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The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-10
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Having. Decided to go
out of Business for a
time, I will sell at low
price the miscellaneous
property which I now
have on hand. Should
the readers ofthls notice
be In want of any of the
property named below;
they will find it for their
interest to give me a
call.
TERMS of payment
easy on satisfactory pa
per:
2 Village Residences in No Hyde
Park, either Of which will be sold for less than
one half the sum they have been previously sold
for.
{ Piece Of Land, about az acres, In
HYDE Park, near what he known as Green1sld-
&C, 900 feet ciapboards
$4,000 feet spruce flooring and
finishing.
1000 feet com m spruce
boards.
80, 900 feet spruce strip lath
8 1000 feet dimension timber
5000 feet spruce plank
10, 900 feet bass boards, ia to q
inches thick.
5000 feet brown ashtin. boards.
is tin PeddIe boxes, old.
good one-horse lumber wagon
nearly new.
I one-horse lumber wagon, old
2 set running gears for lumber
wagons old.
| good buggy wagon, nearly new,
2 cheap buggy wagons.
2 sleighs.
sulky, old.
pairs traverse sTeIghs
? light driving harnesses, neariy
new.
light driving harness, old.q
200 butter tubs.
| large new storage tub, or sap hold
cr.
400 salt sacks.
piano.
| full sett tinmen's tools and ma
| chimes.
so NEW STOVES, comprising Box, :,
| ParlOr Parlor Cook, Low and Elevated Oven,
| Cooking Stoves, Stoves for wool Stoves for
coal, Stoves made of cast iron, sheet iron, and
| snapstone.
so second hand low and elevated
oven Cooking Stoves.
200 pieces hollow ware, including,
caultlrOn and potash kettles.
10, 900 pounds stove castings for re-
pairing nearly every stove sold Ivy me during
past Is years.
I.00i MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES
which, with the aboue list, will be offered on
terms that will make them SELL, for am de-
| tcrnlincd to clean them out.
CARROLL S. PAGE.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-10
B. al. Time Table.
GOING EAST.

GOING EAST.
uryrr leaves Burlington at ! 20 =. m, and ar.
riyes st Cambridge Junction at 10 :oS m.
,,,us leaves burlington at 50 p. IN, and arrives
At Cambridge Junction at As y. M, connecting
with Express train for 81. JOhnsbury and all
eastern points.
GOING WHIST.
MIXED leaves Cambridge junction at $50 =. M,
Jenrr,onyillc 81, Cambridge O6, arriving at
burlington at l0:s0.
Man. leaves Cambridge junction at 1910 p. M,
/ JefersOnvillc Il :43, Cambridge II "a, and ar.
riyes at burlington at 40 p. IN.
MORNING AND EVENING TRAINS make close con.
nection at Burlington and Essex junction with
Central Vermont trains North and South.
e. ALL TRAINS arrive at and leave the Contra
Vermont Depots 10 burlington and Essex jet.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-10
Final returns from the county on the
vote for Commissioner is as follows:

Big sugar party at Orson Hadley's last
Thursday night. Sweet, sweeter, sweet
est. The entertainment ending with
dance, which lasted till day light, with
DIR. Conant as fiddleist.
The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1878-04-10
MARRIED.,

At Palmer afth, NJ the residence Of Dr. stowe,
by Rev. G. n. Eaton, II. ". SMITH of Palmer and
CLARA D.. FAIguNNKs Of Manchester, y. H.
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The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
A Man.Eating Stallion.

The Hambletonian stallion Rising
ham, owned by DR.. James A. Schultz,
of Middletown, N. Y, was shot and
killed one night recently, he being con-
sidered unsafe to keep. DIR. Shultz
says the horse was insane beyond a
doubt. He was twenty-one years old,
and for nineteen years has been a con-
firmed man-eater. More than twenty
keepers have been crippled by him, and
lie has killed three persons outright.
No professional horse-trainer could SUBJ
due him, and all the systems of horse
training and breaking have been tried
in vain. He was thoroughbred, old
Hambletonian being his sire, and his
dam being mare of fine blood. He
had been in harness but once in four
teen years, and that was recently, when
DIR. Schultz had him hitched up, it re-
quiring several men to do it. The
doctor then attempted to drive Rising
ham, but the horse became 80 furious
and unmanageable that he was allowed
to go at once to his stall, where he has
remained ever since. The sum of
81, 900 was once offered for him, and re-
fused by his owner, in hope that he
might be cured. The last feat Rising
ham performed was to bite the right
cheek of negro keeper entirely off, the
unfortunate groom's three immediate
predecessors having lost respectively an
ear, three fingers, and q thumb, and
the muscles of the right forearm.
Five shots were fired in the forehead
of Risingham IS he stood in his stall.
They seemed to have no effect upon
him, except to increase his attempts to
get at the bystanders. and to add to the
ferocity of his kicking and jumping.
By strategy DR.. Schultz managed to
sever his jugular vein, and he bled to
death, dying as he had lived, exhibit
ing oil the fierceness of most vicious
nature. His last effort was an attempt
to seize his owners arm in his teeth.
DIR. Schultz intends to dissect the re-
mains of the stallion, and have the
skeleton articulated and set up in his
office
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Why He Never Wore a Collar.

1t was fact observed by many that
Governor Briggs for several years be-
fore his death never wore collar.
When he was the honored chief magis-
trate of Massachusetts. he appeared at
his levees and on all public occasions
without collar. There were compare
lively few who knew the reason of this.
But the secret is more interesting and
suggestive. He had neighbor, whom
he very highly esteemed, who had fallen
into the habit of using intoxicating
liquor. He was already the slave of
appetite. Governor Briggs remonstrat-
ed with him. The man replied, 81 will
never drink again, if you will never
again wear a collar" "Agreed," said
the governor. the man gave up the
Intoxicating cup, and the governor laid
aside his collar. He never wore it again,
but he saved his neighbor. The adverse
criticisms, to which this seeming lack of
attention to his dress and personal ap-
Psarance exposed him never moved him
rom his purpose. Chicago Standard.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
JOhnny's Essay on the Ant Eater.

Ant eaters ketches EN- with their
tungs, wich is long like O werm, and
gum ON it, same as hop todes trlngs.
The eater it finds place where the ants
is to work, and lies down, and pays out
its tung, and shets up its eyes. Then
a ant comes there, and takes look. and
says to the other ants: "This duffer
has over ct hisself, and gone to sleep
without finishing his last werm, lets
take wot is left for our own selfs."
But when they have all got hold they
stick fast, and the eater it opens one ey,
like sayin: "Ime reddy if you are, and
then it touches spring, and the tung
is drawed in quick, and them ants is as
tonish.
And now Ill tell you story wich aint
true, jest for change.
There was o ant eater wich had lain
out his tung that way, and a ant come
up and said: "Hello wot's this p
The eater was SO hungry he cudent
wait SO he said: "Why don't you see ?
That is a nice red werm."
But he had to pull in his tung for to
say it, and then the ant said: "I was
jest looking for worm like that, and
if you hadent GRABBED it so quick would
have took it my own SELF"
The eater see he had made mistake,
SO he said: 81 know where there is q
other worm, same kind. You follower
me and lie sho you."
So the eater went of little way with
his back to the ant, and laid out his
tung agin, and wen the ant had cum the
eater winked its i, like saying: "Do be
carehe or Won vii friten the warm on
he might git away, cos you see only
got him by the tall"
Wen the ant had looked it said: You
can't fool me smarty; that's the same
old werm wich you have had in your
mowth. Ime hungry, but don't want
no boddys second hand vittles."
And the eater it dident dare to say
twasent so, cos it wud have to pull in its
tung agin to say it; but after the ant had
went away mad then it said. 60 Its nifty
hard to be silent under unjust suspi.
ciop, wen natur has give me so much
tongue for to deny it.-TheArgonaut.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Effect OF Hard Water upon Animals.

Horses have an instructive love for
soft water, and refuse hard water if they
can possibly get the former. Hard
water produces rough and staring coat
on horses, and renders them liable to
gripes. Pigeons also refuse hard water
if they can obtain access to soft. Cleg-
horn states that hard water in Minorca
causes diseases in the system of certain
animals, especially of sheep. So much
are race horses influenced by the quality
of the water, that it is not unfrequent to
carry supply of soft water to the
locality in which the race is to take
place, lest there being only hard water,
the horses should lose condition. Mr..
Youatt, in his book called "The Horse. {"
remarking on the desirableness OF soft
water for the horses, says, "lnstinct or
experience has made the horse himself
conscious of this, for he will never drink
hard water if he has access to soft he
will leave the most transparent wats Of
the well for river, although the water
may be turbid, and even for the rlu1.
diest pool" And again in az rother place
he says, " Hard water drawn fresh from
the we'll will assuredly make the coat of
a horse unaccustomed to it stare, and
will not unirequently gripe or further
injurs him."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Coral.

Coral-fshing yields an ample return
when properly carried on, coral being
always much sought after for the toilet,
and commanding high price. It has
required twenty centuries of incessant
cropping in the dark to unveil it's mystic
rious nature. It is branched polypus-
as hard as the most compact rocks, and,
like them, capable of taking a fine
polish. When it is Withdrawn
from the sea, of which it only
inhabits the great Depths. it is,
owing to the arrangement of its branch
es, precisely like bush in miniature,
and section of its stem presents con-
centric layers analogous to those of Ger.
tain trees. Its branches are covered
with soft rose. colored bark, and dis
play here and there small holes, in each
Of which resides one of their builders.
These are SO many polypi, which, when
they expand, wear all the appearance of
pretty little flowers of beautiful white
color, with eight divisions spread out
like rays, and the borders of which are
ornamented with fringe of ellie. 1t
was this deceitful appearance which
made naturalists waver so about the
nature of coral. Its extreme hardness,
and the beautiful polish it takes, led
some observers to look upon it as
simple mineral. But the idea which
seemed to predominant over all others
was that of coral being only q sub-ma-
rine shrub. This was the opinion of
Pliny and Dioscorides; and these two
great scholars, seeing it was 30 hard and
compact, added that the shrub only
made its appearance in this indurated
form. because it became suddenly petri-
fed when brought into contact with the
air, as it issued from the waves. The
sagacious traveller Tournefort also took
it to be plant, and even had it en-
graved under this heading in one of the
plates of his magnificent work. In the
eighteenth century Count Marsigli an
nounced to the scientific world that he
had discovered the flowers of the coral,
and that consequently its vegetable ma
ture could no longer be called in ques-
ton. BY placing branches of this poly
poid in sea water, Immediately after
they had been fshed up, the italian
naturalist saw the kind of buds which
cover their surface, open like so many
eight-petaled flowers, formed of elegant
Wultt auu bthTTeu COrOlltc, Oubllucu upOu
the reddish bark OF the stems. Marsigli
doubted no longer; these were the
flowers of the paradoxical shrub; he
had solved the problem left unsettled
by Tournefort. In his Joy, when an
nouncing his discovery to the assembled
Academy of Sciences, to whom he had
forwarded his spec mems, he wrote to
the president, "I send you some
branches of coral covered with white
flowers. This discovery has made me
pass for almost sorcerer in the country;
no person, not even fishermen, having
seen ANYTHING similar"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Hung Lung at Base Ball.

The base ball mania has at last reached
Chinatown, says the Virginia City (Nev.)
Chronicle, and the Mongolians have a
regularly equipped nine. They prac-
tice with three men at the bat and nine
tielders, each batsman re naming in as
long as he can and taking his place in
the field when put out. While they ad-
here as closely as possible to the rules
OF the American game, their manner of
playing it slightly differs. They want
the ball pitched straight overhead in
stead of to the right side, and they
strike much as if they were chopping
wood. After they hit, they run the re.
verse way of the diamond, making for
the third base first. In catching they
are very expert, and rarely missed bali
that was knocked in the air. In several
instances it was knocked from one hand
to another and caught. In batting they
were very weak, but in throwing they
average better than the Caucasian clubs
of the Comstock. The reporter watched
the game for an hour, and did not note
single overthrow. The game dates its
decline from the year 1442, when at one
OF the. big matches lady of the royal
household was hit in the neck with q
ball and killed. When Hung Lung was
told that the game was considered an
American institution, he laughed loudly
and intimated that it was hard to find
anything the Americans didn't claim.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16

here at this hour, and with whom are
you conversing ?" asked Pastor Lubke.
There he stood behind her, dim and
appalling shape. Hilda shivered-her
voice failed. Erasmus, his courage
rising with the occasion, answered in
her stead
"She was speaking to me, sir--or
rather it was I who was speaking to her.
was telling Miss Hilda what 1 should
have come this very evening to tell YOU.
sir, if this opportunity had not arisen
that have news which makes it peedful
for me to 90 away, and that cannot 90
without saying that I love her, and want
her to be my wife, If she will" His
voice faltered and broke.
"And pray, sir, who are you7" asked
the pastor, grimly.
My name is Erasmus Stockton. NV
father was Judge Stockton, of Danbury
all my connections are respectable, !"
replied Erasmus, succinctly. "I can
refer you to people whom you know for
my character and prospects. I have a
little money now, and Smith & Petrie. of
New York, have offered $40, 900 for an
air brake of my invention, which is inst
patented. I can afford to keep wife.
Mr.. Lubke."
"And pray where have you learned to
take so great an interest in my daughter
Hilda ?"
"Over this fence" answered Eras-
mus, stoutly. Pastor Lubke gave a grim
little laugh.
"Such things are not to be settled in
a minute, my young friend" he said.
"Youth is always in hurry. Hilda, you
had better go in. If you will follow me
to my study. Mr.-ahem Stockton,
we will talk farther of this matter"
"Follow" by way of the gate, was
what the good pastor meant; and he
was by no means prepared for what
happened, namely, his young friends
vaulting the fence like an acrobat, and
gaining the garden at single bound.
"Hurrab, darling !" he whispered to
Hilda as the pastor led the way through
the garden. "The fence is climbed. 1
always vowed that | would get over some
day or other, and have"
And so it proved. There were some
hitches, some delays. Erasmus was not
allowed to marry Hilda next W elk, as
was his first wild proposition, or even
next month. " Sisters" wheel buzzed
like great bumble-bee all summer
long, and busy fingers toiled over the
wedding outfit through winter days and
spring days, before Hilda was pro-
nounced by her family "ready" to be-
gin her new life. A years engagement
even seemed disgracefully short one
to "Sister." Had not their own mother
been betrothed for seven years before she
married papa But at last, spite of de-
lays and scruples, the long waiting
ended, and Erasmus bore away his
bride. He scandalized his sisters-in-
law greatly by proposing to carry her
over the fence, as the road by which he
himself had come in, but this was over
ruled, and they departed prosaically in
a hack, like other brides and grooms.
And so we leave our little pair, as like.
ly, for all I can see, to "live happy ever
after" as any prince and princess of
fairy tale. For fairy tales, however fam
ciful, must strike their roots always in
a solid basis of everyday contentment,
and. given the contentment, one can
easily dispense with the fairies. .-Har-
per's Bazar.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
A Russian Girls Revenge.

The recent dismissal by the Emperor
of Russia OF his sanguinary Chief of
Police Trepof recalls the wounds he
received last winter from the pistol of
the young girl, Vera Zasoulitch, who
was triumphantly acquitted after trial
amid frantic applause in the court. Last
June Trepoff visited the prison for
political prisoners in st. Petersburg,
and inspected the inmates, who, accord
ing to the rules, walked about the court
yard without speaking to each other.
Finally, he observed two men in con-
yersation, and shouted to the prison
director, who tremblingly followed him:
Why do these men enjoy an immun-
itys' Seigneur," said one of them,
named Bogoliouboff, eve" "Hold
your tongue" was the reply. "Director,
place this man in dungeon" Bogo-
iouboff remained immovable, with his
hat upon his head. Trepoff lifted his
stick to knock it off, but his victim
snatched it from his hand, and threw it
away. 81 do not take off my hat to
tyrants," !" said he. At this moment two
iailers seized him, laid him upon a
bench, took off his garments, tied him,
and administered, by order of Trepoff
and under his eyes, fifty blows with the
knout, which left the unfortunate man
mutilated, inanimate, and streaming
with blood. Six months afterwaId a
young girl called at Trepoff's Office with
petition for Bogoliouboff's release.
SIN twenty years" said Trepoff, with a
sardonic smile, motioning his attendant
to admit another visitor. At this mo-
ment the girl fred two balls into his
breast, and with flashing eyes, held the
revolver smoking in her hand, crying:
am Vera Zasoulitch, the betrothed
of Bogoliouboff, whom you would have
assassinated. 1 revenge him |"
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
Items OF Interest.

| The tired shoemaker wakes weary.
When Time is no mower he will lay
away his scythe.
If were in the sun and you were on
of it, what would the sun become? Sin
It is a great deal easeir in these days
to borrow trouble than to borrow
money.
Clock work has been successfully ap-
piled as motor to sewing machines by
a mechanician of Vienna.
Certainly, tho state of matrimony is
one of the United States. To obtain
divorce is to secede from the Union.
Who is it with funeral tread
Comes slowly home and goes to bed,
And utters what is best unsaid?
'Tis he who's fshed since rose the sun,
Subsisting on single bun,
And after all's caught nary one.
Some signs of taverns in London are
curious, viz: "Goat and Compasses,
"Salmon and Compasses," "Anchor and
;Bodices." "Bull and Mouth" "Green
Man and STILL" "Pig and WHISTLE"
"Who'd Thought It?" "The Splendid
Shilling" etc.
A silver wedding party was given here
ItCtutly ny oluOldi nv WhiCu
the gifts were exhibited. The gifts were
divided into two classes, and card at
tached to one class conveyed this infor-
nation: sThese are all solid silver. -
Washington Letter.
The salaries of some OF our railway
presidents are stated to be as follows:
Col. T. A. Scott, Pennsylvania, 1924, 600;
Mr.. Isaac Hinkly, Philadelphia, Will
mington and Baltimore, $24, 600; Mr..
F. B. Gowen, Philadelphia and Reading,
$50, 900, and Mr.. Hugh j. levitt, Erie,
$4,000.
A female tramp was arrested recently
at Manchester, Vt, and in one of her
pockets were found three-quart bottle,
pint dipper, three spoons, knife,
beer bottle, razor, packages of tea,
coffee, salt and sugar, a lot of bread, soap,
wire and articles of wardrobe-nearly
half a bushel in all.
THE sANcTUM INVADED.
The parlor and the chamber floor were
cleaned a week ago,
The carpets shook and windows washed, as
all the neighbors know;
But still the sauctum had escaped-the table
piled with books,
Pens, ink, and paper, all about, peace in Its
very looks
Till fell the women on them all, as falls the
plague on men,
And then they vanished all away-books,
papers, ink and pen.
And now when comes the master home, as
come he must of nights,
To find a things are "set to wrongs" that they
have ''set to rights"
When the sound Of driving tacks is heard,
though the house is far from still,
And the carpet woman on the stairs-that harb-
niger of ill
He looks for papers, books, or bills that all
were there before,
And sighs to find them on the desk or in the
drawer no more.
And then he grimly thinks of her who set this
fuss afoat,
And wishes she were out at sea in very leaky
boat;
He meets her at the parlor door, with hair and
cap awry,
With sleeves tucked up and broom in hand,
defiance in her eye;
He feels quite small, and knows full well
there's nothing to be said,
So holds his tongue and drinks his tea, and
sneaks away to bed.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16
The Unknown Land.

Darest thou now, o Soul,
Walk out with mo toward the Unknown Region,
Where neither ground is for the feet, nor any
path to follow2
No map there, nor guide,
Nor voice sounding, nor touch Of human hand,
Nor face with blooming flesh, nor lips, nor eyes,
are in that land.
know not, o Soul, .
Nor dost thou-all is blank before us;
AL waits, undreamed of, in that region-that
inaccessible land.
Till when the ties loosen, .s..
ALI but the eternal, Time and Space,
Nor darkness, gravitation, sense, nor any bounds
bound us.
Then we burst forth-we float,
In Time and Space, o soul-prepared for them;
Equal, equipt at last--(O Joy! o fruit Of all y
them to fulfill, o Soul
-Wdu Whitman.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16

"a good advertisement in newspar
per pays no fare on railroads; costs moth
ing for hotel bills; gives away no boxes
of cigars to customers, or merino dresses
to customers wives; drinks no whisky
under the head of travelling expenses,
but goes at once and all the time about
its business free of expense" All of
which is true, albeit it Is little rough
on the commercial traveler.-Practscal
Printer.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-05-16

The number of hogs packed in the
West last winter was 6,505, 900, a gain
Of !, l04, 600 over the previous year.