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AERIAL NAvIGATIoN-AF French aer-
onaut, Dupuy de LONE, has constructed
balloon of colossal proportions, at Par
is, in which he will endeavor to solve
the practicability of aerial navigation.
For long period the protector has been
experimenting upon system different
from any yet attempted, and which has
given some very favorable results. The
balloon is elongated so as to present the
area of the least resistance. To the car
is attached huge sail one hundred and
sixty-one feet in total extent of surface,
designed to act as rudder. To enable
it to so act however, the balloon must
gain sufficient headway not to drift with
theswind. and to effect this a screw pro-
pelles, with two blades each of thirty
feet diameter, is employed. It has been
found that by these means the balloon
of NJ. de LONE can be worked at a con-
siderable angle to the winds direction.
Further experiments are being made,
but all these attempts so invariably end
in failure that interest in them, through
repeated disappointments, has become
languid. If NJ. de LONE, by some good
luck, should succeed, his success will be
something more than nine days won
der; and if he should fail, his name
will be swallowed up among thousands
of others who have met the same fate.
A horse-car conductor in a Western
city got his ticket t-of-leave in this man
ner At night, when he had finished
his trips, he began counting his money,
not knowing that the Superintendent
was looking through crack in the wall.
This is the way the conductor began to
count: "There's dollar for the road ;
here's dollar for me, and so on to the
end of his forty dollars or more. He
i
found to his surprise, that there was an
odd ffty-cent scrip which he had no
change to divide. Finally he concluded
to toss up cent, and see whether he
should have it or the road. 1t came
"head," and belonged to the road. This
disappointed the conductor, so he thought
he would give himself another chance,
and on tossing up again he won, and put
the scrip in his pocket with deal of
satisfaction. The next day, the super
intendent called the conductor to him
and told him he had better get his pay
and leave. why" said the conductor,
..what have | done % My friend,
said the superintendent, 'the trouble is
i think the road ought to have had
one more chance in that half-dollar last
night
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following report of the speech of Caleb
Cushing at the celebration of the Fourth
of July at Geneva:
"oUR COUNTRY"
Mr.. President, Ladies and Gentlemen
'.Our country" is toast to which ev-
cry American is glad to respond wher-
ever he may be, but more especially in
a foreign land there, at least, | am
proud of my country and will not scru-
pie to boast of her honor cheers. At
home, borne along by the tumultuous
current of republican life, in the midst
of the interests, passions and ambitions
of the hour, we do not duly appreciate
the blessings of our lot; it is when
abroad, when our country is no longer a
part of ourselves, when we can see her
at distance then it is that we appre.
ciate her grandeur then it is that the
great transatlantic republic appears be-
fore us in all the majesty of her proper
tions rich in all the wealth of land and
sea, powerful in her irrepressible repub-
lican institutions, standing on either
ocean with the bolt of war in one hand
and the olive branch of peace in the
other, welcoming to her broad and boun.
tiful bosom the oppressed and disinher-
tied of Europe and Asia. [Cheers.
There, | say, she stands, the fairest
of the fair daughters of England [cheers
sin maiden meditation fancy Free like
Englands own Elizabeth CHEERS; inc
foreign force to tarnish so much as the
hem of her spotless robe-the vestal
virgin of democratic power cheers, ]tht
beautiful incarnation of equal right, the
sublime impersonation of Republican
liberty. Cheers.
Here, far away from our native land,
with oceans rolling between us, is there
one present whose heart dose not cleavt
to her? Is there one whose blood does
not quicken in his veins at the thought
of her? Is there one whose eyes do moi
flash at the imaginary vision of his coun
try? Is there one whose lips do no
tremble with emotion as he cries, "Al
hail to our beloved land ?" Cheers.
Our Country That name rises be
fore us with dear and hallowed memo
ries. We see in our mind eye crowde,
and populous cities, waving fields o
maize and of wheat, boundless prairie
of luxuriant verdure, rivers bearing fo
thousands of miles the produce of ou
agriculture and commerce primcval fol
ests, coeval with creation, mountains {
silver and gold, the dear friends of on
homes and households, and above al
that glorious sky of the West glitterln
with its brilliant stars, symbolized
. the banner of America. Cheers.
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Mr.. Greeley considers the present

Mr.. Greeley considers the present
month the best time for grating baked
bean trees and pruning celery vines
The pork crop should be transplanted
from the hot beds as early as the 3Oth,
or the ears will not fill out well and the
curculio will devour the fruit as fast as
1t falls from the limbs Lettuce should
be planted about four seeds in hill, on
land plowed at least SIX feet deep with
sub-soil plow, and poles should be set
for the vines to run upon. The heads
should not be shaken from the branches,
but picked by hand. Suckers should be
pinched off beet bushes and the dried
apple crop sown in drills with sauer-
kraut planted between the rows.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

INTERESTING TO LADIES.
A. Woodman, Barton, Vermont, has just opend an
entirely new and elegant assortment of
SEASONABLE MILLINERY GOODS
Is and Bonnets-every shape and style-Trmmed
and untrimed, in Straw, Silk and Lace, for
Ladies, Misses and Children. 90
rVERY NEW STYLE
THE MOST ELABORATE
the simple Shade Hat All the new shapes beauti-
lly and Gashionaby trimmed with shades, in
Turquois silk and Ribbon, together with
ffs-r.s.5 .,
Aigrette
Flowers.
POnpOnS,
Sprays,
&c. &c.
Also Hosiery, Gloves,
Lace Collars, Fans, Fan
cy Goods, sc.
NEW GOODS CONSTANTLY RECEIVED.
Barton, May 80, 1872. - O. F,fr rrr 2otf
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A Georgia paper brags about nine
years old printer who on recent day
set 1900 ems of solid matter without an
error. That boy is on the highway to
'.em" -inence.
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3-HOLESALE ana retail dealers in Flour, Corn
Pork and Lard, Pants and Oils. Hardware
India Goods, Groceries Butter and Cheese. Also
L. Bradey's l. X. i. Phosphate and Sea Fowl GU
4 ARoN TyoMBLY ]. L. TwoMBLY.
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w. w. EATON,

ITORNEY and Counselorat Law and Claim gent
Will attend the courts in Orleans and Caiedoni'
Lnties Barton. Vt.
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TTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery.
Will attend courts in Orleans and Caledonia
mites. Prompt attention given to collections
eensboro, Vt.
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MANUFACTURER and dealer in Furniture of all
kI kinds and descriptions, Carpets, Room Paper,
tans and fixtures, also Collins and Caskets, Picture
|hes, Spring Beds &c. Glover Vt.
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i. DWINELL,

3THEEL WRIGHT, Carriage Maker and Genera
Y Job Worker. Open and Top Duggies, and va
Is styles of carriages always on hand. Glover Vt
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Devotion OF MALABAR WOMAN
Every Sunday school pupil has read Of
the funeral piles in India on which wild
ows sacrifice themselves after their hus
bands die. The English newspapers
give an account of similar instance of
sacrifice on the part of a widow in Eng
land. A wealthy merchant who lived
in Brighton, during one of his mercan-
tile expeditions abroad, had met with
beautiful Malabar woman, whom he mar
ried in the presence of the English con-
sui. He brought his wife home to Eng
land, where she lived happily. She re-
fused to listen to the teachings of Chris
tianity, however, but clung tenaciously
to the beliefs which she had acquired In
her native land, and had little temple
built on her husbands estate in the
country, where she daily offered up her
devotions according to the rites of her
own faith. ffH E77lti
At length the husband died. The
widow threw herself upon his lifeless
form in an agony of despair, tore her
hair, and dis6gured her beautiful feat
ures with her nails. On the evening af
ter the funeral she disappeared After
three days unsuccessful search for her
it occurred to somebody to look In the
temple where she was accustomed to
perform her devotions. and they there
found pile of ashes yet smoking-the
remains of the devoted woman. All
alone by her self she had built the fu-
neral pyre, and unseen by mortal eye
she had inundated herself thereon In
obedience to the severe requirements of
the religion in which she had been rear
| II =
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DR.. L1v1NGsroNE.-Mr. J. E. Gray
of the British Museum, puts the follow
ing suggestive question in a letter to the
London journals:
"will any of your readers inform me
if they have received any letters from
DIR. Livingstone 1t is curious if Mr..
Stanley was with him some time, he did
not write to some.
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~ DRnIESON
WNI. w. EROUT

THOLESALE dealer in Flour, Grain, w. l. Goods
Groceries, Lime, Plaster, Oil, Fish, Salt, Iron
D Nails, Glass, &C., Depot Store, Barton, Vt.
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MISS A. j. CUTLER. .re
DRESS MAKING and pattern rooms.
Barton, VT.
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J.H. HOLTON, AGENT.

T Tanuiacturers and Dealers in all kinds Of Harness
III es. Also Whips, Currycombs, Cards. Brushes,
Vacuum oil Backing, for sale. Barton, Vt. 7-33
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MRS. GEO. c. DAVIS,

EALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, and findings ofthe
best kind and quality. Offered cheap for cash.
d over A. Il J. L. Twombly's.
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The Christian Union, in an article on
the personality of the President says
that General Grant is misjudged because
he makes no attempts at effects. mo
American president was ever so absolute
ly unpretentious, so simple and modest
in his manners as General Grant.
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MARTTN ARROTT.

j. VI. CURRAN, - -...f f.f 81
ARBER AND HAIR DRESSER,
Barton, Vermont
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Boarding-school miss so Charlie
| expect to graduate at next commence
ment. Graduate what will you
graduate in p "Why, in white tulle.
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H. wOODDIAN.

DALE 81 ROBINSON,
rTORNEYS and Counselors at Law, Barton, VT
GEO. " DALE. j. n. ROBINSON
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j. I. HILL.

|CCEssOR TOP.P. CHENEY. will continue to
sell a Large Variety OF Sewing and Knitting Ma
s. Orders solicited. Barton, Vt.
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FRED. IL. MORSE,

INTER. Painting, Glazing, Graining. White
washing and Paper Hanging. All work done in
|est style and satisfaction guaranteed. Saws nled
der.
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CUTLER 81 GOSS,
of Carriages and Slcighs,
Greensboro, VT.
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sBURGH, will be at L. W. Langmayd's Hotel
Coventry, Friday OF each week, from to P.
lent for watertown, N. s. Truss. Kept con-
on hand.
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l. n WOOD. JR.

ECY PAIHrER, Particular attention paid to Fan
BY sign Writing lettering Banners, Notices. Fres-
and -tSrneraf- 0fnaBfenting. Drawing, pFafttRG,
hing and Designing. Orders solicited,
Barton, Vermont
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A BURNING BRIDGE CROSSED BY A
RAILWAY TRAIN.-The Albany Times
gives the following accident of a burn
ing railroad bridge, terrified engineer
and narrow escape:
Any one who has passed over the Bos-
ton and Albany railroad will remember
the sharp curves and deep cuts in which
that route abounds in the vicinity of
Chatham. Last Saturday evening, as
conductor Russell's train was thunder
ing on towards Albany, the. engineer
observed but little way ahead what he
supposed to be FIRE by the side of the
track. This being no uncommon occur.
renee he gave it scarce thought until.
as the engine rounded sharp curve. he
saw to his horror that the flames came
from bridge over which the train must
pass.
1t was moment of terrible suspense.
Just before, the bridge which spanned
an abyss of some fifty feet, but was with
out sides or cover, was cracking in the
flames. No earthly power could check
the train in time to prevent the disas-
ter which seemed inevitable. Nothing
was left but resignation to the decree
of fate. The locomotive with its fright
ened engineer, the train with its uncon-
sclous passengers, rushed and forth
nately passed in safety, the burning
timbers being still strong enough to
sustain the passing train.
What the result would have been had
the passage been attempted ten minutes
later, is fearful to contemplate, as on
examination the supports of the bridge
were found to be much weakened and
the fire making rapid progress.
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DIRECTORY.
j. f. WRIGHT,


Iician and Surgeon. Office over Grandy, Skinner
3 Parker's store.
snic diseases Speciality.
ID tfrFfe Barton Landing, VT.
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DIR. PARKuURST,

DIR. o. A. BE1IIS,
|MGOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
IL Craftsbury, Vermont.
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w. III. CRITCHETT.

INTER h GLAZIER. Graining. Whitewashing
hnd Paper Hanging done in the best style and
Elton guaranteed. Orders solicited.
East Albany. VT.
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MI. j. SMITH.

Il. G.. STEVENS,
RECON DENTIST Barton Landing, VI.
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A. 81 III. TWONIBLY,

II AND VEST MAKER,
Barton, Vermont
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OUR COUNTRY.

The Swiss Times of July 6 has the
following report of the speech of Caleb
Cushing at the celebration of the Fourth
of July at Geneva:
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FACTS IN DREAMS.

u. ID. DENYING.
,ShetbyvsAe, MINI, July IL, 1872.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
THE GREELEY AND BROWN RATIFICATION
MEETING.

ARRANGING THE PRELIMINARIES-B. CRATE
BROWN AMONG TIE SPEAKERS.
The Joint Committee Of Liberal Republicans and
Democrats held an adjourned meeting yesterday al
ternoon at the Aston House to arrange preminaries
for the grand ratification meeting at Cooper lnst-
tute next Monday evening. The Committee includes
the following among its members
George H. Van Cleft, James NJ. smith, Joint Chan1nen
Col Ethan Allen, Benjamin Wood Gen. John A. Foster,
John McCool ThOs. r. Stewart, W j. Gibson, Gen. Geo
W. Palmer John H. Welsh, Prof Iheo. Glaubenskee, Dr.
G0ercke, and Col. Sneed
The chief business before the Committee was the
appointment of subcommittee on stands, bands,
fireworks, and the other adjuncts of the coming
mass meeting. A large number Of speakers have
been invited and the replies have already begun to
come in Letters of acceptance were read yesterday
from B. Gratz Brown Senator Upton of Nebraska,
Gen. Fitzpatrick, the Hor. James Gallagher, and the
Hon. Thomas NJ. Waller Of Connecticut. 1t was de-
cded to have four stands for speakers erected in the
open space around the Cooper Union, two at tho
north and two at the west The subject OF q pre-
siding officer was discussed, and several prominent
gentlemen were mentioned for the honor, but the
matter was finally left to be decided at an adjourned
meeting to be held this afternoon.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
BOOK CONCERN EXPOSURES.

The cloud which Overhangs the Methodist
Book Concern grows blacker and blacker.
The Special Committee to which the
charges against it were wisely referred
by the General Conference has re-
ceived from the subcommittee, detailed
to make personal investigations, O series
of informal reports, apparently more damaging
than DR.. Lanahan's widest statements. Ac-
cording to these reports, the management OF
the bindery by Mr.. Hoffman was careless
beyond precedent. An error of $4,000 in
footing up a column of figures was COW
cred by carrying $4,000 over from the
previous year and the remainder from "no-
"where in particular;n his accounts had not
been adjusted for 20 years, and were so con-
fused and contradictory that it was impossible
to make them balance; the cost of
binding the same number of books in
creased one year % per cent, and fell Off
the next year 10 per cent, without any discov-
cradle cause; three master binders estimated
that the amount of leather required to pro-
duce the finished work turned out by the
Book Concern in twenty-One months was
worth $4,000 less than the amount for which
Hoffman had charged the Concern; leather
dealer testified that fine morocco skins,
imported by him and sold to
Hoffman for $40 o dozen, were afterward
found by himself in the possession of a tin
ware dealer who offered them for $50 dozen,
and refused to say where he got them.
Additional evidence, said to be in the pos
session of the Committee, shows that Hoffman
sold from the Book Concern hundreds of skins
for which no credit appears; that he sold
paper shavings at one time on his own per-
sonal account to the amount Of over $1,000;
that he appropriated the sweepings Of gold
and silver leaf, amounting to a heavy per-
centage of the material used, and that dis
crepancies in the wages account point clearly
to the fraudulent appropriation of money
claimed to have been paid to the bindery
employees.
Several members of the old Book Commit
tee, who were present when these reports were
presented, were much astOunded at such de-
yelopments, and DR.. Carlton naively protested
that he had relied implicitly upon Hoffman's
honesty, and was not responsible if his sub
ordidate proved rogue The question of
responsibility is one for the General Conference
TO decide. The MethOdists of the country will be
satisfied if the Special Committee boldly makes
known the worst, and leaves the legislators of
the Church to deal with the culprits, to clear
away the rubbish of criminal recklessness and
incapacity, and to establish a new manage
n.ent of the Book Concern as broad and able
and upright as the great denomination it rep
rnepnts
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Neui2lork Daily Gribma1t.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 90. 1872.


Mr.. Gladstone's statements on the Alabama question
are regarded as unsatisfactory - Grave polucai
complications are reported from Spain. 80 MT L.
Hughes has protested in the British House OF commons
against horse racing. 80 Hosthtes have oeen re-
newed in Cuba.
The Senate concurred in the House resolution 10 au
iourn June g. s- The sO-called Kuklux Dill was
defeated in the House by large vote. - More theits
of records have been discovered in the War Department
Twelve vessels Of the Newfoundland sealing fleet have
been lost $50 The Massachusetts, Labor Union began
its sessions yesterday. 49, destructive fire has &C.
CURED at Biddeford, Me.
Tho Committee Of Seventy arraign Gov Hof-
man for vetong the Charter. 80 Samuel j.
Tilden addressed the Bar Association on "Ju-
dical Reform" = The Brooklyn Committee OF
Fifty reported unfavOrably the proceedings OF the
Board of Supervisors for 1870 So Christian Tretz
stabbed his wife, her paramour, and himself in Orchard
ct. 60 Gold. 11S2. ia. Thermometer 650, 740 eS''
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
MIR. BIRDiS SPEECH.

One of the most remarkable and important
Endorsements which the Liberal opposition to
the reelection of Gen. Grant has yet received
is the speech of the Hon. Frank W. Bird OF
Massachusetts, recently delivered at Walpole.
There are other names in New-England OF
more notoriety and more prestige than his,
but there are few which weigh more
in political circles. He has been for years
one of the most prominent men in that
inner circle of influence and organization
which controlled the politics of the State.
The free social converse at the Bird Club, OF
which he was the founder. has settled more
matters of public importance than the formal
decisions of committees. His great influence
came from his sharp, incisive views, his energy
of conviction and of expression, and his abso-
Lutte and admitted integrity of character and
of purpose.
He was never one of the impracticables. He
was enough q man of the world to appreciate
the relation of facts to ideas. He never ex-
pected to see his ideal incarnated bodily in
Government. He understood and respected
the working of party machinery. His deliber-
ate remuneration of Grant, therefore. and his
declaration of adhesion to the ticket and the
candidates who have the best chance of defeat
Ing him, are infinitely more important than
if he were merely theorist and an ideOlogist.
lie not only sees the evils of the present mill
tary government, but he is sure they can be
remeded, and remedied with the means now
in the hands of the public. No one has drawn
so vivid picture of the real feelings enter
tanned toward the Administration by its loud
est partisans. Every one has been struck by
the tone of depreciation in which even the ad-
vocates of denomination habitually speak of
their candidate. Mr.. Bird, with few
strong and nervous touches, brushes away the
vail of disingenuous reserve, and tells these
thrifty and compromising gentlemen just what
they themselves think of what they are doing.
A stiff Northern breeze blows through the
whole speech, which has remarkably fresh
ening and tonic effect. As The Springfield
Republican aptly says, " 1t is something more
than ian event-it is a sign"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-05-29
LOUISIANA CONVENTION.

THE ANTI-CUsTOM-HOUsE REPUBLICANS THE
NEGROES FOR GRANT AND THE WHITES FOR
GREELEY AND BROWN-A SPLIT IN THE
CONVENTION.
fBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRTBUNEl
NEW ORLEANs, May 28.-The anti Custom house
Convention met this morning This is not the Lib
eral Republican Convention, though there are Lib
erals in it. The latter have separate State organ
ization and State Committee. The negroes are
in large majority in the Convention, and are con-
trolled by Lieut.-Gov. Pinchbeck. who with his
friends, are openly for Grant, and will send dele
gates to Philadelphia. During the session Of the
Convention Gov. Warmoth will present resolutions.
refusing to send delegates to Philadelphia
and indorsing Greeley and Brown. The major
ity being against the Liberals, this will be lost
when the Reformers headed by Gov. Warmoth, will
withdraw. The colored delegates are almost all for
Grant, while the whites are for Greeley and Brown.