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The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

How TO co ON A BENDER.-The Indanapo-
lis Herald says !" A citizen who has been in
the habit of going on periodical sprees has
started on q new basis. Whenever he feels
the impulse to make beast of himself too
strong to resist, he puts money in his pocket
and starts out. The first saloon he comes to
he calls for ga little sugar." which he stirs
carefully, and then stirs again. Then he
looks at it critically, sets It down on the
counter, pays his fifteen cents and walks off
and leaves it. At the next place he orders a
cocktail, pays for it, and empties it into the
spittoon. Then he buys beer and brandy,
and other beverages, and wounds the feelings
of the bar-keeper by declining to drink them.
AS soon as he has invested about as much
money as he usually spends on one of his
sprees, he gets friend to take him home in a
hack, and sleeps off his debauch. He says
the plan has this advantage-while it enables
him to throw away his money, and fool away
his time, and have fun with the boys and
help the saloon-keepers to livelihood, he
avoids the subsequent headaches and heart
aches, and remorse of conscience, and vague
recollections of having made an ass of himself.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

No rent-np Utica contracts our powers.
But the whole bo,lndless continent il o,,rs

NO pent-np Utica contracts our powass
But the whole buindless continent Is oursD
But very few people know the author. or in
what poem they occur. The Portsmouth IN,
Ho Journal says they were written by one
Jonathan Mitchell Sewell, Portsmouth poet.
as an cpilogue to Addison's play of |" Cato, y,
on the occasion of its performance by an
amateur company In that place, in 1878. The
whole production was one of decided power.
The spirit of the Revolution entered into ey.
cry expression. We give few lines
" And what now CLEANS with dawning rays al home
Once hiazed in ful-orbed majesty al Rome
Did Rome's brave Senate nobly striye q oppose
The mighty torrent Of domestic foes,
And boldly arm the yirtuous few aud dare
The desperate perils of unequal war
our senate, too, the same bold deed has done
Asa Tor . Cato armed Washington.
Rise then, my countrymen for fgbt prepara
Grid on your swords, and fearless rusl, TO war
From your grived country nobly dare to die
ana empty all your veins for liberty.
No pent-up Utica contract powers.
But the whole boundless continent in our ~
Utfca, town older than any nj tho viciniry
OF ancient Carthage, was the place where Ca.
to died. This fact, with the above extracts.
will at ONCE explain one OF the most express
i've quotations in our language quotation
which has been frequently made by the most
distinguished orators, Mr.. Webster among
them.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

She was an elderly lady, and as she seated
herself on one of the stools in a dry-goods
store and asked to be shown some "caliker,' -
she remarked that when she was "gal " she
thought she was powerful lucky If she got
sixteen yards in dress, and she thought it a
s'sinful waste Of stuff to put in more but
she had just " heern y that Mrs. x. was goin'
to hev forty-two yards in her new caliker, and
she hoped that there might be cloud burst
in seventeen minutes if that air woman should
stare round at her in church and make re-
marks about her clothes. You kin jist-cut
me off forty-three yards, and I'll have it made
in pin-back fashion, with an over-dress, and a
square main-sail, and fyin' jib, and back
action then I'd jist like to see that stuck-ur
Mrs. x. put on airs over me-"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26
LEAF MorToEs.-Having pressed a quaint

LEAF MoTToEs.--Having pressed quanti-
ty of small leaves, procure nice rustic framed
glass, and piece of white Bristol board to
fit the frame also bottle of mucilage and
brush. Then draw on your Bristol board
some motto in large and small English CAPT.
tails. " NOTHING BUT LEAVES" is pretty
motto made in this way. Select the smallest
leaves and brush the back Of each carefully
with the brush dipped in mucilage, FASTING
them on to fit the letters and smoothing down
very neatly. Perhaps for this motto 1t would
be better to use Old English capitals, all large
letters. Ferns make beautiful notices, also
leaves and ferns may be used together, or
ferns and white everlasting flowers. In press
ing flowers always take those which have just
been opened as they preserve their tints
much longer.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26
CEDAR WIVES.

That accomplished scientist, Rev. Samuel
Lockwood, of Freehold, has recently been on
visit to Cape May county, and writes as fol-
lows to the Monmouth Democrat, of some in
teresting facts that he noted
| Among the strange productions Of Cape
May are the 'scedar mines - swamps Of
| dark miry stuff in which are buried immense
trees Of the white CEDAR Cuprssssss slyoides
OF the botanists. These mines contain enor-
nous trees, buried to a depth varying from
three to ten feet. The logs lie one across
another, and there is abundant evidence that
they are the growth Of different successive
forests. Indeed in these very swamps, forest
OF the same trees are now growing. The
miners become very skilltul at their work.
An iron rod is thrust into the soft mud, over
which often the water lies. In striking
buried tree the workmon will, by several
soundings, at last tell how it lies, which is it's
root end, and how thick it is. He then mana
ges to get chip Of the tree and by its smell
determines at once whether it is worth the
labor of mining, that is, the workman will
tell unerringy whether the tree be windfau
or brsakdoson. II breakdown it was SO be-
cause it was decayed when standing if a
windfall the tree fell while sound, and has
been preserved ever since by the antiscptic
nature of the peat marsh in which it was
buried. The soft earth is then removed.
This makes pit in the swamp. Into this
the water soon flows and fills it up. This is
rather an advantage. The saw is now intro
ducad and at raut,1ar ;ntary,l. q n,.4 {.
through the trees when the log floats to the
surface. 1t is curious that the log of sound
tree will be sure to turn over when it floats
up. The lower side thus becoming upper
most Trees in this way are sometimes OBJ
tanned which will yield 10000 shingles, worth
$40 per 1000; thus one tree will yield 5000
The age of such = tree, as the season rings
have been counted, has been made out from
ten to twelve hundred years, and even more
A layer of such trees is found covered by
another layer, and these again by another,
and even third, while living trees may still
be growing over all. 1t is evident, indeed,
that New Jer,ey has experienced what the
Biologists call " oscillations" Cape May con-
tains abundant evidence of having been lifted
out of q modern sea. The recent oyster and
clam are found in natural beds, just as they
died in the ocean, but now in positions many
feet higher than the contiguous oyster beds.
While buried trees exist at depths lower than
the beds of living molluses. An artesian well
was sunk few weeks ago at Cape May City.
and asplendid flow of water was obtained.
The shaft when it had reached so feet struck
an obstruction which proved to be the body of
an immense tree. 1t was three feet thick and
cost over 5000 to bore through. Twenty feet
below the tree water was reached. Some of
the auger chips of that tree have been given
to the Secretary of the New Jersey MICROSCOPE
cal Society, who will determine its species.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

Confederate authorities. 1t could never be
found in Richmond, but Mr. Hill may know
just what it was. He need not take the er
parte testimony on the wirz trial. and we can
afford to grant that It may have been mutilat-
ed. There is another source to which we can
refer Mr.. Hill and other defenders of the
blacklist crime in history
Months after the Wirz trial, DIR. Jones, at
the request of the United States Sanitary
Commission prepared a paper from a memo
randa in his possession, giving his scientific
experience in the study of starvation diseases
at Andersonville, his chemical analyses of air
and water and blood, and his Investigations as
to the effect of physical misery upon the
mind The paper is shockingly able in its
exactness, its pure truth, It's absolute honesty
and its unavailing charity of soul. 1t is al,
honor to the man, a blistering shame upon
the Confederacy. 1t was the testimony Of
that simple-hearted and great Drained old gen.
tleman that convicted Wirz And if Mr..
Hill thinks his testimony on the trial has
been mntilated by the Judge Advocate, or if
he or Mr.. Blaine want to know precisely what
liz eVhCo sow, dbu hnCW, lcb tuttH Ttdu Tue
medical volume of the final report of the
United States Sanitary Commission, which
they can find in the library of Congress.
There they will find q story which is childlike
in its simplicity, accusing no man, carefully
scientific, far above the usual range Of pro-
fessional scholarship, but in itself the black
est indictment ever framed against any crime.
1t is honest through and through and Mr. Hill
is-otherwise. The book is open to easy ac-
cess. Mr.. Hill endorses Dr. Jones and SO do
we.
Whether it is wise to reopen this discussion
we are not sure. There is theory that to
start anew on an era of peace and forgiveness,
history should be blotted out and exrerience
forgotten. That is more than we bargained
for in general amnesty. We have no objec-
ton to the removal of all disabilities. They
were already removed by the willing act of a
Republican Congress- But to vote as Randall's
bill proposes that rebel may return without
saying that he will behave in the future, and
to be indicted in the forum of Congress by
ex-Confederate Senators for cruelty to prison.
ers, is little more than the Northern blood
tame as it is said to be--will stand. --Neacark
Daily Adrertissr, Or. Hwnf)
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

THE PRUssIAN ARMy.--The rank and file
in the Prussian army are miserably paid and
equally badly fed, according to an English au-
thority. The only ration which private SOL
der receives in times of peace is 114fbs. of
coarse bread. His pay is SO thalers or about
two dollars and a half month. From this a
deduction of / ! groschen, or about three cents
day is made for messing ; and to this is ad.
ded an allowance made by government, which
varies according to the garrison, and is fixed
quarterly. On the whole it may be said that
each German soldier has bowl of Cruel OF
coffee in the morning, and one meal in tn,
middle of the day provided for him also tina
he has five cents remaining over from bis pa.
to provide his supper.
>>r>-----
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

Some men are perfect giants in bearing up
under disapp ointment disaster may follow
disaster in rapid succession and they will
move along through the world among their
fellow men apparently calm and peaceful
but the horror that takes possession of a mans
whole system when he gets up in the morning,
lights the fire, and then finds no water in the
tea kettle and tho pump frozen, is indiscriab-
BILE.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

He sat in railway car. His head was
thickly covered with mass of red hair. Be
hind him in scat sat man with hardly any
hair on his head. He said to him g guess
you wasn't around when they dealt out hair. :"
"Ob, yes, l was" replied bald head, " but
they offered me lot of red hair, and told
them to throw 1t into the ash bin."
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

"zachariah, says Mrs. Chandler, "what
smell is that?" "Cioves" :" But that
other smells Allspice." " But isn't there
another 2" Yes--Apples." :" And just
one more . "Cider, my dear" "Well,
Zachariah," said shs, if you'd only drink a
little brandy now you'd make good mince
pie"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

1t was in Omaha. A lawyer was addressing
the Judge, and the Judge was eating peanuts
and reading novel; The lawyer bore it for
some time, and then ansrily remarked, II
supposed I'm entitled to the attention Of this
Courts" "Well, sir" retorted tho Judge,
"the Court has long suspected you and will
do its duty the fret chance it gets"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

A young lady asking Williamsport young
man in music store, " Have you happy
dreams9" was astonished when he replied,
No ma'am I'm mostly troubled with tho
nightmare"
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26
POETRY.
JESUS rtHsr AND JEsUs 1Asr.


Jesus when my soul is parting
From this body frail and weak,
And the deathly dew Is starting
Down this pale and wasted cheek
Thine, my Saviour,
Be the name last shall speak
Jesus when my memory wanders
Far from loved ones at my side,
And in fitfll dreaming ponders
Who are they that near me glide
Last, my Saviour,
Let my thoughts on thee abide.
When the morn in all its glory
Charms no more mine ear nor eye,
And the shadows closing Ger me
Warn ME Of the time to die
Last, my Saviour,
Let me see thee standing by.
When my feet shall pass the river,
And upon the farther shore
shall walk redeem'd for ever
Meier to sin-to die no more
First Lord Jesus
Let me see thee, and adore.
Thomas afcEelio
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

A Florida rsin-storsn is ''gcorgeouc, glori-
Gus, rushing e magnificent enthusiasm Of
plunging moisture" No wonder the emo
tional alligator is 10 happy, and the frolic-
some orange so gay Courier Journal.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

Christ 10 flower, but lie fadeth not lie is
river, but He is never dry lie is sun, but
He knoweta no eclipse He is all in all, but
He is something more than ali.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

"Did you notice how splendidly went
through the last real at the ball last night,
Tom2' Yes, and also noticed that you
kept 1t up all the way home.''
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

Laborers in the Michigan woods are work
ing for their board. That's what the woods
are for, we believe. --Danbury News
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

The alligator that swallowed corset is
dead. 1t stayed on his stomach. OF course
it did.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

Not amiss--A rich and lovely widow.
The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1876-01-26

A slow match--A ten years engagement.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05
Windsor.

Windsor.
Miles the Barre bank robber, who
was tried in Montpelier last week and
found guilty, and sentenced to the States
Prison for term Of fourteen years con-
finement at hard labor was brought here
on the mixed train, last Saturday AFTER
noon at o'clock.
Bishop Bissell visited st. Pauls Church
in this village last Sunday-preaching
morning and evening-and "Contrmed'
three persons and also one convict at the
Prison.
The Corporation meeting on Tuesday
evening of last week voted to purchase q
new fire engine, that is, if the WaIdens
think it necessary. Undoubtedly, they
will. So we shall soon haye "thing"
long needed in this village for our protec-
ton against fire.
Oar Fire Engine Company was to
have organized last Monday evening.
Mr.. Dudley Perkins was injured last
week in one of his feet and other ways,
while attempting to stop an unruly steer.
At last accounts he was doing we'll
AT the adjourned Town meeting on
Tuesday afternoon March 2StlI, Geo. w.
Thurston was elected Constable.
&C. j. Weston formerly Weston &
Ruggles, and Weston & Brothers) has
moved his Hardware establish nent to the
south part of the Hubbard block. So says
the Journal.
The Windsor Rife Club is to be re-
organized for the present season. A
IN letting of the club, for that purpose was
to be held on Tuesday evening, April 4th.
AT last accounts our townsman Eph' l.
am Cleveland, Esq, was but just alive.
The death Of Miss Lizzie F. Fowler,
who died in Windsor on Sunday night,
March Goth, is deeply felt by her many
friends and associates Her kindness OF
hetrt and disposition endeared her TO all
who knew her and all enemy she never
had. She died in full consciousness after
long illness and in her last moments her
thoughts seemed TO be more for her
friends than for herself, and her request
was that they would be cheerful for it was
for the best. Her funeral took place at
st. Pauls church on Wednesday, p. M,
and Notwithstanding the bad state Of the
weather aud walking the church was
crowded. The services was conducted
by the Rev. Thomas Taylor, in most i'm.
pressive manner. The chancel and font
were beautifully decorated with magnih-
cent vines, plants and flowers, and the
singing was most appropriate and finely
rendered. Mr.. Fowler and family have
the sympathy Of their friends in their
affection. ="
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05
Barnard.

barnard.
Mrs. Ed. Stafford Of this place, has
a beautiful head of nice, silky, brown
hair, which measures SO inches in
length. Who's next in order?
Hon. W G Danforth's hands are
getting better.
Accidents were numerous with
teams last Saturday in this place
three happening that day, doing some
damage.
Sugar is being made in large
quantities here.
Work has commenced in earnest
on the sold Grist Mill"
Hon. w G Dantorth was the pur-
chaser of the Ayers farm and Wright
pasture at $1,000, at the Danforth
auction last Thursday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05
R>OIllfret.

POmfret.
"A, the monthly meeting OF the
Grange it was voted to offer three
premiums to the three persons who
would set out the most trees IN the
year 1876. The idea Of setting apart
day for the purpose of transplantlns
trees which has this year been recon-
mended by the State and National
Grange is said to have originated in
the Banner Grange, No. II of Pom
fret, and was SO spoken OF at the
meeting Of the National Grange.
H o Smith of this place, has a
very fine flock of Southdown Sheep.
During the months Of February and
March, he raised from forty one ewes,
fifty, one lambs, having thirteen pairs
of twins. Many OF these lambs will
at the age Of six weeks weigh forty
pounds. They will the first Of June
net $500 per head. MIR. Smith may
be classed as one of the most success
tul breeders of Southdown sheep in
the State. c.
For the year ending Dec 81, 1875,
there were seven marriages, twen-
" Que births and twenty six deaths.
Of the deaths there were 2 under 10
years of age; between 10 and 20 !;
| between 20 and 80, between 40
and so ; 3 between 50 and 60: g be-
tween 60 and 10; 9 between 70 and
80; 3 between 80 and 80 ; l between
90 and 100; Is males II te-
males average age of the 10 oldest is
Is years and four months.
John p. Keith leased his farm
and tive splendid Jersey COWS to Har-
ry Whipple for a tenn OF one year,
Harry let the COWS to his father (Obed
Whipple jr) for the same term, last
week one Of the cows WIS taken sick,
and died, cause unknown, the COW vas
valued at one hundred dollars. Whose
loss is it?
Albert Snow from Boston, has
bought Jason Aliens farm, and takes
possession this spring,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05
Chester.

Chester.
--On Thursday morning the village
bells announced fire, which proved
to be at the residence of Mrs Joseph
p Barnes, situated near the Chester
driving park. The barn and sheds on
the west side of the road were Goa
sumed, with one hog. The cattle and
horses were all saved. The L on the
east side of the house was also burn
ed. The main part Of the house, built
of brick, was saved. The cause Of
the fire seems to be a mystery, with
various rumors ahoat. Rumor has it
that tire was a policy OF insurance in
the Connecticut River Mutual for 3d.
500 on the buildings and contents.
loss $500.
-Slosh ankle deep, and more, in the
streets. Good time for ladies with
handsome pedal extremiles to make
a display of same, but rather damp for
pedals. 1t is thought that some keep
in doors on that account Who
knows
Maple sugar made its appearance
in small quantities last week. Ye
aristocraoy make ye bow to M. Sugar
and Madam L,sses. There's where
they are right. Selectman Davis sold
a quantity for Is ID, Vermont Cur
rency ofye ancient time There are
some down here that cant be beat on
making maple sugar.
WIN. Pierce has bought the house
and lot near tactoryville, so called, o f
widow Stanley, paying 5000 for
the same.
Your correspondent knows what
it is to be in the same "posish' of a
certain editor who has a "drefful babe
CODE epizootic rather. Several have
been sick with the pneumonia one
Mrs. Brewer has died with the same.
Could not the doctors give it little
easier name 1t might be some salts
faction to bear disease with a good
Saxon or English name,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05

Quechee.
AT its annual meeting this school
district raised tax of Is cents on
each dollar of the Grand List. 1t was
voted to have a third department in
our school.
Abigail Brown, maiden lady,
"a years OF age, residing some two OF
three miles from this village, fell down
the cellar stairs, striking her head
against the wall, breaking her hip
and severely cutting her head.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05

STATE OF VERMONT. At a Probate
DISTRICT OF HARrFol D. a.. Court held at
Woodstock within and for said District on
the twenty-second day of March, A. d., 1876.
Present Hon. JOHN PORTER Judge.
An instrument purporting to be the last
will and testame t with codcll thereto an
nexeD of Urana II. Barker, late of ridge
water in said District, deceased, is presented
to the Court here by Winfield S. Southgate
the Executor therein named. for probate and
it is ordered by said Court that all persons
concerned therein be notified to appear before
said Court. at the Probate Office in Woodstock
aforesaid on the first Wednesday (thrd day.
Of May next, and contest the probate Of said
will and said codicil, if they see cause ; Tor
which purpose it is FURTHER ordered that GER
titled copy of the record of this order be pub.
lished three weeks successfully, previous to
the time appointed for proving said will and
said codicil, in the Spirit ofMe Age, newspa-
per printed at Woodstock aforesaid.
A true record,
HENRY 5. DANA, Register.
a true copy of record,
HENRY S. DANA Register.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1876-04-05
Commissioners Notice.
JOIN CUMMINGS. Estate

JOHN CUMMINGS, Estate.
The undersigned, having been appointed by
the Probate Court Of the District of Hartford,
Commissioners to receive. examine and adjust
all claims and demands OF all persons against
the Estate of John Cummings late Of Barnard.
in said District, deceased, and the claims of
the deceased exhibited in set-off to the claims
of the creditors, hereby give notice that we
will meet ,or the purpose of examining and al
lowing said claims at the dwelling house lately
occupied by the said John Cummings, deceas-
ed. ia Barnard, in said District, on the last
Saturday in April (2O and the last Saturday in
August (26) day. 1876, from ten o'clock, A. ~,
until four o'clock p. NJ, on each of said days,
and that six months from the 4th of March A.
D.. 1876, is the time limited by said Court for
said creditors to present their claims to us for
examination and allowance.
Dated at Barnard this 22d day of March A.
D., 1876.
NELSON ELLISON, Commissioners
MYRON BURNETT. commissioners