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From the Vermont Mercury.
STATE SCHOOL FUND.
No.. 2.

In previous number we have said, that
the Stale school fund owed its origin TO the
Old Vermont State Bank, ard that the act
Of 1875. establishing that fund, was design
ed as shelter 10 protect the scattered frag-
menrs of that institution.
The act constituting this fund provides,
that, until the same shall amount 10 a sum,
which shall yield an annual interest OF in
come, sufficient 10 defray the current expen.
SEES Of keeping free good common school,
in each district in the several towns, for
period of Two MONTHS it shall not be ex-
pended or appropriated to the use of COM
mon schools. Admitting the number of
towns in the State 10 be 240, and allowing
II districts to each town, ami S5S 81 as
the expense of keeping a good free common
school for two months in each year, and Il
would require capital of S4.000,000 yield
ing an interest of per cent. per annum,
making no deductions for loss or expense
of managing the fund, before the people of
this State could expect TO realize any Of the
benefits, contemplated in the establishment
of this fund. The Auditors report in the
Treasury department, in Nov. lS4l. show
ed the fund, in round numbers, 10 be STA
900. 1t had then been accommodating sixteen
years, ard it would require flty-fve years
more. before that sum, at compound interest,
making no allowance for loss or expense,
would amount 10 81 OO0,00 or very near
ly. This sum would be required, TO yield
the necessary amount of annual Interest,"
In lhls Calculation no allowance is made for
Increment OF population, though al the rate
OF increase, as exhibited by the census, for
the last twenty years, it would have accu-
mulaied more than twenty per cent. This
possible Increment Of population, and The IN.
definite sum required TO keep school two
months in the year, may possibly outrun the
yearly additions made to the fund. and thus
much farther delay the period, designated
for the distribution"
In 1912 the nominal amount of the fund
was SI64,966 70, and the debt due The fund
from the State was S151.4l 0S which de-
Quoted from the nominal amount will leave
the sum of 1884, 10, as the present actu.
al available amount of the fund. Eighteen
years have elapsed since the nucleus of this
fund was established and here we have the
actual result, of accumulation, unless we
add The S15l,4l7 0s being the debt due that
fund by the State. But there is no more
pFopriety in considering that debt as part
ofthe fund, than ofinventorying mortgage
of a mans farm, as a part of the mort
gager's property. In both cases the mon.
ey is used, expended, gone, and not 10
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AGRICULTURAL.

LARD OIL MANUFAcTURE.-It gives us
pleasure to learn by the Cleveland Herald.
the demand for lard oil is fully equal TO the
supply. One establishment in that city. that
of Mr.. Stafford, consumes twenty barrels
of lard day. Instead of making a large
amount of stearine Mr.. S. extracts a portion
of the oil, and then converts a good share of
the balance into refined lard for family use.
Mr.. Stafford was one of the first TO engage
in this new branch of dom este manufactures
at the West and from his experience in the
business he expresses full conviction that
it will be second in importance only TO
the manufacture of flour. Lard oil manu-
factories are being erected in all the princi-
pal towns in the great corn growing regions
of the Union and we venture to predict that
our annual crop of nearly five hundred mil
lion bushels of corn, which can easily be in
creased to one thousand millions. will soon,
in the shape of oil. refined lard, lard butter
and stearine, he second only TO cotton in val
ue. on the list of American exports. EXpe-
rience, aided by the ever increasing light of
science has already enabled those prosecu
ting this new branch of business TO make
great improvements in simplifying the whole
process. That in the first attempts of per-
sons unacquainted with the details of the va
rious operations to be performed, they should
Mt the outset ia !, or make and inferior arti-
Gle is far less extraordinary, than the fact
that so many hundreds, under such circum-
stances, should have succeeded so WE'LL
Buff Pat. and Jour.
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COMMUNICATION.
For the Peoples Press.
THO MSONIANISM IN VERMONT.

CONCLUDED.
9Th, The medical profession has under
gone another change" 1t seems then, ac-
cording to his own confession, that the poor
ignorant Thomson and his illiterate fol-
lowers, have already changed the popular
practice of medicine, in spite of all the OPP
position, persecution, prosecutions, impris-
onment and chains Of the regulars and their
coadjutors.--Surely truth is mighty and
will prevail
9th, "The Thomsonian system lays "a
side every theory and improvement of all
preceding ages, and establishes theory of
its own. Is it not time, we ask, for this to
be done, since it is a notorious fact that they
are and always were founded in error, and
good for nothing? Why then find fault
with Thomsonians for laying all such abb
surdities aside DR.. L. NJ. Whiting in an
annual address at Pittsfeld Mass holds the
following language--"The very principles
upon which most of what we called the the
cries involving Medical questions have been
based. were never established They are
and always pere false, and consequently.
the superstructures built upon them, were
as the baseless fabric of vIsion--transient
in their existence-passing away before the
introduction of new doctrines and hypothe.
ses, like the dew before the morning sum-"
(See Boston Med. Ser. Journal vol. IA page
1885, because all systems which have
hitherto been promulgated, have been
false and consequently transient, it by no
means follows that there may not be found
one which will stand tower of strength,
mistaken by the rude shock of Propositions
bursting wave, through all succeeding time;
and such a theory it is conceived. may and
will be formed Of disease" (B. Med & Sur.
Journal page 1867 ''lf this is true state
ment of the case, land let him who doubts
it take up the history OF medicine) if that
enormous mass of matter which has been.
time out of mind accommodating, and which
has been christened medical science, is in
fact. nothing but hypothesis, piled on by
potheses who is there among us that would
not exult in seeing it swept away at once
by the bosom Of destruction" (B. M. & s.
Journal page ls7-S)-So much for the ties.
timony of DR.. Whiting on this point--that
the old systems are all false-that all ought
to rejoice at seeing them swept away at
once" ...-'
9TH, The writer charges the Thomsoni>
ans with denying the necessity of knowl.
edge of Anatomy, Physiology Pathology"
&c. and then asks as not this true % We
answer No. True Thomson found in the
beginning ofhis practice. that he could cure
his own family and that of his neighbors,
after the learned doctors had given them
over TO die; and from this he inferred that
a knowledge of these fundamental branch
es of medical science, was not indisPensi-
bly, necessary in order to cure the sick.
9Th, Again he complains of Thomsonians
"bringing the science of medicine, down to
the comprehension Of the most iliterate.
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A SCENE, MoURYFUL EUT SUBLIME.-One
of the missionaries al the Sandwich Islands,
giving an account ofthe recent seizure of the
Islands by the British, states the following
particulars ofthe last act in this affair,so dis
graceful to the men by whom this surrender
was basely compelled.
After the king had finally given his reluc-
tant consent to the cession, nothing remain
ed to be done but the signing of the papers.
When the last act was to be performed,
an affecting scene occurred. The chiefs sat
silent for season in sadness, struggling to
suppress the emotions of their heavng
breasts One proposed prayer. They all
kneeled down and prayed, and after the
prayer was closed. they all remained kneel-
ing for several minutes. After they arose,
the King and Premier stepped forward
and with aching hearts ceded away their is
lands by subscribing the requisite proclama
ton"
If this act of the British officer is approx
ed by his government, we trust that the his
torian in recording the victory of England
over King Kamehameha, will not forget 10
write down the incident we have here rela
ted. A few years ago this islam |, king. and
his subjects were heather. Under the influ-
ence of Christianity they have been raised
to the enjoyments of liberty and civilization,
and in the very Infancy of their new exist
ence they are summoned to surrender their
all to foreign masters at the mouth of the
British cannon.-N. Y. Obs.
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uncovered, the one in the centre hearing a
crucifx, and the others consecrated candles.
Then followed the Right Rev. Bishop Fen
wick, Bishop of Boston. in his full canonic-
ais; the heavy mitre, purple robes, and
flowing suTplice. Then Is priests and
choristers, and as many boys dressed as
those described above.
The ceremonies of Latin prayers and
chants were performed with solemnity and
effect, the Corner Stone was sprinkled a.
bove and below with Holy water. placed by
the Bishops own hand, and amid another
choral chant he struck it the formal blows
with the mallet, the moment Of which was
announced to all around by the discharge
of signal cannon"
An address was delivered on the occasion
by the Rev. DR.. Pise.--Ch. Watckman.
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III. BELL, Editor and Proprietor
MISCELLANEOUS.
THE POETESS AT NIAGARA.

D there are moments in our pilgrimage
Over LIES barren waste, that will repay
Long years of gloom, and lend nerve to wage
New warfare with the ills before us, when
The storm lowers darkest and the fierce array
Of evil fates rise spectre-like again
To vex and try us ;-moments that do give
The life of Life, and make it good to live.
Love, Friendship, Nature with their strong control
And all things good, and beautiful, that speak
The voice Of God unto the soul,
Do grid with strength the unstable and the weak,
And lead us on, fresh-panOplied to strife,
Against the many grefs of this our hayward life!
THUS, and with thoughts yet mrevealed, 1 unused
As my a gentle maiden leaned,
And my colo heart that sick, and torn and bruised,
From earth, and earth's poor joys was almost
weaned,
Burned with new fire; for Natures wonders then
KindIed to life my half-quenched soul again.
i sought Niagara with that stranger-girl,
Painting to glze upon the maddened whirl
OF the wild waters, and felt a love
For Natures self, and yet deep for her
Whom then deemed her fondest worshpper.
Musing on her riy thoughts where raised above
The trials of this life, and made to stir
With new emotions. Was she not a child
OF Poesy,-a pilgrim to the shrine
OF Nature, joyng with a joy divine
In the unfettered freedom Of the wild
Rock-cleaving cataract.-the thunder's jar,
Or Oceans pillows when they boil around
The high-walled capes, that sentinel the bound
OF his dread empire stretching wide and fart
1t must be so, or why alone to seek
Scenes so sublime! to gaze where they who come
May strive in vain the souls full thought 10 speak,
And even GENIUS weeps that she is dumb?
Now had we paused upon the quivering height,
Where but one step would spread the glorious sight,
In all its wild sublimity, before
The astonished gazer. An eternal roar,
As if rung out from demon choirs in Hell,
Came from the dark abyss, and surge on surge
The northern Numbered frem the verge
Of mountain cliffs, and pouring heOdlong, fell
Crashing and splintering on the rocks below,
Piercing far downward, till the foods recoied,
And round the gulf in foaming frenzy boiled,
Like waves of fire around the gulf of woei
We turned and gazed together down the steep,
NV whole soul thrilled to think how hers would leap
With its sublimest ecstacy. She raised
Her lily hands.-AIl fired listened, gazed,
Her red lips moved,-one moment Of suspense,
My soul, how burned it with a fire intense,
She spoke, "La nc! Ni-GA-ra Falls is metty,''
And did live drought all to wrile this ditty.
E. ID. H.
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WHEAT CRoP IN WIsCoSsIN.-The South
port Telegraph of June 9th, says: "The
prospect of an abundant wheat crop in the
Territory was never as flattering as at the
present time. 1t is believed that unless some
unforeseen injury should destroy the prospec-
tive crop now on the ground, the quantity
harvested the present year in Wisconsin will
he double that of any preceding year. The
only apprehension which we have learned,
is, that some of the farmers in Walworth
county are fearful that the wheat now on
the ground will be so rank as TO cause it to
lodge, and thus blight the Weld. The chilly
aeathcr. the present spring. which has been
uniavorable TO corn and most kinds Of veg>
citation, has been favorable to the growth
Of wheat"
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Bristol Vt. June l. 1913.
THE JESUIT'S COLLEGE AT
WORCESTER.

On the 2lst inst. the corner stone of a
new College, to be under the care of the
Jesiuits, was laid with due solemnities by
Bishop Fenwick. The Daily Advertiser
publishes an account of these ceremonies
from the pen of some one evidently in the
confidence ofthe Catholics, and from which
one might infer that College under the di-
rection of Jesuits was very harmless, and
very desirable thing very fit place for
the education of the youthful descendants
of New England Purtans-just the place
TO make republicans of the first stamp
Twenty thousand dollars are to be expended
this season. in erecting suitable edifce,th
foundation of which is already laid.
We submit from the communication al.
luded TO, the following extracts:
"The morning was very fine and propi-
tious, and procession was formed at the
St. James School, to go TO the ground upon
which the building has been commenced.
This is upon bill commanding charming
prospect of Worcester and ITS environs, and
as the procession, with its priests and boys
dressed in their canonicals, wound up thro'
the valley, its steps measured by the solemn
chant, the effect was as striking as it is in
this country uncommon. The procession
reached the hill at about II o'clock At
its head were the girls and boys of the
school of st. James, then followed the wo.
men and men of the Irish Washingtonian
Society, with snowy badges. and then the
clerical part of the procession, which fear
in my ignorance, l may not describe in fit
phrase. First came three boys, dressed
in red stuff tunics, with white muslin over.
garments with flowing sleeves, their heads
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be recovered, but by the same slow pro-
cess. by which the one was earned. and the
other accumulated. But it is said the state
owes the fund. Be it so, but let us look at
the subject as il will be found TO be in prac.
lice. The State debt has no resources but
IN direct taxation, and the amount of this
debt, If ever paid TO the fund is TO be raised
de moro, and thus leaving us, So far as the
debt is concerned, precisely in tho same
place whence we ssaned. III from the data
assumed in the Auditors Repor; of IS43 it
will require "a years for Sl64.OOO, at com.
pound interest to amount 10 100000 it
Will require something more than 260 years
for The present available residue oftha, fund
10 amount 10 That sum, as may be seen by
ally one, who will take the trouble TO make
the calculation. 1t is assumed in this calcu-
ation. that subsequent legislatures shall ex.
tend TO The fund the same pdterndl protec-
ton which ii has received for the last
eighteen years. Should the legislature
adopt course Of taxation TO pay off this
debt 10 the fund, the mere expense ofcoect-
ing the tax at per cent would be SI0,599
"a. This sum would be sunk in Attachments
and in collectors fees and would never reach
the fund. The tax paying community will
therefore be called upon to advance Sl62,>
DIG 70, 10 reinsiate the school fund in the
position, II would have occupied but for the
loans TO the State. for building the State
house and for expenses other, than The or
binary expenses of government. The IA
cility of obtaining money is fruitful occa.
sion of extravaganza in governments, as
well as in individuals. But for the aid of
the school fund, the expenses Of erecting TIE
State House could not have been met. A
fund, accessible BY the Legislature, will be
ever ready 10 encourage that body to make
liberal appropriations, for any object strong.
ly commanding itself 10 their judgment OF
synpaihies. When a government has no
other resources 10 supply ITS pecuniary ne
cessities than direct taxation. 10 expense
ought to be incurred by the legislature.
which would not justify direct tax upon
the people,
AUDITOR.
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NorE.-Readerl are you vexed at this
"most lame and impotent conclusion p
Well don't swear; that's wrong: don't
kick us; leave that to the critics; but If you
are provoked, sympatize with us.and thank
fortune that your disappointment cost you
less than ours by great sight The sto'
~ is fact, and so it's 10 fault of ours if it
doesn't suit. AUTHOR.
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@The receipt of the intelligence of the
death of Mr.. Legare created the deepest
and most intense sorrow at Charleston
lately his residence. All the Courts adj
Journed after brief addresses in honor of his
memory. by members of the bar, and
public meeting was called for the purpose
OF paying the tribute of public respect. TIb.
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lNDIANA.-The Election in this state
takes place on the first Monday in August,
as in Alabama, Kentucky, Illinois, and Mis-
souri,. North Carolina and Tennessee
vote on the first Thursday. Tribune.
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LoUIsIANA.-The election for Representa-
tIves in Congress from this State will take
place in the first week of July. The candi-
dates are:
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AUDITOR.

*Within the last seven years the legislature has
appropriated for bounty of crows $4,l97 ~
Z" destruction of coons Al 90
60 Fox 1880 rs
Wolves 800 90
Bears & cubs LOOP 90
Extra Military expe" ses Is TO 40
1" Deaf, Dumb and Blind, and
Insane poor 81 297 95
Survey of rail road up Conn. River 5000 90
Besides for building State House.
which cost the State exclusive of
$4,000 paid by the village of
Montpelier lI7I77 %
Making the aggregate 1886 IS
The debt due the school fund, amount
ingtO sI5I,4I7Os
was sunk in these appropriat ions.
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LoCos.
John Slidell,
Alcee Labranche,
John B. Dawson,
Gen. P. E. Bossier.
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WINGS.

George X. Rogers,
Edward ID. White ,
James Belam,
John Moore.
Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1843-10-05

Mr. Jopx r. REMISSION, Whose useful inrrn-
tio1s ia other drpaftments ~ scienre we have
heretofore noticed. has EecshiEy tsksn outs pa
teal Tor Coffee Psl.1Which bids fair to sappiy
most important desidefainm ia thecnlinaiy All.
we had the pleasure LAST evening. Of paf:akine
IL cop of splendid eoGee. prepared 10 il, and
arr lhoroushly coasinced thai His fayoriie bet-
craze, and " a superior slfeaeih snd flavor, can
befbade al less lhas one half.the expense iacar-
fed by iheold process 10 plodneiSs The gapid
deeoetion n<naii1 served Up 70 rs The imptnve-
ment consists IN arresIng AID enndens:ng the
voistile princip.e OF aroma Of he berry. which.
BY the usual process Of bollisg passes of with
HE steam ofeEaporsiien, or ehen merely ilier-
Cd fails 70 ereatextent &c Icing evolved. By
simple process The steam s eetdeR~ed Is faSl
as il IS eysporsled. and reiutped into the poi.
thus preserving is entire s;rene,h- The saving
demonstrated By actual experiment. Is over Cry
per cent one hall The 1lsuiity of he berry. uSst
10 he old process, suficing y produce the sans
amounts0s coffee. Of equal slrrtgIh aud far suPs
10. favor. The eost Of manufacturing scof
Zee boiler Of this description i hat ltIle more
that for an ordinary one. HeiLiagioi Spectator
The approach of frosty ve9lhes gives a pccu
liar relish 10 good hot coaee. and Sc. Remins-
tons invention seems to be ihe very Thing FOL
producing this beverage 10 perfection We hep'
SIR. Rs1iIII,end his ce6se steamer 10 this difec
lion. and give Us an epponuEiiy u testing III
Yaiue or the invention.
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: CLAY IN PESSsYLvAxIl.
EELraei q ! leller nom d ialeiL.rtnl ,ourcI


''As regards national politics, there can be no
installing the way Ire banner Goars in The breeze
upon which is isncEioed uENRY CLAY. Each day
adds fresh accessions 10 The already large mum.
Der Of warm and deyotedly attached friends " he
hock around his standard, aud consider j, glory
enough to do battle under the broad pennan, Of
so gallant stalesman--so unequalled civilian
Although We nigh, say, as regards Pennsylvania,
! Ephraim is joined 40 his idols; lei him aldne;',
Yeti tell you that she-wiIl give him such vote
as vii! aston ish even his most sanguine friends.
Ehe struggle is not fairly begun, and vet large
angmentalions are beipg daily made 10 the side of
correct PRINCIPLES. The Anti Masonic psrl Of
The community, who form large and respecta-
bic portion, are giving in their adhes ion 10 the
cause Of Clay-and ere long, The grea, Anti Van
Beren party Of 1870, in ,PennsYlvania--they who
defeated and overwhelmed with shame The Ma
sician-will be found with amor bright. mar
sSaled BY the same courageous and t rtunale
Captains, under whom they gathered trophies Ia
The last engagement. presenting a solid ami M
broken phaanx; and, with the same invincible-
spirit. will be again able to sag with The memora-
Die Commodore. We have mel the enc nv, .and
they are ourSsn
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TnE eENTINEI ALARMgD.

{ The ediier Of The Riehmene Enquirer seems b
~ means Disposed p think a. lshnI Of he
Wing REPRESENTATIONS . sons 81 bis coadiulOrs
sHeci . ~. He does moi n,ler void about
ssips 70 sleep. 2 - he raid he could DO when
csn. HarffsOn vas nominaied lie ENDS The
Wing ffsa buraiss brightly. and heir is.shsiiy
1larn,s him Helms give. pafbing e MS scat
,<itd and cpnfateh btsiaiions
ave v1Bch the movements II he Wings, ana
Ell our Republican friends frankly. We must
erase our disseniipns, and IL We carry on Ihe dis
cnSsion. must 81 sqndncled IN kinder spirit.
Let Is cease cur fe1ds. We say further, that
We must begin 70 arm and direct anf weapons
against The common enemy Asa portion Of
o1f organisation, We mpsi hight fire With fire
Axghe Wings mine. We must coun9r MINI. As
hey hold their csnrsnian n Ratification, 50 must
Ws.n