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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

not hold any such Office in Yazoo county
If they could help it by any means what
soeYer, and, IN proof of the earnestness
OF this determination, ratified and con-
hrmed the action of the Yazoo City mob
which compelled Capt. Dixon to with
draw from the canvass on pain of suffer
ing violent death at the hands of the
regularly organized democracy. Barks-
dale may have been a member of the
committee which issued this address.
He certainly ratified and confirmed" it
at the earliest possible moment by filling
Capt. DiXon'S body with buckshot, and
thus forever placing it beyond a posi-
bility that he should ever hold any of.
tlce of honor, profit, or trust in Yazoo
county.
AN ATROCIOUs POLITICAL CRIME.
Chicago Times, CInd1
The political unpleasantness in Yazoo
county, mississippi, came to a sudden
termination yesterday. Mr.. Dixon, who
some time ago originated the difficulty
by presuming to offer himself as an in
dependent candidate for Office,-an of
fense for which he partially atoned by
withdrawing, under the persuasion of a
large and influential delegation of citi-
Zens and shOt-guns, been summarily
put out of the way of making further
mischief. He was walking quietly down
the street,it appears when Mr.. Barksdale,
a representative of the chivalrOus democ-
racy of Yazoo City. walked out to the
middle of the street and fired upon him
with shotgun. Dixon had turned
to retreat, and was shot in the back. The
report says he drew pistol and fired in
etfectually at his murderer, but his death
seems to have been almost instantaneous
The murder appears to have been an act
of unmitigated barbarism, which shou
be punished by the prompt hanging of
the offender. But it would be folly to ex-
pect such punishment for such a crime
in the uncivilized state of Mississippi.
The report says there had been personal
quarrel between Dixon and Harksdale,
but the circumstances of the crime indi-
cate nothing else than deliberate murder;
and preceding events leave no doubt
that the man was killed for presuming
to disagree politically with the majority
of the people around him. No amount
of talk about political freedom in the
south will suffice to remove the impres
sion which this atrocious crime will
make upon the minds of the northern
people.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28
YELLOW FEVER.

NINETEEN new cases reported at Mem
phis Aug. 24th-7 white, - colored 1t
stormed all day. Miss Birdie Golf died
at White Station, Tenn.
TwENTY-sIX new cases of fever at
Memphis Aug. 21st. 1t was determined
by the Howard association not to appeal
to the charity of the nation until every
dollar Of the home fund was exhausted.
THERE were only nine cases of fever
reported in Memphis Aug. 22nd Two
cases were reported in New Orleans, the
first that had appeared in that city since
July Goth.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

REPORTS from Utah represent that
the feeling of bitterness between the
polygamous Mormons and the Gen
tiles" is becoming more intense, and
there is danger of an open rupture in
Salt Lake City. Ia the meantime the
three Mormon leaders who were sent to
prison few days ago by the United
States court Of the territory for refus-
ing, as trustees, to comply with its
order to render an account in the mat
ter of the estate of the late Brigham
Young, are still ''in durance vile"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

THE city of Brooklyn is indulging in
the luxury which no other city will
envy her-of two mayors. The actual
mayor proposes to discharge the duties
of his office at his house, inasmuch as
he is confined to his bed, and the presi-
dent of the board of aldermen, who
acts as mayor when that officer is ab-
sent, declares that the mayor cannot
"carry around his Office in his hat"
and proposes to discharge its duties
himself. The result is quarrel OF
large dimensions.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

MINERS at work on the beach near
the mouth Of the Los Alamos Creek,
near Lompoc, Cal, report 81 to So per
day as the average earnings of a miner.
Blankets are used to catch the fine gold.
The work is very healthy. and, at pres
ent remunerative. The black sand is
as easily washed rs at Santa Cruz.
Cheap wooden pumps are used for rails
ing the water. Good prospects are also
reported in the land up the creek.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

In Charleston, 5. c., died recently a
gentleman whose namc had been a
household word in nearly every family
south of the Potomac for nearly three
quarters ola century. He was Archibald
Edward Miller, the publisher of Miller's
Almanac, which up to the breaking out
of the civil war enjoyed probably a
larger circulation than any publication
ever issued at the south. It's publica-
ton was begun by Mr.. Miller in 1916 and
continued uninterruptedly till 1871,
when the advent of almanacs printed
for free circulation as means of advertis-
ing drove it out of existence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

a GUNNIsoN (Col.l correspondent of
the Siiver World says: "The latest and
biggest discovery of silver. according to
reports, is in the new district of Pitkin,
located about five or six miles north Of
the Mount Carbon coal banks. All sorts
ofreports reach MS, and all are to the
effect that the ore is high grade and in
great abundance. Some assays run as
high as 5000 and 10000 ounces"
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

THE agent of the Brazilian Steamship
company, John Roach, president, says
that the line is losing about $4,000
month. Congress failed to make al
appropriation to the line for carrying
the mails, and the British steamships
landing at New York, it is claimed, have
cut" the freight rates so as to drive
Roach's steamers out Of the trade.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

THE leading newspaper of Canada,
The Toronto Globe, disapproves of the
course of the United States in calling
upon foreign governments to stop Nor
mon emigration-or, as it calls it, put
ting foreign countries into religious
quarantine. But it speaks favorably of
the suggestion that the United States
should check the immigration of Nor
mons by prohibitory laws to be enforced
at each seaport.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

UPWARDS of 800 carloads, or 100000
baskets, OF peaches were shipped from
the Delaware peninsula to New York
last week by rail, while the Old
Dominion steamers, from Lewes, took
about 10000 baskets in addition. This
comprised about one-balf of the crop
gathered last week, the remaining 200,-
600 baskets, or thereabouts, being
shipped to Baltimore, Boston, Philadel-
pnia and other cities.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

THE next time you punch hole III a
silver quarter, recollect that two years
imprisonment and $1,000 fire are your
due by tie law Of the land.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28

THE farm of Secretary Thompson of
the navy. Is two miles from Terre
Haute. The secretary was one of
Henry Clay's intimate friends. He is
over 20 years old.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1879-08-28
TIMELY TOPICS.

A DISPATCH from Havana, Cuba, says
that if the drouth in the island continues,
the crops will be seriously injured.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
SAMPLE CASES.

Mr.. Editor PLEASE give me a short
space in the columns of the HERALD,
to make few matter of fact state
ments in connection with those written
about the Rev. Mr.. Haskell preaching
in our town Aug. "a. 1t is a fact that
Rev. Mr.. Harris did express a willing
ness for Mr.. Haskell to occupy his
pulpit one Sabbath during his absence,
although he (Mr. Harris) did not invite
Mr.. Haskell to do SO, and at the close
of the last sermon given before leaving
on his vacation, he asked one of his
hearers if Rev. Mr.. Haskell was in town,
and if he would give out an appoint
ment for him ? 1t is a fact that no
committee waited upon Mr.. Haskell
and notified him that he could not
have the church but it is fact that
when it was known at a late day that
Mr.. Haskell could preach Aug "a, the
good Deacon was consulted in regard
to it and said he did not wish to hear
him preach, and was not willing he
should have the church ; not on ac-
count of his religious belief ; but be-
cause of his habits. Mr.. Haskell like
many other ministers and good christ
ian men, smokes; for this, and this
alone, the good Deacon condemns him.
Mr.. Haskell is a Universalist minister,
and ! leave the people to judge the
Deacon's real motive to shut him out
from the Congregational pulpit. Mr..
| Haskell preached Il very fine sermon in
the town Hall to large, attentive
audience but the narrow and con-
tracted views of the Deacon did not al
low him to hearit. In conclusion wish
to suggest to the Deacon, if he wishes
to get up IL reform-which is always in
order-let him commence among his
own people in his own church, and
then carry the war into tie camp of
the enemy. CITIZEN.
Lunenburg, VT, Sept. 30, 1870.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10

The election of the month in which
most interest centres will be that iii
Ohio. where on Tuesday, October IA,
will be chosen u full list of State of
ticers, legislature, etc, and four pro-
posed amendments to the Constitution
of the State will be voted upon. One
of these amendments reorganizes
the judiciary of the State, the second
is designed to extend the tenure of
Office OF township trustees from one to
three years the others provide for
biennial elections, and change the
time of the elections to November.
! or State officers there are five tickets
in the field, the Prohibitionist being
headed by Gideon S. Stewart as the
candidate for Governor. The other
tickets are as follows ; Republican,
Governor, Charles Foster Democratic,
Governor, Thomas Ewing Greenback,
Governor, A. Saunders Pratt,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
WASHINGTON COUNTY COURT.

Trip and Bailey, administrators,
rs. Vermont Life Insurance Company.
This suit arose out of "a policy of
life insurance which George r. Chap
man took in the defendant company.
payable, upon his death, to his mother,
Clara NJ. Chapman. His sudden and
unexpected death here at Montpelier,
a year ago last January, will be re-
membered. The policy was for $1,000,
and the premiums payable semian-
nually. Mr.. Chapman was an agent
of the company at the time the policy
was taken. 1t turned out in evidence
that he had always been very negli-
gent in making returns to the COM
pany, being often from six months to
a year in arrears. The company We're
accustomed to send him receipts. al
ready signed by the president and
secretary, for the premiums of their
policy-holders, Mr.. Chapman's among
the rest. Upon the receipts was print
ed. "This receipt shall not be valid
till the premium is actually paid"
Mr.. Chapman had several times al
lowed the time at which the semi-an-
nual premium was due to pass without
making payment but the officers of
the company, instead of declaring the
policy forfeited, had permitted him to
make payment subsequently, notwith-
standing the fact the policy contained
the usual condition of forfeiture, in
case the premiums were not paid when
due. The premium of $21 20, due July
gath, 1877, had never been paid, and
upon this fact the company based their
defence. Tie company claimed, more
over, that the suit should have been
brought in the name of the benefc-
larry, Clara NJ. Chapman, his mother,
and not in the name of the ad-
ministrators and still further, that
the plaintiffs should be nonsuited
because they had set up the contract
of insurance as absolute, when, in fact,
it was coupled with conditions, the
performance of which were essential to
the life of the policy. On the other
hand the plaintiffs claimed, first, that
the premiums had been regularly paid,
and secondly that, if they had not, the
company had waived payment, and
by their conduct in regard to the pre-
vious premiums were estOpped from de-
Tending on the ground of non-pay-
ment. The plaintiffs subsequently
withdrew the first claim, and put upon
the stand Warren Gibbs, the secretary
of the company, to show by his letters
how they had suffered MIR. Chapman
to continue his policy in existence by
making payments of premiums long
after they were due. The case then
finally went to the jury upon the fol-
lowing questions propounded by the
court: ''Did the defendant in this
case agree with the insured to waive
the payment Of the premiums that be-
came due July "A, 1877 or agree to
postpone its payment, either indef-
nitely, or for a period covering the
lifetime of the insured, notwithstand-
ing intervening occurrences affecting
the risk, as--in this case-sickness and
death of the insured ~ The jury
found that the company did SO agree,
and consequently a verdict for the
plaintiffs for the face of the policy with
interest less the amount of unpaid
premiums.-V Vermont Waterman aud Stat
Journal, October /, 1879.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
Correspondence,

This department is devoted to the citizens of
our County and State for the discussion of
questions of interest. We only demand that
the communications shall be respectful
devoid of any attempt to grind personal or
political AK, and not corrupting in their ten
dency The writer's name and address MUST
accompany communications, notnecessarlly
for publication, but as n guarantee of good
faith and for our protection. Anonymous
communications Will not he inserted.-EDl
Eda0r Of the Es3er County HeraM.-I
received a letter from aperson in your
place, requesting that | have card
from the wife of the late d. p. Whit
comb, acknowledging the payment Of
policies paid by the Aetna Life Insur-
ance Company, on her late husband,
published in your paper; so that peo-
pie could see the practical benefit of
insurance, and thereby refute the edi-
torial statements in your paper, some
time since, '"That companies took the
advantage of every opportunity to es-
cape payment of the claims against
them"
] have refused generally to pay out
money to answer such attacks, as
have supposed they were made for the
purpose Of getting pay for an answer, for
the fact that the slightest investigation
would show the fallacy of this charge.
If this ao0s not your intention, by pub
fishing this letter and the following
statistjcS, you may perhaps in u mea-
sure repair the wrong. Commencing
with your own town: The Aetna Life
has paid five claims amounting to
STAG on those insured in Brighton.
without any litigation, yet one died OF
q disease he said he dill MT hare, when il
could have been fully established he
had been troubled with it for years be-
fore being insured and another Killed
himself, a death, the policy expressly
states it will not pay for; and | pre-
sumo the total of other companies paid
there, is five times the above amount.
and yet no litigation. In Vermont,
the Aetna has paid over 100 death and
endowment claims amounting to over
$780, 900 without any question. And |
estimate that the total of all companies
will amount to over $2,0OO,O0O and yet
but Gce cases contested. i annex q
sample of some of these cases. | find
also that the official reports show that
up to 1876, over $780, 100000 has been
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
SILKS.

Silk Serges only so cents
Good Silk Velvet only SIPS.
Fine eros Grain Silk, 20 in. WIDE only sl.25
Satin Silk only Sl.0O. ~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10

fSooner or later war of life and
death with England is inevitable.
The only question now is the most
available route TO IIindostan2' Brave
words these of the More Kremya. But
they find an echo all through Russia,
and they express the longsettled resolu-
ton of the rulers Of the vast Empire.
War is, no doubt, inevitable but why
Is it because Russia can rule Elindostan
Letter than England No, it is be-
couse Russia is poor and the possession
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10

of Hindostan would make her rich and
powerful. There is no plea Of "humani-
ty" this time, but simply a desire for
conquest-and "soonerOr later a war
of life and death with England" will
come. When it does come, however
it is possible that Russia may be disap-
pointed before it is over.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
LINENS.

Barnsley Table Linen, GO in, only 65 cents.
Turkey Red Damask only 70 cents.
Turkey Red Napkins oAly rs cents perdozen.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
Making

Making per cent.
Said per cent is to be cast upon the original
amount of the premium notes, without refer
ence to any pay mCnts, and to be paid TO the
Treasurer of said Company, at his office in
Montpelier, on or before the 18th day of O.to
Der, 1873
In October, 1913, our plan of insuring was
changed from the advance pay to the annual
assessment plan. This change was made to
meet the demand of the times, growing out of
the extreme scarcity of money and the utter
impossibility of forocasting, even approx
mutCiy, our aggregate losses. Our members
will be notincd either by letter, or by our
agents, of the exact amount of their assessment
and we ask all our policy holders to wait UNI
til notified before making any payments.
The policies on which twenty per cent of
the Premium Note has been paid in advance,
have to their credit an amount in excess of
this assessment, and will not be called on to
pay under thisSlSSeSsmcnt.
Those policies are nearly all included in the
following numbers: from number 97,456 to
number IOA $50.
6y order of the Directors.
GEORGE w. LESLIE, TREASURER.
Montpelier, Vt, August q, 1879 1888
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10

paid to policy holders, and the amount
contested was les than Sl,000,00O. In
conclusion. make the statement, that
there is not another business where a
contract exists between two parties of
so large amount with so small per cent
of confessions. +. f. SARGENT,
Gen. Agent Aetna Life lns. Co.
st. Johnsbury, VT, Sept, p, 1879.
SAMPLE CASES.
One Vermont case, the company
bought policy, payable to the wife,
of the husband and paid him for it.;
but the husband died soon after, and
the wife brought an action and recov-
cred on the policy, which had been
cancelled, given up and paid for.
Some seven or more of the other cases
mentioned above, the parties insured
have been found alice.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
Newspaper Decisions.

J. Any person who takes paper regularly
from the post office, whether directed 10 ms
n 4me or auother's. or whether he has SUD
scrlbel or not, Is responsible FOR tie pdy"sHt.
2 If person orders his paper discontinued
he must pay all arrearagcs, or the pub1sher
may continue to send &c until payment is
made. and collect the whole amount whether
tina paper is taken from the office or not.
J. The courts have decided that refusing TO
take newspapers and periodicals from the posi-
Office, removing and leaving thclh uhC .'t
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-10-10
FARMERS MUTUAL
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT.

The members of the FARMERS MUTUAL.
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY insured in the
Farmers Glass are hereby notified that the
follow ing assessments have been made by the
Directors of said Company on all notes in
force in said class on the following days, to-
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-05

A SURPRISED PHYHcIAN--A Dying
Pahsni Rscorss. hrOsgh ne Interpretations ef an
humble Goman.-soms weeks ago DR.. G., a
very reputable and widely -knorn physician, iiv.
ing on c. street, was called TO attend very
complicated case Of rbeumatlsm Upon arriving
at the house he found a man abount forty years
Of age, lying In a prostra,ed aud serious condi-
tiOn. with his whole frame dangerously affected
with the painful disease. He prescribed for the
patient, but the man continued TO grow worse,
and on Sunday evening be was found to be in a
very alarming condition. The Knees and elbows
and larger joints we're greatly inaamed and
couli no, be moved. II was only with es,rem .
dieicaiy that the patient could be turned in bod,
with the aid of three or -four persons. The weigh
Of the clothing vas so oppressive that means nd
70 be adopted to keep II from tn, pstient's holy.
~ The Decor saw that his assistancs would be Of
no avail. and lei, the house. the members Of the
family followed him to the door, weeping. AT
,bi. critical hour, neisbbor, poor and hsmbis
German shoemaker sppeired to the grief.smi,ten
ones a. q having angel. lie had heard Of the
despair Of the family, and now asked them to try
bis remedy, and sceordingly bropsLt forth a
bottle Of 81. jacobs on A. q drowning man
will catch a, s,rsws 90 the poor wife applied this
remedy she hsd no hope, bot would Try any
thing. a. = nstisr ef duly. Tho intspplisstios
sssed tho patient very much af,er . few hours
they used II sgsin, aud, wonder Of wonders, the
pain sanauished entirely ! Every subssausnt ap-
pliestion improved the sufferer, snd in two days
be was indeed surprised for, instead Of corpse,
be found ns~. mads man :. EkeAsrse iel
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1879-11-05
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