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A Young Lady Asleep Twelve Years

Some eight miles from Hickman,
KY, there exists a young lady who
presents the most wonderful case of
coma, or preternatural disposition to
sleep, of which we have ever known
or heard. When about twelve years
old she was taken with severe chill,
and treated by her physicians accord
ingly. As her fever which followed
the chill subsided she fell into a deep
sleep, In which condition she has re-
mained ever since, except at intervals.
She awakes regularly twice in every
twenty-four hours, t which time
nourishment is given her, and it is a
most singular fact that she always
awakes within few minutes of the
same hours every day. She will re-
main awake and perfectly conscious
ten or fifteen minutes, and then gradu-
ally fall off to sleep again. When
asleep it is utterly impossible to
arouse her. She is now twenty-four
years old. and has consequently been
in the comatose condition a period OF
twelve years. When awake she does
not appear to suffer, except from a
drowsy, gaping inclination, and per
sistent effort to cleanse her throat of
phlegm. She never complains Of any
bodily pain. In her sleep she is very
nervous at times, and appears to sui
fer considerably by the violent twitch
ingS and .jerkings of her muscles ant
limbs, and her hands are clenchet
tightly, as if enduring severe poin. :
The paroxysm will continue perhap:
five minutes, and she then sleeps "a.
calmly and quietly as an infant He
food consists of mush, Cruel, and sucl
things as are usually given confirmed
invalids. When awake she viii
answer questions asked her, and cal
converse with considerable intelli
gence, but never exhibits any interes
or desire to talk. Talking seems t,
be labor to her. She, of course
has never had any of the advantage
of education or society, and her idea
of everything are quite child-line.-
} Her features are inclined to be pret
ty, and, though deprived Of the tint
of health, are not marked by that sick
ly pallor which her position woui,
indicate. She has long, dark. way.
hair, which her poor old mother take
great care in combing and dressing
and her complexion is that of pale
: delicate brunette. She is of ordinal'
size, and her limbs and muscles wei
proportioned and developed. Sh
has grown considerable Since her a
Fiction. Her name is Miss Mar
: Godsy, and her mother is very poo
widow lady, dependent upon the char
ty of her neighbors and visitors fo
!, support. She has been visited sine
her affiiction by many eminent phys
clans, but her condition defes a.
t medical skill. Indeed, we have nc
1 met any one who claims to under
( stand t he cause or nature of th
disease.
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told them, he had been struggling un-
der a horror of great darkness. A
sense of guilt crushing him down to
hell, He could neither eat nor sleep.
He had appointed that night for a
ball, and intended to drink to uncon-
sciousness, that he might drown his
lashing conscience. But his conscience
would not drown. Even whisky could
not drown it. He saw that he must
stop his fearful trade at once, and he
had stopped it. That night he had
confessed his misery to his assistants,
and had closed his place forever
That night Osman was converted.
Next day his usual advertisements
were exchanged for the notice of a
prayer-meeting, and on the evening of
that day was held a triumphal meet
ing the at metropolitan, such as Prov
idence never saw before. Saturday
night another meeting was held at
which the proprietor himself presid-
ed. AS we heard his touching pray
er and earnest appeals to his late
companions we could but exclaim,
What hath God wrought
We have given this extended mar
rative for distinct purpose. A vital
Christianity will aim to do something
for the moral rescue of those in
danger. Jesus came not simply to
make the good better, but to save the
lost, to lift up the fallen, to feed the
hungry, to cure the leprous soul, to
redeem the drunkard, to keep the
young man from theft or forgery, and
to establish the kingdom of God in
every city, home and individual soul.
This is the work of an aggressive
Observation-Disclosures Register.
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Drink a Despotism.

In February, 1866, a lady sent for
a physician to see her husband, who
was laboring under symptoms which
she could not comprehend. He was a
man worth over three hundred thous-
and dollars, was highly esteemed and
had most interesting family. To
an ordinary eye there was no special
disease; there was no strength, no
appetite, no enjoyment; but the physi-
clan, in the peculiar condition, diScov-
cred that the patient was laboring un-
der the influence of continued and in
cessant stimulation. He communicat-
ed his views to his wife as soon as an
opportunity offered, and retired. The
husband naturally desired to know the
physicians opinion: He said, my
dear husband, that you were under the
influence of constant stimulants, and
that unless you renounce the habit,
you cannot live three months" /
can't do it," said he, and within the
time he was buried. Every earthly
consideration of family, fortune and
friends appealed to him in vain, and
failed to drag him away from his sui
cidal habits; to all their calling from
despotic indulgences, he could only
respond: II can't do itw and yield
ing himself hopelesslu to his eaptnr, he
perished in his prime.
1t is related that man, addicted to
drink, was sent to the penitentiary foI
some crime: no liquor was allowed
convicts, except by special medical
direction, and every possible device
having failed to secure him supply
he came running to the keeper one
day, holding out the bleeding stumI
of his arm, calling loudly for brandy
to staunch the blood; in the furry of
the moment, bowl was handed him
into which he thrust the CORY stump
and the next instant gulped the con
tents at a draught.
| Such are some of the despotisms of
drink, and the only certain method OF
preventing one from falling under the
influence of a tyranny so, horrible, i;
never to take a drop-such only are
safe.
In 1852 when the yellow fever raget
so furiously in New Orleans, nearl.
five thousand of the supporters Of
grog shops died before single tenn
perate man was attacked by the dis
ease. In the very same year, whel
nine hundred died of cholera, onl
three were tetotallers; and when th
pestilence swept off one in sixty ol
the entire population of Albany, New
York, only one in twenty-five hundre'
of the strictly temperate were seize
with the malady. Yet, with thes
facts before the people, and the diseas
: at our very doors, a very large nun
ber of our merchants and multitude
$ of mechanics find it impossible t
leave off the use of spirituous drinks
, even for a season; with so terrible
malady staring them in the face, inte
ligent men will drink and die!
Halls Journal Of Healt|
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They tell you that every one of
these words is a Greek word, that
their whole forms Greek sentence
written in this order: Napoleon on 0
leon leon con apoleon poleon, and that
the sentence means in English: Ma
poleon, being the lion of the people
was march ing on destroying the
cities ~ oHisasb siat
An old-fashioned, wealthy fellow
who was never; known to have any
thing in the line of new apparel but
once, and that when he was going or
a journey, had to purchase a new
pair of boots. The coach left before
day break and SO be got ready ant
went to the hotel to stop for the night
Among whole row of boots in thu
morning he could not find the old ia
milliar pair. He had forgotten thu
new ones-he hunted and hunted IL
vain. The coach was ready, and 81
he looked carefully round to see tina
he was not observed, put on hic'
pair that fitted him, called the waite
and told him the circumstances, Civic,
him ten shillings for the owner of th
boots when he called for them. Th
owner never called. The old ma
had bought hisown boots. a eis
Slander is the solace of malignity
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Go TO WoRK.-The Christian Ban
ner says: Let US commend to some
of our brethren a clild's version
of sermon delivered in Chi
cago last Sunday. The preacher
urged that Christians should be active
i'll Christ, "they should serve Him, not
with breath alone, but also with the
hands and feet" One of the audience
leading home his little boy of six or
seven years, asked him if he under
stood anything of the sermon.
"Oh, yes! | hear preaching nova
days"
"Well, what did you hear this
morning ?"
"The minister said we should stop
blowing, and go to work. a1 -
THE CRoPs.-The Pennsylvania pa
pers concur in the opinion that the
coming wheat crop will probably be
the largest ever harvested in that
State. In Wisconsin an excellent
crop is expected. The Rockingham
(Va.) Union says the growing crop OF
wheat is extraordinarily fine, and the
other grains very promising, while the
yield Of fruit will probably be greater
than ever before known in that Sec
ton. "a Wam
TRUE.-An exchange very truth
fully remarks that whether the people
will it, or not, the local paper is then
Representative abroad, their ambassa>
| dor in foreign parts, by which they
must be judged. Let them, then, take
a patriotic interest in giving it news,
Incorporation and patronage. Like
levery other duty performed, it will
lpay in the long run. em
In Luxembourg, which now occupies
SO large a share of European CONVEX
lsation, a favorite amusement of the IN
Inhabitants is cats races. Each worthy
burgher takes his cat in a bag two
Imiles from town, and at a given signal
ltheyall shake their bags, the cats leap
out scared to death, and run home as
, fast as they can go. The first cat that
REACHES the town gates is the winner.
j Mr.. Chaplin Of England won at the
recent Derby over seven hundred
Thousand dollars.
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A talented temperance lecturer was
once asked, "What shall we do with
all the grain that is now required Tor
distilling ?" "Feed the drunkard's
family with it, they've been hungry
long enough" was the prompt reply.
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Judge Walton, of the Maine Su-
preme Court has ruled that the sale
of currant, rhubarb, grape or elder
berry wines is prohibited by the stat
ute of that state.
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COOKING STOVES.

GOOD Samaritan, Stewart, Soap Stone, Parlor
VI Office, and other Stoves, always on hand.-
Our stock is much the largest to be found in the
county. We can undersell all competitors il
TINS branch of trade. See if we can't.
T.. Ii. TRUE IL co.
newport. Jan oh 1867
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Instrumental Music.

N. 4. Ill. PARKER will commence his
Forto second % course of instruction, on the Piano
ON Moa anu organ, at COVENTRY FALLS, VT,
on NMoSDAr, June II, 1867.
and Hn ans viii be spared to give pupils careful
Coventry, May %, 1867. 2lw3
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Morality must have sky as a picture.


Morality must have sky as picture.
Old men are the majesty of peo-
pie.
Religion is the only metaphysic that
the multitude can understand and
adopt.
We would choose for wife only
the woman we should choose were
she a man.
We measure minds by their statue
it would be better to estimate them
by their beauty.
Very few men are worthy to be
heads of families and few families are
capable of having a head.
There are souls transparent and
pure, whose lives are like a sunbeam
that sports in drop Of dew.
Heaven rarely grants to the same
man the gift of thinking well, speaking
we'll and of acting well in all things.
There are heads that have no win
dows, and that daylight cannot strike
from above. Nothing comes into then
from Heaven,
Order is the coordination of means
to the end, Of parts to the whole, of
work to the model, of reward tt
merit
The triumph of women is not tt
wear out and conquer their persecu
tors, but to soften them and max,
them lay down their arms.
How many people make themselve
abstract to appear profound. Tn
greatest part of abstract terms ar
shadows that hide vacuum.
In the spirit of the Christian ther
is perpetual spring tide, and in th
wintry valleys he hears the ripple o.
ever flowing streams.
We comprehend the earth onl
when we have known Heaven. Witt
out the spiritual world the materis
world is a disheartening enigma.
Nature has made two kinds of e.
cellent minds; the one to produe
beautiful thoughts and beautiful a,
tions, the other to admire them.
Instead Of complaining that th
rose has thorns, | congratulate mysel
that the thorn is surmounted by rose
and that the bush bears flowers.
The god Of metaphysics is but a
idea, but the God of religion, the CIR
ator of Heaven and earth, the sovel
eign Judge of actions and of thought
is a power. ~
Let us be men with men and alway
children before God; for in his eyt
: we are but children. Old age itsel
, in presence of eternity is but the fir
moment Of morning.
= if9 tt So y
: This life is but the cradle of I'll
g other. What avail then sickness
! time, old age, death; different d
{, grees of metalnorphosis whie
d doubtless has here below only b
& ginning?
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NAPOLEON IN GREEK. A chapter of
Paris gossip in the London Herald
contains the following
"At the faubourg they are just now
fond of Greek and anagrams. Here
is fair sample: oesa s17-al.y .i
1si o IN apoleon.
- aa4- A poleon. aG aacga
P oleon.
Q leon.
l. con.
e on.
r.
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Let us be men with men and always
children before God; for in his eyes
we are but children. Old age itself
in presence of eternity is but the first
moment of a morning.
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b This life is but the cradle of the
other. What avail then sickness,
time, old age, death; different de-
grees of metamorphosis which
doubtless has here below only be-
ginning?
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The god of metaphysics is but an
idea, but the God of religion, the Gre
ator of Heaven and earth, the sover-
eign Judge of actions and of thoughts,
is power. .-..s, -... aara4
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Instead Of complaining that the
rose has thorns, | congratulate myself
that the thorn is surmounted by roses
and that the bush bears flowers.
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Nature has made two kinds of ex-
cellent minds; the one to produce
beautiful thoughts and beautiful ac.
tions, the other to admire them.
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THE UlD BEEh o1Of.
cannot leave Nuremberg without
first visiting beer shop. We go in
Through small kitchen where maid
is broiling sausages and enter a room
s by 16 feet. A clock ticks in one
Ecorner. There are tables, chairs and
benches. Adjoining is a small pantry
or tap room, over the door of which
we see miniature portraits of Albert
Durer, who 300 years ago gave new
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OhANDE1 N ShINNEK.
GENERAL HARDWARE DEALERS
BARTON LANDING, VERMONT.
Agents for NAILS, PLows, STOVES, &C., at Whole
sale and Retail. 81
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We comprehend the earth only
when we have known Heaven. With
out the spiritual world the material
world is disheartening enigma.
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Order is the coordination of means
to the end, Of parts to the whole, Of
work to the model, Of reward tC
merit.
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The triumph of women is not to
wear out and conquer their persecu-
tors, but to soften them and make
them lay down their arms.
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There are souls transparent and
pure, whose lives are like a sunbeam
that sports in a drop Of dew.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-07
THE WHITEWASHERS or CRIME

The Times bad better leave the Kohnsamm
case alone The best thing its editors or any
other apolonsts for this yillainy can do is to
let it rest in peace. An investigation by a
Congressional Committee, uninfuenced by par
don brokers, would be the worst thing that
could befall the clamOrous friends of the
poor, "helpless, confding man. who has just
left Sing Sing and sailed for Europe. There
are some Offenses now-a days that are as rank
and smell as rank to heaven as Macbeths;
and this case is of the class that cries for
speedy burial out of mems sight 1t will be as
well for The Times to cease its stereOtyped
plea that the illustrious criminal deserves pardon
because he was old, and enlargement because he
has by miracle been kept in prison couple
of years. 1t is about time that the audaciOus
assertion that Kohnstamm's trial was hurried,
the testimony incOnclusive, and the prisoner
sacrificed as a victim to the relentlessness of
the War Department, were dropped. Judge
Pierepont, one of the counsel for the Gov
eminent, may have withdrawn his objections
to the pardon, and the ex-Dbtrict Attorney
have found warrant for saying that this
malofactOr was made victm-these things
may be so for after what has happened in
the case, we are prepared to believe almost
anything possible; but we have not heard
that Mr.. John Sedgwick, who was counsel in
the case nearly two years before Peuepont
came into it, and who knew ten times as
much about its merits, ever withdrew his OBJ
jections, or ever changed his original opinion
of the guilt of the prisoner. We have not
heard that Col. 0lcott, who conducted the
whole Investigation, has even signed his name
to tho petition SO brayely saraisAcd with the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-07

what he thinks of the other atrocities
committed during the Jamaica disturbances
may be inferred from the words he uttered
toward the conclusion of his address to the
Grand Jury: eff the rains of Heaven have
"not washed out the blood from the stones OF
Jamaica, that blood would cry out for ven
"geance." Our own views on this painful sub
ject are already well known. From the very
first we pronounced GordOns execution totally
illegal, and, in view Of all the facts of the case
as they came to our knowledge, we went fur
Their, and characterized it as downright murder.
Time and the developments of the sad history
of the massacre having proved that we were
right; and we cannot but express the hope
that an English jury will yet have the ques-
ton of Mr.. Gordon's murder submitted to them
for final decision, by the indictment of the
principal actor in the Jamaica tragedy, who is
not yet beyond the reach of the law.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-07

The Cable gives us only few lines on the
grand Reform meeting which was yesterday
held in London, but these few lines sufficiently
show that the meeting, like those which had
previously been held in Birmingham, Leeds,
and other large cities, was a perfect success.
Not the slightest disorder marred the triumph
Of the people. The Government had with
drawn its opposition to the holding of the
meeting in Hyde Park. They feel that out
of as well as in Parliament the Tories have
to act on the defensive, and that they must
yield untenable points if they hope to delay
few more years the utter destruction of
their party,
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autograph Of men who knew nothing what
ever of the case Nor do we recollect to have
seen any retraction by Judge Nelson OF the
scathing invectiye which he condensed into his
sentence of the prisoner. And, furthermore,
we have failed to be convinced, after diligent
inquiry, that District-Attorney Courtney has
been ever asked by the President what light
the books of his Office throw upon the MANI
moth fraud of the age. True, Messrs. Evarts
and Brady did recommend the pardon; but they
were of counsel for the prisoner; another gen
tleman did it, who had dinner at Delmonlc0s
in his honor; Mr.. Robert j. Walker does, we
admit, and likewise Secretary McCulloch, who
is said to have done it at the request OF per-
sonal friend and most of the others signed be-
cause they were asked to, and as good many
men sign every petition that is brought TO
them, without the slightest knowledge OF the
case in question or any care as TO the result
1t is a notorious fact that, as general ruie'
the men of worst character who apply at the
Departments for favors, come with the. longest
string of Endorsements.
The secret of this sympathy for the millionaire
convict is his pletboric purse. If he had been
some Door, penniless devil, who had stolen clothes
to cover his children, or food to put into their
mouths, no New-Yoll daily would have hawked
him about as an object for pity; no Cabinet
Ministers or Senator would have prayed for his
enlargement and no special trains or special
messengers would have been demanded of Mar
shall Murray. 1t would be of interest to the
general public, but not so welcome for this
spectators" friends, if his trustees would pub
lisl list of the fees and douceurs paid and
promised in the event of his pardon Now that
the "confding, helpless old man" is safely in
Europe, out of reach of his torty-Seren other in
dictments perhaps he will let us know how much
it cost him to make the worse appear the better
reason, and black white
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1867-05-07
OBITUARY.
HENRY CALHOUN.

The sudden death yesterday Of Mr.. Henry CAL
houn. so long and well-known as the Deputy CoLec
tor of this port must occasion widespread regret IN
commercial circles especially Death came to HIM
with little pain, after brief attack of apopexy
Mr.. Calhoun was born in Boston, and was one OF a
large family of brothers, all of whom became con-
spicuOus in public life. Andrew Calhoun has been
Canal Commissioner, Clerk of the Senate of New
York, and is now an officer in the Custom-House OF
this city. Charles Calhoun was for many years
Clerk of the Senate of Massachusetts,. William u.
Calhoun filed many offices OF trust in his native
State. and for long time represented the Spring
field district in Congress. The Rev. 5. H. Cal
houn, ID. D.. is one of the oldest and ableSt mis-"
sionaries in the Holy Land. James Calhoun was
leading citizen of Cincinnati, and John Calhoun was
Surveyor General of Kansas. Henry Calhoun whom
we name the sixth of this remarkable family, was
a valued partner in a very prominent jobbing mouse
in this city, until resigning business he received tne
appointment of Deputy Collector OF the forl u si
Fillmore since whose administration ne mas hsn
this responsible position, almost without lnter,ss
and with distinguished ability and falthtulhess "i
Calhoun will he long missed from the service 70
which his devotion and integrity has rendered mn
INVALUABLE and with which his long and honorae,Ie
official career had identified him. la the mercan.iio
world. where the deceased Deputy was so great,
and deservedly popular he will be sincerely nourneu