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An Old Maids Opinion.

If it doesn't make me laugh, and
can't help it, to hear married people pity
old maids, never thinking for one mo
ment how an old maid might pity the
married.
Oh, no
Poor soul, she hasn't any husband
Poor dear, she hasn't any children!
It's SO very, very sad.
OF course it is, POLITICALLY speaking,
but don't you ever pity woman for not
marrying until you are quite sure what
sort of man she hasn't married.
I've known broken engagement OF
two that really were subjects Of con-
graduation.
There isn't any other time when a
woman feels 80 like feeling of her shoul-
der blades, to sec whether the wings
have sprouted, 90 when she has slipped
the wrong mn''s ring off her finger, aud
feels that she'. never bear the brnnt of
his hateful temper, or put up with his
neglect, or grow old before her time be-
cause of his unfaithfulness, when she
stands free again and ready for the right
man to come along.
I suppose O woman never feels quite
certain that the right man won't come
in oil her life.
However, we're talking of old maids
and the people who pity them.
1t is all very well to get poetical over
married life and set single women down
as miserable creatures, but like most
theories. the "thing won't wash"
If you get an adoring husband, ready
to cherish and protect you while life
lasts, you're certainly happy woman !;
but how many do9 One out of fifty,
perhaps.
It's lottery with few lucky numbers,
and even an old maid doesn't bitterly
envy woman with a mean or quarrel
some or neglectful husband-a woman
who is left alone with all her cares, o
woman who is slave, not q wife-nor
even always all that falls to the lot of
the best loved wife on earth.
There is peace and rest in life whon
one is ones own mistress, at all events;
when hear worn out, worried matrons
pitying single women 1 often feel like
it is so funny.
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The Drum and Fife.

A Centennial fife and drum corps,
numbering fifty members. is now in
course of organization in Philadelphia.
The uniform adopted is the same as that
used by the Continentals of 1776, and
the drummers propose to perform the
SINE beats that sounded through the
Revolution. The standards used will
be the old Continental flag and the
stars and stripes. This is probably the
argest drum and fife corps ever organ
zed in America.
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A Nice Little Boy.

He is nice little boy who lives in
Erie, Pa. They had a performance in
the opera house, and he stationed HIM
self at the head of the stairway, and said,
SO sweetly and naturally: '' Tickets,
please" and they gave him the tickets,
but soon they came to big, burly man
at door, who wanted tickets, too, and
wouldn't let them in because they had
none. And the nice little boy went with
his friends to the show, and they could
not find him there to pay him for being
doorkeeper.
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PreposterOus Expectations.

In Detroit street car mans breath
smelled so strongly of whisky that gen
tleman moved across the Car to get out
of the circle.
Amy zing wrong2" asked the drunk
ard. as he observed the ciange.
Nothing, except your breath smells
OF whisky enough to knock horse
over"
aspect she does-she does," was the
candid reply, "but you don't 'spect
poor man like me can buy cologne en-
whisky, too, do you?"
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Home Coming.

When brothers leave the old hearthstone
And go, each one, separate way,
We think, ~ We 60 ON alone
Along our pathway, day by day,
OF olden scenes aud faces dear
or voices that We miss 30 much,
And memory brings the absent noar,
Until We almost feel the touch
OF loving hands, and hear, onco moro,
The dear old voices ringing out
Ar in the happy time Of yore,
Ere life had caught share Of doubt.
II you should place against y0ur ear
The she'll you plundered from the sea,
Down in its hidden hoart you'd hear
A low and tender melody,
A s,ausssaus ss ths rossleeo til0,
A yearnng, born Of memory,
And, though its longings be denied,
The shell keeps singing Of the sea.
And sometimes when old memories throng,
Like ghosts, the chambers OF our soul,
We feel the yearning, deep and strong,
A longing we cannot coatrol,
To lay our cares and business by
To seek tho old, familiar ways,
And cross homes threshold, and sit down
With comrades Of our earlier days.
For though our paths are sundered wide,
We feel that we are brothers yet,
And by-and-bye wo turn aside
From hurrying care and worldly fret,
And each one wanders back to meet
His brother by the hearth of home;
think the meeting is more sweet
Because so far and wide we roam.
We cross the lengthening bridge Of years,
Meet outstretched hands and faces true;
The silent eloquence Of tears
Speaks welcome that no words can do.
But all, tho meetings hold regret
The sad, sad story, often told,
or hands that ours have often met,
Close folded under ohurchyard mold,
or eyes that smile into our own,
Closed in the dreamless sleep of God;
A sweeter rest was never known
Than theirs beneath the graves white sod.
A tender thought for them tonight
A tribute tear from memory;
Beneath their covering Of white
Sweet may their dreamless slumber be.
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Love Making.

lis dear little hand,
Half assisting
My efforts to kiss It again,
That at the last moment
Whow! makes my car tingle with pain.
lis lovely blue eye,
Half assenting
When ask for kiss ere ! go;
And ripe, poating lips, ..
Not dissenting,
Tempt mo on TO q kiss and blow.
But that dear little hand,
Loving, coaxes;
Those velvety lips pout full Of bliss 4;
And soon find the blows
Are bat L.o~s~s-
Little stings "to add gest to the kiss"
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DHYsICIAN AND SURGEON. ROOMS FOR
l. merry occupied by j. N Clark, Dentist
Special attention paid to Female diseases and dis
I 8cs of the Lungs.
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C., e. PETERS,

T IvERY STABLE. GOOD TEAMS FURNISH
IL ed ut all times, and ut reasonable prices. Stage
to and hom Depot. Apply a. Stable Of1ice, rear of
Trotter House,
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G, l.. BUTLER,

l. ture, Collins, Caskets, Robes, Caps, Plates,
Musical Instruments, etc. First door south of
Trottrr House, Main Street.
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ROSWELL rARNHAM.
j, b. ORMSBY.

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
IA Master and Solicitor in Chancery.
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[. ZONES M. n.
C.. H. CURTIS.

HOMEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
Ill Office ut Residence. First door south OF
Bank.
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PRICHARD d HAY.

HARDWARE, IRON. STEEL, COAL, NAILS
III Cutlery, Seeds, Glass, Betting, Cordage, etc
Wholesale and Retail. Main Street.
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Other cities are preparing for the eel
ebration of the centennial fourth of July.
Norwich should do the same, says the
Bulletin. Let us have something ap-
propriate and practical which will please
everybody. We do not refer to hanging
book agent, but to something that will
be impressive as well as pleasurable.
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F. H. EVERETT

Successor to DIR. j. N. Clark.
nENTIST. ALL THE MODERN IMPROVE
~ ments. Best Teeth fifteen dollars. All work
warranted to give satisfaction. Inquiries by mail
promptly answered. Hardys Building.
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Cuisines g"rH''
BRADFORD.
H. STRICKLAND.
H. e. HARRIS.

IRON FOUNDER AND MACHINIST, AND MAN
J. ufacturer Of Agricultural Implements
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C, s. STEVENS.

MANUFACTURER OF DIR. DOTY'S CELF.
WI b'i.tcd Mandrake Bitters, Flavoring Extracts
and Essences, etc, at Wholesale and Retail.
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e. H. HARDING.

WATCHEs, CLOCKS. JEwELRY, SPEC
w tacles, Stationery, and Yankee Mott MS.
Watches and Jewelry repaired and warranted. Post
Ofco building.
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C. G. DOTY, ACT.

nYSTER AND ICE CREAM SALOON, FRUIT
~ Confectionery, Soda, Light Groceries, etc.
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Intemperance in Japan.

The ruling vice in Japan is undoubt-
edly drunkenness. 1t pervades all class.
es, though it is confined by force OF
public opinion to the male sex. On a
festival of the third month women are
indeed allowed great license, and in
their harems, from which on that day
even their lords are excluded, they may
indulge to any extent in the forbidden
cup, but a woman of the lower class
who may be found drunk at any other
time would be exposed to a severe beat
ing from her husband; were she of the
higher class, she might die by the sword
of her spouse. The only fermented
liquor used is, it is said, the saki, dis
titled from rice, and differing from :he
Chinese tin or shamshu in that, while it
is weaker, it often contains much of the
poisonous oil of distillation. 1t is taken
warm, and the better kind is not disa-
greeable to the taste. Few Japanese are
fit for business in the evening, and in
the afternoon many of the streets OF
Yeddo are rendered unsafe by drunken
retainers
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=. r. CARPENTER.
lrIUTy SHERIFF.. CcRINTH, VT.


t"rlCN1ET. wILt. ATTEND To All.
a oFL'is proinP' y. viii writ" suciion biis end
get them printed if desired. vershire, Vt.
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Doors AND SHOES OF EVERY DESCRIp-
- tion for ladies' Gentlemens, Youths ant!
Cnildren's wear kept constantly on hand. hope
by fair dealings to merit my share of public patron
age. Opposite Post-office.
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DIR, O, H, STEVENS.

ltURGEON DENTIST, HAS ALL THE MODERN
y Improvements. Also owns the Folsom Patent
tor Orange County. which is one of the greatest i'm
rtovements in Dentistry. All work warranted equal
10 any done in the State Office over Printing Office.
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nErUTY SHERIFF AND AUCTIoNEER, WEST
~ Top.hsm, VT. Business iutrusted to me viii
- attended TO with care and dispatch.
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n r WATSON

A TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW.
N Wells River, Vt. Office with Judge Under
wood
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ORIN GAMBELL, Jr.
e. H. ALLEN.

4 TTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW
IA Master and Solicitor in Chancery.
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j. HI. WARDEN.

TNINE WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEwELRY SILVER
4 Ware. Spectacles, Cutlery, Revolvers Fancy
tioods and Toys. Particular attention given TO Re
pairing Fine Watches. Office w. u. Telegraph Co.
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NEW PHOTOGRAPHIC ROOMS, CHELSEA,
~ VT. Open Mondays, Thursdays and Satur.
DAYS.
Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1876-09-26

LIST OF LETTERS
DEMAINING IN THE POsToFFICE AT
N Phoebe. New, Sept. %, 1876. If not called
for in four weeks they will be sent to the Dead
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EASTERN DISPATCHES.

New York, Sept. o. With a slight
tremor Of the earth throughout the city
and an upheaval of the column of water,
accompanied with considerable rock, ali
of which fell into the river, Hallet's
Point reef. at He'll Gate, was demolished
this afternoon. The triumph of Ameri-
can engineering accomplished by Gem
eral John Newton, was completed in the
precise time and manner intended, and
without a single accident. About II
O'Clock, streams of pedestrians crossed
the city to the east side. A vast number
of strangers came to see what everybody
expected would be a magnificent spec
tacle. The street cars going up town
were loaded, and First and Second Av-
eDues as viewed from the Heights we're
black with people moving toward 9th
street. The house tops along the east
side were crowded, and thomson IS of We
hicles of every description Il led the
Heights and cross streets. Gie.t alarm
prevailed among few residents, and
some houses were entirely deserted,
through fear of rocks being hurled across
the river, or huge wave being caused
by the upheavai. Every house in the
FiCluiLy uhu uoOTS duu WINDOWS open as
a matter of PROBATION, but a great mass
of the people had no fear whatever, and
spectators swarmed on the piers and the
low grounds directly in line with the
rock, where they would be drowned by
the thousands in case of wave.
The police lined First and Second
avenues and were stationed amongst the
crowds on the rocks in order to be avail
able in case of panic. A birds-eye
view OF the point of interest was watched
by II 900 or 10000 people at the nights
between Eigbty-second and Ninety-sixth
streets. At Third avenue, where there
are no houses, the rock to be blasted lay
beneath the surface between Little Is
land and Hallett's Point. At 2 o'clock a
faint puff of smoke arose from the scow
followed by the report of the first gun,
and there was an instant commotion
among the crowd swayina about in fever
ish eagerness TO get standpoint. Ten
minutes later another report. and deep
hush fell upon the multitude. The
stiffness WAS unbroken from then until
the third gun at ten minutes to three,
which was followed precisely at nine
minutes to three by the explosion in a
straight and seemingly narrow line run
ming north and south for about three
hundred yards. The water whitened
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and rose evenly three or four feet high,
a dull thud was heard, the rocks trem-
bled beneath the feet of the multitude as
il from quick, short pulsation OF An
earthquake; the water, which appeared
10 remain stationary for an instant,
broke and spurted up in an irregular
yeilowish masses about twelve feet high,
mixed With dark smoke from the dyna-
mite, then 1t fell back and in nome mt
the river resumed its usual peaceful
aspect, and then mighty cheer arose
from all the northeast side of the city,
and from the steamers and boats steam
whistles were blown and bells rung out
joyously and all was over. The report
was scarcely noticeable and not so much
as ripple was caused upon the water
save Just over the spot where the explos-
ion took place. There was no concus-
sion in the air and not pane of,glsss was
broken in the city or on Wards Island.
New YORK. Sept. 25.-Mary Newton,
daughter OF General Newton, not quite
three years old, fired the mine that blew
Hallet's Point reef to pieces yesterday.
Last evening when the tide was at
about ebb, the Providence, of the Fall
River line, passed over the place of the
explosion. She encountered no difficult
to and sailed about fifty feet nearer to
Hallet's Point than any steamer had
ever done before. The soundings to as
certain the full result of the explosion,
are to be made this morning at slack wat
er current; 1t being too strong to attempt
it at any other time.
CHICAGO, Sept. 25.-The scheme of
manufacturing crooked whisky ipivInegar
works has been discovered in'several To-
calities in this city, and the various
works have been seized.
II. b. Miller, distiller, was released
from Jail this morning on paying his fine
of 81. 900, he having served out his three
months.
A sharp shock of earthquake was felt
about midnight at Springfield, Ills, Ev-
ansville, Ind, Louisville, KY, and other
places in southern Indiana, southern
Illinois and Kentucky.
CHEYENNE, September "a 1t has been
permanently settled that n cantonmeut
will be established at old Fort Reno this
Winter, consisting OF four companies of
infantry; two of the fourth, Captain Won
Horman's from Fort Bridger, and Capt
Blsbis' from Fort Hartsaff, one of the
twenty-third from Camp Brown, and
Captain Pollock's Company of the ninth
infantry from Fort Laramie, tho latter to
be permanent commander of the canton
ment.
General Merritt, who is now in the
vicinity of Deadwood, has been ordered
to scout west to the Little Missouri
on the way to Platte. aBy the time he
reaches the Platte, or in two weeks,
Crook expects to have fresh command
ready, and to..take the field again in per.
son for vigorous Fall campaign. Geu-
eral Mckenzie with the fourth, and
other cavalry will probably compose the
expedition.
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PACIFIC COAST.

SAN Francisco, Sept. 25.-Four new
cases of smallpox were reported this
morning. three yesterday and nine Sat-
urday, the deaths for the past three DAYS
from that disease being eight.
The fumigation of Chinatown is being
actively prosecuted without opposition.
The officers are now at work 10 the block
bounded by Dupont, Stockton, Pacific
and jackson streets. This is one of the
worst parts of the Chinese quarters, com.
prising the notorious sullivan slley. and
others about as bad. This morning a
Chlnaman in an advanced stage of small
pox was found by the officers in a wood
pile, where he had been slowed away by
his countrymen, hoping to .vade a
search for such cases, which is carried
on in connection with the work of disin-
fiction. From the experience of the
party thus far it would appear that lep-
rosy, the existence of which among th g
Chinese has been questioned by many,
was much more common than was sup.
posed, as one or more lepers have bee n
routed from their dens in almost every
alley visited In the vicinity of the
present scene OF operations many white 8
are living, principally of the most de.
graded class Of courtesans, thieves,
FOUNDERS. &c, and the health officers
state that their habtations are quite as
pestIlential and need iumigating as
much as those OF the Chinese.
ELKo, Sept. %. - The Democratic
County Convention of Elko county met
at the Court House in this place at IL A.
" nd ,,Ao
dentials. permanent organization and
platform. and adjourned till 2 P. NJ.
When the Convention reassembled, it
organized with j. z. Edoff, Chairman,
and G. G. S. Wright and j. a. Winde,
Secretaries. The reports of the9sevsral
committees were received and adopted,
and the following nominations made
For Senator. Gabriel COIN; Assembly
men, James McBurney, G. Griswold and
j. b. Tolley; Treasurer. John r. Brad
ley; Sheriff, j. W. Williams. An ad-
journment was then made till s A. NJ to-
morrow, when the balance of the ticket
will be nominated.
SAN Francisco, Sept. 25.-The trial of
Edward Blttenbender, a young man
about twenty years old. who deliberately
shot and killed his brother, George. on
the corner Of Washington and Kearney
streets about year ago, began to-day in
the Fourth District Court. It is clai IL ed
by the friends of Edward that he is the
victim of hereditary insanity, which
will probably be the defence offered.
At special meeting of the Chamber
of Commerce this afternoon, collection
day, which falls on the 2Sth inst. was
postponed till the 10Th at the request oil
the Jewish merchants, the 18th being @
day Of atonement.
A man named Pierce, a ship carpenter
was found dead sitting in his chair, with
pistol wound in his head and q Der
ringer lying in his lap, about noon a,
1919. Sansome street. The deceased
had evidently been dead several days.
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INDIAN CUT.-An Indian while under
the influences of the ardent last Sunday,
cut aud fearfully mangled one OF his
brother aboriginals. There is camp of
the tribe at Ham Lights station, where
the wounded Indian now lies. II is
thought that he will die. There are two
or three enterprising firms in this place
who have for sometime made il prac.
tice to furnish the Indians with liquor.
This is abominab!e. We are informed
that the matter is susceptible of direct
proof, and if so. the guilty parties should
be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law. It is not of much importance while
they continue 10 wresk their murderous
propensites on each other, but if the
matter is continued We may have 10
chronicle the death Of white man some
morning. There is direct and strin-
gent statute bearing upon this that
should be enforced.
The Virginia Enterprise of the 2lst
says: Johu Croyland. Esq. formerly
editor of the Phoebe RECORD, and after.
ward partner Of Judge Pitzer in the
practice of law iu Picche. is in the city.
He intends, we believe. making home
among US and establishing himself here
in the practice Of his profession.
We had call yesterday from Judge
Clapp, who is from the Centennial, Ma
tional Capital, and all the sights and
scenes that the East affords. He seems
but little changed in swinging around
the circle. 1t is, we believe, his inten-
ton to tarry a while 10 Phoebe.
DURING the present week the remand
er Of the furniture. etc, at the Virginia
Lodging-house will be sold at private
sale. All persons desiring anything in
that line Gao be accommodated and at
reasonable figures. This chance will not
be open after this week. s26-1w
JAMES SHEAuoN escaped from the
Hamilton Jail last Wednesday night. Up
to Friday last nothing had been heard
OF him. The Sheriff of White Pine
county offers reward OF $500 for his
capture.
SHOOTING parties are now the order of
the day. The great trouble is TO find
any game to shoot; no one cares to carry
home lot of cotton-tail rabbits and the
deer and quail are too far off for the
majority of our Nimrods.
REoPENs. Miller reopens the
San Francisco brewery on Meadow VAL
ley street to-day. II has been refitted
and promises to be as agreeable place
of resort as heretofore.
VIM. LATIMER leaves this morning for
Virginia City. VIM. has been for some
time compositor in the RECORD office.
He Is good, steady boy. We commend
him to the craft on his travels.
The Democratic primaries will be
held tomorrow. We haven't noticed
any extraordinary interest manifested as
yet.
MEssRs. PoUJADE and Garraghan re-.
turned last Sunday evening from two
weeks visit to Ward City.
Alb. O'DouGHERrY is off to Hamilton
this morning on brief professional
visit