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Misfellauenns Beaaina.
Indian Fuu--As Snake Story

The following occurrence was related by
Col. Edward Raymond, one of the earliest
settlers near Lake Champlain, n. y He
was on the lake in canoe with an Indian
named Big Bear, whom he had employed to
row him to distant point. In their
co lrse they passed near q sloping ledge Of
rocks where l.g a large number Of rattle
snakes asleep in the sun. The Indian look.
ed at the Col. and inquired, '.Raymun lcye
fun p eyes," was the reply, "Vell
then, Raymun have fun mind Indian ana
hole glum' (keep Silly So be rowea
to the shore, cut crotched stick
Of hazel, and carefully placed the crotch
astride the neck of a serpent that lay
asleep close by the waters edge Take
um now Raymun; hole fass.' The Col.
then took hold Of the stick, keeping the
serpent down, Will Big Bear tied up it
tie sack fpowder with slow match at
tached toi it, He made this fast to the
snakes tail, lighted the match, and gave
the order set um co. at the same time
pushing the canoe away from the shore =
The snake being liberated, crawled away to
his den.. BIZ Bear Immediately stood up
and fclappad his his hands, making as loud
a noise as possible, which reused the
makes. and they, too. quickly disappeared.
Now look Raymun now look. see fun said
no, and in about minute the powder ex
|ploded when there was fun alive, for the
men, though not for the reptiles. Hhc
snakes in hundreds covered the racks, all
Missing, rafting, tainin-, twirl ng, and
Jumping. in every way imaginable. Col
Raymond burst into a loud laugh but the
Indian. true to his nature, maintained The
utmost gravity, Though doubtless he in
wa'd'y enjoyed the sport quite as well AZ
| his friend. a
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The Philadelphia Fair.

Visitors to the "Great Central Fair" are
set down At $4,000 day.
Nothing like the "Union Avenue" 800
feet long, a towering Gothic structure, has
ever been seen in this country I. contains
many hundred flags, banne rs, Devices &c.
The Picture Gallery, Of more than 1000
works is equally unique. The Floral De-
partment is = cireula- space of some 600
feet diameter, rooted and canopied, with a
circular pond or reservoir. surrounding a
grand cone Of magnificent tropical plans
some Is or 80 feet in hight, and so in di
ameter, with scores Of jet, d'eaur, statues,
etc. ETC., and double Gothic arcade Of ev.
egreens, encircling the whole with flowers
in every possible form and device, and by
the thousands-all, fresh in design, be
wi;ching in effect. and grand in proper
tons The public schools have grand
corridor, each school section with its own
counter, and backed BY distinct device, the
whole harmonious. and the vista beautiful.
The restaurant is another grand department,
some 800 act indiame.er, the central rcof
ling screened forer diameter Of leo fee,
with canopy Of bunting in the nationa
icolors; with pillars decorated with emble
matte devices. The department. d arms
md troahies i proportionasely exhrrive
So are others, far too numerous 70 chroni u
there. II is . show worth hundreds .
Imiles oftrayel % sse-the multisudes
.ilovely women ard girls being no. the leas
Isf the attractions. s. sz:
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The Copperhead Coon Comes Down.
The New York World, which acknowl-
edges that heretofore it has had little conf
dence that Grant would capture Richmond.
now, says, in vlew Of his recent move.
ments - q .5'.t <'.' -
For the first time since the commence.
ment Of the present campaign there is .
reasonable prospect that Richmond may be
captured or rathor rendered untenable.
While General Grant was operating on tho
north side. with the rebel lines of commu.
nication on the south side uninterrupted. tho
chances Of war were all against us but now
the case is bravely altered. This move
ment by the left and 70 tho rear Of Rich
mond is precisely the same manuever, only
on bolder scale, by which the rebel works
at Mine Run, at Spottsylvania, on the South
Anna, and the Chickahominy, were render
cd nntenable and useless. We do not proph-
|esy that Ricmond will be. evacuated, but it
certainly cannot be held any length of time,
if General Grant is allowed to get. posses
sion Of the roads BY which il is, supplied
from the South. -. ~ .,,..t ..,s,,
The Chicago 7ines and other Copper
head journals also admit that; the capture Of
Richmond is now, but e question o.. time
TIE prospect must certainly be encourage
ing when 'hese journals can be forced, TO
confess it.-Rres.. ~ ss.,7 4s.-.axl
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THE NEW Bedford Mass j Ns,cary tsl's
= good anecdots ofa bright little shoe hack
and : penurious curmudgeon. One Of these
little fellows, II seems, who has 4 sharp eye
to the condition Of the boots OF pedestrians,
spying map.whoss leather looked muddy,
proposed 70 give il = polish No gTufily
answered the owner Of ths boets, I've no
money. for boo. black Hold your. foot
np,' said young Day = Marlin. !" and I'll
polish il for notbips The man complied.
and the little teIlow piled his brush TILL the
boot shone Ike steIl mirror, xhen b. put
up his tools and moved q. III .llello s,eried
the ensiome,, .blsck The olhsr .hoss J"
For fse cents !, said the boy; and lhs. fya
cents Vas paid. Il 4. is
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Miss Watt. the only sury wing child

II Miss Watt, the only Surviving child sI
the eminent Brisizh biblographer. DR..
Watt. has lately died ut 6 GasgoH in a
wo.khouse. Last year petition signed by
mos. eminent literary men d FngIaad
was presented to Lord Pa'merstonc, pray
ing fgr grant Of s 90 ! ssaT for lie bene.
i.of Mss Watt, but .circunlocu,ica'
stocd IN the way. and before the matte,
could b. acted on. The poor lsdy died. !
Is said that after her deaih. ! leltsr wss re
|ceived rom one Of ths Premier's secre..Ar
Iiss. a.fing il Miss Watt eouId bs supporte,
lon ESQ ! year. L - that sum might prob
bly, b granted.
The Goodhue volunteer. [volume] (Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minn.) 1861-1864, 1864-06-29

WEzs Dr.. johnson asked tho Eiilov Por-
Ter 10 b his vife h told hsr canddly
that he w.s Of .san sxtrsctian, thst - Ind
40 u,oDey. and Inst hs h.d q nn<Is 'sss.
The widor npsisd thai shs eased sefhislE
OF his parsslaes. thst - - 1s6sy
|berseE and tkosxh - - nOs had ! lsIs. -.
ltioD ha1Esd. ~ III ~ ~ =
- s 8 ,h.y = Z a's,sll 4 4
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Rrbcl" Pluck: !.

The rebsl organ in Chicago grows more
and more plucky as the fall Of the rebel
capital grows more and more certain. Hear
it, .@'." 80 ~'~. :s'z .s<' :: .<.. ~#:~<
1T is this spirit in which is located the
rebellion-in which is found the resistance
to our al ms. and which is fl 5h:ing us every
where from the Rio Grande to the rebel
capital. It is not the Southern forti6ca
tions, OF Southern cotton, or corn cribs, or
mills, or dwelling houses, or negroes. that
makes up the rebellion, but it is the spirit
of TIE people; there ore, when We capture
forts, and contiscate land, and steal negroes
and cotton, we are not touching the thing
that is in 5ebcl|ion. y 49,. ~.
- II = &~a
: This Administration can never conquer
the South. 1t may reduce it to smoking
ruin, but there will be the same rebellion
then that ther;s is now. It will lurk, rife
in hand, in swamp and thicket, and will re
main there on tn, watch for victims until
the time shall come when the Government
shall carry the olive branch with the sword
until it shall mingle conci'istion With its
attempts at subjugat;on.'
The rebel organs in Richmond do not
quite see in that light, but they and their
brother in Chicago are equally p'ucky, and
show kindre spirit. This is what the
Richmond Enquirer says:
"This Confederscy, or the Yankee nation
one or TIE other, goes down-soes down to
perdltion. We all know by this time the
fate in store for US, if we succumb A.
surely as we completely ruin their armies
and without that there is no peacs nor
truce at a'l-so surely shall we make them
pay our war debt, though zoe airing it cut O
their very hearts.''-Chicago Journal. 4
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RATES OF ADVERTISING.

Ton Lines Of 4;ai,n or one Inch in space make y
Squire.
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The rebsl organ in Chicago grows more
and more plucky as the fall Of the rebel
capital grows more and more certain. Hear
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

WATERING PLANTS. This is usually bad
ly done. Water is poured upon the
surface, enough to wet down ON inch
or two. The water washes the fine
earth into the chinks and interstices,
and there the plant stands with dry or
only moist soil below, but with a baked
mass on the surface which shuts
out warmth air, and the moisture that
would be derived from its free circula-
ton. One of two methods should he
adopted. Remove the surface earth and
pour on water enough to reach the
wet sub-soil, and when the water has
soaked in, replace the dry surface soil,
to be moistened from below; or make o
hole near the plant as you can without
disturbing the roots, and fill this with
water two or three times and after
wards fill it with the dry earth first re-
moved. At all events, when you water
at all water freely, and with the foot
or hoe throw little dry earth over
the surface as the water settles away.
A few plants thus well cared for will
yield more than three times the num-
Der carelessly treated.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

The publishers of western news
papers lately held n convention at
Cincinnati. They adopted higher
scale of prices for advertising, and de-
cided that they would employ any tel
egraph line which would do the work
needed cheapest and best. Resolutions
were adopted favoring the introduc-
ton of machinery for making paper
from wood or anything else which
would take the place of rags; resolu-
tons were also adopted in favor of re-
sisting the demands made by com
binations Of printers, and recommend
ing the employment of female com
positors whenever convenient.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

FREsu AIR. Giveyour children plen-
ty of fresh air. Let them snuff it un-
til il sends the rosy current of life
dancing joyfully to their temples. Air
is SO cheap, and SO good, and so nee
essary with all, that every child should
have free access to it. Horace Mann
beautifully says; "To put children on
short allowance of fresh air, is as
foolish MS it would have been for Noah,
during the deluge, to have put his
family ON a short allowance of water,
since God has poured out an atmos-
phere of fifty miles deep, it is enough
to make miser weep to see our chill
dren stinted in breath.
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EAnLY SHrrp SHrAnrNa-WAsu1

EARLY SHEEP SHEARING-W AsHING.-
Sheep which are to be washed
ought not to be sheared before settled
warm weather. In many seasons this
viii not come before the last of June
They are then in much less danger of
taking cold and receiving permanent
. injury. They ought to be washed on
ly in water which is so warm that the
washers do not find it uncomfortable TO
stand in it with the sheep. The shock
to the flock of the immersion in cold
water, and being subsequently exposed
TO raw winds, followed by being re-
duced to state of absolute nakedness,i is
sufficient cause TO account for "snuf-
fes," and prevalent lung difficulties
The rule in regard to washing is to
wash as little as possible, but even
this involves the necessity of thorough
" wetting the entire fleece.
1t is a great object to have the sheep
sheared as early as they can be, and full
ly a month may be gained if they are
shorn without washing. The fleece
starts better, the sheep seems actually
benefited, weakly ones often brighten
up and do well, and all are in much
better condition TO bear the change
well. Contagious diseases are not
unfrequently communicated by farm
ers using the same washing pens with
their neighbors which may be una
voidable.
Ii the sheep be shorn unwashed,
close care should be taken to have
them all well tagged, and all dirt re-
moved which is not too thoroughly in
corporated with the fleece. The dis
count of one-third in price for unwash-
ed wool is not fair, yet the farmer may
well submit TO it for the advantages
his flock gains, if it be valuable one
knowing that, like other abuses, il
win be corrected by tine.-1merico,
Agricuitmist.
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of arbor foot or two high for the
vines to run on. When the ground
becomes dry, pour water in the key in
the evening--it will pass out at the
bottom of the keg into the barrel and
rise up to the roots Of the vines and
keep them moist and green. Cucum-
bers cultivated this way will grow to
great size, as they are made indepen-
dent both of drouth and wet weather.
In wet weather the barrel can be COW
cred, and in dry the ground can be
kept moist by pouring water in the
key.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

ViNraAR.--The juice of one bushcl of
sugar beets, worth twenty-five cents,
and which any farmer can raise with
little cost, will make from five to six
gallons of vinegar equal to the best ell
der wine. First wash and CRATE the
beets, and express the juice in cheese
press, or in any other way which lit
tie ingenuity can suggest, and put the
liquor into barrel, cover the bung
with gauze and set it in the sun, and
in fifteen or twenty days it will be fit
for use. By this method the very best
of vinegar may be obtained without
any great trouble, and L hope all who
like good vinegar will try it.-Ohio
Idiley Farmer.
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Corn AND WHEAT.-The wheat crop
this year is likely to fall below the av-
erage. The winter at the West was
an unfavorable one for it, and fears
were at one time entertained that
there would not be more than half an
average yield. The wheat fields are
looking little better now, but at the
best we shall not have more than two
thirds of crop. For this reason, If
for no other, n large amount of land
ought to be devoted to corn raising.
But there are additional reasons. =
The stock of corn in the country is
unusually light. The crop last year
was badly injured by early frosts.
The West, our great granary, has
sent SO many men to the war that we
have had smaller supply from there
for several years, and with the de-
mand and waste of war, the amount
of corn in the country is lower, and
the price higher, than ever before
known. The demand will continue
and the present high rates also, for
some time to come, and farmers ought
to plant all they possibly can both for
their own use and for sale. Should
the crops fail in Europe this summer,
there would be great demand for all
kinds of grain for expectation, and the
present high prices will go still higher.
Why won't those farmers who have
determined to plant tobacco, reconsid-
er and plant corn, thus producing
something really valuable to the coun-
try, and which at the same time will
bring them in good profit? And let
everybody who has resolved to plant
one acre of corn, make haste and plant
two.-Erchange.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

GRowIse CucuMBERs large
barrel. or hogshead; saw it in two in
the middle, and bury each half in the
ground even with the top. Then take
small keg and bore small hole in
the bottom; place the key in the cen
tire of the barrel, the top even with the
ground, and fill in the barrel around
the key with rich earth, suitable for
the growth of cucumbers. Plant your
seed midway between the edges of the
barrel and tue key and make a kind
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How TO PREPARE GLuB.-The follow
ing recipe for making liquid glue is
said to have been discovered by a
French chemist. 1t is valuable, as it
does not gelatinize, putrefy, or ferment
and become offensive, and can be used
cold for all purposes of glue, in max
ing or mending. furniture, or other
things that are not exposed to water
In wide-mouthed bottle dissolve
eight ounces of best glue in hall
pint of water, by setting it in vessel
of water, and heating it till dissolved
Then add slowly, constantly stirring
two and half ounces of strong aqua
FORTS nitric acid. Keep it corked
and it will be ready for use
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

The Washington Republican says:
George II. Stuart, Esq, president of
the United States Christian Commits
sion, accompanied by Bishop McIlvaine,
OF Ohio, have gone to the battlefield
on tour of inspection, and to arrange
for enlarging the sphere of operations
OF the commission. The commission,
we understand, have now over two
hundred and thirty delegates on the
field in Virginia, and are shipping some
two hundred boxes of supplies daily"
The death of Hon. John Bockwith.
OF Sutton, Occurred May 16 1864, at the
advanced age of 76. He was well
known in this section, and in fact,
throughout the State. as public
man, having for forty-five years been
more or less in public life. He was
very active, energetic and persevering.
After the State Senate was formed
Mr.. Beckwith with Gov. Palmer, were
elected the first members of that body,
from this county. Mr. b. was a mem
Der of Caledonia County Bar, and al
ways attended the Courts, until within
a year or two past. He was an ac-
tive, Jealous politician-and leaves
several children to mourn his exit.
Two or three of his sons have become
very prominent public and business
men, residing in other sections of the
country. NORTH Star
The death of Nathaniel Haw-
thorne, at Plymouth, New Hampshire,
will take the public by SURPRISE aud
cause deep regret, wherever it be-
comes known. He was found dead in
his bed at three o'clock, May 10Th,
having apparently expired without
pain or suffering. He would have
been sixty years old on the fourth of
July next. 1t is not necessary for us
to speak of Mr.. Hawthornes charac-
teristics as n writer. In the peculiar
vein which he cultivated, in the sub
tie and quaint originality of his style,
its purity and refined charm, and its
delicate insight and analysis, there is
none like him.
The bridge to be built over the
Hudson river at Albany will be in the
northern part of the city, commencing
on line sixty feet north of the north
ern side of Lumber street, and cross
ing to point on Van Rensselaer, island,
east of the front line of dock 1t will
be carried thence to the Greenbush
shore on Il line running southeast,
with radius of nine hundred feet.
The bridge is to be built twenty-five
feet above tide-water.
Mr.. j. f. Goodrich was ordained
to the gospel ministry on Tuesday,
the 18th inst, at Hinsdale, Mass,
preparatory to his becoming chaplain
of the Vermont Cavalry. Ordaining
prayer, by DR.. Todd, of Pittsfeld; SER
mon by Rev. Il. Ii. Byington, OF
Windsor.
They are laying the foundation
for the new City Hall in Calais, Ne
The spirited and public spirited ladies
through whose exertions most of the
necessary funds were obtained, have
reason to feel proud of their achieve
ment.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03

from five different manufactures. sINGEh's
is the best machine manufacturers fully war
ranted in every respect; lock stitch, alike on
both sides.
All orders by mail, either for Musical Insiru-
ments Music Books or Sheet Music, on Sewing
Machines, will meet with prompt attention.
Address, e. II. S. PIERCE,
Lem 81. Adams, Vt.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-06-03
1T. ALBANs MUSIC STORE,

- ST. AI.BANS, VT,
Where every variety of Musical Instruments can
be found. Pianos from five different manufac-
tories, viz: Steinway's, Chickering 4 Son. the
United Piano Fortcs; J. p. Hale 4 Co., Wood
ward 4 Brown.
Meiodeons from three manufactures, viz
Mason and Hamliri of Boston, Prescott 4 Broth
ers Of Concord, n. H., J. Estey's, Brattleboro',
Vt.
Small Instruments Of every kind.
sheet Music and musie Books, Card Photo