Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-07-04
TIMELY TOPICS.


According to late estimates, Great
Britain is not the wealthiest country on
the earth, rs has beenabelieved. France
values her private property, real and per-
sonal, at S43, ITO, GOO. 900, and her navy,
palaces, public buildings and other pub
lie property, excepting highways, ut
81 AS, OO0, 900, making Si4 ,5S5 6OO, 600.
Tile aggregate estimate for England,
Scotland and Ireland, without reckoning
public highways. is Sl2, 500. 00O, 00O. Real
estate in France greatly exceeds in area
that of England, while in the latter
there is q great excess OF personal prop
erty over the former.
Memphis seems to have learned the
great lesson which yellow fever cpl
demic should teach, and reports that the
city-or "taxing.district," rs they call il
since the municipal charter was re-
pealed-is in a better sanitary condition
than at any previous time for twenty
years. The good results of this thorough
cleaning up are already apparent; the
death rate thus far this season has been
quite small, and there was not a single
death from fever of any sort during the
first fortnight of June-a record that has
not been paralleled for years. There is
growing hope that Memphis is going to
get through the summer without re-
currence of last years plague.
Mrs. Schiller, wife of German farmer
in South Australia, is six feet four inches
high, weighs 245 pounds, and recently
astonished her husband and the commu-
nifty by presenting the former with five
children-tllree boys and two girls-at
one BIRTH The neighbOrs of the Schu-
lers donated various small articles and
money, to assist Mr.. Schuler's family,
and sixpenny subscription was started
in the colony for their benefit. A full
account of the case has been transmitted
to the secretary for the colonies at Lon
don in order that it may be laid before
the queen, and Victoria, herself the
mother OF large family, will no doubt
suitably reward this phenomenal
mother.
A letter from the staff correspondent
of a New York paper at Leadville is de-
signed to correct the grossly erroneous
notions which have been current respect
ing the probable yield of the carbonate
belt of Colorado during the present year
n very Cdl tlul anu yCU llDtlul toIlllltOt
of the output for the Leadville camp
places it at $l0,000,000 or $1,000, 600
instead of $50 600, 900 or $40, 000, 900, as
rumor has had it,; and the output fol
the whole State is placed at probably
1926, 900, 900, instead of the wild figures
which have been in circulation. While
the development of other silver fields
whose existence is already known, will
no doubt much increase the Colorado
yield, there is every reason to helievt
that these figures will cover the produc
of 1879. e' .t ~ .. .a#
New Y ork cityis to be heated by steam
permission having been granted to
company to lay pipes in the streets o
the city south of Canal street, for the pur
pose of supplying steam under the Holly
Combination system for heating an(
cooking" This permission was granted
under certain conditions. The compan,
will have to give bond for $4,000 t
restore the streets to the condition il
which itmay find them; to supply steam
to the city at twenty-five per cent les
than the rates granted individuals; t.
give $4,000 to the city for the privileg
when 10000 lineal feet of mains hav
been laid; and to pay the city three pc
cent on the amount invested when til
income on that investment shall excee,
ten per cent. After laying mains below
Canal street to the satisfaction of TIL
Commissioner of Public Works, the COZ
poration is to be allowed to lay pipe
through the remainder of the streets.
Mr.. Collier, of Galloway county, Iowa
was candidate, last autumn, for the offic
of Probate Judge. At meeting at
tended by q large, number Of citizens Q
Jne county, Mr.. Collier offered to dis
charge the duties of the office for half til
fees allowed by law, the full amount G
thelegal fees being about $4,000 yeal
He likewise asserted On. various 0cca
sions, both publicly and privately, tina
he would serve for about half the regu
lar fees. Collier was elected. The Al
torney-General of the State thereupo
took proceedings in the Supreme Coul
to have Collier elected from his Office
on the ground that he had induced til
people to vote tor him by improper an
unlawful means. The Supreme Coui
decided that the proposition to serve fc
less than the lawful compensation. i
other words, to return to persons VIII
should become indebted for fees one-ha
of the amount due by them, was vic
lation of law, and contrary to publ
policy, and that the Office of Probat
Judge of Gu loway county was vacan
and that new election must be held