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Vermont daily transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1868-1870, 1869-05-13
Vermont Daily Transcript,
81. ALBANS, VT.
THURSDAY, MAY l3, 1869.
Travellers Guide.

ARRIVAL OF PASSENGER TRAINS.
From the south and East, 5,4s q. M, IL. Is am
Gas p. M, $40 p. M. a.,
From Rouso's Point and West, T,20 q. M. H.
81 =. M. 6 80 p. IN.
From Montr, al, IL AZ q. M, G 40 p. M
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PATHMA sTER MORRISON proclaimed
yesterday that he was "going to have
something in the Messenger about
some coal ashes near the TRANSCRIPT
office. That something we suppose is
the following:
"'rhe TRANSCRIPT spurs the trustees and de-
msnds increased activity i'll clearing rubbish and
ob.trucions from tho streets, especially Lake
and Main Streets. which, it says, ''are in very
filthy condition." This would be all well enough
were il not that the trustees are doing as fast as
they conveniently can, and if the TEANscRIrr
people would facilitate their operations, they
could not do better than to cause the removal OF
the largo pile OF coal ashes which they have
deposited in the street in front of their Office"
We are glad to be assured "that the
trustees are doing as fast rs they conve-
niently cam" and the thoroughness and
rapidity with which they clear away
rubbish and distractions from the
streets" are commendable in the high
est degree The large pile of coal
ashes alluded to turned out to be mostly
ice, and but very small portion of it
was deposited by the TRANSCRIPT peO-
pie. While the Messenger is manifest
ing such interest in the coal ashes"
would it not be we'll to direct attention
to its own premises? Its field of bur
docks. which il quite large, may be
profitable, but we do not think it very
ornamental. But IA this is u private
speculation, perhaps, We ought not to
say anything about it.
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Che Mlarkets.

+. AikANs MARKET May H. 1860.
u. 5. GIRAnD, Reporter.
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REsIGNED.-Rev.A a. q. Pease, Super
intcndent of the Vermont Reform
School, has sent in his resignation, to
take place in thirty days. The Free
Press says: ale could not, with self
respect retain a post which subjected
him to scurrilous personal attacks, such
as that recently alluded to by us as APP
pearing in the Montpelier Argus, and to
worse annoyances within the school,
from spying and malignant subordi-
ma 'es, sustained, not in their attacks on
Mr.. Pcasc, but in their positions in the
school and on the school farm, 10y the
trust co.
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Greatest Chorus

ever organized in any part of the world made
mp of Musical Societies from all sections of the
country, and TWENTY THOUSAND CHILD
DREN from the public schools, with an Orches
ira of
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HlGHGATE.-Thc following officers
were elected, in open Lodge Meeting,
Tuesday Evening last, for the next
quarter:
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The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1869-04-27
Mark Twain's Old Greek Profess

We had an ancient Greek professor
among our instructors. I am not sure
about his age within century or two,
bit | am prepared to solemnly affirm
being of Quaker proeliyities-that he
had taught Greek for at least sixty years.
This Aged Brick was the sweetest
tempered old soul that everi lived. Moth
ing could disturb his serenity. A whole
pack of fire crackers tied under his chair,
and lighted with slow match, didn't
move him hairs breadth. We tried it
once, and until his coat-tail took fire and
blazed up, he never moved a muscle
Even then he only said, very quietly, r.
Emeral will put me out, while the class
goes on with the recitation" l confess
that was so touched by the old boy
gentle ways, that kept the silver snuff
box that fell from his pocket before
| had thoroughly extinguished him, as a
souvenir.
But wasn't he up in Greek, though
He couldn't talk orthink about anything
else. | remember that once we had a
scarcity of elergymen in the village -
The Aged Brick, who had been educated
as clergyman, was called On to supply
the vacancy He got himself into diff
culties, though, for he had no sooner ia
ken his text than he wandered off into
an account of the second Peloponnesian
war, and so entirely forgot where be was
that at the end of the sermon he announ
ced that she would request those pres
ent to hand in written synoposes Of the
lecture to morrow; and would now pass
on to the lesson Of the day, which was
the eighth, ninth and tenth sections oi
the book of Thucydides. The two
deacons carried him out Of church i'm.
mediately, and he was afterward regard.
ed by half Of the congregation as an in
fidel joker.
AS for conversation, the Aged Brick
couldn't talk with man, woman, child OF
member Of the Sorosis, more than two
consecutive minutes, without bringing
in something about the Greeks. The
way he would sling the Greek names al
his listeners was adapted to utterly con
found and stun any ordinary minds
The names Of Pelopidas, and Agamem
mon, and Methusaleh, and Emmett, and
Wolf Tone, and Confucius, and Herod
and all the rest of the Greeks mention
ed by Homer and cotemporary old files
would be sluug around with the mos
profuse recklessness. And he hadn't
any idea Of time either, had this Aged
Brick I've known him to take fellow
by the button-hole, on some Saturday
morning, when the unhappy victim had
intended to celebrate jolly holiday by
going to picnic, or to his maiden auntE
funeral, or to some other merry making
end to entertain him with Il new theory
of the Amphietyonic Council, until the
church bells rang for mo. ming service
the next day.
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The Happy FamilyW

President Giants appointments may
be expected to increase rapidly. We see
they are all in tie family wsy.-Bangor
Democrat.
And that is causing mnch complaint.
The Cleveland 60 Herald, Radical,
gives prominence to this utterance of its
Washington correspondent:
"The practice of appointing whole
families to clerkships ou9htto be discon-
tinued | have in mind case where in
one bureau are employed one man as
Chief Clerk at a salary of $4,000 year,
and his two minor sons at salaries of
S1,200 each This practice of monopo.
liziug offices in the families and among
the relatives of the public men is indie
fensiblc Sons and nephews Of Men,
bers of Congress, and relatives Of Sec
retaries and Bureau Commissioners are
becoming the aristocracy to whom the
Offices are narceled out with an un5lush-
ing favoritism. This whole business OF
appointments in the civil service of
the Government needs substantial and
thorough reform, and the growing ten
dencv to nepotism should be rcbuked by
the people. F"
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In Iowa wild pigeons are coming
down like tia locusts OF Egypt Far
mers are dreading re-eaactment of last
springs proceedings when they cope to
seeding.
a newspaper in Southern Illinois
nQtes the passags df Virginia family on
theig way to the far West consisting of
the old man, the old woman, fourteen
children, aud eleven dogs!
The superintendent of the smuggling
operations, by which the $4,000 French
subscribers of tue Lsnterne receive their
papers, receives $50 francs week for
bis trouble, lie does the business So
we'll that ali the subscribers receive their
copies with extreme regularity.
! In st. Charles street. New Orleans. ev-
teiy fourth house, for the space of four
/ hloeks, is p licensed gambling-he l. Big
folding doors, without latch; blazing pla-
clrds OF 'rondo," roulette" "poker, I"
Faro, "chucb-Mck," and "kero !"
! hln6s OF music, no free drinks, and 50,
, 600 a y ear taY;o the Safe.
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zNUMBERy

4
Th5ugh Martin and Jessie we're far
from bemg.as sarg,liitle as Mr. eariifigs
yet they conldhot help feeling sincerely
| glad ttlst the suit was last to be con
ciuded either way it. might lie given
therefore with the three the evening pass
Ell very delightfully."-. Indeed, Mr.. Car
llngs excitement appeared too much for
reason to- support lie spoke of the
Young peoples speedy union. and how
Jsssie's dowry should be suitable to one
who was his heiress. 1t will he seen be
made no donbt respecting their success.
But as is frequently the case, tile high
excitement was followed the next morn
ing BY deep depression, and it was al
most IN silence, with anxious faces, that
the three proceeded to the Court.
The judges had been some little time
! seated and their case had been just called
When they arrived, Ncrvousiy, AFR.
Carling returned the lawyers greeting
snd hopeful smiles as be, with Martin
and Jessie, took his seat ia the close,
crowded Court 81 sF Fat
In breathlsss suspense the three listen.
ed to t.le succession of law terms and
technicalities as the case proceeded =
iaen judgment was. prououncedv
With q confused, white, scared face,
.Mr, CARING, hearing, turned suddenly to
Martin. 9fe4 g
"Fell ms-tell me, my boy" he gasp.
'ed-"did / hear Alright? IL feel deaf
Il cannot understand! Ny head spinst
What did they say ?"
Before Martin could answer, Mr., Car.
llngs solicitor came busting up, and
seiziug tne old geutlemar's hand, ex-
claimed: ,
my dear sir, allow me to congratulate
you; the case is ours-as I always told
you it would be; and Ivy Bank Priory
IS yours-yes, yours, sir, and your as.
signs forever" 5,yE In t-, ,it
Mr. CARING looked racartly in the
others face, and then fell back in sensible
into Martins arms.
The lethargy continued some days,
and, according to the doctor, was the
Saving OF Mr.. Carling's life. On his re-
covery, he speedily. grew stronger and
happier than he had been for years, when
}he Immediately started with Jessie and
Martin for the Priory. ~
While inspecting the grounds on their
arrival, Mr. CARING suddenly turned to
ais companions, saying with a smile
Jessie Martin, we mast certainly
have house warming to commemorate
our victory Suppose We make it upon
your wedding-day = s sr.s
| Need it be said there was no dissen
ttient voice to the proposal? So three
weeks after, Jessie CARING BECAME Mrs.
Campbell, and. after short tour through
the Highlands, the young pair returned;
by Mr., Carvings desire, to their home
| ivY BANK PRIoRY. ,...s -
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Josh Billings says he will never pat
ronize q lottery so long as he can hire
anybody else TO rob hiIn at reasonable
wages. 5 i.4
1t is said that when Russian husband
negleets to beat his wife for a month Or
two, she begins to get alarmed at his in.
difference.
An indignant orator at recent polit
ical meeting, in reiutins an opponent
tbnndered, "Nr Chairman, | scorn the
allegation, and / defy the alligator.
The following sentiment is attributed
to Napoleon Donaparte "A handsome
woman pleases the eye. but good wo.
man pleases the heart. The one is q .iewel
the other is treasure
When a gentleman steps on laay's
train, the lady should turn rolnd and
say, politely: II beg your pardon, sir '
The gentleman should bow and say: q
accept your apology, madam y
Is A lady advertises for sale one baboon
three tabbv cats and aparrot, She sta
tes that, being now married, she has ne
further use for them, for the reason th.
their alniahle qualities arc all conhined
in Der husband
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Ugiy Facts.

Hon. David a.. Wea.,s, United States
Special Commissioner Of Revenue, has
written an able letter on sour working
classes, a glance at their condition, psst
aud present; the relatiyeqcost of living
before and since the war; He proves
very clearly that The commodities of lifs
have in eight years gone up In great
er ratlo than the wages of the working
classes, white everythingis higher. The
poor are growing poorer and the rich
richer. This letter has created q pro-
found impression on the minds Of all re-
feetiug men who lock anxiously for po-
litioal freedom from Radical rule, the
cause of this state of affairs. \
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could have men in position who would
be bound to him by double ties-those
of Office and blood. How far this as,
sertion may be true we have no more ev-
idence than the public generally, who all
see that President Gram, like the crowned
heads of Europe, is placing his family
and relatives, even to the most distant,
as well as those bound 20 him by person.
alties, in public office. During the late
Presidential campaign, Francis p. Blair,
Jr, announced that if Grant was elected
President, he would proclaim himself
Dictator before the end of his tenn
Can 1t be that he had an inkling Of this
scheme which is now being made known
to the public, or that the words are to
prove prophetic? If. not, then what do
all these mysterious movements and Sc
cret organizations, backed, as we are
told they are, by leading and infgential
members, of the Union League in this
city and Philadelphia, mean2 Is. not
this treason, and are not those engaged
in it rendering themselves liable to pros
ecution under that head?
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TAKE sfY HAND.

| am walking in the darkness
All around me is the night
| am groping in the shadows, 10
And l cannot sec the light
Every sunbeam has departed;
There is gloom o'er all the land;
l am fainting by the waysids-- aa
Hagenly Father, take M hand,
Oh, the paths ara rough and thorny,
That my weary feet have tr,d; ELSA.
an hleeding-I an dying -. @
Take me by the hand, O Godl .
Let my gloomy way be lighted
BY the glory of Thy faca; ''-i
And Thy broad and mighty bosom.
Let it be my resting-place.
Through this awful night Of sorrow,
Father, let me hear Thy voioel
Teach me how to sing in anguish,
How to suffer and rejoice.
Take me by the hand and guide me,
Lead Inc in the better way,
Through this vale of storm and tsrnp pest,
To the land of perfect day.
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ANssro slllrks his ,iissla,,.

j. R. Clay, Grants colored selection
for the, Liberia mission, declines. He
has too good thing among the scala
wags to want to leave Louisiana. Be
sides he knows that the country he lives
in will soon be an amply satisfactory
negro Republic, without going to Lihe-
ria to find one Fred Douglass has ap-
piled for the place made vacant by Clay s
declination. He doubtless wants to get
away from the white trash, whose com
pany ofends his arislocratic tastes.
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GEThe object of the humbug Schenck
bill, declaring the bonds payable in gold
is becoming apparent. It was q big
Wall street job. The bonds have gone
up considerably, and now strong pres.
sure is operating Upon the Treasury De-
partment to nave the surplus gold inves.
ted in the purchase of bonds at the ad.
vance, so that further increase in pri.
ces may follow. This movement viii
doubtless succeed, for whatever the
hondholders may demand their TOOLS in
the Treasury can not afford to refuse. ,o
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Er There are only two marriageable
girls at Coosa Oregon. On Sundays half
"a dozen or more young fellows sit sll
day on the veraudahs infront of the Ia
dies houses while each fair one looks at
her followers through the half.open win
dow. The lovers all the while are whit.
tling bits of white pine. At dark they
move home: but the dalnsels find these
visits profitable, for there is. generally
left behind q pile Of shavings big enough
to light fires for the rest of the week.
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@Twelys liaes, or less, will be charged as
one square. .r, y
@All legal advertisements will he charged
by the line, and must be paid in advance OF
publication.
| Gy Notices Of the appointment of Ad- -
fsr ministrator's and Executors: also RA
EF Attachment Notices aud Road noti- -ssA
81 ces, two dollars and fifty cents, in -
@ advance. 80 s
"a Advertising done at published rates,
and payment required in advance, in all
cases,
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v Under the operations of the re-
ciprocity treaty the value Of goods i'm
ported into the United States from the
British provinces in the year 1865 was
S36,l76,977, on which the duties amour
ted TO sS,387 In 1868, upon s2S, ,599,.!
lS5 worth of goods imported from the
same provinces, the duties amounted 10
SO, 2S3,el6.
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Gs"It was not the Ethiopian, but the
Grant familythat was complimented with
the Guatemala mission the other day. Cap
tain Hudson, the appointee. is said to be
perfectly whtte,' and the New York
Sun gives the following account of him
''He is a cousin of General Grant, was
formerly a cattle driver in Oregon, knows
a great deal less of the English language
than the law allows, served on Grants
staff the last two years of the war, is q
plucky, rough, ignorant, manly fellow,
about as fit for foreign mission as a
crowbar is for a cambria needle. No
body but his cousin could ever have in
vented the idea of appointing him. As
he goes to country were the English
language is not spoken, one objection to
his appointment is partially nullified, but
in other respects he will certainly aston
ish the Dons of Gautemala'
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Save Fifty Dollars.

4 NY PERSON wishing TO purchase one Of
u Grovsstesn's Pianos, advertised IN this
paper, can ssve fifty dollars of the prics By
Applying .te,bs .edaer uf;',.'slal Ell. june
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W l L Ii AN RIOS E,
HAS lust received. and will sell at reason,
Ii able prices, first GLASS stock of the
wares enumerated above. Mr. Rose is a cap.
ital workman, and will manufacture for you
any wares desired, not found in his shop.
Give him call before looking elsewhere.
He IAN and will please you.
apr re3,'67. WILLIAM ROSE.
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DEBILiTY,

zAsrs q 10 nediefr, sqSrr 70 Hoefanes strmes
BfdEs or Tonic af Dstftty
systes, srengfhss IL ue appetite, Gauss
an ss;eymsrf y nss2m food, enable hs ste-
saaeh 10 digsA 4, purJyh DE blood, grs seed sound
heeahy complication eradicate hs ysliop tings from S
eSs impart BLOOM II Ms eh,sks aud change he patisn
from shortbreathed, emacidfed treak, and nervous
ssedlid 70 JnIJ faced, soai, and vigorous Person. ~
Weak and Delicate Children are
ToS;c. 11 sscS ~ ,hsv S sre s E.niIv M.ds. H
efnes. They can be administered with
perfect safety 10 a child three months
Old, the most delicate female, or man
ofntnetys etT NAsi ~ 4gst T.
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T FL Z ST AR FL o T Ell:
(On the corner East of Main Cross ST.
Henry MInsterman, :: Proprietor

THIS House has been thoroughly renovated
J and repaired. Having superior facilities.ev-
erything will be done to make the guests
comfortable.
The table is always supplied with the best
the market affords. Good rooms and clean
beds for travellers and regular guests
Good stables are attached to the House. Ey.
cry effort win be made for the comfort of the
patrons. Boardersstaken by the day. week,
month or yea~ sep1y.
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EMen often lose opportunities by
walt of self confidence. Doubts and
fears in the minds of some rise up over
every event, and they fear to attempt
what viii most probably be successful,
through mere timorousness, while q
brave, active man will, with perhaps
half the ability, carry the enterprise to a
prosperous termination.
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.ron nos. GEO. ". wooDwAKp,

yKOM HON. GEO. ". WOODWARD,
Chisf Justice Of the Supreme Court Of rennsyvsnis
t.5s.zs sPHILADBLPHiA, March 16, 1867.
fsf q HscsasHs German BiRers'' ts not an sntos-
tane beverage bat Is good tonic sssfl IN dissrders
As dSeestsps organs and Of great beset IN oasss %
asbdiy swd sasf ef neryoss aesion, IN tAe systsm.
Io9xs truly, -Etsg 4
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TIN WARE. COPPER WARE,
Sh ,et Iron Ware, Stoves. &c,

Place Of business at the old stand. oppsits the
'ssiasa 81. Jail.
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sw kwesss, and ssil cure al dissasss resxifng from
lad blood Keep yosR blood pure; keep yoxr
Liver IN order; keep your digestire organs
= = % ...'a ssaiy oond...sn ns 5y as ..m sss
seer dssad YOU TIE best men in s covaiy recommend
asm. u years Qf honest repstatios 70 for smytA:nS
ysx sssE ~ these preparations. 49,. h.
Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1869-06-25

Recorder-come out this week in plain
terms on the right side.
had nearly omitted to say that as the
Faculty were determined 10 60 through all
the motions, they finally proceeded to
Sc confer degrees" The degree of A. B.
was conferred on - Mason, brother
in law of Mr.. Pool. and on Abdel Tenney,
both of whom have been students of the
University; neither of whom are gradu
ates. These are the only two of all the old
students who have responded to the affec-
tionate invitation given by the present
Faculty to come up and renew their allegi-
ance to the University. The degree of ID.
d. was conferred on lev. Neill Mckay, of
Harnett, and on some equally obscure
divine in Baltimore. | have met no one
able to recollect his name Henceforth
ID. will abound. Not only will every
preacher who strikes a blow in favor OF the
present regime be DID. by a grateful
Faculty, but the Faculty themselves will be
id by a sarcastic pablo.
nr
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The Hoston Peace Jubtlee,

The opening of the great Peace Jubilee
at Boston on Tuesday last was attended
with remarkable success, notwithstanding
q lew unfortunate irregularities in the per-
formances and minor arrangements in the
opening programme. The club" is de-
cidedly in a hph-bub and the effect of the
sounds from an orchestra and chorus num-
bered at 10000 NUT have been grand and
unparalleled.
There seems to have existed, however,
one great obstacle to perfect success, which
no faithful practice or skilliul direction
could overcome or avert The impossible
ity Of transmitting sound simultaneously
from so large body OF performers occu-
plying SO great space to the ear OF any
single auditor, must invariably effect some
confusion. ana practically establishes that
gigantic demonstrations Of this character
arc useless IN n musical sense.
The voice of Nine. PAREPA Rosa tbe
solo vocalist. is said to fill Tue vast rol;.