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Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01
Thursday, the Eighth Day Of Apri

next, AZ a day of Fasting, Humiliation and
Prayer.
Let us, on that day, as people, turn aside
from our ordinary pursuits and in humble con
triton for our sins, seek the favor of Almighty
God that all our labors may be blessed with the
plenteous fruits OF His Providence.
Let us come unitedly unto the Throne of
Grace, seeking for the light, revealed in our
Lord Jesus Christ
Let us invoke the Divine favor upon our be-
loved country, and upon all called to administer
the Government thereof, that they may have
the spirit Of wisdom and understanding, the
spirit of counsel and might, the spirit OF knowl-
edge, and the fear Of the Lord
Given under my hand. and the Seal of the
State, in the Executive Chamber at
Rutland, this Sixteenth day of March,
in the year of our Lord ons thousand
H.. s. / eight hundred and sixty-nine, and OF
the Independence of the United
States the ninety-third
JOHN b. PAGE.
BY the Governor,
s. L. BURNHAM.
Secretary OF Civil and Military Affairs
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

EARLY RoSE.-Mr. Albert Bresee, OF
TIubbarton, the originator of the Early
Rose Potatoe, has sold 10 bushels of that
variety, for 500.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

MESSRS POWERS AND GLEED, of MOI.
risvillc, have purchased Il new law H.
brary considerably exceeding in cost
the one recently destroyed by file.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01
Local Items.

OUR DAiLY. Those wishing to secure
copies of our daily paper can do SO at
Merrifield's and Bakers bookstores, as
we'll az of carriers, and at the office.
Copies of our weekly paper may also be
had ut these places.
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

OEsoN WRIGHT, of Franklin, killed
nine crows at one shot, and hurt some
more. eat that if you can, crow
killers!
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

TO Advertfscrs.--Thc VERMONT DAILY Trans"
cnlpT has the largest circulation III ST. Adams
and in Franklin County of any daily paper ana
Is on that account, ii no other the best medium
for advertising.
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or S al g.

FENHE subscriber offers for sale his farm, Che
l old Dr. Soule place., consisting of ~ acres
of land, situated in North Fairfax. Said farm is
in n good state of cultivation, has good sugar
aud fruit orchard, and the water privileges are
excellent. For further particulars apply to me
on the premises.
PETER FORTY.
North Fairfax, March l6, 1869. 2G0-fi
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cred there, the delivery" is demanded
by the increasing business of the Office.
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Posi- OFFICEs.--An exchange men
tions that Improvements to the Bur-
iington Post Office. costing about $780,
have recently been made at the persist
ent request of Post Master Bigelow."
We notice that improvements have
also been made recently, at considerable
expense by Judge Barber, in the st. AL
bans Post Office. While the people
nave reason to be pleased with Their
Post Office accommodations, brought
about by the removal ofthe Office to the
Weldon House Block, we are promised
further improvements in the addition
of one hundred boxes, and the introduce
ton of another delivery. Judging by
the crowds which we nightly see gath
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

CHARLES DIsToN was brought before
Justice Sherman on Wednesday, on
three complaints, two for stea ing tools
from his shopmates and one for stealing
tools from Mr.. Kendall. On each of the
first two complaints he was fined $50
and costs, amounting to about $50; on
the third complaint he was acquitted.
Parties becoming Responsible for the
fines, Diston is at liberty.
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ID L T. d.

In st. Adams, on Sunday, March 2Sth, OF
Consumption, Elepha daughter Of Lyman L.
and Lucinda Abel, in her twenty-tirst year,
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Vermont Daily Transcript
ST. ALBANS, VT.
-
THuRsDAy, April ], 1869.
Travellers Guide.

ARRIVAL on PASSENGER TRAINS.
From the South and East, 5fS a. m' ILL am
From HOUSES Point and West, 7,2O a. M, ii,
SO a. NJ. $50 p. IN.
IRON Montreal ii 45 a. m, G 40 p. N.
DEPARTURE OF PASSENGER TRA1Ns.
For The South and East 20, a. m, IL % M,
Z 20 p. III. o,s
For Rouse's Point and West, COS a. IN. 10
y. m.
For Montreal, 6 10 a. M, 90 =. H.
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NOTICE..

FgNO FARMERS AND OTHERS. The subscrib
L crs having purchased and fitted up in good
order, the Wooden Mill at Swanton Falls for.
pared TO manufacture Cloths or Yarn for Gus.
toners, or exchange the same for wool. A lib.
eral share of patronage solicited and satsiac
ton guaranteed.
n. B.-Ohice in south end of Factory, where
may be found the books and accounts Of the late
firm OF Plat & Hinkley.
2l9-tf MEIGS < HINKLEY
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DISSOLUTION.

TENHE firm of Morrill, & Asoltine OF Swanton has
l. been dissolved by mutual consent. The
business will be continued by Mr.. Asetmc who,
will settle all accounts.
*6t2-260 SwantOn, March II, 1869.
CLOTHlNG, CLOTHING, CLOTHING,
" CLOTHING!
The largest Stock of Clothing, Hats and Caps
and Furnishing Goods ever offered for sale III
Vermont, is now opened at
VIM. n. SMITH. * cos,
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STATE OF VERMONT.
BY TIE GOVERNOR.
PROCLAMATION!
fOR DAY or FASTING, HUMILIAIION
and PRA YER.

Devoutly recognizing our dependence upoi
God and in accordance with ayenerated custom
l do hereby appoint
Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-04-01

CHIRTS and DRAWERS, and Over Shirts OF
Dali kinds, just received at
VIM. n. SMITH, n cos.
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DEPARTURE OF PASSENGER TRAIN

For Montreal, 10 a. M, G So p. m.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
The Tomb of R.aehel

James Brooks, Sr, of the New York Ex-
press, writes to that journal from the Holy
Land
Upon my return to Bethlehem, | rode by
the tomb of Rachel, small building with
whitened dome, and having within it high,
obong monument, built Of brick and succeed
over This spot is wild and solitary, and not
tree spreads its shadows where rests the beauti-
ful mother of Israel Christian, Jew and Mos
lem all agree that this is just the spot where
Rachel was buried, and all unite in honoring it.
The Turks are anxious that their ashes shall
rest near hers, and hence their bodies have been
strewn under tombs all around the tomb of
Rachel. The sweet domestic virtues of the wife
won their love and admiration. as the tomb OF
Absalom near the brook of Kedron their de-
testation upon the latter they throw a stone to
mark the horror Of the disobedient son, while
around the former they wish their bodies to be
inferred when they die. Nor is this wonderful.
The wife worth fourteen years service as shep-
herd, must have been worth having
1.-The whole history of Rachel is one of the
most touching in Biblical history The sweet
shepherdess has left her mark upon the memory
of men as well as the tomb. The tribute to her
is the tribute of good wife, and Infdel, Jew
and Christian all combine to pay it. The great
women OF the earth-the Zenobias and Cleo
patras-have died and have been buried, and
their very place of burial been forgotten; to
this day stands over the grave of Rachel, not
the pillar Of Jacob set up, but modern monu.
ment in its place, around which pilgrims from
every land under the sun gather with respect
and reverence for the faithful wife and good
mother Of Israel.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
Ruskin on Judas.

John Ruskin in the Croaon of Wild Olires,
characterlzes In his trenchant style those who
like to make money as imitarors Of Judas:
I'VE do great injustice to IScariot in think
ing him wicked above all common wickedness
lie was only common money-loyer, and like
all money-iovers, did not understand Christ;
couldn't make out the worth Of him or meaning
of him. He didn't want him to be killed. He
was horror-struct when he found that Christ
would be killed threw his money away instant
ly and hanged himself. How many of cur pre-
sent money-seekers, think you, would have the
grace to hang themselves whoever they kill p
But udas was common, selfish, muddle-head-
ed, pilfering follow his hand always in the bag
OF the poor, not caring for them. He didn't
understand Christ, yet he believed in him much
more than most of US do; had seen him do
miracles, thought he was quite strong enough to
shift for himself and he, Judas, might as we'll
make his own little by perquisites of the affair.
Christ would come out of it well enough and he
have thirty pieces. Now, that is the money
seeker idea all over the world. He doesn't
hate Christ, but can't understand him ; he does
not care tor him sees no good in that benevo-
lent business but makes his own little Job of it,
at all events, come what will. And thus out of
every mass of men, you have certain number
OF bagmen-your' free first men, whose main
object is to make money and they do make it,
make 1t IN all sorts of unfair ways, chiefly by
the weight and source of money itself, or what
Is called the power OF capital that is to say the
power which money once obtained has over the
labor OF the poor SO that the capitalist can take
all its produce to himself except the laborers
rylng the bag and bearing what is put there
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
POETRY.
For the Spectator.
Souvenirs Du Ceur."
WRITTEN BY v

small pacquet lies by my side
With an azure ribon bound and tied;
1t is faded and yellow with the dust of years,
And stained withal by many tears
AS / scatter the dust with trembling hand,
Mid the shadows of the Past seem to stand,
And down the vista of those pale dead years
gaze again through these souvenirs.
All Mon CGur," why moan and culver
Those dear dead years have flown forever
And the faint sweet breath of mignionette
That fingers round the pacquet yet
Is but the breath Of the hopes and fears
That gladdened and surround those vanished
years.
I unbound the ribon of faded blue,
And one by one | read them through
Those letters, whose leaves were blotted with
tears,
And worn, and soied with the dust of years.
From those dim pages there seemed to arise
A light like the light from my darlngs eyes,
And, my darling, I think that ! see thee now
With that ''gloriole'' that crowned thy brow.
Pale grew that brow as the early morn,
Paler than the roses above it strewn; a
The lids moved not from those violet eyes,
But dropped like the leaves when their flower
dies.
These white slender hands were folded in peace,
From the labors of earth they had found sur
cease, "a. er~ -ai Isl
Thus in the fre-hghts fickering play ao..s.at
Comes the shadow of a face long passed away
With it the waves of remembrance roll
Like the waters Of ''Marah' across my soul.
AZrael angel of death, moaned,
Let me depart to this loved ones home,
For am weary of searching for love and rest
Weary of tears and loneliness aa e4t
voice from the still air seemed to arise,
As faint as the breath of dying sighs,
Forever cease thy weary quest,
In the fullness Of time He giveth thee rest
''To His beloved He giveth Sleep"
And joy to those who mourn and weep.
Slowly and family as the freight shifted,
These shadows of sorrow are slowly lifted
| bind them again, those blotted leaves,
As a reaper binds his broken sheaves-
The ribon is wet with my falling tears,
AS press to my heart these souvenirs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
DUNNING.

One of our exchanges, hard up for money to
meet expenses ingeniously puts in rhyme this
apology for dunning, which we commend to the
attention of some Of our own readers:
Should you ask US why this dunning,
Why these sad and plaintive mumurs,
Murmurs loud about delinquents
Who have read the paper weekly,
Read what they have never paid for,
Read with pleasure and with profit
Read Of State affairs and prospects,
Read of news both home and foreign,
Read the essays and the poems,
Full of wisdom and instruction,
Read the tables of the markets,
Carefully corrected weekly?
Should you ask US why this dunning?
We should answer we should tell you;
From the printer, from the mailer,
From the kind old paper-maker,
From the landlord from the carrier,
From the man who taxes letters
With stamp from Uncle Samuel
Uncle SAM the rowdies call him:
From them all there comes message
Message kind AID firmly spoken,
'Please to pay us what you owe u.s."
Sad it is to hear such message
When our funds are all exhausted
When the last bank note has left us,
When the gold coin all has vanished,
Gone to pay the paper-maker,
Gone to pay the toling printer,
Gone to pay the landlord tribute,
Gone to pay the nimbe carrier
Gone to pay the faithful mailer,
Gone to pay our Uncle Samuel
Uncle Sam" the rowdies call him
Gone to pay for used up paper,
Ten and twenty hundred dollars !
Sad it is to turn the ledger
Turn the leaves Of this old ledger,
Turn to see what sums are due u.s.
Due for volumes long since ended,
Due for years of pleasant reading,
Due for years of toilsome labor,
Due despite our constant dunning,
Due in sums from three to twenty
''Would you lift the burden from us
Would you drive spectre from you?
Would you taste pleasant slutaber9
Would you have quiet conscience?
Would you read paper PAID FOR?
Send us money-send US money,
Send US money-send as money!
SEND THE MONEY THAT YOU OWE US!
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

River and the point on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Rail Road, two and half miles South of
Staunton, the nearest point of approach to that
place, so far as the writer knows, there is not
quarry cf good stone suitable for constructing
the Road. Again, there is scarcity of tim
Der OF all kinds along the entire route. Neither
is there any place within convenient distance Of
it. whence this want can be supplied. The
Blue Ridge has not supply such as the North
Mountain has, even if near enough to furnish
it, which is not the case
propose In the next chapter to treat of the
resources of the North Side.
10H CT INVON s q
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
NUMBER V.
Confidence in God.
de leadeth me beside the still waters.-Ps xxiii,2

~ ieaueIu me DeSlQe Lno StllI WaserS.-fSX XXll
He leadeth me p O! blessed thought,
~ words with heavenly comfort fraught,
Whate' er / do, where er be,
Still tits Gods hand that leadeth me
He leadeth mel He leadeth me
By His own hand He leadeth me,
Sometimes mid scenes of deepest gloom,
Sometimes where Eden's bowers bloom
By waters still, DER troubled sea-
Still tits His hand that leadeth mel
He leadeth mel He leadeth me
By His own hand He leadeth me
Lord, would clasp thy hand in mine,
Nor ever murmur nor repine-
Content whatever lot see,
Since tbs my God that leadeth me-
He leadeth me He leadeth mel
By His own hand He leadeth me. r..
And when my task on earth is done,
When, by Thy grace the victory's won;
Fen deaths cold wave / will not fee,
Since God through Jordan leadeth me.
He leadeth me! He leadeth me,
BY His own hand, He leadeth me.
Watchman and Reflector.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21
"What Is it but a mart Of busy life,
LIS fluctuations and vast cOncerns y

crowded streets, and may oXc!alfn with the
poet
''What Is it but a mart Of busy life,
Its fluctuations and vast concerns"
Many changes and many improvements have
taken place; since that time it has almost
doubled itself in population, in capital, trade
and commerce. Old things have become new,
and new things old, and some of both have be-
come extinct, while few still hold their own
and more besides. Broadway, for instance,
(which by the way is a nisaonser, for it is any
thing but broad is the mart and grand centre
for shopmen, pedestrians, omnibusses, curb
stone peanut and candy merchants; humbugs
fast men and faster women high rents, stump
tail coats and high heel boots; beggars, painted
femininities and boot-blacks; gamblers, bar
keepers, black-legs and bankers, all comming-
ling together rushing hither and thther, up
and down this great thoroug hfare, which, by
the way, is history in itself-pushing against
and by you, without stopping to apologize for
treading On your heels, and worse still your SEN
sitve weather barometers, 0lsos corns-going
it head-long for life and death, as it were-and,
after what? old Boutwels greasy green
backs p It is perceptibly stamped upon the
over anxious, nervous faces of the vast head
long rushing crowd, the almighty dollar, :"
foremost and uppermost with a fxedness not
to be uprooted or dethroned from its seat, save
by the leyeler of all.death And as | view
the polyglot crowd from the sitting rooms of
the ''St Nicholas and the New York Ho-
tel" | am lead to mentally ask, what a
model moral city this would be were all therein
as anxious to possess what is really worth living
for-to better themselves and bless their fellow
men, as they are the almighty dollar and
such perishable stuff as old Boutwels depre-
ciaed greasy greenbacks, which bid fair-if
they keep on going dosyn the hill-to become
as worthless as Confederate .'shucks. Aye,
what virtuous, righteous city it would bel
But no. they'll scoff your moralizing; they
have no thought for that moao; what the devil
has that got to do with progress p There's
bilious looking greenback at the other end Of
Broadway, and she or he is making for it with
Dexter-speed, regardless Of consequences =
Alas! for the fast age in which we live. But
then you know this is 8 'Progress, and .sdevil
take the hindmost,' says Pat. But if they
keep On at this ''red hot pace aohere will this
vast crowd sshaul up at-heaven or hell?-
Ave, there's the rub! But no time for that
now, its mere afterthougirt. IF you are a
JJniyersalist, and that be the true doctrine,
what matters it where you finally lie down to
pleasant dreams and quiet slumbers? If you
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

SECRETS OF HEALTH First, keep warm !;
second, eat regularly and slowly third, main
tain regular bodily habits; fourth, take early
and very light suppers; fifth, keep clean
skin; sixth, get plenty of sleep at night
seventh, keep cheerful and respectable COM
pany 1 eighth, keeP. out Of debt; ninth, don't
mind you own business; eleventh, don't set
yourself up to be sharper of any kind twelfth,
subdue curiosity; thirteenth, avoid drugs.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

A man out West got his back up at his wife
and locked her in her room. Wishing to ag-
gravate her, he sent their son to the room with
a bone. The youth innocenty brought it and
there's bone to pick ~ The gentle mother
replied: ''Take it back, and tell him say he
is not your father, and there a bone for him
to pick" s93 n
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

A farmer had two sons one of whom, named
Thomas, was an early riser and the other was
an incorrigible sluggard One morning the
father entered the bed room of his slothful son,
and holding up a money purse, said: ''See
what your brother has found by rising early"
The halfopened eyes of the sluggard surveyed
the purse, as he laziy drawled But the fel-
low that lost it must have risen earlier than
Tom
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

Corn BREAD.-For family of four or five
persons, take one pint of sweet and one of sour
milk, half teaspoonful of soda, one table
spoonful of sugar, lump of lard the size of a
hens egg, tablespoonful Of salt, and two eggs.
Mix all the aboyeingredients together, and with
a spoon stir in enough sifted fresh corn meal as
will make stiff batter; have a stove pan well
creased, and pour in the batter; transfer to o
hot oven, and bake one-half or three-quarters
of an hour
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

Two men, named Bennett and May, suitors
for the hand of the same woman, in Richboro,
Penn, engaged in fight, when May, who was
the weakest, feigned intoxication, and appealed
successfully to his antagonist to desist As
Bennett stopped to pick up his coat, May stab
bed him twice with knife, he had whetted for
the purpose, and killed him instantly. ede
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

INQUIsITIvENEss s.-An up-country girl
stepped to the window Of the post-office in a
Long Island village few days since and asked
for letter.
''To what name ?" was the inquiry.
''What name?' inquired the damsel in a
rage You're mighty inquisitive to be sure T.
and out she founced.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

Must it not be very romantic to be On your
knees before a lovely one of Ege's daughters
heaving up a torrent of sweet words between
her glowing parted lips, raising roses On her
cheeks by the acre, bringing tears of pleasure
to her eyes at the Identical moment when she
is going to swoon away in your arms. to hear
her anxious mother cry, You Sal, have you
fed them ere hogs 2" 4- ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

$50 you are going to keep house, are you ?'
said an elderly lady to blushing bride. ''Yess'
was the reply. Going to have girl, l sup
pose?" The newly made wife colored, and
then quietly responded that she ''really didn' t
know whether it would be girl or boy" ~
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

The females Of some of the Indian tribes, in
order to keep silence, fill their mouths with
water. Our women fill theirs with tea, and
gossip more than ever
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

A Southern orator speaking OF the battle of
Bull Run, said 'The Federas ran so fast that
the hard tack ratified in their stomachs like
beans in a sheet iron pan"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

Josh Billings says: q will state for the in
formation of those who havn't had chance
tew lay in their vermin wisdom az fleey az |
hav that one single hornet, who feels well, will
brake up large camp meeting"
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

A Muff-A thing that holds a young lady'<
hand without squeezing it. 2 o
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

A cobweb marriage is thus noticed by one of
our contemporaries Married, last week, j John
Cobb, to Miss Kate Webb Look out for lit
tie spiders
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

An i-matched couple were always quarrel
ing. One day the wife pointed to cat and
dog that lay together near the stove, and said :
''Look at them; they dent quarrel 'Ah, "
growled the husband, 'tie them together, and
then SEQ -
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1869-12-21

Like the sunshine that falls with magica
flicker on pearl and ruby, lance, and armour, in
the royal hall-yet oyerAows the shepherds
home, aud quivers through the grating of the
prisoner cell-pours glory over the mountain
range-fames in playful splendours on the wave
floods the noblest scenes with day, yet makes
joy for the insect-comes down to the worm,
and has loving glance for the life that stirs in
the fringes of the wayside grass-siyers the
moss of the marsh and the scum of the pool
glistens in the thiste-down-li lines the shell with
crimson fire, and fills the little flower with light
travels millions and millions of miles, past
stars, past considerations, and all "the dread
magnlficence OF heaven" on purpose to visit
the sickly weed--to kiss into vividness the
sleeping blooms of spring, and to touch the
tinlest thing with the gentleness that makes it
great $50 does the Saviour's love, not deferred
by our unworthiness, not offended by our sights,
come down to teach and bless the meanest and
the lowliest life in the new creation. Family
Treasury