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Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02
Billings Wit and WisdOm---GOOd
ReZOlushuns for 1872 & 1873.

That i wont smoke emmy more cigars, or
ly at sumbody else's expense
That wont borry or lend-espeshily
lend.
That will live within my inkum, if
have tew git trusted tew do it.
That i will be polite tew everybody, ex-
cept muskeeters and bed bugs
That wont advise emmy boldly until
kno the kind ov advice they are anxious tew
follow.
That wont wear emmy more tite boots, if
hav to 60 barefoot to do it,
That wont eat any more chicken soup
with one tined fork.
That wont swept dogs with no man, IN
less kan swept two for one.
That wont object to emmy man on ac-
kount of biz color, unless he happens few be
blue
That wont sware emmy, unless i am put
under oath.
That won't believe in total depravity,
only in gin at shillings gallon.
That poverty may be blessing, but if it
IL. it IL blessing in disguise. ~.
That will take nal whiskey hereafter
straight-straight tew the gutter.
That the world owes me living-provi-
ded earn it.
That will stick to my taylor az long az
be will tew me.
That wont swop emmy horses with dea-
con.
That no man shall beat me in politeness,
not so long as politeness kontinues tew be
az cheap az it liz now.
That wont hav emmy religious kreed my
self, but will respekt every boldly else's.
That if lovely woman snakes me on one
cheek, i will turn her the other ALSO
That if man kalls me a phool, I won't
ask him tew prove it,
That will lead moral life if lose a
good deal of phun by it.
That if a man tells me mule won't xix,
i will believe what he seq without trying it.
That if emmy boldly loozes even a goose
will weep with him, for it liz a tuff dizziness
to loose goose.
That if i ever do git hen that kan lay
eggs day, shall Insist upon her keeping
one Of the eggs on hand for sinking
phund.
That it IL no disgrace tew be bit by dog
unless he due it the seckoned time.
That it il just as natral tew be born ritch
az poor, but it IL seldum so convenient.
That one of the riskyest things tew strad-
die IL the back of so day note.
That the best time tew repent ov a blum
der IL just before the blunder IL made.
That will try hard tew be honest, but it
will be just my darn LUX tew miss it.
That won't grew. emmy kats Spontane-
GUS kats have killed the business.
That will love my mother-in-law if it
takes all the money kan earn tew do it.
That believe real good lies are Citing
skarcer and skarcer every day.
That i will respekt publick opinion jest az
ong az | kan respekt myself in doing it.
That when hear man Dragging on hiz
won't envy him, but will pity the
ancestors.
That won't beleave in emmy ghost or
ghostesses unless they weigh about 140
pounds and can eat good square meal
That wont bet on nothing for things
that require betting on, lax sumthing.
That i will brag on my wife all the time,
out will do it silently.
Finally, will sarch for things that are
little, for things that are lonesum, avoiding
I'll torchlighte prosesshuns, bands of brass
nusick, wimmin's rights convenshuns, and
,rass widders generally.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02
1877 THIS WAY. 1877.

1917 THIS WAY. 1917.
VALLEY WAGON MAKING SHOPS.
NATIONAL HOTEL GROUNDS, FREDERICK ST.,
STA UNION, "a.
Having employ ed full complement of skillful
and experienced Workmen, and largely added
to the capacity of my Shops for making and re-
pairing
Wagons, Carts, Wheel-BarrOws.
and all work Railroad Contractors and Farmers
may need, am now prepared to do work on
Liberal Terms and at the Shortest Notice.
rs Satisfaction guaranteed in all cases.
Having purchased the interest of L.. Hartman
& Co.. and come here to stay, hope by strict
atten ton to business to merit liberal share of
the public patronage.
JOHN T. COX,
apr26-6m Proprietor
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Business Cards.

Business Cards.
JAMES T. BYERS. HENRY e. sUMMERSoN.
DYERS & SUMMERSON,
Dealers Ire Family groceries,
COUNTRY PRODUCE, FINE CIGARS,
CHEWING AND SMOKING TOBA COOS.
We have opened a new and full stock,
In the Room opposite Court House,
recently occupied by N. A. Baylor & Co., and it
gill be our aim to keep constantly on hand
choice selection of goods in our line.
A call is solicited. We feel confident we can
elease.
WE have full line of all the different Brands
Of both CHEWING and SMOKING TOBACCOS,
and every style and grade of CIGARS.
WANTED FOR CASH,
FLOUR,
GRAIN,
BACON, &c.
aug25-tf BYERS & SUMNERSON.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

A man who has repeatedly tried them,
says that all the short cuts to fortune are
horribly overcrowded.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

A man that don't know anything will tell
it the first time he gets chance.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

GEO. EYLER. HENRY COOPER. WIN. J. NELSON.
THHE COMPREHENSIVE of Parkins, Nelson
& Co., having been dissolved by the sale
OF the interests of some of the partners and the
establishment having come into our possession,
we appear before the public with improved facil-
ities, and with a determination to please in
PRICE AND STYLE OF WORK.
We respectfully ask from the people of Virginia
and the South, fair share Of patronage.
We propose to manufacture and repair Porta-
BILE and Stationery Steam Engines and Boilers,
Saw-mills, Mining Machinery, Hydraulic and
Screw Presses for Oil and Tobacco, Car Wheels,
Car Trucks, Shafting. Pulleys and Hangers.
We keep on hand full assortment of repairs
for the Pitt Threshing Machine which we will
furnish fitted upon short notice.
We also manufacture Flows. Plow Castings,
Hay Rakes, Hay Presses Straw Cutters and Ag
ricultural Implements generally.
Address,
EYLEk, COOPER j. CO.,
mar3l.t Stanton Va.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

uOgsE AND SIGN PAINTING. he sub
seribers has recommended the House
and Sign Painting business and is low prepared
to execute any work. lin town and country, en-
trusted to him in the best manner and on such
terms as will be entirely satisfactory.
Orders for work until further notice) left at
the store of Owen G. Morris, Esq, will be
promptly attended to.
&apr28-tf o. P. THOMPSON.
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10 KEEP FLOWERS FRBsH.-A few irou
nails placed in vase of flowers will keep
the water sweet and the flowers fresh. This
arises from the sulphur eliminated from the
plants combining with the iron.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

TO CURH GApEs.-An Augusta farmer in
forms us that pill of homemade soap is a
certain cure for gapes.
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Business Cards.

A. H. TAYLOR WIN. F. sUMMERsoN.
A lei. TAYLOR & Cove have
IN just received at the old stand OF Mosby
Taylor a full line of
Staple s. Fancy Dry Goods,
NOTIONS, GROCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES,
BATS, QUEENSWARE, HARD
WARE, &C., &C., &C.
We are better prepared than ever to offer extra
inducements to our customers. Every article
usually kept in a irst-class establishment can
now be found in our Store. We are also agents
for the sale of the celebrated Perkins & House
Non-explosive Lamp. They give soft, pleasant
and most brilliant light and are perfectly free
from explosion or other accident attending the
common lamp.
WANTED.-To exchange for goods, all
kinds of country produce, Lumber, Shingles and
Laths. We have very recently fitted up a COM
modious lumber yard and will be prepared to
buy all kinds of lumber, at the highest market
rates. apr26-tf
MOORE NEW GoODsl
AT 4. WITT & BROS,
MAIN STREET.
We have just received another supply of Spring
and Summer Goods, of the latest and most beau
tiful styles, consisting of
LADIES' & GENTS DRESS GOODS,
LADIES' & GENTS FURNISHING GOODS
STAPLE S. -F.RJVCY
DRY GOODS.
And, in fact, everything kept ina first class
Dry Goods House.
Give US call, before purchasing, as we pledge
ourselves to sell good Goods as low as any other
House.
Our goods were purchased after the recent de-
cline and will be sold at a very small profit.
&a- Everything guaranteed as represented.
apr20-tf
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

TH1sTLEs.-A correspondent gives the
following as his plan of DISCRIMINATING
thlstles, but of receiving some benefit from
the nuisance" When I salt my sheep, as I do
once IN five or six days, one part good wood
ashes, three parts salt, go over part of the
field and put a handful Of the mixture on
each thistle and mullen, and the sheep eat
them to the root. know they learn to rel
1sh them, for when I go again over another
part OF the field find great many of them
eaten with fragments of leaves lying around,
where no salt had been put on. The appli-
cation should be made before the thistle and
mullens grow too rank.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02
SIMMONS
Regulator.

Forty Years, and hundreds ofthe good and grea
from all parts of the country will vouch for il
virtue
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

10 POLISH T1Ns.-First rub your tins
WIN damp cloth; then take dry flour and
put on them with your hands; afterward take
an oid newspaper and rub the flour off, and
the tins will shine as we'll as if half an hour.
mad been spent in rubbing them with brick
dust Or powder, which spoils the hands.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

MOVING STRAwBERR1Es.-The following
IS taken from the Report of the Massachu.
sets horticultural Society: s'The principal
practiced point developed was the advantage
of moving down the leaves after the crop is
gathered. The plant having finished the
work OF the season, and being about to COM
mence new one, a salutary stimulus is
given to it by removing the old and useless,
ana perhaps fungus-eaten foliage" Sue.
ce Sc strawberry growers say the practice
ol moving OF the vines after taking off
crop OF fruit, is an important advance in
strawberry culture.
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1872-08-02

Five years have passed. There are chill
dren's voices in the great house now, and
Jane (who was in the plot, and is back in
her place. and Miss Barbara almost pet
them to death, while John, the rogue, often
leases his aunt laughingly about the "doll-
baby to whom she considered him sacrificed.
But if there is any one person whom Miss
Barbara loves as dearly as she does cher
boy" it is the sweet-faced gentle girl whom
that boy married. To her mind all femi-
nine graces and virtues are possessed and
shown forth by "John's wife"
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09

LEIcEsTER.-ltems of interest, Mr.
Editor, are not very plenty with us now,
and for that matter have not been for the
past winter. The all-absorbing theme
just now, is the weather. Never have
we known such season The hard.
hearted old winter king is bound he viii!
not leave though his time was out q
month ago.
Where are the April showers, that are
to bring forth May flowers? The gentle
Spring has demonstrated and it seems at
times, as if winter was about to yield his
throne and scepter to her gentle sway
but to-day he is OLD, arbitrary, and unyieid-
ing and the grieved and disheartNd spring
has retired, to await Il more favorable
opportunity, when his towering anger
shall have subsidized
There is considerable sickness in
town now, and there has been five deaths
here this winter
The scarlet fever has laged to some
extent, but | think there are no eases of
it now.
Mr.. Ludlum preached his farewell ser.
mon one week ago Sunday, and | under.
stand that conference has stationed Mr.,
Eastman here for the coming year.
There has been some exchanges of
property here of late.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09

Rev. DR.. Howard has resigned his
position as Rector of the Episcopal SO,
ciety in Mortified, TO lake effect May
LIST.
-tionel al II. II. Baxter aud Hon
Frederick Billings are among the new
board of directors of the Panama Rail-
way Company.
Calvin Ainsworth, Esq, an old and
highly esteemed citizen Of Willamstown,
and the Oldest merchant in Orange county,
died on the 2Gth, of pneumonia lie
was for many years the President OF the
Mortified Bank. His age was 81.
We are pleased to notice tho nomina.
tion by the President, of Henry b. Ath-
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09

SUICIDE IN New HAVEN. The people
in this section were much moved and
startled by the report early Monday
morning, that Mrs. Lyman Grapdey had
committed suicide by cutting her own
throat from ear to ear with razor. II
seems that for some time she has been in
poor health, and it was thought she was
Iaboring under partial insanity at times.
Once previously attempted her own life
by taking poison. The day previous to
her death Sunday she seemed quito
cheerful, and convcrsed with her husband
and children more than usual. After
they had retired she and her husband
talked for some time. She then arose,
saying that she thought she should sleep
better if she took the bed in the adjoining
room that she had occupied more or less
during her illness. About one or two
O'Clock, n. M, Mr. Grandy heard a noise
or noises that awakened suspicious in his
own mind that all was not right. As
soon as he could procure n light he went
to her room, where he found her weller.
ing in her own gore, her throat cut from
ear to ear,
1t appeared that she had drawn the
razor twice across her throat, severing the
jugular vein, but not the large arteries
or the wind pipe. A bottle containing
bed bug poison was found in the room,
cork out and spoon laying beside it.
The whole transaction showed that she
intended to make sure thing of it. She
had folded and laid across her chest
WOODEN blanket to catch her blood. We
cannot grasp the idea or possibly imagine
the state Of mind a mother must be in
to arise in the stiffness Of night, when no
sound was heard save the gentle breath.
ing Of her children, and deliberately ar.
range and execute a deed that would
separate her from her family and launch
her soul into the spirit world. We have
often guessed whether she did not kiss
those loved ones and breath silent fare
well, Notwithstanding her mind. She was
yet alive when found, and lived some "a
to hour and died, DR.. Prime was call.
ed, bit before he could get there she was
dead. His opinion, as expressed, was
that she would have died from the effects
Of either the poison or the wound. The
funeral took place at the Baptist church,
Bristol. Rev. T. II. Archibald officiat-
ed, assisted by Rev. Mr.. Bosworth. Thus
closes scene that is sad and painful to
record. We love to note the scenes when
the mother receives back her child to life
that has been so near the grave, the hus-
band the wife, or the wife the husband,
or even when loved friends kiss sweet
good bye, as the spirit leaves the casket
here and is borne by angels upward to
that beautiful land. But when reason is
dethroncd the whole structure becomes
chaos BuRToy.
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09

PoRr Henry. Charles b. Pease has
taken partner in business, Theodore
Calkins. The new firm will be Pease 4
Calkins, they will carry on the hardware
trade at the stand heretofore occunicd
by Pease.
One year ago to-'iay SO had i Steamer,
to-day the ice is ~ good b. ever before,
and plenty of snow on the grouiL ,ot,good
slcighing.
John Conley. appointed r"li-c consta
BILE for the ensuing scar IN the village
corporation, Lemnel =. Treadway, APP
pointed street commissioner, VIM. II.
Carr, clerk
Charles b. leaoe, Ben amin NJ. Beck
with and Michael Kennedy are the ex-
else board for the ensuing year.
Last week two Of our Oldest and most
respected citizens departed this life. Mr..
Lorin Wheelock, aged - years and Ed
ward Stanton, aged 81 years.
John Osgood Of Crown Point, last
week purchased one of the new houses
built last fall by Waldo & Tobey.
The prospects are now that we have Il
railroad on the west side of the Lake, to
be built right away. When we see the
men at work on it then We will begin to
believe it. a."
Port Henry, April !, 1872
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CTATE OF yERMONT-District of


In Probate Court hell at Miidlebury, in AMI
1871
Stephen A. Warren, administrator Of the estate
Of ALPHEUS ROYCE,
late OF Orwell, in the district of Addison, deceas
ed, makes application in writing to said Court,
stating that the debts against said estate amounts
to more than $4,000, and that the personal prom
ery is not sufficient to pay them and that it will
be necessary to sell part Of the real estate Of the
said deceased in order to pay the debts and ex.
penses Of administration, aud that it would be
conducive to the interests Of all interested in said
estate to sci! the whole Of said real estate except
the homestead and widows dover, including the
reversion, and asks for license to sell the same
1t is thereupo,. ordered that said application be
considered for allowance at a session of sail
Court to be held at the Probate Office, id Middle
bury, on Monday, the 9Th day Of May, 1872, at
~ o'clock in the forenoon; and II is further or.
dered that notice hereof be given to all parties
interested by publication three weeks successive
ly in the Middlebury Register, Il newspaper
printed at Middlebury, previous to said time, that
they may appear and show cause, if any they NAV
nave why said license should not be granted.
80 CHAS. Il. COOKE, Register
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GRANvILLE.-The town at its recent
town meeting complimented the Ladies
Aid Society highly for their perseverance
and generosity in furnishing the tswn
with a fine hearse and made it manifest
by voting to build a nice house for its
reception.--A barn belonging to
James Riley was recently burned with a
small quantity of hay. understand
that 1t was fully insured. Wat.
son has been arraigncd before court and
fined SO, and cost for laying violent
hand upon his wife. | will suggest as a
motto for the consideration of man and
wife
The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1872-04-09

Rev. Mr.. Bailey, having been APP
pointed by Conference to the Methodist
Church in Middlebury, for the third and
current year, preached last Sabbath an
appropriate sermon on Christian Fellow
ship His text was from the second book
of Kings 10: 10" Is thine heart right,
as my heart with thy heart? And Je-
honadab answered, It is. If it be, give
me thine hand. And he gave him his
hand, and he took him up into his chari-
OF" The preacher first gave a brief his
tory of Jehu who was the other dialoguist
in the above text. He then discoursed
at length on the subject he deduced from
the text as given above, and showed, first,
that Christian fellowship was too uncom- .
mon thing in this world, or even in the
Church. lie pointed out its desirable
ness both in itself and as prime ele-
ment of success. He showed that it was
founded in the possession of the Spirit of
Christ, and that its perfection and power
was in proportion to the perfection of d.
vine love in the hearts of Christians. The
gospel was given and the church organ
lied as grand system of means TO sc.
cure both its fundamental element and
also in its development. Where Christian
fellowship existed throughout churchill
always made it power for good, and
gave it success in the world. Finally it
was test of rue discipleship. If
man says, | love God. and hateth his
brother, he is liar; for he that loveth
not his brother whom he hath seen, how
can he love God whom he hath not seen?
And this commandment have we from
him, That he who ioveth God, love his
brother also"
His next Sabbath sermon will be on
The Translation of Elijah
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STATE OF vERMONT-District of

~ Aubitbn, s..
In Probate Court held at Middlebury. in and
Tor said district on the 9Th day Of April, A. D.
1872.
Edwin : Atwood, Administrator Of tie estat,
Of ANNA ATWOOD,
late OF Shorehan, in said district, deceased. pre
sents his application in writing to said Court.
stating that said deceased died seized Of certain
real estate in said Shoreham, called the Ward
Farm, containing 10 acres, more or less, og which
Thomas Atwood, husband of the said Anna At
wood, deceased, is tenant by the courtesy; and
that it would b, conducive to the interests Of uli
cOn-ornc'i "a sai estate to sell the sane and put
The ps"cced' at interest for the Use Of tho aid
Ih"n"- Atwo id husband during lis natural life
ahi h' Got licehle ~ ell the same 1t Is there
upon "ti'f,d BY said Court that said application
be CONSIDERED Tor allowance, at a session Of said
Court 70 be held at the Probate Office, in Middle
bury, III the County If Addison, on Thursday. this
I'd day Of May, ls72, at ~ o'clock in tie fore
noon, and it is further ordered that notice heree
be given to all persons interested by publication
three weeks successfully in the Middlebury Reg
liter, newspaper published at Middlebury, pre-
vious to said hearing, that they may appear at
said time and place and show cause, if any thew
may have, why said license should not DO granted
3;3 CuAs. b, COOKE Resistar
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side. X.
The Fish POM. -Starksbor has ont
attraction in the line of a fish pond thai
is worth spending short time in looking
over There are two watts side by side
Is feet by 40 feet, depth some feet, ant
the third vat at one end of the first two
about the same size, perhaps little larg
er. The sides of these watts are built with
stone and mortar, and the bottom cement.
ed so as to be water tight. A board
walk is laid around each vat so that q
person can get good view of the inmates
of these walls. In the first vat the keep.
er said that there were some 500 trout
varying from IL to 2 IL pounds weight
and these were gathered in q space not
exceeding six feet, picking up the feed
thrown to them. 1t was tempting
sight, as the writer is very fond of trout
well cooked, and remembering how many
miles traversed in search Of such dainties
in brooks sparsely settled by these spotted
charmers. In the second vat there were
some over the number in the first vat and
smaller. In the third vat still more than
in either of the others and smaller, max
ing some two thousand in all A few
rods from these watts was what they call
ed the Matching house, small wooden
building standing on the bank of the
brook. Inside this building were two
shallow watts or troughs, some l6 or IS
feet long, 20 inches wide or so, and some
6 inches deep. Coarse gravel after be-
ing washed clean, was spread over the
bottoms of one of these watts, and over the
bottom of portion Of the other. Water
was conducted into one end and it ran
through Here was the place for hatch
ing the spawn.
And it might be inferred that it had
some especial qualities in that direction,
by the countless number of small trout,
averaging about an inch long, that made
the water almost look black by their
countless numbers. They said that there
werc sixty thousand (60,000), and not
having a day to devote to counting and
marking, it was decided as the best way
to accept these figures 1t was indeed
great curiosity to see so many small fish
together
The watts and the building are so near
the head of the spring that no ice gath
ers on the water, either in the watts or in
the Matching house, making it one of the
best localities for such purposes that could
possibly be found And in review of the
whole matter it was found that the hatch
ing house and its thousands of inmates
excited n deep curiosity in the nd,while
those large trout in the watts appealed
strongly to the stomach. Any person
travelling near the place will find a few
minutes well spent in looking the premis-
es over. Burton.