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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-25
New Hampshire.

Lewiston mas pOpulatlOn OF 2O,OOO,
an increase of over 5000 in the decade.
New Hampshire.
d. w. Edgerly of Dover delivered the
annual address before the New Hamp-
shire dental society at Concord, and
w. NJ Jarvis of Claremont the Grafton.
The state debt is SO, 5I2. 466, a production
during the year of $751; S5.
Joel Eastman, of Conway, in his S4th
year, was the oldest delegate to the Chi
cago convention. The last he attended
was the wing convention which nominat-
ed VIM. H. Harrison.
John X. Flanders, a young convict,
testified in the state-prison investigation
that when he asked permission to write
to good girl, the Overseer called her a
vile name Filled with rage he struck
the insulter. for which he was made to
stand with bare legs on a bench, while a
deputy whipped him severely. He was
afterward made to stand facing bare
wall for three days.
A tornado, accompanied by rain and
lightning swept through Lower Gilman
ton and Barnsted, destroying IL barns,
moving the Free Baptist church at Gil
manton three feet, and blowing off its
steeple, killing six cows, and probably
fatally hurting four-year-old boy, hurl-
ing him against the side of house.
Three acres of woodland were leveled
and several houses were unroofed.
George D. Vittune, of Concord, left an
estate of $50 of which his adopted
daughter has the income of $500 until
her death, when the principal goes to
Bates college.
The Free Baptist Church at Ashland is
given $500, and $1,000 more if it can raise
$4,000.
The Rhode Island and New Hampshire
press associations will leave Portsmouth
together July 8, for the White Noun
tains.
Grafton county owes S95, 975, reduc-
ton of $4,000 in year.
The state medical society at Concord
heard the presidents annual address, by
Thomas J w. Pray of Dover on
diphtheria, and other papers by w. F.
Smith of Hanover, DR.. Dix of Hindsdale,
i. B. Howe of Manchester and DR..
Stillings OF Concord.
Peter Baufour, 90 years old, was killed
the other day by falling from a railroad
trestle in the White mountain notch.
The state medical so"iety has chosen
Granville P. Conn, of Concord, presi-
dent.
Over 200 prominent New Englanders
attended the opening of the Glen House
in the White mountains.
The whole of the advertised State loan
of 100000 has been taken by New York
parties at rate varying from 6.35 to TO- 70
premium. The bonds will net the pur-
chasers, twelve in number, trife over
4 per cent,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-25
Massachusetts.

The Salem almshouse has paid the city
during the past 10 years $1l,O04.
The New England manufacturers and
mechanics institute levies an assessment
of 10 per cent on its stock, payable before
July l. It's land is secured and there
are no debts, so that the whole capital
stock of 100000 may sbe used for build
ing.
Four Kanakas died of smallpox on the
whale-ship Walton, just arrived at New
Bedford from Talcuhua.
John Conlon of Cambridge, 90 years
old, was perhaps fatally shot by Boston
policeman carly the other morning,
while running away after knocking down
passer-by. He was warned to stop,
but dared the officer to shoot.
The dory Little Western, with George
7. Thomas and Fred Norman, has sailed
from Gloucester on voyage across the
ocean. They were seen off by large
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-06-25
Vermont.

Col LeGrand B. Cannon of Burlington
pledges $4,000 toward a permanent fund
for the support of the bishop of the Yer
mont Episcopal diocese, providing $l5,-
600 more is raised within a year.
A strange blight has affected the oat
crop IN portions of Addison county, the
ends of the growing grain for several
inches looking as if killed by frost,
while corn growing near by shows no
sign of frost.
Rev. Byron G. Russell of Rockport
Mass, accepts call to the Universalist
church at Rochester.
The Central Vermont railroad offers
half-fare to the Norwich university COM
mencement on Wednesday and Thursday
the 3Oth and July l.
Judge Asa Reyes, who died at Brattle-
boro the 18th, aged SO, was native of
PutnAy, the oldest living graduate of
Dartmouth college, the oldest lawyer,
the oldest Mason and the oldest justice of
the peace in the State. He served two
terms each in the Legislature as repre-
sentative and senator, and though not
eminent as a jury advocate, he was a
skillful practitioner, and probably the
best equity lawyer in the state, while his
supreme court briefs are models of con-
else statement and technical accuracy.
There were 1875 divorces granted in the
state during the past year, less than in
any year since 1865, and the low ratio to
marriages of to 81 l-2 places Vermont
at the head of the New England states
The highest ratio, | to IL, was in Rut-
land county, and the lowest, to 80, in
Essex county.
A road is building to the top of Potato
hill in Lincoln, where a signal-service
station will be established.
The Rutland county historical society
is form at Castleton with Barnes
Trisbie of Poultney as president.
The state medical society has closed
its semi-annual session at St. Adams.
DR.. E. G.. Hooker of Waitsfeld
presented reptile about six inches long
and half an inch at its greatest diameter,
resembling a water lizard, which two
witnesses saw vomited by Asa Minor of
Warren May 10. The patient had been
in bad health for four years, after drink
ing at a mountain spring, but since
vomiting the reptile had gained 20
pounds. Theories are against the posi-
bility of cold-blooded animal living in
the human stomach. The specimen will
be sent to Prof. Marsh of New Haven,
CT.
The annual meeting of the 5th army
corps at Burlington recently passed q
resolution asking Congress to consider
the Fitz John Porter case as matter of
justice.
A man named Allen Town of Richford,
has lost three children with diphtheria
his wife died previous to the children Of
paralysis.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15
From the N. Y. Herald, Dec. "a.
PRAYER CURE AT SPRING.
FIELD. ta..

A story with the true medieval
flavor about it comes from Spring
field, Mass. Some ladies established
a home for sick people who were
willing to abandon physic and trust
TO prayer for recovery. No charge
was made for entertainment or at
tendance. The "home" had eighteen
inmates during the summer, and it is
claimed that these were either cured
or greatly benefited, prayer being
the only medicine used. Still more,
one sick person who remained at
home and merely wrote the sisters
for prayers declares herself entirely
cured. Here Is chance for doabters
of the Tyndall school to investigate.
If cures have really been effected
all the reason that ever has been
expended upon the question of
prayer cure must acknowledge itself
vahquished by expe :ience. If sick
people have been healed without
the use of medicine, as had been
claimed in millions of cases since
the earliest times OF which history
informs us, one of two things is
certaln-eltner supernatural powers
are sometimes exercised for human
benefit and in defiance of natural
law, or a supernatural force is
created by the exercise of faith.
That this last suggested experience
has occurred seems reasonably GER
tain. Many famous physicians have
declared that person may suffer
almost any disease by merely allow
ing the mind to dwell upon it.;
others have told of wonderful cures
effected by bread pills or colored
water; while DIR. Brown-Sequard
tells Of a sufferer by constipation
who was relieved by a dose
Of catechu, the most persistent
astringent known, he having taken
it by mistake. Let the scientists in.
vesIgate the Springfield experiences
If prayer can cure the sick, either
through divine interposition or by
the stimulating influence of the
petitioners prayers upon himself
the public should be informed o.
the truth.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15

the front ut his call. It will probably
get to be interesting before these men
ere disabled, II indeed they are disabled
xs all. 80
We learn that In skirmish With an
other crowd Of distillers Deputy Shep-
herd was shot IN the face and neck on
Saturday lass. This trouble occurred tn
Rathbup county. but we have NO parsic-
ulars from the scene of action.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15

FURNITURF
OF EVERY VARIETY AND STYLE.
Consisting OF Mahogany, Rosewood and
Walnut Furniture suitable for parlor,
dining room and chamber uses.
Our assortment OF Furniture Is larger
and more varied than can be found In
Delaware, and all articles sold at our
establishment are warranted as repre-
sented.
Venitian Blinds of the most fashionable
designs made 10 order and kept CONSTANT
ly on hand. We also manufacture and
constantly keep q large assortment of
Spring, Hair, Moss and Husk Mattresses.
dy j d ]. N. HARTMAN.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15

A little girl was teaching her brother
the Lords Prayer the other night, and
when she had said, "Give us this day our
daily bread' he suddenly called out Pray
for taffy, sister pray for tafiy too; and she
laid you forget that am going to give
Won some of Sines' Tar, Wild Cherry and
Hoarhound for your cold which is great
zeal better than taffy. nov29-dIm
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15
EDUCATIONAL.
DASClSel D

DASciNSi
REOPENING OF A. 8. WEBSTERs Sc
LECT DANCING ACADEMY.
Thursday Evening, Beptember can,
AT THE g
Masonic TEMPLE, Wilmington, Del.
Ladies' and Gentlemen. Misses and Mas
ters wishing 70 become proficient In all
the dances Of the day, and to learn the
new and more fashionable ones, will find
1t To their advantage TO begin with the
opening Of the season.
EVENING GLASSES.
Commencing Thursday, September eth.
Gentlemens class Monday and Thursday
evenings from to 10 O'Clock.
AFTl'RNOON GLASSES.
Commencing on Saturday, october ID,
Ladies' aud Misses and Masters class
Thursdays from to 9, and Saturdays.
from 2.u0 TO 400. Private lessons given
at any hour to suit convenience.
GLIDE AND RACQUET wALTZHs TAUGHT
IN A FEW LESSONS.
Special arrangements for Schools and
Semtnaries, and lor private classes OF
ladies or gentlemen, can be made by ap-
plying at the Academy. at Robelin a
Bro. No. 7l0 Market street, or by mail to
A. q. WEBSTER,
epl4 h Masonic Nempie.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15

Frozen-up boats on the Erie canal
hold $3.50, 600 bushels of grain.
Eating between meals is not so un-
healthy as drinking between drinks.
The daily gazette., 1880-12-15
N II r WI N H

In -D In - -IN -E3
TONICA SP ECIFICA.
A Boon 60 Both sexes.
A REMEDY WITHOUT A RIVAL for
all diseases arising from Nervous Debil-
ity, Sexual Disorders, over Indulgence Of
Vicious Habits, as we'll as from the pros
tration of old age. Its curative proper
ties in violent and chronic forms OF the
following diseases have been attested to
by the most Eminent Physicians:
DYSPEPSIA SEXUAL EXHAUSTION
SELF ABUSE sPERMATORRHGA
HEADACHE GENERAL DEBILITY
DIZZINESS IMPOTENCY
PREMATURE DECAY, &C., &C.
II has been in use over forty years, and
is to-day the most popular remedy for
the diseases aforementioned in the
WORLD. 1t can be used without regard
10 diet, is pleasant In taste, and better
than all, itds q sure, safe and certain cure.
II is no quack medicine, but stands upon
It's own merits, as any trial will amply
demonstrate. since 1896, this remedy has
always been sold for a much larger price
than that for which 1t IL now sold; but
owing to the fact that the time for the
payment of an enormous royalty upon its
manufacture has expired. IL ID offered to
the suffering of both sexes at one dollar
per box so as to be within the reach OF
ali: at which price IL will be sent to any
address free OF further charge.
Address, DIR. WILLIAM YOUNG,
4lb Spruce St., Phila.
May be consulted on all diseases by
mail. COW tuts
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
How Big Is Man +!

Somehow, when a mans mind be-
comes really enlarged say, like that OF
Baron Humboldt, and he is able to place
in focus more and more of the cosmos
of which he forms part, the things
he at the outset of his life regards as
the largest get smaller and smaller, till
at last that firstimmense and overwhelm-
ingly important thing, himself be-
comes so insignificant that it is only
through process of me ntal microscopy
he can discern his little float swim, or
wriggle, across the field of view. How
big is man, anyway? Well, he is small
er than an elephant, and an elephant is
smaller than mountain, and mount
ain is smaller than the world, and the
world is mustard seed compared with
the sun, and the sun itself is a mere
mote in the dust cloud of spheres that
stretches out through the universe be-
You'd the reach Of thought. Suppose
we could make an exact model OF the
earth eighty feet in diameter. Eighty
feet in diameter would be pretty large
bill as balls go on the face of this planet.
Assume, for the sake Of easy calculation,
the diameter of the earth to be exactly
5000 miles, and let us proceed to build
our model to scale. A mountain 5
miles high should represent on our
model $50, 000th of feet, or Clio of an
inch. An elephant built in proportion
should be IA ,400th of an inch in height,
and an average man 752 ,S00th Of an
inch tall. An army of 26, 400 such men
standing shoulder to shoulder in single
straight rank would require their Cen
eral to gallop over the space of one
inch to pass them all under review.
With smart horse of proportionate
size, ridden at brisk gallop, he could
accomplish this distance ia about an
hour. Viewed in this way man is a
mere mite crawling over the face of the
globe, yet he has had the arrogance to
think the universe was formed for him
more than for other insects, and that
the Ruling Intelligence had HIM preemi-
nently in view in bringing order out OF
chaos-Scie9tifc NeUs.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
A Puzzled ParSOn.

An old gentleman from the East, of
clerical aspect, took the stage from
Denver south in ante railroad days.
The journey was not altogether a safe
one, and he was not reAssured by the
sight of number of rifles deposited in
the coach, and nervously asked for
what they were.
perhaps You'll find out before you
git to the Divide" was the cheering re-
ply.
Among the passengers was par
ticularly Git seemed to him) fierce
looking man, girded with belt full
of revolvers and cartridges, and clearly
a road agent or assassin. Some miles
out this person, taking out large
flask, asked: stranger, do you irri-
gate?"
If you mean drink, sir, do not"
"Do you object, stranger, to our IL
rigating?"
"No, sir" And they drank accord
ingly.
After further distance had been
traversed the supposed brigand again
asked, Stranger, do you fumigate?"
'If you mean smoke, sir, do not"
"Do you object, stranger, to our
fumigating?"
"No. SIR" And they proceeded to
smoke.
At the dining. place, when our friend
came to tender his money, the proprie-
tor said, "Your bills paid"
who paid it?"
"That man." pointing to the sup
posed highwayman, who, on being
asked if he had not made a mistake,
replied, "Not at all. You see, when we
saw that you didn't irrigate and didn't
fumigate we knew that you was a par
son. And your bills are all right as
long as you travel with this crowd.
We've got respect for the church
you beti" 1t was no highwayman, but
respectable citizen Of Denver. -Har-
per'S Magazine.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05

THE Republican National Conven-
ton will consist of 1856 delegates, and a
majority only is required to nominate.
Two delegates are allowed for each
Representative and Senator in Con-
gress, and two from each Territory and
the District of Columbia. There are
293 Representatives, seventy'six Sena-
tors, eight Territories and the District,
and that number doubled makes 756.
The Democratic National Convention
consists of only 738 delegates who are
entitled to vote, the District of Colum.
bia delegates and those from the Ter
ritories being merely honorary mem
bers. The rule now in force in holding
Democratic Conventions requires a
two-thirds vote to nominate, bat it will
be within the power of the coming con-
vention to abolish it and substitute the
majority rule, if it sees fit. In the Re-
publican Convention it will require 379
votes to nominate, while in the Demo
cratic-unless the rule shall be changed
it will require 492.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05

our material resources, there viii come
q time when their production will be
improbable, and our only salvation
will be to increase them thousand-fold
in value by the application of skill. A
bale of cotton is big, bulky affair: but
worked up into little spools of thread it
is increased in value thousand-fold.
France might have exported by the
ship-load thousands of tons of clay and
sick, and not have received back as
much as she gets from one delicate lit
tie Sevres vase. America has already
proved by her manufactures that the
products OF skill far outweigh in value
the products of mere force; and, more
over, that her skill when thoroughly
trained, is to be matched against the
world. When Russia wants telescope
that shall excel in power any yet made,
she passes the fine work of Munich and
the shops of Frauenhofer to come to
Cambridge, where Alvan Clark's skill
full hands will turn out lenses that beat
the world.-SprinQJield Republican.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05

THE doomed Czar's melancholy stu
alton, says the Chicago Times, is quite
naturally awakening feeling OF intense
sympathy all over the world. Nothing
in Poe's stories is more horrible. The
man in that imaginative writer's ro-
nance who, bourd upon couch, saw
an enormous sword swinging like pen
dulum above him, and presently per-
ceived that it was slowly descending
toward him as it swung, realized, per-
haps, as he contemplated the slow APP
proach of the weapon which should
presently cut him to pieces, something
of the Russian Emperor's feelings at
this moment. Alexander II. knows
that horrible death awaits him, which
he is powerless to ward off. Every day
brings it nearer; each successive at
tempt of the conspirato1s strikes closer
than the one which went before it. He
cannot tell ct what hour of the day or
night the fatal blow may come; he can
not even be sure of swift and sudden,
and, therefore, comparatively merciful.
destruction, such as certain Of his an
cestors have been vouchsafed. Ten
chances TO one he will be horribly
mangied by dynamite explosion, and
he may lin ger along for weeks in hor-
rible agony-sutfering worse torture
than any victim of his autocratic wrath
ever endured under the overseer's whip
in q Siberian mine. What wonder
that his brain sometimes reels? What
wonder that his feelings vent them
selves now in impotent and insane
rage, and that he demands necessarily
what cannot be accomplished by hu-
man means the quick and relentless
determination of the whole Nihilistic
brOodt
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
Origin OF Brandy.

Brandy began to be discovered in
France about the year 1913, but it was
prepared only as a medicine, and was
considered as possessing such marvel
GUS Strengthening and sanitary powers
that the physicians named it "the water
of life" (edu de uie), name it retains,
though now rendered, by excessive po-
tations, one of life's most powerful and
most prevalent destroyers. Raymond
Lully, disciple of Arnold de Villa
Nova, considered this admirable essence
of wine TO be All emanation from the
divinity, and that it was intended to
reanimate and prolone the life of man.
He even thought that this discovery in
Dictated that the time had arrived for
the contamination of all things the
end of the world. Before the means OF
determining the quantity Of alcohol in
spirits were known, the dealers were IN
the habit of employing very rude
method of forming notion of the
strength. A given quantity of the
spirits was poured upon quantity of
gunpowder In dish and set on fire. If
at the end of the combustion the gun
powder continued dry enough it took
fire and exploded; hut if it had been
wet by the water in the spirits, the
flames of the alcohol went out without
setting the powder on fire. This was
called the proof. Spirits which kin
died gunpowder were said to be above
proof; those that did not set fire to it
were said to be below proof. From this
origin of the term proof" it is obvi-
GUS that its meaning must have been at
first very indefinite. 1t could serve
only to point out those spirits which
were too weak to kindle gunpowder,
but could not give any information re-
specting the relative strength of those
spirits which were above proof Even
the strength of proof was not fixed, be-
cause it was influenced by the quantity
of spirits employed-a small quantity
of a weaker spirit might be made to
kindle gunpowder, while a greater
quantity of a stronger might fail. Clarke,
in his hydrometer, which was invented
about the year 1870, fixed the strength
of proof spirits on the stem at the spe-
cific gravity of 1920 at the temperature
of 60 deg. This is the strength al
which proof spirit is fixed in Great
Britain by act of Parliament, and al
this strength it is no more than mkt.
ure of forty-nine pounds of pure alco
hol with tifty-one pounds of water
Brandy, rum, gin, hollands, geneva and
whisky contain nearly similar proper
| tons.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
The Wonders of Colorado.

The following extract is from q lee
ture on Colorado by MIR. James S. Leeds,
of Brooklyn, n. Y:
To the ethnologist who desires to
study the various races of men, the
State of Colorado affords wide field
OF investigation. In the southwestern
portion of the State, many hundreds of
miles, as yet, from a railroad, are tue
remains of prehistoric people, who
have left behind no history, but whose
dwellings, implements aud pottery re-
main with us, as tangible evidences of
no slight advance from barbarism and
of progress in the arts. From what has
already been discovered it is not un-
wise to assume that race now extinct
held sway in that region long before
Columbus gave to Span the New World
from out the waste of waters. For
want Of "A better name they have been
called the cliff dwellers, "and the ruins
of their buildings stand to-day upon
the rocks which form the canons of the
rivers. Some OF the buildings are at
an elevation of 600 feet, and so arranged
by masonry that in their prime they
must have been impregnable. They
are divided into stories, and bear testi-
mony of rude civilization. In the
central part of the State fossil remains
of the mastodon have been found OF
such huge size that the orthodoxy of
an old miner was sorely shaken, for on
viewing them he doubted the existence
of Noah's ark, and, as he expressed it
"they couldn't nohow handle any such
animal on board of any such craft
The famous Garden OF the Gods" i
a famous resort of tourists, and tn
huge sandstones, dotting the plain ant
towering hundreds of feet in grotesqu
and curious shapes, are well worthy o
visit. Hot springs of great medicins
value abound through it's domain, an
in no other State in the Union can 8
great variety of temperature be al
tanned, between the rising and settin
sun, as in Colorado. On the first da
in July / stood on the top OF Mosquit
pass, $4,000 feet above the sea-.
walked my horse across the snow twent
feet deep in the gulches, and, withou
stirring in my tracks l threw snow
ball at my companion with my rigf
hand, while with my left picked
mountain daisy, which I carried thi
night to Denver, 5000 feet below.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-03-05
Sensible Advice.

Somebody, giving good advice in the
Pdrisidn to young men who go into
society, says: Never wound an ugly
woman, and, above all, il an ugly woman
comes and says to you with side
glance, 1 know that am not pretty
do not fall into the trap and reply !:
True, madam; but you have moral
qualities and domestic virtues which 1
place above the perishable advantages
Of beauty was Is years of age when
I made this answer, worthy of Telem-
achus, to the wife of banker whose