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FASTEST Time consistent with absolute sAIrtY.
,,-.. IA. on and after 10Y. "a. 1872.
Iardi street Ferries lolow.:
7jg -. ana p N SUNDAY 40 AMI s 4 $50.
erp suaday 10 m = > la running through via
Boats ~ 3rroevr Annex connect with all through trains
a. Jer-er CITY ahuIdng speedy ana dect transfer tor
ae'arng trans leave West r,ad ZIP 2h1 I-:o1 s21
m -. ,. !. a.. and 80 p NJ Gu sunisy l@.Jl. 800.
Gam Gam s ara ~ m P nd so % mo- NO DAILY If -Icspt anday via
r,d,. ds' p' @ 1 2co sn1 s - nnr Asr1r
- agG Broorlyn Annex Depot foot q Fulton a. RraoS
CITY, imigI1nt iiGkSi uaice No Battery place
Jeaesal Manager ell Passeas, ; As't-
'TNHE ERIE RAILWAY,
Il nor known as the NEW.fC IA n r EisIr and
W M1sIEhN Railroad Arrangement OF trans taking
. m Clncinnai! and Chicago Day Express Drawing
Coaches o Buifaio and -U.rcusnn Bridge -
m Danrl Fa- t. LOUIS Etpress ar,iyas AT AZ snsao
vet, fumans best Diawins-ro'm Sleeping Ceaehrs to
,. Da'lyi Pacific Express for tho Wet slssOlns
NAE asd cags Without eaas also Hotel Dining cars 10
Z Z D IN. Emer4nt train for ihc West.
Trains ssvs Chambers street Depot Sew York for -,
p and u midn g Saturday nights only SUNDAYS. o:i5
:" RatssTorl 1 HiS .nd Pas,ae g. l5a 10 1870 hs
leo iraia stops At KlihsTio f-k oniy on aIndays
i H'h malshr & sunday g. $50 iO.2o H. i5 $50 p H.
90 SO e ,,S S5o 5 IisS . III 1 's s3 9So9
$50 = no D. u and IL midnight sundays. q. $780, Bl5.
iOgl a M. las. t.5O :. p ~. and IL m.dni-ht -,
Sunerr, ., 7.5O .u.2O 4 -, 500. D. yln p NJ IL
midnight. srnsys .. $50 iO2O A. IT,. llS Go. p IL,
snd ~ dnight ,,o -
Warwick, 1:5O a NJ, sou 2. u"
NewburE and cornwall. 7'5O a m J'5o $3.50 p N. Sun
Esaost apd d. Kingston. $50 sundays ssoa
mii.osnea. g. 7.5o o lo3oa n $780, $50, lsO D.
o4y yy7,,Sctorn NJ % 20 . i0a0 m $500 4:s0 r. n sun
cars 30 lr:-c a. n, $50. p. IN. The . and 43O
m tfan with SewiOrk aud Osweso Mdland Raj
rort Jcrvii 80 o. 1920 m, $50. G. p m. Sundays
: 40 i0-lo A. N, q, h.an and p ~
leaVe sI quarter o. .na s.r,r after eaeh
TO 9s5 AMI ~ 4v'A anu lis5 p m
IIekets FOR pas-ag and Tor apartments II Drawing ri
be Obtanfu, nnd order. foT HE
and OF De lsf al tho
,an-s srcs SOs .Ag AL g57 Broadway. y. y. No .
Pe-n. - prookiyn ~ az the Company Dcpots.
tains from the Vest arrive IN Ncwlorx AZ 'i@1
a. m'' IL no y ABsOrr. Gen1 Passr Ast. New York
NORTHERN RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY.
r.ius leave EngicwOo closicr IieI and Syack
"a .,5O a s. 4.5u $50. orsO $50, ll;3O p
supaays a. AID $50 p IN. The ll3O y. train will
lesvr 70 mnutes ater saturday nights
Manuel sprfng Valley and Nonscy. Z. 800 m 400 2
JaO y ABBcTf Ganf rAssr Ag'. Sew-ferk
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for the 6oli6aps.

brass OPEN FIRE PLACES.-Large and
ID elegant stock OF brass lenders anton-, fire acts coal
L.-rs bsow- etc antique anf suitable
holiday presents retailing al Wholesale prices until January
J. :. COSovER & CO.. 3GB and a6s canal st.
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Citn DroucrtD 60 fei.

ITO LET-134 East 57th-st.; complete order;
Il reasonable reat PAUL p TODD No. l45 BToaiwal
ITO LIE I.-l hird-stOry front room; neatly
4 frfalShei gss. tire Tor gentlemen only Apply 55-
Wcs; 5lsi-sf.
rf'O LEASE.-The fve-stOry building known
a Nos l. 3 and Rowerv aui Nos ?, and Diyis-
ion-si Fer paruculaIs appiy 10 X d0kIIaEA II Nas.
VERY elegantly furnished private house
stcry, high s'oop; viii al improvements. No. u
East 18Th ~, between jth ave and Rruasl~a".
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18
\EW-JERsEl SOUTHERN RAILWAY.

ERkEHOLD and NEW-YORK RAILWAY
CenH,e Law foot of LibertT-st Tor Freehold At
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i,olr0 duo Rooms

/ pDlrU uWu NOUNS
West SiG..
4 SMALL PRIVATE AMERICA FAMILY
"a Will iet or two connecting furnish rooms ~tSn M
West satilst near 7th'avc.
/ NNE HANDSOME second-st0rv front room,
AZ ~ West sshsi terms moderate to psinent plriis
ONE LARGE ROOM furnished. with board /;
/ - desirable loeat,ni terms moderate; rrer'"'eS 'A
DARTIES suffering from mental or nervous
Diseases find ~u@i h0ird and proper attention N a
private family. Address EXPERIEAcA. rr'uane lp""n
/ CEVENTEENTH-S ST. 81 WEST Two large.
= one hall room. second hogr N,h lsar' Eia'e hfes'
FOR parties doaIuz a comfortable rcuned home.
p WEST 46TH-ST.-A hail room, southern
- exposure sfI city nrst class b. fl
.l.D-ST., WEST. 42j.-Largc sunny kpONs
- Vita exceen table pleasant location eoassSielu' u
'icvatcc fai.rOaas an lgre cars Terms 'ots ''iS-
,l,l 5TI AVE. corner 1OTH.-Eegant Large
'PD suite FIRST moor phvafe table or board
(.sD WEST 44TH-ST.-A competent woman
OsS cock. wasA aud fon' IS good BAKER city r'ir
enoe stpfs
0e WEST 45TH-sT.-A private family
~ las neatly furnished back parior 10 iei - Ter
IgN WEST 2IST-Sr.-A handsomely fur
., m.' I s igi VI nd, 1 i ar pTta boaid exfss
paflor for Doctor dentist hal room .6
.D'l's WEST 51ST-sT Back parlor with
a. 90 f,fcTsnss Ssasi eSac 'TiS private 'u''
I. TO 81 \ WEEK.-SDEle or family
~ Il rooms with hoard tab hoari S3 uanrrntti uN
n-sI TssaaS s' low y ia- CI1sEEcE HOTEL Z Clinton
place icw doors rom Hro.i~af.
Fast sds
DVERTTSEMENTS FOR TIE NEW.
q sr6%S 5SEA oFFtE ffH9 - ~ III i - hroSday or h7
r. @ Issy third sss, sS cor Esata4ss iaasr.
Tae fhirisve, for,y seyenthst at the IlAnLsN
~ ssny fous hist na2cm avmss BANK Building up
NJ 4tregular once rarel
A LARGE. well-furnishcd front room. suit
= able for with fTtciass board at 70 Lafayette
place rcisrrncra ezchangrl
PRIVATE FAMILY will let to gent!e-
= mol ihout board large and ;wo small nraty fr
uisfcd bedrooms rrr and bath; references e2
changed. 80 Uni7ersltyp4cs near l4th-st -
MURRAY HILL.-Sec0nd floor, four large
va roos pryate bath rs,elas board o1 9 20 49, i iS ~ ~ ~
IO PARK-ANE.-In small family. large al
/ I'D cove r N o. second door mont with board
ia EAST 1STH-ST.. near Union -square.-
= Cheerful rooms with superior board 10 French
family single s. up and Sle % $50 !oE two ret snces
! IssC EAST 4GTH-ST.. near Lexin Gton-ave.
Asbsc with board. large front room with aicove
soif5sra eTpSsirc desirable fa nan and wife sin.
| gle private family terms reasonable
Board and Rooms Wanted.
! yEANTED.-A furnished fiat IN good local
/ w iy. Address ", Tribune oalce
iEANTED.-Fun second door, without
w board near Matisonave. and 42lst Address A. b..
Bog Ia gsneI a Adye- -lslng HL1ee LIS E-o.E.--
Diuter ncsorts.
WALDO HOUSE. Waldo Fla.-Highcst and
w hear,est point Florida First class accomoa "os
prices. Hotel open Dec. l. Apply to H. A
! CrOrci. pr1 9rieo0r.
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on and after Nov. %. 1919.

Double Track the most improved Fqmpmenr and the
FASTEST Time consistent with absolute safety
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18

Sixteen Through Trans each daily three depots IN
Phlaueuhi two IL NeW-l ork-
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NYF DOILAR TO BOSTON.

u VIA THE FALL RIVER LINE.
For SDrra uin!tei tickets. Msgriaccs steamers Old
OIOr,l ana NEWPORT irayc NcwNor@ daily. including
snndsy- 43n from Pier *. North Ver foot Of III
rsv ~ cave BROOKLYN. 4UJ p Jersey city i2U
Anna
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18
ITO PHILADELPHIA
VIA
PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD

TIE OLD EsTABLISHED ROUTE AND SHORT LINE
NEwYORK AND PHILADELPHIA.
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STEAMBOATS, dno Railroads.
lLBANY BOATs-PEOPLE'S LINE.

4 LBANY BOAIS-PEOPLE'S LINE.
DREW and ST. JOHN leays Pier No. Al North River
i"S OF IsTs. every week day M 'enmeHw 8arS we
'"" N''' ''''O''"' " " EVERETT President.
BALTIMORE AND OHIO RAILROAD
~ Leave New ork from foot Of Desbrcsses and Cort
for Washington. Pifisburg Coiumbns Cincinnati
indianapolis Chicago snd the West Richmonr Charleston
and The south Pullman from Baltimore 10 Newark
Ohn PIT sbufg snd Chicago
p m for ashingtOn and the West Pullman cars from
New ork to he more anh washington. making e.e ci
nection- Pittsbrg Cincinnati. Indianapolis L"nsvils
am IT. onis Through Pullman BaltImorr to Cincin-
lo-o0 p m dallT Pull
iAking close c,n1econs flT .ra tinclnnaI ihahapo
L. ouisv Ne - Lon tolnuin- itseurg the ~out1 and
naii connects Washington with trains Lynchburg.
FlcT1da. Sew Orleans and the south.
Broadway ork. iicEe Offices. Of Coriianlt
and leshrosse.-sis. and Depot: Jersey CIV. ,-.
ROUND TRIP TICKET To KANSAS. NEBRA7kA
AND COLORADO.
CENTRAL RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY.
v FerIg station n New York, loot 0f Liberty e. 80
Ferry Sta ION IN BIoosyn foot Of Fulton st Iews' WnaI
c,o ii.eriy-st. follows
n.'" y. IN -t"r Pennington. Fasi1n, Brivdetr Mahei
sAIAe, famagua Whke-barrr. Emlra. &c Connects at
sft q. iTsh prfss Rranch Eaton Harrisburg.
aauVA 'hunk, IAinaqu- WIEesDaTre. Scrant'n Nhnsns
1890 and 4:30 p n-For somerviiie and Fleninrtn.
! Eor Pennington. Easton Mauch chunk. rauaqua.
Wis rsarre -crauton Tunknsnuock Tsm2qus. Hszei'on
hfnl,ng. foitsVille. HARRISBURG, Hc.
100 u-For iigh Bridge Branch Easfon, Beivdere ana
5g0 .. m daiiy-For Esston Allentown Harrisburg.
Llpiir &c onnee = At Junction fSr D. l. aai W X =
To- trims 10 local rointq timetables at stations
81 Ma ~ TRAIN >tesvr 20 siJ m, IL NJ frr Bound
hiook and niereat- stations anG a. $3.50 Tor l1aton'
FOa,H ~ fhr BroeEvn and Ere Annex" make cofnerni
Jersey City
- TFrNN = sVT L . 4
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- l. w @ Vhk ana I-DNV biANt RI VI il1lF-s.
foot 81 Liberty for PERTH Ampoy
south Aurhoy lied Long Branch Ocean Grove, &C.
Nlf. ll:i5 a. n. J. .. 4. i;ib ...-
-iAss connection anu from KY fvli AT hAi-Mah '@
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18

yNILLTAM HENRY WASHINGTON wanted.
w english gentleman. bachelor. So Address ii. w.
Fo,t Ouice ijox los. IauiiirGu, tsnsfa.
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18
NORTHERN RAILROAD OF NEW JERSEY

Tr.ius leave Engcwoo ciostcr Iiemo and Nyack
= 10 $50 a N l. s. 4.5o. $50. os4O, s3U 1850 y.
sunaays "a. NJ. AID $50 The ll.3O p train will
iesvr 70 mnutss saturday nights.
JsO y ABBOTT Gan1 Passr Agt. New-ferk
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5ituatlons Wdnieo-Mdles

DOGKKEEPER of ability and fine expert
ID ieAce az present with large manIactils coucrr.
is nncu for aa engsgcmcDt salary moderate highest ref
cnces. Address G.. Post once Boz l.23J.
COACHMAN.-A situation by Young man
" coachman and groom perfect h0rseman good reie
renee. NJ. NJ. - E1st 2lth-si., haraess shlr.
WANTED, a situation by first
y class understands his business thoroughly.
STEADY. reiaie A good city aud country driver
objection 10 The couAty M4-es no OBJECT Address j. a.
DEAN. present employer, u WayerlYp,ace.
COACHMAN and GR0OM.-By steady, re-
- liable who thoroughly understands TIE care of
and compe'encr Address 6 KIRBY. care OF lro'
icssor j. 4 Gong, no ls.5 bieadway
COACHMAN and GROOM.-By q reliable
Scotcnman understands ror--s. carriages har
good country driver; tend furnace and make
himself useful from last employer
obecfiuna the country Address r. c. Box 80 rfOune
Uptown Office LIS hlosGwa..
COACHMAN and GROOM.-By German
- who business Ia respect = setter
fIsi-,lqss references. AudIcss CoACHMAN. al West
t.stst
COACHMAN or GR0OM.-By young man
" thoroughly understands his business IN every anch Vi
lie highly tEirl 10y prr-ert
puycr city r-irrence. AdGrrss JOHN BOX ll IED
une Uptown Urice. l.25e Brosd"ay.
C0ACHMAN aud GR0OM.-By married
" man family understands the treatm eni VI
ho'se- thoroughly DO gardening required u Tiing
willing work in hou-- any capacity. Address NJ. Box
"a. Tribune Up.own once l.2J- Broad~sy
NNAITER.-A first-class colored waiter wants
w ssu-iign; city country; understands his duties
thoroughly and VIII make himself generally useful uDez-
ceponsoe city references Cal OF address ia W lsihs
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18

Cost ano fonWo.
EOVXD-At Mcssrs. jolly & Sons Dyeing
and cleaning EstAblrhmen'. yAC broadway on Friday
afternco, L. jewels ~1mv can be had BY
sains az abov- address aud paving oT advertisements
OST. .-Bans book No. Sl,s7l. issued bv
Il tho savilgs naux IN Tho CIV of New YORK 70
tho Nnto ma Fancn Untrrstn' NeEein The
cr 4. rrnste at the Bark II not restored be-
rr tie st Of February 1880 application VIII be made 10 the
Bsnk a new BOOK
OsT-Bank Book No. ll1.Sl7 Issued by
the German savings bank IN the City OF NrwN0rx 20
Ihares Pahdr missing The Under or holder u the book
the HANK II bofore
The m ay 1880 application VIII be made 10 the
Bank FOR new book
7 OST.-Bank book No. 1896 of the Ger
man Bank The Under is requested TO leave
at hr found restored before tne st of De-
sembrr 1879 application vii be 70 is bank fr
book
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Gteamboats an0 Railroads.
HARTFORD. &c.-Fare. 81

v SfNsmrrS lravr Peek snD daily lelnc4Y- c1ceptcll
Ncs Haven At ) ami ii p m. conrccting with roais
NORWICH LINE to BOST0N.-FARE Oh
~ DOLLAR for special lmi'cd rcsets. steamer. ie
ITer 90 North River, daiiy Including -uncAys al Aso p
90 N,y London BostOn. Worcester, &c
New-York tribune., 1879-12-18

I AUNDRESS.-COm laundTess by the
day AXE home terms moderate best Of references
3.6 East 34th-st
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03
A Fireman's Brave Deed.

Late at night a fire broke out in the
basement of a three-story brick tene-
ment on President street, Brooklyn, in
the apartments of Andrew Henor, and
rapidly filled the house with sitting
smoke. There were three families in
the house. John Mccain, his wife and
seven children occupied the third story.
Most of the inmates of the house were
in bed when the fire broke out. There
was much excitement, and the tenants
fled down the stairway partly dressed,
and carrying in their hands such articles
as they could hastily collect. The fami-
lies in the first and second stories es-
capped easily, but Mrs. Mccain was de-
layed in waking up her seven children
and getting them started into the street.
Clasping an infant in her arms she
grouped five of the others together and
guided them down the stairs through
the dense smoke. She met police ser
geant on the second story on his way to
help rescue the children, and told him
all ofthem were with her, but when she
reached the sidewalk she missed her
tive-year old daughter Emma. Mrs. Nc
Cam uttered shrek and made dash
for the entrance of the house, which by
this time had begun to be lighted by the
fire below, while dense smoke filled the
upper apartments. She was restrained,
and a ladder was put up against the side
of the building.
Fireman Samuel Duff, foreman of No.
3, mounted the ladder, and forcing open
the shutter of the window of the third
story, climbed in. The room was al
ready full of smoke, which was almost
suffocating, and Duff was tempted to re-
turn, thinking that the child must have
been smothered, but just then heard the
cries of the child, and, falling upon his
knees, he CROPPED his way along the floor
until he reached the bed. He called at
the top of his voice for the child to come
toward him, and felt over the bed with
out reaching her. Hearing the cry again
he followed its direction, and found the
frightened child curled up against the
wall. He grasped her by the arm, and,
almost overcome by the smoke, started
for the window. He could not see, and
the first window he reached was closed,
but edging his way along the wall to the
open window he reached the ladder,
where the police sergeant met him and
took the child. Duff was much ex.
hausted by his efforts, and waited at the
top of the ladder for some minutes to re.
cover himself. Mrs. Mccain was over
joyed to receive her child safe in her
arms.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03
SUMMARY OFNEWS.
Eastern and Middle States.

Francisco Porcello, the discharged Italian
workman who murdered the foreman OF n New
York confectionery factory by stabbing him to
the heart as he was going home from work,
has been allowed to plead guilty OF murder in
the second degree, and heen sentenced to inn
prisonment for lie.
The official vote of Maine for Governor,
with the exception OF twenty small towns and
plantations. which will not materially affect
the total vote, gives Davis, Republican, g.
go; Smith, Greenbacker, AZ, $50, and Garce-
Ion, Democrat, q, lSl. Davis failing to get
a majority over all, the election for Governor
said TO stand about as follows: Scnate-Re-
publicans, 10; Opposition, IL. House, Re-
publicans, 90; Opposition, 60.
Four colored men and one white man were
publicly whipped in Newcastle, Del, few
days ago for larceny.
The Philadelphia grain house of Smith,
Howell & Co. has failed with liabilities placed
at 100000.
Munroe Snyder, residing near Easton, Pa,
while playing croquet was hit on the head with
mallet and instantly killed.
The Rev. Dexter L. Lounsbury, pastor of
Christ Episcopal Church at Stratiord, Conn,
while asleep in bed was shot by his wife and
instantly killed. The coroner's jury returned
verdict that deceased was killed by his wife,
who committed the act during a condition of
temporary arrangement of mind, occasioned
by disease.
The Massachusetts Probibitionists, at a
State convention held in Boston, nominated a
iull ticket, headed by Daniel G. Eddy for Gov
ernor, and adopted resolutions denouncing the
| liquor traffic.
The New York Pilot Commissioners have
issued an appeal, asking the citizens to help
them prevent the spelling OF the harbor, into
which many tons OF the city garbage are
dumped weekly.
The Tammany Hall Democrats of New York
city have ratified the nomination OF John
! Kelly for Governor with the rest of the Demo
cratic State ticket, at a meeting presided over
| by David Dudley Field and addressed by
Lieutenant Governor Dorsheimer, Congress-
man S. S. Cox, Mr.. Kelly and others.
Chester Goodales grandfather of Elaine and
! Dora Goodale, the celebrated child authors OF
"Apple Blossoms" and other poems, was ia
tally beaten by some unknown persons, sup
posed be be tramps, in the village of South
Egremont, Mass, at an early hour a few
mornings ago. The old gentleman, who is
eighty eight years old, was found insensible il
his barn, whittier he had gone to water his
horse, and had evidently been terribly heater
with blood-smeared sledge-handle which lay
near his body
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03
Jim Skaggs' /" Livin'."

In certain county of Kentucky we
won't specify, because it may be a sore
subject-a certain man, named for con-
venience Jim Skaggs," was in the
habit of taking q number of wolf scalps
every year. The tax, we believe, at the
time was two or three dollars for each
scalp. He was accounted the most sue
cessful of all the wolf hunters in that
section. Wolves were very scarce at
that time.
One season, however, this successful
business was brought to an end. Col.
John Thompson Gray, a former resident
of Franklin county, but now of Louis
vile, famous devotee of the rod and
gun, happened to make an excursion to
that section, and, one day, when en-
camped ly a stream where bass were
taken he was startled by the sudden APP
pearance of large she wolf on the oppo-
site bank.
He secured his gun Immediately and
before the animal had time to retreat
"let drive" at her with heavy charge
of buckshot. She fell "dead in hel
tracks," as the hunters say. Just then 8
couple of men of the neighborhood
emerged upon the scene, and, discover
ing the result of the shot, one of them
exclaimed: "My gracious. mister, you've
killed Jim Skaggs livin'w Col. Gray
couldn't understand; but the men ex-
planned that the she wolf was recognized
as the property Of Jim Skaggs, who was
{" in the business of wolf raising" and as
the greater part of his income was de-
rived from that source, the wolf was
known in the county as "Jim Skaggs
livin'" He had regularly taken the face
and ears of her annual produce ofwhelp'
to The county clerks Office and obtained
his certificates. Col. Gray was advised
to leave the neighborhood without delay
as Jim would be red hot" and il
thought be that all the county would
raise up" 1t is needless to say he tool
the scalp of the wolf and also the advice
-FTGnkfort (Ky.) YeomGn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03
Getting Rid of the GrasshOppers.

The Virginia City (Nev.) CbronScI
says: During the past two seasons ST
ezra valley has been subjected to the
devastations of the Unsuitable grasshop-
per. The farmers, however, have not
been discouraged but have maintained
their unequal fight against the pests, un-
willing to lose land so productive and
valuable as long as there was the slight
est hope of deliverance. A new ally
has come to the farmers assistance in
the shape of white worm. Millions OF
little eggs are laid alongside the grass
hoppers' eggs, and the worms coming out
first proceed to feast upon the unincu-
bated egg of the grasshopper. If any OF
the 'hoppers survive The attack of the
worms, a little red bug darts into the
fray and proceeds to business at once.
The first active work he does is to eat
the grasshopper's head off. He quietly
fastens himself behind the grasshopper's
ears and burrows into his brain. which
he devours in a few hours. leaving the
grasshopper physically and mentally in
bad fix. The hopper does not ALWAYS
die, but his mental faculties being af-
fected he loses his fine sense of discrim-
iDation, and is just as liable to eat one
of his numerous relatives or patch OF
weeds as to banquet upon the farmers
wheat, and finally he perishes miserably
The red bug meanwhile dies in the
grasshopper's head for want of nourish-
ment, and the white worm, having ac.
complished its mission on earth, winds
up its business affairs and is gathered to
its fathers, while the hilariens farmer
happily rid of the multifarious insectiv.
erous pests, takes down his fiddle and
his bow and dashes off familiar hoe.
down on his back stoop, and the hired
help pat juba," while the children
dance merrily until the moon rises in the
eastern sky, and all hands 90 to bed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03

Among the tourists who returned from
Europe this week are DR.. E. B. Foote, OF
the Health Monthly, and Mr.. Dana, OF
the Sun. Attaches of his establishment
state that DIR. Foote has combined bust
ness and pleasure by attending to pub
fishing interests abroad, his " Home
Talk" Medical Common Sense" and
other works being translated and repub-
lished at Berlin and elsewhere. -Neat
York Local Reporter. -.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03

Mr.. c. A. Zimmerman, of st. Paul, a
noted sportsman, writes as follows, in an
illustrated paper, on Field Sports in
Minnesota in Scribner: To stop an
- incomer,n raise the gun carefully in
the line of his flight; move quickly
ahead of the duck, when you judge him
TO be in lange; and, when you lose sight
of head and bill over your gun, pull in
stantly. The flight of a duck is ordi
narily at the rate of about sixty miles an
hour; but when accelerated by fear, or
brisk wind, or both, it is nearly double,
and must be experimental upon to be
fully appreciated. To become good
"pass shot," some of the requisites are:
To be able to judge distances quickly
and accurately; to be able to cover well
the moving bird, and not to check the
motion ofthe gun mt the moment of dis
charge Because it is necessary for most
men to hold some distance ahead of
swiftly flying game in close range, it
does not follow that this is the best
thing to do; il shows, rather, that such
a one is in the habit of checking or ar
resting entirely the motion of his piece
as his finger presses the trigger. Most
Sportsmen finch at thHt supreme mo-
ment, and unless the habit is entirely
overcome, they cannot expect ever to
become good wing shots. The "choke
boring" of guns, in limited use long ago,
has only very recently come into favor
and rather more general use. Upon the
pass or elsewhere, it adds at least one
fourth more distance to the killing range
OF the gun. This is done by the effect
it has upon the pattern made by the
shot, causing the gun to throw a greater
number of shot pellets into given circle
than can be done by the cylinder, or
straight bore. One barrel of the duck
hunters gun should surely be bored in
| this manner.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-03

Red snow, which is usually found
only in Arctic ATTITUDES, is to be seen
this year on lofty summit near Mount
Stamford, in the Sierra Nevada range.
For several acres the vast drifts are a
beautiful pinkish tint to the depth of
three or four inches. One explanation
of tit is that millions of minute organism
cover the surface fthe snow.