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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-25
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Three Great Lights.

M ANKIND have long been enguphed in darkness as re
MI CARDS the true of securing health,ridng the
human body from disease and preserving life. The sick
under the allacious treatment of the regular faculty. are
subject continued practice of probabilities and uncer-
antes There is nothing certain fixed in the treatment
of the Sick in either the old school of medicine
Dr. Railway has succeeded in producing three remedies
known to the world as Railways Ready Relief Renoyatng
Resolyent and Regulators. These remedies only
established facts nasmuch they have never yet failed
in their special compned efficacy in producing fruitful
and beneficial resus-but, they facts establishing
scence-as they have in all cases. when ried succeed
ed in restoring hea-and Kidding the body from dis
after all other medical treatment had aiedand the
most skfu physicians had given up the sick as beyond
the power of human means to cureand pronounced the
dreadful maniate-incurable.
Railways Remedies are therefore fixed facts in the ar
chives of medical scence-hey have been often tried
-" never denied, '-and ready to be tried again.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-02-25
Fine Gold Jewelry.

JONATHAN CR0OKE'S and other celebrated manufac
turer's Pen and Pocket Knives, nice ivory balanced
handled Table Kniyes Shears and Scssorsa good stool
from the best makers, at PHINNEYrS.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
NEW SERIES, NO. 1874.
TEDMS $3.50 strictly i'm advance
URMN, $500 at the years end.
How Major Jones Popped the Question.

Major Jones Courtship' is the title of
humorous work recently published, the denou-
ment of which we will give our readers. Too
bashful to A." pop the question" in the usual way
Major Jones persuades his sweetheart to put up
a stocking, which will hold couple of bushels
on the night when Santa Claus pays his visits,
receiving her promise to keep forever what he
gave her. She complies by hanging up the meal
bag. Into this the gallant and lovelorn Major
contrives to introduce himself at the witching
hour of night" But we win let Major Jones
speak for himself
81 sot up till midnight, and when they was
all gone to bed fwent softly into the back gate.
and went up to the porch, and thar, shore
enuH was great meal-bag hanging to the .ice.
1t was monstrous unhandy to git to it, but was
tarminednot to back out. So sot some chairs
on top of bench and got hold Of the rope and
let myself down into the bag; but jest as l was
gittin in the bag swung again the chairs, and
down they went with terrible racket. But
nobody didn't wake up but old Miss Stallinses
CRATE big cur dog, and here he cum rippin and
tarin through the yard like rath, and round and
round he went tryin to find what was the matter
l sot down in the bag and didn't breathe louder
nor akitten, for fear he'd find me out, and after
awhile he quit barkin. The wind begun to
blow bomnable cold, and the old bag kept turn
in round swinging so it made me sea-sick as
the mischief l was fraid to move for fear the
rope would break and let me fall, and thar
sot with my teeth ratlin like had an ager. 1t
seemed like it would never come daylight, and
do believe if didn't love Miss Mary so pow
erfill would froze to deth; for my hart was
the only spot that felt warm, and it didn't beat
moro'n two lcks mint, only when l thought
how she would be sprized in the mornin, and
Invent in canter. Bimeby the cussed old dog
came up on the porch and begun to smell about
the bag, and then he barked like he thought
he'd freed something. Bow WOW WOW =
ses he. Then he'd smell again, and try to git
up to the bag. Git out ses l, very low, for
fear they would hear me. Bow WOW wowr
ses he. Be gone you bominable fool ses l,
and felt all over in spots, for spected every
mint he'd nip me, and what made it worse
didn' know whar abouts he'd take hold. Bow
WOW wow Then I tried coaxin-' Come
here, good feller, ses I, and whistled little to
him, but it wasn't no use. Thar he stood and
KEEP up his eternal whinin and barkin all night
l couldn't tell when daylight was brcakin, only
by the chickens CROWN, and | was monstrou us
glad to hear 'em, for I'D had to stay thar one
hour more, don't believe I'd ever got out of
that bag alive
They got him out in the morning covered
with meal and almost frozen. And he says "
tell you what, it was worth hanging in meal
bag from one Crismus to another to feel as hap
py as have ever sence.'
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
Causes of the Depopulation Of Trout
Streams.

Every one who has lived score of years in
the neighborhood of mountain or spring brooks
remembers when in such and such stream trout
were abundant, where scarcely one is now ever
taken. "What has become of them?" is u
question which every one has been asked, or has
asked himself, thousand times. One says,
" They have been driven out by sawdust from
mills erected upon the stream Another who
lives where tanneries have been erected, thinks,
" the tan bark has killed or disgusted them"
Another says, "Since the alders which used to
border the creek have been cut down; and the
forest cleared away, they have sought greater
retlracy." Others say, "They have gone be-
cause trout will not stay where there is great
deal of passing to and fro, as there necessarially
is in thickly populated locality H." and others
still insist that " they have all been fshed out. +"
Now in my opinion, not one of these reasons is
real. Neither sawdust, nor tan bark, nor clear
ings, nordense population, nor excessive fishing
is the cause of depopulation Some of the very
best trout streams I know of are full of saw
dust and tan-bark The bottom of Caledonia
Greek is not only a bed of saw-dust, but the
creek lies in the midst of dense population,
and has been fished, night and day, for thirty
years. Nevertheless, in its cold, crystal-like
water, trout are more plenty to-day, and more
are taken, than ten years since. I have been
more than once surfeited with success in stream
in Canada where the saw-dust was so thick that
it formed compact covering upon its surface
and every year take trout from little brook
in Connecticut which has been cleared and fish
ed for almost century. There are three great
causes for the depopularion of trout streams !;
First, the erection of establishments upon them
in which lime is largely used second, the in
PRODUCTION into the streams of pike Or pickerel,
whose verocity is, sooner or later, fatal to all
competitors and thirdly, and principally, the
gradual change OF the temperature of the wa
ter, Trout will not live long in water which
is not, at all seasons, of a temperature which
may not, in comparison with other water, be
characterized as cold. Other causes beside those
| have named, sometimes operate but, ninety
nine cases out of a hundred, the changed tenn
perature of the water is the cause of the alb
sonce of trout from streams where they were
once abundant George Da,oson, in the Albany
Eueaiug Journal.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
The Irishmau's Confidence in Bank.

We heard the following capital story yester-
day, and only regret that we cannot tell it as it
was told us:
A banker in Dubuque whom we shall call
Mr. My, for short, found it necessary
short time ago to suspend business, and accord
ingly closed his doors, and issued card to his
depositors, in which he stated that he hoped
soon to be able to resume again. The day after
Mr. M. had closed his doors, he was met by
Hibernian miner who had $4,000 deposited with
him, and accosted thus:
60 Good morning, Mr.. NJ. Faith, an it's
we'll you're looking this morning, considering
the weather. But, sure, it's sorry am, Mr..
NJ, to see the card of yours in the papers,
But never do you mind such trifes as that, mon
take courage and hold up your head as high
as iver-the throuble of the thing will soon
blow over. And as for that $4,000 balance of
mine, just kape it as long as you want it
have no use for the lousy dollars-and knows
yees for an honest mon, and perfectly good for
the same at any time. Kape it, sir, and pleas
ant dreams be wild ye.''
Mr.. M. expressed his thanks, and the banker
and depositor separated. But on the following
day Mr.. M. was startled from his L" pleasant
dreams" by the presentation of check for
$4,000, bearing the name of his Hibernian
friend. Not knowing exactly how to under
stand the matter, Mr. M. sent for Patrick, when
the following explanation took place
"Well, you see Mr.. M, Peggy, that is my
wife, has been raising the very divil about the
money-and just to pacify the poor ignorant
crater that it was all safe, thought, be dad,
that I'd st send for it and count it all over be-
fore her ugly face, and then she'd consent to
my leaving it wild you, together wild the other
$4,000 that is giving us so much throuble to
kape from being stolen from us
/ To such an explanation, together with the
new temptation of $4,000 additional, the banker
could take no exceptions-so he counted out
the $4,000 in short. But that was the last of
the lrishman
The banker, meeting him several days AFTER
wards, desired another explanation.
"Och, the thruth is, Mr.. M, its meself that
has been ashamed to 500 yees. Peggy, that
divil of wife of mine, you see, has hid the
money, and bother me if I can find it at all,
at all, and that's just the thruth, SIR
The Banker made graceful tender of his
hat, but Pat generously declined to accept the
same, although justly entitled to it.-Burhng-
| ton G01effe
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

AGRICULTURAL HUMoR.--Of the Amherst
(Mass) Cattle Show, the Springfield Republican
says: "There is quaint humor in the max
ing up of the committees upon stock, &C.,
which is new feature in Cattle Shows. For
instance The committee on cattle, upon the
principle that He who drives fat oxen should
himself be fat was composed of eight gentle
men whose aggregate weight is over two thou
sand pounds Then the committee on calves
(most impudent selection y was wholly compo-
sed of the members of the last Legislature The
committee on fowls were gentlemen from seve
raj towns about here, all blessed with the name
of Fowle. But the happiest thing, and one
that really had good grain of satire in it was
the committee on maple sugar. This was made
up of sweethearts,' three gentlemen and three
ladies, who were known to be engaged to be
married, being upon it. Poor things Those
who appointed them knew that it was only
right that they should nibble little sugar now,
to make some small amends for the future
that lies SO near before them"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

FREEZING TO DEYTH.-That to be frozen to
death must be frightful torture, many would
consider certain, from their own experience of
the effects of cold. But here we fall into the
usual error of supposing that the suffering will
increase with the energy of the agent, which
could only be the case if sensibility remained
the same. Intense cold brings on speedy sleep,
which fascinates the senses, and fairly beguiles
men out of their lives The most curious ex-
ample of the seductive powers of cold is 10 be
found in the adventures of the botanical party,
who, in Cook S first voyage, were caught in
snow storm on Terra del Fuego DR.. Solander,
by birth Swede, and we'll acquainted with the
destructive deceits of a rigorous climate, ad-
monished the company, in defiance of lassitude,
to keep moving on Whoever" said he,
" sits down will sleep-and whoever sleeps will
perish" The doctor spoke as a sage, but he
felt as man. In spite of the remonstrances
of those whom he had instructed and alarmed, +,
he was the first to lie down and die.
The same warning was repeated thousand
times in the retreat from Moscow, Alison, the
historian, to try the experiment, sat down in
his garden at night, when the thermometer had
fallen four degrees below zero, and 50 quickly
did the drowsiness come stealing on, that he Won
dercd how soul of Napoleon's unhappy band
had been able to resist the treacherous in
fuence London Quarterly.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
Flies For Trout,

George Dawson, one of tho editors Of the
Albany Eueniag Journal, who has been on an
angling tour in Northern New York, is commu-
nicatng his trouting Experiences to his readers
in a series of charming letters. In one of
them he thus discourses on the subject of flies
as bait for trout:
SIT was bright red fly, suited, thought,
to the day, but quite unlike anything the eye
of u trout ever before gazed upon, here or else
where. had chosen it for the half malicious
purpose of again demonstrating to myself the
absurdlty of the cockney theory that only par
ticular flies are applicable to particular seasons
and it furnished me the demonstration sought
1t had partly touched the water when it was
seized by pound trout, which gave me all the
play coveted for the next five minutes. Be-
fore left my tracks l bagged four, weighing
five pounds, with the same hy-which it would
have been no idolatry to have worshipped, as it
was unlike anything in the heavens above, the
earth beneath, or the waters under the earth.
Will my technical friends of the rod and reel
who have different fly for every week of the
year, if not for every day of the season, please
put this fact in your pipes and smoke it,
As further illustration of this nonsense
about flies in season, have been assured by a
gentlemen (whose high scholarly attainments
have only the more attached him to the charm
ing and exciting recreation which constituted
the delight of his boyhood), that the greatest
success he ever achieved with the rod and reel
was when he used the bumble-bee for bait
And yet who ever saw an artificial fly made to
represent a bumble-bee? Or who, in dissect-
ing trout ever found one in his stomach ?
They are not an insect which often come with
in the reach of trout? and it is very doubtful
whether ever one in million of the family
either broakfasted, dined or supped upon q
BUNDLE bee; and yet Prot q. refers to his bum.
BILE bee bait as having secured to him the best
days sport of his life
But further upon this point: Who ever saw
an artificial mouse in the fly books of my artif
cial brethren of the angle? They would al
soon think of carrying the trunk of an elephant
And yet it was by using living mouse as bal
that an old stager,' who had tantalized
friend of mine for years was taken He ha,
turned up his nose, at worms, minnows, grubs
grasshoppers, butterflies, shad spawn, house-hie
black-Aies, devil's-darning-naedles, feathers 0
every color, tortured into every cenceiwbl
shape, dead bait, live bait, and (nfamous !
snares without bait and yet he succumbed t.
a-mouse! That, as it padded its way acros
the mill-pond, was too deectable morsel t.
forego, and he grabbed it Alas fou
FOUNDER though he was, with beard (if he ha
one) as gray and flowing and classic as Gen
T.'s, and with an experience reaching througl
period beyond which my friends memory raj
not to the contrary, he became the victim of
mouse"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

-" Yes, but do you think she said so p
81 did not hear her say so, yet she might
have done so."
" Do you believe she did, Auntie?''
81 cannot say, tonight; it is time you were
asleep we will talk about it in the morning. y
=" But if should have to marry him, can
not Sleep
" Do not fear, dear child. God will take care
of you distrust not his wisdom, for he will
guide YOU Turning to tho stand which con-
tained the light and well worn Bible, she
opened the book and read few verses, then they
knelt together aud Lena offered fervent prayer
to the all wise Being "who docth all things
well, " and soon after sleep spread his drowsy
wing above their pillows.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
TO BE CONTINUED.

Coon REPLY.-A line in one of Moore's songs
reads thus:
Our couch shall be roses bespangled with dew"
To which u sensible girl, according to Landor,
replied
'rwoud give the rheumatic, and it would you d"
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

"Now, Patrick said judge, "what dc
you say to the charge-arc you guilty or moi
guilty."
" Faith, but that's difficult for your homer tc
tell, lot alone myself. Wait till | hear the wi
dence.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

PETER THE GREAT AN EpIroR.-The first Rus
sian newspaper was published in 1908, and Pc
ter the Great was its senior editor. The impe-
rial autocrat not only took part personally in
its editorial composition, but in correcting
proofs, as appears from the sheets still in exis-
tcnce, on which are marks and alterations in his
own hand.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

bankrupt friend of ours was condoled with
the other day for his embarrassment "0h,
am not embarrassed, at ALL" said he it is
my creditors that are embarrassed" ="
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

Why should crinoline be abolished? Because
it admits all females, Without distinction, into
he mo ct fashionable circles.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22
The Israelite and a Mountain Shrew.

The other day podler, son of one of the
twelve sons of Jacob. unluckiy for himself,
dotted his weary pack of etceteras at the door
of one of our mountain danes, who has the I'M
enyiable celebrity of being the most unmerciful
shrew in all these diggings. The accommo-
dating Israelite soon displayed his tempting
wares to the admiring gaze of his amiablo GUS
toner, with eager avidity, culled over every ar
ticle in the entire stock. For a miracle, upon
this occasion, the lady appeared to be in the
very best of humor, and after selecting large
invoice of sundries, graciously offered the weary
ltinerant some refreshments, which he, nothing
10th, accepted. After partaking of large
tumbler of milk, the little man got ready to
vamose but one important item of the busi-
ness still remained unfnshed-the lady had
forgotten to pay for the goods. After using
and exhausting his full stock of delicate hints
without effect, at length madam was politely
assured that she had not "settled up
"Settled," said she, " settled you outra-
geous hump-shouldered, ill-begotten son of a
sea cook Settled I'll settle you, sir! I
never transact business in that way. When
you come this way again, have your bill made
out in proper form and recepted; and then, il
it suits me, I'll settle it,"
j." Madam said the knight of the pack
" Ich weis nicht wass tu sprachen Me nc
sells mine goots on trusht."
" You don't, don't you? Then bundle W
your trash and git-you dirt of the earth .
said she, as she literally rained the articles
about the astonshed merchants ears
Hastily gathering up his wares, he struck q
trot for the highway, but had not proceeded fal
when the enraged termagant demanded of hin
to halt.
"Halt there, you miserable miser, said she
and pay me for that tumbler of milk yor
guzzled down, or I'll settle your hash in shor
ordor-halt, 1say" and the poor fellow wen
back, paid the shilling and left.
A short time subsequently, he was agail
compelled to pass the same house-the lady es
pied him, and told him to stop.
"You ugly monster, what have you got t
sell to-day" said She
Mime Got, madam " said he, noting
Noting at all for sell in mine whole pack, bu
water roof boots "-PlaceruiHe Inder.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1858-07-22

BUDDHIST BuRrALs.-Budhist priests and nuns
en- their disease, are inferred on sort of min
ature pagoda There are two modes of burial
Any one remarkable for devotion and virtue
who dies at a good old age, is buried in sitting
posture, just as priests usually sit in the pres
ence of their idol reciting prayers, with their
legs drawn under them, the hands clasped, and
the head dropping on the breast. The deceased
is in this position; put into large earthern jar
and another one is placed ever the head. The
two are Theoretically scaled, and built all around
with brick and mortar, in the shape of pago-
da, about ten feet in height, Occasionally they
take the bodies of devoted Budhists, commit
them to the flames, and search for relic called
shayle. On finding this, they lodge it in a
easement like small pagoda. The ordinary
class of priests and priesteses are not so highly
honored on leaving ihe world. Their remains,
bones, or (burnt) ashes, are cast into hollow
pagoda. The cases are carefully lodged about
! the monastery and grounds.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-05

bisfy favorable change that has recently
tasen place in the weather.
In the meanwhile, whilst one portion of the
public are awaiting in anxiety the result of the
enterprise, another seems quite unconscious of
its dificulties and indeed Of the fact of its not
being alresdy in operation. An amusing in
stsDce OF this readiness to anticipate events
without calculating the obstacles to their 40
complement, occurred the day before yester-
day. gentleman rushed into one Of the tsie-
graph Offices in Wall street with despatch, TO
questiDg the operators to immediately transmit
ii over the submarine wires to Liverpool. The
message was taken and sent-ss far as 1t would
60. 1t is devoutly to be hoped that the blind
impulse of the individual in question may have
been sort of prophetic instinct, and that biz
message may be one of the first to reach by the
cable the Irish coast
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1858-07-05

CARD FROM d. RssfEfsgI, THs DkLsGATs fson
UTAH TO CoTGsE-s.
Upon the advice OF experienced fdends, have
carefully avoided presenting my name IN pratt
The most obnoxious individual. however, is, by 90
pular custom, entitled ~ ask Tor himself and for
others when malice II busy against them, what is
lermed n suspension Of public opinion.
would most respectfully ask my fellow citizens
n dis.,ust the letters with which the journals no
abound. coming or purp1rirg 70 come from the
tatlon of the army of Utah, aud which are CON
pored without any regard 10 Truth ~ statement by
those whose personal interests will he promoted h
our country's peisevrring in the wicked enterprise
deuomnated the Mormon war
Why are you told by these cruel and mercenary
persons that there Is t0 doubt the sincerity Of
the Mormons' desire for JcaceG Why did the press
at their command deny the authenticity of the dcs
patches Of Governor A. Cumming 10 the commander
at Camp Scott and the PresidenR Can they hope ,
after we have entirly abandoned our plans and
sacrificed oil our preparations for dcfence-afier we
have opened way into Utah 20 troops whose exist
encc no one reasonable man viii doubt was NJ or
mercy-do they still hope TO bring on war by fo
lowing after our flying people so closely that the
conduct OF lcentiuus soldiery will comp, our
citizens TO defend themselves from their outra ,es he
force?
do not understand r. MY advices show thai four
months have passed since we were invited h. the
President of the United States, or by gent; nan
who claimed to hsvs his coincidence aud reprs,en,