and had just grad
uated from college, and wanted to join
paper! This is thought by almost
every one outside of the business one of
the easiest and pleasantest things in the
world to do-and SO it is, if you have
plenty of money to start with; but it is
not the starting, but the keeping of it 60
ing at profit, that calls for brains.
recall row the reply, probably prompted
by days severe and exhausting work,
when, after listening as patiently as pos
sible to the young mans crude notions
respecting business in which he had no
experience, he begged would tell him,
in as few words as possible, the qualifca-
tons necessary to prosecute the business
successfully. He was somewhat startled
by the assertion that they were as follows
A brain as flexible and elastic as steel, a
memory as tenacious as iron, a temper
even as that of saint, a digestion equal
to that of an ostrich, and the endurance
of adamant."
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1877-10-04

He who is loved by man is loved by
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-24

The state board of health of Massa-
chusetts has issued an elaborate circular in
regard to hydrophobia, describing the Symp-
toms of the various stages Of the disease,
and affirming that an attack can be generally
avoided if the wound from rabd animal
be thoroughly washed and cauterizcd at
once with white.hot iron or nitrate Of sill.
yer. The circular sets forth that pet dogs
which are kept in heated rooms are
overied, and stray ours, which have no abid
Ing place and are half starved, are more
likely to 60 mad than other dogs.
Mr.. Horace Days speculation at Nj
agara Falls has not proved a success; but
the company that has bought the water.
power for $7l ,00O ought to make money out
of it. Mr.. Day valued his property and fran.
chise at over million and actually sold one
two hundred ana fiftieth part of the power
short time ago, for $1,000. But even Nj.
agara Falls is Of small pecuniary value if
you have not the means to make use of it,
The water.powcr that was sold yesterday is
something tremendous. 1t is estimated at
l6,s0OOOO horse power, to produce which by
steam would require the annual consump.
tion of about all of the coal produced in all
the mines of the world ld.-Phauidphia Times.
The New York Express, of Saturday
last, under the head Of "FoOd for Europe"
said: "Five steamers sailed to-day from
this port "loaded to the muzel," but net
with powder nor ball, arms nor ammunition,
but chiefly with wheat, corn, bacon, beef,
cheese, lard butter and canned meats.
Fresh beef goes by hundreds OF tons, bacon
by thousands Of boxes, lard by hundreds of
tierces. There is also y remarkable ships
ment of agricultural implements-one hun
dred and fifty tons by one vessel for Liver.
pool, fifty by another for Germany, with four
hundred boxes of sewing machines for Glas.
gov. All this is apart from the shipments of
cotton, tobacco and other articles"
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-24
Prerequisites of Success.

Integrity of character and truth in the
inner man are prerequisites of success in
any calling, and especially so in that of
the merchant. These are attributes
which never fail to command respect and
win admiration. No one fails to appre.
ciate them, and il they edo not pay" in
the vulgar sense of the phrase, they bring
an amount of satisfaction and peace to
the owner that all the wealth of Crwsus
could not yield.
There is no better stock in trade than
these principles; no capital goes 50 far or
pays so well, or is 50 exempt from bank.
ruptcy and loss. When known, they
give credit and confidence, and in ;he
hardest of times will honor your paper
in bank. They give you an unlimited
capital to do business upon. and every
body will endorse your paper, and the
general faith of mankind will be you
will not fail. Let every young man,
upon commencing business, look well to
these indispensable elements OF success
and defend them as he would the apple
of his eve. II inat'entive ana reckless
here, lie will imperil everything. Bank
ruptcy in character is seldom repaired IN
an ordinary lifetime. A man may suf-
fer in reputation and recover; not 80 the
man who suffers in character.
Be lust and truthful. Let these be
the ruling and predominating principles
of YOUR life and the reward will De cer-
tain, either in the happiness they bring
TO your own bosom, or the success which
will attend upon all your business opera
tions in life, or both.-Imericap Mmu.
tIciUTrf
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-24
Iron Cross Ties.

The great and increasing cost OfwOoden
railway cross ties is directing the atten-
ton of managers in two directions.-to
the cultivation of more durable timber,
and to the use of iron. We have alluded
to the fact that iron ties are being tried
on the Central Pacific Railway. A
treatise has Just been published in Eng
land setting forth the great advantages
of wrought.iron in the construction OF
the permanent way for railways. The
author argues its superiority over timber
and points out the collateral advantage
that its adoption would be the signal for
a revival of activity in the iron districts,
whose stagnation has seriously affected
the railway interest. He recommends
Hills system, which is already adopted
on thousand miles of rail, and he states
that the slcepers have been contracted
for in Germany at about 50 per ton.
The system, it is further claimed Is SIM
plc, exact and economical. its maih-
tepance costs about one third That OF the
ordinary permanent way. The guage is
maintained under violent strains, and all
its narts are of unlimited durability,
with the exception of the rail itself.
Another recommendation is increased
security of traffic, ne perishable parts
beinr used in construction. The system
has found great favcr on the continent,
where many of the great lines adopt it.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1877-05-24
THE WEST,

The surrender of Crazy Horse and his
hand, added to the others of the worst
fighting Indians on the plains, who have
come into Red Cloud and Spotted Tail
agencies during the past ten weeks make a
total of over $500 souls. With these have
been nearly 5000 ponies and numerous tro,
phies from the Custer massacre. All have
reached agencies in suffering condition, and
aver that General Crooks policy Of dealing
with allies, and his vigorous field work have
combined to produce the result. Warriors
of this band report Sitting Bull with 800 or
,Co lodges Oh Dry ,reek, $50 miles north of
the Tongue river cantonment.
4 salt Lake City dispatch says that in
the tabernacle Sunday Brigham Young arose
,t an unexpected moment and broke forth
IN an address to the saints and sinners which
cave the latter to understand that II they
,ranted blood they could get plenty OF it,
and indeed, that they were likely to have
more Of il let out OF their veins than they
oould spare at an early period. Many die.
ereet genties are quietly arranging for the
rsmoval of their families at the first sign Of
IN outbreak. The Mormon legion are drill
inc in meeting houses, barns, stables and
,or,als in Salt Lake CITY and minor towns.
R,eech.loading rifles have been shipped in
.r.,t .unbers in the last fortnight tn this
plice.