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NOTICE. /.

TIME firm of TOWERS SsiBROYLES
Il was dissolved in September, 1876,
Having purchased the interest of VIM. L.
will receive all money due said Towers &
Broyles, and pay all debts due by the firm.
AND HEREBY GIVE NOTICE that
must have the money due on Notes and
Accounts on or bafore the 1st November
next. mean what say. slisiIat,
iae is. ls.e a,.s A. B. TOWERS.
June 81, 1877 40
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MANTUA-MAKING

MFRS. II. ]. WEIGH, wishes to inform
AVA her friends aud the public generally
that she IL still doing Ladies' and Children's
W orK the very iate5s svJiv, 1iv.l,sI ss.aIj
any ono else in town, and all orders prompH
~ executed GIVE ,i her call before goi5s
Street. next to railroad bridge; d'alai y e
Jan IS, 1877 27 6h
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Garden Seeds.

"A DOB ASSORTAIENTofD Ii. Ferry's
~ G4cn Seeds and Early Rose Potatoes
for &IeS a. B. TOWERS. I
Hau29, 1877
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and House Of Representa-
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sitting in General Assembly. /.
authority Of The sa1ie, That
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Health, Strength
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BE l. enacted by the Senate and House
of Representatives of the State of South
Carolina, now met and sitting in General
Assembly, and by the authority of the
same, That hereafter no person shall be
appointed to fill any county Office who
shall not be an elector Of such county.
Approved May 81, 1877.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

SOMETHING NEw.-Bicycling in this coun-
try thus far has been only for amusement or
exercise, but in England it is said to have
come into quite common use as matter of
business. Nearly forty thousand bicycles
are registered, and most of the roads have
been mapped, and their condition, whether
hard or sandy, rough or smooth, is posted in
all post-houses for the benefit of travellers
who essay this means of locomotion. Long
excursions are often taken by bicycle, and
the users of these vehicles claim to be able
to average something over twice the dis
lance per day that could be accomplished
on foot, while the speed for short distances
is considerably more than doubled. Bicy,
Gle meets " for short excursions are also
very popular. In this country the roads are
too rough and billy TO make bicycling as
popular as it is in England, but some Boston
gentlemen who have been trying are enthu-
siastic over their success, Some of them
have already made long excursions through
the towns about Boston, and claim TO be
able to make forty miles day with ease
and pleasure.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

New THEoRY,-Mr j. Norman Lockyer
and Professor Hunter, both eminent in as
tronomy, and in connection with the discov-
cries of spectrum analysis, have written and
published a paper on Sun-spots and Fam.
ines" They say " The work was suggested
by the terrible visitation that affiicts India
According to their conclusion, which is the
result of observations at stations widely
apart, the periods of the fewest sun.spots
and of the greatest famine in India coincide
in five known epochs out Of six" and the
sixth is really not an exception. 1t is found
that the black spots on the sun have All
eleven-year period" that is to say, they
have well defined cycles of eleven years du-
ration. In the years of least sun-spots, the
rainfall III India is smallest, according to the
observation of these scientists; consequently,
the crops fail, the supply of food is dimn-
ished and famine ensues. 1t will not
be claimed, we suppose that the sun-spots
have no influence outside of India. Their
influence must be general. Therefore it is
desirable to study their influence in other
parts of the world, and show whether, in
other regions of the earth, the years in which
there is least show of sun.spots are also
years of drouth, impeded vegetation, and
short crops
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

LIVING Two HUNDRED AND FIFTY YEARS
AGo.-Apropos of some statistics recently
given in regard to the cost of living at the
present time, a Boston Journal correspondent
quotes from BARRIERS History of New Eng
land the following estimate of expenses
which was furnished to proposed immi-
grants to Massachusetts colony two hundred
and fifty years ago. A similar estimate had
previously been made with regard to Vir-
ginia by Captain Smith Victuals to last
one man year, eight bushels of meal two
pounds; two bushels of peas, six shllings !;
two bushels of oatmeal, nine shllings; one
gallon of aqua vitae (brandy), two shillings
sixpence; one gallon of oil, three shillings
sixpence; two gallons of vinegar, two shil-
lings; total, three pounds three shillings."
This would be about fifteen dollars. Not
word said about tea, coffee, sugar, molasses,
flour, butter pork, beef, fish, milk, beans
and tobacco, without which last many people
couldn't live week-at least they think So
Is there criminal in the land. or on the
globe, kept on the above spare diet ? The
brandy must have been a very modest article,
at fifty-six cents gallon-one dram week,
and the same of oil, 1t is a curious scrap of
history and sample of intense economy.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05
Truth from the Enemy.

No more conclusive proof Of the mastery
tact and ability with which Senator Ed
munds thwarted the democratic raid upon
the Republican majority in the Senate last
week could be desired than the following,
which we copy from the New York Sun.
With pen saturated with gall, the writer
nevertheless utters good deal of unmixed
truth; "For ten years he Edmunds] has
been digging away at the Rules of the Sen
ate and the principles of parliamentary law.
The result of his industry was apparent in
the Electoral bill debate of one year ago,
when he stepped to the front as the very best
parlamentarian in Congress, not excepting
Blaine, of Maine. Edmunds' mastery of
the quirks, presidents, lodges, tricks and
surprises of Legislative strategy is wonder
full He never founders ia any question OF
procedure he is never off his feet. Now,
to these qualities in debater add the still
more valuable one of perfect self-control.
Edmunds angry, Edmunds discomposed Ed
munds discouraged, Edmunds taken aback,
is a spectacle reserved, fear, for the day Of
judgment. If keg of ntro-glycerine should
explode under the Senate Chamber and hurl
into space every honorable gentleman except
himself and the chair, Edmunds would wrig
gle up out of his seat and move call of the
roll, to ascertain whether quorum was
present, as calmly and dispassonately as if
he was moving the previous question on a
ten thousand dollar appropriation bill. No
unexpected motion, argument or vote, ever
surprised him or cut him off from his re-
sources. No accusation or insinuation ever
exasperated him. Attacking him with sar-
casm or innuendoes is like throwing India
crackers at an iceberg. His perfect cool
ness in debate resembles Ben Buffers, only
Buffers is sheer triumph of will. The
General is naturally an irascible man, and
has nerves; Edmunds does not know how
to be wrathfu, and makes a poor botch of
it when it serves his purpose TO appear
so. Cold, clear-headed, logical
and merciless, shrewd and ready in retort,
intellectually scrupulous, caring nothing
about consistency or inconsistency, except
as weapon to use against Others partisan
to the end of every hair in his grizzled beard,
capable of lending his great powers to ig-
noble purposes, Edmunds is dangerous
man on the wrong side of question of right
and wrong. Nobody in the Senate can toss
about moral principles with more careless
air of lofty patriotism. Nobody can wear
the mask of sincerity more gracefully. 1t
takes some acquaintance with Mr.. Edmunds
to see the grin that is always behind the
mask, but once detected it can never be lost
to sight"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

The annual report of the Postmaster-Gen-
eral is completed, and is confined to a
plain, busness-like statement Neither the
postal telegraph scheme the postal savings
bank scheme, the fast mail trains nor frank
ing system are discussed. Thr Postmaster
General assumes that the rate of newspaper
postage was settled by legislation, and that it
is the purpose of Congress to treat news
papers as privileged matter. The only ex-
ception is that he recommends the appoint
ment of some bureau to determine by uni
form rules what are bona-fde newspapers
entitled to the franking privilege, with a
view to exclude such as are mere advertis-
ing sheets. He favors a change in the COM
pensation of fourth-class postmasters, so as
to pay their commissions on stamps can.
celled, and not according to the number of
stamps sold. He takes the ground that
railroads should be required to transport
United States mails not on rates arbitrarily
fixed by the government but that the Post
master-General shall have power to contract
with roads for mail service; and in the event
of disagreement that there shall be board
of arbitration to decide the rates. He rec.
ommends that sub-contractors be given
lien on the pay of chief contractors The
postal receipts show falling off of abont
four hundred thousand dollars, which he at.
tributes partly to the accumulation of news
paper stamps by business firms and partly
to the increased use of postal cards in large
cities. He estimates, however, that the
actual business has increased and continues
to increase
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

PENNY REsTAURANT.-Har Weekly
gives pleasing account of novel enter
prise in the way of apenny restaurant, lately
established in New York city, where one
cent plate is the rule, and the quantity
given for that amount of money is quite
generous. At this establishment five or
six cents will procure meal calculated 10
satisfy an ordinary appetite, while ten cents
will procure enough for the hungriest. The
place is well patronized, and the proprietor
contemplates going into larger quarters, on
account Of lack of room to accommodate
the rush. The woman in charge OF the place
reports that the enterprise pays" though
of course the margin for profit is small
Everything is neat and clean about the
premises; and certainly no one, with a cent
in his pocket, need go hungry. The boot
blacks aud newsboys of the city are willing
patrons of this establishment, and can now
talk of being flush and getting a" square
meal"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05
The Presidents Message.

1t is entirely unnecessary to make any
much space to the Presidents Message.
The peculiar position in which the Presi-
dent stands to section of the party which
disapproves Of his policy makes it a matter
of simple justice that he should be heard in
his own defense, and give full account of
his stewardship. 1t is, We think, one of the
most important messages OF recent years,
and it will be perused with great interest by
all the country. Upon the whole we think
the sentiments of the President will com
mend themselves to the larger and the better
portion of the Republican party. He dis
cusses with clearness and candor the lead
ing features of his administration, and de
tends his Southern and civil service policies
with great force and ability. If his posi-
lions on these points can be controverted, IL
will be by the use of arguments which we
have not yet heard, and which have not sug-
gested themselves to us. He evidently be-
lieves that party platform means something,
huu IL SludIiuR MS COuIoS ny WudO hiit Nt-
publicans have over and over again declared
in national conventions TO be the principles
which underlie their organization. His dec
larations on the repeal of the resumption
act are of no uncertain character, and will
be received with hearty approval by every
lover of honest money and an honest
payment of debts. The President takes
ground in favor of the reconciliation of
silver, but denounces any such legal tender
quality as would impair the obligations
under which the bonds of the government
were issued and sold. He also depre-
Gates the placing of gold and silver on an
equality at the mint. His positions upon
other national topics seem to us to be well
taken and well-defended. We trust the
message will receive the careful considera-
ton of all our readers.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

BARBARoUs.-The war correspondents
of the London papers are making serious
charges against Osman Pasha for his con-
duct at Plevna. They say that the English
surgeons were forbidden by the Turkish of.
Ulcers to amputate the limbs of the wounded
Turks in order 10 save their lives, because
they would be useless for fighting purposes
again, and would become entitled to pen.
sions. which the government could not af-
ford to pay. No wonder that English sur
geous refuse to serve any longer. All this
time Pevna must be "A hell upon earth, with
its hospitals full of rotting men, whom Os-
man the Victorious will not suffer to be
helped lest they should recover and cost the
state money
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

RAILRospING IN CHINA.-The first rail-
road in China has recently been destroyed
by order of vice-king. 1t had been built
with the authorization of the Emperor, and
opened on the 3lst of October, last year. be-
tween Shanghai and Woosung, creating
great CONSERVATION and fright among the
people. 1t was at once the subject of re-
port to the authorities, in which the build
ers were denounced as a foreign demons and
inventors of Internal machines. The vice.
king OF the province promptly ordered the
destruction of sucha deviish invention, but
the proprietors of the road answered him by
producing the authority of the emperor.
Then the vice-king had recourse to the only
means he could employ in the premises he
bought the railroad, and as the amount was
large it was divided in several payments.
The last OF these payments was made on
the 3lst of October last and on that day the
dangerous invention was destroyed. China
is great country
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

The CANADIAN AwARD.-Some of the
newspapers of the British provinces are bor-
rowing an immense amount of trouble about
the payment of the fisheries award and as
Stunning, without the slightest reason, that
payment is to be resisted. We have not seen
or heard the least intimation in any respect
able quarter of desire to repudiate or
question the decision OF the commission.
We know of nothing that this country has
done to merit such ready suspicion of i'll
faith, and the only ground on which we can
explain the alacrity with which it is as
sumed that we may refuse to pay the award,
is consciousness somewhere that it is un-
just and open to reasonable question. But
there would be more grace in waiting until
we had made some question about it before
indulging in criticism upon our disposition
in the matter. 1t is our opinion that the
United States will abide by its agreement
withoutany great amount of grumblng, even
if there may be feeling in some quarters that
the mulct is rather heavy
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

RIGHT AT LAsT.-The managers of the
Permanent Exposition at Philadelphia have
accommodating consciences. Some months
ago they were requested to keep their show
upon on Sunday. They responded in the
affirmative, much to the indignation of a
large and influential element in the Phila-
delphia community. Having given the ex-
pertinent fair trial, they have reached the
conclusion that it does not pay to break
the fourth commandment, and hence they
announce that hereafter the Exposition will
remain closed on Sunday. Perhaps they will
learn eventually the Indispensable neces-
sity of having their heads level, aud then of
wearing them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05
Patrons Of Husbandry.

The National Grange of the Patrons Of
Husbandry is now holding its eleventh ses-
sion at Cincinnati, and Judging from the
report of the proceedings which has thus
far reached us, the organization, in its
present shape, has seen its best days and is
rapidly drawing to its end. The executive
committee seem to be impressed with the
fact that IL has outlived its usefulness, for
in their annual statement they recommend
several radical changes. They report that
they are Of the opinion the grange agen-
cies now in existence ought to be dis
continued, that the office of grange lee
turer ought to be abolished, aud they sug-
gest several plans for the curtailment of ex.
penses, among them the disallowance in
the future of constructive mileage. 1t is
quite evident that the patrons have become
they had hoped to effect substantial re-.
duction in the expenses of living and
achieve many wholesome reforms has
turned out to he something in the nature
of luxury. Not feeling that they can
afford Injuries just now, they are evidently
determined either to reform or abolish the
organization.
The trouble with this organization is the
same that has cursed all associations, secular
or religious, that have large membership.
It is the army of leeches. 1t Is the men
who have used the patrons for the promotion
of their own selfish ends; who have lived at
their expense, and endeavored, as occasion
offered and their own interests suggested, to
give the organization political turn; it is
these men who are responsible for the dis
content that now prevails in the minds of SO
many of the members. The moment such
an organization leaves its own distinctive
field of effort and goes into politics, the
process of disintegration begins. The Ma
tional Grange, now in session, would seem to
he aware of the nature of the disease wbici
has fastened itself upon the patrons. If wise
remedies follow the patient may be cured
and rendered stronger than ever before.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

POSTAL NoTICE.-The Postmaster General
has addressed the following letter to post
masters throughout the country; post
masters are required To keep complaint
book in which all letters reported to them
as lost are to be entered and after making
examination in their offices they are required
to report the loss at once. The public are
also invited to report promptly all losses or
Irregularities to the chief special agent post
office department, Washington, d. c., and
investigation will follow II TALL losses should
be promptly reported it will be the means of
correcting the irregularities, and the eff.
ficiency OF the postal service will be en-
HANGED in most important degree The
omission of the county in the address of
letters is one of the great causes of delay
and missendng."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

The EXPOSITION BILL.--There is one
thing TO be thankful for. The Senate de-
voted fifteen minutes Friday to something
besides the squabbes for party supremacy.
The Exposition bill was passed There are
certain amendments to be agreed to by the
House, and it is not likely to quarrel over
them. The bill will doubtless be promptly
signed and the commissioners appointed
without delay. Then some energetic work
will be needed, with the jealous cooperation
of those interested in having our productions
brought to the attention of the world. 1t is
to be hoped that we shall have creditable
display at Paris, and it is sure to pay if prop
erly managed
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

How CoNKLING CAUGHT IT.-The recent
sharp skirmish between Senators Conkling
and Truman has recalled neat bit of chas.
tisement administered by Mr.. Fessenden to
the New York Senator when he was some.
what new to his duties. He had undertaken
to lecture the Senate on allowing its mem
bers to take bills, in the custody OF the sec
rotary, from his desk to their own. What
is TO prevent me, for instance" he is reported
as saying, from getting bill into my
possession and altering it 2" I'VE have not,
up to this session." replied Fessenden, chad
any member of the Senate capable of such
conduct"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

A LITTLE land well titled may be made
great help in hard times. 1t is stated that
the occupants of six hundred 'shanties along
the lines of the New York railroads make
living by raising corn and potatoes on the
ground between the rails and the fences. 1t
is estimated that nine thousand acres are
cultivated in this way.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

SENATOR PATTERsoN's CAsE.-The com
mittee of the legislature of South Carolina,
which has investigated the charge that John
j. Patterson secured his election to the
United States Senate in 1872 by bribery,
states in its report that twenty members of
the legislature of that year have testified
that they received brides from Patterson.
The sums paid for votes ranged from one
hundred to twenty-five hundred dollars. Mr..
Elliott, Patterson's principal rival, stated
that he was offered fifteen thousand dollars
to withdraw, but refused. These facts, if
they are facts, illustrate not only the meth
dds of leading Republican politicians of
South Carolina, but the character of the
legislators that flourished under the joint
rule OF negroes and carpet-baggers." The
same kind of corruption prevailed in egis-
lation as well as in the election of Senator'S
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

PROFESSOR BAIRD discovered last summer
available fishing bank, previously unknown,
about fifteen miles off the mouth of Boston
harbor. 1t is so rich in fish that from five
hundred to one thousand pounds have been
taken by trolling within half an hour, and
among them was discovered species of
founder previously unknown on the Ameri-
can coast, and believed to be peculiar to
Greenland.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

BRAVE TO THE LAsT.-Osman Pasha
proves the stuff of which he is made by
sallying out from his garrison at Plevna and
making an attack upon the investing lines
Of the enemy. But the odds were too great
against him. lie did not fluid the Russians
mapping. With such officers as Todleben,
Ghourko and Shobeleff at the head of one
hundred and twenty thousand men, it looks
~ though the doom Of Pleyna was sealed
and its fall only question of time.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-12-05

The London Times money article says
We know by experience how serious loss
has been inflicted upon persons drawing
their income from India by the reduction of
the silver value of the rupee. II is moder-
ate estimate to state that il silver be uncon-
ditionally accepted as coin in the United
States, one thousand pounds worth of Amer
lean bonds will be reduced in value to eight
hundred and fifty pounds or less