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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
4 Erightfnl MASte.

Cigars, which in 1868, according to the
revenue returns in the United States,
were reported only to the extent of 199,-
288, 285, have now reached point almost
touching the two billionite figure, the
exact number being 1908, 14, ,S7.
There are 10000, 900 people in the coun-
try, men, women and children. Of yese
it is estimated 100000 are men, of
whom probably 1000, 1000 are regular
smokers, According to this every man
smokes 1000 cigars year, or five cigars
every day.
New York furnished $40, $40, $50 in a
single year. Pennsylvania made 361,- =
789,368; Ohio, 178, 227, ,038; California,
95, 149, 492; Illinois, 80, 9S6, 180, and Mas
sachusetts, so, 112, 241. The total taxa
bic number, since 1868, which includes
cheroots and cigarettes, was Is, 372, $50, e
500, or an annual average of 1,098,040,- :
036. Besides the domestic production
the cigars and cigarettes importedin into the
United States since 1868 are embraced in
this total, averaging, perhaps, 50,000,0 600
per annum. Beginning with 1919, 298, 284
i'll 1863-or estimating for twelve months
by the rate of return for the ten months
of that year-232, ,502, ,99S, the production
has gone ON increasing until it now an
nually reaches nearly two billions of ci-
'gars.
Let us take ten cents as an average,
and we have 2,000,000,000 cigars at ten
cents equals 100000, 900. Two hun
dred millions of dollars spent every year
for cigars and cheroots
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
The Mexican Tiger.

Mr.. Hunter, of Brooklyn, some seven
months ago procured from the captain of
a sailing vessel a beast which he termed
Mexican tiger. It was young at that
time, but was extremely vicious, and
Mr.. Hunter took the precaution to have
it's teeth extracted and its claws clipped
as fast as they grew and then confined it
in strong wire cage. Recently an owl
was added to Mr.. Hunters collection
and was brought into the same room with
the tiger. The result was disastrous.
The tiger caught one glimpse of the owl,
and his cage, which had heretofore been
large enough to afford him a genteel
promenade, suddenly became.too small
to contain him. For half a minute or so
'tEere was not part of the interior OF
that cage in which the tiger was not dis
tinctly visible all the time, and the noise
of his snarling overfowed the room and
deluged the sidewalk, attracting at once
a number of bystanders. Presently,
after shaking the wires of his cage till
they seemed about to give away, he
sprung at the door of it, which flew open
and gave him egress.
At that moment, according to the tes-
timony of number of eye-witnesses, the
air seemed to be full of that one tiger.
The room was luminous with his pres
ence, but he quickly focused on the
owls cage, which he battered wildly Ill
his attempt to get at the frightened IN
mate The danger of meddling with the
beast was not Immediately apparent, as
he is not much larger than the largest
size of ordinary house cats, and an at
tempt was made by several to tear him
away from the cage and restore him to
his own quarters 1t was only mo-
mentary attempt, however, for as soon
as he realized it he mastered the situa-
ton by selecting the largest Of his as
sailants, Mr. Baird, and springing on
his back, he made his way through the
substantial clothing and went into the
flesh beneath 1t would probably be
difficult now to convince Mr.. Baird that
that tigers claws were ever pared.
Mr.. Baird is very stout and does not
look like one given to rapid running,
but his time from the stove in the sample
room to the shuttle board room below has
never been equaled. Re-enforcements
arrived Immediately, and by throwing q
large bag over the. tiger he was captured
and put back into his cage, where be
spelf the remainder of the day in sullen
exultation, Mr.. Baird was not seriously
lpiured,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
A Social Gathering.

The following, from the Golden Rule,
contains an account of Informals "
which may be of use to our readers :
Early in the season, say i'll November,
the owner of cozy little home sent a
note to families embracing thirty or forty
of his friends-no more than his double
rooms would seat comfortably-stating
that he would be cat home" Friday
evenings during the winter from seven
to eleven, and should be glad to have
them come when they pleased. do as they
pleased, and go when they pleased. They
were requested to come in without ling
ing, and soon learned to dispose of their
wrappings and themselves without
troubling any one. The rooms were
brightly lighted, well warmed and venti-
lated. There were tables for those who
wished to play cards or other games, an
open piano and music for the musically
inclined, books, magazines and papers
str9wn about, easy chairs around the
fire for story tellers or visitors. No
refreshments were served, but in one
corner was table with apples and pop
ped corn, or walnuts and raisins, candy,
o4-oA eSpetltuly cOlu nlSIlHa-dll tlIn VI
coffee and plate of doughnuts-to
which all were invited to help them
selves, or others, as they wanted
Husbands, wives, or young people, came
alone or together, as was convenient;
stayed according to their pleasure; did as
they wished, and went, rs they came,
without more ceremony than CHEEKY
goodnight The meetings were
called Informals," and whether the
number in attendance was ten or forty
made no difference, for there was no ex-
pense or special trouble Of preparation
1t was proposed to have them rotate,
but the objection was held valid that by
50 doing there would always be with
some an uncertainty as to the place Of
meeting; rivalIies in entertainment
would creep in; dressing up would come
to be thought essential, and SO the char
acteristic charm Of the gatherings be
dispelled. They, therefore, continued as
they begun, and We're efficient in killing
off for those concerned, at least, the old
stand-up parties on one side, and pre-
venting social stagnation on the other
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
The Sting.RaY.

A Florida letter says: Big fish, when
struck, make beeline through the near
est channel for the inlet, their instinct
telling them to get to sea as quickly as
possible. Two New Workers who did
not know this fact met with a funny adj
venture. They were fishing in small
boat at the mouth of the creek, opposite
the inlet. They had been very success
full, and had made their last cast, little
before sundown, previous to starting for
home. One of them got tremendous
strike, and, after twenty minutes strug-
gle, he drew to the top of the water an
enormous sting-ray. The ray begun
moving his wings, churning the water
about, propeller fashion. The tide was
running out, and long pull was before
tnt pair. A bright idea struck them.
"Tie the beast to the bow" the leader
shouted, "and he'll propel us home. /"
No sooner said than done. The anchor
was lifted in a jiffy, and away she went,
but in the wrong direction; and, before
knife could be found to cut the cord,
the two smart Workers were almost over
the bar, with an extra mile against the
current added to the labor in store for
them. Sting-rays are more plentiful
than pleasant in these waters, and grow
to an enormous size. Ny companion
captured one that turned the scales when
landed at Isl pounds. He had hardly
lain five minutes on the beach when a
three-year-old hog tore out his entrails,
and hid himself within the cavity. An
other nearly sunk a good sized sailing
boat. A resident Of the place drove a
pair of grains, attached to a stout chain,
into one of them that he saw lying in a
shallow place, while polling past. With
the assistance of his comrade he succeed
ed in hauling the ray up and laying it
across the bow of the boat. Its weight
sunk the boat down so that the men had
to run to the other end of the boat to
keep it from going down. The fish be-
gun to flop, and every flop sent the
bow down and the water poured in. Had
it not been pushed off, the boat would
have gone down. In seining numbers of
sting-rays are taken. The fisherman cut
their tails off and turn them loose, and
they are often afterward captured with
hook and line in this condition, the
wound having healed. There is a gen.
tleman in New York who uses as a whip
the tail OF ray captured here that was
originally nine feet long and three inches
in diameter at the butt. The whip-ray,
another variety of ray, is also taken here
of great size. These fellows are some
what of pyisance. They take your bait
and walk right away with it at a ste'tdy
gait, no hurry and no halt. 1t is diff
cult to turn them, and if the hook be well
fastened something must break. An old
Narragansett Pier Quaker here, whom
they bother very much, appropriately
terms them animated barn doors"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06

The greatest density of population is
in Europe with eighty-two inhabitants
to the square mile, and the lowest in
Australia and Polynesia with one and one
third. In America, including North and
South, there are five and one-half inhab-
itants to each square mile of territory.
Averaging matters, people are not very
badly crowded anywhere on the globe.
The entire area of British possessions
outside of the kingdom is given at 1864,
752 square miles, with a population of
203, 941, 766-excluding, of course, the
Indian States.
The increase in America is upward of
!, 100000 over the number given in 1875.
The population of Canada is 1872, 116,
and the United States nearly 10000, 900.
Mexico stands at 9,276,079. The Central
American States show slight decrease,
the number this year being 1928, 164 ;
the West Indies, 4,316, ITS, and all South
America, 1909, 700, of which Brazil
claims upward of II, 100000.
There are 215 cities in the world with
populations of 100, 900 and over, and only
twenty-nine whose populations will ex-
ceed 100000. Those at or above mil
lion are -- Berlin, 1,044,00 Canton,
100000; London, 1S76,) 3,489, 42S ;
New York with Brooklyn 1878 1,535,
622; Paris 1851, 1872; Seangtan, Shan
chowfu and Singanfu (China), each
100000 and Vienna, 1,091, ,999.
The entire population of Asia is larger
by about $4,000, 600 than the estimate
given i'll 1875.
The population OF China is given as
4O5, 100000, with %, 500, 900 of outlying
people. Hong Kong seems to have de-
creased by upward of 1000 since 1875,
the number now given being 121, ,985.
Japan is set down at 33, 1890
The following are the populations of
sue leading fS5etes OF EurolS, according
to latest estimates
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
Crime in China.

Chinese crime is as curious a study as
French wickedness. Two families were
living under the same roof in Hankow,
and, as a matter of course, the house
was not large enough for them. They
finally separated, one couple moving in
to another house, and the other couple
remaining where they were, with their
son and a young girl to whom he was be-
trothed. Late in October the mother
of this young man received an invitation
to dine with her former dodgers, but de-
clined ON the ground that her husband
and son were away, and she could not
leave the house. The host said he would
remain in her house during her absence,
and accordingly she went to dine with
his wife. A short time after her depart
ure the son returned, and, failing to
gain admittance, clambered through the
window. The first object that met his
view was his bride, who lay upon a bed
with her throat cut from ear to ear. He
aroused his neighbors, and they searched
the house, finding a man lying on the
floor in an upper room with his throat
cut. 1t was the former lodger, who had
invited the young mans mother to din
ner. Beside him lay two bundles CON
tanning nearly all the jewelry and cloth
ing of his wife's guest. He had evident
ly been detected by the girl while he was
plundering the house, and had killed
her in order to escape conviction for rob-
berry; then, realizing the enormity of
his crime, he had cut his own throat
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
A Rush for Appointment.

The pressure upon the United States
Treasury department for official posi-
tions is greater now than at any previous
time within the recollection Of the ap-
pointment clerks. The applications from
all parts Of the country continue to in
crease by every days mail. There have
been at least 1000 discharges from the
department within the past four months,
taking into consideration the reductions
in the bureau of engraving. Yet people
leave their homes and await chances for
appointment. The appointment clerks
say there is absolutely no chance for
them whatever. Demands have been
made that vacancies shall be created for
applicants who are backed by strong in
fuence, but the department in its syste-
matte reductions of late have retained
only competent and worthy employees,
and it is found absolutely impossible to
comply with the appeals that are made.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
An Old Circus Man Dead.

Avery Smith, formerly one of the
owners of the European circus, and for
nearly half century connected with the
circus and menagerie interests in the
United States, died in Newark, n. j. In
the language of a veteran member of the
profession, he was the head and front
of the business. He first became at
tached to the travelling show with which
his father was identified, known as the
Original Geological Institute. The firm
was June, Titus, Angevine & Co. to the
public, but among the performers it was
known as the "Flatfoot Company.
Since then Avery Smiths name has been
foremost among the managers of the
great show enterprises. He was the
principal owner of the European circus,
and since it was wound up has been in
terested in the Roman hippodrome. Mr..
Smith was at different times in his life
in partnership with many of the well
known showmen, among them John J.
Nathan, June, Bailey and others. He
was known i'll Newark for his liberality,
and in that city is a church for whose
construction he advanced the money.
He had been perceptibly failing for sew
eral months from complication of dis
eases, and his death was not unexpected.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
Items of Interest.

A party of illegal voters in Cincinnati
have been sentenced to a year IN prison.
Each person on the globe would get
two dollars if all the gold were parceled
out
Sankey protests against his reviva
tunes being arranged for waltzes and
quadrilles.
Spicer says he meant to have had his
sidewalk ashed during the cold spell, but
he "slipped up on it. "
It is proposed to put roof, composed
of glass and iron, over the whole OF the
ruined town of Pompeii.
The season for going to candy pulls,
and getting into a fight over a freckled
faced girl with blue bow on, has come.
"Our earthly regulations" says great
poet, care the color of grass, and the
same sun that makes them green bleach
es it out again.
Every man stamps his value on him
self. The price we challenge for our
selves is given us. Man is made great
or little by his own will.
Many do with opportunities as children
do at the seashore-fill their little hands
with sand and then let the grains fall
through their fingers till they are gone.
The Breckenridge Ky.) Ne,Os is not a
belligerent 1t says; No, [ thank you;
don't want the musket and hard tack.
Pass the buckwheat cakes and honey,
please.
An Elgin Gil. newspaper has this adj
vertisement "Found-A buckskin
mitten. If the owner will leave the other
at this office he will greatly obige the
finder.
81 don't believe in fashionable church
es, said lady, recently; " but after all,
considering that we are all to go to the
same heaven, perhaps it's better to keep
up the social distinctions as long as We
can.
The hardest thing to get on with i'll
this life is a mans own self. A cross,
selfish fellow, desponding and COM
planning fellow, timid and care burden
ed man-these are all born deformed on
the inside They do not limp but their
thoughts do.
Justice Willes, Of England, was i'll the
habit of interrupting counsel A lawyer
who was thus annoyed one day said t.
him: "Your lordship is even a greater
man than your father. The chief baron
used to understand me after had done,
but your lordship understands me before
I begin. "
Why talk OF hard times and lack of
work when the following advertisement
appears in the Clipper: i: Il want man
Of courage who is willing to take
chances, to take charge of and hold a
disputed silver claim in Mexico, Free
transportation there, and good compen-
sation will be allowed. No labor-nerve
the only qualification requisite"
A Mexican, having wooed i'll vain a
young woman in Santa Monica, Califor
MIA, attempted such an exploit as is not
often successful outside of printed ro-
nance. He swooped down on her on
horseback as she was walking alone,
lifted her to his side and rode away.
This young woman was more muscular
than most heroines in novels, and she
scratched and kicked in a vigorously TO-
mantle way The Mexican was glad to
drop her at the end Of half a mile.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
After Twenty Years.

Although you've been a husband true,
lis many year gone by, John,
And I'm faithful wife to you
(And will be till die, john.
we led lonely sort of life,
With no sweet child to b ess us,
Till Bessy came last Christmas day,
To comfort and caress us.
Our baby has a father gray,
Another none too young, John,
And yet it seems the time of May,
Fer since our birding sang, John
She brought new life into the house, ~.t~
The little, prattling stranger,
And, John, she binds you to your home,
Who might have been ranger.
Once every chair was in its place,
And not thing awry, John,
Yet We two, sitting face to face.
Would often breath a sigh, John;
But now upon our ample board,
Is daily placed between us
A picture plate and porringer,
From loneliness to wean us.
While she, our little baby queen,
With eyes SO like your own, John
CThe brightest, bluest ever seem,
Eats with us on her throne, John.
Heaven guard our precious little one
May angels fair, that brought her,
Protect from every eat'ning ill
The "old folks little daughter.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
GUILDHALL. VT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1877.

He walked over to her, his heart
humping in strong, audible beats, his
face pale, his eyes full Of tenderness.
He stopped beside her, and lifted her
lovely head
Erla, is it true you hate me quite as
much as they tell me? Erla dear little
girl, if you only knew how love YOU
Erla quick You do care for me, my
darling, my darling y
Her arms were clasped around his
neck, her eyes looking in his-and, as a
matter of course, the wedding cake was
wanted. 4
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
A Chance.

Why will scores of able bodied young
men stand on the street corners, with
their hands in their pockets, says the
Norristown Herald, when Baltimore
man advertises complete printing
offices" for three dollars and half i?
There is no excuse now for an idle labor
er not TO fill long felt want in the news
paper field-and suspend publication at
the end of two months, five hundred and
fifty dollars in debt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06

The increase Of the population estimate
for 1876 over that for 1875 is upward of
100000. OF course, it must not be
imagined this enormous increase is en-
tirely caused by the excess of births over
deaths as the area has been affected by
extended survey, so the population fig
ures owe their increase in a considerable
degree to the results of recent censuses
mainly in Europe and in India, and to.a
more accurate knowledge of regions hith-
erto imperfectly unknown.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06
POPULATION OF THE WORLD.

Interesting Statistics Made Up from the Best
Sources, and Worthy of Preservation.
The best authority estimates the whole
population of the globe for 1876 at l, 423,-
917, 900, and the area of the land surface
to be 81, $40, 800 square miles, thus giving
an average density of about twenty-eight
people to one square mile. These data
are apportioned among the various di-
visions of the globe as nearly as possible
as follows
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-01-06

Cleveland young women write COM
ments on the margins of the library
novels they read, One emotional crea-
tre writes; "trhe pangs of love are
CRATE have ben there my SELF"
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-19
Mother Grundy va. History--'Fnt
Plant ar q stSubscriber."

Messrs. Editors Of the Dispatch:
l beg to tender humbly to your mucs-
injured "Subscribcr Of twenty years
allegiance becoming apology for my inno-
cent agency in the implied displacement IN
YOUR valued columns OF congenial matter
BY the provoking John Smith discussion,
which has so long and 'grievously burdened
them. | would not willingly trespass on
the vested rights OF one even OF your nu-
merous readers. my little contributions
having been inspired as well by regard
Tor their delectation as by an lmpelling de-
sire to stimulate a general interest IN the
history OF our State. had understood
that the articles complained OF, which you
have kindly gren the public, have been
always made secondary to new or current
matter, and their publication deferred until
there was deazth of the last. DO not
know what may be regarded BY = Su bscri-
Der" as olive" newspaper matter, but
have seen the term applied to Po!ce Ga
zettes, and to narratives Of I" Horrid Muir
ders,'' "Tcrrible Accidents" and to the
pieuaut field of scandal. Is our pepula-
ton distressingly staid and law-abiding, and
does Subscriber bewail the too faithful
and respectable refections'in your "aocal }"
columns? Relief lies only in the talent OF
your accomplished rcportorial staff. To its
compassion commit your tortured - Sub
scriber." K. a. Is.
SEPTEMBER Il, 1877.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-19
BY Grubbs s " illiams.
Real Estate Agents and Auctioneers'
Eleventh street between Main and Bank.

COMMISSIONERS SALE OF A TRACT
" OF TWO HUNDRED AND SEXENITT,ff VI; IN W
ACRES AND THIRTY-SIX PERCHEs Ot LAS.D
decree of the Circuit Court Of Chesterfield county
entered May 10, 1877, in the case OF Bowies vs.
by appointed Will sell by auction, upon the premises
on FRIDAY the 21st' day OF September, at II
O'Clock A., the TRACT OF LAND sold by James
f. B0wles to w. e. fioufnoy, containing
II Is said Of this land that 1t lies on Swift creek
about four miles from the Black Hein pis mas on
jt good mill-silc with tine water-power, and Is thf
best wooded land In the vicinity.
TERMS: Cash sufficient 70 detray expenses or SUI
and of sale and TO pay of the sum OF S60S. O2, with
interest from 27th May, 1875; the residue upon
such terms az w. G.. Fournoy may direct, or, upon
his failure give any directions, the terms as TO tne
residue will be announced at the time OF sale.
1890 - = p. W. GRUBBS, "A
sslg Acting Commissioner
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-09-19

AKENTuCKY VIEW OF IT.-The Cynthiana
(Ky.) Neus thus expresses itself: "The
South did not err i'll defending itself.
The South never asked or demanded any
thing but her constitutional rights, and her
people defended themselves against north
ern hordes- who made war upon them I'M
constitutionally, oStensibly for the integrity
OF the Union, but in reality for robbery and
plumber. The Republican party never have
endorsed the Constitution OF the United
States, but openly and boldly denounced it
as "a league with HE'LL asserting that they
would rather see the republic destroyed
than continued as it was. when the war
was concluded that party found itself i'll
open opposition and at war with the Con-
stitution OF the country, and, to make them
selves loyal to that palladium OF our liber-
ties, they were compelled to get up three
new amendments, and then ram them down
the Threats of the people with bayoucts."