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The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09
pusSToRY OF READING.

The glcancrof unconsidcrcd trihcs is the
atoms, upon which history must he built.
1t is these small things which show to lis
the character and habits of the founders of
our government Our written and I'M
written history is threefold national, state
and local both Of the former depending
upon the latter. In New England, par
tcularly, the history of the towns forms
the history Of the state. as, also, mcasur-
ably of the nation as connected with the
states. With us the foundation of all
power and action is in the several towns
The town meetings in Vermont secured our
independence as state. The cause Of the
revolution, in New England, was nur-
turcd forced to an issue, and carried
through by the towns, acting in their sep
aratc capacity. In Vermont. it has al
ways been so. All of our volunteers, for
instance during the rebellion. were raised
by separate town action. These propo-
sitions show the importance of town his
times, and as the only sure foundation for
correct history. We, therefore. welcome
every new work of the kind. rs we do now
that of Reading, an unprc,ending little
town in Windsor country. Its author
Gilbert \. Davis, has done his work we'll
and has in a book Of some one hundred
and seventy pages, preserved for posterity
the records of those who have gone before.
1t opens with detailed account Of
the cenntenial celebration. in August,
1872; which is followed by succint
history of the town. civil, religious,
educational, military, etc. etc; closing
with genealogical and biographical notices
of its native sons and residents Of the town.
His fellow townsmen owe lin a debt of
gratitude which we fear they never will
repay. This book is interesting and valu-
able, not only to every son Of Reading, but
also, to the historical and antiquarian stu
dent and writer. II is handsomely printed.
on fine heavy paper and neatly bound,
and bears the imprint OF A. n. Swain, Bel
lows Falls. Where there is SO much to
praise, we dislike to find any fault, but we
| must take exception to one thing We re-
fer to the fault, so common in all town his
tories, Of not fully recording facts Of re-
cent date. This seems to be taken for
| granted, rs unnecessary, because it is sup
posed that every one is familiar herewith.
| 1t may be SO now, but it will be otherwise
| in few years. Historians write as much
| for the future az for the present. Having
thus had our fault finding Of it, we mus
| qualify it somewhat The family history
! and many other portions of this work are
not open to this objection-in fact it ap
| plies to only three or four OF the branchc
treated of-but we take this opportunity t,
| call the attention of other writers on loCa
history to this subject. 1t is not Away
safe, TO be sure, to form accurate opinion
| of current events, but the facts can bette
be recorded now, than gathered up, here
after, from tradition. Take the book as i
is, and it is one of the best contribution
that have been made to the local and fami
ly history Of Vermont. We congratulate
Mr., Davis on his success, and the town o
Reading upon having such historian.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09

The following is from the Albany J0ur-
nal Of Wednesday evening "At n few
minutes past o'clock this afternoon the
ice, which had held firm during the spring
like weather of the past week, succumbed
TO the rain of last night and the melting in
fluence of to-day's soft atmosphere and
moved gracefully out. There was no gen
eral breakup, for the water is not UNUSUAL
ly high, and the ice was SO worn and
honoy-combcd that when obstacles were
met with it dissolved The movement
commenced below the city, and was caused
probably by the efforts of the South ferry
boat, New York, to break channel
through between this city and Grecnbush.
Once started, however, the whole body
was soon on the move. Al first slight
check was experienced below the steam
boat landing, but the pressure from above
soon caused it 10 yield, \ large field was
held in check for some little time by the
upper bridge, but large cakes continually
breaking of soon reduced it to size which
permitted it TO pass down the river. A
barge was carried away from It's moorlngs
at Bath, but WAS secured again. The
movement took place without accident of
any kind Us far as We eau learn, and the
river is now comparatively free from ice
as far as can he seen, both north and south.
In the basis the ice still holds, bat is rotiing
fast. Several men were engaged this after
ferry slip for the tug James Mcintyre. II
is believed that NAVIGATION will be speedily
resumed, and our docks and piers once
more present lively aspect"
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09

SOME ADVANTAGE TO DE DEAF. A young
man, whose hearing was rather defective,
took a partner for life and commenced
keeping house, His wife insisted that the
best way to get their pork was to kill a
hog, and the best way to get that was first
to get pig. So his wife put his best
clothes on him, and he started to Farmer
Smiths, who had two for sale-one large,
one small He bargaincd with Mrs. Smith
for, as she supposed, the small pig. lie
paid her the money, stepped in the pen,
and, to her amazement, took the large pig.
AS he came out of the pen Mrs. Smith APP
preached him and said he had the wrong
pig. He replied, Let him squeal, l can
hold him" and started for home, pressing
piggy to his BOSOM
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09

Population OF the town about 900
SPRINGFIELD.
The town library has lately received an
addition of one hundred dollars worth of
new books and large number more are to
he ordered.
Asa Rollins recently butchered COW
which dressed $50 pounds.
The choir of the Congregational church
are soon to give musical entertainment,
entitled the ''Floral Queen"
Mr. Abijah Miler-f ather-in-law of II.
r. Dyer of Rutland-reoently deceased,
was for long time resident of Spring
field and the owner of a large amount of
real estate in town.
The real estate of the cooperative man
ufacturing company has been sold at auc-
ton, and was bought by Hamlim Whit
more for S17,5 1t is expected the com
pany will pay ten or fifteen cents on the
dollar.
TICoNDEROGA.
Rev. VIM n Bacon the efficient and
highly esteemed pastor of the Congrega-
tional church in Shoreham, occupies the
pulpit of the Congregational church at Ii
conderoga a portion of the time, and on the
him with S7073 as donation. 1t was a
well deserved thank offering to this faith
full minister of the gospel.
The school exhibition comes off next
Friday evening.
On the anniversary Of St. Patrlcks day
a supper viii be held at Good Templars
Hall. There will also be temperance
lecture. Tickets are fixed at SO, the pro-
ceeds to go for the benefit Of the Catholic
church.
Two well known capitalists of Burlington
are about investing in property and proba.
ably manufacturing at Ticonderoga.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hopper were sere-
naded, on Monday evening, by the cornet
band on their return home from their we'd
ding trip
The sash and door factory of DeIano &
Ives has commenced running on full time.
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THE RUTLAND DAILY GLOBE MONDAY MORNING. MARCH 1874
duty and received from him the following
LETTER FROM SENATOR MORRILL,.
WAsuINaTnN- ID. C. March 9, 1871.


MEssRs. FR1sBIE, BEAMAN & PARKER,
Poultney, VT, Dear Sir Your favor of
the 9th ult., has Leen received. The pres
ent duties on slate arc as follows
On states, slate pencils, slate chimney
pieces, mantels, slabs for tables, and all
other manufactures OF slate, except roof
ing slate, 40 per cent ad valorem.
On roofing slate, 30 per cent. ad vaorem,
On split quarry, not stripped or trimmed,
nor fitted for use, 30 per cent. al valorem
know not precisely what the ways and
means committee of the House will propose
but do not think it likely that an increase
of the duty on slate will be proposed, or if
proposed that 1t would he adopted Slate
is building material and it was an uphill
labor to get so much as was placed upon
it, or to keep it after we had got 1t. To
agitate the subject regret To think might
cndangcr your interests. / was in favor
at different times of placing a specific duty
upon roofing slate, but rs could not deny
that my purpose was to slightly raise the
duty, / did not succeed.
| shall always be glad TO hear from you
on this or any other subject in which you
take an interest
Very sincerely yours.
JUSTIN :. MORRILL,.
T. S.-Thc amount of slate imported |
will try and get for you at the treasury de-
partment, tomorrow. 1t is not very large
The following are the statistics referred
to in the postscript which were sent
by the senator, showing the value of slate
imported and manufactures thereof i'm
ported and entered into consumption in the
United States, during the following fiscal
wears:
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09

Dick Holland Of Cincinnati had an i'm
pulse of generosity in coming home from
the New Orleans carnival and gave up his
sleeping-car berth to an invalid. The fact
that, during the night, an engine in the rear
ran into the train and mangled the invalid,
has made Dick self-denying for life.
The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1874-03-09

II was voted to pay the Bellows Falls
savings bank and Asa Collins, which will
free the town from debt and leave $4,000
in the treasury.
1t was voted to listers the sums expended
by them for counsels fees in the suit of n.
T. Sprague against them.
The constable is to be paid two per cent.
for the collection Of taxes, and pay the
oycrsccr of the poor $3.50.
BELLOWS FALLS.
Tho Bellows Falls Times says "If we
have an incendiarv among us, is it not time
that some official notice should be taken of
it,"
ii J Livcrmore, recently of the Rock
ingham paper company, has located at
Gcneseo, Illinois,
The number of persons unemployed in
Bellows Falls is apparently larger at the
present time since the financial stringency
commenced.
A fire was discovered in H. Amadon's
barn. at about fifteen minutes to nine, on
Monday evening. The alarm was quickly
gwen, the tiremen were on hand, and it
was soon cxtinguished. The damage is
some $500 or $500 The origin of the fire
is not known, but the generally received
opinion is, that it was the work of an In
cendiary. Much feeling was expressed,
and could the ncendiary have been got hold
of at the time, they might have made short
work of him. The fire started in some
hay in the barn, and was first discovered by
Mrs Ballou, Ga daughter of Mr.. Amadons)
who with her babe and her sister Alice,
were the only persons in the house at the
time. the other members Of the family
being down street and Mr.. Amadon himself
being absent in Boston. The barn adjoins
the house which was somewhat smoked
The horse was got out without injury, an(
the damage was thus confined to the barr
and contents including some hay and grain
1t is the second time Mr. Amadon's premises
have thus been fired within few weeks
the other having been started in his ict
| house.
The clerk having failed to warn the cor
poraton meeting for the first Monday il
March. the old board of officers hold ovel
and are as follows:
Clerl-L VI Read
Baiiifs-O y Gray, G III Babbitt, San
Nichols, S NJ Blake, Laban Bullock.
Fire Wardens-George 0 Guild, +
George, n S Brockway, S f Baird, F
Hadley
Treasurer Asa Wentworth.
Collector-Alfred Kemp.
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state, County and vicinity.
BRANDON.


On Monday last the scale shops COM
menced working on full time. The com
pany is doing an increased business.
4. f. Dana has taken the position of
bookkeeper of the Otter Creek marble
company.
E. d. Higgins, son of the late Julius L.
Higgins, has become connected with Il
mercantile establishment in Boston, Mass.
Mr. IIawley, formerly teller Of the Ma
tional Bank of Orwell, has become book
keeper for the Brandon manufacturing
company.
1t is said that the town affairs of Bran
don were never managed better financially
than last year.
Albert Matthews, formerly of the Bates
House and Berwick Hotel Rutland, has
leased the Douglas House again and takes
possession April list.
S. b. June has been elected master of
the Brandon Grange No. of the Patrons
of Husbandry, in place of S. e. Segar, de-
clined.
Mr.. Selleck, a saloon keeper, was ar
ragned last week before Justice Ezra June
Plead guilty to four offences of selling
liquor and was find $40 and costs. He
pledged himself to stop dealing in liquor
Ii. A. Sumner has sent to j. H. Putnam
of Grafton, VT, pair of bronze turkeys
weighing fifty pounds
The spring term of the Brandon graded
school will commence on Monday, March
ED, under the supervision of its accom-
plished principal, ]. S. Cilley, a. NJ. 1t is
one of the best schools in the state, and
offers superior advantages, not only to
Brandon, hut the towns in that vicinity,
who should appreciate the excellence of its
instruction and literally patronize it rather
than send their children to distance where
the facilities are no better If as good
j. p. Ives has purchased a new dwelling
house near the Town Hall of Sumner
Briggs, for S2,70O.
Riley Hull has sold his farm to William
and John Hull, for 1927 900.
The liquor case of Riley Deming has been
postponed until April Both.
There are said to be a large number of
Good Templars and Changers in Brandon
The following is the result of the ballot
ing at the annual town meeting in Bran
| don:
|
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-23
Robert COllyer's Anvil.

ONCE upon a time gentleman drew
up his horse near smithy in York
shire village. On entering it he hardly
arrested the attention Of a boy who
seemed to be absorbed in the work of
blowing the bellows. Closer observation
revealed the presence of a booklets
pages kept open by two bits of iron
placed on shelf near the lads head.
Each time he brought down the bel
lows or released it he seemed to catch a
sentence from the book.
A generation passed away. The little
village had grown to be brilliant town.
Low-thatched houses had made way be-
ore fine mansions, and the smithy in
which the above incident was observed
was drawing near to its disappearance.
But before that day arrived another gen.
tleman appeared at the door, and in
spected with some interest an anvil
standing in the center of the shop.
"How long has that anvil been here -
he asked of the blacksmith.
"Why," said the workman, lit must have
been thirty or forty years."
SWELL" said the gentleman, II will
give you twice as much for that anvil as
will buy you q new one"
Certainly" replied the puzzled smith
"but I would like to know what you
want with this anvil"
II will tell you. There was formerly
an apprentice in this shop who used to
work on it. That boy has now become a
great man. Thousands love and honor
him as friend and teacher, and wish
to carry back this anvil as memorial of
the humble beginning of his life.'-
Harper's Magazine
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1T WAS AN ANCIENT CUSTOM OF the
Spartans, in order to inculcate among
their youth an adherence of 1ntemper:
ance and its kindred vices, to make their
slaves drunk with wine in the public
market.places, so that the rising genera.
ton upon whom would some day devolve
the honor and safety of the Lacedemo
uian Republic, might see before them all
the CHASTITY details of the drunkard's dis.
grace, his loss of reason and of physical
strength. Twere we'll, perhaps, to-day,
could some Of our young men contem
plate similar instructive lesson drawn
from the life, showing them, by sharply
drawn contrast, the advantages and true
loneliness of abstinence and virtue.
For such as appreciate these, VINEGAR
B1TTERs is the beverage best adapted, il
being purely vegetable draught, devoid
Of alcohol or mineral poisons, and pos
sessing all the virtues, but none of the
damning CURSES of the different poisons
which year by year are sweeping away
thousands of dollars and lives. AZ
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yer, accordin' to his last instructions
He died Of congestion of tho bowels
madam. Beg pardon, madam, but are
He did not finish his sentence, but
stepped forward to catch the falling form
of my fellow-traveler, who was carried ia
the car in q swoon. The little boy ut
tered a piteous vail of grief, while I led
him sobbing back to the car which this
wearied, travel-tired pair had left min
ute before so hopeful and so happy,
There were many wet eyes in that car just
then, mine among the rest, as l held the
beautiful boy sobbing to my breast.
l saw my fellow.traveler twice again,
once when she followed her husband to
his last resting place, attended by one
solitary carriage and four mourners, and
again last Monday morning, when, pale,
sad, and bowed with grief, she started
with her fair haired boy upon her long
journey back to the quiet shade and Sc:
clusion Of her old home within the
shadows of Gloster Cathedral.
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Testing the Vitality of Seed Corn.

Many Of those who are obliged to de-
pend upon corn ripened last year will,
undoubtedly, experience difficulty in it's
terminating promptly, for the reason that,
owing to the peculiar season, the crop
ripened imperfectly. These remarks will
not, however, apply to those who have
saved their seed in the autumn. We do
not hesitate to say that, in those sections
of the country where, from any cause, the
corn has not ripened as it ought to have
done, there may be trouble in the germi-
nation Of the seed.
To test the seed, therefore, we advise
that those in doubt shell from various
ears more or less of the kernels. Mix
them together and, counting therefrom
ten or dozen of the grains, plant them
in favorable place for termination. Note
how many of the seeds planted grow
readily. From the percentage which
grow an estimate may be made of the
proper number to drop in each hill, in
dl anting the field, to insure a stand.
Another plan for testing seed corn is to
examine the general appearance of the
grain. If it break from the cob, present
ing black appearance at the point of
attachment, and if it leave the cover and
f1lament with the cob, it is probable, but
not certain, that the seed is not sure. It
may terminate slowly, or it may not
germinate at all, according to the condi-
lions under which it is placed. It is
safe to reject such as seed. On one side
of the kernel, and that side lying to-
ward the tip of the ear, will be found q
groove or indentation; at the bottom
of this, and next the surface, and
covered with the pellicle or skin, will be
found the germ Of the future plant. If
the grain be bright, and if, upon raising
this, the germ be found to be Of bright
straw color, inclining to white, plump,
clear and bright, and Of distinct shape,
not wrinkled and shriveled, the indica-
ton is that the germ is good; but if
otherwise, if it be dull, shriveled or i'm
perfect, throw the ear aside.
Another test is to take the ear and
break it through the middle. If it break
brittle, and the cob is bright and firm,
and the grains firm, the probability is that
it is good. The two conditions between
good and bad may be easily discovered
by breaking an ear that you know to be
good, and examining it in comparison
with one that you suspect to be unsound.
Thus a person with little experience
may easily select sound from unsound
corn from the crib. Nevertheless, we now
advise, as we have before done, that this
plan of selecting seed be not depended
upon another year. 1t is far better and
cheaper in the end to select the seed at the
time of ripening; hang it in an airy place
to dry, and thereafter keep it dry; and if
hung over gentle smoke to assist the
process Of drying, so much the better.
The smoke will not injure the corn, but
it will tend to render it unpalatable to
the horde of insects that always lie in wait
to prey upon it when Western
R7krnL
The Western advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1872-1874, 1874-05-23
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Hanover Doughnuts.-One cup sugar
one egg, halfcup cream, one cup sour
milk, one large teaspoon soda, halftea.
spoon salt. .
Carries Sponge Cake.-One cup
white sugar, three eggs, two.thirds cub
cream, one and half cups flour, one tea-
spoonful cream tartar, Tablespoonful
soda, the same of salt.
TO wash calicoes and muslin without
fading, soak them two or three hours in q
pail of water in which two ounces of
sugar of lead has been dissolved; then
wash as usual. If they soak longer it
does no harm.
Cottage Pudding-One egg, one cup
sugar, one cup sweet milk, two spoonfuls
melted butter, two cups flour, one tea
spoon of soda, one of cream tartar.
Steam half an hour. To be eaten with
pudding sauce.
TO cleanse the scalp, take one tea
spoonful of powdered borax, one table
spoonful of hartshorn and one quart of
water. Mix all together and apply to the
head with a soft sponge; then rub the
head with dry towel. Use once q
week.
French Loaf.-Put layer OF toma-
toes in the bottom of your pudding dish :;
then layer Of sliced onions, sliced very
thin; q little pepper and salt; then a layer
OF bread and butter, and so on until your
Glsh is full; the last layer tomatoes Boil
one hour, slowly; if large, two hours will
not be too long.
Dressing for Chopped Cabbage The
yolks of three or four hard-boiled eggs,
mashed fine, with lump of butter the
size OF walnut; add to this a teaspoonful
OF mustard, and beat it all up in vinegar
weakened by water and sweetened with
sugar 80 as to be- palatable, and pour
while hot over the cabbage and cover.
Serve when cold. Some prefer salad oil
in the place Of butter.
TO Make Cuttings Grow.-I used to
have a great deal of trouble to make cur
rant and gooseberry cuttings or slips
grow, until tried the following plan:
boiled some potatoes until they were
nearly done, and then stuck one in each
slip and put it in the ground. Every slip
sprouted and grew we'll all summer, with
one or two exceptions. The idea of put
ting the boiled potatoes to the end of cut
tings is to furnish and keep moisture
enough for them to grow until the roots
become large enough to gather this
moisture and substance from the soil.
never tried it on grape cuttings, but do
| not see any reason why it would not do as
we'll with grapes as with anything else.-
Cor. Wisconsin Farmer.