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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-15
The Literary
Revolution !

O4VA !
The most successful revolution ofthe century
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are published by us, and the prices are low
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ever before issued. To illustrate and demon
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Macaulay's
Life Of Frederick the Great. Former prios.
SD; Large BREWER type, beautiful print;
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Life Of Robert Burns. Former nr;ea. a Or
large BREWER type, beautiful print; price
Light of Asia,
By Edwin Arnold. Former price, 81 30. Ram
tlful print, BREWER type; price 1--WE cents.
Thos. Hughes's
M1sS1liness Of Christ. Former price, 81. Beau.
John Stuart Mills's
Chapters on Socialism. Essays of exoesdirv
lnIefest ana Importance. Price three
Baron Munchausen.
His Travels and Surprising Adventures. For
cer price sL2o' Bourgeoise gpSs price 1--WE
Mary Queen of Scots
LIE, by LamOrtine. Former price. a. q.
Lever type beautiful print; price three
Vicar Of Wakefield.
by Oliver Goldsmith. Brewer type, beautiful
RunYan's Pilgrims Progress
Bogrgeoiso type, loaded; beautiful bript.
price six cents. '
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Stories and Ballads
Dor Young. Folks, by Ellen Tracy Alden; with
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IRON her book. Large type; price nve
Leaves from the Diary
0fan Old Lawyer. Short stories Of tbriIIiD,
tauShaole' pathetic interest. Price three
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Literary Revolution.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
LAWS GOVERNING DIVORCE.

Religious organizations throughout
the country are manifesting lively in
terest in the question OF divorce. They
pass resolutions deploring the alarming
prevalence of this evil" and urging
the clergy to do all in their power to
check it.
1t is to be regretted that but few of the
states have any appliances for gathering
and collating social statistics. We have
no means of knowing whether divorces
are on the increase or otherwise in the
country, as q whole. In some of the
eastern states there has been a marked
increase, but in the northwest, particu
larly in Indiana and Illinois, the laws
have been amended and the practice of
the courts improved in this regard, so
that the legal separation of married pairs
is attended with much greater difficulty
than formerly. The result has been a
marked decline of the divorce business
to the manifest and serious damage OF
"shystering" lawyers.
There is demand in some influential
circles for the repeal of all divorce laws.
1t is urged that the entire abolition OF
divorce would improve public morality
But there no facts in support of this
theory. On the contrary, experience has
shown thai reasonable and proper facili.
ties for annulling the marriage compact
conduce not only to the peace and hap.
piness of families, but the good order oi
society.
There are just grounds for divorce in
many cases. No good wife should bt
compelled to live with brutal drunk.
ard. Marital infdelity is good cause
for separation. In fact, any man anC
wife who cannot live together without
making their home scene of constant
strife, should be legally separated -
WASHINGTON Post.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
MOUNTAIN BANDITS,

Vesuvius has broken out gain, and is
" erupting with something of his an
cient vigor, to the great qualification,
doubtless, of Prof. Palmieri, and to the
no less considerable alarm of the share
holders in the railway recently con-
structed upon his volcanic slopes. But
streams of burning lava and showers OF
.corching scori@ are not the only perils
with which the ascent of this magniti-
cent old mountain is beset, Only the
other day, as Sig. Alcotti, the lessee Of
the Vesuvius railway, was walking
along the road that leads from the OBJ
servatory to the lower station OF his line,
he was surrounded and seized by three
bandits, who dragged him into cave
hard by the Seconda Eallata." There
one of his captors kept the muzzle of
loaded pistol in Alcotti's mouth to him
der him from calling for help, while the
other two robbed him of his pocket
book and watch, in value some G6O.
Having thoroughly searched his person,
they then flung him to the ground with
great violence, tied his hands and feet
together with cords, and stufing a
pocket handkerchief into his mouth,
made off with their booty. Two OF
these ruffians were subsequently arrest
ed and identified by Sig. Alcotti
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
S0nihern NEGROES.

The Georgian negroes are physically
finer men and women than the Carolin-
ians, and although they lack the suave,
iovial manner of the latter, they wear
better-that is, you can penetrate the
I-don't trust-anybody air that repels you
at first. Indeed, it is only necessary to
see what they will 90 throughto procure
an education TO feel sure that there is an
amount of mental grit in them that can
not but make its mark sooner or later.
Boys and girls work hard all summer,
either teaching, or at service, or in the
fields, to earn enough for three months
tuition, going out again at the end of
that time to make the fee for another
quarter. There is nothing the Georgian
negro values above knowledge, and
there are few sacrifices he will not make
to obtain it. And it must be rememt
bered also that even when he has pain
fully saved his tuition fee, he will mos
likely have to walk five Or six miles to
the nearest school. Those who can not
90 to school generally manage, with the
help of some friend, to pick up little
learning while at their work.-Hayper's
| Weekly.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
Kingly Baubles.

The badges of the inferior orders of the
legion of honor have been pretty eagerly
sought after by foreigners, even by Eng
lishmen. 1t is related of an English
merchant who had rendered some SER
vcie to Napoleon III that he was invited
by that prince to spend few days IA
Fontainebleau. When the merchant
took his leave, the emperor asked him
whether he could be of service to him
in any way. May it please your
majesty" stammered the guest, Il
should like the legion of honor" Re-
pressing the national habit Of struggling
his shoulders-ever so slightly-Casar
replied that he should be most happy to
give him the cross. "I fancied," he ad-
ded, that your government did not
allow you to wear foreign decorations.
However, if you can make it right with
the English administration, you are
heartily welcome. Meanwhile you must
permit me to give you a cross of the le-
gion worn by my uncle the king of
Westphalia." So saying, the emperor
went to a drawer, and took out a dia-
mond star that had once glittered on the
marshal's uniform of Jerome. 1t was
handsomely done; grave as were his
faults, Napoleon III always showed him
self a gentleman.
The legion Of honor has this agreeable
popularity, that it is accompanied by
pensions in the case of military knights.
A plain chevalier receives $50 francs q
year, grand cross 5000 The chancel-
lorship of the order is a very snug berth
indeed Besides fine income, the chan
cellor has handsome apartments rent
free and 'perquisites." Of course the
post is generally bestowed on an old SOL
der; though on the restoration of the
bourbons in 1914 it was given to an emf
nent clergyman whom it had been diff
cult to put in any other place. The por-
ter of the palace caused some amusement
by addressing the able, on his official
entry, in the set phrase which he had
used toward successive captains of great
fame: You have only to command,
marshal; it will be my business to
obey"
There is one other French order of i'm
portance: the military medal. 1t is
of gold, encircled in silver, and suspend
ed by short ribbon of green and yellow.
Coveted almost as much as the Victoria
cross, its numbers have been extended so
as to include civilians, the proportion
being one of the latter to every two SOL
diers or sailors. When Bazaine had been
for some time marshal of France and
grand cross of the legion of honor, he
received the military medal-a graceful
compliment, which was meant to indi-
cate that the cup of his honors was full,
and that there was nothing left for his
imperial master but to give him the
remainder of the lesser decorations.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
OPINION OF THE passion PLAY"

We object to it because it makes mer-
chandize in the markets of public enter
tainment of the agony and atonement of
our Lord Jesus Christ. This is Chris
tian nation. We use the Bible to give
solemnity and binding force to judicial
oaths, our laws protect the Christian
Sabbath and its worship; our Christmas
is legal holiday, and our legal dates
count from the birth of Christ. Nearly
all our people are either professors Of
the Christian religion or are in the tull-
est sympathy with its doctrines and
sentiments. The religious press should
cry out against this great impiety. The
great secular newspapers, which are so
potent in forming public opinion, should
denounce it in the interest Of the general
religious sentiment of the people. The
pulpit should lift up its voice against it.
Christian people should everywhere dis
courage it. Respectable theater-gOers
should avoid it as they would the haunts
of profanity and blasphemy. Let not
Christ be dishonored and his great work
for the salvation of men be brought into
contempt by making Il theatrical show
of his passion and by coming into money
the agonies of his great sacrifice. Pitts
burg (Pa.) Gazette.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
PROHIBITING WHISKY.

The secretary of the treasury is con-
sidering the recommendation made by
Capt. Hooper of the Thomas Corwin
relative to the breaking up of the illicit
traffic in rum and rifles with the Indians,
lnnuncts and Alcuts Of Alaska, which
has brought so much suffering to them,
and will, it is thought, adopt them in
his comments on Alaska in his annual
report. The opinions expressed by
Capt. Hooper, that the illegal traders
can be put down if the collector of Gus
toms at San Francisco is instructed not
to clear vessels carrying alcohol in any
shape, and if the cooperation of the
Russian government is secured so as to
Cebar them from the Siberian side of
Rohring Sna, Is hold by every official of
the treasury department who is conver
SAINT with the subject. The injury done
by these illicit traders has long been de-
plored. Every settlement on the Alaska
coast has suffered severely at one time
or another by their visits. The natives
universally testify that when rum is
offered them they cannot resist the
temptation The invariable result is
long continued intoXication, during
which provision for the future is never
thought of, out of which they come weak
and needy, only to find the summer
ended and their storehouses empty.
Successive famines, always the result of
improvidence, have swept thousands of
them into eternity. The only remedy
suggested by Capt. Hooper, is rigid pro-
hibitiOn.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
of the many victims to over.

time-one of the many victims to over
work.
Ineed scarcely add that the case which
Raven had represented to me as calling
him to Exeter was an entire fabrication,
and was invented by him as part of the
scheme which, in his madness, he had
no doubt seriously imagined would be
for the benefit of both of US.
l frequently go to the asylum where
he is to inquire after him; but the men
tion of my name brings on such vio-
lent aggravation of his disease that l am
not allowed to see him. Poor Raven!
fear l shall never see him again! That
terrible night can never be efaced from
my memory, and can never sufficient
ly congratulate myself on having so for
tunately thought of the expedient which
answered so admirably.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
GERMAN WATER-P0WER,

In parts of Germany it has been the
custom (or was, at one time, the custom)
to anchor a fiat boat in the river, and to
place large paddle-wheels on each side
upon a shaft extending across the boat.
BY anchoring such boats in the stream,
the current slowly turned the paddle
wheels after the manner of an undershot
water-wheel, and the power thus oh
tanned was used to grind corn or do
other useful work. Such boats were
usually anchored just above or below a
bridge, so that the floating mill could
be easily reached.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03

The above ILLUSTRATION
in
and
portability omb
the andi
II s rails
hmaket hemostp
eve ntro1uc to pubii lit
for esment
am prepared to
Address JOSHUA HENsHAW, island Pond, VT.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03
THE SETTLERS.

THE SETTLERS.
lis "a scheme that is truly gigantic
Tom Hughes has just started, and he
Is now taking across the Atlantic,
To settle in far Tennessee,
A new colony, peopled by dozens
Male settlers, the young and the old,
With their wives and their sisters and cousins
Are all gathered into the fold
They're TO SOW on the fair mountain ranges,
To reap and TO trade in the mart,
While through all fortunes troublesome
changes
They're still to be English at heart.
Quoth the willy American, "Thank'e,
Though now of Old England you're types,
In n very few years you'll be Yankee
And swear by the stars and the stripes "
Punch.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03

Any one who takes narcotics without
the knowledge of a physician-who
sends such prescriptions to be reflled
after the first supply is exhausted--is
standing on the edge of fearful preci-
pice. It were better to muster a little
more pluck for bearing pain than to
turn so readily to such dangerous allevi-
atives,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1880-12-03

Headache can be cured in half an hour
by taking teaspoonful of finely powder
ed charcoal in half a tumbler OF water
1t as an innocent yet powerful alkali.
West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-30
Pcnn>yivania Republicans Esurn-
gen. Hancock in Effigy

SKINNER's EDDY, Oct 2l-On Friday
night, 18th inst. a Republican mob
while celebrating the result Of the mdi.
ana election, publicly burned in efIigy
Gen. Hancock, in the streets of Lacey
vile, Wyoming county, Pa. This out
rage was perpetrated immediately IN
front OF the premises of K. W. Edwards.
Edwards at the time of this occurrence
was a candidate on the Republican
ticket for State Senator. The district
is composed OF the counties of Brad
ford and Wyoming. lie has since
withdrawn, leaving the field open to
the Hon, w. I. Davies. the present in
oumbent.
The act above mentioned, il is but
fair to say, was condemned by many
loading Republicans OF the vicinity.
though no effort was made to prevent it
during the time of its occurrence. | am
credibly informed that cal Justice
OF the Peace gave fuel to the flames by
pouring kerosene upon the burning
eifgy. This dastardly performance has
excited much lively Indignation among
the democrats of the district (Which. by
tho way is strong y kepublican); bu.
1t was jeeringly gloried in 10y the mob
and openly boosted of afterwaid !;
seems worth while TO make note of
such an outrage done on the soil OF
fenn-yl' ania to her son and her de-
Gular
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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-30

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West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1880-10-30

.i""iH,d N.On I.a.A... .... .a......,
desire 20 become Journalists tnat they
m exercise moral influence over the
masses which are reached by n news
paper. They do not understand Tn Il
Journalists are not turned out of unIyer-
stiles ready made. Journalism is a
profession which can only be maste. ed
alter long years Of active service-on
the same principle that 10 be good
lawyer, or a successful minister. or n
competent mechanic, one must have
practical exper enCe, and can attain
prominence only after long years of
patient labor. Young men on leaving
college are apt to think they could
shape the destiny of nation if they
could only get control OF the columns
OF some newspaper. Perhaps a young
graduate does get AN opportunity To
write editorials for some country
weekly. He launches bolt, and then
anxiously awaits the report. He gen,
orally warts in vain. and Is both panied
and chagrined to find out that his
majestic utterances have attracted no
attention whatever. Perhaps he gets a
position on one of the big dailies, and
with proud heart, he hands i'm TO the
managing editor a long article. over
which he has spent several days and
nights IN writing and rewriting. onIy TO
be sharply told that such compositions
are useless-that what is wanted is n
concise stat ement of news. He is per
haps detailed TO write up some congenia
subject, and is ordered to have it done
at a certain time. Hampered thus,
pinioned genius refuses to work, and
the ambitious youth makes a fat fail
ure. Journalism is drudgery-plod-
ding, transformations drudgery. The in.
diyidual work which makes a complete
newspaper attracts no attention from
the public generally. Readers say this
or that paper is a good one, without
once caring who did this or that TO
make 1T such. And this alone would be
cruel to the unHedged writer who hopes
10 yield moral influence. If one of
his articles appears he expects it to be
the feature of the paper, and is disap-
pointed ifpeople do not talk about it
and insist upon Knowing who wrote
At; whereas he may write for years
without achieving distinction.
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