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Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

An exciting encounter occurred on =
train between Jordan and Weedsport, on
the New York Central, on Monday NIGHT
A man who had evidently ridden on The
first platform of the mail car, behind The
engine from Albany, fitted KEY to the
door, got through the mail section and was
rihing the bags, when c. II. Gallup, the
weighing clerk, entered the section. The
burglar grappled with him, and fierce
struggle in the dark ensued. The burgla,
made two lunges at Gallup with q knife,
impinging book in the left breast pocket
only cutting his arm. Gallup gave the
alarm, but the train was running at ful
speed, and the noise was so great that hi,
companions in the other end of the Cal
could not hear him, Pulling out his re.
volver he fired at the burglar without eff
feet. The other clerks reused by the
report rushed in, when the burglar made
for the door. Gallup retained the pocket
of his coat containing collection of bur.
glars tools. The robber jumped from the
train. No mail was disturbed. Gallur
was not seriously hurt.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

The dam of the Staffordville resor
voir. Stafford, Conn, gave way on tn,
morning of March 81. Tho damage to th,
village is fearful. The railroad freigh
house and all the cars were washed away
The Stafford national bank, the Congrega
, tional church, and about fifteen otheI
buildings are gone. The damage to thu
railroad track is heavy. Two Howe trus
bridges between Stafford and Tolland are
washed away. Stafford is town of 8, 49t
inhabitants, fifteen miles south of Palmer
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28
LEE INSURANCE.

The Life Insurance Companies are i'll a
state of mind for the legislature is investi-
eating them. 1t is shown that some of the
companies pay their presidents such sal
aries as $37, 800 per year, medical exam
liners from $4,000 to $4,000, and the le-
gal advisers of the companies have IN
equally soft thing Of it, The public is eX-
ercised about it, and it is not to be wond-
cred at, especially us the officers vote
themselves these salaries. On the other
hand it should be borne in mind that Il
man capable of keeping proper care of
such enormous interests, is worth about
all that can be paid him. The public don't
care so much about the salaries as they do
about the other work some of the officer S
have done. For instance one president
was paid $330,000 for wrccking another
company. The investigation shows that
it has been II regular thing for two compa-
MES to combine, and send out men to
weaken confidence in one of them that II
majority of lis policies might be bought
up for little or nothing, those who refused
to be so swindled being re-insnrcd in the
surviving company. 1t was IL very neat
speculation if company could be SO dis
credited that its policies could be bought
up ut ten cents on the dollar of their val
ne. The searching inquiry now being
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

The Free Press reports that Judge
Wheeler hesitates about accepting the
position of District Judge. If he could
see through Burlington glasses the vast
amount of admiralty" business that
awaits him there might terrify him, but as
it is the prospects are that there will be no
declnaton on his part.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

Colorado, the youngest state in the I'm.
ion, has made II bold attack upon one OF
the oldest institutions in civilization the
grand jury. The legislature has passed an
act which provides that twenty days be-
fore the court meets the judge of The eoun.
ty court and two Justices of the peace shall
sit ut court of indictment, and hear all
the testimony offered by either side before
the indictment or discharge Of prisoners.
The idea is u novel one; but it may be an
improvement after all.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

PRoPnETC.-Thc inscription placed
years ago above the bones of the 127 vic
tins of the Mountain Meadow massacre,
seems 10 have been prophetic even Of
earthly retribution. When John d. Lee
was shot last Friday for the murderous
horrors committed Sept. 10th, 1857, it was
not only justice but poetic justice that he
should have paid for his crime where the
victims of it were buried, and the rude
inscription Vengeance is mine, will re-
pay saith the Lord" will carry thought
to the heart of the most careless reader us
lie reads and knows that after long years
the buried crime was unearthed and in
some degree at least avenged where it was
consummated.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28

Deputy d. +. Boyden of WaitsfelJ
lectures before the Franklin COUNTY
Pomona Grange at st. Adams, Wedpec.
day, April 4, at o'clock P. NJ.
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28
7 Ii E N A r K e T s.
BOSTON MARKET.
reported andt ettgrdphede rpreSsiyfoi IN, ira,
Mountain Freeman,
BOSTON CATTLE MARKET

Ate MBRGD AND BRIGnTrs
For the ~eek ending Tuesday, Mrci u, is;7
Cattle. Sheep, Shotes. hogs to1,.
This week, 2,489 $685. 90 5Gol&
One year ago, 1920 3.4Os Ill S23O ~,
PRICEs.-Beef Cdttte-Extra fat ana heay, ~,
MUM Oxen s775G$S2j %. first quality, ti50g
1905 second quality, S6.50G$6.0O; mira quan;,
$jOO6$5,50 per 100 lbs, on total weight Of LjGe
talow and dressed beef. A fewchoicC singltran
IS 100000 Bulls, &c S4.5Od47j.
W0rking, Oren-$l2O0l7j per pair. or acccI,.
ing to their value as beef. Steers SsvaIg5.
Mich COwS.-$2jd$45; extra good S'Od75
Tith or wiLhoutcalves, as may bCagrecd ,lantu
and ordinary, $lSdS3O; yearllngs Sl0OUdgOLV;
year Odds, Sl5.OOG3OOO, 3-year Oils, S!jOsd 1890
Sheep. Live weight 3053c; extra, GaGa<c y H.
Veal CatUes-$5 O)07 OJH head.
ShOtes.-Wholesale, 0G0Ou retail OdOOc y n
Fat Hogs. 7+Gc v b. Spring pigs, OaOOc
HdeS-Brghton, &c; country OTIS, Ga6i.cPR
calf skins, lOGl2c p b; Pelts with wool on si9ja
Sl,75 each. Tallow, &c: country lots jGjl,c h.
REMABKs.-As the cattle were deta ined last
week that usually come over the Boston Albany
railroad, We find the supply increased this week
and prices range lower by about l4C b ID, live
weight. The market is dull for working oxen.
Hathaway & Swift sold Is steers, average $50 Ds
at 54c live and % steers, average $50 lbs at &c p
Id; j. Mctlynn sold twenty-five steers, average
lAOO lbs, at So 80 and 20 steers, average SO? 6s
at $3.50 " cwt; NJ. T. Shackett sold tour oxen 10
dress 900 lbs each, at Ike, and two slim oxen at
&c per lb H. G.. Clark sold two oxen, gross weight
$3.50 lbs at S6j, and two staSs gross weight $500
lbs at $50. The sheep put upon the market sell
a grain lower, in consequence Of their beng wet
by rain, allowance beng made Tor shrukage If
dry, they would sell at last weeks prices. B. I,
Wood sold &C lambs, average IG lbs at 75,c; De,
Wolf & Brown sold Of lambs, gross weight 6I@
lbs % lbs. shrinkage on each lamb at6iac p pound
Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1877-03-28
FURTHER STATEMENTS OF LEE ABOUT THE
MASSACRE-A TERRIBLE STORY.

A document of considerable length, GER
tilted to by United States District ALtor-
ney Howard us having been written by
John D. Lee, supplements the story al
ready given in the confession he delivered
to his lawyer In it Lee claims that he did
everything in his power TO avert the
slaug of the emigrants at Mountain
Meadow, mourning thereby the displeas-
ure of the heads of the Mormon church.
At the solemn council which ordered the
slaughter, it was determined that the emf
grants should be lured from their train by Il
flag of truce, and the Mormons should pre-
tended TO be friendly to them and to be
saving them from the Indians, who had
twice previously attacked them But the
programme was carried out.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
How a Merchant Was Done For,

A very ingenious swindle, says the
Boston Globe, was perpetrated on a
prominent dry goods house by a finely
dressed lady who appeared in the shawl
department, and, after a careful ex-
animation, selected a camel's-hair
shawl costing about 500, for which she
rendered il payment a 1000 bill, which
was carefully scrutinized by the cashier
who, doubling his own power Of dis
elimination, dispatched messenger to
the bank to ascertain the genuineness
of the bill. In 4 short time the mess
enger returned and announced in an
audible tone that the cashier of the
bank said the bill was good. The lady
upon hearing this waNed exceeding
wroth, and demanded to know whether
he thought that she would attempt to
pass counterfeit BILL" Of course
apologies. and explanations were of no
avail; she refused to purchase the
shawl, demanded her money, and de-
parted from the store the very embodl-
ment of righteous Indignation. A couple
of hours afterward she returned con-
siderably Modified, and confessed that
she was pleased with the shawl. and
that her inability to find one which she
liked as well was the only reason she
returned, and she concluded to take it.
The obliging salesman delightedly
wrapped up the shawl, while the cour-
teous cashier, disdaining to entertain
suspicion against such lady, proceeded
to count out the 5000 change, with
which and her shawl the lady departed.
The feelings Of that storekeeper can be
better imagined than described when he
awoke to realizing sense Of the fact
that his lady customer had, after all his
precaution, succeeded in passing upon
him counterfeit $1,000 bill.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

WARM THE CHILDREN's FEET. =
Lifelong discomfort and sudden death
often come to children through the in
attention or carelessness ofthe parents.
A child should never be allowed to 90
to sleep with cold feet; the thing to be
last attended 10 is to see that the feet
are dry and warm. Neglect of this has
often led to a dangerous attack Of Group.
diptherla, or fatal sore throat. Al
ways on coming from school, on enter
ing the house from visit or GRAND in
rainy. muddy or thawy weather, the
child should remove its shoes, and the
mother should herself ascertain whether
the stockings are the least damp. II
they are, they should be taken of. the
feet held before the fire and rubbed
with the hands till perfectly dry, and
another pair of shoes put on. The re-
serve shoes and stockings should be
kept where they are good and dry, so as
to be ready for use on moments
notice.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
A Wounded Stays Fury.

From DR.. j. NJ, Baily, who has been
in the Ruby range Of mountains, we
learn the particulars Of desperate fight
with wounded stag, in which an Indian
was killed, and the doctor himself
narrowly escaped frightful death. The
doctor had wounded the deer, which
took refuge in a low growth of cedar.
Securing the services of two Indians.
the doctor went in pursuit. Suddenly
a cracking of the bushes was heard,
when the stag, which had become en-
ragged at the close chase, appeared in
sight, and charging upon the party,
caught the doctor on his broad antlers.
Before he could realize the situation, he
was tossed in the air by the maddened
beast, and sent rolling over the ground,
though fortunately not sustaining much
injury. One of the Indians, seeing the
turn affairs had taken, Aed, but the
other, apparently paralyzed with fear,
seemed rooted to the spot, and to him
the deer next turned. The animal
rushed upon the terrified man. and
catching him in the antlers the luckless
Indian was sent whirling through the
air distance of about thirty feet, and
tell fiat on his face on the frozen ground.
The doctor sought safety in fight, but
the animal perceiving his intention
started in persuit, and he barely had
time to climb low cedar tree before he
was again brought face to face with the
brute. Having lost his pistol when the
deer first made its attack, he was left
without any means of defense save a
common jack-knife, and he endeayored
to stab the animal in the eyes, but the
deer successfully parted the blows with
his antlers. The doctor cut branch
from the tree, and tying the open knife
to it by means ola handkerchief, again
commenced the attack, this time more
successfully, for well directed blow
severed the .iugular vein in the animals
neck. The fight was over. but not
without one more desperate attempt on
the part Of the brave animal, which, i'm
mediately on receiving its death wound
drew itself up, its.eyes flashing like balls
of fire, and seemed like preparing itself
for one more charge, but it fell to the
earth dead. The doctor descended from
the tree and fastened to the Indian and
found him in a dying condition. One
Of the antlers had penetrated the abdo-
men, the other the region of the spinal
column, the antler breaking off. and
leaving portion, about three inches.
in the Indians body. The other In
dian had come up by this time, fire
was built and preparations made to re-
move the. wounded man to his camp;
but he died in few minutes.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

NOTES ToBE REMEMBERED
Constant occupation prevents temp
tation. Virtue and happiness are mother
and daughter. God gives every bird its
food, but does not throw it into the
nest. An able man shows his spirit by
gentle words and resolute actions he is
neither hot nor timid. A man is never
so apt to be crooked as. when he is in
strait. Our real wants are few. The
stomach tires of everything but bread
and water. There is one good wife in
the country; butlet every married man
think that he hath her. A womans
tears soften mans heart; her batteries
his head.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Over the tiny grave of the only body
that Of an infant-washed ashore at
Lydd, near Dungeness, from the i'll
fated emigrant ship Northheet. has
been placed slab with the simple in
scfiption. God knows" that having
been the touching reply of the parish
constable when ne was appealed to by
the undertaken as TO what name should
be engraved on the coffin plate.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Some boiler makers in Dubuque put
boy in a boiler to hold a hammer-head
to the rivets as they We're driven in, and
when they were all completed be was
found too big to come out of the hole.
He stripped and creased his skin, but it
was no use, and it took six men an hour
and half to cut him out.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

It is wonderful to think OF, that a man
who started poor, was born Of poor
parents, and had his own way to make,
should in lifetime accumulate for
tune Of eighty or a hundred millions.
This is what Vanderbilt did, and he
dies the richest man in America, the
richest we have ever had, and one of
the richest men of modern times.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

The religion Of the Gospel calls us
both out of the world, and into the
world out Of it, as to its principles and
maxims and temper into it, as a fed
of labor and a sphere of usefulness
where we are to be diligent in business,
to relieve the distressed, to teach the
ignorant, to reclaim the vicious, and to
do good to all as Christ did.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Alas it is not till time. with reckless
hand, has torn half the leaves from the
book Of life that man begins to see that
the leaves whichremain are few in num-
Der, and then to remember. family at
first, and then more clearly, that upon
the early pages of that book was written
a story which he would fain read over
again.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

a woman is either worth a good deal
or..nothing. If good for nothing, she is
not worth getting jealous for-if sue be
a true woman she will give no cause for
jealousy. A man is brute to be ieal-
Gus Of a worthless one, but he is a dou-
bic fool to cut his throat for either of
them,
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
Loves Icy Dream.

The other evening as patient police
man was pacing his beat on Howard
street a young man passed him andra
up flight of stone steps and rang the
bell. The officer heard the door open,
a young lady's voice sing out, and he
said to himself:
This loves young dream"
He was just moving on when another
young man approached, looked up at
the house, and in sheepish way asked
the officer ifhe had seen any one go in.
He was informed OF What had occurred
a moment before, and he gasped:
''It was that sneaking chap from
Cass avenue!"
He walked on, and the officer walked,
but ten minutes later the young man
climbed the stone steps with pail Of
water in his hand and emptied its con-
tents over every stone He was sitting
on the horseback opposite as the
officer came back, meaning to stay there
until his plan unfolded or until he troze
to death. He didn't freeze. In about
ten minutes the door opposite opened,
two voices were heard for moment.
and then the young man from Cass
avenue came down the steps on his ear,
his elbow, his shoulderblade, his heel,
or on most any other part Of the human
makeup. He struck the sidewalk. shot
across it to the gutter, and came to a
standstill with his head in the
snow. There was peal of laughter
from the house as the door shut, and
the watcher on the horse-block chuck
led and remarked:
THAT heartless laugh was not utter,
ed by woman who loves--I'm humky?'
Five minutes later he carefully crawl
ed up the icy steps, AMI the good police
man heard him cordially greeted, and
unused:
well, if there amt more'n seven
teen different ways of finding out if a
girl loves you !"--Detroit Free Press.
Wonder how that twelve inches of
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

A venerable divine. who had been
dining out the night before, went into
BARRIERS shop one morning to be shaved.
He saw that the barber had been getting
more drink than was good for him, for
it made his hand shake very much, and,
naturally little indignant, he began to
give him little moral advice bp say
ing, Dad thing, drink" Yes" said
the barber. sit makes the skin remark
ably tender.r
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

New York Commercial Advertiser:
The smallest hair" says an exchange.
casts shadow" So it does, and
especially over a boarding house break
fast table, when one is found in the
butter dish.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

1t is a moderate estimate that tAe at
Tempt to count in Hayes has already
cost the country, in the stoppage Of
business, in the enforced pauperism of,
laboring people, and the general de-
cline in values, at least one thousand
millions of dollars.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Next to throwing kittens into mill
pond, the saddest sight is that of lady
at church-fair drowning two or three
poor little oysters in gallon, of thin
milk.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

a woman, remarked a Preston
official, first loves fast man, then a
good man, and finally any man. Then
his wife appeared in the doorway, and
he went back into the cellar and began
to split kndlings in an abiect manner.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Although the science of telegraphy is
yet in its infancy, this thought has no
consolation to the husband who receives
a message from his wife in afar-of city,
saying, Lost money-telegraph me
$780,"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

There is no longer any doubt that
Zack Chandler is to be credited with
the authorship of the famous saying
'Giye me the Returning Boards of a
country, and care not who casts its
votes"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

They say that Hayes is entitled to
the Florida stolen goods because the
thief turned them over to him. We
have therefore been compelled to re-
mind those people that the receiver is
as bad as the thief.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
2netifal.
BE CAREFUL WHAT sToUs sAF. g 4

In speaking of persons faults,
Pray don't forget your own;
Remember those with homes of glass
Should seldom throw stone.
If we have nothing else to do
But talk of those who sin,
Ills better we commence at home,
And from that point begin.
We have ne right to judge man
Until he's fairly tried;
Should we not like his company,
We know the world is wide.
Some may have faults-who have not?
The old as well a. young se3sf
Perhaps We may, for ought welnow,.
Have fifty to their one.
I'll tell you Of better plan,
And one that works full well
try my own defects to cure,
Ere of others tell. Z {
And though I sometimes hope to he
No worse tn an some know,
My own shortcomings bid me let
The faults of others go.
Then let us all, when we commence
To SANDER friend or foe,
Think of the harm one word may do
To those who little know.
Remember, curses, sometimes, like
Our chickens, ''roost at home"
Don't speak Of others faults until
We have none of our own.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

There is nothing like the dead cold
hand of the past to take down ..or timid
egotism, and to lead us into the solemn
flow of the life of our race.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
Just For FINN.

Our passions are like CONFUSION fits.
which, though they make us stronger
for the time, leave US the weaker ever
after. ...-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

Mr.. George William Curtis wisely
asks the Republicans if their party
could survive the Inauguration of
President upon whose title rests grave
moral doubt ?"
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25

"We've got to economic, Or this
country is ruined" was the saliloquy of
Detroit husband as he kindled a fire
with his wife's hustle.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
THE SPOTSWOOD HOTEL
Harrisonourg, Va
5. VI. Bowman, Proprietor


proprietorship of the Undersigned, is now
Opea and ready 10 3eceiue Visitors
and guests The establishment has been renewed
and reftted from cellar roof, and is in complete
order It is emphaticaliy new house, and it is
determined to make It stand Of the very best
kept Hotels in the State. The proprietor has had
very enlarged experience for fifteen years as a Hotel
and Springs proprietor, having kept the old Column
ban Hotel and the famed Spottswood Hotel at
Richmond, and the Jordan Alum Springs in Rock
bridge. he is quite sure he may claim, here in the
Valley of Virginia, to be able TO keep a Hotel. He
therefore invites the people of Rockingham ana
adjoining counties and the travelling public to call
at the SPoTTswooD and see whether he understands
the business of his life.
1t is scarcely necessary to say that the table, the
parlors and the chambers will always be found
agreeable.
The proprietor, in conclusion, is quite sure the
people of the Valley vii cordially sustain this effort
TO establish frst-class Hotel, such az the Spots
wood shall be, in Harrisonburg.
My Omnibus willalways be ready to convey pas
sengers to and from .he SpottsWood
Feb. Is, 1875. S. NJ. BOWMAN, Prop'r.-
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1877-01-25
Increased Demands of Public
PATRONAGE.

This hotel has been recently improved by
the erection of brick addition to the main
building which will give considerably more
room, and afford ample accommodation for
the travelling public.
THE TABLE will be well supplied at all
times with the best the market affords, and
no pains shall be spared to satisfy the wants
of guests in this department
THE BAR will be stocked with the best
Liquors. A full supply of Wilson's pure
Rye whisky, (the only homemade whisky
sold in the county,) can be found by those
wishing pure article for medlcal purposes.
Jurors attending court will be boarded
for their fees per diem, and their certificates
taban in payment if desired.
Charges Moderst' 4 call respectfully
solicited.
ROBERT WILSON.