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The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-23

Another wonderful Ingredient, OF great use among
the Spanish ladies Of south America. impartng beauty
known to the of the world, and we withhold
it's name for the present.
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-23

a RE NOW, AS THEY EVER HAVE BEEN, CON.
n sIDERED the best in America, having been
The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-23
NEEDLES AND FISHING TACKLE

A NDREw CLERK q CO.. NO. 48 MAIDEN LANE N
"A Y, aole importers of JOS WARRIN'4 celebrated
Drilled Eyed REDLES beg to notify their old custom
and the public that they have on hond full aasot
ment of
WARRIN's DRILLED EYED NEEDLES
WARRIN's TELEGRAPH NEEDLES IN CAgKETH
extra large Oval Eyes
WARRIN'B NEEDLES IN sYNOPTIOAL GASES, new
article
uARRIN's SURGEONS, Mn.LNERs. SAIL. PAOR
NEEDLES, &c.
These Needles have been before the public for thirty
ars and acknowledged by good judges to be supe
to all others la temper fnish, uniformity and quail
}of steel
Our assortment Of FISHING TACKLE 10 complete,
ldthe most extensive In Hhis or any other country
Juno as mwf6no
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
ST. AI4BANS, VII. FRIDAY, MARCH 23. 1866.

by copying it. After recommending
his heirs to treat the Indians with hui
mainly, he proceeds thus:
1T has been long a question whether
we can, in good conscience, hold the
Indians in slavery This question not
having yet been decided | order my
son, Martin, and his heirs, TO spare no
pains to arrive at a knowledge of the
truth on this point, for it is matter
which interests deeply their con-
science and mine"
Who would have thought to find
such a passage in the will Of a Cortez
Nothing is more certain than this,
that CMtez, in all that he did in Mex
leo fully believed that he was an in
strumcnt in the hand of benevolent
God for he found Mexico pagan, and
left it Catholic. Massacre, rapine.
devastation, the betrayal and murder
OF king, the fall of an empirc-these
were rs nothing in view Of "A result
like this So thought all good Span
iards OF that age.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
A WOman's Secret.

A French actress, whose youth and
beauty appeared inexhaustible--on the
boards-would never tell her age. OF
course, the more she wouldn't tell, the
more curious people were to know it.
A woman can't keep secret She
kept that.
BY good luck-as the multitude
thought-she was summoned as wit
ness on a trial The gossips rubbed
their hands and chuckled. "Aha we
shall know it now. She must tel. it or
go into prison; she will therefore tell"
The court was crowded with open
cared listeners. In French courts of
justice the witness does not stand in
box to give evidence, but sits on
stool, in the middle of the floor of the
court in front of the Presidents desk,
and no barrier or separation between
it and himself
The lady was ushered in, raised her
right hand to heaven, took the oath to
speak the truth, and then seated her
self on the witness-stool.
"Your name ?" asked the President.
"Angelique Toujoursiieurie."
"Artiste dramatique.
"Your age p
You might have heard pin drop,
or the hair grow on the bystanders'
heads. Every eye was bent on the
lady. She was driven in corner at
last.
Foolish Partisan public to think SO;
Angolique simply rose from her seat,
walked straight up to the Presidents
desk and whispered the secret in his
ear. He nodded, made the entry in
private notes, and, smiling, continued
the rest of his interrogatory as soon as
she had resumed her place on the sell
letto.
The public retired with feelings of
mingled disgust and admiration. The
trial had lost all further interest; and
the President was known to be man
of honor and gallantry, who would
never let pretty woman's cat escape
from the Presidential bag.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
A New Island Remarkable Phe.
n0mena.

A correspondent of the London
Times, writing from Athens, Greece,
announces that new island began to
rise above the level of the sea in the
Bay of Thera (Santorin), in the Gre
clan Archipelago, on the 4th of Febru-
airy, and in five days it attained the
height of from one hundred and thir-
ty to one hundred and fifty feet, with
Il length of upward of three hundred
and fifty feet, and breadth of one
hundred feet. 1t continues to in
crease, and consists of a,rusty black
metallic lava, very heavy, and resem-
bling half smelted scoria which has
boiled up from a furnace. 1t contains
many small whitish semi-transparent
particles disseminated thro' the mass
like quartz or felspar.
The eruption began on the 31st of
January. A noise like volleys of artil
lery was heard, but without any
earthquake. On the following day
flames issued from the sea, in part
of the bay called Yulkanos, where the
water is always discolored ard i'm
pregnated with sulphur from album
dant springs at the bottom. The
flames rose at intervals to the height
Of fifteen feet and were seen at times
to Issue from the southwestern part of
Nea Kaimene. That island was soon
rent by deep fssuro and the south
ern part sank considerably.
On tho 4th of February tho erup-
tons became more violent and the sea
more disturbed. Gas forced itself up
from the depths with terrific noise, re-
sembling the bursting of a steam boil
Ell; flames arose at intervals, and
white smoke, rising steadily, formed
an immense column, crowned with a
curled capital of dark heavy clouds.
The new island was visible next morn
ing, increasing senSibly to the eye as
it rose ont of the sea at no great dis
lance to the south of Nea Kaimene.
The new island has been visited by
DR.. Dekigalla, a man of science and
an able observer, who will record ac-
curately all the phenomena of the
eruption as it proceeds.
The heat of the sea rose from 32
Fahrenheit to 1872, as near the scene
of volcanic action as it was safe to APP
proach, The bottom of the sea all
round Nea Kaimene appears TO have
risen greatly. In one place, where
the depth is marked on Admiralty
chart one hundred fathoms, it was
found to be now only thirty; and Mt
another where it was seventeen, il is
now only three fathoms. The new is
land, as it increases, will probably
form Il junction with Nea Kaimene.
1t grows, as it were, out Of the sea,
the mass below pushing upward that
which is already above water.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
No. 1O5.
WitcIicran.

We still see horse-shoes, owls,
hawks, etc, nailed on the doors of old
barns These supposed charms
against sorcery were used even in Pa
gan times, and date back to the Ro-
mans. Persons accused of witch craft
have been subjected to the most bar
barous and unrelonting punishments
In thousands of cases, the victims,
often quite innocent, we're burned
alive, while others were drowned by.
the test applied If, on being thrown
into pond, they did not sink, they
we're pronounced witches, and either
stoned on the spot, or reserved for
the stake Five hundred witches
were burned at Genoa, in three
months, in 1915. One thousand
in the diocese of Como, in a year.
An incredible number in France,
about 1920, when one sorcerer CON
fessed to having 1,200 associates
More than 100000 persisted, mostly
by the flames, in Germany. Grandeis,
the parish priest of Loudan, i'll France,
was burned on n charge Of having Re-
witched whole convent of nuns, A. D.
1884. In Bretagne, 20 poor women
were put to death as witches in 1854.
Maria ReIata was burned Mt Wurtz-
burg in l749. At Kalisch, in Poland,
nine old women were burned in Jan
uary, 1775. And so recently as 1902,
five were condemned by the Bramins,
in Patna, for sorcery, and executed.
In England, under the reign of Henry
the Will A. d. 15i1, statute was en-
acted declaring all witchcraft and sor-
Gerry to be felony, without benefit Of
clergy. Again, in the 9th of Elizabeth,
and the LIST of James. Darlington es-
Inmates the judicial murders for witch
craft in England, in two hundred
years, at 10000. Sir Matthew Hale
burned two persons for witchcraft in
1864. Three thousand suffered for
this imputed crime under the Long
Parliament. Northamptonshire and
Huntingdon preserved the supersti-
ton longer than any other counties.
Two pretended witches were executed
at Northampton, in 1705, and five 9th
ers some years afterward In ING,
Mrs. Hicks and her daughter, child
of nine years of nge, were hanged AS
witches in Huntingdon. In Scotland,
thousands suffered. The last was at
Dornoch, i'll 1922. The laws against
witchcraft had lain dormant for many
years, when an ignorant or malicious
person attempting to revive them by
finding bill against a poor old wo-
man III Surrey, they were formally re-
pealed, A. D. 1736.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

4 Yorkshire farmer had niece Wis.,
ting him from q large neighboring
town, in which her parents we're in
rather needy circumstances but proud
as well as poor. They could never ex-
press their needs to the jovial country
brother, whose open heart and we'll
filed purse would have been at their
service. Annie, enjoying the comforts
and abundance of the ilourishing
farmhouse, longed to send a 1.-THE of
her enjoyment in the form of pres
ent TO her mother: so out of the va
rlous little incomes allowed her from
the sale of small articles of farming
produce to purchase her clothing, An
ME denied herself many a necessary
and many a little ornament III dress,
with which her uncle liked to see her
beauty adorned. The good aunt dis
covered Annies self denial, and i'm
parted the information TO Der hus-
band
The worthy farmer was much affect
ed. As quickly as his portly frame
would admit Of procedure, he went to
his niece's apartment, aud laying a
well filed purse upon the table before
her, eXclaised-
Dang the lass, why dunnot thee
ask for what thou wantest, and not
90 pinching theeself in the midst o
plcnty?"
Annie was dismayed, but prompted
by her innate delicacy and tact, she
saw that to refuse this uuwelcome gift
would previously pain her blunt but
kind hearted relative. With crimson
and distressed brow, she took up the
purse and thanked her uncle, but from
that time half the pleasure in the an
,icipation Of her gift vanished Who
can deny the kindness eyinced by the
bluff Yorkshire man? Bat as to po-
likeness, there was ten times more
showed by Annie, who pocketed her
wounded feelings with the purse, rath-
er than hurt tho sensitive heart of her
uncle.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
Living and WareS In San Fran.
cisco.

1t may interest the public to know
how people live here and the wages
paid for labor \ glance at our mar
kets would indicate that the people
generally live well Such magnificent
beeycs, such excellent mutton and
pork are rarely met with. We like
wise have all sorts Of game such as
deer, bear, squirrels, ducks, quail. etc.
etc, in abundance; while the Bay
and ocean furnish an infinite variety
of fish. Vegetables fresh from the
garden can be had in the market at
all seasons Of the year, and the Mcxi-
can and Panama steamers bring up
loads of huge turtles for the restau-
rants and hotels.
1t does not cost one large amount
of money TO live here comfortably
The first-class hotels charge 50 per
day in gold; the second-class houses
board people without rooms for SIS
per week; and the third class charge
from 50 to So. There is another class
of hotels, the lowest, that charge from
50 the 81 per week for board. There
is vast number Of restaurants here
where the bulk Of unmarried people
live One can live at these places
about as cheap as one chooses. Many
pay no more than 81 per week. We
have nearly 800 school teachers, most
ly women, in the public schools, get
ting salaries from S67 to S110. Many
OF this class board at the restaurants,
ON account of cheapness. The great
mddle-class of people nearly all live
nj the restaurants. Your fancy stock
brokers and gamblers all live at the
frst-class hotels, like lords. There
are comparatively few real poor fami-
lies in San Francisco. All except the
poorest live in good style.
Wages have been declining here
during the past two years, and com
mon laborers do not get as much for
their work as they do il the East.
Those who work at shoyeling sand
and at similar work get from $50 to
so per month. This low rate OF wa
ges is what is driving SO many people
from the country Walters in hotels
and restaurants also get from S25 to
$40 per month and board. 1t costs a
man with family large sun TO live
here respectfully Houses rent ut
from S25 to $l0O per month and other
expenses in proportion. | have heard
it said, many times recently that Cali
fornia is now one of the poorest coun-
tries in the world for n poor man to
live in. | am almost inclined to be-
! eve it.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
Learning a Trade.

1t is a wise law Of the ancient Jews,
that the sons Of even their wcalthiest
men should be obliged to serve an APP
prenticeship to some useful occupa-
ton, so that, in case of a reverse of
fortune, they might have something
"to fall back upon" The same still
exists in Turkey, where every man,
rich or poor-even the Sultan himself
must learn trade. How fortunate
it would be now were it n rule in this
country.
"Would | had trade" is the cry
Of thousands of returned soldiers,
North and South, who find themselves
ruined in pocket, and with no imme-
date prospect of gaining "A livelihood.
1t should teach parents that whatever
else they may give their sons, they
should give them a trade. One Of
our contemporaries most faithfully re
marks that popular idea among our
people is that all their sons should
adopt clerkships, and the adoption of
the business of book keeping as a
means of obtaining their livelihood.
Every effort is made to give them an
education to that end. SO far rs the
education of their children in the sci
ence of keeping proper accounts is
concerned the idea is n good one, rs
every young man should have sufli-
cient knowledge to properly manage
his own books should he ever embark
in business; but to make book keepers
and clerks of all our boys is grand
mistake. Better place them in work
shop, mill, or foundry, where they can
learn independent trades, which at all
times will secure for them employ
ment, and the pecuniary compensa-
ton which will be at least as much, if
not more than the business of ac-
counts. We earnestly advise parents
to teach their sons trades-no matter
what, so that it is an industrious pur-
suit
Let us, in future, be spared the
pain Of seeing SO many able-bodied
young men out of employment where
only the pen can be used There is
dignity in labor, and an honest trade
is the best legacy n parent can bestow
upon his child, for it Will secure his
bread when all else may fail
We base our remarks upon the fact
that nearly one hundred applications
from young men were received by a
firm in our city who recently adver-
tised in our columns but twice for an
assistant book-keeper. This fact alone,
taken In connection with the well
known scarcity of labor in all the me-
chanical branches of industry, speaks
volumes in condemnation of the pop
ular error of making ook-keepers out
of all our boys.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

THINNING or Fruit TREES AS the
season is near which is usually set
apart for the improvement of the or
chard, as it is called, | beg the privi-
lege, concisely as possible, to enter a
protest against Winter and early
Spring trimming, a practice which
has ruined majority of the old orch
ards in this country. When trees are
trimmed in Winter and early Spring,
the end of the branch cut is exposed
to the Spring winds and action of the
sun, and consequently becomes
checked, absorbing the flow of sap
and rain water, which forms corro-
siye acid, and inducing premature de-
cay, which eventually extends to the
root, and in few years makes, of a
hitherto sound trunk, mere shell, IN
case the trimming is at all extensive.
The bark, on the flow of sap, becomes
detached from the end Of the stump
from one-elghth to three-fourths of an
inch, thereby preventing the progress
of healing over, especially II branches
of considerable size are cut. For cy-
cry lateral branch shortened in. at
least ten upright shoots OF suckers will
be developed, which, unless care is
taken to pinch back, viii shortly disor-
der and finally destroy the fructifying
properties of the tree. But trimming
after the leaves are out and the bark
has become firm, has the following
advantages: The wood i'll the stump
remains not only sound but alive, and
will heal over in one season, excepting
large limbs; while single sucker will
not be developed unless by careless
ness the limbs are bruised. There is,
moreover, no danger of decay, except
very large branches are cut, which
should never be If it can be avoided,
and in such case apply coat OF graft
ing wax to the surface. The fruit will
be perceptibly improved the first sea-
son by careful trimming when the tree
is IN full bloom. Immediately after
the bark has become firmly set, is the
preferable time, as the tree is then the
most vigorous, allowing the whole
growing season to cover up the
wound, but the time may be extended
to the middle OF July. Gro. NEWELL
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

~. oLLLlNa CoRx.-A good story is told
illustrative of business enterprise in
country towns:
e.. "A grocer from an adjoining village
s sen. his clerk to New London, one
,"o'uihS last summer, with bag of
S s' corn to dispose OF. The young
r'an was gone all day, and at night
bIgieulned with his bag of green corn on
a shoulder and dumped it on the
moor with the remark:
son mere your green corn, go and
''il ~ yourself-I can't"
you sold any 2"
all oold any +? No" said he, I've been
I i" over New London with it, and no
10y 10y sad anything about green corn.
T rIo or three fellows asked mo what
lta,s o' IN my bag, and tod em that
was none of their business,
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

ADVICE TO PARENTs.-1. Let every
parent administer strict justice among
his children, defending tho rights of
each and all. Where each boy is left
to take care of his own intol ests, the
parents refusing to be "bothered with
such trifles, there will, of course, be
quarreling and contention.
2 Let Christian neighbors combine
their influence to secure peace among
their children, by each redressing the
wrongs which his children have done
to others. Let every boy feel that it
is no safer for him to abuse the poor,
timid boy who lives down the street,
than it would be for him to abuse his
brother.
g. Let every parent SO conduct him
self that his children will feel secure
in his protection. To do this YOU
need not be violent or unchristian.
But II you care nothing for what
other boys do to yours, to be consis-
tent you must not inquire what your
boys do to others.
A. Lot every parent, SO far as he
can, keep his boys out of the way of
the vicious and the british.
3. Teach every child to be Just,
generous, peaceful, patient, and for
giving, i'll all his dealings with others ,
s. s. Times
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

How THY SERVE "WIrcHrs" IL New
ZEALAND Tho following from the
New Zealand Hguld, describes q sum
mary mode Of dealing with witches"
in that country: From Kawhia we
hear of wars and rumors of wars, in
stigated probably by the desire of the
semifrendly natives there to be put
on rations and receive pay. Hone
Westere John Wesley, late native
there, who was deposed
from his Office four years ago, for
the abduction of native woman,
the wife of sawyer named
Wright, has been added to the inter
est of native proceedings Mt the pres
ent time, by the commission of a
most brutal murder 1t seems that
this late learned interpreter of the
law had, with a zeal worthy of Mat
thew Hopkins, condemned an old
Maori woman for 'makutu, or witch
craft, and punished her by his own
hands, cutting off her head on the
spot. This may appear to Auckland
phllo-Maories as something startling
and perhaps out of the way, but to us
here, it is no extraordinary event. 1t
IS only few years since two natives
III our own district murdered n man
and woman for the same reason, and
cooked II copper Maori over their
grave. Much about the same time, at
Kawhia, native and bis wife pulled
the heart ont OF their living child, I'M
der the impression that the poor in
FAINT was bewitched.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

SHEEP IN ORcnARDs.-A correspon-
dent Of the Maine Farmer says; | have
an old orchard in a piece of moving
land which was entirely run out. |
had for several years turned my sheep
into tins orchard soon after haying
and it now cuts double the hay it did
at the commencement, and my orch
ard has improved very much. So you
see | get more than a double profit
from this piece of land.
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

DREss Americans, be they ever so
eccentric or self-willed, may follow
their own inclinations in matters of
dress. But such liberty has not
always been given in all countries. In
the reign of Henry ", no person of
lower rank than a knight was permit
ted to wear any cloth Of gold or velvet,
or to wear n robe long enough to reach
the ground. Large sleeves, also, we're
strictly forbidden. If a lady wore a
"dress or petticoat of silk, or any vel
vet in her kirtle," or amy chain OF
gold about hsr neck, or upon any
part of her apparel, her husband
must forfeit ten pounds every three
months, unless he gave some other
designated equivalent. 1t must have
been a sad time for the lovers of pref
ty things. Bad enough to face ones
husband with long dress makers ac-
count; but taX-gatherer on the back
of that, looking in for G10 every quar-
ter because my lady would be in the
fashion-whew! Under the Emperor
Paul Of Russia, a man wearing panta-
looms instead OF knee breeches was
certain to be arrested. A gentleman
was caned by the police in the public
street for wearing neckcloth thicker
in texture than was allowed by law.
A lady at court wearing too low IA
bodice was ordered into close confne-
ment on n bread and water diet. A
gentleman's hair falling little over
his forehead at a public ball, he was
threatened 10y a policeman that, if he
did not instantly cut his hair, his
head should be shaved by the authori-
ties
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23


V4 wrap me not, when am dead,
IN the CHASTITY winding sheet,
and bind no 'kerchief round my head,
Nor fettcr my active feet
but let some friend that loves me best,
Comb back my long dark hair,
ana part the ringlets round my face
In the fashion love to wear;
ANA robe me in my favorite garb,
And let sweet flowers be spread
within my hand aud on my heart
, when You lay me down to rest;
hof would not that my friends would turn
Away with thrill of fear
A. they give the last fond look and kiss
10 one in life so dear
and lay me down in a quiet spot,
beneath some spreading tree,
hnnere birds may build their nests and sing
- lheir sweetest songs DER me;
blt lot no tears be DER me shed
but the pearly tears of night,
~ the howers love weep DER my soul
IN thy pale moons silver light.
ana let not chilling marble rest
n oh my heart so warm and true,
p1t the Nerdant turf be my winding sheet,
~, hept green by the summer dew
iIu9 iet me sleep--and my glad SOUL
&, On wings of hope and love,
NnAH haste to meet my loved and lost
III world of bliss above
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23

pa- A poor woman, who had atten-
ded several combinations, was at
length recognized by the bishop.
''Pray, have | not seen you here be-
fore ?" said his lordship.
Eyes, replied the woman, get me
confirmed rs often as ! can. They say
il is good for the rheumatis !"
The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1866-03-23
ST. Adams Business Directory.

n Alley ~ DAVIS, ATTORNEYS And
X COrNSEfIORS al LAW and Solicitors In
,rsucory. Office III the rooms formerly occu-
Mod by White & Sowlcs, Gadcomb's Building
(, Albans. Vt. 97-ly
ID r. BAILEY. PARK DAVIS.