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Thurssay. December 9. 1880.

The BickuelI electoral count bill is still
being vigorously opposed by the Republi-
cans, but those we'll informed think il will
mass
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-09

From the proceedings of Congress
thus far, il is reasonably certain tina.
any measure having for its object til :
funding of the debt will be vigorously op
posed-this is air eady evident, and will be
clearer as thesdebate progresses. A par
rial refunding bill may pass, but such an
one as contemp,ates the refunding of the
maturing $500, 900, O0O.of bonds--due In
1881, is sure to fail-at least such Is the
present Indication. There is strong
sentiment in favor Of wipipg out these
100000, 900 of.bonds and bill providing
for the payment Of these bonds at matur-
ing will probably pass the present CON
gress. This will be accomplished by using
the surplus coin in the treasury-say
$7OO.O0O.G GOO. which sum will probably be
in the vaults at the time-and the issuance
of low interest bonds, at five years
for the remainder. This is one of the
plans proposed, another is to issue green
backs for the amount in excess of coin il
the treasury The Issuance Of greenbacks
would be imitation, while the plan Of
Senator Mcdonald, avoids initiation. Al
all events the funders will have a lively
time of it passing any bill to refund the
maturing bonds, Wipe them out and
stop the interest is the better plan.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-09

The appointment of Gen. Q. o. Howard
to the command of West Point Academy.
u place of Gen. Scho6eld, who ia 10 be
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The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-12-09

4 strong effort will be made to modify
the tariff laws, and SO change them as to
make the tariff one for revenue only. Sc
veral propositions are already pending and
more will follow. That which meets most
favor and will be most likely to be
adopted is the Hurd bill Represents
tive Hurd IS in earnest in his effort to
secure a declaration of opinion on bis
tariff propositions. He says 1t is Demo
cratic doctrine that the government should
impose taxes for revenue, and that the
party can never be successful unless it
commits itself to that view. He believes
it is just as important to divide the bust
ness interests of the country between
parties as it is to break up the solid
South. He wants the interests that are
injured and oppressed by the present
tariff to take ground against the party
that is in favor of protected monopolies,
To accomplish this the Democratic party
must identify itself with these interests.
In order TO secure his end Mr.. Hurd
will eDdeavor to have the ways and means
committee report back bis resolutions in
troduced the other day, even if they come
into the House without recommendation.
Failing in that, he will take every oppor
funity to move to suspend the rules and
adopt them. and will keep up his struggle
as long as he shall remain n congress.
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Dangerous Playthings.

BY an accident to Patrick Burns, by
which he lost the thumb and two fingers
of his left hand, a species of carelessness
was discovered that imperiled the lives
of many children. and the possible de-
struction of school No. 9, in Kingston,
n. Y. Frank Cloonan, who was in COM
pany with the boy Burns at the time of
the accident, says that box containing
"exploders" lay open near the Ulster
academy, where they arc used by Con-
tractor Langan. who is excavating rock
at that point for the grading of streets.
He says that many of the pupils of school
No. 9 have pockets full of these deadly
charges, while slight jar at play, or an
accidental fall, would annihilate them.
An "exploder" is n partial charge OF
glycerine in tin tubes from one to four
inches in length, according to the power
required and used in blasting. 1t is
said that the explosion of one of the lar
ger size in the school would be sufficient
to totally destroy the building. They
are sometimes exploded by placing a
fuse in the cap, bu5 it is q very danger
GUS proceeding, and miners who use
these explosives to shatter rim rock arc
often manned in the handling of them.
Young Burns met with his accident by
lighting the fuse of one of the smaller Of
these articles, and it exploded while he
was watching the fuse burn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
ISLAND POND VERMONT FRIDAY OCTOBER s. $780,

he! hel A good-many folks used to say
that the old still was no benefit to the
town. Perhaps it wasn't, but it made a
market for what was raised about here.
| tell you l made a prime article of cider
brandy, and corn whisky, too; yet there
were always some folks in town that
cursed me for it."
Where are the men who worked fol
you in your distillery, your neighbors
who had money invested in it, and those
in this region who were the largest con-
sumers of your fine brands ofbrandy and
whisky?" asked Mr. Stoddard, in his
grave, quiet way.
He! he!" laughed the captain again,
"those who are not in the burying-
ground are here, waiting to be carried
there"
"It is a fact, said Oyerseer Stoddard,
coming up now and greeting his brother,
and after an introduction, "Col. Holland,
that every one Of these 'boarders' of mine
here was brought hither directly or in
directly by that old distillery. That
little hunchback girl over there by the
door is grandchild of the old captain
with whom you were just now talking.
His only son married daughter of
Aunt Huldah.' They were both burned
to death one midnight, not many years
ago, through the carelessness of the
drunken husband, who set their house
on fire. That poor little creature, who
was badly mutilated by burns, but was
saved, is the unfortunate offspring OF that
union. Oh, it was hell upon earth over
there in the Still village when l was a
boy. At last the more respectable part
of the community would stand such
works no longer, and one dark night the
distillery was leveled to the ground.
The old captain there was fully paid for
his loss - in fact much more than the
property was worth-but he soon drank
up the money, as well as the rest of his
property, and he and his sole living de-
scendant are here to-day"
81 am a man of the world, and have
seen something of the i'll effects of rum
in my day, but not exactly in this light, "
said Col. Holland, as he and Farmer
Stoddard were driving homeward. "I
like this old town, however, and want
to do something to benefit it in the way
of business"
Build cheese factory" suggested
Farmer Stoddard.
Eureka!" cried Col. Holland. 81
will do so; and what is more, | will
start vinegar-making establishment.
Your rich Vermont cheeses and pure
cider vinegar will sell like hot cakes in
New York.
And so to-day the grain that is raised
in the fertile meadows and plains in
Northford feeds the sleek, Juno-eyed
COWS that Craze on the sweet pasturing
of its hillsides, and the luscious milk
goes into the best of cheeses; while the
cart-loads of apples that were formerly
left to decay in the large and prolific or
chards are utilized by the vinegar fac
tory. The farmers are more prosperous
than ever, and bless the day when Col
Holland first came to pass his summer
there, and put little enterprise into
them withal. A. Preston.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Bank of England Notes.

The London City Press, remarking up
on the amount of labor and ingenuity
expended upon the production of the
Bank Of England notes, states that they
are still made, as for generations past,
from pure white linen cuttings only
never from rags that have been worn
and, 50 carefully is the paper prepared,
that even the number of dips into the
pulp made by each workman, is regis
tered on dial by machinery, and the
sheets are carefully counted, and booked
to each person through whose hands they
pass. The printing is done by a most
curious process--secret, of course-with-
in the bank building; there is also an
elaborate arrangement for providing that
no note shall be exactly like any other in
existence, consequently there never was
q duplicate of any of the banks notes
except by forgery. 1t has been STATED
that the stock Of paid notes for sever
years is about 81, 600, 900 in number; ant
that, placed in pile, the mass would b,
eight miles high, or, if joined end to end
would form iibbon $4,000 miles long
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Love.

Love.
Oh love! Sweet love!
Love with the golden hair,
And the smiling eyes, and the rich red mouth,
And the face so pure and fair
Can you wonder fear to call you mine?
l am so human and you so divine.
Oh, love Sweet love
Love with the silvem voice,
That sounds like the ripple of Sabbath chimes,
Which make all the world rejoice
Can you wonder love those happy bells,
And my ears are deaf to all things elsel
Oh, love Sweet love
Love with the dainty feet,
To whose fairy trippings, now fast, now slow,
My heart has learnt TO beat!
Can you wonder that sometimes / look down,
And glance at the edge of your silken gown
Oh, love! Sweet love!
Oh, love so full of spring,
With its glorious flowers and its wooing birds,
That morn, noon, and even sing!
Can you wonder always shall fail to see
What you love in silly old fool like me?
Horace Lennard.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Sunday In Paris.

One of the most instructive and enter
tanning places of public resort in Paris
is the national museum of antiquities,
known as the Hotel de Cluny. This
palace was built by an abbot of Cluny,
during the l4th century, for the use of
that famous Benedictine order. The
abbey proper, in the town of Cluny,
about 200 miles southeast of Paris, was
at that time one of the most powerful
monastic establishments extant, having
a community of 10000 monks, and over
900 religious houses dependent on it.
The monks, however, did not often re-
side in their Paris house which was gen.
orally occupied by princes and cardinals,
Mary, the widow of LOUIS XII, and
sister Of Henry VIII, of England (whose
room is still shown there as the Chambre
de la RENE Blanche, it being the custom
of the French queens to wear white
mourning), James V of Scotland, the
Duke of Guise, Cardinal Lorraine, and
many other distinguished personages
havingdwelt there on different occasions.
In 1870 it was confscated and sold.
1t fell into the hands OF NJ Du Sommer-
ard, a learned antiquarian, who formed
a valuable collection of medieval objects
of art, which was sold by his heir to the
government in lS43, and thrown open to
the public as national museum of an
tiquities. 1t is filled with fine carvings,
tapestry, antique furniture, and artistic
treasures of various kinds, and one may
well pass a Sunday in worse manner
than by informing his mind and educat-
ing his taste in this valuable museum,
where all classes are accustomed to con-
gregate on Sundays and holidays. Ad-
joining the chapel of the Hotel Cluny are
the garden and ruins of the ancient
Palais du Thermes, built by Constantius
Chlorus during the second century,
where may still be seen the remains of
the luxurious imperial baths, the water
for which was brought by an aqueduct
from Arcueil.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Picture of Washington.

One of the few genuine portraits of
Gen. Washington for which he gave sit
tings is in the possession of DR.. Nicholas
Curtis Washington, of New York, in
whose parlor it hangs in its tarnished
gilt frame, while beneath it play the doc
tors children, to the eldest of whom - q
boy--one cannot fail to notice striking
resemblance in the portrait. He has the
same peculiar forehead, the same eyes,
the same mouth, and it can easily be i'm
agined that he is just such another boy
as young George was when he first came
into possession of the hatchet, for the
use of which, no less than the sword, he
was famous. The picture, which is at
tributed to the younger Peale, is life
size and quarter-length, showing Wash
ington in the stiff dress coat, with its
broad collar, which was fashionable in
his day. The Father of his Country kept
up with the fashions, we are told by one
of his contemporaries, and neckcloth OF
white lace is tied at the throat, after the
manner of stocks worn by our grand
fathers, save that one end is left free,
which, falling below the middle of the
breast, quite hides the waistcoat from
view. The face is much the same, which
every one knows, differing from the
the standard set up by the Houdon
statue, in that the forehead is not quite
so retreating, thus giving an expression
of greater intelligence than is seen in the
standard portraits.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
The Electric Light.

A communication has been made to
the London royal society stating the
effect of the electric light on the ripen-
ing of fruit. Two pots of Strawberries
were exhibited, both started under pre-
cisely the same conditions: enc exposed
in the usual way to daylight showed a
bunch Of green berries; the other in adj
dition to daylight, had been under the
effect of electric light during the night,
and bore cluster of large ripe straw
berries. If future results prove the
truth of this experiment, we may in
time be able to enjoy fruit at all seasons
of the year, independent of the sun.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Love and Humility.

There is a ceremony observed once a
year in Rome which typifes Christian
love and humility. Dirty and diseased
beggars sit down, the men in one room,
the women in another, and before them
kneel volunteers, who have never known
poverty or distress, to wash their feet.
There, before an old woman, ragged and
filthy, kneels countess in silk and
jewels, and she seeks to initiate her
Master by following his example in the
washing of feet. Spectators are admitted
to this strange scene, and look on, half
disg listed, half touched, half in pity,
half in reverence. But one need not 90
to Rome to have the lesson taught that
all men are brothers, and that he is the
true follower of the Master who shrinEs
from no help. The dirty pilgrims and
beggars we shall find at Hampton, wait
ing shyly on the green before the door.
And the noble ladyis not wanting; only,
instead of being an Italian, she is New
England girl, princess in her own
right, and instead of silks and jewels,
she wears calico dress. The countess
daintily pours the water over the soiled
feet, and returns to her carriage and her
palace. The New England girl works
for hours, and then goes into her class
room with weary feet and tired flush
all over her fine face; and the windows
of heaven look out on both Rome and
Hampton.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08
Shark limiting.

Polynesian fisherman do not hesitate
to attack and conquer the largest shark
in his native element. The fish does
not see very well, and is not very quick
in any but straight-ahead movement.
The swimmer, armed with q long knife,
watches the sharks onslaught coolly,
and just as the great fish opens his hor-
rid mouth to seize the brave man in his
jaws, the fisherman dives out of reach,
and plunges his knife deep into the
sharks belly, as the disappointed mon
stcr passes over his head. This feat is
attempted only by the coolest and ablest
divers, you may be sure, but it is done !;
and it is one of the most splendid exam
Piles of the success of human pluck
against animal force greatly its superior.
Should the swimmer fail in his plan by
an instant of time, his life must pay the
penalty. The pearl-divers in the Gulf
of California are said to employ an
equally audacious method of fighting
the shark which torment them when at
work on the deep-sea beds of the pearl
oyster. They carry with them stick OF
hard wood about foot long, sharp
pointed at both ends. Finding that a
shark is meditating an attack, they
grasp this stick in the middle, and
calmly await him. When he opens wide
his mouth, they dextrously shove in
the sharp stick, crosswise, and then get
out of his way rs fast us possible, while
the too-eager shark shuts his jaws only
to find that he has mortally wounded
himself by punching holes in the roof
and floor of his mouth.
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The sunlight ON n waveless sea
In soitened radiance fadeth slowly,
The folded flower the mist-crowned tree
Proclaim the gathering twilight holy.
1t is the hour when Passion bows:
A solemn stiffness round us fingers;
And on our wildly throbbing brows
We ieel the touch of angel fingers
II is the hour when lovers fond
(For love its native air is breathing)
Drape with fair hopes Life's drear beyond,
Gay garlands for the future wreathing
1t is the hour when in far land
The wanderer tired of ceaseless roaming
Longs for the clasp of kindred hand,
And the dear home enwrapt in cleaning
1t is the hour when mankind hears,
Amid Earth's mingled moansand laughter
Chords which will swell when unborn years
Are buried in the great Hereafter.
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08

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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-10-08

A woman, who was determined not to
be cheated, made a clerk measure a
spool of cotton the other day to see if
she was getting the two hundred yards
which belonged to her.