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e. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe, sis
ter Of Plymouths pastor and author of
the Byron story, has found scandal
down in Florida to expose. She writes
as follows to the CArisfian Union -
1.-TWO pairs of red birds have set up es-
adjustments in our orchard. the males
flaming and Haunting in the best Chi
nese vermillion coats, and the ladies
more daintiiy attired in suits Of reddish
brown, with scarlet beaks and claws.
Yesterday. as my gay lord and lady
were making love in the most approved
style, another lady red bird alighted on
a neighboring boush and began singing
her little song of Birdie, birdie, birdie,
Instantly my lady number one few at
her like little red-hot fiend, and drove
her out Of sight and hearing. | don't
know that my lord red cardinal had
even looked at the intruder: il is possi-
BILE he may have cast an indiscreet eye
that way and remarked: sWhat sweet
voice that lady has !' II he did, he
was soon taught better than that. No
free love nonsense among birds y
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

sTnlns7 - riss, Ancrsc necIoss.-
The use Of the snow writes Sguthes.
iand) when persons are thirsty dces not
BY any neshs aIlay the iasatiabte desire
for water; on the contrary, It appears
t0 .b6 sincsedsed m properties - sthe
quantity dsed, Isnd tie frequency wifa
lSlifA = 4 P1i int e hspks !. r.
exsHspIe. . Pef36n Walking sion6 1eels
intensely thirsty, and he looks to his
feet with coveting eyes. but l,s good
sense and firm resolutions are not to be
overcome so easily, and he withdraws
the open hand that was TO grasp the de-
licious morsel and convey it into his
parching mouth; he has seven miles of
ajourney to accomplish, and his thirst
>s every moment increasing; he is per-
spring profusely, and he feels quite hot
and oppressed; at length his good reso-
lutions stagger, and he partakes of the
smallest particle. which produces most
exhilarating effect. In less than ten
minutes he tastes, again and again, al
ways increasing the quantity, and in
half an hour he has a gumstlck of con-
densed snow, which he masticates with
avidity, and replaces with assiduity the
moment ii has melted away, but his
thirst is not allsyed in the slightest de-
gree; he is hot as ever, and still per-
spires: his mouth is in flames, and he
is driven to the necessity of quenching
them with snow, which adds fuel to the
fire. The melting snow ceases to please
the palate, and it feels like red-hot
Goals, which, like fre-eater, he shifts
about with his tongue, and swallows
without the addition of saliva; he is in
despair, but habit has taken the place
Of his reasoning facilities, and he moves
on with languid steps, lamenting the Sc
we're fate which forces him to persist in
a practice which in an unguarded mo-
ment he allowed to begin. believe the
true cause Of such intense thirst is the
extreme dryness OF the air when the
temperature is low. In this state il alb
stracts large amount of moisture from
the human body. The soft and enten-
sive surface which the lungs expose
twenty-five times or oftener every min
uie to nearly two hundred cubic inches
of dry air, must yield a quantity of va
por which one can hardly spare with
impunity. The human skin throughout
its whole extent, even where il is
brought to the hardness of horn, as well
as the sottest and most delicate parts. is
continually exhaling vapor, and this ex-
halation creates in due proportion de-
mand for water. Let person but ex-
anime the inside OF his boots after a
walk in the open air at low tempera-
ture, and the accumulation of condensed
vapor which he finds there will con-
vince him Of the active state Of the
skin. often found my stockings ad-
herring to the soles of my Kilby's boots
after walk Of a few hours. The hoar
frost and snow which they contained
could not have been there by any 9TH
er means except exhalation from the
skin.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

WEssrea AND JrNxY Llsp.-Jenny
Lind gave . concert at Washington do
ring the session Of Congress, and as .
mark Of her respect, and with view to
the eelat, sent polite invitations to the
President, Mr.. Fillmore the members
of the Cabinet, Mr. Clay, and many
other distinguished members Of both
Houses Of Congress. II happened on
that day several members Of the Cabi-
net and Senate were dining with Mr..
Bodisco, the Russian Minister. His
good dinner and choice wines had kept
the party so late that the concert was
nearly over when Clay, Webster, Crit
tenden and others came IN; whether
from the hurry in which they came, or
from the heat Of the room, their faces
were little flushed, and they all looked
somewhat fiurried. After the applause
with which these gentlemen were re-
ceived had subsidized, and silence was
restored, the second part of the concert
was opened by Jenny Lind with "Hail
Columbia" This took place during the
height Of the debate and excitement on
the slavery question, and the compro-
mise resolutions Of Mr.. Clay, and this
patriotic air, as part ofthe programme
was considered peculiarly appropriate
for a concert, where the head Of the
government and large number OF both
branches of the legislative department
were present. AT the close Of the first
verse Webster's patriotism boiled over;
he could sit no longer, and rising like
Olympian Jove, he added his deep So
norous bass voice to the chorus, and
venture to say, never in the whole
course Of her career, did she ever hear
or receive one-half Of the applause as
that with which her song and Webster's $
chorus was greeted. Mrs. Webster,
who sat Immediately behind him, kept
tugging at his coat-tail to make him sit
down or stop singing, but it was of no
earthly use-and at the close of each
verse Webster joined in, and it was hard
to say whether Jenny Lind, Webster
or the audience were most delighted.
| have seen Rubin, Lablache, aud the
two Girls, on the stage at one time, but
such happy conjunction in the nation
al air oi "HaiI Columbia" as Jenny
Lind's tenor and Daniel Webster's bass,
we shall never hear nor see again. At
the close Of the air, Mr.. Webster rose
with h,s hat in his hand, and made such
a bow as Chesterfield would have
deemed fortune for his son, and which
eclipsed D'Orsay's best. Jenny Lind,
blushing at the distinguished honor,
courtesied to the floor: the audience
applauded to the very echo. Webster,
determined not to be outdone in polite
ness, bowed again-Miss Lind re-cour-
tested, the house re-applauded, and this
was repeated nine times.
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

65- They are taking evidence in a
divorce case for cruelty: the husband is
under examinations: his wife prostrated
with grief. is weeping bitterly, cover
ing her face with her handkerchief.
"Now," says the Judge, ''are you not
sshamed to have thus brutzlly treated
your wife, . tender young woman Of
twenty-five % The wife suddenly
raises her head, II beg your pardon. .
she sobs; ''only twenty-four." And
she again gives way % &c. ssisf.
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

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shall not have to witt on the table Z"
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not have to make the beds y Lady
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

@eAdmiral Porter once paid visit
to the late Admiral Alden as they were
lying in the Mississippi liver. A rebel
battery on shore sighted the steamer,
and sent a few aying shot which scat
tered among the rigging where the
men were taking look at the country.
The tars came tsrbling down heltrr-
skelter. Look kerr,'' said Admiral
Porter II thought you sold me you had
brave crew" $50 !. did" replied
Alden, 'eus they s;a't ca eusy ae~."
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

e. Roger NJ. Sherman was arguing
case, and made point which the
Judge did not at once see. "Mr. Sher-
man. said he. al would thank you to
state the point so that ! can understand
you." Bowing politely, Sherman re-
piled in his biandest manner, ''Your
Honor is not probably aware ofthe task
you are imposing on me-"
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

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what Shyicek meant when he said.
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said one Of the boys, 81 doa't know, IN.
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Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1877-02-22

a. Mr., Frye, Of Maine. says that
the Republicans court investigation into
the Louisiana and Florida frauds. but
his vote told another story. He is small
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Exports and Imports.

During the month of June, the i'm,
ports OF merchandise into the United
States exceed the exports in value by
81, 625, 500. For the twelve months
ended June 30th, the excess of exports
Of merchandise over imports was $751;
913, 482. During the preceding fiscal
year the exports exceeded the imports in
value by $40, 643, 191. The total exports
of domestic merchandise for the twelve
months ended June 30, 1876, was 1926,
$50, 247 for the twelve months ended
June 80, 1877, $3.50, $50, 1859, an increase
of 1854, 100000 The exports of foreign
merchandise for the twelve months
ended June 80, 1876, were $14, 802, 424
for the twelve months ended June 80,
1877, $12, TAG, 845, decrease of $4,000
900. The imports for 1876 were $780,
TAI, 100; for 1877, $3.50, 419, 522, a de.
crease of $10,000,000. In 1876 the total
exports of specie, including exports Of
foreign specie, was $50, SOC, 1902, against
an importation of $15, 936, 6S1, showing
net outflow of $40, 1853, 621. In 1877
the exports of specie amounted to $685.,
061, 934, and the imports to $40, 736, 172
showing an'excess of exports of $15, 1926.
1852. The total exports of merchandise
and specie for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1877, was valued at 1868, 1894, 298
and the imports at $491, 155, 1874, giving
an excess of exports of $l67, 239, 244
The preceding twelve months the excess
of exports was $12O, 213, 102. The aggre
gate of the trade in 1877 was 81, 149, $50,
622; in 1876, $1,072, 568, S44, showing
an increase in 1877 of about seven pei
cent,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

regulating the traffic, and such laws are to be
rigidly enforced, which will have the effect, it
is claimed, Of compelling a large number Of
persons engaged in the sale Of liquor to close
up. r. p Tolle was MORALLY stabbed by
johnson Mckay at 0rangeburg, Ky.
A coroner's inquest in Baltimore exonerated
the militia from any responsibility in the recent
labor not, by which a number of persons lost
their lives 80. Several victims of the Custer
Indian massacre-whO'e bodies we're recently
removed from the battle grOund-were buried
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Gen. Clusters
remains will be reinforced at West Point in
October, with appropriate ceremonies ...... IL
is said that S66, 600, 900 of surplus greenbacks
are on deposit at the treasury for which there
is no demand ...... The proprietors of the San
Francisco Chronicle having made application
to the authorities at Washington for copies
Of letters of recommendation for office, written
by Senator Sargent, of California, to be used
as evidence in an approaching trial for alleged
libel against the senator, the encouragement
decided that recommendations for office are
not matters of record and cannot be inspected,
nor can copies be furnished III. F. Muir
ply, recently arrived from California, after
losing $500 in large gambling house in New
York, shot himself through. the head while
still in the place At Pittsburgh, Pa, seven
men were at work on a scaffold lining fur
mace, when the rope supports caught fire and
the scaffold fell, dropping the men into the
furnace. julius Harding and Michael Cusick
were taken out dead and the other five were
fatally burned. " A cigar box factory in Gin
cinnah took fire in the cellar, spreading rapidly
to the roof and preventing the escape Of the
employees, many of whom we're females. -Four
girls and two men were burned to death and
| two girls and one man were fatally injured.
The charred remains of the dead were found in
the ruins of the fire, burned beyond recogni-
ton. 80. The hfty-fourth call for the redemp-
ton of tive-twenty bonds, to the amount of
go, 900, has been issued by the secretary of
the treasury 80. A great many liquor saloons
in New York are taking out licenses for inns, in
order to meet the requirements of the liquor
law, which is to be rigidly enforced.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
A Tornado i'm Mid Air.

A few days ago, on the morning when
heavy showers fell here, a sublime sight
was discovered by few persons who
happened to be looking to the northwest
about eight o'clock. The blacklist of
black clouds, torn and ragged, were being
driven through the air toward the south
east. They rolled and tumbled as ocean
tornadoes will distort with the waves,
and were evidently flung HE feathers
by terrific tornado, which passed over
the center of the village, but too high
up to disturb objects upon the eartl L.
The trees near the district schoolhous.
were made to bow, but the mad forces
were too far up to exert their full power
upon them. Had the tornado run one
hundred feet lower, it is believed by
those who observed it that buildings
would have been demolished in an in
slant of time. -Geneseo en- ~ Repssb-
ic0n.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

The intelligent dog to the front again!
Mrs. Edwin French, of Londonderry,
Vt, in attempting to draw water a few
days ago from we'll near the house was
thrown into the well by the breaking of
a board. The water was several feet
deep, but she managed to keep her head
above the surface by clinging to the
pump pipe. There was no person within
sound of her voice, but the family dog.
an intelligent and faithful animal, went
to thewell and looked in. Mrs. French
asked him, as she would have asked a
human being, if he could not get help.
The dog took in the situation instantly,
and bounded away toward the bayfield,
where Mr. French was at work. Arrived
there he made terrible uproar. and
persisted in his wild actions until Mr..
French, fearing that something had hap
pened, followed him to the we'll and
saved his wife from drowning.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
Laughter.

Anyone who can laugh at will is GER
tain of favorable reception in society
particularly when the weather is muggy.
Laughter is social virtue, prudent
accomplishment, an open letter of intro
duction. 1t is not necessary to be funny
in order to be able to laugh. Some men
laugh like potatoes, without knowing it..
Their faces are sculptured examinations.
The permanent grin, however, pals upon
the eye, and at last begins to wear out
ones POPULARITY, and to look as solemn
and hldeous as the dismal sphinx.
Laughing is good by virtue of its sud
denness. It is in it's unexpected appeals
to the nerves that it's power chiefly lies.
1t does a thoughtful person good to be
taken by surprise, and to be tickled into
hearty laugh against his will. 1t
makes him feel as he would after having
been electrified. 1t awakens him, forces
blood to circulate, makes him open his
eyes, look about him and talk. The
greatest mystery of laughing is its COM
municativeness. Set one or two going,
and the whole circle, although they know
not why, fall into the vein. You laugh
at laughter, and laugh the more because
you know the less of what You are laugh
ing at. Much potency is there in the
association of ideas, and laughing il
divisible into great many modes.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
A POetical Pastor.

The pastor of one of the fashionable
churches Of Detroit, Mich, is a poet.
For years he has had small clock in a
convenient place under the reading
desk by which he could note the hour
without losing time by taking out his
watch. The clock was lost some time
ago and the pastor, who missed it very
much, sent to one of his favorite
parishioners the following note on a
postaleard
Your pastor very meekly suggests
Without venturing any decided behests
That timC-piece to the pulpit annexed
May keep the people from being vexed
BY sermons that run to excessive length
And tax the popular patience and strength.
Perhaps an hour-glass might do as well
By which the passage of time to tell
With beadle to tap with his gentle rod
Not only the hearer who ventures to nod,
But the preacher whose words continue to run
When the sand in the glass says he ought to be
done.
That pastor got his time-piece.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
How Cooke Stopped the Stage Thunder.

During the early days of Cooke, the
celebrated actor, he would have attend
ed every performance at the theater, but
his funds would not permit, and many
were the schemes he devised for sur
reptitious entrance. One of these, told
by himself, is extremely ludicrous. One
night he slipped through the stage door
before the keeper was posted, or any of
the employees about, and, cropping his
way behind the scenes, sought for
place where he might remain concealed
until the curtain rose, when he hoped to
be able to ensconce himself in some OBJ
scure spot unobserved and get glimpse
of the performance. In remote corner
he found very large barrel-nothing
could be better for his purpose. Drop
ping himself into it he found at the bot
tom two twenty-four-pound cannon balls,
about which, however, he did not trouble
himself. Little did he imagine that he
had taken refuge in the machine by
which the theater produced its stage
thunder. But SO it was. just as the
last bars of the overture were being
played, the property man tied piece of
carpet over the top of the barrel, with
out perceiving in the dark its living oc-
cupant, raised it in his arms, no doubt
wondering at its extraordinary weight,
and carried it to the side scenes. The
play was Macbeth, which opens with
thunder and lightning. AS the curtain
bell sounded, away he sent the machine
rolling. Horribly frightened, and pound
ed by the cannon balls, Cooke roared out
Justify, and fighting to release himself,
sent the barrel on to the stage, burst off
the carpet head, and rolled out in front
of the audience, scattering the three
witches right and left.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11
The RAhY,S Strike.

They had strike up at Mr.. Middle
ribs the other night. The baby struck
for six hours walking every night, in
stead of four, which it has been getting.
The family at first refused to accede to
this preposterous and unreasonable de-
mand, but the baby being monopoly,
there being no others to supply the place
of the striker, it was able to enforce it's
demands, as all sleep was shut off until
q settlement was effected. The only
show of violence was the threat, on the
part of the baby, to make it warm for
the household when it was about four
years older and green apple time came
around. -B"rJjngton Ha,Okeye.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

The stomach ObstlnateIy rebels against al
efforts to make it digest superintendent or in
digestible food. When fit of dyspepsia has
been brought on by overindulgence in the
pleasures OF the table, or any other cause, the
invalid can obtain from Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters prompter and more complete relief
than from any other source This admirable
specific not only renders digestion active, but
regulates the secretion and distribution of the
bile, re-establishes a regular habit of the body
when costiveness exists, restores the appetite,
soothes and invigorates the nerves, and, if
taken before retiring, facilitates sleep. Under
these happy conditions, the dyspeptic or bilious
subject regains lost flesh, his spirits recover
their elasticity, and all the various and haras
sing bodily and mental symptoms of chronic
indigestion disappear.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

A NEST OF RATTnEsNAKEs. Mr.. Kirt-
land, of Sandersville, Ga, cut open hol-
ow log to catch rabbit the other day, and
on drawing the rabbit out he also drew
out an immense rattlesnake that had
partly swallowed the animal. He struck
the snake upon the head, when sixteen
young, furious rattlesnakes ran out OF
the pouch under the body of the mother
snake. The little snakes were very
bellicose, but were alb killed. There
we're seventeen rattles on the old snake,
and it measured about five feet in
length.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

Is prepared on scientific principles, and from
ingredients that are the most effective and
wholesome. II has received the highest en-
coIuiums for these merits from eminent chem
ist-, scores of our best physicians and thou
sands Of intelligent cooks and housewives. The
genuine can be had only IN tin cans.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-08-11

The proprietors of Hatch's Universal Cough
Syrup gave me the virtual formula Of this
medicine. Knowing from this that it must be
of value, recommended it to my customers.
An experience with it of six years has shown
more bottles during that six years than of any
similar preparation. ! consider it safe it all
cases. W. H. SooTT, M. D., Friendship, n Y.