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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-12
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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-12

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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-12
The following letter nom Row. D. Pitmln. Of
sw9nton, Is evidence Of the prolccucy Of pr. PsLL


10 bis profession.
SWAyr0y, w.. Jan. o., rs.
Th'sistocorNJ thatin thcpastln,cn years have
had eighteen sets Of teeth made l 0f the lcat-
Ing Dentists Of Sew York aud Vermont. aIIoi WHOM,
some after repeated attempts failed torakc sot tst
would perfectly If. ln l-1l ltt Dr. 4. h. pulI iry,
then student 90 DR. tomc-Ys. boz S. AlDaus. WHO
succeeded az the FIRST effort BOO making MO a com
pletc and perfect hitting set. Dr. flll hns also done
work Tor some 81 my phr.shoncrs. giving perfect
satisfaction. heartily recommend Altu as q Dent. 70,
and az gsHrfman 90 all WHO may need bic services
J. b. plTMAN, Rector % church ol Holy Trinity.
And here Is what Or. =. NJ. ComCgys formerly lo-
Gated az Montpelier, says Of Or. Poll
81. ALnASs, MsrcL 3, la-l
Whoever IN Montpelier, 90 vicinity may employ
DR.. Pell 20 do their Dental work viii hove 10 hoaes
ly and faithfully done. 10 gives me great pleasure
20 say tins In behalfof my friend and former student
l5-tL JOIN N. COME6YS, NJ ID.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1873-03-12

II all the world were blind, said an Irish
clergyman, what a melancholy sight 1t
would be.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
How a Rattlesnake Bites.

A writer in Chambers Journal con-
tradicts popular belief as to the man
ner in which snakes bite and inject their
poison. He says: 81 can only speak
for the rattlesnake, it is true; with
every other venomous reptile the ortho-
dox accounts may be correct, but the
rattlesnake does not send its poison
through its fangs. 1t is always said
that the two fangs, which answer some
what to the human "eye-teeth, are
hollow and perforated at the bottom,
and that the poison flows from the re-
servoir through this canal to the point
Of the fang, and thence into the wound.
The rattlesnake's fang is certainly hol-
low, but the point is solid, and the pois-
on-bag, to use very homely simile,
may be compared in its position TO
gum-boil when the animal strikes the
pressure instantly causes drop of ven
ON to run down outside the tooth into
the puncture.
81 dare say this will be controyerted,
and 1 therefore at once give an authori-
ty to be referred to. Mr.. ". R. Nor
ley, chief surveyor of the North and
South and United States Central rail-
ways, running through Colorado and
New Mexico, is skilled naturalist, who
has killed several hundred of these rep
tiles, has carefully examined them, and
has made them bite when in a position
to watch them, and he can speak from
more experience than almost any living
man, that the poison is injected in the
manner described. This accounts for
the fact that rattlesnake bites are some
times harmless when the sufferer is Bit
ten through cloth; the poison is absorb-
ed by the cloth, and never finds its way
into the flesh at all"
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
The Province of Criticism.

OF mans merit only his own age
has the right to judge. Bnt an age
has the right to Judge of another age.
If Yoltaire has judged the man Cor
nellie, he is absurdly envious. If he has
judged the age of Corneille and the po-
sitiOn of the dramatic art of that time,
he can do 80, and our age has the right
to examine the taste of proceedings ages.
l have never read Voltaire's notes on
Corneille, nor wished to read them,
Notwithstanding that they stared at me
from all the mantel-shelves of Paris
when they appeared; but have hap
pened to open the book two or three
times for detraction, and each time /
have thrown in aside with Indignation
hecauss have stumbled upon gram
matical notes which told me that word
or phrase of Corneille's was not good
French. This has appeared to me as
absurd as though I was told that Cicero
or Virgil, though Italians did not write
in as good Italian as Boccaccio or AriOs-
to. What impertinence Every age
and every country has living language
and all are equally good. Each writes
its own. We do not know what will
happen to the French language whcn
it shall have become lead but it may
be that posterity will write French in
the style OF Montaigne and Corneille,
and not in that of Voltaire. There
would be nothing strange in that. We
write Latin in the style of Plautus, Ter
ence, Lucretius, and not in that of Pru-
dentius, Sidonius, Apollinaris, though,
without question, the Romans were in
tinitely better informed in the fourth
century concerning the sciences, astron-
omy, gerometry, medicine, literature,
ETC., than they were in the times of Ter
ence and Lucretius. 1t is q matter of
taste, and we can foresee nothing about
the tastes of posterity, If indeed we
have a posterity and a universal deluge
does not interfere in the matter. --Ab6e
Gallant,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
THE FIRST VIOLETs.
BY slR K. BuLwER LYrroN.

Who that has loved knows not tender tale,
Which flowers reveal when lips are coy to tel7
Whose youth has paused not, dreaming in the vale
We're the wrath visets uwells
Lo where they shrink along the lonely brake,
Under the lifeless, melancholy tree
Not Yet the cuckoo sings, nor glides the snake,
Nor wild thyme lures the bee.
Yet all their sight aud scent entranced and thrill
All June seems golden in the April skies
How sweet the days we yearn for till fulfilled
distant Paradise!
Dear land to which Desires forever fees
fine doth no Present to the grasp allow;
Say in the fixed eternal shall we sieze
At last the feeting Now!
Dream not Of days to come, Of that unknown
"hither hope wanderS (maZe without 0 cuo:)
Give their true witchery to the fiowers--thiue ow
Youth in their youth renew.
Avaricc remember when the cowslipa gold
Lured and yst lost its glitter in the grasp!
Do thy boards glad thee more than those of old
Those withered in thy clasp.
From I eJe the hands falls palsed-lt was rags
That thou vert rich thy Golfers are lie!
Alas, poor fool Joy il the wealth of men,
And care Their poverty.
Come, foied Ambition! what hast thou desired
Empire and power TO wanderer tempest-tossed
These once were thine, when lifes gay spring in-
spirtd
Thy soul with glories lost.
Let tho flower charm thee to the jocund prime,
When DER the stars rapt fancy traced the chart;
Thou hadst all angels powers in that blest time
Thy realm human heart
Hark! bark again the tread Of hashful feet
Hark the boughs ruftling round the tlystlng
place!
Let air again with one dear breath be sweet,
Earth fair with one dear face
Brief-lycd first flower, first love! the hours steal
on,
To prank the world in summers pomp Of hue;
But what shall faunt beneath fercer sun
Worth what we lose IN you
Oft by q flower, leaf in some loved book
We mark the lines which charm Us most Retrace
Thy life, recall its love lest passage look.
Dead toilets marks the place
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
The Highest Hsroism.

I
hft not that which i iFss even from
the APPRECIATION Of ourfellow,men even
from the appreciation Of Che best and
wisestP The heroism which i known
only TO our Father who seeth IN se0sR
the 0odlike deeds done IN The lonely
chambers the gOdlike lives lived in
obscurity2 pa heroism rare among Us
mea, who live periorce IN the glare and
noise of the outer world more common
among women /; womep of whom the
world never hears who, il the world
discovered them, would only draw the
veil more closely over their faces and
their hearts, and entreat to be leitalone
with God. True, they cannot always
hide. They must not alwsYs hide or
their fellcw-creatures, would lose the
golden lession. But, nevertheless, it IS
OF the essence Of the perfec' and wo-
manly heroism, in which, rs in ail
spiritual forces, woman transcends the
man. that it would hide if \. could.
And it was a pleasant thought to me,
when 1 glanced lately at the golden
leeds of woman in Miss Yoner's book
it was pleasant thought to me, that
could say to myself-Ah yes. These
heroines are known, and their fame f'
through the mouths of men. But ii So,
how many thousands of heroines thele,
must have been, how many thousands
there may be now, of whom we sha !
never know! But still they are there.
They SOW in secret the seed of which
we pluck the flower and eat the fruit;
and know not that we pass the sower
laily in the street--perhaps some hum
BILE, addressed woman, earningpainfully
her own small sustenance. She who
nurses q bedridden mother instead OF
sending her to the work-house. She
who spends her heart and her mony on
a drunken father, reckless brother, or
the orphans of kinsman or friend
She who-but why go on with the long
list of great little heroism, with which
a clergyman at least comes in contact
daily-and it is one of the most emo
bling privileges of clergyman's high
calling that he does come in contact
with them-why go on, I say, save 10
commemorate one more form of great
little heroism--the commonest, and yet
the lest remembered of all-namely, tie
heroism OF an average mother? All
when 1 think of that last broad fact,
gather hope again for poor humanity;
and this dark world looks bright, this
diseased world looks wholesome to me
once more; because whatever else it is
or is not full of, it is at least full of
mothers.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
NUMBER 81.
THE LITTLE rRoCK.

Faded and worn in places,
FAded and worn and old,
Nv tears on II leave their trace,
A. smooth II ont fold upon fold,
For Il beareth q magic power,
The fonnt Of my tears IN unlock,
When think Of the haVpy hour
fashioned that little frook.'
Nv darling at beside me,
With his beautiful eyes agleam,
AMI that was efst denied me
Seemed into nv heart n beam,
As Thought NJ the wondrous mercy,
OF the goodness and the love,
That prompted 'OUr PatherH N aend me
Such an angel down from tbove.
Nv needle hew fast and faster,
Nv thoughts took wing, "a II new,
To the courts Of the bes9ed Mast r,
From whose gates INV baby came through:
And wondered II al Gods angels
Looked a. pure and frAil - be-
II among the shining srchangels
There was any more fair to seee
But there came pale, sad stranger
Unto ny house one day;
NV heart etood still, a. II danger
Aud darkness about me lay.
besonght him that he would leave me,
For his touch was chill and strange,
And he laid his band upon my baby,
Who straghtwSy seemed 10 change.
His pale little cheeks grew whittier,
His bright blue eyes grew dim,
His clasp on my hDger grew lighter,
The victory was 10 him
To that pale and icy monarch,
Who rules with relentless sway,
Who came 10 my home in triumph
And bore my treasure away.
But q greater than He remaineth
Who has broken the ban's Of the tomb
Who hath robbed King Death Of his terrOrs,
And lighted the pathway Of gloom;
Who promised us sweet consolation,
II we patiently how meath his rod,
And know he hath taken my darling
To bloom in the garden Of God.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
Selected Miscellany.
AN ANSWER TO A QUESTION

Do you ever wish In your lonely hour
That you were a man with mans grea. DOW
ers,
That you could hew with hrawny arm,
That you speak with 0raitan's charm,
Ihat you could be in the Nations realm
A CBsar ruling his fellow-men
10 you never long 10 be strong aud great
VT are You osntent with your womAnh fate2
In my darkest moments of deep distress
nave never wished myself more nor less
have lever pined for mans strong Iower
Or implored my God for richer dowfr
lhan the tender heart Uf woman true,
The impulse to wish and the will to do
sweet deeds OF mercy and lovely grace
lhat make sunshine in shady place"
have home, where my charities have fnll play,
10 expand, like rose, in the light Of day;
I've the world, where the poor and the sad
abound,
can pour my balm in the aching wound;
what more have you7 from my platform high
MY woman's weak hands can touch the sky,
Can yours do more7 though You plan aud plot.
MY friend, what are you that am not
Two inches there are in the worlds great wall,
We can All them, and that is all;
Mans statue star Ia with a taller height,
Bnt womans gleams with purer white;
What II her size Ia somewhat low,
What If she make lessee show,
She nils her niche, man fills his, friend
Now, what is the difference in the enp7
thand God that in gracious mood
He gave me the crown Of my womanhood;
That be fenced me in with a woman's state,
Ihat he gave me all of womans fate;
Her tears TO shed and her woes 80 feel
Her heart As trne as the truest steel;
And, If to my feet narro paths are given,
l know that I'll easier reach yon heaven.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29

MoNoroLnsthrives in Memphis. The
old gas company asked an injunction
against the new company, on the ground
that it would be impossible for it to lay
down mains without disturbing those of
'l,e OH company THE Judge granted
the process, restraining the new Organi-
Eation from laying down It's mains until
the question can be decided at law, il
the old company chooses to push il IN
less the new one viii deposit 800, 900
to meet = possible verdict for damages,
Of course it viii not do that, and the
old company remains master Of tine
situatiOn, and can cheat and SwiDdle
and SxtOrt, like any other gas company
with no fear Of competition or restraint
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
KING BABY.

His scepter IL rattle,
His throne is his mother q ArRs
He reigns tiny tyrant,
In all his dimpled charms
Yet round HIS royal presence
0nr loving hearts entwine;
Dictator OF the cradle,
And king by right divine.
Whatever be his mandates,
No Courtiers dare rebel;
His mothers chief Of the household,
Prime minister as well
In yon perambulator,
His downy car Of state;
RXacting, rosy monarch,
What triumphs on him wait
In purple, ease and splendor,
Long, long he seeks TO reign;
all hints Of nose disjoinied,
He smiles at with disdain
Alas that royal greatness
Should ever be disOwned;
Here comes a tiny stranger
King Baby Is dethrowned.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29

THE Boston CongregatiOnGtist says :
1T will doubtless astonish the under
graduates of the American colleges to
learn that their brethen Of Trinity col
lege, Dublin, have been punished for
snow-balling within the college grounds
One offender has been deprived of a
valuable scholarship, another has been
banished for a year, and several have
been severely fined. We suppose that
at Trinity, snow balling is considered
as an infraction Of good morals, to say
nothing of the humanities. Probably
the COnaregatiOnGlist never had the
misfortune to be a student at Yale,
where it costs from 80 cents to 81 to
throw snow ball, according to its range
and accuracy, besides sundry demerit
marks on the faculty score-book, at the
discretion of the officer who Yields the
all-potent pencil.
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
Glazed Promenades.

The almost inexhaustable possibih-
ties of glass in the amelloration of the
winter climate of high latitudes are, as
vet, scarcely dreamed of. How easily
and inexpensively the cold, bleak, wind
swept streets of our nothern cities, in
winter, could be converted into delight
full promenades by enclosing the side
walks of the principle streets with glass
supported in light iron frame work !
These frames would not rise from the
curbstone to the height of the lower
stories of the buildings, with an in
clined roof the width of the sidewalks.
The iron side framework would be so
constructed that the glass, formed, in
large, thick panes, could be easily taken
out in summer and replaced at the ap-
proach of winter. The glass in the
roof would remain permanently, and in
warm weather would be covered with
awnings. The glass roof of the arcades
would be continued over the cross
streets, although the sides would ne
cestarily be opon for the passage OF We
hicles. Where the enclosed open upon
cross streets, there would be several
light doors, so hung as to swing either
way, thus permitting the tide of prom
enaders to flow through without him
drance. There doors could remain
open, except on very cold or stormy
days. 1t would be the duty of the po-
lice to regulate the temperature OF the
arcadet by opening or closing the ven
tilators as occasion required. The
readers can imagine in some degree the
change that would attend promenade
we will say on fremont street, if the
sidewalks of that thoroughfare were en-
closed as has been described. Ladies,
even invalids, could do their shopping
or visiting, or take their needful exercise
during the most inclent weather. 1t
admits of no question that any business
street or block that first has glass arcades
along its sidewalks will attract to itself
trade enough to pay the cost of the
glass and iron enclosures many times
over. 1t nees no very ardent imagina-
ton to conceive the paradise a nothern
city would become in wieter if the side
walks of all its principal streets were
thus enclosed in crystal, The great
annoyances of dust and cold, of wind
and rain, would be reduced almost to a
nullity. Our civilization is hardly
worthy of the name till such consumma-
ton is brought about. Atlantic,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29
THE RUINED TEMPLE.
An AIIegory by the Author Of the SchOn-
berg Gotta Family.

An AHeROry Dy tne AuJhOr OF inc Schon-
berg Gotta Family.
The temple was in ruins, and the
priestess sat, captive in chains, among
its broken and scattered fragments. 1t
had been temple of the most ancient
form, open to the sky, beautiful beyond
any temple upon earth, beautiful and
sacred and some remnants OF its beauty
hung about it still-fragments OF ex-
quisite carvings and broken shafts Of
graceful columns. But everything was
shattered and out of place, the window
tracery shivered in athousand fragments
and strewn on the eground, columns pros
trate, sacred vessels lying rusted among
the weeds, the pure spring which had
gushed from beneath the altar choked
up and dry, and instruments of sacred
music mute and broken on the ground.
On the walls in some places were the
traces of violence, but it was remarka-
BILE that they seemed to have been as
saulted only from within. Indeed, the
temple had been fortress, SO impreg-
nably situated and built that except
from within not one stone could ever
have been displaced.
This was, in fact, the saddest part of
its history. The temple had been
desecrated before it had been ruined,
and in its ruin it was temple still, but,
alas no longer sacred to Him in whose
honor it had been reared. Many sense
less or loathsome idol images were
carved on the walls, strangely contrast
ing, in their shapelessness or detormity,
with the symmetry of every fragment of
the original structure. On the broken
altar in the center stood an image of
the priestess herself. This was the
earliest idol which had entered there,
and with the entrance of this the ruin
had begun. The enemy who had, with
subtle batteries, introduced this idol
had ever since had access to the temple,
and step by step the priestess had sunk
beneath his power. He had led into
wild orgies, in which she herself had
defaced the delicate tracery and torn
down the walls; and when she awoke
from the frenzy and wept, as sometimes
she would, he silenced her tears with
blows or with mocking threats of the
vengeance of Him to whom the temple
had been consecrated, Sometimes,
however, she woke to moments full
consciousness Of the desolation around
her, and then she would wall and la
mept until he seemed to fear some un-
seen friend would hear; and at such
seasons he grew more gentle, and re-
newed the old persuasions and batteries
BY which he had misled her at first
He would even encourage her at times,
when all other methods failed, to try
and collect the scattered stones, and
repair the breaches in the shattered
walls, and restring the broken harp; Tor
for he knew we'll her puny efforts must
fail, and that no hands but those of the
builder could ever restore the ruin she
had wrought. So, after few faint
endeavors, she, as he expected, would
give up in dispair, and sit covering
hOpelessly on the ground afraid Of Him,
whose priestess she was, afraid of her
own voice.
In such better hours he would again
grow bold, and mock her with the men,
Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1873-03-29

News Of the Week.
nrT REST.

OFT WEST.
NJ whole matter Of treating with the
5ls,ip the hands Of Gen. Candy. The
]. nnnission is failure. Everything
~. war. 1t is thought that Jack had
rorsi to got into the country east of the
/ 4 ~. where for hundred Of miles no
LrUuld follow, and il he escapes to the
t,r country he will find plenty of cattle.
p,t sdvices from Yerka report that
|nhs ordered an advance 20 attack the
i, The soldiers are already in tho lava
s,blsrng Captain Jack.
/ / Reynolds, shcriff of Athens county,
reported defaulter in Ave or seven
lxyddollrs. The money is supposed to
ssn used in paying his election Ox-
u
M Illinois House Of Rerresenestatives
dotted, by a vote Of lOS to 4, resolu-
srgsy censuring those Illinois Con-
,,p who voted to increase their salaries
md Of the late term OF Congress.
h New Albany, Indiana, Lon James, ali
Nj on the Louisville. New Albany and
h rslrOad while his brother Matt was
lrest in a magistrates office for shoot
! Lon started out, telling Matt to follow
The city marshall, John Sunderland,
b band on Mats arm and told him not
4 be was under arrest, when Lon struck
Eind in the face and followed up the
With ten or fifteen others, Southerland
BIZ of the best he could and telling
n stop or he would shoot. Souther-
drew revolver and shot James
Hhlt breast, but the wounded man con-
db strike him, knocking him into large
box in the corner. Southerland then
dhs revolver to James head and warned
lgan to quit, but tho warning was un-
II and Switzerland fred, killing him
nt!. Switzerland thon gave himself up,
DO one would make an affidavit against
md be was released.