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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

The American revolution did not make a
deep enough impression on the British mind
to give it correct ideas in relation to it, but
it is little surprising that the New British
Encyclopedia should contain such grevous
mistake as this in mentioning Lake Cham
plain; During the war of independence il
was rendered famous by the defeat of the
English fleet in the engagement of Septem
Der H. 1914"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

Oakley Habit is generally believed
that Oakley Hall arrived in London on Sat
urday of last week. AT any rate, man call
ing himself Subtitle" addicted to punning,
and having rough, gray beard on his face,
landed there and went to private residence
near Nottinghill Gate station, A Boston
gentleman states positively that Hall left
that city on the "Victoria," for England.
His information was received from person
connected with the line of steamers to which
the "Victoria belongs.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

GENERAL GRANT seems to grow happier
and happier over his freedom. al have no
doubt he says with chuckle, that will
be great deal better fellow now than was
six months ago, in the estimate OF the peo-
ple,' lie feels that he's got a good deal of
life, strength and health left in him, and he
means to enjoy them.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04
Retrenchment.

There is no theory so hard to practice and
certainly none so easy to preach as that of
retrenchment in expenditures. The rebel
lion, beside all the other ills it inflicted upon
the country, is responsible for certain and
widespread extravagauce in expenditures
both in private as well as public matters.
Economy has been derided, and those who
grew up into manhood during the terrible
war times have not, until quite recently
seen the absolute necessity of rigid over
sight of their expenses But the lesson of
the last few years, and the lesson which the
hard times of to-day emphasizes, is plainly,
"Spend less money" The fact is that this
has become an absolute necessity. The
burden of debt in this country is absolutely
appalling, and it is only by strict regard
to expenses that this heavy burden can ever
be removed. Railroads, manufacturing COM
panies, municipal corporations and private
individuals have used their means with so
much prodigality during the past fifteen
years that the debts incurred and the result
ant high rate of taxation is something which
should well make any corporation or individ-
ual look twice before running into any ex-
pense of doubtful advisability. This result
has been brought about by the free issue of
paper money which has unsettled values,
made money cheap and the temptation to
indulge in useless Injuries and needless
expenditures very difficult to resist. Let us
trust that this era has now passed, and the
time has come when moderation shall govern
our expenditures, national, municipal and
personal.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

The Nebraska legislature has provided for a
grand grasshopper war Road supervisors through
out the state are Authorized to order out all the
voters in their respective precincts to do twelve
DAYS work each in killing gr,sshoppers, for which
each Of these home guards is to be paid two dol
lars per day in county warrants, Besides this,
grasshopper war clubs are being generally formed
throughout the state.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

KATE FIELD seems at last to have got footing
on the London stage. Some OF the best critics in
the press speak most kindly of her acting.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-04-04

MOODY and sankey will close their labors in
Boston about May LIST.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

and in high terms of praise, to the conduct
of officers and men during the Indian war,
and at the time Of the recent riots. 1t APP
pears that General Sheridan, in recon-
mending an increase of every company in
the service to one hundred men, expressed
the opinion that had this been done some
time ago the Indian troubles would have
been settled promptly, with I" strong proba-
bility that they would not have occurred at
all" General Sheridan adds: "The In
dian troubles in this division are over
for the present. l can not say that they
are finally ended. Complications are still
liable to arise, and our experience should
teach us to be better prepared than we have
hitherto BEEN" General Sherman agrees
with Sheridan's recommendation, which
would raise the army to nearly $4,000
men, but despairs of success in such
application to Congress, and therefore
urges such legislation as will give us $4,000
men for regiments of the Line. This
would make for the present 430 companies,
of an average of ffty-eight men to a COM
pany. al believe it to be wrong and dam
aging to increase the cavalry at the expense
OF artillery and infantry. The latter do as
much good service as cavalry, are as neces-
sary, and cost much less for maintenance
| ALI are equally necessary, and should be on
a par, but the Presidentshould have a right
to increase the companies stationed at ex
posed points at the loss of others not SINH
larly situated"
The concluding portion of the report is
devoted to an account Of General Howard's
movements in pursuit of the Nee Perces
and the final capture by Col. Miles. Genera
Sherman says, of course Col. Miles and his
officers and men are entitled to all honol
and praise for their prompt, skillful, ant
successful work, while the others, by theil
long, toilsome pursuit, are entitled to cor
responding credit, because they made tina
success possible. The General hopes thes'
Indians will be provided with homes in thu
spring, on the Indian reservation near thu
hodocs, where, by moderate labor, they cal
soon be able to support themselves in peace
They should never again be allowed to re
turn to Oregon or to Lapwai.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
Luck.

Some people are fond of denying that
there is any such thing as luck" but,
be that as it may, there certainly are
persons to whom what seems like
fortuitous good fortune comics. Col.
Green Wilkinson gave a seat in his pew
in London to an old gentleman, who left
him $4O,0 900 a year. Ayoung Bostonian
crossed to England three years ago, and
got into conversation with an elderly
gentleman, who observed that he found
they had the same name. 1t turned
out that they were second cousins. The
elder had gone to California in his early
days, made a fortune, and entirly lost
sight Of his relatives. That chance
meeting gave the voting Bostonian a
fortune Of between two and three mill
ions. Two ladies had a box at the opera
in London. An old man opposite
bored them dreadfully by perpetually
" lorgnetting" them. The scene came to
an end, and they thought no more about
him. One day, a year a%fterward, a
solicitor called ON n of the ladies,
Lady Francis Bruce, and told them that
and old gentleman, Mr.. W., had left her
property worth several thousand a year.
"Never heard of the man." she
said, "must be a mistake" every
extraordinary" replied the solicitor.
Suddenly a happy thought struck him,
HE lies In his coffin in st. John Street
close by at Bantihg's, the great under,
taker: will you come and see himP She
went. 1t was the old lorgnetter. And
it is said he left it to her under a mis-
take, after all, have intended leaving il
to her friend, whom, and not Lady
Francis, he admired, but was misin,
formed as to the names Of the ladies
A young New Yorker went to Sar
Francisco to seek a fortune which Sc
many have failed to find. He got
poor clerkship, and had to be thankful,
for that. One evening at a place o.
amusement he watched a game of cards
saw that an elderly Englishman wa
being cheated, exposed the fraud, ant
had a tussle with the cheat. The
E~nglishman has presented him witt
$4,000 to start him in business, ant
there is every prospect that more is t.
come.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

politics are Of the Eourtou tampintensifed.
The Moniteur says the Ministry will avoid
all political discussion, and devote itself
solely to public business. 1t will ask the
Senate and Chamber of Deputies to adopt
. similar course, and thus establish 8 truce
frsm the discussions which are disturbing
trade. 1t will explain to the Deputies the
imperative necessity of Immediately con-
sidering the budget so as to reassufe the
country.
The new Ministry has been definitely con-
stituted as follows: President of Council
and Minister of War, Gen. Grimaudet de
R~ocheboult; Minister of Foreign Affairs,
Marquis de Banneville; Minister of the
Interior, De Welche; Minister of Justice,
Lepelletier; Minister of Finance, Dutilleul
Minister of Commerce, Ozenne; Minister Of
Public Works, Graeff; Minister of Public
Instruction, Faye; Minister of Marine, moi
yet nominated. Dutilleul was Deputy fol-
Compiegne, but was defeated in the election
of October IA. He sat with the Constitu,
tional group. He has been connected with
the Ministry of Finance for many years
Admiral Roussin has been appointed Minis
ter of the Marine. The Committee of the
Left has drafted an Interpolation to b.
made in the Chamber of Duputies as soor
as the new Ministers appear.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

back currency. Agreed to without division.
Mr.. Hubbelps substitute for the bill was re-
jected-yeas, 80; nays, 15S. The other
amendments were rejected and the bill was
finally passed, with the amendment of Mr..
Fort, (Republican, of nlineis.) Yeas, 1888;
nays, 100. The following is the text Of the
bill as passed:
"A bill to repeal all that part of the act
approved January IA, 1875, known as the
resumption act, which authorized the Secre-
tary of the Treasury to dispose of United
States bonds and redeem and cancel the
greenback currency; that all that portion Of
the act approved January IA, 1875, entitled,
an act to provide for the resumption Of
specie payments, which reads as fol-
lows, to-wit: And whenever and so
often as circulating notes shall be issued
to any such banking association, SO
increasing its capital or circulating notes,
or SO newly organized as aforesaid, it shall
be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury
to redeem the legal tender United States
notes in excess only of $500, 000, 600 to the
amount of eighty per centum of the sum oi
National Bank notes so issued to any such
banking association as aforesaid, and to con
tinue such redemption as such circulating
notes are issued, until there shall be out
standing the sun of $780, 00, 900 of such
legal tender United States notes, and nc
more; and on and after the LIST day of Jan
uary, Ammo Domini 1879, the Secretary
of the Treasury shall redeem, in coin o.
the United States, legal tender notes ther
outstanding en- their presentation at tn,
Office of the Assistant Treasurer Of tn,
United States in the city of New York, il
sums not less than fifty dollars; and to en-
able the Secretary of the treasury to prepar'
and provide for the redemption in this &c
authorized or required, he is author
lied to use any surplus revenue
from time to time in the Treasur,
not otherwise appropriated, and to issue
sell, and dispose of at not less than par il
coin, either of the descriptions in bonds o
the United States described in the act o
Congress approved July IA, 1876, entitle,
an act to authorize the refunding Of tn
national debt, with like qualities, privileges
and exemptions, to the extent necessary Il
carry this act into full effect, and to use tn,
proceeds thereof for the purposes aforesaid
be and the same is hereby repealed"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
Foreign

There was heavy fighting on the LON on
Monday, November 10. A Turkish official
dispatch claims that a strong Turkish force
making a reconnaissance carried the Rus
sian positions on Metchka Heights at
Piergos, and near Javanchiftlich, destroying
at the first named place seventy classmates
filed with ammunition and provisions. The
Russians lost one thousand four hundred
men. The Russian attack on Kadikoi was
repulsed. A Russian official dispatch claims
that the Turks, after a stubborn engage
ment, lasting from nine o'clock in the
morning until six in the evening, were
everywhere repulsed, but admits that the
Russian outposts were temporarily drawn
in. Both accounts agree that the Turks,
after severe fighting, temporarily occupied
and burned Piergos. The Russians state
that, so far, eight hundred and fifty of their
wounded have been brought in.
Mehemet Ali telegraphs from Orchanie
Thursday November %, as follows: owe
arrived here to-day. The Russians sent one
regimentof infantry and one of cavalry from
Vratza against NeYesish. These were over.
whelmed, and the cavalry regiment, except
six men, was destroyed. We also captured
two guns and a number of prisoners"
French Republican papers censure the
composition of the new Ministry in con-
temptuous terms. "The Union" Legitmist,
says the Cabinet derives its significance
from the appointment of N. Welche, whose
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
The Strength of the Present Army.

The annual report of General Sherman
shows, October II, the regular army was
composed of: General officers, IL general
staff officers, 566; hospital stewards, 1856
engineer battalion, 1879; ordnance enlisted
men, 346; enlisted men of staff corps, 731
ten regiments of cavaly, officers, 4S9, en-
listed men, 7,911 cavalry, $50 five regiments
artillery, officers 2S4; enlisted men, 1921 ;
artillery, 2,665. Twenty-Five regiments
infantry-oficers, S77; enlisted men, SITS;
infantry, 1855; besides which there are re.
ported as non-commissioned staff, unat-
tached to regiments, military academy, re-
cruits unassigned, Indian scouts, and prison
guards, amounting to men, 1877, Signal
Corps, 404 retired officers, Sol and captain
United States Army by act Of Congress
~aggregating officers and men, 24,501; of
which the force, available for war, is made
up of cavalry, artillery and infantry regi-
ments, amounting to 20,601 officers and men,
to which should be added the IL general
officers and officers of the general staff serv.
ing with them, together with $40 Indian
scouts.
The General details the operations of the
army during the year, referring especially
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
NEWS SUMMARY.
washington.

The President has signed the Army and
Navy Deficiency bills.
The National Woman's Suffrage Associa-
ton have called the Sixteenth Amendment
Convention of all Woman Suffrage Associa-
tons in the United States to be held at
Washington January 8, 1878.
The Russian official report states their
losses at the capture of Kars were twenty
Eve hundred. Among the officers killed
were General Belinsky and Lieutenant
Colonel Nelikof.
General Sherman was before the House
Committee on Military Affairs, the other
day, with reference to the Mexican border
troubles. He stated that the present mill
tary force ON the border was insufficient to
protect the lives and property of citizens
and recommended its increase.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
wonder Upon wonder.

Giren apay-A strange, mysterious and
most extraordinary Book, entitled "THE
BOOK OF WONDERS" Containing, with
numerous curious pictorial illustrations,
the mysteries of the Heavens and Earth,
Natural and Supernatural, Oddities, Whim.
steal, Strange Curiosities, Witches and
Witchcraft, Dreams, Superstitions, Absurd
ties, Fabulous, ~Enchantment, etc. In order
that all may see this curious book, the
publishers have resolved to give it away to
all that desire to see it. Address by postal
card, F. GLEASON & Co., 73S Washington
Street, Boston, Mass.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

TWELVE bridesmaids attended the
bride of the Duke of Norfolk. Lady
Flora Hastings, to the altar at the
Brompton Oratory, and each Of these
young ladies was presented with brace.
let. These ornaments, composed of mas.
siyee gold flexible bands of arabesque
design, were studded with pearls with
a crystal center, also set with pearls and
bearing the brides monogram in dia'
monds, surmounted by a ducal coronet
The bracelets were so made that the cen
ter piece of each may be removed and
worn as a pendant.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
Grand Trial.
...S135.E65.51

The coin balance of the Treasurer's gen.
eral account, as per October debt statement,
was $131 ,022, S43. The difference between
this balance and the grand total above
stated, is accounted for by sundry items,
such as outstanding gold checks, amounts
in hands of disbursing officers, and coin
and coin items received at certain offices,
but not charged out of account Of officers
making remittances. The amount of gold
and silver coin and bullion nominally on
hand, as above, $127, 251, ISL, is reduced by
the balance in transit, $449,233, and by the
difference between balance OF remittance,
$1,433,051 showing that the actual amount
of coin and bullion on hand is $116,267 1868,
The amount is subject to draft for the
following amounts and purposes: Debts
contracted pior to 1861, matured and IN
terest thereon unpaid, $26S, $40; called bonds
matured 1871 and subsequently, and unpaid
interest thereon, $27, 1S4,011; interest due
and unpaid, 49, 4,060; coin certificates out
standing, less amounts held in coin items,
Sic, 101, $50; disbursing officers accounts,
checks outstanding, ETC., $109,6S5, which
! being deducted from coin and bullion ac-
tually on hand, leaves q balance of $685.
g15,667. OF the above amount, there is in
silver coin and estimated silver bullion
$S,477,5 SD. The amount available gold coin
DdIc duu cstlnidtcu boiu LII 10 hhSioioio
$57, 437, 971.
An accompanying letter from United
States Treasurer Gilfllan explains that in
the first portion of this statement silver
coin and bullion are included, because the
coin balance of the Treasury is made up Of
silver coin, because the coin and billion in
the bullion fund, which is a part of the
balance, can not be given in detail with &C.
curacy, except at the annualm mint statement,
which takes place in July, as bullion con.
tanning silver is not separate. In the second
portion of the statement accrued interest is
not charged against gold coin in the Treas.
ury for reason that, not being due, it is not
a demand obligation, but win be met as il
becomes payable, from time to time, by coin
receipts Of the government. The statement
is made as the 31st of October, because that
is the date upon which the last statement
balances were struck, and the latest and
most convenient date for the consolidation
of items received from the various Assist
ant T%reasurers.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

BURNETT's COLOGNE received the highest
award at the Centennial Exhibition. 1t is
filled in elegant bottles-glass and cork stop
pered, and basket covered-and is for sale by
all frst-class Grocers and Druggists.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

The Quarterly Medical Journal, issued by
Dir. o. E. Newton of Cincinnati, containing
fifty pages, is before u.s.. The work should
be read by every one suffering from Chronic
or Surgical diseases. Price per year, $l.OO.
Sample copy sent upon receipt of u 2 cent
stamn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

WE nave a larger sale for Hatch's Univer-
sal Cough Syrup than for any other medicine
of the kind. We lave for sale all the old
standard remedies. None are in such de.
mand. Flint & Dayton, Friendship, N. Y.
Sold by Jehn d. Park & Sons, Cincinnati, y.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
Treasury Statement.

The Treasury now holds
Bonds to secure national bank circula-
lion .S344, ia. 900
Bonds to secure public deposits 1895, 500
United States boflds deposited for circu-
lHtiut for week ending Nov. f.----.
United States bonds held for circulation 495,1N
7.n--.-..---.- ~..~~-~...- 47s,soo
Gold 81, 4s2, 100
Currency 19,152,576
Receipts OF national bank notes for the week ending
Nov. II, with the corresponding periods last
year
$751; 900
1871 .,..n...... ......-........ 4,035,000
Heseitts Noy. i7...a,-..i........u.....a.. $4,000
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
Rheumati.m quickly Cured.

"Durang's Rheumatic Remedy" the
great Internal Medicine, will positively cure
any case of rheumatism on the face of the
earth. Price, 81 a bottle, six bottles So
Sold by all druggists. Send for circular to
Helphenstine & Bentley, Druggists, Wash
ington, d. G.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
.Therc,. Nothing Like IT.

"There,s h Like IT.
"The best we ever used" "Find it much
cheaper than Others" "Can testify to its
superiority" Extracts from letters to the
manufacturers of DooLEY's YEAST POWDER,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

AVER & Sons MANUAL contains informa-
ton of great value to advertisers. Sent free by
N. w. Aver & Son, Adv. Agts., Philadelphia.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
The Governments Supply Of Coin and
Bullion.

In response TO a resolution of the House, the Sec
Rotary Of the Treasury has transmitted 10 that body
q statement Of the amount Of coin and bullion in the
Treasury at the close Of business, Oct. 81, 1877. The
amounts are given as follows:
Gold coin in Treasury, sub-treasuries,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29

PATENTEEs and inventors should read
advertisement of Edison Bros, in another
column.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-11-29
SANDAL WOOD.

A positive remedy for nII diseases Of the Kidneys,
and Urinary Organs; also good in
DropsicaI Complaints. 1t never produces sick
ness, certain and speedy in its action. tits fast
superseding all other remedies. Sixty capsules cure
in six or eight days. No other medicine can do this
Beware of Limitations, for, owing to its great
success, many have been offered; some are MOI
dangerous, causing piles, etc.
DUNDAs DICK & CO.'S Genuine Soft Capsules
containing Dill of Sandalvood. sold at all drug store
Ask for Circular, or send for one to Us and "a Woosie
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-17
COMMERCIAL REPORT.

COTTON ON THE SPOT DULL; FUTURES
CLOSED BARELY sTEADY-FLoUR DULL
WHEAT DULL AND LowER--coRN QUIET
OATS oUIEr-wHIsKEY QUIET-poRK DULL
LARD DULL-PETRoLEUM pUIET-spIRITs TUR-
PENTINE FiRM-RosIN FIRM-ous STEADY
COFFEE FIRM-sUGAR ABOUT STEADY
FREIGHTs WEAK.
SATURDAY, June 16-6 z. NJ
general thing, prices were in buyers favor On
'Change -four was dull ana almost nominal Wheat
was dull nominal and lower. Corn was quiet Oats
quiet Whiskey quiet Pork was dull. Lard was dull
Frcghts were quiet and weak. Cotton tho spot was
dull; futures closed barely steady. Cotton Arm
and about steady Oils steady Petroleum
WAS quiet. Naval stores firm.
CoYrKE.An active business was accom- plishod In Rio
The sales 348l bags Hermann Ludwig In lots Of
9S6. 1i33 ls and 1874; 5000 bags Monsto and 500
bags L. Pendsrgast, all private The
In first hands here 1879 bags Mild coffee was
steady Later-3,40 bags Rio Traveller sold Bnlti-
more on private termA We ote;--ordinsry sargoss,
1G54c l7c fair do 1916 1876 good d. 1910 zoe.
prime do, 20c. 2oSc extreme range for lots 1916
221ac; Santos fair to good l9c q lyIsc gold, 30
days. Javs government bags &c. 23c do. grass ats
23c. 24c; Singapore. Ice 2okc; Ceyon ioc 2Ic.
Maracabo. 1sc. 2oc Lagusyra, 1sc 2oc; jamaica.
THO 14<c st. Domingo, lelsc I6Ac; Porto Rico,
l9hac Macassar. l0c ale Angostura. lSsc. coke
Savanilla. 1Sc Doc. Curacao lie l9c.
though there disposition to sell Yesterdays
prices Liverpool came firm Tor spot cotton. uplands
Arrivals 32d lower Our for futures opened
about neen points lower and WAS very Irregular durg the
The day Of rom eleven to nosn points The closing icss
to-day compared with Fridays were as foliows:-