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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-11-05

GAIT! SALT 1000 bags Dairy Salt,
- 900 bush CRYSTAL Rock do. for grinding 5000 bush.
T l. and Canada do, at the DEror sronF and for sale
.bv STORRS & FULLER,
',r,r.h ~ 1873
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1858-11-05
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HHAINS AND NECK LACES
- Gold Guard. Vest and Fob Chains. Necklaces,
Lockcs, Sca large lot just received and to be sold at
reduced prices hy A. A. MEAD.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06

| DIED, in--,on the 4th inst,-,
aged-years.
Reader, do You weekly pass your eye
over those brief notices in your family
newspapers which announces the solemn
reality, that another of our race has pass
ed the confines of this world 2 And if
you do read those little records, do you
stop moment in your life journey to
ponder, aye, to think seriously of the full
import of such notices, brief as they are !?
And more-do you involuntarily shed
tear of sympathy for those who remain,
whose hearts have been wrung and whose
homes have been made desolate.
Perhaps your eye has just passed over
the announcement of the death of one
whose whole life and every energy had
| been exerted to gain some laudable posi-
tion in this world; "but all his ends have
come to naught when every nerve was
strained"-for heis dead He rests from
his labors, but the mourners 20 about
the streets. And who are those that
mournl Strangers to you-all of them.
You neither FnOw nor care for them per-
haps. Think one moment. A fathers
"a mothers, sisters and brothers. heart
have been riven, and the tenderest ties
known by mortals have been untimely
severed, for the dull grave echoes in icy
coldness their bitter sobs. And weep
not with them. Well, these records will
continue to be made, and many who now
live, will trace with careless eye and
thoughtless heal. the like notice of your
journeys end. Do you know where you
will fall, the time when, and the circum-
stances which will surround yoa then D.
Shall it be said over your grave. here
lies one who lived for self alone; there
is no tear to shed on his grave, for his,
heat was q stranger to sympathy De-
pend upon it reader, there is law which
no human tribunal can repeal, for it has
for its author being of sympathy. That
is the law of affnities and antipathies.-
Those who love are loved, and those who
love not are doomed to an eternal Or
phanage. Reader, when the BELLS sol
.emn toll tells of the departure of one of
the least of earth's children, if you can
not weep, be silent-be silent and re-
spectfdl.
The untamed brute Of the forest has a
quick ear to the wild cry Of despair Of
its kind. The hawk bears not away in
his cruel talons, one tenant u the groves,
without the deep lamentation of every
feathered songster Shall man alone be
cruel, and refuse to weep with those that
weep, and rejoice with those that rejoice?
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06

Three ragged, wretched topers stood
shivering upon street corner. Thev
had not penny between them, and nei-
ther had drink drop-within an hour
They debated the deeply interesting
question-how to obtain the next glass
of grog. After much miserable mutter-
ing over the poverty of the times, and
many impracticable suggestions, one of
them said:
81 have an idea ! Wen all 90 into
the next shop and drink"
Dr'uk" replied his companions !
that's easily sad but who's to pay
Nobody. Do as l tell you take
the responsibility.
Following the speakers directions, his
two companions entered an adjoining
rummery and called for whiskey SKINS
The place was kept by Dutchman--
After he had waited on his customers,
and while they were enjoying their or
thodox beverage at the counter, in walk
ed topper number one.
How are yea'--to the Dutchman-
How de do r. said the Dutchman.
Topper No. /. glanced suspiciously at
topper 2 and 8, and beckoned the proprie-
tor aside.
"Do you fnow those men 2" he asked
mysteriously.
The Dutchman stared.
81 know no more as dat dey call for de
whiskey SKINS" ~
Don't take any money of them,~
whispered No. |.
"Sirl l not take money for de whis-
key skins p said the astonished landlord
"No. They are informers."
Hey! Informers r.
Yes; they buy liquor of you so as to
inform against you" 7
"Ah ! / understand t!' said the
Dutchman man, "Dey not catch me-
Tank you, sir. Take some lin ?,
Il don't object;" and Topper No. /
drank with his companions.
WHAT'S to pay r. said topper No. 2,
putting his hand in his miserable empty
pocket,
Nothing. said the Dutchman. "Me
no sell liquor. Me keep it for. my
friends"
And having smiled the supposed infor-
mers out of the door, he manifested his
gratitude by generously inviting the sup
posed anti-infomers to take second
glass OF coerse No. did not decline
the invitation.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06
MEEssesBeE, MIX
SUIT Lovinsood at sicily BURNS Wedding
BY s. L., OF TENNESSEE.

"Hey, George rang out among
the mountain slopes; and on looking up
to my left, / saw Sut'' tearing along
down steep point, {" heading me of, y
in long Kangaroo-like slope, holding
his flask high above his head, and hat in
hand. He brought up near me, still ban
teringly shaking the half full ticker with
in an inch of my face, until the bead rose
to the corn-cob stopper. "Whar ye
gwine take suck, hoss. This yere
trucks old. kotch bit mysef hot this
mornin' frum the stillwum. Nara
dum'd bit owe strike-nine in hit put
that ar piece owe burnt dried peach in
misef tu give it culler-better nor ole
Bullin's plan: he puts tan ooze in what
he sells, an when that aint handy he mix
es leetle owe the red warter outen a
pond below his barn--makes a powerful
natral cutler, but don't help the taste
any. Then he korrects that with red
pepper. Hits an orful mixtV, that owe
hard-shell whisky owe ole Bullin's. lie
hes pisined nj onto three-quarters owe the
belevin part owe his congrigashun with
hit, an luther quarters gwine the same
road, eff his still-hous don't bum down
soon, ur he peg out hissef. Haint he the
durndest speciment owe walkin barrel
owe g-s ye ever seed enyhow2
Say, Georgy, dye see these here we'll
poles, what / use for legsl Well, |
passed EN- by each other purity peart
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06
Coffee and Milk.

We believe that it is almost univer-
sally admi tied by the most learned ply
sicians that the use of coffee is absolute
ly pernicious to persons in i'll health, as
we'll as injurious to those who are well.
1t no doubt lays the foundation of much
of the nervous arrangements and diseas-
es with which many are affected. The
following letter from distinguished ply
sician of Paris, to the editors of the Sci
eat;fc American, may be of service to
some of our readers, we therefore give it
place. Valley Farmer.
"Dr. ID. A. Caron, of Paris, has re-
Gently been engaged in investigating the
effects of breakfasting on this favorite
beverage, and from the results, he thinks
he is JUSTIFIED in asserting that the most
of the nervous and allied disorders which
affect the dwellers in cities are traceable
to this source. He further informs us
that when the coffee is mixed with milk,
its nutritious properties are nutralized he
cause of its fermentation being retarded.
Coffee and milk in bottle were twenty
seven days before they began to decom-
pose, while milk and sugar were only
three days. 1t is evident that the astrin-
gent properties Of the same time, the Ca
feme (er active principle of coffee) is set
free, and acts on the membrane of the
stomach in the same manner as vegetable
alkalies, producing most disastrous con-
sequences to the digestive apparatus. He
tried many experiments on himself and
friends, and found that in a few hours
the pulse was lowered from so to 6S,
from that it went down to Sc, when he
took some food and it Immediately rose
to rs. He concludes by informing US
that many cases of irritation, nervous
ness and hysteria have been entirely cured
up by gentle course of tonies, and Civ
ing up the use. OF coffee" As.s
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06

1t is not ol1en that we come across
more natural punning than will be found
in the following extract from a" Comical
Report of a Fish Convention" 1t is to
be understood that all the marine mons
tiers, big fish and "small fry" of the
great deep are as sembled in conclave-
the Whale in the chair"
Gle opened the convention by stating
that he did not wish to make speech /;
he would take up as little room, and be
no longer than possible.
{" Here the Shark whispered to the
Sword Fish that it was not possible for
the Whale to be much longer, as he was
over eighty feet now. in his opinion, he
only wanted a chance to spout; in fact
he considered him regular old blower.)
"The whale continued, and contended
that he had been grossly insulted by man
he might say, lampooned not that he
would pun upon the use made of his fat,
as he did not wish to make light of such
matter. He had been harpooned, at
least. Men were sarcastic toward him,
and their shai,s were sharp and pointed.
Some of his fellow-whales had been very
much cut up, and exceedingly tried. He
had lately learned that a substitute for
oil had been invented, which might less
en- the persecution Of whales-but he
feared it was all gas. The Whale allu-
ded to a harpoon which had lately hit
him it had made great impression on
him, and, he feared, had affected him
deeply.
"Here his feelings overpowered him,
and he sat down ION the Shark amidst q
general blubber
"The Shark rose with some difficulty,
and remarked that the tale of the whale
had moved him, in fact, it was very strik-
ing. His own situation was far from
pleasant. He was by profession law
ver and, he fiattered himself, one of the
deep kind. But business was bad, and
he had been obliged to take a few pupils.
He hae lately presented a fine opening
for young man who fell overheard, but
was soon afterwards obliged to reject his
suit as indigestible. Unless he had more
cases, he should leave the law and open
as dentist.
"The Sea-Serpent did not wish to in
trude. upon the Convention; he did not
know whether he properly belonged to
the fish tribe or not. All he asked was,
no. to be classed with the Eel, whouI he
considered to be very slippery charac
ter. (Here the Eel was observed to
wriggle yiolent'yl Lately he was lass
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06

ing CprtdlH species vi luc Ecl, NDoH
Just happened to touch him, he had beer
so shocked that he had hardly recovered
1.-THE Eel hastily arose, and said that
he was shocked--he might say electrified
at these remarks. 1t was evident to hin
that the Serpent must get himself into 9
coil. AS for his being slippery charac-
ter he thanked Neptrne he didn't be.
long to such a scaly act as the Serpent.
"The Whale called the Eel to order,
and the Eel called the Whale an 'old
swell head, and was then summarily put
out of the Convention.
"The Turtle said he was suffering
from light indisposition. He was walk
ing on shore, he said, short time since,
when he met parry of jolly young sal
lors. The result was that he was laid
fat on his back, and was unable to move
for some time, and since then he had not
felt so lively as usual. There was one
thing to which he would call the atten-
tion of the Convention he prided HIM
self upon the purity of his political prin-
ciples. He was the Alderman's best
friend. The Shark had lately insulted
him by calling him regular old Hard
She'll
"IIere the Shark interrupted him by
asking, is not that your case =
"The Turtle replied, that he should
say nothing more at present, but shorld
have something to lay before the next
meeting
"Yes,' replied the Shark, contemptu-
ously; , few eggs probably
"The Porpoise undertook to speak, but
was speedily silenced. The expression
of the Convention was, that he was a
blower
"The Small Fry were next called
upon-Oysters, Lobsters, and others
The Oysters opened his case, which was
hard one. He was always in trouble
perpetual stew or broil. His half broth
er, Clam, was disgrace to the family
always in liquor, and generally consider
ed squirt Some of his family were in
dolent, and spent most of their. time in
beds There had been some rakes
among them, who had created great dis
turbance.
"There was one Of his neighbors, he
said He would not call any names, for
he scomed scandal-who was very surly
and grabbed. He was a one-side indi-
vidual, and nobody approved of his mo-
ti0ns.
"The Grab protested against this
abuse, and said that the rest took advan-
tage of him because he was soft" He
respectfully retired backward.
1.-THE Goldfish, who had been visiting
school ; the Shad, much uet-tled at
what he had heard the aristoractic, Sal
mon, who got into row with York
State Trout, who called him Northern
Fish with Southern principles; and the
Flying Fish, who flew into tremendous
passion-all took part in the proceedings
of the Convention.
"But so it was, at least, as the erudite
Dogberry has it, that the whole assem-
bly, disappeared in good order notwith-
standing an attempt at disturbance made
by Jolly old Sole and lot of Suck
ers.
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06
THE CHURCH BELL.
When glowing in the eastern sky,
She Sabbath morning meets the eye,


And DER the weary, carc-wpll scene,
Cleans like the afk-dove's leaf ot green,
How welcome over hill and dale,
Thy hallowed summons loads the gale,
Sweet Bell Church Bell!
When earthly joys and sorrows end,
And toward our long repose we tend,
How slow thy mournful tone doth call
The wcepers to the funeral,
And to the last abode of clay,
With solemn toll mark out the way
Sad Bell Church Bell
If to the cline where pleasure reign,
We, through Saviors love attain,
If ever, to an angels thought,
Earth's unforgotten scenes are brought:
Will not thy voice that warned to prayer,
BE greatfully remembered there :
Blest Bell! Church belt!
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06
OKOLONA, MISS, MAY 6, 1858.

find buckils, stirups, straps ur sumthin
belongin tn ridin hOss.
Now about that hous ther wur good
time ginerally. Fellers and gals loped
ollten winders, they rolled outen the dores
in lunches, the clom the chimleys, they
hid onder the house, they tuck to the
thickct, they rolled in the wheat field, lay
down in the krick, and sum tuck it out in
good ole running toards home. Sicily,
she squaited in the spring up to her years,
and while she wer drowndin the mess Ov
bees onder her coats, went tn her sez
|, "yov got anuther new sensashun,
haint yer' "Oh, Sut, these bominablc
insex, there jis burnin me up" "Gin
um sum sody," sez !, ain brokin dostes,
that'ill cool en- off" She shot fire at
me outen her eyes, an ! thot I'd best 30.
Clapshaw crawled onder chaff pile in
the barn an tuk hit out in sighin and
groanin. Sicily and him didn't sleep tn
gether fur nj ontu a week, an all becase
of them ar hot-footed bominable insex.-
Thar warnt an oman ur gall at that ar
weddin, but whot thar stockins and frOcks
war too tte for two urdhree days. Bees
am wus on wimmen than men folks, eny
how, they hev farer chanse at EN-. Ov
all the burned misfortunate wedins that
hes happined since Adam married that
old heifer what wer so fond ov talkin tn
snaix an eatin appils doun til now, that
wun ov Sicily Burns an Passon Clapshaw,
was the durndest wust wun fur Mise, dis
appointment, breakin things, skare, trub-
bill, hurtin an vexashun ov spirit. They
wont gee tugether, mine that; got too
bad start.
You haint time to listen how ole Burns
| finished bis bull ride, and how | cum tu
du that lofty speciment ov runnin. III tell
that again. If any body axes arter me,
tell cm I'm over in Fannin, on my way tn
Dahhlonega, fur sum wun on EN- will bill
NE eff they koch me. Hits an orf1l thing,
George, tn be natral born duned fool.
You've never sperienced hit, hev ye 3
Hit hes made powlully agin our family !;
an all OWN to dad. orter jist bust my
he'd open agin a bluff ov rocks, an wud
du hit ef | warnt cuSsed coward. All
me penlence is in these yere laigs-dye
see EN- Ef they don't fail, | may turn
human yet sum day that is, sorter hui
man enuf tn be a squire, ur skool cum
ishiner. Eff wur jist as smart es I'm
mean an ornary, Id be President ov a
Wild Cat in week. Hes liquor riz
whar yuve been? Much on han!
The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-05-06
:POEsse sseERX. i.
Written for the Prairie News.
MARY.


Written for the Prairie News.
MARY.
BY ELYAG.
A lovely flower, in vale retired
Unheeding flattery or praise
Waiting patient to be admired
Stunning the crowds immodest gaze,
On its petals, delicate, we see -
The crimson tint, the roseats
And nectar sweetness tempts tfo~l
To cul, from it the honey DIVE.
Let Mary blame me not, because
her compare to alragile flower;
For boths designed, by Natures laws,
Alike to charm with magic power.
Not outward charms are hers alone;
For these bear but a minor part:
The kindly word--the Angel tone,
Bespeak for her loving heart
What though I'm called to journey far!
Away in other lands TO roam
IN think of her as the shining star
As the light of her humble home.
1t is a sweet, enchanting spot;
Near by streamlet wanders free
Where stands snowy, rural cot
The home of her who's dear to me.
This is the little cottage, where
The vines adoln its latticcd bower
Aud midst the blushing roses there,
Sweet Mary is the brightest flower
->~-
Much has been written about woman's love
but we doubt il ever that glory of woman
was ever so furcibly expressed in few words as
in the following stanzas, which we take from ar
English paper:
trose %apsAgpa asgs " rayps '.'ns ars.,..,
On the sea 80 Wild and rough;
Come to me tender and loving,
Aud shall be blessed enough
Where your sails have been unEuliug
What winds have blown on your brow,
know not, aud ask not, my darling,
So that you come to me now.
Sorrowful sinful and lonely,
Poor and despiscd though you be,
All are nothing, If enly
You turn from the tempter to nc.
OF men though you be unforgiyen,
Though priests be unable to shrive,
III pray till weary all heaven,
If only You come back alive.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-20
HARD TINES IN THE WEST.

Correspondence Of The n. Y Tribune.
WARREs, Lake County, ILL.,, April 7, 1873.
Here in the Northwest, 80 far as | am &C.
quained, the farmers have generally paid large por
ton of their debts TO the merchants and those that
have held to their grain will not have much surplus
pay ing their debts, there is
above the present prices aud there seems to be gen.
eral desire to squsre IF and be out of debt 80 thS
when oil the produce is marketed, it will leave no
money in the hands of producers. Merchants too,
generally decline credits. and farmers averse to
running Up store bills agan 40 that the only resource
is TO sGre what they have. This they do by wearing
tter OLD patched clothes, aud doing without such semi
recessares as ties, coffee, sugar and spices Farmer
whose farms are worth from S2,OOo 10 FooOo and
ylcse crops last year large have not been able
even to buy their wives shilliRgc6ftc0 dress, or
themselves mole than pair OF denlms Overalls u
cover up their rags and hold them on. These were
men who usually run up store bills OF IRON Sioo 10
$500 per annum This is not exsggerated It is but a
fair stat smen of affairs in general here Then, again
farmers have put in fewer acres and hired much less
help for they cannot make their crops pay Tor hired
help al anything near the present tgufes tor grain
The whole clas of mechanics ard aborer3 are IN the
same fix. Tley carnot buy Of the merchant II they
would, and generally would not if they could SO all
is dull-no trade, no buidirg, no improvement, and
no energy.
dull time until the farmer by suspended animation,
allows little money to collect around him And how
can our merchants sell their goods buy yours on tue
cash system Ard again, If the agricultural popula-
ton and those dependent upon them form any consld-
erabe portion OF the community, how can business
rapidly revive, as Mr. Seward prophesied thst is
how can the Eastern manufactures thrive they are
at all deper dent upon the rural population for mar
ket The agrculturists throughout the North-Wes
feel indignant at what they consider conspiracy
against their interests. Whether real or imaginary it
WILL think, be sslutiry as the whole panic has been,
in thus forcing the farmer of tho power of the
merchant by the adoption of the cash system 'gthom
cash fer we are literally soating Ourselves fot one
year from the last in hopes OF gaining strength by re-
Ire nchmert. | hope to see the day when the pro
ducer can claim reuunerang prices for his produce
for 10 spite of your philosophy, believe too cheap
bread may irjure nation. Is not the low price OF
produce the cause of the continuance OF dull times,
here et any rate if not at the East V.
New-York daily tribune., 1858-04-20

by coming into undivided Possession Of Holseiu. tae
motives Il future disputes removed the more ~
a. the House OF Gottop ienounced its c.ims to the
Ducby of Schleswlg. Six years after u77a) sso the
GiucksbUIg posseesoDs, at the deah of the l. Duke
d.volved by Inheritance on the Danish Crown; thus
all the small parcels which by earlier imprudent di.
visions had been separated from Denmark, becsme
now reunited to her, except the mall possession ofthe
DsIe of Augustenborg. According TO the treaties
and stipuatons above mentioned II is evident enough
that the King of Denmark rules t,e Duchies with the
same ril II as be does the Kingdom of Denmark her
self; and the revolutionary spirit now prevailing in
Ducbies is mainly fomented by ihe penidIous
Duke of Augustenborg, who for his high treas
ia bsoished from hi, Duktdom, aud now.
with the brand of traitor on mis- brow. is
travelling round IN Germany to fan the flames of war
az ainst his faheiland This spirit ought should il
ain bresk out in acts OF violence to be crushed by
the Danish army, which tlSiS, 49, so took such a..
tive steps in defense of Denmaks rights as TO show
the world that the Danes had not degenerated from
their ancient Lothem bravery. The. present King OF
DeLmark s, therefore, night in his d. sire OF securing
what irdspuably belongs 10 him. and has nothing 70
do with the Germanc Confederation but, in case of
war; 10 send 5000 men, by virtue Of his being Duke
of Holsttin, TO which Frederick VI b. the Congress
Of Vienna (lSl5), oorsented. Yours.
Rev. 7. CIR. SINDING Of Copeoha,eu