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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1872-10-18
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LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY,
PITTSFIELD, MASS.
T. F. PLUNKETT, President.
EDWARD HOLLYWOOD, Treasurer.
JAS W. HULL, Assistant Secretary.
Assets, $2,OOO,OOO.
Annual Income, 100000.

Dividends paid annually on the Contribution Plan
much s other FIRST class Companies.
The BERKsHIRE the nrst Company in the United
States to make all of its Policies Non-forfeitabe.
Every Policy issued by this Company since April,
A. d. 1891 is nonforfeable, and expressed in the
Policy.
An Annual Payment Life Policy is not forfeited by
failure to pay premium when due, but Is continued in
force under the sets law Of April 1861.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10
E-.e4s. .alNn.Ay y Co. furnish the following
Ottawa quotations:
The Markets,

Activity has again marked the markets for
grain and produce during the last week, owing
chiefly to speculative movement This was par.
ticulsrly SO in wheat and corn. Prices for grain
were frme., though unsettled wheat advanced
61ac, corn &C, oats 4c, rye 3d. and barley 20
The shipping movement in wheat, corn and oats
was satisfactory. Mess pork is still manipulated
by the Canadian corner, aud has been excited,
the Fluctuations covering margin of 1925 per
barrel.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10

As reported by ALE BOS Wholesale Retail GrOCers,
MOL La sale street.
Ottawa, Aug. 8, 1872
houses Old oats goo new oats at 33c for 80 Tbs.
Peaches--boxes from 25990c; baskets, 75c@$1.
Blackberries, 10000. Butter, prime, l5c, but
the butter that comes in is mostly packed, and
is not worth more than 1870. Eggs, 9@1Oc.
Young cu!ckens-large ones bring SO %, medium
sging 81 $4,000. New honey good sale at
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10

A. oil other times Gas MS the only place he visits proies
sIOr ally) he may he found NJ Chicago.
WXsi SIDE OfFICk21 West Madison St, from 10 NJ to
1pr Sundays from II A. N. to l pm.
SpuIu SIDE OFFICE AT REsiDEEcE-No GO Twenty third
81 between Prairie and Calumet Avenues from 10 r. NJ
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-08-10
Chicago Market.

Chicago, Aug. y.
Flour-Whitc winter extras, $3.50 1900
spring extras, $G00G7.75
Wheat-No. spring $..33; No. 2 $1.3l1a
else.
Corn-433ic for No. /; 42443c for No. 2;
rejected SOC.
Oats-29933 i,r No. ..
Rye-57lac for No2.
Barley-34o for No. 2
Butter-20422c for choice
Eggs-111 agl2la.
Csttle-Choice steers $G.50a7O0; medium to
fair S425G525; good to choice cows $2.50a275;
common to fair $2.50435O.
Hogs-S4.5094.90.
New HorX Market.
New York, AugS.
Wheat--Prime spring 81 ,49]2.
Rye--1ic for western, CIV.
Oats-4l llag GAS cts. for western. az
Corn--Mixed western G1aG2c.
Lard--S99 cents.
The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-27

We have all along tried to put the best features
we could upon the obstructons and difficulties
which have been encountered in running trains
upon the U. L. r. Il. this winter, but we fud
that the press east and west, aided by the argus
eyed associated press agents aud the ubiquitous
Western Union telegraph lines are bound the
whole history of the affair shall leak out any
how; SO we have concluded to give some light
upon it in the SENTINEL,
For eight weeks past passenger trains have
been standing on side tracks all along the will
derness country wherever there was no station,
each of these trains loaded with hundreds of hui
man beings, and the horrors through which they
have passcd can never be fully described. There
are some thirty of these trains strung along In
this wav. There is one up near Lookout
which has been there for about tiye weeks. 1t
had orr rignaly some four hundred passengers on
it, and we suppose there are ovec fifty lett alive
yet OF course they have had nothing to eat
during all that time The citizens of Laramie
have kindly contributed about twenty Car loads
of provisions to relieve the sufferers, ,bnt the COM
pary refuse to ship the food unless the freight
is paid ia advance. which we are determined
not to do. OF course these passengers are very
much demoralHed nov. When at first they
were driven to cannibalisn, they conducted the
business with some little degree of fairness and
cast lots equitably, to see who should be the
victims, and in some e4ses lean and tough old
men were spared, when they drew unlucky num-
bera though this may have been on account Of
the scarcity Of fuel. So also We're some infants
allowed to live for fear their mothers
would .utfec for want Of their services. The
President and ether officers of the road near
there, having shoveled through snow drifts near
ly to the train sone weeks ago, but the psssen-
gers have become so desperate that nobody dares
to approach them; so the employees daily crawl
up and peer over the hill and speculate from
the looks of the piles of bones how long the bal.
ance can hold out The few remaining passen-
gers have held indignation meeting and
unanimously resolved to tear up mile of track
each way, and set the cars on fire soon, if some
thing is not done for their relief Trains pass
and re-pass them at all hours Of the day and
night, but they rush rapidly by SO as not to let
the facts become known to the travelling public
And this is the history of only one of the thirty
trains before referred to, as will be proved by
the large pile of human bones found bleaching
on the side tracks, when the SHOWS thaw away
i'll the spring.
As we remarked, we have tried to cover these
things up, but the reports OF the associated press
and the tales of travellers are bringing them to
light and representing them to be so much worse
than they really are that We are sure the COM
pany will thank US for stating the exact facts in
the matter.-Ldra'aie Wyoming 7er.! Sentinel.
The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-27
singular Freak of n Cow.

The latest exploit is that of COW belonging to
a Mr.. Lambart, Of Bay City, Michigan. Explor-
ing the back yard On u recent evening, she put
her head into barrel, which she could not get
of, aad becoming very much frightened at her
condition. she blindly forced her head into the
wood-shed, thence into the kitchen, thence into
the dinining room OF the house, becoming all the
while more furious. From this room she made
her way into the parlor, throwing down and
trampiing under foot everything that came in
her way. Mrs. Lambert aroused her husband,
who arose. but finding he could do nothing, went
for help. The COW next rushed into bedroom
where Mrs. Lambert, with little baby and one
chald, occupied q bed, aud another little child u
crib in front of it. The enraged animal mount
ed the bed. but help arrived, and not an instant
too soon. The window was raised from the out
side, and neighbo attempted to enter, when
the barrel gave him blow which knocked hin,
back against the fence. The children were at
last secured and passed through the window, and
Mrs. Lambert soon followed. The door OF the
bedroom was then closed and the COW left to her
self. She finally became soothed, and walked
out after Aomolishing all the nice furniture in
the lower part of the house.
The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-27
Misreltanp.
a Rough Road.

ro rnn in the Radical rut few years seems
IN be more than the toughest OLD SINNERS can
stand. When they get in once there seen 20
he nothing for them bat creaks, cracks and de-
moralization generally. 4 fatality as fearful
politically, as the yellow fever, s'rychnine or
coal OF, lamps are, physically, hangs round them
continually aud he who escapes can piess ms
..stars and garters" that miracle IN his especial
case has been wrought equaling the heahng OF
the man with the lopro.y. There are but few
miracles wrought nowadays, however, ana
radical officials have 70 run their chances They
don't seem 10 have many. or else they were
.foseordaiaed- 20 be the iirtiest, Ineanest and
most yilainou. set of rsscals that ever disgraced
any country or any people. See what they have
come to:
Holden, the 'loil' governor of North Caroline,
tor months and months has been fugitive from
Justice, having fed, after being impeached, to
save his neck.
Butler. the "loil" Governor of Nebraska, is in
the same trouble
Bullock, the ..lol" Governor of Georgia, ran
off, and then sent back a resignation, to escape
an impeachment
Austin, the "loil' Governor of Minnesota, is
now trying to prove in court that he didn't take
$1,000 as brlbe to sign Railroad bill.
Davis, the .'loil' governor of Texas has been
told by 10000 majority that the people of that
State consider HIM corrupt, incompetent and
disgrace to the State.
Aud our bullet-marked, sore-les ged Twitchel-
pardoning Geary is trembling in his boots for
fear of a Legislative investigating committee in
the Evans embezzlement case.
Verify, the "way OF the transgcessor is hard
-Watch,ssn.
The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-27

antics Found in the Bible, new reading OF
| Genesis. Governor Washburn of Massachusetts, !;
A Marvellous Conjpror; Pickles, etc. Price 80
cents. single numbers; 80 year. S. r. Wells
New York.
Single copies for sale and subscriptions receiv-
ed BY Osmsu & Hapem.n, Ottawa, Ill.
The Ottawa free trader., 1872-01-27

The WOMAN PROBLEM REss-Elizabeth
Stewart Phelps is dealing some telling blows at
the folly women Indulge in in the matter of
dress She says the average young man walks
into his tailor twice year, pays his bill and
has his coat, pantaloons and vests made. That
is all he knows He requires shirts, and some.
body makes him shirts. He thinks no more
Will he have hat? Behold = piece of felt
with g.lloon string. 1t does not flop over his
forehead. It will never switch ON his back hair.
1t does not blow into his eyes The elastic can.
not blister his neck, nor produce depressions OF
the Serebellum. Ii will not be out uf date be.
fore the summer Is over, seldom or never be \
matter of suxious reflection 1t is u fixed fact
like Yesterdays dinner, or the last election The
opposite If this picture, as she paints IT. is ludi-
Crous and ptiful enough. The average young
woman. she says expenas enough power of in.
ventioR, enough finencial shrewdness, enough
close foresight, enough presence of mind enough
perturbation OF spirit, enough patience of hope
and anguish of regret. upon one seasons outfit,
TO make "a respectable b4uk cashier, or "A comfort
able srs3upte Of n theological seminary II you
doubt the truth of this stntenent, u-t tx. ia
for vOurseli with the "cricke,s eve, the first
young srl that you meet down Gown. How
fea'uily and wonderfully, madr How i, Won
suI Pose thu," oiu, 'pid- nnG double box 7i,it,
and huted rwties, aud corded bands. and ,hrrred
waists, and psunicrea ~kir's -nd bowed nd
tied, md corded, and laced, hutton.d, md .oan.
sled, and irlused, and tnird rnd to't,i. md
hupched ,ud punched. and horrible uys,o-ie.
got together : Tkere We. uauu,nveriny eoou.h
expended upon '"c drr~'m"ker - have elected .
Representative, md CONCENTRATION Of mind unnn
The scAlnsttcss, intense cough TO have wirh.,ood
Wall street panic .,l head ,ches ono,. IA nm,
into the fewinS macLme 30 have mastered "por
ter- Hum ,n Iutelle.t'
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04
On the Roof Of Notre Dame.

All! here is a dingy and grimy old
door, leading up great stone steps to
the cathedral roof, where the lover of
the picturesque may wander for hours
without ever wearying. It is long
way up, and the steps are worn and
old; millions of feet have made great
creases in them. Suddenly you stag
ger out upon a wide platform, and
Paris, threaded by the curving Seine,
Paris with it's hundred palaces, its
giant avenues, it's vast towers, it's glori-
Gus parks, lies spread before you. You
feel as if breathing purer air; you
are of the world, yet separated from it.
You are elated, jubilant, exalted. The
hum and din Of the great capital smites
but gently upon your eBfs. A str0ng
thrill of excitement runs through you
as you press to the outer railing, and
look down from the dizzy height into
the placebelow. Are those ants crawl
ing on their ant-hill, or are they really
men in the market-place? AS you get
tired, and seek spot to repose, the old
woman who has her home in a little
house in the belfry, invites you to a
place on rustic bench. DO they drink
beer then on the cathedral's top? Oh!
yes, indeed, Monsieur, and champagne,
too, when parties come to see the sun
rise. tits quite the mode now in Paris,
Monsieur, for bridal parties to come
to the old tower here at early morning,
to make champagne breakfast, and
to view the sunrise. There was one
young lady here some months ago, poor
darling! who was so frightened at some
gargoyles which she saw on one of the
gallery balconies that she swooned, and
was carried downstairs, and home in
a cab.
Perhaps the good woman or her hus-
band will go with you to see the gar
goyles, fantastic figures which serve at
once as ornaments and rain-spouts, and
which are as goblin-like and ghostly
as figures in fairy tale. AS you stand
on one of the galleries overlooking the
vast descent from the upper platform
to one of the lower roofs, you see rang
ed around, in rows, gigantic figures Of
dragons, hippogriffs, unnamable mon
sters and compounds of men and beasts
in sportive or ferocious attitudes. They
seem to have suddenly descended from
some unknown region of the air, and
to have been as suddenly petrifed. A
mong these animals and monsters
stands the figure Of a tall old man,
clad in the garb of the Middle Ages.
gazing outward into ether with a wild
and puzzled expression upon his fea-
lures. He shields his eyes with his
hands, as if afraid to look too careless
ly upon some unutterable glory and
his long beard is blown back by the
wind. Turning corner suddenly, and
coming upon this astonishing figure,
it is difficult to persuade ones self for
a moment that it is not alive.--From
"In and about Paris,'' By Ed,vard
King, IN Scrj6'aers for October.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04

disavow and which they ought to know
are utterly absurd. The most import
ant of them are utterly forbidden by
the constitution and they know it.
No man can 60 to Congress or be chos-
en- President without taking solemn
oath to sustain the constitution which
absolutely forbids the payment of re-
bel debts or payment for emancipated
slaves.
I commend my case to the sober
Judgment Of the American people. |
ask them to judge us without prejud-
ice, without passion and with spirit
uninfamed by wrath and vengeance.
I ask them to judge us as citizens who
are sincerely trying to do what we be-
ieve best for our country, and l do
trust that passion and prejudice will
not prevail; that we shall be judged
as we are and not as we are represent
ed, and a benefcent triumph, which
will increase the value of every acre
of land in the Southern States, which
will increase the product of these States,
make their people harmonious, black
and white, and make them live in a
more trustful, peaceful and fraternal
relation than they have hitherto held
towards each other, will be secured. I
trust this result will be attained and
that generations to come shall rejoice
over the inception, progress and tri-
umph of the liberal movement. Ap-
plause.] Friends, I bidy good night.
At the close of his speech Mr.. Gree
lev retired amid cheers.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04

ed brother, to bring him in guilty, in
spite of Scripter, and consign him to
a place whar he'd hav to wear coat
of many colors of a very different stripe
from his brother Joseph's."
81 not only lost the case," said the
Judge, but my Office at the next cleo
tion-my attempt to confute old Poll
fox's Scripture argument creating a
doubt, in the mind of the community,
as to the soundness of my religious
views.
''In all soberness," the Judge con-
tinued, eff you want to be successful
lawyer, search the Scriptures" In
them you will find the basis of all that
is best and noblest in human laws
Besides, the words and the phrase of
the Bible are the language Of the po-
pular heart. It's parallels are house
hold words. Its illustrations never
miss the mark. I have given you a
ludicrous instance of their effect; but
1t is in the field of pathos and real feel
ing that their power is irresistible"
"And yet," [ remarked, "Old Poll
fox made them the instrument of gain
ing an erroneous verdict" )"
"There you are mistaken" said the
Judge.
"Ittranspired subsequently thatpoor
Dawkes was really innocent-a private
enemy, the same person who first di-
rected suspicion towards him, having
abstracted the property, and placed it,
through malice, where it was afterwards
found"
I took the Judges advice as to the
best book to read first.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04
Eetecte0 JHlscelLaug.
THE BEST BOOK TO READ FIRST.
BY JUDGE CLARK.

"The best book to read frst?" said
Judge T., repeating the question I put
on entering his office as a law student.
"That's the best book to read first
and last, too," he added, laying his
hand on we'll thumbed ''King James
Bible" on which less dust had been
suffered to accumulate than [ have Of
ten seen on the same volume on a
professors" parlor table.
"But [ didn't come here to learn to
preach" answered, a little pertly.
eyes, you did," replied the Judge.
"And the better you preach every time
you get before a jury, the better you'll
succeed.
"I'll prove it, !" said he quickly, not
ing my look of incredulity.
And wheelingroundh his chair, bring
ing his legs to cross, and using his
ear for pen rack, he proceeded:
''The first year after my admission
[ was elected States Attorney. NV
maiden case was one of the petit lar
ceny. Bill Dawkes, one of those trif-
ling, good sort of fellows-so called
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04
What Causes Hard Times

l. loo many spend money and too
few earn it. ,.-I1as.ie
2. Too much money is spent waste
fully and uselessly, and too little saved
and made productive and accumula-
tive by those who need it.
8. We buy too much abroad that we
ought to produce at home.
4. We buy too much that we cannot
and do not pay for cash down-to much
Of what we buy being what we do not
actually need.
5. We are too wasteful, know too
little how to economise, and have too
little disposition to do so.
6. We are too speculative, unscrupu-
lous and actually dishonest in our
efforts to make money.
7. Too many of us prefer idleness to
industry, and too few of us know how
to work and derive pleasure and profit
from our labor.
8. We spend too much time learn
ing what is not useful, and too little
informing ourselves upon the best me-
thods of promoting our material pros
perity.
9. We know too much of politics,
spend too much time and money as
politicians, and know too little about
political economy and the science of a
stable and economical, successful pub
lie policy.
10. Our actions are governed too
much by passion, prejudice and par
tisan feeling, and not enough by a
broad, intelligent, liberal and patriotic
conception of the duties which Ameri-
can citizenship involves.
II. We are too superficial and impa-
tient, and lack the clear purpose and
persistent, patient application neces-
sary to permanent success.
II. We depend too much upon our
"sharpness," and "cuteness," and readi-
ness to take advantage of circumstan-
ces, and not enough upon earnest, hon
est labor.
13. We talk and read too much, and
think and act too little.
IA. We spread ourselves over too
great surface, and thus fail to dig
deep enough in one place for the mug
gets that will surely enrich us.
Is. We lack in that higher morali-
ty which frowns down venality and
elevates and encourages purity of life,
probity of conduct, and a scrupulous
regard for good and honorable name.
16. We do not teach our children
that they must, nor how to, earn their
own living, and are too willing to COM
NIT them to life of easy unscrupulous-
ness, depending on their skill as make
shifts rather than upon their solid ac-
quirements as men and women.
II. We roll about like stones that
gather no moss, enriching carrying cor
porations and specializing capitalists,
and defrauding ourselves of the sub
stantial profits of our own industry.
18. We are devotees of show rather
than substance, and pay homage to the
glitter Of "success" which is but a
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04


robe covering filth, rottenness and cor
ruption, social, commercial and politi-
cal.
19. We build too many churches and
cultivate the Christian virtues and
spirit too little; we have too many
schools and too few real teachers; we
have too many false theories and too
few true ones; we are too undivided in
certain directions and not enough so
in others; we adhere too closely to what
we ought to depart from, and refuse
to take hold of that to which we ought
to cling.
20. In short, we are too much what
we ought not, and not enough what
we ought to be! .<..
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04

him out, and scattering the small fry,
which fly in all directions, ruf1ing the
surface of the water like a sudden
squall of wind in their fight, follows
| up his victim with unerring instinct.
In an agony of terror the poor little
quarry springs again and again franti-
cally from the water, only to fall at
last exhausted into the gaping jaws OF
his rayenous foe, who, gripping his
body crosswise in his mouth, sails
steadily away to his lair, there to de-
YOUR his prey at leisure. Other fish
hunt their food like dogs or wolves,
in packs, as does the bonito chase the
fying-fsh, and one perhaps of the most
fercest, most savage and reso1ute of
these is the Piari, of South America.
So fierce and savage are these little
pirates, when their size and apparent
capability are taken into consideration,
that their feats of destructiveness are
little short of the marvellous. Stand
forth, then ''piari" Of the Carib, "black,
saw belied salmon" { Sierra Salmo miger)
of Schomburg; so called, doubtless,
from the peculiar adipose fin, common
only to the salmon tribe though in no
other respect does it resemble a salmon,
there being positive structural differ
ences between the species. Let us take
the portrait of this fish. Doubtless
the reader figures to himself fish of
clean and hungry look, a very Cassius
of a fish, with the lanternjaws Of a pike.
But, in fact, the piari is somewhat al
dermanic and like a Dream in figure,
with a fghting-looking kind of nose,
and wondrously expressive eye-cold,
cruel and Unsuitable, and, like to that
of an old Jew bill-discounter when
scrutinizing double paper. There is 70
or 80 per cent. in that eye at the very
least, and ruin to widows and orphans
unnumbered, if they come in its way.
fit were human eye, the owner would
be bound sooner or later to figure at
the Execution Dock. The jaws square,
powerful, and locked into very large
head for the size of the fish; and that
is fat, plump head, too, but radiated
over with strong bone and gristle. The
teeth-ah! they would condemn him
anywhere, for here is a,fish sixteen in
ches long, with the teeth almost of a
shark.-POoatl0a. Science Monthly.
Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1872-10-04
Curious Fish---How They Hunt Food.

There are many fish which hunt their
prey singly, as the pike and trout, and
the way in which large pike or trout
will course and run down a smaller
fish resem bles nothing so much as a
greyhound coursing hare. Now the
unhappy little fish turns from side to
side in its efforts to escape, while it's
pursuer bends and turns to every mo-
ton, following close upon his track,
and cutting him off exactly as grey
hound does hare. Now he rushes a.
mong shoal of his fellows, hoping to
be lost sight of in the crowd and con-
fusion; but the grim foe behind is not
to be bafied or deceived, and, singing