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Every Invalid Should Know II.


The report from all parts of the country
confirm the statement that DIR. Cages great
vegetable remedy called "MEDICAL WONDER
is having an immense sale by all druggists.
The proprietOrs do not expend enormus sums
for flaming advertisements, but porter to let
the medicine advertise its-self by sending to
Druggists throughout the country, sample
bottles, far trial, at cost of many Thousand
dollars per year, that invalids may test its
merits before purchasing a large size. No
person suffering with Dyspepsia, Dizziness.
Liver or Kidney Complaints, Sour Stomach,
Sick Headache, Hab:tual Costiveness, Scrot.
nla. Humors, Spinal Diseases. Weakness of
Male Or Female, or General Nervous Pros
tration of either sex. can take this remarka-
ble medicine without soon seeing its good
effects. Go to your Druggists and get a
sample bottle for Is cts and try it or a large
size for $l.0O 1t has cured where all other
remedies have failed.
Sold in Bradford by STEVENS 4 BAGLEy,
and at wholesale by WELLS, RICHARDSON g.
Co.. Burlington.
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Paper for covering shelves for
sale at OPINION Stationery Store.
This paper is ornamental as well 40
useful, aud costs but little higher
than ordinary white paper. House.
wives look at IL
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If Cole did back d0wn last
Wednesday evening he can give a
good and sufficient reason for so
doing.
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MARRIED..

In this town, by Rev. Silas McKecn, ID. d..
May 2lst, Mr.. Benjamin Franklin Fuller and
Miss Cora A. Blanchard, both of Vershre, Vt
In Ely, May TO- by Rev L. A. Merritcd
Harry A. Irving and Miss A. d. Trevcthick
both of Ely.
In West Fairlee. May Cd, Mr. Charles II
Dodge OF West Fairlee and Miss Annie X
Lincoln of Chelsea.
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No remedial agent has ever been offered to
the sick and the dcbIlited at all comparable
to lIostctter's Stomach Bitters IN cases of re-
mittcnt and intermittent frvers, constipation
nervous ailments rheumatism, and disorders
involving constitutional weakness or plys.
cal decay. 1t literally works wonders" The
botanic ingredients which its sprituous basis
holds in solution. act like charm upon the
stomach. and through the stomach upon the
brain, liver, bowels and nevous system. There
is GOthing in it, composition that is not salu.
Lrious. 1t contains some of the most potent
tones of the vegetable kingdom and the .juc
es of the best apperent and auti.billou, roo is
and herbs, combined with perfectly pure
stimulating element. The Rittcrs are peculiar
~ adapted to those engaged in cXhausting or
M healthy occupation, as by its use strength
is sustained and the ability of the system to
resist atmospheric and other influences pre-
judicial to health largely increased,
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Mrs. &. Ii. Curtis does not ad.
vertise goods at Wholesale prices,
but judging from the large amount
of business being done there at pres
ent, we know her prices cannot he
beat.
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BORN.

In Bradford, May 20, to Dr.. and Mrs. j. II.
Jones, daughter.
In West Corinth, May Goth, son to Mr.
and Mrs. E. j. Spear.
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Fresh fish and Holsters every
Wednesday, at q. II. Curtis.
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Lemons, oranges, apples and
pineapple, at q. II. Curtis.
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Probate Courts.

Hon. j. a. TENNEY, JUDI.
Probate Courts will be holden within and
for tho District Of brsdford,ths ensuing year
as follows;
At the Trotter House, In bradford, on the
Second Tuesdays Of January. March, Nay
fJuly, September aud November.
At Fosters Hotel, East Corinth, on the SEQ
ond Tuesdays OF February. June, August and
October.
At the judges OAcs on the second Tues.
day OF April aud last Saturdays In March aad
At tho Registers Once In West Fsirlss, on
he second Yuesday'in December aud last
Saturday In February aud November.
ALyAH BEAN, Register.
West Fairlee, Dec. !, 1876. 30yl
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Fans, fans, just received at Mrs.
&, S, Stevens.
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States, all sizes, at the OPINION
Stationery Store.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
Washington

The annual report of the superinten-
| dent OF special agents show that during
the past year five hundred and forty
three persons were arrested for Ottenses
against the postal laws, one hundred and
four in excess of the proceeding year.
The finance bill introduced by Senator
Matthews provides that when United
States, legal tender notes are returned TO
the treasury or shall have been redeemed
in coin under the specie resumption act
of 1875, they may be reissued from time
to time, as exigences of public service
may require, or otherwise, provided the
amount at any time outstanding shall not
exceed $3.50, 600, 900 and the secretary Of
the treasury shall not make any reduc-
tion of the authorized currency by retir-
ing United States, notes below that sum-
The bill also requires the secretary. for
the purpose of redeeming the legal tender
notes as prescribed by law, to acquire
and maintain a reserve fund In coin Of
not less than 500, 600 900, to be provided
by the use OF the surplus revenues and
by sales of bonds. IF the coin reserve be
reduced to S59, 600 900, the redemption
of legal tender EOtes shall be suspended
until the reserve fund is restored to $780,
100000, but, in that event, holders Of
legal tenders may exchange them IOr
United States, four Ier cent. bonds
sums OF not less than $50 Notes thus
redeemed shall not be reissued or replaced
by Others until the reserve fund Is re-
stored to 500, ,00O, 600. The bill also
authorizes the secretary OF the treasury
TO receive, in payment Of any bonds
which he may sell under the refunding
act OF 1870, the legal tender notes in lieu
of coin, but at not less than the par value
of said bonds in coin, less an allowance
not exceeding ene-hslf of one per cent. Of
said bonds Tor expenses; and he is re-
quired to r,se the legal tender notes so
received, or such other notes as may be
issued in lieu thereof, in the purchase of
any outstanding 30 bonds at price not
exceeding their par value in coin, or in
purchasing coin for the redemption OF
such bonds.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
neience nndIndustrY.

Nearly every lumber-mill on tGe sag
inaw river is also salt-mlll, theSbrine
| being boiled by the exhausted or waste
steam from the saw-mill-
Rancid butter is liked in Iceland, and
commission of Icelanders are IN this
country to establish an agency for for
warding the article in large quantities.
The novel Bilierica and Bedford rail
road, in Massachusetts,, whose gauge Is
but twenty-four inches, and the rolling
stock, almost like tOy-cars, has been
opened for public travel.
Vermont has lately sent the first
pewder-mill machinery ever exported
from this country to Russia. 1t is TO be
erected near the city of st. Petersburg.
Russia has long been a good customer loI
our locomotives.
A wash composed of lime, salt and fine
sand or wood ashes, put on in the Ordi-
nary way OF whitewash, renders Hsingle
roof much safer against fire from sparks
and falling cinders, in case of fire IN the
vicinity.
A French chemist is said to have sue
ceeded in producing a paint with which
to illuminate the numbers on street
doors at nigh. Figures traced with it
are so lustrOus as to be read even on q
dark night, and the preparation Of the
compound is said TO be simple, in ex-
pensive, and not injurious.
Tt has often been attempted to measure
the speed Of the electric current. The
return OF the current, in an experiment,
to the very place whence it started,
having been to Persia and back, a dis
tance of 400 miles, was instantaneous.
Electricians have endeavored to give q
measure to the speed of the electric cur
rent, and the best thing that they have
been able to DO Is to say that, at least, it
travels at the rate of 100000 miles a
second
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
Enue.trian statue of II. L. Lee.

The Springfield MAS Republican Of
Tuesday says: NJ. H. Mosman, Of the
Ames company, Chicopee, has just fin
ished study model about three feet
high Of the $40 600 equestrian statue of
Gen. r. E. Lee, which is to be erected at
Richmond, Va, and will be exhibited
there by the artist in the early part Of
November. The statue itself is of
bronze, and the pedestal and steps of
granite-colored wood 10 represent stone,
instead of the usual wax or plaster model.
From a series Of steps, whose grand size
i7/twenty-fye by eighteen feet, rises
piatfo1m holding the pedestal proper, an
oblong square with scmi-circular pre-
iections on the shorter sides. The base
rises in this form without other orna-
ments than holdings cut in the granite
TO the bottom o. the die. The straight
part of the dies sides are a nine feet
square granite block paueled for bronze
relies. The circular parts are futed
column sections cut longitudinally. A
band around the column parts between
base and cornace, is covered with armor
and insignia of the middle ages. Above
this die Is a cornace with a running Gre
clan ornament in bronze, besides granite
holdings, and the whole pedestal is re-
cured by a fifteen by five and a half
feet stone, about which and just beneath
the statue j. an honor chaplet in a con-
tinuous garland OF laurel leaves. One OF
the panels of the die shows a mausoleum
with a medallion portrait on its face Of
Lee. which a women figure representing
the country embraces in expressing grief
at the loss of her son, while Virginie
brings a wreath Of immertelles in defer
ence to his virtues. The state coat-oi-
arms. with shield embellished with
Lees titles, is in reliei on the back Of the
die Above the twenty-five feet high
pedestal is the sixteen feet equestrian
statue of General Lee. The horse Is OF
nigh blood and spirit, and, while showing
considerable action, has none Of the
strained, theatrical eject sometimes seen
in such works. The rider represents
General Lee in his military uniform,
feld-glass in hand, and the expression OF
both horse and rider is of expectation, as
though anxiously awaiting the result OF
some order upon which tho fate OF a
/ battle may depend"
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23

as much here as in New York or Phila-
deiphla. The days also, of cheap shop
ping, as compared with our leading cities.
are over. The increased facilities Of
trade have equalized prices in all great
cities, so that one can buy nearly as
.fheaply in Philadelphiaas here. Indeed.
many articles essential to a lady's or
kentleman's wardrobe are cheaper in
sAlmerica. But, let one say what he will,
who can keep Americans from spending
money in Paris? They do it with
relish and an extravaganza that are a.
tsnishing. American money keeps up
the most expensive hotels and shops 10
be found here y>.It is as good as a play to
bear the stories of their extravaganza
and their gullibility in buying. But
the shops are attractive and French
dresses pretty. What wonder that our
ladies buy and buy? The Champs
III wees is as gay as fairyland there are
strange fascinations, and they are away
rom home. What wonder that our
speed money here2 One might
papraiize, but Whit tao usesss Easas.l..
do. not come to Paris to moralize-P Paris
C1sresb0ndencc Of the PhiadelDhja Time.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
The Paris Exposition.

A great deal of interest is manifested
here in the coming Worlds Exposition,
and no pains and expense are spared to
make it surpass all its predecessors. The
new buildings are certainly superb, and
will constitute one of the chief features
of the exposition. They are already
nearly completed, and, unlike those at
Philadelphia, will be ready for exhibitors
months before the time for opening
The permanent building. erected in the
form of vast semi circle, and command
ing magnificent view of the Seine, is an
ornament to a city already crowded
with palaces. The Caen stone-so soft
when quarried and placed in the building
that it can be cut and carved as easily as
wood, but which becomes as hard as
granite upon xposure-affords build
ing material such as no other city has
and accounts for the facility with which
/ the Parisians build their magnificent
| edifces, or restore those destroyed
| Already most of the ruin caused py th'
siege and the Commune has been re
paired. 1t may interest Americans WHIT
intend TO visit Paris next year to know
that the price Of living has advanced
since the war, and that they must pa,
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
The Indian ana Civilization on.

The proper method of civilizing the
Indian, in the belief OF a Catholic mis-
sionary. Father Raveille, who has long
lived among the Sioux, is to earn MS
tastes and then lead him toward civiliza-
tion bv ways that do not too harshly
cross those tastes. 1t is necessary 70
break up the tribal organization
stop their wandering from place 70
place, and protect them when tney
are trying to become farmers. Inc
nomad instinct is strong. falnel
Raveille relates this anecdotes one
bitter cold night, while was wiz"
the Sioux up near the Canada line
well-known chief, Left Bear. came in'o
NV hut. l said to him; Look al iie
here in this room, Left Bear. zee va.
a;r;I;z.tion can do. The wind on 'ne
prairies is sharp; the snow Is deep, -.
here il a stove that warns the ar. IT,
;s he'd where | can sleep and not ilee.si '. /,
Here is my table, with books = INC inch
can read and learn. Is tbs no.
ba,ter than roaming about Wi'no.. ss.n.
49,, ~ He repeated all these nl.e s.ss
tsges approvingly. But salo y, "a ifss
.mIendid air about him you ~ -onr bsrt
You cannot put your house on On ,s 49, r1n'
and nd 90 to some new place "H'p ''''
a change.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
Surgical Love Making.

An interesting correspond Il at
present being carried on between young
woman in Warsaw, Ind, and her afii-
anced lover, a promising young physi-
clan and surgeon in the city. In his last
letter he told her that he hoped to be
favored with a healthy season Of sickness
this winter. " I removed patients leg
last night" he said" " f. 7. aged 81
years, married, male; compound fracture
of the knee-pan and amaurasis of t e
tjbia, and as the limb fell upon the table
in the boAls of the subject (who stub
bornly refused to be placed under the
influence of anesthetics) heard the soft
and mellow Ginning of bells announcing
the marriage at Warsaw, Ind, on the I'd,
at the residence of the brides parents,
etc. 0, my love, dear girl, as ] conduct
a delicate operation for cataract l see in
my dreams (dreams 30 realistic that the
scalpel trembles in my hand, and l came
with an ace of digging out the subjects
eye) your own happy eyes beaming upor
me, soft with their love light. And, my
darling, few more legs and arms re
moved, few more operations for Tesec
tion, only very few more prescription
and consultations, and | shall be at Las
in the position to clasp you to my breas
and call you my wife, my own. ChiodG
/ Tribune.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23

Sixty persons die every minute.
Tall people live longer than short
ones.
Never Jreau on Jne bunions OF man
who has boil on his neck. 1t il un-
Christian, careless and dangerous.
The reputation Of man is like his
shsdow-gigantic when it proceeds him,
and pigmy in its proportions when it
follows him.
The total number Of human beings
on the earth Is computed at 100000
coo, and speak three thousand and sixty
three known tong ue.s
The faults of Christians are watched
with more rigid scrutiny than their vir-
tues; hence the Importance of sustain
ing an unblemished character.
o.. The English Nautical Magazine ad-
vocates the utilizaiion OF rats as food,
Z ss>asssasse. - ..-.ea..,al .,sneri1nent.
that they are exceedingly palataJie.
A little boy in Springfield, Mass,
after his customary evening prayer a
night or two ago continued, and bless
mamma and Jenny and uncle Benny"
adding, after a moments pause, the ex-
planatory remark, 4" his name is Hop
kins."
Laugh about Turkish and Russian
names, if you viii but remember the
United States have Orodelfan, NJ Wot,
East Paw Paw, Teutopolis, Wild Cat
Verdigris Valley, Slaughter, Wagon
Wheel Gap, and similar specimens Of
nomenclature, purely American.
1t takes a medical student 10 prove
that black Is white In Shoreditch,
England, a gentleman recently drove up
to public house and left his pony, which
was a milk-whitc steed in charge of a
I boy while he went iudoos .or five min
utes When he vappeared the boy was
! there and the buggy was there, but in
place Of the milk-white steed was a pony
/ "a black as a beetle. The boy insisted
that it was the same pony, and Fcould
! give no explanation Of the change of
/ complexion, save that a young medical
gentleman had examined the animal
/ during the owners absence The truth
was that the mi-chievous medical student
had daubed the pony from head 10 tail
with coat Of Iampblack The English
mans astCnishmeDt was only equaled by
the dismay Of al American in a cemetery
neNr Buffalo. After leaving his horse at
a hitching post for half an hour, be had
resumed his seat and attempted to make
a start, when 10 the post appeared plump
under the tail, between breeching and
headquarters. Bless me :" exclaimed
the dazed gentleman, did ! hitch the
orse at the wrong end
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
Alter seven Years.


seven years ago, that an extraordinary
scene occurred in Danbury. 1t was in
TIE evening, and a couple were bringing
in several pots of plants from the yard
to save them from the frost, which the
temperature of outdoors threatened
While thus engaged she spoke, referring
to a geranium she mad in her land:
81 wouldn't lose this one for great
deal, "a mother gave it to me-"
He looked at it.
Your mother gave to you? Guess
not. I bought that plant myself"
Why, it's no such thing"
81 tell you I did" he added, speaking
with warmth.
And 1 tell you you didn't" she
firmly asseverated. Do you suppose
don't know what was given to me?"
"Do you suppose l don't know what
bought with my own money!
If you say you bought that geran-
ium,' she said, speaking very slowly,
and with white lips, you say what you
know TO be 'alse."
Do you mean to say lie?" he Missed.
eft you say that, I do"
You shall be sorry for this" he
threatened
Never, she retorted.
He put on his hat and coat and left
the house.
That was seven years ago this fall.
She never saw him again, nor heard. from
him in all that seven years WEaymust
have been the thoughts, the agony of
mind, endured by that wretched wife in
that time no one on earth knows. She
kept her thoughts TO herself, and pa
tiently, rs far as outward appearance
vert, bore the burden put upon her.
On Friday evening of last week her
door opened, and a man walked into her
presence. There was a look, a cry, aud
she was in the arms of her husband.
What a happy home was that. All the
agony OF the seven long years was for
gotten IN that hour OF reconciliation and
reunion. A hearty supper was spread
and with tears and smiles she hovered
about him, ministering to every want.
After supper there was a long talk OF the
past.
1T is so singular" she said speaking
in one Of the pauses, g that it should have
happened as it did. / can scarcely com,
prehend it at all. 1t seems like an awful
dream. We both lost our tempers, and
we have both suffered tor it. The miser-
able geranium! Do you know INannot
bear to see one of those plants / told
mother to come and take it back, for
wouldn't have it in sight"
"Whatr' he calculated, do you still
persist in saying that she gave it to you?
"Why, Jehn, of course she did
Haven't you got over that idea YETI"
"No, I haven't" he persisted, his face
darkening. q bought that geranium
Just Is sure as I'm living man"
She thought of his years of cruel de
sertion, OF all he had caused her to
suffer because of his obstiuacy and her
heart hardened and her face flushed.
You are mean to say that when you
know it is false
cit isn't false. It's Heavens truth. ="
It's no such thing. It's a mean con-
temptible ie."
He jumped up from the chair, seized
his hat and coat aud shot out of the
house in q flash, and she never uttered a
word in protest. She sat there with
clenched hands and a white face, and
let him 90.
And so he is gone. And to-day she
is alone again with the old burden and
the old pain. Danbury Nelos.
The Hickman courier., 1877-11-23
The Mexicans IN SAN Antonio.


Everywhere about the outskirts of the
town are innumerable low huts built Of
sticks and mud and straw and any old
drift, rooted with thatch coming almost
to the ground, and presenting an appear
ance of the utmost squalor. These are
the Mexican jacals. The chimney and
its ovens are usually in cone of baked
and backened mad a little removed. and
under a rude awning or a tree the whole
family is usually to be seen, with mules,
denkeys. chickens, and horde of dogs.
among the latter hiieous, hairless ami
NAL, promiscuously intermixed. Dogs
are largely in the majority OF the popu-
lation in san Antonio and their baying
divides the noises of the night with the
cock growing that resounds from house
to iacal, from farm to ranch, and rises on
the ear i9-Jbroad surges Of soundqlike the
waves of the sea. If you should glance
into one of these iactlt you would find
an earthern floor -eSsniy swept, a bed
neatly made and brigatlT covered, and
the place garnished after its sort and
although the general idea Is that it is
nest of me- to the casual eytSt seems
clean and orderly, but poor to the last
degree of poverty. Yet the Mexican
here can live on less than any. In the
summer the corn and onion and peppers
of his garden patch meet his needs; in
the winter even when he owns his bit Of
land, iye-penny soup bone and
one sweet potato comprise his usual
marketing. But poor AS he may
be, his daughters do not 90 out to
service; mis- mother wraps her nbOsa-
that remnant of the Spanish mantilla---
about her with the grand air and he
himself, although in rags, salutes you on
the street with the grave courtesy of a
Spanish don Making exceptions of the
proud old Mexican families of lineage
and I9pute, who live in secmsioa it II
not possible to feel that these people who
are known as MexicaDs have any claim
to the name as we use it. They are sim
ply a gentler Indian, accepting sort of
civilization, now and then with a fairer
tint, now and then with wave in the
hair that tells Of darker blood and always
with high cheek bone, following them
to the tenth generation. The proud Cas-
lillian has but small part in them the
gentle Montezuma race perhaps has less.
One having these two strains in his
veins--the Spaniard, with his hemisphere
of poetry behind him the Montezuma,
representing ancient and rightful en-
pire of the cOntinent---should wear, it
would seem, other than these low-bowed
faces stamped in their dumb and sullen
ignorance, whether you see them on the
women sauattirs on the brick floor of
the cathedral, or on the men Iounging in
the plazss against anything which viii
uphold them, darker an6 more sullen for
the shadow of their huge somberos.
san Antonio is, in fact, a Spanish
town to-day, and the only one where any
considerable remnant of Spanish life ex-
lists in the United States