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To correct the many rumors in
circulation regarding the nature of
Judge Rounds injuries received in
the late accident at Mt. Holly, we are
allowed to copy the following from a.
private letter from a gentleman in
Chester to citizen OF Woodstock:
"He is considerably injured, but
not dangerously so. His right hip is
good deal injured and his back, so
that he cannot turn himself in bed.
There is also considerable confusion
of the lett leg below the knee. He
was not sealded at all, the car having
had partition through the center
and all the steam escaping into the
front half, Judge Rounds being in the
rear. He was brought home Thurs
day night and carried from the depot
to his house on a stretcher. He i'm
proves little every day, but will
most probably be coufDed to his house
for several weeks. There does not
seem to be anything dangerous in the
character of his injuries, but they are
severe enough, so that for consider
able space of time he will be confined
to his house."
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A CALIFORNIA INDIANS DINNER
Mr.. Cheever, who spent many years
among the California Indians, and
studied carefully their history, and
manners and customs, gives the fol
lowing illustration of their habits, in
the May number of the naturalist =
He saw an Indian come to the banks
of the Feather River one afternoon
He was hungry, but had not parti
Gle of food to eat. His first move
ment was to start fire. He next
turned over some old logs and hunted
up some grubs. He then pulled up
some dry reeds, and plucked a few
hairs from his own head and tied the
grubs to the bottom of the reeds, sur
rounding them with a circle of loops
The reeds were then stuck lightly in'
to the mud, in the shallow water o.
the stream, and the Indian squatted
beside them motionless. Presently
the top of one of them began to trem
BILE, when the watcher put his thumb
and finger upon it, and tossed a fish
out upon the grass and so he contin
ued to watch and to catch fish until
he had enough for his dinner; all 60
ing to show that the man who wants
but little here below may get that lit
tie easy-provided be knows as much
as the California Indian.
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IMMENSELY OF SPACE.-Astronomers

INTENSITY OF SPACE.-Astronomers
estimate that some of the most dis
tant stars seen by Lord Rosse's tel
escope, give to the earth the rays of
light which left them $4,000 years
ago-having taken all that time, at
the rate of 100000 miles, or eight
times round our earth, in one second,
to reach US; that the rays emitted
now will not reach our solar system
until another $4,000 years has passed
away. Take our earth for central
point, and one of these distant stars
being one east and another due west,
their distance from each other would
be double the distance from the earth,
or 100000 years would be consumed
in the passage of rays of light from
one to the Other-more time than is
allotted to three thousand generations
of the human race. If the time so oc-
cupied is inconceivably vast, how can
we form any conception OF the dis
tance Multiply the lOO,OO0 years,
reduced to seconds, by 100000, and
you get the distance between such
stars, in miles; but the number is alb
solutely overwhelming.
But we have only begun to look a
comparatively small distance out into
infinite space, or perhaps into, to US,
the illimited creation. We may imag-
inc a million of stars placed in a
straight line, each as far distant from
its next, as the two we have above
supposed, and yet the distance be-
tween the two last extremes would be
too short, for measure to measure
across the vast creation, though ex-
tended over new space once in each
minute, for a million years.-NationaE.
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ed his Christian views, but several
members of mis- family were brought
under the influence of the truth. Pat
lick preached Christ with singular
force and effect in the district, and in
deed throughout the greater part of
the territory Of Dalariada. A church
was Immediately erected on Skerry
height, which has ever since been as
sociated with his memory, and is call
ed okerry-Patrick. Churches bear
ing his name, soon after sprung up in
many places, some small and some
large, according to the wants of the
population, and the number of con-
verts. 1t is evident from history and
tradition that Patrick was an ordain-
ed Evangelist, an Office for which his
talents and earnestneSs pointed him
but as peculiarly fitted. To this he
was doubtless set apart by his minis
terial brethren, much in the same way
as the Jealous Whitefeld of later
times. OF both it may be said, that
they were divinely called and quail
fed for eyangelistic labors, and great
ly honored in bringing multitudes to
know and love the Saviour.
"After some time spent in Down
and Antrim, Patrick directed his steps
southwark. At Tara Hill, he is said
to have addressed an immense assem-
blage, where the king, surrounded by
his chiefs and Druid priests, was pres
ent. Several were converted to Chrs.
tianity on the occasion. He next pro-
ceeded to Connaught, preaching at va
rious places on the way. 1t was du.
ring this missionary tour, that he Wis
tied the famous Cruachan mountain
called afterwards Croagh Patrick
1t was not reptiles he banished or
that occasion, but the abominable rites
and vices Of heathenism. Soon after
We hear Of him being in Munster
where he preached with equal fidelity
and with like success. Kings, prin
ces, and numbers Of the people il
each OF the provinces, renounced idol
airy and embraced the Christian re
ligion. Many congregations were es
tablished, over which Presbyters, o.
bishops as they were called, were
settled. The ancient book of Tire
chan states that Patrick ordained, O,
was connected with the settlement Of
upwards Of 400 bishops, one of whom
was his own son.
"Worn down by the weight of year.
and labors, Patrick gave up his itine
rant mission, and settled, it is said, il
the quiet and picturesque neighbor
hood Of Dundrum, County Down
Shortly before his death, he express
ed himself to friends around him il
the following terms Il trust not my
self so long as | shall be in this bod,
of death, because he is strong whC
daily endeavors to subvert me; We
up to this time, by the grace of God
| have kept the faith. Now | com
mend my soul to God who is faithful
whose mission perform, lowly tina
| am. pray God that He may gran
me perseverance, and that He ma
vouchsafe to permit me to bear vii
ness to Him, even to my death.
Patrick is believed to have die,
on the 11th of March, A. D., 46;
aged 80 years"
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THE SAILORS SToRY.-"I've been
fourteen years a sailor, Miss, and I've
found that in all parts of the world
could get along as well without al
coholic liquors as with them, and bet
ter too.
Some years ago, when we lay in
Jamaica. several of US were sick with
the fever, and among the rest, the sec.
Ond mate. The doctor had been Civ.
ing him brandy, to keep him up: but
| thought it was queer kind Of keep
ing up" Why, you see, it stands to
reason, Miss, that if you heap fuel on
the fire, it will burn the faster, and
putting brandy to a fever is just the
same kind of a thing. Brandy is more
than half alcohol, you know. Well
the night the doctor gave him up,
was set to watch with him. No med.
icine was left, for it was of no USE
Nothing would help him, and l had
my directions what to do with the
body when he was dead. Toward
midnight he asked for water. | goI
him the coolest [ could find and gave
him all he wanted, and if you'll be
lieye me Miss, in less than three hour:
he drank three gallons. The sweat
rolled off from him like rain. Their
he sank off and | thought sure he was
gone, but he was sleeping. and as
sweetly as child. In the morning
when the doctor came, he asked what
time the mate died. Won't you &C
in and look at himS said |.
He went in and took the mates
hand, Why said he, the man is not
dead He's alive and doing well !
What have you been giving him?'
water, simple water, all he want
ed of it f.! said |.
[ don't know as the doctor learned
anything from that, but did, and now
no doctor puts alcoholics down me
or any OF my folks, for fever, car
tell you am plain, unlettered man
but | know too much to let any doc
tor burn me up with alcohol. TEN
perance Visitor.
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A man at Atlanta, Ga, recently,
who sleeps with his mouth open, had
his false teeth stolen by an adroit
thief
The largest raft ever on the Missis-
sippi was one from the Chippewa riv-
er, containing 100000 feet of lum-
Der.
William Ross Wallace, the well
known poet, is reported dying in New
York from the effects of too free liv.
ing.
The FIVE great evils of life are said
to be standing collars, stovepipe hats,
tight boots, bad whisky and cross wo-
men.
n. Y. city casts more votes than
the six States of Oregon, Florida,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Nebraska
and Nevada.
Anna E. Dickinson has made $780,
900 by lccturing, and has given more
than half of it away for charitable
purposes.
1t is said that 1000 Chinese cigar
makers will be brought to New York
from San Francisco.
The San Francisco Board of Edu.
cation has voted to discharge any fe-
male teacher who may marry.
Chicago boasts the third heaviest
dry goods firm in the United States,
and only ten years old at that.
In Virginia man named Samuel
Rusk, upwards of seventy years OF
age, is cutting a new set of teeth.
In Concord, N. H., on Sunday, q
lad aged ten blew off the head of a
child five years old with an old mus
ket.
1t appears that there are more than
a million paupers in England and
Wales.
1Young ladies of the lower parlor"
is what the kitchen girls Of Boston
call themselves.
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The colonel of an Alabama regi-
ment was famous for having every
thing done up in military style. Once,
while field officer of the day, and 60
ing his tour of inspection, he came up
on a sentinel from the 18th Missis-
sippi regiment lying fiat down on his
post, with his gun taken entirely to
pieces. Colonel-"Don't you know
that sentinel Wills he is on duty
should always keep ON his feet ?' Sen
tinel without looking up)-"That
was the way we used to do when the
war broke out, but that was played
out long ago." Colonel beginning
to doubt if the man was on duty
"Are you a sentinel here?" Sentinel
well, I'm a sort of i sentinel" F"
Colonel-"Well I'm sort of officer
ofthe day." Sentinel-"Well, if you'll
hold on till SORT of get my gun to-
gether, I'll give you sort of salute. :"
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ENGLISH LAVA cradle in pos
session Of a baby has been declared
by an English Court. sacred to Brit
ish law. In the north Of England an
Irishwoman has been tried for the
homicide of Sheriff. He had gone
to the house for rent, and finding moth.
ing else of value, said he must have
the cradle in which a baby was sleep
ing. The woman refused to let him
take it. TIE bai.ifr turned the baby
out, ard passed the cradle to an under
bailitf standing a; thc door. The
m ther seized rolling pin, and struck
the officer two heavy blows on thC
head, and as he retreated, she flung
an earthenware jug at him.
From the effects of injuries thu;
received, the bailif' died after an i'll
ness of six days. The woman wa;
arrested, tried and found guilty Of hom
icide by the jury, with a recommen
dation to mercy. The judge hearth
! ly acted on the recommendation anC
discharged the woman. The cour
said, "that the distraint of the cradle
was quite illegal, and being SO, tn,
woman used no more force than wa
necessary to resist it; bailiff nigh
as we'll distrain a shirt upon a per
sons back, as cradle with a chile
in it. Even horse upon which ;
man is riding cannot legally be dis
trained, much less baby's cradle il
which the baby lay"
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A Pennsylvania won bet recent
ly, by drinking four quarts of whis-
key. The money came handy to pay
his funeral expenses.
Mr.. Embree, of Lancaster county,
Pa, was stung in the ear by com
mon honey bee, and died in half an
hour from the effects.
The price Of gold seems to have
settled down for the summer at ia
varying from one to one and a hall
per cent. from that rate.
A man in Charleston, whose son
was killed recently by the explosion
ofa boiler, is suing the company that
owned the boiler for $4,000.
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SIMPLER THAN ANY sINGLETHRRADER
Any ody can run it. The feed can be raised
or lowered for light or heavy work.


Any 0dy can run it, The feed can be raised
or lowered for light or heavy work.
No more bother with the old style shuttle
with Its crude incouvenient, and difficult tension
adjustment, produced by threading through a
row Of holes, attended with veXing uncertainty,
great expense of time, and breaking thread.
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Their superior workmanship, style Of finish,
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If you desire to secure the best Shuttle Ma
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THE EAR OF DIoNISIUs.-In Oliver
Optic Magazine there recently ap-
peared the following account of a
wonder which nearly all have read
something about:
In the neighborhood of Syracuse,
in Sicily, is a cave of great depth,
which is said to have been built by
Dionisius the Elder, a tyrant or usurp-
er, who was born about B. C. 430,
and died B. c. 1861, in the sixtv-third
year of his age and the thirty-ninth
Of his rule. This cave was two hun
dred and fifty feet long and eighty
feet high. 1t was fashioned in the
form of human ear, and the faintest
sounds were carried from all parts to
central chamber, which correspond
ed to the tympauum or drum Of the
ear. In this remarkable whispering
gallery DioniSius imprisoned all who
were the objects of his suspicious,
] " NIT III uIulSCl NdS III lllC HAUL Vi
passing entire days in the innermost
chamber, listening to the conversation
of his victims, in order that he might
ascertain for himself who were really
his enemies. Ancient writers tell US
that the wOrkmen who constructed
the cavern were put to death, to pre-.
vent them from divulging the use to
which it was to be put, and that whole
families were sometimes confined il
it at once. Modern travellers relate
that even at the present day. notwith
standing the changes which have beer
wrought by time, the echo is such thai
the tearing Off sheet of paper at the
entrance can be distinctly heard a
the remotest part. Pieces of iroT
and lead have been found in making
excavations, aad they are thought t.
be the remains of the chains and sta
Piles by which the prisoners were con
fined.
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I say, Cathie =


Mr.. Verdon rushed tumultuou8ly
into the room where Cathie was sit
ting, in the midst Of a pile of books,
deep in some late publication, with
his matutinal toilet but half completed,
and pair Of suspenders floating wild
ly in the air, like the reins of a runa-
way horse.
Well, Alexander
Where are my new shirts p
They aren't finished, dear
Not finished, Mrs. Verdon?
No. Iwish you wouldn't interrupt
me, Alec. What's the use of a wo-
mans trying to be intellectual, when
you are running in and out, with per-
petual questions about sharing soap
and stockings, and shirts Madame
de Stael never had her mind disturbed
about shirts, | am sure
But what's a fellow to do?
Ah, ah what indeed?' mused
Cathie in voice so plainly indicative
that her mind was far away in some
metaphysical region, that Alexander
gathers up his suspenderS and retreat
ed in dumb despair.
Holes in my stockings big enough
to jump through, and the cologne bot
tie not replenished. What work
groaned Mr.. Verdon. Aud I've cu
my nose shaving, and no Cathie here
to put on sticking plaster. But l re
ally DO think it would be nice thirs
to have my wife appear like Laura Og
ilyie. l wonder what Ogilvie doe
when HE cuts his nose
Mr.. Verdon finished his toilet ant
went down town, with this subject of
marvel yet undecided in his mind.
The city bells were changing one Oh
the same day when Mr.. Verdon RAJ
hurriedly up his door steps, and enter
ed his own domicile by the subtle ali
of a convenient little night key.
Catherine! Wife Cathie!'
But no white aproDed household fai
ry met him on the stairs, with gol
brown curls tucked neatly back of he
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Gadding About.

When the girls go shopping they go IN pairs,
And gracious me don't they put on airs,
Now don't they
And they wear such tiny little hat,
And nice little shoes that go pit a-pat;
Now don't they
And they smile so ''peer'' at the little clerk.
They make him smile, and sigh and smirk,
Now don't they?
And they spend all the money that "papa" made,
In silks and satins and costly braid;
Now don't they?
They leave "ma" at home to take care of the
house,
While they patter through town like dainty
mouse;
Now don't theys
They play the piano. while she plays the tub,
They read the Ledger. while she cooks the grub
Now don't they?
And such girls all make such excellent wives,
And hen-peck their husbands all their lives,
Now don't they
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Automatons, or self moving ma
chimes, are by no means new inven-
tions. We find very early mention
of them. Homer describes Vulcan
as fabricating tripods, which moved
on diving wheels, instinct with spir-
it." The celebrated statue of Mem.
mon, which emitted musical sounds at
sunrise; the walking statue IF Dada-
lus; the flying dove of Archytas, are
instances of ancient skill in this re.
spect. In more modern times, friar
Bacon constructed a brazen head
which spoke. Regiomontanus made
a flying eagle, and an iron fly, which
after making a tour of the room, re
turned to its master. Albertus Mag
nus, in the thirteenth century, spent
thirty years in constructing a human
| figure, which advanced to the door
when any one knocked, opened it, anC
saluted the visitor. There are doz
ems of others we might mention, in
vented at about the same period, anC
some of them even more Ingenious
! UniUerSe.
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Sir VIM. B being at q parish
meeting, made some proposals which
were objected to by a farmer. High
ly enraged, 'Sir," says he to the far.
mer, ado you know that l have been
at two universities, and at two col
leges in each university ?" well, sir,
said the farmer, "what of that ? l had
a calf that sucked two cows, and the
observation | made was, the more be
sucked the greater calf he grew"
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The Connecticut River.

Beautiful river,
With sunlight aquiver,
Ripping, and dimplng, and sparkling forever
Where the cool forests meet,
Kissing the mountains feet.
Then, through the valley sweet,
Hast'ning with footsteps fleet,
Lettering never!
Musical river,
Rhythmcal ever,
Pathetic, passionate, discordant never
All l remember well,
Better than tongue can tell.
How, like fairy bell,
Ringing its silYery knell,
Came the soft trem'lou tones floating forever
Bountiful river
Bless we thy GWer-
Useful and busy as beautiful ever
Where the tall chimneys kneel,
Turning the giant wheel,
Whirling the rapid reel,
Floating the vessels keel,
Indolent never
Wonderful river,
Despairing never,
Thou dost teach man what he can to eudeavor
Yet at his weakness mock,
And with mad, heecy fock
Down over walls of rock,
Plunging with thund'rOus shock,
Exultant, all conqu'ring, rush on forever
Icy cold river.
Thou dost oft sever,
Hearts of affection to meet again never
Children and mother,
Sister and brother,
Many loved one from arms of her lover;
Thou, in a stately march,
Under the bridges arch,
Sweeping majestic and holding thy breath,
AS mOrtals, in
Silence, sweep under the archway of Death!
Mystical river,
With moonbeams aquiver
Or, darkling with shadows, still floating ever!
So on Life's blOw
Shine we or shiver,
Sparkling with gladness, or under grief's willow
! Dashed over rocks or with moss for our pillow
| Still onward flowing,
| Unknown, Unknowiug
| Whitherward going
| Save to the GWer,
! Omnisclent Of life and the beautiful river
| Grace appleton an APPletoas Journal
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Naughty boys in New Orleans cut
off the tails of cows in the suburbs of
that city, and sell them to the CHG
non makers.
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PATENTS

Obtained for inventors by DIR. D. BREED,
who has devoted Is years to patent business,
and will promptly prepare papers. drawings, &c,
Terms, 800 to $500 Write for circulars.
Direct to sl8 F street, opposite Patent Office,
Washington, DC.
Refer to Senators Pomsroy and Sumner. l0m3
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Rare Chance for Any One Wishing
to 20 into Business,

On account ofmy health am obliged TO sell
out my business. known as the
st. Johnsbury Lounge and Spring Mat.
tress Manufacturing shop,
is two story, 24x36, all the fixtures, including
house furniture, Wagon, buggy, harness, &c.
With Stock on Hand,
which is all new and bought at the present low
prices. This Is the
BEST CHANCE EVER OFFERED
in Northern Vermont Keeps two or thre,
hands right along now, and with o small add
tlon of capital can be doubled at once. Dwell
ing house will be sold also if wanted.
]. T. CASINO,
st. Johnsbury, VT.
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CLIMAX! CLIMAX CLIMAX!
Old Style Shuttle Superseded!
.NEUYNG NlCIiiNE EOLK,S
LOOK HERE! !

The American Button Hole Overcoming and
Sewing Machine Company, Philadelphia. have
produccu anew Shuttle Sewing Machine which is
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/ No more bother with the old style shuttle
with its crude ncouvenient, and difficult tension
| adjustment, produced by threading through
/ row Of holes, attended with veXing uncertainty,
| great n,Inensn of time md hreakinR thread.