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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-07-04
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE
From our Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, June 27, 1884.


Never in the history of American
politics has there been, so early in a
presidential campaign, such an
awakening upon the part of the
people, in fact it is phenomenal and
speaks we'll fen the nation and its
institutions. 1t appears as if the ma
ton, like young athlete, were
stripping for the race and preparing
to assert its greatness, glory, digni-
ty and manhood. 1t is well that it
is so, and it were we'll if occasions
often presented themselves when
nations might renew their youth, OF
turning to the traditions, aspirations
and grandly magnificent IDEAS held
by their founders, again pledge to
live, and if needs be die, in making
it all that was most fondly anticipat-
ed for it. One cannot view the great
uprising of the people in favor of
Blaine and Logan, the representa-
tives of American manhood and
honor, without calling to mind the
words of Milton, EMethinks I see in
my mind a noble puissant nation,
like strong man after a sleep shak-
ing his invincible locks; methinks |
see her as an eagle renewing her
mighty youth and kindling her
endazzled eyes at the full mid day
BEAM"
The American people have al
ready caught the inspiration, and
awakening from the lethargy of the
last twenty years, they feellike once
more asserting themselves and say
ing to all the world in the language
of the old wing party, "No pent up
Utica contracts our powers, the
bound1ess continent it is ours"
In the desire for fraternity, con.
cilitation and the rehabilitation oil
Ealleoitizens with their full rights, the
nation has been asleep to all outside
scheming, manipulation and diplo-
macy, and hugging the deiusiVe
idea of ''letting well enough alone,
has grown effeminate, at least in its
administrations, until now as nigh
ty new revelation it is beginning tc
dawn upon the people that we mum
Der BQ,00o,Ooo of strong limbed
muscular men, women and children
endowed with all the attributes oil
the most favored of Gods creation
and yet outside of our own border,
we are helpless as infants and liable
to be compelled to take the insults
of nations no more intelligent, popu
lous or wealthy than some of our in
tegral states. BY some God piver
or seemingly super-human influence
the nomination of Blaine and Logan
has awakened the latent fire an(
energy Of our people, and from al
quarters is coming up such chorus
of voices pronouncing for American
nationality, supremacy and self
assurance as will drown the voice o
the men who standing upon tn,
shirt-tail of progress cry whoa!" ant
in November the verdict will b,
overwhelmingly in favor of tn,
champions of American nationalit,
with all that such words imply
1.-The nation must assert itself no
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-07-04
Republican County ticket.

;RepubIicau County Ticket.
FOR SENATOR:
SD. HOBSON OF Brighton.
FOR ASSISTANT JUDGES:
VIII. HARTSuoRN OF Guildhail,
L. r. TURNER of Concord.
FOR JUDGE OF PROBATE:
Id. II. BEATTIE of Maidstone.
FOR STATES ATTORNEY:
II. ID. HALE of Lunenburgh.
FOR SHERIFF:
IS. E. CIRCUIT of Concord
FOR HIGHfBAIIsFF:
J.H. BEATTIE of Brunswick.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-07-04

MANY new styles in Parlor and
Chamber furniture are now being
furnished at Paine's Mandatory, As.
Canal St., Boston. Send for Illustrat-,
ed catalogue and price list,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-07-04

m n n a week at home. $500 outfit free.
VLlL' Pay absolutely sure. No risk. Capital
NH not required. Reader if you want
WOO business ut which persons of either
sex, young or old, can make great pay all the
time they work, with absolute certainty,
write for particulars to II. HALI.ETT & Co.,
Portland, Maine.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
0Id-Time PartiSanShip.
Hartford Courant.

In the election of 1892, George
Clinton was the candidate on one side
and john Jay on the other. The re-
turns showed a majority OF 300 for
Mr.. Jay, but IN the counties of Otsego,
Clinton, and Tioga technical errors
were discovered in the returns which
threw out Mr.. Jay by 109 adverse ma
jority. The counties of Clinton and
rioga offset each other, and the result
was due to the manner of dealing with
the Otsego county returns. The law
required that the returns from each
county, after being delivered to the
sheriff, should by him be delivered to
the state canvassing committe,. A
man named Smith had been sheriff of
Otsego county, and, when his term
ran out, had been reappsinted. He
declined the second term and his sue
cessor was named, but die not receive
his commission until after the election.
Smith therefore received the ballots
and sent them to Albany. The ma.
jority of the canvassing committee,
being Clinton's partisaps, decided that
Smith was not the legal sheriff at the
time of the election, and threw out
the Otsego returns altogether, thus
changing Jays majority of 800 to 100
majority for Clinton. Notwithstand-
ing great political excitement, Clinton
was duly inaugurated and served out
his term.
This precedent, niuety-two year
ago, shows that in the good cid
times" partisauship was as violent and
and unreaseRing as it is now.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
AccOmm 3datIOn for Visitors to the
Exposition.

On the lists of the bureau of accom-
mediation at the exposition are nearly
4 600 names of,persons who are willing
to take boarders, greater number of
which are private families, who will
rent one or two rooms in their houses
at reasonable figures. The boarding
house keepers, as rule, refuse to reg
lister, preferring TO fill their houses
through advertisements, and not to be
limited in their charges
The prices range from $25 to 1925 a
month, the latter sum being
usually charged for large front
rooms handsomely furnished. There
are not great many near the exposi-
ton grounds, as that part of the town
is thinly settled Many registers are
from the French quarter, where mum
bers of private families will open a
few of their rooms to the strangers,
laying aside their proud seclusion for
the aonce to accommodate the vast
influx of visitors and to somewhat re-
plenish their diminished purses. Very
many families all over the city. who
are IN moderate circumstances. will
lease their spare rooms and thus some
what recoup themselves for the in-
crease in rent and the higher prices of
supplies. Visitors will thus have an
opportunity of seeing what has hereto
fore been a sealed book to the great
majority of northern people-the do
mestic, the home life of the southern
ers. 1t has greatly changed, of course,
since the ancient days of luxuriance
and idleness, but is set different in
many respects from life in the north
among people OF moderate means.
Those who are rich enough to be in
different to any gain in the matter
live very much as rich people do every
where
Particularly will the life in the old
French homes be new and foreign.
The long dark stone entrance, the
shop in front, the huge sombro rooms
with lofty ceilings, the inner courts
all sunshine, rioting vines and flowers
hidden behind these dingy walls, and
whose existence one would never sus-
pect; the ancient and deliberately tur-
baned French ncgresses, with their
courtly manners and curious patois-
all this will seem like scene in some
foreign town rather than an American
experience, and no doubt this will
compensate for the distance from the
exposition grounds.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
Bad Air.
Halls Journal Of Health

When u person has remained for
an hour or more Ia q ded aad
poorly ventilated room or railroad
car, the system is already contaminat-
ed to a greater or less extent by
breathing air vitalized by exhalations
from the lungs, bodies ana clothing of
the occupants. The immediate effect
of these poisons IS to debilitate, to
lower vitality, and t. i'm p air the
natural power of the system to resist
disease. Hence it is that persons who
are attacked by imfiammatory dis
eases, as pneumonia or rheumatis m,
can generally trace the beginning OF
the disease to chill felt on coming
out of a crowded room into the cold
or damp air, wearing perhaps thin
shoes and insufficient clothing II
these facts We're generally understood
and acted upon, thousands of lives
might be saved every year. 1t is a
well-known fact that men who camp
out" sleeping on the ground at all
seasons of the year, seldom have
pneumonia, and tina rheumatism,
with them, comes, as rule, only from
unwarrantable imprudences. There
are two facts that should be learned
by every person capable of appreclat-
ing them, and should never be lost
sight of for momest.
One is that exhalations from the
lungs-the breath-are deadly poi
son, containing the produces # com
bustion in the form of carbonic acid
gas, and if person were compelled
to reinhale it uumixed with the oxy-
gen OF the air, it would prove as de
structiye to life as the fumes of CHAR
coal.
This is an enemy that is always
present, in force, in assemblies of
people aud only a constant and free
infusion of fresh air prevents it from
doing mischief that would be i'm
mediately apparent The other fact
is that pure air is the antidote t. this
poison.
The oxygen of the air is the great
est Of all purifiers Rapid streams of
water that pass through large cities,
RI ceivlng the sewerage, become pure
again through the action of the air
after running a few miles AIR is the
best of all blood purifiers Com
bincd with vigorous exercise to make
it effective, it will cnre any cura BILE
case of consumption.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
Well Supplied With Brass.
Americus GA Recorder.

A good story in which brass is
mingled with brains to some purpose,
which TIE reader can believe or not,
as he pleases:
The hero is George Parker, for
many years a conductor on South
Carolina railroads. He was smart,
but of fiery disposition, and was
continually getting into trouble and
being moved from one railroad to an
other. At last he had gone the rounds
of the railroads in that state, and
through some of his friends got a place
on the Brunswick, Ga, road, through
the wire grass region, where they
board the trains in gangs and refuse
to pay fare He tackled party of
three one day who refused to pay fare,
and nearly got killed. When he re
covered he was discharged, and went
back to his old home in Augusta. One
day he met Gen. Wade Hampton, and
he asked him for a job. Hampton
said: George, l don't know as | can
do anything for you but give you a
letter to President Hayes George
took the letter, pawned his watch,
went to Washington, and presented
his letter. Hayes said: "Mr. Parker
what do you want?" George answer
ed that he would like to be consul to
Hayes said he had just prom
ised that, but as this was the first re
quest from Gen. Hampton, he would
give him a place as consul to another
eastern port. George thanked him,
went out and managed to get back to
Augusta, where bis friends helped
him to funds, and he left for his con,
sulate. He promptly repaid the loa,
out of his salary, eventually married
a countess, and has his old position
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

first wife a Miss Date, of Danvers.
She had Eve children, two of whom,
a son and daughter, lived, married,
and were among the first settlers OF
Norway, Me. DIR. Meriam's second
wife was Lydia Peabody, daughter of
Deacon Francis Peabody, of Middle
ton. There were nine children by this
marriage, Mrs. Putnam being the
seventh child. She was baptised Nov.
81, 1854, by the Rev. Mr.. Smith, re
ceiving the name of Elizabeth, though
In accordance with the fashion of the
times she was called Betsy, and pre- :
ferred that name. On the 10th of
June, 1904, she married Jesse Putnam,
of Danvers, a granddaughter of Gen.
Israel Putnam. the hero of Bunker
Hill, and the ''Old Put" of the revol
ution. Her married life was one of
unexampled peace and prosperity,
continuing for ffty-six years and
eight months to the death of her hus-
band, in 1861, in the SD year of mis-
age. She became the mother of six
sons and six daughters, all of whom
lived to grow up and be married, and
five of whom, tive sons and three
daughters, are now living. There
have been AZ grandchildren, of whom
25 survive, and "a great grandchila-
rem, of whom 90 are living. One son
died at the age of 80 and one daughter
at the age of "a years. Of the other
children all have lived to be more
than 66 years Of age. At the gather
ing four generations were represented.
OF the FIVE children all were present
but one, now in the west. OF the
grandchildren IL were present, and OF
the great-grandchiidren 13 Mrs.
Putnam received more than 100 calls
during the day from friends and neigh
bors. among whom came the poet, ].
G. Whittier, from Oak Knoll. who
left his autograph upon card of the
Whittier calendar series.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
Her One Hundredth Birthday.
Boston Journal.

At Beaver Brook, the other day. in
the venerable New England farm
house of century and half ago, TO
which Col. Jesse Putnam brought his
bride eighty -oxe years ago last June.
there gathered notable company of
sons and daughters, grandchildren and
great-grandchildren to tender their
congratulations to the aged mother
upon her completion of full century
of life. Mrs, Putnam, although her
form is a trifle bent, is still In full
possession of all her faculties, with
mind as clear and perception as keen
almost as in her younger days She
reads herself and takes the hveliest in
terest n all that is going en- around
her. Her memory is remarkable.
Mrs. Putnam was born in Middleton,
Nov. Ia, 1854, as recorded in the old
family bible. She was tie daughter
of DR.. Silas Merriam, who came from
Lexington and settled in Middleton In
1850. Mr.. Merriam married for his
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
He Congratulates Cleveland

George A. Mott, a lawyer, and
postmaster at Pearsalrs. Long Island,
has written a letter to President, elsct
Cleveland, copy of which is the
following:
PEARsALL's, Nov. S.-DEAR SIR:
desire to congratulate you. l voted
against you. l hold the position of
postmaster at Pearsalls. Queens
county, N. Y. My place is ready for
a successor. ITO the victors belong
the spoils." Ihope you will turn the
rascals out, and if there have teen
any faults committed 60 for them.
Be president of the nation. God help
you to do right. I am, sir, very re-
specially yours, GEORGE A. MORT.
Mr.. Mott is a prominent Queens
county lawyer and has an office in
Brooklyn.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
yagarIeS in Hats.

If we examine one of Filipino Lip
pts Alterations of the Magi," in
which he has collected representa-
tives of all the wealth and luxury of
his age we shall find abundant evil
dence of the varied and curious forms
of the hat which then prevailed In
Italy. Here are not only the hood
simple, or turned into a cap; not only
the plain fez and the fez rising some
thing like tiara, looking as if three
fezzes had been placed on one an
other, the whole supported on the
head by double roundlet, but all
kinds of fantastic forms. One resem.
bles magnifcently gilded twelfth
cake; second may be likened to a
collection of melons poised on the
top of turban; a third is a blue
sugar loaf with the hood tied round
it's base, the point cut off aud the
round space painted red; fourth
represents one of those enormous
shells which mark a mariners home :;
a fifth is shaped like a beehive, being
nothing bat a long roundlet twisted
six times to the form of head, and
finishing at the crown in a kind of
tendril. Others have enormous fan
like brims CO ming out on either side
of the brow and streaked so as to look
like the petals Of a gigantic sweet
pea, or the same brims are seen with
tall crowns covered with gilt braid
And If we may trust Uccello, still
more fantastic was the head-gear of
Italian soldiers. In one of his bat
tie pieces at the Louvre the hats of
the scambatants come out from the
background like so many great and
marvelously streaked Chinese Ian
terms dancing through the dark
streets at the head of procession in
carnival time. Thus the spirit of
evil sought in the fifteenth century
to create in Italy a Merry Andrew
world and so to turn mems thoughts
from fastening ton seriously on the
dissolution which threatened their
national life and liberties.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
Now for tho Worlds Fair.
New York World.

Nothing about the preparations for
the Worlds Fair that is to begin in
New Orleans Ibis n onth is more re-
markable than the forwardness of
them. The usual experience at exAi-
billions of this sort, when the real
opening occurs at least q month after
the formal one, when, GA the day set
for beginning, packing cases still
occupy the place of exhibits, and the
whole place is a scene of preparatory
hustle and confusion, will probably
not be repeated at New Orleans.
The postponement of the openir z
day will favor the managers in get
ting ready for real beginning at the
time set The date has been altered
from Dec 1 to Dec. Is, to accommo-
date Presidents Arthur and Diaz,
neither # whom could be present at
the former date. and both of whom
expect TO participate in the opening
ceremonies.
The Applicant ons for space that have
already boen received are sufficient to
fill a much larger building than will
be in use, although that is itself much
larger than the main hall of the Cen
tenial Exhibition at Philadelphia. An
idea of its size may be obtained from
the statement that it will cover SO
acres, whereas the one in Philadelphia
covered only 81 acres.
The Fair will contain exhibits from
all parts of the world, but the special
ties will be the show made by or
own Southern States and that of :ae
| Spanish American countries to the
south Of US. No such opportunity fcr
examining aud comparing the pro
ducts of those countries has ever been
offered.
The main building is already com
plete. The first train-load of goods
was delivered some months ago, and
since then large number of foreign
exhibits, detained by the Customhouse
| have been made available, by an Or
der of the Treasury Department con
stitu:ing the Main Building bonded
warehouse, and are now put IN place
The shafting for the machinery is now
ready, and the engines are completed
Everything promises most auspi
cious opening, and Northern men
join heartily with Southerners in
hoping that this Exhibition will mark
the opening of new era for tbs ne W
South.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
ssTbe slough of Despondency,,

In which you are wallowing, on account Of some
of those diseases peculiar to you, madame, and
which have robbed you Of the rosy hue OF health
and made life q burden to you, you can easily
get out of. DR.. Pierce's ''Favorite Prescription
will free you from all such troubles, and soor
recall the rose-tint OF health to your cheek, and
the elasticity to your step. 1t is a most perfect
specific for all the weaknesses and Irregularities
peculiar to yonr sex. 1t cures liberation dis
placements, internal fever" bearing-down SEN
satioRs, removes the tendency to cancereus
affections, and eorrects all unnatural discharges.
By druggists
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
A R0GY No. 4i4l So. HaIsisd ST.,
hl IlOOll opn Union STOCK Yarls CHICAGO. In
% Ye IsadieS Faire:

LArIEs RESIDING IN INTERIOR cIT1Es ARE OFTEN
AT LOSS TO MAKE SUITABLE SELECTIONS or DRr
GooDs, CLoAKs, SILKS AND FANCY ARTICLES fKos
yHE LIMITED STOCKS OF LOCAL DRALEIS TEE
sRkA1 MILWAUKEE DRY GooDs ANDCLoAK Housf
OF EsPENHAIH & BARTEIs, S2l, 1913, 325 AND 81
THIRD STREET, WEST SIDE, HAVE LATELY ADDED
A MAIL ORDER DEPARTMENT TO THErR EsrAB iIsH
HEST, AND NOW HAvR uEEoUALED FACILITIES roa
SAMPLE TRADING" ALL MAIL ORDERS FoE
GOODS OR sAaPLEs WILL RECEIVE PEoMFf ASD
ca REFUL ATTENTION LADIES VISITING THE CREis
CITY WILL CONSULT THEIs OWN INTEREST," Br
CALLING AT EsrEsHLIs Il BARTEis. 32i. a2s. SlS
AND s27 THIRD STREET CWEsr SiDE), NILwAUKKA
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
Iowa County Democrat
TOO LATE.

Too late reprieval comes too late! too late!
Behold the portal closed; the soldiers tate
IL sealed by death, though spotless be MS name
Too late! his innocence why now prociaimE
Too late the roses dropping in the sun
Have shed their crimson petals one by one.
And Iifeless dead, no more the So bue power
Is their TO ding their perfume to the shower.
Too late unto another has been given
The smiles the charms that once to you were
heaven;
No more that persisted love- so pure, so true,
Thrills responsive chord with thoughts OF
you.
Too late We drifted to a merry song,
And whirlsd TO the harps chord amid throng
sof paused 70 grasp LIES sterner things or great
/ hold but ashes In my hands-too late
GEoRGIASA FEATHERsroSHACGH
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
A Good Many Failures

During the year 1888 there were o,56s failures
in business in the United States and Canada.
Some Of these were big concerns, and some were
very small. Failure is sorrowful business to any
man, especially if it is his health that fails: A
great many times 10,56S people fail in health In
the course of a year. Many Of them might be
saved If they would take Browns Iron Bitters,
the great family medicine and restorer OF wasted
health.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

TIE MASON & HAxIS ConASr, long the most
famous manufacturers OF reed organs in the
world, have commenced the manufacture OF Up-
right Pianos, having effected an Improvements
which they regard as the most important intro
duced in many years. An ingenious arrangement
fasoens the strings directly TO the iron plate Of the
instrument giving great ciearness and purity Of
tone, with absence Of all mere noise. At the
same tine IL r.nders the instrument more durable
less liable to geE OUT Of order. The Mason &
Hamlin Pianos are certainly exquisite instru-
msuts> and, coming from these thoroughly we'll
known makers, may be depended upon 70 be all
they represent them--BostoH Journal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05
ONLY Two Rattle.

Only Two Bottles. Messrs Johnston,
Holloway & Co., wholesale druggists OF Philadel-
phia. Pa, report that some time ago gentleman
handed them a dollar, with request TO send q
good catarrh cure to two army officers in Arizona
Recently the same gentleman told them that both
of the officers and the wife OF well-known U. s.
A. General had been cured OF catarrh by the two
bottles of Ely's Cream Balm. Not liquid or
snuff. Price SO cents.)
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

The secret OF the large and constant sales
OF Mrs. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound prob
ably lies in the fact that whereas there are many
''Bitters and "Tonics" Of equal value, be it more
or less, the Vegetable Compound is so completely
superior to all other preparations specially re-
commended for the needs Of women that it has
practically no rivals.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

When you Wit or leave New York city, save
baggage, expressage and carriage hire, and stey
Central depot: $50 elegant rooms. lifted up st {
cost Of sne million dollars reduced 70 II and up
ward per day. European plan Elevator. Res
taurant supplied with the best Horse cars
stages and elevated railroads 70 all depots- Fam
Lies can live better for less money II III Crane
Union n-otel than &c any other arst-cl2ss hot
the CITY
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

Browns Bronchial Troches for Coughs
and Colds: THE only article Of the kind which
has done me good service. I want nothing bet
ter."-Reu. r. II. Craig Ottsuilte, N. Y. Sold
only in boxes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1884-12-05

Gloves do not appear to have been
worn in England before the end Of
TIE tenth century, and their manufac-
ture was at that time confined almost
exclusively to Germany.