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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25
MexicO's NaiOnal Lottery.

A correspondent writing from the city of
Mexico says: 1t is happy circumstance
that a government that conducts national
lotteries should also have national pawn
shop, where its people can raise money to
buy lottery tickets. When the government
desires to encourage railroad or any cor
poration of public Importance, and wishes
to give it subsidy, it does not give the
company grant of money, for reasons too
obvious to need explanation, but gives it
concession for lottery. Nobody can es-
tablish lottery in Mexico without this
concession, not on account of public morals,
but on account of the public pocketbook.
Neither native nor stranger can walk
block in any principal street in the City of
Mexico without being bothered by at least
half dozen venders of lottery tickets, who
cry their wares as our newsboys do, and
make themselves as obnoxious to the public
as possible. But every lottery-ticket seller
is in some sense government officer, and
however much pleasure it might give a
stranger to pick one of them up and wiring
his neck, it would bedangerous. The num-
Der of people in the Mexican capital who
make living out of nothing is overpower-
ing. There are good many thousands OF
men who buy cheap articles at the pawn
shop auctions, and bone everybody they
meet to buy them at an advanced price.
The city is full of lottery-ticket sellers, the
pawnshops are full of goods, and Bete'a, the
city prison, is SO full of prisoners that there
are always lot of swarthy arms and legs
hanging out Of the windows.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25
The Seas Answer.

The pale moon rushed along the stormy sky,
Now hid, now seen, like some belated bark
That drives among the breakers aimlessly,
Their white crests cleaning silver through
the dark.
Pale as the moon, beneath the lighthouse
covered
The silent watcher on the great stone pier;
She saw how black the gathering cloud wrack
lowered,
She heard the gales hoarse warning mutter-
ing near;
She felt the kindred tnmult in her breast,
With Natures angry mood was prompt to
blend;
Yet the sea answered, stilling her unrest.
"The hardest hap comes ever to the end"
Though the great waves roll laundering to the
shore,
And DER the reef the cruel surf-clouds foam,
Though fierce and high the crashing breakers
roar,
Between the weary fisherman and home;
Calm to its depths the tide will ebb at night,
The waves creep whispering backward from
the Scar.
And as the cottage hearth shows welcome light
The laden coble leaps the harbor bar
Ears that can hear, hearts that can understand
Know Ocean tells us, like a staunch old
friend,
"God holds the future in His loving hand,
The hardest hap comes ever to the end"
The red-rooied houses piled beneath the Head
In silent separate lights began to shine,
The struggling moon her fearful radiance she
On the grand beauty of the ruined shrine
From the quay-side, laugh, snatch of song, md
, call,
Came f1tful to the pier upon the breeze
And, regular as pulses rise and fall,
Doomed the long echo of the breaking seas.
And still the watcher on the great stone pier
fingered above the eternal waves 10 bend,
Taking their answer home to hush and cheer
The hardest hap comes ever to an end"
All the Yay Round.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

A musical chap-Ban-jo.
A tub race-W asherwomen.
Always best when rare-Family broils.
Peaceable Indians all stand in front of
cigar stores.
bean bags" is the popular social
game in England now.
There are 61O locomtiYes owned by the
Central Hudson railroad.
In Siam the penalty for lying is to
have the mouth sewed up.
One-sixteenth of all the milch COWS in
the country are owned by New York.
Paris will celebrate her centennial
November IS, l884-Paris, KY, by the
way.
Eighty feet below the earth's surface
at Sycamore. H., is an underground
lake.
Is it not strange that man canobe on
fire, and yet at the same time very much
put out?
The horse is now to be met with in
every country, except Lapland and Green
land, amid the region of eternal SHOWS.
Philadelphia, which eight years ago
had only sixteen shoe factories, has now
over 140. Their annual production is
estimated at 48,000,000 pairs.
There was young man in Oil City,
Who considered himself very witty,
He got off pun
To furnish the crowd fun,
The way they damned him was pity.
Derrick.
The produce statistics of Nebraska
for 1878 are given as follows by Professor
Wilber: 26,000,000 bushels of wheat,
46,000,000 bushels of corn, 9,000,00
bushels of oats, 100000 bushels of rye,
100000 bushels of barley, 5000, 900
bushels of potatoes 500, 900 cattle, valued
at $1,000, 900; 100000 swine, valued at
100000
The royal plate at Windsor is reported
to be worth Gl,800,000. 1t includes a
gold service ordered by George w.,
which will dine 40 persons, and the
same monarch added to the collection
one of the finest wine coolers in the
world, a shield formed of small boxes,
worth $4,000, and thirty dozen plates,
worth 10000. There are also variety
of pieces brought from abroad and from
India. The latter include a peacock of
precious stones of every kind, worth
G3O.O 900, and Tippoo's footstool, a tigers
head, with crystal teeth and asolid ingot
of gold for his tongue.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25

The climate of Constantinople resem-
bles pretty closely that of Washington,
and life there is by no means disagreea-
BILE, although restricted socially. There
is ne society in our meaning of the term.
With us society means the association of
the sexes, but in Turkey you never see
the wives of your friends, and it would
be a grave breach of good manners to in
quire after their health. A Turk makes
no reference to his family, no matter how
intimate he may be with you. Turkish
gentlemen visit the families of, Chris
tians and know how to behave politely
in ladies' company, but they never in
troduce gentlemen to their own house
holds. This is the rule in all Moham-
medan countries. The Persian Minis
ter at Constantinople occasionally gives
receptions at his house which are at
tended by Christian ladies. He shows
his guests the arrangements of his harem,
but its occupants are carefully secluded
from their gaze. There is no court in
the European sense of the term. On
ceremonial occasions no women appear.
The Turks with whom | come in con-
tact in my official intercourse with the
government are men of fine appearance,
dressed with scrupulous care, very neat
in their persons and exceedingly polite
in their manners. They talk in low,
pleasing tones. Many of them speak
French and few English. - Horace
M6yRGrd.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25

TO live without purpose is to lead a
restless unhappy life.
To be angry is to revenge the faults of
others upon ourselves.
Discourage cunning in a child; cum
ming is the ape of wisdom.
1t is the rugged highway that calls out
ones strength, not the valleys of sensu-
Gus ease.
There are inscriptions on all human
hearts, which are never to be seen, ex-
cept at low, dead tide.
Some people never have a story to
tell, because of their quicksand natures,
from which every new wave washes out
the old impression.
Pride is like the beautiful acacia that
lifts its head proudly above its neighbor
plants, forgetting that it too, like them,
has its roots in the drift.
dislike an eye that twinkles like a
star. Those are only beautiful which,
like planets, have a steady lambent light,
are luminous, not sparkling.
Stories first heard at mothers knee
are never wholly forgotten-a little
spring that is never quite dried up in our
journey through scorching years.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25
:. ISLAND POND, VERMONT, FRIDAY, APRIL 25 1879

The picture on the right, said Mayer,
is Ross, Duncan a. Co.'S iron. That on
the left is the etching shown first, and
obtained from the bar purchased by
Glider
The judge raped smartly on his desk.
This applause could not be permitted
again. The daylight was re-admitted.
and the pictures faded away. Photo
graphs of the etching were handed to
the jurors, and the various samples of
iron from which the etching had been
obtained were exhibited.
Samson Glider sat with face averted.
How could he deserve such love? Itwas
too divine a gift. Why had he not
known of her surprising love for him,
her mastery of mind and will that could
accomplish such results, and all for him?
Some one else was testifying A farmer
living at Barstow had passed man on
the road, just before the accident, who
muttered to himself 'rll have my re-
venge, whoever may suffer
A. Samuls testified that he had
bought the old junk and refuse from the
wreck, and had found coat much torn,
and probably belonging to passenger.
In the coat was part ofa letter-a threat
ening letter addressed to "John Morley"
"He was killed in the wreck" said
Mary Britton, with sudden earnestness.
"Silence! Let the witness proceed"
This letter threatened John Morley
with death for some past injury, and
warned of some impending disaster. 1t
was signed, Fired Smythe.n
There was sudden movement at the
rear of the court, and every one turned
to see what it meant. A man was push
ing roughly out of the seats, as if eager
to escape.
"By sixty!" cried the farmer from
'Barstow; chats the feller l saw just
afoore the smash"
g 1t was a remarkable case" said the
judge to his colleague, after the trial.
1.-The woman must have been person
of extraordinary mind, to have planned
the scheme, and to have won all those
scientific people over to her side. | I'M
derstand she had not a cent in the world,
and could pay them nothing. Women
will do anything for love. ."-Ha1per's
Bnzn7
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25
" Good. .Bye!''

GOOd.Bye!'
Falling leaf and fading tree,
Lines of white in a sullen sea,
Shadows rising on you and me
The swallows are making them ready to fly.
Goodbye, Summer Goodbye
Goodbye!
Hush A voice from the far-away
Listen and learn, it seems to say,
All the to-morrows shall be as to-day"
The cord is irayed and the cruise is dry,
The link must break and the lamp must die.
Goodbye, Hope Goodbye
Goodbye
What are me waiting for? Oh my heart
Kiss we straight on the brows and part
What are we waiting for, you and I?
A pleading look-a stified cry. -.-
Goodbye, forever Goodbye!
Goodbye!
&C. j. Hhue .MeIuHLe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1879-04-25

The coroner's jury called TO consider
the death of Thomas Starmore and 9TH
ers, killed at Barstow's Siding on the
night of the 25th of February, met at the
switch-house and heard the evidence of
the persons who were known to have
been present at the time of the disaster.
Even the tramp had been captured. He
was seen prowling in the woods near the
line, and had been caught by the sec
tion-master and his men. Every one at
once said, The tramp did it, But the
tramp had in his hand another bar just
like the bar found under the train. He
admitted having stolen the bar. He had
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
What the Swiss Colony is Doing
knoxville Tribune.

Mr.. Peter Staub, who was, during
the past week, visiting the Swiss colo
ny near Cowan's, Oh the Cumberland
table lands, returned Friday night,
and has given US an interesting ac'
count of the condition and prospects
Of the colony.
Mr.. Staub found them contented
and well pleased with their condition,
and with great faith in their own flu.
ture. They number about 800, most.
ly Swiss, with mixture of Germans
and some natives, few intermarriages
having occurred. Nearly all of the
original population of the region have
sold out to the emigrants and departed,
but those whL have remained have
greatly prospered, they andn new corners
having learned many new and use
full arts from each other. y good free
school has been established under
State and county control, where the
children learn English and German in
addition to the usual course Of study.
There is also a pOstoffice with a
tri-weekly mail and a United States
and foreign money order office. In
agriculture the people have devoted
themselves to great extent to the
growing of fruit which succeeds ad-
mirably in quantity and quality, APP
pies doing particularly well. The
principal industry Of the colony will
probably prove to be wine making.
The southern exposures are already
clad with a luXuriant growth of vines.
The Concord and Ives Seeding have
so far succeeded best, but experiments
are being made with all varieties. A1r.
Staub thinks that Andrew Jackson's
prophecy - that the Cumberland
plateau would one day become the
garden spot of the South-wiIl prove
eminently true. One gentleman is
endeavoring to raise silk worms. He
has already under growth 1000 two
year-old mulberry shrubs, and will
next year import the silk larvie from
all parts in order to select the strain
best adapted to the country. As to
regular farming, it has been discover
ed that corn does not succeed well, but
potatoes are very profitable and
abundant crop, and oats, clover and
the grasses are raised with success.
The industrial interests of the settle>
ment include a wagon factory, saw
mill and grist mills.
MIR. Staub, who was formerly a
trustee of the colony and has always
greatly interest ed himself in its vel
fare, considers its state as very salts
factory and hopeful; immigration is
adding to its numbers, but not to the
greatest possible extent. He thinks
that if the above facts, as stated,
could be made generally known to his
countrymen, they would decide that
Tennessee was the best American copy
of Switzerland, and that they would
come in great numbers, instead of in
occasional small squads, as at present.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

In the church trial at Lebanon last
week Judge Caruthers was unami.
mously acquitted of the charges
against him Of unchristian conduct.
This is not surprising to us, for we
have since boyhood revererced and
honored the grand old man, and it
was impossible for us to believe that
he was capable of an unchristian act.
He has lived a long and useful life,
and we are glad to know that this ap-
parent shadow has passed over, leav-
ing all bright and clear in the sunset
of life. The bar of West Tennessee
did a handsome thing at Jackson last
week in passing resolutions of conf
dence before the trial was concluded.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
AN APRIL FOOL MARRIAGE,
Jack Allen, the ''Great Ameri-
can JOker,o Pays S2500 for
Breach of Promise.
CIarksrille Tobacco Leaf.


Quite an interesting case for breach
of marriage and fraud came up in the
Circuit Court Friday. The suit was
brought two years ago by Mrs. Jane
Elliott against Jack Allen. 1t will
be remembered that the Tobacco Leaf,
in April, 1877, gave an account of
Jack Aliens April-fool marriage,
gotten up, as Allen stated, to April
fool Squire Griffin Orgain; but it
seems that Jack carried the joke too
far and carried it on little too long,
and didn't fool the Squire much, as
the sequel will show.
The following day, however Jack
met with Squire Orgain and they
came to the Leaf office together to
have the marriage announced They
were both in a jolly mood and Jack
seemed very happy. Uncle Griffin
told Jack that he ought to pay $500
for the ceremony. Jack said no; that
his wife would pay the bill. Later in
the day Jack told the Squire that he
was not married ; that it was simply
a joke gotten up to April fool him
and that the license, as he would see
yexamination, was bogus. "By gron-
nys," replied Uncle Grif., "you can't
fool me; | am an officer of the law
and am not to be trifed with. | per-
formed the marriage ceremony in good
faith, under the solemn authority Of
law and 'by gronnys' its got to stick"
And it seems from the testimony that
it did ''stick" for about six or
eight weeks, when Jack Allen pulled
out and married another woman, and
Mrs. Elliott brought suit for $4,000
damage. There was strong array
of legal talent on both sides, consider
able sparring with the lawyers and
much good humor and wit. Thejury,
after hearing the clear charge Of
Judge Stark, retired and in few
minutes brought in a verdict, in which
the plaintiff was given $4,000 DANA
ges, enough to cover the whole of
Jack Aliens estate.
Moral-Young men, play whatever
pranks and jokes you will, but don't
April fool a woman in marriage. 1t
costs $500 to play Jack Aliens
trick, and Judge Smith, Arthur Mum
ford and Judge Rice can't joke you
out oft. You may prove insolvency,
or fool a woman i'll most any other
way, but never April fool one.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
State school superintendent Trous-

State school superintendent Trous
dale has appointed the dates upon
which the congressional district insti
tutes and conventions of superintend.
ents and teachers are to be held this
year. Those in West Tennessee are
to be held as follows: Bolivar, Harde
man county, June 25th, 26th and 9th;
Milan, Gibson county, July 9th, 10th
and 11th; Huntingdon, Carroll coun-
ty, July 10Th, 18th and 18th. The
school superintendents, school direc-
tors and all other citizens who teel an
interest in the success of these insti-
lutes in the counties in which they are
to be held, are requested to select
working committees of arrangement,
entertainment, music and reception,
and TO correspond in relation to the
SaLhe WIN IllLS Olli|e' 1HiS VIII De Il
convention of the best teachers in the
district and state, and we hope our
citizens will make the necessary ar
rangements to receive and entertain
the delegates in a hospitable manner.
We will probably have more to say on
the subject hereafter.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

The President has decided to forego
his pet idea of keeping his Cabinet CO.
existent with his official term; will
permit Secretary McCrary to retire,
and will give him the Judgeship OF
the United States Circuit Court for
the Eighth Circuit District, made va
cant by the resignation of Judge Dill
lon, who has decided to accept the
new chair of law recently established
at the Columbia University of New
York. The appointment, however, is
not to 60 into effect until September
next. Meanwhile McCrary will re-
main at his post, and his successor will
not be chosen until fall As yet the
President has MAIDEN selection for the
vacancy which will then be created
in his Cabinet, but the impression is
that it will be given to a Southern
man.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

The Murfreesboro correspondent Of
the Nashville American, under date
of the Oath, sends the following:
Great excitement and general re-
joicing prevails in our midst this after
noon over the capture, this morning,
Of band Of some men, black and
white, who have been robbing our
stores and dwellings during the past
months. Over two wagon loads OF
stolen goods have been recovered, con-
sisting Of jewelry, clothing, bacon,
groceries, etc. The very fine diamond
ring stolen from Col. w. r. Butler a
few weeks ago was recovered with the
other goods. Most of the stolen goods
were found in the house of John Hall,
on the Nashville pike, about one mile
from town.
Too much credit cannot be awarded
Sheriff Ed Arnold, Recorder j. II.
Butler, and the other city officers who
ferreted out and captured this gang OF
burglars. Among the stolen goods
were found several augers and other
tools, also large army pistol shooting
a ball of the size with which Major
Pugh was shot, and it is to be hoped
that it may lead to the capture of the
parties who did the killing. Several
of the parties implicated have not as
vet been arrested. The following Is a
list of those already captured and now
in jail: White-Frank Bailey and
Hick Slaughter; colored, John Hall,
Henry McNairy, Ed Lytle, Burrel
Smith and Rush Holdert,
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

A correspondent of the London
Builder, while acknowledging the
services of that journal in the cause
Of sanitary reform, contends that "the
health of stable keepers, of sewer ex-
plorers, the exemption of the inhabi,
tants of the Ghetto during the cholera
in Rome" proves, in his opinion, that
the cause of epidemics lies more in
the mistreatment of human life than
in all external mischief put together,
and attributes a great deal of the i'll
ness among the wealthier classes to
their over-eating and drinking, just
as, on the other hand, much among
the poorest is the fruit of privation.
"People of means 'live to the top
every day; consequently there is no
reserve force, for this has been all
consumed in endeavoring to surmount
the weight of difficulties daily present
ed" London men servants have four
and sometimes five meals-three of
meat-daily, and the hospital doctors
say that their blood is so heated by
high living that they are very difficult
patients to deal with.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

The San Francisco Chronicle gives
the names of large number of citi-
zens who were discharged by their en-
ployers for voting for the new Consti-
tuition of California. The Central
Pacific Railroad Company appear to
have organized system of compulsion
and detection that would have aston
ished even a New England manufac-
turer, and men who went to the polls
firmly convinced that their employ
ers did not know how they were going
to vote, found, on their return to work,
that their services were no longer
needed. F. p. Pulcifer was dismissed
because he hurrahed for the new con-
stitution, and NJ. Mclaughlin because
he declined to exhibit his ticket to a
civil engineer of the railroad compa>
ny, who was stationed near the polls
to overawe voters. John Anderson,
one Of the discharged men, is a first
class mechanic, sober and industrious,
and has worked for the railroad COM
pany for ten years.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29
To give our readers some idea o.

To give our readers some idea OF
how the humane, philanthropic people
of Massachusetts do things, we publish
the following extract from letter to
the New York Sun:
am voter in Massachusetts, and
have recently been publicly Dragging
of my State and her men. | spoke of
Wendell Phillips as being the nations
noblest man; of Garrison as in human
ity and Christianity second to none in
the world. l spoke of Messrs. Muir
ray, Hale, Minor, Fay, Tobey, Fer
gerson, as well as many others l am
personally acquainted with, and after
that spoke of the Westbore Reform
School, where they inflicted sixty odd
thousand lashes on the backs of less
than three hundred boys in twelve
short months, which is a larger num-
ber of lashes than | ever knew to be
inflicted in the same length of time
on the same number of slaves in my
twenty-five years'residence in the State
of Virginia. also spoke of the Iewks>
bury State Almshouse, where eighty
twochiIdren were sent in twelve months
and where seventy died III twelve
months, which is larger death rate
than the yellow fever caused in any
place we have any account of last year.
| also spoke of a State institution at
Monson. where the authorities inter
fered and checked such brutal and
wicked neglect as were a disgrace to
the State. spoke of the State insti>
tuition at Bridgwater; and at all times,
in public as well as in private places,
when | want to speak of the meanest
thing | ever saw, speak of a Massa>
chusetts poorhouse coffin.
The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1879-05-29

Mckenzie recently had a newsra.
per enterprise on foot. The editor
was at Union City, and the press at
Milan, 50 we are told. We suppose
the local news was got the same as the
old woman got hers, who declared
that when she wanted any news she
made it. We credit this item to
our reporter.-BentOn Banner.
A mistake, neighbor. Milan has
not printed the Mckenzie paper, and
has never seen but one copy. Be
sides, Milan would not need to go to
Union City for an editor; and we
don't think Mckenzie would either.
A town with two live colleges is able
to furnish its own editors.