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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
HObbyllOrses.

One mans hobby is books which he
never reads. He spends his life, and
all his superhuous cash, in the collec-
ton of volumes, of which he never
peruses more than the title pages. His
shelves are groaning beneath the erudi-
ton of all ages and all countries. He
gloats over the possession OF the rarest
works, and will travel from one end Of
the kingdom to the other, for the mere
chance Of purchasing unique specimen
to add to his collection. It would take
him century to spell over what he has
already amassed but he never dreams
of such thing-he reads the catalogue,
the inventory of his riches, and nothing
else /; every addition to that is an addi-
tion TO his satisfaction, because it is an
additional grace to his hobby. Another
mans hobby is pictures. His mind is
profoundly impressed with the glories
of art-the mysterious gloom of Rem
brandt, the savageness of Salvador, the
corregiosity of Coregio." He dreams
of old masters, and haunts the dusty
purlius of Wardour street and Soho, and
hangs about the auction rooms, and mods
his head at Christie at the cost Of fifty
pounds time. He is learn Il in oils
and varnishes, and knows call about
meglips and that )" he rise, with
Raphael, of whom an undoubted orig
nal hangs at the foot of his bed I; he
breakfasts with Hobima, dimes with
Rubens, sups with Vandyke, and goes
to sleep with Claude Lorraine. He is
never taken in ; not he, he is too good a
Judge for that Is he?, A third rides
musical hobby, and goes merrily
through the world to the sound of fiddle
and flute, and French horn and double
bass. He puffs and scrapes, and blows
and thumps away the days of his years
upon all manner of instruments /; and
his mouth is full OF German and Italian
celebrities-of Mozart, of Beethoven,
and Sebastian Bach and Padre Martini,
aud Albrechtsberger and Rhigini, and
Cherubini, and Cianchettini, "and all
others that end in ini;" and Spohr and
Cram, and Droebs and Eybler, and
Schneider and hundred and fifty more
whom to pronounce we're to dislocate
ones jaws, but which to hear were to
be rapt in elysium. His whole life il
one song and when he sinks intt
silence at last, it is with the blessed
hope of joyful da capo in the land o
celestial harmony. y.--Lonolon Spectator
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13

obnoxious shop every day; he did not
want to hurt her feelings, so he never
asked her where she bought their meat
and ponltry. And as the new butcher
was doing a thriving trade there was
no hope Of his sueing for mercy or for
help.
Three months passed and day came
that for twenty-eight years Mr.. and Mrs.
Cameron had held "a home festival
their wedding anniversary. The night
before it dawned Basil Cameron knew
that his wife had cried nearly all night.
How could she keep festival without
her boy7
"Oh, dear /" he groaned as he left the
house after breakfast, "I must do it.
The boy is as stut HAAS am; and
can't see his mother, fret He shall have
his country girl--confound her Just
as he had the hammer and the looking
glass when he was baby"
Richard, the coachman, almost fan
cied himself crazed when his master told
him to drive out on the Barton road to
Farmer Litchfield's instead of down to
the bank as usual early in the morning.
"Does Miss Sophie Litchfeld live
here ?" he asked of pretty little girl
who was just coming out the front
door Of the house pointed out to him as
Litchfield's.
" Yes, sIrj please walk in; she's here
In the parlor."
Instead Of slipshod, blowsy girl, Mr..
Cameron found Sophie to be very at
tractive young lady; quite as we'll man.
t1ered and as pleasant as Hottie FELTON,.
His visit was far longer than he intended
for he ended by going all over the farm
with the father while the daughter was
making few changes in her dress pre-
paratory to spending the day with her
future mother-in-law. Mrs. Cameron
had smiles instead Of tears that day, for
she not only had her boy at home again
but discovered that Sophie was Just ex-
actly the sort of a girl she had always
pictured to herself as Maurice's wife,
81 could not have chosen better myself, "
was her verdict.
Maurice stuck to his determination to
go into business instead of playing the
fine gentleman all his life, but readily
agreed to his fathers proposition to buy
him an interest in the only wholesale
dry goods house in the town, saying that
he certainly preferred that to his former
occupation, "but then 1 was poor, and
beggars must not be choosers, you
know. "-PrdcticdL Farmer.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
Items Of Interest.

There are some 5000 gold and silver
mines in actual working condition in
Mexico,
California and Nevada produce about
two hundred tons of borax each mouth
of the year.
At about the age of forty the lean man
generally begins TO grow fatter and the
fat man leaner.
The mildest way to express it is to de
scribe a tipsy man as the victim Of nais-
placed benzine.
The amount of trade dollars shipped
from San Francisco to China during the
year 1877 was $S,619, 900.
Don't scold the boys for being reck-
less. Boys will be boys.-E1change.
We beg your pardon, they will be men.
School Mistress. "Now what are the
principal things we get out OF the
earth ?" Youthful angler, Confidently
"Worms T.
Better the ragged ploughboy,
Who sings and cares for naught,
Than the bank cashier, with ten thou
sand year,
And hundred thousand short
Brown had been in love with young
lady, and asked permission to call her
by the expressive name Of some animal,
which YVES granted on condition that she
should have the same privilege. On
leaving, Brown said, "Good night, dear"
"Good night, bore, d" said she.
He appeared to be almost gone. Roll
ing his eyes toward the partner OF his
bosom, he gasped: "Bury me meath
the weeping willow, and plant simple
white rose above my head. D." "Oh, it's
no use," she snapped out. "Your nose
would scorch the roots !" He got well.
An editor says he heard recently how
a man cured a neighbor newspaper-bor'
rover. 1t is told thus: Mr.. Jones,
father wants to borrow your paper; he
only wants to read it." "Well, go back
and ask your father to lend me MS sup
per; only want to eat il" The next
evening the boy did not come.
THE POET WHO DIED OF BEAUTIFUL SNOW.
els the editor in ?" asked long-haired youth,
As into the sanctum he strobe;
"If he is, must see him at once, forsooth'
For wish to sell him an ode"
Straight up to the editors desk he strode'
Took seat with child-like smile,
And said to the editor, 81 have an ode
On the beautiful" but the bile
or the editor rose. and he smote the bard
On his cheek terrible blow,
And kicked him out into the office back yard,
To die in the beautiful snow.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
An End 10 the Business,


Fewer Chinese wood reddlers are seel
on our streets than for many years, says
the Virginia City (NeV.J Enserprise.
The white retail dealers in fuel are driv-
ing John and his donkey from the field.
Wood and coal are now sold in very
small lots and delivered everywhere in
the city by white men. John China
mans occupation is almost gone. The
Chinese wood peddler and his donkey
we're formerly a feature Of the town.
They were decidedly picturesque, and
we shall miss them from our street
scenes.
A few years ago, before the Virginia
and Truckee railroad was built, our
streets swarmed in winter with Chinese
wood peddlers. They were then inde-
pendent to the verge of impudence.
Wood, by the cord, often sold as high
as $50 or $40 and many persons were
compelled to buy their fuel in small lots.
Thus were the Philistines given as a
prey and spoil to the Mongolian. Then,
when you asked the price of a donkey
load of wood, however fair the weather
might be, it was always: lone dolla'
hap p but the moment the "zephyr
began to howl and storm clouds arose,
John cooked an eye to the windward and
firmly answered "Two dolla'l"
AS the Chinese gathered their wood
III the summer ON the hills near the city,
and as they carried about two arms
full on each donkey, they had rich har-
vest every winter in the retailing of
wood, and all engaged in the business
made money quito rapidly. Then they
collected their wood within a mile OF
two of town now they must scout out
for it distance of from twelve to fifteen
miles.
When the whites first settled on the
Comstock the Piute Indians we're the
retailers of wood. They monopolized
the business and made what was to them
big wages. The work was generally
done by the squaws, and as they filed
down the steep slopes of the hills with
huge bundles of faggots on their backs,
they were almost as picturesque as John
Chinaman and his donkey.
When the Cinnamon came and en-
gagged in the wood business he drove
the Piute from the field. "Lo" scowled
and gnashed his teeth, but he and his
squaw could not compete with John and
his donkey. But the iron horse came
snorting up the mountain to the Com
stock one fine morning, to the terror and
discontinue of both John and his dom,
key. Long and stubbornly has he
fought his iron-heeled rival. While this
rival brought up the mountain wood
alone John still had hope, but when
coal began to be rolled into the town his
heart shrivsled. The railroad is about
to drive him from the field, as he drove
ont the Indians in the early days his
stay will be brief. "Thus the whirligig
of Time brings in his revenges.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13

The Injuries of man soon become his
necessities. Such is the case with sugar.
No longer than five hundred years ago
sugar was unknown even in Europe. A
hundred years ago it was a great luxury,
now it sells at seven to ten cents per
pound. The sugar cane succeeds in all
tropical and sub-tropical countries,
reaching in South America an elevation
above the level of the sea of about s, 900
to 5000 feet. 1t is cultivated in most
parts Of India and China up to thirty
one degrees north latitude, the noun
famous regions excepted.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
A Sons Horrible Crime.

Oae of the most horrible and unnatural
crimes Oh record has just been tried
at the Assizes Of the Eure, in France.
The prisoner, a young man Of twenty
four, was Accused of numbering his
mother in cold blood, and then cutting
up the body into pieces to get rid of it.
The victim was a widow named Lou
chsrd. She lived with her eldest son,
Modesto Emmanuel, 10 the hamlet Of
Marais, where she kept a small farm.
She had two other children, another son
and daughter, who were out at service
some distance OF, aBd,.who rarely visited
her.
On the 10Th of March last she sudden
ly disappeared. The neighbors paid no
particular attention at first 10 her alb.
sence, especially as her son said she had
left home in her Sunday clothes, and had
probably gone to see one of her sisters
at Bouen. Some DAYS passed away, and
still no news was heard of the widow.
The neighbors tiow began 20 feel uneasy,
and advised the son to write to his rela-
tions about his mother. Modesto, who
had all along shown the utmost indiffer-
ence in the matter, at length wrote to
his uncle at Rouen, protesting tue deep
est anxiety at the Disappearance OF his
mother. But the uncle had not seen
her, and could not imagine what had be-
come of her. Pressed by the neishbors,
Modesto resolved at last to inform the
authorities of her disappearance, but be-
fore they had time to open an inquiry
an unexpected discovery led to the un-
raveling of the awful mystery.
A man named Gosset, in passing by an
old marl pit, remarked that somebody
had made the hole larger, His curiosity
being aroused, he approached the spot,
and discovered spots of blood and foot
marks on the brink of the pit. Looking
further, he found the track of wheel
barrow extending to within few yards
of the house inhabited by the widow
Louchard. He informed the police Of
his discovery, and it was decided to de-
scend into the pit, which is about $50
feet deep.
The first thing the searChers came
across was human arm, then another
arm, then two legs, and finally the re-
mainder Of the body of woman. How
ever, in spite of these fearful mutilations,
the identity of the victim was soon es-
tablished-the remains were those of
the missing widow.
The trial followed, and the prisoner,
Modesto Emmanuel, was condemned to
death. He will be guillotined barefoot
and in the costume assigned to murderers
of parents-viz., long shirt and black
veil around his head.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
NILES e. THORP.

A TTORNEYS AT LAW AND MASTERS n
~ CHANCERY. Morrisvills, Vt.
" Collections promptly attended to.
A. NILES. x.w. rHossr.
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The Two Rivers.

sloSly the hour-hAnd of the clock moves round
30 slowly that no human eve hath power
To see il move! Slowly in shine or shower
The painted ship above II. homeward bound,
Balls but seems motionless, as IL aground
Yet both arrive At last and in his tower
The slumberous wAtchman wakes and strikes
the hour,
mellow, measured, melancholy sound.
Midnight the outpost Of advancing day
The frontier town and citadel Of night!
I The watershed Of Time, from which the
streams
OF Yesterday and Tomorrow take their way,
One to the land OF promise and OF light,
One to the land OF darkness and Of dreams
o river OF Yesterday, with current swift
Through chasms descending and soon lost to
sight,
do not care to follow In thy fight
The faded leaves that on thy bosom drift !
o River of Tomorrow, uplift
Mine eyes, and thee l follow, as the night
Wanes into morning, and the dawning light
Broadens, and all the shadows fade and shift /!
follow follow, where thy waters run
Through unfrequented, unfamiliar fields
Fragrant with flowers and musical with song;
Still follow, follow; sure to meet the sun,
And confident, that what the future yields
Will be the right, unless myself be wrong.
III.
Yet not in vain, River of Yesterday,
Through chasms of darkness 10 the deep
descending,
heard thee sobbing in the rain, and
blending
Thy voice with other voices far away.
called to thee, and yet thou wouldst not stay,
But turbulent, and with thysef contendiug,
And torrent-hke thy force on pebbles
spending,
Thou wouldst not listen to poets lay.
Thoughts, like loud and sudden rush Of
wings,
Regrets and recollections Of things past,
With hints and prophecies OF things to be,
And inspirations, which, could they be things,
And stay with us, and we could only hold
them fast,
Were our good angels-these owe TO thee.
And thou, o River OF Tomorrow, flowing
Between thy narrow adamantine walls,
But beautiful and white with waterfalls,
And wreaths of mist, like hands the pathway
showing;
hear the trumpets Of the morning blowing,
hear thy mighty voice that calls and calls,
And see as Ossian saw in Morven's halls,
Mysterious phantoms, coming, beckoning,
going
1t is the mystery Of the unknown
That fascinates us we are children still,
Wayward and wistful; with one hand we
cling
To the familiar things we call our own,
And with the other, resoute of will,
Grope in the dark for what the day will
bring.
II. W. Longfelio,o, in Atlantic Monthly.
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n. C. LAM PIER,

nEPUTY SHERIFF. AND AUCTIoNEER,
~ Hyde Park. W.
q Business from parties residing out OF the counts
Ell receive prompt attSntion.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
LAW OFFICE.
T. ]. BAKE z,

nEPUTY SHERIFF AND hUCTIoNRER,
~ Johnson, ".
All business done with accuracy and dispatch.
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z. q. SAWYER,
AMERICAN HOUSE,

T. KELLEY, Proprietor,
~ Hyde Park, W.
baving rented the American Hotel and closed the
non House to the public, We are now prepared ts
4o good care of the patrons Of both houses, and
l9po to give satisfaction to all.
J. r. KELLEY.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-03-13
COME AND SEE
JOB PRINTING,

WIZ FNsav ssv&ss
sUCH As
~ AND LETTER HEADS, STATEMENT ANn
BILL HEADS, CIRCULARS, VISITING,
WEDDING, AND PLAIN' AND
rANOY BUSINESS CARDS,
NVITATIONS,
&NK DEEDS, NOTES, ORDERS, RECEIPTS
5NRITS, EXECUTIONS, ETC., PAMPHLET
WORK, POSTERS, FLYERS, ETC.,
Neatly Done, and Charges Reasonable.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

e Y kaus vs. J IIendrickson ct al
Judgment for $7l so.
Buchart vs. II Winkenhocfcr ct nj.
judgement for defendant.
4 Smith vs. v Parker ct al: fore
oclosure. for $sl5 10.
z = kraus VS. NJ A Newton ct al. iudg
sIment for $40 So.
= baettner ys NJ A Wolf ct al; judg
imissed. - 80
+. for 1896 OS.
4 IN the matter Of Deborah Cavender
jury tnal verdict that she Is Of unsount
+ Schneider vs. NJ Atkins ct al; dis
missed.
A. Allies vs. A Koester; judgmen,
for defendant.
= = Scheurich vs. Joseph Buchart
Judgment for defendant.
NJ Dlllen W y Ginther ct nj. FORE
closure for $3.50 ~.
w 4 Harris VS. j r Tieman: defend.
ant files new bond with new sureties.
> beike " A knust ct al; judgment
r Pitnan ct al, VS. NJ Fisher ct al. :
Judgment for defendants.
l. Loewenthal ct al, vs. / Schulz
macher: dismissed.
i Smith VS. T. Gosmann et al iudo.
ment for $63 rs.
State on rel. Hyneman We George Cox
Ell al T; judgment for defendant.
Aug Beck ct al, vs. John Berg: con-
iinued.
Nv IIarrisvs 0 F Hobbs ct al. judg-
ment for 500 81,
X a Armstrong VS. 0 + Hobbs judg-
mcnt for plaintiff as surety.
George Burger VS. o Il Hobbs: con-
Iinued
9 Rousher vs. J r Niemoeller; dis
missed.
W bergman VS. J + NiemoeIler; judg-
nent for $173 IS.
" Bergman vs. J F Nicmocllcr ct Al. i
Judgment for $2O6 60.
q Roushcr vs. J + Niemoeller ct al. Il
bergman W J + Niemoellcr. iudg-
nent for slO3 30.
! Weisnan vs. IL r NiemoelIer ct al. Il
w Rothert vs. j II Niemoeller ct al. 4
Judgment for $40 IS.
Joseph Enlow vsJ III Nicmoeller OF
\. judgment for l99 80.
Town Of IIuntingburg vs. Adam
tarter Judgment for defendant.
kost vsJ ID Raab guardian removed.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

:. a singular custom prevailed among
the yonng men Of former times, ii
England, which showed q spirit o,
romantic gallantry far exceeding any.
thing which exists at present. To
show their devout attachment "a
the ladies Of their choice, they fre.
qnently punctured their arms with
|daggers, and mingling the blood with
wine, drank it off to their heslths.
ihis custom seems to have been an
imitation Of rite Of great solennity
among the ancients, which is men
tioned in Ssllust and Livy. We have
an allusion TO il in several old PLAYS.
sud among others. G,eene's tn Quo.
quo, thus: 81 will fight him that
dares cay your are not lair; stab him
that will not pledge your health; and
with q dagger pierce q vein to drink
> full health to you" In q character
Of England, written by q French
nobleman in 1929. which is printed in
- the ''Halain Miscellany rhe says:
Several encounters confirmed me
hat there was sort Of perfect de.
'auchees, who stylc themselves lice.
ore, that in their mad and unheard|
! revels pierce their veins to qnafil
heir own blood, which some of them
ave done to that excess that they
lied Of intcmperaDce.
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Grandview Monitor.
Something for the scientific frnit
growers 10 think and talk about. Mr..
Henry Anderson, widc-awakc farmer
Of Hammond township. laid on our table,
last Tuesday. a specimen Of the red var
iety Of the June apple. which he says Is
. second crop taken from tree that pro-
duced fair crop last June. The apple
is well developed and Of rich delicious
flavor, and represents fact that we have
never seen before or read about.
Hon. Thos. Il. DeBrulcr received over
800 votes for Congress --one-third more
than was cast for him IN 1876. TRY II
again, .UncIo Tom" Remember that
Billy Heilman ran the third time before
be succeeded in winning the prize.
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The full official returns from all the
counties give the following as the tota
vote cast for each candidate:
For Secretary OF State Barnes. Re.
publican, 27l,l2O; Paige, Democrat. 30.
SOC: Roy, National, 3s,s33, Robinson
Prohibitionist, !. 5,e7S. Barnes majority
The returns also show the election OF
"A Democratic, and 8 Republican Con.
greesmen.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

IL In your walks these autumn days
You find poor humble bee lying on his
back amid the scented clover, with his
eyes shut, his head thrown back. holding
up his feet. do not stop aud pick him up.
Its too early IN the season: he's only
fooling, and his aftcrguard will develop
more activity before you eau let 70 ot
him than the markets have shown during
the past eighteen months. burlington
IIawkeyc.
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Where's your fast trains now? On
Sunday special train on the Ohio and
mississippi, consisting Of the officers
Gar, ran from 81. Louis to Cincinnati. a
distance Of 354 miles, in eight hours. Or
AZ miles per hour. This Is The fastest
time ever made between these two
points, and shows the cxccllcncy Of thc
track Of that road.
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'"~s' sopMAHH. n. n. HOFFMAN,.
"The Old Rcliablcn
> B0DM AN MS
Leaf Tobacco
. A r EHOU:S e "!

ESTABLISHED 1861. Nos. 57 6o
-, and 63 West Front Street, foot q,
tspension Bridge. Cincinnati Ohio
~ Lear Auction Sales every SATURDAY
only Tobacco Warehouse IN Cin.
,"atl mat has Seed Leaf trade. Stor.
~ tobacco free for three months.
NJ cnargcs reasonable as Consistent
~ iair dealings. Liberal advancss
Ird s vn consIgmments upon recent.
- .or weekly Tobacco Circulars.
,saG HAS: y BODMANN 4 CO..
0m' Cincinnati.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

Eleven Catholic priests have died in
Memphis alone Of yellow fever.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1878-10-25

Ascending to the Hebrew cal
cnder this 10 the year 5637.