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WESTMINSTER FARMERS CLUB

A CARD.-The undersigned take this
opportunity to express their sincere thanks
for the numerous as we'll as useful arti-
cles presented them by their neighbors
and friends, on the evening of the 4th
of December, it being the tenth ami
versary of their marriage.
Mr.. and Mrs. III. II. WHITNEY.
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BARTONsYILLE.

Dr. II, P, Fairfield will speak in Spir-
itualist Hall, in Bartonsville, Sunday
Dec, 18th, and also on the following
Sunday Dec, 10Th.
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CHESTER.

The Fifth Annual Ball of Yosemite
Engine Co. No. /, will be held at the
Chester House, H. II. Ingraham, Propri-
etor, Tuesday eve, December 21st. I'm
der the efficient management of the COM
mittee of arrangements everything is be-
ing done to make this ball one of the
most brilliant and recherche gatherings
ever held at the Chester House. Pea
body's Quadrille Band, composed of six
pieces, is engaged to furnish music, which
announcement is sufficient to indicate
that the very best of instrumental music
will be performed. The supper will be
equal to the occasion if the past efforts
of mine host Ingraham are any criterion.
Full bill $500. A general invitation is
extended. Firemen are requested to APP
pear in uniform. The fremen of Ches-
ter are entitled to hearty recognition,
and the compliment of your approving
presence on this occasion. Many of our
best citizens are members of the Yo.
Semitic Engine Co. and the rowdy ele-
ment is never tolerated at their enter
tainments. SCHNEIDER.
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IOWNSHEND.

An incendiary attempt was made re-
Gently to burn the new blacksmith shop,
recently built by w. IL. & G. H, Will
lard and occupied by Henry Benson.
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Married.

In this village, at the Methodist Parsonage. Dec
Sd. by Rev. Church Tabor. Mr.. GEO. w, FISHER
and Mrs. HATTIE NJ CIRCUIT, both of Walpole
The printers ack nOwledge remembrance.
At Trinity Church, New Haven Ct. Nov. oath
by the Right Key; the BISHOP Of Connecticut, h9B-
ERT PARROT PAULDING, u. S. Navy. and NJ A
RION ELKFORD, daughter os Rev. Edwin Har.
wood, d. ID.
rens, N. Y. December 1st 1875, Miss ALICE e
BRAGG of St. Agnes Hall. and ARTHUR JAY
SMITH Hamilton. n. Y.
In Keene. n, H., Dec. /, by Rev. W o. White Mr.
oRXILLE II. HAMMOND of Swanzey, and Mis-;
ALICE S. WALKER f Cayendish. VT.
In Westmoreland. n. II Nov. "A. py willard Bill
Jr. Esq, FRANK N. SMITH of Chesterfield, and
ADDIE NJ HOPKINS Of Westmoreland.
In Chester, Nov. "a by Rev. j. Chatfee. Miss
GRACE SANDERS and Mr.. JOHN HART, both o.
Springfield.
In DUNN erston Nov. 24th by Rev. L. G. Chase
FRED NJ. BUTLER of Jamaica, and LILLIAN II
H0LT0N of DummerstOn.
In Perkinsville. Nov 18th. by Rev. VIM III. Rugg
FREDERICK h. WELLES of Brooklyn, n. Y =, and
MARY E. Afford of Perkinsville.
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ST. ALBANs MARKET. There was
good attendance at the st. Adams mar
ket Tuesday Dec, 18th prices a little
better receipts liberal and business ac..
tive. The quotations are common Is
to Is cents medium good 20 to 25c:
winter made butter ranges in price from
Is to 30 cents, according to quality and
color; fall butter 80 to 80 cents, with
sales of extra choice at "a cents.
At Richmond, Monday, the market
was very quiet, with very little butter or
cheese offered and that little odds and
ends of the season. Butter sold at %
to 20 cents for winter make F.; % to 80 c
for grass made. Nine dollars per hun
bred for dressed hogs
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CATTLE RkET.
WHOLESALE PRICES.
TUESDAY Dec 6, 1875.
MOUNT or STOCK At MARKET.

MOUNT or STOCK At MARKET.
Cattle Sheep Shotes. Fat Hogs Veal
This week. 1904 i6635 80 1879
One year ago. 2s60 1924 500
PBICEs.
Prices of Market Beef.-Extra IS Is % 50 so first
quality s7.25 90 $50: second quality $500 "a 500
third quality $3.50 a S5.75.
Sheep and Lambs,-Per head in lots, S2.0O@6 rs,
Hides SIC a TIC, 2 10.
Tallow, &c a 7cF 10.
Mich Cows and Calves.-S35. s6S, SOS and sos.
Prices of Store Cattle.-W OrKing oxen. 2 pairl50
a 500
REMARKS.-There is about 19c off on beef this
week but it is mainly the grade. and large supply
from the West the average quotations running from
to lUc. Sheep and lambs were of fine quality and
sold at g. So and &C. The market is quicker about
&c. advance. But few more sheep expected
from Canada this season. Live Poultry trade il
very light, and few in market at former quotations
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METEOROLOGICAL NoTEs FOR Nov
EMBE. = Average temperature, morning
25570 noon S5.l3o night 29.40o /;
for the month 29,700. Mercury highest
morning 10Th, 400 noon 18th, $50 +;
night 7th, 18th, 18th, 44' lowest, 30th
morning 70 below zero noon % above
night zero Greatest range of mercury
for single day 9TH, 250 ; least 14th, 10.
Range for the month, so, from 70 be-
low zero to go above, Mercury fell
nearly 500 in "a hours during the 29th
and 30th. More or less clear IA days.
Rain or snow on II days. days near
ly cloudless. The 16 and 26 very rainy.
Snow storm on the 10th, 18th, Odd, and
2Sth, 10 inches falling in all. First
sleighing on the %. Bitterer days than
the last two of the month are rare in
mid-winter, only one last winter colder
on the average that the 30th. Temper
ature during the month very changeable
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1ied
Marriages and Deaths inserted FREE Obituarie
including poetry. be paid for according to lengtl

Dexter c. and Lucy L. Benson, aged years and :
months
In Westminster Nov. 9Th, WALTER c.. son Of
Charles c. and Martha Peck. aged years and
days.
In Chester. Nov. 18th. suddenly. RICHARD Oh
NEY, aged 46 years
In Chester. Nov. Gath. at the residence Of Mrs
Daniel Adams. of cancerOus tumOr. ZtLPHA
CHANDLER. aged % years and months
In Rochester. n. Y. Of consumption WILLIAM
HENRY, son of Capt. Moses Coffin Of Springfield
VT. aged IS years,
In Springfield, December I'd. Mrs. MARTHA B
GRAIN, aged - years.
In Coushatta. La, Nov. u. Of yellow fever, Mrs
KATE f. HOLLAND. aged q years. Z months, Wild
ov OF the late Clark Holland. formerly Of Nevfsne
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EsToN.

This town has voted to help the Green
Mountain Railroad eight times its grand
list by two thirds vote
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SrRATroN.

Stratton has voted eight times her
grand list in aid of the Green Mountain
Railroad, amounting to S5400
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SAxToNs RIVER.

School books for the winter term may
be obtained at Glynn's at lowest prices,
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CLASS IN DRAWING,

THE UNDERSIGNED Is about TO form a class 10
L Drawing, Crayoning and Penciling, and all those
desiring TO join such class are requested 20 hand
In their names at an early day, that suitable AT
rangements may be made f. j. BLAKE,
Bellows Falls, VT Dec, s, 1915. 80
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KEYES OF SPRINGFIELD.
FURS

For them all, including Seal American Sable Alas
ka Sable. Fitch. Squirrel, &c, &c. Fur Trimmings
Fur Overcoats, Sleigh Robes, &c. Also, Clothing
Boots and Shoes and lots Of Fancy Goods for pres
ents. All cheap. for cash
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Is near at hand and we have our store filed with
nice things for Christmas presents, that are good
and useful and you will be sure ofgettng your mon
ey worth every time. Don't fail to call and see
what we keep for sale if you don't buy ANY one
who will take the trouble to send us their address
we VIII send them something that every one needs
free Of charge
J, We have the Mental Photograph AIbums-some-
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1875-09-10

INA CAR WITH TIGER.-A recent in
cident on the Ogdensburg road is thus
described by the st. Adams, (Vermont)
Messenger of the 9th inst: GA cage of
tigers, which was ON its way to the menag
erie now exhibiting south of here, was
placed in one end of the car, and a zebra
was Gied in the other end. The watchman
lay down on box and fell asleep; when he
awoke he discovered that one of the tigers
had bent the iron bars of its cage, forced
it's way out, and was crouching in the
opposite corner. The regular keeper of
the animals was in the sleeping car at the
rear end of the train, and there was no
chance to communicate with him or any
one outside The poor watchman was
frightened into motlonless silence, and in
that awful suspense he made the long and
weary journey to st. Albans. After the
train came to halt here, one Of the train
men, in passing the car, saw large, cat
like nose thrust out of an opening, ndssnot
knowing that any ones life was endangered
in the car, but fearing lest the animal should
escape, ran to the sleeping-car and aroused
the keeper, who soon appeared, rawhide in
hand, and lashed the beast back into his
den, to the immeasurable relief of the poor
fellow who had been curled up for hours
on the box"
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SWIFT OCEAN VoYAGEs.-Only few
years ago the impression prevailed among
steamship owners that for the attainment
of speed ON the ocean it was necessary to
use side wheel steamers. The owners of
the vessels which were the first to be pro-
vided with screws used them for purposes
of economy and presumed safety. 1t was
ascertained that propelIers required much
less quantity of coal than side-wheel steam
ers, and in severe storms the danger of
shipwreck was decreased, as there were no
wheel-houses to be wrenched and broken
by the waves. The belief that great speed
could not be obtained with screws has been
dispelled. Within month two iron-screw
steamships belonging to two different lines
have made the quickest time ever made on
western passage between Queenstown
and New York. The steamer City of
Richmond, of the Inman line, left Queens
town ON July 16, and arrived off Sandy
Hook, at 1890 a. m, ON July "a, making
the run in eight days and twelve minutes,
mean time. The steamship Germania, Of
the White Star Line, left Queenstown ON
July 80, and arrived off Sandy Hook at $40
a. m., August Z, making the run in seven
days and twenty three hours, the quickest
time on record.
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The Cost Of Raising Horses.

The Agricultural Department having
made inquiries as to the cost of raising
horses in each of the various States, reports
as follows In the Middle States the maxi =
mum cost of wintering horses, $4S per head,
as in New Jersey; next in order stands
Delaware, S43, New York, $87, and Penn
sylvania, $685. Delaware farmers, last year,
received the highest average price for hay
$50 per ton, and those Of New york the
lowest, 1910. New York received the
maximum price of corn, 93 cents per b.ishel. u,
Del, 20 cents The price of oats ranged from
SO cents in Delaware to 60 in New Jersey.
Averages of Eastern States were as follows:
Maine, s27; New Hampshire, $s7 !; Ver-d Y
mont, s3s; Massachusetts,, $45 Rhode
Island, $4s and Connecticut, $45. West
ofthe Mississippi the average cost Of vim
tering ranges from 30 in Kansas to $ss IN
Minnesota. Iowa averaged SIG; Missouri,
$l2, and Nebraska $13. Farm prices OF
hay vary from 1886 in Kansas to $12.05 In
Missouri. The cheaper hay Of Kansas and
Nebraska is mostly made from the wild
grasses of the prairies. Corn ranges from
43 cents per bushel in Iowa to sf In Kansas
and oats from So cents per bushel in Iowa
to So cents in Kansas.
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A Painting Wager.

There was considerable excitement yes
terday between one and two o'clock on
Dock street, below Second occasioned by
parties who were engaged painting the
poles Of the Local Telegraph Company. 1t
has usually taken from three to four hours
for the painting of a single pole, and upon
the subject of completing the job in much
shorter time, lively discussion took place.
Mr.. James Grace, line-man, who FOR many
years was employed in the City Police and
Fire Alarm Department, asserted that he
could paint 55-foot pole, with six cross
arms, in thirty minutes, and there were
plenty of wagers that he could not. The
crowd on Dock street gathered to witness
what all at the outset predicted would be a
failure. He was exactly twenty-six min
utes, finishing the job in that time, much
to the surprise of the lockers on. He did
some tall reaching, and each dash of the
brush covered a deal ofspace. He descend
ed once to supply his paint pot. This same
person once on a wager strung mile of
wire in thirty-four minutes and fifteen
seconds, climbing in that time forty-one
poles thirty feet high, and winning the
wager by three-quartels of a minute. Upon
another occasion he put up large cross
arm in a minute and half. He is a tall
fellow, and his hailing from Jersey cannot
discount the fact that he can do some ''tall''
work.-The Press, Philadelphia.
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The Steamship Dakota.

The new Williams 6 Guion steamship
Dakota. sister ship to the Montana, of
which extended mention has been made in
these columns, arrived at this port on Sat-
urday, on her first voyage from Liverpool.
She is of the same peculiar and withal
handsome model of the Montana,
3s4 feet long, As feet beam, and 30
feet depth of hold. The Dakota can steam
sixteen knotsan hour, and has accommoda-
ton for so cabin and / 800 steerage passen-
gers. She is commanded by Captain For
sytl, and sails hence on the 10th instant.
The Dakota made her initial trip across
the Atlantic in less than nine days and did
not steam at full speed, Three days out
she passed an immense iceberg, Neso York
Mai.
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Old Soldiers Stories.

Several powder-begrimed veterans gath
cred in certain police station the other
evening, says the Louisville Courter-Journ-
al, to keep out of the rain for few minutes,
and while there discussed the late war.
81 remember" says one, " that bullet
passed clear through George Gays body,
and never killed him Y
81 recollect,' y said another, " that a ball
lodged in Bill Payson's lung, and never
was taken out, but he lived.''
ST." said third, know well when the
doctors thought Henry Hilrs life was gone
up, as minnie lodged within an inch Of
his heart, but he lived" 4
.sJake Johnson's head was pierced by a
ball, and he lived, y exclaimed the last man
but one.
These remarks produced considerable
surprise, and excited speech from all save
tall, slim, and sleepy individual, who
waited till his companions concluded, and
then drawled, in piping accents:
ssThose fellows was little tough,
allow; but Jim Jones, who hit aside OF me,
was shot in the neck SO that his head jist
hung by the skin
Great heavens Z" CALCULATED all s" you
don't mean to say he lived, do youa'
Oh, no; he died, y drawied slim and
sleepy. aaa
Dir. William D. Kelley plumply told a
reporter at indianapolis that he hoped the
/ Democrats would succeed ia Ohio. Many
of Mr. Kelleyss Republican constituents
have plunply told him that he ought, in
common decency, to resign his seat ia Con-
grcss. or keep his mouth shut.
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Flowers for Graves.

A minister, newly settled in one of the
"waste Places was walking in the,
cemetery, one day, when he saw one of his
parishioners standing by a family lot. y
ssAre these the graves of your children 90
he asked.
eyes, said the man looking about,
q Here is Tom, there is Bill; this is Mary;
that's the baby" and then, pointing con-
tentedly to corner gay with flowers,
.sThere lays the old woman, all blowed
outr'
Which reminds us of man who was
recently fixing flowers on the grave of his
wife in our cemetery. AS an excuse fol
such unproductive labor he remarked that
ssShe was a great old skeesicks for flower S
and was always sniffin' round among the
blows.'
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Tramp Tramp! Tramp.

He was traveled-stained and weary, and
his eyes had a far-off wishful look, as
though he knew that rest was not for him
below, let his tired heart crave it ever so
much. And as he humbly asked the lady
of the house for morsel of food, his ven-
cradle appearance and evident want aroused
all her womanly generosity and she pres
emily set the poor trampled-down to the re-
mains of the family dinner.
Poor old man, she murmured sympa-
thetically, as she saw him lean back in his
chair leaving his lunch untouched on his
plate-'he is not going to eat, and she
asked him if he felt ill.
Not exactly, num- was the answer in
humble voice. but mos people cooks their
roast beef till it's over done, an overdone
beef don gently agree with me-
'Ye' havn't got any Wooster sauce have
yep continued the mendicant, i mos
gently use it when beef amt cooked to
suit me-
Unfortunately, the house of Mccormick
was out of Wooster sauce but Mrs. Nc
Cormick brought the mustard and a plate
of nice pickles. observing with the daintest
trace of sarcasm IN her tones, that if she'd
known that he was coming she'd have
looked out for something better.
'Oh, I amt very particular num- said
the old man, as he helped himself, to an
other spoonful of gravy and q cucumber
pickle, only jes' happ'ned to mention it,
COS where there yain't NO pie nor nothin'
sweet for dessert, overdone roast beef's more
likely to Disagree with me, and the meek
ness in the yagrant's wrinkled face was
touching in the extreme, as he locked hum
bly, around the table, as though his former
glance might have overlooked the luxuries
of which he spoke.
But Mrs. Mccormick was rather too far
gone with speechless indignation to frame
suitable answer, and so the weary old
man, with mournful sigh, went on eating,
and developed most wonderful appetite,
which was gradually appeased as the four
pound piece of beef was reduced to a mere
shapeless fragment, and the last boiled po.
tato had vanished from the dish.
Il hope you've made dinner ejaculat-
ed Mrs. Mccormick in a fine irony.
We'll, yes'm, I've eat wuss whites, said
the old mendicant, with deep humility. as he
pushed his chair back from the table and
appeared to seek something ON the floor.
What is it you're lookin' fOr?' de-
manded Mrs. Mccormick, with a snap in
her voice that reminded one of the slam
ming down of the lid of a chest.
Nothin' mum--that il, notlin' partick'-
ler; don't see no napkin, an thought
| might a. dropped it,
But he never finished his speech and five
seconds later his white locks vanished
through the doorway with amazing celebrity
and an infnriated female with mop fol-
lowed so closely behind, that he got fully q
| half mile from the house before pursuit
ceased, and he was able to light his cigar.
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P0E Try !.
THE WELL OF sT. KEYnE.

Fla the Parish of st. Neots Cornwall is a we'll
arched over with the robes of four kinds of trees
Witty, oak, elm and ash, and dedieat ed to St. Keyne
hereported virtue of the water Is this that whether
husband or wife first drink thereof they get the mas
tership thereby.-Fuiler.1
A well there is in the West country,
And clearer one never was seen;
There Is not wife in the West country
But has heard of the well of st. Keyne
An oak and an elm tree stand beside,
And behind does an ash tree grow,
And willow from the bank aboAc
Droops to the water below.
A traveller came to the we'll of st. Keyne
Aleasant it was to his eye.
For from coek-crow he had been travelling,
And there was not cloud III tn, sky.
He drank OF the water so cool and clear,
For thirsty and hot was he,
And he sat down upon the bank,
Under the willow-tree.
There came man from the neighboring town
At the well to fill his pail
On the wel-side he rested it,
And bade the stranger hail
Now, art thou bachelor, stranger g quoth he,
- tOf an IL JnOu mast vile,
The happiest draught thor hast drank this day
That thou ever didst in fhy life.
'Or has your good woman, if one you have.
In Cornwall ever been?
For an if she have, I'll venture my life,
She has drank of the Well of st. Keyne.
II have left good woman who never was here, -
The stranger he made reply;
But that my draught should be better for that,
pray You answer me why"
'St. Keyne," quoth the countryman, many time
Drank of this crystal well.
And before the angel summoned her
She laid on the water spell.
q If the husband of this gifted well
Shall drink before his wife,
Ahappy man thenceforth is he,
For he she'll be master for life.
''But If the wife should drink of it first,
Heaven help the husband then!'
The stranger stopped to the well of st. Keyne,
And drank of the waters again.
"You drank Of the well, warrant betimes q
He to the countryman said.
But the collntryman smiled as the stranger spake
And sheepishly shook his head.
81 hastened as soon as the wedding was done,
And left my wife in the porch
But + faith she had been wiser than me,
For she took bottle to church."
ROBERT SoUTHEY.
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Health Notes.
From DR.. Halls Maxinlf.
ed excitement is disease.

Continued excitement is disease.
If a man is not consumptive, and is plain
ly told so, such burden is sometimes taken
from his mind that new life is infused
into him he rises above the depressionA
which were crushing him into the. grave,
throws off disease, and goes forth in few
days new being and well man.
Heat rarefes all noxious gases and odors,
and sends them to the clouds; these are
most pernicious at sunrise and sunset q
hence building fires in the family sitting
room at those hours, will, other things be-
ing equal, exempt families from epideniics.
chills and fevers, and perhaps even cholera
ITSELF rtEf y s9 a3tE.
Bearing about in ones heart the sweet
memories of mothers care, and affection
and fidelity, often has restless power
for many year after that dear mother has
found her resting place in heaven, to re-
strain the wayward and the unsettled from
rushing into the ways Of wicked and aban-
Sickness is sometimes imaginary, but in
such cases it does no good to deride or to
scold so it is sometimes with what is called
nervousness-it is useless TO make light Of
it the feeling of suffering is the same as If
it were real In such cases sympathy is
oftentimes more efficient remedy than
derision or impatient epithet. "Bear ye
one another's burdens" !" is moral medica-
mentum of great efficacy. iQ maa
However healthy man may be, anxiety
for to-morrow's bread win soon undermine
the strongest constitution; hence the
French returns officially announce that the
we1l-to-do average eleven years longer life
than those who live by their daily labor.
If man is healthy and well-to-do, and Is
not busy in his calling, he viii seldom fail
to become dyspeptic, intemperate or rest
less, and die prematurely. .....5.,