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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
LOndOn-Tts Greatness,

London is vast world in itself. You
are impressed, when you find yourself
in it, with its immensely; as one is i'm
pressed by the vast reach of the ocean
when he steams over it day after day
without a glimpse of land or the sight,
perhaps, of single sail. You feel like
q mere atom in this vast billowy tide of
human life. Cut up into smaller COM
munities London would make dozen
cities equal in population to New York,
Brooklyn, Boston, Philadelphia, Balti-
more, Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati,
Chicago, st. Louis, New Orleans and
San Francisco! 1t contains more people
than our six populous New England
States, more than the whole kingdom of
Denmark, more than twice as many as
! Norway. nearly as many as all Scot
land. 1t is said TO contain more Jews
than Palestine, more Catholics than
Rome, more Irishmen than Dublin,
more Scotchmen than Edinburgh.
| There are omnibuses running across the
city, by as straight route as the cow
path streets allow, which start before
five o'clock in the morning and barely
make two round trips before midnight.
And year by year the great city pushes
out its borders, encompasslng village
after village of the outlying suburbs in
its spider web of pavements, and water
mains, and omnibuses, and busy traffic.
The villas around its fringes, as Hare
saws. seem to be constantly making an
effort to get into the country and never
succeeding. Many neighborhoods in
the solidly built city still bear the names
bv which they were known when they
were only little hamlets in the fields,
miles from the city gates-such as
Chelsea, Kensington, Camberwell, Bays
water, St. Johns Wood, etc. 1t is
partly because of the absorption of so
many villages in the great metropolis
that it is afflicted with such confusion
in it's street nomenclature. If you wish
to visit King street it is possible for you
TO explore ninety-four different streets
of that name before you find the right
one. If it is Queen street, your chance
of hitting the right one the first time is
lust one in ninety-nine. Does your
friend live on Church street-you are
confronted by one hundred and fifty
streets of that name besides the one you
} want! Even of John streets there are
one hundred and nineteen, and OF New
streets-new q long while ago in most
cases-one hundred and sixty-slx! 1t
becomes u necessity, in such cases, TO
give the street surname, so to speak
J as men begin to take surnames when
J James and John and Mary became fire.
| quent in the same circle of acquaint-
. ance. Streets are often designated.
therefore, by adding the name of some
well-known thoroughfare into which
5 they run, or the special neighborhood
to which they belong, as Queen street,
l Cheapside; King street, St. James
Square; Church street, footing; High
t street, Marylebone, etc. And in any
case the initials of the general division
f of the city are usually affixed to the ad-
dress" Z. c." for East Center; CIV.
g c." West Center; IS. E." Southeast
y en-" North, etc. Good Company.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
Thirteen Days without Food.

The steamship England reached New
York from Liverpool after rough pas
sage. When a 'longshoreman descended
into the fore hold, which was slowed
full of barrels, packed so closely as to
leave only a space of about three feet
between them and the deck, he heard
talking, and suddenly touched something
that his lantern showed to be a human
body. Soon aiterward the sailors
dragged to the light man, still alive and
conscious, but so reduced by starvation
that lie was only living skeleton, with
skinllike shriveledparchment drawn over
his bones. The ships physician trie to
force nourishment down the stowaway's
throat; but he was too far gone, and
in half an hour he died. 1t was evident
that he was a foreigner, and when he
was first taken on deck an Austrian girl
from among the steerage passengers sue
ceeded in understanding few words
that he was able to murmur. He begged
for water, said that he had tasted neither
food nor drink since the day the ship
sailed and that his name was Harry"
That was all he was able to say. His
body was sent to the morgue. In the
narrow space into which the stowaway
had squeezed himself just before the
steamship sailed, he could only lie down
or crawl around over the heads OF tt g
barrels; but could not stand nor. cou q
he sit upright. His clothing show q
that in his terrible hunger ne had
gnawed it, as he had also gnawed blts OF
wood from the barrels.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Philadelphia is to have an elevated
railroad.
What is home without a walking
match? A soleless spot.-Neoo Haven
Register.
Large numbers of mules are being
shipped from the United Sta tes to the
West Indies.
Lager beer has been exported from
the United States to London, in con-
siderable quantities, of late.
The barrels in which oil is shipped
from the United States to Europe are
now sent back as ballast for the vessels.
Two men and two dogs killed, by act
ual count, 1000 rats in the space of two
hours at slaughter house near Vallejo,
Cal.
A child eighteen months old was re-
Gently stung to death by bees at Santa
Ana, Cal. He received seventeen stings
on his forehead.
A man is going to have his name
stamped upon 50,000,000 toothpicks.
That mans name will be in everybody's
outh.-Mertden Recorder.
When the dentists of this country can
discover a way to pull teeth without
making a man wish he had been born
hen, life will haze twice as much hap
piness.-FTee Press.
'- A member of q London ladies' club
was requested to resign L" for kissing her
brother in the dining-room. If she
had kissed him in the mouth instead of
the dining-room we presume there
wouldn't have been any fuss about it,
KeokuE Gate City.
A new disease, commencing with ner-
vous twitchings in the legs and feet, and
ending in great emaciation, has been
discovered by Philadelphia physicians,
who ascribe it to the habit of riding in
street cars instead of walking, and the
peculiar jolting motion of the cars.
A new and singular means of incen-
diarism is reported by the GoIoS. In a
village of Poland cat was saturated
with kerosene by an unknown party.
and set on fire; the unhappy animal
rushed to and fro, spreading fire all
around, till it perished in flames, to-
pether with a number of buildings.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
The Remedy for Oyerworked Bodies.

What is the remedy for the drawn
face, torpid liver and dead stomach of
the man at the desk, at the counter and
pulpit A little play would be good for
him perhaps, also "A little blue pill at
first, but less and less pill and more play
play pure and simple. We want less
of Wall street, more of seaside and
mountain. Let the man OF many cares,
and slave to them, strike for freedom,
shake off his cares and return to nature.
It is a chance between losing time in the
grave and losing time in play, which is
fitly named recreation. Many man
thinks he has no love for fishing, but he
has. 1t is latent in all men. The whiz
of a reel and the bend of pole will
wake it. 1t will wake the dead. What
is the loss of day to the landing of q
bass, or even pickerelp "The thoughts
of youth are long, long thoughts" We
have used them vilely, but they survive
even in the time of gray hair and the
evil days when we say we have no pleas
ure in them. A days play is days
"ourney toward youth; it takes the
black out OF the blood, it jogs the liver.
If the man Freeman had gone fishing all
day and had a fisherman's luck, he
would not have killed his daughter; he
would have been too sleepy to think ol
it. With boys weariness comes also
the boys sleep. Men need to touch
earth, to breathe air, and air that has
not been breathed. Man is an animal
whatever else and more he is, and must
observe the conditions of animal lite.-
Cincinnati Commercial,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07

up" his now foaming horses. But furi-
Gus with rage and rum, in reply he
lashed the horses again and again and
dashed ahead. Indignation had now
taken the place of fear with the young
lady. and she exclaimed: "rll stop the
rascal if / have to mount the box my
self" But it was then too late to avoid
the collision. 1t came with crash.
But, strange to say, the carriage stood
the blow and was only partially broken.
Not so the milk-wagon; the iorce OF
the carriage tossed it up on two wheels
and threw it entirely off the avenue,
spilling the driver and the milk-cans
around promiscuously. The shock
brought the horses to a standstiH. The
plucky little Avondale girl at once
jumped up to the front seat and OH the
box. With eyes flashing and with
clenched fist shaking in his face, she ex-
claimed to the driver: "You brute, get
down from this box"
The driver, who moment before had
been so defiant, appeared dumbfounded
at this display of Indignation and .cour-
age on the part of the fair girl, and
meekly climbed, or rather fell, off che
box, over the wheel to the ground.
"Now," she exclaimed, in a voice of
stern command, and one that meant busi-
ness, "take off that hatp
The astonished jehu pulled off his hat.
Then again the beautiful girl ex-
claimed:
"Take off that coat, sir!"
And the coat come off, brass buttons
and all.
Nov, sir, put them in this car
riage"
And he put them in the carriage.
Then the fair damsel, turning to her
escort, who was standing up in the car
riage witnessing the scene with wonder
and amazement, and filled with intense
admiration for the girls pluck, said, with
a smile, and in the sweetest tone OF
voice:
Wont you please get up on the box
beside me and take these linesP"
He, of course, quickly mounted the
box, took the lines, and they drove
rapidly away, leaving the drunken man
standing in the middle OF the road, hat
less and coatless, and looking like the
fool he was.
Arriving in the city the gentleman
drove directly to the theater, alightec
with his lady friend, and, sending th'
horses and carriage to stable, they
entered the theater. And not one lad!
in the audience would ever have sus
pected by her manners or appearanc,
that this young girl had passed through
the exciting scenes described.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
InfaIlibIe Cure for Business Interrupt.
tiOnS.

A merchant doing business near the
foot of Jefferson avenue used to spend
about half his time in explaining to
callers why he could not sign petitions,
lend small sums, buy books or invest in
moonshine enterprises, but that time
has passed, and it now takes him only
two minutes to get rid of the most per-
sistent case. The other day a man
called to sell him map of Michigan.
He had scarcely made known his errand
when the merchant put on his hat and
said:
Come, and I'll see about it.
He led the way to boiler shop, two
blocks distant, wherein hundred ham
mers were pounding at iron, and walk
ing to the centre of the shop and into
the midst of the deafening racket he
turned to the agent and kindly shouted
Now, then, if you know of any
special reason why should purchase a
map of Michigan please state them at
length"
The man with the maps went right
out without attempting to state treason
the one," and the merchant TRANQUILITY
returned to his desk to await the next
Detroit Free Press.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07

rived. Frank is fond of a joke, so when
the time came for sending the first dis
patch he loudly sounded on the machine,
How are YOU, Spicer?n The profess
sional ear of Spicer instantly caught
the words, and, wondering who it was,
Strengthened up and stared at the stage
as if he would give two dollars and
half to know something more.
"Spicer, how's your mammaW quickly
followed from the instrument, and the
mystified Spicer confidingly turned to
his fair partner to express his astonish-
ment at the most singular circumstance.
AS luck had it the auditorium held quite
a delegation of operators, who knowing
Spicer and his great characteristic of
bashfulness, with one accord began to
look around the theater for him.
Spicer had hardly began telling the
young lady about it when there came
another message:
"Aha! old Spicerl Don't fool that
confiding creature with any of your non
sense"
This aroused thsrtelegraphers to a
pitch of curiosity, and many of them
stood gazing about them as if their only
object in life was to discover Spicer.
And he felt that they saw him, and the
confusion which bad been gradually
covering his features grew into mortiti-
cation when he saw so many eyes leveled
at him, and at last eliminated in his
hasty withdrawal from the theater.
But Frank sent a parting shot, for as
he faded from view he heard
Goodbye, Spicer; but don't forget
her tendency for ice cream"
When it is considered that this scene
forms the climax of an exceedingly
thrilling point of the play, and Mr..
Byron IS dramatically explaining with
wild gesticulations to the audience what
the instrument is supposed to be saying,
the modest Spicer's embarrassment can
be understood.
Hastily as we have glanced at the
brighter and cheerful side, there is now
room for the dark one. But messages
of sorrow and death burden the lonG
slender wires and trip through the click
ing instruments. Living dramas ar
constantly wrought through their mutt
agency, and of this perhaps they ar
speaking when at the quiet of midnigh
we hear from them that strange Hollal
music like voices from spirit land, tina
deep within us finds responsive chord
thrilling and saddening us.-Clnc6n'aat
| E,l0sti1'eT
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
VOL. VII.
LYra Incantata.

Lyra Incantata.
Within castle haunted,
As castles were OF old,
There hung harp enchanted,
And on its rim OF gold
This legend was enscrolled:
"Whatever bard would win me
To strike and wake within me,
By one supreme endeavor,
A chord that sounds forever"
Three bards of Tyre and viol,
By mandate OF the king,
Were bidden to trial
To find the magic string
(If there were such thing),
Then, after much essaying
OF tuning, came the playing;
And lords and ladies splendid
Watched as those bards contended.
The frst-a minstrel hoary,
Who many a rhyme had spun
Sang loud of war and glory
OF battles fought and won;
But when his song was done,
Although the bard was lauded,
And clapping hands applauded,
Yet, spite of the laudation,
The harp ceased its vibration.
The second changed the measure
And turned from fire and sword
10 sing song of pleasure
The wine-cup and the board
Till, at the wit, all roared.
And the high hall resounded
With merriment unbounded
The harp-loud as the laughter
Grew bushed at that, soon after.
The third, in lovers fashion,
And with his soul on fire.
Then sang Of loves pure passion
The heart and its desire
And, as he smote the wire,
The listeners, gathering round him,
Caught up a wreath and crowned hin
The crown-hath faded never
The harp-resounds forever!
Theodore Iilton.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
Down a Chute.

A chute is laid from the rivers brink
UP the steep mountain to the railroad,
and while we are telling it the monster
logs are rushing, laundering. flying,
leaping down the declivity. They come
with the speed of thunderbolt, and
somewhat of its roar. A track of fire
and smoke follows them-fire struck by
their friction with the chute logs. They
descend the 100 feet of the chute in
fourteen seconds. In doing so they drop
700 feet perpendicular. They strike the
deep water of the pond with report
that can be heard mile distant.
Logs fired from a cannon could scarcely
have greater velocity than they have at
the foot of the chute. The average
velocity is over 100 feet in q second
throughout the entire distance, and at
the instant they leap from the mouth
their speed must be fully 200 per second.
A sugar pine log sometimes weighs ten
tons. What missile! How the water
is dashed into the air! Like a grand
plume of diamonds and rainbows, the
feathery spray is hurled into the air to
the height of 100 feet. 1t forms the
grandest fountains ever beheld. How
the waters of the pond foam and seethe
and lash against the shore.
One log, having spent its force by its
mad plunge into the deep waters, has
floated so 'as to be ut right angles with
the path of the descending monster
The mouth of the chute is perhaps tif
! teen feet above the surface of the water
A huge log hurled from the chute cleavei
the air and alights on the floating log
You know how bullet glances, but car
you imagine saw-lug glance! The
end strikes with heavy shock, bu
glides quickly past for q short distance
then crash like a reverheration o
artillery, the falling log springs $50 fee
vertically into the air, and with curve
like rocket falls into the pond sevent.
yards from the log it struck.-Tfucbc
| \ Ma, \ Ponstb1;cu1,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07

Advice to travellers Buya bottle oil DR.. Bulls
Cough syrup-the only thing to stop hack
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07

Butterflies are covered with feathers;
hairs are hollow tubes. The surface of
our bodies is covered with scales like
those of a fish. A single grain of sand
would cover hundred of these scales,
vet a scale covers hundreds of pores.
Through these narrow openings perspir-
alton forces itself out. like water through
a sieve.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07

The Western Union telegraph COM
pany sent 5,000,0 900 messages in the year
ending June 80, 1879. In the year be-
fore it sent 14,5OO,000.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-11-07
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The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
Seeds From Washington.

We arc glat to see that an amendment to the
legislative bill has been agreed to in the House,
directing the Commissioner of Agi iiculture TO
supply reasonable quantity of seeds and
shrubs to the Congressman for distribution
among their agricultural constituents"
For years large amounts of money have been
expended in introducing seeds, shrubs, sc. from
other countries, intended for distribution among
the people of this country, but the system ad0p-
ted by the department heretofore has been to
send the seeds to one individual in q County,
and in most cases that individual has appropri-
ated all the seeds to his own use aud the people
have never had chance of testing them. 1t
has been so in this County, and we are told it
| is the same in other counties in this State.
While we object to an indiscriminatc distribu-
tion Of those seeds, We contend that there are
moro than one person in each County who arc not
only capable of testing the adaptability of crops
| to the soil and climate but would be willing TO
comply with the terms of the department and
report the results; and our Congressman and
do know, Us well, if not better than any one
else, who will be most likely to do the most
| good with the seeds.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
A Eira.


Early on Tuesday morning fire was discov-
cred issuing from the Parsonage of the colored
Baptist Church of this town, adjoining Mr.. A.
d. Spears premises, and before help could ar
rive the whole fabric was in ashes.
The house was occupied by Pinkney Fant,
an industrious and worthy colored man, whose
wife, some weeks before, had removed to her
fathers, in consequence Of severe sickness. All
their household goods were in the house, and
were more valuable than is generally found in
the houses of the colored people, together with
sum of money which they had saved from
their hard earnings to buy home for them
selves, and if these things were not stolen they
were burnt with the house. That it was the
act of inccniiarics there is no doubt as the
foot tracks of and woman were very dis
tinctly seen the next morning, evidently going
towards aud coming from the house.
The loss is very great to the church, but
greater to Pinkncy and his wife, MS it was
their all. They are industrious and deserving
people, and we suggest that something be done
to reiuhurSc them
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
A Two-Year Old of the Period.

Its n poor rule that won work both ways"
so thought little two-year old boy of this town
n short time ago: Ills mother had warned him
not to chase the ducks but this fun was 50 con-
genial to him that he either could not or would
not keep from it until the mother, as in duty
bound, drew him gently towards her and tried
the virtue of peach-twig oil upon him. After
that performance was over she told him to come
and kiss her and say he sorry for what he
had done. That was the plan our good mother
adopted, and she got many kiss from us in that
way. Well, Benny stood few seconds, no
doubt thinking it was adding insult to injury
to be compelled "to kiss The one that smotc him ;"
but all at once his countenancc frightened, he
raised his face and his little lips pressed
his mothers rs he said, MA rs sorry Again
there was moments pause when the little FL
low turned commanding look upon hiI mother
and said, "Now, Ma, you come and kiss me
and say you'sc sorry you whipped me- If
Benny Johnson lives aud don't get higher than
judge Of Probate he will disarroint us sally.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
The Treasurol's Account Closed.

DR.. }. L. Thonins, our County Treasurer, has
made full and satisfactory settlement with the
Comptroller General for the collection and dis
burscment of last years Taxes. The Dr.
might be n little slower than some Trcasurcrs,
but we doubt much if any will come out better
or more correct in the end.
Tho Dir. informs us that he is now ready and
will be at his office in the Court House next
Monday, to pay out all the money in his hands
due tho county.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
The Election Trials.

We can only give this week the result Of two
trials before the United States Court, now in
session at Charleston. Tho first days proceed
ings, which VIC publish in another column, will
serve as an index 10 the iniquitous course after
wards pursued by Judge Bond and District AT.
torney Northrop. We will try and post our
readers fully next week. lts evident the iurics
have been organized solely for the purpose of
convicting all who are tried for pretended cleo
ton frauds, and is 4 disgrace to the country.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1879-04-18
Quick Travelling.

QUICK Travelling.
On the lst of May fast mail train will be
put on the AIRLINE Railroad that will almost
"annihilatc time and space" This train will
put passengers from New York to New Orleans
through in Jjiy one howrs, and from Spartanburg
to New York in twcnt-four hours. The Spar
tanburg Herald says: ..This will be quite n
triumph for the Airline and will make it the
great through route for passengers as well as for
the mails, being several hours shorter than it is
possible for any other line to run from New
York to New Orlcuus"