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Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11
The Book Of Books.

The Bible is the poor mans book and
the rich mans book, the ignorant mans
book and the wise mans book There
is in it plenty which wayfaring man can
read, and there is plenty which the pro-
foundest philosopher can study. Those
truths which are essential to right life are
also simple and easily comprehended, but
philosophy has not fathomed, and never will
fathom, the whole truth concerning the
character and government of God. 1t is
the glory of the Bible not only that it has
contained much which is simple but also
that it has contained much which is diff.
cult, and thus has been the most stimulat-
ing book of all literature to the most able
and the most cultured intellects. There is
light enough flowing from the sun to enable
the most ignorant to go about his daily bus
mess These is mystery enough in the con.
stitution of the sun to afford theories for
study to the most advanced astronomer.
Christian Union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11
A Breath OF HOneysuckle.

Sweet from the richly burdened trellis comes
the perfume of the honeysuckle. There are
delicate distinctions of fragrance waited in
from the garden beds; among them none
more tenderly freighted than this. Did you
ever think about the charm there is in the
scent of a flower? 1t is source of exquis-
ite pleasure, and yet its real spell is less in
what it is, than in what it suggests. Per-
fumes are something like strains of music,
or like pictures seen for moment, and then
vanishing out of sight. They often are so
intertwined and blended with associations,
meet them where we may, on the instant the
present recedes, and some dear or sad or
beautiful memory of the past returns to the
soul. You pass bed of lilies they rise
before you in their purity, like stainless ves-
tails, and straightway, with the sight and
the smell of them, dozen years fall away
from you like dream, or lift like mist of
the morning, and you are back in the bright,
blithe days OF your youth. Back to the
glad times when youth was all before you,
and no pent-up Utica confined your powers.
Back to the era when you never, in the full
buoyancy of bounding health, knew what it
was to bear the weary pain OF an aching
heart. BY the mystic touch of the lilies you
are for moment carried away to the fairy
ldHu Itll lar Dellnu YOU anu thc oNcce
voices you hear, and the soft hands you
touch are the hands and the voices OF COM
panions whose ways have parted from your
own. The honeysuckle that is blooming
now was in full sweetness in that never-to
be-forgotten June, which took from you the
precious child, your loveliest and fairest, to
be with Jesus. Never since then do you
pass it in flower, or catch Whit of its deli
cious breath without living over that week
Of anxiety and that night of long watching
which came before the dawn when she
passed through gory's morning gate, and
walked in Paradise" 1t is with the flower
As with other things. Our most priceless
treasures are those which are rooted in our
affections. That is often most ours which
has gone out of our sight into the safe keep
ing of heaven. Though there be pain
mingled with the pleasure the sweet mem
ory brings, it is pain which is sacred, and
which gathers always around it thoughts of
Joy and hope. Selected.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11
How TO Dress.

1t is idle to assert in the presence of girls
that the way in which they dress is of no
consequence. 1t is really of great conse-
quence. A woman's dress is the outward
expression of her inward life If she be
coarse, vulgar, fond of display, and bent on
low material ends, her dress, though ex-
travagant, will be an unconscious revelation
Of her character. If she be modest, self-re-
liant, and cultivated in the best direction,
the style of her ordinary apparel will befit
her, as the leaves beft the flower But in
America young girls are too often over
dressed The rounded cheeks, the bright
eyes, the waving hair of girl in her teens,
need only the simplest setting. Rich fabrics
and sumptuous adorning are more for the
matron, her dress gaining in ample fold and
stately sweep as she puts on the dignity OF
years. The seasons teach us something here,
If we go to nature for an object lesson.
How soft, illusive, and bewitching il spring
with her ndistinct outline, her evasive hints
of color, and her delicately fragile flowers.
How different her charm from the deep ma
turing of summer, when the hues are de-
cided, and the air is loaded with perfume
from a thousand censers. The schoolgirl
is only on the threshold OF summer. She
has not crossed it yet. Let her copy the
sweet grace of the spring ON her gradua
ton day.-Chrisiian inteiiigencer.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11

TnIBuLArIoN, or aiiliction, or oppression,
call it what you will, is overruled by mir
acle OF divine grace 30 as to benefit the be-
lever but in and of itself it is not the
cleanser, but the deiiler of the soul Afilic-
tlon OF itself does not sanctify anybody, but
the reverse. | believe In sanctified afilic-
tons, but not in sanctifying Affections, Al
tlictions OF themselves arouse the evil which
is in us To an unwonted energy, and place us
in positions where the rebellious heart is in.
cited to forsake the Lord -Spmgeon.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11

II only the talented and the great could
be employed in the vineyard of the Lord,
most OF us might despair of being of any
service. But it is not always by the mighty
or the noble that God works. 1t is an en-
couraging feature in the Divine economy
that some of the greatest gifts in the church
have been converted by the agency of OBJ
scure individuals. Saul was led to saliva
ton by Ananias. The great Thomas Chal-
mers was taught in the crisis hour of his
history by minister who was hardly known
beyond his parish and Spurgeon found the
way of salvation in humble chapel of the
Primitive Methodists.-ZiOn's Herald
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11

There are few things more productive of
evil in domestic life than thoroughly bad
temper, 1t does not matter what form that
temper may assume, whether it is of "A sulky
kind that maintains perfect silence for many
days, or the madly passionate, which vents
itself in absolute violence, lll-temper at
any age is bad thing it never does any
body amy good, and those who indulge in it
feel no better for it, After the passion has
passed away, one sees that he has been very
FOOLISH and knows that others see it too,
Bad temper in the aged is, perhaps, the
most trying OF all 1t is, indeed, pitiable
sight to see the wrinkled cheek OF an old
person afame with anger and passion.
Since anger is useless and AN unspeakable
dulged in at all >
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11

THERE are some men so low down that it
is said they cannot bear to have the smell
of their clover go into the highway for fear
that other folk will get something that be-
longs TO them without paying for it; there
are some men who are said to begrudge bees
the honey which they take from their flowers
without leaving anything behind but that
does not respond to an act of doing good or
giving happiness is no longer a man. He
has passed the line of manhood and should
be ranked among beasts.--,j. X. .AHen.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1877-07-11

A REFINED man is never " loud in dress,
for refinement is always allied TO simple
ity and judicious and tasteful employment
OF the means OF the good and happiness which
it has at command. II seeks 10 divest it.
self of superhuities, and aspires continually
to the utmost possible purity. Refinement
leads TO personal cleanliness and elegant
neatness, good taste and simplicity, Need
less display and bashfulness are alike repug-
nnnt 10 its spirit.
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Raihoad Gime gable.
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILROAD LINE
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
Commencing ON Monday, July 9th, 1877.


Trains doing south aud Fast.
Leave Montpelier at 800 A. NJ, l. 45 p. NJ, 735 p
NJ, and 9.15 =. NJ.
MaI-eayes ST. Albanr at 100 A. NJ, Montpelier at 800 A.
NJ, Tor BOSTON New London, Springfield. New York and
intermediate points.
treal atgOO NJ ~, Alhans at Hiss NJ, Burlington
R20P. NJ, Montpelier at Las p NJ, for Boston via Lowell
WINE s and 81 ia % Sl5Ssn NJ
NJ. arriving at Montpelier at 4.35P.M
Mixed Train lsves 81 Abans nj $40 ,. NJ arriving al
Montpelier at lb5 ?. N.
Night Express. Prom Ogdensbury Montreal, st. Al
bans and Burlington, leaves Montpelier at gl5 p. NJ,
for Boston via Lowell or fitclburg Springfield New
YORK and intermediate points
Trains Going North and West.
Leave Montpelier at g. 30 a. NJ, q 10 a. NJ II. 40 A.
NJ, 3D p. NJ, and OH r. NJ.
Express Maii-Leaves Boston via Fchbuig at 80 A. A
via Lowell at 500 A. NJ, New London q SEQ 4. NJ,
SPRINGFIELD 81 500 A. NJ, Montpelier At SS5 p NJ. for
Accommodation Train Leaves Nortlned at 600 A.
NJ Montpelier - bn A. ", Tor Burlington "; Albans
Mixed-Lcaves W. Il. junction at $50 A. NJ Northneld at
ll.OU A. ". Arrive at Montpelier at 1900 N.
saratoga Express the White Mountains, leaves
AtB2b NJ. This train connects at Essex Junction, ar
irving in 81 Alh,ns at 2.lOP.M
Accommodation Train Leaves White River June
ton and 81. Albans,
Night Express Boston via Lowell at $50 NJ,
Springfield al 800 r. NJ Montpelier at $40 A. NJ, for bak
lington, st Abans Montreal and Ogby and the West.
Trains Montpelier for Barre Mt So and l2lb
and33r. NJ Returning leave Barre at T.lO a. M,andlOO
Pm, and AS pm
Sleeping are attached To Night Express trains running
between Montreal and Boston, aud Montreal and Spring
hela, and St. Albans and Troy.
Drawing Room ears on bay Express trains between Mon
Through tickets Chicago and the West for sale at the
principal stations.
1t. Aibans. Vt. July 9, 1871
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lRAsoIBLE old party Conductor, why
didn't you wake me up AS ! asked you
Here ! am miles beyond my station" Con-
ductor 81 did try, but all could get out
OF you was, All right, Maria get the chill
dren their breakfast, and III be down in a
minute'"
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on Summer" Write only on one side OF
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ton Hdokeye.
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GoD's world is Spontaneous world, where
Tomorrow is not the same as yesterday, but
better and among growing things, anything
that does not grow is soon left behind.
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The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

The cold water party met in Colum.
bus on Thursday oflast week, adopt
ed their usual string of resolutions
against all stimulants and then nom
mated the following ticket that will
probably receive about five or six
hundred votes in the State:-For
Governor, H..A. Thompson, of West
erville; Lieut.. Governor, Geo. R.
jenkins, of Jacksonville; State Urea.
surer, GAIA Alderman, of Morgan
Attorney General, D. W. Gage, Of
Cuyahoga; Supreme Judge, D. C
Montgomery, of Knox; Clerk of the
Supreme Court, Geo. Dodd, Of Green
Member Of the Board of Public
Works, Amos Miller, of Logan.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

There is a good deal of speculation
already in respect to His Fraudulen,
cy's Cabinet. The names of Morton
and Evarts are mentioned for Secre.
tary of State, Bristow for Secretary
of the Treasury, Taft and Matthews
for Attorney General, Don Cameron
for Secretary of War and Alcon, O
Mississippi, for some other position
There will be 4 bitter fight to keeE
Bristow ont of the Cabinet, to defeat
his confirmation, but he can be con.
frmed very easily if nominated. L
is doubtful whether Zach Chandler
will be kept in or not. He has serv
ed his purpose, and is no longer nee
essary.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

Honest men-men who are con-
scious of their own uprightness and
integrity-never fear investigation,
but rather court it. 1t is only the
guilty who seek to cover their ques-
tionable transactions, as did the lead
ers of the Republican party in their
refusal to go behind the certificate
of the Louisiana Returning Board.
Had the investigation been permitted
the corruption which would have been
brought to light would be a stencil in
the nostrils Of all honest men, and
they we'll knew it.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

The comparative figures of 1872
and 1876 show how rapidly the De-
m~ocratic party has been gathering
strength. The increase of the vote
in New England at the last election,
amounted to $4,000, of which the
Democrats secured 10000. In the
nine great Industrial States of the
Northern belt, stretching from the
Hudson to the Mississippi, the in,
crease was $4,000, the Democrats
polling All 900 of this total, to $780,,
600 for the Republicans. In the
South the Conservatives have gained
174,OOO, and the Republicans ~ 1000;
the latter in the Border States, GOT
but 81 per cent, while the former Sc
cured 40 per cent.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

Mississippi, like the other recon
structed States that have escaped
from the clutches of the carpet-bag-
gers, is recovering from the effects of
the spoilation to which it was sub
jected for a long time after the war.
The annual report of the Hon. w. H.
GIBBS, Auditor of Public Accounts,
Shows that under Democratic rule,
though the taxes have been materi-
ally reduced, the disbursements for
the expenses of the State Govern
ment, up to Jan. l, were so much be-
low those of the previous year that
there was left an excess of receipts
amounting to over 100000, which
is nearly equal to the estimated sum
required for the total expenditures
for the year 1877. TIE receipts from
all sources for the fiscal year ending
Dec. 81, 1876, were 1881, 373,25,
while the disbursements by warrants
for the same period amounted to
$51S, 709,03, against $1,430,192,S2
for the previous year. From the ex-
cess of receipts over expenditures
the Treasurer has retired outstand-
ing certificates of Indebtedness and
paid bonds and interest amounting
in the aggregate to 1901, 72S, leaving
still a surplus of $160,944, with a.
bout $500, 600 ofthe State tax of1S76
yet to be collected. The Auditor in
concluding his report, co~ngratulates
the Legislature upon the fact that
under the new order of things COM
plete harmony of action and a desire
to promote the public veal have been
the governing rule, and that Missis-
sippi has entered upon a career of
substantial prosperity. Facts like
these explain the extraordinary po-
%litical changes that have taken place
among the more intelligent of the
colored voters of the South-those
who have sense enough to understand
the extent of the robberies that have
been perpetrated by the politicians
who have represented GRANTS AID.
ministration in that part of the coun.
try. Y. Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

The House Committee on Appro-
priations thinks there will be no
trouble in effecting a reduction of
$12, 0 900 on last years appropria-
tions unless the economies urged by
the House are factiously opposed by
the Senate. More than this sum
could be saved on the single item OF
the War Department appropriations
if the army were reduced to ten
thousand men. That is as many sol
diers as we need in time of peace
So says the New York Sun.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01
The Republican Marty q

The Republican party can't be
compromised with. 1t is now clear
that the fraud at the South is not q
sporadic disease, it affects The whole
body. The Hoars, the Edmundses,
the Bradleys and Strongs may cover
their true inwardness with greater art
than Wells, Kellogg and S~tearns, but
when the occasion requires its exer.
else their villainly is more masterful
than that of the grosser carpet-bag-
gers. The whole party is saturated
with political dishonesty.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

The man who crawls into the White
House through deception, rascality
and fraud, should have the following
sentiment printed in illuminated let
tiers and hung in the east room as a
companion to that other christian
motto-"God bless our Home" 1t
was uttered by the present model
President in one of his sober mo-
ments:
"No man worthy of the office OF
President should be wiling to hold
it if counted in or placed there by
! fraud"
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

There is not a Republican in the
country who is fool hardy enough to
say Louisiana was not carried for the
Democracy last November. Yet
there arc few honest enough to con.
denim the steal of that State for "His
Fraudulency."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

The Democrats in Congress pro-
pose a reduction of the army to 49,
900 men. Better wipe it out entirely.
This thing of keeping a horde of
dead beats ornamented with shout
der-straps lounging about the great
cities year after year upon heavy sal,
aries is rather costly luxury for the
people in time of peace.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

In justice to Gen. THOMAS EWING,
we give place in this weeks paper tc
a letter from Major General ScHo.
FIELD, giving the circumstances and
history of Mr.. EwISG's celebrated
Missouri order, issued during the
late rebellion. Like many others We
denounced it for its severity at the
time, but the explanation shows thai
injustice was done its author.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01
HAYES THE TRAuD,

Inc infamous crime Ol counting IN
an illegal and fraudulently elected
President, was about consumated on
Friday last, when the SKI partisan
Tribunal turned over the three Elec-
torals of Oregon to Mr.. HAYES, and
thus indorsed the scoundrelism,
frauds, forgeries and %perjuries of
the ~rascally Returning Boards of
Florida and Louisiana, and added
perjury to their acts in refusing to
hear testimony touching these frauds
after taking a solemn oath that they
would ''impartially examine and con
slider oil questions submitted and a
true judgment give thereon" At
ter the decision of the partisan Com
mission in the Ease of Louisiana, we
confess we had but little hope of
anything like justice being done for
the Democrats in Oregon, because
from the first to the last, this Nation
al Swindling Board sustained the
villainies and frauds of the conspira.
tors. Such is the ending-such the
outcome of the long struggle of an
outraged and plundered people fol
Justice.
When the Tribunal was first crea.
ted, we did not favor it as heartily
as many of our fellow Democrats
but we confidently expected that the
Judges composing it would cast aside
the spirit of the partisan and in theil
action be moved and controlled bv s
feeling of patriotism and love o.
country and give us a fair and homo
rable deal, but every consideration
of equity was ignored, every feature
Of the argument was repudiated
every right of the Democratic part,
denied, and a deaf ear turned to thu
facts and the law and they wert
construed to suit the frauds and ras
calities of the conspirators and de
feat the known will of the people
Had this Commission been conduc.
ed in the spirit of the agreement
had all the evidence AID facts beef
fairly presented and heard accordin.
to the bill and a decision then rem
dered against the claims of Nj
TILDEN, there is not a democrat il
the land but what would have cheer
fully acquiesced and sustained MI
HAYES in his administration of til
government. But under the circum
stances, stepping into the Chief Mag
istracy of the Nation through treach
cry, rascality and fraud, he can re
eeive nothing but the scorn and cor
tempt of every honest patriot in tn
civilized world. He will be simpl
an impostor and a fraud, and "h
may wrap himself in the decision c
the great Commission, but throug
the holes,in that stately robes wi
be seer the rotten rags of Wells, Al
derson, Casanave and Kenner. H
may pour upon his head the holy o
of constitutional law-as prepared b
the old man'-but all the perfume
of arabia will not expel the Return
ing Board stencil. He may strive t
live in a pure and healthy atmospher
but a sultry, sickly wind from FlOrid
and Louisiana will blow continual
upon him. dark and noisome clou
will hang over him from the day
his inauguration to. the day of his I
e tirement, and he will pass into histol
t as the first American President WI
' owed his place to fraud and consp
l racy."
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

Hon. JOHN A. MCMAHON, our
member of Congress from this Dis
trict, shows he has some sand. Wish
there had been more like him, and
the infamous steal would have been
prevented.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

From "ffty to seventy-fve families
or the verge of starvation in the town
of Wooster, Ohio" says the Wayne
County Democrat. Good Republi-
can Times! Count in Hayes and re-
sumo specie payment.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1877-03-01

We hear a good many Democrats
declare that if Hayes is counted in
they will never vote again. That is
wrong. Vote on, until every thief
and robber in power through the
fraud and infamy of a Returning
Board, is displaced.