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Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-21
NOTICE

ITO the Hon. the Probate Court for the Dis
l. trict of Essex and State of Vermont,
Austin +. Davidson, of Stratford, in the Coun-
ty of Coos and State of New Hampshire, adj
ministrator of the estate of Samuel Davidson.
late of said Stratford, deceased, respectfully
represents that the said interstate did in bfs
lifetime. enter into certain contract in writ
ing, bearing date February Sth, 1873. to and
with Martin b. Noyes and Amasa Ward, both
of Colebrook, in said County of Coos, con-
tracing with said Moves and Ward to Sell
and convey TO their certain tract or parcel
of land situated in the town of Lexington,
Essex County, Vermont, viz: Lot number
FOrty-six in the Cd Division of lots in said
town, of the right of Richard Jackson, jr., to-
gether with all the sugaring utensils on said
lot. The price to be $1,000; two hundred dol
lars of said sum to be paid May LIST, 1873, the
balance in yearly payments OF two hundred
dollars each, with interest annually. The
said $500 being paid and notes executed as
aforesaid the said Davidson was to deed by
n deed of warranty, and the said Moves and
Ward to mortgage back, and are not 10 oper-
ate on said lot by taking Off timber and wood
80 rs to lessen the contract price for said lot,
wit ,out first securing said Davidson for the
lllnber or wood to be taken off. Said contract
signed and sealed by said parties, which said
contract was at the decease of said Davidson
and still is unexecuted. Wherefore the said
Administrator prays the said court to grant
unto him. liberty and authority to deed said
land according to the terms of said contract,
agreeably 10 the statute in such case made
and provided,
AUSTIN f. DAVIDSON, Admir-.
Stratford, n. H., May 3lst. 1873.
STATE OF VERMONT,--Ess District, 20.
1T is ORDERED by the Probate Court for the
District aforesaid, that all persons concerned
be notified TO appear before said Court o { a
session thereof. to be held at the Probate OF.
flce in GuildhalI, in said district on the 2lst
day of June, a. D., 1873, To show cause, If any
they may have. why the liberty and authori
| ETY. requested In the foregoing application
should not be granted and that, for that pur
pose the said application, together with this
order, be published In the Essex County II err
aid published ut Guildhall, three weeks sue
| cesSfvely as soon as may be.
WIN. IL. HARTSHORN, Judge.
a true copy of record. Attest.
% WIN. H. uART6HORN, Judge.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1873-06-21
A. W. MORRILL,,
Iron and Brass Founder,

MANUFACTURER OF
All kinds of Machine Castings; Flows, Har
rows, Cultivators Horse Hoes, Arch Mouths
and Crates. Jobbing of all kinds promptly
dispatched.
Lancaster, n. H., April 10, 1872.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11

an experiment. IS reported to have
5etn tried before the Royal teograph-
le.l '2oc'e5y n England % ~hteh me
9rlnclP.c of t48 ci191,a''oh o. 'fse Na,-
er OF the sea was demonstrated, \
trough With plate glass sides, ABOUT
Six teee long aod a loot deep put not
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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11
{ Yernas-,e2. 90 per yea,
} Single topics, 3 Cents

ends and the letter begins. There is,
at all events, an Immense growth Of
this spirit not amongst those who have
the most hardship end suffering, bot
who have the least, amongst those
who have chiefly reaped the advantages
of the new sciences and arts Of easy
life. pleasant tastes, languid hopes and
feeble faiths, The fear is, that if CIV
ilIzation succeeds--and we trast it viii
succced--in raising the mass Of men to
The same level Ct comparatively sat;s.i-
ii material and intellectual wants, there
viii be the same disposition TO sphsidc
into the limited life Of email attainable
enjovmeuts, and to let alone The strug-
g!es for perfect freedom and perfect life
II God. II 1t were true that, with
the beating back OF great physical
wants the deepest hunger Of human
rature IS to be laid to sleep, and l:fe
to ae fritted atay N small enioyments.
10 enc could look upon human destiny
without , sigh, Perhaps 1t may be
thought almost an answer TO this fear
to point out that with the growth Of
the soit-induieent spirit there is very
apt to grow also very strong feeling
Of the wortnlessness Of life-a feeling
that nothing IS worth tbs cost Of Oh
taining It, shat Efe itself IS doubtful
good, that, the spr;as ard elasticity Of
youth onco over, end the sense Of duty
ornr+hnrn1 IN q cc9 of e,,,acr},+;,ra
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11
-.There Is Tie nrofnnndest dancer Q.

There is tie pr0foundost danger of
the collapse Of that highest personal
life, the glory Of which has bees
shown us, before the confusion Of the
hsIf-lights and balf-shadows Of the new
era. Uomplexity of every kind is the
great condition Of the new ife-shades
Of thought too complex to yield up def
inits oniniors--shados Of moral obliga-
ton toe complex to yield Up definite
ax.oms Of dutv-shades Of insight too
various 70 yield up defnite sentences
Of approval or condemnation for the
actions Of others. On all subjects not
strictly scientific, on all those mental
and moral questions which determine
conduct and action. the growing sense
Of conplexity and difficulty is rapid
" producing a relaxing effect upon the
force Of individual character. In some
sense men are blinded by the excess Of
light. The simple old moral Law,
Thou shalt not Kill, ?" Thou shalt not
steal, Thou shalt not commit adui-
terry, "Thou shalt not covet thy
neighbours goods is apt to lose hall
It's meaning before multitudes Of dis
tinction8 which gradually shade OF for
uidden acts into the most pralseWor5hy
and delicate sentiments, and leave you
wondering where the spirit OF the Law
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11
Our Free {lnncl,.

re who is only in good health,
ard is willing to work, has nothing to
fear in this world. - Lessisag.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11

The Oldest Congregational minis
ter ii Vermont, Rev. AamI Nichols,
died Aug. 9th, this year.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11

--Liber&lity consists less in giving
profusely thar in giving judiciously.-
Brayere.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11

The earth, dust Of the universe,
is inspired by the work of The great
God. The world Is bri1aming with
life, every leaf on every tree IS Land
Of pirits.-Jeon Paa!!.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1873-12-11

There Is beautiful legend illus
trotine the blessedness Of performing
oor duty at whatever cost to our own
inclinations. 4 beautiful vision Of our
Savior had appeared to monk, and
n silent bliss he was gazing upon it.
The hour arrived at which be was to
feed the poor Of tie convent. He lin
eorea nos in his cell to enjoy the Wis
ion, but he left to perform his humble
duty When he returned he found the
blessed vision still waiting 1or him, and
ut.aring these words: "Hadst thou
stayed / must have fed. "
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
IS Pain-KiIler."

There can be no necessity, at this late
day, for the press to speak in commenda-
tory terms Of this remarkable medicine,
in order to promote it's sale; for it is a
medicine that is known and appreciated
the wide world through. Whenever we
speak of the Pain Killer, as in the present
instance, we do so in behalf of the aff1ict-
ed as we'll as in the interest Of its pro-
prietors. For various diseases, such as
rheumatism, cholera, cholera-morbus,
burns, bruises, and so on to the end of the
catalogue, it's proprietors claim that there
is no remedy before the people equal to
Davis Vegetable "Pain-Killer," and we
know that thousands upon thousands en-
terrain the same belief. Certainly, we
cannot refer to the history of any medi-
cine Of the kind which has wider repu-
tation than that of the Pain-Killer. 1t
was introduced in 1910, and from that
time to this its sale, both at home and
abroad, has constantly and rapidly in
creased, and the high reputation it has
achieved shows that it has been the
means Of relieving vast amount of
human suffering. We hope the present
! proprietors of Davis Vegetable "Pain-
Killer" will long live to enjoy the pros.
perity which they have so fairly won.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
PHUNNYGRAMS.

"A schoolmaster, on being asked what
was meant by the word ''fortifcation,' -
answered, 1.-TWO twentyfications make a
fertilization" Tr
A newly deyeloped industry is the
manufacture Of nose-pinchers, made after
the pattern of patent clothes-pins, but very
highly finished They are designed for
young people who are keeping company
with each other, and will probably have
quite run through the young onion sea
son.--Danbgry Noacs
Senator Scott, talking to Pennsyl
vania Sunday school, a Sunday or two
ago, asked the scholars why Simon was
kept in prison. One of the teachers quiet
ly prompted a boy to say that it was for a
hostage, and the youth, not quite catching
the words, piped out: ale was detained
for postage" 6r..4w
The bare-footed season opens well
although the boys report a scarcity OF
those desirable two-inch hemlock slivers,
but the engineers of the Boston, Hartford
and Erie Road expect to sink a number
of stakes in this section this summer, so
we hardly think the slivers will be missed
-Dafa6uay Nooos.
Since the discovery of the Bender
murders, there is not a Chicago drummer
who travels who has not been in the ha hit
ofdining at the Bender mansion frequent
ly. The reason they escape,, is, that when
the fatal hammer tap descended on their
heads it was like Draining sponge or
India rubber ball-S LOUIS democrat.
The man who lives just back of us,
Chubb, has yellow tom-cat whose intel
ligence Is almost human Chubb's cat
possesses a voice like Tuscarora Indian,
and when it gets out into the yard on a
moonlight night and meets a cat with
different political views, and reasons with
it and INDUCES in animated conversation,
and lifts out handfuls of fur, you can hear
the debate for mile and half. Chubb
used to be much annoyed by the continual
disturbance, and he would disperse the
meeting with bullets and other projectiles.
But at last he noticed that his remon-
strances had no effect The more soap
cups and boots he fired into the yard the
louder his yellow tom-cat would screech;
and when he would bang away with his
gun, the Cat would send out wild, un-
earthly yowl which would wake people
within fifteen squares, and set eight or
ten thousand dogs to barking. 1t seemed
so queer to Chubb that his cat always re-
fused to move on when hit, that he de-
termined one night to watch it. Just at
dusk he observed that cat drag about
twelve inches Of old stove-pipe out from
under bush and crawl into it. Then the
cat inserted its legs through four holes
that had been punched in the iron, and
with its head projecting through the end,
and its body clad in armor, it winked at
Chubb, and rambled off to attend the
mass-meeting. Chubb says now that he
wouldn't take thousand dollars for that
cat; but if we do not tunnel under Chubb's
yard some night and blow his tom-cat
into eternity with a submarine torpedo,
it will be very singular. We admire in
genuity, but vociferous tom-cat makes
us unhappy
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

DR.. j. Walkers California VIM
egar BitterS are a purely Vegetable
preparation, made chiefly from the ma
tive herbs found on the lower ranges OF
the Sierra Nevada mountains of Califor-
MIA, the medicinal properties of which
are extracted thereflom without the use
of Alcohol The question is almost
daily asked, "What is the cause of the
unparalleled success of VINEGAR BIT
TERsW Our answer is, that they remove
the cause of disease, and the patient re-
covers his health. They are the great
blood purifier and a life giving principle,
a perfect Renovation and nvigorator
of the system. Never before in the
history of the world has medicine been
compounded possessing the remarkable
qualities of VINEGAR BITTERs in healing the
sick of every disease man is heir to. They
are a gentle Purgative as well as Tonic,
relieving Congestion OF Inflammation OF
the Liver and Visceral Organs, in Bilious
Diseases.
The properties Of DR.. WALKERS
VINEGAR BITTERs are Aperient, Diaphoretic,
Carninative, Nutritious, Laxative, Diuretic,
Sedative, Counter Irritant, Sudorifc, Altera-
tive, and Ambitious.
r.. III. MCDONALD a. CO..
Druggists and Gen. CTS. San Francisco. California
and cor. OF Washington and Charlton SITS. N. Y.
Sold by all Drugg lists and Dea lers.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

CONsUMPTION.-For the cure of this dis
tressing disease there has been no medicine
yet discovered that can show more evidence of
real merit than Aliens Lung Balsam. This
unequaled expectorant for curing consump-
ton, and all diseases leading to it, such as
affections OF the throat, lungs, and all dis
eases of the pulmonary organs, is introduced
to the suffering public after its merits for the
cure of such diseases have been fully tested
by the medical faculty. The Balsam is, con-
sequently, recommended by physicians who
have become acquainted with its great sue
cess. sMs
JUST TAKEN HIS BITTERs.-We heard seedy--
looking individual with an alarmingly red
nose remark to a brother soaker that he had
''just had his bitters, but he did not mind TAX
ing another nip' His remark suggested
train of reflection. How was it, we asked our
selves, that the word ''btters' had grown to
be synonym for gin whisky, rum, and other
alcoholic stimulants, to which it was applied
Unfortunately. Bitters, we reasoned, sug-
gested the idea of healthful tonic, not of
poisonous stimulant; something invigorating
to the system, not an alcoholic irritant full of
fusel Oil, producing present intoxication and
ultimate insanity, idiocy, or premature death.
Moreover, our idea of bitters was totally ire
concilable with "gin cocktails" ''rum
punches" and "brandy smashes," which, we
are Informed, are sweetened with sugar, and
rendered doubly injurious with essences col
ored by means of mineral poison. This was
bitter-sweet with. vengeance. We mentioned
this problem to a friend. He solved it by ex-
claiming: why, don't you know that most
of these bitters advertised as remedies are only
drains in disguise? Topers know it, if you do
not | must make one exception, however,"
he added, "and that's DIR. WALKERS CALI
FORNIA VINEGAR BITTERS; there isn't parti-
Gle of alcohol or fermented liquor in it, and
it is the best vegetable tonic and Alternative in
America
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
Plant a Few for Seed.

THE man who makes specially of any
kind of grain or plant and cultivates it ex-
tensively can undoubtedly produce the
same more cheaply and perhaps OF bet
ter quality than one who does not. But
there are circumstances which should be
taken into consideration besides quality
and price; for sometimes the convenience
of having thing at hand when 1t is want
ed is of more value to the farmer than SUI
perior quality or cheapness. We are not
of that class who sigh for the good old
days Of homespun cloth that was good
enough for anybody, because the best of
wives and daughters made it: still it can
not be denied that the tendency of the
present generation is toward the opposite
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

method of enlisting all things into the SER
vice of the school must depend on the
conditions of each particular case, viewed
with reference to the threetold aim OF
schooling, primarily, the awakening OF
sympathy between teacher and taught;
mainly, the cultivation of habits of critical
| observation and Independent thinking
incidentally, the acquisition of knowledge.
| Mention has been made of mud-dams
n teacher in the country need be told
how absorbing such limitations of mems
work are to boys. Wherever water flows
in manageable quantity, boys take to dam
building in spring as instinctively as
beavers. In the intensity of their enjoy
ment they forget their lessons, wet their
feet, and soil their clothes continually, and
usually get more seedlings than compli.
ments for their achievements.
What splendid opportunities for cult.
waiting sympathy between teachers and
taught are thus thrown away! What un-
equalled occasion for giving instruction
Instead of treating the boys labors with
Indifference, or worse, opposing them as
obstructives to education, suppose this
year you make them the occasion of an
unexpected talk or two about dams and
water lowers; and if possible add little
practical instruction in regard to the mat
ter, by aiding the boys to design and build
miniature structures, in imitation of the
different sorts of dams made by men. By
so doing you will rot only help them with
their sports, and thus gain an influence
over them not otherwise to be attained,
but you will help to furnish them with
useful information and practical skill that
NAV prove immensely valuable to them at
some critical period in their after lives.
So, too, with the attendant water-whee1s.
By-and-by you will be trying to teach
them, from some work on natural phlloso-
ply, the nature of water-power, and the
simpler means of making use Of it. How
much more successful you might be now
when they are keenly interested in the
subject. With jack-knife and few
shingles you can easily make in an after
noon set of small models of the different
sorts of understood, overshOt, breast-wheels,
and SO on; then set the more intelligent
boys to making larger ones and putting
them to work under appropriate condi-
tons. 1t won't be long before the smallest
boy in your school has an intelligent com
prehension of all Of them-a better idea
than you could give with any amount of
textbook teaching. Be assured that in
struction of this sort will not be wasted,
and that the sympathy awakened between
you and your pupils will not tend to make
them less attentive to your teaching in
other matters.
These are merely hints of a hundred
different means that might be adopted for
making the usual distractions of school
life not only subjects for instruction, but
tributaries to school work, and ties for
binding teachers and pupils together iii
sympathetic friendship.-CAristtan Union.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
Summer Dangers.

The summer sunshine that clothes the earth with
luxurant vegetation evaporates vast amount OF
crude, unwholesome moisture from its surface,
which, mngling with the air in the form of me-
phitic gases, produces variety of febrile and
other diseases. The body being debilitated by the
warmth of the season, and the pores being wide
open, gaping as it were for the seeds of sickness
any infectious principle that may exist in the at
mosphere is readily received into the syslem, when
it bears baneful fruit in the shape of malarious
fever bousness, diarrhea, dysentery, collie, sick
ness at the stomach, headache, or nervous pros
tration. In order to prevent these yisitaons, put
the system in condition to resist all morbid in
fluences. Brace the inner with HOstetter's
Stomach Bitters, the purest invigorant and the
most invincbe antagonist of all causes of disease
whether present in the air we breathe, the water
we drink. or connected with our mama of life or
the nature of our pursuits that science has yet
given to the world The experience of twenty five
years has Taught observant people that this I'M
exceptional and agreeable tonic and Alternative
possesses preventive and remedial virtues that are
shared by no other medicine of the present age
1t has taught them also that while it is is infinitely
more efficient than any of the poisonous alkalolds
prescribed tonics, it is absolutely and entirely
harmless.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
"A STONY Hill mother fOndly believed

"A Stony Hill mother fondly believed
her eldest from town could carve piece
of roast beef at dinner, and directed him
to do SO, just to show the company how
nature had endowed him. So he took
hold with VIM and inside of thirty five
seconds had the piece across the table and
into the laps of two elderly ladies from
Sherman, and, besides breaking four dol
lars worth Of crockery, had scalded both
of his fathers legs with the gravy until
the skin peeled off-Dan5ury Neus.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

WE see by the Chicago papers that Proctor
q GAMBLE have reduced the price Of their
long established and popular brand, NOTIFIED
GERMAN SOAP. It's present price and supe-
rior quality makes it the cheapest as well as
the best SOAP for consumers
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25
A REMARKABLE PROGRESS.
[FrOaa the Hartford Daily Times. ]


We have already alluded to the prosperous condi-
ton of the Phoenix Life Insurance Company, located
in this city, of which Edison Fessenden is the Presi
dent and James F. Burns Secretary. more careful
investigation of its last annual statement, just pub
lished warrants in submitting to the readers of
the Times further remarks upon it's rapid pro-
to popular favor and it's remarkably prosperous
condition at the present time
Let us compare its condition ten years ago with
what Is at the present time In the years 1862 and
1868 it issued 1717 policies it's income $12567
dividends, 81, 24 losses by DEATH $5S, 600 assets,
$437 1888. Here was the business of two years
In 1872 it issued 1887 policies it's income was
49, 413, 75245 dividends $685. II losses by death,
1881 1862 net assets, SIS, 209, 1895. or.
This increase of business and assets in the short
period of ten years worthy of special notice. An
income in 1872 of $3500O00 against 1925 Str in
1862 and 1868; it is thirty to one. Over ten
thousand policies last year against seventeen hun
dred in two years. only ten years ago. It's assets
amount to over eight millions now; then less than
half million-more than sixteen to one. This won
derful increase is not the result of single jump 1t
comes of regular yearly advances; showing the
solidity and permanency of this signal prosperity
For instance the net assets of the company at the
opening of the year 1872 amounted to $75064C5: at
the commencement of 1878 they IS, 20 0-an
increase during the year 1872 of $69S .02.
The Phoenix has SO 900 policies in force,
ing S71 ,910,267 Valued by the New York standard
these policies worth $6T611T, and other liabili
ties carry its obligations up to $1,000 4935 Deduct
ing this from its assets and the company has
surplus of 81, 199, S31. So
The officers lay these facts before the public with
the assurance that they cannot be equaed in COM
parative strength by the statement Of any company
in New England if, indeed, by any in the country
though few others have larger aggregate of assets
No company in this city equaled last year in the
number of policies issued Only one come within
1900 of it, and the others from 5000 to 5000 be-
low it.
In this sterling condition of its finances, in its great
and increasing prosperity and in the firm hold IL has
upon public confidence, the Phoenix may, with due
degree of pride and satisfaction publish the details
| of its business and it's solid condition.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

FoR BLoTcHEs, PndPLEs, letter, Salt Rheunl,
and all Skin Diseases, Jayne's Alternative is sure
remedy 1t purifes the blood and removes all OBJ
structions in the pores of the skin.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

TRY Dooley's Yeast Powder, you will soon
find it not only the best, but also the cheapest,
Baking Powder. Put up full, net weight.
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1873-06-25

MALARIA, or bad air. is the cause Of every form O
Fever and Ague. Shallenberger's Pills are an anti
dote to this poison, and cure instantly.