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A Confederate soldier from the Valley Of
Virginia in one of the battles of the late
civil war was struck in the head by Mimic
ball The ball passed through the skull,
and the surgeons, afraid to probe the wound
in search of 1t, left the man to die. In the
course of time he recovered, but had lost
his reason. and was sent to the insane asy-
lum at Stauntou, where he remained for
eleven years. AT length DIR. Fauntleroy,
an eminent physician of that city, obtain
ed permission from the asylum authorities
and friends of the insane man to make a
surgical examination of the head, with tie
hope Of finding the ball. He was success
full, and found the ball Embedded ON the
inside of the skull and pushing against the
brain. Unable to extract it with any in
strument at hand, he took a chisel and
mort1sed it out AS soon as the bali was
removed reason resumed its control, and
the deranged man was in his right mind.
He says that he is not conscious Of any
thing that occurred during the interval Of
eicVen E61lS-IIOIU Gilt bluIC llC WIS StlltCh
on the battle field to the moment the pres
sure was removed from his brain, all was
blank to him.
Another case in the same county of Au-
gusta was that of boy whose gun bursted
while shooting, an6 drove the lock into the
brain. The piece was taken out by a skill
full surgeon without serious injury to the
patient.
But the most remarkable case hear of
was in the same neighborhood. 1t was
that of woman subject to fits of mental
arrangement, and, while in spell Of luna
cy, drove an eight-penny nail into the top
Of her head, penetrating into the brain-the
nail having been driven uD to it's head.
The nail was drawn out, and the woman
has been Of sound mental condition eyer
since.
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4 Young Telegraph Operator.

Mr. Dolphin, agent of the West Chester
and Philadelphia Railroad Company at
Swartllmore station. has little girl VINO Is
such curiosity in her way that we DOUBT
if she has her equal in this country, IL IN
the world. To the railroad officials oaile
;s we'll known. as she is also to the tea' hers
and pupils at the famed Swarthmore Col
lepe. and it is to the public at large we
seak tn introduce her as the most novel
telegrapher of the age
When about four years old she oegah 10
notice the different sounds produced III
"calling" offices on the telegraph wire ;
and, asking her father what letter 1t was
at the same time making the SOUND sne
heard. After learning all the =" calls = she
would catch an odd letter in messages pas
sing over the wires, and would repeat 'he
sonnd until he told her the name OF IT,
Whom sbe was about four-and-a-haif years
of age she knew the telegraphic aiphaoe'
bv sound. and yet she could not go over
her A 3 C's without missing, being una
HE to tell all the letters by sight. When
che would miss any of them her father
would make the sound with his pencil' ana
&c SOON as she heard it she knew the 'etter
instantly. He has never taken any special
mains to teach her, but now she can reaa
any message passing oyer the wires' oa'
when copying (translating on papeD she
o,not write as fast as she can read. Da-
ring Mr.. Dolphin's absence at any 'i'i'0
from the Office, this little child, now oniy
nine years Of aye, takes his entire ohAlss =
at the key, he feeling at his ease' as sue
! i cautious and attentive. taking moving
orders for the movement of trains, &c, ac-
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-08-24
Thoughts.

1t is one of the most difficult things in
the world to persuade ourselves that any
one can love those whom we ourselves dis
like.
Who can explain the operation of that
sentiment, which creates around the one
object of our life, halo of life and beauty,
which extends to all animate and inani-
mate nature, and that of other sentiment,
which, when we cease to love, strips the
object of our late passion of all its adven-
titious charms and reduces it to the ordin-
ary level.
No character will please long which is
uniform. To be always jocose is baf-
foonery; always pathetic, silly; always
wise, sententious, and always grave, tire
some.
There are but three ways for man to
revenge himself of the censure of the
world TO despise it. to return the like or
endeavor to live SO as to avoid it. The
first of these is universally pretended, the
last is almost impossible, and the univer-
sal practice is the second.
However many friends you have, do not
neglect yourself. Though you have a
thousand not one of them loves you as
much as you ought Co love yourself.
The only way of not being bored in
company is to say witty things yourself, or
sit still and listen to the witty things of
other people.
The wlsest of men is he who has the
most ciyility for others.
Words are for women-action for men.
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That's Business.

You should never judge by appearances
says the San Francisco Hotel Gazette. TIL.
other day little weazen-faced man, wear
ing $3.50 suit Of clothes, went to one O
the big hotels, and registering his name az
from Texas, asked for room and if break
fast was ready.
The Olympian clerk gazed at him scorn
fully for a moment and then laughingly
remarked
"Any baggage?'
"No," replied the-guest.
"In that case" replied the clerk, "the
rules of the house compel me to insist on
payment in advance"
every well," said the guest, without
hesitation or appearing offended stake
two days board out of this" and from a
wad of greenbacks as big as his arm pro-
duced q 800 note.
81 beg your pardon" stammered the
the abashed clerk, "but we are so often
taken in, and your face not being familiar
to me, I"
"No offense," cheeifully answered the
guest "business is business and rules are
rules. 1t does look little odd to be with
out baggage, but us cattle dealers amt
much on style
"'rhat's all right" said the clerk. ''Put
up your money; we know a gentleman
when we see him. jim, show the gentle
man to 146. Call for the best in the house,
General"
The old man slowed away au ample
breakfast, got the clerk to give him small
bills for a fifty, and asked where Billy Cool
baugh, the banker, had his office, inquired
when they had dinner, desired the clelk to
tell Mr.. Farewell, if he called, that he
would be back at 2 o'clock, then went and
hasn't been seen since. The clerk subse-
quently discovered that the $50 bill was
bad. The sad event east a gloom over the
hotel office.
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Something Wrong.

The ClegeIan6 Leader relates the follow
ing story of some local authority. 1t is
told by a brother of the gentleman referr-
ed to /" When boy" he says, "John
was always innocent and impressible,a and in
that way father looked upon him as 'one
of the good little boys We had grind
stone which was the envy of the neighbor-
hood, and one night some scamp who had
hankered after it came along and took 1t,
leaving in its place one which never had a
hole drilled through it. John was the first
to spy it on the next morning. He took a
long look, was lostln thought for a mo-
ment, and then rushed into the house
shouting: 20, father some one has sto-
len the hole out of our grindstone r
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GEN. NILES ORDER.
Spare Neither Isrsaaash n3r Pains.

Gen. Miles issued the following order to
Maj. Brisbin, who is marching after band
of 400 Indians located near Sentinel Buttes,
in the vicinity of the great bend in the Lit
tie Missouri:
HEADQUARTERS YELLOWSTONE COMMAND,
Cantonment at Tongue River,
August %, 1877.
Major Jas. S. Brisbin, Commanding Battal-o
ion I'd Cavalry: q
Major-I send you at once all the force
you ask for, and in addition the best steel
rifed gun, in my judgment, in the country
for Indian service. Major Lazelle has or
ders to move down to point near Sentinel
Buttes, and will be available to cooperate,
furnish supplies, or, if large force of Indi-
ans is found, to join you for any service.
Please do all in your power to destroy or
drive in that band of Indians, and spare
neither horseflesh nor pains to accomplish
the work. When the commands turn back
or west should the Indians retreat toward
the headwaters Of Powder River, wish the
grass burned behind you in that whole sec
tion Of country, and the region of the little
Missouri left untenable for Indians or game.
Very respectfully, e.~-
- Your obedient servant,
N. A. MILES,
Col. 5th Inft'y Comd'g.
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EvE-ANGELTcAL CORNER,

| -
Miss Jeffreys Lewis, the actress, swan
two miles at Oyster Bay;
The Empress Eugenie has left Spain and
returned to her residence at Chislehurst.
England.
They have woman IN Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, who has queer habit of eating
CASTLE soap.
Mrs. Bagster, widow of the Bible pub
Usher, whose age is 101, was lately visited
by Queen Victoria.
Queen Victoria is making collection of
Oil portraits of statesmen and parliamenta-
rians of her reign.
Mary Lo7erin has just died at Croydon,
N. H., at the age of 81, after happy mar
ried life of 65 years. ..,-
Dickens niece, Miss Harry Kepper,
very clever artist, who decorated the cell
ing of St James Library, London, died re-
Gently.
Mrs. Moody, the wife of the preacher, is
in the Sunday school at Mortified, Mas
sachusetts.
An attractive young lady says the reason
why she doesn't marry is because she has
too much respect for her mother to wish
her to figure as a mother-in-law.
Impassioned lover, quoting Moore in a
whisper; "Our couch shall be roses, be-
spangled with dew" Practical shop girl:
g 1t would give me rheumatics, and so it
would you."
Jennie June says the most deveut woman
in England would stay away from church if
the milliner happened to send her bonnet
home Saturday night with one blue flower
where there should have been pink one.
A country girl coming from morning
walk was told that she looked as fresh as a
daisy kissed by the dew. To which she in
nocently replied "'You've got my name
right-Daisy but his isn't dew!''
Lady Z. intends shortly to give series
of Strawberries and cream garden parties in
the country. Here is a copy Of her letter
to her factotum "Tell the gardener to be-,
gin growing trawberries Immediately, and =
mind and don't have the COWS MIXED until
we come down.
When woman wants to kill tramp.
she is always careful to take the brickbat
that keeps the kitchen door open, or some
other old thing that is of no particular
value or consequence; but when she gets
mad at the man oi the house, she is Just as
liable to throw the lest china sugar bowl
Or the nickle-p sed cake basket as not.
The thousan" oung women who, it is
stated, can Immediately find husbands in
the Black Hills, must not, in case of ac-
ceptancc, be too fastidous or raise their
expectations too high. In other words
they must make up their minds not to dis
card an honest suitor simply because he
happens to have had his nose bitten off, Or
lost an ear in debate.
Dean Ramsay relates that ut certain
no snoon for her soup, and called the iTGen- .
tion of the servant to the fact. The man b
who was an eccentric old bachelor,
replied to his mistress in a'voice which
was heard all over the room, Mum, the
last time Mrs. Murray was here we9lost a
spoon ~
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a young Indian girl at Ninona, Mimi,
stole the St encils used in marking the heads
of -four barrels and oruamented her blank
cts with the words e Ellsworthss Choice. =
and paraded The streets much to the disgust
of Mr.. Ellsworth, who is a bachelor.
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"A young man in Cambria county, Pa.
was recently sentenced to the Penitentiary
for one year for simply carrying revolver
IN his pocket.
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1877-08-24
a New Indian Policy.

OTTAWA, (Ont.) Aug. 15.-A commits
sion is appointed by the United States Gov
ernment to make a treaty with Sitting Bull
for his return to the reservation. While in
Washington lately, Hon. Mills fully ex-
planned to President Hayes the Canadian
system OF dealing with the Indians. The
President expressed his intention of adopt
ing similar line of policy, and give the
management of the posts to experienced
army officers, and do away with agents.
The Canadian Indians of the Northwest
are fiercely jealous of the advent of the hos
tile Sioux, and it is feared may at any time
make war upon them. 1t is expected the
new policy toward the Indians, about to be !,
adopted by Presidents Hayes, will soon Sgof
into effect.
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--Cleopatra's Needle, soon to go to Eng
land, was originally erected at Baal in SyI-
ia, and dedicated to the worship of the
Sun. The city was afterward styled He'll
opolis by the Greeks, and is still celebrated
for it's ruins as Baalbec. The monolith,
with another, was brought to Egypt by the
Romans in the reign of Tiberius. It's Of
red granite, sometimes called Thebaic
stone, and was given to England by Mo-
hammed Ali, when Pasha of Egypt.
There are not less eleven Egyptian ODE
lisks in Rome, which were brought from
Egypt by successive Roman Emperors as
memorials of their triumphs.
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DESIGNATED DEPOSITORY OF TEE
UNITED STATES.
Authorized Capital $5oo,o
Paid Up Capital ..................... 100, ,OOO
Permanent Surplus Fund ............... $50,0OO 90
Dividend paid March 4, 1874. ........,..... 10000 90
Average Deposits proceeding six months, 4S5 10000
Invested in U. S. Bonds. Observation-Disclosures. 214,n0N0 90
We transact general Banking business. and buy at
highest rates. Gold Dust, Cen Gold and Silver Bu-
ZION, and Local Securities: Sell Exchange and Tele
graphic Transfers available in all parts of the United
States the Canadas. Great Britain, Ireland and the
Continent. COLLECTIONS made and proceeds remitted
promptly. Our facilities for handling
SILVER ORES are particularly good, and this
branch of business will receive special attention.
Cash advances made upon Ores and same shipped for
CASH at the very best rates allowable Owners of
mines will consult their interests by calling upon
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Blanks for Sale.

If an assortment is ordered lesser guam
titles than one hundred will be furnished at
same rates. Cash must accompany order.
Postage will be prepaid. Address,
NEW NORTH-W EST,
DEER LODGE.
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Dean Ramsay relates that at certain

no spoon Cor her soup, and called the aCtenit-
tion of the servant to the fact. The man
servant, who was an eccentric old bachelor,
replied to his mistress, in a voice which
was heard all over the room, "Mum, the
last time Mrs. Murray was here weslost a
spoen !s'
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
CONGRESS-.

Congress assembled in extra session
Monday. Samuel J. Randall of Penn,
Democrat was chosen speaker of the
House, by l49 votes, against 1872 for
James A. Garfield Of Ohio. These mi
nor officers we're chosen. all Democrats /:
Sergeant-at-arms, John G. Thompson of
Ohio; dOOr-keeper, John w. Polk of
Missouri; postmaster, James M. Stew
art Of Virginia; chaplain, Rev. DR.. John
POisil of Maryland. Messrs. Stephens
of Ca, Kelley of Pa, Wood and Pat.
terson Of New York. and Banks of Mass,
we're given the privilege of selecting
their seats in advance of the drawing.
The Presidents message is about a col
umn in length. The administration asks
for about s37. 100000 to cover the army
appropriation for this year and the def.
ciencies in various departments for last
year. Of this amount $4,000, 900 for
public work carried on by the war depart
ment- The rest is for various purposes.
The engineers estimate Of Sl0,OOO,OOC
required for river and harbOr improve.
ments is transmitted without recommen.
dalton"
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
REUNION OF VT. OFFICERS.

The Fourteenth Annual Re- Union of
Vermont officers will be held at st.
Johnsbury, on Thursday, the 18th day
of December, 1877. The members of the
Society, and all Vermont officers and
non-commissioned officers of the Army
and Navy, are cordially invited to at
tend. The usual business meeting will
be held at the st. Johnsbury House, at
8 o'clock, p. m. The grafton will be
delivered by Col. Roswell Farnham of
Bradford, at z l-2 o'clock. Supper at
9 o'clock. p. m. Railroad fare one way.
Gen. VIM. W. Grout, President; Jas. S.
Peck, Secretary.
The above is the official notice of the
reunion, but it may be added. that
while the society was organized as an
officers society, the number of officers in
the State has been SO greatly diminished
by death and removal from the State,
that there is always room for alksoldiers
to participate in the annual meetings,
and they will be cordially welcomed.
The reunion having never been held in
this section of the State, an opportunity
is now afforded all in this section to at.
tend. Those who have heretofore at
tended any of the reunions will not
need to. be told that the meetings are
occasions of great pleasure. Others may
be assured that aside from the pleasure
of meeting old comrades, the excellent
toasts, responses and music are ALWAYS
very enjoyable. We hope every officer
and soldier in this vicinity will attend
this reunion.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
ELECTION IN FRANCE.

The election for Chamber of Depu-
ties in France. took place Sunday, Oct.
IA, and appears to have resulted in
republican triumph. Quiet and peace
prevailed throughout the country on the
day of election, which is of quite as
much Importance as the result of the
election itself. The returns reported
show the election of 325 republicans and
l9l conservatives. and in twelve districts
or ACCOMPLISHMENTS no choice. These will
vote again. The above classification in:
cludes all shades of republicans and all
shades of conservatives and is not quite
equal to the republican majority in the
last chamber, but is regarded as emphat-
ic since the opposition, which includes
Monarchists. Bonapartists, &C., claimed
a gain of 100 and large majority. The
present administration, Mcmahon, Bon
apartist, have recently punished Gam
BETA BY fine and Imprisonment, where
upon a republican ACCOMPLISHMENT took
him as their candidate for Deputy, Gt
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22

The death of Henry Meigs, the great
railroad king of Chill and Peru, is an
nounced. He was born in New York;
accumulated fortune in the lumber
business, which he lost in 1887 ; he ac-
cumulated another in the same business
in California, whittier he sailed in lS4S,
but in 1854 he committed forgeries as a
city contractor for 100000. which ne
cessitated his fight from San Francisco.
He went to Chill and carried on several
railroad undertakings, and subsequently
in Peru undertook some of the greatest
railroad enterprises that engineering has
ever dared. He has lately been engaged
in scheme to tap and draw off a lake
in the mountains Of Peru, whose waters
have prevented the working of valuable
silver mines. He was probably the rich
est man in South America.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22
leeve the welcomin Nv sed frod to the
niggers and radikels.

leeve the welcomin Nv sed frod to the
niggers and radikels.
The resolooshen closing Bascom's wuz
modified into dressin his front and also
the barls in black Grape. at Bascom's
expense, and the resolooshens wuz pass
ed yoonanimously.
At this point Issaker Gavitt rose and
wantid to offer a reselooshen. Issaker
remarkt that resolooshens wuz just, ez
things now stood, but he wuz merci-
full man. He didn't want to cut the
yooserper off entirely, but desired to
give him a chance to gain the esteem
Nv the Corners. He wood give him one
more chance-jist one more, and eff he
refoosed that, why then it wuz ali over.
He wood offer this resolooshen:
ResoLved, That while we brand Rooth-
erford B. Hayes, ez President de fakto,
and ez the destroyer Nv the liberties Nv
his country. and so feelin, refooze to
welcome him to the Corners. Neverthe-
less, eff he shell do the Corners the JUS
tbs to remove the infamus Radikel which
is Collector. and appint in his place
Issaker Gavitt. and also remove the
niger Postmaster and appint in his
place the Rev. Petroleum V. Nasty, it
wood 60 great way toward softenin
the bitterness and hoomiliashen which
now rankles in the buZum Nv the Cor
ners. and wood tend very much TOWARD
restorin that harmony and good feelir
that shood exist between secshun anc
the general government.
| wuz IN doubt whether we ought t.
concede so much but Bascom turned hi'
eyes appealingly to me, and | consented
/ owe that man too much to stand OF
trifes. The addishnl resolooshen WI
passed, and we adjourned feelin tina
watever other places in Kentucky NIT
do, the Corners had done its dooty.
PETROLEUM V. NAsBY,
Ex-Reformer.
!, P. S.-Jist ez we adjourned we e
the nooze that Bigler he'd been hoax
NV us. That the accursed yooserpe
wusn't comm to the Corners at all. Ths
man needs killen.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22

riIO U..:e-1 ct~.os Rand-if Congress
has not economical it out of existence
will please strike up, "Hail to the Chief, !"
and we will take up our hats and hur-
rah for General Miles, the hero of Snake
Greek, the captOr of Joseph and his band
Of hostile Nez Perces. 1t was bitter
ton for the whites or surrender for the
Indians, and it ended in a complete VIC
tory for General Miles. General Miles
is an old hand at Indian fights, and
needed not one more laurel for his brow.
But he has won it--he has defeated,
conquered and dispersed the ablest of
Indian warriors, the most effective and
best disciplined of our Indian "hOstiles."
The country thanks you, General Miles,
and the brave men who fought with you,
and will not soon forget the heroism, the
indOmitable courage of the heroes Of
Snake Creek.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22

We regret to see that the Permanent
Exhibition at Philadelphia is evidently
on its last legs. 1t would have been an
excellent thing if so fine and instructive
an industrial collection could be kept on
exhibition and be self-supporting. But
while the great city of London fails to
sustain literally the Crystal Palace show,
it is not to be expected that city of
only one-fourth the size can support a
still more expensive and elaborate exhi-
bition. 1t could only be done by state
or municipal aid, and even then would
become an expensive elephant. The
Philadelphia exhibition. after running
through the best season of the year, finds
itself with a debt of two hundred and
sixty-four thousand dollars, for which
the creditors are pressing. Colonel Scott
Of the Pennsylvania road, and Mr.. Cow
en- of the Reading road, two of the larg-
est stockholders, are now investigating
the condition and prospects of the enter
prise, and their report will probably de-
eide whether another effort will be made
to keep the exhibition going, or whether
it will be shut up.
Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1877-10-22

The latest adviccs from Paris indicate
that the Exhibition buildings are going
forward rapidly, and are sure to be COM
pleted in ample season for the appointed
opening. which will take place in spite
of the Eastern war and any possible
changes in the government Of France.
Three kings have already engaged quar-
tiers, as we'll as any number of other
dignitaries. The awards placed at the
disposition of the international jury for
works Of art are seventeen medals Of
honor, thirty-two first medals, forty
four second medals, and forty ght third
medals. For industrial and agricultural
exhibits, one hundred grand prizes, one
thousand gold medals, four thousand
silver medals, eight thousand bronze
medals, and eight thousand honorable
mentions. These medals are all on the
same model.