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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-12-12
The OLD-FAsHIoNED ALMANAc.-There

THE OLD-FAsHIoNED ALMANAC.-There
are very few men who do net remember
or cannot recall tFe importance the almanac
enjoyed in his boyhood's home. Iremem-
Der II used to hang by a string TO the kitch.
en- wall and the member of the family who
took it down for reference. was required to
hang ii up again when through with it.
1t was generally a medical almanac, with
a yellow cover-and very bright looking
one it was that winter; but By the next
winter the corners Of the cover were rolled
up, or gone, and there were conveniences
for telling pretty accurately how many
flies had enjoyed its retirement.
Over the leaf was a picture of a man
clothed in the fantastic garb of South Sea
Islander, with trap door in his abdomen,
and oockroaches and scales and other appl-
ances of the grocery business around him.
Then there was the calendar, where the
weather was handled, and were drunken
looking moons, and improbable suns and
highly impossible tides were made TO 90
through performances that were intensely
edifying 10 the family.
Interspersed were dramatically con-
strucled letters from ungrammatlcal people
located in unheard of towns in the distant
West, who had been raised from the grave
by pills, or drawn from eternity by plas-
tiers, and having been restored to perfect
health, and having NJ further need of
either, send on for another ton of both.
Also Endorsements from well-known ply
sicians in unknown localities, the whole
set oil with recipes for making pudding
that no ono should eat. and cake that no
one would dare TO. And when recipe for
either was hedged In by details Of ever
sore on one side, and tho graphic particu-
lars OF hemorrhace on tn olhe the SYM
metry If the hole was undeniab e.-Dan-
bury Neiss Mans Almanac.
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P0etry.
I,vCO.uP.fTIBILfTr.
M Mrs. N. y. BUTTS.

ny Mrs. N. Y. BUTTS.
(,fother.in.Ldp Loquiiur;)
am not Of much count as a taikor,
And never was such from my youth;
But It seems to me honor is honor,
And II seems to me truth is the truth.
do not know sight about doctrine,
And perhaps have not overmuch wit:
But guess that backbone is elected,
And that saints need good deal OF grit.
It not would go back upon churches,
For whoever does that Is fool
There is no one a match for old Satan
Till he Is gone to his Master to school;
But religion Amt always in meetin'.
And II amt in the lengthiest prayer
Though they both have their own proper places,
As a sort Of beginners first stair
And religion amt sngn' and music,
Nor II amt IN a smile and sigh:
1t g an out-an'out follerin' ordere,
lift takes right hand or an eye.
But at FIRST there is somethin' to settle;
am never for goin 1t blind;
Just be sartiu' who Is givin' the order,
And be sure, after that, that you mind.
You are not quite contented and happy,
And your Snsan don't do as she might;
You we fear you we been somewhat mistaken,
And some things have dinerentlight
From such as appeared when you married.
You were only an ignorant YOUTH
So It may be; but honor's still honor,
And truth will be always the truth!
And the same are the rocky foundation
Where mans work should ever abide.
But supposin' you turn from poor Susan,
With look at your own weaker side.
Can you say that you haven't been selfish,
And a little mite overbcarin'-ish too,
Like the whole precious world was a-turnin'
Most especially daily for you?
Can you say you've been true to your promise,
In the love and the fear Of your God7
If you have, why, it's so much the better;
And If not, you're deser,in' the rod!
You may need a more perfect companion
Which IL amt for another to say;
But your need of loftier manhood
Is thing could swear to today!
You've q need, too, to master the meanin'
OF a Faith and a Duty that's true;
If you'd only be smarter in that much,
You would get along better with Sue.
And you need 10 have more Of the patience
That the strong should display to the weak;
And it wouldn't be harmful morsel
II you'd learn what it is to be meek.
Oh, I know that in church you're a member,
And are, mebbe, as good as the main;
Yet think you might possibly bear /.
We're you born. in the spirit, again.
Never worry al what can't be mended;
At the waste of your brain and your heart;
When you're really too good for my Susan,
Trust the Lord to remove you apart.
And the while that you're thus CROWN over,
And becomin' the worthier man,
She will do just as well at your ireside
AS a mere mortal parsonage can;
Aud, at last. when yourself you have conquered,
And are ut for your ideal life,
Then the Master will sec, in his justice,
Iha. you have true mate in your wife.
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nth some effort 10 keep the agricultural
community informed of the action conse-
quent upon the congress, in whose delioer-
ations we see the dawn ola better day for
the trees and the birds, those two fhthiul
and useful friends of the American farmer,
which he has too long disregarded.
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"lregsrd Mr.. Eddy one OF the most capable an d
successful practitioners with whom have had ofcia
ntercourse.-CHARLkS MASON, Commissioner CT
Patents
81 have no hesitation in assuring nveuto
cannot employ man more coBptfsnf ana ruStUoi :
thy, aud more capable of putting their Rpplcsti, in
form to for them early and favorable
liberation AT the Patent Ofice.-EDMI ND BURKE
ate Commissions of Patonts.n
''Mr. II, II. EDDY has made for me over THIRTY APP
pications for Patents having been succestfu lin aim
every case Such unmstakahle proof Of great tale
and ability on his part, Leads me 10 rec mn ord ALL
inventors TO apply to him to procure then psentf as
they may be sure of having the most faithf
bestowed on their cases. and at very reasonable
charges. TAGGART."
Boston, Jan. ! ls73.-lyI
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AMERICAN AND FOREIGN PATENTS.
n n rOnU SOLICITOR OF PATENTS FOR
X N FHIIv INVENTIONS, TRADE MARKS,
Ill III Lulu II OR DESIGNS.
No. estate Street, opposite Knby Street, Boston,

No, &c State Street, opposite Kilby Street Boston,
4 FTER an extensive practice Of upMarGt Ct thirty
"A years, continues to secure Iatsutt the Jnit
states; alsoin Great Britain franc, 9th fore
Countries Caveats, Specifications, Assign Its, al
all papers for Patents executed ou ItAstI al Il TENS,
with dispatch. Researches made to detei niue Il 0
validity and utility OF Patents Invent, and legl
and other advice rendered in all matters touchl the
iame. Copies of the claims Of any patent furnished
by RENTING one dollar. Assignments recorded in
Washington,
No isency in fhs United States possesses superior
facilities for obtaining Patents aIeertaining the
DattntGhiiify Of ihueRfioRS.
All necessity of journey to Washington tc procure
Patent, and the usual great delay there, are here
saved inv entuTs.
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~ PER CENT, LoANs.-we can loan money for
~ any party desiring To do so, al ten per cent
interest payable semi-annuay. We offer as security
Trust Deeds of Real Estate Ia the city of Chicago or
Farming Lands in Northern Illinois, worth three
times the face Of the loan We permitted 10 refer
to ]. W. FROST ard n. 7, CABOT Brattletofo, Vt f,
through whom, IL desired, parties may traumit
funds after having become fully satisfied with the
security offered.
BENNETT 4 TABOR,
9l-6m l5i Monroe ST., Chicago, Ills.
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CONSTITUTIONAL
C9GaTThR Smed

IA Ia AGSonedys
To Mrssls LIrrLrFIELD & Co, rroprictors Of Con-
sttuuonal Catarrh Remeoy Manchester, Nh:
reside N Manchester, y H., and previously resided
at Hennktf, and am native Of MtaGc, this State. l
have had Catarrh twenty-five years, since was
~ years old had 1t bad all the time. II run al that
period, AID nights il would h up and drop down in
my throat, causing feeling If choking, that
would spring up in bed to myself from straugu-
lAtiun. 1t affected my head that fe,t confused
and was troubled with severe headache at intervals
for a week at a time also had bad pains in shout.
ders, back and kidneys, from which l suffered i'm
mensely. So Lad we've they that year ago last
mer was Obliged to lie in bed muet of the time for
three months have tried all kinds Of snufr and
catarrh remedies with no particular benefit and
suited physicians had hacking cough. ] began to
take the constitutional Catarrh Remedy last August
began to grow better before finishing the first bot
tle am new on the third bottle. My Ca arrh is
cured my health is restored. have no pairs aches
or cough. My whole system is made over /
know it is this medicine that has rescued me from in
tense suffering and almost the grave. AN now ase
the hardest work and bear the greatest exposure
and +, q that canuo: say too much in favor Of the
Constitutions! CaarIh Remedy, .
Manchester y H, Feb l, ISL
am 50 years cid, have had Catarrh ever since was
eighteen years DID, and headache ali the time; have
suffered beyond description with running at the nose
drorpings in the throat chokings ana stranglings.
Hive tried any quantity OF Catarrh Remedies, but
have found no relief till tried your Constitutional
Cltarrh Remedy, six months ago, found immediate
relief.
Catarrh and all its attendant evils have left Head
ache pains in lons and back dizzint loss Of appe
tite and general weakness Less than three bottles
# Constitutional Catarrh Remedy have cured me. /
have not been 50 well since can remCml er now
feel if could not say too much for the medicine,
IT thank God too heartily that through its rstrumen-
tality have been restored to health.
MARY NJ. ABBOTT,
No II Manchester Corporation.
Manchester, II, Jan y, 1872
The above lady is my mother. l a painter by
trade, and am a member Of the city Council u Man
chester. Every word that my mother states is tue
JACOB J. ABBOTT.
Hundreds Of Of a similar nature cured within
he last year. Suufs and Lotions yrc only temporary
relief. The CONST. IUTIONAL CATAhNH RENE.
OK strikes at the root, builds up the c. Institution
makes il new, and drives away Caiarrh and all dis
Of the mucous membranes aud their attendant
paius and aches pertaining to head back shout lers
Kidneys aud throat.
Price 81 per Botte-sold by all Druggists. Pam
nhlo Of 80 pages giving Treatise on Catarrh, aud
containing unumeIa able Of cures sent FREE, by
addressing the proprietors,
LITTLEFIELD CO.,
Sm4G MANCHE TER, y, II.
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.FORTY-FIRST YEAR.

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garding
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These spectaccsarc manufactured from MINUTE
CRYSTAL PEBBLhS' melted together. and ar,
called DIAMOND on account Of their hardness and
brilliancy.
1t is well known that speotaoles cut from Brazilian
or Scotch pebbles very Injurious TO the eye, be-
cause Of their puariziug light.
Having been tested with the polariscope. the dis-
mond lenses have been found to admit fifteen per
cent less heated rays than any other pebble.
They ground with great scientific accuracy, are
free from chromac alterations, and produce bright
aud dstinctness Of vision not toore attained in
'pectaces.
Manufactured by The Spencer Optical Manufacture
ing Company, New York For sale by responsible
lgents in every city in the Union. THOMPSON Il RAN.
FER, jewelers. and Opticians, are Sole Agents for
Drattleboro, VT, from whom they only be obtain
cd. No peddlers Employed. Do not buy pair une',
you see the trade mark, -. Il
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CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD.
,s5sss,,5s7s57-7 SU NJ Ter
lsz-ka: ARRANG EAiENT.

TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
LEAVE BRATTLEBoRo at 4:2O and s:42a. m. at 100
and $3.50 y. m.
MAIL TRAIS.-Leave Ogdensburg at 800 p. M, ST.
Adams at $500 a. m, Brattletoro at 3 $50 y. m.-
connecting at New London with steamer for New
York
MONT ExpREss.-Leave Ogdensburg at 1898 p m. +,
Montreal at 3:4J p. M, st. kltans at 7:20 p. m,
brattlebpro at go d.m.-arriying at New London
at II SIS m.
MIXED TRAIN. Leave White Riyer junction at $50
a. m.i Rutland at 80 a M, Brat lebUro at 8:42
a. m arriving at New London at 5:15 D. m.
ExPhEss THAtN.-Loaye Erattlel orc at 2:OO D. Ill.,
reaching Miller's Falls at 2 :50p.m
GOING NORTH
LEAVE DRATTLEBoRo at 1c 80 a. m 1855 D. tn 10 20
p. m.
MAIL TRAtN.-Leave New London at 800 A. M. Brat
tleboro at 1886 a. m, Tor White River Junction
Rutland, Burlington, st. Adams, Montreal and
Ogdensbutg
EXPRESS TRAIN Leave Miller's Falls at ;2oa. M.
arriving at Bratteboro at 1920 p m.
AccoMMODATtON TRATS.--leavc New London al $40
a. m, BrattobOr at 4 :55 p. M, for White River
Junction and Rutland
NIGHT ExrnEss Leave New London at 245 D. M,
Brattleboro at l0:2C pm for white River junction,
Nuiland, burlington, st. Adams, Montreal and
Ogdensburg.
Pullman's Drawing Room and Steering Cars are run
on night trains between Springfield and Montreal
e, ,,,- -. j. HOBART, Gen Sup't.
81 Adams, W., Sept 20, 1873 soft
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TYlER'S BLOCK, YEAR TIE BRIDGE
CATARRH!
A Woman Having Catarrh 81
Years, Cured.

And DroppinJs in Throat, Chokings, Stran-
giiags. IdinS IN the SIDE, LoiaS, Head
ache. Dizziness and General Weakness,
cured ~ less than Three Bottles Of The
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POWERS INSTITUTE.

NlNTER Term will begin Dec /. Board or fur.
est terms.
The village is quiet and free from temptations to
wee. instruction thorough. Pupils will here find
superior advantages for preraraten for college, for
teaching, for business and for music.
A j. SANBORN, A M, Principal.
Bernardston, Mass, Oct 90, 1873. sm90
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And IN, copy to the ge.ter up of a club Of ten.
~ All orders must be acco mpapied by the money
All papers discontinued pr impy at the expiration
OF the time for which pay ment has been made.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-17
A15rr FOR I1FE-It is certainly an Ak

A LIFE FOR A LIFE.-It is certainly an axi.
ON that, until the millennium is reached and
there is no guilt at all in the world, crime car
only be prevented by the fear of punishment
and just in the degree that retribution follows
swift and impartially upon the heels of crime
does the world more nearly approximate to
that blissfu state. 1t may be regarded as
another axiom that the punishment must be
commensurate with the crime, and upon this
basis are all the criminal laws of the civilized
world founded. And as wilful and deliberate
murder is the highest crime of which the law
takes cognizance, so must the severest penalties
of the law be visited upon that most grievous
offense. Death is the severest penalty which
the law may enforce, and death has, and we
think properly, been adiudged as the proper
punishment for calculated and malicious MUIR
der.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-17

EARTH AS A DIsINFEcrANT.-The value
of earth as disinfectant and deodorizer is well
known; and the treatment of liberated sores
and gangrenous wounds with it is becoming
very general. A new application of this sys.
tenn has lately been described, namely, the use
of clay as dressing for the face in two cases
of continent small pox-dusting it, in fine
powder, over the faces of the patients as the
pustues become fairly developed. This, it is
stated, formed clear, dry, wholesome scalp,
absorbing the infectious material, scaling of
during convalescense, and leaving the under
living skin in its natural and normal state.
The painful and persistent itching which is
we'll known as one of the worst characteristics
of the disease was by this means entirely abated.
The earth used was fine pipe clay.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-04-17
BEAUTIFUL RErRospEcr.-when

A BEAUTIFUL RETRospEcr.-When the
summer day of youth is slowly wasting away
into the nightfall of age, and the shadows of
the past year grow deeper and deeper as life
wears to close, it is pleasant to look back
through the vistas of time upon the joys and
sorrows of early years. If we have home to
shelter, or hearts to rejoice with us, and friends
who have been gathering around our fireside,
then the rough places of our wayfaring will be
worn and smoothed away in the twilight of life,
while the bright sunny spots we have passed
through will grow brighter and more beautiful.
Happy indeed, are those whose intercourse with
the world y has not changed the course of their
holier feeling, or broken those musical chords
of the heart whose vibrations are so melodious,
so tender and so touching in the evening of
age
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POSTAL CARDs-As stated few days since,
100000 of the new postal cards authorized
by Congress will be delivered to the postmaster
general for issue by the Morgan Envelope
Company of Springfield, Massachusetts,, on the
lst proximo. II has been stated that there
will be two kinds of cards-one ruled, and the
other without lines-but such is not the case.
There will be but one kind of card, and that
will be of a cream color, FIVE and 0ne-eighth
inches in length and three inches in width.
One side of the card 1.-THE one intended for the
message) is entirely plain, and the other bears
an ornamental scroll-work border, one.eighth
of an inch in width In the right hand upper
corner is q picture of the Goddess OF. Liberty,
surrounded with scroll.work border, in which
are the words: "U. S. postage-one cent" In
the left upper corner, and extending two-t thirds
across the card, are the words, in velyet-brown
letters Omitted States Postal Care" and be-
low, in smaller letters: "Write the address
only on this side--the message on the other"
Beneath this, and to the left, is the word TO-
in scrip. followed by line across the card, for
the name of the party addressed. Below this
are two other lines-one being for the name of
the postofice, and the other for the county and
State. Although it is not expected that any
one will put more than the address on one side,
there is no prohibition against filling both sides
with writing, provided the address remains leg
ible; nor is it contrary to law to place printing
on the card instead of writing. The cards will
be distributed to postmasters throughout the
country on requisition, the same as other sup
plies, and will be sold at one cent each. The
question has frequently been asked whether
plain card, bearing one cent stamp. will not
be allowed to pass through the mails the same
as the government cards but the law prevents
the use or the transmission of any but official
cards.
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CULTIVATION OF SHAD IN THE SAVANNAH
RIvER.-It will be remembered that Congress
has made an appropriation to aid in the dis
semination and propagation of various species
of fish in different rivers throughout the coun-
try-both North and South. The immediate
oversight and general superintendent of this
important work has, We believe, been conhded
to Mr.. Seth Green, the famous fish breeder,
whose comprehensive knowledge of the value,
habits and peeuliarities Of the scaly tribe
peculiarly fit him for the undertaking. He
has already engineered the stocking of NUM-
ber of Northern streams with varied and deli
cious fish, through his own and the efforts of
COMPETENT and intelligent gentlemen, versed in
IN carrying out the purpose designed-the
multiplied production of this wholesome and
delicious diet to such extent as to place it
within the reach of the masses of the people.
In promotion of this object, we understand
that gentleman is now in Augusta, with the
special purpose of visiting our shad fisheries
in the neighborhood, with view to institute
the operation of process by which the annu-
ally decreasing natural product of this delicious
fish in the Savannah River will be arrested by
artificial means He yesterday visited the
fishery of Mr.. Jackson Powell, at Sand Bar
Ferry, in company with that gentleman, in
order to make preliminary examination. Of
the details of the proposed process we are not
familiar, but understand that the leading fea-
ture is to make Immediately productive the
eggs of the fish when caught, By which, in a
brief space of time, millions may be Matched,
which are annually lost to the natural product
returning the next season in swarms of fine
fat, fully developed shad, to reward the labors
of the fisherman and delight the appetites Of
the masses with the most wholesome and cheap
food.
We have neither time nor information tc
pursue the subject further, at present, but trust
that practical benefit will result from the visit
and Investigations Of the gentleman now visit
ing us-Augusta Chronicle and Sentinel.