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A VISIT TO LoNDoN.-MEssRs. JAY RESPECT
Aful request the honor OF visit from ladies aud gcntle
elegant silk Costumes Parsan Maniles artistic Millinery
from the best and the correct fashions
the The following extract from American
adopted At this house visited during our sejoarn in
sSs snS IN the world SoRs
& Of & snecss ano @
attended the esab shment for many years Nessrs Jay
from the dst houses Paris and they sold At much
more prices ssa aes ea presare them ON ins
of fair readers to this time honored Embellishments.
with" WITH ''' '1' n,. 1850 ~ ''-''
Special Agents Bonnets Black Silks, 243 245 247 2D
psi aud 2,3 Regent St. London, Eagland
PRIsroL HOTEL, LONDON, BURLINGTON GAR
Ddens rhis large first class family hotel in the best
staston Of London = newly & established n the Uonii
s excellent and ~no
Proprietor II. EisELE late Of Meurccs'.
I oNG's HOTEL. BOND sr. LONDON.
IEstabsbed upward of This well known ani
atoeratc house situated Ia the centre of the most
cuisine and COLLAR Of tic choicest wines
I IEBIG coAPANy's EXTRACT OF MEAT.-FINEsr
IL and cheapest meat havoring stock for soups. made
7 rEBIG coMrANf's EXTRACT or NEAT .Is a
Ia S sSe" Medical rres s so"S s lee,
Medical Joarnai, &c.
I TEBIG coMrANfs EXTRACT or, MEAr.-cAU-
IL tioa-oonu'no only with fac smile OF Baron Lilo
sumption in England Increased ioniod In ton
EDG had ssThase 9. ss SS
agents for the United States wholesale only) G..
DAVID co. AZ Mark lane. London, England.
Sold Wholesale by PARK a TIi.FORD, SMITH y
NANDERBEEk. ACkERs .MERRALL CON-
DIT MckESSON A ROBBINS. H. X. x v. Il.
TlIURBER n co and >. MIIuAUs & SONS
WASHINGTON HOTEL LIVERPOOL
w This magnificent resort for American travellers
reopcned on Juue :, by SIR WILFRED LAWSON Bart.
NJ. r.. aud MIR. A. NJ SULLIVAN NJ 7. About 10 geute-
TO splendid luncheon In the dining rooli
including tho Hon X Packard american Consult, whu
rising speak received with applause and said
that Americans claimed to knox something about
hotels They lad now hotel. above the clouds aud GA
the mountain tOps they had hotels IN tho mountain
they had hotol palaces floating tho watcrs
thcy had hotels whces daughtc and representing
Americans aud tho American travelling public ho
prepared givo consular certificate that tho Washing
ton Hotel deserving ot his country The Wash
Hotel - Immediately facing tho St Georges Hail.
aud opposite tho London and Northwcstcrn Railway.
and in proximity tho oth0r stations and piers
Visitors sending lotter postal card from America
Qneonstown wall DO welcomed by ths manager at lAvor
pool
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vcraRc temperature yesterday. 72sA
vcrase temperature for corresponding date
last year. :. 775S
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A -A-A -A.-A.--A-A.-
"A. MANlS MISSlON ON EARIH

~. MANS MISSION ON EARTH
popular medical treatise, clearly Explaining the hidden
causes which sap vitality snd shorten the hfc
with hnts TOR the removal of the showing
b0 fully .ostOroa and obstacles
ftarc overcome By 81, .25c., currency or post,re
stamps. Address SECRETARY Musoum OF Anatoluy
Science aud Art, 4S9 9th av,, New York city.
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Ave ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR VANILLA
BEANS in quantity

. CONGRESS WATER.-ITS SUPERIORITY AS A
cathatic and Alternative in s entire freedom from
thing bitter acid crude that produces headache
internal and tends to destroy the
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
Big Bridges.

The immense height of the towers for
the support of the Forth bridge, in Scot
land, has created surprise, and no wonder,
when it is taken into account that
when completed they will be the highest
buildings of any kind in the world
Science will. therefore, wait with some
anxiety their completion. The height
of the towers on the island of Inch Gar
vie, midway between South and North
| Queensferry, will be $50 feet, to support
a bridge $50 feet above high water mark,
but the reason for this great altitude is
that in the generality of suspension
bridges the towers are built on the land
on either side of the span, and were this
the case in the Forth bridge towers of
$50 feet less height, or 43O feet, would
be sufficient; but this is impossible from
the great length of the bridge.
1t Sc ms that by natural laws there is
limi' to everything on this earth
that is, that man can go certain length
and no further, as, for instance, in tele-
scopes nothing larger than Lord Ross
having been perfected for many years.
In reference to buildings, a correspon-
dent quoted st. Rollox stalk 430 feet
high. St Pauls Cathedral is about 46O
feet to the top of the dome; st. Peters,
at Rome. 4S0 feet; the Pyramids of
Egypt, at least the great pyramid, is l9O
feet, at present in its imperfect state, but
by calculation would reach 500 feet in
height when finished. When it is re-
membered that this structure only
reaches this height with base of about
twenty-six acres, it would be very diff
| ficult matter to raise the Forth bridge
towers to $50 feet with small base :.
These towers are TO be formed of solid
masonry to certain height, and then by
groups of iron pillars girded together in
layers upward.
The Niagara suspension bridge has
one large span of 82l feet; the railway
track above the water is 245 feet, or
ninety-fve feet higher than the Forth
bridge; the towers are only sixty feet
high, being built on either side of the
shore. The Allegheny bridge has two
large spans of 344 feet each, and the
towers are forty-five feet high. The
Covington and Cincinnati bridge has n
span of l,057 feet; its height above low
water is l03 feet, and the towers 23O feet
high. The bridge seems to give the best
proportion to the Forth bridge, which
is 1880 feet for two spans, $50 high and
towers Of $50 feet. Those we have men
toned are finished and in working
order; and we may mention also the
East river bridge, connecting New York
to Brooklyn. The towers of this bridge
are also built upon the land and are 278
feet high. The single span is 1885 feet.
There is, therefore, no doubt that the
Forth bridge, when completed. will be
an engineering triumph. - Brooklyn
EdtQLe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
RaymOnd'S Kindness.

John Mccullough, John T. Raymond
and William H. Crane have been max
ing things lively around Fourteenth
street, in New York. Mr.. Crane arrived
from Liverpool on Saturday. McCul-
Tough and Raymond met him, and they
say the three found themselves on Mon
day night in little billiard-room near
Union square. They had taken in
Coney Island, and. returning on the
cars, Raymond especially distinguished
himself as practical joker. They sat
in the billiard hall, weary and dusty.
Conversation tagged and Raymond fell
sound asleep. Then a diabolical idea
entered the minds of Mccullough and
Crane. They would try practical joke
on John 7. Upon one of the billiard
tables half a dozen balls were thrown
the gas was extinguished, leaving every
body and everything in darkness. Crane
and Mccullough then began to bang the
balls about and shout the score they
were piling up.
Bang! from Billy.
"a fine shotm shouted Mccullough.
"Twenty-one."
Bang! bang! once more.
Zine carom - twenty-five!n yelled
Crane.
Bang! bang! bang! This thing went
on a few minutes, when Raymond was
heard to move.
"Where are you, Billy-John-ehp' p'
said he.
Johns just walking away with me, y
replied Crane.
Bang! again. Thirty-fve."
"But, John-Billy-where are you?'
calculated Raymond, with agitation in
his voice.
Another billiard ball made the circuit
of the table. 1.-TWO more for me-" said
Crane, and, turning to Raymond
Whats the matter with you? Why
don't you open your eyesp"
But" from Raymond, becoming ner.
vous, Il can't see you!
Wash your eyes" suggested McCul'
lough.
Bang! again.
"You don't mean to say you're in this
billiard-room, Johnp" asked Raymond
his voice laden with emotion.
"Of course we are, and playing bill
liards," returned the two jokers stimuli
taneously.
my Heavens!" shrieked John. Nc
Cullough-Billy- I'm blindm
Mccullough says that the way il
which this exclamation was uttered con
vinces him that Raymond is the pathetic
actor he has long claimed to be.-PhtlG
delpbta Times.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
Beeswax.

The uses for wax are numerous and
important. Its property of preserving
tissues and preventing mold or mildew
was well known to the ancients, who
used cerecloth for embalming and wax
foI encaustic painting, as in the wall
pictures of Pompeii wax candles and
tapers play an important part in the
professions and ceremonies ofthe Roman
Catholic Church. Wax is used by
manufacturers of glazed, ornamental
and wall papers, and on paper collars
and cuffs for polishing the surfaces. 1t
is used in varnishes and paints and for
the "stuffing" of wood which is to be
polished, as pianos, coach work, fine
furniture and parquette floors. Electro
typers and plasterers use wax in form
ing sheir molds. Wax is an important
ingredient in preparations for covering
surfaces of polished iron and steel to
prevent rust. Combined with tallow
it forms the coating for canvas and cord.
age to prevent mildew, as in sails, avn.
ings, etc. Artificial flowers consume
much wax, and, despite the introduction
of paraffine, ceresin and mineral wax
it's use appears to be extending. One o
the Oldest of its applications is in thu
laundry, and in polishing woodwork
The product Of wax in the Unitec
States is stated to be 10000, 600 pounds
annually and increasing-worth il
r1oney at least $6,000,00o. OF thi
about 100000 worth is exported, ant
about 81, 100000 worth of honey als'
goes abroad. The total product o
honey and wax is worth at present t
| tho United States nearly $l5,000,O00.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
American Nicknames.

The nicknames of the citizens of the
several States are as follows: Alabama,
Lizards; Arkansas, Toothpicks; Cali
iornia, Gold Hunters; Colorado, Rovers;
Connecticut, Wooden Nutmegs; Della
ware, Muskrats; Florida, Fly up the
Creeks; Georgia, Buzzards; Illinois,
Suckers; Indiana, Hoosiers; Iowa,
Hawkeyes; Kansas, Jayhawkers; Ken
lucky, Corn Crackers; Louisiana, Gre
oles Maine, Foxes; Maryland, Craw
Thumpers; Michigan, Wolverines; Min
nesota, Gophers; Mississippi, Tadpoles;
Missouri, Pukes; Nebraska, Bug Eaters; !;
Nevada, Sage Hens; New Hampshire,
Granite Boys; New Jersey, Blues or
Clam Catchers; New York, Knicker-
bockers; North Carolina, Tar Boilers
and Tuckoes; Ohio, Buckeyes; Oregon,
Webfeet and Hard Gases; Pennsylvania.
Pennanites and Leatherheads Rhode
Island, Gun Flints; South Carolina,
Weasels; Tennessee, Whelps; Texas,
Beef Heads; Vermont, Green Mountain
Boys; Virginia, Beadles; Wisconsin
Badgers,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
VOL. VII.
A Broken String.

A Broken String.
Sing, and to you No-no--with one note
Jared
The harmony of life's long chord is broken;
Your words were light and by light lips
were spoken,
And yet the music that you loved is marred.
One string, my friend, is dumb beneath your
hand,
Strike and it throbs and vibrates at your
will,
Falters upon the verge OF sound, and still
Falls back as sea waves shattered on the
strand.
Touch it no more, tor you shall not regain
The sweet, lost tone. Take what is left, or
let
Lies music sleep to death. Let us forget
The perfect melody we seek in vain
And yet, per chance, some day before we die,
AS halt in dreams we hear the night-wind
sweep
Around our windows when we iain would
sleep,
Laden with one long sobbing, moaning cry,
One faint far tone will waken and will rise
Above the great wave voice of mortal pain
Hand will touch hand and lips touch lips
again,
AS in the darkness it recedes and dies
Or lingering in the summers evening glow,
Then, when the passion Of the crimson
West,
Burning like some great heart that cannot
rest,
Stains as with blood the waters as they flow.
Some old, forgotten tones may rise and wake
Our dying youth, and set our hearts afiame
With their old sweetness-to our lips the
name
OF love steal softly for the old loves sake.
-CornhM Magazine.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
Feeling the Pulse in China.

When the Chinese physician exam
ines the pulse he places the arm of the
patient on a cushion, then he applies the
index, the middle and ring fingers on
the anterior face of the wrist in such a
way that the index finger may be near
est the arm and the ring finger nearest
the hand. The physician then elevates
and depresses. each finger alternately,
with more or less force, like one playing
on an organ. He examines also, during
u limited number of respirations, each
of the nine pulses which are formed, ac-
cording to Chinese professional doctrine,
on each hand, and deduces from these
his prognosis, at once, without hesita-
tation, makes his prescription and at
tends to administering his medicine on
the spot, receives his fee and retires. not
to return unless again summoned.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
A Doomed City.

The town of Covington, Iowa, is liter
ally doomed city. Situated on the bend
of the Missouri river, the banks are
gradually being eaten away, and the
ground on which the court house stood
a year ago is now covered by many feet
of fast flowing water. The cutting away
is done by fits and starts. A week ago
Sunday, says the Sioux City Journal, the
current Set inshore and took off strip
of land thirty feet wide in few hours.
No invasions were made for another
week, when another slice was cut off.
Then about half dozen buildings were
moved hack some thirty feet, and the
next day the land on which they stood
was all gone. The citizens have tried to
moor trees and logs to the bank in the
hope of forming barrier for the flood,
but the current is so swift and the water
so deep that these attempts have failed.
To give an idea of what the town OF
Covington has suffered in the past five
years, the case of the ferry house and
principal hotel may be instanced. Two
years ago there were six hundred feet oi
land between the building and the river
bank; now you can toss a stone out oi
the hotel window in the river, and the
buildings are now being put on rollers
for removal.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
Rosebud.

Oh, little maid, in your rosebud-bower,
Dreaming of growing DID,
Wishing youth always would inger, a flower
Never in haste to unfold;
I'm from the shadow your sunshiny head,
Growing old is nothing to dread.
Oh, little maid, in the rose-tree shade,
See how its dry bougns shoot
The green leaves fall and the blossoms fade;
But youth is living root.
There are always buds in the old trees heart.
Ready at beckon OF spring to start
Oh, little maid, there is Joy to seek
Glory of earth and sky
When the rosebud-streak fade out OF your
cheek,
And the dewy gleam from your eye:
Deeper and wider must life take root;
Redder and higher must glow it's fruit.
Oh, little maid, be never afraid
That youth from your heart will 60:
Reach forth unto heaven, through shower and
shade
We always young, while we grow.
Breathe out in blessing your happy breath
For love keeps the spirit from age and death.
Lucy Larcom IN 81 .NTcholas
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
Locomotives Speed.

"How fast do you think we are travel
ing?" Charley Fraser, one of the Oldest
engineers of the New York, Lake Erie
and Western railway, asked SaIn re-
porter as they were standing together
on the foot board of Locomotive No.
300, rushing over the meadows toward
Rutherford Park.
II should think we were going nearly
mile minute"
"A mile minute!" said Fraser. 81
doubt if you ever rode n mile a minute.
Few locomotives have driving wheels
over five feet, and have my doubts if a
live-foot wheeler can be pushed mile n
minute. People have very erroneous
idea of the speed of railroad trains. We
are not going now more than thirty five
miles an hour, and this is very fast. Few
trains make this speed. The passengers
in the cars would think we were going
mile minute sure, if l was to pull out
the throttle so as to send her forty miles
IN hour. The express trains make no
such time as the local trains. Where we
lose is with so many stops. No man
could stand on platform car and face
the wind going mile minute. and live.
The breath would actually be blown out
of his body. You couldn't count the
telegraph poles going a mile minute
Talk to an old engineer of that rate being
made by q passenger train. and he
would laugh. | made mile minute
once, however. 1t was when was but
eighteen years of age. was an engineer
then, in charge of fine -foot-wheel
locomotive. There were lot of railroad
moguls on board, and the object was to
make the best time we could. They
were to ring the gong when the speed
was a mile minute. thought we were
making it for some time before the bell
rung. At length, on q down grade. with
a full head of steam, when we were spin
ming along rs if we were all going to
destruction, and the motion of the piston
going over the center could no longer
be distinguished, the bell rang. We had
reached the rate of mile minute. 1t
was the fastest l ever rode, before or
since. l tried hard to make mile a
minute on subsequent miles, but lacked
it three or four seconds every time. l
couldn't squeeze another mile inside of
the sixty seconds. When you hear a
man telling about riding in passenger
train than ran mile a minute, don't say
anything, but mentally scratch off a
good allowance. ."-NeV York Sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29
I. ISLAND POND, VERMONT, FRIDAY, AUGUST 80 1879

to Buffalo, is set down in the records
as 365 miles; but is stated by the boat
men to be 1863. The steersman's busi-
ness is delicate one, and requires con-
slant watchfulness to so turn the boat
as to compensate exactly for the indirect
drag on the tow-line. There are two
steersmen and two drivers, who relieve
each other every six hours, day and
night. Since hehard times have pressed
them, the canal captain now usually
makes one of the four. According to the
load which they have on, the boats are
able to make from one to two miles per
hour, and accomplish the whole distance
in six to nine days. Boats going up the
canal pay no toll; returning they pay
one cent a bushel on grain, or eighty
two dollars and fifty cents on full load.
1t will thus be seen that the actual ex-
penses of a canalboat on the round trip
consists of the towing to and from Al
bany, aggregating fifty-four dollars, the
toll of eighty-two dollars, the wages of
the men, sixty-five dollars, the keep of
the horses, twenty dollars, and wharfage
from two to four dollars, making in all
5 25. A very short stop is usually made
at Buffalo, and the boat returns. One
great source OF loss to canal boatmen is
the difference of weight of their load be-
tween Buffalo and New York. This is
in almost all cases against the boatmen,
and they become liable for it.
This is the boatmen's summer life. In
the winter the boat is laid up at some
point along the canal, where the captain
may have house, the children are sent
to school, and he works at trade until
navigation reopens. Many, however,
come down to New York and put up
their boats in the Erie basin or over on
the Long Island shore, where they may
remain the winter for ten or twelve dol
lars. They live in them and do light
erage business dnring the cold weather,
or odd jobs along shore.
There are number of farmers both at
Troy, N. Y, and Railway, N. j., who
make business ofboarding canal horses
during the winter. Between the Erie
canal and the Morris and Essex there
are probably twenty-five thousand
horses and mules thus boarded. One
dollar per head week is charged for
the twenty-five weeks of the season, thus
involving some $625, ,000.-Neo0 York
NeaBS
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-08-29

1t takes the SUMS light about eight and
a quarter minutes to reach the earth,
and we do not see the sun until eight
minutes after it has risen, while we see
it, apparently for the same reason, for
the same time after it has set.
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Evening session .

cLc ''-EXAMtSATIoN or col. FELTON, CONTINUED.
g. By Nj. Reed Now, Mr.. Potion. / I'M
stood you To say that your Proposed method %
raising tn. money WIS 10y laying the matier
before certain members of the democrat. 20
National CommlUcc1 A.-Laying ii br.oro
th.m.
q. You intended. Notwithstanding the di-ap-
probation oi your uurie rather violently eX-
tros 90, To- carry ont tine proposed purchas s. iG
eacn care, SD lar as 1t lgy ia your powerY A.
SO far na II luy in my power.
Q.-Nou Intended 10 carry it out? Al took
the chance To- ruito th money II il could be DONE
Q.-lour method or proposed M thod WAS
through some gentlemen whose names You DO
not remember ana you cannot now think Of %
numef A.-No.
WHOM, You intend li1t4lk2 A.-N1t -prciay
O. Had you generality Al should naj,
Q.-To whom? AMY OF me- Committee.
Q.-N.me iA.se I" whom you should have
gone. A-Io Cooper perhaps.
Q.-Aunr h2 had oppressed his objection?
Al should hayo boon very ilkrly to 60 10 him.
Q-raon YEN ,di9 mink ri. o6I,ctions wsra
shuud have laid the matter hoiore any member
Q-.Wrhou' any selection? A.-And let them
G-Iiow lon& will it have taken to get thom
.YSethg1r A N t long; q day ortwo.
=
."uid u have taken you to raise the money!
A That cantton
Z You hayo no judgment about it2 Al
Q.-l'1 you expet that it could be raised on
we SPOT Al don't know had no eXpecta-
Q.-You expected that somebody else was
going 70 do H. How long did you expect that it
wouidtakef Al cannot tell.
,,.Q pa yo.n- 6 sanpp.9sg It you'd take day or
two hut thut is a mere suuposition "
Q.-1or Wero keeping pretty close run II
,,hlrse events as they transplred? Ayes, sir;
Q.-Ara you doing yourself Justice when Won
say tolenbleF Al was quite familiar with
o.-You were entirely familiar with thom. You
You krpt Yourself thoroughly posted on ali
these points. did YOU? A,-Yos. sir.
Q.-Then you knew at the time that the Board
WIS going to declare the result on the 9Th day
Of December. did YOU not? Al think did.
Q.-lOu knew the electors were to meot on
the 9Th day Of December, did you not? A
Tint Is tho day, / think.
Q-Ihht you had IN your mind Ut the time?
Al suppose sOi IL was a well known fact
when they were o. meet
Q.,And when they were to declare the result?
A.-lee. sir.
.Q.--And you telegraphed the acceptance to
Marble ON the Attn day OF December? A,-Yes
sir,
Dwell. now. how were you going to got time
between these two daios 10 raise all this money
in this proposed way A.-There was no Occa-
sion To- consider that
you tecgraphed the acceptance Now tell me
when you telegraphed the acceptance Dee 1
and YOU knew the l3oard was going to declare
mo result on Dec. D, and 1t would take two days
crnpancyI Al did rot know that il would
nke two days | teegraphed some time in the
day, but can't toll when.
O'-iou made no effort to got the Democratic