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Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1874-04-10
DLACKSMITHING.
- EAL ESTATE AT AUCTION !

In Westmoreland N. H., Wednesday, April Is,
1874, ten o'clock A. M, the Granger Mill Site with
about ~ acres of land, of timber and wood,
the balance in tillage and pasture land. A two
story dwelling house also, small one story house
and garden.
Asa location for mills-near Westmorel and De-
pot on the road from Wapole and Westmoreland to
heene, near Connecticut River; the unsurpassed
facilities for building the amount of head and fall
IRON ~ to 80 IT, render it desirable location and
valuable property for wide awake man with small
capital, who may wish to locate in the midst of q
thriving farming community. who are ever willing
70 Tend helping hand to all enterprise for public
benefit.
property will be sod together or in small lots
to suit purchasers. Terms liberal.
SANFORD GRANGER,
Bellows Falls, Vt April 7, 1874 1873
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
NORTHERN PACIFIC LANDS.

Major Martin Maginnis, Delegate from
Montana. sends us through the Office OF the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company An an.
swcr to Gen. Hazcns letter printed in last
Saturdays Tribune. We arc happy to give
fair hearing on both sides. and we there
fore publish tho reply, although 1t Il neither
good tempered nor conclusive Major Ma
ginnis. having hccn in the army himself,
ough. to know better than to aspcrse the
military record IF one Of the most gallant
and distinguished officers in the service,
merely for the alleged offence Of slandering
the thermometer. Gen. Hazen's statements
AS to the climate of that portion of the
Northern Pacific route Of which he writes
are no, random rhetorical assertions, but the
transcript of series of careful, scientific OBJ
Scrya,ions. and we cannot see that the Dele
rate from Montana has weakened their force
in the slightest particular.
1t should bc borne in mind that what Maj.
Maginnis says o! the crops of Montana may
he quite true. and yet il may lH equally be-
vOnd dispute that the railroad lands III
Northern Montana and Dakota arc just what
Gen. llazen declares them to bc-cOld. and
dry. and unsuitable for agricultural settle.
mcnts. The fertility of tho wheat region of
the Red River Of the North, and of tho bot
tom lands along the Missouri, the Yellow
stone. and some other streams, is well known;
but II Is not Of these that General 1fSzen
speaks York Tribune. II un.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12

ORU00o
We dnd the following good things this
week In the Boston Commercial Bsnettn:
Party ties-whito crxvats.
One time and two motions, when a mother
at her toilet braids upher hair and upbraids
her heir. q
refuse to enter d0meseic service Is that they
object to anything approaching menial en-
ployment-what they eek is hymeneal
Electric bclles-female telegraph operators.
Mowers melodies-ahc sharpening Of the
scythe.
A malicious person says that cotton sheets
and newspaper sheets are alike in the respect
that a great many people lie in them.
Best author for prize stories--Charlcs
Lever.
Why is man who is going for the mid
night horse Car likely to have long journey
because be is going TO las(t) car.
Washcrwomans motto While there's
life there's SOAP"
A Thirsty one desires to know II they drink
stock ale at the brokers' board.
The attempt to weave zephyr worsteds
upon heir looms has proved failure.
HENRY w. SHAW (Josh Billings) has sold
four hundred and ten thousand of his AL
mAnax" during the last five years.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
Sleeping Together.

A gentleman who lives in Danbury re-
Gently read an article setting forth the evil
of two persons sleeping together. He became
30 impressed with the truth of the argument
that he proposed to his wife that they sleep
in separate beds, and she acquicsced. The
experiment was put in practice that night
About two o'clock in the morning the lady
was awakened by some one stealing softly
into her bed, and on uttering scream, was
greatly relieved to find that it was her hus-
band. 1t had turned off cold in the night,
and he had concluded that if he had to die
anyway, he might as well 20 off quietly with
q nervous attack as to be frozen in a gro
tesquc attitude. From tie Dan1u7y Ners.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
No. 16

spring of home-bred talent, and all newspa-
pers and periodicals that are really worth
sustaining are well sustained. Upon the
whole, then, this great city, as it is, may be
considered model and marvel. But the
New York of hundred years hence, which
we shall not live to see, will be spectacle
for the world to gaze upon with wonder.
Before that day it will not only have covered
Manhattan Island with population rs dense
as that of London, but will comprehend, in
fact, if not in name, many a square league
Of the adjacent shores 1t will he the great
central market for Asia, as we'll as Europe,
and all the shores of the Pacific will be trib-
utary to its enterprise. The geographical po-
sition of the port places the result beyond
doubt At present, New York may be deem
ed the commercial metropolis of Il continent
"a century hence, it may be the commercial
metropolis of the world. They do not pro-
fess to believe that such sudden prosperity as
is here portrayed is consistent with perma-
ncnce and stability, neither do they believe it
entirely visionary. hut rather incline nn
milieu.
The lapse o! centuries, according to all
human appearances, will eventually accom-
plish the widest Of their present conjcctures.
The recent winter weather, which delayed
the street travel. brings the East River bridge
into prominence The East River bridge
means the speedy consolidation of the com
ties of New York and Kings into one muli-
cipal government Recently the subject has
been much agita,cd in Brooklyn. One of the
journals there has been interviewing many
of the prominent citizens in reference to the
subject. They all favor it, and the Eayle is
the only conspicuous example Of opposition
to annexation as soon as possible after the
completion of the bridge shall have been ac-
complished. In view of this, q bill is now
before the Legislature, which provides for
the appointment by the Governor Of ten citi-
zens from each of the cities of New York
and Brooklyn AS commissioners on consoli-
dation. They are to conclude their labor by
October next, and the next Legislature is to
act upon the result of their labor. AT present
Mr.. w. G. Kingsley, Of the bridge manage
ment, is of the opinion tina, the first crossing
of the East River bridge will take place July
4th, 1876 BY that time the consolidated me-
tropolis will hoas; a population of not less
than one and threc-quarter millions.
RADERsBUEG
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
Antiquity Of the Scriptures.

Few of us ever stop to consider how old
the Bible is. Yet the Scriptures are be-
lieved by candid critics to contain the most
ancient forms of truth now known to men,
With the aid of chronological tables. any
one may easily make profitable comparisons
between the antiquity of the books and that
of other writings and events. The Scriptures
contain the only authentic history Of the
world before the flood We fluid in the Pen
1ateuch one or two stanzas Of poetry com
posed in the antediluvan period The
Hebrew statutes were enacted q thousand
years before Justinian reformed the Roman
jurisprudence. In the Bible we have the
record Ot chartered rights secured to the
people more than two thousand years before
Magma Charta. What sensation would be
produced if the first chapter of Genesis
should appear for the first time in one of the
newspapers tomorrow! Yet there can be
NO doubt that chapter contains the oldest
writing, twenty-five hundred years before the
invention of printing. Xenophen's record
of the conversations of Socrates, in his
Memorabilia seems an old book to us, yet
similar topics were discussed in Ecclesiastes
six hundred years before. The works of
Tacitus, Plutarch and Quintillian are not
modern, yet the books of the Old Testament
are older than they. As to the book of Job,
its age h beyond conjecture. Those who
make it - modern as they can, are compelled
to place its origin at least one. thousand
years before Homer. When Priam was
King Of Troy, Jeb was of remote antiquity.
The name Of Alexander has no modem
sound for us, yet when Alexander invaded
Syria the book of Job might have been read
before him as the work Of an author more
time me-honored then than the name of Alexan-
der is now. The writings of Csnfucius are
modern when compared with most Of the
Bible; and The most that the Hindoos can
justly claim for their sacred books, the
Vsdas, 10 that they were written five hundred
years after the death of Moses. The Koran
is book fresh from the press compared
with the Scriptures.-Dr. Epson.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
DER BABY.
EN MARX ttH>CNHE.

~ help me gracious. cfrry dav.
laugh me- wild tO saw der way
VI, schmall Young baby dry IL LA!
Dot funny !ccdlc baby.
When look ot dc,n lc"dr toes.
I nd rrt dot funny lrcir nose.
nd heard der way dot rooster crow.
>chmlc ike ,a- crazy.
I ia When heard tie real nice ,ay
Drm hrohl,s IL my >if. dev say.
Norr like his iaicr' every day.
| vas broad oi my nahy.
Sometimes der cprm> a lectilr SChwall:
Dots ven der windy Wind will crawl,
nighd in l,~ little schtumack schmall
Dots too bad for dot baby.
Du, make him sing AT night 80 -chwcr'.
Ind l.orrvbarric he must cad.
And musht Chump shbry ON my feet.
To help dot lccdle baby.
lie bulls my nose. und kicks my hair,
Ind grawls me Ofrr cteryverc,
Ind schlObbers me-but vat care.
Dot yas my schmall young baby.
Around my head dot lecdle arm
Nas rChQOxin me 40 nice and warm
u, may dcre ncfer COON COON harm
TO dot schmall lccdle bapy:
Dot va me himself.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12

DR.. Beard states from IN analysis of the
lives of u thousand representative men in all
the great branches Of human efforts, he
made the discovery that the golden decade
was between 80 and 40, the silver 40 and 50,
the bruzcn between 90 and 20, and the iron
between 50 and 80. The superiority of
youth and middle life over old age in orig
inal work appears all the greater, when We con-
slider tho fact that AL the positions of honor and
profit and prestigc-thc professorships aud
public stations-arc in the hands of the old.
Reputation, like money and position, is
mainly confined to the old Men are not
widely known until long after they have done
the work that gives them their fame. Por-
traits of great men are a delusion statues
arc lies. They are taken when men have
become famous, which, on the average, is al
least twenty five years after they did the
work which gave them their fame. Orig
inal work requires enthusiasm. If all the
original work done by men under As were ami
hilated, they would be reduced to barbarism.
Men are at their best a& that time when en-
thusiasm and experience are most evenly
balanced this period on the average is from
80 to 20. After this the law Is that exper-
ience Increases but enthusiam declines. In
tho life Of most every old man there comes
q point, sooner or later, when experience
ceases to have any educating power.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
THE WEEKLY HERALD
PUNISHED EVERY THURSDAY MORNING.

). ..'~ y ;!sk FISK FISK Bros, Publisher
RAMS REVENGE.
Little Tim was the name ot him
Of whom have ~ tell.
Md h. abode on the western road
In nc bus, town Of L.
" the trains went down through. the little town.
He pcdded through the cars:
His stock in tradc-irc lemonade
cake. peanuts. and cisar-
conductor Dunn MAS the only one
Who'd not this trade allow.
tnd so twixt him and Little Tim
There always was r"".
4 La, one day they had a fray.
tnd Timo'hy declared
He'd "tix old Dunn: IA snrr'- y gun.
Ii both their lives were spared.
81 of hc w,nt. with this intent.
And sold his stock in trade:
His earnings hard hc spent for lard
And started for the grade.
This place, YOU know. is where trains z"
pon the steep hillside,
\nd whrrc--wiih lsr, it isn't hard
To get up quite sldc.)
lie took a stick and spread i. thick.
Rrmarking. with smile.
"rhcre'll he some fun when Mr.. Dunn
Comm ences to 'strir~ ile.
lie lav in wait: the train was late
And came a-putfing hard.
With heavy load. right mp the rOad
TO where he'd spread the lard
They tried in vain! that fAtcti train
Could not ascend the grade:
The wheels would spin, with horrid din.
Yet no advance was made.
Then Little Tim-twas bold in him
cried out in accents shrill
- Remember me. Conductor D.,
When YOU get up that hill
MORAL.
>ic,rs- in trade il up grade
That We should all ascend.
And with "a will help up hill
Our fcllow-r,an and friend
When son the road" don't iucommodr
The seeker after pelf.
br. ten To one, like Mr.. Dunn
You won't get up yourself.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12
NEW YORK LETTER.

rhe Wonderful Growth Of New York.
How she Profits by the Golden Har.
vests Of California and Montana
How hor Citizens Chase after the
Almighty Dollar-The most Liberal
ana Charitable Pe0pae m the World
New YORK the Commercial Metropolis
Of q Continental Century Hence the
Metropolis Of the W0rld-The East
River 8ridge-New York and Brock.
lyn 70 be Consolidated under one Wa.
Miclpal ls0Yernment.
Helena weekly herald. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1867-1900, 1874-03-12

Delegate Magimnts Replies 20 General
Rlaxcn's Statements lm Regard TO the
Northern Pacific Railroad Lands-
Fertility ~ the SOIL In Montana and
0daho--A Railroad Needed 70 Dc.
vel0p Their Vast ResOurccs-Tke
Rixors Of the Climate said 70 be Ex.
Mggerntcd.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1874-03-05
ADgERTsSIHc RATES

One inch, or fraction ofan inch, constitutes q
square.
, Loaded notices in reading columns. or under
mead OF business Notices, 10 cents per line for
nFst insertion, and . cents per line for each sub
sequent insertion.
Marriages and Deaths inserted free.
Transient advertising payable in advance.
Legal Notices requiring proof of ubIieation Id
ne patd for before said proofs delivered-all 9TH
eTS payable in advance
All advertisements will be inserted until for
bid, unless some specified time is stated.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16
West and South.

The Iowa Commissioners report much diff
Guilty In getting good seed grain for the
Northwestern sufferers. The average distri-
button will be fifteen bushels TO each person.
The present supply will not h old out.
A Dies Moines Qowa) dispatch of the ID
says the District Court Grand Jury have
found eight indictments against Isaac Brandt,
Deputy under x.State Treasurer Rankin, for
embezzling or appropriating public moneys In
the shape Of interest or bonuses on State
drafts Of deposit. Brandt was arrested, and
subsequently released on $4,000 bail on each
Indictment, or S24, 600 on all. Indictments were
also returned against Rankin. The old in
dictment against bin for the enibezzlement
Of State funds was dismissed, and all the In
dictmcnts now returned are for embezzlement
OF moneys Of the State Agricultural College.
Rankin has also given bail.
The Michigan State Treasurer's statement
for March Is as follows: Balance Feb. %,
u, 163, 513si receipts for March, $l3l, 500. 04;
total, Sl,295, 0i5S5. Payments for March,
$50, 456.95. Balance. March 81, 81, 2i2, $500
The Union Park Baptist Church Of Chicago
has dissolved its pastoral relations with the
Rev. Florence Mccarthy. This action is in
accordance with the verdict OF the Ecclesias-
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16
The Burning or MiIlerst0wn, Pa
Sad Loss Of Life.

The Pittsburgh (Pa) Commercial, gives
the following account of the recent fire at
Millcrstown, Butler County. in that State,
by which seven persons were fatally
burned and about fifty business houses
and large portion of the town were de-
stroyed, entailing loss of nearly $780,.
600:
AT 1 80 O'Clock Wednesday morning
April l. a Dire was discovered breaking
from the basement story at the Central
Hotel. J. A. Frisbee, the bartender, who
happened to be sitting up with sick
friend, discovered the fire and immediate
ly rushed through the halls TO arouse the
guests. There were, including servants,
100 souls in the house, and directly the
corridors became the scene OF the widest
dismay Fortunately there were no lady
guests registered last night or the story OF
horror and death might have been i'm
measurably more painful to detail. The
flames driited up the wooden walls, and,
quicker than it takes 10 tell il, spread over
the entire southern side and were curling
in thousand tongues from cornice and
gable. The heat had the effect TO crack
all the windows on that side OF the house,
and admitted the flame and smoke before
the most expeditions of the guests could
put on their clothing. Men rushed al
most naked into the hall, some not even
! taking their clothing in their arms, and,
anxious 10 escape with their lives, tore up
| and down the corridors, madly seeking
some outlet from the pursuing flames
The widest horror prevailed. Shrek rose
upon shrek In heartrending accents, all
the more impressive because they came
| from strong men graphing with death,
x..;,lx ha pHAo an farrthiv uaiuat all m ere
human power Many on the lower hall
had found their way out Of the building,
| and the proprietor of the house, who was
sick, had been borne out For an instant it
was hoped that ali would escape, but
again that hope was dashed by the be-
seeching cries for help Of those who had
! fingered to dress, or in the excitement of
the dreadful moment were unable TO
undo the fastenings OF their doors. To
add TO the horror of the situation, IL was
discovered that the flames had crept
| through the southern sleeping rooms and,
following the draft along the corridor, had
| cut off the servants escape from the attic.
Between prayers, and shrieks, and groans
| the scene was now too much for human
hearts, knowing their utter inability to
| render aid. Many turned away from
the sickening scene they found IL
as difficult to endure as to relieve.
Some of the girls had the courage and
presence of mind to turn their drapery
over their heads for protection, and
rush through the sheet of flame; and thus
some escaped. Others rushed back to the
north side and cast themselves from the
windows upon the roof OF the adjoining
building, whence they We're rescued.
Others sank bcwildered in the suffocating
smoke and, like some of the guests on
the floor below, yielded without strug-
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16
CoME. ASp LETT Us Reason ToerrHrn

CONE, AND LET Us REASON Together.
TO the afflicted in body we offer few
words of plain, practical reasoning. No
matter under what form of sickness You
labor there is one great truth you should
ever keep In mind, viz: All disease origi-
mates in an impure condition of the blood.
Purify that, and the disease must depart,
for it has nothing to feed on; but you can.
not purify the blood by the use of poison.
Gus drugs and exhaustive stimulants; the
relief which these afford is temporary and
deceptive, leaving you worse off at every
interval. The best Blood Purifier ever dis
covered is DR.. WALKERS FAMOUS VIs
EGAR BrTTERs, compounded of simple
herbs. No matter how hopeless your case
may seem, try the VINEGAR BITTERs, and
a few draughts will convince you of their
virtue. DIR. Walker, the discoverer of
this priceless remedy, had been given
up TO die by the physicians and is now
o sound and healthy man from their
use. SO
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16

Pints and quarts of filthy catarrhal dis
charges. Where does it all come FROM The
mucous membrane, lining the chambers OF the
nose, and its little glands, diseased, SO that
they draw from the blood its liquid and ex-
posture to the cir changes 1t into corruption.
This Iife-liquid was TO build up the system but
IL Is extracted and the system 10 weakened by
the loss. To cure, gain flesh and strength BY
using DIR. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery.
which also acts directly upon these glands,
correcting them, applying DIR. Sage's Catarrh
Remedy with DIR. Pierce's Nasal Dcuche, the
only method of reaching the upper cavities
where the discharge accumulates and comes
from.
CATARRH or 20 YEARS STA NDING CURED
MONROE, Onachita Parish, La, Sept IS 1871.
r. v. PIERCE, NJ. D.:
Sometime about last June commenced the
use of your medicines, and they have entirely
cured me of Catarrh Of twenty years standing.
Respectfully, Mrs. G. <. PHILLIPS.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16

DoN'T TAMPYR WITH A CoUGH.-Perhaps in
the whole category of diseases TO which hui
manity is susceptible, the cough is most neg
lected in Its early stage. A simple cough
generally regarded as a temporary affection lie
unpleasant and nothing more; but to those
who have paid dearly for experience, 1t is the
signal for attack for the most fearful Of all
diseases--C Consumption A cough will lead to
consumption--if not checked sure as the
rivulet leads to the river yet II is an easy enc
my to thwart, II met by the proper remedy.
Aliens Lung Balsam is the great cough rem
edy Of the age, and has earned its reputation
by merit alone. Sold by all good druggists.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16

A LONDON dispatch OF April says the Re-
publican troops have taken no position held
by the Carlists since March %. A three days
srmistice, In which Bllboa was not included,
had been agreed upon for the burial OF the
dead. In the meantime the bombardment Of
Bilboa continued.
The steamer Alaska arrived In San Fran
cisco on the Sd with Yokohama dates to March
TO- The instruction In the North had been
queiled through the efforts OF OkuBo, Minis
tor Of the Interior.
A Bayonne dispatch Of the 9Th says active
operations IN front OF Bllboa were resumed on
the ID. Carlist General Ii reported to have
surprised and captured detachment of GOO
Republicans.
Under date OF March Is President Gonzales,
of the Dominican Republic. announces the
failure OF the SANTANA Bay Company to com
My with the terms of it, lease, requiring pre-.
payment OF the rental, $3.50, 900, TO the Domin-
lean Government, and the consequent lapse Of
Ill privileges aud rights granted to the com.
pauy. The official decree Is promulgated
rcsuming authority by ne Government over
the territory granted that company.
A London dispatch Of the 9Th says that an
application had been made for new trial In
tins case OF the Tichborne claimant.
A dispatch from the City OF Mexico Of a
recent date states that six Of the assassins Of
the Rev. Mr. Stephens, the American missions
sry, had been condemned to death.
Capt. Gen. Concha on the 7th issued a
proclamation to the Cubans, defining his
noIicy toward the insurgents. He asks the
r,eopie TO trust In him and declares his convic.
ton that peace will be restored.
The steamship Europe, owned by the French
Transatlantic Company, foundered at sea, on
hcr recent voyage from Hayre to New York.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16

Her passengers and crew were taken on board
the steamer Greece The loss by ;he sinking
of the steamer Is estimated at g., 500, 600. No
lives we're lost.
The sovereignty OF the Fiji Islands has been
formally rendered 10 Great Britain.
John Macaaiay, brother Of the historian, 10
dead.
William Kaulbach, the celebrated German
historical painter, died at Munich on the night
of the 7th.
Iowa voter. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1867-1874, 1874-04-16

HANNAFoRD & THOMPSON, Publishers,
Chicago, sold the first large edition Of
Periam's History of the farmers Move
ment" in two weeks. A second edition,
embracing proceedings of the st. Louis
Convention held in Feb, 1874, Is just be-
ing issued Agents are reaping rich har-
vest with it. We advertise Ii this week.