Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-05-23

A business letter from New Orleans TO
a firm in Providence says: I'VE are
now organizing a Citizens Sanitary
Corps that Just means business, and If
we cannot keep yellow fever out Of here
this season, then we give it up. II IS
very popular movement, and Will be
pushed right ahead. We wish to get II
circulated through the North that we are
going to bury the dead, clean the streets,
fill the bottom holes, and endeayor to
make New Orleans what it should be,
a healthy CITY,"
The experiment of homes for inebriates
is to be tried in England under the
sanction of an act of Parliament. Inc
briates, according to the provisions of
the statutes, may determine for them
selves whether they will enter the . re-
treat or not; but having signitied be-
fore justice of the peace their wish to
be confined, they will no longer be free
agents, but must stay out the time for
which they have bound themselves, and
conform to all the regulations OF the es-
Enlistment.
Mr.. Mccormick, the commissioner to
the late Paris Exhibition, is of the opin-
ion that the proposed worlds fair in New
York in 1883 is all right, except as to
time He favors 1886 in order to give
more time for the progress of invention
and not to call on exhibitors too often.
New York is the proper location, and
especially Port Morris as against Central
Park. The great essentials are immense
space of unoccupied ground and deep
water frontage so as to avoid terminal
fra; xtrhicb md nm 70 worn blp ron
ditiOnS, are very hard on exhibitors.
Port Morris, situated as it is on Long
Island Sound, can be made accessible
from every point, and cansaccommodate
any crowd which is anticipated.
John A. Suffer, the discoverer of gold
in California, is living in comparative
poverty at Litiz, Pa. A correspondent
of the Philadelphia Times visited him re-
Gently, and found him hale old man,
fond of relating his Pacific coast expert
ences. He went to California in 1899,
became the Mexican agent, acquired i'm
mense landed possessions, and was for a
while literally monarch of all he sur
veyed. He first saw gold there in the
hands of playing children, and soon his
land, to which he had no legal title, was
taken by miners. Litigation completed
his financial downfall, and he came to
the East. The man who first found
gold in Arizona is equally unrewarded,
according to correspondent of the Chi
cago Times, who came across him at
Horse Head. He is an old Spaniard
named Barardo Treyes, and keeps a mis-
cradle tavern; but once he was wealthy,
the yield of his first " find being $50, 900.
Rascally companions robbed him.
Speaking of General Fremont's plan tC
make a highway of commerce by tap.
ping the northern end of the Gulf of Cali
fornia, and letting it run into and fill up
the Colorado desert, the New York
Tribune says: Every now and then
some uneasy person, who disapproves OF
the surface ofthe earth as at present az.
ranged, steps forward with a plan tc
cover up some of the land with naviga
BILE water. The valley of the Dead Sea
has always been a tempting basin fol
these assailers of the established, anC
they live on the hope of seeing ditcl
cut which will let into it the waters o
the Mediterranean. 1t needs littlt
imagination to picture the bottom of thi
parched depression, more than thou
sand feet below sea-level, as the Ever,
roofing of Sheol" And in spite of tn
advantages which the enlarged area o
evaporation would bring, in theory, t.
the climate and temperature of Europe
Asia and Africa, the dread of some con
vulsion which the weight of l 300 feet o
water might cause, if poured over til
hot crust which thinly covers the centr;.
fires of the earth in this region of death
will probably discourage .judicious per
al
engineers, too, have been for years meas
uring the heights and distances, with
view to the irrigation of Sahara, tn
plan being to convert thousands of squar
miles into an inland sea, with depth G
300 feet, fed by the Mediterranean.
John j. Andrews, PHILADELPHIA
merchant, lost the sight of his left ey
twenty years ago, and physicians toll
him that there was no cure. The useles
member gave him no trouble until 1877
but thereafter it was occasionally S
painful that he writhed on the floor unit
the attack was over. Many of the hes
oculists made careful examinations, an
were unable to ascertain the nature
the disease. Lately he put himself i
the hands of a Philadelphia physician
of whose investigation he says: "H
blistered me around the eye to draw OF
the Inflammation, and at last he said
Il know what it is not; it is not inflan
nation, and that is one point gained
He drew out diseased tooth and CT
out a piece Of the jaw bone and did SON
probing; finally he said: 1t does
come from a tooth nerve, and that
another point gained He dosed n
i,,o Io 81
then he said: 1t is not miasma. an
that is another point gained He pr
me in darkened room, and, THROWN
an indescribably bright light into nj
eye, looked into my eye for two mort
hours. At last he exclaimed: L hay
the secret Looking in through Il
pupil of the eye he could see live cyst
cercus, or embyro tape-worm. TIL
was the first case of the kind in Americ
and was exhibited to most of the phys
clans of Philadelphia. An operation vii
knife removed the creature.
In his thirty-nine years of journals
the late M. de Villemessant, prophet
of the Paris Figaro, established ninetet
papers. Alphonse Daudet tells stol
ofthe brutality with which Villeme
SAINT got rid of his writers the nome
they ceased to draw. Half dozen
them, says M. Daudet, were gather,
round the table clipping papers, writin
smoking, chatting, among them I
Paul d'Ivoy, the famous chronique
who had been lured from,the Courier
an engagement at very high pric
IN. Paul d'Ivoy was writing, smilin
like man who is satisfied with hir
self. Suddenly there was heard Il
sound of heavy footstep and Villeme
SAINT entered. Pens scratched, iokil
ceased, cigarettes were flung awav