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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
A Curious Suicide.

Chicago, which has done nothing to
attract the national attention since it
furnished the greatest number of bank
rupts during the last day for filing petit
tions, comes forward with curious case
of suicide, and claims the need of praise
for the originality of the method en-
ployed by one of her citizens to blow
out his brains. 1t is q common thing
for men who have not done themselves
the slightest damage to take pains to
make the public believe that they have
committed suicide when they have sim
ply absconded, nor is it strange for
murderers to dispose indications of self
destruction about their victims; but it is
something unusual for men who are
about to commit suicide to put them
selves to any trouble to induce people to
think that they were murdered. This
was what the departed Chicagoan is
accused of doing. He was a halter
named Fay, who had been prosperous
in early life, but had fallen into dissipa-
ton, squandered his fortune and embar-
rassed his business. He was found
lying on q dock with pistol bullet in
his brain and his pockets turned inside
out, and the natural conclusion to be
drawn from his position and surround
ings was that he had been murdered.
Indeed the fact that there was no pistol
near the body seemed conclusive on this
point, and the fact that saloon keeper
in the neighborhood had last seen him
with roll of bills in his possession
made assurance look doubly sure. A
little inquiry touching his habits and
character, however, made it plain that
he was a person who had long contem.
plated suicide, and his clerk gave details
of the plan which he had laid down or
perpetrating the crime in such way as
to battle investigation. He said he
would go to the edge of the water. take
a pistol with heavy weight attached to
it by a rope, fling the weight off the
dock, hold the pistol at arms length
and discharge it into his brain. In this
way he would drop back a corpse and
the weapon would be drawn away into
deep water. A little dredging near the
scene of the crime brought up pistol
with hempen cord and a piece of pig
iron attached to it. It is conceded that
Fay had many reasons for committing
suicide, if there be any excuses for self
murder, and his solicitude about avoid
ing the appearance of suicide is explain
ed by the fact that he had an insurance
of 1000 on his life which he wished tc
secure for his family without litigation.
1t is certainly strange that if he aimed
at secrecy he should have talked SC
freely of his plans for self-destruction.
II the theory that he committed suicide
be accepted it is not unlikely that the
insurance money will be saved to hii
children after all; for the arrangement
of such an elaborate scheme for deceiv
ing the public, and at the same time
leaving behind the clue of the whole
mystery, was the work Of lunatic.--
NeD York World.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
A Rival Of the Telephone.

Israel D. Jewett, druggist at st.
Omer, Ind, has perfected an instrument
which he calls the agaphone," which,
it is claimed, will, without the aid of
electricity, carbons, or any complex
machinery, collect distant sounds and
carry them to great distance without
loss of volume. A number of expert
ments were made with the instrument,
wire being strung nearly half mile.
Speaking into the instrument three or
four feet away, the words were heard
clearly and distinctly at the furthest end
of the wire. Playing upon violin
eight feet from the instrument, the music
was heard at the other end of the street.
The closing of doors. walking upon the
floor, ordinary conversation, and the
ticking of watch could be heard dis
tinctly without applying the instrument
to the ear. Mr.. Jewett will not explain
his invention at present, not having as
yet received letters of patsnt.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
Miss Edith Becomes NeighbOrIy.

"oh, you're the girl lives on the corner {?
Come inf you want to-come, quick
There's no one but me in the house and cook
but she's only stick.
Don't try the front way, but come over the
fence-through the wiRdow-that's how.
Don't mind the big dog-he won't bite you
just see him obey me there, now!
=" What's your name? Mary EllenY How
funny! Mines Edith-it's nicer, you see,
But yours does for you, for you're palmer,
though maybe you're gooder than me.
For Jack says I'm sometimes a devil ; but
Jack, Of all folks, needn't talk,
For he once called our sesmstress an angel =
no wonder ma said she must walk
"Come in. It's quite dark in the parlor. and
sister will keep the blinds down.
Just because her complexion is awful-like
your's-though it isn't so brown.
But Jack says that isn't the reason-she likes
to sit here with Jim Moore.
Do you think that he meant that she kissed
him Would you-if your lips wasn't sore2
" II you like, you can try our piano. 'Taint
ours. A man left it kere
To rent by the month, but mamma says he
hasn't been paid in year.
Sister plays. Oh, such fine variations Why,
once heard a gentleman say
She didn't mind that for the notes; dear it
only was just in her way
"Ain't I funny And yet it's the queerest Of
all, that whatever 1 say
One-half of the folks die a-laughing, and the
rest they all look tother way.
And some say that child / Do they ever say
that to such people as you?
Though maybe you're naturally silly, and that
makes your eyes so askew!
Now hush Don't you dare to be crying !
Just as sure as you live, if you do,
I'll call up my big dog to bite you, and I'll
make my papa kill you, too!
And then where'l you be2 So, play pretty.
There's my doll and a nice piece of cake.
You don't want it?-you think it is poison !
Then I'll eat it just for your sake"
Brete Harte, in Scribners.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
PRICE 5 CENTS.
Items OF Interest.

The best illustrated paper out-A
bank note.
When is a lawyer strongest?-When
he is fee e-blest.
How to dispel mental gloom-Make
light of your troubles.
Nothing has so many ties binding it
to earth as a railroad.
There are sixty known varieties of
oysters throughout the world.
William Shakespeare is running for
constable in a Michigan village. Yet
this is the man who said: "Fling away
ambition +; by that sin fell the angels"
REsURGAM.
No more blossoms in the orchard,
No wild flowers in the vale;
Soft-voiced wood birds cease their singing
In the shadow haunted dale.
Gone the dancing summer sunshine
Gone the song birds from the glen,
But fair hope still sings, " Be happy"
Summer days and picnics and snake
bites and red ants, and sunstrokes and circuses
and mad dogs and ice cream and strawberry
festivals and white pants, and Sunday-school
excursions and watermelons, and moonlight
drives and livery bills, and hives and flies and
the fourth Of July will come again.-Burttn9-
ton HdaoLeye
The New Zealanders are about to
spend considerable sum of money in
acclimatizing the humble-bee, so as to
assist the agriculturists in cultivating
clover. Common bees are not strong
enough to force their way into the pc
tails of the clover flower and thus fertil-
ize the plants as they fly from one to
the other. For this purpose, therefore,
the humble-bee is needed, but 80 far the
nests sent out have been destroyed. At
tempts to acclimatize the common bee
in some hot climates have 30 far proved
useless. After short period they quit
the hives, and cannot be enticed back.
In New Mexico the following method
of catching ants is both popular and
efficacious. A few large champagne
bottles are buried in the ground near
the entrance to the nest, till their tops
are flush with the ground. Every ant,
going from or coming to the colony,
will at once walk up, peep over, and
then drop in. When he gets to the bot
tom, he finds himself in the middle of
free fight, in which legs and antenne
are chewed off with alarming reckless
ness. Two or three days suffice to ac-
cumulate half dozen quarts of ants,
and completely exterminate the colony.
Gunpowder, coal oil and boiling water
are not half as sure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

A Achicken-fancier at tSpringfeld, Mass.
recently caught two old rats carrying off
the eggs which he had placed in a nest
for sitting hen. The rat would run
the lower jaw through the shell, raise
the head slightly and carry the egg off
with the greatest ease. The hen-fancier
watched until they had made away with
fourteen eggs, when he interfered.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

The United States government has
60, 900, 900 acres of lands open to pre-
emption in California, including 20,-
600, 600 acres of tillable soil.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04
TIMELY TOPICS.

No. 26 in the list of Queen Victoria's
grandchildren is the girl-baby just born
to the Princess of Edinburgh.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

In future the government envelopes
in India are to be inscribed " On Her
Imperial Majesty's Service" instead of
On Her Maiesty's Service"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

Two Japanese girls, Miss Stematz
Yamagarva and Miss Shige Nagai, have
gone to Vassar college, Poughkeepsie,
N. Y.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

The sea serpent made his last appear
ance of the season on the Norwegian
coast. Head like dogs, sixty feet
long, big around as barrel, etc.-the
same old story.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

Nothing makes man so mad as to get
about five blocks away from the dentists
and make the alarming discovery that
he had the wrong tooth pulled.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

The sea serpent made his last appear
ance of the season on the Norwegian
coast. Head like dogs, sixty feet
long, big around as a barrel, etc.-the
same old story.
Going home from a revival meeting
on Sunday evening in Aurora, Texas,
Eli Ramsdale and Jack Hayes got into
quarrel over girl, and fought with
iackknives for a quarter of an hour.
Both were killed.
The new German national assembly
contains 105 land owners, twenty. eight
lawyers, twenty-one Catholic priests,
one Protestant minister, fifteen profes-
sors and tutors, fourteen journalists,
five doctors, two brewers and one
banker.
A sheep-shearing tournament re-
Gently took place at French Camp, CAL,
for purse of $500. At $50 the word
was given at noon there was an inter-
mission for dinner; at2:10 P. M. Thomas
King was hailed victor, having shorn
forty five sheep to forty-one for George
Carruthers, whose hand gave out.
The two hundred Trappist monks for
whom land has been purchased in Penn
sylvania are not the first of that order
in America. In 1903 colony, led by
Augustin Lestrange, settled at Pigeon
Hill, Pa, and after removals to Ken
E,,o NT,cgn,,r. o,1l Tllin0Se 1AookaI
permanently in Nova Scotia. Other
colonies were established lately in Ken.
lucky and Iowa, both of which now hold
the rank of abbeys.
A private letter gives an account of a
disastrous food which recently occurred
at Zell, Switzerland, where the water
from the glacier at the head of the val
ley, swollen by rains, swept down with
resistless force, carrying before it
houses and mills, and even sweeping
the fields bare of their crops and soil.
Roads and bridges were destroyed, and
even the churches far up the hill were
inundated. After two days the water
subsided, but starvation threatened the
population of the district.
In Europe and America during the
past month fully 10000 people are
known to have perished by the sword.
by food, by fever, and by railway, coal
mine and steamboat disasters. 1000
have died of fever in the South, 600 in
the Thames steamship collision, 400 by
the great food at Miskolcz, Hungary,
$50 by the coal mine explosion in South
Wales, 100 by several railway accidents
in Great Britain, 100 by lake, railway,
and other casualties in this country,
and some A, 600 by engagements between
Austrians, Bohemians, Turks and AL
| banians.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

Going home from a revival meeting
on Sunday evening in Aurora, Texas,
Eli Ramsdale and Jack Hayes got into a
quarrel over a girl, and fought with
iackknives for quarter of an hour.
Both were killed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1878-10-04

The new German national assembly
contains 105 land owners, twenty eight
lawyers, twenty-one Catholic priests,
one Protestant minister, fifteen profes-
sors and tutors, fourteen journalists,
five doctors, two brewers and one
banker.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15

John Linderman and his horse were
drowned in a pond near Dixon, Iowa.
Terrell was yesterday removed from the
Logan, Ohio, Jail to the Penitentiary.
A daughter of jeremiah Featherstone, of
Shelbyville, Ind, died Of strangulation yes
terday.
Thomas Garner was killed by William E.
HanNnond, wealthy planter, near Bre-
mond, Texas.
Geo. Phillips, miner was killed yester-
day near Ausrintown, o.. by the premature
discharge of blast.
A printer named Walsh was shot and
killed at picnic near Galveston, Texas, by
young man named Stone
Edward Cox, brother-in-law of Hon. NJ
Williams, was killed by an unknown as
sassin In Menifee County, KY, last week.
A party of cow-herders in Texas, near
Fort Ewell, nistook detachment of sol
diers for Indians and smart fight ensued
in which one man was fatally wounded.
The Dane Co., Wis, Board of Supervisors
yesterday appropriated $4,000 for the bene'
fit of the tornado sufferers in that county.
The money will be expended by the County
Superintendent of the Poor,
John Blake, rejected suitor attempted
to abduct Miss Mary A. Durbin, at Paines-
vile, o., yesterday. He had disguised him
self in female apparel and failing in his at
tempt to induce her to get into buggy
with him, he fired at her with pistol,
wounding her slightly. Blake is in Jail.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
A CHICAGO PICNIC.
The Socialists Resolve to Parade Under
Arms.
National Associated Press to the Star.

National Associated Press to the Star
CHICAGO, June 15.-The main Section of
the Socialistic Labor party had large and
very boisterous meeting last night. The
question was whether or not they should
arm their procession at the big picnic Sun
day next. The English and American MEM
bers were strongly opposed to going armed,
arguing that, while they had a perfect right
to do SO, it would not be wise, as trouble
might occur with the authorities and blood
be shed. The Germans, Scandinavians and
other foreign members, who greatly pre-
dominated in nuenbers, made violent
speeches, denouncing the Englishmen as
towards, and saying that if trouble occurred
it would not be their fault, but that Of
those who attempted to interfere.
A motion to turn out in uniform, but
without arms, was Indignantly voted down,
and the members nearly came to blows
among themselves so warm was the feeling
directed. This action was taken in viola
ton of instructions from the Executive
Committee at Cincinnati, that no arms be
carried in Sunday parades. In view of this
incendiary meeting, and the fact that the
police stations will all be supplied with
breech-loading arms and the military all
armed, the situation looks grave for Sun
day. 1t is difficult to say what the outcome
will be, but certainly very small provoca-
tion might occasion great bloodshed.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
Edition
OVER THE OCEAN.
Patching the Peace of Europe.
Beaconsfield Bursts q Bomb,
And Demands the. Withdrawal of Troops.
Patching the Peace of Europe.
Bursts q Bomb,
And Demands the. Withdrawal of Troops.
BEAcoNsFIELD's DEMANDS.


BERLIN, June 15.-There is but small
probability of the admission of the minor
states to the Congress. In the Congress
yesterday Earl Beaconsield made a speech
on the military situation at tConstantinope
and demanded the withdrawal of Russian
troops.
DINING WITH THE BRITISH.
The British, Austrian and Russian dole
gates dined at the British Embassy to-day
and subsequently attended reception ten
dered by Prince Bismarck.
FLArTERfNG THE FRENCH.
LONDON June 15-Prince Bismarcks eff
fusive attentions to the French delegates to
the Congress is much noticed and it is uni
versally believed that the Globes announce
ment of an Anglo Russian understanding is
authentic. The Times this morning en-
dorses the terms of the agreement as pub
lished.
GEN. MARTINEZ CAMPO.
MADRID June 15-Gen. Martinez Campo
has arrived from Havana and has met with
the widest enthusiasm from the people,
THE KING OF HANOVER.
BERLIN, June 15.-The Government has
permitted the burial of the King of Han
over to take place at Hanover.
ORDERED TO BABELsBURG.
The Emperor's physicians have recon-
he will depart for Babelsburg in a day or
two.
CHOLERA AT MARsEILLEs
PARIS, June 15.-Cholera is prevailing at
Marseilles and many deaths have occurred.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15

took them and sealed them up They were
at once again dispatched to Washington.
One certificate was mailed, and one
was handed to Charles HILL who was sub
stitute messenger for Anderson.
Witness caused a duplicate copy of
the corrected returns to be filed
with the District Court. Did not at that
time ask to have the original returns that
had been filed there returned. Anderson
was duly authorized to bring the first re-
turns, but witness did not prepare the au-
thorization for him to bring the second set
Kellogg was the first one who signed the
corrected returns. After they were signed
by kellogg they were left in an unfrequent-
ed room in the State Building for the
Electors to sign as they were found, the
room being left open.
Witness was shown two packages, and
recognized them as the envelopes that con-
tanned the first and second sets of returns.
The second was sent by registered mail.
The Governors certificate accompanying
the returns was prepared by witness before
the Electoral College met The electoral
returns were prepared by several clerks -,
The Committee here took a recess until
o'clock p m., the presence of the mem
bers being required in the House Chamber.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
LATEST LOCAL.

EIGHTY deaths were reported during the
week.
THE Board of Trade met to-day but did
no public business.
WIN. H. IRWIN was admitted to practice
in the United States Courts to-day.
Miss EDNA DEAN PROCTOR is spending a
few days with her uncle, Mr.. G.. H. Gould,
ON East Walnut Hills
ABOUT one thousand young people from
the Second intermediate, Woodward and
Hughes High Schools visited the Geological
Garden to-day.
EIGHT OF the inmates of the City Infirm
ary were brought before the Probate Judge
this afternoon to be examined, preparatory
to being sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
THE sentences in the Police Court dur
ing the week amounted to 81, 900 fines
and one thousand three hundred and thirty.
three days service at the Work-house.
NEXT Wednesday morning the Board Of
Public Works will consider the subject oi
building bridge over Millcreek on Eighth
street. All who are interested are requested
to be present
AUG. SUssMAN, lately an employe at J.
Ch Bandles gun store, at 260 Main street.
and charged with the embezzlement OF
some 5000, will have his preliminary exam
ination before Squire Block this even
ing.
TERRENCE c. RILEY, Ex-Councilman and
an employe of the Water-works, was taken
with sudden fit of cholera morbus at the
City Buildings this afternoon, and for some
time remained in an unconscious condition.
He was taken to his home,
MOSES TRIBuE, colored lad, charged with
cutting to kill, cutting to wound and as
sault and battery was arraigned before
Judge LongwOrth to-day and pleaded guilty
of cutting to wound, He was remanded
for sentence,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
THE PRESIDENTS TITLE.
VIEWS OF THE PRESS.
National Associated Press to the Star.

Natlonai ASSOefateQ Press 70 tne Stat
New York, June 15-The Herald says:
"Mr. Burchard, of Illinois, Republican
member, performed the foolish feat OF a
small politician yesterday by attempting to
destroy the effect upon the country of the
resolution of the Judiciary Committee. 1t
is pretty conclusive proof that the title OF
President Hayes will never be seriously
questioned in such official circles as have
any power to disturb it,"
The Times says "The action of the
House effectually disposes of Mr.. Montgom-
cry Blair's patent explosive compound, de-
signed to blow open the doors Of the White
House."
The Tribune says "It would be interest
ing to know whether Mr.. Potter wishes now
that he hadn't"
The World says: "If Conkling desires to
Mexicanize the United States Government
he must look elsewhere than to the Demo
cratic party for his guerillas"
The Star says: "The validity OF Mr..
Hayes title is now definitely disposed of, so
far as any Congressional action is concerned,
and with it disappears the revolutionary
shibboleth."
The Sun says: Daniel Webster once said
of series of resolutions which had been
| adopted by the Whig State Convention:
"The resolutions contain very little mean,
ing and they were adopted by set of mer
who understood but little of what meaning
they do contain" With all due respect fol
The House of Representatives of the United
States, we think the same remarks might
Justly be applied to the resolution adopted
by majority of that august body yester-
day. If the resolution means that impeach-
ment for good cause would be revolution
airy, then it is resolution that the enforce.
ment of the Constitution would be revolu-
tionarY,
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-06-15
FROM WEALTH TO WANT.
The Degradation and Dissipation of
an Ex-MayOr's Daughter.

National Associated Press to the Star.
New YORK, June 15.-Among the victims
of alcohol arragned yesterday in the Mu-
nicipal Court was a woman with a comely
and intelligent face, who answered to the
name of Josephine Frail. Her dress was
coarse and dirty, and was suggestive of a
bed on a coal-heap or in the gutter. She
gave the name mentioned to hide her shame
from her friends and relatives who occupy
proud position in influential and cultured
society in New York city.
Her statement, which is confirmed by
trustworthy testimony admits of no ques-
ton that she is the daughter of Ex-Mayor
VIM. F. Havemyer, and heir to the hand
some property left by him at the time of
his death, a few months ago. 1t is known
that she led dissipated and degraded life
for the last three or four years. For want
of fine of So and costs she was sent to Deer
Island.