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Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28

1t is an unfaiing remedy IN all cases Of Neu-
ralgia Facialis, often eilccting perfect cure in
less than twenty-four hours, from the use Of no
more than two or three pills. No other form of
Neuralgia or Nervous Disease has failed to yield
to this
WONDERFUL REMEDIAL AGENT.
Even in the scyerest cases Of Chronic Neural
gia and general nervous arrangements ofmany
years standing affecting the entire system,
its use for few days, or IA few weeks at the ut
most, always affords the
MOST ASTONISHING RELIEF,
And very rarely fails to produce complete and
permanent cure. 1t contains no drugs or other
materials in the slightest degree injurious, even
to the most delicate system, and can always be
used with
PERFECT SAFETY.
1t has long been in constant use by may of our
most eminent Physicians, who give it their
unanimous and unqualified approval. Sent by
mail ON receipt ofprice, and postage.
One PACKAGE. 81 CO. Postage cents.
Six packages. 80. Co.,. II
Twelve Pactg's. 8 co.. 4S
1t is sold by all wholesale and retail dealers in
drugs and medicines throughout the United
States, and by TURNER & CO.. Sole Propretors,
100 to l57 fremont Street. Boston, Mass. 1S9-Gm
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28
COLUMBUS.

FINllIS celebrated trotting stallion will serve
l. mares the present season at
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28
NORTHERN RAILROAD.
WINTER ARRANGEMENT r-lse4-5.
UPWARD TRAINS.

On and after Monday, Nov. A. 1864, Passenger
Trains will run as follows
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28
The American Cooking Stove In
Court.

4 7 an adjourned term of the Circuit Court Of
n the United States, for the Northern District
of New York. i'll the second circuit held at the
City Hall, in the city of Albany, the 2Sth day of
January, in the year of our Lord 1868
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1868-05-28

Genuine Vim. Rogers & Sons

SpooIs, Forks, Knives, Ladies' &c. Don't be de-
ccvcd and buy I'd quality goods when its
easy to get the best and at almost the same price.
A great variety Clocks, Table and Pocket
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
The Worlds Great Diamonds.

The July Galaxy has an article on dia-
monds, in which ls given the following
account OF the largest the world possesses
IL says:
The s'Koh-i-noor," as has been SAID, is
kept now by the Queen of England, and Is
guarded with great care.
The NATHAN" is beyond price, and is
among the treasures of the Raiah of NATHAN,
who will no doubt be robbed of it sooner or
later, and will lose his life at the same time.
II is pearl-shaped, and is uncut.
The 'Orloff' is in the care of Russia and
is now set in the Imperial sceptre.
The Cumberland" is, or was, now IN
possession of the King of Hanover. But rs
there is now no King Of Hanover, ] am not
certain where the gem is kept.
The Polar Star" and the Shah" are
both among the crown Jewels OF Russia.
The Pitt" is among the crown jewels OF
France, and was once worn by the fret
Napoleon ON the hllt of his sword.
The Eugene" was given by the present
Emperor Of France to his wife, who now has
charge of 1t.
The "Florentine" is the great yellow dia
mond of the Austrian crown; it was sup
posed TO nave been IN possession OF once
Charles the Bold and the story says it was
lost at the battle of Granson. The sol
der found it sold II for a form and got
drunk with the money.
The .'Sancy'' was once an heirloom OF
the Dukes OF Burgundy, and dates back be-
fore the year l479. 1t has gone from hand
to hand III strange and bloody wars, and is
in possession of an Indian merchant named
Jelee-bhoy.
The NASSAU" has been sold from hand
to hand since il came into the possession
of the East India Company, and it is said
10 be now IN the hands of the Marquis of
Westminster.
| am unable to say who now keeps the
"Figgott, but the Star of the South" is in
possession of the Costars of Amsterdam,
who are the greatest Of diamond cutters;
and any one who would like to keep IT
might get the privilege for one million dol
lars IN gold The Hope" is the largest
and most perfect of blue diamonds, and is
in possession of the Hopes of Amsterdam.
Its color is a brilliant sapphire blue.
So much for the names of some of my
great diamonds. My philosophy tells me
that | own them, and enjoy them, Just as
those do who have the care of them, The
most they can do is to go and look at them,
and battle IN their brilliant flashing lights,
and that | can do whenever ] wish. This
ownership, my dear reader, L now confer
upon you. Ii would be impossible for me
or you to keep, to guard these fifteen gems,
valued, perhaps, at $4,000, 900. We
should never sleep o nights, fire would be
a horrible thought, We should certainly be
murdered in our beds, or we Shouldn't
teen of us-be raving maniacs in mad
house. Should any of the present owners
ask me to take his diamond, / here state
that l would positively and peremptorily
refuse. l have a sacred regard for my
stomach and brain which would render il
impossible.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03

INCREASE OF EMIGRATION FROM LIVERPOOL
The emigration returns of the port OF Liv-
pool for May 1868 show large increase as
compared with the same month of the pre-
vlous year. During the month 30 ships
sailed from the Mersey, under the provi-
slons OF thu emigration act, carrying 18, 800
passengers, OF whom 613 were cabin pas
sengers and the remainder Storage OF
the steerage passengers, 4, $40 were Eng
lish, 362 Scotch, $3.50 Irish, and II, lot
foreigners. There sailed to the United
States "a ships, with Ii, 1872 passengers; and
TO Canada, 3, with 1887 Of the .sshort"
ships, or those not under the act, there
sailed s for the United States, with SOB pas
sengers; 3 to Victoria, with l03: / to the
West Indies, With 3 passengers; 8 to South
America, with AZ passengers; to Africa,
with IL; and l to China, with passengers;
making total of Is ships and 779 passen-
gers. The total number of e1nigrants who
sailed from Liverpool during the month
lS67.-N 7. Post.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
Anti.Coolie Mobs in Nevada.

The Nevada Territorial Enterprise of
May Is, contains the following
eve are to have, it seems, trouble from
the anti-Coolie mobs in this state. Ii APP
pears that Charley Van Gorder, VIM. Leet
and other parties, who own an extensive
tract of timber land in the Sierra Nevada
Mountains, below Carson City, have large
contracts for supplying timber and wood,
and, being unable to find a sufficient num-
Der of white men to do the work required,
hired q lot of Cinnamon to cut the
wood for them, paying them the same
price per cord for chopping as they had
been paying white men. Hearing
that Van Gorder, Leet 4 Co. had hired
Chinese, q crowd of Canadian French and
IrishInen formed an anti-Coohe League in
Carson last Sunday, the object of which, it
appears, is to prevent citizens of Nevada
from doing as they please with their own
property, and doing their own work on
their own premises in their own way. Night
before last, at midnight, message was re-
ceived in Gold Hill, informing Van Gorder,
Leet Il Co. that the mob intended going
yesterday or last night to drive off the Chi
namen Upon hearing this the parties
owning the timber land, with party of
fighting men, armed with Henry's rifles
and revolvers, prepared to resist any inter-
ference with the workmen employed by
them. 1t is said that the sheriff of Doug
lass county, with posse Of twenty armed
men, was reported yesterday at noon to
have been upon the timber ranch ready to
repel all invaders
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
Romantic yiIlainy.

The London journals have q new case of
scandal on hand, quite as piquant In its de-
tails as those of the Blakely case. The
drdmdtiS perSonCg are Madam Rachel (alias
Leverson,) Mrs. Borradalie, and my
Lord Ranelagh: Madam Rachel is charg-
ed by Mrs. Borradalie, with obtaining
various sums of money from her, on the
pretence of making her beautiful forever,
and other alleged representations,
Counsel for plaintiff, opening the case said:
Prosecutrix became acquainted with
ranged that she should by some chemical
process, known only to herself, be made
beautiful forever, and after that contract 8
noble alliance. To carry out such an adj
outrageous agreement, Of course Mrs, Bor-
radaile was not backward when applied to
tor some money by the defendant, and in
very short space of time FL, 900 changed
hands. Subsequently the prosecutrix was
introduced by Madame Rachel to gentle
man who she said was Lord Ranelagh,
but who for private reasons did not wish
10 be known as Lord Ranelagh, but as
Captain William Edwards. Several letters
passed between the parties. While the
correspondence was going on Madame Ra-
,lel told the lady that Fl, 400 was headed
-cr volunteering purposes, and that sum, as
HDOA he sic D6cdIlic DC
paid Some property was sold out by a
solicitor named Haynes, and various sums
we're advanced, sometimes e10, sometimes
IA, IN the belief that she was carrying on
a matrimonial engagement with the real
aad not the bogus Lord Ranelagh. Sub
sequently, Madame Rachel told the la
dy, as she was about to become La
Cy Ranelagh, a certain amount in dia-
n.onds would be wanted for the we'd
eng. The prosecutrix advanced Ell
400. Then there were wedding dresses
purchased, at the suggestion of Madame
faehel, and such was the credulity of the
DOR dupe, that IN a short time certain par
ties succeeded in stripping her Of every
chilling she had, the total amount not be-
ing less than "a 600 The letters referred
70 were read, and contained some of the
most arrant nonsense that it is possible to
conceive. In some of them the writer des-
ignated the prosecutrix as my own dar-
ling beloved Mary, and in another she was
apostrophised as his ''heart's delight,
ssadored one, &c. One of these really n
diculous epistles wound up with the follow
ing words:
II will let you know all when hear from
you, my hearts life Bear up my loved
one, and shall be at your feet, those feet
that | love, and you may kick your ugly
old donkey. Two letters, naughty little
pet and you have not answered one. You
are in sorrow about your brother. With
fond and devoted love, yours till death. -
WILLIAM"
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03

But hardly had the words escaped ms
lips, when a shrek broke on the air. and
woman's voice plainly coming nom the IN
terror of the cottage, cried:
''Helpl helpi help!"
Ben" saidI, 1--WE are wanted at the
crossroads" and then understanding each
other, without more words we made our
way to window, through which hight
shone. muslin curtain draped the panes'
but through ii we saw an awful sight.
An old man lay on the floor, and over NM
bent ruffian, clutchlng his throat, ana
holding a pistol to his ear, while another
man grasped shrieking girl by the arm
Girl in floating night-dress with such
long golden hair as belonged to the girl of
my vision.
Not a moment was to be wasted
Ben flung his weight against the slender
lattice and crushed il in, and We had CRAP
pied the ruffians before they knew whence
the attack came, or how many foes We're
upon them.
/ do not intend to describe the struggle;
indeed, | could not, If L would. But we
We're strong men, and inspired by the
cries of the helpless old man and the ter
rifed girl we soon had one of the Villains
bound, and the other lying prostarate on
the floor.
Then Ben started for assistance and be
fore morning both were in Jail, Ben adj
uniting, as We shook each other by the
hand, that ''we were wanted at the cross
roads.
The old man was not a miser, but he had
saved some few thousands for his old age,
and living more plainly than he need have
done, had given rise TO the rumor and SO
brought the burglars TO the crossroads III
the hope of booty.
The girl, beautiful creature Of seven
teen, was his granddaughter, and as nc
story is acceptable to the lady readers with
out a flavor of romance, / will tell them,
that she became IN after years, not my
wife, but the wife OF my darling brother
Rem
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
The First Gold Mining in California.

Although the fact has heretofore been
published, 1t Is not generally known that
gold placers were worked in California long
before the discovery of Suffers mill in 1S4S
Documentary evidence of this interesting
fact has just been published by the San
Francisco Alta, in a letter addressed by Abel
Stearms, of Los Angeles, to Louis r. Lull,
Secretary of the Society of Pioneers. Nj.
Stearns, who went to California from Mex
leo in 1629-nearly forty years ago-says
that on the 22d of Nov, 1912, he sent BY
Alfred Robinson (who returned from Cali
fornia to the States by way of Mexico,) 20
ounces California weight) Is ga ounces
Mint weight, OF placer gold, to be for
varded by him to the United States Mint
at Philadelphia. The Mint assay was re-
turned August 6, 1S43. The gold was tax
en- from placers first discovered in March,
1912, by Francisco Lopez, Californian, az
San Franciquito, about thirty-five miles
northwest from Los angeles. Lopez, while
resting with some companions, during &
hunt for stray horses, dug up some wild
onions with his sheath knife, and in the dirt
discovered piece of gold. Searching fur
ther, he found more peices, and on return
ing to town announced his discovery. A
few persons mostly Sonoraians, who were
accustomed TO placer mining n Mexico,
pOTkSd II the Gan fTanclSdutO placer
from this time until the latter part of 1916,
when the war disturbed the country, taking
out Sc, 600 to $1,000 per annum. The Uni
ted States Mint certificate for the assay
made for Mr.. Stearns in 1643 is now in the
archives Of the Society of Pioneers There
have been reports that gold was dug in this
State as early as 1884, but these arose from
the fact that shipments were made of bull
ion received from New Mexico and Sonora.
The existence of gold in California had
doubtless been known in limited way, but
the first known working of a mine is that
recorded above
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
Personal Items,

Napoleon has put stop to Eugenie' e
charitable explorations among the bad
places of Paris inc0gnito.
The marquis of Hastings dined at the
Tuileries with Napoleon after his horse had
won the Prix de Paris.
"A. s. WEIGH, lately elected United
States Senator from Florida, for the short
term, was formerly principal of the state
normal school at Yypsilanti, Mich.
Senator CONFESS, chairman of the
Committee ON Mines and Mining, has ap-
pointed colored man as clerk of the COM
hlittee
Mile. Nilsson was a street singer and
fiddler not many years ago, and used to
display her musical talents for casual cop
pers at Swedish fairs.
"A crazy man in western New York is
trying to go without food until the 4th of
July. He is now on his third week and
quite hungry.
Mrs. Emma Molloy, wife of the editor
of the South Bend, Ind. Union, is announ-
ced as having become connected with that
paper in an editorial capacity.
Gen. Sherman has adopted a son of
the famous scout and hunter, Kit Carson,
and will send him to Notre Dame Univer-
sity, at South Bend, Ind.
Gen. Jasper Packard, nominated as the
successor to Hon. Schuyler Colfax in the
Eleventh Indiana District, was Colonel of
the 12Sth Indiana regiment during the war.
Caleb Gushing is engaged in q most lu-
crative practice of his profession in Wash
ington. He was sixty-eight years old on
the 18th of January last, and is perhaps the
freshest and most youthful man of his age
in America.
Mile. Nilsson, by singing at the Crys-
tai Palace Handel Festival and ct a private
concert In Belgrave Square in one evening,
IN June, Melted nearly three hundred
pounds Such q days gain by vocalizing
In London, is unparalleled IN ancient and
modern history, says the Court Journal
Margaret Robinson, colored woman,
recently died in Schenectady at the ex-
IRENE age of los years and months. She
was native of Africa, and was brought to
this country while small child. At the
time of the revolutionary war she was six
teen years of age. She was very familiar
with events of that remarkable time, and
delighted to relate incidents from its MS
tory.
Mile Hedwig Raabe, the German act
ress, who will visit the United States within
the next two months, is a beautiful blonde,
with large blue eyes and long golden ring
let's She is the pet actress of the Russian
court, and the Cars second son was at one
time SO desperately in love with her that he
insisted upon marrying her, project
which his parents were hardly able to
thwart
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
A Woman Kills her Husband to Save her
own and her Children's Lives.

From the Big Sandy tky.) Herald, June is.
On Sunday last, a man named Clark, who
lives near Keeser's Rocks, on Sandy, came
to town and got beastly drunk, went home,
and, as usual when in that state, commence
ed abusing his family, and kept it up until
a late hour in the night beating his wife,
threatening to shoot her, the children, or
some one else, before the next day. He
put gun into the mouth of one of the chill
dren and threatened to shoot him, but an
elder boy knocked the gun away
and took it from him. He then
sent another child somewhereAn the neigh
borhood of his house "a field to get another
gun he had there loaded, all the time VOW
ing he would kill some one. While the child
was gone he pulled his bed into the floor
and layed down, when the mother, for fear
of her life, or that of her children, seized an
axe and struck him several blows the first
of which proved fatal, he not moving after
being struck.
The woman and her family were arrested
and brought into town on Monday, and ex
amined before Judge Norris. The evidence
proved that the act was done to save her.
self or children from murder, and they were
discharged
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
A Man Sued for the Price of the Wood
Used in Burning His Ancestor to the

4 French paper tells the following story
In observance of one of those rules
which reflect so much glory on civilized
Christendom, the Sicilian Revenue Service
has recently served Mr.. Castigta a bill OF
costs for the expenses of the Inquisition in
burning one Of his ancestors at the stake
for heresy in the year 1724
On the 9th of August, 1724-this was in
Voltaire's epoch-the Augustin monk Rou-
maldo, and Gertrude, a nun of Saint Ben
oft, were burned alive on the Place st.
Erasmus, at Palermo, after an imprison-
ment OF twenty years, under the charge of
heresy. The Inquisition, according to
custom, condemned them, besides, to pay
the cost OF the wood used In burning them
This holy tribunal only furnished matches
gratis.
And now they come to claim from a de-
scendant Of the victims the cost of this
judicial murder. 1t is hoped they have not
forgotten to add up the little sum of COM
pound interest, to punish neglect of pay
ment so indicate on the part of the fam
lily. But Mr. Castiglia, instead of offering
with due conjunction his last shirt in
liquidation of such just demands, obsti-
nately refuses to pay, and solicits of parlia-
ment decree that he shall be left in quiet
and not prosecuted for his money because
miscreants burned his forefathers.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03

BURYISs ALIVE IN INDIA.-The Friend of
India says: Some curious facts about the
crime Of Samadh.' or burying alive, as
practiced in Rajpootana, have just seen
the light. The political agent of Scroll
furnishes a list of instances in the course of
six years that have come to his knowledge,
chiefly in the neighborhood of Montagoad,
border village. The practice is also car
ried on, we are assured, in the adjoining
State of AIarwar Out of nine cases of
Samadh reported, eight of the victims were
lepers, the other having been sacrificed,
no doubt, at his own desire, on account of
old age and poverty. The Rao of Seroni
has isaued a proclamation forbidding the
practice, under penalty of ten years impris-
onment. His highmess will no doubtdo all
he can to put his prohibitation in force,
but there are very great difficulties in the
way Of carrying out such orders In many
of the cases the persons who dig the pit
and cover up the unfortunate wretch are
themselves lepers, and to them death itself
would be welcome, and we presume the
Rao would hardly care to introduce any of
them into his prisons.
Prescott journal. [volume] (Prescott, Wis.) 1861-1871, 1868-07-03
FASHIONABLE WEDDING.



WASHINGTON. June 25.-For several
weeks past the fashionable circles at Wash
1ngton have been much interested In an
tlclpation of the marriage of Senator Hen
derson, of Missouri to Miss Mary Foote,
daughter of the Hon. Elisha Foote, of New
York, and the head of the Appeal Board OF
the Patent Office. Miss Foote,
for several winters past, has been one
OF the bellies of Washington, and the
announcement of her engagement with the
Senator from Missouri created quite sem
sation among the elite of Washington. A
few days since, over six hundred cards were
issued to the friends of the couple for the
marriage ceremony, which took place to-
day at IL o'clock, at the National Hotel,
and was one of the most brilliant affairs
ever witnessed at the national capital.
The magnificent parlors of the hotel were
tastefully and profusely decorated with
rare and fragrant flowers, whose rich
perfume filled the atmosphere. The
heavy lace curtains at the windows
and over the archway connecting the two
parlors were covered with ivy and ever
greens, while rich bouquets distributed
about the rooms, prominent among which
was magnificent one presented by the la
dies Of the executive mansion, fairly trans
formed the drawing rooms to tiowery gar
dens of exquisite beauty Immediately OPP
posite to the afchway, and at the far end
of the parlors, was canopy of white lace,
bedecked with white lilies and erected
over a large mirror, beneath which the
marriage ceremony took place, IN the pres
ence of a most distinguished and fashlona-
BILE assemblage. The President of the
United States and General Grant, Chief
Justice Chase, eminent statesmen, cele-
al MI
distinguished army and navy officers, and
prominent citizens, with thousands of
beautiful and accomplished ladies' whose
rich and costly toilets added to the effect
of the scene, were present. The Chinese
embassy also attended.
The guests began TO arrive shortly after
IL o'clock, and by noon the parlors were
crowded. The Senate took recess to at
tend About IL o'clock the bridal party
entered and marched through the parlors,
stopping beneath the canopy above de-
scribed where the ceremony took place.
Rev. DR. Pickney of the Church of the Ascen-
sion( Episcopal), officiating. Senator Joseph
Fowler, Of Tennessee, and Mr.. f. Ar
noldlof New York, acted as groomsmen, and
Miss Catherine Beach, of Saratoga Springs,
New York, and Miss Augusta Foote, sister
of the bride as bridesmaids.
The bride was dressed in a very heavy
white silk, with gored skirt and full en-
press train, low corsage, with lace trim
mings Over this was dress of pure white
illusion, hanging in graceful folds, and
forming pleasing contrast to the rich silk
of the undertakes. 1t was finished with
two narrow fiounces around the bottom of
the skirt. A handsome sash, with bows of
white silk, encircled the waist Her rich
curls were surmounted by a handsome
wreath of orange blossoms, from which was
suspended an elegant tulle veil, which fell
behind to the hem of the dress.
After an elaborate reception, the bridal
party left this evening for the north