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Monday afternoon of last week. The
fire was discovered issuing from the
roof of the ell, by Mr.. Elmer Dwinell of
Glover as he was entering the village.
He gave the alarm at the Steam Mill
and in an incredibly short space of
time men from all quarter of the town
and from adjoining towns were on the
spot and so far controlled the fire as to
confne it to the house itself. A large por-
ton of its contents were saved but greatly
damaged. The barn which joined the
house was saved as by miracle. Great
fears were entertained at first that the
fire would communicate itself to the
lumber belonging to the Steam Mill Co.
which was piled near by, thus endanger-
ing the Mill, but fortunately the wind
was in favorable quarter and thus the
calamity was averted. 1t is very
severe blow to Mr.. Folsom though the
building were well insured in the Vt.
Mutual.
LRASBURGH.
Will Sylvester has bought the home
farm of his father David Sylvester.
The Irasburgh Temperance Club was
entertained last Saturday evening by
an interesting lecture on Mammoth
Cave" by Rev. J. A. Haley.
Charles P. Allen died at st. Adams
on Tuesday last and his remains were
brought to Irasburgh on Friday for bur-
rial. He has suffered some years with
consumption, but has postponed its fatal
ending by spending considerable time
in the mild climate of Virginia. Mr.
Allen was the son of the late Ira Allen.
He inherited large estate, and has
been successful in his business. He rep
resented his town in the legislature, and
was keen, active, business man.
JAY.
The creditors of HI. D. Camberliu,
Martin Chamberlin and NJ. E. Chase met
last Friday to make compromise, but
without success.
NORTH TROY.
The Hatch-Hadlock war is progress.
ing and We are anxiously looking for its
completion.
The stage route from this place tc
Lowell has been bid off by James Rier.
don of Hyde Park. We shall miss
"Charlie."
James Lake has moved into his new
house.-Henry ClOugh has commenced
the erection of his new dwelllng.-Dr
G. H. Fuller has rented rooms over the
Brown store, and will open a denta.
Office some time THE month.
The exercises at the Congregations
house Decoration Day were very inter
esting. A. G. Stafford, Esq, of st. AL
bans delivered the address. Rev. Mr.
Blake made few appropriate remarks
A memorial song was very beautifully
rendered by Miss Clara Bailey. Music
by cornet band.
WE,SIIMORE.
Grass looks we'll.
The school at Mill Brook is laugh
by Ella Brown of this place.
Frank Ruggles of West Burke latel,
launched the little steamer he has beer
fitting up for pleasure excursions on the
lake and made his first trip last Mon
day.
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New Cure for Disease-Read this, it may
Gava Vour ifa
Important TO All.

MONTPELIER, VT, Nov. II. 1876
Messrs. =. E. SMITH & Co.:
have been acquainted with The Universal Pile Pills
for a number OF years. and do most eheerfully rec
ommend and use them in cases of this very painful
and agravating complaint. and have known of and
believe il will the worst cases, II followed thor
oughly for a reasonable length Of time.
G. H. PLUMLEY, NJ. D.
For sale everywhere
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Nervous Debility.-vhaA weakness or de-
preston: a weak exhausted feeling. no energy or
courage the result of mental overwor ndiscretions
or excesses some drain upon the system. is always
cured by Humphreys Homeopathic Specific No. 20.
It tones up and invgorates the system dispels the
gloom and dependency mparts strength and energy,
stops the drain and rejuvenates the entire Been
used twenty years with perfect by thousands.
Sold by dealers. Price. $loo per single VIAL $500
per package OF Ave walls and $500 vial Of powder.
Sent by mail receipt Of price. Address, Humphreys
Homeopathic Medicine Company. 100 Fulton St.. n. Y.
Sold In Barton by E. Y. Dutton and L. D. Wilson.
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will mail (Freel the recipe for preparing simple
VEGETABLE BALM that will remove Tan, Freckles,
Pimpes and Bloches, leaving the skin SOFT clear and
beautiful also instructions for producing luxurant
Ben vandelf Co., Box 1921, No. Wooster St.. N. Y.
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Northern Association.

The Northern Association of Universasts will hold
its Annual Meeting at GLOVER, thSt third WE'D
NESDAY and THURSDAY of JUNE, the goth and
2lst. Preacher of the Occasional Sermon" Rev. e.
W. Coffin of West Concord.
Each Church and Sunday School in the Association
is entitled to two delegates 1t is hoped that all pas
tors and delegates with large number of the people
will be present; also pastors and friends from other
Associations. All who attend may be of cordial
welcome and hospitabe entertainment 1t is expect
ed that those who come by rail will receive return
passes over the Passumgsic Railroad. Teams will be
In waiting at Barton depot the arrival of regular
trains, to convey persons to Glover
o26 FE HEALEY Standing Clerk
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MARRIED.

At the residence of the brides father May 81, Frank
Williams to Miss Nellie Burbank both Of Coventry.
At the NJ E. parsonage in Derby June 5. by Presid-
ing Elder Pufer. Daniel Fox to Miss Clara Mosher.
both OF Barnston, P. Q.
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Hemenway's History
VERMONT

GLovER, W.. July 10, 1876.
wish to say to those who have subscribed for
HEMINwAY's HISTORICAL GAZETTEER OF
VERMONT. shall not be able to deliver the work
expected in consequences Of the third volume not being
complete, but will be soon. The delay viii be in favor
Of the subscribers the extra labor on the work win
make it more valuable expect to visit the towns in
Orleans County which have not during the summer
and fall. II any book vermOnters want, 1t is this
History. No State in the Union has history equal
toll
E.B. sIMONDs,
ls.tf Clever, VI
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DIED.

ms-An notices of deaths inserted free; obituar
notices and poetry fee cents per linz.
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In Glover, April o. Aaron Skinner. aged So years.
In Albany, May 20, Sloan RowelI. aged II years
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The children Of Mrs. Geo. Whitelaw
are afflicted with that dread disease
diptheria.
The boarding house at the Bend
owned by A. 2. Folsom, was burned
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"DEM SUPPosEs. Those who are 80
anxious about the future as to be unhappy
in the present, may learn lesson from a
poor colored woman. Her name was Nancy,
and she earned moderate living by washing.
She was, however, always happy. One day,
one of those anxious Christians, who are con-
stantly taking thought" about the morrow,
said to her:
"Ah, Nancy, it is well enough to be hap
py now, but l should think your thoughts of
your future would sober you. Suppose, for
instance, that you should be sick and unable
to work; or, suppose that your present en-
ployers should move away, and no one else
give you anything to do; or SUPPOSE
"Stop!" cried Nancy, 81 never supposes.
De Lord is my Shepherd, and I knows 1
shall not want. And honey" she added to
her gloomy friend, +" it's all dem supposes
as is maxim you SO mis'able. You'd orter
give dem all up an jes' trus' in de Lord"
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A SONG OF THE SUNSHINE.

o I the world is full of the sweet sunshine
The daisies are full to the brim,
And the nodding buttercups fairly run over;
But the princess-rOyal, purple.red clover,
Hides it deep in her beautiful, red.hpped cells,
Where the rose light is heavy and dim.
The Gala gathers the odorous gold
And deep in her heart tbs stored,
The golden-rod's tufted fairyland feather,
Through all the wonderful summertime weather,
Is tipped and FURNISHED with molten gold, for the
Autumns costiest hoard.
The golden-Eiy and crocus line
Their cups with the shining shower.
Nasturtium's fragile bells are burning
With the yellow light that the rose is turning
To cool, clear colors, for petals fit to curtain
fairy bower.
The corn grows gold in the sunshine,
The wheat waves bright on the hill,
The Solomons seal in the quiVering shadow,
And the king. cups out in the shimmering meadow
Are touched to living glistening gold by the
sunshines daintiest skill.
On the honeysuekle's fragrant bells,
On the dandehon's plume,
On the rare, sweet dainty dy-Gngers,
The sunshines cleaning pencil fingers,
Till all the golden livery wear, in grace of burst
ing bloom.
OH the sunshine fills this earth of ours
And sweetest in all the world
Are the dear, bright, golden tinted blossoms,
That hold in the depths of their sunny bosoms
The secret of the sunshine's power within the Pc
tails furled.
A1u11ce
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Wonderful Wood CarVers.

Children will all be interested to know
where their "Noah's Arks" full of animals
come from. St. Ulrich, in Tyrol, Austria
is perhaps the most distinguished place IN
the world for the manufacture of wooden
toys. A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Saturday Euening Post calls it "The Capt.
tai of Toyland." Hundreds of people here
do precisely the same things, and have been
doing them all their lives. There is an old
woman who carves cats, dogs, wolves, sheep,
goats, and elephants. She has made these
six animals her whole lifelong, and has no
idea how to cut anything else. She has no
model or drawing to work by, but goes on
steadily, using gauges of different sizes, and
shaping her animals with wonderful ease and
truth to nature. She learned from her moth
er how to carve these six animals, and her
mother had learned in like manner from
hers. She has now taught the art to her
grand daughter. In the house next to that
of this old woman lives fine, brown man,
who carves large Christs for churches. 1t is
sight to see Herr Schooner at work. He
has no model His block is not even point
ed, as it would be if he cut in marble. He
has nothing to guide him save his consum-
mate knowledge, but he dashes at bis work
in wonderful way, acooping out the wood
in long flakes at every rapid stroke. But he
is an artist. 1t takes him ten days to cut a
figure of three. quarters life.size, and fifteen
to execute one as large as life. The wood
for the last costs fifteen forms, and his price
for the figure is forty-fve-about four pounds
ten English.
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Letter to a Graduate.

My Dear -: congratulate you on
having finished your Collegiate course. A
great point has been gained. A most impor-
tant period in your history has been passed.
You have never written me as to your stand
ing in your class, although l have understood
it is high.
If you have been faithful student, as
have no doubt you have, you have laid the
foundation of most useful and honorable
career, if you guard well your health and
morals, and keep up your habits of study.
The victories you have gained, and the conf
dence you have thus acquired in your ability
to master hard problems, and cope with your
fellows on the arena of honorable pursuit
will ever be potent inspiration and impulse
to higher deeds of daring, which will render
your future progress in whatever path you
may choose, comparatively easy. College
life is severe test of young mans ability
and character. If he passes successfully this
ordeal, his hopes for coming years may well
be bright.
l congratulate you on having finished your
course, because know we'll the sense of re-
lief which comes over ones feelings when the
College bell has called him for the last time.
For time this feeling of relief may be sue
ceeded by an unhappy sense of indecision as
to your future pursuits. All the places in
all the professions and callings will seem to
you to be full to- OVERLOOKING, leaving none
for you. So 1 know it looks to one in your
position. But be of good courage, place
will be prepared for you as soon as you are
prepared for the place. Rest and recreate
yourself this Summer, and be ready for what.
ever shall be thought most desirable. Do
not be hssty in your decision.
I had hoped that before you had completed
your curriculum of academic studies, you
would have surrendered your young heart
and affections to your Saviour, and that he
would have called you into his service in the
Gospel ministry. 1t is not essential that you
should be minister, but it is of vital impOr.
lance that you should be Christian. If
Ny Dear -, you have not yet made that
great conservation, pray that you will do
so at once. "Seek first the kingdom of God
and his righteousness, and all these things
shall be added unto you" You can never
decide intelligently and properly upon your
future calling in life, until you have put your
hand into His who "knows all things, and
can do all things"
YOUR AFFECTI0NATE UNCLE.
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The Sabbath Question.

A writer in the London Quarterly RevieaO
says:
"Can Sunday be made day of pleasure,
and maintained as day of rest ? Do not
answer the question hurriedly. Go to a
Scotch city, to New England farm, to a
north and then to q south Irish borough, to
an English watering-place, then to French,
German, Italian, and Swedish scenes Of the
same character. Take your time, look below
the surface, carry figures in your head, cal
culate we'll, for it is question for mankind.
Put all your facts together, and this is your
conclusion When Sunday becomes a day of
pleasure 1t ceases to be a day of rest. You
may as soon anslyze water without finding
hydrogen, as analyze Sunday facts, taken
from all the world, without finding the con-
clusion. Not reasoning from theoretic pre-
misses to copjectural conclusions, but from
ascertained facts to their natural causes, we
ask, What leads to this =? Necessity first,
cupidity afterwards. One mans pleasure in
wolves another mans labor. If Romeo rides,
John must drive. If Augustus Steams, Tom
must stoke. If Lucinda sees, Dick must
show. If julius fesstS, Mary must cook, and
Jones must serve. If Philokapnos buys ci-
cars, SundayIess must sell them. The fact
is, every Sabbathless makes SundaylesG.
But the labor, which necessity drsgS at the
wheels of pleasure, is not a 1.-THE Of what, in
fact, invariably follows pleasuring on Sun
day. Human nature will say that work is
as good as play. If the day is not too sacred
for throwing away money, it is not too sacred
for gathering it. If some must work or be
cast out of bread, others will work for love
of gain. Hence, sVAen exhibitions are open
on Sunday so are shops. To the masters it
may be choice: but what is it to the servants
Those who have seen Europe must know that
where Sunday is turned to pleasure, labor
comes heavily, not only on workmen, but
that the retirement of country
parishes is no protection to the farm-serVant,
nor the heavy tolls of city mansion any
excuse against Sunday drudgery. When
men who have seen this with their own eyes
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CHRISTIANITY IN INDIA.-Miss Tucker,
so well known as a writer of books under the
initials ga. L. 0. E., having gone to India
as missionary, writes to friend in Eng
land, after referring to the jealousy of the
British Government in regard to conveying
religious instruction to prisoners, and to the
difficulty of getting good books introduced
into the hospitals:
81 sometimes wonder at the Lords patience
in letting us hold India so long. Perhaps it
may be only until the infant church has
strength to stand without US. l am thank
full to say it is a growing church, and counts
some real jewels among its members. There
are many natives also who believe that Chris
tianity is the truth, and must ultimately pre-
vail-many who lack courage to come out
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FoR THE CENTRAL PREsBYrERIAN.
TRUTH STRANGER THAN FICTION; OR
WONDERS OF GRACE AND PR0VT-
DENCE.

One of the most marked characteristics OF
the ministry of our blessed Lord was its sue
cess among the most degraded classes. Je-
sus Christ bore the message of salvation to
the chief of sinners-to publiCans and har-
lots many of these gladly listened to his
words, and we're reclaimed from a life of vice
and of crime, and became among the most de-
voted of his followers. Are not his people,
and even his ministering servants prone to
forget this example set by the Master ? Are
we not disposed to think that the vilest of
mankind are lost beyond the hope of redemp-
ton, and to content ourselves with proclaim
ing the gospel to those who, if not free from
immortality, are at least not grossly vicious
To check this inclination-an inclination so
plainly the offspring of un6elief, it may be
we'll to rescue from oblivion and to put on
record any remarkable cases of the recovery
of persons whose moral condition has seemed
most hopeless, and whose salvation has sp-
peared most clearly to be due to OmnipOtent
grace. With this view, l will relate case
of conversion, the recollection of which has
often served to strengthen my own fainting
faith. With the exception of names, all of
which are changed, the narrative may be re-
lied upon as strictly true.
In one of the most beautiful towns of our
southern country the writer was so happy as
to find his first pastoral charge, and there
some thirty years ago commenced the series
of events about to be related. Among the
members of the church at that time was
DR.. Archer, physician of repute in his pro-
fession and man remarkable for kindness
and sympathy. One morning in the early
spring, was accosted on the street by this
gentleman, and requested to visit one of his
patients who had Just met with severe, per-
haps fatal injury. The sufferer was one
Summers. a drunken, worthless fellow, who
earned precariOus living by little jobs about
the street. Immediately | accompanied the
doctor to the house where Summers lay. II
was large, ill.SHaped and dilapidated build
ing, VIGOROUSLY the resort of the most profit
gate and degraded of the town-peOple of
both sexes. Here, on mean and filthy bed,
lay the poor wretch whom We had come to
visit. He was suffering intensely with all
physical agonies of broken leg, together
with the mental anguish produced by fear of
death, and whilst he seemed DESTROYS to hear
and understand what was said respecting his
eternal interests, it was evident that he could
give no fixed attention to the words of the
minister. One occupant of that miserable
apartment there was, however, who seemed
deeply moved by every word spoken. 1t was
a woman, who coming softly forward, took
her seat where she could easily hear the con-
Versation, and listening, quickly burst into a
food of tears. This woman was no longer
young, could never have possessed any con.
siderable personal attractions, and now worn
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DIRECT R Y
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
OF THE
Presbyterian Church in the United States.

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
The General Assembly will meet at Knoxville, Tenn,
on the third Thursday of May, 1875, at IL A. NJ.
CLERKS.
REV. JOSEPH r. WILSON, ID. d. STATED CLERK
REV. WILLIAM BROWN D. D., PERMANENT CLERK,
Richmond, Va.
The Stated Clerk Rx.oYPIcIo Treasurer of the
General Assembly
TRUSTEES.
REv. JOHN DOUGLAS, VIoE-PRssIDsST, Charlotte
JESSE H. LINDSAY, Esq, SECRETARY and TREASURER,
Greensboro, N @.
SUsTENTATION.
Rev. J. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
Box SSl, Baltimore, Md
Rev. RICHARD McILWAINE, Coordinate SsCRE-
rART and TREASURER, Box S3l, Baltimore, Nd
FOREIGN MISSIONS.
REV. ]. LEIGHTON WILSON, d. D., SECRETARY,
RLv: Richard MoILwAINE coordinate sEoRHrA-
RY and TREASURER, Box SSl. Baltimore Md.
PUBLICATION.
Rev. JAMES K HAZEN, SECRETARY, Richmond,
@. GENNET, Esq, TREASURER, Richmond, Va.
EDUCATION.
Rev. JOHN N. wADDEL, D. D., SECRETARY, Mem.
G. W. MAORAE, TREASURER, Memphis, Tenn.
Applications to the Executive Committee for aid are
first TO referred the appropriate Presbyterian
utiye Committees for their approval and
warded by them TO the Assembly's Committees.
COLLECTIONS.
The General Assembly has appointed the following COL
lections TO be taken annually in all the churches
For Sustentation On the first Sabbath in January.
For Publication On the first Sabbath in March.
For Foreign Missions: On thefirst Sabbath in May
For the Relief % Disabled Ministers and the Widows
and Orphans of Deceased Minister'S On first Sabbath
in July.
For Evangelistic Work. On the first Sabbath in Sep.
TENDER.
For Education: On the first Sabbath in November
In where it is highly nconvenient to take up COL
lections these days, they shall be up
possible thereafter.
The Assembly recommends 10 the churches that they
adopt the apostolic plan of taking up weekly collections
and that the amounts thus collected appropriated TO
the abovenamed Objects when necessary 10 local OBJ
ects in such proportion the church session may decide
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devotion, in places where they had no syna-
gogues. Their construction was different
Synagogles were houses, where all parts OF
divine worship, not peculiar to temples, were
performed. But oratories were open above,
shaded with trees, and intended only for
prayer and meditation, and usually built in
retired places, on mountains, or on the river
side, or sea-shore.
V. IA. Thyatira, the home of Lydia, was
on the northern border of the province OF
Lydia, twenty.Seven miles from Sardis. Paul
addressed the women who came to this prayer
meeting, and among them was this Jewish
prOselyte, a stranger who was in Philippi
for purposes of trade, to dispose of the costly
dyes of her own province, and who here was
the first to embrace the Christian faith.
V. Is. The sincerity of her faith was
proved by her immediate submission to the
institutions of Christ, and by her kindness
to the brethren. She urged them to accept
the hospitality of her home, and thus pre-
pared the way for further instruction herself
in the truths of the gospel.
REMARKS.
1. Obey the call of duty, trusting always
to the guidance and strength given from
above.
2. Gods people should meet regularly for
social and united prayer.
8. God can and will open the hearts of al
who humbly desire to receive the word of His
salvation.
4. The duty and privilege of household
baptism is clearly taught.
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