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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-12-11

sled its utter ruin, were forced to confess
that their orders were filled as promptly
and well as ever before. And yet in the
counting house, only woman controlled
the entire business, kept the books, an
swered the letters, and guided every detail
of the vast establishment.
Three years had passed since Nellie be-
came the head of the business, when Ste
phen IIolton wooed her for his wife. lie
had saved from his salary sufficient to
make pleasant home, and Nellie knew he
loved her faithfully, as she had long loved
him. So with her happy consent he sought
her father to ask for his child.
"From all the world" John Somervile
said, ~ could not have chosen a man TO
whom would so gladly give my Nellie.
1t will comfort me in the years that may
be left Of my life, TO know that my brave
girl has protector, when l am gone. But
Stephen, there is one wish very near my
heart that you can crafty"
"Name it, SIR"
81 shall, on your marriage day, deed to
you the factory and busin ess, subject only
to a moderate life income for myself and
wife. But would like to keep the old
name there. An act of the Legislature
Will give you the right to be stephen SOM
erville, and Somervlle d Son may still
live in the old finn place."
So when Nellie married, some months
later, she became the wife of Stephen Hol-
ton Somerville. Gradually she found her
duties in her new home drawing her little
by little from an active place in the facto-
ry and, proud OF her husband, she grad
ually resigned her authority TO him, find
ing scope for her energies in the duties
around her, till one sunny morning, walk
ing over to her fathers, she put into her
fathers arms, a tiny, growing baby, and
said, with glad tears:
"My business cares are over, papa.
Henceforth, l resign in favor Of Somer-
vile & Son."
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-12-11

THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE CIRcU-
LAR SAw.-In a lonely, secluded position
in the north west corner of the cemetery
near the ever beautiful little village Of
Richmond, Kalamazoo county, Mich, the
historian can find, on pure white marble
slab, nearly concealed from view by large
cluster of lilac bushes, engraved the sim
pie name of benjamin Cummins, born
A. D. l772, died \. D. 1915" And who was
Benjamin Cummins? He was the invent
or Of circular saws, now in use in this
country and in Europe. Nearly 60 years
ago, at Burtonville, N. Y, near Amster-
dam, this man hammered out, at his own
blacksmiths anvil, the first circular saw
known to mankind. He was a noted pion-
eer in Michigan, first cousin to one of tue
presidents of the United States, a slave
owner in New York state, leading Ma
son in the days of Morgan, and at whose
table the very elect of the then great state
of New York fGasted and drank freely Of
his choice liquors and wines; vessel
owner on the North river before the days
of steamboats,; a captain in the war of
1912, where, after having three horses shot
from under him, with one stroke Of his
sword he brought his superior officer to
the ground for an Insult, and because he
was traitor and coward, and after hav-
ing been court martialed, instead of hav-
ing been shot, he was appointed colonel in
his place. And in this lowly grave are the
ashes of the man who, nearly 20 years ago,
at Albany, N. ", took up and moved bod
ily large brick buildings, and to the Won
der and astonishment of the world, con-
structed a mile and half of Erie canal
through a bed of rock, and who also built
per contract, those first low bridges over
the same. He also aided in the eonstruc-
ton of the first 10 miles of railroad built
in the United States, and founded both
the villages of Esperence and BurIonville,
on the old Sehoharie, near Amsterdam
The study and aim of this mans life ap-
peared to be to accomplish that which none
others could accomplish, and whenths OBJ
ject sought was secured or overcome he
passed it as quietly by as he would tho
pebbles on the ssa-shore. Detroit Free
Prev.
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Literary Department.
A Little while.

A Little while.
Beyond the smiling and the weeping
shall be soon;
Beyond the waking and the sleeping,
Beyond the sowing and the reaping,
1shall be soon.
Love, rest and homel
Sweet homel
Lord, tArry not, but come.
Beyond the blooming and the fading,
shall be soon;
Beyond the shining and the shading,
Beyond the hoping and the dresding,
shall be soon.
Love, rest and home.
Sweet homel
Lord, tarry not, but come.
Beyond the rising and the setting
l shall be soon;
Beyond the calming and the irettlng,
Beyond remembering and forgetting,
shall be soon.
Love, rest and homel
Sweet homel
Lord, tarry not, but come.
Beyond the parting and the meeting
shall be soon;
Beyond the farewell and the greeting,
Beyond the pulses fever beating,
l shall be soon.
Love, rest aud homel
Sweet homel
Lord, tArry not, but come.
Beyond the frost-chAin and the fever,
shall be soon;
Beyond the rock waste and the river.
Beyond the ever and the never,
shall be soon.
Love, rest and homel
Sweet home!
Lord, tarry not, but come.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-12-11

One has to stay away from church now
to read all the Sunday newspapers.
The preservers of fruits, vegetables and
meats, are noted for getting all they can
and canning all they EOL
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1874-12-11
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Name, Business and Location ofthe leddinq
Ru,ineys TJonseS in BratIJobo,o
ny CIT THIS OUT FoR REVERENCE
AgricuituTaI Ampiehehs.
q: +. IHoMPSOS q 90, winston @ stone ~ ~bioek.
Woop MA Ti al, D'o'A' "'H Direct
b. A. CLAhh, l!ler DioeA'
BIaCksmiths.
Booksellers and StatiOners.
CHENEY 4 CIAPP Crosby Block
J. sTRRN Fishers Block Main ST.
r. c. EDWARDS, door north Americs n House.
Book and Job Printing.
UNION PRINTING co, Market square.
R.poyNToN MARSHALL 4 Esterbrook'sbIoek. NJ st
r A. STEyESs Fisk's block, Main street, up stairs.
ii s,o,, nao,,tr,,,o
n - .rVVESSON ~ Llocl- Min s,r,,t
H. F. 9AE' EN0O-'' way y'oeA '"'A ''
pp,crpTr . 90 ~ : Gr,ri,oPow
PRATT. WRIGHT 4 CO., Granite Row, Main Street.
RooH / McKFAND corner Main and HiJh sis
H. E. TAYLOR, 3 Union Bio X.
Carpets.
C. L. BROWN Marshall 4 Esterbrook's block Main-st.
J. RETTiNG' High-st, adjoining Brooks House.
u D. PhAlli HrAnlte ploeA'
Chamber Sets.
O. L BROWN Marshall & Esterbrooks i block, Man-st.
]. RRTTING, High-st adjoining Brooks House.
Coal
p,ppovs ofnoo ~ - R,rrows
Comu. and Cn,ket..
c. 1. BROWN, Marshall & Esterbrooks Blk, Main st.
Contractor and BuiIders.
HIGLFY & CHURCH, Elliot Street.
CrOckery and Glass Ware.
NJ 7. VAN DOORN, Crosby Block.
n,,,,oo noon,.
r1 coopFP q prooks House
- 49, u,,,,
~ ruoHpSOS : % WiIiiston's STONE block
r. A. CLARK Yyler's Block
H1GLRY a CaURCH, CManufacturer,) Elliot Street.
nruggt.t.
IN. THORN 4 CO.. Crosby Block.
X. O. WILLARD X co, Brooks House,
NEWTON 4 ROSE, Main ST., opposite High st.
DRY Goods.
P BARRows, Main Street, opposite Brooks House.
o. J. PRATT, Granite Block
- FertItEerH.
~ n HnYFs Tbomrs0n 1, Ranger,s Block
-, sr.o,
EsrEy. FROST 4 Co. Bridge st.
BURLINGTON WARNER, So Main st. 4 ntrev.
Furniture.
j. RETTING, Highest, adjoining Brooks House.
C. L. BROWN Marshal hsteforooA D'o'A' MAN ST.
y n,,,,v o.,ta, i'e
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,,,,,r,,, = ,'''','Iv'"
]. W. FROST 4 CO. 5 Crosby Block
FRANK q. HOWE, Marshall 4 Esterbrook Main-st.
g. D. MOVES, rhomps n Rangers & Block .,.,s
T. a. a. ThyIiS,R' TiTrI1, : Brooks House
G. p THoMPSON a co, Williston's Stone Block.
Gun. Est.toI. and Ammunition.
ID. MOVES, Thompson 4 Rangers Block.
not xYorL
NRs nARR0Ws' nearly opposite Brooks House
IE.,,.a.. Hon and steel
A. CLARK. Tyiers Block.
CT THOMPSON Co, Winiston's Stone Block.
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The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27
Stimulants.

The man is q maniac, deliberate suicide,
who drinks tea, coffee, or ardent spirits OF any
kind, to induce him to perform work in hand,
and when he feels too weak to 60 through With
it without such aid. This is the reason that
the majority of great orators and public speak
crs die drunkards. The pulpit, bench, the bar,
the forum, have contributed their lcgions OF
victims to drunken habits The beautiful wo-
man the sweet singer, the conversationallst
the periodical writer's, have filed but too often
a drunkard's grave. Now that the press has
become great power in the land, when the
magazine must come out Oh certain day and
the daily newspaper at fixed hour, nothing
waits, everything gives way to the inexorab!e
call for copy; sick or we'll, disposed or indis-
posed, asleep Or awake, that copy must come;
the writer must compose his article whether he
feels like it or not, aud if he is not in the vein
for writing, he must whip himself up to it BY
the stimulus drink. Some of the greatest wrl-
ters of the century have confessed to the prac-
tice on urgent occasions, Of taking SIP ol
brandy ar tic end of every written page or
even oltcner-Lord Byron at the end oi every
paragraph sometimes!
1t may have escaped the general reader 5 no
ticc that more nlen have died young, VINO nave
been connected with the New orE press, Wlth-
in ten wears. and that too from lntempcrahce,
than in all other educational caillngs put TO-,
rethcr; young men whose talents have been OF
the very first order, and gave promise o! lie
of usefulness, honor and cmncncc. The best
possible thing for man to do, when he feels
too tired to perform a task, or too weak to car
rv it through, is to 60 to bed and sleep week,
if he can this is the only true recuperation
of brain power; the only actual renewal OF
brain forces, because, during sleep the brain is
in a sense at rest, in Il condition to receive and
appropriate PARTICLES of nutrimcnt from the
blood which take the place Of those which
have been consumed i'll previous labor, since
The very act of thinking consumes, burns ur
solid particles, as every turn of the wheel or
screw Of the splendid steamer is the result OF
the consumption by fire of the fuel in the lur-
mace. That supply of consumed BRAIN sub
stance can only be had from the nutriment
particles in the blood which were obtained
from the food eaten previously, and the brain
is so constituted that it can best receive and
appropriate to itself those nutriment particles
during the state of rest, quiet and stiffness OF
sleep. Mere stimulants supply nothing in
cnlsclves--thcy only goad the brain, force it
to greater consumption of its substance until
that substance has been so fully exhausted that
there is not power enough left TO receive sup
ply; just as men are sometimes so near death
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

How He PROVED TIT is the custom i'll
Mexico for the clergy to require q foreigner,
wishing to marry native. to bring proof 'hat
he is not already married man. An Amcri-
can about to marry a senorta of very good!
family, was required to furnish the proof of
his being bachelor. Not finding any of his
countrymon who knew him sufficiently well to
testify to this fact, lie determined to supply the
deficiency with the oath ofa native.
Meeting u Mexican i'll the street, whom he
had never seen before, our couNtryman pro-
posed to him tlat he should swear to his being
Unmarried for tho consideration of five dollars.
The scnor, after moments study, said to tho
Yankee:
"Gct down OH Your hands and knees, and
creep about"
Not exactly understanding what he was at
our friend obcycl, much 10 the detriment OF
his uncomfortable. The other party then told
him ho was all right; that he would swear that
the American had not boon married since he
knew him, and that was since the time he
crawlcd.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27
The GrasShonper Army

To the thousands of our readers who have tor
the past few years, and especially few months,
heard and read Of the grasshopper, the mighty
spoiler of the husbandmans labOrs, but who
have never seen or heard described the appear
ance and nature of the pestiferous insect, it may
be that picture of the creature and its doings
would not be uninteresting. When the grass
hoppers originally appeared in the Northwest.
ern States to any damaging degree, number of
years since, they first attracted attention by
their numbers, appearing as they did before
the astonshed farmer in countless millions, not
as the innocent and harmless creatures which
had hoped before his sickle in the grass ever
since he was boy, but as dangerous, rave
nous and devouring army of innumerable pig
my enemies. They came in swarms, darkening
the heavens as far as the eye could reach and
alighting upon the green field like black
shroud, ard only leaving it when nothing YER
dant remained out of their myriad stomachs
They were not near as large as were the comes
tic grasshoppers, neither green in color, but
broWnish- -coiored insect, of half the size. They
hoped with all the power of the old green
specimens, but when it came to using their
wings the cold inhabitant' grasshoppers were
nowhere. The invaders (early named the
"raiders") we're very eagles in miniature, and
would on still day soar from ruined corn
field directly toward the sun and away from
human VISION. People not experienced in the
devastating propensities of these pests, can
scarcely believe that SO small an insect, and one
hitherto looked upon SO lightly as a poweirlcss
inhabitant Of the farm, can do the harm which
has been ascrbed to them. But they can 90
mighty things on account Of their numbers. 1t
can hardly be credited that they come in sun,
darkening clouds and cover meadows, fields and
roads to the depth of from one to five inches OF
wriggling and hungry life, but they do can
hardly be believed that they light upon the fen
ces, and gnaw away at the boards and posts with
such assiduity that they leave them looking
hagged and SCARED, but they do 1t can hard
ly be understood that they will stop team by
driving like hail storm in the horses faces,
that they crush by hundreds ender the feet
which step among them, and even stop RAILROAD
trains, with their grease when run over on up
grades, but it is true. Any farmer in the inies-
ted region who is experienced in their ravages
will affirm these apparently extreme statements
to be only tame facts in the presence of the
actual "raiders"-the Egyptian plange of Min
nesota and the terror of the hushandmen of the
whole Northwest. Chicago Journal
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

LAEoR.--It is mistake to suppose that la-
Dor is an unpleasant condition Of life. 1t is
matter of experience that there is more real
contcntmcnt in attending to any kind Of occu-
patton than there is in looking for some oc-
cupation. Attend, therefore, to your business
as being worthy ofall your attention. Work.
ing men are apt 10 consider that their occu-
nations alone are laborouS, but in that matter
they arc mistaken Labor Of the mind is gen
orally even more tatiguing than labor of the
body, and it is quito erroneous to suppose that
others do not work as we'll as we do, simply
because their work is different from ours;
Labor is the earthly condition of man, and
until the nature of man is changed, the want OF
something to do will produce all the horrors OF
onnui Gambling and other reprchensible dis
snations are all owing to the fact that human
nature cannot support IL state of idleness TO
live without purpose, is to lead avery restless
life.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

A STORY OF ROBERT EMMET.--Therc is a
story told of this young patriot in early life
that proved his secrctive power and resolution.
He was fond of studying chemistry, and one
night late, after the family had gone to bed,
he swallowed Il large quantity of corrosive sub
Innate in mistake for some acid cooling pow
der l1c Immediately discovered his mista Ike,
and knew that death must shortly cnsue unless
he instantly swallowed the antidote-chalk:
Timid men would have torn at the bell, reused
all the family, and sent for a stomach-pump.
Emmett called no one, made no noise; but
stealing down stairs and unlocking the front
door, went into the stable, scrapcd some chalk
which he knew to be there, and took sufficient
doses of it to ncutraIize the poison.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27
VOLUME X.---NO. Z.

by thirst and starvation, that there is not
strength enough left to swallow anything, and
all is over. The capacity of the brain for re-
ceiving recuperation particles sometimes comes
on with the rapidity of lightning, and the man
becomes mad in an instant; in an instant falls
in commissions, in an instant loses all sense,
and he s an idiot. 1t WAS under circumstances
of this very sort, in the very middle of seu-
tence Of great oratorial power, one of the most
eminent minds of the age forgot his idea,
and after moments sile1ce said, "God, as
with sponge, has blotted out my mind" Be
assured, reader, "there is rest for the weary
only in early and abundant Sleep and wise and
happy are they who have irmness enough to
resolve that "by Gods help, will seek it in
no other way"-HaWs Journal Of Health.
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When thew want to find out in the {

When they want to find out in the coun-
try if a girl is couring or not an old lady steps
in and remarks; ~ say, there amt no oncslck
in this here house or nothin,' is there? / seen
a light burnn' nigh into - o'clock last night,
but I don't smell no campfire or nothln'
d"-Bostom Traveller.
- Hanging con the ragged edge of anxiety
is not original With MIR. Bcccher. large
number of members of Congress haze been in
precisely such Il condition for two Or three
weeks past.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27
A Kentucky man while drunk ordered

"A Kentucky man WnlIt UTHIIK urutFcU
his wife to take hammer and Il nail and
knock lis teeth out. With that mcekness Of
spirit and obedience which charactcrizcs her
sex, that loving wife obcyed the orders of her
lord. When he got sober his swearing didn't
count. because lie mumbled it SO it could not
ln understood.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

An Iri<hman, newly engaged, presented
to his master one morning pair of boots, tao
leg Of one Of which was much longer than the
other GLOW comes it, you rascal that these
boots are not of the same length" Il really
don't know. sir but what bothers me most is
that the pair down stairs are in the same hx."
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

- When you sec an old Judy in pantaloons
Jerking his cyelal's lnavcnward ard dcploring
iie exposure ol "ickeoncss IN high places, give
him Ill the green watermelon he will hold.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-08-27

LVV Wis Us TTTIV t HI'CNITIN UT 1t O'' r'U''t'1
gentleman as | ever saw. He was type Of
men who do honor to our humanity. Meade
was, by profession, Christian, and hope he
was what he proesscd Meade and Lee how
vividly the scenes around one recall these COM
mandcrs who confronted each other on this
field of carnage know them both; and
knew enough of good in both to make one hope
they arc now united in the service Of the
Prince Of Peace.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-06
Market Gardening,

From the Louisville Commercially
MIR. Edwin Thompson, who resides two
miles from Louisville, is one OF Americas
most successful gardeners. His soil is q
sandy loan, underlaid with clay that has
required but little drainage. His general
practice is to invert the soil eight or ten
inches, and subsoil about the same depth,
and his after cultivation is thorough.
Manures heavily with manure from city
horse stables. He also uses the refuse
from the steam tanks from hog slaughter
Ing houses, and during the slaughtering
season, which lasts about six weeks, he
keeps three lour.horse teams, hauling
nine loads per day, which he spreads on
the surface as fast as il is hauled, and as
soon as the ground will permit, plows
under with light furrow. He keeps all
his fertilizing substances as near the sur
face as possible. He frequently turns
under heavy crop OF clover in prefer.
ence to selling it at $40 per acre standing.
He has used gas lime previously exposed
TO the elements) some ten or twelve years,
at the rate Of fifty bushels to the acre on
grass lands with good effect. He has ex-
perimentCd with various commercial Ter
tilizers to q small extent, and thinks their
value doubtiul-thinks ground bones best.
His crops are as follows, and in quantity
and money value are generally in the
order named: potatoes, sweet potatoes
asparagus, cabbsge, beets, onions, Scotch
kale and greens-some seasons cutting as
many as 200 barrels per day. He raises
other market garden crops, but these are
his specialties. He isnever excited about
the season, or the prices, or the quanti
ties or qualities Of the vegetables he has
to compete with, He never seems to be
in hurry, nor processes TO know on the
first day OF March what will be the bcs
crop OF the season. Nor is he idle; hil
great crops are grown, harvested ant
marketed, apparently TO locker on, very
much as the Ohio river flows, with torCt
but without any fuss.
From the time he began TO employ
lHborcrs up to 1865, they were for thC
most part Of German and Irish birth
Since 1866, about two thirds Of then
have been persons o! color, and they havu
generally proven honest and efficient.
His gross receipts ior the last four year
were-187O, $lS,l34; 1871, $lS,G0l; 1872
$40 ass; 1878; $lS,3S7, expenses abou
fifty per cent, on an average. Average
amount o! land in cultivation, 15 acres.
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-11-06
MISSOURI.

ST. LOUIS, November 5.-Returns from
the State are still very mesgre, but enough
is known 10 show that the Democratic
majority is not less than 10000, and may
be over 10000. The Congressional dele
CATION will be entirely Democratic, gain
OF four members, but the msjorities in the
interior districts cannot yet be given.
The districts OF this city are as follows:
First, Z. G. Kehr, Democrat, majority
l73, over L q. SIanArd, present incum.
bent, who ran behind his ticket some 900;
Second, Erastus Wells. Democrat, major.
ity j,G43; Third, VIM. Fl. Stone, Democrat,
present incumbent, 1878 majority. The
bitter and persistent contest in tho Sixth
ward between Stilson HutChins and N. Il.
LOckland for the lower House OF the Leg.
islaturc was finally settled, alter several
counts and re'COunts, in favor OF Hutch.
ins by n majority.
ST. Louis, November 5.-Thc vote in
this county on the State ticket Is: Hardin,
Democrat, 2O,76i; Gentry, Peoples can
didate, 1896, Hardin's majority zoos
Coleman, Democrat for Lieut.. Governor
who lives here, ran IA behind Hardin
The Democratic county ticket is elected
by majorities ranging from 500 TO 1000
excepting Tor Sheriff, Emil Thomas, Peo
PIES candidate, beating j. G. Prathel
l,lS7 votes.