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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
SWOrd.Fislling Is PerilOns.

Summer is the season for sword
fishing, and the vicinity of Portland,
Me-, is the headquarters for the sport.
"Sword-tishing," says the Press of
that city, ais at once exciting, peri
lous and remuncrativc. Last year
swordfsh sold as high as IL cents a
pound in this port, and single fish
will often weigh 800 or even 1000
pounds. The method of getting the
fish affords an opportunity tor great
sport. Like the shark, the swordlish
can be secu for considerable istanCc
by his back fin which protrudes above
the surface of the water as lie swims.
But unlike tho shark, the swordlish
moves steadily with tho upper tip of
his tail also out of water, as rigid and
steady rs the fin itself. The swordfish
also generally go in shoals. The
swordfish is captured by means of a
long spear or harpoon. TO the shank
of this spear is attached stout line
about 600 feet long; aud to the end Of
the line is made fast stout. water.
tight cask. Each harpoon is good for
one swordfsh, and a schooner usually
carries considerable number of
thCm.n
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
A Cricket Farm.
OZNoLA.

"One of the strangest enterprises
that | have ever seem" remarked Il
Detroit drummer, II ran across near
Grand Rapids last week. 1t is just in
the height of the fishing season in the
upper lake region and farmer boy
near Grand Rapids has started upon
an entirely new industry. lie is con-
ducting n cricket ranch. lie is rails
ing crickets by thousands and sells
them to amateur anglers for bait. He
has only just started upon this novel
undertaking, but says that there's
millions in it, and that he is sure il
will prove Il profitable and successful
line of business. In the winter time
he proposes TO convert his cricket
ranch into IA skunk farm and raise
skunks for their skins. For several
years past he has raised colony of
cats every season, and says that he
finds a ready sale for all of the pelts
that he can deliver to the Chicago
market"
This recalls to mind the enterprise
of South Chicago German woman
who camped out on the shores of Lake
Calumet four seasons ago with three
stalwart sons. For amusement they
began catching frogs, and found the
sport so interesting that the financial
side of the question soon attracted
their attention and they began supply
ing the Chicago restaurants with frogs
legs. Since then, every summer, the
old German woman and her sons have
made systematic onslaught upon the
frogs of Lake Calumet, and for the
last two months they have been aver
aging 200 dozen of frogs legs per
week, for which they find Il ready
sale.- Chicago Mail.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

The American Farmer thinks, ait is
not very complimentary TO thc high
character of sheepncn in intellectual
and moral worth, but too near the
truth, that most of us are tagging
along behind tho procession. We are
hustled in wool by Australia South
America, South Africa, India, Russia.
and other countries. We are hustled
~ find just what we can do probably
that every body else is not doing. We
find place once in while. but when
we get around again somebody has
gotten there too, and hustIcs us to
'even up There is a front, and we
need to find it."
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

"It has been II matter of common
remark" states the Washington Star,
"that the government buildings In this
country for many years past have not
been either so tastefully or so well
constructed as formerly. While this
is tho case private architecture has inn
proved. TO remedy this defect 1t Is
proposed 10 employ in the designing
pf government buildings the best OBJ
tainable talent and also to secure such
services in the construction.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

A deputy coroner i'll Philadelphia
the other day was called upon by the
agent of an insurance company for
duplicate certificate of death in the
case of IL child eight months old. II
had died of exhaustion caused by
teething. Tho request was such an
unusual ono that the deputy coroner
asked if there was any insurance upon
the infants life. The agent appeared
TO be surprised at tho ignorance of his
qucstioner, and said: dts not at all
strange for such young child to crr'
ry insurance on its life. Our company
insures infants from the day of birth.
In this case the parents have been pay
ing us five cents week since Fobru.
ary last"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

A bank in France has the equiva-
lent of three hundred millions of dol
lars in its vaults. The French gov
ernment has appropriated for the COM
ing yoar S129, 900. 900 for the army
and $40, 900, 900 for the navy. 1t has
80 new vessels in course of construc-
tion, besides 62 torpedo boats.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

1t has been said privately by way
of explanation of the opposition to the
automatic coupler, says the Brooklyn
Citizen, that on freight cars 1t could
not work well, because great deal
of "slack" is required on long
freight train in order that the engine
at starting may overcome the merits
of the cars. But it is easily possible
to construct coupler that Will Jolr
automatically and still have just as
much "slack" us the present link anu
pin by the use of which so many poor
fellows lose either their limbs OF
lives, getting nothing from the com
pany for themselves or surviving
relatives by way of compensation. Il
is a simple thing.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Says the Now York Post: Balti'
more is becoming frightened at the
loss of trade with the country to the
southwest of it as far as Tennessee.
There was a time when the merchantt
of the city waxed fat from the profit
of this trade, but 1t has been diverted
elsewhere by tho extensions of the
Norfolk and Western and the Shenan'
doah Valley Railroad, in which Balti
more capitalists hold only an insignif'
icant interest. New cities and new
industries are springing NJ like the
prophets gourd in the territory men,
toned, so that for Baltimore not to
have its finger in the pie is serious
matter. This conviction camo home
with humiliating force during the
decennial celebration of Roanoke re-
Gently. Here is city whose popula
ton has increased in ten years from
400 to 25, 900. 1t is full of energetic
business men, and one industrial es.
tablishmcnt is being added TO another
as fast as it can be built. Roanoke
boasts that in another ten years it,
population will have risen to 100, ,OO0
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

New York business men are greatly
worried over the lack of warehouse ia
cilities. The great bulk of the freight
in New York has to be hauled on trucks
from piers to warehouses in the city, and
35, 900 trucks are kept busy at cost oI
S35, ,000,0 900. In consequence of this
extra tax, business is going to Brooklyn,
Jersey City and Staten Island.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

A WRITER in the arena thinks the
most serious defect in our public
school system is "the Overwhelming
preponderance of women's influence"
in teaching He is not opposed TO
women teaching, but insists that in
order to secure symmetrical develop
ment there should be u much larger
proportion Of male teacher.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

The recent British elections have cos
S12, 900, 900. Every shilling has to bt
accounted for in sworn statements. Ac
cording to the Chicago Herald, corrup-
ton of voters has been rendered almost
impossible by the stringency of the re-
formed elections legislation.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
A. D. Bishop and family have

A. D. Bishop and family have livet
upon their ranch south of Orange, ir
California, for eleven years. In tina
time, AYERS the San Francisco Chronicle
there has never been day when there
were not at least three kinds of fruit rip'
on the ranch, and they have sometimes
been able to gather twelve varieties Of
ripe fruit in one day.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Inspectors in the Adirondacks report
that more deer die from starvation than
from any other cause. They have been
so well protected of late years by the
New York State authorities that they
have multiplied beyond the capacity o.
the woods to sustain them.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Tho difference between tho United
States and Mexico is strikingly shown,
remarks the Now York Witness, in
the fact that with US % per cent. Of
the entire population are in school; 10
Mexico, ouly four per cent
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

A Hungarian journal quotes a list
of fourteen cases of suicide in single
regiment of engineers US proof of tho
bad treatment of the men by the Off
GERS of the Hungarian army.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

The use of the bicycle in Msssachu,
sets has brought about reform move.
mert looking to the permanent improve
ment of the roads.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Poplar trees are being cut down In
Fresno county, California, because
they draw too much on the fertility
of the soil.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

1t is stated that there are so, 900, 900
volumes in the public libraries Of
America, while there are but 2l,OOO,-
in Europe.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

The advancing civilization of China is
demonstrated by the fact that an un-
popular shopkeeper was dynsmited
there.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
VOL. Xxx.
Essex County Herald.

Frank Leslle's Weekly notes that the
tide OF immigration continues to pow IN
upon US with unabated volume.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
BOSTON LETTER.
Dog Day DullneSs at the MetrOp-
oils.

Messenger Boys Strike and Act Like
Press-Suggestiye Statistical southern
Woman's Insult Collecting Political
Ammunition Uncle Tom Once More
Notes and Gossip.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Uncle Sans biggest job in the house
keeping line Is the care of the Capitol,
on which he expends $65, 900 year.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
ESSEX County Herald.
8.H. BISHOP, Publisher.
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
ISLAND POND, VT.
TERMS. s1.50 Per Year. In Advasce.
MASONIC DIRECTORY.

lsLAxp PoSD LODGE, No, ~, r. q A. n
Stated c, mmunications tho second MOI
day in eaoh month
KEYSTONE CHAPTER, No. 10, R A. NJ
Stated ConvocatIons the hIst Monday 10
each month.
VERMONT COUNCIL, No %, r & 8. NJ.
STATED Assemblies arst Monday in each
month
NORTH SrAh CnArTKB, No Is, T. T. S.
Sat Meetings the third Monday In each
month
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
PROBATE COURTS.

Probate Courts, within and for the Distric
II Essex, will be holden until otherwise or
bored. as follows:
At the Probate Office In Guldhall on the
ID Tuesday Of each month
AT West Concord on the lst Tuesdays Of
Banuary and July.
At Island Pond on the 1st Tuesdays of
February and August.
Al Lunenburgh on the 1st Tuesdays Of
March and September.
At Canaan on the lst Tuesdays Of April
md October.
AT Gallups Mills In Victory on the lSt
Tuesday in MAY.
At Bloomfield on the lst Tuesdays Of June
md November.
c. f. BENTON, Judge.
Guildhall, December lst. 1890
usu'Sk s,A.rs.~
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

ESSEX LoDoE, No. Is Meets every Thurs
day evening.
Hos ENCAMrMENT No. 4. Meets second
and fourth Tuesdays of each month.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

The mines of New Zealand haW
turned out $3.50 900, 900 of gold.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

EKLsrUs BUCK osT, No 7a Meets each
Flldyy on or before the full Of the moon
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

Notes aud Gossip.
The Columbia Theatre will open Satdr'
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19

EnAsrus Buck. No, So Dept Of Vermont
Nr's 4ltsrnat" Thursdays
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
More Political Ammunition Forth
coming.
nIrnclc Tnm's Cnbin."

To those of our younger generation who
are capable OF dlvesting the drama of its stage
effects and see beyond them, the revival Of
,'Unce Toms Cabin" will be source not
only of historical Information, but lasting
lesson OF the inbuman cruelty which slavery
inflicted upon the coorcd people of this
country in aNte,bellum days. The produc-
ion Of this play Mt the Boston Theatre will
fford rare opportunity to witness this old
ime drama in its most realistic form and It
no doubt will be greeted with big houses
turing its blief engagement.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1892-08-19
tlnt-ola" Livery connected with the House

na q ols Hotel Is pleasantly located in one OF
Ma most nourlshing villages In Northern
o"ot T hampshire, anS having been thor
IrtE,y relurnished and reHtted, offers great
Huucemena to Summer Tourists Tbs
~ sG sn 10 ntted throughout with sssam AssA
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
WILL CLEVELAND DECLINI?

CLRvELAND's votes that are now certain for
him arc more than two-thirds from States
that will not give him q single electoral vote
if he is snominated.-Chtca1o Inter Ocean.
COLONEL WATTEEsoN ''has no positive in
formation" that Mr. Cleveland will decline
Democratic nomination if called on to
take it. OF course not.-Sk. Louis Republic.
CLEVELAND may decline to allow his namo
to 90 before the convention, but if he does it
will be after he is convinced that the nom-
ination is beyond his reach.-Snn Jose Times.
THERE is a revival of the report that Mr..
Cleveland will shortly publish a letter of
withdrawal The story interests the marines,
but nobody else is excited over it.-Nel0 York
Press
ACCORDING to the New York Sun Cleveland
is the fullest man physically that ever ran
for President. 1t cannot be true, therefore,
that he Is going to retire in favor of Fuller
Detroit Journal.
A FEW days ago the Cincinnati Enquirer an
nounced that Mr.. Cleveland had withdrawn
from tue Presidential field. 1t now seems to
be in order for our valued contemporary to
inquire again. Chicago Mal.
The ru:nor that Grover Cleveland Will
follow the example of Samuel J. Tilden and
decline the Presidential nomination when
once lie has it fairly won, deserves first prize
as the most improbable political reorback
of the year, Cleveland Leader.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
AN AMERICAN MISSIONARY
Gives His Views OF Chinese Immigration in
aLetter to Blaine.

Gives His Views of Chinese Imu,pratIon In
A
Letter to b aine.
w,syrxoror Nov 1a-Tba foI1ow,no,ott.r
"A'n'e ~, , 10y 80 ins ie''or
has been addressed by DIR. ID. j. MacGowan,
for manv wears an American mfssionarv in
C,,,no e. Uon Jon,a. pIaina Trn;.aa
States Secretary of State, through the Con-
enI Cenarol at SHANGHAI and the ITn,tod
ra.;o, ~ pnIs;n -'eo
su.Soz., M.r,,,,
I-IN''.nA., Hi".en Ole
sIR-Lest 1t be considered presuinptious In me,
private citizen in China to address the chief Of the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
A VETERANS ENDING,

The fact that the veterans of the Civil
War are rapidly passing away is brought
close to us again by the sudden death of
General Thomas A. Rowley in this city.
The death of the veteran of two wars, who
was active in local politics before the last
war, was not unnatural at his advanced
age; but he had borne his years with So
much vigor as to make the sudden termi-
nation of his life unexpected to his many
friends.
General Rowley's career was one of
those which are dear to the public. A
veteran of the Mexican War; then use
full and leading citizen in times of peace;
and after that a prominent officer in the
Civil War, rising through his steady ser
vice with the Army of the Potomac to the
command of division, he had record
which is rarely equaled for steady and
constant public service He died tull of
years and honor. His memory will receive
the tribute of all, and especially that of
his comrades in arms.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
PERTINENT PERSONALITIES,

SENATOR COKE, of Texas, never wears a
cravat, but revels in a beard which makes
its absence entirely unnoticeable.
JAY GOULD and party has arrived at Las
Vegas. NO newspaper or other citizens as
yet have attempted to intrude on his pri.
vacy.
MARION CRAWFORD has made an limo.
vation and attempted to heal time e-honored
breach by dedicating his last novel to his
publisher.
GOVERNOR MCKINLEY, of Ohio, arrived
in Washington yesterday morning. He won't
to meet Mrs. Mckinley and they left for Co
lumbus last night.
JOHN H. BERRY, the one-legged Senator
from Arkansas. is noted for his fondness for
billiards and is said to be one Of the most
skillfui players in Washington.
GENERAL LoNGsTREEr has become very
infirm with advancing years and Is so deaf
that all conversation with him has to be car
ried on through an ear trumpet.
NINE. CARNoT, the wife of the Presi-
dent of the French Republic, is countess
in her own right, but like a sensible woman
hides her coronet under bushel.
SAMUEL KITsoN, the successful young
sculptor. has just finished a model in clay
for life bust OF Daniel Lothrop, which the
widow has pronounced to be absolutely per-
feet.
GUYvIAN GoRDER THOMPSON, of Grand
Rapids, Mich, has been appointed instructor
in Latin at Yale. He was graduated from
Denver University in 1883 and studied at
Yale. He succeeds Instructor C. A. Moore
who left Yale because of illness.
THE HON. A. c. PORTER, the American
Minister to Italy, arrived in Rome yester.
day. He expressed himself as highly pleased
that the dispute growing between Italy and
the United States over the New Orleans af.
fair had been adjusted in manner satisfac-
tory to both nations.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15

cowboys getting up fight on Broadway,
we simply laugh at it. Beyond that the
fact is that every one Of the allegations
in the article by Mr.. Kipling published in
The DISPATCH of a week ago, is to be
corroborated from the columns of the very
papers that are now reprehending. The
worst statements that he made are not
worse than are asserted concerning the
New York City government in the papers
of the metropolis every day. The main
criticism that could be made on his re-
marks is that his assertions concerning the
abuses and inef1ciency of New York City
government only presented old facts in
new language.
Plainly then the theory of the anti
Kipling indignation in New York is that
Tammany and anti Tammany agree that
the hated unnaturalized foreigner must
say nothing unpleasant about US. The
man and his wife may quarrel; but if the
outsider steps in and tells the man that
his wife is a shrew or the wife that her
husband is coarse brute they will turn
again and rend him.
This may be natural enough. Never
theless the best way to keep the stranger
within our gates from making unpleasant
epigrams is to abolish abuses if they exist,
and to refrain from asserting them if they
do not
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
SCIENTIFIC PROGRESS.

The possibilities of electric lighting in
the future as expressed in the theories of
Nikola Tesla, in connection with the use
Of the new discovery of carborundum, are
extremely expansive and glowing. Elec-
tric lamps operated without any wires at
all; an inexhaustible store of electrical
energy on tap everywhere without need Of
either generation or transmission; the
distribution of 100, 900 volts without diff
Guilty; and twenty times the efficiency of
our present electric lamps will be very
wonderful things-when they are done.
1t is a matter of interest to know that
such things are expected by an electrician
of worldwide fame; but with regard to all
such expectations an ounce of demonstra-
ton is worth several pounds of theory.
There are more tangible though some
what less magnificent results from the
actual development in Western Pennsyl-
vania industries of the new material
carbOrundum, the qualities of which are
enlarged upon in the same connection.
A material that in addition to its value
for electrical lighting has the industrial
uses-Set forth in the article is a valuable
addition to our industries. 1t has been an
abstract rather than practical idea in the
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
AN IMMENSE CORPORATION.

The consolidation Of the various firms
and companies heretofore known as the
Carnegie interests, under a single cor
porate organization, the details of which
are given in this issue, furnishes striking
illustration of the magnitude of this lead
ing industrial establishment Its extent
is far-reaching, taking in the principal
share of the Connellsville coke business
on the one hand, and extending on the
other to important iron ore interests in
Western Pennsylvania. Its greatest prop
erty, however, is here in Pittsburg, includ-
ing the great establishments at Homestead
and Braddock, the Keystone Bridgeworks
and the group of rolling mills and fur
Daces known as the Carnegie concerns be-
fore their founder extended his operations
to the field in which he has since become
famous.
This consolidation is not in any way the
creation of combination or monopoly. All
the concerns have been allied in manage
ment and ownership for years. The change
is mainly in organization, bringing together
under single corporate control the iron
ore, coke, pig iron, bar iron, structural
iron, bridge and steel manufacturing con-
Germs which have been under practically
the same management for long time.
The substitution of the corporation for
ownership by firms, is understood to imply
Mr.. Carnegie's retirement from active
business, and the succession to complete
of Mr.. H G. Frick, whose
rise to a commanding position has been
hardly less remarkable than that of Mr..
Carnegie himself.
When we remember that these immense
industries have all been created within the
of men yet young, and some of
the greatest of them, within the two past
decades, the magnitude of the property
brought under the consolidation is a re-
markable indication of the development
of Western Pennsylvania.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-05-15
EVOLUTION OF LAKE CRAFT

The evolution of the new form of lake
vessel, illustrated by the whaleback and
variations Of it, forms the subject of a
special article elsewhere. The peculiar
conditions which led to the creation Of
these novel forms of water craft, in con-
trast to the accepted models for ocean
navigation, appear in the article, and need
not be repeated here.
The construction Of the new form of
vessels has a double interest for Pittsburg.
In the first place, the abolition of the keel
so increases the tonnage that can be car
ried on a given draft as to equally enlarge
the availability of ship canals. That is, if
the proposed canal would command a
large traffic with Is feet of water on the
old models, the possible tonnage that
could be moved by the new models would
be materially enlarged and transportation
proportionately cheapened. Beyond that,
the industry of building these vessels as
at present constituted creates large con-
sumption of Pittsburg's leading staples,
and if connection between the rivers and
lakes were opened, an immense industry
Of building such craft might be established
on our rivers. In both respects the de-
velOpment of lake navigation by new
craft has vital bearing on the future of
our city