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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
HENRY D. UNDERwooD's ESTATE.

STATE OFYERMONT, =, proho.o ro,,,,,
ESSEX DISTRICT. IS. ~ Ai''"'' N''i'
held ut Brighton. in and for said District, on
the 9th day of April, A. D. 1884, Il. X. Turner
Administrator of The estate of Henry ID. I'm.
derwood, late Of Concord, in sad district, de-
ceased, makes application to said Court for
license to sell all of the real estate OF said dc
ceased, situated in Concord, to wit: The home
farm and. other lands connected with said
estate, including the homestead and widow s
dover, representing that the sale would be
beneficial to tho heirs Of said estate and all
others interested therein: and that the home
stead cannot be set out from the remainder
OF said estate without great injury thereto,
Whereupon, 1t is ordered by sad.Court that
sad application be referred to q session there
of, to be held at the Probate Qificc in said
Brighton, ON the 10th day OF May, A d, 1854
for nearing and decision thereon; and it is
further ordered, that all persons interested
be notified hereof, by publication of notice OF
sad application and order thereon, three
weeks successvcly in the Essex County Her
aid, y newspaper Published at Island Pond
and which circulatos in tho neighborhood OF
those Interested, before said time of hearing
that they may appear al said time and place
ana, if they see cause, object thereto.
BY the Court Attest,
ID. s. STORRS, Judge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25

Boston has now one of the largest
furniture establishments in America,
occupying large space on three
streets, with entrance at 4S Canal ST.,
opposite Main Depot. Paine's ware
rooms contain q large assortment of
Lace Curtains, Window Shades & Up
holstery goods of new and desirable
patterns, besides all kinds of Cham
Der, parlor, and Dining room Suits
which are manufactured, finished an6
sold at wholesale or retail.
Designs and samples with prices
sent by mail upon application.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENCE.
[From ouI Special Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 18, 1884.

The Morrison tariff bill now occu-
pies the stage at the National Con
gressional show and will continue to
occupy it for some weeks, and if
every member who is DESTROYS of be-
ing heard on this now most absorb
ing topic, is permitted 50 to do,
there will be no adjournment before
the November election. One hun
.dred and fifteen members have al
ready given their names to the
Speaker to be recognized to speak
on the question. 1t now appears
that Morrison's success in having
his bill considered, laid Sammy
Randal's little Presidential boom in
its little bed The Pennsylvania
Democrats unanimously endorsed
Randall and III New York it was
understood, by those on the inside,
that il he could throttle the bill and
prevent its consideration, he should
be taken up and pushed with a
grand hurrah, but alas he could only,
secure the aid Of forty of his party
in the House, and New York has
now cruelty gone back on him, and
his little boom dies and is buried in
the place Of its birth, Those who
know say the New Yorllers'in prom
ising to support Randall, under GER
tain contingencies knew at the time
it was not in Randail's power to do
what was required, and that this Is
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
ErperimeRt NTH Eertiliecrs.

/ will give you the result of an ex-
pertinent made with Bradley's Phos-
phate and two others which are very
well known. prepared my field by
spreading manure alike all over the
field, and narrowing it in. In nearly
the center of the field planted three
rows, using one of the phosphates on
the first row, Bredley's on the second,
and the other phosphate on the third,
equal amounts of each. The rows
were of equal length, and the hills OF
equal distance apart. When | dug
the rows, l weighed the potatoes from
each row separately, and the result
was as follows
First row yielded ISL pounds; second
row, on Bradley's, yielded POS pounds;
third row yielded 1874 pounds. This
satisfies me what fertilizer to use, an6
| shall want Bradley's Phosphate in
future.
ELMER H. LAWRENCE.
WindhGm, VI.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY
winter Arrangement.

winter Arrangement
On and after october IA, and until further no.
ticc. trains will be run as follows:
GOING WEST
Express trains for Montreal, Chicago and
the West Will leave Portland at $50 p. m,
Gorham 5.55 p. m. GroVetOn junction us p.
m. and Island Pond at Is p. m, also at6.30
q. m, both connecting It Richmond for Que
bee.
Mixed train for Quebec and Montreal will
leaN Island Pond at Z 30 a. m. Mixed train
for fchmOad will leave Coaticooke az 1920
p. m. Mixed train for Island Pond will leave
Gorham at l2.4j p. m, and G roveton Junction
at $50 p. m.
GOING EAST.
Express train for Groveton Junction Cor
haIn, Portland and Boston will leave Mont.
real al 10. 90 p. IN, and Island Pond at GAS r
m. Express train for Island Pond will leave
Montreal at 3.l5 p. m. and Sherbrooke at 7.25
p. IN.
Mixed train for Island Pond win leave
/ Montreal nj 90 n. m. and She rbrOoke at IS
| p. m. Mixed trains for Portland will leave
| GOrham Mt 3.45 and II. a. m. Mixed train
! for GOrham will leave Island Pond at 10 80
/ o. m, GrovetOn Junction at ~ 80 p. IN.
| Trains east of Island Pond are run by Port
land time, and west by Montreal time.
j. HICKsON.
General Manager.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25

"Pretty good letter." answered the
cold aud unromantic Republican,
sounds as though it were written 4
hundred years ago; and guess that
Uncle Sammy was in reasonably
good health then; but it is a pity he
didn't rake up something little
more modern-say something about
the income-tax laws, for instance"
and the proud Democrat moved a.
way Disguised. c. U.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25
EUROPE =!

Cooks Grand Excursions leave New
York in April, May and June, 1854 Passage
ickets by all Atlantic Steamers. Spe-
cial facilities for securing good berths.
Tourist Tickets for individual travellers
in Europe, by all routes, at reduced rates.
Cooks E1curSiOniSt. with Maps and full
particulars, by mail 10 cents. Address THOS,
COOK son, l97 Washington st Boston, Ms.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25

| Ridges Food for
Infants & Invalids.
fine most reliable
lsubttitute, at pres
lent known, for mo-
lther's milk, and Il
lsustalnin &, streng-
lthening diet fcrIn-
Vnlids. II is nutri-
ltions, easily digest
cd. and acceptable
to the most irrlta-
bic stomach. It's SUI
llpiiOritV Ia Dfhal,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25

similar preparations rests NOT only on sCien
tIfic analysts but on the crucial test OF thirty
years experience throughout Great Britain
and her Colonies, and of many years i'm the
United states. In cans 35o. to SLT9. WOOL
HICli s CO., Palmer. Mass,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1884-04-25

hO n n week at home $500 outfit free.
NLtLI Pay absolutely sure, No risk. Capital
,Nflf not required. Reader if you want
WUU business at which persons of either
Sex, Dung or old can make great pay all the
time they work, with absolute certainty,
write for particulars to II. HALl-ETT Co.,
Portland, Maine.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
IOWA ITEMS.

Diphtheria is raging in many towns in
the state.
The state teachers association will
meet In Des Moines, December %.
Missouri Valley claims a population of
1865 on the strength of the recent vote.
The Lutherans of Harrison county
dedicated a church at Magnolia last Sun
day.
There were 1874, $50 lbs. of butter
shipped from Manchester during the
month of October.
John E. Stoufer, of Linn county, won
$40 the other day on a wager that he
could husk and throw into wagons be.
tween sunrise and sunset 100 bushels of
corn. He scored 104 bushels.
The Baptists of Missouri valley public
ly thank the people for aid and encour-
agement at festivals and donation parties,
by which $500 have been raised to pay
the preacher for ten months labor.
G. ii. Church, of Galva, ILLINOIS,, was
confidenced out of $40 on the cars near
Cedar Rapids, He has a bogus bond for
$1,000 as a souvenir of his cullibllity.
The crooks were captured and 500 of the
Doodle recovered.
The receipts for the Dubuque Home
for the Friendless for the year just pass
ed amounted to $40, $40. 20, including the
j.. M. Griffith legacy of $4,000. The
current expenses of the home for the
year amounted to $2,3O7. 70.
A colony Of Englishmen located near
Sioux City INDUCED in an old country
run with hounds" last Saturday. There
were nine hounds and enough horsemen
and women to make the chase exhiler-
ating. Two wolves were started but they
escaped after a long and lively run.
There is another case of runaway Mar
shalltown girls. Stella and Maud Plax-
ter left home, about a mile and a half
from Marshalltown, with about $50 of
their fathers money. They went to
Des Moines, thence to Waterloo, and
from there to Cedar Rapids. They
sought employment there in the dining
room of the Northwestern hotel. They
are aged Id and Is.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
ENGINEER SKUSE
How He Thwartcd n Gang of Train
Wreckcrs and Robbers,
Albuquerque New Mexico Journal.

Albuquerque New Mexico Journal.
From III. ID. Ferguson, ESQ, who
came up from the south on the Atchiaon,
Topeka & Santa Fe passenger train
Friday night, we learned of one of the
most dastardly attempts at train wreck
ing and robbery that has ever been known
in the southwest. Mr.. Ferguson tells
the thrilling story with all the vim and
feeling of one who was present when the
affair occurred. He said: "Just after
train No. 102 left Socurro, with j. ID.
Hedrick as conductor and James Skuse
as engineer, and when it had gone per-
haps two miles, the train stopped, but
almost Immediately started up again with
a tremendous jerk. After this jerk a
promiscuous firing began from both sides
of the track, but the train kept moving
on faster and faster. All the passengers,
of course, got down between the seats,
and it looked for a while like q prayer
meeting. About fifty shots were fired.
Every car in the train was hit and many
of the windows broken. The conductor,
who stepped out on the platform, came
near being killed. One bullet passed
through a sleeping car window over the
heads of two ladies, and was tlattened on
the opposite side of the car"
The story of the affair was told Mr..
FERGUSON by the engineer when they ar
rived at the next station. Said the en-
ginear: ~ saw ahead of me an obstruc-
ton on the right side, which consisted of
a pile of stones fully IL inches above the
track. l stopped, of curse, and then
told the fireman to get down and remove
the stones. 1t was moonlight, 80 that |
could she plainly. At the moment l
stopped l saw three men jump from be-
hind a clump of trees, and pointing their
guns at me, they said: Stop! We want
you. We've got you Quick as light.
ming I saw our predicament, n decided
what to do. l told them All right,
don't shoot and then to the fireman,
Drop down / gave the throttle a jerk
wide open and dropped down myself. AS
| jerked they fred into the cab. | didn't
know whether we should jump the track
or not, but | wasn't going to have my
passengers robbed. The obstruction
damaged the cowcatcher considerably. l
saw three men on my right, W on my
left, and one on horseback"
The passengers after realizing the
great danger through which they had
passed, and the daring presence OF mind
and the bravery and decision of the he
roic engineer, made up a purse and pre-.
sented it to him as a token of their appre-
citation, and nearly all thanked him per-
for risking his own life to save
his passengers from robbery. 1t was a
splendid act, and James Skuse will go
down to history as a real hero.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
Diseases and Health of Live
Stock,

All owners of live stock are no doub'
Interested In keeping their animals in
sound healty condition, and are anxious
to bring to a halt any disease, no matter
how trifing, as soon as it makes Its ap
pearance. To accomplish either or bott
of these, the Western Live Stock Rene
dy, manufactured at Omaha, has nj
equal.
1t is easily given to cattle, horses, swine,
and sheep, and is an article that hal
never failed to give satisfaction, if prop
erly administered.
Thousands Of dollars might be saveo
annually if breeders, farmers, and, II
fact, any one from the person owning al
extensive herd to the modest gardner
with a pony and a COW, would keel
their animals in a thoroughly healthy
condition.
Keep stock healthy and every conta
gious disease that comes along will no
take hold with the grip of death. To d.
this there is nothing equal to the West
ern Live Stock Remedy.
Do not wait until the horse is stolen Il
lock thestable door, but lock 1t nov -
before the thief comes along, by the cut
Iay of only one dollar for a trial pacBig
Of the celebrated and thoroughly teoto.
boon, tho Western Live Stock Remedy
Enquire of your druggist, or genefa
| storekeeper, and if you are unable TO oh
tain it there, send One Dollar for a pack
| age, postpaid, to the
WESTERN LIVE Stock REMEDY Co.
Box 500 Omaha, Neh
Special Discounts to the Trade.
noy8 I'm
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14

MERRILL, Gon1 Manager.
Az II. CARPENTER, Cen Pass. Agt.
LARK, Genl Supt.
GEO. HEH. FFoRD. Asst. Genl. Pa Agt
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14

wood, oven the most thoroughly seasoned
brought from Europe, even froia Italy
The electric phenomena may be seen an,
cold winters day, when it is mutt,
possible for people in ordinary physica
condition to light the gas by shutting
rapidly across the carpet and holding the
finger to an opened gas burner, the ga,
lighting as if by a flame, and the electric
spark giving q distinctly heard crackle.
| have scores of times performed the
feat and seen it done by many others 1T
is not in any way dependent on pc.
culiar constitution. What these physical
conditions may have to do with the gen.
eral e~Xcitability ! have noted is not 80
clear, and is subject for future investiga.
tlon; but | believe that tho drive and
energy of American city life are to e1ag.
geratod to be the effect of merely physical
agencies except through the hereditary
accumulation of tendencies. The effect
produced on me, coming newly into Now
York after a long s%oiourn in Europe, Is, l
imagine, greatly, but not wholly due to q
kind of contagion, a nervous sympathy
with the intensity of life around me.
That it is not purely climatic is clear from
the various effect In the different cities.
Baltimore, for instance, | found as tran.
quill and almost as unexciting as Dresden;
more so than Par'A
Walking up Broadway some time after
my arrival | find myself thrown into a
kind of nervous excitement so great as,
to use a common expression In default of
q scientific one, to make my head swim.
| found myself unconsciously stopping to
''see it go by The streets are crowded,
and everybody seems in a hurry. The
stream of omnibuses, drays, etc., appa.
rently never abates, and the sidewalks
are continually crowded by people who
are always in a hurry, and the tramways
in almost every longitudinal street of the
city threaten to m%onopolize the t~ravsl,
while four elevated railways send their
trains laundering overhead in a way to
make quiet people unendurably nervous;
and the feverish haste of everybody and
everything inevitably and Immediately
infects the new conner. 1t is difficult to
sleep from the first. Stimulants affect
the brain much more than on this side
the Atlantic, and l remember very
well a Yankee captain with whom
l once crossed the Atlantic,
a bon vivant of the old type,
who assured me that of his own wine car
ried on board he could only drink half a
bottle in New York, while he drank q
whole bottle in Liverpool.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
LAWYERS
How They are Imposed Upon by Pref
ty and Unscrupulous Women.

"This woman Is a blackmailer. Dom,
leave me now. Stay where you are, &c
that you may hear what she says" said 6
lawyer to a reporter yesterday, on the
steps of the attorneys Office on Walnut
street. The woman, a tall, handsome
blonde, elegantly dressed, crossed the
street, bowed smilinglY to the lawyer,
pausee irresolutely, her passed on.
"She will endeavor to play it on some.
tody else. But she will strike me again,
l am sure, as soon as a favorable oppor.
tunify presents ITSELF"
''Then you have had come experience
with herr"
"Yes. She first came into my office
ak weeks ago. | suspected her from the
beginning and secretly motioned to one
of my clerks to post himself within ear
shot. He went out, passed along a pas
sageway and got into a room Immediately
in the rear of that which we occupied.
The woman closed the door leading to the
front Office and moved her chair up
against it. The opentransom over the door
leading into the other room, however,
made it possible for my clerk to over
hear all that the woman might say. The
visitor began by reciting some pretended
wrong that she said had been done her,
but quickly drifted to conversation upon
private affairs and was rapidly laying her
ground for an interesting Matchmaking
strike when | tapped the call bell upon
my table and my clerk came Ia from the
rear room. "Mr. Brown" said |, ''this
lady apparently has a case that she de-
sires us to look into. Please write down
what she says. New, madam, proceed,
please"
"The woman was surprised and de-
feated. please excuse me, now,' she
s%tammered; Il would rather not have
anything committed to paper until |
think over it longer. i will call to-mor-
row. Good day."
"She did not come on the next day.
She has been here, however, once or
twice since that time, but | have always
been out to her."
"Why did you not permit her to go on
until she had committed herself and
have her arrested2"
"That would have been a foolish pro.
ceeding. A lawyer cannot afford to get
into a controversy with a woman of that
stamp"
"Are lawyers Often the victims of
blackmailersl"
"Yes; particularly lawyers who are not
careful in their private lives, and thus
leave themselves open to assault, 80 to
speak. Philadelphia Times.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
HUNGRY JIM'S STORY.
The Details of a Romantic Tragedy
Told Before the Pine-Knot Fir
of Il Sierra Shakcmaker.
Copperopolis Letter in San Francisco Il,
aminer,

Copperopolis Letter in San Francisco Elk
aminer.
Living Just above the foothills and In
the midst of the virgin pine forests Of the
Sierras are a class of industrious people
little known to the world. They live an
isolated, happy life far from the busy
world, of which they know little and care
less. These are the ''shakemakers."
They exist usually in couples, and make
their home fol, the time being where the
finest sugar pine grows, and whence the
products of their labor can be conven.
iently hauled away. They are a Jolly,
happy lot, these ''shakemakers'' of the
Slerras. They work at will, and by
way of recreation divide their leisure
time between deer and bear hunting
and the nearest country store. The
mode of making ''shakes" or clspboards
Is simple. The tree felled is sawed into
suitable lengths, and then Is split into
thin boards or "shakes" by means of a
froe and a mallet. The shakes sell here
thousand, and are always in demand. A
s~hakemakers' camp is n of the most
picturesque scenes to be found on the
coast, and the voluntary r~ecluses who
spend year after year in these mountain
solitudes are the %jolliest lot of bachelors
on earth. A majority of this almost un-
known race of men are old miners and
young men from the foothill farms.
Wild, brave, uneducated and kind
hearted, they include within their num-
bers hundreds of the best frontiersmrn
and the noblest types of manhood.
While rambling among this hospitable
class of men one evening, l suddenly
came into a clearing upon the mountain
side, in the center of which stood a log
cabin of the most primitive character,
upon the porch of which stood a smiling
old man, who ventured the information,
"This is Hungry Jim's' place" Before
| could reply to this startling and in
comprehensive announcement the old
man added the following explanation:
THE shakemakers call me hungry
jim just for fun, not that | don't have
enough to eat, for if you stop at my
place tonight, as | hope you will, you
will find Hungry Jim a good feeder"
And 30 it proved, for Jim is a good
cook, a hospitable host and one of the
story tellers extant. His name is Miguel
Elias, and he is a native of Tucson, but
he has spent thirty-fve years in the
mountains. He is
n OF THOSE INTERESTING CHARACTERS
who live in the past and never tire of
telling of the days of 40, when gold was
being taken out of these gulches in
chunks and every man was wealthy who
would work. Jim" has seen the day
when he could count his wealth by thou.
sands, but monte and bad luck has made
him poor but happier than ever before.
His life is a romance and a woman the
u of his financial ruin. Now he
keeps a rendezvous for the Calaveras and
Tuolumne shsksmakers. 1t was slim"
seated before a cheerful pine knot fire
which glowed brilliantly that keen frosty
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
COUNCIL BLUFFS
ADDITIONAL LOCAL NEWS.


The following transfers were filed ii
the county clerks Office yesterday and re.
ported Tor the BEE by j. p. Mcmahon,
real estate agent, November Is, 1884:
Robert w. Rees to Alexander A.
Clifford; sw SCI sec 2G, town 20, range
SO; $1,000.
L. S. Axtell to Samuel Bateman, Jr,
e. sci sec 9, town "a, range 43; $4,000.
Edwin Morgan and wife to Home OF
the Friendless; part 1t 9, MIL add
$1,4O0.
A. B. Howe to M. S. Roop; 1t D, blk
If, Sutsman'S Second add; 500.
VIM. w. Farnam, executor, to Eliza
beth Schram; 1t u, blk 43, r. r. add;
S275,
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14

What a Foreigner Thinks of Our
Neutrality-suspicious. of Living.

The high pressure at which life is main.
tanned In the United States, which | have
Loted In a former letter in its business
relation, has an aspect which, while it
strikes the newcomer most forcibly, has
also IN effect which is to be studied as
one of the moat important problems of
transatlantic existence. 1t is not alone
the stranger by birth getting his first i'm
preston of America who will feel the ex-
traordinary ''go" of a city like New York
but even Americans born, like myself,
who have been away from home for long
intervals and return into the atmosphere
of our city life. The frat few days after
are spent in a kind of nervous excite
ment, which to some will be distressing,
but to others, of whom | am one,
will furnish an exh~ilaration which
suggests champagne or possibly tc
other moods and temperaments the eff
feet OF strong tea or coffee. With my.
self, find 1t varying, and in the latter
yiaits have found myself comparing 1t to
the sensation produced by drinking strong
green tea in the morning. 1t is partly, ]
suppose, from the climate, whose extra
ordinary dryness strikes a European
observer strongly, and partly the electri
cal conditions, which j have found almos'
incredible to people in England. As II
the former quality, it ia to be noted il
the salt which is on the table-alwsys IN
a dry and powdery condition-in th'
rapid drying of your bath sponge, AM
tbs cracking and warping Of articles Q
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
a Fasting Girl.

In Cincinnati a sixteen.year. old girl
recently died after a fast of ffty.two days.
She had been attacked by something like
paralysis which rendered it impossible for
her to take nourishment. The human
system cannot thrive without good food
and good ability to digest it. Weak and
impaired digestion is rectifed by Browns
Iron Bitters-better than any other tonic
in the world. Mr.. j. II. Freeberp,
Pomeroy, Iowa, says: 81 used Browns
Iron Bitters for dyspepsia and poo
appetite; completely cured me-" 1t will
cure you.
Omaha daily bee., 1884-11-14
The First Keen TWinge.

As the season advances, the pains and
aches by which rheumatism makes itself
known, are experienced after every ex-
posure. 1t is not claimed that Hoods
S~arsaparilla is q specific for rheumatism
we doubt if there is, or can be, such a
remedy. But the thousands benefited
by Hoods Sarsaparilla, warrant us In
urging others who suffer from rheumatism
to take it before the first keen twinge.