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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-02-28

Ext. Vanilla for desserts, at Anderson's
Drug Store, Lambertvilie, f. Id.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-02-28

canine friend with him in the car, as baggage.
Arriving at Hopewell, he wendell his way to
the hotel Of Mr.. L. NJ Phillips, and narrated
the circumstance to our informant. HopeweH
Herald.
About two weeks ago young man visit
ed Trenton and introduced himself to Mr.. s..
e. Parrot, ss Lyman III. Lane OF Lane & Co.,
OF New York, and induced Mr.. Parrot to in
produce him to Duetz s. Co., manufacturing
jewellers near that city, of whom he selected
a stock for whicii lie gave check signed Ly-
Fnan III. Lane, He took away some $1,000
worth of goods, The check was worthless.
On Saturday he was arrested ia Philadelphia,
brought to TsentoH and taken before Justice
Street, lie waived 2 hearing and was COM
mitted to the county Jail Another charge Of
forging check for $4,000 on another party
will also be brought against him..
On last Monday evening. about 10 O'Clock,
two persons awakened Mr.. VIM. Thatcher, at
his livery-stables IN this city, and asked to
have carriage to 60 to Trenton, One OF
them, Darby Green, said he was going to
drive--the other Mr.. T. did pot recognize, as
he stood off some distance, The next morn
ing, noticing Green in the street. Mr.. 7. ask
ed him where the carriage was and after some
Discrimination, learned from him that it was
at Milford. He acknowledged finally that it
had been used to take Rogue Smith to
that place. {" Darby " went after the carriage
in the afternoon and returned it to Mr.. T.
Take your prescriptions to Anderson's
Drug Store, Lambertville. f. H.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1877-02-28

bedroom suits for see, at TITus5 be sur
anu see, them before you buy 81. ia
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
VT, SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1877.

over the sandy barrier. Within twenty
minutes the dam was burst, and the pent
up waters were roaring and rushing into
the sea. The army of aligators was
caught in the flood and carried outside.
A terrific fight ensued. The neap tide
had brought hundreds of enormous
sharks to the coast. They scented the
fresh water and made for the inlet. Fran
tic after their enforced fasting during the
storm, they attacked the alligators. The
noise of the combat was heard above the
roar of the ocean. A son of Judge Paine,
of Fort Capron, who was an eyewitness of
the scene, tells me that he saw sharks
and alligators rise on the crest of the
waves and fight like dogs.
Many of the killed foated belly up
ward, and were afterward rocked ashore
by the waves. For days their bodies
drifted to the beach. The dead alliga-
tors had lost their legs and tails. The
sharks III some cases were nearly bitten
into two pieces. The current of the gulf
stream strewed the shore as far north as
Cape Malabar with their carcasses.
Clouds of buzzards, and even the Ba-
hama vultures were drawn to the beach
by the offal Mr.. Paine fancies that the
sharks were tco active for the a1ligators,
but others say that the percentage OF
bodies on the beach indicated that the
weight of metal was in favor of the iron,
clad reptiles.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
An Indian Lovers Revenge.

The Victoria Col0nist furnishes the
following account of an Indian lovers
wooing and subsequent murder of his
inamorata: "Ae savage belonging toone
of the tribes near Barclay sound, on the
west coast of Vancouver island, became
enamored of an Indian woman recently,
but paid his addresses in vain. Her
friends objected to the match because the
number of blankets cast at her feet was
deemed insufficient to secure her affec-
tion. The Indian hunted, fshed and
stole to procure the number of blankets
the maiden had set as the price of her
charms. But as often as he reached the
fixed number as often did the tickle
dusky one advance the figure, till at
length the savage gave up the struggle
in despair and sought her love no more.
His affection, in fact, seems to have
turned to hate, for, meeting her in the
bush near the village about month
ago, he set upon her with knife, with
which he killed her. He then cut of
the head, cut off the arms and legs, and
mutilated the body, scattering the limbs
and pieces through the woods. The
murderer openly defes punishment and
glories in the bloody deed"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
A Mysterious Affair.

A lady, closely yelled, hired, not long
ago, in the suburbs of Duna, a Russian
city on the river Dunaberg, carriage,
and dumping box securely corded into
the vehicle, ordered the driver to stop at
shop where, as she said, she had to
make some purchases. The driver stop
ped and waited, but the lady did not re-
turn. Then he asked the shopkeeper to
allow him to leave the box. Permission
was denied, but, on consultation, the
box was opened by the two men, when
the body of dead infant was exposed.
The driver did not know what to do, fear
ing that he would be arrested for MUIR
der. The shopkeeper advised him to
put the box back in the carriage, drive
to the market place, and leave it unat-
tended while he ate dinner, in the ex-
pectation that some one would steal the
box. The driver took the hint, and the
box disappeared. Neither lady nor dead
body has since been heard of.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
A Complicated Case.

A rather complicated case is about to
come before the courts at Frankfort-on-
the-Oder. A lively young boar was re-
Gently sent there by rail from Custrin,
carefully shut up in wooden cage. On
the journey, however, he managed to
break his prison, and devoured no less
than twenty-five pounds of German
yeast, which happened to be in the same
carriage. The condition of the mis-
guided pig, when the yeast began to
rise, may be imagined. He was quite
unable to bear his suddenly acquired
greatness, and gave up the ghost in a
multitude of sighs, which is quite expli-
cable under the circumstances. But now
the question is who is to pay the damage
for what? The railway company repu-
dates all responsibility. Is the owner
of the carcass to proceed against the
owner of the yeast for the loss of his
boar, or is the ex-proprietor of the yeast
to proceed against the owner of the pig
for the loss of his merchandise? Emil
nent counsel hold that the claim of both
parties lies againstthe constructor of the
cage; but the builder contends that the
cage was never calculated to withstand
the frantic efforts of a pig stung into
frenzy by the temptation of twenty
five pounds of yeast placed under his
very nose
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
A Stern Warming.

Among the officers of the brilliant
court of the grand monarch of France,
Louis XIV, was the Marquis Hugh de
Vernicourt. This marquis was of an
ancient family, very wealthy, and had
proved himself brave and efficient cap
tain on more than one hard fought
field. In his sober moments, though
inclined to be naughty and overbearing,
he could yet be gentleman; but when
the fumes of the wine cup had seized
his brain, which was far too often the
case, he was turbulent and quarrelsome,
and his duels were numerous, so that in
time it came to pass that his companions
feared and dreaded him. Feeling secure
in his lordly estate, his high nobility ex-
empting him from certain penalties
which might have rested upon one Of
lower degree, he pursued his reckless
and inebriate course for time un,
checked.
At length in hostile encounter, the
marquis slew gentleman of the royal
guard, whose friends made much COM
plant. De Vernicourt appeared before
the king, and pleaded in extenuation that
he was much heated at the time, ano
begged the royal pardon. The pardon
was granted, with the addition of severe
reprimand, and caution for the future
But the caution availed little. Ere long
afterward the troublesome marquis quar-
relied with gentleman of the cardinals
household, the result of which was an
other fatal sword thrust.
Once more the nobleman was sum
moned before the king, and his old ex
cuse was offered, and again he imploret
the royal pardon.
"Hugh de vernicourt," said Louis
thou art pardoned.
The marquis would have expressed hi
thanks, but the king stopped him.
Hold, Sir Hugh. We wish not TO-
thy thanks; for know that thou art no
the only one to whom we have extended
our royal pardon. We have caused
pardon to be prepared in blank, anC
have placed it in the hands of our trust,
minister of police. 1t is for the man wh'
shall kill thee !"
The caution proved sufficient to tn
end desired,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
Misplaced Confidence.

The other day little weazen faced
man, wearing a $3.50 suit of clothes,
went to one Of the big hotels in San
Francisco, and registering his name as
from Texas, asked for room and if
breakfast was on the table.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him
scornfully for moment, and languidly
remarked:
"Any baggage?"
"No, replied the guest.
In that case," said the clerk, the
rules of the house compel me to insist on
payment in advance"
every WELL" said the guest, without
hesitating or appearing offended, "take
two days board out of this" and from a
wad of greenbacks as big as his arm he
produced $100 note.
CT beg your pardon" stammered the
abashed clerk, "but we are SO often
taken in, and your face not being familiar
to me, T.
"No offense," cheerfully answered the
guest; "business is business and rules
are rules. It does look a little odd to be
without baggage, but us cattle dealers
amt much on style, and -
"That's all right, colonel" said the
clerk. "Put up your money; we~know
gentleman when we see him. Jim,
show the gentleman to 146. Call for the
best room in the house, general"
The old man slowed away an ample
breakfast, got the clerk to give him
enlun bills for o. ffty, e,>d ee1-ea -rhole
Billy Coolbaugh, the banker, had his
Office, inquired when they had dinner,
desired the clerk to tell Mr.. Farwill, il
he called, that he would be back at two
o'clock, then went, and hasn't been seen
since. The clerk subsequently discov
cred that the $50 was bad. The sac
event has cast gloom over the hote
office.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
A Sleeping Car Incident.

A strange event occurred on the st.
Louis and Southeastern through passen-
ger train recently, at a point near
Opdyke. In the sleeper were man and
his wife, ticketed through to Nashville,
Tenn, from Austin, Texas. The man
was noticed by the train employees to
suddenly leave his bunk, and in an ex-
cited manner call upon his wife to follow
him. She did so, the man leading the
way, and apparently desiring to leave
the train. The employees asked him
what the difficulty was, but he appeared
very much excited, and drawing q re-
volver, declared that he would protect
himself at all hazards, and began to
make motions as if he intended to shoot.
He drew large dirk knife and began
fourishing it about in a threatening
manner. The fellow continued to fume
and fret, and finally, observing favor
able opportunity, at one bound disap-
peared through an open window, his wife
following as soon as possible. CThe train
had in the meantime been stopped).
The fellow ran off in the woods as fast as
his legs could carry him, leaving his
wife near the track considerably bruised
up and hurt from her jump through the
window and descent of steep embank
ment,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
Items of Interest,

An unpopular club-The policeman's.
Advice to young men about to settle
do,On. Settle up first.
A pretty Tennessee girl has patented
combined harrow and stalk-cutter.
Most girls, however, prefer to harrow in
the old way.
A Japanese student newly arrived in
this country thought we were all doctors,
because everybody took his hand and
asked after his health.
A little boy came to his mother re-
Gently and said: Mamma, l should
think if [ was made of dust, I should
get muddy inside when drink. s."
The fashions in gentlemen's clothing
rarely ever vary. We have it from good
authority that the style this season will
be pair of pants, vest and coat, as
usual.
A French artist who took part in the
destruction of the Column Vendome in
Paris, during the reign of the Commune,
has been sentenced to pay fine OF
100000.
The season fast approaches when the
Young man with finances to cover just
two plates of ice cream awaits breath
lessly the answer to: "Will you have
some cake?'
A box of grasshoppers' eggs from the
United States to the editor of a Canada
newspaper Matched out the other day in
q drawer into which they were put for
safe keeping.
The practice of stealing hymn books
is said to prevail to an alarming extent
in some of the fashionable churches III
New York which are most frequented
by strangers.
In Philadelphia court, the other day,
a man named Moisten was defended bya
LAWYER named Goforth. 1t is no unusual
thing to see lawyer and his client Co.
forth and Moisten.
"The name of new novel is "The
Wrongful Heir; or, The Mystery at the
Falls" 1t must be companion to that
charming romance, entitled "The False
Hair; or, The Mysterious Waterfall"
The following advertisement recently
appeared in New Haven journal :" Any
person having five to fifty loads OF
manure to dispose of will please send
word or drop it through the post-office.
A New Hampshire paper relates that
having beenn IN h9 Hh59hsde sste t65R mad Sdf0 after IT
barn, where some of the hay became
soaked with his blood. The hay was fed
to horse, which went mad.
A mocking bird entered Methodist
church at Jackson, Tenn, and after
circling around the room, lit on the rail-
ing of the altar, where it sat in attentive
silence till the close of the sermon, when
it warbled some of its sweetest notes and
sailed away.
A portly gentleman crowded himself
into horse car next young man, who
said: "Perhaps you would not crowd
in here if you knew I had Just had the
smallpox. "Oh, that's nothing" was
the reply; "for this is the first time L
have been out since had it myself. "
The. sanguinary incubation of military
despotisms on multitudinous millions of
passive and unchronicled serfs presents
a somber canopy, but we know OF moth
ing so well calculated to take the VIM
out of married man as for his wife to
ask him to beat that old carpet hanging
on the line, just as he has got started for
his office in the city, with only three
] minutes to catch the cars.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
How He Got Some Cider.

The other day lodger at the Johnson
House, in Gardiner, Me-, got up in the
morning awfully thirsty, and approach
ing the landlord, said he must have a
drink of cider. He was assured he coulo
not buy it in the city. "Can get it by
the gallon, can't I9" he said. He was
told he could. So he went up to store
and inquired if they had any cider to
"sell by the gallon" He was told they
had. He wanted to try it, and drew q
pint dipper full and drank it. He said
he d" thought it was too hard for mince
pies" and threw o dime on the counter
and left.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
An English Dukes Curious Bets.

A curious form of wager was once hit
upon by Old Ga familiar sobrlquet by
which the Duke of Queensberry was COM
monty known to the sporting world The
duke was famous for eccentricitles III the
betting way. The match he made to
drive carriage nineteen miles IN one
hour without changing either OF the
thoroughbred horses with which he
started, made q sensation at the time,
and the actual achievements of this feat was
perhaps as remarkable as anything of the
kind in the annals of coaching. But the
wager to which reference was made was
of more original character than this,
and at time of day when railways were
not thought of, was certainly an lndlca-
ton of no little inventive talent. He
made bet that he would have letter
conveyed fifty miles within an hour. In
order to do this, he caused the manu-
script to be inclosed in @ cricket ball,
stationed expert cricketers at intervals
over certain distance, and the misslve,
being thrown from one to the other, was
delivered at the end of the journey, with
in the stipulated time. A very good
story is told of this nobleman by which
he very neatly checkmated the vagaries
of certain spectators who secretly offer
ed his grace's jockey a large sum of
money to lose certain race. The jockey
appeared to entertain the proposal, but
quietly carried information of it to his
employer, who at once told him to take
the money, and that he would bear him
harmless. The money was taken, and
books were made accordingly, but, to the
horror of the enterprising blacklegs,
the duke himself appeared on the scene
as the horses came to the post, and
quickly divesting himself of great coat,
was found to be in riding attire. "This
is very nice horse," said his grace.
81 think I will ride myself" " And he
did it, AMI won without struggle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26

Always let your jokes be we'll timed.
Any time will do for good joke, but no
time will do for bad one. Any place
will fit, provided the joke itself be fitting,
but it never fits if joke be out of its
place. You cannot order joke as you
would coat or pair of boots. In con-
cocting jokes, as in making pudding,
each person employs similar materials,
but the quality of the dish is entirely
dependent on the skill of the artist. The
utterer of q good joke is useful mem
Der of society, but the maker of bad
one is o more despicable character than
the veriest coiner by profession.
A joke from o gentleman is an act OF
charity an uncharitable joke is an un-
gentlemanly act. The retort courteous
is the touchstone of good feeling the
reply churlish proof Of cold-headed
stupidity.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
War i'm the East.

The red Russian sun had set,
But warm tint fingered yet
And suffused the heights of Kharizanlinkskoi,
As fair maid clasped his neck,
And she softly whispered "Tscheck-
ernigvenski, 1 am proud of thee, my boym
He took off his soldier hat.
And again she whispered "That
Havelock made most beautifully on you sits,
And your jacket is from Stchuk,
And your shirt from Tscherkashplack,
And your stogies are marked Lowell, Massa-
chusetts ?"
"Dsar Skinskishki !" murmured he,
"Wilt thou sure remember me,
And the same affectonate devotion have
When I'm fighting on the slope
OF Kgneifikowsumpskop,
Or crossing the Ekaterinoslay?"
"Ah, Tscheckkie, boy" she sighed,
"Am not to be thy bride?
Nothing never can dissever me from thee!
Would that to-day could ride off
At thy side to Kameskidoff,
Or the army at Pravolavhopperskae! !"
And he asked "My love my own
Wilt be true when thou'rt alone?
And she laid her little lily hand in his
"Wilt be true as yonder star
While I'm fighting for the czar
At Osmanjik Or Phillipopolis?"
And she answered: "Here I swears
You may wander anywheres
I will never smile on any other love
Not the prince of Soienkorsk,
Or of Observation-Disclosures,
Or the baron of Zirpoukwiamzahov."
Then she swooned and lay as dead,
While he grabbed his gun and fed
To join his general Nepokotichitski,
Farewell, thou peerless damsel
I go to Dschcsarvemsel-
But first go to Getadrinkowhitski I"
He was bravest of the brave!
And as leader of the Sclave
He won a colonel's badge and saved his bacon,
And he telegraphed "Skinskishki
Sweetheart Darling Though twas risky
jbtubrichktiomagdebig is stormed and
taken /"
Shed another lover then,
Spite Of all her oaths, and when
The message came she sat uponihis knee
Johann Hildbourg ghmingenhausen,
Born in Schwartzeburgh h-Kniphauscn,
And she married him and had familee.
And the next winter, every morn
To the birds she flung some corn
And she fed the very ravens that had wheeled
Over warning southern zones
And had picked poor Tscheckkies bones
On the Notwithstanding battlefield.
". A. Crofia.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
The Latest Cat Story.

The Elmira Gazette says We are told
on trustworthy authority that gentle
man of this city living in the lower part
of town, recently went to the woods and
finding nest of young squirrels brought
them to the house, whele there were two
felines each having q " litter " of kittens.
One of the tabbies took her own legiti-
mate children and putting them in the
nest of the other (by whom they were
taken care of as though they had been
her own flesh and blood), went to the
place where the three squirrels were, and
took them one by one to her own nursery
and since has been nursing and caring
for them as mother.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26

Oregon has new expedient for keep
ing her citizens sober. Every man who
drinks is obliged to take out license
costing $5. 1t is penal offense for any
liquor dealer to sella drink to an un.
licensed person. .|.l
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26

A school teacher in Fort Wayne, Ind, i,
fills the mouths of offending pupils with
cayenne pepper. Possibly to make them
smart.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26
Faith.

FalI0.
And so beside the silent sea
wait the muffled oar;
No harm from Him can come to me
On ocean or on shore.
Iknow not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air
1 only know cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26

Do not aspire to send your iayelin be
yond the sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1877-05-26

Gossip is the putting of two and tive
together and making five of them.
The New York herald., 1877-03-21
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&C q Francklyn.
steamer wyanoke Couch, Norfolk. City Point and Rich
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Steamer Martha Stevens. Chance, Baltnore-wm Dali
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Steamer Aeiers. Smith, Ihilade Boeert Morgan.
Steamer ilaucus. Bearsa Boston--b Dnock
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tor orders-tockmNnn. Oerlem Go.
Snip Young America Baker. San Francisco Sutton
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Funch. Edye Co.
BarK Terra Novm (Nor), Gronn. BRISTOL E-Louis To-
bark Ebeneser (Nor,. sorensen Morgan Broad Pill,
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orders--funch. Edye \ Co.
BARK Adelna $ dtab Avogno. Cork Falmouth for
bark Seth Aus Tngnazna. Queenstown Falmouth for
orders Sl0covicn y Co.
Bark Minnie Allen. Soper. Buenos AyresJohn Norton.
Bark Ellen Maria. Hoxis. Ponce. PRE- l. Beccrra's
bark A bean, Young. Portland. Me--Miler IIough-
Brig Emma Dean tsD. Plummcr, Porto Caboilo-Theo
Brig Princess Beatrice (Br), Simmons PointaPine Quad
Brig Eta Tucker Forbes. st Thomas-ren,ston & Co
Brig keushaw, Sylvester. Cardenas-R Robertson 4
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Schr Edward wn,te. York Hayana-Mxrcus Hunter Co.
schr Sunny South. Dorckson tardenas-Geo II Squire.
schr A j Inland. Townsend, Richmond, va-Slaght h
sc6r John d Griffin. Gould. Gloucester, Mass-Doane L
scnr Saline Burton Burley. sridgeport-stamord Manu-
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