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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

A leading citizen Of Hagerstown, Md, Mr..
George w. Harris had suffered for some time
with facial neuralgia and toothache, when he
tried st. Jacobs Oil He says: 1T gave me
instantaneous relief, and l consider 1t a Won
deriul remedy"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

A mosquito-catcher Is among the rare in
scct,vurous p ants in the Botonical Garden
at Washir gton. Nature Ost a big OppOrtuni-
t. to supply long e. [ WI mt when she fail d
10 make In STYLE of fora in ligen- us 10 the
Atlant C coast
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

If you have a Cold, Cough, (dry-hacking)
Group. Cankered- throat, Catarrh Dropping
causing cOugh--Dr. Kilmer's Indian Cough Cure
CONSUMPTION Oh will relieve instantly-hcals
and cures. Price &c. SOC. and 81.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Dr. Pierce's "Tavorjte Prescription is not
svtniIed as a "cure-all" but admirably ful-
FONT snecifc in those chronic weaknesses PEE
Culiar to women.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Prof. Chas. p. Williams, Phi. D., Of Philadel-
phia, says there is neither morphia, opium nor
minerals in Red Star Cough Cure. Price
twenty-five cents bottle.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Halls Hair Remover Is cooling to the scaip
and cures all itching eFupiicns.
For ague bilious, intermittent, break-bops
aud swamp fevers, Usc Ayers A&le Cure.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

The lack Of fragrance in the flowers Of Calf
forn is thought to be due to tine dryness OF
the p.imnta
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Seventy OF the American colleges now in
& stence we're founded Letweeh lhs ears
Issgg and 1871
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

The deepest wei in the word is at Home
wood Penn, and is GOO0 feet below the sur
fnrn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

A Chinaman took the prize for English
compOs ton at Yale.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

There are $50 college graduates in Con-
gress
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23
ga WONDERFUL OFFER

Among the $50 kinds or Cloth Bound Dol
lar volumes given away by the Rochester
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Law Without Law Danelsons OIedicaD
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Farm Cyclopedia. Five Years Before the
Farmers and Stock. Mast.
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World Cyclopedia, Nations.
Popular History Civil
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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Nothing Like II.
No medicine has ever been known so effec-
tual in the cure of all those diseases arising
from an impure condition of the blood as SCo-
WILLS SARsAPARILLA, OR BLOOD AND LIVER
SYRUP, the universal remedy for the cure Of
scrofula, White Swellings, Rheumatism, Pim-
pies, Blotches, Eruptions, Venereal Sores and
Diseases, Consumption, Groitre, Boils, Cancers,
and all kindred diseases. There is no better
means of securinga beautiful complexion than
by using SCovILL's SARsAPARILLA, OR BLOOD
AND LIVER SYRUP, which cleanses the blood
and gives permanent beauty 10 the skin.
3 months treatment for SOC. Piso'5 Rene
dy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

No trouble to swallow DR.. P.erce's pellets,
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

Three mill on pupils now attend the free
schools IN the Southern States.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1886-07-23

For RATES IVr auVertslus Tins PAPER apply to tn,
Publisher. n IL TWenty.nine
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
A BATTLE ON THE RAIL.
Strikers on One Engine Chased by
Officers on Another.

Strikers on One Engine Chased by
Officers on Another.
A freight train run by switch engine left
the Iron Mountain depot, Little Rock, Ark,
during the strike troubles, and reached Ben
ton, twenty-five miles south, at noon on the
18th. The passenger engine which was
to take the st. Louis train south was cap
tured at the round house by masked
strikers and sent after the freight train. The
freight train was overtaken at Benton and
disabled, and the strikers started bach toward
Little Rock with the passenger engine. AT
Mablevale, ten miles south Of the city, they
waited on side track for the passenger
train to go BY The train came
along, and when the last car had passed
they threw the switch open and dashed out
in the direction of Little Rock. United States
Marshal Fletcher ard several deputies were
on the passenger train, accompanied by Su-
perintendent Wheedon. The track was cleared
for switch engine, the officers got aboard
and pursued the strikers, both reaching
and dashing past the depot under
full headway. While crossing the bridge
the pursuing engine caught and made fast
to the strikers engine, and the officers
strikers to stop. They refused, and, on reach
ing the north side of the bridge, several
of them jumped Off and the officers began
firing. About fifty shots were fired, and one
striker named Sullivan was shot in the leg,
severely wounded and was captured Seven
others besides Sullivan were captured, and
the officers went in pursuit Of the fugutives,
about eighteen in number. The captured
strikers were released on bond.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
NEWSY GLEANINGS.

The death rate from chloroform is one in
1850.
MEXICAN tobacco threatens to supersede
the product of Cuba.
The Chinese population Of San Francisco
is larger now, it is stated, than ever.
The United States treasury has paid outin
pensions since ls6l nearly s75O, O,0Uo,000.
The Comstock lode has been worked TO a
depth Of 5000 feet and has produced about
$3.50, 100000.
AT Quincy, Mo-, is a paper mill that has
burned 400, ,OOO tons of prairie grass into paper
since last June
ABOUT 5000 people are employed in manu-
featuring silk in Philadelphia, and the busi-
ness is rapidly increasing
IT is estimated that the annual cost for
the picking alone of the cotton crop of the
Southern States is S40,00O,o0O.
UP to date M. Pasteur has treated nearly
three hundred dog-bitten patients, and has
thirty under his care at present.
AN American living in Kobe, Japan, has
engaged thirty very sKillful Japanese ivory
carvers to introduce the art into this country.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
History of the Violin,

The violin in it's earlier forms is Of
great and uncertain antiquity. Its origin
is traced to stringed instrument used in
India from the earliest ages, the ravan-
astron, which, Buddhist tradition says,
was invented by Ravana, King of Cey-
lon, 5000 B. c. A similar instrument
was the crwth of Wales, which is known
to have been in use long before the sixth
century, among the Brlttons, and to
which the Anglo-Saxons gave the name
of fythel, whence our word fiddle. The
immediate precursor of the violin was
the viol, which is known to have been in
use in the tenth century. This was fiat
above and below, had very deep bends
in the sides, used from three to SIX
strings, and was played with bow.
But the violin of modern form was not
made until the fifteenth or sixteenth
century. The earliest makers of the
modern violin whose instruments are
authenticated was Gaspard di Salo,
of Lohbardy, who worked between
1860 and 1912. To one ether
maker living before this time, Gas
pard Duifoprugcar, some existing in
struments are attributed, but it is very
doubtful whether this maker constructed
anything else than viols and 'lutes. The
italian school of violin making had its
origin in Brescia, and, as far as is now
known, was founded by Gaspard di Salo.
The greatest of the Brescian makers was
Giovanni Paolo Magginni, who lived
about 1590-1640, and whose instruments
still hold a place among the best ever
made. But soon the Brescia violin
makers were eclipsed by those of Gre
mona, whose instruments have been the
wonder and admiration from their time
to the present, possessing a tone and
quality that subsequent makers have
tried in vain to equal. The three great
est of the many successful violin makers
among the number who for generations
kept up the reputation of Cremonese
work, were Nicholas Amati, Joseph
Guarneri del Gesu, and Antonius Stradi-
varius. Very little is now known OF
these great makers, for in their day they
were simply hard working artisans who
sold for few forins instruments which
now command hundreds and even thou
sands of dollars Experience has shown
that the minutest details of form and pro-
portion, and the material of which each
Separate part is made, are matters of vital
importance to the quality of the violin:
The great makers seem to have secured
by many delicate experiments the very
perfection of acoustical quality, which
dexterity and careful workmanship en-
ablcd them always to fully reproduce
Inter- Ocean.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Pure Luck.

"Talk about luck, says Colonel A. R.
McGill; State insurance commissioner OF
Minnesota, and then he proceeds to tell
this story, on the truth of which he is
willing to stake his chances for the next
gubernatorial nomination. When, in the
spring of 1862, the army of the Potomac
moved into the Notifications at Manassas
and Centerville, which had been vacated
by the Confederates, the boys spent much
of their time gathering relics from the
battlefield Of Bull Run to send home to
their friends. One day gawky member
of the Fourth New York brought in an
unexplodcd percussion bomb and pro-
ceeded to draw the load before sending
it away. He might, if he had had brains
enough to last him overthe door sill, have
taken it to an artilleryman and had 1t
safely unloaded, but instead of this ne
took it to the blacksmith shop, where,
with hammer and cold -chisel, he sat down
in the middle of the floor, took the bomb
between his legs, placed the chisel
in the brass screw at the point, and gave
it smart lick with the hammer. The
ueAG luSGdut Guo dlLhoopdSAS "eSS tSAiSS
with disintegrated blacksmith shop, A
section of the batting roof had business
over in another county, and a chunk OF
the side wall went down to visit neigh
boring camp. Pieces Of iron and steel
that were once tools took an immediate
vacation and fed to parts unknown. In
short, the shop was demolished.
"But what of the mani" we asked of
Colonel McGill.
''He's the chap I was coming to. When
the boys rushed over to see what was the
matter, there he sat, bolt upright in the
debris, with his legs straddled out, a
hammer in one hand and cold chisel in
the other, and trying to spit hair off the
end of Ills tongue. by gosh, ne said,
as he slowly crawled to his feet, L 1guess
the folks home III have to git along
'thout that SHE'LL
''The only injury TINT had been done
to him was the singeing of his hair and
whiskers. He wasn't even much fright
tened till the next day. Chicago Nescs.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Rivers AZ a Source Of Cholera.

The London Lancet has made up its
mind that rivers have much to do with
the spread of cholera. Paper makers
will be interested to know that the Sc
verify of the last cholera epidemic at
Grenada has been traced to water con-
tamination, due to paper mill: The
rags used at this mill were washed in the
stream from which Grenada City draws
it's water supply. The rag sthus washed
came from Valencia and other cholera
centres. No cholera cases had occurred
in Grenada up to the time when these
rags were imported. Afterward the
cholera spread over the province, follow
ing in every case the course. of the in
fected stream. Only one town thus sit
uated escaped infection, and this because
its 12, 900 people drank no river water.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Some Hints on Horse-Barns.

There Is point to be obseved in fit
ting a barn for the reception OF horses,
and that is the size of the stalls. The
narrow dimensions of the stall are posi-
tive cruelty to the horse. Many stalls
are built too narrow to enable the horse
to extend his limbs when lying down.
Heis compelled, when in recumbent
position, to double his limbs up under
him; his legs are thus kept in a cramped
position when he ought to be completely
at rest. A narrow stall tends to make a
horse restive and uneasy, and frequently
induces him to kick violently against the
contracted sides of this narrow prison,
and develops in him the Objectionable
practice of crib biting. Imagine, for a
moment, our own misery, were we con-
fined in a narrow cell in which, when
standing, we could assume none but
cramped position, debarred from the
privilege Of extending our limbs, and
obliged to keep them doubled up. In
considering these questions of the COM
fort of our live stock; while mere human
ity should certainly furnish motive suf-
ficient, it is we'll to remember that the
comfort and well-being of stock means
to them health and prolonged life, and,
consequently, pecuniary benefit to our
selves. Still another cause of great
needless suffering is occasioned to the
horse by keeping him tied up by the head.
In order to enable horse to sleeb COM
fortably, he should be able to lie down at
full length, limbs extended, and his head
resting on the floor This he is often un-
able to do, owing to the short halter
strap, which will not allow him to rest
the lower portion of the head on the
floor, and the extraordinary discomfort
of the position in which the poor beast is
thereby compelled to seek his natural
rest, can be better imagined than de-
scribed. Live Stock Journal
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Fertilization Of Strawberries.

Among other matters of interest re-
ported upon by the American Pomolog-
ical Society are the papers and discussions
on "The Influence of Pollen on the
Form, Size, Color and Flavor of Straw
berries" elected at the last session of the
society.
The subject was introduced by Prof.
Lozemby, of Ohio, who reported the re-
suits of two seasons experiments in
crossing. The first year there was a
marked effect produced by the foreign
pollen in every instance. The Chas.
Downing pollen communicated its shape,
texture and other qualities and the same
with Sharpless and Wick. The next
season there occurred no very marked
resemblance between the berry and the
variety which furnished the pollen.
Mr. Crawford, Ohio, who has had ex-
cellent facilities for making observations,
said that. he had yet to find any good
evidence that the influence of pollen ex-
tends beyond the seed. IT, J. Barrill,
Illinois, stated that he had been unable
to detect any difference in the fruit of
pistillate strawberries, on account of the
kind of pollen used for fertilization.
A. S. Fuller, New Jersey, claimed that
repeated Investigations only confirmed
his convictions in regard to the influence
of the pollen reaching so far beyond the
seed as to effect the fruit sufficiently in
many instances to change size, form,
color and even the flavor. T. Wilde,
Michigan, told how he had tested the
crossing of strawberries for three years
with variable results. The influence of
pollen in his tests had not always proved
certain, but he was sure it had occurred.
J. L. Budd, Iowa, told of an expert
ment tried by him some years ago with
several rows of the Colfaxian acid berry.
By one part of the rows the wild straw
berry was planted; by another piece
some ten rows away the Wilson, by
another the Downer's Prolific. Where
the Colfax plants were fertilized with
the wild strawberry the fruit was small
and sour; where fertilized by the Wilson,
larger and sour; where fertilized by the
Downer's Prolific, lighter in color.
roundcr and sweetcr. These charges,
Professor Budd claimed, were perfectly
evident. He is now growing Chas.
Downing and fertilizes with Downer's
Prolific. The Downing does not do well
self-fertilized, but needs more pollen be-
side. Professor Budd thinks the cross
makes it larger and better in shape
Neao York World.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Household Hints.

Clean tea or coffee cups with securing
brick. 1t makes them look as good as
new.
Apples keep best in temperature as
near as the freezing point US possible
without actually freezing.
If f1at-irons are rough and smoky, lay
little fine salt on ii fiat surface and rub
th, m we'll. 1t will smooth them and
prevent sticking.
For sleeve protectors, cut off the foot
of worn out stockings, turn down hem,
run in rubber cord top and bottom,
and you have nice pair of sleeve protec-
tors.
When you have spilled anything on
the stove, or milk has boiled over and a
suffocating smoke escapes, sprinkle the
spot with quantity of salt; this will
stop it.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
Recipes.

VEGETABLE SoUP.-Puta piece of pork
that is not too fat and any bones left from
roast beef in soup kettle with as much
water as will be needed for soup, and set
the kettle on the fire. As soon as the
water boils, add potatoes, carrots, celery,
an onion and small Savoy cabbage, all
cut in small pieces, and salt to taste.
Simmer for two hours and half; re-
move the bones and pork and serve.
Corn BATTER CAKEs.--Two cupfuls OF
white cornmeal, one cup full of flour,
two cupfuls of milk or water, one egg,
ore basting-spoonful of melted lard,
little salt, one teaspoonful of baking
powder. Make hollow in the middle
of the meal and flour, put in all the other
ingredients and stir up smooth. When
thereis no milk to mix with, add spoon
full of syrup to make the cakes brown
easily on the griddle.
GROUND RICE PUDDING.-Boil large
tablespoonful of ground rice in pint of
new milk after first mixing it into a
smooth paste with little cold water or
milk; add for favoring half teaspoon
full of cinnamon and little thinly-pared
lemon rind. When cold add quarter
of a pound of sugar creamed up with the
same quantity Of butter, and two we'll
beaten eggs. Bake with crust around,
in pie plates.
STUFFED EGes.-Work four ounces of
boiled or potted ham to smooth paste;
add pinch Of cayenne and teaspoonful
of anchovy paste. Hard-boil six eggs,
when cold remove the shells; cut thin
slice of the large end of each; take out
the yolks and put them in mortar with
third of their bulk of table butter; q
little salt and nutmeg; add the ham and
very little hot soup or water; heat it
gently; press the paste into the empty
whites; arrange neatly, on dish, small
end upward; garnish literally to hide
the lower end, and serve.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

wool clean in muddy water, wrestling
with the struggling sheep, and turning
them out on to dusty roads or an unclean
yard to drain, is a. waste of effort and .
risk to health, as we'll as absurd and
worse than useless. The wool is made
harsh and rough and if it is left on the
sheep to recover it's yolk and softness it
loses in the meanwhile its partial cleanll-
ness. 1t is then rated as unwashed and
its loss of weight brings no advantage
in gain in price. The usual reduction of
one-third from the price of washed wool
for unwashed is less than the loss of
weight by washing, so that the farm er
who invites colds, chills and rheumatism
by the barbarous fashion of washing his
flock in the brook or the mill pond actu-
ally pays considerable sum for his privi-
lege, while his ncighbor who
saves himself from the disagreeable
and dangerous exposure gets substan-
tial premium for his wisdom. The nu-
merous owners of sheep who are finishing
their first years experience in the busi-
ness will do we'll to avoid this supposed
necessity and save both trouble and
money.
The yolk of woods is a natural pro-
vision for keeping the fleece in good
condition and preventing its felting into
a compact mass upon the sleeps back.
It is secretion from the follicles of the
skin in which the fbres are rooted, and
which are supplied with glands that
secrcte the oily, soluble soap of which
the yolk consists. The yolk is a COM
pound of oil and potash, which is in
fact soap, soluble in cold water, and
contains large proportion of free and
uncombined potash. The potash. con-
tanned in the yolk is sufficient to give
valuable fertilizing properties to. the
water in which the wool is washed, and
is economically separated from the
water by the French wool manufacturers
and sold to the farmers. For this reason
the old fashion of washing sheep is a
great waste, and it is better to tub-wash
the wool and use the waste water as
liquid manure for grass or as an addition
to the manure heap.-NeO York. Times.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31
FARM AND HOUSE.
TOPICS OF INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Rurnine Wood for Asher.

In burning wood for ashes it Is ncces-
sary to avoid exposing the fire to strong
currents of air, both to prevent the car
rying away of the light ashes and the
loss of valuable elements by the strong
combustion. The logs are put in heaps
and covered with earth or are heaped in
hollow pits protected at the sides by
the mounds of earth thrown out. AS
the heap turns down more logs are rolled
on to it, so as to keep steady fire. The
ashes are stirred to secure complete com
bustion of the brands and Goals, and the
more slowly the timcer is consumed the
more valuable the ashes are. Ordinary
mixed timber yields two to three per
cent. of ashes. Pine yields about one
per cent, elm three to four per cent,
and the small brushwood is the richest
part of the tree.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

CHILDREN's AILMENTS, such as 'con-
stipation," disordered bowls, worms and
many other diseases so prevalent can be
successfully treated by the occasional use
of WALKERS VINEGAR BITTERs. It is
as safe and certain in its action upon chill
dren as upon adults. 1t acts on the liver
and cleanses the blood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-03-31

Six gold medals have been given to St.
Jacobs Oil at Worlds fairs and exposi-
tions, for being the best pain-cure. It is,
itself, better than gold. 1t cures rheuma-
tism and every other painful trouble. It
never fails.