Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-09-13

A Biblical curiosity in the English
section of the Paris Exhibition which at
tracts crowds is the model of the Taber-
nacle as it rested during the wandering
of the Israelites in the desert. The ex-
terror and interior are constructed in
strict accordance with the details given
in the Old Testament.
Successful fishing cost John Scull,
editor of the Somerset (Pa.) Herald, his
life. After securing string of some
thirty pounds of fish, he tied them to
his wrist and waded in the river with
them. Falling into deep hole, the
weight of the fish drew him under water,
and, although an expert swimmer, he
was drowned.
On Hogs Back Mountain, Bristol,
Vt, is a double rocking stone. One
rock, which weighs about twenty tons
and is easily rocked with one hand, is
surmounted by another of about eight
tons weight that also can be given a
swaying motion. Tradition says that a
third and small rocking stone formerly
capped these two and that it was tumbled
off years ago.
A singular looking and irregularly
shaped flint rock, weighing about twen-
ty-tive pounds, having the appearance
of molten mass under intense heat,
was picked up on Ladies' Island, below
Beaufort, s. O., by some colored per-
sons and taken to that town. IL is said
to have fallen as blazing meteor during
late storm. 1t is pure flint through
out except the outside surface, which
has thin coating as if Of lava.
The famine in India has been q severe
blow to the material prosperity. Trade
of all kinds languishes. The people
have been impoverished by the high
prices of food, while the great mortality
among the laboring poor has resulted in
enormous areas of land remaining uncul-
tivated. One of the most remarkable
effects has been great dimlnution in
the birth-rate. The rarity of birth in
the famine district is very marked.
Thomas Budgen, resident in Spital
fields, England (who was blind), has
died at the age of 104. He was born
January 27, 1774; married at the age ol
twenty-nine, and lived with his wife in
the same room for sixty-one years. His
wife, who was three years younger than
himself, died thirteen years since at the
age of eighty eight. The only surviving
issue is widowed daughter who attend
ed him, and who is aged seventy-three
The agricultural returns of Grea
Britain show small increase in whea
and barley, and decrease in oats. The
acreage of wheat has increased $4,000
bushels. Estimating ireland at a sligh
increase, the total average of wheat il
the United Kingdom is 3, 400, 090 bush
els. The new crop is fully up to tht
average and better than for many years
1t will yield II, 500, 900 quartery, leaving
100000 quarters to be drawn from
abroad. The French wheat crop is be
lieved to be below the average and the
French will be buyers instead of sellers
The Milwaukee Seminal says
"About as sensible as the bounty O.
$40, 900 for steam road wagon is thu
provision giving reward of SIS for tn,
scalp of every wolf killed in the State
Added to this is like sum paid by diff
ferent counties, the whole sum footing
up about $16, 900 annually paid in thi
direction. The whole system, instead o
bounty for killing wolves, is really al
incentive to their culture, and bids fai
to soon become one of the large item
in the tax levy. 1t would be wis
plan to repeal the law by which boun
ties are paid by the State and counties
If wolves are troublesome they will b
killed off, and if there is no bounty t.
make their increase matter of profit
they will soon vanish from the State"