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SYMPTOM, p. q.

SAD BEREAvEMENT.-L fall Mr.. Pat
rick Doying started from Shipton, P. O.,
to go to Iowa, for the benefit of his WIFE
health which was very bad. She had a
brother living there, and she was more
anxious to go on that account. Mr.. Doy-
ing sacrificed his property and started, but
his wife did not stand the journey well
she was enabled to get to her brothers S,
where she fingered till February when she
died, leaving a husband and one son in q
land of strangers, and poor in purse as he
had spent nearly all he had for the COM
fort of his wife. He has returned to Ship
ton
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IRASBURGH.

R. Burchard has sold his interest in the
saw-mill on the Creek to S. w Allen. w.
B. Denison has bought back the house he
sold to r. Burchard some two years since.
A. M. Hawley is going to build nice house
this season. E. P. Cotton has the job and
has already commenced work upon it.
John B. Fassett has originated a new
kind Of horse power, requiring only one
horse and capable of churning, saving
wood and threshing grain; is said to work
we'll
Our farmers are generally unfortunate in
losing their young pigs. Pearley Hill has
lost twenty-five, and H. A. Stevens ten, be-
sides valuable hog found dead in its pen
one morning recently.
Chas Kidder has a heiter calf which will
be year old next July which now weighs
near 400 pounds. 1t has never been out Of
its pen, has never had extra feed and has
been kept rather short the past winter.
FELL.-A private bridge across Black
river on the Worthington farm in Iras-
burgh, fell under its great weight of snow
few days since
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SUTTON.

Elder Gilman is making expensive re-
pairs on the old True house, and has rented
it to a Mr.. Furnace from Massachusetts,,
who intends to go into the shoe business.
There are in town three doctors, and at
this time but little sickness. There are no
lawyers in town, consequently there are no
law suits; there has not been so much as a
iustice cOurt for wears
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Farmers, read the genuine Certificate
from Capt. G.. w. Newhall and then
read the fraudulent one published
by Paddock, Dean Il Co.. am
Ong their Testimonials.


GrOm Capt. G. W. NEWHALL.
KIRBY, Caledonia Co., W., March 6, 1869.
Mr.. VIM. L. BRADLEY
SIR Seeing a certificate in the ''Caledonian, +"
a newspaper printed at St. Johnsbury, Vt, sign
ed by Capt. G. w. Newhall, with respect to Pad
dock, Dean s Cos phosphate, Tor VT rawbone),
we take the liberty to say that that certificate
was not given by SAID Newhall, nor authorized
to be given by any other person, and that it is
the most of it FALSE. We will now state the re-
suit of the use of the phosphate last year, the
first we ever used. We bought a barrel of yours
and exchanged ten pounds with one of our neigh
bors for P. d. & Cos for trial. Having piece
of grass land plOughed the previous year, (l867)
with coat of manure turned under last spring.
we, to try corn on new breke land, planted about
onethird of an acre, the first four rows with moth
ing in the hill, the next four we used P. D. &
Cos phosphate, the remainder we planted with
yours. The result was this: Where P. D. & Cos
was used the corn was double to that where no
phosphate was used and where yours was used
there was ONE FOURTH more than where Pad
dock, Dean & Cos was used. We used one large
spoonful in the hill. Also same in our potatoes
until the barrel was used up. And we are salts
fed wo had one hundred bushels more per acre
where Bradley's phosphate was used than where
no phosphate was used.
We are so we'll satisfied with our trial last year
that we shall double the quantity this.
Yours truly,
MERIT NEWHALL & SON.
&c. WV
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TROY.

HURT.-John Conner was badly hurt
about two weeks ago by horse striking
him while he was endeavoring to release
his team from snow bank. But this kind
of "bank' has suspended" pretty much
now.
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NORWAY OATS.

~ The subscriber will sell a limited quantity
at the following prices: So per bushel, 81 rs per
half bushel. 81 per peck. Delivered at Express
Office on receipt of price. Their weight is ~ IL
pounds to the bus1el. Their yield is enormous,
from one to three hundred bushels per acre
i obtained the seed of D. w. Ramsdell, the
originator.
ORDER EARLY. Address,
ED. J. GRAY.
Aft East Greensboro, vt.
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should understand, are-whether you manufact.
ure more than one quality, or whether you make
one "patch, as you call it, to experiment with
lor testimonials, and another "batch" to sell gen.
eTally and If only one quality, did Lambert
Hastings and others, who have made favorable
reports OF your article, use that one quality, or
did you procure for them an article manufactur
ed by some one else. and dispose of ii as your
own?
If your regular article, as a rule. will answer
the requirements necessary for the growth of
plants, then science, so far as it goes to aid apr
culture, is failure.
have always supposed, and still think, that
farmers want phosphate of uniform quality.
one that can be depended upon season after sea-
son and one that both science and the expert
ence OF years has proved to contain known food
constituents in proportions necessary to the
growth of plants which are sparinglv found in
all soils that have been cultivated for long Pc
Rod. You made severe charges against me last
year, as manufacturer of Superphosphate,
which was able to prove to the satisfaction of
all, trust, that you were unwarranted in doing
to say the least; therefore simply ask in return
from you an answer to the above that NAV
make further comments hereafter for the bene-
ut OF the Vermont farmers. a 8-ri sas 3l .1a
VIM l.. BRADLEY,
Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers,
"a Broad Street, Boston.
Sole agent in the United States for the B D
Sea-Fowl Guano. @
Boston, Feb. l5, 1862 aaI -lt.a1
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GLOVER.

HEALTHY.-There has not been a grave
made in the West Glover cemetery for TWEEN
ty months, and but one death in the vicin-
ity during the same time.
Mr.. Arthur Gilmore broke two or three
of his ribs lately. He was upon the scat
fold for some purpose which was covered
with round poles, when one of them broke
and he fell striking on his side.
The rise of the waters last week did con-
siderable damage to the highways and
bridges. The strong heavy bridge at West
Glover was nearly demolished.
Rev. Mr. johnson who has preached in
this town the past year has received an APP
pOintment for the ensuing year at Lunen-
burg, and the Methodists are now without
a minister for time Rev. Mr.. Perkins is
on visit of few weeks to his friends in
Massachusetts,.
LARGE YIELD.-Mr. Hiram Phillips has
two second growth maple trees which have
yielded him this season "a Large buckets of
sap, making at least, he thinks, 20 pound:
ofsugar. This is no exaggeration but lit
orally true
..... HOLLAND.
Henry Pinney of Holland, has lost two
Durham matched calves; cause unknown
They refused to eat, and their legs entirely
useless and cold
WESTFIELD.
E. E. Hutchins has bought G. G. Brown
house and shop in South Troy for $500
Mr.. Brown goes to Charleston, Massachu
sets.
QUICK WoRK-The Bedell Brothers
the past winter, built large sugar hous,
| and double arch, some II feet long, which
caught fire last Tuesday, and had to be tori
down to extinguish the flames. At nigh
they got help, and by lantern-hght, drew
with ropes on boards, from ledge fit,
rods distant, stone to build foundation
for another house, and had it in runnin!
order the next day. Damage $50.
Newton Hitchcock has made from Al
trees, 100 pounds of sugar, and thinks h
has lost sap enough to have made it 1000
HURT.-Henry Miller, in going down t,
fix a wheel in his grist mill last Tuesday
fell and broke one of his ribs and otherwis
bruising him.
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THE STANDARD.
Local News.

Tbs items marked with a star are taken fro m
che Express, (Newport.)
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l have received the following letters. within
few days, without solicitation, and it is with no
sense of pleasure that feel obliged to publish
them; but in justice to the New England Farm
ers and myself, do so. If Paddock, Dean &
Co., have no scruples about writing certificates
in favor of their phosphate, and signing the
thority, it is time they were shown up to the
public.
1t will no longer, 1 trust, be a MYSTERY to the
Vermont farmers how Paddock, Dean & Co.,
came to report that they saw pile of much, as
large as any two churches in Vermont at my
factory last year, when there never was a shove
elful upon the premises. ga word to the wise,
&C."
WIN. l.. BRALEY,
Manufacturer of Standard Fertilizers,
"a Broad-st., Boston.
Sole Agent in the United States for the BID
Sea Fowl Guano.
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BRANCH OFFICE:
FIRST NATIONAL BANK BUILDING
PHILADELPHIA,
OFFICERS:

Where the general business of the Company is
transacted, and TO which all general correspond
ence should be addressed.
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CHARLESTON.

BURNED.-Mr. Charles Worthen's sugar
house was burned last Saturday, April II,
while he was absent, it being his Sabbath.
He had in it 1900 pounds of dry stirred SUI
gar, which was lost, and hundred dollar
evaporation spoiled. Query-Was the house
set on fire, and was all the sugar burned?
Two new bOoms constructed by Mr.. o.
Warren have been swept away
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Cows LosT.-Mr. John Paine has lost
a good COW from the unknown disease, and
Mr.. E. S. Gidden has also lost one. 1t is
rather tough to lose stock after wintering
them through.
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LORD ROBERT CECIL.

One young man of brains there was on
the Tory side of the House of Commons,
who did not like Disraeli, and never pro-
fessed to like him. This was Lord Robert
Cecil, who subsequently became Viscount
Cranbourne, and now sits in the House of
Lords as Marquis-of Salisbury. Lord Rob-
ert Cecil was by far the ablest scion of no.
BILE Toryism in the House of Commons
Younger than Lord Stanley he had not
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FEMALE SHooTING.-Mrs.B B. Pike shot
a squirrel from tree in the front yard a
favv davs since
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4 EPORT OF THE CONDITION of the Ma
4 tiOnal Bank ofDerby Line, VT, at the close
The Vinton record. [volume] (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1866-1891, 1869-08-19

d WHr are hot buckwheat
cakes like a caterpillar Be
cause they make The butterfly.
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"a The New York Herald refd.
marks about Gen, Roseergng; 4,
owe regret that the Generals =
creditors are Of SO much mo :,
ment in his life; but only aanrad
cy the chargin -sof- the Ohio
Democrats when q an5thus
declares that he would rather OF
pay his Gebts than run on. their
ticket" ,r,1a5 -. - go
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SPREADING 4 RuMo}RR..


Says Gossip One to Gossip Two, a
"While shopping in'the town,
Old Mrs. Pry tonne Temarked---'.s'
Smith bought his goods of Brown"
-I1uiu JONI uJlNW 3lNNll si'
Says Gossip Two to Gossip Three,
Who east her eyelids down, % p.
"FYe heard it said. to,day, my friend.
Smith got his goods from Brown"
Says Gossip Three to Gossip Four,
With something 0fa frown, . ..ln
1--WE beard strange news---@hat do
you think?
smitntOok his goods ffomlBrown."
SAYS Gossip FobAtoiG Gossip Five, f
Who blaZed it round the town, .
s'Fve heard to-day, such shocking
gl lnewS77 -Uf3t.Nr lh .r..Tl
Smith stole his goods from Brown"
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h HsREiis the prize conundfum: al
Why is it improper for a man Ii
and his wife to ride a donkey2ris
Because, whatGod hath Joined 10
together let no man put ass Oh
under. No cards.f 6 bsvoIq aed
WHFN is a lover like a tailofas
When he presses his suit.
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convent, adopted the habit of a
monk, and occupied himself
solely with the mechanism o.
clocks and watches, and at last
personally rehearsed his own
funeral, All this, says the Bel
gian sayant is in fact nothing
but a tissue of errors, clearly
dlsproycd by existing authen.
tic documents. Charles V did
not live with the monks; he
never wore the habit of the or.
der and he never ceased to
WELD the imperial sceptre dc
fdcto, and to control the affairs
of the state. He had moreover
a residence built for himself,
detached from the convent, but
communicating by passages
with the cloister, and the
church Far from adopting an
appearance Of poverty or limit.
ing his attendants to twelve in
number, his household con-
sisted of more than fifty indla
vidpalS whose annual salaries
amounted to f4,4OO of the
present day. The profusion OF
plate taken by the Emperor
into the monastery was en-
ployed generally for the wards
Of the establishment, and for
his personal use, Courtier8
were continually arriving and
departing, and the emperor
was almost as much immersed
in public affairs in his retreat
as he had been while actually
on the throne, Although he
had delegated the official au-
thority, he retained the habit Of
command, and was emperor to
the last. n..i ......... ...... .,
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10 lay mem at ner 1eet, ana We
are told that she died in child.
bed.
.,.. WILLIAM TELL.
The tale of William Tell is
pronounced to- be nothing
more nor less than a Northern
saga that has been adopted and
repeated from generation to
generation. M The revolution
which took place ii in Switzer-
land in 1907 gave rise to the
legend of the Swiss hero, and
from that time to the present
writer's have continually en-
deavored to expose It's unsound
basis, but the public equally
pertinacious have insisted on
believing in its truth. The
story, was not known until two
centuries after, the supposed
event, and the chroniolers of
the Middle Ages, SO eager after
extraordinary facts and inter
esting news, are entirely igno.
rant of it. Tells lime tree in
the centre OF the market place
at Altdorf and his cross. bow
preserved in the arsenal at
Zurich, are not more valid
proofs than the pieces OF the
true cross exhibited in a thou.
sand places. aa...ar ?. cd ;.
PETRARCH AND LAURA. a
trarch was a great poll,
tician, but he was not alto
gether the Platonic lover some
have represented him to be.
With regard to Laura all is
doubt, obscurity and hypothe.
sis. All traces left of her were
SO faint, even in the century in
which she lived, that doubts
were entertained Of her exists
ence. Baldelle, is obliged to
confess that tine poet was by
no means faithful to his divin-
ity; but that another whom he
loved after a less'ideal fashion,
presented him with a daughter.
who afterwards became the
consolation of his old age.
Laura has made far more noise
in the world during the past
four or five centuries thanoshe
ever did in her own time. vt7.
20 9lin JOAN OF ARC. tr,f..
d We are now asked to believe
that Joan of Arc was not burnt
at Rouen, as is commonly said,
but that some other unknown
creature was sacrificed in her
stead. This,is the weakest Of
Dr. Dellepierre's positions. He
takes as his principal authority
some jprofessed discoveries by
Pere Zignier, accordin 6 bIto
which the contractIof marriage
between one Robert des Ar
NOISES cheyalier, with 1.-The
Maid of Orleans. has been dis.
covered. When the victim
was. led TO the stake, a large
mitre was placed on, her head,
which concealed g thel greater
part of her face and a huge
frame covered with insulting
phrases was carried before and
aeompletely covered her person.
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GALILEo.

' ..' ''H' .t.' . .. s.
/ rinBug .GALILEo. r.ns... .
D DR.. Delleplerre denies that
Galileo ever uttered the cele,
brated words, 1"But still it
moves" No doubt this pro-
testation of truth against false
hood, may, at the cruel crisis,
when, at the age of seventy
seven, he pronounced on his.
knees a form of recantation,
have rushed from his heart to
his lips, but if these words had
actually been heard, his relapse
wouldinfallibly have led him
TO the stake. 1t is denied that
he was subjected to torture at.
at ALL He became completely
blind after his recantation.
and was attended in his soils
tude by his two daughters from
a convent. One Of them was
taken from him by death, but
she was replaced by other affec.
tionate relatives, who endeav.
ored to amuse and console the
lonely captive. His letters
breathe a poetIcal melancholy,
a quiet irony, an overpowering.
sense ofweariness. en'cu
-ToA BATCH oE rALLACIEs. ..a.
Du Par, in his "Recheres sur
les Americans" says that
Montezuma sacrificed annually
twenty thousand children to
the idols in Mexico. In such
assertions the improbability
and eXagerations are so self.
evident that it is needless 70
dwell upon them. Boobs tells
us that the Duke of Blba put
to death by the bands of the
executioner, in the Low coun-
tries, eighteen thousand gems
tlemen, while the fact is that
scarcely two thousand could
have been collected there
Even in the time Of Titus
Livius there was SO much
doubt as to the truth Of the
legend of the Horatii and the
Curatii, that he writes one can
not tell to which of the two
contending people the II HIIoratii
and Curatii belonged. Yet this
oautiouS historian ra1otad in
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TILE FABLES OF HISTORY.

learned Secretary OF Legation
to the King of the Belgians,
has published a book entitled
rHistorieal % Iilfculties and
Contested Events" The first
delusion to which he addresses
himself is the I. m..I..u ,aH
, .san COLOSSUS OF RHODES. 30
In the elementary works in
use in the English and Ameri.
can schools, the Colossus of
Rhodes is represented as a
sta ute with gigantic limbs,
each leg resting on the enor-
nous rocks which face the en-,
trance to the prin cipal port of
the Island of Rhodes, and ships
in full sail passed easily,
it is said, between its legs.
This is the narrative of the his.
torian Rollin, of several French
Dictionaries and even of some
encyclopedias. The real truth
about the Colossus, according
to DR.. Dellepierre is that about
the year 306, before Christ, the
Rhodians, after successiullyde.
Tending themselves against 2
years siege, commanded
Charles to erect a memorial
statue to the honor of their
deity, and this statue was
erected on an open space of
ground near the great harbor,
where its fragments were seen
and admiredlrby travellers for
many years after its destrucN
ton. Toward the end of the
se3oDd century after Christ the
Colossus was reconstructed
under the Emperor Vespasiah,
but of smaller dimensions. The
fable of the ancient statue, be,
tween whose gigantic limbs
ships in full sail were believed
to have passed, originated ap-
parentIy at the Crusades, when
the Inhabitants off, Rhodes
amused themselves by relating
all sorts Of incredible stories of
their past grandeur, e.. ...,o..
1uo Dad BFLISAGWs. 20 ratJ
, The romantic tale of Belisa-
rius, the conquerar ofthei Y an
dals, deprived of1his sight by
the emperor Justinian, and
compelled to beg his bread in.
the streets of Constantinople,
was mentioned by no contems
porary historian, but it has
been repeated age after age.
and Marmonteps novel propa-
gated the fiction in every lam
guage of Europe. The real
fact, as recorded by Gibbon, is
that Belisarlus was guarded for
a yearlas aprisoner in his own
palace.r His innocence Of the
treason of which5he had been
suspected became then &C,
khowledged, and his freedom
and honors were restored; but
death removed him within a
year of his liberation. He was
never blind nor a beggar.
. THE ALEyaNDRIAN LIBRARY.
Whether the Alexandrian Ii
brary contained $4,000 volumes
or 100000, it is tolerably cers
tain that this immense collec5
ton made by the Ptolemies
was, not, as iscommonly sup
posed, destroyed by the Arabs
in the seventhcentury, butbet
came a. prey Ito the flames
when Julius I lC@sar, who was
besieged in that part,of Alex
andria, in (which the museum
stood, ordered the fleet to be
set on fire. One story has il
that the books were ordered to
be distributed in the various
baths at Alexandria, to be-
burnt in the stoves, and that
they lasted six months; but it
would have puzzled the Egyp.?
tlans 10 heat baths with parch?
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MT, GlLEAD, Morrow Co.; o., |
a"ee March 90, 1852 +
DIR. G. w. RoBAoKk,
Dear Sir:-I have
been afflicted, dur
ing the tC.. last | six si! years
with. general debil-
ity, no particular
disease, but general
prOstratiOn. l pro-
cured Of your agent
here, MIR. EnosMiles,
some Of your Scan
dinaVian Blood Pu-
riferand Blood ills,
and have been using
them during the last
four or five months,
i'm this manner: 1
take the Purifier i'm
the morning, and
when | feel worse
than usual, one Pill
at night, and am now
in better health than
for the last six years.
4 have used various
medicines i'm that
time, all to no pur-
pose. I now use the
Pills in in my family, am
and think they1are
the best family med
icine L ever used.
WILLIAM COOPER.
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0FPIOE---N. W. Corner Of Main and
Logan Sts., Opposite Court House.
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ment3 Another fiction wa:
that at the taking of Babylon
the books were thrown into
the river Euphrates and the
number was so great that they
formed a bridge over which
foot passengers and horsemen
went across. .
POPE JOAN.
Is it true that a woman sue,
ceeded in deceiying her cotem,
poraries to the extent of ele,
waiting her to the PontiGcial
throne3 According to the
widely spread version, a fe.
male Pope, disguised as a man,
was elected in the year $50,
and su ubsequently died in Civ
ing birth to a child, This is
clearly a legend, the probable
explanation of when is, that
Pope John XII, amongst many
concubines had ono named
Joan, who exercised such an
empire over him, that for some
time it might be said it was she
who governed. His love for
her went SO far that he gave
her entire cities, and despoiled
the church ofSt. Peter of crosses
and of golden chalices in order
to lay them at her feet, and we
are told that she died in child
bed,