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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.
Maine.

z. A. Sawyer, deputy secretary of state, Is
expelled from the Methodist church at Phillips
b. f. Cutters cottage and stable at Old
Orchard were burned recently; loss to the oe-
eupant, Rev II. A. Philbrook Of Biddeiord,
$1,000.
The state livestock association holds its
first annual meeting al Bath driving park the
10th, 10th and 18th.
George Shaw's house at Winthrop has been
burned by the bursting Of lamp; loss $1,000,
insurance 500.
Another cave has been discovered on the
shores of Merrymeeting bay, Me-, in which
Indian relics have been found.
There is to he baby show at the Maine
state fair.
The fall term of Bates college starts out
with an incoming freshman class OF 80 mSu-
bers.
Eben Bridges of Buekport, met u stranger
on Lincoln's wharf Boston, and was prevailed
upon to loan him 1923 with which to pay bill.
Eben is still looking for his1riend and money.
The house and barn belonging to George
Cole were burned at princeton, recently.
7-years-old child was burned to death.
There are 100, 900 tons of ice along the Ken.
nebec River awaiting shipment, and 80 Ves-
sells are now in the river for cargoes.
The Portland packing eompany's tive faeto.
RES are putting up 100000 cans of corn daily
Moses Bros factory at Houlton put up 5000
cans of blueberries this season.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Hunting.

The hunting season is again on, and it
is now permitted to kill woodcock,
cartridges, wood duck, black duck, teal,
pigeons, turtle doves, hares, rabbits and
gray squirrels. 1t is reported that par
tridges are very plenty, and good many
persons are getting ready to make the
most of the opportunity. Sportsmen at
tribute the increase to the game laws
which have prohibited summer shooting
for the last few years Dealers in game
and the hotels have made an unsuccess-
full attempt to have the laws so modified
as to permit partridge shooting during
the summer, as those birds would make
notable addition to the bill of fare.
About this point is waged a war between
the sportsman and the man who shoots
game for a living. The sportsman calls
the latter "pot hunter" and expresses
profound contempt for man who can't
make living in some better way than
by killing game where there is so little
of it as in this state. The 'pot hunter"
on the other hand, looks on the sports
man as an aristocratic fellow, who wants
to deprive other people of living for
his own amusement. Boston Post
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
A Strong Man.

Joseph Pospischill, who is now pris-
oner in the Austrian fortress of Ofen, on
conviction of highway robbery, is said
to be the strongest man living, One of
the teats for which he was renowned was
to support in the air, with his hands and
teeth, table upon which two gypsies
danced, while third fiddled. He and
one of his brothers, only less powerful
than himself, were wont to bear upon
their shoulders wooden platform, shap-
ed like a bridge, while a cart full of
stones, drawn by two horses, was driven
over it. The other day. when the Jail in
which he is confined was undergoing a
visit from the municipal prison inspec-
tors, this Hercules volunteered to give
the authorities specimen of his powers,
and, upon receiving their permission to
do SO, picked up with his teeth q heavy
mahogany table, nine feet long, belong
ing to the governor, and balanced it
aloft for nearly half a minute
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
GEN ERAL. N EWS.

An eleven-years.old lad by the name of Led.
ford found lately, in the gravel OF Sequab
creek, Ca, large, transparent, pure blue
sapphire, wedge-shaped, and nearly an inch
square, and worth, by the usual calculation
something over 50,000
Troy, N Y, has great many cases of small
pox.
picnic party was poisoned at Chicago by
eating canned beef.
Louis Terrassus of Chihuahua has offered
$4,000 for the scalp of Victoria, the Apache
chief, and $3.50 for the scalp of any of his
warriors.
Another dividend Of 10 per cent. has been
paid the depositors in the defunct Freedman 3
bank at Washington, D..
Over 100000 children attended the public
schools in New York city on the opening day.
Russia demands from China pledges against
any future misunderstanding
Fourteen vessels Of the allied fleet have u.s.
sembled at Ragusa and await the French con-
tingent to form their plan of operations.
The enthusiastic reception Of the Emperor
of Austria in Galicia has caused much irrita.
ton in Russia.
The steamship Charleston went ashore of
Charleston, s. c. in a recent hurricane
The arrival of two American vessels laden
with grain at Reval has opened the Dyes of the
Russians to the deficiencies of their system Of
agriculture.
The Sioux chief Big Road, direct from Sit.
ting Bull, surrendered to the authorities al
Fort Keogh recently, with four followers.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

smells bad. We use one and one-eight
ounces of salt to one pound of butter.
1t is of the greatest Importance that we
use good salt. Fine salt dissolves quickly
and leaves no gritty taste. Our butter
stands twenty hours after being sailed,
when it is revoked and packed for the
market. If it stands longer it becomes
set, and after working has the appear
ance of reworked butter. As TO package
we cannot always suit ourselves, as
different markets want different pack
ages. Absolute cleanliness in every de-
partment is necessary. - Western Farmer
A sample of Irish bog butter, probably
1000 years old, on analysis, yielded the
following results: Volatile fatty acids,
calculated as butyric, per cent. soluble
fatty acids, not volatile, AZ per cent. in
soluble fixed fatty acids, 99.49 per cent. /;
glyeerol, minute traces. The insoluble
fatty acids contained 9 per cent. oleie
acid and 9l,0 per cent. stearic and palm
itic acids. An older sample of ancient
butter was taken some time ago from an
Egyptian tomb. It dates from about
400 or 600 years before Christ, 1t was
contained in a small alabaster vase, and
had apparently been poured in while in
melting state. In appearance, color,
smell and taste it corresponds closely
with slightly rancid butter. Analysis
showed that the sample had not under
gone any notable decomposition. Boston
Globp
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
New York's Water Supply.

The capacity of the Croton acqueduct
is s5,00O,0OO gallons per day. The con-
sumption of water is now seventy-eight
gallons per capita daily, or "a, 345, 1853
gallons for our l,2O956l inhabitants
The Croton acqueduct is therefore taxed
to its full capacity Work is now in
progress to construct three great reser-
voirs to receive the waters of the Rye
lakes and the Bronx and Byram rivers,
and bring them, through an iron pipe
four feet in diameter and fifteen miles
long, to distributing reservoir at
Williamsbridge. The supply thus to be
obtained is estimated at 20, 900, 900 gallons
daily, 5000, 900 of which is to be used for
the new wards, the remaining 1900, 900
being forced by n natural pressure Of
sixty-fve feet into the Croton acqueduct,
to supply the increasing demands Of the
city
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Vermont.

Fannie 4. Burrage of PittsfoTd has gone as
teacher to Turkey, appointed by the American
board of commissioners,
A few cases of supposed bloody murTain
have appeared among the cattle on Putney hill
-Four have died out Of one pasture,
An East Montpelier NOW contains hay har.
vested by Nathaniel Clark in 1910, and it is
said to be as bright and green as last June's
harvest
DR.. II. G. Farr of Brandon is organizing a
stock company with $4,000 capital to make
his patent, self-lubricating graphite bearing
tor wagons, car wheels and machinery.
Rev. William Carr, who has been preaching
for the Irasburg Congregational church for
more than a year, was ordained to the mimic
try last week
Charles Hale, about So years old, one Of
Marlboro's largest farmers, fell from "a great
beam in his barn Tuesday, and was killed.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Wise Cows.

John b. Coyner, farmer, residing
near Palestine, Hancock county, Ind,
was in the act ofwatering the COWS, nine
in number. They were standing around
the pump trough awaiting his action,
when all at once, with tails erect they
made II stampede down the lane as fast
as their legs would carry them. The
cause of this sudden freak was a mystery,
but it was not long before he was let into
the secret. Suddenly, although the sky
was clear and the atmosphere still, a
young cyclone, not over twenty feet in
breadth, darted down from the sky, and
striking the earth near the pump, twisted
off five large beach shade trees standing
near by, as though they had been mere
weeds. When the COWS made the STAN
pede there were no indications of its
approach.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Natural Bread.

The islanders of Otaheite prepare
bread, by simply placing upon grid
iron slices of large fruit which grows
in their island, and that these, when
they are taken from the gridiron, have
precisely the taste of the bread made by
our bakers. The fruit of the bread-fruit
tree, for it is so called, which reaches an
enormous size, generally weighing more
than kilogramme-about two pounds
three ounces avoirdupois-and some
times four or five, is crammed with
feluca, and owing to this, only requires
to be sliced and exposed to heat in order
to be transformed into genuine warm
bread.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
[Chioago Inter.ocean.l
PerIls Of the Deep.

The world-renowned swimmer, Capt.
Paul Boyton, in an interview with a
newspaper correspondent at the sea-shore,
related the following incidents in his ex-
perience:
Reporter captain Boyton, YOU
must have seen large part of the
world?"
Yes, sir, by the aid of my Rubber
Life Saving Dress, have Travelled over
10000 miles on the rivers of America
and Europe; have also been presented
to the crowned heads of England.
France. Germany, Austria, Belgium,
Italy, Holland, Spain and Portugal, and
have in my possession forty-two medals
and decorations; / have three times re-
ceived the order of knighthood, and been
elected honorary member of committees,
clubs, orders and societies.
Reporter, your various trips
accompanied by much danger?"
Capt. Boyton.-"That depends upon
what you may call dangerous. During
my trip down the river Tagus in Spain,
l had to shoot" one hundred and two
waterfalls, the highest being about
eighty-five feet, and innumerable rapids.
Crossing the Straits of Messina, / had
three ribs broken in fight with sharks /;
and coming down the Somans, n river in
France, received charge of shot from
an excited and startled huntsman. AL
though all this was not very pleasant,
and might be termed dangerous, ] fear
nothing more on my trip than intense
cold; for, as long as my limbs are free
and easy, and not cramped or benumbed,
l am all right. Of late ! carry stock of
st. Jacobs Oil in my little boat,-(the
Captain calls it Baby Mine,n and has
stored therein signal rockets, thermome-
ter, compass, provisions, etc. land /
have had but little trouble. Before
starting out l rub myself thoroughly
with the article, and its action on the
muscles Is wonderful. From constant
exposure am somewhat subject to
rheumatic pains, and nothing would
ever benefit me until got hold of this
Great German Remedy. Why, on my
travels / have met people who had been
suffering with Rheumatism for years
by my advice they tried the oil, and il
cured them. would sooner do without
food for days than be without this rene
dy for one hour. In fact would not at.
tempt a trip without it,"
The Captain became very enthusiastic
on the subject of st. Jacobs Oil, and We
left him citing instances of the curative
qualities of the Great German Remedy
to party around him.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

In Switzerland where capital punish
ment is being generally established,
the abolition of it having proved to be
total failure, they seem to take "extenu-
ating circumstances" into consideration,
as they do in France, but in much more
sensible way. There the murderer has
but to be young, and sin love- with his
victim, to receive general sympathy; q
murderess has only to prove she enter
tanned tender passion for somebody,
and, provided it is not her husband,
judge, jury, and witnesses are all with
her. But in Switzerland the iron force
of circumstance has its proper logical
weight. In the canton of Schwytz, fer
example, the crime of infanticide is pun
ished with death only when the victim
is a child born in wedlock. At the first
blush it seems as though the illegitimate
child was treated less fairly in being
thus denied the utmost protection, but
on reflection 1t will be seen that as re-
CARDS the criminal--who is almost al
ways the MOTHERHOOD pity and reason
are on the side of the law.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Note Paper.

The newest thing in note paper, dis
covered during an idle hour at a fash
ionable shop, is the address and dare in
an exact fac-simile of the writer's hand
writing in one corner, and a delicately
painted flower, crest, or even tiny land
scape having some connection or associa-
ton with the person by whom it is
ordered, in the other AS, for instance,
lady whose residence happened to bear
the romantic name of Pansy cottage
would have the small purple flower in
the left-hand corner of her paper, and in
the right her own handwriting accurate
ly reproduced for the residence and date.
The great charm of this new fashion will
be its eostliness and the impossibility of
its ever becoming common, as, of course,
new design and new plate must be
made for every ono who adopts it.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
NJ massachusetts,.

DIR. Ambrose Lawrence OF Boston hsss an
embalmed Egyptian asp 5000 years old
The new mill to be built on Rhode Island
ground by the Shove mills company of Fall
River will be 1872 by rs feet, of three stories,
and will cost 100000. Though only 1900
feet from the old mill in Fall River, the saw
ing in taxes from its location in Rhode Island
will be $4,000 year
The census of Springfield manufacturers,
shows that $4,000 900 Is invested and 1000
persons are employed.
One Hackett, said to have been town pau
per at Hinsdale before he drew his pension
money ofabout $1,000 went to williamsburg
a few months since a stranger and stopped at
William Wrght's where he was taken sick and
died. Hackett left will leaving his en-
tire property to Wright. TITS not known that
he has any relatives
Five or six Boston firms find emplC yment
packing $4,000 pounds of homeless fish
yearly, mostly cod, in paper boxes coated in
side with rosn and paratfne.
1t is proposed to revive the Boston law re.
quiring vehicles to carry light at night.
Dearborn Bros. OF Hudson, n. Y, have
contracted to build Milfords music hall for
$50, 900 and have it finished February /.
Boston is agitating the erection of statue
10 Theodore Parker.
Patrick fitzpatrick of Dalton who has often
been in jail because of the liquor illegally sold
ut his house, fell from load of clapboards,
and died recently, while riding home from
Pittsfeld drunk
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Kew Hampshire.

n. E. Reed of Newport is expelled from the
bar for illegal practice.
Over 100 feet of the Shaker bridge over
Massocomo lake, Enfield, slid into the water
lately. The bridge is quarter Of a mile long,
and built from the lakes bottom of logs, dirt
and stone.
Mrs. Byron Clark of Esston, suieided by
taking oil of cedar.
Extensive forest fires are raging throughout
the northern part of the state, and have al
ready destroyed hundreds of cords of wood.
Unless it rains there must be much loss eff
property.
The drouth is serious throughout the state
and is drying up the trout brooks 80 that the
"speckled beauties" are dying in considerable
numbers, seriously hindering the effort to re-
stock the streams
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

There is a story that the Duke OF
Argyll and the Duke of Sutherland were
once travelling together by railway, when
a commercial traveller entered the car.
riage. The newcomer took his share in
general conversation, till one of the
peers got out at an intermediate station.
The commercial traveller then asked his
companion if he knew who the party"
was, and on being enlightened ex-
claimed, "Dear me was that really the
Duke of -----? Just thinkof his talking
in that there affable way to a couple of
little cads like you and me I"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
Connecticut.

clear spring bubbles through the pavement
OF Broad street, New Haven.
The repaired steamer Narraganset has been
launched from the ways at Noank and taken
to Stonington to receive her needed engines.
Thence she goesto New York to bs refurnished,
and may take her place. now supplied by the
State Of New York. late in the fall.
Recently Henry Kingdom, Scotchman of
80, and proprietor of blacksmith shop, shot
his wife at their residence on Kilbourn street,
Hartford, and she died within an hour after
ward Kinghorn is of a morose and ugly dls.
position, and has often threatened to take her
Life recently, in addition to abusing her shame
fully. The murderer was arrested.
New Haven has spent 5000, 900 on excar-
sions this season.
Patrick Heany's elild at Fair Haven has
been thought subject to chronic catarrh for
four years but shoe button was recently
taken from its nose, and the eatarrh is gone.
II. Linsley of Meriden had l4O chickens
stolen on u recent night.
New Haven owns % school buildings and
hires four, the whole sittings numbering 1892.
Last year 1897 pupils we're registered, the
average daily attendance was 1881, and the
truants 507, IS more than the year before.
Bradley & Gagen members of q Hartford
real-estate firm, have been found guilty in the
superior court of conspiracy to defraud, in try
ing to swap the Enfield farm OF Thomas G.
Pease for nearly worthless pieces Of property.
Julius Palmer, Norwich pistol-maker, was
hurled out OF the second-story window of 9
bagnio Monday night by one of theinmates and
was fatally hurt
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

A young man Of Woodford county,
IL, has died of the effect of taking a
too severe q shock of electricity while
attending circus. He was strong and
wanted to show the other boys present
how much he could stand therefore the
full force of the battery was turned on
and in few days the quiet village Gene
terry received an occupant.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17
IChieago Tribune. ]

Mr.. Ira Brown, the enterprising real
estate man states that he could and
would say a good word for the st.
Jacobs Oil, which had cured him of a
severe attack of inhammatory rheuma-
tism that all other treatments had failed
even to allay.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

The midnight marauder should not be ban
ished from our dwelling any more quickly
than should Cough or Cold Of any kind be
driven from the system. DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup quietly yet positively places all Colds
under its control. Price rs cent?.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

Editing London Punch is such solemn
business, that the installation of new
editor resembles funeral ceremonies.
Cincinnati Saturday Night,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-09-17

1t does not make any odds how man
is brought up, shorthand reporter can
generally take him down when he begins
to talk,-N Z. World,
, 1880-07-25
HuM0R,

The butcher who trusts loses flesh.
Talk is Cheap Is it, Just hire lawyer
once
: The beginning and end Of a chickens life
Hatchct-
mo, don't care for shad to o-day," said IN
art-patron, musingly. "suppose you give me
bass-reicf-"
xsy e sss seasa aEs oa sq ssss
ccut:' :
MY cousin, whom sent you last week, Doc
tor, is an imaginary invalid, isn't her '.Of
course he is. The fellow has constitution
which detfes all our remedies"
.sYou promised to pay that bill yesterday. :"
calmly replied the otner; but to err Is human,
to forget divine, and forgot it" y.
Ar Ichthyophagous Club has been started in
New York. 1t is calculated to ruin the reputa-
non Of ans husband who goes home late at night
and tries to tell where he has been. =
purse out OF Il sow's ear, but that is no reason
why you should go entirely back on the pig.
You can make mighty good souse OF It, which is
more than you can do with all the raw BLK this
Mamma seeks to console her. crying child:.
''Why do you cry, John: What has hurt you:Y
'"3lamma land he bawls more Justify than eyerl.
yesterday fell down and hurt myself "Ye5.
terday! Then why do You cry to-dayr, "on!~
because you were not at home YestcrdaV!
An old lady recently visiting prison asked
one OF tho attendants why the prisoners received
such coarse food: He told her It vas TO Keep
their blood from becoming impure. Anu ~ Wneu Ir,a
asked what they would DO f tse1r 0;9co WIS LUZ
"Your house Is perfect conservatory. u4a~ a.
boy" admfringiy remarked his FRIEND Raziug ~
HE beautiful windows. crowded with blooming
plants. "Ah, yes," replied olahoy' ner'ons'y
, 1880-07-25
A Moonahfner Who 1Vou1d1l,t Eat or
Drink i'll the Dark.

Moundsnule ( Ia.) Correspondence Irhre1tng Leader
"Sincc this Tanner business came l1p," said
/ Superintendent Bridges OF the Pcuitcntiary, to
me. tive bcen thinking about man VIC lad
hero year or 50 ago. He w:ts tall. !auk cadav
States sentence for illicit tistillin:.. Ills name
was Dcgley, and he was either from Russell,
Scott, OR Lee Counties,-down iu that region
somewhere, and strange sort Of person he
was, too He WAS 80 years old, or upwards, and
there was nothing bad about him, but he gave us
lots OF bother He was I'LL the time getting into
trouble for breaking some rule or other, and re-
pcutelly talked To h.:n. heii accused Ut amy aln
ruiy conduct he would make no denial or offer no
excuse. Finally he bcca1ue such u hopeless case
thnt Obliged to order him into tho dark cell
on bread and water. He was iOci.ed up 1lt at the
end Of tho first dag was told that he had refused
to touch either. The second and tho third day
passed. and he still refused his bread nnd
s.Twcuty four hours is nsualy as long as man
can stand that sort Of punishment, isn t it,"
aYes. Frequently in less time they give in. It
is only the most stubborn cast:s lit which they hold
out for two or three duvs, and even then they
take their bread ind water hat this Bcgley
kept it up, too, in Il way thnt astnns:cd us all.
spe him. The Doctor pronounced him all right.
The thing went un till he had been there Il week,
but he hadn't weakened. begin to feel nervous
about him, and had the Doctor see him every
day: He hid neither tisted bread nor drank a
"How did he look by this timer =:
..He was SO gaun!t;; naturally, that We couldn't
eeo And a be wouldn't kuuckle under?" ~
Nor q bit Of 1t. He wouldn't acknowledge he
had done wrong or prnn1ise to do better for the
fr1tl1re. Iwas IN quandary-l I had never seen or