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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
TERRIFIC TORNADO IN ILLINOIS.
Mount Carmel Almost AnnihiIated by
StOrm-Many Lives Lost and Much Prop
erty Destroyed.

Mount Carmel Almost AnnihiIated by n
StOrm-Many Lives Lost and Much Prop
erty Destroyed.
A tornado which swept through por-
ton of Illinois, overturned houses in its
path, burying their inmates in the ruins,
and causing the death of a large number
of persons as well as the destruction of
an immense amount of property. The
scene is described as follows Two con-
verging lines of devastation prove that
the tornado partook largely of the char
acter of cyclone. The first wreck was
frame farmhouse, which was blown
out at the sides, letting the roof down
upon the foundation. Thence the wind
swept over q small strip of timber, and
was met by q counter-current of wind
from the west, which did no serious
damage, except to fences in its course.
These currents met on Fourth street
below Main street, Mount Carmel, with
a force which is described to have re-
sembled the crash of timber or the flap
ping of sails, and in the space of few
seconds the air was filled with the debris
of hundred dwellings,, public build
ings and business houses. Some of the
wreck was carried distance of mile.
The principal force of the cyclone was
spent on the line of Fourth street, run
ming northeast to the woods west of the
river, where the wind was again raised
from the earth. Half square above
Main street, ON Fourth street, the furious
eddying of the storm carried the Metho-
dist church steeple in the opposite direc-
ton, landing it 300 feet away in front of
a saloon. The bell was dropped in the
middle of street near by. A little boy
who was coming from school below Main
street was lifted above the houses and
landed unhurt at his house half mile
south. He said he passed over the
church steeple as it went the other way.
The fury of the storm was spent in the
business portion of the town. In some
cases buildings were only unroofed, but
the demolition of other houses was COM
plete. The Presbyterian church is razed
to the ground. The loss on property by
storm and fire was estimated at $500, 600
but interest therein was absorbed in con-
cern for the dead and missing.
1t being rainy day, many farmers
who could not work at home were in
town. The county court was in session
also, which brought many people to the
city. Men, women and children were
blown in many instances distance OF
four hundred feet, as if they were feath-
ers. The best part Of the town is de-
stroyed. Some seventy families were
houseless, and much distress was feared.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
Out On a Fly.

A trio of ladies got on the special
Chicago express going West, and dis
covered when the train was in motion
that they were going in the wrong direc-
tion. Two of them rushed for the plat
form and jumped. The momentum of
the train threw them off their feet, and
they rolled over in the depot yard. The
third ran through the train to the plat
form of the rear car and then jumped.
But tickle fortune favored. A very fleshy
reporter happened to be standing there,
and seeing the predicament of the lady
opened his arms. She jumped. He
staggered under the force of the concus-
sion, but held on 1t was a good catch
and happy escape from injury, as the
train by this time had increased its speed
to a pretty good jog. No sequel. - Utica
Observer.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16

abundant in June, and ought to receive
prompt and thorough attention.
Persons who have young pear or apple
trees affected with the bark-louse have
probably found most of their efforts to
get rid of the pest Intellectual. If they
will examine their trees about apple
blossom time very closely they will dis
cover the newly-hatched lice moving
about the bark appearing like minute
white specks. Now, ego for" them with
brush and strong soapsuds and make
finish of them. If left until they form
scale covering, it will be too late, for
then they cannot be dislodged. Farm
Journal
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
GUILDHALL, VT, SATURDAY, JUNE 49, 1877.

espied shirt, apparently scarcely soiled. ex-
cept one sleeve, and that was black with soot
What ishe doing at the fireplace in summerY
thought, and went to examine. Afew minutes
sufiiced to convince me that the stove had been
moved out and the elbow of the pipe removed.
repeated the process to find a roll of five
hundred-dollar notes, and small notebook.
with the name Rufus Markham on the first
page. 1 replaced everything carefully and
came home. Now, Mr.. Potter, he must be
taken by surprise, or he may say Fred put the
notes there"
"You are brave girl !" cried the old man.
looking with admiration at the beautiful, ami
mated face, "and Fred will owe you more than
his life.'
"He can repay me by coming to tell me the
good news when he is clear"
Eight was striking by the city clocks when
Doctor Graham Arnold, dressed in the latest
fashion, and with a fragrant Havana between
his lips, strolled leisurely into his room.
He had been in the parlor of his boarding
house for an hour, watching Mr.. Potter
with some anxiety, but wholly unaware of
the little party of four, who, in Mr.. Potter's
temporary apartment, awaited his return to his
own room.
Once inside the door, the noncbalant look left
the handsome face of the young man, and he
muttered fiercely:
"I must get out of this ! Potter suspects me,
anu llldy I6J MS SuSplClOnStO TO MIR.
Markham. will be off tonight as soon as the
house is quiet"
He opened a small traveling-satchel, as he
spoke, and was rapidly filling it with necessa-
ries for journey, when he was interrupted by
a knock at the door.
Tossing the satchel into the closet, he cried ::
Come in ~
obeyed, and party of five entered his room.
Two policemen stationed themselves on his
right and left, while Mr.. Markham, Mr.. Potter,
and Fred Tryon followed.
"Now, Mr.. Potter" said one of the police
men, with the face and voice of the detective
Vodges, "will you tell Us where to find those
missing notesY
"What notes?" cried Arnold. "What does
this outrage mean? ?"
"It MEANS" said Mr.. Potter, I" that your
plan to throw the robbery of Mr.. Markham's
private desk upon his nephew has failed 1t
means that the five thousand dollars stolen from
that gentleman are now in your possession, ex-
cepting only one note given to Mr.. Tryon in
payment of debt ~
"It is a lie!" cried the prisoner but his
white face, faltering voice, and shaking limbs,
wereno proof of innocence. "Search my trunks,
everything I have"
"No, gentlemen" said Mr.. Potter. "Draw
out the stove, if you please, and look in the
elbow of the pipe!'
With a cry, Graham Arnold fell senseess
to the floor, as Yodges put his hand upon the
stove.
Mr.. Markham turned to Fred There was
no word spoken. Hand clasped hand, and
each read forgiveness and love in the others
eyes.
Mr. Graham Arnold spent some weeks in Jail
ere his trial and conviction; but before his
sentence was pronounced Mr.. and Mrs Fred
erick Tryon were crossing the ocean on we'd
ding tour to Europe, and only Mr.. Potter and
Fred ever knew of Maud's first and only ap-
pearance as Girl Detective
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
Thoughts for Saturday Night.

Goodness is beauty in its best estate.
Your goodness must have some edge
to it, else it is none.
1t is'much better to have your gold in
the hand than in the heart.
How did the atheist get his idea of that
God whom he denies?
The love of glory can only create a
great hero the contempt of it creates
great man.
One might as we'll try to calculate
automatically the contingent forms of
the tinkling of bits of glass in kaleido-
scope as to look through the tube of the
future and foretell its pattern.
Fortune, like other females, prefers
lover to master, and submits with i'm
patience to control; but he that wooes
her with opportunity and importantly
will seldom court her in vain.
To be thrown upon ones own re-
ources is to be cast into the very lap of
fortune for our faculties then undergo
development and display an energy of
which they were previously unsuscepti-
BILE.
Though fraud in all other instances
be odious, yet in matters of war it is
laudable and glorious, and he who over
comes his enemies by stratagem is as
much to be praised as he who overcomes
hem by force.
A man is thirty years old before he has
settled thoughts of his fortune it is not
compl ted before fifty. He falls to
building in his old age and dies before
his house is in condition to be painted
and glazed.
The sea as well as the air is free and
common thing to all and particular
nation cannot pretend to have the right
to the exclusion of others without vio-
lating the rights of nature and public
usage. lr
Nothing can he more absurd than the
idea that I" looking guilty proves guilt.
An honest man charged with crime is
much more likely to blush at the accusa-
ton than the real offender, who is gene
rally prepared for the event, and has his
face "ready made" The very thought
of being suspected of anything criminal
will bring the blood to an innocent mans
cheek nine times out of ten.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
Items of Interest.

The "big Krupp" gun is worth 800, O,O00.
Some of our big guns are worth $10,000,00O.
The king Of Siam signs himself " Chu Long
Korn." 1t is better, however, in the shape Of
succotash.
young man from Auburn, N. Y, who went
to Texas this spring, has telegraphed to his
father "Fatted calf for one."
superannuated Turkish officer has Just
been given a position where he will have moth
ing to do. He is paymaster.
We have reached that season when a girl
unintentionally leads her fellow up the street
that is most thickly populated with ice cream
saloons.
A Chicago man has invented an instrument
he calls "poison sucker" by means of which
he extracts the virus from wounds made by mad
dogs and other venomous beasts
In London they talk of establishing corps
to keep the sidewalks and pavements clear of
orange and banana peels. The death of q
well known citizen was caused there by his
slipping upon an orange peel.
"Mamma, if we cross the bridge at night,
why do you ask?" "Why, because the river
will have gone home to sleep" "Oh, the river
never sleeps" "Then why has it "a bed,
mamma"
little girl visiting neighbor was asked if
she would have some bread and butter "No,"
she replied, rather sorrowfully, my ma said
mustn't ask you for bread and butter !" then
suddenly frightening up she said: "Have
you got any cookiesE 7"
The tigress in the Berlin gardens lately gave
birth to litter of two but as nothing would
induce her to behave materially to them they
were added to the domestic circle of ladyNew-
foundland, who most affectionately took them
in and does for them.
! Paris Snowman recently presented to his
son-in-law, as his daughters fortune, an ele-
| phant that danced fandango; camel that
went down on its knees, head to the east, at
sunset a dog that cast up accounts, and two
canaries that played cards.
San Francisco firm has contracted to pay
forty cents apiece for the unlicensed dogs
slaughtered in that city. The skins are to be
tanned for glove making, the hair will be used
in plaster, the bones ground for clarifying
sugar, and the fat manufactured into oil.
$50 away you're too heavy to hold on my
knee" said cross young man to his sweet
hearts little brother. "Me too heavy" ex-
claimed the child "why amt SO heavy as
Eliza, and you hold her on your knee easy
enough r' Eliza also then told him to go
away.
was somewhat shocked when young man
got up in our young converts meeting and said
he had carried pocket pistol ever since he be-
came converted. But when he drew it out it
was Testament. hope every one of the
young converts will carry pocketpistol of that
kind. d.-MoOdy at Boston.
Lessing, the German author, was, in his old
age, subject to extraordinary fits of abstrac-
ton. On his return home, one evening" after
he had knocked at his door, the servant looked
out of the window to see who was there. Not
recognizing his master in the dark, and mis-
taking him for stranger, he called out The
professor is not at home" oh, very well,
replied Lessing no matter-I'l call another
| tinoa
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
Grandmother Gray.

Faded and fair, in her old arm chair,
Sunset gliding hm thin white hair
Silently knitting, sits Grandmother Gray;
While on my elbows beside her lean,
Aud tell what wonderful things mean d.
To have, and to do, if 1 can, some day.
You can talk so to Grandmother Gray;
She doesn't laugh, nor send you away.
1 see, as look from the window seat
A house there yonder, across the street,
With fine French roof and frescoed hall !;
The deep bay windows are full of flowers
They're. a clock of bronze that chimes the
hours, ...
And q fountain-I hear it tinkle and fall
When the doors are open 81 mean, say,
" To live in a house like that, some day.
Money will buy it," says Grandmother Gray.
There's a low barouche, all green and goli,
And pair of horses as black as jet,
I've seen drive by-and before I'm old
A turnout like that hope to get.
How they pranoe and shine in their harness
gay!
What fun 'twould be if they ran away?'
"Money will buy them" says Grandmother
Gray.
Tomorrow, know, a great ship sails
Out of the port, and across the sea;
Oh to feel in my face the ocean gales,
And the salt waves dancing under me
In the old far lands of legend and lay
l long to roam-and shall, some day."
"Money will do it, says Grandmother Gray.
"And when, like me, you are DID," says she,
And getting and going are done with, dear,
What then, do you think, will the one thing be
You will wish and need, to content you here?''
"Oh, when in my chair have to stay,
Love, you see, will content me-" say.
"That money won't buy" says Grandmother
Gray.
"And, sure enough, if there's nothing worth
All your care, when the years are past,
But love in heaven, and love on earth
Why not begin where you'll end at last?
Begin to lay up treasure to-day,
Treasure that nothing can take away
Bless the Lord ~ says Grandmother Gray.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
Perturbed Spirits.

A neighborhood on North Hill was
disturbed all one night recently by
dreadful, awful noises coming from a
haunted house. and the appalled, family
in the house itself never slept wink.
but sat up with palid faces and beating
hearts, alternately reading the Bible and
calling loudly for the police, while the
perturbed spirit OF the place walled and
shrieked and moaned and howled like
the echoes of despair But when morn
ing broke the mystery was partially
cleared away by the discovery that the
cat had gone into the cistern to wash its
feet, and had neglected to take fire
escape along by which to get out.--Bur-
linQton HaDkeye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
An Awful Struggle.

Astranger with weak back walked
into an Oil City drug store the other day
and said he wanted the strongest kind of
a mustard plaster. With fiendish grin
the clerk built up a terrible mixture and
passed it out. That night the inmates
of the hotel were startled from their
slumbers by loud cries in room fifty
seven. When the door was burst open
they found the stranger wrestling with
that mustard plaster in Gr@co-Roman
style. But the plaster had thrown him
twice, and was now humping him
against the wall preparatory to drawing
him through the transom. 1t took two
policemen to separate the two.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
The Monitor Superseded.

If the story told by the dispatches con-
cerning the blowing up of the Turkish
monitor is true then that peculiarly of
naval warfare which superseded almost
every form of man-of-war" has been
not only superseded but rendered USE
less. 1t matters not how impregnable q
craft may be from fort or ocean broad
side if torpedo can be placed under her
in broad daylight and her fragments
scattered all over the surrounding space.
Substantially, this is what was done in
the case referred to. The monitor was
able to fire upon the approaching craft
which carried the engine of destruction !;
but was not able to check it's onward
movement. And when this fact became
apparent, the supremacy of the monitor
ceased. It's elevation skyward was
merely excess of proof. The torpedo
showed itself king the minute it demon
strated it's capacity to advance under fire.
The whole question, therefore, of naval
warfare is opened again, just as it has
been scores of times when the discovery
of new gun or projectile has necessi-
tated more powerful ship, or Uice UerS0.
Iue powers Will Heets vi IRON -claoS can
no longer proclaim themselves masters
of the seas, for the most insignificant
power with practicable torpedo or two
can demolish their whole reliance The
torpedo must be met with an engine
more destructive and when this is ac-
complished the battle ground will only
be shifted, for the new must in it's turn
be destroyed. There is hope, however,
that as invention progresses, the imple-
ments of war, both.by land and sea, will
become SO frightfully destructive as to
put an end to war altogether. If the
day ever should come, as it probably
will, when war means humiliation of the
unsuccessful party to the conflict,
nations will be less eager to engage in it
than they now are.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
NO. "a.
Mizpall.
GENESIS XXI. 40.

The Lord watch between me and thee,
When we are absent one from another;
Though long miles away thou mayst be,
And hard fate each from the other
Forever divide, yet still must my prayer
Fer be the same-in hope or despair,
In days of soft peace, in suffering's breath,
In storm or in calm, in life or in death,
In right or in wrong, in good or in ill,
Ever the same, the same prayer still
The Lord watch between me and thee,
Thee, love, no other, 9''
Through might of the land, through power
of the sea,
Whereer thou mayst be,
While we are absent one from another.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-06-16
The Orchard.

The pear slugs will visit your pear and
ounce trees this season, no doubt. On
small trees destroy them by pinching
with the fingers; on larger trees throw
road dust or dry ashes on them when the
dew is on the leaves. They will be
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

SCHOOL Picnic AT SOUTH DUXBURY. -
The teacher, Miss Mariana Powers of
Moretown, and the pupils Of the school in
South Duxbury held picnic at the grove
south of g. II. CrandalPs, Saturday, June
30th, the summer term of school closing
upon that occasion. A large number of
the citizens and children were present. At
twelve o'clock the tables were spread and
all present partook of dinner. At two
o'clock p. NJ, Geo. II. Crandll called the
assembly to order and announced that the
school children would entertain those pres
ent with declamations, dialogues and songs
for an hour or two. The teacher then took
charge of her school and the programme
of exercises was as follows: Address OF
welcome, Miss Jennie Griffith; Declama,
tions, Alice G. Turner and Alice Pierce ;
Dialogue, Reading of the Will" Don
Turner, Willie Phillips, Charley Crandall
and VERNE Turner. A Song by Lille
johnson and Belle Crandall. A Charade,
Home-Sick," participated in by sixteen
different children and we'll acted. Dia-
logue." Specimen of Family Government"
Charley Louizell Roland Griffith, and
Matte Phillips. "A House-Maid's Solil-
oquy" by Belle Crandall was admirably
acted Declarations, Georgia Eagand
and Elmer Shonio; Dialogue, " Why Aunt
Sally never Married." Alice NJ. Turner
Lille johnson, and Belle Crandall; Decla.
nation, Bette Griffith, three years old
The laughable scene Taking Darkie's
Photograph " came next, and Miss Ollie
Pierce then gave the closing address.
Much interest in the exhibition was
manifested by the citizens of South Dux-
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

BASKET Picnic AT CALAIs.-A basket
picnic was held on the grounds of Benia-
min Wheeler, Wednesday, last week The
Sunday Schools of Calais and adjoining
towns, to the number of seven or eight,
participated in the festivities The weather
was fine, the recitations good, the address
es short, which your correspondent thinks
in good taste, and the gathering was prob
ably the largest ever assembled in Calais.
Not an accident happened to mar the fes-
tivites, and the whole affair passed off so
pleasantly to all that the wish that picnics
would come oftener was frequently eX-
pressed Mr.. j. V. r. Kent furnished ice
in liberal quantities, so that all could par
take of that best of all beverages, ice wa
ter, without money and without price.
His thoughtful generosity was fully apprc-
ciated by the'thirsty crowd especially at
dinner time. Mr.. Fassett, the organ man,
had splendid instrument there, for the
benefit of all, which action on his part
added greatly to the enjoyment of the &C.
casion. His genial qualities and readiness
to oblge make him always welcome.
The public are much indebted to Mr..
Wheeler for the use of his premises, and
for the care he took of his numerous
guests A well-delined road was made
through his fields by the many carriages,
which cultivation only will cause to dis
appear. From fifteen hundred to two
thousand people were in attendance. The
singing by Mr.. Foster and members of the
choir from New York, a solo and Duet by
Mr.. Fassett and Josie Kent, and a piece
by Miss Alice Shepard of Marshfeld were
particularly fine, while Hold the Fort"
by the audience, made the forest ring.
The exercises were under the direction
of Mr.. Lester Heath of Woodbury., who
acquitted himself in IL manner highly
creditabe to himself and pleasing to all.
After IL vote of thanks to Mr. Wheeler and
the invoking of Divine blessing by Rev.
o. Davis, the large party separated for
their homes, well pleased with their days
pleasure.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-07-11

bury, and the children went through their
parts very well, acting naturally and with
out that recitation style and afIectation
common upon such occasions. Where all
did we'll it would be invidious to name any
who particularly excelled in the parts act
ed by them. Miss Powers has the reputa-
tion OF being an excellent teacher, and
much loved by her school, and she planned
and conducted the picnic and exhibition
in very able and successful manner.