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Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1877-07-11
WHOLE NO. 1920

day, and the next-in fact, every day;
and though kind friends hocked to the
sick bed, as is the wont OF English
men, only too anxious to do any thing
and every thing, they constituted
themselves the chief ones. And after
a while people began to understand ;
and by-and by, when a quiet little
wedding took place in the old church
at Noting Hill, | don't think that
any one was very much surprised.
Strelton and his pretty wite-tor
Edith was pretty, though have never
mentioned it beforehand never had a
disagreement but once, and that was
when be wanted the "Scene from
Macbeth" hung in the drawing-room,
and she would not have it, because it
was "too abominably bad"
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NORTHERN RAILROAD.

1871. SUMMER ARRANGEMENT. 1871.
On and after May 2l 1877, Passenger Train
" will run as follows
UPWARD TRAINS.
Day Express Train leaves Concord at 1919
Ans and Accommodation Train at 1000
A.Mtfor White River Junction, connecting
it'll train for Well River, st. Johnsbury,
warton, Newport, Willoughby and MagoG
Bakcs, Stanstead, Quebec, Bath, Littleton
Lancaster, and theWhite and Franconia
Mountains. Also, withtrains for Mont
pelier, Mansfield Mountain, Burlington, ST.
Albar.s, Rousc's Point, Montreal, Ogdens
burgh, and the West.
ACCoMMcDATIoN TRAIN leaves Concord al
$3.50 P. NJ" for White River junction Bristol
EVENING EXPRESS TRAIN leaves Concord
at S.45 Y. N. for White River junction, con
Meeting with trains for Montpelier, Burling.
ton, st. Albans, Rouse's Point, Montreal
Ogdensburgh, and the West. and with Wood
stock Il. II. for Quechee, Woodstock, etc.
sOr on arrival OF trains from Bostn, Woor
cester, Portsmouth, Portland, &c.
DOWNWARD TRAINS
MORNING ExpRE3s TRAINleaves White
River Junction for Concord at l.5o A. NJ, or ol
arrival of trains from OgdenSburgh and Mon
treal. This train is run to Boston on Sunday
ACCOMMODATION TRAIN leaves White X
Junction for Concord at 600 A. NJ.
+BRIsroL TRAIN leaves Bristol for Concor,
at $50 A. N. and Franklin at 900 An
rMAIL TRAIN leaves White River J1nctioi
for Concord at 1890 P. NJ, or on arrival o
trains over the Vermont Genital, Passumpsic
and White Mountains Railroads.
DAY EXPRESS TRAM leaves White Rive
junction at 4.50 p. NJ, or on arrival of train
from Montreal and Ogdensburgh, Brattle
boro, Keene, Bellows Falls, Windsor, &c
connecting at Concord with train for Man
chester, Nashua, Lowell and Boston. -,
tThese trains connect at Concord witt
trains for Manchester, Lawrence, Ports
mouth, Portland, Nashua, Worcester, Ne,
York, Low ell, and Boston.
GEO. +. TODD, Supt.
Concord. n. IL, May 2lst, 1871.
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ALL OUT Of DRAWING.

One sultry, sunny afternoon Ill May
there might have been seen IN a
large-sized room in an unpretentlous
building at Noting Hill, England, a
coodly crowd of artists, many young
and a few old, that constituted the
committee OF the "Society OF Water
Color" hot the society whose move
meots are chronicled with so much
interest by all the art journals OF
Great Britain, but u little simple
minded society composed Of amateurs
and young artists, with one or two
veterans to give it backbone
At the time our story opens they
were sitting in judgment on the pic
lures sent in for their annual exhlbl-
ton, and they looked critical and
crave, as befitted their task. Through
the half open door glimpscs could be
caught Of several anxious oues in the
reception room waiting to know their
fate. The talk hummed on among
the committee, and at last the fiat
went forth-aN the pictures were to
be admitted. 70 this one of the
veterans-a good.looking man OF 30
objected.
"There is one really too abominably
bad" said he. "rhat Scene from
Macbeth ) it would never do to have
that"
"Oh, come, Stretton, you're toe
particular. 1t will pass muster among
the rest"
"No, it won't it will be a disgrace
to the exhibition. Just look at Mac
beths leg! and the color-pertectIy
raw 1t will never do.
SO the hum began again, and th'
result was that the "Scene from Mac
beth" was literally and figurativel.
turned face to the wall.
Stretlon, satisfied at having save'
the honor of the society, left the other
to settle the remaining business, ant
was walking out of the room, whei
he came face TO face with Boggs-
good naturd little amateur, who coul'
not draw "any more than a frog wha
I hasn't got no ,ail," but was immense
ly conceited, to make up for it. IL
caught at Stretton eagerly.
81 say, old fellow, you've done it
You know that picture you inslste
upon turning out? Well, 1t wa
painted by young girl, and she wa
I'm the next room, and heard ever
d word that you said, and has gon
home crying her eyes out"
"By Jove j. exclaimed Strettor
looking dismayed, "rm awtully sorr,
, l wouldn't have had it happen for tn
world. Poor little thing! Confoun
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FRANK WILLIAMSON,
SLATE AND TIN RO0FER.

Stock furnished and all kinds Of work thor
oughly done at lowest cash prices. Leaky
roofs repaired. Address, [1764.]
south POmfret, VI.
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POETRY Y.
AFTER TEEF COUNCIL.

MrDavid Grey, editor ofthe 'Buffa-
10 Courier" has an article on "The
Last Indian Council on the Genesee,
in ScRIBNER tor July, closing with the
following poem:
The fire sinks low. the drifting smoke
Dies softly in the autumn haze,
And silent are the tongues that spoke
The speech Of other days.
Gone, too, the dushy ghosts whose feet
But now yon listening thicket stirred
Unscared within its covert meet
The squirrel and the bird.
The story of the past is told,
But thou, o Valley, sweet and lone
Glen of the Rainbow thou shalt hold
Its romance as thine OWE.
Thoughts of thine ancient forest prime
Shall sometimes haunt thy summer dreams
And shape to low poetic rhyme,
The musio of thy streams.
When Indian Summer filings her cloak
OF brooding azure on the woods,
The pathos of a vanished folk
Shall tinge thy solitudes.
The blue smoke of their fires once moro
Far DER tho hills shall seem to lise.
And sunsets golden clouds restore
The red mans paradise.
Strange sounds of forgotten tongue
Shall cling to many crag and cave,
In wash of falling waters aung,
Or murmur OF the wave.
And oft in midmost hush Of night,
shrll DER the deep-mouthed cataract's roar
Shall ring the war-cry from the height
That woke the wilds OF yore.
Sweet Vale, more peaceful bend thy skies'
Thy airs are fraught with rarer balm:
A peoples busy tumult lies
flushed in thy sylvan calm.
O sweet thy peace while fancy frames
Soft idyls of thy dwellers fled,-
They loved thee, called thee gentle names
In the long summers dead.
Ouenched il the fire the drifting smoke
Has vanished in the autumn haze
Gone, loo, o Vale, the simple iolk
Who loved thee in old days.
But. for their sakes-ther lives serene
Their loves, perchance as sweet as OURS
o, be thy woods for aye more green,
And furcr bloom thy flowers
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Hart!and Business Cards.

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WILLIAMS & BAKER,
DENTISTS,

Office Corners Of Central and Elm Streets
[lsOstfl WOODSTOCK. VT
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16
An ENTERPRTsIxG NEWSPAPER MAN

An ENTERPMsING NEWSPAPER MAN
A correspondent writes us from New
Smyrna, Fla: 1--WE have communica.
ton with the outside world by mail
cart on one side and by sail-boat on
the other twice week. Mondays
and Thursdays are the red-letter days
when the mail comes in. 1t leaves on
the succeeding mornings at sunrise.
The mailbag closes at 10 O'Clock on
the previous evenings, and SO strict
are they that if you be five minutes
late YOU must wait for three or four
days, although whole night inter
vcnes before the carrier leaves. Let
tiers going North remain from one to
four days at Enterprise before leaving
for jacksonville, whence they go
through by mail without further dc
lay. The average time occupied by a
letter in transit to and from New
York is seven days. Speaking of
news, some lunatic is about to start a
newspaper here. The Office is to be
three miles back in palmetto shanty,
in the middle of the pine woods. A
gentleman who arrived here today
met the proprietor on the Enterprise
road. He was driving cart contain
ing his printing press, which my in
formant described as contained IN a
box about two feet by three. The
new editor talked very freely of his
prospects; said he had engaged the
best talent in Florida TO write for him,
and limited that he intended to depend
upon advertisements as his main
source of profit. Advertisements! in
a country where nobody has dollar
of cash. Two miles further on, two
of the presumptive subscribers to the
new journalistic venture were furious
ly beating out fire in the woods, &C.
cidentally set by the future editor
while cooking his coffee, and swear
ing vengeance upon him at every
blown Y. Times
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

THE AGE OF MACHINES "A revoln-
ton had been taking place in Eu-
rope-a revolution not SO much pollt-
Iical as industrial or social, though it
was followed by political consequences
of the most important nature. Its
commandments may be seen IN the
preceding century, in the canaEengl-
neering of Brindley; in the improve
ments of iron-mannfacture; in the con-
struction of all kinds of machinery,
which reached its acme when the
hand of man was deposed from its Of
fee, and, through the slide-rest and
planting-macbine, engines were made
by themselves. Then came the ex-
uuisite contrivances for the mannfac-
ture of textile fabrics, so that a man
could do as mnch work in a day as he
had formerly done in year, the
movement in that direction culminat-
ing in the two steam-engines, the con-
denser and non-condenser. The de-
mand for cotton rose; the value of the
slave, its cultivator, was enhanced !;
and the negro question became the
paramount question in the United
States. See how scientific discover
les and inventions lead to political re
suits! Herein, among other great
events, we find the origin of the Amer
lean civil war!
In Europe, the social effect of the
use Of steam was strikingly marked.
Performing mechanical drudgery, it
relieved vast numbers of the laboring
class, and gave them time to think.
1t concentrated them III factories and
mills. Those industrial hives were
pervaded by literary influences, per-
haps not always Of kind that we
should approve of They became the
seats of agitation in politics and the
ology, and, while this was the effect
Oh the Iaboring mass, the owners or
capitalists were accommodating enor-
nous fortunes.-Popular Science
Monthly
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

FATE OF APOSTLES. Matthew is sup
posed to have suffered martyrdom, or
was slain in the city Of Ethiopia.
Mark was dragged through the
streets of Alexandria, in Egypt, till he
expired.
John was put into boiling cal
dron at Rome, but escaped death. He
died natural death at Epherus, in
Asia.
James the Great was beheaded in
Jerusalem.
James the Less was thrown from a
pinnacle and beaten to death.
Phillip was beheaded
Andrew was cruciied and pounded
while dying.
bartholomew was skinned alive.
Thomas was run through with a
lance.
Jude was shot to death with ar
rows.
Simon Peter was crucifed.
Matthias was stoned
Barnabas was stoned to death.
Paul was beheaded by the tyrant
Nero at Rome.
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10 the Norking Glass;
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Al year The Great Exhibition :, slt \ he sD ''a
fnlly illustrated in detail Ersr,b : pAilsdslas
whole people feel great intsres3s OOay wantsiss
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THERE may be something in Chris.
tianity, bnt when a bright shining
light of the church slips on frosty
sidewalk, planting his posterior forci
bly, upon a nail-head, and rises to his
feet murmuring' something that sounds
like gods hamp our faith in his pie
ty suffers collapse.
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CT RONHOS.
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THE USE OF THE III" IN ENGLAND
| must say that my fellow travellers
were not a very tempting lot at the
first glance. Some of these third
class carriages are almost as long as
an American car, and the people
climb over the low backed seats from
one division to the other. Gallo,
jim cries one, "come and sit over
'ere." And jim vaults lightly over
the back Of the seat to his chum. As
for the letter "h," evidently it does
not do to expect it in the right place
on this journey. | got into converse
ton with Il man who sat opposite to
me-apparently tradesman Of the
smaller sort. Il don't go to Margate, y
said be, "for society, but for hair
At first | thought would try TO get
some too, not having sufficient at
present to justify the use of curl pa
pers at night; but when my friend
went on to tell me that he had lately
been troubled with a stiff neck, and
that the best remedy for it was to
"'eat an iron and rub it on the neck,
| began to see how the land lay, and
rcfraned from jumping to hasty con.
clusions."
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

A LITTLE girl asked her mother:
"What kind of bear is cosecrated
cross-eyed bear?" The mother replied
that she had never heard of such an
animal. The child insisted that they
sang about it at the Sunday school.
NO." said the mother, at is, "A
eonsecrated cross bear"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

SOAKING Boors IN WH1sKY.-Men
who love rum will resort to almost
any cxpedient to obtain it under ad
verse circumstances. The town of
Deadham is under prohibition law,
apothecaries alone being permitted to
sell alcoholic stimulants. The other
day son of the Emerald Isle entered
a drug store there, and taking bot
tie from his pocket, asked for a quart
of whisky The salesman asked to
what use it was to be put, and the re.
ply was ito soak roots in" The order
was filled, and the clerk, after handing
over the bottle and its contents, in
quired in a conversational manner,
"What kind Of roots are you going to
soak?" Pocketing the bottle the Gus
toner said, "Tbc roots of me tongue,
be jabers!"
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

THIRrY-sIx States and eight Terrific
ries report l4,O07, 522 children entitled
to instruction..
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NEWS ITEMS.

lord Hamilton unveiled Burns stat
-ue in Glasgow, few days ago.
Mexican depredationS are reported
to have commenced on the upper
shores of the Rio Grande, near Fort
Clark.
The Mormons are building a taber-
nacle at Logan, Utah.
A petition, signed by 1900 citizens
was presented to the Governor of Or
egon, praying for the pardon OF Y. Z.
Glass. who was convicted IN 1873,
and sentenced to the penitentiary Tor
five years for manslaughter.
While the steamer Emma Hayward
was going down the Willamette river
below Portland, an unknown man fell
overheard and was drowned.
Governor Wells is sick in bed.
Deputy Marshal Robertson, of South
Carolina, reports two men killed and
several wounded by illicit distillers.
The President has nominated Chas.
Il Phelps United States Marshal for
Wyoming.
Silver Hill levies an assessment OF
81 per share, delinquent March 18th.
Best & Belcher levies an assessment
of 81, delinquent March 18th.
The dissatisfied stockholders Of the
Lady Bryan Mining Company held a
meeting in San Francisco on the It'll
instant, and applied for an injunction
to restrain the sale of stock delin-
quent on account of the unpaid as
sessments on the 9th inst
The first Catholic free school was
dedicated in San Francisco on the It'll.
1t is rumored that two judges will
withdraw from the electoral commits
sion.
The Presidential question is as bad
ly mixed as ever.
1t is thought that Jerry Black will
not meet any more with the counsel
in the Presidential lawsuit.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

How she HELrED HIM Our
hardly know what kind of an offering
to make you the coming Christmas
fondly lisped a young Chicago fellow
to his true love, in her fathers parIor,
one evening last week.
"You don't?' said she.
"No," said he
\ pause of several moments here
took place, when suddenly she laid
her little head upon his shoulder and
gently murmured:
"An Offering, did you say"
Yes, dear" he replied, 81 cannot
contrive what kind of a one to make
you"
"A-hem," said she, clearing her
throat. And then she puzzled forth, in
siIvery cooling notes:
Edward, dear, wouldn't an engage
ment ring be an offer-ring."
1t was an awful thing to do what
she did, but he didn't seem to care
he was so glad-and, besides, it was
Leap Year.-Cmcinnati Commercial.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

RAILROAD passengers will find straws
of comfort in the report on the Ashta
bula bridge which has been made by
the civil engineers employed by the
Legislative committee. Their conclu
sions, which deal somewhat in tech.
nical terms, are that there was no evil
dence Of weakness in this bridge
which could not have been discovered
and prevented They point out the
defects, but add that the material, 50
far as they were able to judge, was OF
superior quality, and, with few cxcep
tions, the workmanship was very su
perior. In conclusion, they say that
they find nothing in the case to JUST
fly the popular apprehension that there
may be some inherent defect in iron
as a material for bridges.
Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1877-02-16

W. K. NEIL, who was hanged in
Albany on January Goth, showed a
great deal Of nerve until the time for
the hanging. He then became 50
weak that he could not stand without
assistance. He attempted to deliver
a speech to the spectators, but failed
before he could say what he intended.
A THOUGHTFUL person thus muses. on
the story Of Daniel in the lions den:
How sad it is for those poor lions,
when Daniel was dropped INTO their
den. They were compelled to go
shifting about him, and thinking how
nice a small chop from the calf of his
leg would taste, only to be denied the
luxury. 1t was rough on the lions,
but it taught them self Daniel.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-17
POULTRY.

AS a general rule we do not think
farmers pay sufficient attention to the
production of poultry for sale. Care
fully kept account will demonstrate that
one pound of poultry can be produced
at about half the cost of the same weight
beef or pork. and always meet with a
ready market. Another advantage is
that it can be attended to quite as well,
if not better, by women and children
than by men; thus economizing the la
Dor of the whole family, and directing
it into the production of profit for the
general purse.
Try the experiment of allowing the
children if large enough, to take care of
the poultry. Charge them with all the
food consumed, and credit them with
all the eggs and flesh consumed by the
family. and note your per centage in the
speculation, and the benefit it has been
to them. The Maryland farmer puts it
this way :: ''If farmers who think poul-
try does not pay, would give their feath-
cred stock to their sons and daughters,
with permission to enjoy and own any
profit that may accrue from keeping
them, they would soon be convinced
that, there was something in it. There
certainly is no more health producing
exercise than that afforded by caring
for, or having the management of a
flock of poultry. and if the flock is one
of any of the pure brceds-there. is in
addition to the celebrating influence,
an enthusiasm that canses what might
otherwise be considered task to become
a pleasure-and therefore profit and
| pleasure are combined.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-12-17
THE THIEF ON THE CROSS.

This was Mr.. Moody's subject We'd
nesday noon, October 3lst. at Burling-
ton. After reading the twenty-third
chapter of Luke, he said: This is one
Of the most remarkable conversions on
record. That this malefactor, nailed to
the cross, should have turned to one
suffering the same terrible punishment,
and perishing by his side by this most
painful and disgraceful death, and &C
knOwledged him as his Lord, is most
extraordinary occurrence. We notice
that there were three steps in this con-
version. He began with the fear of God.
When the other thief rallied on Christ,
this one rebuked him saying 'Dost not
thou fear God. Next he acknowledges
Christ's sovereignty. He addressed
him as, Lord, and finally he had faith
in him. He said, Lord. remember me
when thou contest into thy kingdom.
The faith of this thief, who had perhaps
never before seen the Saviour, was great
er than that of Christ's disciples, who
had been with him for three years. His
hands and feet were nailed to the cross
but his eyes and heart were not nailed
He could turn his eyes to the cruci6ed
Saviour. and yield to him his heart
And Christ answered instantly his
prayer. This night he said, thou
shalt be with me in paradise Is there
any one here that cannot do these things
and beginning with the fear of God, &C
knowledge the Saviour and call hin
Lord, and exercise faith upon him az
the Redeemer and Lord of life If Thu
thief could pray on the cross, cannot W,
pray? And cannot we, as he did, taxi
Christ at his word?''