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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25
Our Gardens are Made Too Early.


We wish to be understood as only referring
to the general garden There are some things
thatwant to be put out early, such as lettuce,
peas &C., and indeed little of almost every
thing. This garden wants to be a separate
thing, and hot-beds and other aids want to be
used. This cannot be too early, providing il
can be properly done. We all like our early,
delicate lettuce aud especially early tomatoes
and peas--peas the year round man could
almost endure. These things want nursing,
and we give them early attention. But the
general garden, that wants different treat
ment. That looks to the greatest amount
rather than qualification. We want as good
a crop Of beets, cabbages, onions &C., &c,
as we can get. These are main articles, and
are for fall and winter use and we want to
get them to yield as large as we can. This
we can do best by putting them out when they
will grow readily when they will not suffer
suffer constitutionally, so to speak. Badly
stunted, you will never get the full benefit Of
plant. 1t is with vegetation as with animal
stock-what is lost in the early stage can
never be regained though much may be done,
there is however a loss.
Put out your garden stuff the latter part Of
May or the first of June, and not then if the
season is unfavorabe-la later If necessary; lot
your rule be, the ground warm and in order.
Then things will grow at once, They will
eomeup black and strong and healthy. There
will be vigorous growth thereafter and con-
tinued, What will be the result of this p
That there will be a beautiful growth-what
you want-and sufficiently early growth to
mature everything and get it in the best pos
sible condition Such beets, brittle and sweet,
not strong and bitter-but just what you want
for the table. Your cabbage will get the fall
growth, whatit needs, and it will be fresh aud
brittle then, and not strong, and it will extend
It's condition further into the winter.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25

THF WONDERS OF SEEDS there upon
the wide earth machine, is there palace, is
there even city, which contains SO much
that is wonderful ps is enclosed in single
little seed--one grain Of corn, one grain Of
wheat, one little brown apple seed or ofany tree,
picked up, perhaps by a sparrow for her lit
tie ones, the smallest of a poppy Or bluebell,
or even one Of the little seeds that are 50
small that they float ABOUT in the air inyisi-
bic to our eyes. All there is a world Of
marvel and brilliant beauty hidden in each
Of these tiny seeds. Botanists suppose that
there are some 10000 kinds of plants. But
has the seed Of any one Of them ever failed to
produce lis kind Has any one ever deceived
us7 Has ii seed of wheat ever yielded bar
ley, or the seed Of poppy grown up into a
sunAower? Has sycamore Tee ever sprung
from an acorn, or beach tree from chest.
nutf
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25

MOT many years ago the average yield Of
wheat per acre in England was about ten
bushels--it is now over thirty bushels. Brains
accomplished 1t,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25
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year to poor Students begins August 30 Apply TO
A. A. LfVERMORE, Mcadville, Pa.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25
nett Advertisements
T DAN OF THE CHESAPEAKE
OHIO RAILROAD COMPANY

ouro pATrppAp COMpAN
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~ miles 10 is being rapidly extended TO tho Ohio
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In IL. pr,ore.. Westward a. ponetrato. and opop. up
20 market the WONDERFUL COAL DEPOSITS OF THE
KANAWuA REGION TN WEST VIRGINIA. and thus
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25

GREAT FIRE AT BRATTLEBoRo.

hhArILthoho VT, Nov, ., lisp,
Msssrs Thomson Co, Ne,r Rltsn Conn.
GENTs Ia the great Arc which occurred here on he
ast ult and which destroyed large part Of the bus,
one Of the victims My store with H. contents wa. on
urely consumed had in at tho time ono II Vals1
tine Buffers Alum Patent Fire Proof Safes small m
which purchased Of you some eighteen months aro
sad sale lell INTO the cellar and being surrounded viii
kerosene OH aud other ike comhustile fnaeral IA .
subjected To- terrible heat for many hours ma Gr
broke out about three O'Clock Sunday morning and he
eale was not removed until about three this FnesiaaE
tIuvpn consequently IL remained exposed 10 the heat
Auout sify honf No water thrown upon the saio0r
4py euorts made to cool il, and yet when your Mr.
ihonsoh oreed II open today Uhe lock heing Il yarpd
That u could nqt be opee we were asonshed 10 knd
wv v9n.nts an pcserYed-the writing perfectly lrghe
ANU WIN the exception Of the paper being 1tte dis
1YloN ny we eteani All was apparently in az good
ultlon as when deposited Saturday night / believe
@ ny nelghhors that my safe was IN the hottest part Of
~, ttoif me- II certainly bears the marks OF having
eeeh SUBJECTED 10 more than an ordinary test, and AZ
loius me great pleasure 10 recommend aGs OF this
uAetufe 10 business men generally.
very respectfully yours,
A. q, DAVENPORT
hond for circulars and price list 10
ihoMsON CO.. General Agents.
<Jl chapel st., New Haven, c.
Or refer TO National Life Insurance COMPANY Farm.
q, MUTUAL rire Insurance Company O. IT. Gross Son
az " where samples can be seen, and orea
N. X. BROWN, Agent
MONTPELIER, VERMONT.
VALENTINE & DUTLER,
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GENTS WANTED

NEW BOOK.-Agcnts sell 100 per week.
~ Price e. Address L. sTEBRlNs. Hartford, c.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-05-25
The Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad

RICHMOND, VA, TO THE CELEBRATED WHIT
SULPHUR SPRINGS IN WEST va,
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

Mr.. Wimpy, before mailing the above
letter, sleeps on it over night, and the next
day Sunday bethinks himself in another
postscript to say that if Messrs. Wogan &
Co. will let him take the box from the ex-
press Office relieved Of the bars and bolts
Of its &C. o. D." he will Immediately
come to New York and pay in person.
His reason for this is that a burnt child
breads the iref Sand inasmuch as 500
has been burnt out Of me by Noyes & Co.,
l do not desire to be burnt again."
Our reporter was not present at the in
terview between "Wogan 4 Co." and
Wippy. Or aught we know the company
name has been changed to "WOgan, VIM
,pye& Co.. We have official information,
however, that the firm Of "Wogan & Co."
is no more. A misunderstanding arose
between the partners; the senior member
gave notice to Postmaster Jones that the
company was dissolved and that no more
letters should be delivered to the firm.
Mr.. Wogan was subsequently informed
that hereafter their correspondence would
go directly to the Dead Letter Office at
Washington, for the benefit Of the Gov
eminent" ~
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
Meth0dism.

The large and powerful denomination,
known as Methodists, began their organ
ization in England as a district religious
sect, in the year 1929, with John Wesley
as the leader. He and three others con-
stituted the nucleus. AT the end of six
years they had only gained fourteen min
listers, as their preaching strength. In
1889, the first societies were Systematically
formed. In l748, they held their first
conference.
In 1868, the membership in the English
possessions, amounted to 49,, 446, with q
459 ministers.
In this country Methodism beganin l766.
in New York. In 1884 it assumed the
name of Methodist Episcopal Church. In
1874 it mad thirty-three conferences, and
a membership equal to any denomination
in the country.
In this year the Church divided into its
Northern and Southern divisions, entirely
independent of each other. This was
caused by the General Conference requir-
ing Bishop James o. Andrew, of Georgia,
to desist from his episcopal functions
because he married a slave-owner. Upon
this the Southern members withdrew, and
in l845, at Louisville, Kentucky, organ
lied the Methodist Church, South.
The Southern Church has thirty Confer
ences and over half a million members,
including fifty thousand colored people,
8 bishops, 1889 travelling and 1852 local
preachers.
This mammoth denomination is marked
by zeal and piety. 1t has been singularly
successful in spreading its doctrines, and
winning membership. And its impress on
this country has been broad and marked
for gOOd.-Erchange.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
correspondence of the N, Y. World.
A Pen Picture Of Brownlow.

There is a spectacle in the Senate which
ought, perhaps, to receive, but which Of
tener repels the commisseration of those
who look upon it. This is the palsied
perishing figure of Parson Brownlow. As
regular as the noon the almost completed,
helpless old man is assisted to his seat-a
hair-cloth easy chair on the left of the
Speaker-in which he reclines, trembling
all over, and constantly, like a shaken
jelly, Seen from the gallery, his swarthy
face looks like that of a malignant Indian.
His lips comfort themselves unpleasantly,
and his hands, twitching in every finger, re-
mind one of a couple of spiders crawling
over his legs and along the arms of his chair.
Once in a whileythe right hand makes a
tremulous expedition to the desk in front,
and returns with a handkerchief dangling
between thumb and fingers. Sometimes,
with great effort, it carries a glass of water
from the ridge of the desk to the old mans
mouth. Part of the time he sits with a leg
hoisted on a corner of the desk, or crossed
over the opposite knee. He is never mo-
t~iOnless. His eyes see and his ears attend
to all hat transpires. Whenever the de-
bate is earnest, or an interesting question
is uppermOst-particularly if it concerns
the South, or his own State of Tennessee
he listens to it as it were through every
pore; the big dark veins on his temples
grow bigger and darker; the desk shakes
with the shaking of his leg; his hands
clutch venomously at his trowsers, and the
peculiar writing ofhis lips make it appear
as if be would give up all his life after
that one moment, ifforthe moment he had
strength to get on his feet, and pour forth
as of old a flood of vituperation upon his
enemies. But he has no strength left to
speak, and was compelled the other day to
have the personal explanation ofhis course
in regard to recent political events in
Tennessee, which he had prepared in man
uscript, read by the clerk. Some express
ions in it were abusive of Butler and
other members Of the House, and the
Wice-President stoppedth reading. The
emotion of the dying man in the easy chair
so racked him at this juncture that another
Senator, plying him, requested that
solely on account of his feeble condition
the reading might be suffered to proceed.
This was assented to. Had it been other
wise, perhaps the anger ofthe Parson would
have consumed him where he sat.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
E. NJ. Stanton,

The Louisville Courier journal, of De-
cember Doth, says: ave have not the
heart to write this day of Edwin NJ. Stan
ton. He was a very bold, a very able
and a very bad nan But he is beyond
the reach of those whose fresides are made
less happy by his acts, and he has paid the
debts of nature with his life. The justice
of God knows no distinction of party or
of place. That will make all things smooth
and even. 1t has snatched away this man
at the moment when, after years of anxi-
ETY., the world seemed about to open up
on him afresh, when political awards and
personal security together rose about him,
and when returning health with fortune
regained must needs have gladdened as
new-won power and lonory surely relieved
his heart, quoting its fears and pointing
to a conspicuous and easy old age. He
was but ffty-four years old"
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
The New Year.

The year 1863 with all its joys and sOr-
rows has passed, and, like one who has
shuficd Oft this mortal coil, will only be
known hereafter in memory and by the
events which occurred during the time de-
signated as that year. 1870 has east its
first breath upon us, and we hope il may
prove genial to us all in every phase of
life. The following speaks we'll in regard
to our political future.
Notwithstanding the political coudi-
ton Of things in the South, especially in
Georgia, the year 1910 opens full of prom
Use. Radical power has received q severe
shock, and though it may linger for a time
it cannot avert its doom. That has been
written in characters so large that he who
runs may read not in one Etate only, but
in State after State. It's excuses have
a~lienated many, and tbs checks it has re-
ceived have alienated many more. 1869
dealt it many a doughty blow, but 1870
will push it harder yet. True it received
more injury in the house Of its friends
than it did at the hands of it's enemies,
but as friends fall off enemies become more
and more aggressive, and the nearer it
comes to the end of its term the smaller
will be its ~"following," and the more i'm
p%etuous the assaults it will have to repcl.
There is great work to be done in the
coming year, but work that is lightened
by hope is more than half done. In such
times the journalist especially has an one
rous task before him, for it is his duty not
only to watch events but rouse the apathet-
iG. If the press be faithful to its mission,
eugled-eyed and trumpot-tongued, quick
to perceive and prompt to warn the peo-
pie when their rights and liberties are en-
dangered, the struggle with Radical ty-
ranny will be short, sharp, aud decisive,
and 1870 will leave little for it's success
ors to accomplish. If we live to greet our
friends and patrons next New Year, we
hope and confidently expect to be able to
congratulate them on the progress of con-
stitutional liberty, and the total disinte-
of the Radical party. For that
end we will work and labor; to that end
w will devote all our energies, sustained
by our unfaltering faith in the mighty
power of truth, time and persistent effort.
1t is a truism to say that the power of a
journalist for good is in proportion to his
circulation that a paper can influence
only those whom it reaches. Our friends
know this as well as we do, but they may
forget it occasionally. Therefore, we call
their attention to it now at the beginning
of the year, because it is ar appropriate
time for the circulation of Conservative
journals and the dissemination of Conser-
vative principles as we'll as for the kindly
Offices of good fellowship among believers
in the same political faith.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

The New York Sun opposes the cor fir
nation of Mr.. Hoar as Justice Of the Su.
preme Court, upon the ground that Judge
Wayne was the only remaining member
of the court from States lying South of
the Ohio, and his successor should be TAX
en- from this portion of the Union. 1t
says: "To select E. lockwood Hoar, of
Massachusetts,, as the Representative of
the Southern States in this tribunal, would
be one of the most repugnant specimens of
earpet-bagism which has marked the re-
construction era" In this there is much
truth, but it is a species of truth which
lies at the bottom of a well that isn't on
the Presidents premises. The Sun thinks
that Judge Wayne's place should be given
to Judge Erskine, of Georgia, the Hon.
James Speed, Of Kentucky, Thomas L.
Durant, of Louisiana, or to some other
Southern man @cqually worthy and ca
pable."
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

We buy and pay as much as the market will
justify,
Bacon, Lard, Wheat, Corn,
Eggs, Butter Feathers, Dry Hides,
Clean Cotton and Linen Rags,
Tallow, Flax Seed, Dried Fruit,
Meal and Flower.
We are also Agents for the
Holston Plaster Company, and are
prepared to. furnish Plaster by the
Car Load, or in small quantities.
We notify all that we are
Agents for the sale of J. III. Tay-
lors Brooms Manufactured by him
in this county, which can be pur-
chased from us by Whole sale, at
New York prices. They are
equal, if not superior to any broom
Manufactured in the North.
Call and examine before you
purchase elsewhere.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
Our New Circuit Judge.

The President has appointed nine Cir
cult Judges, whose duty under the law is
to transact the business in the Federal
Circuit Courts which has heretofore been
transacted by the Associate Justices of
the Supreme Court. This will permit a
continuous session of the Supreme Court
at Washington. Hon. George II. Yea
man, of Kentucky, has been appointed
Judge Of the Sixth Circuit, composed of
the States of Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky
and Tennessee.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
Postponed Sheriff Sale.

RY virtue of an order of sale, issued from the
ID Circnit Court of Monroe county, Tenn, and
to me directed, | will expose to public sale, to
the highest bidder, for cash, ut the Court House
door, in the town Of Madisonville, on Monday,
the 10th day of January, 1870, all the right, til
tie, and interest that ]. H. Worthy has in and
to one hundred and twenty acres Of land, more
or less, adjoining the lands of VIM. Breakbill, on
the North, James Breakebill, on the East and the
heirs of Abijah Fowler, jr., on the West, and
others, and that of George Worthy, on the South,
for Joseph Cat6cart, against James H. Worthy,
A. Morrow, and George Worthy, to satisfy debt
and costs of suit. J.. j. CRIPprN, Sheriff.
dec 9--4t prf $500.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
How False Reports Originate.

A curious illustration of this is found
in an anecdote told in a lecture of Mr..
Spurgeon's. A minister lived opposite
one of the deacons of his church. A re-
port got abroad that the minister had been
seen to beat his wife and the matter was
brought before q deacon's meeting. There
the minister said he traced the spreading
of the report to a deacon's daughter. The
good man, the deacon, said be would not
have spoken, but his daughters name
having been mentioned, he must then state
that as he was going to bed on a certain
night, he did see, through the window
blind of the room, the minister beating
his wife, and heard her scream. The min
lister was nonplussed but he requested
that his wife might be sent for, and when
she arrived she explained the whole mat
ter. She said "Don't you recollect that
there was a rat in the room that night,
that it got up on my dress, that you got
frightened, and took up the poker; that !
could not stand still, and ran round the
room, you running after me with the po-
ker % This is the explanation Of the
whole affair. Well, then, the lecturer
would remark to his hearers, thenext time
they hear a story against a good mamie
them say at once, "there is a rat at the
bottom Of it, l know" and that same sim
pie explanation may account for the whole
thing.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
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The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
[Oriqinal BILL

William j. Fowler and Wife aud others, VS.. Will
liam s. Kelso, and others, the Heirs at law
of Charles Kelso, ec'd.
Original Blu
Gomplainants charge in their bill, which is
" sworn to, that defendants Watt Gregory and
Wife, Mary L. Gregory, James A. Carmichael,
Bette NJ. Carmichael, Cornie c.. Carmichael,
Matte A. Carmichael, Fuller D. Carmichael,
JhOn' Carter, Bette Carter, Maggie Carter, Jen-
ME Carter, and Matte Carter are noD-residents
of the State Of Tennessee: 1t is therefore ordered
that publication be made for four successive
weeks in the Sweetwater Enterprise, notifying
said nonresident defendants to appear at the
next term of the Chancery Court to be held at
the Court House in jacksonville, on the First
Monday of June next, and make defence TO COM
plainants' said bill, or the same will be taken
for confessed, and the cause set for hearing ex
parte as to them. S.P. HALE, C. 4 NJ.
Dec. % 4t-pfS6. 100.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

What would be thought Of an individual
who should pay a debt with his own paper,
adding twenty per cent, to the new prom
Use, in order to liquidate the old promise 2
This is exactly what our fool Government
has donc and is doing.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
Jermiah Boyd and others, VS.. Andrew L. Boyd
and others.
IOriqmal BILL

[0riginal BR.l
Nomplainants charge in their bill, which is
" sworn to, that Defendant, Andrew l.. Boyd
and Martin Bayd are nonresident of the State of
Tennessee: 1t is therefore ordered that publica-
tion be made for four successive weeks in the
Sweetwrter Enterprise, notifying said non-resi-
dent defendants to appear at the next term of the
Chancery Court, to be held at the Court House,
in Madisonville, on the First Monday of June
next, and make defence to cOmplainants' said
bill, or the same will be taken for confessed, and
set for hearing ex parte as to him.
c. Hicks, Sol. s. P. HALE, @. a NJ.
for Complainants. dec23 4t-pfs4.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06
New Advertisements.
Chancery Court at Jacksonville,

Isaac Denton, Administrator Of the estate Of
Abraham Denton decd; and JcsephOathcrt,
guardian of Thomas Denton, a minor, vs.. Will
liam stephens, Martha e. Stephens, Laura
Stephens, Alice Stephens, Lewis Stephens,
James Denton and others.
Original attachment and Injunction Bin.
THE Bill, which is sworn to, charges that de-
i PENDANTS, William stephens, Martha f..
Stephens, Laura Stephens, Alice Stephens, Lew
is Stephens, and James Denton are non residents
of the State of Tennessee: 1t is therefore order
cd that publication be made for four consecutive
weeks in the Sweetwater Enterprise, a newspa-
per published in the town of SweetwGter, Tenn,
notifying said nonresident defendants to. appear
at the next term of the Chancery Court, to be
held at the Court House, in Madisonyillc, Tenn,
on the first Monday Of June Mex, and make de-
fence to COmplainants' said Bill, OF the sam
will be taken for confessed as to them, and the
cause set for hearing ex-parte.
H.. A. Chambers, Sol. s. P. HALE, G. 4 NJ.
Tor Complainants. dec % 4t-pf$6.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

OF wedlock, we can say, that, as a gen.
eral rule, the ins are better that the outs.
Ofthe P~enitentiary and Congress, we can't.
The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-01-06

The Louisville Courier Journal says the
question under discussion between Butler
and Greedy is, "whether the South, like
an oyster, shall be taken raw or served up
in different styles"