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A RICH SToRY.-A young parson of
the Universalist faith, many years since,
started westward to attend convention
of his brethren in the faith. He took
the precaution to carry phial of cay
enne in his pocket to sprinkle on his
food as preventative of fever and ague.
The convention met, and at dinner tall
Hoosier observed the parson as he sea-
soned his meat, and addressed him thus !:
stranger, I'll thank you for a little
of that ere red salt, for I'm kind o'cu-
rious to try it. .
Certainly" returned the parson, "but
you'll find it very powerful ; be careful
how you use it"
The Hoosier took the proffered phiaI
and feeling himself proof against any
quantity of raw whisky, thought that he
could stand the .red salt" with impu-
nifty and accordingly sprinkled a junk Of
beef rather bountifully with it, and forth.
with introduced it into his capacious
mouth.
1t soon began to take hold, He shut
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A SEA CAPTAIN MEETS Two SEA SER
PENrs.-Captain White Of the Sea Ser
pent, which arrived in New York on Sat-
urday from Hon Kong, China, ninety
nine days out, says:
While on the outward passage from
San Francisco to Newcastle, New South
Wales, on the afternoon of May 5, when
in latitude 20 deg SO min south, longi-
tude l79 deg. 45 min, east, my atten-
tion was attracted to the cries of the
seaman ON the foretopsail yard who ask
ed me to look over the side of the vessel
at the monster On looking over, [
saw large serpent passing within six
feet of the ships quarter. | called the
entire ships crew on deck to witness the
sight. When the serpent was some fif-
teen or twenty feet astern he lifted his
head above the water, and looked around
after the ship with surprise, as though
he had just awakened out OF sound sleep.
As near as 1 could Judge he must have
been at least fifty feet long and two feet
in diamenter. He was of deep brown
color with few black spots. Less than
FIVE minutes afterward another of the
same species passed on the other side of
the ship within fifteen feet of us. 1t
was coiled up and seemed to be sleeping.
1t was about the same size as the other.
The distance from the poop to the water
is eighteen feet. The weather was fine
and all on board saw the sight.
The Captain said that FIVE years ago
he saw serpent when near Juan Fer
nandez, which passed across the stern of
his ship.
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INCIDENTS AT GETTYsBURG.-Are recent
article in the Richmond (Va.) Enquirer
has called forth letter from member
of a Maine regiment, in which he relates
the following, respecting his own expert
ence at Gettysburg:
One poor fellow, about twenty-five
years of age, was shot through the body.
His wants were few" Only a drink
of cool water; 1 am so cold--so cold
Won't you cover me up!" And then
his mind wandered-murmuring some
thing about g Dear mother" +" So glad
tits all over" Then clear sense of
his condition, and would l write to his
father and tell him how he died /; how
he loved them at home. "Tell them
all about it won't you? Fathers name
is Robert Jenkins I belong to the Sew
enth North Carolina Troops-came from
Chatham County. My name is WILL
and tearfully | covered his face.
A little further on my attention was
attracted toward a young man, of Kem-
per's brigade, think. Kneeling down
by his side, looked at his strikingly
handsome face some few moments, when
he unclosed his eyes and looked steadily
into mine with such questioning, hun
CRY look an appeal SO beseeching, so
eloquent and l had not the power to
answer-could only ask where he was
wounded. Don't talk to me, please, -
he said. A moment after he touched his
breast, and [ saw there was but chance
for him. Asking if he was afraid to die
he replied: No; | am glad 1 am
through. Oh | hope this will end the
war-will it 2" | asked him if he was
a christian and | think he told me he
was not a professor, but tried to be
good" when spasm of PAIN agair
closed his eyes. | could not bear tc
leave him, and putting my face close
down to his, he suddenly opened his eyes
i shall never forget their unearthlJ
beauty. and the sweet, trusting expires
sion which overspread his whole face a.
he said to me, with a motion as though
he would throw his arms around my
neck, Il am going home-good by!"
did weep-I couldn't help it. l do no
remember his name-he might not hav,
told me. | only remember that boy
from the Sixteenth Maine carried him t.
the field hospital because they wantet
to, although they, too, saw it was near
ly over
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How HE WAS DETEcTED.-A murder
was committed at Coldwater, Miss. DIR.
Richie, a citizen of neighboring town,
a local paper says, was on little spree,
and the murder at Coldwater being fresh
in his mind, he accused every one he
met, in a jocular way, of being the man
who had committed the murder. Final
ly he met stranger, and being just tip
sy enough not to care whom he accosted
or what he said. he addressed the stran-
ger in the same manner "Yes-you
-you-you are the man that murdered
johnson at Coldwater. A look of guilt
overspread the mans face, and simulta-
neously he ran his hand in his bosom as
if to draw weapon. DIR. Ritchie, OBJ
serving the movement, collared him with
his left hand, and with his right drew
dirk from his pocket, and holding it
threateningly above him, told him if he
attempted to draw weapon he would
plunge that knife to his heart in Sec
ond. He then commanded the man to
withdraw his hand from his bosom, which
command was speedily obeyed, when. in
stead of weapon, the man drew out the
sum of 81, loo which he dropped on the
ground at his feet, and which had been
taken from the dead mans body
Meanwhile crowd had gathered around
the doctor and his prisoner, and the evil
dence of the mans guilt was by this
time so palpable that he was delivered
to the authorities and committed to pris-
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A Georgia colored .lyceum discussed
the question, (Which is the most power
full, paper or gunpowder ?''' The debate
was closed by disputant who spoke as
follows: "Mr President-'spose dar
was bar out dar at de door, and you
was to 60 outand shake de paper at him,
you'd see what de bar would do. But
jess shoot cannon at him and mark de
result. calls for de question" The
president forthwith decided in favor of
powder.
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The church sexton in Reading Penn,
who found and returned to the I.ancas-
ter Bank its stolen bonds, to the value
of Sl29,ooo received from the grateful
and appreciative officers of the bank
the generous reward Of two FIVE dollar
bills.
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GREAT MEN ANDTHEIR WIVES.

ANAA oiiC OdJ VI OOCld dCCo w OndllOo
Dickens there has been one long success
sion OF unfortunate examples. Poet,
and painter, dramatist and novelist,
philosopher and linguist-the Moleres,
the Byrons, the Bulwers, the Durers,
the Scaligers, the Sheridans, the Thack-
erays-will all marry and quarrel in
the future, as in the past. All these
men without exception will in the future
as in the past, blame their wives for
their several successive catastrophes.
And yet what record of heartlessness
and indifference our greatest men have
left of their domestic life. DIR. Frank
lin, that utilitarian kite-hyer, went to
Europe. leaving his wife behind, aud
never saw her face for eleven years. She
had shared his poverty, and practieed
his Poor Richard maxims, pinched and
economical, patched and darned, worked
early and late, bred children, nursed
them through jaundice, red gum, whoop-
ing cough, measles, scarlet fever and
fits, while Benjamin enjoyed the splen-
dor of court, velvet cushions, great
dinners and choice society. Of course.
when he came back, the poor drudge
was no match for the philosopher there
was a great gulf between them. That
her heart rebelled is manifest in the
headstrong acts of her children. He
quarrelled with his sons and disinherit-
ed one of them. Thus the mother was
revenged A just retribution for any
wrong on woman is sure to come, in the
vice and crime of her children, to the
third and fourth generation Henry
Clay thought he could safely leave his
wife at Ashland to bear children and
make butter for the Lexington market,
while he made laws for the nation and
love to the lovely women in Washington.
|
There his heart stood always open as my
boarding house door. but shut against
her who was playing Solomon's wise
woman on farm in kentucky, cutting
out lindsey and jeans for the "nigger. ;
His dream of ambition over, sick and
sad, he went back to Ashland to fine
that the domestic drudge, called by the
holy name of wife, had reared up fol
him family of degenerate and waywarG
children. He was filled with the bitter
ness of disappointment. But they meas
ured the depth of mothers humiliation
The angels of Indifference and retaliation
were but equal. Was it the sorrowfu
mother that made one son crazy will
hopeless love; another a sour, discon
tented man, overcome through life will
a sense of inferiority and jockeys ant
gamblers of the rest? Truly, wisdom
is justified by her children. We do no
gather grapes from thistles nor figs from
thorns. By their fruits ye shall know
them. Great paciicator How coult
ye fathom the cause of our social wrongs
We cannot quench our thirst at swee
and pleasant streams, whose fountain
we have poisoned. He might despis
the wife who ministered to him in carna
things, but just and mighty was her re
venge. Henry Clay is dead; his com
promise measures are scattered to th
; winds; but his misdeeds live after hin
His own Theodore still fingers in tn
asylum at Lexington. There is but on
thing immortal, and that is love.
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A REMARKABLE RING.-Rings have
been found in strange places, and under
interesting circumstances. We find them
upon and below the earth, within the
Pyramids, beneath the ashes of Pompeil
and Herculaneum, and strewn over bat
tie fields. They have been discovered
on the field of Cressy, and they were
found in the Cinerary urns of the Greeks.
Hearts have been won and broken, king
doms bought and sold, destinies sealed
for time and eternity, by the little cir
clets and if the story of every finger
ring ever worn could be told, it would
make marvellous volume on human life.
The strangest place in the world to find
ring is in whales belly. Recently
we heard of ring, now in the possession
of sailor on board the "Almatia, :"
which is undergoing repairs at Burrard
Inlet, that was. found incased in the
blubber of whale captured in the Arc
tic Ocean last summer by one of the nu-
merous whalers visiting that region
The question arises, where did the whale
get the ring? If not from Jonah's fin
ger, was this the fish that swallowed Jo-
nah ? That is another question which
of course, we are unable to answer. At
all events it is a remarkable ring, and
what may be known of it hereafter may
possibly be matter for future histori.
ans. Portland Bulletin.
How He Won HER-Horace F. Clark.
Vanderbilt',s son-in-law and right bow
er, was one of the most eloquent lawyers
in this city. One day, being poor, he
went into Vanderbilt's office, and said
Commodore Vanderbilt, l like your
daughter, and she likes me | want your
consent to my marrying her p "Ah p
said the old man, cynically, 'you want
my money, do you?' Clark turned tow
ard the door, and said, 80, you and
your money be p "Say, young
fellow p shouted Vanderbilt, "come back
here, you can have her p So he marri.
ed the girl. left law, went into Wall
street, and is worth twelve or fifteen
million.
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SERVING WoMEN's WAGEs.-A poor
seamstress was arrested the other day in
Brooklyn, n T., on charge of steal
ing garments which she had taken home
to sew. Upon examination 1t appeared
that she was employed by certain Miss
Pillsbury, of New York City, who paid
her II cents for making four pairs of
pantaloons, so cents for making twelve
pairs of drawers, and 25 cents for max
ing six shirts. She did not finish the
pantaloons as soon as she agreed to, and
the gentle Pillsbury refused to pay her !;
whereupon she pawned the articles to
keep her family from starving. As she
could not have belonged to the Trmma-
ny ring, 1t is probable she went to jail
/ for three months.
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his eyes and his features began to writhe
denoting a very inharmonious condition
physically. Finally he could stand it
no longer. He opened his mouth and
screamed .'6re'
'Take drink cf cold water" said
the parson.
"Will that put it out ?" asked the
martyr, suiting the action to the word.
in a short time the unfortunate man
began to recover, and turning to the par
son. his eyes yet swimming in water,
said:
"a Yarselist, l believe ?"
81 am" mildly answered the parson.
"Wall [ want to know if you think
it consistent with your belief to go about
with hell-fre in your breeches pockets"
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A SAD TRAGEDY.-RowsBURG, ONO,
January %. 1973-Mrs. Critics, wife of
Peter L. Critics, a highly respected citi-
zen of Chester township, Wayne County
Ohio, and former resident of this town
ship, has been crazy quite number of
years, and in order to prevent her from
doing personal violence, it became nee
essary to chain her so that she could not
have the use of her arms. For this pur-
pose a small building was erected near
the main residence, where she was con-
fined at the time of the following terri
bic accident. Her daughter, who was
in the habit of attending to her wants,
was on her way to the building referred
to, to replenish the fire with fuel, when
she saw smoke emerging from the house,
and heard screams from her unfortunate
mother.
Terror-stricken, she rushed to shop
near By, where her father and brother
were at work, and communicated to them
the awful news, upon the reception of
which they rushed frantically to her res.
cue. Mr.. Critics broke in the door, which
was fastened, but the flames burst out
of the door, and drove him back by this
time the whole building was enveloped
in flames, and they found it an utter i'm
possibility to force an entrance into the
burning building, and rescue the unfor-
tunate wife and mother, consequently
they turned their attention to extinguish
ing the flames, which they did not ac.
complish until their unfortunate mother
was burned to crisp. After the flames
were extinguished part of the body was
recovered and prepared for burial
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JEWELERS. SWEEPS.

1t is stated that one of our leading
jewelry manufacturers Alling Bros. g.
Co. |, recently put down new flooring in
their workshop in Newark, and that the
gold they obtained in burning the old
flooring not only paid for the new one,
but for putting two coats of paint on the
entire factory. In another large estab-
lishment Carter, Howkins & Dodd. the
hands all work ON a sort of bracket
standing out from the bench in front of
them, so that the filings of gold may fall
on tin plate below and be returned to
the melting-room. the greatest care is
exercised to prevent waste. The floors,
benches, and seats are carefully swept
every evening, and the sweepings put
away to have the gold removed from
them by chemical process. Every now
and then aprons, benches, stools, and
even flooring, are burnt up to get the
gold out of them, even brushes, clothes,
Gotten, wool, and rags are burned. The
average quantity of gold saved annually
in this way in this factory is said to be
nearly $4,000 worth all the water
in which the five hundred employees
wash their hands is carefully filtered
four times, and the amount of gold re-
covered from it, averages about $1,000
a year. A barrel of sweepings will
fetch $3.50 a pound and even after
they have, as they think, extracted all
the gold from them, they sell the refuse
smelters at eight and even ten cents a
pound. Cs4cular.
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A gentleman seeing an lrishman fenc-
ing very barren and desolate piece of
land, said "What are you fencing that
lot for Pat? flock of sheep would
starve to death on that land" "And
sure your honor, wasn't fencing it in
to keep the poor basis out of it'' re-
piled Pat
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A. G.. ROBINSON,

NEALER IN BOOTS, SHOES, and findings ofthe
" best kind and quality. Offered cheap for cash
IRE over A. & J. L. Twomblys. 2
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4 AAINTER. Painting, Glazing, Graining White
washing and Paper Hanging. All work done in
best style and satisfaction guaranteed. Saws filed
rider
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USEFUL INFORMATION.

To lay off square acre Of ground,
measure 209 feet on each side, and you
will have square acre within an inch.
An acre contains 4,84O square rods.
A square mile contains 64O acres.
MEASURE OF DISTANCE.
A mile is $3.50 feet, or l,76O yards
in length.
A Fathom is six feet.
A league is three miles.
A Sabbath days journey is l,155
yards. This is Is yards less than two
thirds of mile
A days journey is 33 1-2 miles.
A cube is 2 feet
A hand (horse measure) is four in
ches.
A palm is three inches.
A pace is three feet.
BARREL MEASURE.
A barrel of -four weighs 1876 pounds.
A barrel of pork, 200 pounds.
A barrel of rice 600 pounds.
A keg of powder, 25 pounds.
A frkin of butter, 81 pounds.
BUsHEL MEASURE.
The following are sold by weight per
bushel:
Wheat, beans and clover seed, 60
pounds to the bushel.
Corn, rye and fax-seed, 58 pounds.
Buckwheat, 50 pounds.
Barley, As pounds.
Oats, 32 pounds.
VARIOUS WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.
A ton of round timber is 40 feet; Of
square timber, 81 feet.
A commercial bale of cotton is 4OC
pounds.
A packet of wool, is 24O pounds.
A section of Government land is GAG
acres or one mile
A liquor ton is 252 gallons.
A ton of lex l5 l-2 inches and eight
inches deep contains a bushcl.
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TTORNEY AT LAW and Solicitor in Chancery
n viii attend courts in Orleans and Caledonia
ntics Prompt attention given to collections
ccnsboro, VT.
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w. w. EATON,

ETHOLESALE dealer in Flour, Grain, w. |. Goods
wv Groceries, Lime, Plaster, Oil, Fish, Salt, Iron,
ecl Nails Glass, &C., Depot Store, Barton, Vt.
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MISS A. j. CUTLER,
TILLINERY, DRESS MAKING and patternroomis
Barton, Vt
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/. WOODNIAN,

DALE tS ROBINSON,
TFORNEYS aud Counselors at Law, Barton, Vt.
GEO. N DALE. ]. d. ROBINSON
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Aim high; but not SO high as to be
unable to hit anything,
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NJ. j. NHIIII,
|llOPRIETOR of the Orleans County Marble works
Foreign and American Marble, Gravestones'
nnments, &c.
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POISONED BY A LEADEN BULLET.-On
Friday last, Dr. Small was called to at
tend young man named Clarence Alb
bott, who was i'll at his residence. Dr.
Small discovered unmistakable symp-
toms of lead poisoning. 1t appears that
Abbott was wounded in the thigh by a
minnie bullet at the battle of the Will
derness in 1864, and that the bullet
could not be found at the time He has
suffered somewhat ever since. Drs
Small and Gordon ON Saturday morning
etherized the patient, and proceeded to
make surgical examination, which re-
suited in the discovery of the ball in the
thigh. The bullet was incased in bony
substance of about the size of a goose's
egg, the shell of which was one-fourth
of an inch thick. The bullet has been
tumbled about in this cavity for eight
years, and become worn and polished as
smoothly as though it had been done on
an emery wheel Sufficient amount of
the lead, however, had permeated the in
casing and entered the system to produce
lead poisoning. which would have proved
fatal in a short time but for the timely
relief afforded. Portland Me-, Argus.
|
MORE SLEEP.-George M. Beard, NJ
d., writes of "Overtaxing the Brain, .
in the Independent. He says: "The
motto of the overtaxed brain-worker,
should ever be-more sleep. more sleep,
and as much as possible of the folding
of the hands to sleep. By day or by
night, after meals or before, early or late,
in the horse car or on the ferry boat, We
should welcome each desire to doze as
an angel from heaven The habit OF
very early rising, which, under the old
disrensation, before the era of the tele-
graph, steam power, the press, and other
agencies that rob us of our nerve force
was virtue-we. in this year of 1873
should, with all our might, avoid Ear.
ly to bed and late TO rise, makes tht
modern brain -toilcr herlthy and wise.
Only about three thousand feet more
remains to be cut in the Hoosac tunne
to complete its distance through the
mountain. Less than two-thirds of ;
mile.
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MI. i. SMITH,

E.G. STEVENS,
OREGON DENTIST Barton Landing Vt
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Only about three thousand feet more
remains to be cut in the Hoosac tunnel
to complete its distance through the
mountain. Less than two thirds of a
mile.
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MARTIN ABBOTT.
J. Il. DWINELL.

ETHEEL WRIGHT, Carriage Maker and General
NJ Job Worker. Open and Top Bugges, and va
rs STYLES of carriages always on hand. Glover Vt
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]. N. WEBSTER,
FIRED. III. MORSE,

Dealer in Stereoscopes, Views
oval, square, aud rustic Frames of all kinds.
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j. n. WEBSTER,
j RE INSURANCE AGENT,
Barton, Verm mt
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SUBSCRIPTIONS RECEIVED FOR

CGIL Dc E9c0nai7lc the Goods.
Barton, VT, Oct. 20. 1879.
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To beget esteem We must benefit 9TH
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LAKE TIDAL WAvEs.-In brief de.
spatch from Mr.. Mulligan, the operator
at Charlotte, it was announced that
Lake Ontario had thrown another great
wave upon its shores and into the Gene
see River, to the surprise of all who
witnessed the phenomenon. This oc-
currence took place about half-past
eleven A. NJ. The river was closed with
solid ice below the upper docks, and men
and teams were on the ice cutting and
hauling for storage. Without a mo-
ment's warning or indication that any
movement of water was to take place in
the lake, the water began to rise, and the
ice toward the mouth of the harbor be-
gan to rise and crack, as if great waves
were rolling under it, In less than
four minutes, water, ice and all had ris-
en- over three feet and half. Of course
the ice was more or less flooded. The
men employed in gathering ice fled to
the shores lest they be overwhelmed,
like Pharaoh and his host, and did we'll
in reaching the land. One pair of hors-
es less fortunate was lodged in crevice,
and was only extricated with great diff
Guilty. One man who was on the ice, af-
ter reaching the shore, did not feel quite
confident that he was out of danger, and
betook himself to the top of a boat house
that stood upon the shore. This advance
of water receded in short time, and the
lake and river became tranquil.
Some time last year the lake rose sud-
denly both at Charlotte and Oswego,
and all along the south shore. 1t was
not in the time of ice that this occurred.
This phenomenon cannot be accounted
for upon no principle known to those who
observe the effect of the wind upon the
waters. 1t is hours rather than min
utes before heavy gale can cause such
an agitation in the waters of the lake.